Yachting Outlook Good. 
The yachting season will open in two months. 
In all the basins where the yachts have been 
stored during the winter, and in yards where 
new craft are building, things are becoming 
very active. Work is being rushed on the new 
boats as fast as possible, as the owners want 
their yachts as early as possible to get them 
in proper racing shape, and builders are 
anxious to get them out of the way, so that 
room can be made for others. There are always 
some yachtsmen who wait until the last moment 
before ordering and then they expect that their 
yacht will be ready as soon as wanted. It 
seems strange that this state of affairs exists 
every season. Yachtsmen plan early for the 
next season, and often know just what boat 
they will have, but for various reasons delay 
placing orders, and at the end, they find that 
the builders cannot turn them out in time, and 
they are doomed to disappointment. 
There are many new yachts building for the 
coming season’s racing, but they are mostly 
small boats. Each season finds the boom for 
small boat racing growing stronger, and one 
reason for this is that large racing yachts are 
too costly. A man of moderate means cannot 
now build a yacht in a class of fair sized vessels 
and race it with any chance of success, unless 
he is willing to spend lots of money and for 
things, too, that are really unnecessary. He is 
sure to find some w'ealthy man with a yacht of 
similar size, and the man with the long pocket- 
book will have several suits of sails; he will 
hire an expert crew and pay high wages, and 
he will have his yacht hauled out for cleaning 
almost every week. It is this that has killed 
the sport in the larger classes, and has driven 
good yachtsmen to the smaller and specially 
to the restricted classes, because in those 
classes he is able to race on even terms with 
other owners. 
One attractive feature of the restricted and 
one-design classes has been that owners agree 
to limit the cost of the upkeep of their yachts. 
They often limit them to one or perhaps two 
suits of sails each season. They agree not to 
haul out more than once a month, and by these 
and other restrictions keep the cost of the yacht 
well within the reach of all who enter the class, 
and a man knows just what his expenses are 
to be when he agrees to build and race a small 
boat in these classes. 
The largest racing craft building this season 
is the 46-footer at Herreshoff’s. This yacht, it 
is said, is to race for the Astor and King’s 
cups, and will make a special attraction in the 
races for all sloops in one class. 
Next to this yacht will be the interest in the 
38-foot class. Last year Dorello, built for G. 
L. Batchelder, had things all her own way, and 
she won many good races, beating yachts in 
larger classes. This year Dorello will have to 
look to her laurels. Two yachts are being built 
for this class, one from designs by Henry J. 
Gielow and the other from designs by William 
Gardner. The Gielow boat will represent New 
York, and the Gardner boat is for a Phila¬ 
delphia yachtsman. That two such well-known 
designers as Gielow and Gardner will meet in 
this class will add to the interest in the racing. 
Gielow designed Effort and other fast ones, and 
Gardner has turned out Weetam'oe, Aspirant, 
Gardenia and others just as fast, so that the 
battles in which the 38-raters will meet should 
be well worth watching. 
A 31-footer, it is said is to be built for a 
svndicate of members of the American Y. C. 
This will be a ETerreshoff boat and designed 
and built specially to defeat Seneca, which 
yacht last year won the Manhasset Bay chal¬ 
lenge cup. Seneca will be in commission and 
be ready to defend the cup. She will be sailed 
by the Hanan Brothers, and their ability as 
sailors will do much to keep Seneca in the 
front. 
There are several small one-design classes 
that will race on the Sound, the Lower Bay 
and the lakes and Great South Bay, and there 
are a few small boats that have been built for 
the regular classes. 
The Sender class will be the big attraction 
of the year. Thirteen of these boats are now 
being built, as far as is known, and it is very 
probable that in the next few weeks others will 
be reported to the committee in charge of these 
races. They will meet off Marblehead in 
August in trials held to select three which will 
meet the German visitors in the races for the 
President Taft cup, and these international 
races will be sailed the first week in September. 
There is very indication that this season will 
be one which will be remembered on account of 
the many long distance races that will be sailed. 
Long distance and ocean racing has become 
very popular. Some years ago it was thought 
that one had to own a .big yacht to cruise out 
of sight of land, but yaclits are more staunchly 
built, models are better and yachtsmen are de¬ 
veloping a fondness for some excitement 
caused by an element of danger, and so long 
distance races for small craft fill well. 
The New York Y. C. has changed its usual 
programme. Instead of regattas sailed over 
regular courses on the Sound there will this 
year be a cruising race from Glen Cove to 
Newport, two cruising races sailed off New¬ 
port and then another race back to Glen Cove. 
On its cruise the fleet will sail to Portland and 
then to Bar Blarbor. The Atlantic Y. C. is to 
start the race for sailing yachts to Bermuda. 
^Vhen three small craft started in this race a 
few years ago, many old yachtsmen declared it 
was a foolhardy undertaking, but the owners of 
the small craft were not dismayed. They liked 
the sport. They supported it year after year, 
and now this race, which is sailed over a hard 
course, is one of the attractive features of the 
season. It will be a good race this'year, as 
many yachts are to take part. 
The Atlantic Y. C. will also start a race for 
yqchts not over 50 feet over all length, which 
will sail around I.ong Island, finishing off the 
New Rochelle Y. C. house. Some years ago 
races over this course, which is about 210 miles 
long, with more than too miles outside, used 
to be very popular, and it is hoped that this 
race will revive interest. 
The New York A. C. will have its race to 
Block Island. This is another popular event 
for owners of small boats, and probably more 
than thirty j'achts will start. 
The Manhasset Bay Y. C.. the Harlem Y. C., 
the New Rochelle Y. C. and other clubs on the 
Sound will have long distance races, starting 
from this end of the Sound and turning some 
lightship further to the east. 
The Indian Harbor Y. C. will, as usual, have 
its race to New London, the yachtsmen arriv¬ 
ing there in time to watch the oarsmen of 
Harvard and Yale in their annual contest. 
The Brooklyn Y. C. is to have its race over 
the Cape May course again, and this race was 
such a big success last year that it is bound to 
be popular this season. 
These are a few of the long distance races for 
sailing craft. The power boats will have as 
many. There will be the race to Bermuda, for 
which three new boats are now being built. 
The smaller boats will race from Bay Ridge to 
Marblehead in the contest arranged by the 
Crescent Athletic Club. Then there is the race 
from Marblehead to Shelbourne. There are to 
be races up and down the Hudson River and 
races over long courses on the Great Lakes. 
Then the motor boat men have all sorts of 
contests arranged for the season. They will try 
to keep the British international cup in this 
country by defeating the British challengers; 
they will, compete for the several challenge cups 
of the American Power Boat Association, and 
take part in the carnivals arranged for the 
Hudson-Fulton celebration and other attractive 
events. 
Just at present, too, the outlook for older 
yachts being in commission is very good. It is be¬ 
lieved that the changes made in the measurement 
rules this winter and in the time allowance scale 
has equalized things, so that the older boats 
will have better chances of success against the 
newer craft than they had before the changes 
were adopted by the many clubs forming the 
Atlantic Coast Conference. These yachts which 
have been stored for two or three seasons are 
now being overhauled and put in shape for rac¬ 
ing. Winter coverings have been taken off in 
many of the basins, and crews are already 
scraping and cleaning preparatory to painting 
and varnishing, and every one who is interested 
in yachting, not only as a racing sport, but as 
an ideal way of getting good healthy exercise, 
and living outdoors is happy. 
Massachusetts Bay Schedule. 
The annual meeting of the delegates to the 
Yacht Racing of Massachusetts was held last 
week. The officers elected for the year were: 
President, Charles Francis Adams, 2d; Vice- 
President, Bryan S. Permar; Secretary, A. T. 
Bliss; Treasurer, L. H. Wiley; Executive Com¬ 
mittee—Charles Francis Adams, 2d (Chairman), 
A. T. Bliss (Secretary), Bryan S. Permar, 
Herbert W. Robbins, Alfred L. Lincoln; Of¬ 
ficial Measurer, George Owen. 
Amendments to the racing rules as adopted 
by the Atlantic Coast Conference were accepted 
with a number of changes. Racing dates for 
the season were adopted as follows: 
May 31—South Boston Y. C., open, City 
Point. 
June 5—-Boston Y. C., club. City Point. 
June 12—Corinthian Y. C., club, Marblehead. 
June 17—Boston Y. C., open, Hull. 
June 19—Corinthian Y. C., club, Marblehead. 
June 19—Corinthian Y. C., Isles of Shoals 
ocean race. 
June 26—Eastern Y. C., special open, Marble¬ 
head. 
June 26—Mosquito Fleet Y. C., open. City 
Point. 
July 3—Boston Y. C., open, Marblehead. 
July 5—Corinthian Y. C., open, Marblehead. 
July 10—Corinthian Y. C., club; Marblehead. 
July 10—Columbia Y. C., open. City Point. 
July 17—Corinthian Y. C., club, Marblehead. 
July 17 to 24—Boston Y. C., cruise. 
July 19 to 24—Quincy challenge cup, Quincy 
Y. C. 
July 24—Corinthian Y. C., club, Marblehead. 
July 24—Squantum Y. C., open, Squantuni. 
July 31.—Corinthian Y. C., club. Marblehead. 
Aug. 3—Hingham Y. C. open, Hingham. 
Aug. 4—Quincy Y. C., open, Quincy Y. R. A. 
classes only. 
Aug. 5 to 7—Boston Y. C., mid-summer 
series, open, Hull. 
Aug. 7—Winthrop Y’. C., open, Winthrop. 
Aug. 9—Eastern Y. C., special open, Marble¬ 
head. 
Aug. 10—Boston Y. C., open, Marblehead. 
Aug. II —Boston Y. C., club, Hull. 
Aug. II to 13—Corinthian Y. C., mid-summer 
series, invitation. Marblehead. 
Aug. 14—Corinthian Y. C., open, Marblehead. 
Aug. 16 to 21—Eastern Y. C., Sonder trials, 
Marblehead. 
Aug. 21—Wollaston Y. C., open, Wollaston. 
Aug. 21—Boston Y. C., club, Marblehead. 
Aug. 23—American Y. C., open, Newburyport. 
