YACHT RACING IN 1905. 



EDWARD M SWEENEY. 



Yachtsmen, excluding those counterfeit 

 sailors whose mental and nautical equipment 

 for the sport does not exceed a few salty- 

 phrases, a blue coat and a pair of white 

 flannel trousers, hail with satisfaction the 

 fact that the coming summer will bring 

 forth no contest for the America's Cup. 

 These costly and intermittent affairs, while 

 a source of great interest to yachtsmen, 

 and an extraordinary attraction to the 



conserving their international quality, will 

 afford a splendid test of daring, broad and 

 thorough seamanship. This event is the 

 transatlantic race for a gold cup offered by 

 the German Emperor, and the details of the 

 contest have just been completed. 



The Emperor intended originally to offer 

 the cup through the New York Yacht Club, 

 and Sir Thomas Lipton, who already had 

 offered a cup for a transatlantic race 





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AMATEUR PHOTO BY W, H. GRAFFAM 



ROUNDING THE BUOY. 



Winner of the 17th Prize in Recreation's 9th Annual Photo Competition. 



non-seafaring public, invariably strangle, for 

 the season, the small boat racing of all the 

 various clubs along the coast and the Sound. 



Small boat competition, in which the 

 yacht owner handles his own craft and 

 steers his own course, is the true yachts- 

 man's delight. Of this fundamental class of 

 the sport, of which the America's Cup races 

 are ornate but artificial developments, there 

 promises to be a plenty in the coming sea- 

 son of 1905. 



For the public interest, however, one race 

 has already been arranged which, besides 

 eliminating the undesirable features of the 

 90-footer affairs off Sandy Hook, while 



through the Atlantic Yacht Club, in recog- 

 nition of that club's promotion of ocean 

 racing, withdrew in favor of the Emperor 

 on the condition that the race should be 

 managed jointly by the New York and At- 

 lantic clubs. The exclusive and somewhat 

 arrogant policy of the New York Yacht 

 Club would not agree to that, and now as a 

 solution of the dispute the race will be man- 

 aged by the Kiel Yacht Club, of Germany. 

 There are no restrictions as to the rig of 

 the competing vessels and there will be no 

 time allowances; but to eliminate foolhardy 

 mariners the conditions stipulate that each 

 craft must be of at least 200 tons burden. 



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