Oct. 19, 1901.] 
FOREST ANt) STREAM. 
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It has been announced that the October meeting of the 
Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts will be held 
next Thursday evening, at which several proposed amend- 
ments to the rules will come up for discussion. Among 
them will be the question of percentage, it being recom- 
mended in the circular announcing the meeting that the 
old table of percentages be used. It is by no means settled 
that the amendment will go through, for there are many 
who still insist that the general showing of a yacht should 
count more than the number of first prizes she wins, or, at 
least, as much. 
In the 2ift. classes of the Association the percentages 
of the yachts for the season are as follows : 
Class L— 21ft. Open Yachts. 
Starts. Ists. 2ds. 3ds. Fins. Bks. 
Circe II 1 1 0 0 0 0 
Bud 1 1 0 0 0 0 
Cleopatra 2 0 2 0 0 0 
Tacoma 2 1 0 1 0 0 
I'roblem 1 0 0 0 1 0 
Class S— 21ft. Cabin Yachts. 
Mildred IT 14 8 4 1 1 0 
Tabasco III.... S 2 4 0 2 0 
Opitsah III 16 4 2 7 2 1 
Privateer 13 3 2 1 6 1 
Zaza 7 3 0 2 2 0 
Eaglet 19 0 7 4 7 1 
Harriet 4 1 2 0 1 0 
Ccquettc 7 0 0 2 4 1 
Kamblcrs 2 0 1 1 0 0 
I'revja 6 0 0 1 4 1 
Tar'pon 2 U 0 0 2 0 
Total. 
Average. 
100 
1.00 
100 
1.00 
130 
.65 
. 13.5 
.67 1-2 
15 
.15 
1110 
.79 4-14 
490 
.51 11-14 
815 
.50 15-16 
655 
.50 5-18 
400 
.42 1-9 
700 
.36 16-19 
245 
.25 16-19 
130 
.10 1-3 
100 
.10 10-19 
95 
.10 
30 
.03 
On account of demands of yacht owners for a class of 
2i-footers which wotdd be entirely unrestricted except as 
to waterline length, the Association provided Class L, but 
with the exception of those skimming dishes which were 
built to coinpete for the Quincy cup, there have been no 
new boats built for this class since 1897. On the other 
hand, there has always been a chance to get a race in the 
restricted class. The number of yachts in the class fell 
oft' for a few years, but with the assurance that one set of 
restrictions would be maintained, thus giving the yacht 
owners protection, there came a renewed interest, and 
several new boats were built last winter. 
It is not often that there is a respectable showing of 
yachts in the unrestricted class of 21-footers, and it 
sometimes happens that the class fails to qualify in the 
necessary number of races to allow a championship. This 
is what happened this year. Tacoma and Cleopatra sailed 
two races each, and the other yachts which could qualify 
on waterline length sailed but one race each. Unless there 
should be a decided tendency toward revival this winter, it 
looks as though this class would go out of existence very 
soon. 
Circe II., which shows 100 per cent, for one race, was 
built from designs of Crowninshield to compete for the 
Quincy cup in 1899. She is of the skimming-dish type, 
about 37ft. over all. She is owned by Mr. Fred L. Pigeon, 
of the Annisquam Y. C. Bud is well known to yachtsman 
as the champion of the class in 1898. She, too, is a skim- 
I ming dish, and was designed by John and Sam Small. 
She is schooner rigged and carries the greater proportion 
of her sail in her mainsail. In fact, she is only a schooner 
, in what the most technical definition of the word might 
imply. Her rig is simply to obtain a shorter waterline 
measurement while still carrying a great spread of sail. 
Tacoma was also designed by Small Bros., and is also a 
skimming dish. She is several years old, and was, at one 
time, the fastest boat in her class. Cleopatra was built for 
Melbourne MacDowell, and was famous for her races a 
few years ago in Duxbury Bay and also in the races of the 
Association. She is now owned by F. F. Crane, of the 
Quincy Y. C. 
In the restricted class of 21-footers the racing has been 
good throughout the year, and interest has been kept up 
constantly on account of the uncertainty of what the next 
race would develop. Several new boats have been built 
for the class, and the lot are pretty evenly matched. Most 
of the boats that were built this season are keels, and it 
is interesting to note that Mildred II.. which is a center- 
board, gets the championship. This is even a better class 
than the knockabouts. It is much faster and there is 
considerable more to the boats. They carry a fair amount 
of sail, but the spread is by no means great. 
Mildred II., champion of the class, is a fine type of the 
centerboard boat. She was designed and built by Shiv- 
erick, of Kingston, for S. P. Moses, of the Quincy Y. C. 
She is 34ft. over all, 9ft. loin. beam and 2ft. 6in. draft. 
She greatly resembles Calypso, champion of the 25-footers. 
Tabasco III.* is one of the new keel boats. She was 
designed by Fred Lawley and built by the Lawley Cor- 
poration for Vice-Com. iH. H. Wiggin, of the Annisquam 
Y. C. She is 36ft. over all, 8ft. loin. beam and 5ft. 6in. 
draft. She did not come out until after the other boats 
had been well tuned up, but has shown promise of great 
speed. She is a good, all-around boat. 
Opitsah III., which comes third on the list, is another 
new keel boat. She was designed by Crowninshield and 
built by Jansen. of Gloucester, for Mr. Sumner H. Foster, 
of the Corinthian Y. C. She is 35ft. g'm. over all, 8ft. 
I in, beam and Sft. 6in. draft. Her model has all the 
characteristics of the 90-footer Independence. She is very 
fiat floored, with a mininunn of dead rise, and her bilges 
turn very quickly. She is fast under all conditions, and in 
tlie early races showed up A'ery well. 
Privateer is a well-known boat, having been raced for 
several seasons. She is a shoal boat of the centerboard 
type, and was designed and built by Hanley. She is 
now owned by John MacConnel, Jr., of the Winthrop 
Y. C. She made a great showing against the newer boats, 
especially in the races of the South Shore. 
Zaza is also a wide shoal boat of the centerboard type. 
She is about 35ft. over all, and looks more the skimming 
dish than any other boat in the class. She showed up 
well in the first races of the season, but was not raced 
often enough to make a strong bid for the championship. 
Eaglet is a new boat, designed by Starling Burgess, and 
built by Lawley. She is a keel boat of moderate dimen- 
sions and shows more dead rise than the other keel boats 
in the class. She did not get tuned up early enough to 
make the showing that was expected of her, but when she 
did get started, she showed _good speed. Unfortunately, 
her best records were made in races outside of the Asso- 
^i^tioi?, John B. Kil^ksn, 
