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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Aug. 18, 1906. 
Boston Letter. 
Before this attains publicity the trial races of 
the Eastern Y. C., to select its three defenders 
in the approaching races for the Roosevelt cup, 
will be nearly completed. Beginning Monday, the 
13th, a race will be sailed every morning starting 
at eleven o’clock. The entire fleet of seventeen 
aspirants have qualified and all will presumably 
appear at the starting line. Vim, designed by 
William Gardner for Trenor L. Park, Esq., and 
tbe Crane designed Spokane, owned by Mr. F. 
Lewis Clark, are unknown quantities. The latter 
has only recently arrived at Marblehead and the 
former has been reserved for tbe trials, having 
refrained from entering any of the previous 
races. Vim is a beautifully turned boat, with 
moderate overhangs and comparatively sharp 
bow sections. In these respects she is on a par 
with the two Herreshoff boats Skiddoo and 
Chewink VI., owned respectively by Mr. Robert 
M. Sears and Mr. F. G. Macomber, Jr. Were 
any yachtsman, unacquainted with the conditions 
that gave birth to this fleet and merely desiring 
a good boat, offered bis pick of the American 
fleet, I am confident his selection would be from 
among the three named above or possibly from 
a quartet composed of them and Spokane. 
The four Boardman designed boats Caramba, 
Manchester, Ellen and Auk have a strong family 
resemblance, and in fact they have much the 
look of the Boardman 18ft. knockabouts. Their 
beam is carried well forward and their profile, 
while more delicate, has much the same contour. 
Mr. Boardman began his career as a naval 
architect in the office of Mr. Crowninshield and, 
if I mistake not, was employed there when Uncle 
Sam was designed to race in German waters in 
the Sonderklasse, so that to* all intents and pur¬ 
poses he had as much experience with the class 
as had Mr. Crowninshield, but he seems to have 
made slightly better application of that ex¬ 
perience than his former chief. Not that there 
is any very marked advantage with the Board- 
man boats—there are at least nine boats in the 
class that are very close together and a re¬ 
arrangement of skippers and crews might re¬ 
sult in a general upset of calculations. The 
Crowninshield designed Bonidrei for instance 
might show in an even more favorable light 
were the brilliancy of her young skipper balanced 
by a wider experience and riper judgment. 
The Southern Y. C. crew of the New Orleans 
arrived last Friday. Handled by Mr. Wuescher, 
one of the ablest helsmen of tbe Gulf coast, 
that boat may show great improvement of form. 
Mr. Heaslip, the moving force in the construc¬ 
tion of New Orleans to represent the south and 
the skipper par excellence ' of southern waters, 
is barred from the contest because not a native 
born American. 
These trial races will be used not only to pick 
the Eastern Y. C.’s defenders, but to select from 
among Manchester, Caramba and Ellen the 
Manchester Y. C.’s defender of the Quincy 
challenge cup, and also the boats to represent 
the Boston and Corinthian clubs in the same 
event. Mr. Adams with Auk will represent the 
Quincy Y. C, the original challenger. The 
Hingham Y. C. lodged a challenge on behalf of 
the Bonidrei, but too late, under the deed of 
gift to be accepted. 
This cup was originally offered for compe¬ 
tition by unrestricted 21-footers. But when the 
artful designers evolved machines 21ft. L. W. L.. 
51ft. L. O. A, 17ft. breadth, with 2,000 sq. ft. 
of sail and the appearance of a trussed bridge 
scantily clad in paper clothing, all interest in the 
cup died a natural death, and spiders have spun 
webs about it unmolested in the lockers of the 
Manchester Y. C. ever since Outlook success¬ 
fully defended it in 1902. This year by mutual 
agreement tbe conditions have been changed to 
conform to those governing the Sonderklasse, 
and a very interesting match is looked for on 
the week beginning August 22. Five races will 
be sailed unless some one boat wins three firsts 
before five races are sailed. 
The two German representatives Wannsee and 
Gluckauf IV. have had a number of spins dur¬ 
ing the past week and have made a very favor¬ 
able impression. The crews are certainly won¬ 
derfully keen sailormen and, in addition, have 
EFFORT—KING’S CUP, 1906. 
Designed by H. .T. Giclow. Built by Robt. Jacob. 
Photo by Burton. 
won hosts of admirers because of their unfailing 
courtesy, wide interest and companionable quali¬ 
ties. The Eastern Y. C .has commendably re¬ 
quested the owners of our own Sonder boats to 
refrain from attempted brushes with the Ger¬ 
man boats, but a chance encounter with Sin- 
tram gives a line on them. Sint ram is an old 
Herreshoff designed 21 ft. raceabout now altered 
to fit class Q and is about four minutes faster 
than our best Sonder boats over a ten mile 
course. She seemed to get away with Gluckauf 
IV. in a moderate breeze with no great effort. 
With the races starting off Half Way Rock, 
the Germans’ best chances would seem to be 
in a smoky souwester and flood tide or one of 
the nasty little S.E. blows which, as all Marble¬ 
head men know, kicks up a most uncomfortable 
chop. 
The battle between Marie L. and Tyro in the 
22ft. class continues keen, but favorable to the 
latter, last year’s champion, who once she began 
to go, has upset the confidence which the early 
triumphs of the Marie L. begot in the minds 
of her admirers. 
Although not a recent happening, it is not 
generally known that the Eastern Y. C. has 
leased for ten years,, a landing in Boston ad¬ 
jacent to the city house of the Boston Y. C. The 
city is building a new bridge and highway 
(Northern Ave.) across Fort Point Channel at 
Snow’s Arch wharf, but a narrow strip of the 
old wharf is left outside the bridge. The strip 
has, ihirty-three frontage on the channel, suffi¬ 
cient for a landing stage, and being at 416 At¬ 
lantic avenue, is adjacent to the river’s wharf 
station of the L road and to the yacht anchor¬ 
age at the entrance of Fort Point Channel. 
The 21 ft. raceabout Scapegoat, designed by 
Crowninshield and built by Lawley in 1900 for 
C. H. W. Foster, Esq., is recalled as the only 
out and out fin keel boat in her class. Sold by 
Mr. Foster to Mr. W. P. Keyes of tbe Boston 
Y. C., sbe has always had the best of care, but 
a few weeks ago, just after leaving her moorings 
in a stiff breeze, her fin dropped off without 
any ceremony. Although lost in only two 
fathoms, neither dragging nor the employment of 
a diver could find it. owing probably to the soft 
bottom. Lender the skillful nursing of Dr. 
Lawley, a new keel (3,030 lbs. of iron as against 
2,850 of lead) was swung on wooden dead- 
wood with 6ft. bolts up through the oak keel. 
She was not strained in any way, did not leak 
and now seems as fast as ever—in fact she 
reaches faster than formerly. 
William Lambert Barnard. 
