May 15, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
sail in the handicap class, unless they find com¬ 
petitors in their regular classes. 
In Class Q, Spider will be missing. She has 
been sold to D. Y. Pendas, who will race her 
in the handicap class on the Sound. Soya, Joy, 
Vingt-Trois and a new boat. Peri II., will race 
and should furnish some good sport. The 
handicap classes have grown since last year, and 
the two divisions will be well patronized. The 
• Class S boats, better known as the Lipton cup 
yachts, will be out again, and of the smaller 
classes, there are fifteen in the Gravesend dory 
class and seventeen in the New York C. C.’s 
sailing dinghy class. Then there are the yawls 
Sakana, Phantom and Albicore. 
In addition to the regular regattas, several 
special events have been arranged. On June 
5 the Atlantic Y. C. will start a fleet of yachts 
in the race to Bermuda. The same afternoon 
the power boats under the auspices of the 
Motor Boat Club will race from the Lower Bay 
to Bermuda. On July 3 the Brooklyn Y. C. 
will send of? a good sized fleet to sail over the 
Cape May course. On July 17 the Crescent 
Athletic Club will start the power boats in the 
annual race to Marblehead, and on July 31 the 
-A-tlantic Y. C. will start another fleet of sailing 
craft on a race around Long Island. 
The Atlantic Y. C. will have a race week in 
September. It will begin with a race for 
schooners, which will sail around Nantucket 
Shoals Lightship, and then there will be three 
races for the Thompson cup, which was won 
last year by Eleanor. On Sept. 15 the Crescent 
. 4 . C. will close its season with a race for the 
Wilson cup, which is for the championship of 
the bay. 
Long Island Sound. 
There are twenty-flve clubs in the Yacht 
Racing Association of Long Island Sound, and 
the New York Y. C. and Larchmont Y. C., 
which are not in the association, work with 
the association in arranging a schedule of rac¬ 
ing events, so that there shall be as few con¬ 
flicting dates as possible. The New York Y. 
C. has regattas to which only members of the 
club are eligible, but that club’s events, while 
not always imposing on account of the number 
of entries, are always interesting and of im¬ 
portance, because they attract the best of the 
larger racing yachts. That club will this year 
try a new plan. It will cater more to the cruis¬ 
ing yacht, and has arranged a race from Glen 
Cove to Newport, a race around Block Island, 
starting off Newport, and then a race back to 
Glen Cove. The cruise will this year be from 
Newport to Bar Harbor, and the races will be 
long and out in the ocean. 
The Sound clubs have arranged open re¬ 
gattas for each Saturday and holiday .during 
the season. The Larchmont Y. C. will have its 
race week, and severa'l of the clubs have special 
events for vachts enrolled in the club. The 
Manhasset Bay Y. C. will have many races for 
its new class of 18-footers, and the Seawanhaka 
Y. C. for its 15-footers. 
There will be two long distance races under 
the auspices of the New York A. C.; one for 
sailing yachts, and one for power boats. These 
races will be started on June 19, and the finish 
is at Block Island. The Manhasset Bay Y. C. 
has a long distance race to Cornfield Lightship 
and return on June 26. 
On Aug. 7 the international motor boat race, 
between boats representing Britain and this 
country, will take place off Huntington, and in 
the first week of August there will be a joint 
cruise for small yachts, as well as larger ones, 
as far as Newport, where they will arrive in 
time for the annual cruise of the New York 
Y. C. 
The American Y. C. has challenged the In¬ 
dian Harbor Y. C. for a race for the Man¬ 
hasset Bay challenge cup, and the New York 
A. C. has challenged the Harlem Y. C. for a 
race for the Brooklyn Y. C. challenge cup. 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from any 
newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to supply you 
regularly. 
Narragansett Bay. 
A NEW class of 31-footers, a new class of 18- 
foot knockabout, new yachts in the older 
classes, a boom in the catboat classes and a 
keen interest in the Inter-Bay catboat races 
will keep the yachtsmen of the clubs in the 
Narragansett Bay Association very busy. The 
31-footers arg being built at Herreshoff’s for 
members of the Newport Y. C. They are to 
sail a series of races and meet some of last 
year’s boats in those races. The 18-foot class 
of knockabouts was formed during the winter, 
and it has become already a big success. Many 
special prizes have been offered for these boats, 
and the racing will be very keen. The racing 
on the bay will open on May 29 and last until 
Sept. II. The liveliest time will be during the 
association’s race week, which begins on Aug. 
5 with the open regatta of the Conanicut Y. G. 
and ends on Aug. 14 with the Rhode Island Y. 
C. open regatta. Between those dates each 
club in the association gives an open regatta, 
and in the evening there are entertainments at 
the different club houses. 
There are to be special races, too, that will 
take the yachts out into the open and the 
Rhode Island Y. C. will have an interesting 
cruise. 
Enrolled in the clubs of this association are 
several fast catboats that are eligible for the 
Inter Bay races to be sailed at Barnegat on 
July 22, 23 and 24, and to determine which three 
shall represent the association. Eliminating 
trials are to be sailed during the month of June. 
Massachusetts Bay. 
The feature of the eastern yachting season 
will be the racing of the Bonder class boats. 
The Eastern Y. C. and the Kaiserlicher Y. C. 
have arranged for a series of international 
races which will be sailed on August 30 and 31, 
and Sept. 2, 3, 4 and 7. Three yachts will repre¬ 
sent each country, and the prizes are the 
President Taft cup and the Governor Draper 
cup. Fifteen yachts are being built to race in 
the trials which will be sailed during the week 
beginning Aug. 16, and the three American 
yachts will be chosen after that week’s racing. 
In Germany several yachts have been built, and 
these will meet some of the best of last year’s 
boats in trials and three selected to come to 
this country. The first match of this kind was 
sailed in 1906 and was won by Vim, owned by 
Commodore Trenor L. Park. Last year the 
German yachts were successful, so that each 
country has been successful in home waters. 
The racing in 1906 was most enjoyable, and it 
is expected that this year the sport will be 
even better, as the yachts will be more evenly 
matched. 
Several new yachts in the regular classes have 
been built during the winter for racing in east¬ 
ern waters. There is a new boat, Odysseus IT, 
to meet Dorello, three new 31-footers that will 
race for the Lipton cup offered for the cham¬ 
pionship of that class. Adventuress, the new 
Herreshoff 46-footer, will do most of her racing 
in eastern waters. There are also two new 
schooners which, with the older boats, will 
boom racing for that type of yacht. 
Among the special races will be that .for the 
Quincy cup sailed July 19 to 24, the Inter-State 
dory race sailed during the Corinthian Club’s 
mid-summer series, the ocean race from 
Marblehead to Gravesend Bay arranged by the 
Boston Y. C. to be sailed on June 26, the 
cruises of the Eastern Y. C. to Bar Harbor 
and the Boston Y. C. to Camden, Me. 
Harlem Y. C. Ocean Race. 
A CHALLENGE has been received by the 
Harlem Y. C. for a race for the Brooklyn Y. 
C. ocean challenge cup. The challenger is the 
sloop Victory, owned by Commodore Harry A. 
Jackson, Jr., representing the New York 
Athletic Club. 
This cup, which is a perpetual challenge cup 
valued at $500, was offered by the Brooklyn Y. 
C. in 1905, and has been held by the Harlem 
781 
Y. C. since July, 1906, when it was won by the 
sloop Mopsa, owned by F. C. & Walter S. 
Sullivan, defeating the yawls Lila and Tamer¬ 
lane in a hard fought race from New Rochelle 
to and around Montauk Point and North East 
End Lightship and finishing at the Brooklyn 
Y. C. 
Full details of this race, conditions, etc., will 
be published shortly, and the race will be open 
to yachts enrolled in any recognized yacht club. 
Atlantic Y. C. Busy. 
Commodore Leonard Richards, of the At¬ 
lantic Y. C., has announced the following ap¬ 
pointments; Fleet Captain, B. M. Whitlock; 
Fleet Surgeon, Walter A. Dunckel, M.D.; Fleet 
Chaplain, the Rev. Lindsay Parke; Regatta 
Committee—Horace E. Boucher, Hendon 
Chubb and Kenneth Lord. 
The regatta committee of the Atlantic Y. C. 
in arranging its racing schedule for the season 
has paid particular attention to yacht owners 
who desire to test their ability as navigators 
as well as their skill in seamanship. To this 
end an ocean race from Sea Gate to Nantucket 
Lightship and return, a course of about 400 
miles, is planned as a feature of the September 
race week, and it is intended to make this con¬ 
test an annual event. Commodore Leonard 
Richards has assured the committee that he will 
present a cup to the winner which will be 
worthy of the contest. 
In addition to this contest, the marks in 
front of the Atlantic club house will be the 
scene of the start of the Bermuda race for sail¬ 
boats on June 5 and the cruising race around 
Long Island for yachts of 50 feet or under, 
which will begin on July 31. 
Present indications point to a lively racing 
season on the lower bay. The Atlantic Y. C.’s 
courses have always been attractive to racing 
yachtsmen on account of the certainty of the 
wind, and the schedule of contest for small 
boats has been so arranged that a large fleet 
is looked for on racing days. Bi-weekly races 
on Saturdays will be held for yachts in the M 
class and below and a handicap class for boats 
without a class competitor will be arranged if 
enough contestants can be secured. 
The Class Q series for the Thompson cup 
will be one of the season’s features, as will a 
special race for the new S class boats, and 
possibly a race for N boats. The programme 
for race week, beginning Sept, i, includes, be¬ 
sides the Q class series daily special races for 
the smaller boats. 
Under the new constitution and by-laws re¬ 
cently adopted by the club racing is under the 
direct supervision of the commodore by whom 
the regatta committee has been appointed. This 
change has had the effect of enlisting the com¬ 
modore’s personal support to a greater extent 
than formerly, and Commodore Richards is do¬ 
ing all in his power to make the racing season 
a success. H. E. Boucher is chairman of the 
regatta committee. 
Special circulars giving details of the races 
arranged will be issued from time to time. 
The Atlantic club’s racing schedule follows: 
Monday, May 31—Races for M class and be¬ 
low. 
Saturday, June 5—Start of Bermuda race. 
Saturday, June 26—-Races for M class and be¬ 
low. 
Saturday, July 10—Races for M class and be¬ 
low. 
Saturday, July 31-—Start of race around Long 
Island, 10 A. M. 
Saturday, July 31—Races for M class and be¬ 
low. 
Saturday, Aug. 14—Races for M class and be¬ 
low. ’ 
Sept. I, 2, 3 and 4—Race week; Class Q series 
for Thompson cup; special races for other 
classes; special circulars to be issued. 
Sept. I —Ocean race around Nantucket Light¬ 
ship; special circular. 
Sept. 6—Annual regatta and close of race 
week. 
Sept. 18—Races for Class M and below. 
