Bermuda Sail Race. 
The fourth annual race to Bermuda will start 
from the Lower Bay on Saturday, June 5. It 
will be managed from this end by the Atlantic 
Y. C., and, as usual, at the finish by the Royal 
Bermuda Y. C. This year there will be races 
for four classes. The largest will be for yachts 
over 90 feet over all, and the smallest for those 
under 50 feet over all. In each case there will 
be one prize. George S. Runk, owner of the 
schooner Margaret, has offered the prize for 
Class A, over 90 feet, and ex-Commodore 
Robert P. Doremus, owner of the schooner 
Lasca, has offered the prize for Class B. 70 to 
90 feet. The allowance this year will be 45 
minutes a foot figured on over all measurement, 
and there will be no allowance for rig. The 
conditions for this race are as follows: 
The race is open to cruising sail craft be¬ 
longing to any organized yacht club. Boats to 
enter must be bona fide cruising craft of sub¬ 
stantial construction and rig, having full decks 
and watertight cockpit. Yachts having fins or 
bulb keels or balanced rudders are barred. 
Measurement—The measurement for com¬ 
puting allowance is the length of the boat over 
all. The length on deck from the foreside of 
the stem to the afterside of the sternboard or 
transom. Fiddleheads and ornamenta'l pieces 
or boards attached to the stem are not to be 
included in this measurement. Boats will rate 
for allowance from the closest full foot. 
Crew—There will be no restrictions as to the 
number or character of the crew, but the per¬ 
son in charge of the navigation of the yacht 
must be an amateur. 
Sails—Lower sails to be those usually carried 
by the yacht when cruising. No restrictions 
on light sails. 
Boats—Yachts must carry such small boats 
Or tenders they carry when cruising. 
Stores and Water—Stores and water sufficient 
for thirty days must be on board. Water to 
be in fixed tanks or breakers. 
Equipment—Anchors, chains or hawsers, side 
lights.^ two compasses, sextant, chronometer 
and life belts or jackets for .each member of the 
crew. 
Ballast—Weight may be shifted fore and aft 
for the purpose of trimming, but no weight 
either in the form of ballast or stores must be 
jettisoned except as a measure of safety. 
Allowance—The time allowance will be forty- 
five minutes to the foot for the full course, a 
distance of 670 nautical miles. No allowance 
for rig. 
Time of Start—The start will be made at 10 
A. M., Saturday, June 5. 
Entries—Entries must be received by the 
committee not later than noon of May 15. Such 
entries must be in duplicate and be accompanied 
by a full description of the yacht. 
Classes—If sufficient number of boats enter 
there will be four classes—Class A, over 90 feet 
over all; Class B, 90 feet over all and under; 
Class C, 70 feet over all and under; Class D, 50 
feet over all and under. One prize will be given 
in each class. 
Protest—Protest concerning non-eligibility of 
a yacht must be in writing and be made not less 
than forty-eight hours- before the time fixed 
for starting. 
The committee reserve the right to reject an 
entry if the boat is in any way unsuited for 
ocean racing or is defective in hull, rig and 
stores. The committee upon written request 
will_ inspect any boat and certify as to her 
eligibility. 
The entries should be made to Thomas Flem¬ 
ing Day, Royal Bermuda Y. C., 9 Murray 
street; H. E. Boucher, Atlantic Y. C., Sea Gate, 
or 20 Fulton street. 
The race to Bermuda was first proposed by 
Thomas Fleming Day in the fall of 1905, and 
was started on May 26 for a $500 cup, given by 
Sir Thomas Lipton to the Brooklyn Y. C. 
Three boats started—Lila, 40 feet; Tamerlane, 
36 feet, and Gauntlet, 28 feet. The race was 
won by Tamerlane, owned by Commodore 
Maier, in 5 days, 6 hours. Gauntlet finished, but 
Lila put back. 
The race in 1907 started on June 5. Twelve 
boats started—six schooners, three sloops and 
three yawls. Dervish, Commodore H. A. 
Morse, won in the first class, covering the 
course in 3 days 19 hours 20 minutes. Lila, 
owned by R. D. Floyd, won in the second class, 
making the passage in 4 days 7 hours and 45 
minutes. 
In 1908 the race was started from Marble¬ 
head, and was under the flag of the Corinthian 
Y. C. Six boats started—five schooners and 
one sloop—divided into two classes. The 
smaller class finished first, beating all the big 
boats. Venona, owned by Commodore Bliss, 
won. Dervish took the first class prize. 
Around Long Island Race. 
One of the most interesting races arranged 
for the season will be the contest for yachts 
50 feet over all length and under, for which 
four prizes are offered. The start will be made 
off the Atlantic Club’s house at Sea Gate, and 
the finish is to be off the New Rochelle Club’s 
anchorage. The course from the start in 
Gravesend Bay will be to the South West Spit 
Buoy, then to Montauk Point and then through 
Long Island Sound, a distance of 210 miles. 
The minimum limit of crew is four men, and 
one additional man must be carried for each 
five feet of measurement over 35 feet. There 
are no restrictions as to crew, but the helms¬ 
men must be Corinthians. 
Entries for this race will close on July 24 
with H. E. Boucher, of the Atlantic Y. C., or 
G. P. Granbery, of the New Rochelle Y. C. 
The following have already been practically 
entered: Brigand, H. A. Jackson, Jr.; Fearless, 
B. R. Stoddard; lo, F. A. Marsland; Sakana, 
Haviland Bros.; Tillicum 11 ., C. S. King; Red¬ 
wing, M. B. Pendas; Bobtail, R. A. Monks; 
Hyperion, Frank Maier; Kenosha 11 ., C. W. 
Voltz; Atair, H. L. Stone; the new ketch built 
for Daniel Bacon, and a sloop recently pur¬ 
chased by G. P. Granbery. 
Bermuda Power Boat Race. 
Four yachts are now being built to take 
part in the power boat race to Bermuda, which 
will be started on June 5. These are for Vice- 
Commodore Houck, of the New Rochelle Y. 
C.; J. G. Naefie Whitaker, of Philadelphia; 
Commodore Carrollton M. Fleagle, of the 
Baltimore Motor B. C., and Francis Rogers, of 
Camden, N. J. This last yacht is building at 
the Stamford Motor Works from designs by 
Whittlesey & Whitaker, and will be 55 feet long, 
II feet beam, and driven by a 40-horsepower 
Sterling motor. 
This craft is of the raised deck type, and the 
hull has considerable flare forward. It will be 
rigged as a yawl, as the conditions require that 
contestants shguld carry spars and sails for 
use in case the motor breaks down. 
The engine and galley space will be forward, 
there will be a large cabin and toilet amidships 
and a double stateroom and lockers aft. 
Walter M. Bieling, who went to Bermuda on 
Ailsa Craig in 1906 as mate and again last 
year on Irene II. also as mate, will be in 
charge of this boat. 
Yacht Work at Bayonne. 
Motor boats are being turned out in large 
numbers by the Electric Launch Company at 
Bayonne, ranging from small yacht tenders to 
large cruising boats. Besides the many inter¬ 
esting boats which they sold and contracted for 
at the recent Motor Boat Show at the Madison 
Square Garden, they have sold a number of 
their Elco-Peerless express launches, notably to 
Nathan Strauss, of New York city, for use on 
the.St. Lawrence River; one to E. F. Payne, 
of Wilkesbarre, Pa., for use on Harvey’s Lake, 
Pa,., and one to D. C. Whitney, of Detroit, 
Mich., for use on the Detroit River. 
George F. Baker, Jr., of New York has con¬ 
tracted to build the small boats for his new 
steam yacht Viking, which is now building at 
Wilmington, Delaware. The owner’s launch is 
29 feet of the Elco-Peerless yacht tender type, 
and is to be equipped with a four-cylinder, 40- 
horsepower, Peerless motor. All the boats are 
to be of teak and of the very highest grade 
construction. 
Probably the most interesting of the small 
boats being built at the Eleo Works are the 
three 2iJ/^-feet high speed owner’s launches, 
which hat'e been contracted for by three very 
prominent yacht owners; Colonel Max C. 
Fleischmann. of Cincinnati, Ohio, to carry on 
his yacht Haida; H. Darlington, of Pittsburg, 
to carry on his yacht Elreba; H. A. C. Taylor, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., to carry on his yacht 
Wanderer. These boats are particularly inter¬ 
esting as they open up a new field for the high 
speecl express launch, being small and light 
enough to be carried on the davits, thoroughly 
seaworthy even in rough weather, and having 
the remarkable speed of 20 miles an hour. In 
the case of Ccl. Max C. Fleischmann, he 
wished to have a boat which he could use the 
same as he did his automobile, which he might 
drive himself in comfort and safety. 
A. B. Jenkins has contracted for an Elco- 
Peerless cabin launch for use on the Upper 
Saranac Lake. 
This company is building an electric launch 
for J. A. Spoor, of Chicago, to be used at his 
summer home at Pittsfield, Mass. It has also 
recently shipped three very handsome electric 
launches; one to Belize. British Honduras; one 
to Rio de Janeiro, and the third to the New 
York Zoological Gardens of Bronx Park, New 
York city. 
The large motor boat order for the War De¬ 
partment taken by this company last fall is 
completed, and the remaining five boats were 
delivered on April i, and went to the Army 
Posts at Ft. Williams, Me.; Ft. Banks, Boston, 
Mass.; Ft. H. C. Wright. New York; Ft. Con¬ 
stitution, Portsmouth, Me., and Ft. Rodman, 
Massachusetts. 
Rhode Island Y. C. Officers. 
Commodore William C. Todd, of the Rhode 
Island Y. C., at the meeting last October, an¬ 
nounced that he was obliged by business rea¬ 
sons to decline a renomination, but he agreed 
to hold office until his successor could be 
chosen. A meeting of the club was held last 
week, and the nominating committee presented 
the name of Vice-Commodore Dunbar for Com¬ 
modore; E. L. Clarke, for Vice-Commodore, 
and Herbert W. Gardner for director at large 
to fill a vacancy on the board. These three 
were elected. Commodore Dunbar announced 
that the annual cruise would take place the last 
week in July, and the fleet will visit Stonington, 
New London, Shelter Island and Block Island. 
The rendezvous will be on Saturday, July 24, 
and the cruise will last one week. 
