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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Sept. 8, 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. 
SEPTEMBER. 
8 . Larchmont, Manhasset Bay. 
8 . Boston, club, Hull. 
8 . Royal Canadian, Prince of Wales cup. 
8 . Bristol, N. B. Y. R. A. 
8 . Hingham, club. 
8 . Beverly, Corinthian, Buzzard’s Bay. 
8 . Wollaston-Squantum, inter-club. 
8 . Atlantic, open, championship Y. R. A. of Gravesend 
Bay, 3 P. M. 
8 . Brooklyn. 
8 . Keystone, consolation. 
8 . Manhasset Bay, fall regatta. 
8 . Squantum, interclub. 
8 . VV inthrop, 18-footers. 
8 . Kennebec, Bath, championships. 
8 . American, Newburyport, cruise. 
8 . Edgewood, club. 
9. Massachusetts Y. R. A., rendezvous Hull. 
13. Seawanhaka Corinthian, fall regatta. 
13-15. Atlantic, series for special schooner and sloop 
classes, Sandy Hook. 
15. Atlantic, championship. 
15. Seawanhaka. 
15. Knickerbocker, ladies’ race, power boats. 
15. Middletown, power boats. 
15. Eastern, Roosevelt cup. 
16. Lynn, club run. 
19. Atlantic, open, 3 P. M. 
22. American. 
22. Atlantic, open, fall regatta, 11 A. M. 
22. Lynn, club race. 
22. Kennebec, Bath, open sweepstakes. 
22 . Winthrop, handicap. 
23. Williamsburg. 
29. Bensonhurst, open. 
29. Winthrop, 18-footers. 
—. Brenton’s Reef cup. 
—. Cape May cup. 
—. Haouli cup. 
—. Niagara cup. 
OCTOBER. 
20. Knickerbocker, club closing. 
SHOULD AN OWNER SAIL HIS OWN 
VESSELf 
With the appearance of the new boats this 
year, there was naturally a certain amount of 
unobtrusive speculation among racing men, 
who understand the vagaries of yacht racing, as 
to who would command them. The engagement 
of prominent skippers early in the season put an 
end to further speculation in some directions. 
There are but few races left before the end of 
the season, and it seems proper, both from an 
amateur and professional point of view, to ask 
an opinion on the question expressed above. 
In considering the advisability of an owner 
sailing his own boat, we refer only to boats 
above 6oft. waterline. The handling of these 
boats is an art, acquired by many years of' ap¬ 
plication and hard work, coupled with an ability 
emanating from natural talent and aptitude. 
The men who have owned large yachts, and 
sailed them persistently, have been few. Wider 
interests have occupied their time and attention, 
and their yachting has been taken as a recrea¬ 
tion and diversion from daily cares. Except in 
an enthusiast, the taste for the sea would 
scarcely bring out such assiduous devotion to 
sailing as would enable an amateur owner to 
rank with a professional skipper. The profes¬ 
sional is very often descended from fisher folk, 
and from boyhood has spent his time among 
boats; to him the life is second nature, and it 
breeds in him that use and readiness which will 
keep him calm and clearheaded when one not 
to the manner born would go to pieces. 
That the owner of a large yacht should desire 
JOY-CLASS Q 22-FOOTER-SAIL PLAN. 
to sail and race his own boat is a most laudable 
and sportsmanlike ambition; on the other hand, 
if his ability is not equal to obtaining the best 
that is in his vessel, is not his handling it likely 
to reflect somewhat upon the designer and 
builder? They, have done their part and are 
certainly entitled to credit for it; something 
which in yachting is a fleeting asset at best. 
However, with a good boat, an owner unable 
to make her go, would lose none of his sports¬ 
manship by giving up the stick to one more 
able by long practice—a professional—to get 
the most out of the yacht. The owner in such 
a case would still enjoy part of the glory which 
attaches to the brilliant winning of racing 
honors. 
Nothing finer can be imagined than a fleet 
of large sloops or schooners, each one handled 
by its owner, sailing in a match. This is done 
altogether in small classes. May it not yet be 
done in the large classes as our yachting, knowl¬ 
edge and prosperity grows? 
There is no mystery about the sailing of a 
yacht. As in all other matters, judgment and 
ability count; and the decision of a question 
such as this must be left to the common sense 
of each owner. 
Larchmont Y. C. Power Boat Race. 
The Larchmont Y. C. announced yesterday 
that the races for the amateur challenge trophy 
for auto boats will be contested on Oct. 12 and 
13 on a course on Long Island Sound. The 
trophy, which is held by the club by virtue of 
the victory of Vingt-et-Un II. in the first race 
for the cup, has been challenged for by both E. 
J. Schroeder, of the New York Athletic Club, on 
behalf of Dixie, and by George Gillig, of the 
Newark Bay Y. C., on behalf of Xpdnc. 
Willis Sharpe Kilmer announced at the time 
of the receipt of the challenge that Ving-et-Un 
II. would defend the cup, so that these three 
boats will surely start. Under the terms of the 
deed of gift any other boats may enter the race, 
provided they qualify a month preceding the 
date set for the race, and all will start under the 
time allowance scale of the American Power 
Boat Association. 
It is expected that several of the fast boats 
that aspire to championship honors will be 
entered before the expiration of the time limit, 
on Sept. 12. These include J. R. Hoadley’s Den 
II., Richard Croker, Jr.’s new Herreshoff racer, 
L. W. Armstrong’s Irene of the Philadelphia 
Corinthian Club, Charles J. Swain’s Sparrow of 
the Riverton Club and possibly George W. 
Child Drexel’s Argo. Outside of the races for 
the championship to be held on the Hudson 
River next month, the Larchmont cup races 
will be the most interesting of the year. 
