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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Feb. 20, 1909. 
President’s Cup for Sender Prize. 
The German-American race committee of the 
Kaiserlicher Y. C., of Kiel, and the Eastern Y. 
C., of Boston, have issued the preliminary terms 
of races for cups to be given under the auspices 
of the President of the United States of America 
and the Governor of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts. These prizes will go to the win¬ 
ners in the international match between the Ger¬ 
man and American yachtsmen next summer. 
When these matches were first arranged and the 
Germans came here with their Bonder boat, the 
prize was a cup called the President Roosevelt 
cup, and the President after the races gave this 
trophy to Commodore Trenor L. Park, owner 
of the winning yacht. Vim. Two years ago the 
German Emperor gave the prizes at Kiel and 
this year there will be a President s enp for the 
winner of the match and a Governor Draper 
cup for the yacht scoring the most points in the 
series. 
These Sender races are going to do much to 
stimulate the racing this year. There will be 
a large fleet of yachts to take part in the pre¬ 
liminary races which will be sailed off Marble¬ 
head during the week beginning Aug. 16, and 
previous to those races the Bonder boats will 
race in open regattas in order to be thoroughly 
tuned up. . . , i . 
The terms of the races, giving details about 
the prizes, the construction of the boats, cost, 
limitations and races as issued by the committee 
are as follows: 
I.—GENERAI. CONDITIONS. 
The races are open to such number of Ger¬ 
man yachts, not exceeding three, as may be se¬ 
lected by the Kaiserlicher Y. C. and to an equal 
or smaller number of American yachts selected 
by the Eastern Y. C. Each yacht must be de¬ 
signed, built, and all sails, sail cloth and fittings 
made in the country to which such yacht be¬ 
longs. A yacht may make good any damages 
in the country where she happens to be. Haul¬ 
ing out during the races is prohibited^ except to 
repair damages and with the permission of the 
committee. 
II.—.AMERICAN CONDITIONS. 
The Eastern Y. C. will hold trial races off 
Marblehead during the month of August to 
select the American competitors. 
To allow for the difference in the specific 
gravity between the water at Kiel and Marble¬ 
head. the measurer, when measuring the boats, 
must place amidships in each boat a weight 
equivalent to 1-64 of the displacenient. This 
additional weight shall not be carried during 
the trial races or final races. 
The dates and rules governing these trial races 
will be announced later on. 
Entries for the American trial races will close 
on Saturday, July 17, 1909. at 8 P. M. They 
must be sent to Henry Howard, Chairman Ger¬ 
man-American Race Committee, ,33 Broad street, 
Boston, Mass. Entries shall be restricted to 
boats completed and launched. 
The trial races will begin on or after Mon¬ 
day, Aug. 16, 1909. Programmes giving condi¬ 
tions of the trial races will be ready about July 
I, 1909. 
III. —-MEASUREMENT. 
L -f B -f D must not exceed 32 feet (975 
meters). 
L =: Length on waterline. 
B = Extreme beam. 
D = Extreme draft, with complete outfit on. 
board ready for racing, but without crew. 
There will be no time allowance. 
IV. —DISPLACEMENT. 
Displacement must not be less than 4,035 
pounds (1,830 kilograms) without crew. 
All yachts must be weighed. 
V.—COST OF CONSTRUCTION. 
The total cost of construction of the American 
yachts, including two suits of sails, must not 
exceed ten thousand marks ($2,400). 
VI.—CONSTRUCTION. 
The hull must be built of cedar, mahogany or 
heavier wood, copper fastened (this term in¬ 
cludes brass or composition bolts and screws). 
Double planking not allowed. 
The deck may be pine or any other wood. 
Deck and planking must not be less than five- 
eighths inches (16 millimeters) thick, no 
diagonal or ribband-carvel planking nor com¬ 
posite building and no centerboards or leeboards 
allowed. The cockpit must not exceed eight 
feet (2.44 meters) in length. The restriction on 
composite building does not prevent the use of 
a metal plate for a fin or of metals of interior 
trussing and bracing. 
This rule has been construed to prohibit 
double planking or shiplap construction in hull 
or deck. 
VII.—RIG. 
Rig optional. No hollow or builtup or bam¬ 
boo spars allowed. Sail area must not exceed 
550 square feet (51 square meters), measured 
according to the rules of the International Yacht 
SAIL PLAN OF 16-FOOT CATBOAT. 
Racing Union. Yachts must carry at least one 
entire outfit of spars and at least one complete 
suit of sails on board during each race. 
VIII.—CERTIFICATE. 
Every yacht must produce an official meas¬ 
urer’s certificate stating that she has been built 
in accordance with the above conditions, a fact 
which shall be ascertained by the race commit¬ 
tee before the beginning of the races. The 
measurer of the Eastern Y. C. is Mr. Starling 
Burgess, Marblehead, Mass. 
IX.—CREW. 
The crew must be made up of amateur mem¬ 
bers of the yacht clubs which are admitted to 
the trial races and shall consist of not more 
than three persons, who must be citizens of the 
country in which the yacht was built. 
X.—CONDITIONS GOVERNING THE RACES. 
The races will be sailed according to the rules 
of the International Yacht Racing Union, under 
the joint control of the Kaiserlicher Y. C. and 
the Eastern Y. C. 
There will be five races, for each of which 
prizes will be given by the Eastern Y. C. 
THE PRESIDENT TAFT CUP. 
This cup will go to the owner of the yacht 
which first wins three races or wins the fifth 
race of the series. In case the deciding race is 
the third, the winner will not be allowed to com¬ 
pete in the further races. If the deciding race 
is the fourth, the winner is excluded from the 
fifth race. Should the first four races not have re¬ 
sulted in a decision, only the winners of these 
four races can take part in the fifth race. Should 
a decision not be reached in the fifth race, owing 
to two yachts each having won two races, then 
a sixth and deciding race shall be sailed between 
these two yachts. 
THE GOVERNOR DRAPER CUP. 
This cup will be awarded on points in the 
first four races, provided that five or six races 
are necessary for the winning of the President 
Taft cup, otherwise on points in the five races. 
The boat coming first gets six points; second, 
five points; third, four points; fourth, three 
points; fifth, two points; sixth, one point. 
Boats that do not start or finish or which are 
disqualified take no points. The Governor 
Draper cup will be awarded to the boat having 
the greatest number of points. Should two or 
more boats have the same number of points the 
prize will be awarded to such one of these boats 
as finishes first in the final race for this prize. 
The winner of the President Taft cup shall 
not be eligible for the Governor Draper cup. 
XI.—EASTERN Y. C. PRIZES. 
Additional Prizes.—Additional prizes will be 
given in each of the first five races as follows: 
For one to three yachts starting, one prize; for 
four or more yachts starting, two prizes. 
XII.—COURSES AND DATES OF THE RACES. 
The courses will be alternately triangular and 
windward and leeward. 
The racing will begin on or after Monday, 
.\ug. 30. 1909, at Marblehead. Final details re- 
.garding both the courses and the dates will be 
arranged by the two managing clubs. 
This wording of the rule, relating to construc¬ 
tion, was adopted after several queries had been 
directed to the committee as to how much lee¬ 
way would be allowed in the use of so-called 
shiplap construction. To one of the inquirers 
ihe committee replied as follows: 
"Dear Sir —A few days ago you asked if the 
restrictions of the Bonder class permitted the 
use of shiplap construction. As explained to 
our committee the construction upon which you 
desire a ruling consists in cutting away one-half 
the thickness of each adjoining plank so that 
part of one plank laps over part of the adjoin¬ 
ing plank, at the same time leaving the outside 
and inside of the boat smooth; that is, with 
flush joints; moreover, these lapping joints are 
held together by rivets or clinch nails. . 
"Our committee has given this matter most 
careful consideration and we have decided that 
this kind of construction is not allowed by the 
rules of construction governing the Bonder class. 
Planking (which must be assumed to be single 
planking) must not be less than five-eighths of 
an inch in thickness. In this proposed construc¬ 
tion if a plank is measured in the customary 
place near its edge it will probably be found that 
its thickness at this point is not over three- 
eighths of an inch, and in order to obtain the 
requisite five-eighths of an inch it will be neces¬ 
sary to measure through double planking. It 
is. therefore, clear that in such a case the rules 
have been violated in two ways; first, that the 
planking is deficient in thickness; second, that 
the boat is partially double planked. 
“Henry Howard, 
“Chairman and Secretary German-American 
Race Committee.” 
So far as <116 committee has learned, its efforts 
to interest the whole country in the match, there¬ 
by making America’s part in it strictly national 
and not merely local to Massachusetts, have met 
with gratifying results. 
Yachtsmen in various parts of the country 
have responded to the committee’s letters asking 
the moral, if not the actual, co-operation of all 
active yachtsmen in parts of the country where 
yacht racing is carried on. 
While no list of boats being built is yet in 
the hands of the committee, there is reason _ to 
believe the representation in the trials, which 
begin Aug. i6, will be more widely distributed 
than in i^, when seventeen boats were started, 
the representative from the greatest distance 
hailing from New Orleans. 
