July 26, 1902.) 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Fifth Class — 40ft. and not over 46ft. 
Sixth Class — 3Sft. and not over 40ft. 
Seventh Class— 29ft. and not over 35ft. 
HANDICAP SLOOPS. 
Class A — All over 40ft. 
Class B — 2gft. and not over 40ft. 
In each class there will be a first prize. If four or more 
yachts start in a class there will be a second prize, and if 
seven or more start a third prize will be given. Special 
prizes will be given to the Buzzard's Bay .30-footer mak- 
ing the fastest time in the seventh class sloops. In the 
racing classes the prizes will be .silver and in the cruising 
classes they will be pewter. 
The Puritan cup for the year will be awarded to the 
Eastern Y. C. yacht making the fastest time lover the 
courses sailed by the larger yachts. 
Entries in the racing classes must be received by the 
Regatta Committee in writing by 8 on the morning of the 
race. For the handicap classes entries must be received 
by 8 of the evening before the race. 
Seawanhaka-Cormthian Y. C. 
OYSTER BAY, LONG ISLAND SOUND. 
Saturday, July 19. 
The Seawanhaka knockabouts sailed the fourth series 
race for the Centre Island cup on Saturday, July 19. The 
wind was strong from the N.E., and the boats .sailed over 
the inside course. The boats that finished first and sec- 
ond — Wyntje and Lucille — were protested for fouling one 
of the marks. The summary, start 3 :20 : 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Wviitje, Colfrate Hoyt, Jr 5 49 4G 2 29 46 
Li.cille. n. H. Landon 5 50 43 2 30 43 
Marcia, Johnston lie Forest 5 51 21 3 .31 21 
(iowan, G. G. Stewart 5 53 21 2 33 21 
Nakodo, J. C. Sherman 5 53 30 2 33 30 
Heron, F, R. Condert, Jr 5 54 24 2 34 24 
li.vli^ \V. A. VV. Stewart 6 04 45 3 44 45 
NEOLA. 
Designed by Gardner & Cox. Owned by George M. Pynchon. Photo by James Bmton, New York. 
Comments on Proposed Restrictions of the 
Y. R* of the Great Lakes* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Your interesting summary of the report of the Rule_ 
Committee to the Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes, 
on page 515 of your impression of June 28, shows that 
the main matter for discussion was the question whether a 
rating rule should be employed, or not— in the latter case 
the classes being subject to various restrictions. 
Mr. Stephens, of New York, appears to have been the 
only expert who voted for a rating rule, all the others 
being in favor of restrictions, thinking that a better class 
of yacht would thereby be developed than under a rating 
rule. 
The words "better class of yacht" no doubt means a 
better average yacht, and there can be little doubt that 
restrictions if settled with only a freer amount of com- 
mon sense, are bound to produce a better average yacht 
than a rating rule. If, therefore, a good average and a 
strongly marked cousinship be the ideal, if all the yachts 
built for racing on the Great Lakes are to be very similar 
in speed and other capabilities, the restricted classes 
adopted will no doubt be the best means possible for pro- 
ducing same. 
In my mind, however, the ideal of yacht racing is dis- 
covery, and this can only be attained by some very simple 
and untrammeled rating rule, such, for instance, as the 
Seawanhaka rule of 1882, and a multitude of yachts differ- 
ing considerably. 
The result of the racing then shows how speed can 
best be obtained under that rating rule, and important 
facts relative to speed soon become known. Racing under 
the length and sail area rules for about twenty years has 
certainly taught us a great deal in naval yacht architec- 
ture. Would we have made the same advance if in 1882 
restrictions had been used instead of a rating rule? The 
answer is probably self-evident. If then we adopt re- 
stricted classes now the reason must be: 
I. That we do not believe in the advantage of any 
further development — although the same be unknown to 
us, and may be of more startling importance than any- 
thing yet discovered; or 
II. That we prefer one-design class racing to the 
-worries and expense of the other. 
Thalassa. 
Beverly Y. C* 
wing's neck, buzzard's bay. 
Saturday, July 19. 
The club race of the Beverlj-- Y, C. was sailed off 
Wing's Neck, Buzzard's Bay, on Saturday, July 19, in an 
extremely light easterly breeze. It was so light that it 
would be more properly termed a drifting match. Un- 
der the conditions it was no test of the boats. Arabian 
won in the 30-footers, Sylvia in the 21-footers, Vim m 
the fourth class cats and Krieker in the 15-footers. In 
the 2i-footers only Sylvia and Barnacle rounded buoy 8, 
and so their times are given first in the summary. There 
was a misunderstanding in this class as to the course to 
be sailed, and this will be fixed up by the jtidges later. 
The summary : 
Buzzard's Bay 30-footers. . 
Elapsed. 
Arabian, Robert Winsor 3 30 41 
Praxilla. John Parkinson ? o? 00 
Pcntiac, J. A. Beebe 3 jo 
Young- Miss, D. L. Whittemore 3 06 40 
Zirgara, E. M. Farnsworth 3 38 59 
Gamecock, Louis Bacon j; 40 Si 
Mashnee, R. W. Emmons, Jr S?; 
Notos, W. O. & C. H. Taylor, Jr 3 44 38 
Evelyn, John Hitchcock 3 47 l.j 
Quakeress. W. F. Harrison 3 50 42 
21-footers. 
Sylvia, ..D. S. Warren ^. :,..3 57 33 
Barnacle, W. E. C. Eustis Hf 
Terrapin, L. S. Dabney o 33 05 
Wyona, Howard Miller 3 44 05 
Edith, Clark King ■ -4 09 20 
Arethusa, C. M, Baker.... Withdrew. 
Fourth Clas.s Cats. 
Krieker, W. S. Jameson .3 09 19 
Allison Steward McLeod o 12 15 
Hod, tr. B. Holmes ^ 3 16 21 
15-footers, 
Vim. F. Sarsent 2 15 38 
Go Bye, H. Stockton 2 15 53 
Spider, IT. B. Stone. 2 17 28 
Eaglet, R. Bacon 2 18 09 
R.anzo, M. Richardson. ~ 22 .'jy 
Eastern Y. C. Open Race* 
The Regatta Committee of the Eastern Y. C. has an- 
nounced that the annual open race will be sailed off 
Marblehead on Monday, Aug. 11, and that it will be open 
to yachts of the Eastern and New York yacht clubs. The 
New York Y. C. fleet will be in Marblehead on that day. 
The start will be made at 11. The following classes 
will be provided: 
SCHOONERS. 
First Class — All over 75ft, waterline. 
Second Class — 53ft. and not over 75ft. 
Third Class — 30ft, and not over S3ft. 
handicap schooners. 
Class A — ^AU over 53ft, waterline. 
Class B — 30ft, and not over 33ft. 
SLOOPS. 
First Class — ^AU over 71ft. waterline. 
Second Class — 61 ft. and not over 71ft. 
Third Class-^S3ft. and not over 6ift. 
Fourth Class — ^46ft. and not over ssft. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES, 
On Tuesday afternoon, July 15, Mr. George M. 
Pynchon's new cutter, Neola, was dismasted in a vicious 
squall wheii off the Norwalk Islands on Long Island 
Sound. The yacht was returning from the New York 
Y. C. races at Newport to the owner's home at Belle 
Haven, Conn. The squall had been making for some 
lime, and the canvas on the boat had been reduced to 
mainsail and jib. When the storm broke about 3 o'clock it 
was more severe than was expected, and after standing 
the strain for a short time, the mast finally gave way and 
the spars and gear fell off to leeward an don deck. Mr. 
Pynchon was accompanied by his wife and niece and Mr. 
Fred M. Hoyt, OAvner of the cutter Isolde. The ladies 
were below when the accident happened, and no one on 
deck was injured. After the wreckage was cleared away 
the yacht as towed into Greenwich, and was afterward 
t;;ken to Shooters Island, where a new mast was fitted. 
The squall was one of the worst ever experienced on the 
Sound, and for a time the wind reached a velocity of 
nearly sixty miles an hour. 
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The- following sales have been made through Manning's 
Yacht Agency: The steam yacht Aria for Mr. John B. 
Rhoads, of New Bedford, Mass., to Mr. Edward H. 
Blake, of Bangor, Me. ; the steam yacht Whisper for the 
estate of the late Thomas Manning to Mr. W. H. Burgess, 
of Oyster Bayj L. I. This agency has chartered the steam 
yacht vSperanza to Mr. Charles H. Mellon, of Morris- 
town, N. J., for Mr. Ogden D. Wilkinson, of Philadel- 
phia, Pa. /I 
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Mr. T. Jenkins Plains has purchased through the agency 
of Mr. A. J. Mcintosh the 30ft. L.W.L. Burgess cutter 
Saracen. 
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The HerreshofY Mfg. Co. has built for Mr. Harold 
Vanderbilt a cruising sloop to take the place of the 25ft. 
w aterline knockabout Alyce that he had last season. The 
boat is 34ft. on the waterline and has a pole mast rig. 
She has liberal freeboard and under a cabin house has 
a large amount of accommodation. The Vanderbilt boat is 
quite like Azor, a sloop turned out this spring by the 
Herreshoffs for Mr. J. Malcolm Forbes. Azor is 34ft. on 
the waterline, and 40ft. over all. She is a combination 
keel and centerboard boat. These boats are arranged on 
deck and below very much the same as the Beverly Y, C. 
one-design 30-footers. 
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Mr. Percy Chubb's yawl Vigilant will not be seen in the 
racing this summer, as her owner is to make an extended 
cruise in the yacht as far as Labrador. This is rather 
rnfortunate for Ailsa, as she is now without a competitor. 
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The English schooner Elmina, owned by Mr. W. Ex- 
shavv, of Portsmouth, England, now on an American 
cruise, anchored off Bay Ridge on Friday, July 18. Elmina 
was designed and built by Messrs. Camper & Nicholson, at 
Gosport, in 1874. She is 128ft. over all, 2sft. breadth and 
T3ft. deep. " 
Mr. Charles F. Herreshoff, who was for some time head 
draughtsinan at the Herreshoff Mfg. Co., Bristol, R. I., 
and who has recently been associated with Prof. Byles, of 
Glasgow, Scotland, has gone into partnership with Mr, 
T. D. Wells, and has opened an office at 11 Broadway, 
New York city. In addition to their professional work as 
naval architects and engineers, they will also' do a yacht- 
brokerage business. 
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The American yacht Uncle Sam, designed by Crownin-" 
.shield, and which won the Kai.ser's prize in the Kiel re- 
gattas, has been bought by the Kaiser himself from Mr. 
F. R. Riggs, of New York city. 
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Mr. Francis W. J. Hurst, one of the most prominent 
and oldest members of the New York Y. C, died at 
Mount Kisco, N. Y., on July 22. He was 62 years old. 
