Yachting Fixtures. 
MAY. 
22. Manhasset Bay Y. C., race with Islip Y. C. 
29. Knickerbocker Y. C. annual. 
29. Edgewood Y. C., first race for Flint cup. 
29. Corinthian Y. 'C., Philadelphia. 
29. Columbia Y. C. (New York), motor boats. 
30. Manhasset Bay Y. C., one design. 
31. Harlem Y. C. annual. 
31. Indian Harbor Y. C. special. 
31. Manhasset Bay, one-design. 
31. Atlantic Y. C. open. 
31. Wildwood Y. C. 
31 Fall River Y. C. open. 
31. Taunton Y. C. motor. 
31. South Boston Y. C. open. 
31. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., special club races. 
31. Jubilee Y. C., motor boats for Vittum cup. 
31. Bayside Y. C. club. 
JUNE. 
5. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
6. Manhasset Bay Y. C. annual. 
5. Crescent A. C. open. 
5. Rhode Island Y. C., Brenton Reef cup race. 
5. Fall River Y. C., motor boats. 
5. Atlantic Y. C., start Bermuda race. 
5. Motor Boat Club, start Bermuda race. 
5. Boston Y. C.. City Point. 
12. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
12. New Rochelle Y. C. annual. 
12. Manhasset Bay Y. C., one-design. 
12. Corinthian Y. C., Philadelphia. 
12. Bensonhurst Y. C., open. 
12. Edgewood Y. C., second race, Flint cup. 
12. Fall River Y. C., rear-com. cup and motor boats. 
12. Corinthian Y. C., Marblehead, club. 
12. American Y. C., Newburyport. club. 
13. Manhasset Bay Y. C., one-design. 
17. Duxbury Y. C. 
17. New York Y. C., spring cups, Glen Cove. 
17. Jubilee Y. C., motor boats, Yittum cup. 
17. Boston Y. C, Hull. 
19. New York A. C., Block Island races. 
19. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
19. Duxbury Y. C. 
19. Larchmont Y. C., spring. 
19. Manhasset Bay Y. C. one-design. 
19. New York Canoe Club. 
19 Rhode Island Y. C. open. 
19. Fall River Y. C., motor ouats. 
19. Corinthian Y. C., Marblehead. Isle of Shoals race. 
20. Manhasset Bay Y. C., one-design. 
25. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., special. 
26. Duxbury Y. C. 
26. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., annual. 
26. Manhasset Bay Y. C., Cornfield L. V. race. 
26. Atlantic Y. C. 
26. Corinthian Y. C., Philadelphia. 
26. Fall River Y. C., power boats. 
26. Eastern Y. C., special, open. 
26. Mosquito Fleet Y. C., open. 
26. American Y. C., Newburyport, club. 
26. Boston Y. C., race to Gravesend Bay. 
27. Carnarsie Y. C. 
Opening of Racing Season. 
The yacht racing season will open in this 
section to-day with a team race between small 
yachts representing the Manhasset Bay and 
Islip yacht clubs. This race will be sailed on 
Long Island Sound and will be of more than 
ordinary interest because it will be a test of 
yachts of nearly the same size but of different 
models. It will be a revival of the center- 
board craft against the keel boat contests. 
During the winter the members of these two 
clubs have had one-design classes built. For 
the Manhasset Bay members five yachts for 
Class S were built by Jacob from designs by 
Henry J. Gielow. These are of the keel type. 
They will sail on the Sound, where there is 
plenty of water. The Islip boats were also 
built by Jacob from designs by William 
Gardner, and as these are to sail on the Great 
South Bay, where there is not much depth to 
the water, they were fitted with centerboards, 
and without these boards they draw very little. 
The members of these two clubs realized that 
there was opportunity for a good contest if a 
race could be arranged before the thirteen 
Islip boats left the Sound, and both being of 
the same mind, the conditions were soon 
agreed upon. Three boats are to represent 
each club. The course is to be to windward or 
leeward and return. I2 miles in all. The start 
is to be made off Execution Light, and the 
turning mark will be three miles away, so that 
the course will be sailed twice over. The win¬ 
ner of the race will receive a prize offered by 
George A. Cormack, and the team prize is a 
trophy offered by H. B. Flollins, Jr. 
Manhasset Ba}' will be represented by Man- 
haska, owned by W. Butler Duncan, Jr.; Scylla, 
owned by Edgar A. Sierck, and Althea, owned 
by James W. Alker. The other two are J. F. 
O’Rourke’s Kit and Clarkson Cowl’s Ardette. 
The Islip boats are owned by F. E. Ballard, 
C. A. Van Rensselaer, Grosvenor Nichols, 
John H. Dick, W. B. Simons, Allen Pinkerton, 
Lewis Gibbs, E. F. Hutton, R. B. Potts, 
Horace Havemeyer, H. B. Plollis, Jr., Aymar 
Johnson and Orme Wilson, Jr. The three 
selected to represent this club will be sailed by 
Aymar Johnson, Horace Havemeyer and 
August Belmont, Jr. 
The principal dimensions of these boats are 
shown in the following: 
Length over all .... 
Manhasset. 
Ft. In. 
• 27 9 
Islip. 
Ft. In. 
30 
Length, waterline . .. 
• 19 
5 
20 
Extreme beam . 
. 6 
7 
8 
Extreme draft . 
• 4 
4 J^ 
2 6 
Sail area . 
•435 
sq. ft. 
500 sq. ft. 
It will be noticed 
that 
the Islip 
boats are 
slightly longer than the Manhasset Bay keel 
boats, being 2 feet 3 inches more over all and 
7 inches more on the waterline. They are 
beamier, too, and spread 65 square feet of 
canvas more than the keel boats. Weather 
conditions are likely to make a large factor in 
the result of this contest. A strong wind and 
rough sea should favor the keel boats while 
light smooth weather will be in favor of the 
centerboard craft. Local knowledge, too, will 
help, and the Manhasset Bay men are on their 
home waters. 
Long Distance Races. 
The yachting enthusiast of to-day is the man 
who prefers the long distance race to the con¬ 
test over a short course, and these new en¬ 
thusiasts are crowding the old-time yachtsman 
very hard. So many long distance races have 
been arranged for this season that the regular 
regatta sailed over fixed courses are bound to 
suffer. The yachtsman of to-day has found that 
a long distance race gives him more variety. 
To sail from New York to Marblehead is much 
better than the monotony of sailing twice 
around a lo-mile triangle two or three times a 
week. In the triangular or short race a little 
hard luck early in the race, through a shift in 
the wind, will put a yacht hopelessly out of the 
contest, but in a long race such a loss will 
count for little, as the chances are that the 
luck will turn some time before the race is 
ended and even things up. Then in a long 
distance race a yachtsman has a chance to 
gain through his skill as a navigator and 
through his knowledge of tides and the set of 
currents, so that there are many more things 
that go to make success with the long distance 
racer than with the man who is content to sail 
over courses that are all in sight of land. 
Then again there is something more venture¬ 
some in sailing over a long course—something 
that appeals to the nerve and daring of those 
who take part in the race. The yachtsman must 
become a navigator. He must have a knowl¬ 
edge of all weather conditions and be able to 
forecast what he is likely to experience, and 
sail his yacht not only with an idea of being 
first to reach his destination, but he must take 
every precaution against accident, for if his 
yacht should meet with some serious mishap, 
he will have to rely on his own ingenuity to 
get safely back to port. There are no small 
yachts running about on an ocean course to get 
a disabled craft safely back to port. 
Sailing small boats over long courses was 
first boomed about five years ago. The Ber¬ 
muda race was one of the first of these, and 
when it was talked of, old yachtsmen called it 
“foolhardy” and “tempting Providence.” It 
did seem dangerous to send yachts only about 
25 feet on the waterline over such a course, 
but those who were interested in the race were 
not discouraged. They kept on year after year, 
one race after another was sailed, conditions 
were changed as the hardy sailor gained more 
experience, and now the long distance racing is 
so popular that many of the leading clubs in 
the country have sometime or other during the 
season arranged for one of these events. 
The rules of measurement as adopted by 
yacht clubs to put yachts on an equality in or¬ 
dinary races did not do for the long distance 
events. These rules developed a racing ma¬ 
chine which was a useless craft in which to 
venture out of sight of land. For the ocean 
races a staunch craft was necessary, and so the 
promotors of these races framed their own 
rules. They rated the yachts on over all length 
and insisted that they should be strongly con¬ 
structed and without any of the freakish 
features found on a racing yacht, such as fin 
keels or rudders hung on a skag, and the boats 
that have taken part in these long distance 
events have had to pass inspection. They have 
also had to carry stores sufficient for a certain 
period and be thoroughly equipped with instru¬ 
ments for navigation and life buoys, anchors, 
cables, lights, etc. 
Rating on the over all length made those who 
built vessels for such races shorten the over¬ 
hangs and extend the waterline. They put good 
cabin accommodations on the boats, and they 
were built for comfort and safety, and as a re¬ 
sult a fine class of small cruising yachts has 
been developed. 
The long distance races of this season for 
sailing craft are the race from the Lower Bay 
to Bermuda, which will start on Saturday, 
June 5; the race through the Sound to Block 
Island on June 19; the race around Cornfield 
Lightship of the Manhasset Bay Y. C. on June 
26; the race of the Brooklyn Y. C. around the 
Fire Island and North East End lightships on 
July 3; the New York Y. C. races from Glen 
Cove to Newport, from Newport around Block 
Island, and from Newport to Glen Cove early 
in July; the race around Long Island of the 
Atlantic and New Rochelle clubs on July 31; 
the Brenton’s Reef Lightship races of the 
Rhode Island Y. C.; the Isle of Shoals race 
of the Corinthian Y. C. of Marblehead; the 
race from Marblehead to Gravesend Bay of the 
Boston Y. C., and the race for the Brooklyn 
Y. C. challenge cup, for which a date has not 
yet been set. 
Power boat men, too, are enthusiastic about 
long distance races, and these power boat men 
are crowding the sail yachtsman hard. Each 
year they are gaining converts, and those old- 
time yachtsmen who a while ago looked with 
disdain on anything equipped with a motor 
are now using motor boats—some are auxil¬ 
iaries and some are ordinary cruising craft. 
The racing motor boat is an expensive luxury. 
It is a costly machine to build, and it is costly 
to maintain and race, and unless it is fast 
enough to win races, it is not of much good. 
The small cruising boat, though, is good 
enough to have comfort in and often good 
enough to win races in its class. It costs com¬ 
paratively little and is not a costly boat to run. 
These long distance races again have done 
good. The rules under which they have been 
managed, as with the sailing craft, have been 
the means of developing a good wholesome 
type. They must be staunch boats to be 
