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FOREST AND STREAM 
[June 12, 1909. 
Bellpert Y. C. 
The outlook for the racing season on Great 
South Bay this summer looks unusually good, 
and great things are expected of the one-design 
division of the Great South Bay Yacht Racing 
Association since the addition of the new one- 
design class of the Bellport Bay Y. C. There will 
be eight of these new boats from the board of 
John A. Connolly, Jr., of Brooklyn, a young 
designer coming rapidly to the front, having 
out last year on the bay Alva, the phenomenal 
winner, which captured eight prizes out of nine 
starts, and defeated with ease Elvira, Gil Smith, 
the three years’ undisputed and undefeated 
champion since 1905. The one-design class will 
rate about 17.85 and are the property of Com¬ 
modore Francis H. Holmes, Captain Bill 
Kreamer, C. F. Droste, A. B. Boyd, P. A. 
Becker, D. J. Meserole, J. D. Walton and Miss 
E. P. Ketcham. 
At the end of the season the Bellport Bay Y. 
C. will hold a race for the champion of each 
one-design class of the respective clubs in the 
Bay Association, this race being scheduled to 
take place on Laboi\ Day, Sept. 6. 
The racing dates of the Bellport Bay Y. C. 
for the season are as follows: 
.July 5—Power boat race and regatta cham¬ 
pionship series No. i at Bayshore. 
July 10—Club regatta at Bellport. 
July 24—Club regatta at Bellport. 
July 31—Regatta championship series No. 2 
at Bellport. 
Aug. 7—Club regatta at Bellport. 
Aug. 14—Invitation regatta, Southside Y. C. 
at Sayville. 
Aug. 21—Regatta championship series .No. 3 
at Patchogue. 
Aug. 28—Club regatta at Bellporr. 
Sept. 4—Regatta championship series No. 4 
at Babylon. 
Sept. 6—-Bellport Bay Y. C. invitation race, 
open only to champion boats in each one-design 
class of the Great South Bay Y. R. A., to be 
sailed under association rules and time allow¬ 
ance schedule, this race being held as a test 
of the merits of the models of each of the boats 
representative of their class, and advocated as 
the best design for small boat racing, in classes, 
on the bay. 
Sept. II— Annual club race. 
On Decoration Day a race was held, in which 
three boats of the class entered (the first ones 
overboard), over a four-mile course, twice 
around, and was won by Captain William 
Kreamer’s Lady Clare, Darwin Meserole’s Lady 
Kay second and Commodore Holmes’ Oneita 
third. The boats have proven highly satis¬ 
factory in every way, carrying their sail well, 
and_ are already conceded the fastest one- 
design class on the bay and the fondest hopes 
of the Bellport Bay Y. C., and the owners of 
the boats are very much pleased. The full class 
of eight boats will be afloat by June 15, giving 
ample time for all to tune up in time for the 
opening race of the season on July 5, at Bay- 
shore. 
New Yacht Club Formed. 
The Cedarhurst Y. C. was formally opened 
Decoration Day, and the event was signalized 
by an exciting race among the one-design 
sloops belonging to the members of this club. 
These boats were designed by Cox & Stevens, 
and their dimensions are; Length over all, 22 
feet; waterline, 15 feet; beam, 6- feet 6 inches; 
draft without board, i foot ii inches. 
Twelve of these boats have just been com¬ 
pleted for the members of the club, and eight 
of them came to the starting line. The race 
was over a course of about seven miles in 
Lawrence Inlet, directly in front of the club 
house. The start was a one-gun start, and 
the boats got away promptly at 10:30, the race 
being oyer by 12:30. All eight boats finished 
with an interval of less than four minutes, show¬ 
ing how close the racing was. The first three 
boats to cross the finishing line were in the 
following order: Moustique, Montague La- 
Montague; Wayward, E. de F. Lord; Teal, A. 
L. Norris. 
The yacht club was organized last winter by 
members of the Cedarhurst, Lawrence and 
Woodmere colonies, and promises to be a very 
successful organization. Its membership list at 
present is about 150, most of them being also 
members of the Rockaway Hunting Club. The 
conditions for racing are good, as the club has 
available not only the inside course used on 
Decoration Day, but .in good weather will sail 
its races in the ocean, Lawrence Inlet being 
easy of access except in heavy weather. 
In addition to the one-design boats, there are 
some twenty-five other vessels belonging to 
the club, the largest of these being the auxil¬ 
iary yawl Alcatorda, Rene LaMonta.gne, owner; 
the sloop Marjorie, W. S. Whitehead, commo¬ 
dore of the club, owner, and the 41-foot launch 
Sis,_ owned by Eben Stevens. Sis is also 
designed by Cox & Stevens, and arrived at her 
moorings the day before the race on her maiden 
trip, having made the run from the builder’s 
yard, at Marblehead, to Lawrence Inlet in a 
day and tw'O nights without a stop. 
Speed of New Boats Compared. 
Some rather unfair comparisons have been 
made of the speed of the new Sonder class 
boats and the new one-design class of the Man- 
hasset Bay Y. C. In making these compari¬ 
sons the times made were only taken into con¬ 
sideration, and no regard was paid to the size 
of the yachts of the two classes. It was said 
after the first race, in which these two classes 
took part, that the Bonders had beaten the 
Manhasset Bay boats by ten minuteas. 
This is not fair comparison, and the compari¬ 
son is erroneous, as it conveys the impression 
that the Sonder class boats and the Manhasset 
Bay one-design boats are of about the same di¬ 
mensions and rate evenly. While the exact 
rating of the new Sonder class boats is not 
known it is reasonable to believe that their 
rating is not less than that of the successful 
boats of previous years, which under the 
present universal rule measured from 22.4 up¬ 
ward. 
As the race on Saturday was sailed in a fresh 
breeze from the northward with fairly smooth 
water, it is interesting to compare the two 
classes referred to with the New York Y. C. 
one-design 30-footers and incidentally note how 
the new reduced time allowance table seemed to 
work out. The N. Y. Y. C. 30-footers engaged 
in the race were Alera, Atair, Ibis and Phryne, 
and their average elapsed time over the ten- 
mile course was ih. 36m. S 7 s., while the average 
time of the Sonder class boats Skeezix and Wag 
was ih. 54m. i8s. and the average time of the 
Manhasset Bay one-design boats Manhaska, 
Althea and Ardette was 2h. 5m. 52,5. 
The average rating of the N. Y. Y. C. 30- 
footers is 27.8, of the Manhasset Bay one- 
design class 16.9 and of the Sonder class boats, 
assuming they have a rating not less than the 
lowest rating of successful Sonder class boats of 
previous years, 22.4. According to the time 
allowance tables of 1909, the N. Y. Y. C. 30- 
footers allow the Manhasset one-design class 
boats 115.78 seconds per mile and the Sonder 
class boats 46.68 seconds per mile, making the 
30-footers’ allowance to the Sonder class boats 
7m. 47s. and to the Manhasset one-design boats 
19m. i8s. over the ten-mile course, so that the 
corrected time for the boats would be as fol¬ 
lows: N, Y. Y. C. 30-footers, ih. 36m. 57s.; 
Sonder class boats, ih. 46m. 31s.; Manhasset 
Bay one-design, ih. 46m. 34s. 
This shows that the N. Y. Y. C. 30-footers 
under the conditions prevailing on last Satur¬ 
day beat the Sonder class boats 9m. 34s. and the 
Manhasset Bay one-design boats Qm, 37s, and 
that the Sonder class boats beat the Manhasset 
Bay one-design boats 3s, corrected time. 
In this connection it may be noted that the 
Sonder class boats are designed for interna¬ 
tional cup racing, whereas the Manhasset Bay 
boats are one design craft of a thoroughly sub¬ 
stantial construction intended to be durable and 
suited for general racing without any attempt 
at securing the extreme limit of speed required 
for an international racer. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The following transfers are reported by the 
firm of Cox & Stevens: 
The three-masted, square-rigged, auxiliary 
steam yacht Valhalla, has been sold by the 
above firm for the Earl of Crawford to a South 
American government for the purpose of a 
training ship. 
The house boat Onawa, W. C. Fisk, has been 
chartered to F. Lewis Clark, of Spokane. 
The schooner yacht Betty, sold for C. L. F. 
Robinson to W. Barklie Henry, of Philadelphia. 
Betty was built for Mr. Robinson in 1905. She 
i^ intended particularly for southern cruising. 
Mr. Henry is converting her into an auxiliary 
schooner. 
The high-speed gasolene cruiser Yaqui, sold 
for L. M. Josephthal, of New York, to Charles 
Corby, is about to start for the St. Lawrence, 
where her new owner will use her this summer. 
The gasolene launch Dierdre, sold for Judge 
M. J. Keogh to W. S. Kilmer, of Binghamton, 
N. Y., was built in 1904, and will be used by 
Mr. Kilmer for shooting and fishing in south¬ 
ern waters. 
The cruising motor boat Geisha, sold for H. 
L. Pierce, of Boston, to Geo. Bullock, of this 
city. 
The gasolene launch Tuscan, sold for A. 
Schmidt to F. H. Downer, of New Rochelle, 
N. Y. _ 
The raised deck gasolene cruiser Comet HI., 
sold for E. M. Gilman, of Boston, to Wm. 
Whitman, Jr., of this city. 
The gasolene launch Spray, sold for Ed. 
Marshall, of this city, to the U. S. Government, 
who will use her for survey work in southern 
waters. , 
The gasolene launch Ariel, sold for F. W. 
Tunnell, of Philadelphia, to M. J. Schaefer, of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The cruising gasolene launch Cegea, sold for 
D. H. Andrews, of Boston, to P. G. Williams, 
of this city. 
Three-masted auxiliary schooner yacht In¬ 
vincible, sold for the estate of Chas. T. Barney 
to the Hon. H. G. Squiers, American Minister 
to Panama. Mr. Squiers is now fitting the boat 
out and she will shortly go into commission. 
Gasolene cruising launch Trivia, sold for H. 
Sterling Vanderbilt to E. B. Alford, of Brook¬ 
line, Mass. 
The steam yacht Alvina, sold for A. S. Coch¬ 
ran to a syndicate of western yachtsmen, who 
will use her on the Great Lakes and also for 
foreign cruising. ^ 
Steam yacht Saghaya, owned by H. C. Srmth, 
has bden chartered to Senator Aldrich, of War¬ 
wick, R. I. 
The auxiliary brigantine Barracouta, sold for 
Judge E. Swann, of this city, to a western 
yachtsman, who is now putting her in commis¬ 
sion. having practically rebuilt her since she was 
purchased. 
The houseboat Elvira, sold for the estate ol 
the late Senator La Roche to a prominent New 
York yachtsman. 
The fast motor yacht Ethelsa, sold for Major 
C. J. S. Miller, of Franklin, Pa., to a member 
of the N. Y. Y. C. 
The steam yacht Waturus, owned by Randal 
Morgan, of Philadelphia, has been chartered 
for a portion of the season to a member of the 
N. Y. Y. C. 
The cruising motor boat Elaray, owned by 
W. H. Briggs, qf Rochester, N. Y., has been 
chartered for the entire season to C. V. Brokaw. 
Elaray is now being put in commission. 
The sloop yacht Crescent, sold for J. B. 
O’Donohue to A. G. Hill, of this city. 
The cruising motor boat Elmar, owned by G. 
J. Bascom, of this city, has been chartered for 
the entire season to Hobart J. Park, who will 
use her along the Sound and in general cruising. 
Elmar is now going into commission, and will 
shortly be delivered to Mr. Park. 
Wilbur C. Fisk’s roomy gasolene houseboat 
has been chartered for a portion of the season 
to W. S. Kilmer, who has used her at his shoot¬ 
ing preserves on the Rappahannock River. 
