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FOREST AND STREAM 
[AmL 24, 1909. 
Power Boats on Lake Ontario. 
The Rochester Y. C. has arranged the condi¬ 
tions to govern the long distance race for cruis¬ 
ing power boats for which Thomas Fleming 
Day has offered a cup as first prize. 
The race will be started off Charlotte on 
Thursday, Aug. 12, and the course will be from 
the station of the Rochester Y. C., Rochester, 
N. Y., Port of Charlotte, to Oak Orchard, regis¬ 
tering at Oak Orchard, from there to Presque 
Isle, Ontario, through the Bay of Quinte_ to 
Clayton, from Clayton to a mark off the piers 
at the entrance to the Port of Charlotte, the 
finishing point, covering 290 miles. 
The race is for all cruising boats belonging 
to any member in good standing of any recog¬ 
nized yacht club of the United States or Canada, 
boats to be not less than 25 feet over all, not 
exceeding in the greatest length 60 feet over all, 
and with a waterline breadth of not less than 
one-fifth of the waterline length. A cruising 
boat is one built and used for cruising; must 
have trunk cabin house and self-bailing cock¬ 
pit. Cabin must contain sleeping, cooking and 
general living accommodations for crew, and 
such fitting must be aboard during race. 
All boats must be measured and rated before 
starting. No unrated boat will be allowed to 
start, and entries must be made in writing be¬ 
fore noon, July 15, 1909. A full description of 
the boat should be sent with the entry. All en¬ 
tries will be accepted subject to inspection by 
the committee. The committee reserves the 
right to reject any entry if, in its judgment, the 
boat is unseaworthy or unsuitable for long dis¬ 
tance racing, or is deficient in any particular. 
Measurements shall be made by disinterested per¬ 
son or persons appointed by the regatta commit¬ 
tee. Boats without certificates must be at Char¬ 
lotte, ready for measurement, before 9 a. m. .Wed¬ 
nesday. Aug. 10. Measurements will be posted as 
soon after that hour as practicable, and all pro¬ 
tests as to eligibility and rating must be lodged 
with the regatta committee six hours before the 
start. If requested any owner, or his represen¬ 
tative, shall be required to furnish a certificate 
stating that no changes to hull, propeller or 
machinery, have been made after the boat has 
been measured. The certificate of measurement 
of any boat that has been in previous long dis¬ 
tance races will be considered by the committee 
and if found correct, will be accepted. 
Charles J. Pembroke and Wilson H. Cross 
are appointed measurers, and certificates signed 
by them will be accepted by the committee. 
Boats shall be rated for classification and time 
allowance by a rating which shall be determined 
by taking fifteen times the cube root of the 
square root of the load waterline multiplied by 
the horsepower and divided by the area of mid¬ 
ship section. 
The result is the measurement for classifica¬ 
tion and time allowance. Plorsepower is to be 
calculated by multiplying the area of one piston 
in square inches by the number of cylinders, mul¬ 
tiplied by the stroke in feet, multiplied by the 
maximum number of revolutions per minute, and 
divided by a constant of 1,000 for four-cycle 
and 850 for two-cycle engines. 
American Power Boat Association time allow¬ 
ance will be figured at 60 per cent, of the time 
tables. 
To be eligible for this race, boats must be 
provided with solid propellers, as the use of 
adjustable or reversing propellers will not be 
allowed. 
The crew, which shall not be changed during 
the race, must consist of not less than four 
persons, two of whom may be paid hands. In 
the event of the owner not being on board dur¬ 
ing the race he must be represented by a mem¬ 
ber of a recognized club. No paid navigators 
or pilots will be allowed, and each owner or 
his representative will be required to deliver to 
the committee, before the start of the race, a 
list giving the names and vocations of all the 
members of his crew. 
Boats may carry an optional amount of fuel. 
Each boat must carry on deck or tow a tender 
at least 10 feet long or a life raft satisfactory to 
the regatta committee; must carry two anchors 
and rodes, side and other lights required by 
federal regulations, a life preserver for each 
member, of crew, compass, charts, lead line, 
buckets and at least two fire extinguishers. 
Each captain must keep a log giving the ap¬ 
proximate time of passing prominent objects, 
direction and strength of wind, and condition 
of sea. This must be handed to the committee 
within twelve hours after finishing. 
Boats carrying sails of any description must 
have them sealed by the committee before the 
start and seals must be intact at the finish of the 
race. 
Application for entry blanks and all informa¬ 
tion should be made to Clute E. Nixon, Secre¬ 
tary Rochester Y. C., No. 307 Livingston Bldg. 
Drift of a .Racing Mark. 
Last fall when the racing marks off Marble¬ 
head were to be taken up, after the racing was 
finished, mark 2, known as the southeast mark, 
could not be found. 
This was in the second week of September, 
and it was thought that the buoy with its long 
flagstaff had been run down by some sailing ox 
steam vessel: 
No report was received of the missing buoy 
until just before Christmas, when an incoming 
vessel reported passing the mark 50 miles to 
the eastward of Boston light. 
Nothing more was heard until last month, 
when Graves, of Marblehead, who has charge 
of the marks for the Eastern, Corinthian and 
Boston yacht clubs, received word that a fishing 
schooner had brought a racing mark into 
Provincetown, having picked it up well to the 
eastward of Race Point. 
A description being sent to Provincetown, it 
proved to be the long missing racing mark 
No_. 2, and it was shipped back' to Marblehead, 
arriving last week. 
The buoy shows hardly any marks from its 
long stay in the bay, evcept that the staff has 
been sawed in two for shipment, and that the 
paint is somewhat more chipped off that that 
of its sisters, who only were afloat during the 
summer months. 
That this buoy with its 20-foot pole should 
drift about in Massachusetts Bay for six months 
and be reported only twice, let alone not being 
run into by night, seems something of a wonder. 
Motor Races off Newport. 
The Newport Y. C. is to have a motor boat 
meeting of four days this summer and to man¬ 
age the racing properly has organized a motor 
boat racing committee of which Horace P. Beck 
is chairman. This meeting is to last four days 
and letters have been sent to secretaries of clubs 
asking co-operation. The meeting will be the 
first or second week in August. Races are to 
be arranged for speed boats and for cruisers 
and many valuable prizes have already been of¬ 
fered. The courses will be on Narrangansett 
Bay. These races are to become an annual fi.x- 
ture at Newport. 
An invitation has been sent to the New York 
Y. C. and that club has been asked to arrange 
its schedule for the cruise so that the fleet may 
be at Newport while the races are taking place. 
There are many members of the New York Club 
who own power boats that could compete in the 
races, and if it could be arranged that the meet¬ 
ing took place before the fleet started on its 
cruise to Bar Harbor there is no doubt that 
some of the owners of these yachts would take 
part in the competitions. 
Seneca Goes to the Lakes. 
The sloop yacht Seneca, which caused the 
trouble about the challenge for the Canada cup, 
has been sold by H. Wilmer and Addison G. 
Hanan to Eric C. Moore, of the Rochester Y. 
C., and is to be sent to the lakes again. This 
yacht was built by Plerreshoff two years ago 
for the defence of the Canada cup and she de¬ 
feated the Canadian challenger Adele. She was 
sailed in that series of races by Addison G. 
Hanan and later Mr. Hanan purchased the 
yacht and had her brought to the coast. Last 
year she won the Manhasset Bay challenge cup, 
the Corinthian Cup of the Indian Harbor Y. C. 
and down the bay the Child’s trophy for the 
Crescent A. C. 
'When the Royal Canada Y. C. challenged the 
Rochester Y. C. for a race for the Canada cup 
last winter the Canadians wanted the Seneca 
barred from the contest on the ground that she 
had been sold out of the club and had gone to 
salt water and because she did not conform to 
the scantling rules now in force. The two clubs 
could not come to an agreement and the chal¬ 
lenge was withdrawn. Seneca is to take part 
in the races on the Great Lakes and will meet 
the Canadian yachts at the week of racing to 
be held off Cobourg in September. 
Dates of Sender Races. 
The Eastern Y. C- has announced that the 
trial races to be held for the purpose of select¬ 
ing three Sonder boats to meet the three com¬ 
ing from Germany will be sailed off Marblehead 
during the week beginning Aug. 16. The inter¬ 
national races are to be sailed on Aug. 30 and 
31 and Sept. 2, 3 and 6, and if another race is 
necessary to decide the winners of the President 
Taft and Governor Draper cups, it will be sailed 
on Sept. 7. It is thought that the presence of 
President Taft at Beverly, only three miles from 
IMarblehead, will add interest to these races. 
Commodore 'Washington R. Thomas has 
through his fleet captain John S. Lawrence 
issued orders for the cruise. The fleet will sail 
from Marblehead on July 10 and disband on 
July 17 at Bar Plarbor. The daily runs, which 
will be races, will be to Peak's Island, New 
i\Ieado\ys River, Pemaquid, Rockland, Kent’s 
Cove, Swan's Island, Bartlett Narrows and Bar 
Harbor. 
Song of the Motor Boat. 
Come, boys, we've turned the buoy, line, and now to do 
our best; 
I'or this must be our race to-day, and now to pass the 
rest. 
With rubber hoods and goggled eyes to shield us from 
the spray 
We look like monsters of the deep that lived in Sinbad’s 
day; 
But looks are not for motor tars, it’s steady hands and 
nerves 
To hold her in the sea she cuts and watch her when she 
swerves. 
Speed! Speed I Give us more speed! 
Fie! Fie to restraint! ’Tis weaklings that heed; 
Push up the gauge till it quakes like a reed— 
For the song of the motor boat—Speed! More speed! 
The engines thump like kettledrums, the white spray 
licks our prow. 
PIo! Ho! If the Flying Dutchman ship could only sight 
us now; 
We’d challenge her to race to-day across the open sea, 
.And leave the ancient phantom ship behind us as we flee; 
For phantom ships and monsters, too, to us seem weak 
and frail. 
We’d grind the old sea serpent up, outswim the zealous 
whale. 
Speed! Speed! Give us more speed! 
On that magic word our minds are now keyed; 
Be it Frenchman, Italian, Briton or Swede— 
The song of the motor boat—Speed! More speed! 
The gray gulls swoop above our heads and shriek a vain 
protest. 
To the mighty shell that crashes on through the long 
green waves we breast; 
With hissing tubes and churning wheels we cleave the 
waters clean, 
.And leave behind a three-mile wake and a whiff of 
gasolene; 
Perhaps old “Nep” himself peeps up as W'e rig through 
the waves. 
Then hides his face and beats retreat to his deepest 
ocean caves. 
Speed! Speed! Give us more speed! 
Or that gray bellied French boat will be in the lead; 
Danger, you say? Pooh! Danger, indeed! 
When the song of the motor boat is speed! More speed! 
—Victor A. Hermann in The Sun. 
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