May 29, 1909-] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
863 
Islip Yachts Win. 
Owing to the storm last Saturday, the inter¬ 
club race between one-design yachts of the Man- 
hasset Bay and Islip clubs had to be postponed, 
and it was sailed on Sunday morning in a fresh 
northerly wind. Three boats represented each 
club, and the Islip men won, their three finish¬ 
ing ahead of the Manhasset Bay three. It was 
a match, centerboard against keel, and the 
centerboard craft were longer, of lighter dis¬ 
placement and carried more sail, 65 square feet, 
than the keel craft, so that really the two 
classes were not evenly matched. 
The course was from off Sands Point to the 
Scotch Caps and back, which was three miles 
to windward and return. Victor I. Cumnock, 
of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., and E. AT. 
MacLellan, of the Manhasset Bay Club, acted 
as commitee, and made the starting signal at 
11:15 o’clock. The Islip boats were Yama 
Yama, Marina and Electra; the Manhasset Bay 
three were Manhaska. Scylla and Althea. 
Scylla got the best of the start. She led across 
the line and had the weather position, and was 
followed closely in order by Manhaska, ATarina, 
Althea, Electra and Yama Yama. Althea and 
Electra took the nort tack standing to the east¬ 
ward and the others crossed on the starboard 
tack and held it across the Sound to I.archmont 
and then worked along the shore, leebowing the 
tide. Electra had little difficulty beating Althea, 
and was 5 minutes 20 seconds ahead of that 
yacht at the turning mark. Yama Yama did 
good work on the wind and took first position. 
She turned the mark at I2:tk and had beaten 
ATarina 2.35. Manhaska 3.05, Electra 5.00, Scylla 
7.35, and Althea 10.20. 
Spinnakers were used for the run home. 
Yama Yama kept her lead, although ATarina 
and Electra were faster down the wind. Electra 
passed Manhaska and took third position in the 
race. The times for the run were: Marina, 
33.12; Electra, 33.20; Yama Yama, 34.09; Althea, 
34.45; ATanhaska, 35.21; Scylla. 36.25. 
The Islip yachtsmen won the team prize, a 
bronze offered by C. A. Van Renssalaer, and 
Yama Yama won the prize for the first boat, 
which was offered by George A. Cormack. 
The summary: 
Interclub Match — Start, 11:15. 
Finish. Elaps’d. 
Yama Yama, Aymar Johnson, Islip Y.C.12 45 3S 1 30 39 
Marina, G. Nicholas & A. Belmont, Jr., 
Islip, Y. C.12 47 17 1 32 17 
Electra, H. Havemeyer, Jr., Islip Y.C...12 49 50 1 34 50 
Manhaska, VV. B. Duncan, Jr., M.B.Y.C..12 49 56 1 34 56 
Scylla, E. A. Sierck, M.B.Y.C. 12 55 30 1 40 30 
Althea, J. W. Alker, M.B.Y.C. 1 00 05 1 45 05 
New Bedford Cruising Race. 
The conditions for the ocean race of the 
New Bedford Y. C. have been published. They 
are as follows: 
Course—From New Bedford to Vineyard 
Sound Lightship, leaving it on the port hand; 
to No Alan’s Land Island, rounding it on the 
starboard hand; thence southward of Block 
Island to a mark boat off Fort Pond Bay, 
Montauk Point, Long Island, leaving it to star¬ 
board; thence to Newport, leaving the black can 
buoy off the north point of Block Island to 
starboard, and the red can off Point Judith to 
port. Distance about 120 nautical miles. 
Start—The start will be on a line between red 
spar Buoy No. 10 and a committee boat 
anchored near Butler’s Flat light, and flying the 
burgee of the New Bedford Y. C. The com¬ 
mittee boat must be left to starboard. 
Starting Signals—The start will be made at 
10 A. M. Thursday, Aug. 5; 10 minutes before 
the start, warning signal, by gun or whistle; 
5 minutes before the start, preparatory signal, 
by gun or whistle; the starting signal, gun or 
whistle, will be accompanied by the lowering of 
the club burgee on the committee boat. 
Finish—The finish line will be between Fort 
Adams’ wharf, Newport, and a stake boat 
anchored due north of it. Should the finish 
be at night the stake boat will show three red 
lights^ mastheaded, one over the other. Boats 
finishing at night should hail the committee 
boat on crossing the line. 
Prizes—For the boat making the best cor¬ 
rected time over the course, a silver cup valued 
at $250, the gift of Thomas Fleming Day and 
C. F. Munroe, honorary members of the club. 
Prizes will also be given the boat finishing sec¬ 
ond, for boat making best actual time._ 
Numbers—Each contestant must display a 
number, to be designated and supplied_ by the 
committee, on both sides of her mainsail above 
the last row of reef points. 
Postponements—Should the start be post¬ 
poned, a flag will be hoisted under the club 
burgee on the committee boat for each 30 
minutes the race is to be posponed. 
Limit of Length—The race is open to boats of 
50 feet over all length and under. Length to 
be taken from after side of sternboard to for¬ 
ward side of stem. 
Allowances—Allowances will be at the rate.of 
seven seconds a foot for each nautical mile of 
the official course. 
Crews—There will be no restrictions on the 
number of men to be carried. 
Helmsmen-—Boats must be steered in the race 
only by amateurs—that is, men who do not 
engage in the race for hire. 
Sails—Sails to be restricted to usual lower 
sails, working topsails and balloon jibs. The 
latter shall not be poled out, and spinnakers 
cannot be carried. 
Restrictions—The race is restricted to bona 
fide cruising cabin boats, either keel or center- 
board. Fin keels, or other unusual features of 
build or rig to be barred at the discretion of 
the committee. An auxiliary boat to qualify 
must remove her propellor or have engine 
sealed to satisfaction of committee. 
Equipment—Each boat must carry a sub¬ 
stantial tender not less than 10 feet long, com¬ 
pass. an''hnr and cable, charts of the course, 
proper lights, bedding for the crew, and pro¬ 
visions and water for three days. 
Entries—Boats should be entered with the 
secretary of the committee not later than the 
day before the start, and .=hould report to the 
N. B. Y. C. Station at Pope’s Island to be 
measured. 
The committee reserves the right to reject 
the entry of any boat that in its judgment is 
not eligible under the spirit as well as the letter 
of the rules; the object of the race being to 
give genuine cruising boats a show to win. 
The committee is as follows: George H. Nye, 
Chairman; W. H. Hand. Jr.. Secretary; R. B. 
Snow ATorgan Barney, Winfield M. Thompson, 
E. H. Hicks. 
The Sender Class. 
While the American boats are just now be¬ 
ing launched and having preliminary spins in 
order to get in shape for races, the German 
boats are competing in races. This is as it 
should be, as the German boats will later lose 
two or three weeks while being shipped to 
ATarblehead, and their owners are trying them 
out as fast as possible in home waters. Then 
the yachting season on the other side of the 
Atlantic opens earlier than it does in these 
waters. The Germans have a large fleet to 
draw from, and they are racing wherever there 
is a yachting club. In the races of the Kaiser- 
licher Y. C., which will be the best test of the 
merits of these boats, twenty-two of the 
Bonder class have been entered, and of these 
seven are new boats. Wassersport gives a list 
of these with their owners and designers. The 
new ones are: 
Elizabeth, Prinz Eitel Friederich, Oertz. 
Jeck, Prinz Adalbert. Oertz. 
Bambino IL, R. Thieme, Engelbrecht. 
Jenny, S. Mendelssohn, Oertz. 
Resi HI., Jul. Stahn, Oertz. 
Wittelsbach V., Chr. Alt, Engelbrecht. 
Susanne. G. Rotenbucher, Abeking & Rasm. 
The older boats that are racing are: 
Angela IV., S. der Kronprinz, Oertz. 
Seehund IL, O. Berghoff, Oertz. 
Irrwisch, Dr. O. Lohse, Oertz. 
Inge (ex-Tilly III.), C. Nicolas, Hacht. 
Hevella, O. Protzen and Dr. Rakenius, Oertz. 
Rohrspatz III. (ex-Valleni), E. Aleyer, Oertz. 
Jutta IL (ex-Heklathekla), Joh. Wagner, 
Oertz. 
Elfe II. (ex-Satana), A. Blesch, Oertz. 
Olla IV. (ex-Carmen), Geh. Baurat Frey, 
Hacht. * 
Salamander, M. Urban, Hacht. 
Hertha II. (ex-Elisabeth) Gleier & Fcchner, 
Oertz. 
1905, C. Schlesinger, Hacht. 
Lunula (ex-Wannsee), B. Arons, Oertz. 
Matador, K. Jaeckel, Jacket. 
Mauschen (ex-Angela), G. Reusch, Oertz. 
In the Norddeuscher regatta, Tilly XL and 
Margaretha, two of this year’s boats, were 
beaten. Margaretha was badly handicapped at 
the start, losing 8 minutes, and but for this, 
she would have finished second to Sonderling, a 
last year’s boat. Tilly XII. finished second, 
and Tilly X. third. 
At Wansee, Jutta IL won a race with Resi 
111., a new boat, second, and Jenny, another 
new boat, third. In another race Seehund IL 
and Hertha IL, old boats, defeated Bambina 
11., one of this year’s craft. But the difference 
between these at the finish was only 43 seconds. 
Eight of the American boats have been 
launched and tried, and their owners are ap¬ 
parently well satisfied with them; but they have 
no way of telling their relative merits until they 
meet in races. These eight are: 
Alarm, Alax Agassiz, Herreshoff. 
Joyette, Wm. H. Childs, Mower. 
The-Eel, Herbert Sears, Boardman. 
Manchester HI., Manchester Y. C. syndicate 
Boardman. 
The Deacon, F. B, Crowninshield, Boardman. 
Spokane III., F. Lewis Clark, Boardman. 
Lady, R. D. Boardman, Boardman. 
Sally X., L. F. Percival, Crowninshield. 
The five Boardman boats were built by 
Fenton at Alanchester. They resemble very 
much the Boardman boats of 1906, being of the 
scow type with long overhangs forward and aft. 
Sally X. was built by Lawley, and is a very 
slippery looking craft with long and very low 
ends. Joyette was built by Gil Smith at 
Patchogue. Bessie, the second Mower boat, is 
almost ready for launching, and the two 
Gardner boats building by Wood at City 
Island are well advanced. ' 
Great South Bay Racing. 
The Islip Y. C. has joined the Great South 
Bay Yacht Racing Association, and the clubs 
in that association now are: Penataquit Cor¬ 
inthian, of Bayshore; Unqua Corinthian, of 
Amityville; South Bay, of Patchogue; and the 
Babylon, Islip, Bellport and Hayville clubs. 
The races for the championships of this associ¬ 
ation will be sailed as follows: 
July 5—First races, Penataquit Corinthian Y. 
C., Bayshore. 
July 31—Second races, Bellport Y. C., Bell- 
port. 
Aug. 21—Third series, Patchogue Y. C., 
Patchogue. 
Sept. 4—Fourth series, *Babylon Y. C., 
Babylon. 
The Islip Club has a new class of 20-footers, 
built from designs by William Gardner. These 
boats, in addition to sailing in club regattas, 
will take part in all open events. 
' The Bellport Y. C. members have a new 
class of 20-footers that have been built from 
designs by J. A. Connelley, of Brooklyn. There 
are eight of these, and in design they are 
similar to Alva, winner of last year’s champion¬ 
ship.. They rate 19.75 and are for W. Kraemer, 
C. F. Groste, A. B. Boyd, P. A. Becker, F. H. 
Holmes, D. J. Meserole, J. D. Walton and Aliss 
E. P. Ketcham. These boats will take part in 
club races and will meet boats of other clubs 
in the open regattas. At the end of the season 
the Bellport Club will have a race in which the 
champion of each club will meet and race for 
the championship of the bay. This race will be 
sailed on Labor Day. The club regattas will be 
sailed on July 10 and 24, Aug. 7 and 28, and 
Sept. 6. The annual cruise will start on 
Sept. II. 
The South Side Y. C., of Sayville, will hdld 
an invitation regatta on Aug. 14. . 
