Nov. 25, 1911-] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Ticks From the Ship’s Clock. 
W. E. Scripps, retiring commodore of the 
Great Lakes Power Boat League, writes that 
the league is growing rapidly and is doing 
splendid work for motor boat owners on the 
lakes. The 1912 regatta will be held at Hamil¬ 
ton., Ont., probably Aug. 3-4-5- It will be the 
first International power boat regatta held on 
fresh water. 
The Bayhead Y. C., of Meadowmere Park, 
Jamaica South, has puchased from the Charles 
Meyer Company a parcel having a frontage of 
69 feet on the west side of Jamaica and Rock- 
away turnpike, with a frontage on Hook Creek. 
Yachtsmen cruising South who sight what 
looks like a setting from Wagner’s Ring “Das 
Niebelungen,” needn’t get their glasses ready 
for a Metropolitan Opera House chorus, nor 
scan the poop deck for Edouard De Reszke, be¬ 
cause the Viking-like ship apt to be encountered 
there is the Thor-Bjorn, owned by Ole Amund¬ 
son, an employee of the Chicago Record-Herald. 
Amundson, who is a native of Norway, be¬ 
came a sailor when he was 15 years old, and fol¬ 
lowed the sea for several years, but has been a 
resident of Chicago thirty-four years. 
He has been in charge of the Record-Herald 
building for twenty years, and has a letter from 
Editor H. H. Kohlsaat, wishing him and his 
family a pleasant trip, and stating that when he 
arrives back his job will be open for him. 
Amundson does not expect to return for nearly 
a year. The Thor-Bjorn is 38 feet long, 12 feet 
beam, and has a draft of 5 feet. 
G. Waldo Smith was elected last week, for the 
tenth time, Commodore of the Bay Side Y. C. 
Mr. Smith has dome an immense amount of 
work -which has gone far toward keeping this 
yacht club among the most prosperous on Long 
Island Sound. 
Mr. William Gardner, of this city, has de¬ 
signed and will superintend the construction of 
a class M sloop for Mr! H. G. S. Noble, N. Y. 
Y. C. 
The yacht will be built at the yard of B. F. 
Wood, City Island. The rig of the new sloop 
will be similar to that of the fast Dorello. 
Mr. Noble has owned the sloop yacht Ironde- 
quoit, also of class M., for years, and raced her 
at every possible opportunity. She has always 
been a welcome addition to the starting lists in 
the regattas and squadron runs of the New York 
Y. C. and also in the majority of the regattas 
of the Sound clubs. 
The Navy Department accepted the bid of M. 
H. Olson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for the gunboat 
Hist of $2,421. Mr. Olson’s bid was the highest 
of nine bids received for the Hist. 
Hist is a steel schooner of 174 feet length, 
23 feet breadth and 9 feet 10 inches draft. She 
was formerly Thespia and was purchased on 
April 22, 1898, for $65,000 from David Bows, Jr. 
Hist was in many engagements during the 
Spanish-American war. 
Club Elections. 
BAYSIDE Y. C. 
At the annual election, held in the club house 
on Little Neck Bay, the following officers were 
elected: Commodore, G. Waldo Smith; 
Rear-Commodore, Elmer G. Story; Vice- 
Commodore, Edwin Shuttleworth; Secretary, 
William H. Johns; Treasurer, Eaton V. Reed; 
members of the Board of Governors—T. Rum- 
ney and Harvey G. Rockwell. 
RHODE ISLAND Y. C. 
The annual meeting recently held brought 
forth a report from the treasurer showing a de¬ 
cidedly satisfactory balance on hand after a 
successful season. The annual banquet will be 
held in January. Officers for the ensuing year 
were elected as follows: Commodore; Walter 
W. Massie; Vice-Commodore, Edwin S. 
Rhodes; Rear-Commodore, W. B. Streeter; Sec¬ 
retary-Treasurer, F. A. Barnes; Measurer, Scott 
C. Burlingame; House Committee—Chas. H. 
Hunt (Chairman), Harry M. Danser, Frank H. 
Sweet; Social Committee—Michel Bogel (Chair¬ 
man), W. W. Aldrich, Ford Moran, Joseph A. 
Bullard, Joseph Catlow; Race Committee—W. 
Louis Frost (Chairman), Dr. A. C. Mair, Geo. 
L. Spencer, Ernest L. Arnold, Charles H. 
Weeden; Sub-Station Committee—Dr. Harry W. 
Kimball (Chairman), Zenas W. Bliss, Fred S. 
Nock; Directors at Large—Theodore R. Good¬ 
win, Richard P. Jencks; Delegates to the Nar- 
ragansett Bay Y. R. A.—W. Louis Frost, Brad¬ 
bury L. Barnes, and W. J. Brooks. 
NEW YORK Y. C. 
The nominating committee of the New York 
Y. C., composed of J. P. Morgan, chairman; L. 
C. Ledyard, F. G. Bourne, C. Vanderbilt, A. C. 
James, Wilson Marshall, F. H. Von Stade, 
Daniel Appleton, Commodore J. D. Jerrold 
Kelley, U. S. N., and Grenville Kane, Secre¬ 
tary, has put in nomination the following ticket, 
to be voted upon at the annual meeting, Dec. 12: 
Commodore, C. Ledyard Blair; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, Dallas B. Pratt; Rear-Commodore, 
George F. Baker, Jr.; Secretary, George A. Cor- 
mack; Treasurer, Tarrant Putnam; Regatta 
Committee—H. de B. Parsons, C. Sherman 
Hoyt and J. M. Macdonough; Measurer, Wil¬ 
liam Hallock; Committee on Admissions— 
Henry C. Ward, Newberry D. Thorne, Henry 
A. Bishop, William Butler Duncan, Jr., and 
Charles Lane Boor; House Committee—Thomas 
A. Bronson, H. H. Rogers and Samuel A. 
Brown; Library Committee—Charles W. Lee, 
Richard T. Wainwright and Henry B. Kane; 
Model Committee—John Neilson, Frederick M. 
Hoyt and W. Harry McGill; Committee on 
Club Stations and Anchorages—No. 2, J. Pier- 
pont Morgan, Jr.; No. 3, Robert P. Doremus; 
No. 4, Vernon C. Brown; No. 5, Charles Lane 
Poor; No. 6, Maximilian Agassiz; No. 7, Alfred 
C. Plarrison, and No. 10, J. Harvey Ladew. 
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regularly. 
Methods of Measurement. 
The yachting season having ended nearly two 
months ago, those interested in the sport not 
being able to sail their boats naturally have 
been discussing, the 1911 season. Much of this 
discussion, at least among the racing men, has 
been of possible changes in the rules governing 
the sport. There appears to be more unrest in 
respect to some portions of the rules than there 
has been at any time since the last revision by 
the Atlantic Coast conference, nearly four years 
ago. 
Methods of measurement—not the rule of 
measurement, but the methods of applying the 
rule by the different measurers—and the rela¬ 
tions of the measurers and regatta committees 
have been discussed very freely during the last 
three months, especially so among those inter¬ 
ested in Long Island Sound racing. There is a 
feeling on the part of many racing men that the 
method of applying the measurement rule should 
be uniform in all clubs, and therefore should be 
exactly defined, and. moreover, that the relative 
positions in authority of regatta committee and 
the measurer should be defined. This discussion 
has grown out of the controversy over the race 
for the Manhasset Bay challenge cup, held in 
July last on Long Island Sound—a controversy 
yet unsettled. 
For the contest of last July there were a num¬ 
ber of candidates among boats a year old or 
more, and also a number of brand-new boats, 
built especially to race for the cup. Among 
the latter was Joyant, a “whale” of a big boat 
for the class, built by Herreshoff for Commo¬ 
dore Childs of the Indian Harbor Y. C. All 
the boats entering were duly measured by the 
measurer of the club holding the cup, .lie Amer¬ 
ican Y. C., as provided in the deed of gift, and 
general conditions governing the contest of the 
cup. But when they appeared for the first race 
protests, alleging that Joyant was too big for 
the class, were promptly entered by the owners 
of boats coming from Massachusetts waters. 
The race committee, or rather, two of the three 
men constituting the committee, the third be¬ 
ing absent, sustained the protests, whereupon 
Commodore Childs began to make protests, and 
while he was about it he protested a-plenty. 
Then the committee recalled their decision and 
allowed the races to go on, with the boats, or 
at least, the winner, to be subject to remeasure¬ 
ment. Joyant won the series of races, and was 
remeasured by order of the race committee. 
One has to go back to the measurement rule 
to find the origin of the trouble. That rule pre¬ 
scribes, in principle, that to ascertain a boat’s 
rating you must multiply factors representing 
length and sail area and divide the product by 
a factor representing displacement. Therefore, in 
theory, you may build a very long boat and 
give her a big sail plan, and she will still have a 
rating lower than her length and sail area would 
indicate, provided that you make her of suf¬ 
ficiently great displacement. If it were not for 
two things you might build a 50-footer that 
would rate as 25; but, in the first place, you will 
presently reach a point beyond which you can¬ 
not go without so distorting form that the boat 
would not go fast, and, in the second, one of 
the factors represents a linear measurement, a 
second stands for a measurement or area and is 
a square root, while the third represents a meas¬ 
urement of bulk and is a cubic root, and this 
