FOREST AND ^ STREAM. 
yacht Wiid Rose t<*-^ing up Minnesota. The conditions 
call fbr.'a start at 1:15; but the crews had not lunched 
aad the Duchess of York was still, far from the line, and 
the first' gun was held until i :30. 
The wind was now nearly down the leg from Beacons- 
field to Pointe Claire^ and the boats were sent off with 
buoys to port. Both carried whole sail easily as they 
worked about the line. Red Coat came ar.ound the stern 
of the St. Louis a little before the gun and; crossed very 
promptly, with Minnesota close on her starboard quarter _ 
both being x>n starboard tack. They had hardly setj^d 
down fi» work before it was apparent that Red Coat was 
doing the better work, especially in pointing. Minne- 
i,ota came about within a couple of minutes of the line, 
but Red Coat tacked on her weather and they stood in 
toward Pointe Claire for another six minutes. There 
was by this Jime all the wind they wanted in the puffs, 
and both crews were hiking. Red Coat showed up much 
stiffer than Minnesota and gained steadily, though as 
they neared the buoy Minnesota picked up and lessened 
ihe distance.: Tlie first mark w:as timed: 
Turn. Elapsed. Gain. LeaSi 
Red Coat 1 48 48 0 1& 48 0 00 42 0 00 42 
Alinnesota . . . .- 1 « 30 0 19 30 ..... . .,. . . 
Red Coat Ibwered her jib and set her balloon jib'lor a 
free reach, and was soon traveling very fast; Minne- 
sota set her balloon jib to windward of her workmg jib. 
The leg was coverey very quickly and the second mark 
was timed : ^ 
Turn, Elapsed dam. Lead. 
Red Coat ............. .1 55' 48 0 07 00 ; .. .. -0 00 32 
Minnesota .v. ...1 S5 20 0 06 50 0. 00 1(1 
They jibed at the buoy and reached in, being limed at 
the. line: 
First Komid ~T,eg. ' ''^ 
Turn. lllapsed. Gaiji. .. Lead. 
Red Coal ......2 02 30 0 06 42 0 00 38 0 01 10 
.Minne.sota .....2 03 40 0 07 20 
Kouhd. 
Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Red Coal 0 32 30 0 01 10 0 01 10 
.Vlinne.sota 03340 . .. .. • •• •■ 
It was evident that Minnesota was overpowered in the 
fresh breeze as compared with Red Coat; the latter carry- 
ing her sail easily enougli. As Red Coat was losing, her 
f-srew determined to try a reef, and one was tied in after 
^*he had been for a couple of minutes on the windward 
leg. As the reefing on White Bear Lake is done at the 
dock before the .start and seldoin during a race, the crew ■ 
lacked practice, and some time was lost before the boat 
was well on her coilrse again. As it happened, the svind .. 
fell a little on this leg and the reef was really not needed. 
Red Coat made a good gain on this leg. the tmies being.: ; 
Turn. Elapsed. Gain. . I^ead, 
Red Coat 2 22 30 0 20 00 0 02 32 0 03 42 
Minnesota 2 26 12 0 22 32 
The second leg was run without incident, Red Ctiat 
carrying only a balloon jib, while Minnesota as befofe'nad 
her working jib still set to leeward of her ballooiier. As 
.she neared the second mark she shook out her rie'i: The 
liirn was timed : , 
T-iirn. Elapsed. Gain. Ivcad. 
Ked Coal 2 30 50 0 08 20 0 00 38 • - 0 04 20 
.Vtinnesota 2 35 10 0 08 58 
The last leg was merely a repetition of the tirst round. 
ihc times being: 
■ '''^C- ■ ' ' 
'I'lirn. Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Ked Coal 2 39 00 0 08 10 0 00 40 0 05 00 
Minnesota 2 44 00 0 08 50 
, . Ronnd. 
. ' Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Red Coat ". 0 36 30 0 03 50 0 05 00 
-Minnesota 0 40 20 ..... 
Minnesota lowered her balloon jib before making tlie 
line, and lost some time in setting her working jib, being 
on the wind under her; mainsail alone for a time. The 
weather mark was tirrifed : • 
Turn. Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Red Coat , , 2 59 30 0 20 30 0 01 30 0 06 30 
Minnesota 3 06 00 0 22 00 . .. 
The second leg was timed : 
Turii. Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Red Coat 3 07 30 0 08 00 0 00 12 0 06 42 
Minnesota .................3 1412 0 08 12 
The last leg showed;- a small gain for Minnesota, the 
times being: 
V Leg. 
■' Finish. Elapsed. Gain. 
Red Coat 3 15 18 0 07 48 
Minnesota .- 3 21 38 0 07 26 0 00 22 
Round. 
.': Elapsed. Gain. Lead 
Red Coat i:.'. 0 36 18 0 01 20 0 06 20 
Minnesota 0 37 38 
;Start, 1:30. 
.t Elapsed. 
Red Coat 1 45 18 
-Minnesota .; 1 51 ^ : 
While there were few craft about the line at the start, 
quite a fleet gathered during the afternoon, the flagship. 
Com. Molson s Alcyone, the steam yachts Naraa, Wild 
Rose, Chipmunk and Monaco and a number of launches, 
mailing yachts and rowboats. 
Before the start Minnesota bent a perfectly new main- 
sail, a very handsome sail, but tight in the leach, the 
whole after part being a bog in the strong wind, arid this 
undoubtedly hurt her. . .. - 
In the evening a dinner was given by the Royal St. 
Lawrence Y. C, to the guests, the big dining room being 
well filled and the evening passing very pleasantly with 
speeches and songs. 
Saturday, Aug. ^4. 
.SECOND BAY. 
Windward and Leeward. 
The cold weather which had prevailed up to Friday 
was followed by something more in keeping with- the- 
calendar, and Saturday. was clear and bright and most 
agreeably hot. . There was a light S.W. wind a^ll the 
morning, and when the St. Louis reached the line off 
Pointe Claire, a course of two miles S.W. was quickly 
laid cftit in deep water. Minnesota had bent another main- 
sail with a much better draft to it, and there was a general 
expectation that *he would make a much better showing 
than on tlie previous day. 
The start was given al 2 P. M., Red Coat going over a 
little ahead, but with Minnesota close on her weather 
beani. .\s they settled tiown to their work it looked as 
though Red Coat would pull through the other boat's 
lee, but after a very few minutes it was plain that Minne- 
sota was doing the better work. After three minutes 
Red Coat we"nt on port tack, but Minnesota was at and 
about on her weather. The challenger was apparently at her 
best in the smooth ^water and light air, and she left Red 
Coat steadily, being soon too far away for either to 
affect the other. The weather mark was timed : 
Turn. Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Minnesota 2 42 50 0 42 50 0 03 40 0 03 40 - 
Red Coat 2 46 30 0 46 SO' ..... 
Minnes.ota set her spinaker to starboard, while Red 
Coat tried hers on the port side and was compelled to jibe 
over when half the leg was run. The end of the round 
was timed : 
Leg, 
Turn. Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Aluuiesota 3 09 15 0 26 25 li 02 33 0 06 13 
Red Coat 3 15 28 0 28 58 .... 
Round. 
Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Minne,90ta 1 09 15 (1 06 13 0 06 12 
Red Coat 1 15 28 
As she started on port tack on the second round, Minne- 
sota moved off wonderfully fast, and was well on her 
way before Red Coat turned the buoy. The latter took the 
starboard tack and stood off to the south to the middle of 
the lake in the direction of Chateaugay; After a time 
Tlie 5I=FobtefS» 
Editor Forest and Stream: .- 
Allow me to call your attention to a somewhat serioua 
iriistake in your report of the last race of the 5i-footers 
at Nev\'port. You have transposed the times of Syce and 
.Sistae and thus make it appear that Sistae beat both 
Shark arid Syce, the latter very badly, whereas, as a mat 
ter of fact. Syce, I believe, beat Shark, and both Syce and 
Shark beat Sistae badly. . ' 
Some of the New York and Boston papers speak 6! 
Sistae as a new boat. Is she not the boat that under the 
same name was beaten badly last year by_ Fife's Kestrel 
in the two squadron runs of the New York Y. C, in 
vvhich Kestrel figured, and that was beaten about twenty- 
eight minutes corrected time by Syce in one of the Larch 
inont races of 1897, the race being sailed in a strong 
breeze? Twenty-eight minutes is more than twice as 
large a margin as Syce has ever had over Fife's ten- 
year-old Uvira, racing over a much longer regular course 
m a good wind, and that, too, with Uvira not at her best, 
lis Mr. F, -M. Hoyt, owner of Syce, at the time admitted 
in one e)f the letters I have received from him as to 
LIvira's showing against Syce and Norota. 
GLOKI.\, CUTTER, H. C. m'lEOI*, ESQ., ROY.\L CAKADIAN Y. C. IJESlGNEn BY AR'THtJR E.- PAYNE, 1 898. 
Minnesota tacked and went after her, but still a very 
long way to windward. The weather mark was timed: 
Turn. Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
.Vlinnesola 3*45 15 0 36 iTO 0 08 47 0 15 00 
Ked Coat 4 00 15 0 44 47 ... .. 
The run home was made in a little more time than 
before, as the wind was lighter. The end of the round 
was timed : 
Lcs-. 
Turn. Elapsed. Gain. T-ead. 
.Minnesota 4 17 50 0 27 35 0 03 40 0 18 40 
Red Coat 4 31 30 0 31 15 
Round. 
Elapsed. Gain. Lead. 
Minnesota 1 03 35 0 12 27 0 18 40 
Red Coat 1 16 02 
Minnesota now went off to the middle of the lake, fol--.. 
lowing the cour.se of Red Coat in the previous round, but 
the wind was falling fast, and especially on the south 
side of the lake, where there were great spots of quiet 
water, though a little breeze was still rippling the water 
in under the Pointe Claire and Beaconsfield shores. Red 
Coat went in to the north and found a little breeze, at the 
time that Minnesota was becalmed about half a mile from 
the .weather mark. Although there was barely a breath 
of wind, Minnesota continued to approach the mark 
steadily, though very slowlj', and she rounded it at 5 124 
and squared for the line. She made a little progress, but 
when the four-hour time limit expired, at 6 o'clock, she 
wa'S only in the middle of the leg. Red Coat had caught a 
Tittle breeze inshore, but slie was still very far from the 
duter mark. 
The result of the day's sailing was a disappointment to 
all parties, the Canadians freely admitting that Minne- 
sota liad won her honors fairly in the first two rounds 
and deserved to have scored a race. The two days taken 
together showed that in lieavy weather the cup was 
safe, while In very light weather it would probably niake- a 
trip west ; and in weather between the two extremes some 
very close and exciting racing might .be expected. • 
On Saturday night the visitors were entertained by-a 
Prfc de Nuit at the Forest and Stream Club, the grounds 
.being illuminated with Chinese lanterns, while a pair of 
calcium lights were mounted on the club house over the 
tennis courts, which, were covered with a heavj' canvas for 
dancing. Two orchestras in different parts of the grouiid.s-'^'; 
furnislied music, and an elaborate supper was spread on 
tables on the lawns. A large number were present, in- 
cluding all the Americans. 
Sunday was clear and calm, a fine. August day. The 
St. Louis carried a party around the lake, first up the 
Chateaugay River and around Ntm's Island, then after a 
swim in ihe green St. Lawrence water in mid-lake 
across to Lakeside. AH were invited to tea at the Forest 
and Stream Club in the afternoon, and though it rained 
from to 6 and the lawns could not b^ used, the Wand- 
some club house gave shelter to all. 
So far as bocits of her class of about, her own age are 
concerned, Uvira has scored a decisive victory in every 
one of the five races she has sailed this season. In the 
three squadron runs of the Atlantic Y. C. all sailed in 
a good breeze, Uvira not only made it three straight in 
her own cla.ss (one of her opponents being six year's 
hewer than herself), but she likewise beat, on actual 
tune, all the boats in the class next above her own three 
straight; all the schooners, on actual corrected time, giv- 
mg them the advantage of ''the 85 per cent, rule," three 
straight, and even the' newly imported Watson 60-footer 
Ast;ri]d. on corrected time, in both her races, although in 
the last one Astrild beat all the schooners .01) actual time. 
•, Last September, in a fifteen-mile race sailed in a good 
.breeze, Uvira beat the new centerboard 42-footer Acushla 
II.— a boat with about 800 or 900ft. more sail than her- 
self—by a margin of about thirteen minutes, actual time, 
and about 16 minutes, corrected time, or at the rate of 
aliout 32' muzittes for thirty miles. In this race Uvira 
was actually entered .against Acu.shla. II. 
Wishing to be .sure of my facts, I subscribed for the 
new ' American Y^acht Register," an expensive but valua- 
ble work, which I now have in my possession. 
Hoping that in the interests of truth and fair play you 
will kindly publish the above, I am yours truly, 
Jo.SEPH Parker. 
Waverley, Mass., Aug. 3. 
Gloria. 
The cutter Gloria, which has recently crossed the At- 
lantic from Southampton to the St. Lawrence on her 
way to Toronto, where her new owners, H. C. Mrl eod 
resides, vvas designed by Arthur E. Payne in 1898 and 
budt by Summers Sc Payne, Southampton, for the pur- 
pose of challenging for the Coupe de France. She is of 
49ft- 5in. I.w.l. and r2ft. 6in. breadth, her rating by the 
y . R. A. rule being 54. as the requirements of the French 
rule necessitated a yacht a little larger than the 52ft 
class. While this difference in size has prevented an 
exact comparison with the 52-footers, Gloria has shown 
iierseli a fast yacht. She is of wooden construction and 
biirli- >ulely for international . racing, biu .she has man 
aged la cros.s the .Atlantic safely on her own bottom and 
tu weather some pretty bad storms on the wav. 
Winthrop Y. C 
WINTHROP — B0.ST0N HARBOR. 
Saturday, July 28. 
Thk Winthrop Y. C, sailed a handicap race 011 July 
28 in a light and fluky wind, the times being: 
15 and 18ft. Clasa. 
T.. 1 c- rp , , • "Elapsed. Correcte4 
rhelnia, £. Tewksbury , 1^46 1 
