Dec. 2, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
813 
Ticks From the Ship’s Clock. 
S. S. S. asks what is tonnage of a yacht. 
Register tonnage means the internal capacity of 
the vessel’s hold in cubic feet, with any addi¬ 
tional space on deck, divided by 100. Gross ton¬ 
nage is the total register tonnage. But tonnage 
refers to the space actually available' for remu¬ 
nerative service, as holds, passenger accommo¬ 
dation, etc. The measurement for tonnage, 
known as Thames or yacht measurement, is 
(L — B) x B x J 4 B 
found thus-= tons. L is 
94 
taken from foreside of stem to afterside of stern 
post on deck, commonly known as between per¬ 
pendiculars. 
To paint or not to paint, that is the question 
much mooted at present in ship building circles. 
A prominent English authority claims that the 
best method for insuring protection of new steel 
vessels is to launch them without paint and to 
apply a composition only after the vessel has 
been overboard a month or more to allow the 
mill scale to wear off. The steel training ship 
Exmouth received no paint whatever before she 
was launched, and after a month or two she was 
put in drydock and given four coats of first cass 
paint. After being five years afloat, the bottom 
was found to be in a perfect state of preserva¬ 
tion, with very little rust at the water line, and 
only a little grass and slime covering the anti¬ 
fouling composition, which was found to be in 
a thoroughly sound state of preservation. 
Howard V. Denting, a member of the Toledo 
Y. C., surprised his yachting friends by sailing 
into his home port with a fine new yacht which 
he had just purchased in Detroit. Mr. Denting 
reached the Toledo Y. C. harbor about 11 o’clock. 
The new yacht is a cat-rigged craft of the 
Cape Cod type, but some larger than the Cape 
Cod catboat brought to Toledo last summer by 
Walter Ryder. Mr. Denting is also the owner 
of Red Coat, a fast sailing sloop-rigged yacht. 
Marblehead Harbor now is clear of boats and 
for the remainder of the year will only be 
visited occasionally by coasters, as the last of 
the yachting fleet is in winter storage, Frederick 
M. Hoyt’s 6o-foot cutter Isolde, the last to be 
hauled out, being on the railway at Frazer’s last 
Monday. 
The second European international festival will 
be held in German waters at Kiel June 26 and 
27, 1912. The Dover-to-Helgoland races, an an¬ 
nual event, will take place June 15. 
Among the names of new motor yachts recently 
reported by the Bureau of Navigation are Good 
News, Hercules, Porpoise and Timer. 
Charles P. Burgess, the youngest son of the 
late Edward Burgess, has closed his business in 
Boston and gone to Scotland, where he will make 
his future home. 
Members of the Eastern Y. C. are about to 
build a one-design 17-foot class, and builders 
have been asked to submit figures. Construction, 
it is reported, will begin at an early day. 
The Stearns & McKay Company, of Marble¬ 
head, Mass., have designed a power yacht 90 
feet over-all for a New York yachtsman. The 
same company is putting in shape for next sea¬ 
son’s service the yawl Petrel, owned by H. V. R. 
Kennedy, New York Y. C. 
In the United States and Canada there are 
about 300,000 power boats, 85 per cent, of which 
are pleasure craft. There are 500 power boat 
clubs. What a power is the power boat owner. 
The class of one-design 15-footers from de¬ 
signs of John G. Alden for members of the 
Corinthian Y. C., which will be built for next 
year's racing, probably will number at least eight 
boats. 
Demarest Lloyd is having the interior of his 
schooner Princess, purchased this fall in New 
York, changed over at Lawleys, so that next sum¬ 
mer she will be fitted better for cruising. 
Frederick G. Bourne, New York Y. C., will 
add another high speed power yacht to his al¬ 
ready large fleet of steam and power vessels, as 
he has ordered for use on the St. Lawrence River 
a 6o-foot high-speed power cruiser, which is ex¬ 
pected to have a speed of twenty-three miles an 
hour. 
To convert meters to yards: multiply by 70 
and divide by 64. 
Club Elections. 
DELAWARE LAKE Y. C. 
At the annual meeting of Nov. 13 at Hotel 
La Salle, Chicago, P. N. Baylies was chosen com¬ 
modore. Arrangements were made for the 
Northwestern regatta to be held at Delavan Lake 
the first week in August, 1912. 
Other officers chosen were: Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, Dr. E. R. Kellogg; Secretary, Averill Til- 
den; Treasurer, Edward Grassie; Fleet Captain, 
Edward C. Berriman; Regatta Committee, Elmer 
Stevens and H. L. Baylies; Measurement Com¬ 
mittee, Lawrence Garibaldi and Eimer Wieboldt. 
ILLINOIS VALLEY Y. C. 
The Illinois Valley Y. C., of Peoria, held its 
annual business meeting and election of officers 
on Nov. 13. 
Robert G. Scholes was unanimously elected 
commodore to succeed A. T. Griffith. H. E. 
Chubbuck was chosen vice-commodore to suc¬ 
ceed Scholes and W. E. Persons was elected 
rear-commodore to succeed Mr. Chubbuck. 
William R. Bootz was chosen secretary to suc¬ 
ceed Guy C. Goodfellow and F. LI. Gift was re¬ 
elected treasurer. 
There was some contest in the election of nine 
members of the board of directors from a list 
of fifteen candidates. Those selected are S. L. 
Nelson, James R. Fuller, E. H. Bradley, A. T. 
Griffith, J. M. Baillie, L. H. Lord, A. D. Camp¬ 
bell, W. E. Wilde and J. P. Brady. 
Messrs. Bradley, Wilde and Griffith formerly 
were commodores. Brady and Campbell were 
re-elected directors and James R. Fuller and L. 
H. Lord were newly elected. 
Racing trophies won during the season were 
presented to Robert Scholes and J. P. Brady. 
By the report of the secretary and treasurer 
it was shown that the organization is in a most 
prosperous condition. 
CHICAGO Y. C. 
The annual meeting of the yacht owners’ asso¬ 
ciation of the Chicago Y. C. has been held and 
the following were elected to take charge of the 
affairs of this association for the coming season : 
Godfrey LI. Atkin, owner of the schooner 
Nomad, Chairman; Fred T. Roberts, part owner 
of the sloop Josephine, Secretary and Treasurer. 
At the next meeting the committee, headed by 
E. M. Mills, will report on the one-design class 
which the yacht club is promoting. Already nine 
of these boats are promised. This will insure 
good racing among club members who are in¬ 
terested in small boat sailing. 
When Doctors Disagree. 
Some little grain of comfort, and no less de¬ 
gree of satisfaction, should come to W. H. 
Childs, owner of Joyant, disqualified, after win¬ 
ning the Manhasset Bay cup, inasmuch as the 
jury disagreed in its verdict of guilty. The 
Manhasset cup committee report handed in last 
week stood two for disqualification, one against 
such action. The minority report was signed 
by James D. Sparkman, and the majority report 
by Charles Lane Poor and Himelius Jarvis. 
The match was sailed July 10, 11 and 12, on 
Long Island Sound. Two races were won by 
Joyant, of Indian Harbor Y. C. As the matter 
now stands the cup goes to Cara Mia, of Amer¬ 
ican Y. C., who defended the cup. The majority 
report is as follows: 
Eight boats competed, Corinthian, rating 
30.80, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C.; Amoret, 
30.93, Corinthian Y. C. of Marblehead; Sayo- 
nara, 30.99, Portland Y. C.; Timandra, 30.97, 
Eastern Y. C.; Italia, 30.95, Boston Y. C.; Joy¬ 
ant, 30.89, Indian Harbor Y. C.; Windward, 
30.80, Larchmont Y. C., and Cara Mia, 30.97, 
American Y. C. 
Joyant won the first and second races of the 
series, three races being agreed upon. 
THE PROTESTS. 
“The paragraph in the measurement rule of 
the Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound, under 
which the various protests were filed, reads as 
follows: In case there are any notches, jogs, 
curves or angles at or near the place of meas¬ 
urement of either the load waterline or quarter 
beam length they shall be taken to a fair line 
bridging such notches, curves, jogs or angles. 
“The intent of the rule is to prevent the short¬ 
ening of the waterline or quarter beam by the 
use of notches, jogs or curves. The use of the 
word curve apparently widens the scope of the 
rule and extends the portions of the boat to 
which it applies, for while notches or jogs are 
purely local in character, a curve is more ex¬ 
tended. Any device of designing by which the 
measured waterline or quarter beam does not 
give a true measure of the length of the boat 
is by this rule penalized. 
“The measurer took from the hulls of the 
yachts Corinthian, Joyant and Cara Mia their 
profile lines and secured from the designers 
certified copies of the profile lines of the other 
protested boats. These profile lines, with cer¬ 
tain explanatory data, were submitted to the 
committee. 
LINES SHOW HOLLOW CURVES. 
“The protested yachts Joyant and Corinthian 
are from thirty to fifty per cent, larger than 
the other boats of the class. Joyant’s waterline 
length is 35^ feet as against 32^2 feet of Cara 
Mia, and her displacement 559 cubic feet as 
against 325. This large size is made possible on 
a small rating by the use of hollow lines at or 
near the planes of measurement. These lines 
do not show any notches or jogs in the ordi¬ 
nary acceptance of such words, but do show 
hollow curves. The waterline, as measured to 
the surface formed by the hollow curves, does 
not represent the real length of the boat, and 
under a broad interpretation of the rule such 
curves should be penalized. 
“The committee is of the opinion that yachts 
Corinthian and Joyant contain lines which the 
spirit of the rule distinctly penalizes. The pen¬ 
alty provided is ‘bridging,’ but the rule does 
not provide any distinct method of bridging, 
and the application of the rule to any specific 
case is extremely difficult and liable to cause 
honest differences of opinion. 
“The jurisdiction of the committee over the 
entire subject of the protests has been ques¬ 
tioned. The claim has been made that in all 
questions of measurement the decision of the 
measurer is final and that the committee has no 
authority to issue instructions as to how the rule 
shall be interpreted or to investigate the methods 
and data used by the measurer in reaching his 
decision. 
THE COMMITTEE’S DECISION. 
“To this view the committee dissents. The 
committee believes that the clear intent of the 
