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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 14, 1906. 
Yachting Fixtures for 1906. 
Members of Race Committees and Secretaries will con¬ 
fer a favor by sending notice of errors or omissions in 
the following list, and also changes which may be made 
in the future. 
JULY. 
12. Indian Harbor, New York thirties. 
12. Eastern, Dark Harbor to Cranberry Isle. 
12. Quincy, ladies’. 
13. Indian Harbor, special. 
13. Eastern, run to Bar Harbor. 
14. Brooklyn, off Bensonhurst. 
14. Indian Harbor, annual. 
14. Chicago to Mackinac, long distance race. 
14. Royal Canadian, 30ft., 14ft. and dinghy classes. 
14. Westhampton, Great South Bay Y. A. 
14. Boston, cruise. 
14. Corinthian, Marblehead. 
14. Keystone, club. 
14. YVianno, club. 
14. Hingham, O. D. C. 
14. Beverly, Corinthian, Buzzard’s Bay. 
14. Wollaston-Columbia, inter-club. 
14. A.P.B.A. rendezvous, Manhasset. 
14. Eastern, dinner, fleet disbands. 
14. Cohasset. 
14. Columbia, Mass., interclub. 
14. American, Newburyport, dories. 
14. YVinthrop, handicap. 
14-21. Seawanhaka-Atlantic-Corinthian joint cruise. 
14-21. Atlantic, cruise. 
15. Winthrop, ladies’. 
15. Narragansett Bay, Y. A. R., race week, Edgewood. 
15. Newport. 
16. Edgewood, open, Narragansett Bay Y. R. A. 
17. East Gloucester, championship. 
17. A. P. B. A., cruise, fleet at Newport. 
17. Narragansett, Y. R. A., Washington Park. 
18. Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Y. R. A. 
18. Narragansett, Y. R. A., Rhode Island. 
18. Newport. 
19. Narragansett Y. R. A., Prudence Island. 
19. New York, Glen Cove cups. 
20. Narragansett Y. R. A., Fall River. 
20. Kennebec, cruise. 
20. Seawanhaka-Atlantic-Corinthian, at Newport. 
21. Bristol, open, Narragansett Bay Y. R. A. 
21. Corinthian, Marblehead. 
21. Winthrop, Y. R. A., Nahant. 
21. Royal Canadian, first, 20ft. and 16ft. classes 
21. Larchmont, Hartford, Y. R. A. 
21. Moriches, Quantuck. 
21. Wianno, club. 
21. Hingham, O. D. C., Bay Side. 
21. Beverly, Corinthian, Buzzard’s Bay. 
21. Bensonhurst, open. 
21. Taunton, power boats. 
21. Cohasset, club. 
21. Narragansett Y. R. A., Bristol. 
21-28. Larchmont race week. 
CRUISING. 
The sport of yachting includes many phases of 
life upon the water, dependent mainly on the 
time or inclination of the man or woman who 
seeks excitement, recreation or rest in sailing. 
For many, cruising holds the greatest charm of 
yachting, and along a coast that is plentifully 
supplied with safe harbors, and which offers a 
great variety in the aspect of the land, nothing 
could be more enjoyable than to sail from port 
to port, observing the character of the coast and 
its people, their dwelling places and their boats. 
Cruising to-day enjoys a well deserved pop¬ 
ularity, but in our larger yachts its social aspect 
too often overshadows the main object of a cruise. 
Yet there are many enthusiasts among small boat 
sailors who yearly cruise considerable distances, 
sailing and caring for their boats in every re¬ 
quired capacity from codk to masthead man. 
Generally, however, the sport of cruising is not 
carried on so intelligently as it should be, and a 
number of causes contribute to hold it back. The 
obstacles to progress may often be traced to the 
hurry and rush with which we all take our vaca¬ 
tions. Often no time is spent ashore, except at 
night or in early morning prior to setting out 
for a run to some distant point. Such haste does 
not permit to the yachtsman the proper enjoyment 
or observation of his surroundings; for till the 
anchorage is reached, his attention has to be de¬ 
voted to picking up marks or carrying out rapidly 
given orders that always accompany the entrance 
or exit from a crowded anchorage, or through a 
narrow fairway. 
There are many cruising yachtsmen or 
women who are very able and clever with 
pen and pencil, and yet who get home from a 
cruise with a few photographs as the sole evi¬ 
dence of what they, have seen or done. 
Sailing at sea, outside of the interest attached 
to navigation, soon becomes monotonous, unless 
there is an object in view. It is in the observa¬ 
tion of passing ships and the association ashore 
with the peculiar but often gentle men that follow 
the sea that we shall find the greatest possibilities 
and interest. 
The small rivers and creeks afford opportunities 
for fishing and hunting that are still unknown to 
many, for seldom are brought home tales of such 
experiences. 
The art of cruising then should be considered 
in a different aspect from what it is at present, 
in order that those who find pleasure in sailing 
and traveling in their own vessels, may be tempted 
from home, to enjoy the constantly varying land 
and seascape. In that way they may rediscover 
those small and quaint harbors that hold the 
greatest interest for the cruising man, and that 
offer him the most varied and delightful form of 
recreative life that any sport within the ken of 
man affords. 
Southern Letter. 
Satisfaction and enthusiasm is running high 
in the South over the fact that the Southern Y. 
C. of New Orleans, is to be represented in the 
Sonderklasse trial races of the Eastern Y. C. off 
Marblehead, beginning Aug. 13. This entry is 
from a design by Small Bros, of Boston, and 
White of Manchester is the builder. The craft 
which will be named New Orleans, is the only 
one for the class to be owned and named out¬ 
side the Massachusetts Bay and Long Island 
Sound contingents, and the participation of the 
southern boat will give something more of a 
national tone to the trial races leading up to the 
international affair in September between the 
Germans and Americans for the Roosevelt cup. 
If, perchance, the Southern Y. C. boat is one of 
the three selected to meet three to be sent over 
by the Imperial Y. C. of Kiel, the whole of Dixie¬ 
land would be overwhelmed with gratification. 
The cost of the Southern Y. C. craft is $1,500 
and it is figured that the expenses for the crew 
and boat will foot up about $2,000 more. The 
money was raised by the popular subscription 
plan among the club’s 800 members, the idea 
being to get as many yachtsmen personally in¬ 
terested in the venture as possible—to make it 
a club affair entirely, and to have it clothed with 
as much patriotic home sentiment as could be. 
If the Sonderklasse boats take with favor, there 
is no doubt but that the class, will be taken up in 
the Southern Y. C. and that it will be represented 
in future German-American contests, also. Vice- 
Corn. S. F. Heaslip, who is the leading spirit in 
the present enterprise, says that if the boats prove 
likely little racers, he will have a second boat 
built when at Boston and will take both south 
to form the nucleus of a new class on this coast. 
The New Orleans is 37ft. over all, 6ft. nin. 
breadth, 5ft. in. draft, and her lead keel will 
weigh 2,ooolbs. The club committee negotiated 
with ten of the leading designers including Herre- 
shoff, as they wanted the best. Small Bros, got 
the order, as their proposition seemed to show 
that they had given much study to the conditions 
of the contest, and the fine work they had done 
for not only Massachusetts Bay, but for Lake 
Erie and Lake Michigan yachtsmen, were borne in 
mind. A-large delegation of the members of the 
Southern Y. C. will go on to Boston to witness 
the Dutch-Yankee “sailfest,” and it is probable 
that one or more of the large New Orleans steam 
yachts may be taken up to the scene of the contests. 
The sensation of the yachting season in the 
South this summer in the sailing line, is the mar¬ 
velous speed shown by the Burgess and Packard 
designed and built 30-foot cabin yacht Cricket 
against the speedy and noted imported Northern 
cracks Calypso, Chewink III. and Cadillac brought 
here during the past two years. It is a fact 
worthy of record that this fine racer has probably 
had more time and money spent on her to get 
her hull into a smooth and polished condition, 
than any yacht of her size. Two experienced men 
have labored more than six months smoothing up 
her planking and preparing her for the races of 
the season, and all this on a yacht that was most 
excellently built and finished but six months be¬ 
fore. No cup defender, no, nor even a Croescus 
or a Maud S. was ever so lovingly and carefully 
groomed for the fray. The three other conten¬ 
ders in the 30-ft. class, Chewink III., Cadillac and 
Calypso, are well seasoned, and always in the 
pink of condition. Cricket is owned by Ex-Com. 
J. A. Rawlins, Cadillac by Vice-Corn. S. F. Hea¬ 
slip, Chewink III. by Messrs. Robt. Hardie, Ex- 
Com. J. W. Glenny and Eben Hardie, and Calypso 
by Ex-Com. A. PI. Cooke. In this quartette of 
able cabin sloops, it is thought that the Southern 
Y. C. has the best class of “thirties” in the coun¬ 
try. This is the opinion here, and it is hinted 
that Cricket would be matched against any boat 
of her size anywhere for any amount or marbles. 
There is talk of arranging a big yachting carnival 
for this coming fall or winter and of inviting 
Northern yachtsmen to race against Cricket in 
particular, for a handsome prize. It will be re¬ 
membered that New Orleans beat New York in 
a similar game for a prize of $1,500 in 1884, and 
the feeling is that it could come pretty near being 
done again in the coming year of our lord. 
The year of 1906 promises to be a red-letter 
one for the 57-year-old Southern Y. C. in more 
ways than one. The latest matter over which the 
members are feeling proud, is the promise of Sir 
Thomas J. Lipton to donate a handsome cup to 
the club for whatever class it is desired, to con¬ 
centrate upon and see fostered along the Mexi¬ 
can Gulf coast. It is probable that the club will 
ask the trophy for a small class of racing-cruis¬ 
ing cabin sloops, such as class “R” of the Uni¬ 
versal Rule and the 18ft. cabin sloop knockabouts 
of the Y. R. Association of Massachusetts. The 
leading spirits of the club are determined to at¬ 
tempt to make the Southern Y. C. Lipton cup 
annual event ,rival in importance that of the Lip¬ 
ton cup of the Columbia Y. C. of Chicago, and 
the desire will be to organize by this stimulus an 
annual southern inter-state yachting event, if not 
one of national importance. 
Lorillard Dudley Sampsell. 
Enlargement of Gas Engine Plant.— -The 
Foos Gas Engine Company, Springfield, Ohio, 
the largest exclusive gas engine factory in the 
world, whose output consists of high grade en¬ 
gines in all sizes and types, have just placed an 
order for $20,000 worth of machine tools, con¬ 
sisting of lathes, planers, boring mills, drill 
presses, grinders, etc. Their business so far this 
year shows an increase of fifty per cent, over any 
previous year, and this extra equipment will en¬ 
able them to make prompt delivery of all orders. 
