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British Yachting. 
Burnsir yachtsmen are delighted that Morton 
F'. Plant is to take part in their sport, and that 
Capt. Charles Barr is to have charge of his new 
yacht, which is being built by Fife. This yacht 
will race in the 15-metre class, and the class 
will be cpnte a large one, as last year’s boats 
will be out, and there are new ones building. 
Fife has an order for a second in this class, and 
W. P. Burton has placed an order with Mjdne 
for a boat. The King of Spain, too, has had 
a 15-metre boat designed, which will be built 
in Spain, and take part in races in Spanish 
waters, but later in the season will race in the 
British regattas. 
Yachtsmen here would have much preferred 
to have had an American designed and built 
yacht race. When Mrs. Turner Farley had 
Sonya built by Herreshoff, it gave quite a boom 
to racing, but Sonya was not a great success, 
although she was sailed by some of the best 
sailors in these waters. With a Fife yacht and 
Capt. Barr at the tiller. Mr. Plant will get a 
yacht that will be the equal of anything in these 
waters, and she will be well handled. 
It seems that Mr Plant’s first idea was to 
have a yacht in the 2,3-metre class to sail 
against Shamrock, Brynhilde, but his plans mis¬ 
carried in some way. The Yachting World, re¬ 
ferring to this, says: 
“One thing that might tempt us to a certain 
degree of discontent with even the fine racing 
prospects which lie ahead would be a full 
knowledge of the plans which went awry in the 
making. It is held as established beyond rea¬ 
sonable doubt that while the first-class cutters 
will remain as ever the highest and therefore 
the most deeply interesting development of all 
that goes to the making of the sport, the rac¬ 
ing of the 15-metre rating is likely to attract 
almost as much attention as the big class. 
“The latest item of information which has 
been removed from the realm of doubtful rumor 
to that of accredited news will go far to 
strengthen this opinion. It is to the effect that 
Captain Charles Barr, who sailed Columbia and 
Reliance in their America’s Cup contests against 
the Shamrocks, has been engaged to take 
charge of one of the 15-metre racers now being 
built at Fairlie. As a matter of fact, the news 
might have gone a little further than this and 
stated that we should not only have the most 
famous of all the American skippers in this 
class, but that he should have the assistance of 
a crew picked from the smartest of the numer¬ 
ous crowd which manned Reliance. 
“Wherever the news is told in yachting cir¬ 
cles the first feeling is one of regret that the 
clever ex-Scot should not have made his re¬ 
appearance in these waters in a racer of the 
23-metre class, that he might again be brought 
against the best that Britain can do in yacht 
racing, and that Sir Thomas Lipton might have 
an opportunity of turning the tables on the 
man who assisted in the defeat of Shamrocks 
I . II. and III. This is exactly what we missed 
hv a very narrow margin. The racer of which 
Captain Barr will have charge is being built 
to the order of TMr. Morton F. Plant, and it is 
only by force of circumstances that it is of 15 
metres instead of 23 metres. 
“Mr. Plant was anxious to sample our racing 
at its best, and when he decided to hoist his 
colors with the British racing fleet this season 
he opened negotiations with Mr. William Fife 
for the building of a racing cutter of the first 
class. The building season had already gone 
so far, however, and there was already so much 
work in hand and in prospect in the yard that 
it was impossible to tmdertake a contract of 
this magnitude without serious risk of disap¬ 
pointment and complications in the early sea¬ 
son. The offered order was therefore reluc¬ 
tantly declined, and there was, indeed, some 
doubt as to whether another 15-metre racer 
could be safelv added to the list. 
“The opportunity of giving such a fillip to 
the sport as was promised in the introduction 
of the cream of the American racing men was 
too good to be missed, and so it comes that 
the frame of the vessel is now rapidly taking 
form in the Fairlie Yard. There is room in 
one way for regret that Mr. Plant did not play 
the part of a whole-hogger among the Amer¬ 
icans and enter our lists with a racing boat 
which was also of America. Had his fellow 
yachtsmen on the other side of the .A.tlantic 
shown themselves just a little more amenable 
to sporting reason, and come into the com¬ 
bination now ruled by the universal law of rat¬ 
ing, there is no doubt that he would have 
adopted this course. 
“ As it was he is fully justified in his reckon¬ 
ing that British designers are likely to know 
more of this rule than the Americans who have 
had a chance of working to it. So the yacht 
building trade in America—which is in a much 
less satisfactory state than is our industry here 
—loses one important contract and the sport 
loses an opportunity which must have had an 
immense influence on all the international 
racing of the future. Mr. Plant will, however, 
be made heartily welcome to our sport, and 
Captain Barr will be assured of every consider¬ 
ation that may be given to a clever and cap¬ 
able opponent.” 
Gravesend Bay Championships. 
At a meeting of the Yacht Racing Associa¬ 
tion of Gravesend Bay. held last Saturday, the 
championship prizes won last year were pre¬ 
sented to the successful yachtsmen. These tro¬ 
phies were silver placques and went to J. B. 
O’Donohue, owner of Crescent in Class P; W. 
A. Barstow, owner of Soya, in Class Q; F. S. 
Noble, owner of Gunda, in Class S: R. von 
Foregger, owner of Adyta, in the second di¬ 
vision of the handicap class; J. A. Mitchell, 
owner of Mischief, in the first division of handi¬ 
cap class, and Inslee and Stringer, owner of 
Slow Poke, in the Gravesend Dory Class. 
Commodore Childs had offered two prizes for 
the knockabout scoring the most points. There 
was a tie for second place, and Commodore 
Childs gave two second prizes. G. R. Le- 
Sauvage, owner of Mouse, won first prize, and 
R. W. Spier, owner of Bobs, and B. Atkinson, 
owner of Cherub, received the second prizes. 
Fitting Out for Cruises. 
The steam yacht Waturus, owned by Randall 
Morgan, is being fitted out at Camden for a 
foreign cruise. The steam yacht May, owned 
by Col. Alexander Van Rensselaer, is fitting out 
at Philadelphia for a Southern cruise. 
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