Dct. 2a, 1905.1 1 
Di-cakfast. Left at to A. M., for Trenton, 4 mfles down 
;he bay. Wind light and baffling, causing the sheets 
Df the foresail in gybing to catch Charlie, who was sit-.. 
:ing on the cabin, around the neck and all but yank 
him overboard. At noon we tied up at Trenton and 
found the steam yacht Tesby, of the N. Y. & S. C., 
there. It was his first trip in the Bay of Quinte, and 
after getting information from the Skipper, _ he pulled 
out for Belleville. At i P. M., after replenishing our 
larder we, too, headed down the bay, wind freshening 
and abeam. A mile down we met a sloop, Maggie L., 
and he gave us a race, beating us 200ft. at Belleville 
Bridge. The Skipper was to have called in at Belleville 
and meet the Tesby, but inside the bridge we met a 
large Mackinac and got after him and just managed to 
pass him at Massassage Park, 4 miles from Belleville. 
We kept going, and at Telegraph Island Light, which 
stands in mid channel, the wind headed us off. It was 
necessary to make a couple of short tacks until off 
i^eseronto. Here we took a chance and crossed behind 
Forresters Island, the summer home of Dr. 
Oronhyatekha, the head of that big order. We struck 
several times but did no damage. The wind dropped 
very light at sunset. We were then in what is called 
the reach opposite Deseronto, the bay here being only 
half a mile in width. The banks rise straight up out of 
the water. Great care must be exercised here, as the 
wind is always changeable when, off shore, and if blow- 
ing up or down channel is a bad place to do much 
windward work in. It took us from sunset until after 
midnight to make Glenore, 10 miles. Here we found 
Vereda, Mr. Wm. Peuchin’s cutter of the Royal, Canad- 
ian Y. C., and after an impromptu race — to stretch our 
limbs — we turned in. Day’s run 30 miles. 
July 28, Tuesday. — Five A. M., all hands up early and 
decide to do some fishing. As a result had a fish fry 
on the dock. Breakfast over, we started with our 
camera for a trip to the lake on the mountain of which 
Glenore boasts. 
This lake is certainly worth seeing. It is over 200ft. 
above the bay, and it is claimed is fed by Lake Erie or 
Huron by a subterranean passage. A large pipe leads 
from it down the mountain side to a water wheel which 
runs a large mill. We returned to the boat at 9:30, and 
at 10:10 A. M. left with a good breeze off S. W., which 
freshened to half a gale by noon; but as our sheets 
were well eased, we stuck to all our canvas and made 
f Kingston at 4 P. M., and laid up for the night. Run 
37 miles. In the evening took the cars and saw the 
city, turning in at ii P. M. We set the alarm clock for 
^ 4 A. M., intending to get out early. 
July 29, Wednesday. — Alarm clock not needed. A 
severe thunder storm was raging. The rain came down 
: in torrents and a gale was blowing from the S. W. The 
[ seas were washing over the decks and at 8 A. M., the 
' Skipper went up-town to procure a chart of the islands, 
as the chart of Lake Ontario ends at Kingston. The 
mate and the crew in the meantime were putting things 
in readiness to start. On the return of the skipper he 
found that an excursion was to have left for the 
Islands, but had to be postponed, and those who had 
ventured out were eagerly waiting to see Tainui start. 
Small bets were made that we would not leave, or that 
if we did, would come back in a hurry. Two reefs had 
been put in the mainsail, two in the foresail and one in 
the jib. “You pack of lobsters, you don’t intend to go 
out in that do you?” said a grizzled old fisherman: 
We had no time to reply, for the lines had been cast- 
off and with a cheer we shot out of the slip. “Bang!’' 
and Tainui rose on top of a large comber and plunged 
into the next. Down she went to the cabin trunk and 
we all climbed out. It was a close fetch and every time 
she drove into a sea the wind would blow the: spray 
over us. “Stand by to go about,” came the order, 
“hard alee,” and the mate let go the jib, Charlie the 
foresail, and Tainui came about on the port tack, and 
before she gathered way, was down to the trunk and 
the water poured into the cockpit. There was. a snap 
and a jerk — one of the mainshrouds had parted under 
the strain. “Go about!” yelled the Skipper, and Tainui 
was put on the starboard tack again to save the mast. 
“Get in the foresail and set the back stays!” came the 
order. The mate went forward and in the next plunge 
was nearly washed overboard. The foresail was taken 
in without further mishap and the stays set taught. The 
Skipper now laid her off a point and set his course down 
the channel. In ten minutes more we eased our sheets, 
and with the wind over the quarter, clipped off 10 
miles an hour. The reefed foresail was again set, but 
it was too much for her. The topping lifts were .set 
up and the foresail slouched. This worked admirably. 
After rounding Ten-Mile Light we met Cleopatra, Mr. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
George Gooderham’s splendid steam yacht, homeward 
bound. He gave us a clear passage and a salute to 
which we responded. After twenty minutes of good 
hard pounding to windward the channel again changed, 
making it a free run, and in half an hour we were op- 
posite Clayton, N. Y. Picking out a sheltered dock, 
we rounded up and made fast at i P. M. Run 25 
miles. 
We threw our canvas loosely over the spars, and as 
it had stopped raining, we hauled our damp things out 
on the dock, cooked a meal, after which we went up- 
town to hunt up a ship chandler to get a new shroud 
for the mainmast, but were unsuccessful. We replen- 
ished our larder, and at 5:30 hoisted away all canvas 
and ran 5 miles to Thousand Island Park. We didn’t 
know the. channel, but took a chance. Just off the Park 
we landed good and hard, but did no damage. 
July 30, Thursday. — In the morning we tried a little 
fishing, but they were not biting, and at 2 P. M., we 
reefed and tacked across to Murray Hill, 3 miles K. W. 
Murray Hill did not come up to expectations, so we 
jaunted on 7 miles to Gananoque. It was another 
thrash to windward, and in making a short cut through 
the island, struck our centerboard, and again narrowly 
escaped a big reef. We met a skiff, whose owner 
piloted us safely into the proper channel, and at 6:30 
dropped our anchor at Gananoque. Ten miles. 
July 31, Friday. — Left at 7 A. M., with wind fresh 
ana ahead, a double reef put in foresail and a single 
reef in the mainsail. The squalls kept us busy until we 
passed the Spectacle and Red Horse Rock lights. 
Here it commenced to lighten. We caught a trading 
sloop. Tacking up light, we shook out the reefs. It 
was a close haul, but soon the wind shifted and we got 
it abeam until 5 miles out of the penitentiary city, where 
we got it dead over the bows. The Skipper amused 
himself dafubing the ironwork with aluminum paint. 
The crew were asleep in the cabin. The mate did not 
notice a white barrel buoy, and landed the hooker on 
a shoal. The centerboard rose up and smote the cabin 
roof. The Skipper dropped the paint on the deck and 
nearly fell overboard in his excitement. Charlie made 
for the cockpit and George, who was to starboard, 
found the centerboard had formed a barrier across the 
'cabin and he was prisoner, but got out of it by crawling 
through the forward cabin. The board was pinned up 
and we backed down off the shoal again. No damage. 
The Skipper now took the helm and explained the 
following to the mate and the crew, which may be handy 
to others:. “In approaching channels from seaward 
red buoys marked with even numbers will be found on 
the starboard side of the channel and must be left on 
the starboard in passing in. Black buoys, with odd 
numbers will be found on the port side of the channel 
and must be left on the port side in passing in. Buoys 
with red and black horizontal stripes will be found on 
obstructions with channel ways on either side of them, 
and may be left on either hand. Buoys painted with 
black and white perpendicular stripes will be found in 
.miid-channel and must be passed close to avoid danger.” 
After discussion on this lesson, all except the man at 
the helm, set to work with gasolene to_ wash the 
aluminum paint off the deck. We then beat into Kings- 
ton in a lively wind and sea. She was rail awash 
the last 3 miles, arriving at 2 P. M. Eighteen miles. 
The papers had published an account of our leaving 
port in the storm of a few days before, and as the 
news spread around the docks that we were again in 
port, we soon had many visitors, who kept us busy 
answering questions. How much ballast? How much 
does she draw, etc.? We slipped off our sea-going togs 
and slid up-town, and after a visit to the knight of the 
razor, felt a good deal better, and after purchasing our 
provisions and a new steel shroud to replace the one 
carried away a few days before, turned in early. 
Aug. I, Saturday.— Got up at 5:30 and hoisted all 
canvas on Tainui to take advantage of the morning 
wind. Called at Kingston Y. C. and registered. Again 
set off, the wind over the quarter and light. Met with 
and raced a big trading schooner and were hard on his 
heels at the Three Brother Islands, and would have 
passed him easily, only we were sailing with slouch 
mainsail. The Skipper was aloft splicing our new main 
shroud. When we got settled away, the schooner was 
soon caught and passed and then set out to catch a big 
trading sloop. She was hull down when we sighted 
her, but we caught and passed her off Glenore after a 
lo-mile thrash. From Glenore to Deseronto the wind, 
owing to a change in the channel, became a quarter 
breeze and the sloop chased us hard. Made Deseronto 
at 8 P. M. 
[to be concluded.] 
889 
Boston Letter. 
Y. R. A. OF Massachusetts Adopts Rating Rule.-— 
At the annual fall meeting of the Yacht Racing Associa-- 
tion of Massachusetts, held in Young’s Hotel on Thurs- 
day evening, Oct., 49, it was voted to adopt cesses M, N, 
P, Q and R under the uniform rule of rating. There was 
some discussion upon the merits of the rule, and that 
time-worn theory of letting some other fellow try it first 
was brought forward, but the opposition to adoption was 
not nearly as strong as might have been expected in an 
organization that, looks askance at anything that may 
appear to be a radical, departure. 
Mr. Louis M. Clark was there to champion the rule, 
but his remarks were not very extended, he preferring to 
answer any questions that might be asked rather than to 
give an extended general talk upon ground that has al- 
ready been considerably covered. Mr. Clark cited the 
record of the 30- footer Meemer, as an example of how 
the rule would apply to big-bodied, shoal draft boats, and 
also spoke of the manner in which class Q- had shown to 
greater advantage than the old knockabouts and .race- 
abouts in New York waters. Mr. Clark’s strongest point 
was to the effect that the rule was not that, of any par- 
ticular club, but was devised by Mr. N. G. Herreshoff, a 
man who had been more successful in evading rules by 
taking advantage of weak points than any other designer 
living, and that Mr. Flerreshoff formulated this rule as 
one which he believed could not be evaded. 
Vice-President Sumner H. Foster, who presided, spoke 
in favor of adoption, stating that it was by no means 
necessary to give up the present restricted classes, and, 
that the new rule would not in any way interfere with 
racing them. He contended that the more general the, 
adoption and application of the rule the quicker its de- 
fects might be ascertained and remedied, and that if the 
new rule is the best one that can be devised it is the one 
that is wanted for the classes of Massachusetts Bay. 
Secretary A. T. Bliss spoke in favor of adoption along 
the same lines, stating that the best way of finding out 
what might be done with the rule would be to adopt it 
and apply it. 
The adoption of classes under the new rule up to 40ft. 
rating by the Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts 
has great significance, for it is this association that con- 
trols most of the racing in Massachusetts Bay.. The ef- 
fect of this attitude upon clubs of which the Association 
is composed is likely to be very great. Many of these 
clubs do not have special class rules, but are guided by 
the rules and' classification of the Y. R. A. of Massachu- 
setts. So, it would appear that the adoption of classes 
under the new uniform rule b}'’ an organization with so 
much power, would mean a general acceptance of the rule, 
throughout the bay. It must be remembered, however, 
that the adoption by the Y. R. A. of Massachusetts is 
not to the exclusion of the popular restricted classes, for 
the present at least. It is simply adopted by the Asso- 
ciation as one of the possible good things that it is bound 
to give those clubs which support it, and the rest will 
be up to the clubs giving open races, and to the yachts- 
men who may build new boats. 
If yacht.smen build in all of the classes there will be 
some advance in the size of the boats that may race under 
Y. R. A. rules, notably those of more than 30ft. water- 
line, which are recognized by the Eastern Y. C. This 
would give the Marblehead club an opportunity of closer 
affiliation with the strongest racing organization in the 
bay, even to membership in the organization, in the in- 
terest of a common cause. It is obvious that the privilege 
of competition for Y. R. A. championships among classes 
of over 30ft. waterline in Eastern Y. C. open events, 
might be a help toward greater attendance at those races. 
A. P. B. A. Rules Adopted. — At this meeting of the 
Yacht Racing Association it was also voted to adopt the 
rules and classification of the American Power Boat 
Association. There was no opposition to this measure, as 
the feeling has been more or less general that the con- 
trol of open power boat racing by the Yacht Racing 
Association would be productive of greater attendance 
at open events and therefore of immense valtie in de- 
veloping power boating in Mai^sachusetts Bay. In this 
measure there is also an opportunity for clubs not at 
present affiliated with the Y. R. A. of Massachusetts to 
unite with it in a common cause. Power boating has 
been agitated in Massachusetts waters by many clubs, the 
most active being the Eastern Y. C., but the attendance 
at these events has been scattering, and in many cases 
discouraging. It is believed that, with a Y. R. A. cham- 
pionship in each power boat class for a season’s work, 
interest will become more general and that good attend- 
ance may be had at all open events. 
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