July 8, 1911! 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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e. b. hawkins’s 98 -FOOT cruiser itaska ii. | 
east End Lightship the times were: Carolina, 
3:45:00 A. M., July 2; Sim Too, 4:59:00; Caliph, 
5:54:00. Canadice went half way over the 
course and retired, and Ilys was far astern. 
Caroline did even better going home. She 
crossed the finishing line at 6:43 P. M., July 2, 
having made the long journed in 3ih. 13m., or 
at a rate of nearly 10 nautical miles an hour. 
The yachts, their owners, club and allowances 
were: 
Yacht. Owner. Club. Allowance. 
Sim Too, A. C. Soper, National.Scratch 
Caroline, M. F. Dennis, Columbia . 0 09 30 
Caliph, M. E. Brigham, Ventor. 1 02 30 
Canadice, R. S. Mills, National. 3 20 06 
Ilys, J. G. N. Whitaker, Yachtsman’s. 4 10 06 
Voyage of Adventuress. 
True to her name, Adventuress, an auxiliary 
schooner yacht, arrived here June 25 from the 
West Indies, after a cruise of 5.000 miles, in 
which her owner, Seward A. Moot, with his 
guests, hal all sorts of adventures. These in¬ 
cluded being aground off the south coast of 
Cuba, and all hands were nearly lost one night 
while at anchor among the coral reefs on the 
north shore of the island. Mr. Moot is a 
member of the Corinthian Y. C. of Marblehead, 
Mass., from which port he started out on Nov. 
12 of last year. He was his own skipper. 
Mr. Moot is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adel- 
bert Moot, of No. 358 Elmwood avenue, Buf¬ 
falo. The family has a summer home in Marble¬ 
head. After Adventuress attends the Harvard- 
Yale boat races at New London—Mr. Moot is 
a Hardvard man—she will cruise on to the New 
England port. 
Of his guests, Mr. Moot has but one remain¬ 
ing on board. Pie is Dr. Charles Barton, a 
physician whom he met in Jamaica and who 
makes his home in this city. The others left 
the yacht when the Florida coast was reached, 
several weeks ago, being obliged to hurry North 
on business. On June 25 Mr. Moot anchored 
the schooner off Grant’s Tomb, in the North 
River. The Corinthian yachtsman was short- 
handed, too, for he had only one man on deck 
and the cook, hired in Jamaica, to help handle 
the yacht, which is 60 feet over all. The 
physician became a real deep-water sailor on 
his voyage around Cuba and to the North. 
Tales of sharks which threatened to kill the 
bathers who ventured in the warm waters over 
the coral reefs, of catches of fish so big that 
they almost swamped the small dinghy carrying 
them in, and of a night when the entire party 
on board feared they would be cast out in the 
breakers on a reef on the north shore of Cuba 
at any time, are in the log that Mr. Moot treas¬ 
ures with great care. 
The cruise of the yacht took her down along 
the coast in the early winter until Miami and 
Key West were reached, and then across to 
Havana. Then there was a leisurely cruise 
around Cuba, until one night the light of the 
beacon at the western end of Idayti was sighted. 
Mr. Moot had learned of a revolution that had 
just begun, and at once put his helm hard over, 
fearing that the trim yacht might be seized by 
the revolutionists at daybreak. 
A month was spent in Cuban waters, and but 
recently Adventuress headed north. Her last 
port in Cuba was Ybarra, where there was no 
American Consul, but the owner and skipper 
received “despatch” from the Cuban Minister 
of the Interior by telegraph. When Adven¬ 
turess arrived in Miami, Fla., she was at once 
seized, and Mr. Moot was told that a fine of 
$5,000 might be imposed, as she had no bill of 
health or other necessary papers from a foreign 
port. 
Off Charleston Harbor the galley caught fire, 
and there was a brisk fight to save the yacht 
from burning. As Adventuress has a gasolene 
motor of 16 orsepower and the tanks held more 
than 200 gallons of the fluid, there was con¬ 
siderable anxiety until the flames were subdued. 
The Albany Race. 
Twenty-three motor boats started in the 
race of the New York Motor Boat Club to Al¬ 
bany and return, a distance of 235 miles, last 
Saturday. They were sent away promptly on 
the announced time, 6 o’clock, and made fast 
time up and down the river. The starting line 
was off the club house at the foot of West 147th 
street, and the turning mark off the Albany 
Y. C. house. The following were the starters, 
names of owners, clubs represented and time 
allowances: 
Yacht. Owner. Club. Allowance. 
Thistle, J. H. Wallace, Yonkers Y. C. Allows 
Mystic, C. M. Morse, Buffalo, Y. C.0 17 21 
Rosina, H. Nelson, Excelsior. 2 04 19 
Excelsior, T. Trolsen, Excelsior. 2 23 16 
Oeyesee, J. Pi. Smith, Staten Island. 2 34 03 
Water Boy, A. K. Stewart, Hudson. 2 56 08 
Jolly Roger, Horenburger. N. Y. M. B. C. 3 44 02 
Debut, A. Naschmann, Yonkers Cor. Y. C. 4 13 36 
Leonie, J. L. Costello, N. Y. M. B. C. 4 26 IS 
Respite, V. C. Pedesen, N. Y. M. B. C. 5 05 32 
Chum, A. C. Clapp, Hudson B. C. 5 05 32 
Lillian II., F. Walter, PI. R. M. B. C. 5 39 39 
Arlington II., J. Klipper, N. Y. M. B. C. 5 46 35 
Augusta. A. Kroepke, Morrisania. 5 53 41 
Ouida, F. E. Menke, N. Y. M. B. C. 6 15 20 
Monreve, E. E. Barney, N. Y. M. B. C. 6 22 53 
Kid II., C. H. Dugliss, Jr., N. Y. M. B. C. 6 53 45 
Polar Star, Ralph Croft, Audubon. 7 41 56 
Ritz, Geo. C. Treed, Interstate Y. C. 
Open Boats. 
Peggy, W. B. Selden, N. Y. M. B. C.Scratch 
Edith M„ W. A. Madison. N. Y. M. B. C. 1 00 28 
Bunk III., Meekin & Firth, N. Y. M. B. C. 3 17 45 
Yale, M. F. Doty, N. Y. M. B. C.10 06 30 
Going up the river. Thistle did the best work. 
She turned the mark at 7:52:43 A. M., on July 
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2, and was soon on her way home. Excelsior 
followed at 8:19:58, and then came Monreve,. 
8:56:06; Respite, 9:09:07; Rosina, 9:43:23; Chum, 
10:05:00; Debut, 10:09:00; Arlington II., 
10:32:00; Oeyessee, 10:49:05; Water Boy, 
10:49:09; Jolly Roger, 10:51:00. Bunk III. led 
the open class, turning at 10:29:42. Peggy 
turned at 12:22:00, and Yale at 4 o'clock in the 
afternoon. 
Running down the river, Excelsior passed 
Thistle and she finished at 9:58:00. Ihistle was 
next. 
Easy to Learn to Canoe. 
Dangers of canoeing lie not with the craft, 
but with the people who use it. It is tricky and 
dangerous in the hands of a novice—so is any 
kind of a craft—yet when rightly handled it 
offers the rarest sport that the most exacting 
person can wish for. It is easy to learn how 
to use a canoe, and since this is the season, a 
few pointers will be timely. 
It goes without saying that no man, woman 
or child should sport around the water, in either 
canoe, rowboat or sailboat, if they cannot swim. 
After this the first consideration is what style 
of canoe to use. This depends largely on how, 
when and where you expect to use it. A canoe 
satisfactory on a small stream would not answer 
on a larger body of water. The same is true 
with slow and swift streams. For ordinary pur¬ 
poses the canoe having the greatest width amid- 
ship, coupled with lightness, so that one man can 
carry it without great inconvenience, is the ideal 
canoe to use. Seventeen-foot canoes seem to 
be the most popular length. 
For cruising some people prefer the all wood 
to the canvas-covered canoe. There are good 
points in favor of each. The all-wood canoe is 
lighter, and this is an important factor if there 
is much carrying. The canvas-covered canoe, 
because of the greater width and flat bottom, is 
a more trustworthy and reliable craft. 
In many cases a keel is desirable. For in¬ 
stance, when the canoe is stowed at a boat 
house where people other than the. owner are 
apt to handle it. Nothing is more injurious to 
the bottom of a canoe than dragging it over the 
edge of a float, or running it into the sand. 
This soon wears the canvas away. The keel 
