FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Sept. 22, 1906. 
462 
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. 
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. 
—. Kaouli cup. 
—. Niagara cup. 
OCTOBER. 
20. Knickerbocker, club closing. 
PRESENTATION OF THE ROOSEVELT 
CUP 
On Friday, the 14th, occurred the final cere¬ 
mony of the presentation of the Roosevelt cup by 
the President, its sponsor, at Oyster Bay. 
The gathering included the President, and 
some of his advisers, the German and American 
helmsmen and crews. The presentation took 
place aboard the U. S. S. Mayflower, and was the 
occasion of some speech making. There was little 
more to be said, however, but to emphasize the good 
feeling that had been awakened between the two 
nations, and with toasts to the German Emperor 
and President Roosevelt, one of the most satis¬ 
factory events in yachting history was concluded. 
1 he Sonder races are over, and though new 
plans for the race at Kiel next summer are being 
discussed, the enthusiasm has not had time to 
assume definite character or strength, and at this 
time it is not necessary that it should. 
1 he races at Marblehead brought out most 
pleasantly the spirit of fairness and sportsman¬ 
ship among the German and American competi¬ 
tors, and it was delightful to feel that many of 
the sceptics were silenced. 
Instead of sharp practice under an ample dis¬ 
guise, our German competitors found nothing but 
a tactful, gentlemanly and sportsmanlike attitude 
and behavior; conceding in all directions, yet with 
a quiet adherence to the rules. After the races 
the owner of Vim invited his German visitors 
aboard his little vessel, allowing examinations of 
her both under sail and at anchor, and then after 
a reception and dinner to them, presented each 
owner with a set of lines and the sail plan of 
the winner of the Roosevelt cup. 
For amiability and broad-mindedness, this act is 
most commendable and worthy of the best tra¬ 
ditions that history records of bold deeds of 
brave and valiant knights. It is agreeable to 
know that yachting is the means of keeping alive 
in our modern days a spirit—but not the acts 
that the lists of ancient days produced. 
THE NEW YORK V. C. CLUB RULE. 
Since the general adoption in the United 
States of the so-called New York Y. C. rating 
rule, which is similar to that adopted by the 
yacht clubs of Europe last winter, the supporters 
and opponents have not permitted each other such 
rest as it was supposed would result. However, 
any one at all informed in such matters would 
expect that each side w T as making the best of its 
chances, especially so during the racing season, 
where the exponents of both sides were in com¬ 
petition in the racing lists. From the times of 
the earliest rules which would tend to equalize 
two vessels in a race, the practice has resulted 
in faster boats under each new rule, but has 
gradually developed into a bad type, as the naval 
architects began to understand and practice the 
ways and means of evasion. 
The cry of disapproval then came so strongly 
that there resulted the popular movement which 
has brought out the p'resent rule here and a 
slightly different rule abroad. 
Many years of work, study and development 
were devoted to bring out at least a rule which 
would tend to place a certain premium on dis¬ 
placement, thereby assuring a boat’s internal 
room for living accommodations, and so limiting 
her in dimensions that her ends, either bow or 
stern, could not reach objectionable extremes. 
Recently, one of our contemporaries cast as¬ 
persions upon a new schooner and prophesied her 
inability to go to sea; yet she did go, and showed 
her ability to defeat an antagonist even after 
allowing her a certain number of seconds. It 
must be well understood, however, that the 
beaten boat was built before the rule came into 
effect, and that such fittings as teak decks do not 
permit a boat to race on even terms with one 
not so fitted. However, it does not detract from 
the fact that the new boat behaved well and sailed 
well, and was not a brute. Up to this, time, 
many have felt conscious that the rule, as it 
stands to-day, should be so formulated as to 
guarantee, in the first place, fair competition, and 
in the second place, when a boat’s racing days 
are over, to assure her command of a legitimate 
price in the market, and that she should be of 
such form and construction as would readily in¬ 
sure her usefulness. 
From what has developed, this year, the new 
boats have been fast and weatherly. Those whose 
size warranted it under any rule, have had good 
accommodations, and have been livable boats. 
With present knowledge, forecasts are made of In¬ 
creased displacement and immense sail plans oil 
the same rating. 
And here is the crux of the whole matter. Noth¬ 
ing is worth while but that develops, slowly but 
surely. It is clear that provisions for everything 
could not be anticipated; the rule is good—very 
good—but it does not go far enough ; nevertheless 
it is the best one yet devised. We require scantling 
regulations and a limit on sail area, which in 
broad language are going to force an owner to 
order not simply a yacht unfit for anything 
but racing, while he lives on his steam yacht and 
tempts no inclement weather aboard his racer. 
It will remove from the naval architect the power 
to use exclusively brute force, and will tend to 
the greater development of' his skill, and will as 
surely put a premium upon the handling of the 
vessel. 
There is no great perspicacity required to know 
that such an issue is here, there is no doubt of 
it. Now is the time to get together honestly and 
seriously, and for the good of yachting for all 
time. Building meanwhile will be suspended, and 
it should be pending any decision; but from this 
there need be no ill effects, as there is yet time 
for a solution which will provide such restrictions 
as would not militate against our future vested 
yachting interests. 
In conclusion, we venture to say that this ques¬ 
tion has been occupying the attention of many 
whose interests are great, and it would not be a 
difficult matter to open a profitable discussion. 
The impetus that yachting has received during 
this most successful season is most beneficial to 
the sport from all points of view. The matter 
of scantling regulation and restriction of sail 
area can well be left to those who strove so 
faithfully and successfully to bring the present 
order of things about. The introduction of these 
factors requires, as was the intention of the 
framers of the new rule, the application of the 
lessons that this season has brought forth. It 
is a matter of congratulation that at home we 
have had the strength and determination to go 
our own way, and the result bears all the in¬ 
dications of the solution of this most abstruse 
and complicated question—the rating rule. 
Editorial Comment. 
New York Sun, Sept. 14. 
The races of the schooner yachts Queen and 
Elmina on the open sea for the Reid cup qame 
at the psychological moment. Opponents of the 
New York Y. C.’s new rule for rating racing 
craft have been declaring that vessels built to 
meet the conditions of the rule were fast only 
in die smooth waters of the Sound, but that out¬ 
side in a breeze and a seaway they would bury 
themselves and make poor time. Whereupon 
they went outside and in a smart breeze and a 
jumping sea went fifteen miles to windward at 
an eight knot pace. The Reliance herself- could 
not do better. The opponents of the new rule will 
Pave to guess again. 
Q Class Trial Races. 
The Atlantic Y. C. has, up*to the time we go 
to press, sailed five races to choose a defender 
to sail against the Massachusetts Q class 
champion Orestes, which is coming to Graves¬ 
end to race for the $500 cup offered by Commo¬ 
dore Ried, of the Atlantic Y. C. The score 
stands: Spider, two firsts; Soya, two firsts, and 
Joy, one first. However, the committee in 
charge will make a decision on performance. 
The races will be sailed off Coney Island on 
Sept. 20, 21 and 22. The last date may be 
changed to the 24th. 
Aloha Home. 
Aloha, auxiliary half brig owned by Messrs. 
D. Willis James and A. Curtis James, returned 
this week from a two months’ cruise in European 
waters. She visited the south of England, the 
channel and the waters of Holland and Belgium. 
The passage home was safely accomplished, 
though severe weather was encountered that tried 
rigging and spars. The yacht is now at the 
Morse Iron Works, South Brooklyn. 
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