ROCKLAND – Galen Alley’s Lorna R. proved to have the fastest time Sunday in a field of 56 racing in 23 different heats at the Rockland Lobster Boat Races, sponsored by the Friends of the Rockland Breakwater.

Alley’s wooden boat clocked 47 mph in the special race for fastest lobster boat. Earlier in the day, his vessel went 49 mph, winning the wooden boats heat. He also won in the Gasoline Class D with a V8, 502 cid engine powering the Lorna R.

Other multiple-race winners were Richard Hildings and Tom Clemons, with two each.

More than 100 lobster boats filled the harbor inside the breakwater Sunday morning for the start of the first Rockland Lobster Boat Races.

Lobster boat owners entered vessels in 22 categories, ranging from 25-horsepower outboards to boats with 1,000-horsepower engines capable of reaching more than 40 mph.

Fifty-six sponsors contributed $12,879 in cash and gifts to benefit the Friends of Rockland Breakwater in its restoration project of the 100-year-old lighthouse.

“We also sponsored a Father’s Day footrace [of] 7 1/2 miles from the Owls Head lighthouse to the Rockland lighthouse,” Dot Black, a member of the Friends, said Sunday.

The U.S. Coast Guard had given permission to the Maine Lobster Boat Racing Association to hold the races for the first time in Rockland, which became the ninth Maine community to join the racing schedule up and down the coast.

Racing rules included requirements for a conventional lobster boat hull, made of wood, fiberglass or aluminum. All boats had to be powered with an inboard engine, except for work boats less than 24 feet long. All fuels had to be petroleum-based with no nitrous oxide or propane.

The boats raced along a half-mile course from the lighthouse and ran parallel with the breakwater toward Jameson Point near the Samoset Resort.

Friends member Gordon Page, who broadcast the races Sunday from the lighthouse tower, reported the boat racing winners Monday as follows:

. Work boats under 24 feet: Race 1, Thomas McLennan in Ripple; Race 2, Richard Hildings in Not Much; Race 3, Richard Hildings in Reckless Bitch; Race 4, Andrew Guptill in Nancy & Rebecca.

. Gas-powered work boats 24 feet and up: Race 5, Stephen C. Hale in Captain Jack; Race 9A, Galen Alley in Lorna R.

. Diesel-powered work boats 24 feet and up: Race 10, Charles Gray in Blue Thunder; Race 11, Donald Drisko in Merganser; Race 12, Nick Page in All Out; Race 13, Wayne Rich in Rich Returns; Race 14, Bill Grant in Gladiator; Race 15, Albert Bunker in Last One; Race 16, Todd Ritchie in Seacock; Race 17, Keith Jordan in Hot Spot, Too; Race 18, Chip Johnson in Three Stars; Race 19, Wendell Bryant in 16th Avenue; Race 20, Tom Clemons in Motivation; Race 21, Andrew Gove in Uncle’s UFO; Race 22, Ryan Post in Instigator; Race 23, Chris Young in Miss Madelyn; Race 26, Alley in Lorna R.; Race 27, Tom Clemons in Motivation; Race 28, Alley in Lorna R.

In the Father’s Day 71/2-mile Walk and Run race between the Owls Head and Rockland Breakwater lighthouses, 34 runners and six walkers completed the course, Black reported.

Tom Hedstrom won the race in 47 minutes, 29 seconds, while second-place finisher Bob Poirier came in as the first runner age 40 or over at 49 minutes, 12 seconds.

Katie Libby, the first female runner under 40, finished fifth overall with a time of 51 minutes. Cindy Battel, the first female over 40, came in 11th in the race at 56 minutes, 6 seconds.

Two walkers over age 40 won the walkers race. Ron Smith came in first in 1 hour, 45 minutes, 21 seconds, while June Damery followed in 1 hour, 51 minutes, 1 second.

Julie Young placed first in the female under 40 category, completing the course in 1 hour, 51 minutes, 3 seconds.

The racers left Owls Head at 7:30 a.m. and arrived at the finish line near the breakwater before the start of the lobster boat races at 10 a.m.