may6,l9os.] forest and stream. 861 
Entries ia Ocean Race for German Emperor's C«p, 
' " ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ . Net 
Name. Type and Rig. L.W.L. Owner. Club. DesiRner. Year BuHt. Ton. 
Valhalla Aux. Ship 24Cft Earl of Crawford Royal Yacht Squadron.... VV. C. Storey.... 1892. ..,..648 
Apache Aux. Barque.... 168ft Kdmund Randolph New York Y. C. ....... ..J. Reid & Co .........1890. ....307 
Ailsa Yawl '89ft Henry S. Redmond New York Y. C... William Fife, Jr...... 1895 116 
Hamburg Schooner ......116ft German syndicate .. Imperial Y. C George L. Watson ......1898 185 
Utowana Aux. Schooner. . 155ft. Allison V. Armour New York Y. C J. Beavor-Webb. ...1891 267 
Sunbeam Aux. Barque 154.7ft Lord Brassey Royal Yacht Squadron. ... St. Claire Byrne 1874 227 
Thistle Schooner llnft Robert E. Tod Atlantic Y. C Henry Winteringham 1901 235 
Atlantic Aux. Schooner.. 1S5ft Wilson Marshall New York Y. C Gardner & Cox 1903. 206 
Hildegarde Schooner l(W.4ft. ... Rdward R. Coleman Philadelphia Cor. Y. C A. S. Chesebroui^h 1897. .146 
Fleur de Lys Schooner 101ft Lewis A. Stimson New York Y. C ...Edward Burgess .1890 86 
Endymion Schooner Sfi.tift George Lauder. Jr Indian Harbor Y. C Tarns. Lemoine & Crane. ..1899 .116 
Boston Letter. 
' New 22-Footees Found Light.— Two- of the new 22- . 
footers have been weighed and each has been found to be 
of less weight than caUed for in the rules governing the 
class. The first boat to be weighed was Medric II., owned 
by Mr. Herbert H. White. She was found to be under 
the required weight, but it is understood that she is about 
3in. under 22ft. on the waterline and may be abla to take 
on sufficient weight to bring her into the class without 
making her waterline excessive. The second boat to be 
weighed was Rube, owned by Mr. H. L. Bowden, which 
was hung up on the big steel yards at Lawley's last Friday. 
Rube was found to be about 300 pounds under weight. 
Rube has not yet been measured, so it is not known 
whether or not the required addition of weight will make 
her waterline over 22ft. Ever since the 22ft. class was 
formed there has been more or less difficulty about 
weights and measurements, it being considered that the 
majority of the yachts competing in the class last season 
were more than 22ft. waterline. There are three more 
new boats for this class, which have yet to be measured 
and weighed. 
Mosquito Fleet Y. C. Fixtures. — The regatta commit- 
tee of the Mosquito Fleet Y. C. has announced the fol- 
lowing fixtures : 
July 1-4, Saturday to Tuesday — Club cruise. 
July 8, Saturday — Club handicap. 
July 22, Saturday — Club handicap. 
Aug. 13, Sunday — Ladies' day. 
Aug. 19, Saturday— Club handicap. 
• The regatta. committee also announces that two classes 
have been arranged for power boats for the regular club 
races. 
Hildegarde Visits Boston.— The schooner Hildegarde, 
owned by Mr. Edward R: Coleman, of Philadelphia, a 
member of the New York Y. C, was in the harbor last 
week. She is entered for the German Emperor's cup race 
across the Atlantic and this, coupled with the fact that 
she was originally a Boston yacht, made her visit one of 
more than usual interest. Hildegarde made the run from 
New London in 21^4 hours. • She had a head wind across 
Massachusetts- Bay. She came to take on. the hollow top- 
sail spars of Independence, which will be used as square- 
sail yards on the ocean race. Capt. S. M. Masters, wlw 
has been on Hildegarde since she was purchased by Mr. 
Coleman, is in command. 
New Sails by Wilson & Silsby. — Messrs. Wilson & 
Silsby-are making the sails for Mr. F. F. Brewster's new 
schooner Elmina, which is being fitted out at Lawley's. 
They, are also making the sails for Mr. Roy A. Rainey's 
new schooner Invader building at the same yards. They 
have an order for a mainsail for the yawl Ailsa which 
will be carried in the ocean race. Among other orders 
are a .suit for the 3S-footer Cossack, ' Mr. Henry A. 
Morse ; mainsail for the cat Emblem, Mr. George E. Dar- 
ling, secretary of the Rhode Island Y. C. ; suit for a 32- 
rater for Mr. M. Pavloff, of St. Petersburg, Russia; suit 
for five-meter racer built at Graves' yard for a German 
yachtsman; a number of racing suits for the Great Lakes 
and for various points along the coast, including suits for 
Massachusetts 15, 18 and 22-footers. 
Boston Y. C. — A meeting of the Boston Y. C. was 
held at its Rowe's Wharf clubhouse on Wednesday even- 
ing, April 26, at which several amendments were passed, 
the principal of which makes the fiscal year-close Dec. 31. 
It was announced by the regatta committee that plans 
were under consideration for a number of power boat 
races during the coming season, either in connection with 
the sailing regattas or on separate dates. The committee 
considers that such a movement is necessary on account 
of the great number of power boats enrolled in the club. 
Mr. Sumner H. Foster announced that the floats at the 
M.arblehead station have been in place for some time and 
that everything is ready for the opening of the station 
for the season. 
Power Boat News. — The 87ft. power yacht Elkhorn, 
built at Lawley's for Mr. H. F. Hanson, was delivered 
to her owner on Saturday, April 22, and was given a trial 
on Sunday. She developed a speed of about eleven miles 
an hour, which Mr. Hanson considered satisfactory with 
new and naturally stiff machinerj'. Since then she has 
increased her speed to about twelve miles an hour. Elk- 
horn is a cruising yacht of about the same general 
layout .as the first steam yacht Monaloa, owned by Mr. 
Chauncy B. Borland. She has a low cabin trunk, with a - 
raised deckhouse forward, which is used as a dining 
saloon and also as a pilot house in bad weather. The 
floor of the deckhouse is sunk below the deck level, how- 
ever, and does not give any appearance of top heaviness. 
In fact, the yacht is one of the most graceful, of the type 
that has been seen in these waters. There is a roomy 
galley with every convenience for cruising. The engine 
room is also quite roomy. The power is obtained from 
two Standard engines of 50 horsepower each. There is 
also a dynamo for electric lighting. Two gasolene tanks 
of large capacity are placed in the engine room, thus giv- 
ing room for the crew forward. .The main saloon and 
owner's stateroom, are aft. There is also a stateroom 
-with low headroom under the main deck aft. In fine 
weather the boat is steered from a bridge, just abaft the 
deckhouse. Snipe, a 60ft. yacht of the same type built 
for Mr. John FI. Proctor, went into commission last week. 
Snipe has a buffalo engine of 40 horsepower. 
Messrs. Stearns & McKay have received an order for 
a 25ft. speed launch for Mr. W. H. Stuart, Jr. This boat 
will have a little flare forward and in general she will be 
. similar to most high speed launches of extreme type. The 
motor will be a Napier of from 20 to 25 horsepower. The 
.same builders have an order for a 30ft. launch for Mr. 
, Herbert Flumphrey. The autoboat built for Mr. Lewis R. 
Speare will probably be sent to Cleveland this week, 
where her Winton motor will be installed. A 38ft. hunt- 
ing cabin launch, built for Mr. Nelson Faulk, of Phila- 
delphia, was launched last week. M.r. Faulk will take her 
around to Philadelphia early in the month. 
The hunting cabin launch Highball, designed by Messrs. 
Small Brothers and built by Mr. George B. Loring, of 
East Braintree, for Mr. Richard. Hutchison, has been de- 
livered to her owner- and- has had several trials off the 
-South Boston station of the Boston Y. C, of which Mr. 
Hutchison is a member. She is entered for the- race of 
the Knickerbocker Y. C. from New York to Marblehead. 
She is 31ft. 6in. over all, 39ft. 6in. waterline, 6ft, gin. beam 
and 27in. draft. Her engine is of 12 horsepower, giving 
a speed of about 10 miles an hour. 
Messrs. Murray & Tregurtha have- finished the 45ft. 
launch for Mr. George H. Wightman, of the Boston Y. 
C, and she has been hauled into the storing shed until 
her owner shall give orders for her launching. She is a 
nicely turned boat and should be ideal -for afternoon sail- 
ing, for which her owner had her built. She is 45ft. long, 
9ft. beam and 3ft. draft. She has a four-cylinder engine 
of 25 horsepower, which will give her a speed of about 
12 miles an hour. The reversing lever and also the spark 
will be controlled from the steering wheel on deck. A 
37ft. hunting cabin launch for Mr. T. H. Webb, of Peoria, 
111., and a 3Sft. hunting calDin launch for Mr. John J. 
I Tobin, are ready to be launched. Two 42ft. speed launches 
are under construction. A 40ft. autoboat is to^ be built, 
by this firm. She will be Sft. beam and of very light 
draft. She will - have a special four-stroke engine, 
with 6 by 6 cylinders. This engine will have a steel ro-d 
frame and will be built very lightly. 
Recent Transfers and Charters. — Messrs. Stearns & 
McKay have chartered the houseboat Clarina, owned by 
Mr. Charles Stedman Hanks, to Mr. J. A. Garland, of 
New York. They have sold the raceabout Kitty, owned 
by Mr. C. N. Brush, to Mr. Guy Standing; the yawl 
Friendship III. for Mr. H. L. Friend to Mr. Rosenthal, 
of New York, and the knockabout Friendship II. to Mr, 
Horatio Gilbert. 
Mr. Stephen Bowen has sold his 25ft. knockabout 
Rowena to Mr. R. S. Peabody. 
The 35ft. sloop Katonah, owned by Mr. J. J. Feeley, has 
been sold to Mr. Frank H. Doane, of New York, through 
the agency of Mr. B. B. Crowninshield. 
Eastern Y. C. Power Boat Races. — The Eastern Y. C. 
power boat races will be held at Marblehead on July 27, 
28 and 29. Mr. Henry Howard, chairman of the Eastern 
Y. C. regatta committee, has notified the Knickerbocker 
Y. C. that these races will be open to all contestants in 
the Knickerbocker Y. C. race from New York to Marble- 
head. Boats . finishing in this race will have plenty of 
time to be measured before the commencement of the. 
Eastern Y. C. races. John B. Killeen. 
Revive the Catboat. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
If other magazines showed as much interest in the 
Cape catboat as Fore,st and Stream has already 
shown, it might result in building Up a good fleet of 
this type of boat in a number of different localities. 
Edgar W. Emery. 
QuiNCY, Mass. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
For advert'sing relating to this department see pages ii and iii. 
. Yawl Wayfarer Sold. — Messrs. John M. and Henry K. 
Goetchius, New York Y. C, have purchased through the 
agency of Mr. .Henry J. Gielow the auxiliary yawl Way- 
farer, _ from Mr. Robert Saltonstall, of . Boston. The 
yacht is 75ft. over all and soft, on the waterline. She was 
built two years ago and is fitted with a 20 horsepower 
Standard gasolene engine. The same agency has sold the 
following : The motor boat Arrebo, to a Philadelphia 
yachtsman; the 40ft. cruising naphtha launch Cyric to 
Mr. Mansfield M. Doty, Columbia- Y. C, and the yawl 
Scapha, 53 ft. over all, to Mr. Edwin Trowbridge Hall, 
of New York. 
Canada Cup Trial Races. — The Rochester Y. C. will 
hold a series of trial races off Charlotte in June to select 
a defender for the Canada Cup. The conditions govern- 
ing these races follow : 
1. All yachts entered for the trial races must be measured by 
the Canada's Cup Committee of the Rochester Y. C, or a person 
appointed by them, before the day of the first race. 
2. No yacht shall be eligible to contest in the trial races unless 
it is built in accordance with the rules of the Yacht Racing Union 
of the Great Lakes, and the agreement made between the Royal 
Canadian Y. C. and the Rochester Y. C. 
?,. The yacht selected to represented the club shall be the one 
which, in the judgment of the committee, shall be the best 
adapted therefor, and not necessarily the winner of the trial races. 
Additional races may be ordered sailed by the committee between 
such contestants as they may select. 
4. All races shall be sailed under the racing rules of the Yacht 
Racing Union of the Great Lakes. 
5. In the 'event of a race being postponed or ordered resailed, 
it shall be sailed at as early a date as possible. 
The trial races will take place in July, off Charlotte, and full 
instructions will be given to the owners of competing boats before 
that time. 
7. _ A suitable prize will be given the winner. 
The Royal Canadian Y. C. will commence the trial 
-races for the selection of a challenger for the Canada Cup 
on July 22. 
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New York Y. C. Racing Schedule, — The Regatta 
Committee of the New York Y. C, composed of Messrs. 
Oliver Cromwell, H. de B. Parsons and Ernest E. Loril- 
lard, has given out the following racing schedule for the 
coming season : 
Tuesday, May 30 — Spring cups, off Glen Cove; open to all reg- 
ular and special classes. 
Thursday, June 15 — Fifty-ninth annual regatta, off Glen Cove; 
open to all regular and special classes. The Bennett regatta cups, 
presented by Commodore James Gordon Bennett, one for schoon- 
ers and one for single masted vessels and yawls, will be sailed for. 
Saturday, July 8 — Glen Cove cups, off Glen Cove; open to all 
regular and special classes, and classes too small for enrollment. 
Thursday, Aug. 10 — Rendezvous cups, off Glen Cove. 'Open to 
all regular and special . classes, and classes too small for enroll- 
ment. 
THE CRUISE. ' 
■ Thursday, Aug. 10 — Rendezvous at Glen Cove. 
Friday, Aug. 11— First squadron run. Glen Cove to Morris 
Cove; high water at Glen Core, 8:14 A, M. . . .. 
Saturday, Aug. 12— Second squadron run, Morris Cove to New 
London; high water at Morris Cove, 9:15 A. M. 
Sunday, Aug. 1.3— At New London. 
Monday, Aug. 14— Third squadron run, New London to New- 
port; high water at New London 8:46 A. M. ; low water at Point 
Jvdith 12:11 P. M. 
Tuesday, Aug. 15— At Newport, the Astor cups, presented by 
Capt. John Jacob Astor. 
Wednesday, Aug. 16.— Fourth squadron run, Newport to Vine- 
yard Haven; high water at Newport 8:10 A. M. ; high water at 
Vineyard Haven, 12:17 P. M. 
Thursday, Aug. 17 — Fifth squadron run, cruising, not racing: 
Vineyard Haven to Marblehead; high water at Pollock's Rip, 
1:09 P. M.; low water at Marblehead 6:39 P. M. 
Friday Aug. 18— At Marblehead. 
Saturday, Aug. 19— At Marblehead ; Eastern Y. C. regatta. 
Saturday, Sept. 9— Autumn cups, off Glen Cove; open to all 
regular and special classes and classes too small for enrollment. 
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Power Boat Gregory Safe.— A number of rumors have 
been circulated of late to the effect that the power boat 
Gregory had been lost at sea. As a matter of fact, the 
yacht is still at the Azores waiting for gasolene. Gregory 
arrived at Ponta Delgada on April 4 and has been in that 
port ever since. 
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Power Boat Hobo Launched. — On Thursday, April 27 
there was launched from the yard of the builders the elec- 
tric Launch Company, of Bayonne, N. J., the power boat 
Hobo. The boat was built for Mr. J. Insley Blair. She 
is 70ft. long and is equipped with a 100 horsepower Stand- 
ard engine. A speed of 15 miles an hour is guaranteed. 
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A British Opinion of Sonya. — The new 52-footer 
Sonya, designed and built by Mr. Herreshoff at Bristol, 
R. I., for Mrs. Turner Farley, arrived in the Thames 
last week per the Atlantic Transport Company's steamer 
Minnetonka. For the passage across the Atlantic a cradle 
was built on the deck of the liner, on which the new 
racing boat was placed and to which she was securely 
bolted, two of the bolts passing through her lead keel. 
, Arrived in the Thames, no time was lost in putting 
Sonya _ in the water, a floating derrick being brought 
alongside to lift her off the steamer. This was safely ac- 
complished on Tuesday, and two days later the boat left 
under trysail for Tollesbury, where she will be fitted out 
for racing by her skipper, Captain Stokes. 
There are many features about the new boat which will 
be of interest. Mr. Herreshoff, as might be expected, has 
made considerable departures from the existing type of 
boat as exemplified by Mylne's Moyana. To begin with 
the new boat is considerably shorter over all than any of 
the existing boats of the class, but her waterline length 
and beam are quite normal, the former being 47ft. and 
the latter 13ft. 3in., as against 48ft. and i_3ft. 2in. in 
Moyana, while Ma3rmon, Fife's latest creation in the 
class, has a 48ft. 2in. waterline and 13ft. 2in. beam. From 
the point of the bowsprit to the end of the mainboom is 
a little over 94ft., the latter being exactly 54ft. in length, 
while from the stepping of the mast to the end of the 
bowsprit the space covered is 39ft. 3in. The bowsprit it- 
self is i8ft. in length as against Moyana's 13ft. It is, how- 
ever, in the mast that the greatest departure will be seen, 
the Herreshoff spar, which is of the polemasted type, 
being 8oft. in length as against a foot or two under 70ft. 
with Moyana. This will give the new boat an enormous 
sailspread as compared with the craft which have already 
been built to- the class. Another feature of the rigging of 
the boat is that the spars, which are, of course, all hollow, 
and with the exception of the mast are supplied in dupli- 
cate, are very slight in appearance, being about one-thrid 
less in diame'ter than the sticks we usually see in racing 
boats of this size on this side of the Atlantic. As she sits 
in the water Sonya has the appearance of a rather short 
boat — her overhangs are not at all exaggerated — with 
tremendous spars for her size. 
Below the waterline Sonya is cut right away from the 
entry, her greatest depth — she draws 9ft. 3in. as against 
the 8ft. 9in. of Moyana — being at the heel, though in the • 
distribution of her lead the greatest weight is placed well 
forward, the keel tapering off as.it runs aft. So' far as 
quantity is concerned the new boat is supposed to have 
about twenty tons, which is enormous considering that 
Moyana's keel only weighs somewhere about nine tons. 
As regards accommodation the American designer has 
made the most of the space at his disposal, there being 
a stateroom or ladies' cabin and saloon with a headroom 
of 6ft. 3in., while in part of the forecastle the headroom 
is over 6ft. 
Before leaving America Sonya was given a couple of 
trials. The breeze was very light in the morning, and not 
much could be learned of her qualities. In the afternoon 
the wind was fresher, and she was given another trial. 
The spin was most satisfactory to both Captain Nathaniel 
Herreshoff and Captain Stokes. — Yachting World. 
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• Country Club Competitive Cup. — The third annual 
-Series of races for the Country Club Competitive Cup, 
open, to yachts of the Country Club restricted 21ft. 
class, will be sailed on Lake St. Claire, Tuesday, Wed- 
nesday and Thursday, September 5, 6 and 7, 1905. 
Entries dose August 26. 
Bagley Trophy for the i6ft. Class. — To encourage 
small boat racing among the younger sailors of the 
Country Club and the vicinity of Detroit, Mr. Paul 
N. Bagley will present annually a beautiful trophy to 
be raced for by yachts_ of the i6ft. class of the Inter- 
Lake Yachting Association, under the racing rules 
of the Country Club, the trophy each year becoming 
tlie permanent property of the yacht winning it. Any 
yacht enrolled in a recognized yacht club of the Great 
Lakes and eligible to race in the i6ft. class of the 
Inter-Lake Yachting Association may race for tliis, 
