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The big new 3 masted schooner Atlantic, 

 owned by Wilson Marshall, which won the 

 Cape May and Brenton's Reef cups last 

 season ; George Lauder, Jr.'s handsome 

 black Endymion, which now holds the trans- 

 atlantic yacht record ; Lloyd Phenix's 3 

 master Intrepid ; H. W. Putnam's schooner 

 Ariadne; Robert E. Tod's Thistle; Albert 

 C. Bostwick's Vergemere ; and E. C. Cole- 

 man's big schooner Hildegarde, are all prob- 

 able starters. 



The largest and probably the only square 

 rigger among the contestants will be the 

 bark Apache, of which Edmund Randolph is 

 the owner. Mr. Randolph had been plan- 

 ning an extensive winter and spring cruise, 

 and had fitted out his vessel for the purpose, 

 but as soon as he heard that the dispute about 

 the race had been settled and the date of 

 the start arranged, he gave up his cruising 



From Gardner & Cox, who designed the 

 40 footer Irondequoit, the Rochester Yacht 

 Club will order a new boat, the de- 

 sign for which is now practically complete. 

 Herreshoff will design a potential defender 

 for Frank T. Christy, and 2 other boats are 

 contemplated. William Fife, Jr., who de- 

 signed the first and third Shamrocks, will 

 evolve a possible challenger for the Cana- 

 dian yachtmen. Great interest is centered 

 on another boat which the Canadians have 

 ordered from Albert Mylne, who, in the 

 opinion of many, is the coming British de- 

 signer. He is a young man and served his 

 appenticeship under the late George L. 

 Watson. Thus far his creations, which in- 

 clude the 50 footer Moyana, have been re- 

 markably fast and successful. 



It is doubtful if there is a better de- 

 signer in Canada than H. C. McLeod, who 



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plans in order to enter his vessel in the race. 

 This race will be the season's chief offering 

 in that growing form of yachting which 

 tends so much to develop seaworthiness in 

 boats and seamanship in navigators. In ad- 

 dition, however, there will be the Atlantic 

 Yacht Club's usual quota of ocean races, 

 which ex-Commodore Tod has done so 

 much to encourage ; the Brooklyn Yacht 

 Club's race to Hampton Roads ; the East- 

 ern Yacht Club's race from New York to 

 Marblehead; and the Chicago Yacht Club's 

 race from Chicago to Mackinaw, a 331 

 mile fresh water event. 



The Canada's Cup race on Lake Ontario 

 and the races for the Seawanhaka Cup on 

 Lake St. Louis are 2 international events 

 that will be fought out this summer. For 

 the Canada's Cup, so sensationally won in 

 1903 by the Irondequoit, under the skillful 

 handling of Addison G. Hanan, there are 

 plans and rumors of plans that at least 6 

 boats will contend for the honor of chal- 

 lenging and defending that trophy. 



is the general manager of the Bank of 

 Nova Scotia. The Payne defender, Beaver, 

 defeated his Minloa in 1899, but the mar- 

 gin was a close one, and Mr. McLecd prob- 

 ably will be asked to devote some of his 

 leisure to the evolution of another boat. 



In the small classes along the Sound 

 and the New England coast there promises 

 to be unusual activity. Even the New 

 York Yacht Club, which has done little to 

 encourage racing among the mosquito 

 fleet, is getting a one design class, of which 

 the Sound clubs, in addition to their pres- 

 ent supply, will have some new ones. 



The most active of the small boat clubs 

 are those along the Massachusetts coast, 

 where practically all the racing is furnished 

 by boats of 30 feet and below. The record 

 for last season is held by the Corinthian 

 Yacht Club, of Marblehead, in whose 10 

 open events there were 431 starters. As 

 a rule, the boats are larger and the number 

 of starters correspondingly fewer the 

 farther East one goes along the Sound. 



