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longer and taking away some of her sheer. Silver and 
black have been the Royal Canadian Y. C.'s boats' racing 
colors lor some years, although the club colors are yel- 
low and dark blue. Canada came out with black top- 
sides and a white bottom, although subsequently black- 
leaded to the sheer-strake. Beaver wore black and silver 
in the Canada's cup races of iSgch—and lost. Minota 
was in the same guise in the next international match, 
the Fisher cup race at Charlotte — and lost. The colors 
are not of particularly good omen, but they seem favor- 
ites with Mr. TEmilius Jarvis, who sailed the boats just 
mentioned under them. His own big cutter. Merry- 
thought, is similarly painted. 
It has now been definitely settled that Mr. Jarvis will 
sail Invader. Com.. Gooderham and his syndicate have 
handed ihe boat over to him, and his word is law. The 
selection of Mr. Jarvis as skipper is the wisest one the 
challengers ceuld" make, although better results would 
have been obtained had the arrangements been made 
former one, and it is claimed that it allows the boat to 
point better in windward work. 
After being placed on the flat-car brass plates were 
screwed to Invader's bottom, all along the rabbet line. 
Before this brass plates had been screwed to her fore- 
body, just below the foot of tlie mast. The boat opens 
up very easilv and the sheathing is to prevent her spcAV- 
ing her . oakum. Charles H. Sntdeh. 
Sea Cliff Y. C. 
HEMPSTEAD BAY — ^LONG ISLAND SOUND. 
Saturday, July 27. 
Twenty -EIGHT yachts, representing nearly all the clubs 
on the western end of Long Island Sound, started in the 
annual regatta of the Sea Cliff Y. C. on Saturday, July 27. 
The start was made at l :05, and at that time the breeze 
was N.W., but about 2:30- it .shifted to S.W. and blew 
21ft. RacMbout Class. 
.^Inappef, A. B. Alley 3 46 12 
Viper, W. D. Hermen 3 49 12 
.Sloops -I8f I. Class. 
Hope, C. O. Iselin 3 46 30 
Cricket, H. C. Pryer : 4 02 00 
Sora. W. Hoey, Jr 3 54 35 
Opossum, H. M. Raborg 3 41 30 
Neola, C. D. Mallory ,,.3 49 56 
Bess, H. W. Warner Withdrew. 
I'Tim Flam, A, D. Prince , .Withdrew. 
. Open Catboat.s — 18ft. Class. 
Arline, A. E. Rendle 4 01 32 
Unnlpa, C. S, Dunning 4 13 12 
Cabin Catboats — 21ft. Class. 
Nera, Arthiir Elliott 4 02 50 
Olga, VV. Linnkin..-. 
Punch, Von Sclirader 3 59 45 
Kazaza, T. J. McCahili 4 24 03 
Open Catboats — 15ft. Class. 
Coot, A. D. Prince 4 03 40 
Bouncer, A. D. Tappan : 4 25 30 
Wee Win, F. W. D. Sherwood 4 07 40 
Dory Class. 
Cecil, F. T. Chapman 4 14 30 
Prize, H. H. Van Rensselaer 4 11 45 
2 86 12 
2 39 12 
2 36 30 
2 52 00 
2 44 35 
2 31 30 
2 39 56 
2 51 32 
3 03 12 
2 52 50 
2 49 45 
3 14 03 
2 53 40 
3 15 30 
2 57 40 
3 04 30 
3 01 45 
The winners were Hebe, Oiseau, Don, Montauk, Snap- 
per, Opossum, ArHne, Punch, Coot and Cecil. 
months ago. Mr. Jarvis will do well with Invader, but 
she is, and will be, a new boat to him. This is the one 
weak point on the challenger's side. Their boat has been 
sailed continuously, until she is in excellent trim, but 
she has not been sailed by a regular crew of six amateurs 
and a professional all the time. The crew that will 
handle her in Chicago will be selected from Messrs. 
.^milius Jarvis, F. A. Turner, Charles Lownes, J. S. 
McMurray, V. J. Hughes, Wm. Fisher (professional) 
and C@m. Gooderham. 
Invader goes to Chicago in charge of two professional 
sailors— Wm. Fisher and Fred Stoner. Capt. James An- 
drews, of Oakville, Ont., who built her, superintended 
the work of getting her ready for shipment, and will go 
to Chica.eo to look after her refitting. If all goes well 
she will be afloat by the end of the week and ready for 
sailing. It is Skipper Jarvis' intention to have a clear 
week of saihng for his crew before the contest._ The first 
race being ori Aug. lo means that Invader will have to 
be refitted without any hitch if the skipper's programme 
is to be carried out. 
The probable selection of a centerboard craft to defend 
the cup agrees well with the wishes of the challengers, 
for Invader excells in those points in which a centerboard 
boat usually has the heels of a keel craft— running and 
reaching— and light-weather sailing in general. At the 
same time she sails well enough in brisk weather and m 
windward work to give any keel boat a good argument, 
so that she should be able to hold her own with or prove 
superior to a centerboarder under these conditions. Of 
course, Genesee defeated Beaver in windward work two 
years ago, and the Payne boat's best hold is m beatmg, 
but the match was sailed in such light airs that it was not 
a 2-ood indication of the real abilities of the center- 
boarder or of the deep-draft, short-canvassed, Payn-e 
sloop. 
Beaver once more showed her abdity to get away 
from Invader in a breeze, in two informal races on 
Toronto Bay on July 21. Dr. Crawford Scaddmg, one of 
the owners of Beaver, handled her, while Invader was at 
the tender mc-cies of Wm. Fisher, her professional 
sailor The new boat worked out a lead of a minute on 
the first leg of the triangle, with a soldier's wind, and 
stretched it out to three on the next, a run with the 
wind ove'- the port quarter Then the two hauled up for 
the beqt back to the starting buoy, and Beaver showed 
her fine points. She worked up the bay m two long 
tpcks and a short one, while Invader made half a dozen 
sl-r-rt boards. Beaver rounded the starting buoy with a 
iead of a minute, having beaten Invader by four minutes 
in a mile of windward work. The two then squared away 
and ran down the bay. In the mile run Invader only 
p-ained about four lengths. She sailed better in the beat 
back this time, but Beaver had a lead of nearly two min- 
utes when she reached the starting buoy. 
' Such performances have not filled the Canadians with 
confidence, but thev feel sure that Invader would do 
better pitted against a centerboard boat under the same 
circumstances. -It was not blowing hard, during these 
two brushes— twelve miles an hour at the outside, with 
a small, choppy sea. . , 
Invader's mainsail was blamed for her poor windward 
work. It had been setting well, but it stretched too much 
in the puffs, so a new one was ordered from Wilson & 
'^^ilsby of Boston. It arrived in time to be bent and 
used in a few trial sails. It is of the same dimensions as 
the Canadian mainsail, but of heavier material. There 
is no doubt it will do better work when reefed than the 
fresh. For the sloop Hebe, the yawl Memory and the 
30ft. sloop Oiseau and Possum, the course was from the 
starting point to and around Execution East Buoy, then 
around Matinicock Buoy and home. The smaller classes 
sailed twice around a four-mile triangle, with Mott's 
Point Buoy and the Larchmont mark off Prospect Point 
as their turning mark. It was a run, a reach and a beat. 
Snapper, well sailed by Mr. A. Bryan Alley, defeated 
Viper in the raceabout class. Don, designed by C. D. 
Mower, defeated her competitor in the 25ft. class. Sum- 
mary, follows : 
Sloops and Yawls — 36ft. Class. 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Hebe, E. C. Seed 5 12 35 4 07 35 
Memory, W, N. Bavier 5 20 00 4 15 00 
Sloops— 30ft. Class. 
Oiseau, G. L. Pirie 5 12 37 4 07 37 
Possum, H. R. Maxwell 5 21 27 4 16 27 
Sloops — 25ft. Class. 
Don, Gabriel Reeves 3 37 00 2 27 00 
Impudent, C. E. Silkworth, Jr 3 55 10 2 45 10 
Sloops — 21ft. Class. 
Montauk, J. S. Appleby 3 51 00 2 41 00 
Quoc, A. D. Toppan 3 55 00 2 45 00 
The Yawl Veniteia Lost* 
One of the saddest yachting accidents that has occurred 
in recent years was the sinking of the yawl Venitzia off 
Great Captain's Island on Long Island Sound on Thurs- 
day, July 18, when five lives were lost. Those drowned 
were Arthur T. Colburn, of Philadelphia; Miss Annette 
Colburn and Miss Ida E. Colburn, two daughters of Air. 
Colburn; Capt. Flint, of Brooklyn, the yacht's sailing 
master, and Fred Nixon, a sailor. Those saved are Mrs. 
Walter J. Sprankie, another daughter of Mr. Colburn, 
and the yacht's, steward, Jam.es Stanbridge. 
The party left Delaware City on Monday, July 15, for 
Bar Harbor, Maine, and intended to stop at several ports 
on the way. 
It is generally believed that the accident was due to 
the stubbornness of Cjipt. Flint, who refused to order the 
mainsail taken in when requested to do so by Mr. Col- 
burn. Mr. Colburn was an able yachtsman and was well 
known along the Delaware River. He had taken many 
long cruises in the Venitzia, and his friends are at a loss 
to account for this dreadful accident except on the ground 
of Capt. Flint's incompetency. The bodies of Mr. Col- 
burn and his two daughters have been recovered, but 
nothing has been seen of that of Capt. Flint or of Nixon, 
the sailor. Owners of boats owe it to themselves and 
their friends to employ only the ablest men as sailing 
masters. 
Venitzia was built at Mystic, Conn., in 1880, and is one 
of the old-fashioned shallow-bodied boats, a type too 
well knov/n in American waters. She is 54.5ft. .long on 
the waterline, 63.4ft. long over all, 18.3ft. beam and 5.5ft. 
draft. _.a,jiLilja.LiuAi 
Edward Kelly* 
Edwaud Kelly, commodore of the New Rochelle 
Y. C. died suddenly at his coimtry home on Premium 
Point, New Rochelle, on July 27. Mr. Kelly was thirty- 
nine years old. He was a graduate of Yale College, and 
besides being commodore of the New Rochelle Y. C. he 
Avas a member of the Larchmont, American and New 
York Y. C.'s. Mr, Kelly owned the auxiliary steam 
yacht Barracouta, and the racing yachts Rochelle and 
"Huguenot. It was tlirough Mr. Kelly's liberality that 
the "New Rochelle Y. C. had been able to charter Harri- 
son Island, where the clubhouse is now located. Mr. 
Kelly did yeoman's work in carrying supplies on his 
yacht Barracouta to the American forces in Cuba during 
the Spanish war, 
A copy of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. club 
book has been received at this ofhce. The club now has 
488 members, and there are 300 boats enrolled in the 
club fleet. . 1, 
