416 
jPOHES'T AND STK^AM. 
Nov. 23, tgoi. 
ALCATORDA— SAIL PLAN. 
The Seawanhaka International 
Challenge Cup* 
We reprint in full the circular issued by the Bridge- 
port Y. C. regarding the conditions governing the cup and 
the general regulations governing the match and trial 
races for 1902. It reads as follows: 
The Royal St. Lawrence Y. C, of Montreal, Canada, 
having accepted the challenge of tlae Bridgeport Y. C, of 
Bridgeport, Conn., for the Seawanhaka International 
Challenge Cup for Small Yachts, and the conditions gov- 
erning the match having been arranged, the Bridgeport 
Y. C. can now announce both these conditions and those 
that will govern the trial races for the selection of its 
representative yacht. 
The contest being an international one, the Bridgeport 
Club hopes to interest other American yacht clubs in its 
effort to regain the cup. To this end it proposes to hold 
open trial races for the selection of the challenger, in 
order that the fastest possible American boat may be sent 
to Canada next year. A cordial invitation is extended to 
all American yacht clubs to enter boats in the trial races 
which will be held off the Bridgeport Y. C. on June 30 
and July i, 2 and 3, 1902. Suitable prizes and a trophy 
for the yacht selected will be awarded to the winners in 
the trial races. 
For the information of any who may be interested in 
the subject, and especially for the guidance of those who 
may contemplate making entries in the trial races, the 
Regatta Committee announce the following genera! con- 
ditions governing the cup, which are extracts from the 
Deed of Trust executed by the Seawanhaka Club, and the 
following general regulations for the control of the match 
which have been agreed upon with the Royal St. Law- 
rence Y. C. 
ConditioDs. Goveraing the Ctip. 
Article I. — The cup shall be known as the Seawanhaka 
International Challenge Cup for Small Yachts, and shall 
be preserved as a perpetual challenge cup for friendly 
competition between foreign countries. The term foreign 
as used in this instrument shall be so construed as to per- 
mit contests for the cup between any country and its 
colonies and dependencies and between such colonies and 
dependencies themselves. 
Article II. — Any organized yacht club in good standing 
in any country, foreign to the country of the yacht club 
in whose custody the cup may be, shall always have the 
right to challenge for the cup and to sail a match therefor, 
provided that such challenge shall be made and such 
match be sailed in accordance with the terms and provi- 
sions of this instrument. 
Article III. — Matches for the cup shall be limited to 
yachts propelled by sails only, whose racing measurement 
or size shall not exceed the maximum limit of the so- 
called "Twenty-five-Foot Racing Length Class," or fall 
below the minimum limit of the so-called "Fifteen-Foot 
Racing Length Class" of the Seawanhaka Qub, as such 
classification exists at the date of this instrument, or 
whose racing measurement or size, according to the rules 
of the club having, at the time of the challenge, the cus- 
tody of the cup, falls within limits of size substantially 
corresponding to the limits above specified. 
Article IV. — All matches shall be sailed between a 
single yacht on behalf of the challenging club and a single 
yacht on behalf of the challenged club. Neither club shall 
be required to name its representative yacht in advance 
of the races, but the match shall be sailed to a conclusion 
between the yachts selected for, or sailing the first race 
thereof, and no substitution of one yacht for anothef shall 
be perpiitted after the preparatory signal of the first race 
has been given. 
Article V. — A match shall be constituted of not less 
than three or more than five races, and shall be awarded 
to the club whose representative yacht shall win a majority 
of such races. 
Article VI.^ — The representative yachts of the challeng- 
ing and challenged clubs must be designed and con- 
structed in the respective countries of such clubs. Cen- 
terboards or plates, or sliding keels, shall always be per- 
mitted in construction, and no restriction shall be placed 
upon their use. All ballast must be fixed. 
Article X. — The helmsmen, sailing the representative 
yachts in the match, must be amateurs and must be resi- 
dents of tlie countries of their respective clubs. The chal- 
lenging and challenged clubs must name, in writing, each 
to the other, or to their respective representatives, at least 
tv/enty-four hours before the day appointed for the first 
race, the helmsmen who will sail their representative 
yachts, and such helmsmen shall sail such yachts in all 
the races of the match, unless prevented by illness, or 
other substantial cause, in which event substitutes will 
be allowed. 
Article XL — The challenging and the challenged clubs 
may by mutual agreement fix and decide all the terms and 
conditions of the match, whether relating to dates, 
courses, rules of measurement, sailing regulations, notices 
or any other matter whatsoever pertaining to the match 
or preliminary thereto, and may also by mutual agreement 
waive for such match such of the provisions of this in- 
strument as would otherwise govern the match or the pre- 
liminaries thereof, provided, ^ however, that the limit of 
the racing length or the size of the competing yachts 
shall in no event exceed the maximum limit as estab- 
lished by this instrument in Article III. thereof, unless 
the consent, in writing, of the Sea'wanhaka Club to so 
increasing such limit shall first have been obtained. 
The following general regulations governing the match 
for 1902 have been arranged by the Bridgeport Y. C. and 
the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C, subject to such modification 
of detail as may hereafter be agreed upon between the 
tlubs. y ■ 
General Regulations Governing the Match and Trial 
Races for J902. 
Article i. — The cotirse shall consist of a triangular 
course, and a course to windward or leeward and return. 
Each leg of the triangular course shall be one and one- 
third . nautical miles in length, and shall be sailed over 
three times, making a total of twelve miles. The course 
to windward or leeward and return, shall have a total of 
twelve nautical miles ; each leg shall be, if possible, two 
nautical miles, and shall not be less than one nautical 
mile. 
Article 2. — The match shall be awarded to the yacht 
winning three of five races. The races shall be sailed alter- 
nately over the triangular and the windward or leeward 
and return courses. The first race to be triangular, or 
windward and return, as the winner of the toss may 
elect. . <. ^ 
Article 3. — The races shall be sailed under the manage- 
ment of three judges, one shall be appointed by each club 
and the two so appointed shall elect a third on or before 
July I, 1902. They shall act as judges and timekeepers, 
shall direct laying out the course, shall decide whether 
the contestants come within the prescribed measurements 
and scantling restrictions, and shall settle all disputes. 
The decision of a majority shall be final in all matters 
pertaining to the contest. . „ _ 
