FOREST AND STREAM. 
Yachting: Fixtares fof J 904. 
Members of race committees, and secretaries, will confer a favor 
sending notice of errors or omissions in the following list, and 
0 changes which may be made in the future. 
JUNE, 
Boston, Mass. Y. R. A., City Point, Boston. 
Knickerbocker, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual, College Point. 
Corinthian, club race, Marblehead. 
Manhasset Bay, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual. Sand's Point. 
Columbia, power boats, Hudson River. 
New York, annual regatta, Lower Bay, N. Y. 
^Boston, Mass. Y. R. A., Hull. 
Larchmont, spring regatta, Larchmont. 
New York, Lysistrata cup, Sandy Hook Lightship. 
New Rochelle, power boats. New Rochelle. 
Squantum, Mass. Y. R. A., open, Squantum. 
New York, special races. Glen Cove. 
New York, power boats. Glen Cove. 
New York, Clen Cove cups. Glen Cove. 
American Power Boat Ass'n, challenge cup, Hudson River. 
American Power Boat Ass'n, challeHge cup, Hudson River. 
Corindiian, club race, Marblehead. 
ri;Seawanhaka, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual. Oyster Bay. 
vJNew York Athletic Club, ocean race. Long Island Sound, 
American Power Boat Ass'n, challenge cup, Hudson River. 
Manhasset Bay, challenge cup series, L. I. Sound. 
Manhasset Bay, challenge cup series, L. I. Sound. 
Manhesset Bay, challenge cup series, L. I. Sound. 
JULY. 
American, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual, Milton Point. 
Corinthian, club race, Marblehead. 
Brooklyn, ocean race New York to Marblehead. 
New Rochelle, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual, New Rochelle. 
American, power boats, Milton Point. 
Eastern, open race, Marblehead. 
Eastern, squadron run to Gloucester. 
Corinthian, invitation race, Marblehead. 
Eastern, special open, Marblehead. ' 
)-i;Larchmont, annual Larchmont. 
- Hartford, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual, Fenwick. 
Indian Harbor, power boats, Greenwich. 
Eastern, power boats, Marblehead. 
it Eastern, start of ocean race. New York to Marblehead. 
//New York, Glen Cove series, Glen Cove, 
if New York, Glen Cove series, Glen Cove, 
rr Boston, club race, Marblehead. 
V Riverside. L. L Sound Y R. A., annual. Riverside. 
7; New York, Glen Cove series. Glen Cove, 
n (Manhasset Bay, special club, Manhasset Bay. 
IsEastern, power boats, Marblehead. 
■Bay State, Mass. Dory Association, Revere, 
n Manhasset Bay, challenge cup series. Sand's Point, 
ri Manhasset Bay, challenge cup series. Sand's Point, 
n Manhasset Bay, challenge cup series, Sand's Point, 
i Eastern, annual regatta, Marblehead. 
tiEastern, rendezvous for cruise. 
J Larchmont, race week, opening, Larchmont. 
t Atlantic, power boats. Sea Gate. 
JtEastern, cruise to Gloucester. 
nWinthrop, Mass. Y. R. A., Winthrop. 
tiSwampscott, Mass. Dory Ass'n, Swampscott. 
^Eastern, cruise to Isles of Shoals. 
sLarchmont, race week, Larchmont. 
JsEastern, cruise to Peak's Island. 
' Larchmont, race week, Larchmont. ' 
'"Stern, cruise to Booth Bay. 
rchmont, race week, Larchmont. 
- Eastern, cruise to Islesboro. 
3-Larchmont, race week, Larchmont. 
[Eastern, cruise to Bass Harbor, 
.archmont, race week, Larchmont. 
pastern, cruise to Bar Habor. , ' > 
!orinthian, club race, Marblehead. 
.archmont, race week ends, Larchmont. 
>rtford, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., .special, Fenwick. ] 
^anhasset Bay, power boats, Manhasset Bay. 
lastern, regatta at Bar Harbor. 
loston, Mass. Y. R. A., Hull. . ' - 
ioston, midsummer series, M. Y. R. A., Hull 
luincy, Mass. Y. R. A., Hull. 
'Oston, midsummer series. M. Y. R. A., Hull, 
"r ndian Harbor, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual, Greenwich 
fUlantic, power boa^s. Sea Gate. 
Lastern, power boats, Marblehead. 
AUGUST. 
eastern, special open, Marblehead. 
ioston, Mass. Y. R. A., Marblehead. 
•orinthian, midsummer series, Marblehead. 
Jorinthian, midsummer series, Marblehead. 
t^oyal St. Lawrence, Seawanhaka cup match, Lake St. Louis, 
Canada. 
lass. Racing Dory Association, Marblehead. 
■■orinthian, midsummer series, Marblehead. 
Loyal St. Lawrence, Seawanhaka cup match. Lake St. Louis. 
Canada. 
lass. Dory Racing Association, Marblehead. 
orinthian, invitation race, Marblehead. 
loyal St. Lawrence, Seawanhaka cup match. Lake St. Loais. 
Canada, ^ ^ 
empstead Harbor, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual Hempstead 
Harbor. 
flihelter Island, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual. Shelter Island 
(.archmont, power boats, Larchmont. 
;Iass. Dory Racing Association, Marblehead. 
lanchester, Mass Y. R, A.. Wpst Manchester. ' 
lanchester, Crowhurst cup. West Manchester, 
'oston, club race, Marblehead. . 
Jast Gloucester, Mass. Y. R. A., Gloucester, 
ew York, special races. Glen Cove, 
ew York, rendezvous for annual cruise. Glen Cove 
nnisquam., Mass. Y. R. A., Annisquam. " 
few York, annual cruise to Morris Cove. 
.nnisquam, Mass. Y. R. A., Annisquam. - . ' • 
Iqrseshoe Harbor, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual, Larchmont 
ridgeport, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual, Black Rock, 
ew York, annual cruise to New London. ' 
nnisquam, dory races, Annisquam. 
^ew York, annual cruise at New London, 
ew York, annual cruise to Block Island, 
ew York, annual cruise to Vineyard Haven, 
orinthian, club race, Marblehead. 
ew York, annual cruise to Newport, 
astern, special open, Marlilehead. 
ew York, special races, Newport, 
astern, special cpen, Marblehead.-- 
ew York, Astor cups, Newport. 
oston, club race, Hull. - _ 
"S**^^' h T- Sound Y. R, A., annual, New Rochelle. 
ortiiport, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual. Northport. ' 
aitjord, i. botmd Y. R. A.^ special, Feawick. 
20. New York, start of ocean race, Nev/port. 
20 New York, steam yacht races, Brenton's Reef. 
20. Brooklyn, power boats, Gravesend Bay. 
22. New York, Newport series, Newport. 
23. New York, Newport series, Newport. 
24. New York, Newport series, Newport, 
25. Plymouth, Mass. Y. R. A., Plymouth. 
26. Duxbury, Mass., Y. R. A., Duxbury. 
27. Duxbury, Mass. Y. R. A., Duxbury. 
27. Corinthian Stamford, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual, Stamford. 
27. Larchmont, power boats, Larchmont. 
29. Wellfleet, Mass. Y. R. A., VVellfleet. 
SO. Wellfleet, Mass. Y. R. A., Wellfleet. 
SEPTEMBER. • 
1. Cape Cod, Mass. Y. R. A., Provincetown. 
2. Cape Cod, Mass. Y. R. A., Provincetown. 
3. Indian Harbor, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., fall, Greenwich. 
3. Hartford, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., special, Fenwick. 
3. Manhasset B.iy, special club, Manhasset Bay. 
3. Larchmont, club race, Larchmont. 
3. Cape Cod, Mass. Y. R. A., Provincetown. 
5. Lynn, Mass. Y. R. A., Nahant. 
5. Larchmont, fall regatta, Larchmont. 
5. Norwalk, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual, Norwalk. 
5. Sachem's Head, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., annual. Sachem's Head. 
5. Indian Harbor, club races, Greenwich. 
8. New York, autu.nn cup. Glen Ccve. 
10. Seawanhaka, L. 1. Sound Y. R. A., fall, Oyster Bay. 
10. Larchmont, club race, Larchmont. 
11. Mass. Y. R. A., rendezvous at Hull. 
17. Manhasset Bay, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., fall. Sand's Point 
24. Riverside, L. I. Sound Y. R. A., fall. Riverside. 
Glodana and her Rivals. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
_ When gross exaggerations, calculated to greatly in- 
jure the reputation of famous boats and their designers 
aiid skippers, happen to get into print and receive a 
wide circulation, unless contradicted and corrected in 
time by some one well acquainted with the facts, they 
are pretty apt to be accepted everywhere eventually as 
true and reliable. 
A couple of years since, in a lecture before the 
"Yachtsman's Club" of New York, a well-known yachts- 
man made the claim for Gloriana that in her very first 
race she beat her rivals by the immense margin of 
thirty minutes! To make matters still worse, he told 
his hearers that no less than eight of her new rivals 
had been designed by that great designer. 
, The hearers of this speaker were allowed to infer 
that in the first race Gloriana met all of these eight 
Burgess rivals and all of her other rivals and beat 
every one of them by at least thirty minutes, and of 
course, that this wonderful victory, at the very begin- 
. ning of her career was but as nothing compared 
with some of her later achievements. 
But what are the facts? 
1. - Burgess designed but five, not eight, boats to meet 
the Gloriana. One of these— the Ilderim— did not meet 
the Gloriana at all in 1891. The two fastest met her 
but once or twice, at the close of the season, and only 
one of the least successful of them met her in the 
earliest races. 
2. But if Gloriana did not meet eight Burgess boats 
in her first race, neither did she meet eight new boats 
all told in that race, nor the half of eight, but only one 
or two of what proved to be her least successful rivals. 
3. But these one or two slow rivals— such as they 
were — did Gloriana in her first race beat either or both 
of them by thirty minutes? By no means. She did 
not beat, both of them, and she did not beat either of 
them by thirty minutes. Nor did she in any race that 
season— her first and most successful season— beat a 
single one of even her most unlucky or most unsuccess- 
ful competitors by thirty minutes. 
. 4. And, if she was not thirty minutes faster than her 
slov/est rivals, neither was she twenty, nor, as a. rule, 
fifteen minutes faster. Nor was she anything like even 
ten minutes faster than boats built on either side of 
the water the same year or earlier. 
Fife's Jessica was a year older than Gloriana— had 
about 1,300 feet less sail— was built strongly, for cross- 
ing the ocean on her own bottom — probably was 
handled a little less superbly than Gloriana— and yet, in 
four races out of seven in ,1891, Gloriana' s corrected 
margins only ranged from five, 'to , nine minutes, and 
only averaged about seven minutes knd a half. 
Fife's Uvira was a year older than Gloriana; of much 
heavier construction, much smaller in racing measure- 
ment, and had about 1,400: feet less: sail. But neither in 
1891 nor in their only subsequent race did Gloriana 
succeed in beating Uvira by a corrected margin of even 
::five minutes. 
" Wltin Uvira met Gloriana in 1891, the little Fife won- 
der Jiad as yet done no serious racing, was almost 
wffoly unknown to her owner, had been in the water 
all. summer, without being hauled out for cleaning, and 
was- probably ten minutes slower than when at her best 
in 1895. Nevertheless, had the time allowance then 
been as large as the present allowance of the N. Y. 
Y. C., then, without any change in the measurements,' 
Uvira would have beaten Gloriana in their very first 
race. 
.Had Gloriana met Uvira in 1895 it is almost certain 
that she would have been beaten by the older Fife boat 
in every race, for Gloriana never began to make so 
good a showing against Wasp, over regular courses as 
yyira did in _ 
In Qvira's first race in 1895 (June 11) FoRiiST ANO 
Stream credits her with having beaten Wasp and the 
whole fleet on actual time. 
But it was not till June 24 that Uvira for the first 
time, and only time when owned by Mr. F. P. Sands, 
was actually pitted against VVa-sp for a race over a regu- 
lar course. Wasp covered the thirty-mile course inside 
the limit for an American' cup race, but Uvira won by 
a margin of nearly- five minutes, and that, too, by the . 
regular sixty per cent, time allowance. 
C^Q^mpare this with Wasp's beating Gloriana fourteen 
minutes in a short race of twenty miles in 1894, twenty- 
four minutes in a twenty-five mile race the same year.' 
and thirteen minutes in a good twenty-five mile race 
in 1892. 
In no year has Wasp failed to beat Gloriana over 
regular courses twice as badly as ever she beat Uvira 
when owned by Mr. Sands, and racing over the same 
regular course in the same or a different class! 
As for Fife's Barbara, built the same, year as Glori- 
ana, but with considerably less sail, she was not at her 
best in 1891, but in .1892 broke down when far ahead 
of Gloriana in their first race, and allowing for a handi- 
cap at'the start in their second race, Barbara beat Glor. 
i;ina on corrected time by ten seconds. It was a good, 
lair race. ' 
In 1897 Gloriana and Barbara met for the last time. 
The race was over a thirty-two-mile course — sixteen 
miles of windward work, in a strong wind. Barbara beat 
Gloriana about twenty-one minutes! Of course, Glori- 
ana was not at her best, but had she been she would 
have found Barbara a hard boat to beat. 
Wasp has repeatedly beaten Gloriana, much worse 
than ever she beat Barbara. On the other hand, Bar- 
bara has beaten larger boats of her own class, much 
worse than Gloriana has beaten such boats. 
Quite recently the statement was published in a New 
York paper that Gloriana was a fast as English sixty- 
footers built seven years later. How absurd! Fife's 
Kestrel is only six years newer than Gloriana — is much 
smaller than Gloriana — and is only a racing cruiser, 
with too little draft for an out and out racer. But in 
her last three races over the same course as Gloriana 
the little Fire cruiser beat the big Herreshoff racer on 
actual time! Both over a regular course and in squad- 
ron runs Kestrel beat Gloriana on actual time. 
Queen Mab is an English sixty-footer, not seven, but 
only one year newer than Gloriana. 
In June, 1894, they raced over a twenty-mile course. 
Queen Mab beat Gloriana about fourteen minutes actual 
time and seven minutes corrected time! 
In the Goelet cup race the same year Queen Mab 
beat Wasp fifteen and Gloriana twenty minutes actual 
time. 
In the fastest thirty-seven, mile squadron run in which 
both Queen Mab and Gloriana figured, the famous Wat- 
son sixty-footer beat the famous Herreshoff forty-six 
footer by a margin of thirty-three minutes actual time, 
and of about eighteen minutes corrected time — or in dis- 
tance about five mjles! 
Gloriana was "a wonder," but there have been others! 
Joseph J. Parker. 
Boston, Mass 
Jamaica Bay Y. C. Schedule. — The regatta commit- 
tee of the Jamaica Bay Y. C, has arranged for the fol- 
lowing, races : y ^. - ' ' '. . '. 
June 12 — Race for power boats. ^ . 
June 26 — Race for all classes. 
July 10 — Race for all classes. 
July 24— Special race for power boats. ' : 
July 31 — Race for cabin and open catboats. 
August 14 — Race for cabin cats and launches. 
August 21' — Race for all classes. ' ^ 
SI ' 81 »? 
_ Engraving of Reliance. — Messrs. John A. Lowell & 
Co., the well-known engravers of Boston, have recently 
produced a very fine engraving of the Cup defender Re- 
liance. The plate was made from a picture painted by 
Mr. Marshall Johnson, of Boston. It represents Reliance 
close-hauled on the port tack. The artist's painting has 
been followed closely, and the result in black and white 
is most satisfactory. . 
Launch Commodore Nearly Completed. — Commo- 
dore is the name chosen for a new power boat buildi'ng 
at . the works of ^ the New York Kerosene Oil Engine 
Company for A. A. Low, of Brooklyn. The craft is 50ft. 
over all^ 7ft. beam, with a draft of 3ft. 
V SI 8? 
St. Claire Launched.— The 2 1 -footer that was built 
at Wood's yard, City Island, for Mr. C. H.. Walker, of 
Chicago, has been launched. The boat was designed by 
Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & 
Crane. She was named St. Claire, and will be a com- 
petitor m the races for the Lipton cup..' . St. Claire is a 
very likely looking boat, and we "expect her to do well 
in the races for the Lipton cup. She has been shipped tg 
phicago by raij. t • ; 
