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FOREST AND STREAM, 
ISept. 19, 1903. 
The International Races. 
Now that they are all over, ihcluding the shouting, how 
fmuch better off are we than we were before? Have the 
•contests for the America's Cup, the Seawanhalca cup, and 
!the Canada's cup worked any permanent good to the 
Sport, or added to our stock of useful information? So 
Jar as the major event is concerned, most yachtsmen will 
answer No. The America's Cup boats were the^ same 
costly useless toys that have served the purpose in the 
three last contests, and if any change was observable, 
the sport was duller than usual. Unless another chal- 
lenger appears they will all be laid up or broken up. Fot- 
tunately, the ownei'S can afford it, but it is a pity the 
enormous expense produces such small results. 
Turning to the other events, the outlook is brighter 
and more practical. Both the Seawanhaka and Canada 
cup boats are ready for more good work, and the reason 
is simple and apparent — they wei'e built under sensible 
restrictions covering both design and construction. This 
fact has been so little touched upon in the reports of 
the racing that it will bear further exposition. 
It is ftow five years since restrictions were framed to 
apply to the boats for the Seawanhaka cup races. At 
that time the possibility of a general use of restrictions 
W^s under discussion, but it was not generally favored — 
some opposing it outright on the ground that it would be 
an unwarrantable interference with the freedom of de- 
sign; others offering lukewarm support, and predicting 
that the restrictions would not restrict, and that to be 
effective they would necessarily lead to one-design classes. 
Since Seawanhaka cup boats were admittedlj'' racing craft, 
and in no way required or intended for cruisers, the few 
restrictions applied to them were necessarily of a simple 
'character intended to prevent the building of boats which 
would barety hold together for a few races. To this end, 
and in view of the fact that the class is essentially a live 
ballast one, sail area was restricted to 500 square feet, 
four men not exceeding in weight 650 pounds being 
allowed as crew. This for a 25-footer under the length 
and sail area rule allowed a waterline of over 27ft. — mote 
than most designers would care to use. Draft was fixed 
at 5ft. for a keel boat (none have been used), and 6ft. in- 
cluding a centerboard, the latter not to exceed 450 pounds 
if of iron, or 300 pounds if of any other metal. A mini- 
mum thickness of %hx for deck and hull planking, Avith 
suitable requirements for framing, provided against 
dangerously light construction, while still permitting it to 
])e light enough to require first-class work. Nothing 
^\hatever in the restrictions which are set forth in detail 
in about 250 words could be construed to needlessly ham- 
3per the designer, and yet the result has been the building 
\ip of n strong m(\ useful class. Son.'e twenty boats have 
il)ceH builr during the last four seasons, several on the 
sniall Western lakes, some in the East, and perhaps half 
'oi them on Lake St. Louis; this latter group has hung 
Together Avell, there being a sentiment in the Royal St. 
Lawrence Y, C. averse to disposing of good boats to 
ciitsiders, but in any case there has been no need to do so, 
ihe boats being generally useful on Lake St. Louis. As 
knockabouts for day sailing in shoal water they are really 
excellent. This season when Thorclla and I<-olulro were 
racing, with four men each, under reefed canvas, last 
year's champion, Trident, was carrj'ing full sail and ten or 
a dozen passengers, j^oung men and maidens, and carry- 
ing them comfortably. As designer Shearwood remarked, 
this is a little more than the construction was intended 
10 stand, but all the ex-racers on Lake St. Louis have had 
10 stand more or less of this sort of thing, and the}' ap- 
pear none the worse. Nor are these boats, as a class, at 
all slow, a speed of 10 knots an hour was observed on a 
broad reach in this year's racing. What unlimited racing 
if5-footer of flimsy construction would do any better? 
Finally, a lot of cup boats and others cruised up to King.= - 
ton and back this siunmer. Of course they were towed 
through the canals, hut there was plenty of sailing and 
some racing on the way. There is not much the matter 
with boats that can be put to such work. Of the chal- 
lengers, it is not so easy to speak with certainty, as they 
are scattered over a wide area, but none of them were 
either wrecked or useless after a season's work. No man 
Vv'ho wants a fast and handy sailboat need fear to build 
for the Seawanhaka cup. 
Turning to the Canada's cup fleet, we find the original 
Canada still in commission, and both cruising and racing 
on Lake Ontario. For two seasons, with an off year be- 
tween, the matches were sailed with boats of the 35ft. 
corrected length class, measured under the girth rule, and 
of these Genesee, Beaver and Cadillac are still fast and 
useful boats, although the only restrictions in use were 
those on construction. The class vvas, however, rather 
small for general work on the Great Lakes, and several 
boats built for the trial races on one side or the other 
were not kept up after the first season. Two years ago 
the Rochester Y. C. decided to challenge for the cup, and 
was prepared to send a boat last year of any size nomi- 
nated by the holder, the Royal Canadian Y. C, the de- 
fending club having the right to name the class to be 
used. After friendly consultation, however, it was agreed 
that the permanent interests of the sport on the lakes 
ought to be considered, and as new rules with restrictions 
on design were about to go into effect, it was decided to 
wait a year and to build to suit them. The 40ft. water- 
line class was eventually selected, and but two boats built, 
the Irondequoit and the Strathcona. After examining 
these boats afloat and ashore, above and below, the aver- 
age yachtsman rubs his eyts and wonders if the millen- 
nium has arrived. Moderate in every way and well pro- 
portioned, they are handsome and satisfying, but surely 
this comfortable freeboard and headroom under decks 
means the fast cruiser and not the racer. For comfort, 
acconmiodation, and seaworthiness, they compare with 
nothing so well as the best of the old 40ft. class that be- 
gan with Minerva and practically ended with her, for it 
took so many boats to beat her that interest in the class 
had subsided by the time the thing was done. For ten 
years at least things have been going the wrong way, and 
it really looked as though another decade would be re- 
quired to work back to the old position. But the thing 
has been done — these are the boats, cup boats at that^ — 
and if they are fast cruisers all well and good, but watch 
them sail in a race. Just how Strathcona has beaten 
everything of her size on Lake Ontario has been reported 
time to time in Forest and Stream. That she is 
actually, as well as relatively, fast has been proved by her 
work alongside Gloria — a much larger boat — and, as we 
all know, Irondequoit is in every way equal to Strath- 
cona, and sometimes a httle better. No reasonable yachts- 
m.en can doubt for a moment that these boats are fast And 
in every way a credit to their designers, while the fact 
that they ate so evenly matdied as to rtake every race a 
trial of seamanship and full of interest from start to 
finish simply shows that we are raising the sport to its 
proper level. It is a pity that Jarvis and Hanan could 
not sail a match off Sandy Hook, because it is so hard, to 
make some people believe that real international facing 
ever takes place elsewhere. 
Of course the new system is Oil trial, and the future 
may develop weak spots in unexpected places. Mean- 
while we have had a splendid series of races and two 
yachtsmen have acquired boats that will afford them both 
sport and comfort for many seasons to come. It is worth 
mentioning in conclusion that Mr. Macrae, the owner of 
Strathcona, would not have built under the old rules at 
all, so that while the Royal Canadian Y. C. has parted 
with the Canada's cup (for the present), it has gained a 
good boat and a satisfied owner. 
Wm. Q. Phillips. 
Ametican Y. C. ^ 
MILTON POINT, LONG ISLAND SOUND, 
Saturday, September 5. 
The American Y. C. held races for power boats on 
Saturday, September 5. In the morning there was an 
endurance race, and in the afternoon the speed trials took 
place. The racing was conducted under the rules of the 
American Power Boat Association. 
The preparatory signal for the endiifance raCe was 
given at 11 :is, and the boats were sent away five mintltSs 
later. The course was from the starting Ime off Milton 
Point to and around the red and black horizontal spar 
buoy which lies to the north of Exeeutioh Light, and 
back to the starting line, a distance, of seven knots. The 
boats covered this course three times, making a total 
distance of twentj^-one knots. The eight boats were 
divided into two classes, but all started on the same gun. 
Express and Spark were disqualified. Standard ran away 
from the other boats, and won easily. Allure was second. 
The endurance race was decided on points. The highest 
number for a boat to secure was 100 — 50 for speed and 
50 for perfoiTnance of boat and engine. The 50 points 
allowed for performance were subject to the following 
deductions: Five points for each stop of motor or pro- 
peller for any cause; 5 points for each minute or fraction 
of a minute of any stop; 2 points for each adjustment of 
motor, dynamo, batteries, reversing gear, or other 
mechanism connected with the motive power of the boat 
except for lubrication; 50 points for a stop of five min- 
utes' duration, and 50 points for three stops. 
Eleven boats came to the line for the speed raecs in 
the afternoon; they were divided into five classes. The 
boats covered a ten and one-half knot triangular course. 
Queen Bess won in her class, but as many of the othet 
boats had not been measured, the corrected times could 
not be figured. 999 broke down and could not go over 
the course. The summary follows : 
Endurance Race, 21 Knots— Class 1—32 to 50ft— Start, 11:20. 
Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 
Ouecn Bess, R. H. Stearns 1 39 18 2 19 18 2 19 18 
Aleter II., R. C. Fisher 1 49 39 2 29 39 1 59 10 
Allure, Alex Stein 1 03 40 1 43 40 1 42 04 
Express, C. D. Mower Disqualified. 
Howdy, Geo. Mercer, Jr 1 59 44 2 39 44 2 02 04 
Clara, T. D. Hughes 2 06 55 2 46 55 Not meas. 
Spark, E. D. Fulford Disqualified. 
Class 2— Over 50ft.— Start, 11:20- 
Standard, E. A. Riotti 12 34 52 1 14 52 1 14 52 
Speed Race— 10% Knots- Class B— Start, 4:05. 
Allure 4 58 39 0 53 39 0 53 39 
Onaway - 5 31 38 1 26 38 Not meas. 
Class C— Start, 4:10. 
Ouecn Bess 5 28 13 1 IS 13 1 10 IS 
Alcte II 5 30 47 1 20 47 1 20 47 
Howdy , 5 36 36 1 26 36 1 23 22 
Class D— Start, 4:15. 
Clara 5 44 09 1 ,S9 09 Not meas. 
Class H— Start, 4:05. 
Standard 4 45 52 0 40 52 0 40 52 
Express 5 06 56 1 01 56 Not meas. 
Class K— Start. 4:15. 
American 5 10 07 Finished alone. 
999 Disabled. 
Indian Hatbof Y. C 
GREENWICH, LONG ISLAND SOUND, 
Saturday, September 5. 
The autumn races of the Indian Harbor Y. C. were 
held on Saturday, September 5. There was a good list 
of starters, nearly forty boats coming to the line, but 
a nasty thunder squall rather spoiled the race, and one of 
the boats was dismasted. 
The race Avas to have been started at noon, but at that 
hour it was very thick and foggy, and the Regatta Com- 
mittee thought it advisable to postpone the start until 
half past two. At the time of the start the wind was 
light from the S. W., having a strength of not over five 
knots. Boats in the 36 and 30ft. classes sailed twice over 
a nine-mile course, the first leg of which was E. by N. 
3V-, miles, the second S. W. ^ S. 3^4 miles, and the third 
N. W. by N. 2x4 miles. 
None of the 43-footers were on hand, so the 36-footers 
v/ere sent away first. Spasm beat Anoatok for the first 
time this season. Cymbra was rather outclassed by the 
two modern Herreshoff boats; still she was not badly 
beaten. 
Alert captured another first prize in the 30ft. class, 
beating Oiseau, the only other boat to finish, just two 
nu'nutes. Mimosa and Naiad withdrew. 
In the regular raceabout class there were four starters. 
Sis won by a narrow margin, beating Mavis, the second 
boat, by only six seconds. 
Hobo had matters her own way in the American Y. C. 
raceabout class. Jolly Tar, the only other boat that fin- 
ished, was badly beaten. Maryola, one of the boats in 
this class, had just rounded the second mark when the 
thunder squall broke out of the northwest; her mast 
broke off about ten feet from the deck, and after her 
rigging and sails had been secured she wa? to\yed intQ 
the harbor by the steani yacht Hanniel, 
Firefly won m the 25ft. sloop class, and Robin . Hoed 
was second. Houri Was the otlly ohe of the LarChnlont 
Y', C. it-footers to staff, and she withdrew. Pampero, 
one of the Seawanhaka knockabouts, had no com.petitor^ 
but she covered the course and took a sailover prize.. 
There were three starters in the 21ft. . sloop, .class. 
Neola won, and as Montauk did not finish Je^bi Wis 
second. Only two of the Manhassfet Bay ohfe-design Boats 
started, and Bab finisiie'ci alonfe, as Arizona A^ithdrew. 
Capet fj.'eat oyt her three competitors in the New Rochelle 
one-'rlesign class and got first prize. 
When the boats finished the wind was E., it having 
shifted to that quarter after the squall. The Regatta 
Committee consisted of Messrs. Frank Bowne Jones, 
Charles Kirby, and Charles E. Sirams. The summary 
follows : 
Sloops— 36ft, Class— Start, 2 .•40— Course, 18 Miles. 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Spasm. E. B. King 5 59 40 3 19 40 
Anoatok, W G Brokaw 6 02 51 3 22 51 
Cymora, F. C. Henderson > 6 09 38 3 29 38 
Sloops— 30ft. Class— Start, 2:45— Course, 18 Miles. 
Alert, J. W. Alker 6 01 15 3 16 15 
Mimosa, T. E. Park Withdrew. 
Oiseau, H. L. Maxwell 6 03 03 ,3 18 03 
Naiad, J. B. Palmer Did not finish. 
Raceabout Class-Start, 2:50-Course 12 Miles, 
Sis, F. T. Bedford, Jr 6 49 22 2 SB | 
Na halie, F. G. Stewart 6 02 53 i 1| 53 
Rogue, A. B. Alley ■ f 03 48 3 13 46 
Mavis, G. L. Pifie 5 49 28 2 59 28 
.American V. C. . RaeeabpUts-gtaft, 2:50-CoUfse, 12 i^m- 
Tolly Tar, glocum Ho wland i 01 08 3 11 0§ 
ilobo, T, L. Park. 3& 2 58 SB 
Maryola, C; VV. Allen..... ...Dismasted. 
Sloops-25ft. CiasS-Statt, 2:55-Coui-se, 12 Jktiles; 
Firefly, G. P. Graribef y, 5 55 | | Q& | 
Lotus I.I., Morgan Barney.... ;;..,.».... .-..B 19 i it ^5 
ChittKachcook, E. A. Steveris, Jr., , 5 58 19 3 P3 19 
Robin Hood, George E. Gartlarid....,,..:.,.. 5 57 18 3 02 18 
EarciimoJit 25ft. tlass— Stah, 2 :55— Couirse, 12 Miles. 
Houti, J. H. Essfer..... ^ Did not finish. 
Seawanhaka Knockabouts— Start, 2:55— Course, 12 Miles. 
Pampero, R. T. Bailey.... 6 04 26 3 09 26 
Sloops-21ft. Class— Start, 3:00— Course 9 Miles. 
Jeebi A D. Beam » 15 41 2 15 41 
Neola, J. R. Johnston, Jr 5 05 33 .2 05 33 
Montauk, George P. Sheldon Did not finish. 
Manhasset Bay T. C. Class-Start, 3:00-Course^ 9 Miles. 
Bab, T. R. Hovt 5 14 29 2 14 29 
Arizona, E. A. Corry Did not finish. 
New Rochelle One-Design Class— Start, 3 :00—Course, 9 Miles 
Caper, P L Howard 5 12 05 2 12 Co 
Kn.ive, R. N. Bavier ? f i ii a- 
Deuce, Newbury D. Lawton 5 18 47 -. 18 4, 
Ace, A. Bavier 5 19 56 2 I!) 5'^> 
Sloops— 18ft. Class— Start, 3:05— Course, 9 Mile^ , 
Lobster, A. B Brush Did not hiush 
Louie Belle, J. M. Williams 6 07 18 3 02 18 
Ity Bity, W. E, Douglas 8 03 47 2 SS If 
Seawanhaka l5ft. Class-Start. 3:05-Coiits6, J Mi|^. 
Mayita, George Watts, Jf ...6 07 45 | M 4o 
Indian Harbor Y. C. SailaboUts-Stsirt, 3:10-Course, 9 M'^es 
Noggin, W. Carney...... 5 22 21 2 12 21 
Bug, George F. Doniimck Withdrew. 
Stingy, Edward E. Zittell 5 16 14 2 06 14 
Hempstead Harbor Y. C. Class-Start, 3:10--Course, 6 Milcj, 
Scud, D. B. Abbott 4 57 58 47 5^ 
Gosling, M. C. T. Pratt; ....... - 4 57 48 1 47 48 
The winners were: Spasm, Alert, Sis, HobO, Firefly, 
rampero, Neola, Bab, Caper, Louie Belle, Stingy, and 
Gosling. 
Jamaica Bay Y. C. 
JAMxMCA BAY, L. I., 
Monday, September 7. 
The Y. R. A. of Jamaica Bay held a very successful 
regatta on Labor Day under the auspices of the Jamaica 
Bay Y. C. The wind was from the S. at the start, but it 
worked around to the W. before the boats finished, and 
lightened considerably. 
The course for all sailing yachts was from the startmg 
line, drawn from the dock of the Jamaica Bay Y. C, and 
a stake boat anchored a hundred yards off shore; thence 
to a stake boat anchored off Rockaway Park dock ; thence 
to a stake boat anchored in Broad Channel; thence to 
starting line. 
The course for launches was from the startmg hue to 
the red can buoy in Rockaway Inlet; thence to a stake 
boat anchored in Broad Channel; thence to starting line, 
sailed over once. The summary follows: 
Sloops— 20 to 30ft,— Start, 2:04. 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Marion 4 36 38 2 32 38 
TennTe ........... . .^ 4 35 40 2 31 40 
Yank Disabled. 
Kismet' Did not finish. 
Polly Disabled. 
Bahv Roeer 5 18 16 3 14 16 
lIs Jie 5 26 30 3 22 30 
Cabin Cats Under 25ft— Start, 2:14. 
Matilda Pj,4 Ki 
Diana .t--*-,- 1?^ j ^ ^ 
Louise Disabled. 
Irene • Disqualified. 
Shadow ■- 5 15 36 3 01 36 
Open Cats— 25ft. and Under— Start, 2:18. 
Ariel 5 07 32 2 49 32 
Tiill Nvp Did not finish. 
Aurora"^ ...v.". 4 56 37 2 38 37 
Minnehaha Vllor.^'^- o ->n on 
Selfish 4 57 39 2 39 39 
H C Miner Did not finish. 
Halcyon Did not finish. 
Mavourneen ...5 11 34 2 63 45 
Open Cats— 17 to 20ft,-Start, 2:20. 
Doctor 5 41 44 3 21 44 
Vision 5 26 22 3 22 30 
CeVme • .Did not finish. 
Avocat ". Not timed. 
Open Cats Under 17ft.— Start, 2:22. 
TTree Disabled. 
Launches. 
Start. Finish. Elapsed. , 
Gracie 2 28 01 4 07 32 1 39 31 
Eckford 2 28 15 3 57 30 1 28 15 
-\Vave .. 2 28 47 Did not finish. 
.RockawaV ' ' '. : . r 2 28 03 3 57 46 1 29 33 
Nadine 2 28 26 4 04 20 1 35 54 
Anna M 2 28 07 3 59 00 1 30 53 
Seba . . . ; 2 28 01 3 59 50 1 31 49 
The winners were Jennie, Shadow, Selfish, Vision and. 
Alert. 
At a meeting of the Shelter Island Y. C. held on Sep- 
tember s, the following officers were elected: Com., 
George F. Little; Vice-Corn., Arthur C. Whitney; Fleet 
Surgeon, Dr. J. L. K^^p; '^r^^., George H. Bradley. 
