May 14, 1898.] 
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ROYAL NOVA SCOTIA YACHT SQUADRON 18FT. ONE-DESIGN CLASS. 
Winthfop Y, C. 
The Winthrop Y. C. has announced the following fixtures for 
1896: 
May 28, Saturday afternoon, 3 o'clock — Club race. 
June 5, starting 10 o'clock, Sunday morning, destination an- 
nounced at start — Squadron cruise. / 
June 16, Thursday evening, 7 o'clock — Water sports. 
June 17, 18 and 19, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, starting from 
club house, Saturday morning at 10 o'clock — Cruise to Marblehead, 
Gloucester, etc. 
June 25, Saturday afternoon, 3 o'clock — Club race. 
Julj' 7, Thursday afternoon, 3 o'clock; July 8, Friday afternoon, 
3 o'clock; July 9, Saturday afternoon, 3 o'clock^ — Open races and 
water sports. 
July 23, Saturday afternoon, 3 o'clock — Club race. 
Aug. 6 and 7, Saturday and Sunday, starting Saturday afternoon 
at 2 o'clock — Squadron cruise to Marblehead. 
Aug. 13, Saturday evening, 7 o'clock — Evening race. 
Aug. 20, Saturday afternoon, 2 o'clock — Club race. 
Aug. 21, starting 10 o'clock Sunday morning, destination an- 
nounced at start — Squadron cruise. 
Sept. 10 and 11, Saturday and Sunday, starting Saturday after- 
noon, 4 o'clock — Squadron cruise and association rendezvous. 
Additional races will be provided if a sufficient interest is taken. 
Special programmes will be arranged for evening races, water 
sports, etc., for which suitable prizes will be awarded. Particulars 
will be announced later. 
W. Y. C. racing rules will govern all club races. Championship 
prizes will be awarded in each class. The regatta committee 
reserve the right to handicap any club race. 
Only such classes as have two or more starters will be raced, 
and only bona fide starters will be recognized. Numbered flags 
will be displayed from the club house, designating the courses 
which are to be sailed. Odd numbers indicate course to Deer 
Island light first. Even numbers indicate course to Buoy No. 6 
first. Starts will be made from the club house and will be 
finished of¥ Point Shirley. Starts flying. Time taken from the 
starting signal. A preparatory gun will be fired five minutes be- 
fore first class starts, which will be followed by guns at five- 
minute intervals for the classes to start in rotation according to 
size. 
The regatta committee is as follows: A. T. Bliss, Chairman; 
Joseph L. Rankin, Secretary; Harry M. Frost, Edgar A. Cook, 
A. R. Sanderson. 
Taunton C. 
The Taunton Y. C. has annotmced the following fixtures for 
1898: 
May 16 — Regular meeting. We_ propose at this meeting to have 
the janitor get us up one of his famous clam chowders. After 
the meeting there will be a smoke talk. 
May 30 — The club house will be opened to members, their fami- 
lies and guests. On this date there will be a cruise to Thurs- 
ton's for a clam dinner. 
June 11— Club race. Races to start at 1:30 P. M. There will be 
music furnished during the race. 
Tune 20 — Regular meeting. Clam chowder and smoke talk. 
June 30 — Ladies' day and moonlight sail. 
July 9— Ladies' day. Cruise to the new summer resort at Mt. 
Hope. 
July 18 — Regular meeting. 
July 30 — Ladies' da3'- and moonlight sail. 
Aug. 3 — Cruise to Newport. 
Aug. 13— Club race. Races to start at. 3 P. M. 
Aug. 15=^Regular meeting. Clam chowder and smoke talk. 
Aug. 27 — Open regatta and water sports. Races to start at 11:30 
A. M. 
Aug. 30 — ^Ladies' day and moonlight sail. 
Sept. 10— Club race. Races to start at 2 P. M. 
Sept. 19 — Regular meeting. Clam chowder and smoke talk. 
Sept. 30— Ladies' day and moonlight sail. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The new house of the Atlantic Y. C. is nearly completed at 
Sea Gate, and the station will be ready before Decoration Day. 
The old house at Bay Ridge has been moved to the new loca- 
tion, as no purchaser was found for it, and will still be used by 
the club. In moving it the piles had to be sawn off some dis- 
tance below water by divers. 
We have received the year book of the Lake Sailing Skiff 
Association of Lake Ontario, now in its sixth year. The_ Asso- 
ciation was formed to encourage the building and racing of 
sailing skiffs and small yachts, and is open to any sailing skiff 
or yacht club on the Lakes having a membership of fifteen and 
a fleet of five skiffs of 14ft. l.w.l. and upward. The Seawanhaka 
Tule is used. The officers for 1898 are: Pres., F. E. Walker, 
Victoria Y. C. ; Vice-Pres., G. R. Judd, Royal Hamilton Y. C. ; 
Hon. Sec'y-Treas., L. J. Levy, Royal Toronto S. S. C; Execu- 
tive Committee, G. F. Brierly, R. T. Cuff, T. A. Riley and W. A. 
Watts. The Association now includes the Royal Hamilton Y. 
C, Victoria Y. C, Royal Toronto Sailing Skiff Club, National 
Yacht and Skiff Club, of Toronto; and Parkdale Sailing Club. 
President Walker has donated a handsome challenge trophy for 
annual competition in all classes, to be sailed at the annual 
regatta each season. 
The Arctic yacht Windward, presented to Lieut. 'Peary by 
Alfred Harmsworth, sailed from the Thames on March 19 for 
New York and has not yet been reported at sea. While she 
has very light auxiliarj' power and is a slow vessel, she should 
have made the passage before this. 
Varuna, steam yacht, J. Montgomery Sears, has been sold 
to George F. Dominick, of New York. Capt. John Holly jyill 
have charge of her. 
Wanda, steam yacht, H. S. Henry, has been sold to M. S. 
Tweedy, of New York. 
Surprise, cutter, J. D. Baird, has been sold to De V. H. War- 
-aer, of Bridgeport. 
The Huguenot Y. C. at a meeting on May 2 decided to hold 
no races during the continuance of the war, and has canceled 
all of its dates m the Sound Y. R. A. programme. 
Miranda, schr., for the past three years laid up at Manning's 
Basin, has been purchased by C. N. Nelson, and is now fitting 
out under the charge of Capt. Urias Rhodes, formerly of Sea 
Fox and Lasca. 
On May 3 the steam yacht Endion, designed and built by 
C. L. Seabury & Co. for Com. Jesse H. Metcalf, Rhode Island 
Y. C, was launched at the works, Morris Heights, New York. 
She is 103ft. over all, 85ft. l.w.l., 14ft. beam, and 5tt. draft, with 
engines 7, 11 and 17^ by 10, and a Seabury boiler. 
Daphne, cutter, Com. C. T. Wills, has been sold to George W. 
Copeland. 
The Royal Canadian Y. C. has elected the following officers: 
Com., u^:milius Jarvice; Vice-Com., T. H. Plummer; Rear Com., 
G. H. Gooderham; Hon. Sec'y, F. T. Ricardo-Seaver; Executive 
Committee, C. E. Archbald, C. A. B. Brown, F. J. Campbell, 
F. O. Caylcy, G. R. Hargraft, G. T. McMurrich, A. G. Peuchen, 
H. E. Ridley, James E. Robertson, Robert Watson. The club is 
in a prosperous financial condition, tvith a membership of 563. 
Messrs. Reed Bros., of Fall River, iave on the" stocks a cruising 
yawl designed by H. J. Gielow for a New York owner, a similar 
boat to the well-known Fidelio and Pawnee. She is 46ft. over 
all, 30ft. l.w.l., 12ft. 9in. beam, and Cft. draft, without board. Under 
the usual trunk cabin she will have a good cabin and stateroom, 
toilet room, etc. 
The Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Co. has now under construc- 
tion at its shop in Ogdensburgli several racing 20-footers. Two 
of these are for the local class on the St. Lawrence River, one for 
Mr. Charles M. Englis, of New York, and one for Mr. Henry Wil- 
bur, of South Bethlehem, Pa. Mr. Henry Lane Eno, of New 
York, has ordered a 20-footer for the Seawanhaka races, from 
a design by Mr. C. H. Crane. There are in the shops several 
launches for the Alco-Vapor motor, one for J. C. Scott, of Oyster 
Bay, a 30ft. boat, and one of 33ft., of the hunting launch type, 
for James L. Swan, of New York. The company has a new 
desiign for a racing catboat of 16ft. l.w.l., from which it is building 
for Messrs. Archibald Rogers, Anson Phelps Stokes and J. R. 
Roosevelt, the boats to be raced on Lake Regis. 
The Quebec Y. C. elected the following officers on April 30: 
Com., H. H. Sharpies; Vice-Com., George C. Scott; Capt., M. 
Raymond; Sec'y, F. O'Farrell; Treas., W. A. Home; Managing 
Committee, T. T. Hetherington, A. Drolet, J. A. Shehyn; Sailing 
Committee, J. Piddington, H. G. Legendre, O. B. C. Richardson, 
T. S. Thom, D. Arcand; Room Committee, John Shaw, A. E. 
Scott, James Gingras; Auditors, Joseph U. Laird, H. S. Morgan. 
At the annual meeting of the Kingston Y. C. on May 2 the 
following officers were elected: Com., Harry W. Richardson; 
Vice-Com., D. Allan Black; Rear-Com., W. Bruce Carruthers; 
Sec'y, J. H. Macnee; Treas., W. C. Kent; Executive Committee, 
J. A. Minnes, Frank Strange, R. Easton Burns, G. H. Smythe and 
J. E. Cunningham. It was decided to invite the Lake Yacht 
Racing Association to hold a rendezvous regatta at Kingston this 
season instead of a circuit of races, and to offer the association 
?400 toward the prize money necessary for such a regatta. 
The Queen City Y. C. has announced the following fixtures: 
May 21, cruising race; June 4, 22ft. class, Dodd cup; June 11, 
19ft. and 16ft. classes, World cup; June 18, 22ft. class; July 2, 
27ft. class; July 9, 19ft. class; July 16, 16ft. class; July 30, 27ft. 
class; Aug. 6, 16ft. class; Aug. 13, 19ft. class; Aug. 27, 27ft. 
class; Sept. 17, 22ft. class. 
Atlanta, schr., of Boston, has been sold to_ E. H. Dickinson, of 
New York, through Kiley's Agency. She is 65ft. 4in. over all, 
58ft. 2in. l.w.l., 17ft. 3in. beam, and 7ft. 6in. draft. 
The first of the 21ft. raceaboiits is afloat and ready for business. 
She is the Jilt, built by the Herreshoffs for W. O. Gay, and she 
is now at her owner's moorings at Cohasset, having been sailed 
around the Cape by Mr. Gay, assisted by his man. The trip was 
not exactly a pleasure trip, and yet it wa^ not devoid of pleasant 
features, and was made in very good time, considering the 
weather. The little yacht left the Herreshoff Works at Bristol at 
5 o'clock a week ago Saturday afternoon, and reached Lawley's 
yard in this city at 2 o'clock the following Monday afternoon. 
Much of the time was spent in beating up the back of the Cape 
against a strong northerlj' wind, but this with its hard work 
was compensated for later by the fine run across the bay from 
Race Point. The run of Saturday afternoon and evening was 
a fine one, but midnight in Vineyard Sound brought a heavy 
squall, which necessitated three reefs, and made wet sailing at 
that. The sail over the shoals Sunday morning was a beautiful 
one, but the beat up the Cape later was a long, tedious and tire- 
some one. Monday morning at 5 o'clock the Jilt was off Race 
Point, and from there it was plain sailing. The wind was mod- 
erate to light, but allowed of sheets being eased, so that the 
yacht came along very fast, reaching Lawley's at 2 P. M. There 
she was cleaned and put in shape, and was then sailed to Cohasset. 
She will be in Marblehead waters to-day, weather permitting, look- 
ing for trouble. Jilt is quite a different boat from her owner's 
last year's Fly, from Herreshoff's hands, being about 30 in.stead 
of nearly 34ft. over all, and having 5 instead of 6ft. draft. With 
her 600ft. of sail, instead of the 500 allowed under last year's 
rule, she is, of course, not so stiff, but will undoubtedly be 
much faster in average racing weather. Speaking of his boat, 
Mr. Gay said: "Of her actual speed I cannot judge, since we 
have sailed against nothing of our size, but she is a vastly dif- 
ferent boat from Fly. All I can say of her now is that she is 
splendidlj' balanced, easily handled, and apparently powerful 
enough for our racing weather in Massachusetts Bay. I am 
perfectly satisfied with her behavior thus far, and am anxious 
for some racing. The class ought to give some good sport this 
season." — Boston Globe. 
On May 3 the British steam yacht Lady Clemell, Mr. Wilkin- 
son, while lying in the harbor of Malaga, was attacked by a mob 
and forced to leave in a hurry, after her skylights \vere smashed 
by stones thrown from the dock. She put in to Gibraltar. 
CANOEING NEWS NOTES. 
The Yachting World of April 29 has an excellent portrait of Mr. 
Wm. Willard Howard, and a supplemental plate of his canoe 
Yankee. 
The Brooklyn C. C. has arranged" the following fixtures for 
1898: May 12, June 11, June 25, July 16, July 30, Sept. 10, Sept. 
24, club races. Bay Ridge; May 30, cruise on Delaware River. 
The New York C. C. house, Harway avenue, Bath Beach, is now 
open for the season after being thoroughly refitted. The house 
offers every facility for members, rooms and meals being pro- 
vided at a moderate charge. There is good bathing, the loca- 
tion on Gravesend Bay, with anchorage and boat houses, faces 
the best sailing waters about New York, and the Long Island 
roads are easily accessible for wheeling. The _ club's new one- 
design fleet promises some good racing and sailing this season. 
The opening regatta will take place on June 4 and the annual on 
Sept. 10. 
