For the 2024 Leo Wardrup Memorial Cape Charles Cup (LWMCCC), we have decided to offer everyone a chance to design the graphic that is printed on our event shirts and on the yearbook cover. We are running a competition from March 1 - April 15 for the most innovative, attractive, and appropriate artwork. You can use photography or other methods to create original designs that you are willing to donate to the Leo Wardrup Memorial Cape Charles Cup organizing committee.  If you are new to the LWMCCC, read more...

We plan to incorporate the winning design, wholly or partially, in the final design that will appear on shirts (t-shirts, tech shirts, etc.), the yearbook cover, and other documents. Runners-up will be featured in composite pages in the yearbook and website with full attribution.  Be sure to see the historical artwork below.  

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UPDATE:  The shirt color for 2024 is Sport Gray.  

General Guidelines for the Competition

We are looking for an image that is simple, imaginative, artistic and represents the sailing skill, excitement, competition, camaraderie, and fun that the Leo Wardrup Memorial Cape Charles Cup has produced over the last 20 years. 

Preference will be given to submissions that include some combination of: 

• Sailboats, including either or both racing and cruising boats.
• The Chesapeake Bay environment, structures, ships, or wildlife
• Cape Charles characteristics such as the Cape Charles Light Tower
• Action, teamwork, and sportsmanship
• Originality, imagination and artistic designs; either realistic or abstract
• High quality images.
• Appropriateness: 
• to fit on a shirt and yearbook cover 
• with limited number of colors to reduce thickness of screenprint and cost to produce
• for the intended audience.  

Eligibility

• The competition is open to the public including members and non-members of BBSA. 
• Organizers of the event may also participate in the competition.  
• The competition is open to artists and photographers; both professional and amateur.
• You must be at least 18 years or older unless approved by a parent or guardian via a signed Liability Release Form. 
• You must reside in the United States
• Artwork can be produced from photos, with or without editing, and from non-digital art, but all submissions must be in digital form. 
  
• You must accept the terms, provided during registration, including that right of BBSA and the Leo Wardrup Memorial Cape Charles Cup committee to modify the artwork as needed and use artwork without limitation.  

Prizes

The winner's artwork will be printed on the shirts, skippers' bags, and yearbook front cover. Full attribution and bio will be included inside the yearbook and on the BBSA website. Two tickets to the Skippers’ Meeting (8/9/2024) or the Saturday Social (8/10/2024).

For more details with terms and conditions, view:  2024 LWMCCC ArtworkCompetitionTerms.pdf
For participants who are under 18, use 2024 LWMCCC ArtworkCompetitionTermsGuardian.pdf

To register for the competition, go to:  LWM Cape Charles Cup Artwork Contest - starting March 1, 2024

After you register, you can upload up to three (3) images to:

https://primemeridian.smugmug.com/upload/jSX9DV/LWMCCCArtwork, using filenames that include your name so we can associate the image with your entry. Images should be JPEG, .eps, or Ai files at 300 DPI.