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sail was taken in just before she reached the second 
mark, and her jib was broken out. The same changes 
were made on Columbia a few minutes later. The 
boats' times at the second mark follow: 
Reliance 5 39 50 Constitution 5 46 47 
Columbia 5 43 17 
On this leg, a three-mile reach. Reliance beat Con- 
stitution im. 22s. and Columbia im. 25s. 
On the beat back to the finish line all three boats 
carried baby jib topsails. The wind was getting very 
light again. Reliance, however, continued to open the 
gap between herself and Columbia. Constitution's jib 
topsail met with an accident, and it was replaced with 
another. Constitution was put on the starboard tack, 
apparently hunting a better breeze. What little breeze 
there was seemed to be aloft, and Reliance's big club 
topsail was catching every puff. A fresher breeze was 
seen working out from the westward, and it reached 
Reliance first, as she was so far ahead. The breeze 
shifted a little and allowed Reliance to lay her course 
for the mark. The new breeze reached Columbia first, 
and Constitution felt its influence a few moments later. 
In the fresh breeze Reliance was laid well out and her 
topmast had a pronounced buckle in it. Her jib top- 
sail was taken in, and when it was found the race could 
not be finished within the time limit, her club topsail 
was sent down on deck. Reliance kept on and crossed 
the line even after the committee had signalled "no 
race." Columbia held on to her club topsail and 
crossed the line S^m. after Reliance. 
The Coupe de France and Italian 
Cup Matches at St. Remo. 
BY GEOFFREY DE HOLDEN-STONE. 
From a British point of view, especially that of a 
keen yachtsman, there can be no doubt that until the 
above matches were sailed at the end of last month, the 
present Mediterranean season has been of the dullest. 
For at present — although it seems only the other day 
that the S2-footer Magdalen lost us the possession of 
the Coupe de France on a question of measurement, 
not because she was not quite as speedy as Quand- 
Meme IL — we find her in Signer Tonietti's ownership, 
the onlj' modern boat of her size and type in the Medi- 
terranean; though, singularly enough, she was beaten 
in her first match hy Spring, ex-Mildred. ex-Eldred; a 
boat which, as well as Caprice, is even more out of date 
than Penitent. 
Yet apart from such sport as she may show during 
the remainder of the season, there will be little or noth- 
ing to excite British interest. For British and Conti- 
nental owners of large craft ■ appear to have lost all 
touch with Riviera yachting, although the various 
race committeees on the littoral have abated no whit of 
their wonted liberalitj^ in the matter of trophies and 
prize money. Indeed, there is little reason to expect 
the owners to re-enter the game; although it is true 
that a similar depression existed in British waters dur- 
ing the autumn which preceded the building of Britan- 
nia: an epoch which heralded the palmiest period of 
British yacht racing, the latter nineties. 
In view of these facts, one can only commend the 
foresight of the committee of the Yacht Club de 
France in deciding, nearly two 3'ears ago, that in future 
the Coupe de France should be contested by ten-ton- 
ners instead of the "twenties." Had not some such 
arrangement been made, it is probable that yachting 
on the Riviera littoral would have been entirely con- 
fined to the smallest classes, and the matches for the 
national trophy remained in abeyance. For, had one 
of our 36-footers in the Solent class appeared as a 
challenger, she would probably have been out-meas- 
ured by the French rule. And as no such challenge 
was sent from either the Solent or Clyde, despite op- 
portunity, such a contingency would seem to have been 
thought of by British owners. Clearly, then, the only 
chance of a contest was to be expected from Italy. And 
yet no Italian builder had turned out any racing boat 
bigger than a ten-tonner. 
However, the result of the first contest under the 
new conditions was, as will be remembered, distinctly 
discouraging to French yachtsmen: for Union, the 
S3'ndicate boat built to defend the Coupe de France 
against the Due d'Abruzzi's Artica, failed so badly in 
her trials that they were forced to defend with the 
Bordelais boat, Mons. Donault's Suzette. which was 
not built as a defender, but merely for the ordinary 
class racing of a Riviera season. What this last might 
have done in capable hands, with properly fitting sails, 
need not be discussed; but the fact remains that her 
skipper, impatient of expert advice, tinkered with her 
English-made sails until he ruined them, and subse- 
quently so mishandled her that she had no chance 
against the Italian challenger. 
Nevertheless, undaunted by defeat (or perhaps only 
too certain that his boat had not been seen at her 
best), Mons. Donault allowed Suzette to be named as 
the challenger for the Coupe de France matches this 
year, sailed at San Remo on the 27th and igth ult. the 
history of which is, perhaps, without a parallel in the 
annals of the sport for contradictory form, to say noth- 
ing of sheer luck. For mark what happened. So soon 
as the challenge was received, no less than three de- 
fenders were designed by the most skillful builders in 
Italy: Leda, for the Due d'Abruzzi; Sally, for Signor 
Coltelletti, and Nada, for Commander Floris. All three 
were launched early in the current Mediterranean sea- 
son, and the result of their trial spins at San Remo 
made it apparent that the Costaguta boat Leda vvas not 
only a better boat than Artica. but unusually speedy in 
light airs, while the Oneto-built Sally was the best of 
the trio in a hard breeze. Their form, at least, was 
known, and they were clearly not susceptible of any 
great improvement; so their owners proceeded to race 
in the ten-ton series with Suzette at the ensuing re- 
gattas, and as the latter was no better handled or can- 
vased than heretofore, they beat her in the hollowest 
fashion, day after day, for weeks. 
Yet during these San Remo trials, it was evident to 
the cognoscenti that the Gallinari boat Nada was not 
§0 far behind either of her rivals as to be out of the 
running for the Cup defense. Indeed, seeing that the 
disposition of her lead was clearly all wrong, and that 
her American-built canvas was not only too heavy, but 
could not be made to fit or draw at all, the- best judges 
were unable to gauge the extent of her possible im- 
provement. Fortunately Gallinari, of Livorno— the 
builder also, by the way, of those speedy racing four- 
tonners Sfinge and Nemesi — was given a free hand in 
this respect, and having unshipped a goodly portion of 
Nada's inside ballast and replaced it with outside lead, 
thus stiffening her considerably under sail, he discarded 
her American sails and ordered a new racing suit from 
a Cowes firm of world-wide reputation. The result 
of all these alterations more than vindicated his judg- 
ment, for Nada defeated Leda and Sally in such whole- 
sale fashion in the final trials at San Remo that the de- 
fense committee had no other option than to choose 
her as their representative. 
l^'et again, mark what happened. Nada's victory 
seemed to be assured, for although Suzette's skip- 
per, under pressure, had had her mast re-stepped in its 
originally designed place, it was seen when she sailed 
to the line on the morning of the 27th, that she still 
wore her spoilt English mainsail. On the other hand, 
Mr. Cramer, Nada's amateur skipper, had not only 
never set foot aboard her until that morning, but knew 
nothing of the course, never having previously sailed 
in San Remo Bay. Nevertheless, he sailed the defender 
well enough to beat Suzette on the first round of the 
course, but just as the latter rounded the western mark 
for the second time, the breeze, previously fresh from 
S. E. by E., suddenly chopped around and put her so 
far ahead of Nada that the Italian boat could never 
again overhaul her. On the 29th, again in a light 
easterly, Nada was ahead all the first round, but stand- 
ing in too far on a shoreward leg, was held in a fiat 
patch for over fifteen minutes, while Suzette — which, on 
this day had her French-built mainsail— picked up a 
streak outside, overhauled all the time she had lost, 
and won easily by over nine minutes. She thus recov- 
ered the trophy, despite bad handling, by a lucky fluke 
on each day. The truth of this, the correctness of the 
San Remo trials, and the previous form of all engaged, 
has since been established beyond cavil in every match 
which these ten-tonners have sailed, as one or other 
of the Italian boats, usually Nada, has invariably beaten 
Suzette from start to finish. Thus does familiarity 
score, in combination with true breezes. 
Yet poorly sailed and disappointing as these matches 
were, those for the Italian Cup. between the five-ton- 
ners — Mons. Damoy Picon's Titave, sailed by Paul 
Tossens. and Signor Dall'Orso's Melisanda, of which 
Signor Ettore Bocciardo Avas skipper — were extremely 
interesting and well-fought out. In fact, so smart was 
the performance of both that they beat the Coupe de 
France boats on corrected time on each day. At the 
same time Titane's victory was more or less a fore- 
gone conclusion, for not only had she been sailed into 
her best trim from the beginning of the season in all 
the Riviera regattas, but had proved herself to be one 
of the fastest five-tonners afloat by the ease wnth which 
she had won nearly all the matches in her class. 
Melisanda, on the other hand, was only just launched 
from the Costaguta yard at Voltri, in time for the 
Italian Cup matches, and practically started an untried 
and untrimmed boat. And smartly as she was handled 
by her amateur skipper, it was scarcely to be expected, 
under the circumstances, that he should defeat such a 
clever professional as Paul Tossens; the latter in a 
boat which he knew as well as the back of his hand. 
Both trophies have thus been won by French yachts- 
men; but the Regis Y. C. of Italy has already chal- 
lenged afresh for the Coupe de France, and the matches 
will be sailed early next year. Another Nada may well 
be forthcoming from the Gallinari yard, or the same 
boat may be used with good prospect of success. On 
the other hand, it is unlikely that any French designer 
vv'ill succeed in turning out a boat to beat Suzette. At 
the same time it must not be forgotten that, although 
the latest British-built 36-footers on the Solent and 
Clyde — such as Sorais IL, Nyama, or Barabel — might 
be somewhat over measurement under the French rat- 
ing rule, there are others, such as "D", "Girleen" or 
even one of the 36ft. class of three seasons ago, which 
could be brought within that rating with very little 
alteration, and would, furthermore, stand an excellent 
chance of once more bringing the Coupe de France to 
the British side of the channel. 
Boston Letter. 
Boston, May 25. — The yacht racing in j\Lassachusetls 
Bay will open Saturday with the Y. R, A. race of the 
South Boston Y. C. It is expected that nearly all of the 
yachts that will race during the season will be present, 
and, wilh a good breeze, .some rare sport is assured. The 
biggest class in the fleet will be the i8ft. knockabouts. 
There have been more of these boats built during thfe 
past winter than at any other time since the class was 
formed. There must have been at least 25 new ones 
built, and possibly more. As only a few of the older boats 
have been sold in other waters, the class should be a very 
large one, indeed. Two of the extreme 25-footers will be 
ready to race, Chewink III., owned by Mr. F. G. I\Iacom- 
ber, Jr., and Great Haste, owned by Mr, T'. K. Lothrop, 
Jr. The third of the new 25-footers designed by Messrs 
Burgess and Packard for Mr. J. E. Doherty, will not be 
ready for some time. There is another new one, designed 
and built by Mr. Walter Kelley for his own use, which 
may be ready. There will be a good bunch of 22-footers 
in the first race. A new one is now being built by Fen- 
ton, of Manchester, for Mr. W. H. Joyce, of Philadel- 
phia, from designs by Messrs. Burgess and Packard. This 
will make ten boats for the class. Three of these boats 
raced from Boothbay to Marblehead last week, starting 
on Saturday. The first day's run was to Cape Porpoise, 
a distance of about 50 nautical miles. They carried a 
good breeze all the way, and finished within a few seconds 
of each other, rather a remarkable performance, consider- 
ing the distance sailed. Class R, the modified class of 21- 
foolers, to do away with the freaks in class, will claim 
the entries in boats of this length. Several of the boats 
of last year have been sold, and have been sent away from 
Boston, but it is thought that there will be enough left 
to make a good race. 
Mr. B. B. Crowninshield reports the sale of the 51ft. 
gasolene launch, Harriet N. Crie, to parties who wish to 
I'emain unknown for the present ; the 35-footer Heron, 
owned by Mr. F. C. Swan, of New York, to Mr. W. J. 
Badger, of Boston ; the 21-footer Micmac, owned by Mr. 
Richard Hutchison, to Mr. Howard Palmer, and the 21- 
footer Dabster, owned by Mr, George P. Keith, to Mr. 
Francis Skinner, Jr. He has been commissioned to de- 
sign an i8ft. knockabout by Mr. Keith. 
The mem.bership committee of the Boston Y. C. an- 
n.ounces that the following members have been elected :: 
Samuel N. Braman, B. P. C. Clapp, A; A. Elston, F. L.. 
Shevlin, Justin W. Lester, Sumner E. Brown, L. A.. 
Chase, C. G. Hall, Arthur H. Vinal, A. B. Whittier, Vin- 
cent Farnsworth, Frank E. Dickerman, Amun U. Joasted,. 
and G. C. Hawkins, regular; Carl O. Zerrahn and Ernest: 
Manahan, Rochester division, and R. W. Strout, Marble- 
head division. 
The following sales have been reported by Hollis Bur- 
gess : 50ft. steam launch Caprice, owned by Mr. John 
Petti.grew, of Springfield, Mass., to Mr. G. A. Gibson, of 
Boston; 45ft. sloop Fanita, owned by Mr. Francis H. 
Bacon, to I. H. Porter; 21ft. knockabout Louise, owned 
by Mr. R, L. Shewell, to Dr. Morton Prince; 21ft. racc- 
EilDOut Kittie, owned by Mr. Harry Lewis, of Gardiner, 
Me., to Mr. Charles M. Brush, of Brookline; 21ft. race- 
about Idol, owned by Mr. C. F. Lyman, to Mr. E. M. 
Padelford, of Washington, D. C. ; 19- footer Caterpillar, 
owned by Mr. E, B. Maltby, to Mr. Ralph Nason. 
The Manchester Y. C. has announced the following 
fixtures : 
Jtme 10, 12, 13, IS and 16, Wednesday, Friday, Satur- 
day, Monday and Tuesday^ — ^Trial races for Seawanhaka 
cup. 
July 7, Tuesday — First championship. 
July 21, Tuesday — Second championship. : 
August 3, Monday — :Y. R. A., open. 
August 4, Tuesday — Crowhurst cup. 
August ir, Tuesday — Third championship. 
August 17, Monday — Club handicap. 
September 7, Monday — Club handicap. 
The Seawanhaka cup committee is composed of Arthur 
M. Meri-iam, chairman ; E. A. Boardman and Horace B. 
Pearson, secretary. 
The following fixtures have been arranged by the Wol- 
laston Y.-C. : 
May 30, Saturda}^ — Chase cup. 
June 17, Wednesda}' — Club handicap. 
June 27, Saturda}^ — First club championship. 
July 7, Saturday — Moonlight sail. 
July 18 — Saturday — Ladies' day. 
August I, Saturday — Second club championship. 
August 15, Saturday — Clam bake. 
August 29, Saturday — Third club championship. 
Sept. 5, 6, and 7 — Annual cruise. 
September 26, Saturday — Chase cup. 
The regatta committee of the Quincy Y. C. annotuices 
the following fixtures : 
June 13, Saturday — Club handicap. 
June 17, W^ednesday — Club handicap. 
July 16, Thursday — Ladies' Day. 
July 18, Saturday — Club handicap. 
July 29, Wednesday — ^Y. R. A. open. 
August I, Saturday — Club handicap. 
August 15, Saturday — Club handicap. 
August 29, Saturday — Club handicap. 
September 7, Monday — Club handicap. 
The Winthrop Y. C. announces the following fixtures : 
June 6, Saturday — Class handicap. 
June 13, Saturday — ^Interclub class handicap. 
June 20, Saturday — Class handicap. 
June 27, Saturday — Interclub class handicap. 
July II, Saturday — Class handicap. 1 
July 18, Saturday — Y. R. A. open. 
July 25, Saturday — Class handicap. 
July 26, Sunday — Club run, programme later. 
August I, Saturday — Interclub series. 
August 8, Saturday — Class handicap. 
August 15, Saturdaj^ — Interclub class handicap. | 
August 16, Sunday — Club run, programme later. 
August 22, Saturday— Class handicap. 
August 29, Saturday — Interclub class handicap. 
September 5, Saturdaj' — Class handicap. 
The Beverly Y. C. announces the following fixtures : 
June 13, Saturday — First club race. 
June 17, Wednesdaj' — Open sweepstakes. 
June 20, Saturday— Second club race. 
June 27, Saturday — Third club race. 
July 4, Saturdajr — First Corinthian. 
July 6, Monday— Trials for interclub match. 
July 7, Tuesday — Trials for intecclub match. 
July 9, Thursday — Interclub match with Seawanhaka- 
Corinthian Y'. C. 
July II, Saturday — Interclub match with Seawanhaka- 
Corinthian Y. C. 
July iS, Saturday — Second Corinthian. 
July 25, Saturday — Club cruise and race at New Bed- 
ford. 
August I, Saturday — Third Corinthian. 
.August 8, Saturday — Fourth Corinthian. 
.'\ugust 15, Saturday — Fifth Corinthian. 
August 22, Saturday — Van Rensselaer cups. 
.August 29, Saturday — Sixth Corinthian. 
September 5, Saturday' — Open race. . ^ 
September 7, Monday — Open race. 
September 12, Saturday — Seventh Corinthian. 
All of the above races will be sailed off Wings Neck, 
with the exception of the Van Rensselaer cup race, which 
will be sailed off Marion, and the open race of Septem- 
ber 5, which will be sailed off Mattapoisett. The Corin- 
thian races only will count for club championship. 
John B. Killeen. 
Mr. Frank Bownc Jones has chartered the steam 
yacht Viking, owned by Mr. Franklin Haines, to Mr. 
James A. Garland; the steam yacht Ardith, owned by 
Mr. Guy Loomis, to Mr. F. W. Wurster. Mr. Jones 
has sold the yawl Sultan for Mr. C. A- Van Iderstine 
to Mr. p. E. Brown. 
