April 18, 1898, 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. 
The practical results derived from the racing of many small yachts 
in place of two large ones are shown in the following programme just 
issued by the Roy.al St. Lawrence Y. C. as a direct result of Mr. Dug- 
gan's challenge for the Seawanhaka Cup. Great as the interest is in 
Canada it is likely to be exceeded on this side of the line in the con- 
struction and racing of the defending fleet. 
The Sailing Committee have decided upon the raci ng fixtures for 
1896 as follows: Saturday, May 9, 15-footers, club prizes; Saturday, 
May 16, 15-footers, club prizes; Saturday, May 23, 15 footers, Ross 
prizes; Monday, May 25, 15-footers, Ross prizes; Wednesday, May 27, 
15-footers, club prizes; Saturday, May 80, 15-footers, Ross prizes; 
Wednesday, June 3, 15-footers, club prizes; Saturday, June 6, 15 
and 20 footers— 15, Ross prizes, 20. club prizes; Wednesday, June 10, 
15-footers, club prizes; Saturday, June 13, 15, 25, 30 and A classes— 15, 
Ross prizes; 25 and 30, club prizes; Wednesday, June 17, 15-footers, 
club prizes; Saturday, June 20, 15 and 20 footers— 15, Ross prizes; 20, 
club prizes; Wednesday, June 24, 15-footers, club prizes; Saturday, 
June 27, 15, 25, 30 and A classes— 15, club prizes; 25, 30 and A. club 
prizes; Wednesday, July 1, A.M., Sir D. A. Smith cup, open to 25, 30 
and F. A. classes; Wednesday, July 1, P.M., club prizes; Saturday, 
July 4, 20-f ooters, club prizes and Girouard cup, open to 25-footers; 
Saturday, August 1, cruise; Saturday, August 8, cruise; Saturday, 
August 15, 25, 30 and A classes, club prizes; Tuesday, August 18, 
Hamilton Trophy, open to 20-f ooters; Saturday, August 22, Vice- 
Commodore Geo. W. Hamilton's cup, open to 25, 30 and A classes. 
The racing will be almost exclusively devoted to the 15-footers, for 
wnich club prizes will be given on May 9, 16, 27; June 3, 10, 17, 24. 27, 
and July 1, and upon the other six dates, May 23, 25, 30, and June 6, 13 
§nd the cQmmodore'R handsome prices will he sailed ?or, the boats, 
SAIL PLAN. 
coring by the following points in each race: First boat to finish 20 
points; second, 15; third, 11; fourth, 8; fifth, 6; sixth, 5; seventh, 4 ; 
eighth, 3; ninth, 2; tenth and all other finishers to score 1 point. The 
boat winning the greatest number of points in the six races by this 
table will be awarded first prize of $125, the second $100 and the third 
875. Mr. Ross when presenting the $300 stipulated that it was only to 
be sailed for by the 15-footers eligible to be chosen to sail for the Sea- 
wanhaka Corinthian Y. C. challenge cup, i. e., a boat must be of 
Canadian design and build, so no boat unless fulfilling these con- 
ditions will be allowed to race. Any of the six races being called off 
by the sailing committee for want of wind, foul weather or other 
reasons, shall not be sailed, but cancelled. All races on Saturdays 
will as far as possible be started at 3:30 P. M., and on Wednesdays at 
6:30 P. M. Char*; of courses, conditions, etc., will be mailed to mem- 
bers as soon as possiole. 
The racing this season, especially in the 15ft. class, promises to be 
very keen and well contested^ as there are now six new 15-footers 
completed and seven more in' course of construction, and all will be 
finished before the end of April, and have a week or so 1 in which to 
tune up and take a few trial trips before" the first race on May 9. The 
following list of names who are 1 building shows that many a hard tus- 
sle will be bad before the season is over and each owner is no doubt 
confident that his boat will prove a surprise to tfie others. The mem- 
bers who have placed orders are Me'ssrs. Robert Fitzgibbon, H G. 
Eadie, Arthur Hamilton, Lionel J. Smith, J. C O. Almon, A. W. Shear- 
wood and Charles H. Routh (jointly), Kirkpatrick and Prissick 
(jointly), E. S. Clouston, R. R. Wallace, G. H. Diiggan, James Ross, 
Rev. H. Kittson, A. L. Drummond and D. A. Poe. Messrs. Dinning, L 
M. Ogilvy and others are anxious, to build if time permits. Five are, 
it is understood, being built in Toronto, three in Brockville, one in 
$?l?9Urg and, fjve }n Montreal, and, when this, little fleet gftf together 
it should prove a very pretty sight and well worth a trip to Dorval to 
witness a race from the club pier, as the courses to be sailed this year 
will not take the 15-footers out of sight at any time in a race. The 
steam yacht owners have also intimated their intention of giving a 
prize to be competed for by the 15-footers or other classes. 
"Forest and Stream" on the Lakes. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Have you any idea how powerful an organ the Forest and Stream 
has been in awakening an intelligent interest in yachting, both sail 
and steam, on these fresh-water ponds between the St. Lawrence and 
Duluth? Apparently not. not lately that is. I have been all through 
that campaign, from the primitive birch to the modern racer with 
overhanging ends like an alligator, and I am well within the truth in 
asserting that the Forest and Stream by its illustrations and descrip- 
tions of various craft, running;from 20 to 120ft. waterjine, has contrib- 
uted more than any other medium to the present advanced stage of 
water sport on the Great Lakes. Has any other paper presented dif- 
ferent types of boats propelled by steam or wind, or both, to the nau- 
tical public in the middle West since the bateaux epoch? Well, hardly ; 
hardly any, that is. Are you aware that the principles of flotation as 
presented by Stephens and the lamented Kunhardt and various de- 
signers of steam craft, appearing from week to week, have inspired 
the yacht clubs and yacht owners of every port on fresh water be- 
tween 75 and 95 west longitude? That the dainty sailboats and pala- 
tial steam yachts now getting ready to go into commission in these 
parts, in eight cases out of ten, first found a lodging in the minds of 
their owners through a perusal of these columns ? I fear not, not from 
the signs that is. Nevertheless it is immensely so. 
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