Gravesend Bay Schedule. 
The delegates to the Yacht Racing Associa¬ 
tion of Gravesend Bay met last week and ar¬ 
ranged the schedule for the season. The number 
ot races was cut down this year, as a number of 
yachtsmen thought that they had too many, and 
instead of fifteen races m the championsnip 
series, twelve will be sailed, and in order to 
qualify a yacht must start in eight of these. The 
system of scoring points will be one point for 
each yacht defeated and one extra for a start 
and these will be figured on the largest numoer 
of starters in one race. 
A change has been made in the courses. In 
future each yacht must cross the finishing line 
at the end of each round. This is to be done 
in case the wind dies out, and in that event the 
regatta committee can call the race back to the 
end of the previous round. The sailing dinghies, 
of which there are to be seventeen, will be 
known as Class Y and they will race for a class 
championship. 1 he schedule is as follows: 
May 31.—Atlantic Y. C. 
June 5.—Crescent A. C. 
June 5.—Atlantic Y. C. start of race to Ber¬ 
muda. 
June 12.—Bensonhurst Y. C. 
June 19.—-New York Canoe Club, champion¬ 
ship. 
June 26.—Atlantic Y. C., championship. 
July 3.—Bensonhurst Y. C., championship. 
July 5.—Brooklyn Y. C., start of Cape May 
cup race. 
July 10.—Atlantic Y. C. championship. 
July 12.—Atlantic Y. C., start of race around 
Long Island. 
July 17.—Crescent A. C., championship. 
July -24 .—Brooklyn Y. C., championship. 
July 31.—Atlantic Y. C., championship. 
Aug. 7.—Bensonhurst Y. C., championship. 
Aug. 14.—Atlantic Y. C., championship. 
Aug. 21.—Marine & Field Club, championship. 
Aug. 28.—Brooklyn Y. C., championship. 
Sept. 2, 3, 4.—Atlantic Y. C., Thompson trophy 
races. 
Sept. 4.—Atlantic Y. C., open regatta. 
Sept. 6.-—Atlantic Y. C., annual regatta. 
Sept II.— Bensonhurst Y. C., championship. 
Sept. 18.—Atlantic Y. C. 
The Sender Cl ass Yachts. 
Two more points have been raised by those 
who are building yachts to race in the Sonder 
class this season which the committee will have 
to rule on. One of these has already been sub¬ 
mitted to Chairman Henry Howard. The con¬ 
dition say that the total cost of a yacht in this 
class must not exceed $2,400 and that the yacht 
is limited to two suits of sails. Some of the 
yachts building will cost very much less than 
$2,400 and those yachtsmen who have saved 
money on the cost of the yacht thought that 
they would be able to spend the balance in more 
suits of sails. Mr. Howard has written to 
Charles D. Mower, designer of the yacht for 
Commodore William H. Childs on this point, 
and he said: 
“In_ reply to your question as to the number 
of suits of sails allowed, will say at the begin¬ 
ning of the races you must elect which two 
suits of sails you will use; these will be stamped 
by the measurer and no others allowed. You 
can, however, have as many suits of sails pre¬ 
vious to that for experimental purposes as you 
wish and these other sails do not have to be 
included in the $2,400. On the other hand if 
your boat only costs $1,600, it does not give 
you the privilege of using any more suits of 
sails during the races. The measurer will only 
certify to two suits of sails for each boat.” 
The other point is about the construction of 
the yachts. The conditions say ‘‘copper fast¬ 
ened.” Copper or bronze rivets or screws are 
worthless when used in the deadwood and are 
not at all necessary for fastening the deck 
planks. Copper fastened usually applies to the 
lastening of the planking to the frames and Mr. 
Howard is to be asked if that is his interpreta¬ 
tion of the rule. 
Thirteen 3'achts are now building for the races 
which the Lastern Y. C. has arranged with the 
German yachtsmen. At least two of the older 
boats. Bandit and Ellen, owned by G. H. W. 
Foster, will race with these, new craft, and it 
is expected that the West, South and some other 
Atlantic coast club will be represented in the 
races. Balcimore yachtsmen are taking a great 
interest in the class and it is not at all improb¬ 
able that the Baltimore Y. C. will have a starter 
in the trial races. 
Of the thirteen now ordered six are from de¬ 
signs by Boardman who designed Auk and 
Caramba, two of the yachts that raced against 
the Germans in the first series. These are for 
Charles F'rancis Adams, 2d., Herbert Sears, a 
syndicate of Manchester Y. C, members; F'rank 
B. Crowninshield, Vice-Commodore Clark, of 
the Eastern Y. C., and J. L. Bremer. 
B. B. Crowninshield has one boat for Law¬ 
rence F. Percival who has owned and raced the 
famous Sallys, and this boat will be Sally X. 
W. Starling Burgess has one boat which is 
for Caleb Coring, of the Boston Y. C., who 
owned q restes and later Achilles, of the Q 
class. 
Herreshotl has a boat for Max Agassiz, of the 
New York and Eastern Y. C. 
William Gardner has two boats on hand. One 
is for Fred M. Hoyt, of New York, and the 
other for R. Agassiz. 
Charles D. Mower has two orders. One is 
for Commodore W. H. Childs, of the Benson¬ 
hurst Y. C., and that boat is now in frame at 
Gil Smith’s yard at Patchogue, and the other 
is for a Philadelphia yachtsman. 
High Speed Yachts. 
Two high-speed yachts are being built abroad 
for members of the New York Y. C. Commo¬ 
dore Roy A. Rainey, who is now cruising in the 
Mediterranean in his steam yacht Cassandra, is 
to have a speed yacht 160 feet long, which the 
builders have promised shall have a speed of 
more than 30 nautical or 34.5 statute miles an 
hour. This yacht is to be equipped with turbine 
engines with water-tube boilers and oil fuel. 
Peter W. Rouss, who owns the fast steamer 
Winchester, which was designed by Henry J. 
Gielow, has commissioned Cox & King to 
design a high-speed steam yacht about 165 feet 
long, which is to be built by Yarrow. 
On this side M. C. D. Borden is building a 
steam yacht 133 feet long, which is to make 30 
miles an hour. This vessel is Seabury design 
and build. 
To Race to Bermuda. 
-Vice-Commodore M. Houck, of the New 
Rochelle Y. C., and his brother are having a 
6o-foot cruising power boat built by the Luders 
Company, at Portchester, from designs by A. F. 
Luders, which they expect to enter in the 
power boat race to Bermuda. This boat has 
already been described in Forest and Stream, 
and the plans published herewith show a good 
wholesome type of yacht with plenty of ac¬ 
commodation, and one that should make the 
journey to Bermuda comfortably. This kind 
of yacht is becoming very popular with yachts¬ 
men. It is one that can go anywhere at a 
moderate rate of speed, and with the irnprove- 
ments that have been made in the marine en¬ 
gine, it is a good reliable craft in all'sorts of 
weather. 
Pacific Coast Yachting. 
San Francisco, Cal., March 5.— Clear weather 
has prevailed in San Francisco during the past 
ten days, and conditions have been so alluring 
that several of the local yachtsmen have taken 
their boats out for a spin around the bay, and 
are now busy getting them in shape for the 
spring regattas. When the season came to an 
end last winter, there was considerable talk of 
making some substantial changes in the rules, 
especially in the matter of measurements and 
time allowances, and this question is now being 
agitated again with the probabilities that the 
racing season will commence this year with 
several changes in force. The various yacht 
clubs in San F'rancisco are now getting settled 
in splendid shape, and several of them now 
own their own club house and wharves, and all 
are gaining steadily in membership. Several 
new pleasure craft are now under construction 
on both sides of the bay, and the coming sea¬ 
son is expected to witness a great revival in 
yachting. 
The Indoor Y. C., stirred to action by the 
great success that marked the recent mountain 
trip of the Olympic Club, has decided to inaugu¬ 
rate an innovation for its members in the shape 
of a winter trip to the Yosemite Valley, and 
plans are now being made for the journey. A 
special train of Pullmans has been chartered 
for the party, and the start from San Francisco 
will be made on March 12. This trip is expected 
to be the finest of the kind that the club has 
ever undertaken, and will extend over three 
days. The journey is being planned by the fol¬ 
lowing committee: Frank J. Hennessey, Joseph 
S. Lewis, John J. O’Malley, James S. Mulvey, 
Tom Corbett, Martin Berwin, Percy Dana and 
James W. Coffroth. Martin Berwin and Tom 
Corbett, who are known to their companions as 
the “human goats,” will lead the party around 
in the valley and lead the ice and snow sports. 
Stewart John O’Malley is busy gathering in a 
supply of the finest viands procurable, and noth¬ 
ing will be lacking to make the trip a highly 
enjoyable affair. 
To Cruise in the Arctic Zone. 
To have its emblem carried further north than 
that of any other organization which makes a 
sport of sailing is to be the distinction of the 
Chicago Y. C., whose burgee will be flown from 
the truck of one of its member’s boats during 
a three years’ cruise in the waters of the Arctic 
zone. 
The yachtsman who will carr}' out the novel 
feat is Earnest De Koven Leffingwell, geologist 
and member of the University of Chicago geo¬ 
graphical department, who has been made an 
honorary member of the Chicago Y. C.. 
Mr. Leffingwell at present is in Pasadena, Cal., 
where he went recently to perfect his plans for 
the Alaskan trip. His craft is to be a stanch 
auxiliary schooner, now being completed in 
Seattle, and when it is launched the pennant of 
the Chicago Y. C. will fly from the main truck, 
ready to be carried where no yachting emblem 
has been seen before. The schooner will be 
a so-footer, and its auxiliary power will be fur¬ 
nished by a 25-foot horsepower kerosene engine 
which is thought to be safer for the purpose 
than one of the gasolene type. 
Four sailors will be Mr. Leffingwell’s com¬ 
panions during the trip, which is to start May 
I. The first stop will be made at Nome and 
the second at Point Barrow, where is located 
the last Hudson Bay trading post. From that 
point a course will be laid for Flaxman Island, 
300 miles northeast, and Mr. Leffingwell then 
will take up the task of making maps of the 
rivers that he discovered there upon his recent 
exploring trip. 
