Yachting Fixtures. 
MAY. 
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. 
29. Yale Corinthian Y. C., officers’ cup. 
30. American Y. C., Newburyport, cruise to Sandy Point. 
SO. 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. 
31. South Shore Y. C., power boats. 
31. Hingham Y. C., one-design. 
31. Savin Hill Y. C., power boats. 
31. Yale Corinthian Y. C., cruise. 
JUNE. 
1. Wollaston Y._ C., moonlight sail. 
2. Yale Corinthian Y. C., special cup. 
4. Yale Corinthian Y. C., officers’ cup. 
5. Edgewood Y. C., catboat trials. 
5. Quincy Y. C., catboats and power boats. 
5. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
5. 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. Keystone Y. C., 15-footers. 
12. Portland Y. C^ dories. 
12. Wollaston Y. C,., first championship. 
12. Chicago Y. C., Michigan City race. 
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. 
16. South Boston Y. C., afternoon sail. 
17. Manchester Y. C., sender and one-design. 
17. Quincy Y. C., power. 
17. Savin Hill Y. C., power. 
17. Wollaston Y. C., second championship. 
17. Duxbury Y. C. 
17. New York Y. C., spring cups, Glen Cove. 
17. Jubilee Y. C., motor boats, Vittum cup. 
17. lloston Y. C., PIull. 
19. New York A. C., Block Island races. 
19. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
19. Duxbury Y. C. 
19. Larchmont Y. C., ^ring. 
19. Manhasset Bay Y. C. one-design. 
19. New York Canoe Club. 
19 Rhode Island Y. C. open. 
19. Fall River Y. C., motor uoats. 
19. Corinthian Y. C)., Marblehead, Isle of Shoals race. 
19. American Y. C., Newburyport, cruise to Portsmouth. 
19. Beverly Y. C., club. 
19. Quincy Y. C., catboats. 
19. Taunton Y. C., club run. 
19. Portland Y. C., dories. 
20. Manhasset Bay Y. C., one-design. 
24. Portland Y. C., cruise. 
25. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., special. 
26. Duxbury Y. C. 
26. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., annual. 
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. 
26. Keystone Y. C., 15-footers. 
26. Beverly Y. C., club. 
26. Boston Y. C., one-design, Hull. 
26. Hingham Y. C., one-design. 
26. Manchester Y. G., sender and one-design. 
26. Quincy Yi C., power. 
26. Savin Hiii Y. C., power. 
27. Carnarsie Y. C. 
27. South Boston Y. C., commodore’s run. 
29. Vancouver to Seattle, power. 
,30. Wollaston Y. C., moonlight sail. 
JULY. 
2-6. American Y. C., Newburyport cruise. 
3. Corinthian Y. C., Philadelphia. 
3. N. Y. Motor B. C., to Albany and return. 
3. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
3. Duxbury Y. C. 
3. American Y. C., annual. Long Island Sound. 
3. Narragansett Y. R. A., long distance race, Pawtucket. 
3. Boston Y. C., club, Marblehead. 
3. Bensonhurst Y. C. 
One-Design Racing. 
Hollis Burgess has written an interesting 
article on one-design classes and one-design 
class racing, which was published in the Bin¬ 
nacle, the organ of the Boston Y. C. He asks 
“does a one-design class benefit yachting?” and 
says: 
“In the last few years the scheme of racing 
sailing yachts of identical design and build has 
developed to such an extent that a study of 
its effect upon yachting as a whole has become 
of interest to yachtMnen. 
“The main idea of a one-design class is to 
emphasize the skill of handling boats so that 
the best skipper and crew may win rather than 
the fastest boat. The adherents of a class of 
this kind maintain that the greatest objection 
to the racing of classes of different design is 
that the cleverest skipper may often be unable 
to make any kind of a showing because of the 
inferior speed of the boat which he may have 
under him, whereas the veriest landlubber may 
often win because his boat is so much faster 
that she will win in spite of his lack of skill. 
So much, they claim, depends upon the de¬ 
signer and builder in a case like this that the 
individual skill of the skipper and his crew is 
almost lost sight of. 
“Another important point in favor of these 
one-design classes, which their supporters main¬ 
tain, is that the boats can be built cheaper than 
ordinary because the same molds are used for 
each boat, and every part of the construction, 
rigging,’sails and so on is made on one plan. 
In these days of high prices for building ma¬ 
terials, the cost of yacht building is of prime 
importance and every effort to reduce the 
prices of yachts paturally meets with popular 
'favor. 
“The opponents of one-design classes, on the 
other hand, regard them as an effort to stifle 
the healthy competition of designers and build¬ 
ers. They point out also that the designer of 
a class of tliis kind may turn out a poor boat 
and that still all the owners are at his mercy. 
The boats may be slow, unseaworthy, and poor¬ 
ly constructed, but, nevertheless, the owners 
cannot well compare their craft with others of 
superior construction and speed built on other 
lines. 
“Furthermore, they declare that more dis¬ 
putes and jealousy are aroused by one-design 
classes than by any other, because the slightest 
change in the trim of a boat or the least varia¬ 
tion from her original condition leads to 
charges of unfair advantages being taken to 
assure victory. 
“The writer has noted the advent of the va¬ 
rious new one-design classes each year and fol¬ 
lowed their progress closely, and has no hesi¬ 
tation in stating that in his opinion the one- 
design class is detrimental rather than beneficial 
to the sport of yachting. While realizing the 
advantages of somewhat reduced cost and the 
desirability of placing as big a premium as 
possible on handling, he is convinced that the 
disadvantages outweigh the advantages. 
“It has been conclusively proved that yachts 
built on exactly the same lines, on identical 
models, are never exactly alike in speed. 
Slight variations in the quality of the wood used 
in their construction are bound to occur. The 
lead though cast in the same mold for the keel 
is never exactly of the same weight. The sails, 
though they may be cut on one plan, are cer¬ 
tain to vary in effectiveness, some sails being 
full in one part, some in another. No matter 
how faithfully the builder may carry out the 
designer’s plans, it is impossible for him to 
produce two boats exactly equal in speed. 
“In the days of the old Yankee clipper ships, 
vessels were often built of similar design, but 
yet they would always vary in speed, no matter 
who had charge of them. In these modern one- 
design classes the writer has noticed there are 
always one or two boats which show superior 
speed, no matter who may handle them. One- 
design yachts vary in speed as much as yachts 
in any fairly balanced open class which admits 
yachts of different design, so it must be said 
that the main argument, that of emphasizing 
skill in handling, does not hold. 
“Another fact the writer has noted is that a 
one-design class never seems to hold together 
more than two years at the most. The owners 
seem to tire very quickly of racing each other, 
those that are constantly defeated giving up in 
disgust, while the victor seems to arouse un¬ 
usual jealousy. The general yachting public 
takes no interest in one-design class racing, and 
this fact, more than anything else, accounts 
for its short life. No sport in which only the 
very few actually connected with it take any 
interest can last long. In the racing in other 
classes the general yachting public follow with 
interest the performances of different types of 
yachts under different conditions, and there is 
a general feeling of healthy competition among 
all concerned. In the one-design classes, spite 
of everything, jealousy and ill feeling soon 
arise and their knell is quickly sounded. 
“A good skipper that wins with a boat in an 
open class that is generally recognized as 
slower than her competitors usually receives 
the praise and glory which is justly due him. 
whereas, in a restricted one-design class the 
question arises, did he win because his boat is 
faster or because he is a better skipper. This 
question is never satisfactorily settled. 
“One of the main objects of the racing of 
yachts is to develop the best type of boat for 
a particular locality and the only way to at¬ 
tain a proper development toward this end is 
to have the competition as open as possible, 
to allow the different designers to create the 
best their brains can conceive and to allow their 
crews to use their efforts to develop various 
ways of improving their boats’ speed. Of 
course, reasonable limits must be imposed to 
prevent the development of “freak” craft, but 
with such reasonable limits the sport can flour¬ 
ish and increase. One-design classes are like 
exotic flowers which bloom brilliantly for a 
short time, but soon wither and die. 
“Owners, designers and builders must be given 
freedom to develop the best there is in them, 
and the writer is convinced that the one-design 
classes with their cramping regulations are 
choking the progress of yachting-racing de¬ 
velopment.” 
Power Boats Round Long Island. 
The Colonial Y. C. announces that the race 
around Long Island for a $500 trophy will start 
at 8 A. M. on July 31. The start will be off the 
foot of West 138th street, and the racers will go 
down the Hudson River, round the Battery, 
through the East River, Hell Gate and Long 
Island Sound, round Montauk Point and back 
along the south side of Long Island and through 
New York Harbor to the finish. The rules to 
govern this event are similar to those gov¬ 
erning the Bay Ridge-Marblehead race. 
Cornfield L. V. Race. 
James W. Alker, chairman of the Manhasset 
Bay Y. C. regatta committee, announces that 
the date of the Cornfield Light Vessel race is 
changed from June 26 to July 31. This change 
was made in order not to conflict with the 
annual regatta of the Seawanhaka Corinthian 
Y. C. The change, however, causes a confliction 
of dates still, as the race around Long Island 
of the Atlantic and New Rochelle clubs is 
scheduled to start from Sea Gate on July 31. 
