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Fixtures. 
JULY. 
17-18-19. East Gloucester, cruise to Nahant. 
23. Baltimore, McAllister cup, Chesapeake Bay. 
23. Quincy, open, Boston Harbor. 
23. Winthrop. club, Boston Harbor. 
23. Burgess, ladies' race, Massachusetts Bay. 
23. Woods Holl, championship, Sussett Harbor. 
23. American, skiff class, Newburyport. 
23. Royal Canadian, 27, 22 and skiff classes, Toronto. 
23. Beverly, fifth Corinthian. 
23. Royal St. Lawrence, A, 30, 25 and 18ft. classes, Dorval. 
25. Interlake Y. R. A., annual, Put-In Bay, Lake Erie. 
25. Cape Cod, club, Provincetown. 
27-28-29. Manchester, open, Manchester, Mass. 
29. Newport, ladies' day, Narragansett Bay. 
30. Corinthian Marblehead, club, Massachusetts Bay. 
30. Burgess, open, Massachusetts Bay. 
30. American, ladies' cruise, Newburyport. 
30. Taunton, ladies' cruise, Taunton, Mass. 
30. New Jersey Ath-., cup, Newark Bay. ' 
30. Woods Holl, open, Sussett Harbor.- 
30. Shelter Island, special, Gardiner's Bay. 
30. Indian Harbor, annual, Long Island Sound. 
30- Aug. 7. Corinthian San Francisco, cruise. 
30. Royal St. Lawrence, 25, 18 and 15ft. classes, Dorvai. 
30. Baltimore, Rear-Corn, cup, Chesapeake Bay. 
30. Queen City, 27ft. class, Toronto. 
31- Aug. 1. East Gloucester, cruise, Gloucester, Mass. 
The results of the Seawanhaka trial races, after five 
days, are very inadequate, unsatisfactory, and far from 
conclusive. As far as the two Crane boats are concerned, 
if is evident that Seawanhaka, as handled by Mr. Clinton 
H. Crane, is fast and a good all-round boat; but it is 
by no means certain how Cicada compares with her. 
Seawanhaka has been under way for over a month, and 
her crew has had time to become familiar with her. 
Cicada, on the other hand, has been out but a short 
time, and her owner and his friends had small op- 
portunity to get her into racing shape or to become 
familiar with her; while they are strangers to the Oyster 
Bay waters. Under these circumstances it is impossible 
to compare her with Seawanhaka, boat for boat and rig 
for rig. The rigs, as noted in our report, differ con- 
siderably in proportions, and a good deaf may be learned 
by a thorough trial of the two boats with different rigs 
and a change of crews from one to the other. 
The question of ultimate possibilities of these two 
boats, both evidently fast, and of a third of Mr. Crane's 
design, now building at Ogdensburg, is of itself a suffi- 
cient puzzle for the race committee, but it is compli- 
cated by the performance of the Huntington boat, 
Akabo. 
She has been sailing for some weeks, handled by the 
Huntingtons and her owner; she has been in several 
races, and presumably is in good racing form. She has 
shown great speed and a far better average performance 
than the previous Huntington boats, especially in light 
weather. In the first day's drift she quite held Sea- 
wanhaka to windward, under conditions in which Skate 
or Question would have been far astern; and she is 
fast in moderate as well as in very strong breezes. 
Theoretically she is deficient in windward work, failing 
to point or hold on with Seawanhaka. At the same time, 
after apparently crabbing off to leeward, she has man- 
aged to get out to the windward mark at about the same 
time as the others, sometimes a little sooner. Taking 
this into account, with her proved speed on a reach, and 
her very good performance down wind, it will take 
some further racing yet to prove which is the best boat to 
send to Canada. As to type, Akabo is more of a freak 
than the Crane boats, so far as that goes in these pro- 
gressive days, and she is probably not quite so even in 
her all-round performance under a variety of conditions; 
but she has certain get-there qualities which demand a 
very careful trial before a final decision is reached. 
The Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. is busy in its efforts 
to defend the cup for the second time, and in addition to 
the races already held, a new boat, designed by Mr. Dug- 
gan, was launched on July II, So far as reports go, the 
new boats are at least faster than Glcncairn II.; though 
it is doubtful whether they differ very much from that 
successful craft. 
The first of the present week witnessed the 'beginning 
of the work of removing the submarine mines from New 
York Harbor, the War Department having given dis- 
cretion to the authorities in various northern ports to 
remove all mines, all danger- of attack by Spanish ves- 
sels having passed. The regulations as to the closing 
of the harbor at sunset will probably be relaxed very 
shortly. " 
The Atlantic Y. C. has taken a very wise step in re- 
questing the opinion of yacht owners as to the advis- 
ability of an annual cruise this year, and if the attempt 
be made it will probably be quite, as successful as any- 
thing of the kind in previous years. Com. Adams has 
sent out letters to owners, and if favorable replies are 
received arrangements will at once be made. 
In our opinion there has been no ground whatever for 
the position taken by many yacht clubs, that the sport 
should be ignored entirely this season. The avowed 
object of all yacht clubs is to encourage yachting, and 
yet at a time when the sport is sorely in need of sup- 
port a large number of clubs, led by some of the 
greatest, have deliberately abandoned both cruises and 
races. It is easily conceivable that in the, case of a 
serious war the circumstances might be such as to call 
for the abandonment of all amusements and frivolous 
pursuits, as in the case of our antagonist in the present 
conflict; but as far as this country is concerned, there 
has never been a day since the Maine was blown up when 
the greater part of the people have been called on to de- 
part from the ordinary pursuits and amusements of 
life. To judge from the result throughout the country, 
the consensus of opinion has been that, whatever de- 
mands the war has made upon the patriotism of the aver- 
age citizen, except in the case of the comparatively 
small number actually engaged at the front, there_ has 
been no emergency which called for a departure from 
the ordinary course of life. There is in the business 
and social life of the country no evidence that war ex- 
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ists, or that matters are at all different from last year. 
There are, of course, many who through anxiety over 
absent ones or actual bereavement have no heart for 
sport or amusement of any kind; but the average Amer- 
ican, unless in actual service, is practically unaffected by 
the war. Just how a man displays his patriotism by 
foreswearing yachting and taking a trip to Europe or 
staying ashore to play golf and shoot pigeons is a mat- 
ter that passes our comprehension, and yet that is 
what it actually amounts to; as yachting is the only sport 
which has been openly tabooed by its devotees on ac- 
count of the war. 
The condition of yachting at the present time, as for 
several years past, is such as to call for serious considera- 
tion on the part of all American yachtsmen. To mention 
only one detail, while the building and racing of yachts of 
large size goes on regularly every year in Great Britain, 
with a corresponding advance, on this side it has ceased 
entirely; there is no attempt at improvement in design 
and construction, the old racing crews have been broken 
up, and nothing is being done to keep up the supply of 
skilled skippers and seamen. In the event of an in- 
ternational race, which must come sooner or later in 
some way, America cannot fail to be placed at a serious 
disadvantage in the important matters of design, con- 
struction and above all in handling. The present season 
has been entirely wasted, and with results that are likely 
to be apparent next year. 
The example of some of the large clubs in deliberately 
abandoning all their fixtures in advance has been fol- 
lowed in a little different way by many smaller clubs, 
which have accepted their dates, announced races, and 
then, with no warning to outside yachtsmen, made no 
preparation for a race, but let the whole thing go by de- 
fault. Such unsportsmanlike conduct not only hurts a 
club, but hurts the sport at large. 
Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C* 
Trial Races and Annual Corinthian Race. 
Oyster Bay. Long Island Sound. 
July II to 15. 
Even with yacht racing in a prosperous condition, the 
middle of July is the dullest part of the season, marking 
the interval between the early summer racing and the 
New York Y. C.„ cruise. This year, however, a fairly 
busy week was promised at Oyster Bay through the 
programme of the Seawanhaka C. Y. C, including sev- 
eral days of interesting trial races for the Seawanhaka 
international challenge cup; the annual race, for which 
quite a good entry list was ready; and a special race on 
Saturday for the Alfred Roosevelt memorial cup, this 
year offered in the 25ft. class, including the one-design 
knockabouts; a dance at the club house was also an- 
nounced for Saturday evening. A series of unfortunate 
events marred this programme; the first trial on Monday 
failed for lack of wind; on Tuesday a very good race was 
sailed, but the gale of Wednesday prevented a trial 
race, and also kept away yachts which were expected for 
Thursday's race, reducing the starters on that day. On 
Friday, with a fine breeze, one of the contestants was 
crippled through the accidental burning of her mainsail, 
stopping the trial races before a thoroughly satisfactory 
test had been made; and on the same afternoon one of the 
old members of the club, James A. Roosevelt, of Oyster 
Bay, died suddenly of apoplexy on the train while on 
his way home from New York. Mr. Roosevelt, who was 
seventy-four years of age, was the father of the late 
Alfred Roosevelt, Avho was killed in boarding a railway 
train in 1891, and in whose memory the Roosevelt 
memorial cup was established. The tragic event natur- 
ally led to the abandonment of Saturday's programme. 
The conditions of the cup and trial races are practically 
the same as in previous years, with one • important ex- 
ception, that the crew allowance has been increased by 
one, the boats still being measured with 45olbs. of dead 
weight on board, but being allowed a crew of four pro- 
vided the weight of crew does not exceed 6oolbs. This 
gives an opportunity to carry an extra hand for the 
light sails, and also removes the inducement to select 
very heavy men. A slight change has been made in the 
method of measuring the head triangle, and in the trial 
races the method originated by the Royal St. Lawrence 
Y. C. last year, of sailing the races in several heats of one 
round each, with a short interval between, has been 
adopted. The courses were laid off, as usual, from the 
Center Island Buoy, two miles to windward or leeward, 
or a triangle of two-mile sides. 
The number of competitors was smaller this year than 
ever before, practically but three boats. In the first trial 
races, 1895, with the 15ft. class, there were seven starters; 
in 1896 the same class showed twenty-eight starters; and 
in 1897 the 20ft. class brought out seven boats. 
This year Mr. Clinton H. Crane has designed three 
boats, most of the work being done as a part of his 
studies at the School of Naval Architecture at Glasgow 
University. One of these is for a syndicate made up in 
the Seawanhaka C. Y. C; one is for Mr. H. L. Eno, and 
one, not yet completed, is for Mr. Crane. All were built 
and rigged by the Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Co. at 
Ogdensburg, and canvased by Wilson & Silsby, Bos- 
ton. 
The two which have been at Oyster Bay for the past 
month,' Seawanhaka and Cicada, are very similar in 
model, the latter being the wider by about 6in. They 
differ from Momo in several important details. The 
general form of the hull is the same, as well as the di- 
mensions, except that the bow is not snubbed in short, 
but is carried out as in Glencairn II.; at the same time 
the freeboard is some 2in. greater than in Momo. 
The crown of deck has been increased considerably, 
the bathtub cockpit has been abandoned in favor of an 
open well of large size, without bulkheads, and the 
solid plate centerboards have been discarded for much 
heavier ones of composite construction, filled with lead. 
The construction of the hulls is radically different from 
that of Momo, every effort being made to save weight. 
The planking is of white cedar in' place of mahogany, re- 
duced in thickness. Seawanhaka is blanked with hollow- 
and-round strips, edge-nailed, as in Shark last year, and 
Cicada is of the rib-and-batten construction of the old 
[July 23, 1898. 
Rice Lake canoes, light bent ribs, with thin strips nailed 
over each seam between them. The decks are of thill 
white cedar laid in-and-out instead of flush. The Work- 
manship on hulls, spars, rigging and centerboards is 
excellent, the spars of Course being hollow. The interiors 
of the hulls ate trussed and strapped in every direction. 
Seawanhaka is painted white and Cicada is varnished all 
oyer. Neither has a bowsprit, and the sail plans are 
high and narrow, as in Momo. Both use the Y tiller 
of last year, and narrow, deep rudders, but the latter 
have more breadth below than in Momo and Al Anka. 
Akabo, the new Huntington boat, is quite a departure 
from last year's Skate and Keneu. Her deck plan is 
. almost a parallelogram, the point of the bow being cut 
off square and finished with a transom just like the stern. 
The sheer is reversed, the ends being slightly lower than 
the middle at the sides, in addition to quite a crown to 
the deck. There is the usual small oval opening in the 
deck. The bottom is perfectly flat in the middle, but the 
bilge is round and not square, as in Question and the 
early Huntington boats. The hull is carvel built, with 
a canvased deck. A short bowsprit is used, and the rig 
is lower than on the Crane boats. The centerboard is a 
plain sliding plate of metal — a fin with no bulb. The 
hull is painted a light tint. 
There was another new boat ur the first trial: Gold 
Bug, designed and built by Thomas Clapham. She is a 
peculiar craft, with double bottom and straight sides, 
a bow very much cut away immediately over the water, 
an ordinary wooden centerboard and a second center- 
board dropping through her rudder. Her mast is made 
of two flat pieces trussed together. Asthore, a fin-keel, 
designed and built by Chas. Olmstead for the class last 
year, now owned by F. B. Jones, also started on two 
days. 
First Day, Monday, July J I. 
After a hot Sunday, Monday was clear and bright; 
cooler, but with no wind. The fleet went out about 
noon, and after a wait for a breeze it was determined to 
make a start. The wind, very light indeed, was from the 
south, so a mark was set two miles north of the Center 
Island Buoy, well out in the Sound, the start being thus 
to windward. The preparatory signal was given at 2:50 
and the start at 2:55, all crossing on port tack, Akabo, 
followed by Seawanhaka, Cicada, Asthore and Gold Bug. 
Akabo made a good start and followed it by opening out 
clear of Seawanhaka. It was but little better than drift- 
ing, and the only point worth noting was that Akabo 
was doing the best work of the fleet under conditions 
in which the older Huntington boats showed at their 
worst. As they slowly neared the shore, the leaders 
caught a little more wind for a time, Akabo and Seawan- 
haka kept together and left Asthore, Cicada and Gold 
Bug a long way astern. At 3:45 there was no wind to 
speak of; Seawanhaka was close aboard Akabo, but the 
two were almost drifting. At 4 o'clock they were side 
by side, and a few minutes later they set spinakers to 
port to catch a light westerly air. They jibed over, 
drifted for a time, and Akabo lowered her jib, as it was 
evident that the race could not be finished within the 
time limit of 1 hour and 40 minutes. 
During the day a new and handsome steam launch 
was running about, following the boats closely. She 
was the Squid, a Herreshoff boat, with N. G. Herreshoff 
on board, on a cruise through the Sound. After the 
race was stopped she ran out and took Cicada and 
Asthore in tow, and the launches looked after the other 
two; Gold Bug was towed in by a catboat, her consort. 
Second Day, Tuesday, July 12. 
Tuesday morning brought a complete change of 
weather, a hard N.E. wind and rough sea. Gold Bug 
did not attempt to start, her crew of two sailing on 
Asthore. Akabo was hauled out at Oyster Bay on Mon- 
day night, and the low tide and heavy wind delayed the 
launching, so she was late at the line. The weather 
mark was set just off Lloyd's Neck, as close inshore as 
possible, the wind being N.N.E. 
First Round. 
When the preparatory signal was given at 12:30 only 
three boats were in sight — Seawanhaka, Cicada and 
Asthore — all with three reefs in and storm jibs. Asthore 
made a very good start, followed by Cicada, but Sea- 
wanhaka failed to cross, a lashing between the block and 
the ring on her main traveler having parted just before 
the whistle. The others were recalled and Seawanhaka 
started to make repairs. At 12:50 a new start was made, 
Akabo being then- near the line. Cicada and Asthore 
crossed together, on starboard tack, but Seawanhaka 
started inshore on port tack. Akabo did not start until 
hailed from the committee boat, being 2m. 43s. late, 
she luffed around the outer mark and started after Sea- 
wanhaka, carrying two reefs and a storm jib. She 
sailed very fast and pointed high, soon working into 
second place. Asthore and Cicada soon tacked after 
the others, and all stood well up the harbor mouth and 
then worked the shore along Lloyd's Neck, there being 
a strong flood tide. Akabo overtook Seawanhaka from 
the start, and they came for the mark close together, 
the handicap of 2m. 43s. having been cut down to a lead 
of but 17s. They tacked around the mark and started 
in with a heavy following sea. Asthore did very good 
work and was third boat, Cicada being a long way 
astern. 
As soon as they were off the wind the leaders started 
to set spinakers, but it was some minutes before they 
were drawing. Just after rounding, Akabo ran down on 
a sea and stuck the starboard corner of her bow into a 
wave, burying her I9re deck. Seawanhaka finally set 
her big spinaker and picked up in speed. Akabo had a 
smaller one, and not so well ' set, while Cicada set a 
balloon jib. Seawanhaka made a gain of 38s. on Akabo 
in the two-mile run. The times are given in the table 
below. 
Second Round. 
There was less wind and sea when the second round 
was started at 2:20. Akabo was first over, with Seawan- 
haka on her weather quarter, followed by Asthore. 
Cicada crossed alone at the -inshore end of the line. 
Asthore held offshore, but the others started in as be- 
fore for the bluffs. Five minutes after the start Seawan- 
haka started to shake out her third reef, the maneuver 
being very skillfully done, as it took little time and the 
