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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 21, 1906. 
Saturday, Aug. 4, squadron run, Morris Cove 
to New London. 
Sunday, Aug. 5, at New London; the squadron 
will dress ship at morning colors. 
Monday, Aug. 6, squadron run, New London to 
Newport. 
Tuesday, Aug. 7, at Newport, Astor cup races. 
Wednesday, Aug. 8, at Newport, race for the 
King’s cup; races in Narragansett Bay for boats 
too small to compete for the King’s cup. In the 
evening the squadron will illuminate. 
Thursday, Aug. 9, Newport to Vineyard Haven. 
Friday, Aug. 10, at Vineyard Haven. Races for 
the Owl and Game Cock colors in the morning. 
Saturday, Aug. 11, squadron run, Vineyard 
Haven to Newport. 
The preparatory signal for squadron runs will 
be two guns fired in rapid succession by the flag¬ 
ship and the display at the foretopmast head of 
the code letter P over the signal indicating the 
next port. The start will be made promptly one 
hour later from a line previously established by 
the Regatta Committee, at which time the pre¬ 
paratory signal will be hauled down on board the 
flagship. 
The Regatta Committee will issue instructions 
for the runs from port to port and for the other 
racing events. 
The flag officers’ cups will be sailed for during 
the cruise. 
Captains are requested to supply their vessels 
with New York Y. C. night signals. 
Captains and their guests will be welcome on 
board the flagship at all times. 
Particular attention is invited to the club 
routine and to the signal code. 
The advisability of racing and other events at 
Vineyard Haven on Friday, Aug. 10, will be de¬ 
termined at the rendezvous, on board the flagship, 
and be communicated later in a circular to the 
squadron. 
nt it 
The King’s Cup. —With the race for the cup 
presented by King Edward VII. less than a 
month off, the arrival of the trophy is next in 
importance to the race itself. The cup has been 
conveyed to the American Ambassador at Lon¬ 
don, Mr. Whiteiaw Reid. Mr. Reid notified the 
State Department of the delivery to him, and as 
the cup comes from the sovereign of a friendly 
country, and being intended for no purpose of a 
commercial nature, and as it will promote cor¬ 
diality and such friendly feelings, it should be 
subject to no duties of any kind. 
The law does not specifically suspend the tariff 
in these cases. The State Department has how- 
ever, on similar occasions, granted free admission 
to such gifts as an act of international courtesy. 
Indeed, "with the gradual development of the 
preliminaries, much satisfaction has been ex¬ 
pressed in all quarters, and the event will as¬ 
suredly prove to be the greatest of the yachting 
season. 
»* »* ** 
New Duggan Boat. —There has just been com¬ 
pleted at the works of the Sydney Motor Boat 
Company a yacht for Mr. G. Herrick Duggan, who 
for so long designed, built and sailed the de¬ 
fenders of the Seawanhaka cup when held by the 
Royal Canadian Y. C. The yacht is intended for 
cruising, and is of the following dimensions: 
Length over all, 40ft.; load waterline. 27ft., on 
a breadth of 9ft. The sail spread will be 2,000ft. 
set on a pole mast. The ballast will be of iron 
and will weigh about three and a quarter tons. 
****** 
The Sonderklasse.-— The conditions governing 
the Roosevelt cup races at Marblehead requires 
that the boats entered for the contest shall be 
overboard when the entry list is closed, which 
occurred on July 14. The German trial races, 
soon to take place at Kiel, will have sixteen com¬ 
petitors, from which three challengers will be 
selected to be sent over. It is reported that 
Angela II., belonging to the Crown Prince, will 
very likely be one of the trio. At home there are 
seventeen competitors, the last three going over¬ 
board within ten days. Vim, designed by Mr. 
Gardner, built by Lawley, for Mr. Trenor L. 
Park, American Y. C., is said to be much like 
the successful sloop Aspirant, designed by Mr. 
Gardner. Spokane, built by Mr. B. F. Wood, at 
City Island, from a design by Mr. Clinton H. 
Crane, for Commodore F. Lewis Clark, Eastern 
Y. C., is ready to go eastward. The third boat 
is Alecto, designed by Mr. E. W. Hodgson for 
himself and Mr. R. L. Pond. The racing of the 
Sonderklasse boats has so far not included more 
than five or six boats, but as the trial races draw 
near, all the competitors will be joining in the 
racing to try gear and find weak points, that they 
may be remedied in time. 
****** 
Lipton Cup Races.— Interest in Chicago has 
centered in the pending arrangements of the 
Chicago Athletic Club to enter and sail their 
boat, Cherry Circle, designd by C. D. Mower, of 
New York, under the colors of the C. A. C. The 
Lake Michigan Yachting Association gave no en¬ 
couragement. The matter was brought out that 
the club possessed a large fleet of yachts, could 
make good, and saw no difference between their 
case and that of the New York A. C., and the 
affair will very probably turn out to the satisfac¬ 
tion of all, and Cherry Circle will sail as the 
representative of the C. A. C. The presence of 
Sir Thomas Lipton, donor of the cup, is still un¬ 
certain, but there are still hopes of his arrival 
in time. The Reception Committee of the Colum¬ 
bia and Milwaukee yacht clubs are to meet in a 
few days to provide for the entertainment of 
Sir Thomas in the event of his coming. 
****** 
At this time, when most of the boats that are 
to compete for the Lipton cup at Chicago are on 
their way, a decision just rendered about the 
fitting of double rudders to the contestants is of 
interest. It is as follows: 
“We do not see that the double rudder violates 
the spirit or intent of the rules governing con¬ 
tests for the Thomas J. Lepton competitive cup; 
that the double rudder does not attack the type of 
yacht, which, in our judgment, is the vital essence 
of the rule. Inasmuch as Bill Poster and New 
Illinois qualify in all measurements and because 
their type of hull necessitates double rudders for 
safety under certain circumstances, we, therefore, 
rule that double rudders be allowed.” 
The committee which passed upon this ques¬ 
tion is composed of Edw. S. Rosing, Chicago 
Y. C.; Henry R. Davies, Columbia Y. C., and 
Alex. C. Cuthbert, a member, of both clubs. The 
decision emanated from a protest lodged by 
Allan Pirie, for H. S. Mills, owner of the Crane- 
designed Quien Sabe. The boats that were aimed 
at were Bill Poster and New Illinois, both re¬ 
cently finished and fitted with double rudders. 
It is regrettable that this decision might not have 
been rendered somewhat earlier in the game. 
Double rudders have been generally considered 
outside of a strict interpretation of the rules. 
****** 
New Ocean Racing Schooner. —At the con¬ 
clusion of the Emperor’s cup race from New 
York to the Lizard, the Emperor expressed a 
desire to offer a second trophy to be raced for 
from the Lizard to New York. The feeling pre¬ 
vailed at the time that it would be unwise to at¬ 
tempt another race so soon, and till this time 
very few rumors have been about, which would 
denote any activity in this direction. However, 
with the announcement from Bristol that Mr. 
F. S. Cheesebrough had been commissioned by 
Mr. Edward R. Coleman, owner of Hildegard, to 
design a new schooner to meet the conditions 
of the ocean race, a number of other orders seem 
imminent. The Hildegard was entered in the 
ocean race, but did not come in time to win a 
prize. The new schooner, as reported, will be 
about 116ft. on the waterline, 160ft. over all, 26ft. 
breadth, and 16ft. draft, and will be built at Law- 
leys and will be ready to enter the race next 
year in the event of its taking place. Rumor 
has it, that the Herreshoffs of Bristol have under 
consideration the plans for a large schooner. 
The name of the owner, however, is withheld, 
but the news will no doubt be confirmed in a short 
time. Mr. Robert E. Tod, who was much in¬ 
terested in the ocean race, and who navigated and 
sailed his own ship, Thistle, will build a larger 
boat, if his present yacht is sold. That these 
rumors are persistent, increases the chances of 
their truth, and with the interest manifested in 
the last races, perhaps, the limit of their being 
run off at five year intervals, is a little too long 
and at the expiration of three years a very suc¬ 
cessful race could be started with as many at 
least, and perhaps, more competitors than before. 
The Ideal and the Real. 
Notes of a Cruise to Acadie. 
BY B. H. W. 
(Centiuued front page 63.) 
At 6:30 a sounding in 23 fathoms showed the 
drift to be S.E. by E., making our position be¬ 
tween the capes reasonably certain. At 8130 the 
Cape D’Or whistle was heard a point off our port 
bow. We drifted on by Cape D’Or and up the 
Minas Channel to some point well up toward 
Cape Split, so that if there had been a wind we 
could have safely run in W.N.W. until we found 
water shoal enough for anchorage. In a flat calm 
we could only drift and watch. At about 11 P.M. 
we were close enough to some big vessel to hear 
voices, and the long continued rattle of chain that 
ran out and out until it seemed it would never 
stop. One of us dropped over the blue pigeon 
and found 46 fathoms. We did not anchor. The 
ebb was now sweeping again to the westward, 
so that the breeze was felt a little, and we let 
her go off and on until dawn, with the lawyer 
at the stick. 1 
At 5 A. M. the tide began to run East again, 
making an apparent easterly breeze. Cape D’Or 
was somewhere N.E., so we ran that way. At 
6 :30 the fog lifted for a few minutes and showed 
Cape D’Or close aboard right ahead, no whistle 
blowing. Ran E. 50 minutes and then W.N.W. 
to an anchorage in 8 fathoms. Hoped we were 
somewhere near Spencer’s Island anchorage. 
Turned in cold and tired and slept until noon, 
when we were wakened by a thump alongside 
and the voice of Baxter McClellan saying, “Hello, 
aboard the yawl.” 
He was the same old Baxter that we had 
known the year before, cheerful, jolly and oblig¬ 
ing, and very glad to see us again. As we chat¬ 
ted over the happenings since our last visit Bax¬ 
ter proposed a 30-mile drive for the afternoon, 
and volunteered to be pilot and driver. 
A little later you might have seen the whole 
five of us packed in a light wagon behind a pair 
of tough Nova Scotia horses. Baxter slapped 
the lines across their backs and we were off. He 
drove as a Gloucesterinan drives his schooner 
when the market is waiting. It was mostly a 
full run. We did walk up some of the long hills, 
but on every down grade, no matter how steep, 
across deep gullies and over rickety corduroy 
bridges, where only Providence and a strong grip 
kept us from being shot out into space, we 
bumped and rattled. 
The way led through forests of spruce and 
across barrens covered with young hackmatack 
and birch until we came out by the tidal harbor 
of Apple River on the Cumberland Basin. The 
tide was low. There was no water in sight and 
no vessels. Outside the Light the fog shut down 
like a wall. The harbor’s .shores curved around 
a wide and melancholy expanse of dull sand that 
waited for the incoming flood to bring to it a 
semblance of beauty or life. It made us uncom¬ 
fortable and seemed gruesome, as if something 
were radically wrong in its planning. 
From Apple River the horses were turned to¬ 
ward Advocate, where there is another eerie har¬ 
bor guarded by a nightmare breakwater of drift 
wood and cobbles built by westerly gales. The 
road now followed the valley between Chignecto 
and D’Or, and there was more of beauty and 
grace in the spruce and white birch which over¬ 
hung the narrow winding way. The impression 
left by the drive is one of sombre desolation. The 
land is poor and cold, yet the thinly scattered in¬ 
habitants, honest, hardy, good-natured, taciturn, 
all seemed reasonably happy and contented, and 
from the door of every cottage peeped the smil¬ 
ing faces of rosy cheeked children, the most im- 
