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The Ideal and the Real. 
Notes of a Cruise to Acadie. 
Yachting Fixtures for 1306. 
Members of Race Committees and Secretaries will cm 
fer a favor by sending notice of errors or omissions in 
the following list, and also changes which may be made 
in the future. 
AUGUST. 
2. New York, cruise, rendezvous Glen Cove. 
3. Shinnecock, women’s race. 
3. New York, squadron run, Glen Cove to Morris Cove. 
■1. Marine and Field Club, championship race. 
4. Quantuck, Association race. 
4. Horseshoe Harbor, Corinthian of Stamford. 
4. Royal Canadian. 
4. Knickerbocker, annual cruise. 
4. Wianno, club. 
4. Hingham, O. D. C., Bay Side. 
4. Beverly, Corinthian, Buzzard’s Bay. 
4. Rochester, Brig’s cup, A. P. B. A. 
4. Atlantic, closed, 3 P. M. 
4. Stamford Corinthian, power boats. 
4. Corinthian, Winthrop 18-footers. 
4. Taunton, club run. 
4. Cohasset, club. 
4. New York, squadron run, Morris Cove to New Lon¬ 
don. 
4. Indian Harbor, annual regatta. 
4-5. Huguenot, club cruise. 
5. Erie Basin, ladies’ day. 
6. Manchester, Y. R. A., West Manchester. 
6. New York, squadron run. New London to Newport. 
6. Manchester, Y. R. A., open. 
G. Newport. 
G-7-8-9. Tawas Beach (Mich.), annual regatta. 
7. Manchester, open, Crowhurst cup. 
7. New York, Astor cup, Newport. 
7. Narragansett Y. R. A., rendezvous Newport. 
7. Kennebec, Bath, commodore’s cup. 
8. Atlantic, closed, 3 P. M. 
8. East Gloucester, Y. R. A. 
8. Newport, annual regatta. 
8. New York, King’s cup, Newport. 
8. Newport, Carnival week, N. B. Y. R. A. 
8-9.—East Gloucester Y. R. A., Gloucester. 
8- 19. Brooklyn, cruise, rendezvous Echo Bay, New 
Rochelle and Norwalk combined. 
9. East Gloucester, open, Y. R. A. 
9. Kennebec, Bath, commodore’s cup. 
9. New York, squadron run, Newport to Vineyard. 
9- 10-11. Shinnecock, Association races. 
10. American, Newburyport, cruise to Annisquam. 
10. New York fleet at Vineyard Haven. 
10-11. Annisquam, Y. R. A., Annisquam. 
11. Bensonhurst, championship race. 
11. Huguenot, annual regatta. 
11. Harlem, long distance race. 
11. Huguenot, Bridgeport Y. R. A. 
11. Royal Canadian, L. Y. R. A. 
11. Keystone, special. 
11. Wianno, club. 
11. Hingham, Club. 
11. Beverly, club, Buzzard’s Bay. 
11. Wollaston, inter-club. 
11. Cape May power boats. 
11. Lynn, sail and power boats. 
11. Taunton, dories and power boats. 
11. Cohasset, club. 
11. Kennebec, Bath, commodore’s cup 
11. American, Newburyport, cruise. 
11. New York, Vineyard to Newport and disband. 
11. Rochester, N. Y., Fisher cup. 
13. American, Newburyport, open. 
13. Newport. 
13-18. Eastern, German-American trials, Marblehead. 
14. East Gloucester, championship. 
15-18. Atlantic, race week. 
17. Westhampton, women’s race. 
18. Pan-Quog-ue, Association race. 
18. Stamford-Hartford, Manhasset Bay, cruising race. 
18. Indian Harbor, handicap. 
18. Royal Canadian, L. Y. R. A. 
18. Wianno, club. 
18. Hingham, O. D. C., Bay Side. 
18. Beverly, club, Buzzard’s Bay. 
15. Cape May, power boats. 
18. Corinthian. Stamford power boats. 
18. Boston, Marblehead. 
18. Columbia, Chicago, Lipton cup. 
18. Cohasset, club. 
19. Corinthian Union, union regatta. 
19. Columbia. Mass., ladies’ day. 
19. Lynn, club run.. 
19. Columbia, Chicago, Lipton cup. 
19. Newport. 
20. Atlantic, open. 
21. Columbia, Chicago, Lipton cup. 
22. Moriches, women’s race. 
21-22-23. Gold challenge cup power boat races, Chippewa 
Bay. 
23. Plymouth, Y. R. A., Plymouth. 
24. Quantuck, club. 
24-25. Duxbury, Y. R. A., Duxbury. 
25. Moriches, Association race. 
25. Brooklyn, championship race. 
25. Royal Canadian. 
25. Corinthian, Marblehead. 
25. Keystone, special. 
25. Huguenot, club. 
25. American, Northport, Y. R. A. 
25. Wianno, club. 
25. Beverly, Corinthian, Buzzard’s Bay. 
25. Wollaston, club championship. 
25. Moriches-, association race. 
25. Cohasset, club. 
25. Lynn, sail and power boats. 
25. Hingham, club, Bayside. 
25. Rhode Island, regatta. Potter's Cove. 
25. Kennebec, Bath, championship. 
25. American, Newburyport, dories. 
2(j. South Boston, ladies’ day. 
27. Newport. 
27-28-29. Cape Cod, Y. R. A., Provincetown. 
2S. East Gloucester, championship. 
29. Quantuck, women’s race. 
29. Atlantic, open, 3 P. M. 
30. New Bedford, Rickctson cups, South Dartmouth. 
31 and Sept. 1. XVellfleet, Y. R. A., Wellfleet. 
31. Pan-Quogue, women’s race. 
31. Beverly, open, off Mattapoisett. 
THE SITUATION. • 
From the great gathering at the cruise of the 
Atlantic, Philadelphia Corinthian and Seawan- 
haka Corinthian yacht clubs, which ended the 
day before the beginning of Larclimont Race 
Week, it might have been imagined that less in¬ 
terest would have been shown at Larchmont. This 
was not the case, and Race Week was not merely 
a topic of interested conversation in local circles, 
but its success astonished those clubs more re¬ 
mote, whose members, either from lack of time 
or distant location, found it impossible to attend. 
Continuous good weather and a phenomenal 
entry list gave racing which left nothing to be 
desired. The presence of seme of the big boats 
such as Vigilant, Sybarita, Corona and Invader 
would have added much to the interest had 
they been started. The handling of the races 
was perfect, from the point of view of racing man 
and spectator alike. 
Our yachting is now in a most satisfactory 
state, and a very casual observer would recog¬ 
nize that interest in the sport is stronger than 
ever before, and that conditions are more whole¬ 
some than if a contest for the America’s Cup 
were at hand. It is a matter of common knowl¬ 
edge, among designers, builders and those in¬ 
terested in the construction of yachts, that in 
Cup years all the usual conditions are upset, and 
no great activity maintains outside of Bristol. 
Our material history shows that our progress has 
been due to attention to those issues that were 
within our country. So also must it be in yacht¬ 
ing. Yachting within the confines of our hemi¬ 
sphere, is the yachting that counts, and though 
foreign intercourse and competition are good 
as aiding in the broadening process so neces¬ 
sary in any sport, yet these must not be allowed 
to smother Our work at home. 
It will be some time before foreign competition 
as a yearly event can exist without putting 
our sport in the same awkward position as oc¬ 
curred in Great Britain when the Continental 
fixtures flourished to the detriment of those at 
home. 
Cup From Sir John Nutting. —The cup pre¬ 
sented to the Chicago Y. C. by Sir John Nutting, 
of Dublin, Ireland, has arrived at its destination 
and is a challenge trophy of most exquisite de¬ 
sign. There will be races at Chicago from Sept. 
14-18 and these will be open to all recognized 
yacht clubs on the Great Lakes. 
BY B. H. W. 
(Contiuned from page UG.) 
Aug. 5.—At dawn the anchor was raised, 
and with wings spread to catch any stray breath 
of air Istar drifted with the swiftly running ebb 
down the Avon, out over the shallows at its 
mouth, by the red cliffs of Blomidon to Cape 
Split. Here a little breeze came in from tlie E. 
and held us under its 200ft. of sheer cliff just 
leng enough for a good view of the Cape and the 
turbulent race at its knife-like tip. JJere at 
first the water was as quiet and peaceful as an 
old, mill pond. Then from the edge of rock a 
little line of ripples began to rise and break, 
growing visibly from minute to minute, and soon 
a fierce rush of foamy tide was shooting out from 
Scotsman’s Bay, tearing with a mighty rip itito 
the still water on the channel side. The flood 
was beginning to flow. We kept Istar in the 
eddv by tffe Split Rock at the tip of the Cape as 
long as we could or dared, and then let her go 
into the yip. Instantly we were driving up stream 
at the rate of 8 knots an hour, and in place of 
almost a calm had apparently a good breeze. 
Great circling eddies and boils twisted us 
roupd and round and we could feel her settle 
down as the deep whirlpools passed under her. 
T he dinghy several times stood almost on end 
as its stern was sucked down, but although at 
times it seemed to disappear for half its length, 
it took but little water aboard. In three or four 
minutes we were in the straight current and, 
heading to the west of north, were swept back 
eastward 5 miles to behind Cape Sharp by the 
lime we had crossed the 22-3 miles of channel. 
Behind Cape Sharp is an oval basin, West 
Bay. with good anchorage. Bold yellow and red 
bluffs stretch up from a shelving beach and look 
from a distance smooth and even. Close to, on 
the western side, however, it can be seen that 
the strata, running almost vertically and perpen¬ 
dicular to the face, have weathered into a series 
cf slides separated by high walls of crumbling 
reck only a foot or so in thickness. The photo¬ 
graph showing this had to be taken by pointing 
the camera at a considerable angle and so loses 
the effect of great steepness. 
After a ramble along the beach and over the 
cliffs to Cape Sharp in a vain search for ame¬ 
thysts, which it is said are found here, we left for 
Spencer’s Island at 4 P. M. with the first of the 
ebb, and just as a fog from the westward blotted 
out the fair picture we should probably not see 
