Sept. 23, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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American Model Y. C— DeWolf Cup and Glapham 

 Prize. 



BROOKLYN— PHOSPECT PARK. 



Monday, Sept. h. 



The races for the DeWolf cup and Clapham prize were sailed on 

 Labor Day in a N.W. wind, which held all daj', but being intercepted 

 by the big hill on the northwest it was deprived of some of its strength, 

 eventually dying out altogether. A windward course was laid off, the 

 distance being 34 mile. Considerable delay was caused by the slow- 

 ness with which the owners of the competing yachts made their appear- 

 ance, and those that were ready in season were somewhat annoyed by 

 the delay. 



Finally the second class yachts arrived at the line for the DeWolf 

 cup race at 11:15, Florence winning one heat and GirofliS the other. 

 Florence's skipper becoming winded decided to withdraw in favor of 

 Girofle, this boat thereby obtaining a place in the final. 



Third class came to the Jine at 12:1.5, Star qualifying for final, beat- 

 ing Mischief by 27s elapsed and 12s. corrected. 



In the first class Neola won, beating Ohyesia by Im. 41s. elapsed and 

 Im. 41%s. corrected, the final and race being won bj- Neola from Star 

 by -378. elapsed and 2s. corrected. 



The postponed final for the Clapham prize was started immediately 



In the second class Gymnote was an easy first, Anonyma giving 

 Agawam a close call for second. Come On broke her throat halliarc 

 block twice and withdrew. 



In the third class Gilt Edge beat Nobska fairly from start to finish. 

 Kaloola would have beaten Doris for third if she had not run into a 

 calm at the finish. Tycoon and Buzzard for some unaccountable rea- 

 son sailed the wrong course, Buzzard gettmg sliglrtly the best of it if 

 anything. 



In the fourth class Squall and Edith had a very close race, passing 

 each other three times on the first leg to windward. Squall gained 

 considerably on the second leg before the wind, and held her lead to 

 the finish. 



In the fifth class the catboats were badly beaten by the jib and 

 mainsails, who took all three prizes. Raccoon sailed weU and was a 

 good first. There was not windward work enough for P. D. Q., who 

 finished third. Axe second. 



There has been considerable dissatisfaction with starting the race 

 inside of Sippican Harbor on account of the wind's being much lighter 

 there than outside. Another year the races wiU probably be started 

 outside the harbor. The summary: 



FIRST CLASS— COURSE 15 MILKS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 

 Hector, E. C. Stetson 24.06 3 04 55 3 46 13 



JUBILEE AT ANCHOR. 



after, Neola and Star coming to the line, GiroflS Ibeing withdrawn. 

 Star won from Neola after three stubborn beats by Im. corrected. 



Among the noted yachtsmen present were Thos. Clapham and son, 

 G. G. Clapham, who are now mentbers of the above club, as is Mr. 

 Chas. Mallory, of steamship fame, who being pressed by business, 

 could not attend. 



SECOND CLASS— FIRST HEAT. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



11 45 11 50 



Outside flag. 



Did not finish. 



10 IS 12 27}^ 



SECOND HEAT. 



SECOND HEAT. 



Florence, E. W. Rogers 47.6 



Girofle, H. H. Michaels 45.4 



SECOND HEAT. 



Florence 



Girofle 



Third heat was given to Girofle. 



THISD CLASS— PRST HEAT. 



Dolphin, J. Smith 44.7 



Star, G. W. Townley 42.6 



Mischief, Herbert Fisher 38.7 



SECOND HEAT. 



Dolphin 



Star 



Mischief 



THIRD HEAT. 



Dolphin 



Star 



Mischief 



FIRST CLASS— FIRST HEAT. 



Neola, J. E. PfeifTer 56.6 



Ohyesia, 0. Van Ness 54.9 



Hornet, J. C. Meyer 51.9 



SECOND HEAT. 



Nfcola 



Ohyesia 



Hornet 



CLASS A— FIRST HEAT. 



Lizzie, J. Manee , 



Irvuag B., Mr. Taylor 



SECOND HEAT. 



Lizzie 



Irving B 



PINAL— FIRST HEAT. 



Neola 



Lizzie 



Girofle 



Star 



Neola 



Lizzie 



Girofle 



Star 



FD 



Neola 



Star 



Neola , 



Star 



THIRD HEAT. 



Neola 



Star.... 



Neola. winnej- of DeWolf cup and Star winner of Clapham prize. 

 Regatta Committee, Frank Nichols. Judges, Com. W. V. Hanson 

 and C. Van Ness. 



Sippican Y. C. Regattas, 1893. 



The Sippican Y, C, of Marion, Mass., on Buzzards Bay, has had a 

 very successful season, and several very good races have been sailed, 

 as follows: 



JmZj/ S9.— Open sweepstakes race. Wind, heavy S.W., course lOV^ 

 miles. 



THIRD CLASS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Nobska, A. A. Beebe 19.11 1 38 26 i 19 il 



Algol, J. R. BuUard, Jr 19.11 1 45 02 1 25 45 



Judges: J. G. and F. W. PalG-ey. 



Aug. y.— Second championship race. Wind light S.S.W., course 10J4 

 miles: 



FIRST CLASS. 



Hector. E. 0. Stetson 2'1.06 2 08 48 



Flight, L E. Hiller 26.07 2 10 13 



SECOND CLASS— COURSE lOJ^ MILES. 



Come On, W. W. Phinney 23,06 2 14 58 



THIRD CLASS— CATS— COURSE 8 MILES. 



Nobska, A. A. Beebe 19.11 1 43 35 



Puzzle, G. G. Amory 19,08 1 50 56 



Algol, J. R. Bullard, Jr 19.11 1 52 22 



THIRD CLASS— SLOOPS. 



<.'heemaun, F. W. Palfrey 18.01 2 38 46 



FOURTH CLASS— COURSE 8 MILES. 



iSquflll, J. G. Palfrey 16 . 1 1 2 05 56 



m\tia, B. Clark 17.00 2 11 36 



FIFTH CLASS— COURSE 3 MILES. 



JCid, W. R. Peabody 1 10 44 



Nobska and Squall win championships. Hector, Come On, Chee- 

 doiaun and Kid win legs; Come On tieing Gymnote. 



Judges: D. H. CooUdge, J. S. Whiting, J . D. Jenney. 



The open race was saUed Aug. 26 in a moderate S.W. breeze, which 

 iflattened almost to a calm for the finish of the larger boats. The 

 4ight breeze of the morning prevented Sequel, Myrtle and Rustler, 

 who had entered, from arriving at the starting line. 



In the first class Fhght ran out a safe lead, but ran into a calm at 

 the finish, and Hector came within her aUowauce. 



10 30 



10 45 



8 33 



8 34M 



9 36 



9 21 



Did not finish. 



8 40 



8 55M 



.8 36 



8 51 



12 31 



13 01 



8 46 





9 13 



9 23 



7 00 



7 00 



9 37 



9 33^ 



11 18 



11 06M 



7 56 



8 11 



9 37 



9 52M 



10 57 



11 00>4 



10 31 



10 56 



11 40 



13 0514 



11 40 



12 05 



Withdrew. 





8 09 



8 34 



Outside fla{ 





Withdrew. 





9 32 



9 32 ■ 



10 01 



10 41 



Did not finish. 



Did not start. 



10 38 



10 43 



lT. 





9 37 



10 12 



10 33 



10 23 



13 39 



14 39 



13 10 



13 30 



7 59 



8 29 



8 32 



8 17 



Plight, L E. HUler 26.07 3 03 04 



SECOND CLASS— COURSE 15 MILES. 



Gymnote, W. E. C. Eustis 23.09 3 02 41 



Agawam, J. G. Young, Jr 23.08 3 04 06 



Anonyma, F. L. Dabney 23.08 3 04 20 



Ulula, W. H. Winship 22.08 3 13 00 



Come On. W. W. Phinney 23.06 Disabled. 



Bonita, R. Lincoln 2:3.02 Withdrew. 



Hoyden, D. Jennings 2.3 . 06 Withdrew-. 



THIRD CLASS — COURSE 111^ MILES. 



Gilt Edge, D. L. Whitmore 19.07 2 21 11 



Nobska. A. A. Beebe 19.11 2 23 46 



Doris, John ParKinson 19.07 2 26 36 



Kaloola, H. W. Richards 19.08 2 31 29 



Sippican, A. W. Hart 19.09 2 ;32 01 



Colymbus, Alfred Winsor 19.09 2 44 29 



Scintilla, Geo. S. Fiske 19.00 2 51 04 



Vivian, N. Huckins, Jr 19.05 Disabled. 



Buzzard, A. B. Shepley 19.11 Withdrew. 



Tycoon, J. L. Stackpole, Jr 19.09 Withdrew. 



Aucoot, S. Battelle 19.09 Withdrew. 



Daisy, H. Stockton 1 8 . 02 Withd rew. 



Hermion, R. C. Barstow 19.09 Withdrew. 



2 47 49 



2 42 33 

 2 43 49 

 2 44 03 

 2 51 03 



2 01 22 

 2 04 29 

 2 06 47 

 2 11 48 

 2 12 28 

 2 24 56 

 2 30 07 



FOURTH CLASS— COURSE 8 MILES. 



Squall, J. G. Palfrey 16 11 



Edith, B. Clark 17.00 



1 58 29 

 1 59 08 



1 39 50 

 1 40 36 



tirely to the judgment of single individuals, who generally start out 

 with the markboats an hour or two before the race and anchor them 

 when and where they please, making no allowance whatever for the 

 condition of the atmosphere and often forgetting how deceiving dis- 

 tances are on water under various conditions. Now all of these courses 

 are triangular, supposed to be 1% nautical miles each way. and 

 three times around making 15 nautical miles. What judge of distance 

 can come within three miles of such a course? 



Take the last regatta at Waveland, Miss., for instance, where Mon- 

 tauk beat Nepenthe 27s. on time allowance. Nepenthe draws about 

 6ft.. center board up, and allows Montauk 5m. 3s. in a 15 nautical mile 

 course. This allowance is based on nautical miles calculated by 

 Herreshoff. The course was certainly not over 12 nautical miles, if 

 that. Nepenthe was forced to allow time for 15 miles, besides plowing 

 her way through the bottom most of the way. What chance has any 

 large boat that allows time in theu- respective classes to win under 

 such conditions? The case of Nepenthe will apply to all. There is no 

 question that Nepenthe can allow Montauk the time her measurement 

 requires over any 15 nautical mile course with a depth of 10ft. and win 

 easily. 



That more consideration should be given to the minor details in the 

 management of all regattas in the South is quite apparent, and a great 

 deal remains to be done before we attain the place m yachting that we 

 should hold. 



New Orleans is more than favored by nature for the sport of kings, 

 and the Southern Y. C, which prides itself on being the second oldest 

 yachting organization in America, has as fine facilities as can be 

 foimd, anywhere to encourage and maintain the sport in perfection. 



A great deal of good would be accomplished by weeding out some 

 of the obnoxious features of the rules, especially the rule appointing 

 a regatta committee for each race. The regatta committee of a 

 yacht club is naturally the most important of all committees, and 

 should be selected from non-boat owners, thoroughly acquainted with 

 every requirement of the yachts, and should have entire control of 

 all races, taking the time of all contestants, fixing the conditions, 

 classes and be the sole interpreters of the racing rules of the club. 



Judges are entirely unnecessary when the regatta committee are so 

 empowered. Judges down this way are specially selected for their 

 good fellowship, not much attention being given to their capabilities 

 as yachtsmen. An instance of one of their decisions is given as fol- 

 lows: The race for the Littell cup — a very handsome one, by the way, 

 was sailed under a set of conditions that would puzzle an admiralty 

 judge of 50 years' experience. The Lufki Humma, a creation of Mr. 

 Walton Glenny, clearly winning under the conditions of the deed of 

 gift, as decided by the Spirit of the Times. The judges awai-ded the 

 race to a rank outsider 10 minutes after the finish and before one-half 

 of the contesting yachts had finished the race, thereby ignoring any 

 chance for protests, good, bad or indifferent, closing up their books 

 and leaving the club house with the smoke of the finishing gun for the 

 first boat. 



Our papers also have some very peculiar ways of writing up 

 regattas, etc., the scribe evidently being well up in horse racing. I 

 quote from one of the leading papers the. day before the race for the 

 Littell cup: 



"As it is, however, there have been enough entries to give promise 

 of an interesting contest. In fact, from a spectator's standpoint, ten 

 yachts are quite enough to start at the same time, for they make a 

 fleet of which the cai eful and experienced observer can easily keep 

 track from start to finish, while a large number is apt to confuse even 

 the most experienced yachtsman, causing him to mistake one boat for 

 another, and graduaUy lose interest in the contest as it progresses and 

 wait for the finish to determine the relative positions of the contest- 

 ants." 



What can one think of this for a notice of a regatta. We see all the 

 New York papers speak with pride of the large number of entries, and 

 special mention was made of the magnificent fleet that participated in 

 the cruise of the New Y'ork Y. C, some one hundred or more yachts, 

 and nobody got mixed up keeping tab of their movements. 



Our course is sailed on Lake Pontchartrain, twenty -two miles wide, 

 by about thirty-five miles long, plenty of room for all and not hke a 

 race track, where the large fields jostle and knock one another around 

 trying to win. This is quite a sample of how things are managed in 

 yachting circles down in Dixie. 



There has been quite a number of new yachts launched this season, 

 embodying the various types of local amateur designers, of which 

 Lufki Humma is far the best. This boat was designed by Mr. Glenny, 

 an enthusiaatic young yachtsman of the S. Y. C, and built by Fourohy 

 Bros., being about 21ft. waterline, plenty of overhang forward and 

 aft. shallow draft, narrow beam and two centerboards of tobin bronze. 

 Lufki Humma has not proven quite up to Mr, Glenny's expectations, 

 always meeting with some unavoidable mishap when contending 

 against the 22ft. tlyerjNyanza. a sandbasger of the old type. 



The Southern Y. C is very fortunate in having several fine cups 

 donated this season to be contested for in the various classes. 



Cup races should meet with favor by all true yachtsmen, the club 

 especially, as cup races save a great deal of money to yacht clubs that 

 have to give regattas and offer the prizes to keep up the sport. Taken 

 I as a whole the yachting in the South is improving slowly but surely, 

 j especially in New Orleans, Mobile and the adjacent watering places 

 i along the Mississippi Sound. The Mobile yachtsmen are all young but 



I 55 43 



1 59 27 



2 00 40 



1 28 55 

 1 35 57 

 1 37 40 



1 47 22 

 1 .53 03 



"ME AND HATTIE." 

 Cup defender Vigilant and her steam tender. 



Zora. H. Parker 15.04 2 03 88 1 42 29 



Dragon, J. Dexter 14.02 2 10 17 1 47 04 



Aurora, E. Hamlin 16.07 2 10 47 1 51 38 



FIFTH CLASS— COURSE 7 MILES. 



Raccoon, J. L. Stackpole, Jr H-OSJ^ 1 36 42 1 10 38 



Axe, L. Bacon 11.07}| 1 37 43 1 13 01 



P. D. Q.. R W. Emmons 12.00 1 37 38 1 13 S2 



Weoua, H Ware 13.11 1 42 04 1 21 20 



Trana, M. Crane 13.01 1 53 07 1 30 56 



Grace, D Knowlton Withdrew. 



First prizes won by Hector. Gymnote. Gilt Edge, Squall and Rac- 

 coon. Second prizes won by Agawam, Nobska, Edith and Axe. Third 

 prizes won by Anouyma, Doris and P. D. Q. Judges: J. S. Whiting, 

 George A. Strong, R. S. Ryder. 



Yacht Racing in Southern Waters, 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The boom that yachtine received aU over the country this season bv 

 the challenge of Lord Dunraven for the America's Cup and the 

 voyage of Navahoe to England has, as a matter of course, made itself 

 felt down this way. The wise judgment displayed by the Southern 

 Y". C, of New Orleans, in adopting the Seawanhaka "sail area rules 

 has proven quite satisfactory and caused the appearance of many 

 open boats that for a while looked very much as if the only way they 

 would ever leave their boat houses would be in the shape of rotten 

 kindling wood. 



The class of open boats since the advent of Mr. Richardson's Bur- 

 gess 40-footer Nepenthe in 1889 had entirely disappeared, with very 

 few exceptions. .Since the new rules went into effect the number o'f 

 hollow spars, racing sails and other first-class racing rigging ordered 

 out from the North, from the best of makers, would suri^rise some of 

 the old '-befo' de wah" yachtsmen. This improvement has sent the 

 open class to the front with a rush, making that class a bit; attraction 

 in all regattas, this state of affairs being entirely due to the adoption 

 of the length and sail area rule, giving everybody a fair chance under 

 every style of rig. 



All adjacent towns invariably run their regattas under the rules of 

 the Southern Y'^. C . but there still exists one great disadvantage to all 

 yacht owners participating in the sport in the short and shallow 

 courses. All the courses are mere guesswork as to distances left en- 



experienced sailors, who always piinageand sail their own boats indo 

 pendent of oystermen, shrimp catchers, etc., a plan that could vs'ell be 

 emulated by others. Almost all yachtsmen in this vicinity are pro- 

 nounced admirers of Vigilant and wish her success in every particular. 



J. E. B. 



Navahoe. 



An interview with Mr. Carroll, which is apparently authentic, has 

 been cabled to America, in which, after admitting that the yacht is a 

 disappointment in windward work, though he considers her faster 

 than Britannia in running and reaching, he continues: 



'•I don't see how to remedy the trouble, except by allowing the 

 builders to work the Navahoe up. The reports sent out about, the 

 danger of her capsizing were absurd misrepresentations. I knew she 

 was a good sea boat the moment I stepped aboard. But there has 

 been some mistake in her design. She does not carry so much sail as 

 expected, and she has not sufficient stability ; her weight and ballast 

 are not properly adjusted. She wants her ballast put lower down to 

 make her stiffer and faster in strong weather, although that is likely 

 to be a detriment in light weather. 



"To sum up her merits I may say that she is fast in a fresh breeze 

 just enabling her to carry her clubtopsails. She is sluggish in light 

 weather, as she is unable to carry her sail properly. When it blows 

 hard she reaches as fast as any vessel that has sailed this year, except 

 the Satanita. Sometimes she has been poorly handled, and sometimes 

 well handled; taking the average, I think there could not have been 

 much improvement in that respect. I am satisfied that the boat and 

 not the handling had been at fault 



"She might, however, have won the Royal London match on the 

 first day if she had been better handled. I never in my life saw a 

 boat better handled than the Britannia was then. 



"I consider the English courses, where so many marks are rounded, 

 exceedingly bad for big boats. Starting the boats in the crowded 

 fairways is almost like starting an important horse race among a lot 

 of cabstand coaches. The way English crews handle sails under these 

 circumstances is something never seen in America. 



'"I regard the Brenton Reef decision as beyond question regarding 

 fairness. The judges' mistake was purely unintentional. All the 

 races here are conducted in the fairest manner. 



"I think the Valkyrie will have a poor chance against the Vigilant in 



