IS 
continued to gainj the times at the Pointe Claire mark 
being : 
Time. Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Glencairn 3 17 53 0 10 45 0 00 57 0 03 29 
Constance .3 21.22 0 11 42 
Where they had carried spinakers in tlie first round 
thejf now hardened .sheets for a beat to tlie. line, Constance 
picking- up a little, as the times show: 
Gain. 
Time. Elapsed. 
Glencairn 3 34 40 0 16 47 
Con.stance 3 37 50 0 16 38 
Lead. 
0 03 10 
0 00 19 
The wind was light and fluky on the first leg of the 
last round, and Glencairn picked up a very long lead, the 
>'mes being: 
Time. Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Glencairn 3 49 20 0 14 40 0 04 15 0 07 25 
Constance 3 56 45 0 19 55 
The second leg was covered under spinakers, the rain 
still falling and the wind being fluki'. Constance picked up 
nearly 2 minutes, but.it was too late to save the race. 
Time. Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Glencairn 4 04 25 0 15 05 0 05 34 
Constance 4 09 59 0 13 14 0 01 51 
With a freshening wind from S.W., Glencairn reached 
over the last leg with a very slight gain, crossing the 
line with a lead of 5 minutes 39 seconds. The final times 
were : 
Leg. Whole course. 
Time. Elapsed. Gain. Elapsed. Lead. 
Glencairn 4 15 43 0 11 18 0 00 05 2 20 43 0 05 39 
Constance 4 21 22 0 11 23 2 26 22 
While it lasted the storm was very severe^ the attendant 
yachts stowing all canvas and anchoring. Both of the 
racing boats were well handled, losing very little time . 
Fifth Race, Thursday, Aug. 3, 
After Glencairn's win on Wednesday, making the 
chances even between the two boats, there was great ex- 
citement on both sides. It had been demonstrated that in 
a fresh breeze, with merely straight sailing, Constance 
was the better boat and Glencairn was speedily over- 
powered ; on the other hand, Glencairn was about as fast 
as Constance in light weather, and in a race where the 
wind was variable and there was much shifting of posi- 
tions Mr. Duggan was the better strategist, making the 
most of every little point. The inferiority of his boat in 
fresh breezes and the blunder by which the first race was 
lost seemed to have little effect on him, as he sailed the 
third and fourth racs, after many of his own side had al- 
ready given up the cup as lost, with the same nerve and 
self-possession as though he had already two and his 
opponent none. 
The weather conditions on Thursday morning were en- 
tirely in favor of Glencairn. The wind was light from 
.S.W. with little prospect of increasing. Glencairn was 
out for a morning spin to make certain that all Avas right 
with her. At noon the wind was very light, and by the 
time that the committee had decided to call the start, at 
1 :25, it was from the south. This was the worst possible 
quarter for the windward and leeward course, lying across 
the length of the deep water, between Pointe Claire and 
the long shoal on the south. After a course had been 
laid out the wind shifted, and at the request of Mr. Post, 
on the committee boat, the course was changed. Several 
changes were made in the effort to get a suitable course to 
windward, and it was not until 3 o'clock that the prepara- 
tory signal was given. There was some sharp maneuver- 
ing for position, and in the course of it Constance took 
the ground, her board touching. Mr. Crane hailed the 
committee boat, but the yacht got off. ■ By this time the 
starting signal had been given and Glencairn crossed at 
3:05:15. Mr. Crane declined to cross the line, and Mr, 
Post made the following protest : 
The Sailing Committee, St. Lawrence Yacht Club. 
Dear Sirs : I beg leave to enter a protest against the 
course as laid out for to-day's race, on the ground that 
there was not sufficient water for the boats to be sailed in. 
Respectfully yours, 
Regis H. Post. 
The race committee declined to recall Glencairn, and 
she sailed over the course, finishing at 6:25:15. The fol- 
lowing statements were given out by Mr. Post and the 
race conmiittee : 
Mr. Post's statement: 
"The cottrse was supposed to be a beat to windward of 
two miles and return, and when the outer buoy was placed 
at 12 :4s it was all right. But in half an hour the wind 
shifted and the course was no longer due windward, as 
required. I protested. 
"The committee agreed and started to relay the course. 
Prof. Capper, of the sailing committeee. and the pilot of 
the judges' boat, the Dama, moved the buoy more to the 
south to make it to windward. But the new position of 
the buoy was in shallow water, and the course was a 
little short of one and one-half miles. Under the con- 
ditions, if it was impossible to have a windward beat of 
two miles and return three times, the course might be 
made a beat of one and one-half miles four times around. 
Well, as laid out, it was about one and one-tenth miles. I 
did not object to the distance, but I did object that there 
were shoals at the outer buoy. If my boat had gone there 
it Avould have grounded. There seemed to be a channel 
direct to the buoy, but in tacking to either side, Con- 
stance, as her sailing master did not know the varying 
depths, would have grounded. You see for yourself that 
Capt. Duggan, who knows the course, is making very 
short tacks to avoid the shoals. 
"I protested on the ground that it was not a proper 
course. It was then decided to move the starting buoy 
nearer to the shore so as to give more room at the wind- 
ward end. This was done, and after the first signal was 
given Constance, in maneuvering for the start, struck the 
ground or a boulder with her centerboard. Of course, I 
could not know that the starting end by the shifting of the 
■ line back had also become improper until Constance 
struck. But I recalled Mr. Crane because the course was 
an improper one and made a protest. 
"The technical ground was not that the course was 
short, but that it was unfit for sailing. But I did not 
want a fizzle, and so I told the committee that if they 
would recall Glencairn and shorten the course so that it 
eottld be sailed properly I would sail it as it then existed. 
"The comrnittee decided that it was impossible to 
recall Glencairn. In nianetiveriiig for the start Constance 
touched twice. The second tune the centerboard was 
down 5 7-2 ft. These facts show that the course was not a 
proper one." 
The race conmiittee's statement : 
"The course was first set southwest by south from the 
Upper Dorval Lighthouse, two miles to windward. On 
the return of the committee boat, Mr. Crane protested that 
the course was not due windward, the wind having by this 
time hauled southerly. The course was then reset, Mr. 
Post, the representative of the Seawanhaka C. Y. C, being 
invited to accompany a member of the sailing committee 
in resetting it. When it was found that the course was 
slightly short of one and one-half miles, a verbal protest 
was made by the Seawanhaka representative, a second 
protest being intimated on account of shoal water for 
maneuvering around the windward buoy. 
"The sailing committee then proposed to reduce the 
course from one and one-half miles to one mile, but a 
protest was immediately entered by Mr. Post. The com- 
mittee therefore changed the starting line closer to Pointe 
Claire and proceeded to log a course one and one-half 
miles to windward. The preliminary signal was given at 
2:55, the preparatory at 3 and the start at 3:05. Glen- 
cairn crossed the line at 3 :05 :i5. Constance did not cross 
the line. . Subsequently Mr. Post and Mr. Crane came on 
the committee boat and reported to the sailing committee 
that after the first gun Constance took ground with her 
centerboard in maneuvering for the line. Notice of pro- 
test was given, with a formal prote,st in writing later. 
After the race Mr. Post protested as above, and a 
meeting was held in the evening, lasting three hours, at 
the end of which the race committee announced the follow- 
ing decision : 
"The sailing committee having received the following 
protest, name!}'-: 
" 'The Sailing Committee, St. Lawrence Y. C. — Dear 
Sirs : I beg leave to enter a protest against the course .as 
laid out for to-day's race, 5n the ground that there was 
not sufFicient water for the boats to be sailed in. Respect- 
fully yours, 
" 'Regis F1. Post, S. C. P. Constance.' 
And having heard the evidence of Mr. Post, Mr. Crane, 
Mr. Duggan and Mr. W. Riley, and having carefully con- 
sidered all the circumstances of the .start in to-day's race 
of the Seawanhaka Corinthian challenge cup series, de- 
cides that there is not stifficient ground for ordering the 
race to be rcsailed, and accordingly awards the race to 
the Glencairn HI. "Jas. J. Riley, Chairman. 
"Harrison B. Young, Sec'y." 
All yachtsmen will regret that the final race was a 
failure, but enough has been seen of the yachts to demon- 
strate their relative merits and demerits. The new de- 
fender is a departure from all previous Duggan boats. 
The races coming early this year, Mr. Duggan attempted 
to build a boat that would be faster in light weather than 
Glencairn IL, Speculator and the older twenties. In this 
he failed, just as Mr. Crane did in Momo, the boat being 
fast in light weather, but very deficient in power and un- 
fit for good work in the average weather. The new 
Glencairn III. is an ugly boat, clumsy and raft-like in ap- 
pearance and lacking the symmetrical form that has dis- 
tinguished the older boats. When heeled to her sailing 
angle the lines show a longer, finer and more symmetrical 
form than in the older boats, but when upright she is any- 
thing hut handsome. When at her best angle for length 
and form of hull, she is heeled so far that both sails and 
centerboard become ineffective, she loses in driving power 
and slides to leeward. In Dominion the exact reverse 
was the case ; her best angle was so much less than that of 
Challenger that both board and sails were much more 
effective. 
Constance, with a less elaborate and expensive but 
much stronger construction th^n Challenger and Sea- 
wanhaka, is the best yacht which Mr. Crane has turned 
out for the class. She is shorter and far cleaner in form 
than Glencairn III., and looks much smaller. She repre- 
sents a good average of all-round racing qualities, very 
stiff and able, with a good form, and fast both in light and 
heavy winds. 
As to the handling. Mr. Crane did very good work in 
El Heirie in 1896, and he has improved .steadily each 
year, so that with four years' experience in this type of 
boat and four years' of sailing on Lake St. Louis he was 
able to do full justice to his design. At the same time, it 
is no discredit to him to say that Mr. Duggan is the better 
sailor of the two, his many years of experience in all 
sorts of small craft, with his natural abilities as a 
helmsman and his thorough knowledge of his boat, placing 
him very near to the first place among the Corinthian 
yachtsmen both of the States and Canada. The crews of 
the two boats were made up, with the exception of one 
on Constance, of experienced hands who have sailed many 
races and are perfectly at home in this type of boat. As 
far as sail handling went, the advantage was with Glen- 
cairn. 
As in 1898, the White Bear Y. C. of White Bear Lake, 
Minnesota, is the first in the field with a challenge, being 
anxious to redeem the defeat of its yacht Yankee by 
Domitiion in June. The visitors from the West made a 
most favorable impression in Canada, and they would 
probably be welcomed in preference to any other club. 
It is not yet known whether the Seawanhaka C, Y. C. 
will challenge again. 
Rhode Island Y. C. 
PROVIDENCE. 
Saturday, Aug. 5. 
The Rhode Island Y. C. sailed a race for yachts of 
the one-design class on Aug. 5. There was a light wind, 
and the times. were: 
Start, 3:23. Finish. Elapsed. 
Rascal 6 00 45 2 37 45 
The Kid 6 24 38 3 01 38 
Kitten 6 24 55 3 01 55 
Sprint 6 27 23 3 04 23 
Ruth 6 33 30 3 10 30 
Scoot e 33 ,32 3 10 32 
The Forest and Stream is put to press each week on Tuesday. 
Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the 
latest by Monday and as much earlier as practicable^ 
Ocotietmowoe Y. C Race Week. 
The Oconoraowoc Y. C, of Oconomowoc Lake, Wis 
held a week of mterclub racing, beginning on July 24 the 
prizes bemg the Oconomowoc Y. C, cup, a neW trophv 
co.st>ng $500 ; the Green Lake Y. C. cup, the Pabst cup 
and the Dupee cup. 
The starters were as follows, representing- different 
clubs from the vicmity: Avis II., William Hale Thomp- 
son, Chicago Y. C. ; Avis I.. Percival Thompson, OconomO- 
M°' • w' u^'^'kl''^- J*-- Green Lake Y. C. ; 
Magic, Walter W. Dupee, Oconomowoc Y. C. ; Zaza 
Charles H Lester, Oconomowoc Y. C. ; Galatea, D. H 
Murphy, Oconomowoc Y. C. ; Skipanou, George W 
Snnmons, Oconomowoc Y. C. ; Peerless, Fred Rietbrock; 
Pme Lake Y. C; Rajah, R. Nunnemacher, Pine Lake 
C.; Kismet, Philip R. Smith, Pine Lake Y. C : Har- 
poon, J. A. Kimberly, Jr., Nodaway Y. C. ; Aderyn, W. L 
Davis, Neenah Y C. ; Argo, J. H. Jones, Oshkosh Y. C • 
Saic, D. W. Buchanan, Pewaukee Y. C, ; Medea, W. R 
Morehouse, Oconomowoc Y. C. ; Pistakee, -Nick Morris 
r istalcee i . L. ' 
The arrangement was that an "assembly" SmM should 
be given at 10 A, M. for a morning race or I 30 P M 
tor an afternoon race, the preparatory being given 25 
ininutes later. On Monday morning there was a light 
N.E. wind with a drizzle of rain, and the start for the 
^'■fn '"''a'; f p l^T 0"!"0"^owoc cup was postponed until 
^1^' 1 . • ^^''y hard, and many 
of the yachtsmen were gathered indoors, the yachts being 
moored at a distance from the start. The assembly wal 
given at 2 :30, and the start at 3 o'clock, as per programme 
h t only three yachts. Avis IL, Magic and Zaza, were 
he line. I he owners of the other yachts got out their 
boa s as soon as possible and started in chase, the whole 
eet being becalmed for a time. After a very flukv 
the hnish was timed : ■ 
race 
Avis ir 
Magic 
1 00 51 Ariel -2 03 35 
06 32 
2 01 03 Avis'. 
^=isic 1 50 56 Pistakee .. .. 2 
ittt 1 52 30 Rajah o 
Aderyn 2 01 
staTHn'.^ ^'^""^ '''5' complaint found with the 
thf u ""/^r ^^istnig conditions, so 
finally declared the race off 
bv Avi/f ■'"'f f ^^'^ G^^^" Lake cup, held 
by Avis I., started in the morning, the times bein^' 
f^i^'V 1 33 10 Pistakee 
1 36 00 
1 37 28 
Galatea ifl^I ^xi i^^^o 
Avis y.y.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.isVn ^ i'*^^! 
In the afternoon the race of the preceding day, for 
Z ?imeT"brg • '^'^''^^ ^ "^ht breeze, 
||^n-:::::::;::::::;::::i-i i^--- m 
Sr.:;:;::-: ;- Ul'.l 
Avis II. 
..2 22 15 Avis 
....2 23 52 
. Broke a stay. 
2fiTn . ''^''J''/ 'T^ ^^'^Phy ^vas sailed on July 
26 in a heavy wind, four yachts capsizing. Ar?o won for 
the second time. The times were - 
Argo 
.1 05 
Ariel ...:;;::: nT-q zf.^r^" capsized. 
Pistakee 1 TJ on ^- Capsized. 
A.i. n. -.v.v:::::::::::::ii^iS S;L^::::;::::::::::g-S: 
The afternoon races were postponed until the fol- 
lowing day^, but on Thursday there was no wind In the 
mormng of July 28 the race for the Dupee trophy was 
sailed in a light southerly wind, the times being 
Malir..:::: ■ I HI ?-*^kee 2 36 50 
Galltea :;; llil^ ilf-ii 2 37 16 
Argo ::::;::::::li6 38 " 2.3827 
In the afternoon the race for the Pabst cup, open onlv 
uJ^fV'T ^^"'^f^^ha county, was sailed in a moderate 
breeze, the times being: 
1 30 00 Rajah i gg r, 
Ariel .. .. . 1 1 Peeriess 1 42 50 
SnSl^"!""^.-^' the Green Lake cup were sailed on 
^aturdaj^, the time ot the first being : 
Ad'efyn":: Uif, ^'^^^^ee .....1 24 21 
Magic . jlfio^ c^*".^" Withdrew. 
^ 1 16 3o Saic Withdrew. 
. The sail-ofif between Magic and Ariel followed, result- 
ing m an easy race for the former, as Ariel lost her 
mast. Magic won the cup last year on Lake Winnebago 
Cofinthian Y. C, of Marblehead, 
MARBLEHEAD — MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 
Saturday, July 29. 
The Corinthian Y. C, of Marblehead, sailed its fourth 
championship race on July 29 in a moderate S. to S F 
wind, the times being : 
First Class. 
Cartoon, H. Parker ^I'^^^f' 
T „ Class A. 
Lara, D. H. Follett i 35 53 
„ ,. _ „ ^ Third Class. 
Kocrah, R. C. Robbing , 142 18 
T. T. Raceabouts. 
h-irate, B. is. Crowninshield 1 28 09 
Sintram W P. Fowle 1 28 55 
Peep, W. B. bteams 1 29 10 
Lizana. E. V R. Thayer 1 29 30 
lunipoo, J. L, Bremer 1 29 36 
Persimmon, L. H. W. Foster 1 '9 57 
Colleen, H. M. Sears 13110 ; ;; ;; 
Knockabout Class 
Opitsah, S. M. Foster 1 33 33 
Spry, E. I. and W. L. Cropley 1 34 52 
Suzanna, F. Brewster.,.. 1 34 55 : ;: ;; 
Class C. 
Sally IV., L. F. Percival 1 28 12 1 28 12 
Lillian, H. E. Whitney 1 39 00 1 31 00 
Mistral, T. W. Little 1 33 15 1 33 15 
Rowena, W. H. Rothwell 1 33 32 1 33 ?.2 
Class D. 
Agnes, D. C. Holden, Jr 1 41 30 1 38 32 
Aspenet, H. A. Moors....... ....,<...... ,1 42 19 1 39 *1 
Carina, J. P. Clark .i i :. ^ . . . ..1 42 51 1 3!f f^^ 
Fifi, J. A. Jennings 1 44 35 1 4rt '-"i 
Ruth, R. Wiggin I 49 00 1 43 40 
