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Eastern Y. C., on behelf of the American boats 
entered, and the Kaiserlicher Y. C., of which 
the German Emperor is the head, on behalf of 
the German boats. Three boats on a side com¬ 
pete. The grand prize this year, given by the 
Eastern Club, is to be known as the President 
'J'aft cup. This is with the President’s consent, 
and in accordance with the wishes of the Ger¬ 
man yachtsmen, who in the races of 1907 had 
as a prize a cup given by the Kaiser. The cup 
in 1906 was known as the Roosevelt cup. 
The presence of President Taft at the races 
is sure to gratify the Germans, who desire the 
Crown Prince of Germany to witness them also. 
There have already appeared in the Gerrnan 
press articles calculated to test public opinion 
on the proposal that the Kaiser’s heir cross 
the ocean, for the purpose of witnessing the 
races. Should he come, the Prince probably 
would sail in one of the yachts, as he is an en¬ 
thusiast in yachting, and owns a sonder class 
boat, which he sails himself. 
There are building in this country fourteen 
boats to compete in the trials, to be held in 
August, that will result in the selection of the 
American team of three boats for the match. 
The Germans are also building a number of 
boats, and have a large fleet of old ones, from 
which to select their representatives. 
Since the America’s Cup races lapsed, these 
contests have been the chief international events 
in Amrican yachting. 
One Design Boats to Race. 
The opening race of the season in these 
waters will be sailed off Port Washington on 
Saturday, May 22. It will be an inter-club 
race for the one-design classes of the Manhasset 
Bay and Islip yacht clubs. The members of 
these two clubs have had one-design boats 
built this spring, and three boats representing 
each club are to meet. 
The Manhasset Bay yachts are from designs 
by Henry J. Gielow. They are 27 feet 9 inches 
over all, 19 feet 5 inches on the waterline, 6 feet 
7 inches beam and 4 feet 4^2 inches draft. They 
spread 435 square feet of canvas. Five have 
been built. These are: Manhaska, W. Butler 
Duncan, Jr.; Sc3dla, Edgar A. Sierck; Ardette, 
Clarkson Cowl; Kit, John F. O’Rourke, and 
.A.lthea, J. W. Alker. 
Thirteen of the Islip boats have been built 
from designs by William Gardner. These are 
for F. E. Ballard, C. A. Van Renssalaer, 
Grosvenor Nichols, John H. Dick, W. B. 
Simons, Allen Pinkerton, Lewis Gibb, E. F. 
Hutton, R. B. Potts, Horace Havemeyer, H. 
B. Hollins, Jr., Aymar Johnson and Orme Wil¬ 
son, Jr. The dimensions of these boats are 30 
feet over all, 20 feet on the waterline, 8 feet 
beam, 2 feet 6 inches draft. They spread about 
500 square feet of canvas. 
The course will be from off Execution Light, 
three miles to windward and return, twice 
around, making 12 miles in all. George A. 
Cormack has offered the prize for the winning 
boat, and the team prize has been offered by 
H. B. Hollins, Jr. 
This match should be a Very interesting one 
on account of the difference in the two models. 
The Islip boats are shoal draft, and have center- 
boards, while the Manhasset boats are keel 
craft. The Islip boats are longer over all and 
spread 65 square feet more canvas than .the 
Manhasset Bay boats. 
Catboats for Taft Cup. 
George Owen, of Newton, Mass., is now at 
work on four catboats for members of the De¬ 
troit Country Club, which are to be ready for 
delivery before July i. These catboats will be 
sailed in local regattas around Detroit to be 
tuned up for the big event to be sailed in 
August. President Taft has offered a cup 
through the Detroit Boat Club for catboats, 
and it has given the class quite a boom not only 
at Detroit, but all along the Great Lakes. 
Charles D. Mower has an order for a boat 
for this class which is to be built as soon as 
possible. 
New Ratings of Old Yachts. 
Professor William Hallock, measurer of 
the New York Y. C., has prepared an interest¬ 
ing table, which shows the changes that the 
present rule of measurement makes in the rat¬ 
ings of yachts that have raced in club events. 
The changes in the rule make waterline length 
a factor instead of quarter beam length. This 
change rather favors the older boats, and some 
of those that were made to rate quite high under 
the old rule now have their ratings lowered, 
which, in some_ instances, may give them 
chances of success. One marked change is 
with the schooners Queen and Elmina. Under 
the old rule Elmina had to allow Queen, but 
under the new rule Queen’s rating is much higher 
than that of Elmina. Another change made is 
the K class. Under the new rating Avenger 
no longer measures in K class, but in L, and 
will race against Altair, Doris, Humma, Petrel 
and Mimosa IT 
The old and 
new ratings are shown 
in the 
following; 
Old. 
Class. Rating. 
New 
Rating. 
Adelaide . 
. p 
26.69 
27.79 
Alera . 
. B 
26.70 
27.74 
.■\Itair . 
. L 
51.32 
50.98 
Ariadne . 
. B 
80.38 
92.37 
.\tair . 
. P 
27.00 
27.88 
Aurora. 
. K 
56.98 
64.54 
Avenger . 
. L 
48.20 
53.18 
Banzai . 
. P 
26.69 
27.91 
Butterfly . 
. N 
29.47 
31.63 
Cachalot . 
. E 
49.94 
51.51 
Clique . 
. L 
51.16 
52.66 
Cleona . 
. M 
46.42 
47.67 
Corona . 
. B 
86.90 
93.12 
Crusader II. 
. D 
67.13 
71.36 
Dahinda . 
. P 
26.69 
27.66 
Doris . 
. L 
48.22 
51.37 
Dorwina . 
. M 
43.85 
43.38 
Eclipse . 
. E 
50.70 
54.13 
Effort . 
. 1 
by .76 
68.10 
Elmina . 
. B 
87.91 
92.49 
Emerald . 
. B 
76.57 
85.58 
Fleur de Eys . 
. C 
68.00 
79.05 
Gardenia . 
. M 
39.77 
43.61 
Gossip . 
. P 
26.87 
28.44 
Humma . 
. L 
54.26 
53.7() 
Ibis . 
. P 
26.69 
27.95 
Tngomar . 
. B 
88.82 
93.82 
Invader . 
.;. B 
87.87 
95.44 
Irolita . 
. D 
59.60 
Irondequoit . 
. M 
40.13 
40.86 
Istalena . 
. K 
56.85 
64.40 
Katrina . 
. D 
58.74 
68.98 
Kestrel . 
.:... M 
39.81 
4'!.;i9 
Lasca . 
. B 
76.83 
87.72 
Leda . 
. P 
33.20 
32.97 
Margaret . 
. D 
65.62 
67.41 
Miladi . 
. F 
48.40 
49.61 
Mimosa II. 
. E 
46.32 
47.76 
Mimosa ill. 
. P 
29.90 
30.68 
N epsi . 
. P 
26.75 
27.76 
Paladin . 
. M 
40.56 
42.41 
Petrel . 
. E 
45.82 
51.50 
Phryne . 
. P 
26.69 
28.25 
Queen . 
. B 
87.40 
95.64 
Rosalie . 
. M 
42.42 
43.62 
Seneca (schooner) . 
. D 
64.30 
68.07 
Seneca (sloop) . 
. P 
26.86 
30.70 
Sybarita i. 
. Ct 
86.31 
95.18 
Sylvia . 
. N 
39.35 
40.76 
X’encedor . 
. D 
62.40 
66.02 
Vergemere . 
. A 
96.27 
109.80 
X'igilant . 
. G 
93.27 
98.45 
Weetamoe . 
. K 
61.80 
63.70 
Windward . 
. K 
55.71 
61.53 
Winsome ... .^. . 
. K 
56.73 
64.33 
The corrected 
ratings with 
allowance 
for rig 
are given as follows: 
Schooners—A 
riadne, 83.13; 
Carona, 
83.81; 
Crusader IT, 64.23; Eclipse, 47.72; Elmina, 
83.24; Emerald, 77.01; Fleur de Lys, 71.15; In- 
gomar, 84.44; Invader, 85.90; Irolita, 59.92; 
Katrina, 62.08; Lasca, 78.95; Margaret, 60.67; 
Miladi, 44.65; Queen, 86.08; Seneca (D), 61.26; 
Vencedor, 59.42; Vergemere, 98.82. 
Yawls—Cacique. 48.97; Cleona, 44-33; Pala¬ 
din, 39.44; Petrel, 47.90; Sybarita, 88.52; Sylvia, 
37.91; Vigilant. 91.56; Windward, 57,22. 
The new classification is as follows: 
First Class—All over 100 feet rating; schoon¬ 
ers I; sloops and yawls 1 . 
One Hundred Foot Class—Over 88 feet and 
not over 100 feet; schooners A; sloops or yawls 
G. 
Eighty-eight Foot Class—Over 76 feet and 
not over 88 feet; schooners B; sloops or yawls 
H. 
Seventy-six Foot Class—Over 65 feet and not 
over 76 feet; schooners C; sloops or yawls J. 
Sixty-five Foot Class—Over 55 feet and not 
over 65 feet; schooners D; sloops or yawls K. 
Fifty-five Foot Class—Over 46 feet and not 
over 55 feet; schooners E; sloops or yawls L. 
Fortc^-six Foot Class—Over 38 feet and not 
over 46 feet: schooners F; sloops or yawls, M. 
Thirty-eight Foot Class—Over 31 feet and not 
over 38 feet; sloops or yawls N. 
Thirty-one Foot Class—Over 25 feet and not 
over 31 feet; sloops or yawls P. 
Professor Hallock has announced that he will 
be prepared to measure yachts on the follow¬ 
ing dates at the places specified: 
Wednesday, May 12—City Island, Jacob’s 
Yard. 
Tuesday, May 18—Larchmont Y. C. 
Wednesday, May 19—City Island, Jacob’s 
Yard. 
Tuesday, May 25—Larchmont Y. C. 
Wednesday, May 26—City Island, Jacob’s 
Yard. 
Raceabouts on the Delaware. 
The regatta committee of the Corinthian Y. 
C. of Philadelphia has arranged a spring series 
of races for raceabouts belonging to all recog¬ 
nized yacht clubs. This series of races was 
scheduled to begin last Saturday, and wilh be 
continued^ May 15 and 29, June 12 and 26, and 
July 3. The prize is offered by Commodore E. 
W. Clark, and in each race the prizes are ac¬ 
cording to the number of starters, there being 
three if seven yachts race. Points are scored 
on the usual system. The rules of the race¬ 
abouts as adopted by the Massachusetts and 
Long Island Sound associations govern the 
boats of this class with certain additions. Only 
one suit of sails is allowed each boat in each 
season, unless the suit is spoiled by accident, 
and then the majority of the raceabout owners 
must assent. Boats are not to haul out for 
cleaning more often than once in three weeks. 
Such, rules as these are always good and keep 
the sport within the reach of the man of moder¬ 
ate means. When any number of sails are 
allowed or when a boat may be hauled out as 
often as the owner wishes, the sport can only 
be supported by the wealthy man. . 
The first race of this series and the first race 
of the season on the Atlantic Coast was sailed 
on Saturday, May i. The start was made off 
the club’s pier at Essington, and the course 
was to a mark off the Eddystone pier, then to 
a mark off Fort Mifflin. There was a strong 
north wind and a drizzling rain. Four yachts 
started and Quakeress III., owned by W. F. 
Harrison, won. The summary: 
Ouakeress III., W. F. Harrison.1 49 42 
Cyrilla, W. Barlie Henry. 1 56 23 
Busy Bee, R. L. Cuthbert. 1 56 49 
Tom Boy, P. H. Barnes. 1 57 34 
Yachts Launched. 
The new twin-screw motor yacht Verdi, built 
by the Gas Engine & Power Co., at Morris 
Heights, for Walter Jerome Green, of Utica, 
N. Y., from designs bj^ William Gardner, was 
successfully launched on April 29. The boat 
was christened by Miss Sheehan, of Utica. 
.Among those present at the launcliing were Mr. 
and Mrs. W. J. Green, Benj. Adriance, of 
Brooklyn; M. Carton, of Utica; P. Leventhal, 
Win. Gardner, Janies Craig, the builder of the 
engines with which the yacht is equipped, and 
John J. Amory. Verdi is 75 feet long, and a 
speed of i8 to 20 miles per hour is expected. 
She is a verj' rakish and handsome looking 
craft, and will undoubtedly command very 
favorable comment on the St. Lawrence River, 
where it will be used during the coming sum¬ 
mer. She will be steered from the midship 
deck, and will be covered by an awning the 
full length. There is excellent accommodations 
for the owner for cruising. The yacht is prac¬ 
tically ready and will leave Morris Heights 
very shortly for the Thousand Islands. 
Little Sovereign was launched at Morris 
Heights last Saturday. This is a 133-foot twin- 
screw steamer for M. C. D. Borden. The 
vessel was christened by Miss Marie R. Sea- 
bury, daughter of the designer of the yacht, Mr. 
Charles L. Seabury. Immediately after the 
