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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 8, 1911. 
Yachting Fixtures. 
JULY. 
8. Riverside Y. C., annual. 
8. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
8. New Rochelle Y. C., Cornfield Lightship race. 
8. Brooklyn Y. C., fourth championship, G. B. Y. R. A. 
8. Edgewood Y. C., special. 
8. Corinthian Y. C., Marblehead, club. 
8. Eastern Y. C., to Boothbay. 
S. Columbia Y. C., club. 
9. Eastern Y. C., to Tenant’s Harbor. 
8. New York Y. C., Glen Cove. 
10. American Y. C., Manhasset challenge cup series. 
10. Eastern Y. C., to Camden. 
11. Eastern Y. C., to Fox Island, Thoroughfare. 
12. Eastern Y. C., to Billings Cove. 
13. Eastern Y. C. to Bartlett’s Narrows. 
14. Eastern Y. C., to Winter Harbor. 
15. Larchmont Y. C., race week opens. 
15. Crescent A. C., open. 
15. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
15. East Greenwich Y. C., open. 
15. Columbia Y. C., City Point, Y. R. A. 
15. Boston Y. C., cruise to Boothbay. 
15. Eastern Y. C., to Bar Harbor. 
16. Eastern Y. C., Bar Harbor to Marblehead. 
16- 26. Chesapeake Bay Y. R. A., race week. 
17- 18.—Columbia Y. C., cruise to Marblehead. 
22. Larchmont Y. C., race week ends. 
22. New York Canoe Club, Open. 
22. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
22. Weetamoe Y. C., special. 
22. Cohasset Y. C., open, Y. R. A. 
22. Corinthian Y. C., Marblehead, club. 
29. Indian Harbor Y C., annual. 
29. Atlantic Y. C., fifth championship G. B. Y. R. A. 
29. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., ladies’ day. 
29. Bristol Y. C., ocean race. 
29. Squantum Y. C., Y. R. A. 
31. Edgewood Y. C., interstate knockabout series. 
31. American Y. C., Newburyport, Y. R. A. 
Some News and a Little Gossip. 
The series of races to be sailed on the Sound 
for the Manhasset Bay challenge cup will un¬ 
doubtedly be the most interesting among the 
smaller yachts of the season. Eight clubs will 
be represented in the races and four of the boats 
are to come from eastern waters, so that there 
will be an additional interest because of the 
meeting of 31-raters representing New York 
and Massachusetts. This trophy was won last 
year by Cara Mia, owned by Stuyvesant Wain- 
wright representing the American Y. C. That 
yacht defeated Windward, of the Indian Harbor 
Y. C., and Timandra, of the Eastern Y. C. 
This year Cara Mia will try to defend the cup. 
She will be sailed by Mr. Wainwright, which is 
sufficient assurance that she will be well handled, 
but she is now in her third season and four of 
the yachts to take part have been built this 
year. The Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. has 
named Corinthian, a new Herreshoff boat, 
which will be sailed by C. Sherman Hoyt. The 
Indian Harbor Y. C. will be represented by 
Joyant, a new Herreshoff boat built for Com¬ 
modore William H. Childs, and which will be 
sailed by Addison G. Hanan. The Larchmont 
Y. C. will be represented by Windward, a 
Gardner boat built three years ago, owned and 
sailed by Richard A. Monks. 
The Corinthian Y. C. of Marblehead has 
named Amoret, owned by C. B. Wheelock, the 
winner of the inter-city match and of the Massa¬ 
chusetts Bay championship last year. The 
Portland Y. C. has named Sayonara. a new 
boat, owned by Vernon F. West. John B. 
Fallon’s Timandra will represent the Eastern 
Y. C., and the Boston Y. C. will be represented 
by Italia, a new boat, owned by George Lee. 
Italia and Sayonara were built by Hodgdon 
Brothers this year. These and the two older 
boats are built from designs by George Owens. 
Charles Lane Poor has been chosen to repre¬ 
sent the American Y. C., the Seawanhaka-Cor¬ 
inthian Y. C. being the first challenger, named 
yEmelius Jarvis, of the Royal Canadian Y. C., 
as its representative, and these two representa¬ 
tives selected James D. Sparkman, well known 
in yachting on the Sound. 
The representatives of the competing yachts 
must report on board the committee boat off 
Captain’s Island by noon on the day of the first 
race. Before starting, each yacht will be meas¬ 
ured by William H. Hallock, the measurer of 
the American Y. C., and the certificate of 
measurement must be filed with the committee 
of that club before noon on July 9. The match 
will be sailed under the rules of the Yacht Rac¬ 
ing Association of Long Island Sound. The 
winner of the match will be determined by the 
point system, whereby each yacht entering and 
finishing a race of a match receives one point 
for her entry and one additional point for each 
yacht which she defeats, the winner being the 
yacht scoring the highest aggregate number of 
points in all the races of the match, and a chal¬ 
lenging yacht which does not start shall be con¬ 
sidered as a defeated yacht in scoring points. 
No yacht entered for the match may be 
hauled out or laid on shore within twenty-four 
hours preceding the first race or during the 
period of the races except in case of accident 
for necessary repairs. Any yacht so entered 
which shall have been hauled out or laid on 
shore (except in case of accident and for neces¬ 
sary repairs) must be launched at least twenty- 
four hours preceding the first race. 
The helmsman must be an amateur and a 
member in good standing of the club whose 
yacht he sails. Each club competing shall file 
with the committee within twenty-four hours of 
the completion of the last day’s race a crew 
certificate on the standard form of the Yacht 
Racing Association of Long Island Sound, 
which, in addition to the details called for, must 
state the club to which each amateur member 
of the crew of its representative yacht belongs. 
The races are to be sailed on July 10, 11 and 
T 2 . In the event of failure to race on any of 
the dates scheduled for any reason deemed suf¬ 
ficient by the committee, or in the event of a 
tie as a result of the first three races, the series 
will be continued daily thereafter, Saturday and 
Sunday excepted, until the match is won. The 
races of the match will be alternately windward 
or leeward and return and triangular, beginning 
with the former on July 10. A postponed or 
resailed race shall be finished before the next 
race is sailed. Additional races necessary to 
determine the winner of the match will be sailed 
alternately as above. The starting line for all 
races will be between the committee boat and 
a launch or dory anchored off Captain’s Island 
and displaying a red ball. 
The windward and leeward courses are to be 
sailed twice over. From the starting line to and 
around a mark anchored four miles to wind¬ 
ward or leeward; thence to and around the 
launch or dory at the starting line, leaving all 
marks on the starboard hand. The compass 
course will be set with the warning signal. The 
outer mark will be a boat displaying a red ball. 
The triangular course will be from the start¬ 
ing line to and around Spar buoy off Oak Neck, 
S. E. 7 -i S., 3.5 miles; thence to and around the 
gas buoy off Matinicock Point, W. by S., 3 
miles; thence to the starting point, N. by E. 
E., 3.5 miles. Total, 10 miles; twice around, 20 
miles. These courses may be reversed. The 
warning signal will be made at 1 o’clock, the 
preparatory at 1:05 and the start at 1:10 o'clock. 
During Larchmont race week a series of races 
will be sailed by boats of the Bayside one-de¬ 
sign and Gravesend Bay knockabout classes. 
The Gravesend knockabouts are to race to 
Larchmont, starting from off the Crescent 
Athletic Club house at Bay Ridge, and the Bay- 
side boats have only to cross the Sound. The 
races of this series will be sailed Monday, Wed¬ 
nesday, Thursday and Friday of the week. 
There are about a dozen of the Gravesend Bay 
boats going to the Sound, and the Bayside men 
are making efforts to get out a big fleet to 
meet them. While somewhat different in model, 
these boats are very nearly alike in size. The 
Gravesend Bay boats are a little longer on the 
waterline, a little more beam and less draft of 
hull. The two types have the same sail area, 
but the canvas is placed differently on each. 
The Gravesend Bay boat has the larger main¬ 
sail. It is interesting to note the dimensions of 
the two boats by comparison: 
Bayside. 
Length, over all . 21ft. 
Length, waterline . 14ft. 6in. 
Beam . 6ft. 6in. 
Draft with board down. 3ft. 3in. 
Draft with board up. 1ft. 3in. 
Area of mainsail .200 sq. ft. 
Area of jib . 50 sq. ft. 
Total sail area .250 sq. ft. 
Gravesend. 
21ft. 
16-17ft. 
6ft. 6Vj>in, 
4ft. 3in. 
Oft. 7in. 
250 sq. ft. 
38 sq. ft. 
250 sq. ft. 
The Bayside boats have skegs on their keel, 
while the Gravesend Bay boats do not. 
Eastern Y. C. 
Fourteen yachts started in the long distance 
races of the Eastern Y. C. from New London 
to Marblehead last Saturday afternoon, and the 
yachtsmen found nice sailing weather, so that 
fast time was made and the slowest yacht in 
the fleet took only a little more than 28 hours 
to make the 193 miles over the shoals. The 
start was made from off Sarah’s Ledge at the 
entrance to New London Harbor. The 
schooners were sent away at 4:10 o’clock and 
the sloops five minutes later. The wind vvas 
light and from west, and from the starting line 
to Race Rock the yachts had the wind over 
their starboard quarters. The start was a fine 
one. Enchantress was first away crossing al¬ 
most with the gun, Elena was on the weather 
quarter of Enchantress and still further to wind¬ 
ward, but close up was Irolita. The others were 
well bunched. Avenger led the sloops. 
Elena soon drew clear of Enchantress, and at 
Race Rock the times taken were, Elena 4:29:16; 
Enchantress, 4:30:14; Irolita, 4:30:42. Spin¬ 
nakers were set as soon as Race Rock was 
passed, and it was before the wind to the Vine¬ 
yard Sound Lightship. Sea Fox and Enchan¬ 
tress had a luffing match which carried them 
over toward Block Island. Elena and Irolita 
kept well on their courses. In accordance with 
the conditions, spinnakers were not carried be¬ 
tween 8 o’clock at night and 4 o'clock in the 
morning. Elena led all the way. She had the 
lights of Enchantress within vision until Cross 
Rip Lightship was reached. Handkerchief 
Shoal Lightship was passed by Elena at 2:27 
A. M., and Great Round Shoal at 3:20. Just, as 
Elena passed the Great Round Shoal Whistling 
buoy, about 4:30 A. M., she sighted Enchantress 
then near Handkerchief, 15 miles astern. From 
that point to Marblehead it was a close reach. 
The wind freshened considerably and fine time 
was made until Highland Light was passed. 
Crossing Massachusetts Bay the wind moderat¬ 
ed. Avenger sailed a good race, too. She was 
in close company with the schooners Emerald 
and Savarona, passing and being passed by 
them several times during the night. 
Elena finished at 2:28:02 on the afternoon of 
July 2. She had taken 2oh. 18m. 2s.' to sail the 
course. She wins the first leg of the Commo¬ 
dore Clark gold cup, which has to be won twice 
by the same yachtsmen, and she beat Enchan¬ 
tress boat for boat ih. 19m. 57s. Elena beat 
Irolita actual time 2h. 11m. 12s. 
Tn the second division for the C. C. Rumrill 
cup, Vision won, with Venona second, Seneca 
third and Vagrant fourth. Margaret lost her 
main topmast when off Handerchief shoal and 
proceeded under power. 
Avenger won’the cup for sloops. Mr. Plant 
said it was a pleasant sail. Throughout the en¬ 
tire race the wind was either over the taffrail 
or abeam, and only for a short time early in the 
morning, when off Cape Cod, were the rails 
down to the water’s edge. 
The yachts racing for the Commodore Clark 
cup were Morton F. Plant’s Elena, William E. 
Iselin’s Enchantress, E. Walter Clark’s Irolita, 
Dallas B. Pratt’s Sea Fox. Commodore F. 
Lewis Clark’s Emerald, and C. Howard Clark’s 
Savarona. In the race for the Chester C. Rum¬ 
rill cup were H. A. Morss’ Vision, E. J. Bliss’ 
