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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Feb. 6, 1909. 
Eastern Yachting News. 
Marblehead, Jan. 31. —The outlook for the 
success of the Sonder class is very good indeed, 
and members of the Eastern Y. C., who have 
taken an active part in promoting the races with 
Germany this year and with Spain next year, 
are much encouraged. It is certain that the 
fleet of starters in the trial races, which will be 
sailed next August for the purpose of selecting 
the three boats to represent this country, will 
be a large one and probably larger than it was 
in 1906, when seventeen out of nineteen yachts 
built started in the week’s races. 
New York will be well represented. Com¬ 
modore W. H. Childs, of the Bensonhurst Y. 
C., has ordered one boat, which is to be de¬ 
signed by C. D. Mower and built at Smith’s. 
Mr. Mower will have charge of this yacht, and 
Commodore Childs’ sloop Maydic will be in 
commission and used by those who sail on the 
racer. Maximilian Agassiz, who owned Maria 
in 1907, has placed an order with William 
Gardner for a yacht which is to be built by 
Wood at City Island. Mr. Gardner has an 
order for another which is now being designed, 
and expects that soon two more orders will be 
placed with him, as yachtsmen are now shaping 
their plans to take part in these races. 
Clinton tl. Crane has an order for a Sonder 
boat for Vice-Commodore F. Lewis Clark, of 
the Eastern Y. C., who had Spokane I. and 
Spokane II. built for former races. These were 
designed by Mr. Crane. 
It has been said that Morrill Dunn, of Chi¬ 
cago, will have a boat to represent the Great 
Lakes and another is expected from New Or¬ 
leans. 
At least ten and probably more will represent 
local yachtsmen. Three of these are to be from 
designs by E. A. Boardman. One of these is 
for C. H. W. Foster, who owned Caramba and 
Bandit, another for C. P. Curtis who raced 
Ellen. The third owner has not yet been an¬ 
nounced. 
W. Starling Burgess has orders for two. 
One, it is said, is for Caleb Loring, who for 
three seasons has raced yachts in the Q class, 
Orestes and Achilles, and the owner for the 
other has not yet been announced. 
Lawrence F. Percival, owner of the well- 
known Sallys, has not yet decided whether to 
build in the class, but it is thought that he will 
have a boat and add to the many Sallys that 
have carried his flag. 
Many of the owners of the Sonder boats of 
the three previous years would build again if 
they could dispose of the old boats. The 
Beverly Y. C. has started the Sonder class 
racing on Buzzard’s Bay and some of the older 
boats have been purchased by members of that 
club. Vim is one of these, and there is a pos¬ 
sibility of others following Vim. 
The annual meeting of the Boston Y. C. was 
held last week. Commodore Edward P. Boyn¬ 
ton, who had served for three years, declined a 
renomination, and he has been succeeded by 
Alfred Douglas. Commodore Boynton con¬ 
gratulated the members on the growth of the 
club and the increase in the number of yachts 
that have taken part in the cruises. In 1906. 
the first year he was commodore, thirty-six 
yachts made the port-to-port runs, and last 
year there were 120 yachts in the fleet. Com¬ 
modore Boynton had a club house at Five 
Islands, which he presented to the club, and in 
appreciation of his services, Louis M. Clark, 
on behalf of the members, presented him with a 
handsome bronze entitled “The Music of the 
Seas.” 
The report of the secretary showed that there 
are 679 members of the club and the fleet num¬ 
bers 306 vessels. The officers elected were: 
Commodore. Alfred Douglas; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore. J. Fred. Brown; Rear-Commodore, 
Charles E. Adams; Secretary-Treasurer, Walter 
Burgess; Executive Committee—Charles A. 
French, Louis M. Clark. Charles E. Lauriat, 
Jr., and George G. Williams; Membership 
Committee—L. B. Goodspeed, Arthur Prince 
Hawes, Edward E. Fowler and Walter Burgess; 
Regatta Committee—Bryan S. Permar, Charles 
A. Cooley, Allen C. Jones, H. Lundberg, 
Norman L. Skene arid Edward B. Merriman. 
The Eastern Y. C. will hold its annual meet¬ 
ing on Tuesday, Feb. 9. Washington B. 
Thomas, owner of auxiliary Arbella, has been 
nominated for Commodore. Arbella is one of 
the largest yachts in the club, and quite up to 
the requirements of flagship for the coming 
season, the feature of which will be the second 
visit of the German Sonder yachtsmen. 
The other flag officers of the club, Vice- 
Commodore F. Lewis Clark and Rear-Commo¬ 
dore Robert W. Emmons 2d, are nominated, as 
ar® Secretary Henry Taggard and Treasurer 
Patrick T. Jackson. 
Two changes have been made in the regatta 
committee, necessitated by the resignations of 
Henry S. Morss and A. Appleton Packard, whose 
places are filled by Louis M. Clark, a former 
member, and William L. Carlton, who is also 
chairman of the regatta committee of the neigh¬ 
boring Corinthian Y. C. 
The Eastern Y. C. regatta committee, which 
will probably conduct the international Sonder 
races, will consist of Stephen W. Sleipner, as 
chairman, William B. Stearns, Charles E. 
Hodges, Secretary, and Messrs. Clark and 
Carlton. 
A vacancy on the house committee is yet to be 
filled, but there have been no changes on the 
committee on admissions nor in the members 
of the council-at-large. 
Mr. Thomas will succeed Gordon Abbott, who 
has been compelled to retire because of pressing 
business interests after one very successful sea¬ 
son, in which the cruise to Bar Harbor was an 
important feature. It will be the first time that 
Mr. Thomas has flown a flag officer’s flag of 
the club, although he has been a member 
twenty-three years. 
He has, however, successfully guided a sport¬ 
ing organization, having served with distinc¬ 
tion as president of the United States Golf 
Association in 1899 and 1900. He has a large 
summer house at Prides Crossing, Beverly, a 
few miles from this port, so that Arbella will 
be in this harbor most of the summer. 
It is expected that a special committee will 
be appointed to take charge of the trials of the 
Sonder boats built in this country. 
At the annual meeting of the Bunker Hill 
Y. C., Commodore Devine and Vice-Commo¬ 
dore McCready were re-elected. Richard 
Sendler was elected fleet captain and Thomas 
H. Edes was elected treasurer and secretary. 
The directors chosen were Joseph L. Rose, 
Thomas H. Kenney, Ralph Borman and Ed¬ 
ward J. Harrington; House Committee—John 
Sterling, Timothy Casey and Charles McCarthy; 
Membership Committee—George L. Callahan, 
James Murphy, Joseph McCabe, James H. 
Carver and Stephen Morgan. 
Ice Yachting. 
Several races have been sailed by ice yachts 
on Orange Lake for trophies offered by the 
Orange Lake Ice Y. C. Red Rover, owned by 
Charles Gibbons, of the South Shrewsbury Ice 
Y. C., was shipped to Orange Lake to try con¬ 
clusions with the local boats, and she was 
beaten. Mr. Gibbons agreed to sail Red Rover 
against any three of the Orange Lake boats, 
and the three selected to meet Red Rover were 
Commodore Higginson’s Windward, sailed by 
James O’Brien; S. Taylor’s Junior, sailed by 
Charles Merritt, and William Stanbrough’s 
Heavy Weather, sailed by Willett A. Kidd. 
Two races were sailed on Wednesday, Jan. 27. 
The wind was S. W. and strong enough to 
send the yachts over the course within the time 
limit of 35 minutes. The course was ten miles 
long. Red Rover was slow in getting away in 
the first race, and the contest became one be¬ 
tween Junior and Windward. On the third lap 
Windward fouled the north stake, and this 
would have caused her disqualification had she 
finished first. Starting the last lap. Junior was 
six seconds behind Windward, and Junior 
finished ii seconds in the lead. 
■ This race was the first important event of the 
season, and it was the impression among en¬ 
thusiasts that the home boats would win unless 
the wind was very strong. The handicaps were 
arranged under the Orange Lake rules, and 
these require that a large boat shall give a 
smaller one a time allowance equivalent to one 
second for each square foot of sail in excess 
on the basis of ten miles being sailed within an 
hour. The race was sailed m 28 minutes 30 
seconds, so that Windward allowed Red Rover 
30 seconds and Red Rover allowed Junior and 
Heavy Weather each 42 seconds. Windward 
defeated Red Rover 2 minutes 26 seconds, and 
in actual time Red Rover was beaten by Junior 
2 minutes 15 seconds. The actual times made 
were Windward 28.35, Junior 28.46, Red Rover 
30.01, Heavy Weather 32.42. 
A second race was sailed in the afternoon. 
Junior and Windward soon showed superiority 
over the others. On the second leg Junior 
turned over and Windward won easily. She de¬ 
feated Red Rover about minutes, and Heavy 
Weather was 15 seconds behind the Shrewsbury 
yacht. 
Junior won again the next day. Although 
the Orange Lake Club had kept the pennant 
on Wednesday, it was again put in competition, 
and the yachts raced over the ten-mile course, 
two miles on each triangle, best two in three 
mces, race to be sailed inside 35 minutes. The 
ice was in splendid condition, and there was a 
strong N. E. wind, so strong that some yachts 
put in reefs. Windward led on the first lap 
with Red Rover second. On the second lap 
Red Rover took the lead. Then Junior went 
to the front and held the lead for the remaining 
three laps, sailing the ten miles in 20 minutes 
52 seconds. 
Indian Harbor Y. C. Officers. 
The Indian Harbor Y. C., at its annual meet¬ 
ing, elected the following officers and commit¬ 
tees: Commodore, Roy A. Rainey, steamer 
Cassandra; Vice-Commodore, H. Wilmer 
Hanan, schooner Rosemary; Rear-Commodore, 
Lorenzo D. Armstrong, schooner Grampus; 
Secretary, George L. Slawson; Treasurer, Rich¬ 
ard Outwater; Measurer, Morgan Barney; 
President of the Corporation, Charles T. Wills; 
Directors for three years—Colonel Robert B. 
Baker, Frank S. Hastings; Regatta Commit¬ 
tee—E. Burton Hart, Chairman; Richard A. 
Monks, Henry C. Pelton. 
Keuka Y. C. Officers. 
The members of the Keuka Y. C. met at 
Penn Yan recently and learned that for the 
first time in its history the club is out of debt. 
These officers were elected: Commodore, L. 
E. Dexter; Vice-Commodore, William M. 
Patterson; Captain, William J. Tylee; Secretary, 
.William H. Whitfield; Treasurer, Fred. U. 
Swarts; Directors—L. M. McNiff and H. Mer¬ 
ton Smith. James Flahive was appointed Meas¬ 
urer. 
Orienta Y. C. Officers. 
At the annual meeting of the Orienta Y. C., 
held at Mamaroneck, these officers were elected: 
Commodore, Joseph P. Meagher; Vice-Com¬ 
modore, Arthur L. Snow; Treasurer, William 
J. Kuder; Secretary, Walter F. Titus; Trus¬ 
tees for three years—Plarvey E. Miller; for one 
year—Daniel Warren, P. H. Acres. A com¬ 
mittee is working to secure a better site for 
club house on Mamaroneck Harbor, which is 
one of the prettiest on the Sound. 
Bay Side Y. C. Officers. 
The annual meeting and dinner of the Bay 
Side Y. C., was held at the Hotel Astor last 
Saturday evening. These officers were elected: 
Commodore, G. Waldo Smith; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, G. Howland Leavitt; Rear-Commodore, 
W. W. Cole; Secretary, William H. Johns; 
Treasurer. Frederic Floyd Jones; Measurer. 
William J. English; two members of Board 
of Governors to serve three years—Charles H. 
Rickert, Edwin Andrews, Jr. 
