Jan. 2, 1909.] 
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Yachting in California. 
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 24.—Eight of the 
21-foot dories being built for the members of 
the South Coast Y. C. have been finished, and 
the first race was held on Dec. 6 and was a most 
successful event, according to reports that have 
been received by local yachtsmen from Los 
Angeles. This opening event is considered to 
be of special importance, as it inaugurates a 
winter racing season which promises to be fully 
as successful as the summer season along the 
south coast. The new class of boat has been 
named Class X and is already the largest class 
in the local club, even although the movement 
to start it was commenced but a few months 
ago. The races for this class will be sailed in 
the outer harbor at San Pedro where condi¬ 
tions are ideal for the racing of such craft as 
this. The long breakwater shuts off the big 
rollers that come in from the open Pacific and 
the water is always comparatively quiet. There 
is never a sea that would be felt by a ship, but 
the racers will probably kick up quite a fuss 
with the little whitecaps which a stiff breeze 
always stirs up in the big harbor. It is planned 
to hold races every second Sunday through the 
winter until the end of the season which closes 
March 15, and on every racing day two races 
will be sailed, one starting immediately after the 
finish of the first. The course as laid out is 
'triangular and the distance is a little less than 
four miles. 
The short legs of the course will try out skip¬ 
pers and boats on every point of sailing, and the 
handling of the sails will form an important 
part in the final result of the race. As the boats 
are all exactly alike there is no time allowance, 
and this will make the races doubly interesting 
from the standpoint of the spectator. They are 
sent away together and the first boat to cross 
the finishing line wins. An unusually fine view 
of the course can be had from the bluffs over¬ 
looking the harbor, and the boats are at all times 
close enough to shore that they may be distin¬ 
guished with the naked eye. All of the boats 
must conform to the dimensions and scantling 
regulations adopted by the regatta committee of 
the South Coast Y. C. To make sure that the 
boats are alike the restrictions provide that a 
variation of one-half of one per cent, from these 
restrictions shall be sufficient cause for disquali¬ 
fying any boat. Each boat must carry a racing 
number in a specified place and be officially meas¬ 
ured and approved or rejected by the club’s offi¬ 
cial measurer. The crews shall consist of not 
less than two and not more than three persons, 
and in all championship races every member of 
the crew of the various boats must be members 
of the South Coast Y. C. When only two per¬ 
sons are carried as crew, 150 pounds of ballast 
must be stowed amidships, one-half on each side 
of the centerboard, and this must not be shifted 
during the race. No hollow spars are allowed. 
Silk sails are also under the ban and hiking 
boards or outriggers are prohibited. The boat 
winning the highest percentage of points during 
the season under the percentage system used by 
the Massachusetts Bay Yacht Racing Association 
will win the championship cup which has been 
hung for this class. 
When the regular racing season opens again 
in the vicinity of Los Angeles, Warren Wood 
will come to the front with his newly acquired 
yacht Mischief, and expects to have one of the 
finest boats in the south coast waters. He has 
put many new ideas of his own into the fitting 
up of the craft and some of these are so much 
in the nature of an improvement that they will, 
no doubt, be copied in other pleasure craft. One 
of these improvements is to have half of the 
cabin trunk skylight face forward, so that when 
it is hoisted on its brass quadrant slides it will 
direct the breeze down into the cabin which, 
while at anchor on hot days, will be found a 
boon on any yacht. It is much easier than trail¬ 
ing a big wind sail down the forescuttle and the 
breeze can be regulated as desired. The interior 
of the cabin has been furnished on a general 
color scheme in which the prevailing tint is Nile 
green and the richness of the cabin has been 
augmented by the use of mahogany paneling. 
A new scheme has been put in for the working 
of the ice box and the old difficulty of getting 
at the refreshments has been done away with. 
The ice box runs out to the cabin floor on a 
little track and all the woodwork back of the 
steps has been made to slide away so that the 
refrigerator may come into easy use. Another 
distinct improvement in the utilizing of space 
has been made by extending the bunks aft to 
give sleeping accommodations on each side of 
the cockpit and under the deck. Hitherto this 
part of the boat has usually been wasted in 
yachts of this size. To provide better air for 
those who sleep here an after hatch has been 
added under the tiller. A. P. B. 
Power Boat for W. L. Oliver. 
William Letts Oliver, a son-in-law of F. 
M. Smith, who owns the steamer Hauoli and 
sloop Effort, is to have a cruising power boat 
next season, which he will use on the Pacific 
Coast, with headquarters at Oakland. This 
new craft has been designed by Henry J. Gie- 
low. The dimensions of the yacht will be; 
Length over all 66 feet, length on load water¬ 
line. 63 feet 4 inches, beam ii feet 8 inches and 
draft 4 feet 6 inches. The hull is to be con¬ 
structed of wood, the keel, stem and stern post 
being of white oak. the frames of selected white 
oak steamed and bent, and the planking and 
deck of Oregon pine in long lengths. Excep¬ 
tional structural strength is to be obtained by 
carrying the sides of the hull up from the stern 
aft for a distance of fifty feet, thus forming a 
flush deck vessel with ample headroom. 
The boat will be used chiefly as a day cruiser, 
and the main saloon will be unusually large, 
being 15 feet in length and extending the full 
width of the vessel. Fitted at the after end on 
each side will be a wardrobe and at the forward 
end on each side a sideboard. On each side 
will be divans which can be turned into berths 
if required. Forward of this saloon will be two 
staterooms each 8 feet in length. Forward 
again on the starboard side will be the galley, 
and on the opposite side a toilet room. Then 
will come the engine room and the crew’s 
quarters, which will be 12 feet in length. 
The interior fitting will be of mahogany, 
finished bright. The rest of the woodwork will 
be white pine, finished in white enamel. All the 
deck fixtures will be mahogany. 
The motor will be a 4-cylinder Doak. of 60 
horsepower, which will drive the yacht 14 miles 
an hour. This yacht will be ready for com¬ 
mission about May 20. 
To Ch&llengc for Motor Cup. 
It is expected that a challenge will be re¬ 
ceived by the Motor Boat Club of America for 
another race for the British International cup. 
which Dixie II. defended last summer. The 
British Boat Club will challenge, and has until 
Feb. I to send in the notification, but Secre¬ 
tary Bieling of the Motor Boat Club of 
America expects to hear from the British some¬ 
time this month. It is reported that the Duke 
of Westminster and Lord Howard de Walden, 
who sent the Wolseley-Siddeley and Daimler II. 
here last summer, are each having new 40-foot 
boats built which will come if they are found to 
be fast enough. These boats will be ready in 
time to be tried out at Monaco, and there they 
will meet Dixie II. Commodore E. J. Schroeder 
has decided to send his fast boat across the 
Atlantic, but the hull used in the international 
race and in the races on the St. Lawrence for 
the Gold Challenge cup strained the hull con¬ 
siderably, so a new hull—similar to the old one, 
but stronger—is being built at Lawleys. 
There has been some talk of the Erench 
motor boat yachtsmen being represented in 
next year’s race, but this will largely depend 
on what the French boats do at Monaco. 
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supply you regularly. 
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