Sept, i, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
343 
Boston Letter. 
The Quincy Yach Club challenge cup was 
originally offered by members of that club as a 
perpetual challenge cup for unrestricted 21- 
footers. The offer and the terms connected 
therewith were published so late in the season 
of 1899, that sufficient interest for a regular 
challenge was not aroused, but Mr. Charles D. 
Mower, of the Lynn Y. C., had sufficient sporting 
blood to give the Quincy men at least a go for 
their money. A challenge was accordingly 
lodged on behalf of the Duchess, an 18-footer, 
designed, built and owned by Mr. Mower. The 
defender was'the 21-footer Recruit, which won 
handily in three straight races. Recruit was one 
of the first of our local boats to use a wire strap 
and turnbuckles to hold up her ends. 
The following year several challenges were 
received. The Lynn Y. C. was again represented 
by Mr. Mower, with Heiress; the Beverly Y. 
C. sent Mr. W. E. C. Eustis with the Pom¬ 
pano, which speedily won the name of “flat iron,” 
her greatest breadth being at the transom. The 
Hull Y. C. sent a boat of B. B. Crowninshield 
design whose frames and deck beams were each 
one continuous piece, so that her sections re¬ 
sembled ellipses. The Hostess was the defender, 
and was the most extreme scow seen in Boston 
waters up to that time, and she was successful in 
retaining the cup. 
The next year, 1901, saw even more extreme 
boats. Pompano* returned in a new form, her 
hull having been split from stern to stern along 
the center line and a V .shaped wedge inserted, 
much as a tailor lets out the waist band of 
trousers and vest for the increasing corpulency 
of aging customers. The Harvard (College) Y. 
C. was represented by Mr. John Lawrence’s 
Tashmoo which was a wide flat sled with lee boards 
instead of a centerboard. The Manchester Y. 
C. sent Lookout, the most extreme boat of the 
year, while the Quincy Y. C. pinned its faith 
once more on Hostess. Lookout won wi.h com¬ 
parative ease and the cup passed to the north 
shore. 
In 1902 the Quincy Y. C. attempted to regain 
the cup and three boats were built for the races. 
Catamaran hulls were barred by a provision that 
the keel should be the lowest point in the sec¬ 
tions. The Quincy boat Flashlight attempted to 
evade this restriction in part by having a bow 
overhang resembling three separate hulls, and 
another challenger, the Hades, was an exaggera¬ 
tion of the Duggan design Dominion, but kept 
within" the letter of the restriction by having a 
deep, narrow trough-like ridge built between the 
two main portions of her hull. The defender 
was Outlook, which had a'wooden hull built around 
a skeleton steel truss which bore a stronger re¬ 
semblance to a bridge or flying machine than to 
a boat’s frame. A longitudinal truss protruded 
far above her deck and she was literally a machine 
rather than a yacht. She was in addition the 
fastest 21-footer ever built and killed all idea of 
further racing with boats whose waterline length 
was the sole measure of their size and .the only 
tax upon their designer’s ingenuity. 
Having successfully defended the cup, it re¬ 
mained with the Manchester Y. C. and threatened 
“to live happily ever after.” But the men from 
Manchester were not content to let the trophy 
rest forever in innocuous desuetude, and this 
spring, as soon as the activity in the Sonder- 
klasse became apparent, solicited a challenge from 
the Quincy Y. C. The terms of the deed of gift 
were accordingly altered by mutual agreement to 
accord with the restrictions of the German class, 
and the Quincy Y. C. challenged on behalf of 
Mr. Charles Francis Adams II.’s Auk. Subse¬ 
quent challenges were also accepted from the 
Boston and Corinthian Y. C.’s. There accord¬ 
ingly came to the line Manchester as defender, 
and Auk, Chewink VII. (ex Windrim Kid) and 
Bonidrei, the last named representing the Boston 
Y. C. and sailed by her designer, B. B. Crownin¬ 
shield, as her owner, Mr. George W. Wight- 
man, is not a member of that club. 
The races were held off Manchester, starting 
outside of the harbor so as to get deep and 
fairly open water. The courses, alternate wind¬ 
ward and- leeward and triangular, are subject, 
however, to tides of considerable velocity, and 
GLUCKAUF IV. AND WANNSEE. 
From an amateur photo. 
Chewink VII.1 36 14 Bonidrei . 1 40 18 
Auk . 1 36 56 Bonedrei . 1 40 18 
For the second race, over a triangular course, 
three miles to a leg, there was a good S.W. 
breeze and one that was steady as to direction 
as well as in volume. Manchester and Bonidrei 
kept together on the windward leg, fighting it out 
in close quarters with Bonidrei ahead. They 
both worked the Baker’s Island shore, which 
proved a great detriment and put them out of 
the race for keeps. An unfortunate foul occurred 
between them when Bonidrei, on the port tack, 
and not quite able to cross Manchester, tacked 
under the latter’s lee bow and was struck in the 
stern by Manchester, her helmsman, perhaps un¬ 
intentionally, bearing off almost imperceptibly, 
but enough to cause the collision. Meanwhile 
Windrim Kid, or rather Chewink VII., to give 
her an unlucky name, had forged ahead fast and 
rounded the weather • mark 45s. ahead of Auk 
and im. 35s. ahead of Bonidrei, which led Man¬ 
chester 41s.. They held this order at the next 
mark, although Auk gained on Chewink VII. and 
Manchester on Bonidrei. On the last leg, a 
broad reach, Chewink VII. drew away from Auk 
and Manchester, by a nice spurt, passed Bonidrei. 
The times: 
WANNSEE. 
Photo by Jackson. 
Although finishing ahead of Bonidrei, Man¬ 
chester protested her for the foul with the evi¬ 
dent determination to seek her disqualification 
from further racing. This not only was a novel 
proceeding, and evidence of bad blood between 
the two crews, but would be far too severe pun¬ 
ishment for what might be a mere error of judg¬ 
ment ; and to the credit of the Manchester Y. C. 
committee the protest was not sustained. 
The third race was reminiscent of the Eastern 
Y. C.’s trials, the breeze being paltry, shifting 
and never serving all the boats alike. All four 
boats went fluke hunting and the order at the 
weather mark was Auk, Chewink VII., Manches¬ 
ter and Bonidrei, and they held the same rela¬ 
tive positions at the end of the round, although 
the stern boats gained. The story was repeated 
in the second windward leg wind hunting 
numerous adjacent islands provide opportunities 
for local knowledge in fluke hunting when the 
winds are light. 
I’lie first race was to windward and leeward, 
twice over a five mile course. The wind varied 
from S.E. to S. by W. and from light to moderate 
and back again. The lead wavered between Man¬ 
chester, Auk and Chewink VII. on the wind¬ 
ward leg until the former got a lucky fluke that 
put her in a safe lead that she retained through¬ 
out the race. On the last leeward leg the wind 
took off steadily, converting a decent win into 
a triumphal procession. The times: 
Manchester . 2 13 17 Auk . 2 18 34 
Chewink VII. 2 15 32 Bonidrei . 2 19 27 
