Oct. ?8, 1911.I 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
653 
Ticks From the Ship’s Clock. 
Speaking of English racing courses, a Beifast 
yachtsman says: On the Clyde it is flukes; on 
the Solent tides; on the Belfast Lough it is 
the man and the boat. 
South Africa is the home of booms, and 
yachting has felt the effect of tradition. Never 
has such popularity been seen either at Durban 
or at Cape Town, where public interest culmi¬ 
nated in the races for the Lipton Cup, presented 
to the Table Bay Y. C. by Sir Thomas Lipton 
in 1909. The trophy is a fine one, of gold, en¬ 
graved with the arms of the now amalgamated 
Colonies. The Table Bay Club defended with 
Patricia, the best local representative. Her di¬ 
mensions are 23.45 feet on the waterline, 8.89 
feet beam, and the sail area is 807 square feet. 
The Durban challenger was Tess, a boat of 21.4 
feet on the waterline, and 8.43 feet beam, and 
599 square feet of canvas. 
Three races were sailed, and Tess winning the 
first two, the trophy went to Durban. 
Of the remarkable wins of Dixie IV., the 
Yachtsman, of London, says: 
“Last year bad luck lost us this cup, and our 
American opponents were the first to acknowl¬ 
edge it. To-day we must admit a fair beating 
and congratulate the victors. Dixie IV. defeated 
our best, and she must be a clever boat. ThL 
we are willing to believe, for her designer, Clin¬ 
ton Crane, has before now proved himself a man 
of ability. Dixie IV". was no leap in the dark, 
but the outcome of many years of experience and 
scientific study. When the same designer brought 
Challenger to England in the early days of the 
cup history, he met with little good fortune, but 
he earned the esteem of those capable of appre¬ 
ciating a clever design. To no other would we 
more gladly hand the laurels of the contest. 
Mr. Crane has worked well for them, and de¬ 
serves congratulations. To beat Pioneer, Maple 
Leaf III. and Tyreless III. was creditable; to 
beat them decisively was remarkable.” 
Notable among the yachting events in the West 
was the gathering on Oct. 9 of practically every 
yachtsman in Seattle and Tacoma at the smoker 
given by the Tacoma Y. C. 
The specific reason for the visit of the Seattle 
Y. C. was to present Commodore B. F. Jacobs 
with the Doinan cup which was won earlier in 
the year in the Vancouver-Seattle-Victoria race 
under the auspices of the Pacific International 
Powerboat Association, by Commodore Jacobs’ 
power cruiser Corsair. Seattle had exerted her¬ 
self to her utmost to get this cup, and her cour¬ 
tesy in making a personal presentation of the 
trophy has received favorable comment in yacht¬ 
ing circles. 
The Toledo owned yacht Czarina was burned 
to the water’s edge and sunk off Grosse Point, 
Lake St. Clair, on Oct. 16. 
Czarina was one of the best known sailing 
boats on the lakes, having taken part in many 
of the races at Detroit, Put-in-Bay, Cleveland 
and other points. She had an auxiliary yawl 
rig and was about sixty feet long. 
The annual meeting of the Washington Park 
Y. C., Providence, R. I., will hereafter be held 
in October instead of April. 
The second annual banquet of the Interciub 
Yacht Racing Association will be held at the 
American House, Boston, to-night. 
Dakotah, the famous Herreshoff designed rac¬ 
ing cutter, which went to the other side over a 
decade ago and swept the boards and has for 
many years been laid up in Scotland, will end 
her days as a power cruiser. Her fin and hull 
have been removed, and she has been towed to 
Kirn, where the alteration wiil be carried out. 
Last night the annual meeting of the Yacht 
Racing Association of Long Island Sound was 
he’d at the Hotel Astor, New York city. 
The old schooner Ianthe, 52 feet over-all built 
by John B. Herreshoff in 1870, will be fitted with 
a motor and become a fishing vessel. She be¬ 
longs to G. C. Fitzpatrick, of East Boston. 
The yachting season of 1911 for the South 
Boston Y. C. officially ended at sunset on Oct. 
14 and the close was formally observed by the 
flag officers with a large number of the mem¬ 
bers in attendance. 
At 5 o’clock there was a cornet solo and at 
5:06, the time of sunset, a gun was discharged 
on the flagship Torment, Commodore John F. 
Burke, and was answered from the club hotce, 
and instantly all club flags and ensigns on the 
house and yachts were hauled down. The gun 
from Greyling, Rear Commodore Leon T. Allen, 
was fired next, and his flag was hauled down. 
The rear commodore was saluted by the com¬ 
modore and the vice-commodore. A gun from 
Gertrude, AGce-Commodore John J. Tobin, was 
followed by the hauling down of his flag. The 
vice-commodore saluted the flagship, and then 
with a final gun from the flagship the ceremonies 
ended. 
Fleet Captain J. W. Williams entertained all 
the flag officers at a dinner. 
It is very likely that three American motor 
boats of the high speed class will be sent to 
Monaco this winter to race. These will be Dixie 
IV., the new hydroplane building for A. E. 
Smith, which is an enlarged Bug, and a new 
boat for J. Stuart Blackton. Others are likely 
to go, but their owners have been waiting for 
the program. This may be obtained from the 
International Sporting Club, Monaco. Entries 
will be received up to Feb. 29, 1912, and shou'd 
be sent to the club secretary. 
More than 100 members of the Albany, N. Y., 
Y. C. went to the State street pier on Oct. 11 to 
witness the laying of the corner stone. A feature 
of the ceremony was the introduction of S. G. 
Payn, the first commodore of the club forty years 
ago. Commodore Matt McCarty presented him 
to the members in opening his address on the 
history of the organization. A number of other 
ex-commodores were in the group that stood 
about the temporary flagstaff when Fleet Captain 
Thomas J. Fitzpatrick hoisted the colors at the 
command of Commodore McCarty. After the 
ceremony those present partook of the hospi¬ 
tality of the club at its temporary quarters oa 
Broadway. 
The old schooner yacht Columbia that was 
stripped three years or so ago and converted 
into a houseboat will be rerigged, it is reported, 
for pleasure cruising in Southern waters. 
The annual wind-up of the Wollaston (Mass.) 
Y. C. will be at the club house on Nov. II, and 
it will include a banquet and a cabaret show. 
I he committee in charge promises the records 
of past year will be eclipsed. Tickets will be 
limited to 175. Frank F. Taylor, 145 Broom¬ 
field street, Wollaston, is chairman of the com¬ 
mittee of arrangements. 
The yacht Hornet, which was seized at 
I ruxello by the gunboat Tacoma in December 
last, and was held at New Orleans, was declared 
forfeited to the Government for violation of 
the neutrality laws. The decision was given by 
Judge Foster of the U. S. court. The late 
owners set up no defense. 
The man who runs his power boat with the 
muffler cut out is generally the man who makes 
the most noise in the club house. He is a nuis¬ 
ance both indoors and out. 
The 65-foot schooner Princess, ex-Irolita, has 
been sold by the estate of J. Roger Maxwell to 
Demarest L'oyd, of Eastern and New York yacht 
clubs. She is being overhauled at Lawley's yard, 
Neponset, Mass. 
Oct. 21, raining, the wind from the east and 
a new moon—keep your umbrellas and boots 
handy. 
The Log, issued each month by the Motor Boat 
Club of Buffalo, certainly does give a line on 
the important happenings in the club. It is taste¬ 
ful in make-up and cleverly edited. Its women’s 
page takes care of the joys and troubles of the 
superior fractions of the members and brings 
pleasure into the home, because it insures the 
bringing home of the Log by those ever forget¬ 
ful inferior fractions. 
The October issue brings a change of editor¬ 
ship, Harold Kelley retiring in favor of C. E. 
Cummings, whose first number shows signs of 
an interesting year for the readers of the book. 
Among other things is this: 
“The three day race meet, which was held dur¬ 
ing September, was one of the greatest events 
of this kind ever held in the United States. It 
was a source of never-ending amazement to our 
visitors that the Motor Boat Club was able to 
get together such a number of the fast boats of 
the country. The regrettable accident of Satur¬ 
day was the only unfortunate feature of the 
meet. Fleet Captain Kelley was on the job every 
minute, and he deserves a large share of credit. 
The details of the race were handled by past 
Commodore Criqui and his sub-committees in a 
