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the Daisy, which is a light wind lateen and by the 
Georgie and the Vixen. Yet she won more races than 
any other. 
Grant and Morford's Tyro came out last winter, and 
for a new boat performed creditably, taking part in 
ten races and usually being well up, but not a winner 
above second. Tyro is a thoroughly workmanlike job, 
and has this summer been furnished with two sets of 
runners, and in other respects has been put in im- 
proved shape for racing. 
William White is building the Mistral, a lateen of 
about 350 sq. ft., whose characteristics are a very lofty 
sail and an unusually wide plank, i8ft. track. 
Dr. W. B. Brewster is at work on a steel ice yacht 
which embodies some novel features. The runner 
plank is a bow string truss of about 15ft. spread, and 
the keel is of the "what is it" type. Everything is 
steel or iron, except the sail, which is being made by 
Wilson & Griffin. The side runners are of steel, 6ft. 
straight bearing on the ice, and all runners are to work 
together from the cockpit. Sheer poles and spars are 
all galvanized iron pipes. 
Besides the above mentioned ice yachts, there are 
other creditable third class yachts which may be im- 
proved so as to get up with the leaders. 
The usual width of beam is 15ft. track for boats of 
about 346 sq. ft. of sail, but the tendency is to increase 
the beam, as riding the plank is not allowed, and some 
dependence must be placed on beam and lead ballast 
for the average winter breezes. 
The Scud and Dreadnaught of the first class are at 
Kalamazoo, Mich., awaiting the regatta, proposed last 
winter; the Rocket, also first class, is to be transferred 
to the Pleasure Bay Club; the Edna M. and the Get 
There, second class boats, are outclassed by the newer 
third class. The Witch, owned, built and sailed by 
Captain Charles Burd, of J. R. Maxwell's 70-footer, the 
Yankee, is the fastest fourth class boat. The combina- 
tion of Burd and the Witch is hard to beat, even when 
racing against the boats of the third class. 
T. H. Grant. 
Red Bank, N J., Nov. 12. 
Robin Hood. 
The picture of Robin Hood, which appears in this 
issue, was taken just as she was crossing the finishing 
line a winner in the 25ft. class in the annual race of the 
Indian Harbor Y. C. on Aug. 8 last. 
Robin Hood was designed by the clever Boston 
amateur, Mr. Charles H. Jones, and was built by the 
Geo. Lawley & Son Corp. at South Boston,- in 1898. 
Mr. George E. Gartland, the boat's present owner, 
purchased her in 1899, and has used her continuously 
ever since. She is 32ft. over all, 21ft. waterline, loft. 
4in. breadth and 3ft. draft. Her sails were made by 
Messrs. Wilson & Silsby, of Boston. 
Robin Hood was champion of her class the year she 
came out. In 1899 she was raced in the raceabout 
Owned by George E. Gartland. 
class, but since then she has been in the 25ft. class. 
During the past two years Mr. Gartland has not raced 
Robin Hood, except in the open and handicap con- 
tests of the clubs of which he is a member, viz., the 
Indian Harbor and Riverside. Robin Hood is at her 
best in strong breezes, as her moderate sail area of 
593 sq. ft. is hardly sufficient to drive a boat of her 
large displacement at any great speed in light weather. 
Robin Hood is an exceptional cruising boat, havmg 
both large deck, cabin and cockpit room. 
on Aug. 7 last Robin Hood beat the champion Fire- 
fly 4m. 59s. over a 10 nautical mile course in a strong 
N. W. breeze. On the day following she again beat 
Firefly 3m. i8s, in a fresh to strong breeze. In both 
these races she beat all the raceabouts on elapsed time 
except Hobo. 
L. M» Y. A. Annual Meeting:. 
The Lake Michigan Yachting Association Held its 
annual meeting at the Wellington Hotel, Chicago, Sat- 
urday, Nov. 14. The officers elected for the ensuing 
year were: - ,^ . , ^ 
President. E. P. Warner; First Vice-President. Geo. 
R. Peare; Second Vice-President, R. B. Brown; Secre- 
tary. Charles Scates; Treasurer, M. Shirlaw. Dele- 
gates to Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes- 
Edward T. Balcom, George R. Peare and R. B, Brown. 
The last Friday and Saturday of July, 1904, were se- 
lected as the dates to hold its annual niefet. Macatawa 
Bay was selected as the sailing grourids. The meet 
will be held under the auspices of the Mjicatawa Bay 
Y. C. 
One of the features will be tht racfe df too tliiles from 
Chicago to Holland pierheadj oil thfe way to the meet. 
Special Y. R. U. Meeting. 
The Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes held a 
special meeting at the Russell House, Detroit, Mich., 
Saturday, Nov. 21, to consider adoption of classes un- 
der 25ft. R. L., but decided to leave all classes below 
this length alone. 
The limit of beam on centerboard yachts was re- 
duced, and the minimum freeboard increased to corre- 
spond to that of keel yachts. 
The real battle of the small class advocates was 
fought out in the meeting of the committee appointed 
to consider the subject, they being unable to agree 
after wrangling all day and evening of Friday and 
forenoon Saturday — the principal point being fight of 
advocates of 20ft. class on Lake Ontario and proposers 
of 2ift. cabin class, which is strongly advocated on 
Lakes Michigan and Erie. Neither was willing to have 
one class adopted to the exclusion of the other, and 
the Ontario people would not consider the proposition 
that both be adopted, and, therefore, the union com- 
promised by doing nothing, as it took a two-thirds 
vote to amend rules, and neither side could muster 
votes enough to win. It really was a victory for the 
2ift. cabin class advocates, as two of the three mem- 
bers of the committee were radical advocates of the 
20ft. class. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
For advertising relating to tbm department see pages ii and iii. 
Commodore Robert E. Tod, senior flag officer of the 
Atlantic Y. C, will not serve the club in that capacity 
another year. His successor has not been chosen as 
yet. 
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Messrs. Panhard & Levassor, of Paris, France, 
manufacturers of automobiles and motor boats, will 
open, on Dec. i, their American branch at 230-232 
West Thirteenth street. New )[ork City. This new 
office will be in charge of Mr. A. Massenat, and they 
will devote special attention to the building of high 
speed motor boats. 
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Things are very quiet at the Plerreshoff shops at 
Bristol. Only two or three small racing boats are be- 
ing built. One of them, a 30-footer, is for Mr. Harry 
Maxwell, who will, no doubt, make an efifort to win 
the Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup with her next sea- 
son. Another one of the boats is for Mr. C. S. Eaton, 
who formerly owned Cock Robin. The new boat is 
a 30ft. waterline cruising knockabout. 
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George H. Saunders, the boat builder, who was long 
established in Bristol, and for the past three years in 
Warren, has sold his shops to the Davis brothers of 
.Providence, sons of the late Ben Davis, who had a 
yard and shops at Harbor Junction, in Providence. 
Mr. Saunders is going to Essex, Conn., to carry on 
boat building in a new plant at that place, and the 
Davis brothers are moving from Providence to the 
Warren shops just vacated by Mr. Saunders, where 
they will set up a railway and machine shop and store 
boats in the yard for the winter. — Boston Herald. 
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The members of the New York Y. C. will present 
to Cem. J. Pierpont *Morgan, on Christmas Day, a 
painting of Columbia, which boat enjoys the unique 
distinction of being the only vessel that has twice de- 
fended the America's Cup. 
The painting was made by Mr. Carleton Chapman, 
the well known marine artist. 
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Shamrock I. is now at Hawkins' yard, City Island, 
where she will be broken up. 
The side wheel steam yacht Charmary, ex-Clermont, 
owned by Mr. Charles G. Gates, is being overhauled 
and refitted under the direction of Mr. A. J. Mcln- 
The official summary of the season's racing in the 
Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound will appear in these 
columns shortly. The class champions are unofficially 
reported to be as follows: 43ft. class, sloops, Efifort, 
owned by Mr. F. M. Smith; 36ft. class, Anoatok, owned 
by Mr. W. G. Brokaw; 30ft. class, Alert, owned by Mr. 
J.' W. Alker; 25ft. class. Firefly, owned by Mr. G. P. 
Cranberry; 21ft. class, Jeebi, owned by Mr. A. D. R. 
Brown: raceabout class. Jolly Tar, owned by Mr. Slo- 
cum Howland; Manhasset Bay one-design class, Lamb- 
kin, owned bv Mr. S. W. Roach; New Rochelle one- 
design class, ' Caper, owned by Mr. P. L. Howard. 
None of the yawls sailed in enough races to qualify, 
and catboats started so seldom that no record was kept 
of their performances. 
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"Graphite Suggestions" is the title of a very hand- 
some and interesting little pamphlet just issued by the 
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, of Jersey City. It 
tells of thfe iilari^ tiMes that aft rtiad^ of Dixon's gra-' 
phite. 
At a meeting of the Yacht Racing Association, held- 
at the Arena on Monday evening, Nov. 16, eleven of 
the twenty-four clubs composing the association were' 
represented by delegates. The meeting was held for' 
the purpose of adopting the restriction outlined by Mr'.' 
Clinton H. Crane for four restricted classes, particu-- 
lars of which appeared in these columns a few weeks; 
ago. The classes were adopted, but there was consid- 
erable discussion, and it was late before any decisions 
were reached. 
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Some fifty Brooklyn yachtsmen attended the meeting 
of the Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend Bay 
that was held at the Assembly, Fulton street, Brook- 
lyn, on Thursday night, Nov. 19. Mr. W. K. Brown 
presided. The prizes won during the season were pre- 
sented to the winners, and there was a general discus- 
sion of the plans of the association for 1904. Steps 
are to be taken at once to reorganize the association 
on the lines of the Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound, so 
there will be no clashing of racing dates in the future. 
Open and championship races will also be held. If the 
new measurement rules proposed by Measurer Henry 
J. Gielow, of the Atlantic Y. C, are adopted by that 
club, the association will also adopt them. The Atlantic: 
Y. C., it is understood, will join the association later- 
on. 
The next meeting of the association will be called! 
directly after the one in which the Atlantic Y. C. is; 
expected to ratify the new rule. 
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The Parsons Shipbuilding Company, of Greenwiclv 
Piers, N. J., have recently completed a schooner rigged 
houseboat for Mr. J. Price Wetherill, of Philadelphia. 
The boat cost in the neighborhood of $10,000. She willi 
be known as Savanilla, and is 86ft. long and 23ft, 
breadth. 
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At the annual meeting of the Erie Y. C, held Nov. 
12, the following were elected to serve the coming 
year: Com., W. L. Morrison; Rear-Com., F. J. Fair- 
bairn; Rear-Com., E. A. Davis; Fleet Captain, C. E. 
Reichel; Sec. and Treas., W. H. F. Nick; Directors for 
three years, J. M. Frank, Alfred Gunnison, C. L. Per- 
kins, James Russell, F. M. Slacum; Meas., T. H. Car- 
roll; Asst. Meas., John H. Clemens; Surgeon, D. W. 
Harper; Asst. Surveyor, John Maahs; Surgeon, Dr. 
D. V. Reinoehl. 
The annual meeting, election and dinner of the Man- 
hasset Bay Y. C. will be held at the Hotel Manhat- 
tan on Tuesday, Dec. i. The ticket prepared by the 
Nominating Committee is as follows, and with the ex- 
ception of W. Butler Duncan, Jr., as Trustee, means 
the election of all officers who have served the club 
during the past year. Com., Alphonse H. Alker; Vice- 
Com., Charles W. Lee; Rear-Com., H. Winslovv White; 
Sec, Edw. M. MacLellan; Treas., Guy W. Buxton; 
Meas., Charles D. Mower; Trustees, class of 1906,, 
W. Butler Duncan, Jr., Andrew J. Onderdonk. 
Among other amendments to be voted upon at this 
meeting of the club is the following: 
"Ladies may be admitted to the main floor and 
piazzas of the club house and to the club grounds, one 
day in the week during the yachting season, when ac- 
companied by a member, or when bearing a visitor's 
card. The day shall be determined by the Board of 
Trustees, who may temporarily suspend this privilege 
whenever they deem it proper to do so, as may also 
the House Committee, but in case of such suspension, 
other days shall be named, on which ladies may be 
admitted, and the number of such days shall in any 
event, equal the number of weeks that the club house 
remains formally in commission." 
The adoption of such an amendment ^as the above 
woud indicate that, as elsewhere, the combination of a 
yacht and country club has not proved wholly a suc- 
cess. 
To the man owning a yacht, and who does so for the 
love of the sport, the club nearest his heart is that at 
which he can meet and fraternize with other men, 
whose ideas stand for something in hvs chosen sport. 
He does not join a club because of the amount of rum 
drank there, for true yachtsmen, in spite of the humor- 
ist's idea, are not as a class heavy drinkers; nor does 
he pick the club at which women are allowed full privi- 
leges. 
It is due to the combined hard work and unstinted 
generosity of the men who love yachting for yacht- 
ing's sake that we h3ve to-day on Long Island Sound 
and along the entire eastern coast, some of the finest 
club houses devoted to the sport in the world; and in 
the long run it will be those clubs which cater primarily 
to yachtsmen, which will prove most successful. 
The Manhasset Bay Y. C. at present has probably 
the largest owning membership of any of the Eastern 
clubs, and its vote on the amendment submitted will 
prove of interest to yachtsmen generally. 
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