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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 22, 1911. 
Yachting Fixtures. 
JULY. 
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. 
Jl. Edgewood Y. C., interstate knockabout aeries. 
H. American Y. C.. Newburyport, Y. R. A. 
AUGUST. 
1-3. Edgewood Y. C.. interstate knockabout series. 
3. New York Y. C., cruise, Glen Cove. 
3. Fall River Y. C. 
4. New York Y. C., to Morris Cove. 
5. New York Y. C., to New London. 
5. Horseshoe Harbor Y. C., annual. 
5. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
5. Corinthian Y. C. of Stamford, annual. 
5. Marine and Field, sixth championship, G.B.Y.R.A. 
5. Edgewood Y. C., open. 
5. T.ynn Y. C., Bass Point, Y. R. A. 
5-13. New Rochelle Y. C., cruise. 
6 . New York Y. C., at New London. 
6 . Lynn Y. C., open run to Marblehead. 
6 . New York Y. C., sound cups, Huntington. 
7. New York Y. C., to Fort Pond Bay. 
7. New York Y. C., Huntington cups. 
7. Eastern Y. C., special open. 
7. Edgewood Y. C., special. 
8 . New York Y. C., to New Bedford. 
8 . New York Y.C.annual and Bennett cups, Huntington. 
8 . Conanicut Y. C., open. 
8 . Boston Y. C., Y. R. A., Marblehead. 
9. New York Y. C. to Newport. 
9. Corinthian Y. C., Marblehead, midsummer series. 
10. New York Y. C., Astor cups, Newport. 
10. Fall River Y. C., open. 
10. Corinthian Y. C., Marblehead, midsummer series. 
11. New York Y. C., King’s cup, Newport. 
11. Rhode Island Y. C., open. 
11. Corinthian Y. C., Marblehead, midsummer series. 
12. New York Y. C., cruise disbands, Newport. 
12. Huguenot Y. C., annual. 
12. Bridgeport Y. C., annual. 
12. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
12. Brooklyn Y. C., seventh championship, G. B. Y. R. A. 
12. Bristol Y. C., open. 
12. Corinthian Y. C., Marblehead, open. 
17. Gloucester Y. C., Y. R. A. 
19. Stamford Y. C., annual. 
19. Atlantic Y. C., eighth championship G. B. \ . K. A. 
19. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
19. Edgewood Y. C., special. 
19. Winthrop Y. C., open. 
19. Taunton Y. C., special. 
21- 26. Interbay catboats, Hull. 
21 26. Quincy cup series. 
22- 24. Atlantic Y. C., race week. 
22.-24. Crescent A. C., Lipton cup. 
24. Fall River Y. C., handicap. 
26. New Rochelle Y. C., special. 
26. Northport Y. C., annual. . 
26. Bensonhurst Y. C., ninth championship G. B.Y.K.A. 
26. Rhode Island Y. C., ocean race. 
26. Quincy Y. C., Y. R. A. 
28. Hingham Y. C., Y. R. A. , 
29. Boston Y. C., midsummer series, Y. K. A. 
30. Boston Y. C., midsummer series, Y. R. A. 
31 Boston Y. C., Hull, catboat championship. 
Some News and a Little Gossip. 
The race week of the Larchmont Y. C. has 
been the center of attraction among yachtsmen 
this week. For six days they sailed races and 
one was devoted to motorboat racing and to 
water sports. The week started well, 116 yachts 
sailing around the triangular courses. Ihe sec¬ 
ond day, last Monday, there were 126 starters 
which is the largest fleet of yachts ever started 
in one regatta on the Sound. The Corinthian 
Y. C., of Marblehead, hold the record for hav¬ 
ing started the largest fleet. Two years ago 144 
yachts raced, and in four successive days the 
number of starters was more than 135, each day. 
These big regattas are rather spectacular and 
the yachtsmen seem to like them because they 
form a part of a week of entertainment, but as 
far as yacht racing goes, they do not amount to 
very much. The boats crowd one another all 
over the courses and few can get around with¬ 
out having been interfered with at some time. 
It has been considered that if the yachtsmen 
want real test of their .boats, would it not be 
better to have races for certain c’asses on one 
day and for others the next ? The work en¬ 
tailed in these big races is enormous. The re¬ 
gatta committee works for weeks ahead of the 
time set for the regattas trying to induce yachts¬ 
men to enter their boats, and then when the 
days come for the races there is an amount of 
work that is simply appalling, and strange to say 
few of those who compete in the races show 
any appreciation for what is done for them. 
The majority of yachtsmen seem to be only too 
ready to find fault with the committee and to 
criticise it for everything that happens. 
There was a large fleet at Larchmont all the 
week. Not only racing craft filled the harbor, 
but cruising craft, sail, steam and power were 
there, and those on these boats enjoyed watch¬ 
ing the racing by day and listening to the enter¬ 
tainments at night. The Larchmont men deserve 
the success they have because they work hard 
and strive to please. Horace E. Boucher, Butler 
Whiting and Rutledge Schmidt were the mem¬ 
bers of the committee. Commodore Leonard 
Richards, Vice-Commodore John Proctor Clark 
and Fleet Captain Probst, too, helped to make 
things successful. 
Joyant, of the Indian Harbor Y. C., won the 
series of races for the Manhasset Bay challenge 
cup which was sailed on the Sound last week. 
Joyant is a big brute of a yacht designed to get 
the better of the rule, and she is larger in every 
way than any other yacht in her class, and yet 
strange to say she rates less than many of them. 
To those who watched the races she was some¬ 
what of a disappointment. She is very fast turn¬ 
ing to windward in a light air and sails fast, too, 
down the wind, but when the wind is fresh she 
does not do as well as was expected on the wind. 
With the wind abeam or over the quarter she is 
really not as fast as some of the others. It was 
more through the skillful handling of Addison 
G. Hanan, assisted by E. Burton Hart and Butler 
Whiting that she won. She was sailed with rare 
good judgment. Some might call it luck, but 
Mr. Hanan always works hard when racing, and 
he has the faculty of being able to select the 
right course and plan the best campaign in the 
majority of races in which he sails. 
The New York boats outsailed the Eastern 
boats very easily. True, the conditions were 
light and fluky, but had the wind been fresh and 
steady it is very probable that the Eastern boats 
would have been beaten just as easily. This was 
shown in the first race sailed off Larchmont. 
Sayonara is probably the fastest of the Eastern 
yachts, but she was beaten by Joyant and others 
when the wind was true and moderate. The 
eastern men are not as keen in racing as the 
New Yorkers. Their yachts are not in the same 
fine condition. Their sails they will use in a 
hard blow reefed and then expect them to do 
well in light weather. In handling they are not 
as smart. Only once did the ’Eastern men get 
the better of the local yachtsmen at the start, 
and in handling light sails and turning marks 
their crews were not nearly as smart. The races 
were interesting. The best of good feeling pre¬ 
vailed. The men raced for sport’s sake only and 
defeats were- taken good naturedly. It was a 
great pity that the Sound furnished such poor 
samples of weather. 
The committee, James D. Sparkman, FEmelius 
Jarvis and Charles Lane Poor, now have troubles 
of their own. Their attention was called to the 
peculiarities of the model of Joyant whose re¬ 
verse curves and the forward and after end of 
the waterline enabled her to reduce her rating, 
and the committee has decided that the yacht 
must be remeasured and these curves bridged 
to fair lines. There has been a growing dis¬ 
position on the part of some yachtsmen and de¬ 
signers to take advantage of the indifference of 
some committees to a strict interpretation of the 
rules of measurement, with the resuit that freaks 
have been gradually creeping in the different 
classes. They have not yet become very ex¬ 
treme, but it will be only a matter of time, un¬ 
less they are checked, before there will be freaks 
as bad as any built before the adoption of the 
present rule. The committee in taking the stand 
it has is doing the right thing to check this dis¬ 
regard for the rules, and its final action will be 
awaited with much interest. 
It is reported that there are new boats in 
other classes which, if measured properly, will 
be found to exceed the class limits, and there is 
a likelihood of several being remeasured and 
thoroughly inspected. To rule out a new boat 
because of such infringements of the rule will 
be a hardship to the owner, and it has been 
suggested that it might be well not to disqualify 
this year, but to announce that the limit has 
been reached and that any infringements of the 
rule in future will not be allowed. 
The regatta committee of the New York Y. C. 
has announced that the race for the Brenton’s 
Reep cup will be sailed on Aug. 11, and the race 
for the Cape May cup on Sept. ir. The Bren¬ 
ton’s Reef cup race will be started off Newport 
half an hour before the start for the King’s 
cup race. The course is to the Ambrose Chan¬ 
nel Lightship and return. The Cape May race 
will be started off the Ambrose Channel Light¬ 
ship and the course will be to the Five Fathom 
Shoal Lightship off Cape May and return. 
Manhasset Challenge Cup. 
The races for the Manhasset Challenge cup 
sailed for last week on the Sound were very in¬ 
teresting, but rather unsatisfactory. There were 
eight yachts of the 31-rating class competing, and 
of these four represented Eastern Club and four 
were in home waters. The races were sailed in 
light fluky weather which made the sport rather 
disappointing. Joyant, a new Herreshoff yacht, 
built for Commodore William H. Childs, of the 
Indian Harbor Y. C., won two races and was 
second in the third. She was abiy handled by 
Addison G. Hanan, assisted by E. Burton Hart 
and Butler Whiting, and it was largely the hand¬ 
ling that won the race. Joyant is a boat of ex¬ 
treme type. Mr. Herreshoff in designing her 
turned out a boat of big displacement with large 
sail area, and in order to make the yacht fit the 
class, he had to give her abnormal reverse curves 
at the fore and aft ends of the waterline. For 
this reason the yacht was protested and Com¬ 
modore Childs at once lodged counter protests 
against Cara Mia, Corinthian and Joyant. The 
first race was sailed on Monday, July 12, and be¬ 
fore the yachts left their moorings for the start¬ 
ing line, the committee, FEmeiius Jarvis, repre¬ 
senting the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C.; Chas. 
Lane Poor, representing the American Y. C., and 
James D. Sparkman, received a protest signed 
by the owners of Anroret, Timandra and Sayo¬ 
nara. The protest was as follows: 
“We, the undersigned, respectfully beg to call 
your attention to the fact that the yacht Joyant, 
the representative of the Indian Harbor Y. C., 
for this season's match for the Manhasset cup, 
embodies in her form radical curves at both the 
forward and after point of measurement of her 
load waterline. Under Rule 2, Section 7, para¬ 
graph 2, page 24, but more particularly under 
Rule 2, Section 2, paragraph 4, page 14 of the 
Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound, 
under which rule this match is being sailed, the 
measurement for load waterline of any and all 
yachts having such curves should be taken to 
fair lines bridging such curves and their rating 
calculated accordingly. 
“Vernon F. West, Sayonara, 
“C. H. Wheelock, Amoret. 
“J. B. Fallon, Timandra.” 
The committee considered this protest and then 
sent this letter to Commodore Childs, the owner 
of Joyant: ' I 
“Joyant has been protested under Rule II. of 
the racing rules of the Long Island Sound Yacht 
Racing Association, which govern the contest for 
