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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 2, 1904. 
Eastern Y. C 
Annual Regatta. 
The annual regatta of the Eastern Y. C. will be sailed from 
Halfway Rock, off Marblehead, on Friday, July 15, at 11 A. M., 
unless unfavorable weather should necessitate postponement. 
All matters connected with the regatta, unless otherwise 
specified, will be governed by the racing rules of the Eastern Y. C. 
Entries. — Entries must be received in writing by the regatta 
committee at the club house, before 8 A- M. of the morning of the 
race, and must state the rig and ownership of the yacht, with its 
measurement under Eastern Y. C. rules. The committee may 
accept post entries, in its discretion. 
The measurer of the club is Mr. Henry Taggard, 50 State street, 
Boston, Mass. 
Each yacht must carry a racing number on each side of the 
mainsail, as near the center of the sail as is possible; yachts with- 
out numbers will be supplied by the committee on application at 
the club house. 
Classes — Schooners. 
Class A — Over 90ft. rating measurement. 
Class B — Not over 90ft. and over 75ft. rating measurement. 
Class C — Not over 75ft. and over 64ft. rating measurement. 
Class D — Not over 64ft. and over 55ft. rating measurement. 
Class E— Not over 55ft. rating measurement. 
Single-Masted Vessels and Yawls. . 
Class F — Over 100ft. rating measurement. 
Class G — Not over 100ft. and over 82ft. rating measurement. 
Class H — Not over 82ft. and over 68ft rating measurement. 
Class I-^Not over 68ft. and over 57ft. rating measurement. 
Class J — Not over 57ft. and over 48ft. rating measurement. 
Class K — Not over 48ft. and over 40ft. rating measurement. 
Class L — Not over 40ft. rating measurement. 
Prizes. — In each class there will be a prize for first if two or 
more yachts start in the class; a prize for second if four or more 
yachts start; and a prize for third if seven or more yachts start. 
The prizes will be silver. The Puritan cup will be awarded for the 
year to the yacht of the Eastern Y. C. making the best corrected 
time, on regular Eastern Y. C. allowances, over the course sailed 
by the larger yachts. 
Cruising Trim — All yachts shall race in cruising trim; but no 
yacht under 40ft. waterline length need carry a boat. 
Measurement and Allowances. — Special attention is called to the 
new rules for measurement and allowances. 
Courses. — The starting line and finish line will be between a 
white flag on the committee steamer and a flag buoy anchored off 
Halfway Rock; in all starts leave the flag buoy on port, and at 
finish leave it on starboard. 
The Eastern Y. C. turning buoy is a white 50ft. iron spar buoy 
with a white top, bearing a small black cage, placed 6 miles S.E. 
Y2 S. from Halfway Rock. 
One of the following courses, to be designated by a code flag 
to be hoisted on the committee steamer at 11 A. M. The lower 
flag will designate the course for D and E classes of schooners, 
aod J, K and L classes of single-masted vessels and yawls; the 
upper flag for all other yachts. 
C — From starting line to and around the turning buoy, leaving 
it on starboard; thence to and around Graves Whistling Buoy, 
leaving it on starboard ; thence again to the turning buoy, leaving 
it on poit; thence to the finish line. Allowance, 30% miles. 
D- — From staring line, to and around the turning buoy, leaving 
it on starboard; thence to and around Boston Lightship, leaving 
it on starboard; thence again to the turning buoy, leaving it on 
port; thence to the finish line. Allowance, 26% miles. 
E — From starting line to and around the turning buoy, leaving 
it on port; thence to and around Eastern Point Whistling Buoy, 
leaving it on starboard; thence again to the turning bu°y> leaving 
it on starboard; thence to the finish line. Allowance, 28 miles. 
F — From starting line, to and around the turning buoy, leaving 
it on port; thence to and around Cape Ann Whistling Buoy, leav- 
ing it on starboard; thence again to the turning buoy, leaving it 
on starboard; thence to the finish line. Allowance, 38% miles. 
H — From starting line to and around. Boston Lightship, leaving 
it on port; thence to and around the turning buoy, leaving it on 
starboard; thence again to and around Boston Lightship, leaving 
it on starboard; thence to the finish line. Allowance, 33% miles. 
Courses for D and E classes of schooners and J, K and L 
classes of single-masted vessels land yawls : 
I — From starting line, to and around the turning buoy, leaving 
it on starboard; thence to and around Graves Whistling Buoy, 
leaving it on starboard ; thence to the finish line. Allowance 23% 
miles. 
R — From starting line to and around Graves Whistling buoy, 
leaving it on port; thence to and around the turning buoy, leaving 
it on port; thence to the finish line. Allowance, 23% miles. 
S — From starting line to and around the turning buoy, leaving 
it on starboard; thence to and around Boston Lightship, leaving 
it on starboard; thence to the finish line. Allowance 22% miles. 
T— From starting line to and around Boston Lightship, leaving 
it on port; thence to and around the turning buoy, leaving it on 
port; thence to the finish line. Allowance, 22% miles. 
V — From starting line to and around the turning buoy, leaving it 
on port; thence to and around, Eastern Point Whistling Buoy, 
leaving it on port; thence leaving Kettle Island and S. E. 
Breaker Buoy on starboard, to the finish line. Allowance 20% 
miles. 
W — From starting line, leaving S. E. Breaker Buoy and Kettle 
Island on port, to and around Eastern Point Whistling Buoy, leav- 
ing it on starboard; thence to and around the turning buoy, 
leaving it on starboard; thence to the finish line. Allowance 20% 
miles. 
Diagrams of all the courses may be obtained at the club house. 
Signals.— If the first signal is delayed, the intervals will re- 
main unchanged. 
The official time may be had from the chronometer at the 
club house on the day of the race until 8:30 A. M. 
Prior to all signals, the course letters, as above, will be hoisted- 
on the committee steamer and will fly until all classes have started, 
except that if the committee decides to postpone the start, the 
letters will be lowered and code signal J hoisted, to cancel all 
previous signals. 
At 11, preparatory, a gun will -be fired or whistle blown, the club 
burgee lowered, and the blue peter set. ; 
Five minutes after preparatory, warning, with gun or whistle, 
the blue peter will be lowered. 
Ten minutes after preparatory, with gun or whistle, a red ball 
will be hoisted for the start of Classes A, B, F and G. 
Fifteen minutes after preparatory, with gun or whistle, a second 
red ball will be hoisted for the start of Classes C, D, H and I. 
Twenty minutes after preparatory, with gun or whistle, a third, 
red ball will he hoisted for the start of Classes E, J, K and L. 
Each division will be allowed two minutes for crossing the line. 
Code flag M will indicate "Race is declared off." 
Henry Howard, Chairman, George Atkinson, Jr., Stephen W. 
Sleeper, Louis M. Clark, secretary, 50 Congress street, Boston, 
Regatta Committee E. Y. C. 
Ocean Race. 
The above programme of the annual regatta of the Eastern Y. C. 
is of importance to owners of yachts having already entered, or 
intending to enter the ocean race of the same club from New 
York to Marblehead, as all yachts sailing in the ocean race are 
invited to compete in the annual regatta. , . 
It is the desire of the committee to announce once more that all 
entries for the ocean race must be received by the regatta com- 
mittee at the Eastern Y. C, Marblehead, Mass., or by H. A. 
Morss, 110 State street, Boston, before -10 A. M., Friday, July 1, 
and must state the rig and ownership of the yacht with its 
measurement under Eastern or New York Y. C. rules. The com- 
mittee may accept post entries in its discretion. 
The regatta committee of the Eastern Y. C. has sent the follow- 
ing instructions to the officer in command of Nantucket Shoals 
Light Vessel for reporting the Eastern Y. C. ocean race: 
This race will start from Sandy Hook, N. Y., on Wednesday, 
July 6, at 3 P. M. Under the most-favorable conditions you may 
look for a speed of 12 knots for the largest boats; that is, except 
under exceptional conditions, you would not expect to see even 
the largest yachts pass your lightship before -7 A. M., Thursday, 
July 7; but the first arrival will probably be much later. 
Immediately after the race has begun, we will telegraph you 
the number of ., yachts that have started, so that you will know 
when they have all passed. 
You will take the number and time of jeaeh yacht as she rounds 
your light vessel and report the same by wireless at once to the 
Eastern Y. C., Marblehead, Mass. 
You will also verify the wireless reports by a written report, to 
be sent to us at the earliest opportunity. If you obtain the 
name, as well as the number of a yacht, include this both in your 
wireless and written report. ,,.,...' 
Each yacht will carry her number on her mainsail; this may be 
seeri during daylight. At night numbers will be shown by a 
system of night signals. 
Each yacht will first show a Coston light, which will burn for 
about 45 seconds, " w " 
After this she will show successively two Roman candles, each 
having the same number of balls. 
Then follows a complete table of night signals, providing num- 
bers for eighty-eight yachts. The signals are ingeniously arranged 
by changing the colors of the Coston lights, and of the ba}ls~ in 
the Roman candles, as the numbers go up. The instructions 
continue: ' ' 
If a night signal is^ perfectly understood — that is, if you have 
counted the same number of balls from each of the two Roman 
candles — you will immediately answer by showing a white Coston 
light. If you do not make out the number, do not give the 
answering signal, and the number will be repeated by the yacht 
until you do answer. 
We are sending you six dozen Coston lights and one holder, to 
be used by you in answering the above signals. 
Do not hesitate to telegraph us at our expense if you require 
any additional information. We are also sending a copy of the 
A, B, C code which you may find of use if it is necessary to 
communicate with us, and which we will use if we find it neces- 
sary to communicate with you. 
The work done by you will be of vital importance to the suc- 
cess of the race, as no yacht will be awarded a prize unless she 
has been reported by you as rounding your light vessel. Bv 
rounding we mean that each yacht must pass to the southward 
and eastward of your lightship. 
New York Y. C 
Glen Cove, Long Island Sound — Tuesday, June 21. 
The races for the Glen Cove cups were sailed on Tuesday, 
June' 21, under the auspices of the New York Y. C. There 
were fewer starters in this event than there was in the New 
York Y. C.'s annual regatta on the Lower Bay. Neola, Weeta- 
moe and Isolde were the starters in the cutter class, while 
Emerald and Katrina were the contestants in the schooner class. 
It was a most perfect day for the race, as a fresh W.S.W. 
breeze held true throughout the contest. 
The start was made off Glen Cove. The first leg was N.E., 
ten miles to and around a mark near Stamford Light; the second 
leg was W-S,W. seven and a half miles to and around a mark 
off Parsonage Point; thence S. % W., four miles to the .finish 
line, a distance of twenty-one and a half miles. The first leg 
was a run, the second a beat and the third a close reach. The 
tide was running flood. 
The regatta committee, S. Nicholson Kane, Newbury D. Law- 
ton and Oliver Cromwell, were on board Mr. J. L. B. Mott's 
fine steam yacht Candida. 
The preparatory signal was given at 1 o'clock. The cutters 
were sent away at 1:15. Neola crossed a few seconds after the 
gun, with Weetamoe close behind. Isolde went over a minute 
later. Balloon jib topsails and spinnakers were broken out on 
all three boats. Emerald beat Katrina over the line. The boats 
were timed at the start as follows: 
Neola 115 13 Emerald 12117 
Weetamoe , 1 15 14 Katrina 1 22 50 
Isolde 1 16 10 
The 36ft. sloop Spasm started, but withdrew at once, as 
Cymbra, the boat she was to have raced against, did not put 
in an appearance. The boats made good time on the .run to 
the first mark. Neola pulled away from Weetamoe a little, and 
both these boats made gains on Isolde. Katrina has been fitted 
with an entire new suit of canvas, which sets well and accounted, 
in a measure, for the excellent showing she made. 
At the first mark the boats were timed as follows: 
Neola 2 28 37 Emerald 2 34 35 
Weetamoe 2 29 15 Katrina 2 39 07 
Isolde 2 36 07 
After rounding all stood off on the port tack. Weetamoe was 
the first to tack to starboard, and was soon followed by Neola. 
Isolde held her port tack some time longer. Neola had : set her 
iib topsail soon after rounding, and Weetamoe, finding she was 
losing ground, did likewise. Isolde was doing so well under the 
Connecticut shore on the port tack that Katrina followed suit. 
The times at the second mark ,were: 
Neola 3 43 19 Emerald 3 53 05 
Weetamoe 3 44 52 Katrina .... 3 59 10 
Isolde 3 51 22 
The wind had worked to the S.W., and if "was a . close reach 
to the finish line. The times taken at the finish follow: 
Neola ....4 07 10 Emerald 4 19 46 
Weetamoe 4 07 54 Katrina , 4 26 20 
Isolde 4 16 04 
The summary: 
-Schooners. 
Start. Finish. El'ps'd. Corr't'd. 
Emerald, W. E. Iselin. 1 21 17 4 19 46 2 58 29 2 58 29 
Katrina, J. B. Ford 1 22 50 4 26 20 3 03 30 2 49 11 
f ' '■■ . ,. ""' Sloops. ; ' . *' 
Neola, G. M. Pynchon. .. . 1 15 13 4 07 10 2 51 57 , 2 51 17 
Weetamoe, H. F. Lippitt.. 1 15 14 4 07 54 2 52 40 2 52 16 
Isolde, F. M. Hoyt 1 16 10 4 16 04 2 59 54 2 51 43 
Emerald allowed Katrina 14m. 19s. Katrina wins by 9m. 18s. 
corrected time. Neola allowed Isolde 8m, lis. Isolde wins by 14s. 
Old Mill Y. G 
Jamaica Bay, L. L— Sunday, June 19. 
Twenty boats started in the club regatta" of " the Old Mill .Y. 
G, sailed on Sunday, June 19. There was a good sailing breeze 
from the S., and the boats covered a triangular course. The first 
leg was a beat, the second ;a close reach ' and the third a run. 
The catboat Diana, the launch Pet and the sloop Viola were 
alone in the respective class, none of their : competitors starting. 
The winners were Pauline B., Amaranth, Naomi, Ben Hur and 
Free. The summary: 
Cabin Cats --Class F- -Start, 12:25:10. 
'-■■-.' . Finish: - Elapsed. 
Diana v,:i ; ;44 29 , 1 19 49 
Open Cats— Class G— Start, 12:32 :40. "' 
Halycon .... . 1 54 45 1 22 05 
Pauline B -.. 1 42 24 1 09 44 
Bill Nye 1 50 42 1 18 06 
Gee Wiz , 1 51 15 118 35 
Open Cats— Class H— Start, 12:35:36. 
Amaranth ,• .-7. . .-. T 52 J 25 ■' 1 16 55 
Harry Minor 1 52 30 1 17 00 
.Florence 1 54 30 1 19 00 
Launches— Class M— Start, 12:45:30. 
Naomi 1 33 '38 0 48 08 
Amaranth ..... 1 37 46 0 52 16 
Launches— Class N— Start, 12:47:10. 
Eagle 1 45 38 0 58 28 
Lottie M... i 1 42 45 0 57 35 
Ben Hur 1 42 45 0 55 35 
Lou Did not finish. 
Sharpies— Class I— Start, 12:48:10. 
Alert • 2 06 06 1 17 56 
Free 2 05 56 1 17 46 
Clyde 2 06 48 1 18 38 
Reliance 2 09 48 1 21 38 
New York A, C. Cruising Race* 
New Rochelle to Block Island— Start, Saturday, June 25,. 
The boats which started in the race from New Rochelle to 
Block Island, on Saturday, June 25, finished early Sunday morn- 
ing, the winner crossing the line at 2:10 A. M., making the run" 
of 115 knots in sixteen hours. The race, which was the first of 
the long races scheduled for the season, was most interesting; and,, 
although only six started, all finished in good time, considering 
the length of the course and the various types, of boats entered. 
The New York Athletic Club, under whose auspices the - race 
was given, added a yachting department to the club's attractions 
some years ago, but this is the first race it. ;has, ever^ held, and 
its success is due to the energy of its chairman, Mr. W. : Rath- 
borne. ,' V ' . '"'' i. '• '•• '■ 
The starters, which consisted of the sloops Possum, Saladin. 
Hanley and Penekese, and the yawls Escape and, Adelaide, 
started from an imaginary line off Huckleberry Island, New 
Rochelle, at 10 o'clock on Saturday with a light westerly breeze, 
and kept well bunched until off Oyster Bay, when the wind 
veered to the southward. With the wind abeam. Possum and 
Hanley drew ahead and held their lead to the finish. The race 
between the other boats was very close all day, ancf the second 
division had an even more exciting time of it. Saladin, Escape 
and Ade'aide kept well together, with Escape always slightly in 
the lesd. About 3 o'clock, when off. Port Jefferson, the wind 
hau'sd nv re to the westward and came out strong, and the little 
boats with spinnakers and ballooners set were tearing along in 
a smother of foam. 
'I lie w id l e'd strono- until off Orient, when it dropped al- 
most to a calm, but the boats slipped through the Gut on the 
ebB tide about 10 P. M., within, a few minutes of each other. 
From there until well east of Gardiner's Island, the wind came 
from ail points of the compass, and a heavy easterly roll bothered 
the boats considerably. Toward, motning the wind freshened 
again, and the time of finishing was as follows. Start, 10:10: 
' Finish. Elapsed. 
Possum 2 10 00 . . 16 00 00 
Hanley 2 25 00 16 15 00 
Adelaide .....4 00 00 17 50 00 
Saladin 4 15 00 18 05 00 
Escape 5 15 00 19 05 00 
Penekese ...5 30 00: 19 20 00 
As each boat took its own time, these figures, while very close, 
are not exact. James D. Spakkman. 
British Letter. 
In discussing the suitability of Kariad as a defender of 
the Cape May cup against the- challenge of Ingomar, I 
had overlooked the fact that, according to the conditions 
which govern the race, the defending yacht must be that 
vessel which last won it. The Gape May cup has not 
been sailed for since 1893, when our present King — who 
was then Prince of Wales— successfully defended the 
trophy against Mr. Royal Phelps Carroll's Navahoe with 
his cutter Britannia. The famous old Watson cutter has 
finished her racing career many seasons ago, and has had 
her spars and canvas considerably reduced, so that it is 
out of the question to look to. her to defend the cup. In 
default, therefore, it will go to Ingomar. The absurdity 
of a condition which binds the last winner of the cup to 
defend it when called upon — no matter how many years 
may have elapsed — will, it is to be hoped, cause a revision 
of the rules by the New York Y. C, if that body has the 
power to do so. Of course, it may be stated that, had 
the owner of any suitable British yacht been desirous of 
defending the cup, he could have sent in his challenge to 
the Royal Yacht Squadron, and if Britannia was not 
forthcoming, the cup would have been handed over- to 
him by default, in which case Ingomar might have been 
given a run for her money. That is no doubt so, but 
it is more than probable that the conditions of the race 
have been forgotten by most people, as it is so long since 
the cup was in contest, and the awakening to the actual 
state of affairs has been a complete surprise to everybody. 
It is a matter for regret that Mr. Plant will not have any- 
thing to try his vessel against, for the course from the 
Needles round Cherbourg breakwater and back is a fine 
one for two-stickers, and it would anyhow have been a 
race. As it is, if Mr. Plant exercises his right to claim 
the cup in the absence of a defender, it will revert to the 
New York Y. C, who, with Mr. Plant, will regret as 
much as ourselves that the trophy should have gone back 
as the result of a bloodless victory. 
The handicap class has this year lost two old favorites. 
One is Maid Marion, which is not fitted out, but has been 
replaced by White Heather; the other is the well-known 
yawl Namara. The latter vessel has recently passed 
under the French flag, she having become the property of 
the Marquis Gicquel des Touches. The absence of Maid 
Marion can scarcely be regretted, as she has been re- 
placed by a larger and finer vessel, but Namara's defec- 
tion is a loss which will be severely felt, as she was 
peculiarly the most desirable type of boat as a cruiser 
racer. Above water she was. not a beauty by reason of 
her excessively high bulwarks; in fact, she was one of 
the least sightly vessels Watson ever turned out. She 
had a beautiful bottom, however, and possessed the true 
and proper characteristics of the ideal fast cruiser— speed, 
weatherliness, dryness, and comfort. She was built in 
1894 for Mr. W. B. Paget, the present commodore of the 
Royal Victoria Y. C, and was raced by him for many 
years in the handicap class, both as a cutter and yawl, 
with considerable success. Her last owner was Mr. 
Douglas Eckford, who raced her last season, winning, 
among other trophies, the Albert cup at the regatta of the 
Royal Albert Y. C, Southsea. Namara sailed two very 
fine races on the two days of the Royal Albert regatta. 
A fresh wind prevailed on each day, and she showed con- 
clusively that she was quite as fast as the Fife yawl Val- 
dora, which was then in her first season, while Namara 
was in her tenth. Both boats are about the same size, 
any difference being in favor of the new boat. The fact 
is Namara is one of those wonderful vessels which keep 
their speed up year after year, of which Watson has turned 
out many in his time, and may be termed one of Watson's 
evergreens. Sh« will be a great loss to us, and a great 
gain to the French cruising fleet. 
E. H. Kelly. 
Rhode Island Letter. 
Providence, R. I., June 25.— The Herreshoff shops at 
Bristol are about as dull now as they were last winter, 
when all hands were put on short time. The completion 
of the sloop Margaret the past week left work in the car- 
penter department yery slack, and a number of hands 
have been laid off, including some mechanics who have 
been employed at the Herreshoffs for a dozen years or 
more. Enough mechanics are retained to carry on the 
repairs incident to summer work, but there is practically 
nothing doing in the building of new craft. Besides the 
laying off of some of the employes, the working week has 
been shortened by one day, making a week of 45 hours 
instead of 54 hours. 
A fine new cruising and racing sloop was launched at 
the Herreshoff yard this week for Mr. Henry T. Sloane, 
of the New York Y. C. She is named the Margaret, and 
is 39ft. on the waterline, and has moderate overhangs. 
She. has a commodious cabin and a large cockpit. The 
..trim is mahogany throughout. The Margaret is a keel 
boat, with a pole mast, and her lines are similar to those 
of Cock Robin, launched at Herreshoffs a month ago for 
racing at Marblehead, Mass. On her trial spin Wednes- 
day, Margaret proved to be a lively boat, especially fast 
on the wind and quick in stays. The sloop was inspected 
by her owner, who came on from New York with a party 
of friends on his auxiliary schooner Idler. The Idler 
draws about 14ft., and she ran on a shelving rock in 
Bristol harbor Friday morning, hung up by the stern 
