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riage, and in a very short while we were on our way to 
Stimpson'a Inn, where we spent the night. 
Friday, July 28, 1899. • 
We drove from the hotel to the river, and started on 
our way rejoicing at 8:50 P. M. Just before 11 A. M. 
we reached the French King Rapids, and by the advice 
of the rivermen who were removing a log jam and our 
own counsel of war we proceeded to run the rapids; but 
instead they ran us. We did not strike a rock or capsize, 
but, as one member said, "We simply foundered. The 
rivermen soon came to our assistance with one of their 
large boats,- and in a very short while our clothes were 
drying in the sun on the shore. As we expected to have 
dinner in Turner's Falls we had taken no lunch, but the 
rivermen very kindly shared their dinner with us. One 
sweater and a few pieces of carpet were the only things 
lost, but one camera was ruined and part of the nega- 
tives were spoiled. One of the party drove into Turner's 
Falls, hired two ordinary-sized delivery wagons and met 
the rest with the canoes at the confluence of the Miller's 
and Connecticut rivers, about 500 feet below French Kmg 
Rapids, and from here we drove to the electric, car 
bridge at Montague City, arriving there about 6 P. M. 
We "left the canoes in a yard very near the river and 
drove back to the Farren House at Turner's Falls. In 
the evening we tried to square ourselves with some of 
the riverm.en and also took in a band concert at Mon- 
tague Citv. 
Saturday, July 29, 1899. 
We took the electric cars in front of the Farren House 
and were taken right to our canoes. We left at 8:50 A. M. 
and stopped at Camp Wangun, a short way down, where 
we were treated quite royally. From here we paddled to 
the pavilion near the bridge at Northampton and had 
lunch at 3:20 P. M. Cthe only day we were late for dinner). 
A little below the river was full of logs, but as we were 
obliged to end the cruise that night it seemed hardly 
necessary to make the long carry around the logs, espe- 
ciallv as the walking was anvthing but smooth, so we 
paddled back to the old ferry road near the carnage 
bridge and called the cruise ended at S :S0 P. M. We left 
the canoes in charge of an expressman, took the electrics 
for Northampton, and reached Lowell via Springfield and 
Boston late that night. One very queer feature of the 
trip was that in looking ahead the surface of the water ap- 
parently dropped over 5 feet, which gave the impression of 
paddHng down hill, but in looking back the reverse was 
not true, as the surface seemed level. Two maps were 
used, reference to which was constantly being made, and 
which were of untold assistance. The first was a post 
office map of Vermont and New Hampshire and the sec- 
ond was a map of the Connecticut Valley in Massachu- 
setts, both being published by Geo. H. Walker & Co., 
Boston, Mass. 
It is very easy to appreciate, after making the trip, that 
a few inches less of water in the river might cause a con- 
siderable inconvenience, as there are a number of quite 
shallow places. We regretted that we could not partici- 
pate in the hospitalities of the canoe clubs at Northamp- 
ton, Holyoke and Springfield: but as we had to be in 
Lowell Monday morning and Sunday trains were scarce, 
the trip had to end when the time came, regardless of 
place. 
New York C. C. 
The opening spring regatta of the club will be held on 
Saturday, June 2, at 2 P. M. First and second prizes 
will be awarded in all events where three or more start. 
Every race open to members of any recognized canoe 
or yacht club. 
.A. series of record races will be held during the sea- 
son about every other Saturday afternoon. Due notice 
of same will be posted on the bulletin board from time 
to time. A record prize will be given to the member 
making the best record in canoes, both sailing and pad- 
dling, at the end of the season. A record prize will also 
be awarded to the member making the best record in 
knockabout and larger boats of the club. The commit- 
tee .wishes all members to enter all or as many of the 
races as possible, so as to make them an interesting 
feature. Owners of yachts will please have their boats 
measured and hand measurements to the committee at 
an early date, so that they may be able to figure the time 
allowance. 
Programme. 
First Event. — Unlimited canoe sailing, twice around 
triangle. . . 
Second • Event, — Knockabouts, etc. Sailing. Three 
times around course. 
Third Event. — Open canoe paddling, single blade. Half 
mile, with turn. 
Fourth Event. — Tail-end paddling. Open canoes. Sin- 
gle- blades, looyds. 
Fifth Event.— Deck canoes. Paddling. Double blades. 
Half mile, with turn. 
. Sixth Event. — Tournament. . 
It is earnestly requested that all members attend the 
opening of the racing season and bring their friends, both 
ladies and gentlemen, with them. Dinner will be served 
at the club house after the races. Yours respectfully, 
John E. Haviland, Chairman, 
C. V. Schuyler. 
John R. Brophy, 
Regatta Committee 
Following are the officers of the club for 1900: Pres., 
D. D. Allerton; Sec'y, R- De F. Bailey, the Arsenal, Cen- 
tral Park; Pursers, W. B. Houghton, 37 White street; 
Capt., J. E. Haviland; Mate, C. V. Schuyler. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
Eastern Division- 
Atlantic Division- 
mond. 
-John B. Howard, Medford B. C. 
-George H. Raymond, Arthur B. Ray- 
tdchting. 
Yachting Fixtares, 1900. ' 
Secretaries and members of race committees will confer a favor 
by sending notice of errors or omissions in the following list and 
also of changes which may be made in the future. 
MAY. 
19. Huguenot, special, New Rochelle, Long Island Sound. 
19. Royal St. Lawrence, 17ft. class, JDorvaL Lake St. Louis. 
24. Lake Sailing Skiff Ass'n, Kitely Cup, Toronto, Toronto Bay. 
24. Royal St. Lawrence, 22ft. cruising and 5-rater classes, Dorval, 
Lake St. Louis. 
26. Royal St. Lawrence, 5-rater and 17ft. classes, Dorval, Lake 
St. Louis. 
26. New Rochelle. special. New Rochelle, Long Island Sound. 
26. Queen City, 20ft. class, Toronto, Toronto Bay. 
30. California, annual, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay. 
30. South Boston, open, City Point, Boston Harbor. 
30. Harlem, annual. City Island, Long Island Sound. 
30. Bridgeport, special, Bridgeport, Long Island Sound. 
30. Indian Harbor, spring, Greenwich, Long Island Sound. 
30. Oregon, opening, Portland, Columbia River. 
30. Atlantic, opening. Sea Gate, New York Bay. 
30. Corinthian, Baltimore, opening race, Chesapeake Bay, 
The 65ft. cutter Isolde, recently purchased by Com. 
F. M. Hoyt, Stamford Y. C, sailed from Greenock on 
May 8, but was in collision with a lighter, sustaining some 
damage to her port rail and lamp screen, returning for 
repairs. Astrild, cutter, J. H. Hanan, sailed from Green- 
ock on May 9 for New York. According to the Yacht- 
ing World, Mr. Hoyt paid a little over $15,000 for Isolde. 
The average newspaper expert has been sadly puzzled 
over the two yachts of the same name. The other Isolde, 
sister to Niagara and built for the late Baron von Zedt- 
witz, who was killed on board her by a collision while 
racing, has just been sold at auction in London by order 
of the Marshal of the Admiralty Division of the High 
Court of Justice, to settle the estate. She brought but 
£230 ($1,150), though the hull was not injured in the 
collision. 
The following from the New York Tribune is further 
confirmatory of the Forest and Stream's reasons, as 
given last fall, for the great difference in the performance 
of Shamrock in light and strong winds : 
Capt. Charlie Barr and Capt. Wringe seem to agree as 
to the main fault of Shamrock in the last race of the 
series for the America's Sup. Captain Wringe said since 
his recent arrival here: 
"Shamrock's gear was too light in every respect to 
maintain the spread of canvas, and all on board could see 
that the spars, including boom, gaff and topmast, were 
carried too far to leeward to hold a good wind. When 
the boom was bowsed in there was a spring to leeward 
that was faulty, making it impossible to head up close." 
When talking with the writer on this subject a few days 
ago, Capt. Barr said: 
"i saw that your article in the Yachtsman was replied 
to by old Mr. Fife, the father of Shamrock's designer, 
saying that the fault of Shamrock was in being strung up 
too tightly, and that she would have sailed better if the 
rigging had been slacker. That is quite a mistake. She 
was far toe- slack all around, and on Columbia we could 
all see that neither her topmast nor the main boom did 
their proper work, and that her forestays were sagging 
to leeward, so that they had to run her less close than 
Columbia in order to fill their sails. There didn't seem 
to be any part of her overhead, from the end of the main 
boom to the end of the bowsprit, that was standing to its 
proper work." 
These two opinions of the skippers of the competing 
craft, when ranged alongside, give perhaps the most 
authentic and trustworthy explanation of the sudden and 
marked default of the English challenger when she got 
a really fresh breeze. It fits in with all the results of the 
previous racing in suggesting that as long as light airs 
continued, in which there was no real pressure on canvas 
and strain on spars, Sham.rock could hold her own and 
sometimes finish ahead in the alternating luck of the 
catspaws; also, that when it came to a hard test of spars 
and rigging, the Am_erican boat was properly fitted with 
sticks that could hold her canvas flat, and with rigging 
that could hold the sticks to their right work. The ex- 
planation, long delayed through the natural reticence of 
the opposing, though friendly, skippers, may perhaps be 
accepted as conclusive because agreed to by the leaders 
of the respective sides, and it goes far to maintain the 
reputation of Mr. Fife as a designer, apart from the work 
of rigging. If the defeat of his craft is finally shown to 
have been with the spars, rigging and sails, he may still 
be in a position to say that he was not beaten on shape 
or construction of hull. 
The return of Sir Thomas Lipton from his yachting 
cruise has starte'd tfp anfe"w the various runlbrs as to a 
