Dec. 23, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
909 
Ticks from the Ship’s Clock. 
T he good ship Flash Light, as taken on a 
Pilot. In other words the little magazine issued 
by Erie Y. C. will be rechristened Flash Light, a 
title suggested by Capt. C. D. Gilman, of West- 
field, N. Y. The boat by any other name will 
be just as neat, for I cannot see how any mem¬ 
ber of Erie Y. C. can get along without the 
bright little monthly, flashing as it does the 
doings of the club in an interesting and well 
written style from Editor Nicks’ lighthouse. 
The Medford (Mass.) Boat Club members are 
getting ready for a season of ice yachting on 
Mystic Lake. 
There will be two classes: First, under 250 
square feet sail area; second, 250 square feet 
or over. Two cups will be presented, and the 
races will be sailed Saturday and Sundays when¬ 
ever conditions are favorable. The races will 
be sai.ed over a triangular course of about i l /i 
miles and will be from five to ten miles, accord¬ 
ing to conditions of wind and ice. 
The following committee has been appointed 
to take charge of the racing during the season: 
Frank G. Trott, Chairman; Charles B. Brainerd, 
Edward T. Erickson, Ralph H. Keay and Arthur 
G. Mather. 
There are at present nine boats at the lake or 
in process of construction. 
Because the Royal Thames Y. C. had difficulty 
in selecting a date for the Nore to Dover race, 
other than that set for the Dover to Heligoland 
for the prize offered by Kaiser Wi liam, the 
German Emperor has canceled the event which 
he was to patronize. 
The U. S. Hydrographic Office publishes quite 
a long list of books, charts, characteristic charts 
and supplementary publications. Under the head¬ 
ing of books are volumes on sailing directions 
which will be found very valuable to navigators. 
The charts published by this office relate for the 
most part to the coasts and harbors of foreign 
countries and the high seas. There are about 
1,800 of these. On the coast of the United 
States they consist of general charts of large 
areas. Among the supplementary publications 
are Notices to Mariners and the Hydrographic 
Bulletin, each published weekly. All of these 
publications may be obtained for a nominal sum 
from the Hydrographic office in Washington or 
from any of the branch offices in all the prin¬ 
cipal ports. 
V. C. Maddox, Mrs. Maddox, Miss Dorothy 
Maddox, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, arrived in New 
Orleans on the yacht Flying Cloud and will re¬ 
main several days. Miss Taplin. of Toronto, 
Canada; Miss Edwards, of Chicago, and a 
nephew of Mr. Maddox also were members of 
the party. Mr. Maddox will cruise the waters 
of the gulf and on the coast of Cuba and prob¬ 
ably visit the Panama Canal. 
A newspaper race, with many of the great 
daily newspapers of the Middle West represented 
by ice boats bearing their names, is under con¬ 
sideration as one of the features of a week’s 
ice yacht carnival planned by the Mendota Y. C., 
of Madison, Minn. The Kalamazoo Y. C., under 
whose co’ors some of the fastest yachts in the 
country will sail at Gull Lake, will be invited to 
enter. 
In a race for a special cup the boats will sail 
under the names of newspapers, one of the con¬ 
siderations being that a representative of the 
newspaper sail in the yacht, the boats to be 
awarded by lot. 
Representatives of the club wi'l go to Chicago, 
Milwaukee and St. Paul to interest the news¬ 
papers in this novel race. 
At Port Clyde, Me., lies the hulk of the 
schooner yacht Wanderer, the first of Elijah 
Sandford’s Kingdom Y. C. fleet. Stripped of 
her rigging and fittings she is now used by fish¬ 
ermen who have lobster pots to build or nets to 
mend. 
The yacht was bought by Sandford in 1903 
and was dedicated in Boston on Oct. 2 of that 
year. Sandford and his followers got along 
famously with the yacht until she piled up on an 
island close to Mussel Ridge Channel, near Rock¬ 
land, Me., in 1908. Her fittings were removed 
soon afterward, and later Capt. E. I. Archibald, 
of Port Clyde, purchased her hull for the pur¬ 
pose of making it into a barge, for which use, 
however, it proved unsuitable. The yacht was 
left to rot on the east shore of Port Clyde 
Harbor. 
Wanderer was built in 1871 for James Still¬ 
man. For twenty years she was in the racing 
game and during that time defeated such yachts 
as Dauntless and Sappho. At one time she was 
the property of George W. Weld and was flag¬ 
ship of the Eastern Y. C. 
She was 118 feet 3 inches over-all, 106 feet 
3 inches waterline, 23 feet 2 inches beam and 
11 feet 6 inches draft.—Boston Globe. 
George Carroll Curtis, painter and sculptor, 
formerly an instructor in geology at Harvard, 
has returned here, having completed a 5,000- 
mile cruise single-handed. Alone he has sailed 
from Maine to Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, New¬ 
foundland and back, and he is now preparing 
to give the results of his explorations to the 
scientific world. 
Mr. Curtis’ yacht, Otamanu, is yawl-rigged, 
carrying jib, main and mizzen, and even a spin¬ 
naker when one man could set it. She is 40 
feet on deck and 25 feet on the waterdine. has 
a io-foot cockpit and a cabin of about the same 
length. 
In the commodore’s cabin at the New York Y. C. 
house there is on exhibition a fine collection of 
marine prints loaned by Grenville Kane. This 
exhibit will remain for another week and will 
be followed by a series of prints never before 
shown now being collected by the library com¬ 
mittee. 
The Baltimore Y. C. has under advisement 
amalgamation with two other prominent Balti¬ 
more clubs. This combination would make the 
New Baltimore Y. C. one of the strongest in 
the country. The matter will be settled at the 
annual meeting on Jan. 1. 
The Anchor, a new weekly, devoted to yacht¬ 
ing and motor boating, has just been catted on 
my desk by the office deck hand. The magazine 
judging from the first three issues, is worthy of 
place in the yachtsman’s library. It is original 
and newsy, printed on good paper and well illus¬ 
trated. Office of publication is Sydney, New 
South Wales. 
Club Elections. 
TRENTON Y. C. 
At the meeting held Dec. 20 the following 
officers were elected: Commodore, John Miller; 
Vice-Commodores, John Gutbrow, Harry Barn- 
ford. Rudolph Marshall and Peter Curtin; Rear- 
Commodore, James Farley; Fleet Captain. Arthur 
Miller: Recording Secretary, Fred. Enting; Fi¬ 
nancial Secretary, John Rudolph; Measurer, 
Clarence Pullen; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Walter 
Madden; for Board of Governors, Joseph Hart, 
David Giller, G. Edwards, J. Hoffman, S. Pullen, 
T. Henry, R. Vail, P. Francis, S. Pittenger, W. 
Bibbins, E. Tomlinson and A. Riseley; for Board 
of Trustees, W. Milburn, E. Taylor, J. B. Taylor, 
G. Kline, C. Keyser, Richard Hutchinson and W. 
Spencer. 
The newly elected officers will give a reception 
to members of the club and their friends on 
New Year’s day. The committee in charge of 
this event is P. E. Francis, D. Giller, J. Farley, 
P. Curtin, R. Vail, F. Pullen, J. Gutbrow, B. 
Edwards, J. Walters and C. Grissler. 
ATLANTIC Y. C. 
Commodore W. H. Barnard presided at the 
annual meeting of the Atlantic Y. C, held at 
the Waldorf-Astoria on Dec. 11. The fol’ow- 
mg officers were elected for 1912: Commodore, 
J. Stuart Blackton; Vice-Commodore, Willard 
U. Taylor; Rear-Commodore, Arthur W. Teele; 
Trustees, Charles B. Ludwig, William H. Bar¬ 
nard and J. W. Copmann; Secretary, Edward I. 
Graff; 1 reasurer, P. H. Hart; Membership Com¬ 
mittee, Charles B. Ludwig, Herbert L. Jones and 
Kenneth Lord; Nominating Committee yacht 
owners, Francis M. Wilson, George P. Dillen- 
back and W. Hunt Hall; non-yacht owners, 
Charles N. Lindley, Max Grundner and Walter 
H. Sykes, Jr. 
The annual dinner of the club will take place 
in January. 
INDIAN HARBOR Y. C. 
At the annual meeting of the Indian Harbor 
^ . C., held on Dec. 13, at Greenwich, Conn., the 
following officers were elected to serve during 
1912: Commodore, William H. Childs, power 
yacht Joy; Vice-Commodore, Lorenzo D. Arm¬ 
strong, schooner Grampus; Rear-Commodore, A. 
Gardiner Cooper, power yacht Manchonac; Sec¬ 
retary, Walter A. Hughes; Treasurer, Richard 
Outwater; Measurer, Morgan Barney; President 
of the Corporation, Charles T. Wills; Directors, 
term expiring 1914, Robert B. Baker and Clifford 
D. Mallory; Regatta Committee, E. Burton Hart, 
Abbott P. Brush and J. Dunham Carhart; Nomi¬ 
nating Committee, Frank Bowne Jones, Robert 
B. Baker and S. Christy Mead. 
SEAWANHAKA-CORINTHIAN Y. C. 
The flag officers nominated for the Seawan- 
haka-Corinthian Y. C. for 1912 are as follows: 
Commodore, August Heckscher, steam yacht 
Anahma; Vice-Commodore, Llarold S. Vander¬ 
bilt, schooner yacht Vagrant; Rear-Commodore,. 
Daniel Bacon, sloop yacht Avenger; Nominating 
Committee, Franklin A. Plummer, Chairman; 
Charles A. Sherman and Robert L. Cuthbert. 
OLD MILL Y. C. 
There was a large attendance of the members 
of_ the Old Mill Y. C. at the annual election of 
officers held on Dec. 11 at the club house, Pleas¬ 
ant Point, Old Mill, Jamaica Bay. The follow¬ 
ing officers were elected: Commodore, William 
E. Powers; Vice-Commodore, George Conger; 
Rear-Commodore, William Edmunds; Recording 
Secretary, Edward Bird; Financial Secretary, 
John McGrath; Corresponding Secretary, Arthur 
E. Baker; Treasurer, William Becker. The 
trustees elected to serve for three years are 
William Armbruster, Thomas Wayne and Toseph 
Buehler. 
ROCHESTER Y. C. 
On Dec. 18 the Rochester Y. C. after a hard 
session elected Dr. C- R. Pullen, commodore. 
W. P. Pembroke and F. D. Russell were the 
other candidates for the office. Those elected 
were: Commodore, Dr. C. R. Pullen ; Vice-Com¬ 
modore, William L. G’enn; Fleet Captain, Dr. 
W. F. Plumley; Treasurer, George V. Flecken- 
siein: Secretary. Clute E. Noxon; Fleet Surgeon, 
Dr. Henry T. Williams; Directors for two years, 
George F. Loder. C. H. McChesney, E. J. Bene¬ 
dict and Thomas B. Pritchard; Directors for one 
year. Homer Knapp, William Brink and Wilson 
H. Cross : Delegates to L. Y. R. A.. Frank T. 
Christy, Charles Van Voorhis and Thomas B. 
