July ir, 1903.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Alert .... 
Marion — 
Oiseau ... 
Bobtail . . , 
Mimosa . . 
Enpronzi 
Baglieera 
Flosshilde 
Boat. 
BAGHEERA. 
DESCRIPTION OF BOATS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE RACES 
Owner. Club Represented. Desig-ner. 
.J. W. Alker Manhasset Bay Y. C N. G. Herreshoff 
.C. P. and T. W. Brigliam Shelter Island Y. C T. W. Brigham 
.H. L. Maxwell Indian Harbor Y. C N. G. Herreshoff...... 
.E. F. Luckenback Bensonhurst Y. C... N. G. Herreshoff 
. T. L. Park American Y. C B. B. Crownirishield 
,R, A. Rainey Larchmont Y. C B. B. Crowninshield 
. Hendon Chubb Atlantic Y. C Clinton H. Crane 
. VY. D. Hennen New York A. C B. B. Crowninshield 
FOR THE MANHASSET BAY CHALLENGE CUP. 
Builder. Year. O. A. L.W. 
Herreshoff Mfg. Co 1902 42.2 28.; 
Groenport B. and C. Co 1901 37. 24. i 
Herreshoff Mfg. Co 1899 43. 25. 
Herreshoff Mfg. Co 1902 40.5 26.1 
Swasey, Raymond & Page 1902 39. S 25.; 
B. F. Wood 1900 38. 25. 
B. F. Wood 1902 45.8 29. i 
W. B. Smith igoi 43. 25.1 
Breadth. 
9.5 
9. 
10. 
9.4 
9.7 
10.3 
9.6 
10.4 
Draft. 
6.5 
6.4 
6.4 
4.3 
6.5 
6.6 
7. 
6.9 
R. L'gth, 
29.99 
28.28 
29.85 
29.89 
29.80 
31.70 
29.95 
31.60 
10 miles S. E. by E. E., and the third leg N. >^ W. 
The preparatory signal was made at 12:15, atid the yachts 
sailed around, keeping out of each other's way, until the 
starting gun went at 12 130 o'clock. Columbia crossed the 
line on the starboard tack at 12:30:45, Reliance crossed 
with the handicap gun at 12 :32, and Constitution was 
twenty-seven seconds later. Columbia and Reliance took 
the port tack at once, and Constitution held on for a minute 
after crossing and then she took the port tack. Reliance 
soon began to overhaul Columbia, but Constitution was 
doing better than either of the other two. She was foot- 
ing fast and pointing high, and at 12 :40 Reliance took the 
starboard tack to go after Constitution. Just as Reliance 
tacked the jaws of the gaff on Constitution broke and 
then the gaff snapped about twenty feet from the jaws. 
Reliance and Columbia made a good fight for 40 minutes, 
and then Reliance crossed her bow and gradually drew 
away from the old champion. Reliance turned the 
weather mark at i :S2 :20. It had taken her i hour 20m. 
40s. to make 10 miles to windward. Columbia was then 
about two minutes astern of her. The gaff topsail on 
Columbia had been set and men were on the bowsprit 
sending up a No. I jib topsail. The yacht suddenb' stuck 
her bowsprit under a big sea and Carl B. Olsen, the second 
man on the bowsprit, Avas washed off and lost. The first 
man held on and the third and fourth men were washed 
inboard. A dinghy was lowered at once and a search, 
v/hich lasted half an hour, made for Olsen, in which 
several yachts joined, but nothing more was seen of him. 
He was probably hurt on the martingale and then sucked 
under the yacht. Capt. Miller said that he ne\-er knew the 
yacht to stick her nose under before. 
Reliance set a No. 2 jib topsail for the second leg and 
she made the 10 miles in 51m. 30s. On the third leg she 
carried a balloon jib topsail. The wind was lighter and 
the sea smoother and she tnade the 10 tniles in 47m. los. 
The summary: 
Start. Finish. Elapsed. 
Reliance 12 32 00 3 31 20 2 59 30 
Columbia 12 32 00 Did not finish. 
Constitution , 12 30 45. Disabled. 
Reliance pounded hard in the seas, and when she got 
back to harbor it was found that she had dented two 
plates under the port bow. The lower strake, which is 
just above the waterline, was knocked flat, and in the 
plate above it there was a dent about six feet long, 
eighteen inches wide, and deep enough for a man to lay 
his arm in. Mr. Iselin made light of the trouble, and 
said it could soon be hammered out. He said that he was 
well satisfied with. the yacht and would do no more racing 
until the cruise. Mr. Morgan said that he did not care to 
race any more, having lost a man, and so the other races 
were declared off. Reliance went to Bristol the next 
morning, and will have two new plates put on in place of 
the damaged ones. • 
The schooner Quisetta, owned by Mr. Samuel C. Davis, 
of St. Louis, has been entirely overhauled .and refitted 
by the Greenport Basin and Construction Company, 
Greenport, L. I. She will be in charge of Captain George 
Parker, a well known British racing skipper, and will be 
run with an Eiiglish crew. 
•t >l 
The newly organized Port Jefferson Y. C, of Port Jef- 
ferson, L. I., held a meeting on June 30 and elected the 
following officers: Com., John E. Overton; Vice-Corn., 
Dr. H. S. Pettit; Sec'y, Charles V. Piatt; Treas., George 
F. Bayles; Regatta Committee— Charles V. Piatt, Robert 
iVilson, Game Smith, Fred Huff, Ralph H. Hawkins, 
Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup 
Races. 
One of the most important of this season's events 
among the smaller craft was the races for the Man- 
hasset Bay Challenge Cup. The cup was offered by the 
Manhasset Bay Y. C, and the races were held under 
the auspices of that club. 
The races were an unqualified success in every way, 
and the racing was of the cleanest sort, for in the 
three contests in which the boats met, there were no 
protests, fouls or disqualifications, and the best pos- 
sible feeling existed between the different crews. The 
races were admirably managed, and the judges were 
among the best known in the country. The cup was 
offered by the members at the suggestion of Mr. Ed- 
ward M. MacLellan, the club's secretary, and it was 
through his untiring efforts that the matches were so 
satisfactory to all concerned. 
Com. A. H. Alker loaned his steam yacht Florence 
to the race committee, and she was used as the judges' 
boat. The Regatta Committee was made up of Mr. 
Walter C. Kerr, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C; Stuy- 
vesant Wainwright, American Y. C, and Louis M. 
Clark, Eastern Y. C. 
The Manhasset Bay Y. C. chartered the steamer 
Huntington, and she followed the boats over the course 
each day, so that the members of the different clubs 
coidd see the races. 
First Race, Monday, June 29. 
In the morning the prospects for a race were not 
good. It was raining very hard, and a strong N. E. 
Avind that had been blowing all night had kicked up a 
nasty sea outside. As the day wore on the weather 
unproved, and shortly after i o'clock the Regatta 
Committee decided to start the race. 
_ The committee boat anchored to the N. E. of Execu- 
tion Light, and set course signals. Most of the boats 
towed out to the starting line in order to keep their 
sails dry as long as they could. All of the boats en- 
tered with the' exception of Enpronzi, and that boat 
was unable to sail as she was short handed. 
The course was to windward and return from the 
starting line off Execution Light, to and around the 
Larchmont racing buoy, off Parsonage Point, and back 
to the starting line. The length of each leg was four 
and one-eighth nautical miles, and as the course was 
sailed over twice, the total distance covered was six- 
teen and one-half nautical miles. 
The preparatory was given at 3 o'clock and the boats 
were sent away ten minutes later. At tliis time it had 
stopped rainng, and there was a N. E. breeze of over 
twelve knots' strength blowing, which kicked up a lump 
of a sea. The tide was running flood. At the time of 
starting Alert, Bagheera, Marion and Mimosa were 
reefed, while Oiseau, Bobtail and Flosshilde were 
swinging full sail. 
Mimosa was just on the line when the starting signal 
was heard, crossing on the starboard tack on the lee- 
ward end of the line. The rest of the boats crossed in 
the following order, all on the port tack. Oiseau, Alert, 
Marion, Flosshilde, Bobtail and Bagheera. Bagheera 
was late in crossing, as she had stopped to reef just 
before the start, and in consequence was the last boat 
over. The start, as a whole, was a remarkably fine 
one. 
All the bo3t§ with the e^cception of Mimosa, stood 
in on the starboard tack toward the New York shore 
in order to get out of the head tide and also to get 
into smoother water. Mimosa took a port tack and 
made a long hitch in under the Long Island beach. 
Oiseau was leading the bunch in toward Mamaroneck 
Harbor, but Alert shook out her reef and came up 
on her rapidly. 
When Mimosa took the starboard tack she crossed 
Marion's bow, which boat had followed her out in the 
Sound. When on her last hitch for the mark, Oiseau 
crossed Mimosa's bow and that boat took the star- 
board tack under Alert's lee. At the weather mark off 
Parsonage Point the boats were timed as follows: 
Oiseau 4 10 08 Flosshilde ,....4 16 00 
Alert 4 1124 Bobtail . . . . .4 17 47 
Mimosa 4 12 15 Bagheera 4 20 05 
Marion 4 14 10 
Flosshilde lost quite a little on rounding the mark. 
Oiseau set spinnaker to port and the others followed 
suit as they rounded. The wind had been gradually 
dropping since the start, and was getting much lighter. 
On the rtm home the boats were strung out in a long 
line, and all were about the same distance apart. Oiseau 
took her spinnaker in a long time before reaching the 
mark, and all the others did the same thing. The 
times at the end of the first round were: 
Oiseau 4 46 40 Flosshilde 4 52 42 
Alert 4 47 30 Bobtail 4 55 05 
Mimosa 4 49 40 Bagheera 4 57 50 
Marion 4 52 03 
After gybing around the mark, all the boats but Bob- 
tail held out into the Sound on the port tack, in order 
to get a lee bowing tide, for it had turned and was run- 
ning ebb. Oiseau and Alert held well over to the Long 
Island shore, and made a good gain on the others, al- 
though Oiseau dropped Alert a little. The breeze 
was losing weight all the time, and it did not have one- 
third the strength it had at the start. Flosshilde caught 
Marion and got around the weather mark a couple of 
seconds ahead of her. At the Parsonage Point mark 
the boats rounded as follows: 
O'seau 5 42 35 Marion 5 52 32 
Alert 5 44 20 Bobtail 5 55 15 
M'lnosa 5 50 40 Bagheera 5 59 30 
Flosshilde 5 52 30 
Spinnakers were set and broken out, but the boats 
did not move very smartly in the light breeze. Bob- 
tail found the light air to her liking, and worked by 
Marion. Ballooners were set on most of the boats, as 
the wind had worked to the eastward a little. When 
nearly off Glen Cove, Bagheera, which was a long 
way behind, doused her spinnaker, trimmed sheets and 
headed in for Glen Cove, withdrawing from the race, 
llie breeze finally worked well around to the north 
and freshened perceptibly. The boats behind felt the 
new wind first and closed up on the leaders fast All 
gybed over and set spiimakers to starboard. Bobtail 
passed Flosshilde and took fourth place, and Mimosa 
came up on Oiseau. Alert led over the finish line by 
24s., followed by Oiseau, Mimosa, Bobtail, Flosshilde 
and Marion. 
Finish. 
Alert 6 49 02 
Oiseau ...6 49 26 
Marion ..6 52 23 
Mimosa 6 51 07 
Bobtail g 5]^ 44 
Flosshilde '.'!6 52 20 
Bagheera . . . . , Did not finish 
Enpronzi Did not start 
The summary: 
Elapsed. 
8 39 02 
3 39 26 
3 42 23 
3 41 07 
3 41 44 
3 42 20 
Corrected. 
3 36 15 
S 36 23 
3 36 24 
3 38 20 
3 38 57 
3 39 3^ 
