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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April io, 1909. 
boat will have a raised deck; aft of this for a 
distance of 8 feet the sides are drawn in 12 
inches, arranged with mahogany panel work 
and plate glass windows, thus giving excellent 
light and ventilation for the forward cabin. 
The top of this will be a continuation of the 
raised deck forward. The after cabin will have 
a trunk 20 inches in height, constructed of ma¬ 
hogany panel work with plate glass windows, 
similar to the forward cabin. 
The motive power of this boat will consist 
of a twenty-horsepower, four-cylinder Murray 
& Tregurtha engine, which will give the boat a 
speed of between eleven and twelve miles per 
hour. The gasolene tanks will be cylindrical, 
of copper, located amidships, with a gravity feed 
to the engine. 
The contract provides for the completion of 
the boat on or before May i. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The following yachts have been sold through 
the agency of Henry J. Gielow; 
Steam yacht Wild Duck, Mrs. S. M. Prevost 
to Paul E. De Fere, who recently made a 
three-months’ winter cruise through the West 
Indies on her, carrying on deck his automobile, 
and with it touring the islands visited. Capt. 
Wallace E. Eldridge was in charge. 
Steam yacht Crescent, George Rose to 
Messrs. J. W. Johnson and Clarence E. Chap¬ 
man, who took the yacht south for two months, 
and will use her on the Gulf of St. Lawrence 
during the coming summer. Capt. P. C, Filley 
is in command. 
Steam yacht Columbine, George W. Wood to 
T. J. Martin. Columbine was fitted out in 
South Brooklyn by Capt. McLaughlin, and has 
gone to Philadelphia, her new home port. 
Steam yacht Alert, J. J. Martin to George 
W. Wood. 
Steam yacht Golden Rod. William C. Hinds 
to Dr. J. Nelson Walter. She wiill be taken to 
South America. 
Steam yacht Mohawk, FI. Wallerstcin to A. 
W. Archer. The yacht is now in use about the 
island of liayti. 
Auxiliary schooner yacht Columbia, E. R. 
Hastings to Flarold Binney. Various improve¬ 
ments have been made and the name changed 
to Mist, as all of Mr. Binney’s yachts have been 
named. 
Schooner yacht Cara 11 ., George E. Ide to 
Edward C. Bodman. An auxiliary gasolene en¬ 
gine will be installed. 
Amxiliary yawl Scapha, L. FI. Armour to M. 
R. Durham, who will cruise to the eastward 
this season. 
Motor yacht Marie AT., J. J. Martin to Dr. 
Isaac Adler. This will be one of the first 
yachts in commission in New York waters. 
Motor yacht Eagle, J. S. IMundy to the U. 
S. Life Saving Service, for use in vicinity of 
Pamlico Sound. 
Motor yacht Alma, Firs. H. FI. Cheney to W. 
M. Hudson. 
Power boat Bandit, F. W. Donnelly to R. It. 
Stern. 
Hunting cabin launch Undine, S. M. Butler 
to J. F. Nies. 
Raised deck cruiser, FI. E. Wimpfheimer to 
C. R. Lush. 
Sloop yacht Goblin, Mrs. E. S. Salisbury to 
Charles E. Eorsdick. 
Sloop yacht Little Peter, F. M. Weeks to 
Vinol S. Terry. 
Sloop Keewaydin, F. T. Rapp to Samuel 
Sbethar. 
Twenty-eight foot cutter, H. Mattison to W. 
W. Lee. 
Auxiliarv catboat Kingfisher, J. R. Gilmore 
to A. B, James. 
Auxiliary catboat Kim, J. F. Bensel to 
Charles E. James. 
Catboat Sheila. R. F. Reynolds to F. C. 
Fossett, Jr. 
Sixty-two foot houseboat, J. F. Nies to S. 
M. Butler. 
Houseboat Nina L., FI. B. La Mon to L. C. 
Berrien. 
Lakewood Y. C. Races. 
The regatta committee of the Lakewood Y. 
C., of which A. J. Prentice is chairman, has an¬ 
nounced the programme for the season, and 
Cleveland yachtsmen expect a busy summer. 
Beginning on June 12 there will be a race every 
Saturday afternoon but one until Aug. 14, when 
those who take part in the Inter-Lake Yachting 
Association regatta at Toledo, Aug. 23, will 
have to prepare for the long lake trip. After 
-\ug. 14 there will be no races of the club series 
scheduled and the open regattas Sept. 4-11 will 
officially close the season. In case of postpone¬ 
ments earlier in the summer there will be ample 
time for sail off before bad weather sets in. 
Ten sailing races in all are on the docket. 
In every one of these the r8-footers will start, 
but the other classes, includin,g handicap cruiser 
class, 16-footers and catboats, will be called out 
only six times. The usual percentage system 
will be used in determining the championship 
of each class for the series, figuring at least 
seven races out of ten with the 18-footers and 
four out of six for the other boats. In other 
words, if an 18-footer only finishes six races 
her total percentage will be divided by seven to 
get her average. 
The Commodore Gardner cup will be raced 
for on July s on a free-for-all basis and will be 
for the boat making the best corrected time. 
The G. H. Gardner cup for 18-footers goes to 
the winner of the season’s series. The Wake¬ 
field bronze trophy will be raced for off Rocky 
River on one of the scheduled dates instead of 
at Vermillion on Labor Day. Whenever the 
time is decided it will be known as Wakefield 
day, and the occasion will be a hummer. Open 
house will be kept for the Vermillion people 
who are expected to come down. 
The Alexander Winton trophy for all fresh¬ 
water 18-footers will be raced for at the open 
regatta beginning Saturday, Sept. 4. Two races 
on L.abor Day, Sept. 6, and one on Tuesday, 
the 7th, ought to decide a winner. 
Then on Wednesday, Sept. 8, will begin the 
match race between the Lakewood and Massa¬ 
chusetts Bay champions for a cup emblematic 
of the American championship of the 18-foot 
knockabout class It is a best three in five 
affair. Last year Hayseed beat Dorchen at 
Marblehead, Mass., and this is the return match. 
A new challenger is building in the east es¬ 
pecially to clean up the Lakewood boat, and 
nothing will be spared in time or money by 
her owner, A. W. Finlay, of Boston, or his 
crew to take the cup back to salt water. It will 
be a splendid series. 
It is expected that all the old boats will be in 
the racing this season and one or two new ones. 
Dr. Felton has a new catboat to go against 
Spaulding and Fahrenbach; Dreamer, Cinco, 
Celox and Zenda will probably constitute the 
cruiser class. Among the eighteens will be 
Hayseed, Fudge, Aladdin, Yankee and possibly 
Fannctte and Malillian. 
Yachting in California. 
S.\N Francisco, Cal., March 20. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: For the past three weeks very 
favorable weather has prevailed at San Fran¬ 
cisco, and the prospects of getting out upon the 
bay again at an early date have caused many 
yachtsmen to spend all their spare time pre¬ 
paring their craft for the coming season that 
will be commencing soon. From present indi¬ 
cations the coming season will be a very lively 
one, and a number of additions are expected to 
the membership of almost all of the clubs. 
The .Aeolian Y. C. is perhaps the most active 
of any at the present time, and the member¬ 
ship of this organization is increasing at a very 
rapid rate. The club house of this organization 
was burned a short time ago, but the new club 
house will be finished within the course of a 
month and sometime in April a house-warming 
will be given. At the present time the club is 
making its headquarters at San Leandro. The 
new building will be a handsome affair, two 
stories in height and will contain a large hall 
with a stage, ladies’ parlor, directors’ room on 
the upper floor, and lockers, showers, and room 
for small boats on the first floor. The Cor¬ 
inthian sloop Speedwell, formerly owned by 
Tom Jennings, has just been purchased by 
Bernard Jost. and will sail under the Aeolian 
colors this season. The crew will be composed 
of Ben Jost, Herbert and George Postel and 
Sid. Wilson. Another Corinthian boat that wdl 
sail the Aeolian flag this season is the sloop 
Edna, which has been purchased from A. L. 
Meyer by Byron Priest and Walter Mc¬ 
Donough. Rosseau's fast boat, Merry Widow, 
the champion in the 25-foot class on the bay, is 
now being prepared for tbe season, and Rosseau 
has made an application for admission to the 
club. The sloop Thetis, which formerly flew 
the colors of the Golden Gate Y. C., has been 
purchased by Harry Craig and Henry Stein- 
bach, members of the Aeolian Club. A. Davis 
has purchased the sloop Dawn, and is fitting 
her for racing under the-Aeolian colors. 
The San Francisco Y. C. is planning to make 
some additions to its club house at Sausalito. 
and will improve on the decorations in several 
ways, although it is now said to have the finest 
home of any yachting organization on the bay. 
It is announced that Port Captain John 
Marshall is very anxious to dispose of Phoe- 
neicia, as he desires to get a larger boat. The 
yawl Jester is for sale by Roy Burney for the 
same reason. 
The Corinthian Club intended to erect a new 
club house at Tiburon, but it is considered that 
it is now getting too late in the season for this, 
but the new building will be ready for the open¬ 
ing of the season a year from now. The mem¬ 
bers of this club have received advice that the 
ferry service to that place is to be curtailed during 
the coming summer, and plans are being made to 
have a small boat make the run. Both the 
Vallejo and Sacramento yachtsmen have turned 
their attention largely to power boats, and it 
is expected that the coming season will witness 
some very interesting regattas with the speed 
burners. 
From Portland. Ore., comes news of active 
preparations for the coming season, and many 
new boats will be placed into commission. 
Small boats are the rule there, but tbe boating 
organizations excel when it comes to numbers. 
The Oregon Y. C. is planning an active sea¬ 
son, and a canvas for new members is now be¬ 
ing made. F.ast season a Morris canoe was 
given to the member bringing in the most new 
members, and it is likely that the offer will be 
duplicated this season. Aquatic sports of all 
kinds will be a prominent feature of the Alaska- 
Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle, and all the 
clubs of the Northwest are expected to par¬ 
ticipate. 
The winter racing season at San Pedro has 
been a great success, and the series of sixteen 
races—two to a day—that was started on Dec. 
6, 1908, was pulled off without a postponement, 
which also speaks well for California weather 
in the dead of winter. These races were limited 
to dories all of the same size, and have been 
a severe test of seamanship. In the matter of 
sails there has been some difference, but the 
area has been the ,^ame for each boat, so that 
the craft may be said to be identical. The last 
race was held on March 14. and was won by 
Warren Wood’s boat Merrily. By capturing 
the last race, Merrily became the winner of the 
series for the season. Little Mischief won six 
firsts and four seconds, while Merrily won six 
firsts and five seconds. A. P. B. 
Challenge for Manhasset Bay Cup. 
E. Burton Hart, chairman of the regatta 
committee of the Indian Harbor Y. C., has re¬ 
ceived a challenge for a race for th,e Manhasset 
Bay challenge cup from the American Y. C. This 
cup was won last year when Seneca defeated 
Mimosa III. A syndicate of members of the 
American Y. C. have ordered a new 27-footer 
from Herreshoffs. It is not certain yet what 
the defender will do. They may rely on Seneca 
again to defend the cup, but it is not at all 
unlikely that a new boat will be built for some 
member of the club or for a syndicate. 
