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Submitted by Allen D. Woods, New York City. 
R. I., and a new spread made by Wilson & Silsby, of 
Boston. The boat had an excellent record in Philadel- 
phia, where she was sailed by her owner, Capt. W. B. 
Henry, a clever Corinthian. 
Corona, designed by T. E. Ferris and built by Town- 
send & Downey last year for J. E. Beggs, a member of 
the Atlantic Y. C, is also expected to compete. 
A new entry in class Q in the knockabout, Flying Fish, 
belonging to I. M. Dean, of the New York C. C. The 
craft is of a one-design class created last year, for the 
Rhode Island Y. C. on lines of F. S. Nock and built by 
the Holmes Ship Building Company, of West Mystic, 
Conn. Very little opportunity was given _ these_ boats 
to show their true speed last year. In trial spins on 
Gravesend Bay the boat has shown up well. Baby Roger, 
another boat of the same class, owned by George Beohme, 
of the Brooklyn Y. C, was expected to be a competitor. 
Her owner, however, will keep the boat at Bayonne, N. J., 
most of the time, and it is doubtful if he will be seen 
in the association races this year. 
Trouble, another stranger, belonging to W. H. Childs, 
of the Marine and Field Club, is the craft over which 
the other members of the class are a bit worried. She 
was designed by F. D. Lawley, of Boston, to fit the 
Massachusetts Yacht Racing Association eighteen-foot 
knockabout class, and was built by Shiverick, of Kings- 
ton, Mass. The boat was raced but little last year. In 
a few contests down Duxbury way, she established a good 
record and defeated boats of the Duxbury fleet, of which 
Malillian, champion of the Massachusetts Yacht Racing 
Association, was a member. 
In class R, has strayed a craft which is liable to make 
things exceedingly lively. It is none other than the 
speedy little Opossum, which, under the management of 
H. M. Raberg, won the championship^ of the 18-ft. class 
last year in the Yacht Racing Association of Long Is- 
land Sound. Opossum is now owned by ex- Vice Com- 
modore Robert P. Doremus, of the Atlantic Y. C, one of 
the best skippers in the Sea Gate organization. 
Four of the older type of boats, all comfortable cruis r 
ing craft in the best sense of the word, have agreed to 
go through the season of racing in cruising trim, except 
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June 21, Saturday— One-design dories. 
June 28, Saturday— One-design dories. 
July 12, Saturday — One-design dories. 
Aug. 9, Saturday — One-design dories. 
It is expected that the Weetamoe will be launched at 
Lawley's this week.' The basin is pretty well cleared of 
vachts and there are very few in the yard. As soon as 
the Weetamoe is launched the 46-foot auxiliary yawl and 
the 33-foot yawl, designed by Binney, will be sent out of 
the shop. In the east shop Ramea, designed by Mower 
for Mr. H. H. Robinson is ready to launch. 
The following fixtures have been arranged by the re- 
gatta committee of the East Gloucester Yacht Club : 
June 11, Wednesday, evening race. 
June 17, Tuesday, club race. 
June 18, Wednesday, evening race. 
June 25, Wednesday, evening race. £ 
July 2, Wednesday, evening race. 
July 4, Friday, club race. 
July 9, Wednesday, evening race. 
July 16, Wednesday, evening race. 
July 21, Monday, club race. i i 
July 23, Wednesday, evening race. j 
July 30, Wednesday, evening race. 
Aug. 6, Wednesday, evening race. 
Aug. 7, Thursday, Y. R. A., open. 
Aug. 13, Wednesday, evening race. 
Aug. 20, Wednesday, evening race. 
Aug. 27, Wednesday, evening race. 
On the first run of the Boston Yacht Club, in its 
annual cruise, Saturday, June 14, the new station at 
Marblehead will be officially opened. There will be a 
reception by the flag officers in the evening, followed by 
a concert and luncheon. John B. Killeen. 
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Colonel Francis L; Leland has chartered his steam 
yacht Safa-El-Bahr to Mr. Charles M. Schwab. The 
yacht was designed and built by Messrs. A. & J. Inglis 
at Glasgow in 1894. She is 22ft. 6in. over all, 187ft. 
water-line, 27ft. breadth and 15ft. deep. The j'acht is 
built entirely of steel and has two decks and five water- 
tight bulkheads. Safa-El-Bahr will be brought to this 
side at once. 
Navahoe, the American yawl now owned by Mr. A. 
W. Watjens, which sailed from Newport, R. I., on May 
x, arrived at Bremerhaven on May 25. 
Yacht Racing Association of 
Gravesend Bay. 
The Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend Bay was 
formed last year. It was the outcome of the desire of the 
larger clubs on Gravesend Bay to improve racing condi- 
tions on that body of water and to arrange a schedule 
of non-conflicting dates. The organization was made 
up of the Atlantic Y. C, Brooklyn Y. C, New York C. 
C. and the Marine and Field Club. 
The first year of racing was marked by signal success. 
Fifteen regattas were held, in which upward of forty 
craft competed. Good racing was brought out with a 
spirit of healthy rivalry, the effect of which can be readily 
seen in preparations for the season of 1902, which opens 
on Saturday, June 7, with the initial race under the aus- 
pices of the Atlantic Y. C. 
There are few material changes in the conditions un- 
der which the regattas are to be held this year from 
those in 1901, the sponsors of the association feeling that 
few restrictions will have a beneficial effect on the list of 
entries. 
Innovations of this year are a general rule by which 
the different classes will be started on three minute in- 
tervals and the designation of a new course for the 
larger boats in classes K, L, M and N, which will send 
them out as far as West Bank Light from the starting 
point in Gravesend Bay, the course to be covered twice. 
With the assurance that nearly all of the consistent 
campaigners of last season will struggle for honors once 
more, the minds of yachtsmen interested in the organiza- 
tion naturally turn toward the possibility of new-comers 
in the races of 1902. 
Additions to classes P, Q and R are already assured, 
as is also the entry of a number of craft which did 
not compete last year, although moored in Gravesend 
Bay and flying the burgee of one of the associated clubs. 
A stranger in class P this year is the knockabout. 
Karma, recently purchased by J. C. Erskine of the New 
York C. C. Karma is one of the boats built several 
years ago for the Philadelphia Corinthian Y. C. after the 
lines of the Seawanhaka knockabouts turned out for the 
Oyster Bay organization at about the same time. She 
was designed by W. B. Stearns, of Marblehead, and built 
by Lawrence Jensen, of Gloucester, who constructed all 
of the five boats going to the Quaker City yachtsmen. 
Karma is superbly clothed with two suits of racing 
canvas, one turned out at the Herreshoff lofts, Bristol, 
ing that small boats will not be carried. Sunol, John 
Abbey ; Bonito, Haviland Brothers ; Kangaroo, C. H. 
Humphreys; and Narika, F. T. Cornell, are the boats 
and owners to make up this class of which much is ex- 
pected. 
The boats have all been thoroughly overhauled and the 
addition of new sails makes them well equipped for the 
season's work. By common aggreement each race missed 
will cost the craft not starting, a small forfeit. 
It is this class of racers that the association is trying 
to encourage. There are many big, roomy boats on the 
bay, whose owners do not feel like stripping their craft 
every time a race is on. These, the enthusiasts are trying 
to induce to become competitors. The Yacht Racing Asso- 
ciation of Gravesend Bay stands ready, at any time, to 
create a class for boats of any style or dimensions in 
which there are at least two starters. 
There are to be but nine races this year — a fewer num- 
ber than in 1901— and because of the reduction it is felt 
that interest will increase. All sorts of rumors are cur- 
rent regarding prospective starters, the truth of which 
cannot be verified until the boats come to the line for 
the preparatory gun at 3 o'clock, next Saturday. A list 
of the almost sure starters in the association contests, 
with their owners and the club under whose colors they 
will compete, follows : 
Sloops— Class M — Special. 
Sunol, John Abbey Brooklyn 
Bonito, Haviland Brothers Canoe Club 
Kangaroo, C. H. Humphreys Brooklyn 
Narika, F. T. Cornell Brooklyn 
Sloops— Class N— 25 to 30ft. 
Vivian, S. E. Vernon Atlantic 
Squaw, H. J. Heath Brooklyn 
Sloops— Class P— 21 to 25ft. 
Song and Dance, E. F. Luckenbach Atlantic 
Cockatoo, Hendon Chubb.... Atlantic 
Karma, J. C. Erskine Canoe Club 
Corona, J. G. Briggs Atlantic 
Sloops— Class Q— 18 to 21ft. 
Wraith, Calvin Tomkins Canoe Club 
Spots, D. D. Allerton.. ..I Canoe Club 
Wink, W. A. Barstow... Canoe Club 
Broncho, F. C. Moore Canoe Club 
Flying Fish. I. M. Dean Canoe Club 
Trouble, W. H. Childs Marine and Field 
Sloops— Class R — 15 to 18ft. 
Pebble, R. W. Speir..... ..Canoe Club 
Peanut. Calvert Brewer ....Canoe Club 
Pickaninny, L. R. Connett .Atlantic 
Opossum, Robt. P; Doremus Atlantic 
Marine and Field — Special Class. 
Kelpie W, K, Brown 
