Nov. 23, igoi. 
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Article 4. — Each club shall name its representative yacht 
five days before the first race. 
Article 5.— The start shall be a one-gun flying start, 
with a preparatory signal. 
Article 6— The races shall be sailed without. time allow- 
ance. 
Article 7.— Yachts must not exceed 25ft. racing length, 
measured under the following rule: L.W.L., plus the 
square root of the sail area, divided by two, equals" the 
racing length. Yachts shall be measured without crew on 
board, but with a deadweight of 45olbs., which shall be 
carried amidships, approximately at the center of buoy- 
ancy during measurement. The sail area must not ex- 
ceed 500 sq. ft., as determined in Article S. A yacht's 
draft of hull or keel shall not exceed Sft-, and with cen- 
terboard down shall not exceed 6ft. Draft shall be de- 
termined when yachts are in trim for racing. Center- 
shall the spinnaker boom be allowed to rest against the 
forestay, but a yacht shall not be disqualified if it go 
forward by accident and is not allowed to remain. 
Article 10.— Shifting ballast shall not be allowed. (Cen- 
terbo-ards shall be considered as fixed ballast.) 
Article 11.— No outrigger or other mechanical device 
for carrying live ballast outboard shall be allowed. 
Article 12.— Centerboards shall not be loaded except to 
overcome flotation, but metal plates may be used under 
the following restrictions. The centerboard may be of 
steel, or iron plate, of practically uniform thickness, and 
not weighing over 45olbs. The centerboards, if of brass, 
bronze, or metal other than steel or iron, may not be 
over ^in. thick at any point; shall be of uniform thick- 
ness, and shall not weigh over 30olbs. 
Article 13.— Yachts must sail throughout the series of 
races with the same amount of fixed ballast, and center- 
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Photo by James Burton, New York. 
boards shall be so constructed that they can be wholly 
housed without leaving aiiy projection below the hull or 
keel. 
Article 8. — The factor of sail area used in determining 
racing length, shall be ascertained by adding to the actual 
area of the mainsail computed from its exact dimensions, 
the area of the foretriangle. The hoist of the mainsail 
when measured, shall be plainly marked on the mast, and 
its outer points on the boom and gaff or other spars 
used to set the sail, and the sail shall not be set beyond 
these limiting points. The foretriangle shall be deter- 
mined by the following factors; (i) The perpendicular 
shall be the perpendicular distance between the deck and a 
point on the forestay, where the line of the after leech of 
the jib intersects the forestay, above which the jib shall 
not be hoisted. (2) The base shall be the distance be- 
tween the forcAvard side of the mast at the deck and the 
point of intersection of the forestay with the bowsprit or 
hull. Any jib when set mitst not extend beyond the upper 
and forward points above defined. Sails shall be limited 
to mainsail, jibs and spinnaker. The total area of the 
mainsail and foretriangle shall not exceed 500 sq. ft. The 
area of the spinnaker measured as a triangle, whose base 
is the length of the spinnaker boom measured from its 
out end, when set to the center of the mast, and whose 
perpendicular is the distance from the deck at the fore side 
of the mast to the spinnaker halliard block, shall not ex- 
ceed twice the area of the foretriangle. All jibs and spin- 
naker must be triangular sails, but each may have a small 
club on the head, not exceeding five per cent, of the base 
of the foretriangle. 
Article 9. — The spinnaker boom, when used in carrying 
sail, shall not be la^ed to the bowsprit or stem head, nor 
boards of practically the same weight as carried m the 
first race. 
Article 14-A.— Yachts must be so constructed that on a 
cross section taken at any point, no part of the hull shall 
be sensibly below the center part of the hull exclusive of 
the false keel or skeg. 
Article 14-B. — The cockpit area must not be more than 
30 per cent, of the area of the deck. 
Article 15. — ^Yachts shall be constructed in accordance 
with the following restrictions: 
1. The planking of htdls shall not be less than J^in. 
thick at any point. • 
2. The frames or ribs shall be of oak, elm, or other 
hard wood, and shall not be less than ili sq. in. per lineal 
foot of length ; they may, however, be spaced as desired. 
E.xaraple : Frames may he i%xi, spaced I2in. c. to c, or 
5/gxi, spaced 6in. c. to c, or H^H, spaced 2%in. c. to c. 
3. The deck plank shall be not less than ^in. thick if 
without covering, but where covered with canvas mav be 
^'^in, thick. The deck beams shall be not less than ij4 sq. 
in. per lineal foot of length. Example : Deck beams may 
be ij^xiin., spaced I2in. c. to c, or ij^xj^, spaced 6in. 
c. to c. 
Internal bracing, floors, knees or other stiffening mem- 
bers shall not be included in the area of the frames or 
deck beams. 
Article 16. — The total actual weight of the crew, in- 
cluding all clothes, personal apparel and belongings worn 
by them or carried on board during the race, shall not ex- 
ceed 65olbs. 
Article 17. — The helmsman and crew shall be amateurs, 
and members of the respective clubs, and the helsman 
shall be named in writing as required by the declaration 
of trust. 
Article 18.— The provisions of the Declaration of Trust, 
so far as the same are inconsistent with the forego. ng 
articles, are hereby waived, but in all other respects shall 
govern the match. 
Trial Races. 
The trial races will be held off the Black Rock red spar 
buoy on June 30 and July i, 2 and 3, 1902. 
The courses will be alternately triangular and to wind- 
ward and leeward and return. The legs of the triangular 
course shall be one and one-third nautical miles each, and 
the windward and lecAvard course shall be two nautical 
miles. 
In the trial races the committee will stop the boats at 
the end of each round of four miles. Five minutes after 
the last boat finishes the second round will be started. 
The third round will be started in a like manner. Three 
rounds will be sailed each day. 
Starts and Signals. 
The start will be a one-gun flying start with a sm. 
preparatory signal, and will be made at 12 o'clock noon 
across a line between Black ,Rock buoy and the committee 
steamer. 
First Signal — Preparatory. The club burgee on the 
committee steamer will be lowered and a blue peter 
hoisted. 
There will be an interval of sm. between the first and 
second signals. 
Second Signal — Start. The blue peter will be lowered 
and a red ball hoisted. 
Note. — Attention is called to the fact that the flags 
and balls constitute the signals; the guns merely calling 
attention thereto. 
Special Conditions. 
(1) The yacht selected to represent the club shall be the 
one, which, in the judgment of the Regatta Committee, 
shall be the best adapted therefor, and not necessarily the 
winner of a majority of the trial races. The committee 
will exclude from competition any yacht possessing pecu- 
liar or "freak" features, which in their judgment are ob- 
jectionable and unfair. Additional races may be ordered 
by the committee between such contestants as they may 
select. 
(2) The owner of each yacht entering for the trial 
races must on or before June 28, 1902, furnish to the 
chairman of the committee, the racing measurement of his 
yacht certified by the measurer of the Bridgeport Club. 
(3) Each yacht must carry a racing number,, fastened 
securely on both sides of the mainsail. 
(4) In the event of any race being postponed or ordered 
resailed, it will be sailed at as early a date as may be prac- 
ticable. 
Entries. 
All entries for the trial races must be made by the clubs 
to which the owners of the respective vachts entered 
belong. Clubs intending to make entries are requested to 
notify the chairman of the Regatta Committee, and will 
be furnished with printed or written blanks, upon or in 
accordance with which entries must be made, and full 
instructions relative to the match, and, at the request and 
upon the responsibility of any club enter'ng a yacht to 
compete in th^ trial races, all the privileges of the club 
house at Black Rock will be extended to the owners and 
amateur crew of the yacht so entered during the period 
occupied by the said races, upon the same terms as to 
members of the club. 
T. H. M.\CDON.\LD. Chairman, 
1590 Fairfield avenue, 
Carl Foster, 
C. B.^RNUM Seeley, 
E. D. Chittenden, 
W, M. Richardson. 
Regatta Committee Bridgeport Y. C- 
Mr. Peter Donaldson, the famous Scotch yachtsman, 
has purchased the composite cutter Bona. 
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One of the Buzzard's Ba}' one design ao-footers has 
been launched from the Herreshoff yard at Bristol, R. L, 
and a few days ago had a trial trip. The boat was in 
charge of Mr. Nat. Herreshoff, and showed up well under 
sail. 
One Hundred Shot Rifle Champic nship Match. 
On Election day, Nov. 5, there wiis a match of unusual interest 
sliot at Greenville Schuetzen Park, Greenville. Jersey City, N. J. 
This contest was for the 200yd. outdoor championship of Greater 
New York and vicinity. This match has been shot for several 
years past, and is regarded as one of the gr^at events in the match, 
rifle circles of this country. 
While this particular contest is confined to New York city and: 
vicinity, riflemen in different parts of the country have become so- 
interested in the event that it is customary to shoot a similar matchi 
elsewhere, in order that their scores may be compared with tlie; 
Eastern experts. 
The event this yfar was a hard-fought conte.st for supremacy. Tr 
was won by F. C. Ross, of the Zettler Rifle Club and the Elite 
Schuetzen Corps, formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y., but now of Chicopee 
Falls, Mass., his score being 2,238 points. The conditions of the 
match were 100 shots on the German ring target, at 200yds. off- 
hand — a severe test of skiHi for any marksman. 
Mr. Ross, Dr. W. G. Hudson, of New York city, and L. P. Ittel, 
of Pittsburg, Pa., the two latter winners of second and third places 
respectively, used Kink's Semi-Smokeless powder. The records 
the contest show that the first nine men used this powder, and out 
of the sixteen contestants in the match, fourteen used it. 
U yoti want your shoot to be announced here send a 
notice like the following: 
Fixtures. 
Nov. 20.— Sistersville, Va.— Fall tournament of the Sistersvifle 
Gun Club; $60 added money. Ed. O. Bower (Dade), Sec'y-Treas. 
Nov. 22-24.— St. Louis. Mo.— Contest for the St. Louis Republic 
championship cup (Nov. 23) and three-day open tournament. Her- 
bert Taylor, Secy, 1004 Chemical Building. 
