Oct. 21, iqi i.] 
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Rear Commodore F. M. Wilson, of the At¬ 
lantic Y. C., who is in Southern waters on his 
yacht Sumida, is studying plans for a new and 
larger boat. Sumida has been steadily in com¬ 
mission for three years, and while in fine con¬ 
dition is hardly commodious enough for winter 
and summer service, thinks Mr. Wilson. 
The cruising power boat Sheer will spend the 
winter in Florida waters. Her owner, S. P. 
Pollard, joined her at Miami last week. 
The Herreshoffs have received an order from 
J. Pierpont Morgan for a speed launch to be 
carried aboard the Corsair. This launch will 
carry a go horsepower motor capable of making 
eighteen miles an hour. 
Nauma, built for Charles W. Shepard, was 
launched at Grave’s Yard, Marblehead, last week. 
She is of the cruiser type, 45 feet over-ali, 10 
feet beam, equipped with a 40 horsepower motor. 
She was designed by Samuel H. Brown, Jr. She 
will spend the winter in Southern waters. 
Just who holds the Manhasset Bay challenge 
cup is still a question with yachtsmen. Joyant 
won the majority of points in the series and that 
yacht represented the Indian Harbor Y. C., but 
she was protested on the ground that she did not 
properly measure in the c’ass. Then Commo¬ 
dore Childs protested the other boats and the 
committee has had a difficult problem to settle. 
There have been many discussions about the 
point raised, which seems to have been brought 
to the attention of the committee through George 
Owen, the designer of the Eastern yachts. Since 
the first ruffle of excitement has quieted down, 
yachtsmen think that the matter should be al¬ 
lowed to drop, and that the rule takes care of 
itself. It is argued by many that while Joyant 
is a big boat, she is a wholesome type in that 
she is big bodied and makes a fine cruiser, but 
that for racing a smaller boat of easier form 
would be the better type and much more suc¬ 
cessful throughout a season’s sailing. The de¬ 
cision of the committee is anxiously looked for, 
however, and it is hoped that it will not be long 
delayed so that some action may be taken on 
it by the Atlantic coast conference if necessary. 
Perhaps the much talked of new class of 46- 
footers will become a reality before next season 
opens, as Herreshoff has drawn plans for such 
a boat, although no orders have yet been placed 
for them. This class becomes possib'e through 
Geo. F. Baker, Jr.’s satisfaction with the sloop 
Gardenia which he chartered and raced last sea¬ 
son during the New York Y. C. cruise. Al¬ 
though the yacht was not over successful in the 
races, Commodore Baker is satisfied that this 
class of boat offers immense sport, and undoubt¬ 
edly will have a new 46-footer before next year. 
Under the leadership of Commodore E. F. 
Luckenbach, the Crescent Athletic Club yacht 
division will devote more attention to motor 
boating than was given this branch of yachting 
last season. Many more races will be arranged 
and a number of cups put up by interested mem¬ 
bers of the club. 
B. B. Crowninshield, it is reported, has an 
order for five small schooners for members of 
the New York Y. C. These boats will be 40 feet 
11 inches over-all, 30 feet on waterline, 8 feet 
beam and 5 feet 10 inches draft, with lead keels 
weighing 5,500 pounds. Construction contracts 
have not yet been placed. 
If one judged only from their unique little 
monthly magazine, The Pilot, copy of October 
issue of which has just come to hand, the Erie 
Y. C., Erie, Pa., is not only ambitious, but thriv¬ 
ing. This tasty magazine gives all the club 
news and breezy, unreefed editorials, evidently 
written by the hand of a master pilot. The 
magazine fills another need, that of publicity 
medium for the city of Erie. The editor’s de¬ 
scription of Erie makes one want to live there, 
now and on into eternity. ’Tis truly a picture of 
heaven thrown on to the screen. It may be writ¬ 
ten of as heaven, even though the editor’s name 
is Nick. It’s not old Nick. W. II. F. Nick is 
the editor’s name. The advertising manager is 
Frank W. Perrin. 
The annual meeting of the Larchmont Y. C. 
will be held in New York city Dec. 6. 
Edmund TI. Tarbell has sold his 53-foot cabin 
cruising launch Octalee V. to Carl E. Schmidt, 
of Detroit. The new owner will rechristen her 
Valkyrie. 
The City Is’and Y. C., one of the most enter¬ 
prising of the numerous little clubs that dot Long 
Island Sound, went out of commission on Oct. 
8 with a beefsteak dinner to members and friends. 
Fourteen cups were presented to season win¬ 
ners. The commodore’s power boat cup went 
to Jim Doyle. 
Jamaica Bay Y. C. 
The last of the second series of handicap 
races under the auspices of the Yacht Racing 
Association of Jamaica Bay was held Oct. 15 
over the Beach Channel course in light, variable 
winds that came from south-southeast. At the 
end of the race there was an almost flat calm. 
It was this condition of weather that resulted 
in a number of the competing yachts failing to 
cover the course within the time limit of three 
hours and robbed the race of much of its in¬ 
terest. 
Most of the yachts were compelled to be towed 
to the starting line, and when the gun was fired 
for the start of the sloop class from Commo¬ 
dore Hodgson's flagship, Lester, used by the race 
committee, it was little more than a drifting 
match until the incoming tide had carried the 
yachts well up the bay when there was a fresh¬ 
ening of the wind, giving all a broad reach and 
a run to the mark off Broad Channel drawbridge. 
The second leg of the course was a beat to 
windward through Broad Channel and a close 
reach down Beach Channel to the finishing line. 
In the sloop class Cornelia crossed first, close to 
the starting gun, followed by Sassacus and Klyo, 
Mildred H. and Arrow crossing after the cat- 
boat class had started. In the catboat class Sel¬ 
fish got over the starting line in the lead with 
Sinbad, Elvira and Zephyr following, the two 
last named also crossing well after the gun fire. 
The delay was caused by several of the yachts 
failing to reach the starting line on time, owing 
to the light winds. A protest was filed by the 
owner of Sassacus against Cornelia on a ques¬ 
tion of failure to give way on an overlap, and 
also another by George Brown, owner of Sin- 
bad, because of the absence of the turning mark 
at Broad Channel. These matters will be de¬ 
cided by the race committee and may affect the 
winners in the sloop class. The race committee 
comprised Martin Plage, Vice-Commodore Thos. 
King, Dr. L. C. Heimer and Vice-Commodore 
C. H. Greene. The summary: 
Class A—Cabin Sloops—Start, 12:00. 
Finish. 
Cornelia, D. S. Van Wicklen. 2 32 15 
Sassacus, Wm. Murray . 2 33 18 
Klyo, A. H. Brook. 2 53 04 
Arrow, John Anderson . Did not 
Mildred H., R. V. Hunt. Did not 
Class B—Cabin and Open Catboats—Start, 
Selfish, W. Smith . 2 58 50 
Elvira, J. Anderson, Jr. 2 33 50- 
Sinbad, G. Brown. Did not 
Zephyr, R. E. Morrison. Did not 
Class C—Cabin Power Boats—Start, 12: 
Agawam, W. Wheeler. 1 15 38 
Argo, E. H. Watson. 1 17 15 
Brisk, Yenzer & Mathes . 1 18 09 
Mystic, J. H. Patterson. 1 22 28 
Class D—Open Power Boats—Start, 12 
Bill Morrison, H. Hamm. 1 25 45 
Ella and Elsie, A. McDonald. 1 25 55 
Smarty, M. Hines . 1 29 50 
Edna A., P. S. Anderson, Jr. 1 38 09 
May, L. Gaily . 1 39 00 
Elapsed. 
2 32 45 
2 33 18 
2 53 04 
finish, 
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12:05. 
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Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound. 
If the pessimists among piazza yachtsmen who 
worry themselves and friends with the notion 
that yacht racing on Long Island Sound is on 
the wane will read Secretary J. W. Alker’s re¬ 
port for the past season, they will retire abashed 
to the precincts of the cafe and seek oblivion 
through the agency of the man in charge of the 
dispensary. Mr. Alker’s report says: 
This organization held twenty-two regattas, 
with a total of 1,713 starts, or an average of 
seventy-eight per regatta. Larchmont week had 
a daily fleet of more than no starters, and on 
July 22, 137 boats crossed the line, establishing 
a new record for Long Island Sound. 
Championships were awarded on a percentage 
basis, but only boats qualified which took part 
in at least 50 per cent, of the races, so that in 
some of the classes, notably N and Q, no pen¬ 
nants were given. Those to fly the streamer of 
supremacy follow: 
Class P—Joyant, W. H. Childs, 72 per cent. 
New York Y. C. 30-Footers—Rowdy, H. B. 
Duell, 77 per cent. 
Larchmont Y. C. Monotypes — Yukan, N. D. 
Weir, 77 per cent. 
American Y. C. Monotypes—Cliphora, C. D. 
Mallory, 100 per cent. 
Manhasset Bay New Monotypes—Scylia, E. A. 
Sierck. 
Manhasset Bay Old Monotypes—Pixy. 
Class R—Hoyden, S. B. Litchfield, 97 per cent. 
Class S—Nereid, J. B. Shethar, 74 per cent. 
Star Class—Little Dipper, G. A. Corry, 97 per 
cent. 
Bug Class—Iney, C. C. Converse, 83 per cent. 
