FOREST AND STREAM 
[July 8, 1905. 
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Yachting Fixtitres for J905. 
Members of Race Committees and Secretaries will confer a favor 
by sending notice of errors or omissions in the following list, and 
also changes which may be made in the future: 
JULY. 
6-12. Atlantic, cruise. 
7. Eastern, cruise. 
8. Knickerbocker, one-design power boats. 
8. New York, Glen Cove, cups. 
8. Royal Canadian, cruising race. 
8. Wollaston, club championship. 
8. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club. 
8. Edgewood, club. 
8. Quincy, M. Y. R. A. 
8. Rhode Island, cruising race. 
8. Seaside Park, club. 
8. Beverly, club 
8. Corinthian, club. 
8. Unqua Corinthian, Williams cups. 
8. Riverside, annuai. 
■ 8. Sea Side, open. 
8. Bensonhurst, Bellows challenge cup. 
9. Canarsie, open. 
9. Morrisania power boat race. 
10. Seawanhaka Corinthian, ocean race. 
11. Lakewood, series race. 
12. Seaside Park, club. 
12. Sea Side, open. 
15. Royal Canadian, club. 
16. New Rochelle, club. 
15. Knickerbocker, one-design power boats. 
15. Seaside Park, club. 
15. Country Club, Detroit club. 
15. Edgewood, club. 
16. Bensonhurst, Bellows challenge cup. 
15. Keystone, club. 
15. Atlantic, Underwood cup. 
15. Beverly, club. 
15. Boston, cruise. 
16. Corinthian, club. 
17. Edgewood, N. B. Y. R. A., open. 
18. New P.riincwick Y. R. A. regatta. Prudence Island. 
18. East Gloucester, club. 
19. Seaside Park, club. 
19. Rhode Island, N. B. Y. R. A., open. 
20. Rhole Island-Sachem Head, team race. 
20. Royal St. Lawrence, Seawanhaka cup. 
21. Fall River, N. B. Y. R. A., open. 
22. Knickerbocker, power boat race to Marblehead. 
22. Knickerbocker, one-design power boats. 
22. W'inthrop, M. Y. R. A. 
22. Bristol, N. B. Y. R. A. 
22. Rhode Islanl, cruising race. 
22. Seaside Park, club. 
22 Kuyal Canadian, Canada’s cup trials. 
22 Beverly Y. C^ club. 
22. Marine and Field, second championship, Y. R. A. G. B. 
22. Unqua Corinthian, Molineux cups. 
22. Corinthian, club. 
26. Seaside Park, club. 
27. Eastern, power boat races. 
27. Sea Side, club. 
28. Eastern, power boat races; 
28. Seaside Park, Bay Head and Island Heights, cruise. 
28. Sea Side, open. 
29. Eastern, power boat races. 
29. New Rochelle, ladies’ race. 
29. Chicago, race to Mackinac. 
29. Country Club of Detroit, race to Mackinac. 
29. Seaside Park, open. 
29. Edgewood, club. 
29. Knickerbocker, cne-design power boats. 
29. Hampton Roads, cruise. 
29. Rhode Island, cruising race. 
29. Royal Canadian, cruising race. 
29. Beverly, club. 
29. Corinthian, club. 
29. Boston, club, Marblehead. 
29. Indian Harbor, annual. 
29. Bensonhurst, Childs trophy. 
Brooklyn Y* C. Ocean Race. 
The Brooklyn Y. C.’s long distance race from Graves- 
end Bay to Hampton Roads is the second race of this 
character to be given this year for small craft. The 
race was scheduled to start on Thursday morning, June 
29, and at 10 o’clock on that day five boats started on 
their long sail of 250 nautical miles down the coast. 
The restrictions governing the race barred all boats 
of over 40ft. length on deck, and the requirements were 
made so as to prevent any but substantial and sea- 
worthy craft participating. Time allowance is based 
on over all length and each boat receives 8s. a foot 
per mile. 
The following is a list of the boats, together with 
their particulars and crews: 
Lila, designed by Small Bros., built in 1905 by Reed 
& Adams, Boothbay,^ Maine; 39ft. loin. over all; 30ft. 
waterline; 13ft. breadth, and 5 - 4 ft- draft. Scratch boat 
allows all the others time. Crew — Owner and skipper, 
Richard D. Floyd, Newark Bay, Y. C.; Robert Schaler, 
Frank Muller, A. G. Green, Clinton Gilbert and A. 
B. Thompson. 
Tamerlane, designed and built by L. D. Huntington, 
Jr., New Rochelle, 1905; 38ft. 2j4in. over all. Receives 
28m. 33s. time allowance. Crew — Frank' Maier, owner 
and skipper. New Rochelle, Y. C.; T. F. Day, J. S. F. 
Kerr, John Robinson, Leonard Kent and a _paid hand. 
Bonito, designed by T. E. Ferris, built in 1899 by 
J. J. Driscoll, Brooklyn; 37ft. 2in. over all; 25.8ft. water- 
line; 11.5ft. breadth, and 5.3ft. draft. Receives ih. 3m. 
33s. time allowance. Crew — John Haviland, owner and 
skipper, Brooklyn Y. C.; Walter N. Belling, Fred H. 
Belling, H. Cook, C. Curtis and a paid hand. 
Mopsa, designed by the late Edward Burgess, built 
by George Lawley & Son, South Boston, Mass., 1888; 
35ft. 27-^in. over all, 27.5ft. waterline, 9.5ft. breadth and 
6.5ft. draft. Receives 2h. 8m. 33s. time allowance. 
Crew — F. C. Sullivan, owner and skipper, Harlem Y. 
C. ; W. S. Sullivan, F. S. Sullivan, E. J. Martin and 
Jerome Monks. No paid hand. 
Gauntlet, designed and built by L. D. Huntington, 
Jr., New Rochelle, 1905; 27ft. loin. over all, 22.1ft. 
waterline, 10.2ft. breadth and 5.5ft. draft. Receives 6h. 
40m. time allowance. Smallest boat in the fleet. Crew 
L. D. Huntington, Jr., owner and skipper. New 
Rochelle Y. C.; James D. Sparkman, Montgomery H. 
Clark, Robert N. Bavier and F. D. Le Count. No 
paid hand. . , , , 
.The five small craft are competing for a valuable 
challenge trophy offered , by the Brooklyn Y. C. 
Arrangements were also made for larger club boats 
and five boats were entered. They were as follows: 
Wayward, schooner, Colonel David E. Austen, 
Brooklyn Y. C. 
Gaviota, yawl, G. C. Gillespie, Brooklyn Y. C. 
Sunshine, schooner. Commodore S. S. Fontaine, 
Brooklyn Y. C. 
Nomad, sloop, W. L. Sawyer, Brooklyn Y. C. 
Charlotte, sloop, Elmer M. Mount, Brooklyn Y. C. 
Last year the Brooklyn Y. C. held a race from 
Gravesend Bay to Marblehead, a distance of 330 nautical 
miles. A number of boats entered, and they were 
favored with such remarkably fine weather that a record 
run was made. Not wishing to cover the same course 
this year, the Brooklyn Y. C. decided on a southern 
route. The most suitable place to finish such a race 
was at Hampton Roads, and the members of the club 
at that place offered special inducements for the 
Brooklyn men in the shape of race and cups. This is 
the first time that northern and southern yachting or- 
ganizations have been brought together, and the out- 
come can not help but be greatly beneficial to the sport. 
The Brooklyn Y. C. was favored again this year with 
good weather for its long race. For three days before 
the start the weather had been ideal and a fine steady 
N'.W. wind has prevailed. It was feared that it would 
shift and go to a less favorable quarter for the boats 
going south. These fears were groundless, however, 
and on Thursday morning, when the crews turned out, 
the wind was still from the N.W. 
The start was made off the Brooklyn Y. C. house in 
Gravesend Bay. The Race Committee, composed of 
Vice-Commodore A. C. Soper, William B. Griffin, 
George E. Reiners and F. W. Bradford, were on board 
Mr. E. T. Hatch’s schooner Nokomis. At 9:50 the 
preparatory was given, and at 10 o’clock the little craft 
were started. Lila, the scratch boat, crossed 20s. after 
the gun, followed los. later by Mopsa. Tamerlane was 
the third to get away 40s. after the gun. Gauntlet was 
next, im. 40s. late, and she was followed by Bonito. 
The }awl Anna, owned by Mr. L. C. Johnson, of the 
Chesapeake Bay Y. C., was to have started. She had 
left her home port and was proceeding north, but head 
winds had delayed her so much that she was unable to 
reach Gravesend Bay in time. 
At 10:10 the larger boats were started. Gaviota 
crossed im. 8s. after the signal, with Wayward 15s. be- 
hind. Sunshine was next, followed by Nomad and 
Charlotte. The boats’ official times were all taken at 
10 o’clock, as it was a one gun start. The actual start- 
ing times follow: 
Challenge Cup Competitors — Lila, 10:00:20; Mopsa, 
10:00:30; Tamerlane, 10:00:40; Gauntlet, 10:01:20, and 
Bonito, 10:01:30. 
Club Class — Gaviota, ' 10 : II :o8 ; Wayward, 10:11:23; 
Sunshine, 10:12:18: Nomad, 10:12, :30, and Charlotte, 
10:12:34. 
In the run down the coast the participants encountered 
head winds and a slow passage resulted. The yawl 
Tamerlane finished first at iih. 53m. 30s. on Sunday, 
July 2. The yawl Lila was the second boat to finish. 
Mopsa was thira ana uonito was fourth. No word has 
been received from Gauntlet as we go to press. The 
summary follows : 
July 2, A.M. 
Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 
Tamerlane, Frank Maier 11 53 30 73 53 30 73 24 57 
July 2, P.M. 
Lila, R. D. Floyd 5 20 50 79 20 50 79 20 50 
Mopsa, F. C. & VV. S. Sullivan 7 01 15 81 01 15 78 52 42 
Bonito, Hav'land Bros 7 06 50 81 06 50 80 03 17 
Arrival of the Gregory* 
From The Yachtsman. 
Too LATE for the race which she would in all probability 
have won, Mr. Lewis Nixon’s motor yacht Gregory has 
arrived at Algiers. Owing ,to her having been detained 
for the arrival of gasolene fuel at the Azores, the Gregory 
arrived much too late for the Algiers-Toulon race, for 
which she was entered. In all probability she will run 
over the course — although, in our opinion, such a proce- 
dure is somewhat in the nature of a post-mortem argu- 
ment. Meanwhile, the usual sheaf of Russian rumors are 
to hand, and it is said that the Gregory will at once_ pro- 
ceed to Sevastopol, and that several similar boats will be 
at once built to the order of the Russian Admiralty. 
The Gregory is 90ft. long, with lift. 5in. beam. Her 
draft is 4ft. ; and with two sets of 300 horsepower motors 
she gets a speed of twenty-two knots. She was built to 
Mr. Nixon’s designs by the Standard Motor Construction 
Company of America. 
Captain Loose, who was in charge of the Gregopr dur- 
ing her voyage, gave . the following account of it to a 
representative of the Matin : 
‘’The departure took place on Jan. 5. During the first 
twelve hours the weather remained fine, and an average 
speed of twenty knots was maintained, but on the morning 
of Jan. 6 a southwesterly gale sprang up, and, the sea be- 
coming increasingly rough, the boat was closed over, the 
anchors were thrown out, and the vessel allowed to drift. 
“For four days the Gregory drifted. By the time the 
storm had passed over everything had been swept from 
the bridge by the waves and the masts were broken. It 
was impossible to go on, and the captain consequently re- 
turned to New York. 
“The second departure took place on Feb. 8. After 
forty-eight hours’ sailing the Gregory was again caught in 
a storm and was swept into the current of the Gulf 
Stream. Again the masts were broken, and again the 
vessel had to be allowed to drift. The anchors and bo_ats 
were lost and four barrels of oil had to be used in calming 
the waves. 
“The gasolene receptacles on the bridge were so re- 
peatedly beaten by the waves that they at last began to 
leak and the gasolene invaded all parts of the ship to such 
a point that it became dangerous even to strike a match. 
The odor of the gasolene was almost unbearable and the 
faces of nearly all on board were soon swollen. Eight 
days out from Nev/ York the Gregory arrived at the 
Bennudas. 
“On March i the voyage was resumed, under a some- 
wlpt heavy sea, but with weather conditions otherwise 
fair. The sea, however, rapidly became rougher, and ulti- 
mately one of the cylinders of the motor broke. This 
necessitated a return to Bermuda, which was left again 
on March 19. 
“The Azores were reached on April 4, after another 
terrible storm had been passed through. The provision 
of gasolene, however, was exhausted, and there was noth- 
ing left for it but to await a supply from Lisbon. The so- 
journ at the Azores lasted thirty-six days, Ponta Delgada 
being left on May 10. Henceforward the weather was 
fine,_ and the Gregory accomplished the 1,400 miles to 
Algiers in seven days. The captain declared that he 
would not undertake another such journey for $10,000.’’ 
Boston Letter. 
Special Class for 22-footers.- — -It has been decided by 
the Regatta Committee of the Eastern Y. C. to allow the 
22-footers to race in their original classification on water- 
line length in the special open races of July 3 and 4 and 
Aug. 8. That is, the yachts will compete as a class among 
themselves, while still competing in the regular rating 
classes for cash prizes for yachts of all types. For the 
22-footers, racing as one class, a special cup has been of- 
fered. It was found that the 22-footers measured into 
the largest of the three rating classes provided, from 33 
to 40ft. and would have to race with 35-footers and 30- 
footers, which the owners of the 22-footers objected to. 
As the boats built since the first of the year would have 
to assume the limit of the class, it is likely that they 
would have to allow yachts of much greater waterline 
length, and they would also have to give allowance to the 
older 22-footers. All of this was objected to by the own- 
ers of the 22-footers, SO' the arrangement was made as 
stated above. This will satisfy the owners of the 22-foot- 
ers and at the same time will give the committee an op- 
portunity of studying the effect of the new uniform rule 
as affecting yachts of different types. 
Novel Race at Hull. — Announcement has been made 
that the Boston Y. C. will give a race for 18-footers and 
15-footers sailing in one class, off the Hull station on 
July 9. This race will be decidedly novel and will, no 
doubt, furnish much amusement for those who take part 
as well as for the spectators. Upon signal the boats will 
be obliged to anchor near the committee boat, lower and 
furl mainsails, securing them with four stops, and unhook 
jibs, placing them in the standing rooms. Upon the sec- 
ond signal the boats will make sail and cross the starting 
line, leaving tenders secured to the anchor roads. After 
sailing part of the course yachts will leave one man in 
their tenders, and after another mark has been turned, 
will return and pick the men up again. They will then 
proceed to finish the course, but in crossing the finish line 
must do so stern first. After crossing to the satisfaction 
of the committee, each yacht must gO' to its tender and 
make fast to the anchor road, lower and furl sails the 
same as at the start. Thence, leaving one man on each 
boat, the other two will proceed to the club float, one 
man rowing, where one member of the crew will light a 
cigarette with wax tapers furnished by the judges. All 
conditions must be complied with to the satisfaction of 
the committee. It is also announced that the position of 
the committee boat may be changed at the finish. The 
committee consists of Messrs. T. E. Jacobs, H. J. Thayer, 
John L. Amory, H. S. Potter, C. W. Cole and J. J. 
Souther. 
It has also been announced that the following series 
of lectures will be given at the Hull club house: July 28, 
illustrated talk on “The United States Life Saving Ser- 
vice,” by Arthur K. Peck; Aug. 5, “Historic American 
Yachts,” illustrated, by Winfield M. Thompson; Aug. 12, 
“Charts and Navigation,” by Capt. George W. Eldridge. 
Eastern Y. C. Power Boat Races. — The Motor Boat 
Committee of the Eastern Y. C.' has issued its circulars 
for power boat races to be held during the season. The 
dates are as follows : July 4, Aug. 18, Aug. 26 and Sept. 
2. Three special open races will be given on July 27, 28 
and 29. The Gay cup will again be competed for this 
year by boats under 40ft. over all. 
The classes for automobile boats, under the classifica- 
tion of the American Automobile Association, follows: 
Class A, boats not over 26ft. length waterline; Class B, 
boats over 26ft. and not over 32ft. length waterline; 
Class C, boats over 32ft. and not over 40ft. length water- 
line ; Class D, boats over 40ft. and not over 50ft. length 
waterline; Class E, boats over 50ft. and not over 65ft. 
length waterline. 
The following are the classes for launches : 
First class, all over 50ft. rating; second class, all cabin 
boats and boats with standing awnings over 21ft. rating, 
and not over 50ft. rating; third class, hunting launches 
and open boats over 21ft. rating, and not over 50ft. rating; 
fourth class, not over 21ft. rating. 
Invader Nearing Completion. — The 95ft. schooner 
Invader, building for Mr. Roy A. Rainey, of the New 
York Y. C., is nearing completion. She has been painted 
and the joiner work is now going in. She will be ready 
for the water in a few weeks. Messrs. Wilson & Silsby 
are at work on her sails. These sailmakers are making 
suits for Bethulia, Lina, Vigil, Peregrine and the three 
Rochester defenders for the Canada cup. New sails have 
been shipped to Cleveland for the schooner Priscilla, and 
sails are being made for Southern Cross and Verande. 
