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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. 26, 1911. 
Yachting Fixtures. 
AUGUST. 
26. New Rochelle Y. C., special. 
26. Northport Y. C., annual. 
26. Bensonhurst Y. C., ninth championship G. B. Y. R. 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. R. A. 
30. Boston Y. C., midsummer series, Y. R. A. 
31. Boston Y. C., Hull, catboat championship. 
SEPTEMBER. 
1. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., special. 
1. Boston Y. C., Hull, catboat championship. 
2. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., fall. 
2. Marine & Field Club, 10th championship, G.B.Y.R.A. 
2. Bristol Y. C., open. 
2. Larchmont Y. C., interclub class. 
2. Wollaston Y. C., Y. R. A. 
2. Boston Y. C., Hull, catboat championship. 
2. Royal Canadian Y. C., Fisher’s cup. 
4. Larchmont Y. C., fall. 
4. Norwalk Y. C., annual. 
4. Sachem’s Head Y. C., annual. 
4. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
4. Atlantic Y. C., open. 
4. Edgewood Y. C., special. 
4. Fall River Y. C., open. 
4. Boston Y. C., club, Hull. 
7. New York Y. C., autumn cups, Glen Cove. 
9. Indian Harbor Y. C., fall. 
9. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
9. Bensonhurst Y. C., 11th championship, G. B. Y. R. A. 
9. Quincy Y. C., club. , , 
9. Royal Canadian Y. C., Prince of Wales cup. 
16. Manhasset Bay, fall. 
16. Larchmont Y. C., interclub class. 
16. Atlantic Y. C., 12th championship. G. B. Y. K. A. 
16. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
23. Indian Harbor Y. C., championship race. 
New York Y. C. Cruise. 
A. Cary Smith, the veteran yacht designer, 
has written interestingly of the schooner racing- 
in the recent cruise of the New York \ . C. He 
has also told some other things about yachts 
and yacht racing, of which he has been a student 
for many years. He says: 
“The New York Y. C. cruise was the most 
interesting in many years to the thoughtful 
student of racing. There were seen two large 
schooners of the same size sail day after day in 
the varying winds and weather under circum¬ 
stances that have never before occurred. 
“One, Westward, was built under a foreign 
measurement and rules up to the exacting re¬ 
quirements of Lloyds. Even the location of the 
mainmast was limited. This vessel was raced 
abroad and carried off all the prizes in a manner 
that left no subject for debate. Then she made 
a fast passage home under trying conditions of 
wind and sea, proving that she is a stanch and 
seaworthy craft, fit to go anywhere. 
“The other vessel. Elena, was built under our 
yachting rules, and if rumor is true, is six tons 
lighter from the water line up, and advantage 
was taken of all lightness of outfit that skill 
could devise, in which expense was not con¬ 
sidered, and she was sailed by a most compe¬ 
tent master, who has won Astor cups after be¬ 
ing beaten 14m. at the Block Island mark. 
“Previous to these yachts meeting it was a 
foregone conclusion, many thought, that the 
vessel built under the American rules would win 
without trouble of any kind and without serious 
opposition. The result was that sometimes 
one of the yachts won and sometimes the other. 
The races also proved that a new racing star 
had appeared to take the place in a great meas¬ 
ure of that prince of boat sailers, the late Cap¬ 
tain Charles Barr, a rigid disciplinarian, who 
never knew when he was beaten, and, like the 
late Mr. J. Rogers Maxwell, beloved of all true 
sportsmen, only asked ‘When is the next race? 
“These schooner races disposes of the long 
cherished idea that a racing yacht must be con¬ 
structed so lightly as to twist when the main- 
sheet is trimmed, and the bow liable to raise 
up and slack the forestay when the jib halliards 
are jigged up taut, which is a blessing to all 
fair minded sportsmen. 
“The present measurement is responsible for 
this much desired end. Ample displacement is 
fostered by the rule and no freak boat can be 
built under it, except some small ones that may 
be carried on the davits of the big fellows. 
Westward is not a sloop schooner, but a whole¬ 
some boat, with liberal freeboard and ample 
headroom below. 
“These two vessels in their races during the 
cruise made a fascinating picture. They chased 
each other all over the sea, sometimes allowing 
the smaller Irolita to slip ahead and win the 
prize, and not a man to find fault, as the owner 
sails his own yacht, and knows the thrill of that 
communion of the boat and the man—when the 
boat seems to do it herself. 
“Those who sit at ease can never know the 
fascination of this merging the boat and the 
man or the satisfaction that creeps over the 
nerves after a successful day, or the pictures 
that memory develops months after sitting at 
the fireside—vivid phantoms rising before the 
imagination—or the pleasure of meeting some 
hard-handed man who trimmed the sails, whose 
honest face beams when he meets the owner. 
It may be in a crowded car, when the big¬ 
shouldered man gets up, with doffed hat, offers 
his seat, and then the talk begins and every one 
wonders at the strangely assorted pair. 
“On the way to New Bedford the yachts had 
a strong reaching with a thick fog, and when 
the wind was strongest the fog lifted for a few 
minutes and two big schooners were seen, one 
just lapping the other, both carrying full light 
sails, balloon jibtopsails and baloon maintop- 
mast staysails, both heeled to a large angle and 
going about 14 knots. The fog shut down like 
the shutter of a camera and they were gone. 
“Westward had no centerboard, while Elena 
had one, and this made quite a difference in a 
boat to windward in a strong wind, but as 
centerboards are barred abroad, none was put 
in Westward. The prejudice has proved a fortu¬ 
nate thing for us in the matter of the America’s 
Cup. 
“To show what a difference a slight increase 
of sail makes in the speed of a boat, the follow¬ 
ing case is cited: Many years ago, I was on 
board Mischief on the way to Cape May Light¬ 
ship, in company with Regina. The wind was 
ahead and light. ' Mischief had her working top¬ 
sail set. Regina held on to windward better and 
pointed higher that Mischief, and though Mis¬ 
chief was the larger boat, several long tacks 
were made, and Regina held her position. At 
last the club topsail was sent upon Mischief, 
and though the extra sail was only .654 per cent, 
of the total area—about 250 square feet of 
canvas—Mischief at once ranged ahead, and in 
two or three hours Regina was miles dead to 
leeward, and as the day wore on we lost her 
astern. 
“Westward and Elena have about 10 per cent, 
more sail than Enchantress. The ratings show 
this: Westward, 89.6; Enchantress, 85.5, though 
Enchantress is four feet longer on the waterline 
than either of the others. 
“The ideal racing schooner is a vessel that 
will heel to a moderate angle with a light wind 
and yet carry her sails well when heeled to a 
large angle, and with a form that will attain 
great speed at a large angle. Westward and 
Elena fill these requirements. 
“There’s a great amount of bosh written about 
the loss of area of sail when a vessel is. heeled 
to a large angle, and chapters of this. kind are 
found in books by men more versed in mathe¬ 
matics than boats. 
“This tenderness gives an ease of motion in 
disturbed water that no so-called stiff boat can 
attain. We have an example of this in Reliance, 
the best boat ever designed under the conditions 
of unlimited sail area and draft. Proof of this 
excellence of design was when Reliance de¬ 
feated the challenger for the cup in a light wind 
and rolling sea—did the very opposite of what 
her friends expected. 
“When these facts have been established, it 
is very easy to see what chance Enchantress had 
against Westward and Elena, the conditions 
under which Enchantress was designed being 
these: Great stability; not more than 5,000 
square feet in the mainsail; not to exceed 15 
feet draft; to have a 25-horsepower motor to 
run the electric plant; a windlass to be run by 
electric power and to hoist the sails; the engine 
room to be bulkheaded off with steel to the 
deck; a hot water heating plant; seven tons of 
water to be carried; tons of ice; complete 
plumbing outfit, and steel house over the com¬ 
panionway.” 
New York Wins Match Race. 
The 31-raters, Joyant, owned by Commodore 
W. H. Childs, and Windward, owned by R. A. 
Monks, sailed a series of races last week against 
the Eastern yachts Timandra, owned by J. B. 
Fallon, and Amoret, owned by C. B and H. S. 
Wheelock. The races were managed by the 
Corinthian Y. C., of Marblehead. 
The first race was sailed on Aug. 17, and was 
won by Amoret with Windward second. The 
course was windward and return, 16 miles in 
all. The wind was south by east, light at the 
start, but increasing in strength. Windward got 
away well and held the lead to the first turn. 
There Amoret passed her and held her ad¬ 
vantage to the finish. Commodore Childs re¬ 
ported that Joyant was disqualified for fouling 
a buoy. The times: Amoret, 2.35.38; Wind¬ 
ward. 2.36.44; Timandra, 2.45.28; Joyant, dis¬ 
qualified. 
The second race was over a triangular course. 
Timandra was first away with Windward next. 
Five minutes after the start a sharp squall broke 
and Joyant carried away the jaws of her gaff. 
Windward, well handled in the squall, took the 
lead, which she held to the finish. The times: 
Windward, 1.25.20; Amoret, 1.46.50; Timandra, 
2.11.48; Joyant, disabled. 
Windward won the third race over a wind¬ 
ward and leeward course. The race was sailed 
in a fair breeze and Windward was well handled. 
The times: Windward, 2.35.22; Amoret, 2.38.50; 
Joyant, 2.44.53; Timandra, 2.45.58. 
The point score was thus a tie, each side 
having scored 13 points. The individual score 
was: Windward 11, Amoret 7, Timandra 6, 
Joyant 2. 
Windward won the deciding race, but by a 
very close margin. Joyant was second, beaten 
only 30s. This victory gave Windward the in¬ 
dividual prize and the New York boats the 
prize for the match. The times were: Wind- 
ward, 1.56.43: Joyant, 1.57.13; Timandra, 1.57.48: 
Amoret, 1.58.23._ 
Atlantic Y. C. 
The Gravesend Bay yachts sailed under 'the 
auspices of the Atlantic Y. C. last Saturday. 
They were favored with a brisk wind from 
north, and Grayjacket just romped away from 
the others. The course was twice around marks 
off Sea Gate, Ambrose Channel Buoy No. 24, 
Fort Hamilton, Bensonhurst and home again 
to the finish line off Sea Gate. As the wind 
came the boats had a reach on the starboard 
tack to the Ambrose Channel Buoy, a stiff beat 
up the channel to Fort Hamilton, a spinnaker 
run to Bensonhurst and a reach on the star¬ 
board tack to the finish line. 
It was Grayjacket’s weather and as a result, 
the Noble boat won. The victory was won dur¬ 
ing the second round of the struggle. When 
the boats plowed by the committee at the end 
of the first round Soya was leading. The times 
taken were: Soya, 3:59:19; Grayjacket. 3 ; 59 oS: 
Spider, 4:00:05; Alice, 4:00:47, and Princess, 
4:01:15. On the weather during the second 
round Soya was bothered by an outgoing 
steamer and Grayjacket and Spider both slipped 
by the Barstow craft. Grayjacket won from 
Spider by 42s. and the latter boat beat Soya by 
13s. for second place. 
The heavy weather just suited the yawl La 
