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the club boats, and will offer every inducement to those 
who wish to race in these classes. It has been found 
that the courses which have been given the iSft. knock- 
abouts have been too long, requiring the greater part of 
the afternoon to get ready, sail over them and clean up 
after the races were finished. This year the courses for 
these boats will be reduced to about seven or eight miles. 
Last Friday evening the reception and banquet of the 
Boston Y. C. was held at the Parker House. The banquet 
was well attended by the members of the club and their 
friends, who were treated to talks upon yachting and 
other entertainment during the evening. Thomas Fleming 
Day spoke at length upon the measurement rules in 
New York. Mr. Louis M. Clark told of the evolution of 
the racing yacht. This is a subject with which Mr. Clark 
is very familiar, and he had some interesting things» to tell. 
Among other things, he recommended a national yacht 
racing association, with delegates from all clubs, to meet 
every year and frame rules to meet the demands of the 
racing men. This proposition of Mr. Clark's is one that 
well might be enlarged upon. Mr. Charles E. Russ told of 
the founding of the Boston Y. C, and Mr. W. D. Turner 
told of the club's official life. Mr. Odin B. Roberts, a 
former member of the Boston Y. C, represented the East- 
ern Y. C. The Eastern Y. C. sprung from the member- 
ship of the Boston Y. C, and the greeting sent by the 
younger club was one of the features of the evening. Dur- 
ing the banquet, about the second leg of the course, a 
waiter hove in sight with a large magnum of champagne, 
which was anchored in. front of Vice-Corn. Walter 
Burgess, presiding in the absence of Com. B. P. Cheney, 
who was called to New York suddenly. This was an 
object of much curiosity among the company, until Vice- 
Corn. Burgess arose and read the following stanza, the 
greeting from the Eastern Y. C. : 
"Like sunshine, greeting comes from out the East, 
The Eastern sends this token to your feast 
Of healthy fellowship and loyalty, 
Of seamen's cheer and^ jollity. 
Drink deep and long, it is the tribute sent 
To mother, with affectionate compliment." 
Then the magnum was started upon a cruise around 
the tables, giving a little of its good cheer to each on 
the way; and when the course had been covered, all arose 
and drank the health of the Eastern Y. C. — the child of 
the Boston Y. C. 
Last week Frank N. Tandy sold for C. H. Jones, of 
Boston, the 70ft. centerboard schooner Attaquin, to Mr. 
Durbin Home, of Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Horne summers at 
Provincetown, and this season will cruise in Massachu- 
setts Bay and along the coast of Maine in Attaquin. He^ 
also owns the 18ft. knockabout, which was built by Law- 
ley for Mr. Tandy last winter. Attaquin is a fine cruising 
schooner. She was designed by B. B. Crowninshield 
especially for the shoal waters of the South. She was 
built by Frisbie, of Salem, in 1899. Mr. Jones" cruise in 
her to Southern waters in the fall of that year proved her 
an excellent craft. Although she is of extremely light 
draft for a yacht of her waterline length, .'she.- is . well 
laid out below, and there is full headroom. She carries 
two centerboards. 
Small Bros, have an. order for a 27ft. waterline cruis- 
ing yawl for Alfred Rowell, of New York. She will have 
moderate overhangs and a good bulk of hull. 
At Lawley's the Lippit 60-fater is- in -frame; " Th the 
same shop a 46-footer, designed by Binney, is partly 
framed. The Morse 35-footer is planked, and the deck 
is being laid on the Adams 21-footer. The 33ft. yawl for 
Foss and Gunnison is planked. 
John B. Killeen. 
Our English Letter. 
It appears that Bona is not to be raced in the first-class 
open matches this season, but will make a show in the 
handicap races about the Clyde, and may come south 
later on. No new yachts for racing are being built above 
52 rating, though there may be good sport in the smaller 
classes. The handicap classes year by year come into 
greater favor, and this shows there is room, for cruiser- 
racer classes, such as they have in Germany, with limita- 
tions on the number of paid hands, for it is this, more 
than any other cause, that operates against racing in 
the open classes. The Yacht Racing Association is in- 
troducing quite a variety of specifications as to the size 
of sideboards, beds and so forth, in racing yachts, hoping 
by this means to render them (the yachts, not the beds) 
jnore popular. Until the South African trouble -is over 
n,o amount of legislation will have any effect. The de- 
scription of the German Emperor's new schooner has 
excited considerable interest over here, for there is a 
decided boom in schooner building. None of these large 
vessels are, however, built for racing, that having long 
since been killed by the practice of mixing up schooners, 
yawls and cutters together. The schooners managed 
well enough for a time, simply because they were larger, 
but as the cutters and yawls increased in size, 
