FOREST AND STREAM, 
IMarch 26, 1904. 
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KHAMA LINES AND CABIN PLAN DESIGNED BY WM. FIFE, JR. OWNED BY SEYMOUR J. HYDE. 
Forest and Stream 
Mr. Hyde disposed of his English crew soon after the 
yacht's arrival, and most of the summer Captain Clay- 
ton Haff was in charge. Six Scandinavians were car- 
ried in the crew in addition to the steward and cook. 
We show two sail plans, the one of the cutter rig which 
she carries at present, and another of a yawl, which 
Mr. Hyde contemplates adopting. Khama now steers 
with a long tiller, but a wheel will probably be substi- 
tuted this season. 
Little is known of Khama's speed, as Mr. Hyde did not 
race her any to speak of, only participating in two or 
three of the racing runs on the N. Y. Y. C. cruise. While 
she did not get any prizes on these occasions, she showed 
up very well. 
mense overhang for that period. It was soon found out 
that Vendetta was too big for her sail area, and it was 
only in broad reaching in a fresh wind that she showed 
her great speed. She was laid up for a time, and for 
some years has been raced in the handicap classes on 
the Clyde under the flag of Mr. MacClellan with a fair 
amount of success. Vendetta will be a distinct loss to 
the district. 
At the annual meeting of the Solent Classes Racing: 
Association, which vvas held at the Royal Portsmoiith 
Corinthian Y. C, Portsmouth, Feb. 27, Colonel Buck- 
nill made a proposal to start a cruiser class as a Solent 
class with American ratings and Yacht Racing Associa- 
tion time scale. The proposal was discussed, but did 
British Letter. 
The new Clyde 36-footer restricted class continues to 
attract northern sportsmen, the latest supporters being 
M essrs. B. G. Allan and T. C. Glen-Coats, who have 
ordered boats from Mylne. The class now consists of 
seven owners, all well-known and experienced yachts- 
men,_ and with two such designers as Fife and Mylne 
providing the lines of the boats, there will, no doubt, 
be a lot of keen and healthy rivalry in the class which 
gives every promise of flourishing. The boats will con- 
form to yacht racing rules and regulations as far as is 
compatible with local conditions. As a class they are 
deserving of success, but it is not without a feeling of 
disappointment that one learns they will probably cause 
the disappearance of the 36ft. Y. R. A. class, started in 
1902, and which provided a large share of sport for 
two seasons. Falcon, Eusay and Eileen are in all 
probability not to be fitted out unless they change hands, 
so that the smart little Mylne designed Barabel, which 
has been champion of her class during both seasons, will 
be the only representative, and Mr. Maclver is hardly 
likely to go to the expense of fitting her out, unless he 
has something to race against. The new restricted class 
is also cutting deeply into the Clyde 23ft. length class; 
in fact, Mr. Leckie's champion, Cymbeline, is about the 
only boat spoken of as likely to fit out. Although the 
new restricted class will consist of boats in every way 
worthy of the sport they are to maintain, it certainly 
seems a pity that their existence should prove fatal to 
the other classes above mentioned, which have shown 
such excellent form; and it is most sincerely to be 
hoped that new blood will be infused into them to 
save them from extinction. The racing between Falcon, 
Eusay, Eileen, and Barabel was one of the leading 
features of the Clyde regattas last year, while, as for 
the 23ft. class, they have been an institution so long, 
and a training squadron for amateurs, that their disap- 
pearance would cause a gap which it would, indeed, be 
difficult to fill. 
The famous old 40-toner Norman has been purchased 
by Professor D. W, Finlay, who was formerly one of 
the leading amateur yachtsmen on the Clyde, and the 
40-rater Vendetta has been sold by Mr. W. W. Mac- 
Clellan, and will leave the Clyde for southern waters. 
Norman is so well-known that it is impossible to add 
to the long string of doughty deeds performed a quarter 
of a century ago by her when in charge of Tom Diaper. 
Vendetta's career has not been so successful as that of 
Norman. Built in 1893, for Admiral the Hon. Victor 
Montagu, from designs by the late Arthur E. Payne, 
she found in the Watson cutter Carina a far too formi- 
dable opponent, and was early disposed of by the ad- 
miral. Vendetta was Payne's second attempt at a 
vessel of this size, his first being Corsair, also the prop- 
erty of Admiral Montagu. Corsair was a much more 
moderate type of boat with the then characteristic 
short knee bow, so common among the small raters 
designed by Payne, and generally known as the Payne 
bow. In Vendetta the So'uthampton designer produced 
quite an extreme type of boat with great beam and im- 
times of tide, and the Bridlington Town Council and 
Harbor Commissioners have combined with the rail- 
way company in their efforts to improve the locality 
for yachtsmen. 
Additional accommodation is to be provided for 
yachts lying alongside the quay, and it is proposed to 
lay moorings outside for larger yachts. Under these 
circumstances the Royal Yorkshire Y. C. has decided 
to hold its annual regatta at Bridlington, and the 
fixture will be extended to a week. This is emphatically 
a move in the right direction, as few places are so un- 
fitted for yachting as the waters of the Humber, es- 
pecially in the vicinity of Hull. The courses, too, were 
necessarily monotonous, being merely down the Hum- 
ber and back; whereas, in Bridlington Bay is a fine, 
open expanse of blue water, free from the terrific tides 
which are the bete noir of yachtsmen on the Humber, 
so that a big triangular or quadrilateral course can be 
laid. If this new programme is adhered to the regattas 
of the Royal Yorkshire should receive a fillip which 
they would never have had as long as the venue was the 
muddy and swift running Humber. 
E. H. Kelly. 
Challenge for Manhasset Bay Cop Accepted. 
Mr. Edward M. MacClellan of the Manhasset Bay 
Y. C. has notified Mr. T. Alfred Vernon, secretary, and 
Henry J. Gielow, chairman of the regatta committee of 
the Atlantic Y. C, that the challenge for the Man- 
hasset Bay challenge cup has been accepted. 
Mr. MacClellan sent the following letter to Mr. Alfred 
T. Vernon: 
Edward M. MacClellan, Secretary, 
Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, 
No. 90 Water Street, 
New York, March 15, 1904. 
T. Alfred Vernon, Secretary Atlantic Y. C, City: 
My Dear Sir— Referring to your letter of Feb. 19, containing 
challenge of the Atlantic Y. C, on behalf of the sloop Bobtail, for 
a match for the Manhasset cup, I beg to advise that your letter 
was placed before the trustees of this club at a meeting held on 
the 11th inst., and the challenge of your club accepted. 
The arrangement of details connected with the match has been 
placed in the hands of Mr. Charles D. Mower, chairman of our 
race committee, who will at once take this matter up with Mr. 
Gielow, of your club. 
It has given us much pleasure to have received the first 
challenge for this season from the Atlantic Y. C, and we trust 
that the races of the match will prove to be as successful as were 
those of last year. Yours very truly, 
E. M. MacClellan, Sec'y- 
Khama being overhauled at City Island. 
not receive much support and was not put to the mieet- 
ing. An amendment, however, was carried to the effect 
that a small handicap class be formed for this year 
only, to consist of boats between 5 and 20 tons, and 
that the Solent clubs be asked to encourage it and 
notify in their fixtures the dates of the cruiser races. 
This is a much better idea than that of Col. Bucknill, 
for whatever may be the merits of the American fating 
rule, it is at present an unknown quantity, and, as the 
idea of the cruiser class was to fill up the gaps caused 
by the disappearance of the 36ft. and 30ft. classes, it 
is not contemplated that the class will be a permanent 
one. 
For some years the members of the Royal Yorkshire 
Y. C. have been considering the advisability of trans- 
ferring their annual regatta from the Humber to Brid- 
lington Bay, and no doubt this would have been done 
long ago, but for the lack of accommodation for yachts 
in Bridlington Harbor and want of deep water. ■ The 
North Eastern Railway Company has now offered, to 
provide a powerful dredger for the purpose of dreUging 
out the harbor, so that yachts may lie afloat at iall 
Speed Launch for C, V. Brokaw. 
At Woods' yard. City Island, there is building a speed 
launch, from designs by Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & 
Crane, for Mr. C. V. Brokaw. The boat is 50ft. long, 
and is double planked. She will be equipped with a 
150 horse-power Smith & Mabley simplex that will 
make 850 revolutions and not weigh more than 2,000 
pounds. 
The steam launch Buccaneer has been sold through the 
agency of Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane, to Mr. F. A. 
Keep, of New Orleans. The British steam yacht Surf, 
owned by Mr. F. D. Lambert, has been chartered by 
the same firm, to Mr. Alfred W. Hoyt, of New York city. 
Thordis Changes Hands. 
Mr. Charles A. Heney, of Boston, has sold his 25- 
footer Thordis through Messrs. Macconnell Brothers, 
of this city, to Mr. D. C. Newman Collins, of New York. 
The same firm has sold for Mr. Walter Murray Belling, 
of Bayonne, N. J., the 21 -footer Eaglet to Mr. Edmund 
Reeks, of New York. 
Mr. Calus C. Bragg, has sold his schooner yacht 
Alsacienne, ex-Norseman, through MacConnell Broth- 
ers, to a prominent eastern yachtsman. The same firm 
has sold the 79ft. steam yacht Navarch to Mr, Gilbert 
E. Orcutt, of New York City. 
