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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 19, 1909. 
Handicap Class — Second Div.—Start, 2:20— liy 2 Miles. 
Wanderer IV, ..... 5 03 03 Onda . 5 12 06 
Intrepid .5 04 16 Bedouin . 5 20 48 
Fearless . 5 10 40 
C-rrected times: Wanderer IV., 2.39.47; Intrepid, 
2.44.16; Fearless, 2.49.51. 
Handicap Class—Third Div. — Start, 2:25 — IIV 2 Miles. 
Joker . 5 07 26 Chinook . 5 11 38 
Jolly Roger . 5 09 55 
Corrected times: Joker, 2.40.01; Jolly Roger, 2.41.40; 
Chinook, 2.44.13. 
Sloops — Class R — Start, 2:25—11% Miles. 
Iney . 5 28 09 T. J. McCahill. d.n.f. 
Wanneta . d.n.f. 
Larchmont 21-footers — Start, 2:25—11% Miles. 
Houri . 5 13 43 
Handicap Class—Fourth Div.—Start, 2:30—11% Miles. 
Bridget K . 5 24 40 Kenosha II. 5 29 43 
Sybilla . 5 27 24 Kenosha . 5 30 39 
Match Race — Start, 2:30 — 11% Miles. 
Clara . 5 48 32 lo. . 5 56 16 
Manhasset Bay One-Design — Start, 2.35 — 7% Miles. 
Ahoy . 5 19 08 Arizona . 5 19 23 
New Rochelle One-Design — Start, 2:40—7% Miles. 
Echo . 5 3o 44 
Nereid . 5 41 27 
Bug Class—Start, 
Dragon Fly . 5 29 23 
Wasp . 5 36 12 
Skeeter . 5 40 14 
Virginia . 5 41 25 
2:40—7% Miles. 
Red Bug . 5 44 44 
Cricket . 5 45 21 
Bensonhurst Y. C. 
In tlie regatta of the Bensonhurst Y. C., 
sailed last Saturday, June 12, Miana and Careless 
made a dead heat in the handicap class. 
The racing in the other divisions was equally 
interesting. W. A. Barstow’s Soya was the 
winner in the Q class, and among the S boats 
Pester, in the hands of her owner, R. S. Childs, 
was the first over the finish line. Slow Poke 
won among the Gravesend Bay dories and 
Little Devil took first prize among the dinghies 
of the New York Canoe Club. Popylong, on 
both corrected and actual time, won in the 
second division of the handicap class. 
Besides the regular classes, a special mixed 
division sailed over a 12-mile course on actual 
time allowance. Pen II. failed to round Buoy 
No. II and was disqualified by the committee. 
The regatta was sailed in a light wind from 
the south, which freshened and hauled around 
to the southwest as the afternoon advanced. It 
gave the boats a good weather leg from Ben¬ 
sonhurst to Sea Gate. The summary: 
Special Class—Start, 3:00—^12 Miles. 
Finish. Finish. 
Sakana . 5 13 11 Peri II.Dis. 
^■orant II.5 17 00 
Corrected times: Sakana, 2.07.38; Vorant II., 2.14.59. 
Sloops—Class Q—Start, 3:05—9.6 Miles. 
Soya . 4 35 28 Vingt-trois . 4 37 35 
Joy . 4 37 00 
Handicap Class—First- Div.—Start, 3:10—9.6 Miles. 
Miana . 4 43 31 La Cubana .4 51 33 
Careless . 4 48 12 
Corrected times: Miana, 1.33.31; Careless,’1.33.31; La 
Cubana, 1.39.41. 
Handicap Class—Second Div.—Start, 3:10—8 Miles. 
Pappilon . 4 52 22' Mischief . 4 54 11 
Madiana . 4 53 42 
Corrected times: Pappilon, 1.37.15; Madiana, 1.40.38; 
Mischief, 1.42.08. 
Sloops—Class S—Start, 3:15—8 Miles. 
Pester . 4 46 21 M. and F. 4 47 00 
Gunda . 4 46 50 
Gravesend Knockabouts—Start, 3:20—8 Miles. 
Slow Poke . 
.... 4 56 08 
Chico . 
4 59 45 
Mouse . 
,... 4 57 25 
Bobs . 
5 03 03 
Masque . 
Merry Widow .. 
.... 4 58 36 
,... 4 59 00 
Queen . 
5 04 22 
N. Y. C. 
C. Dinghies- 
—Start, 3:25 — 4 Miles. 
Little Devil .... 
,... 4 14 25 
Ostris . 
4 16 20 
Bull Finch . 
... 4 14 59 
Meteor . 
4 17 10 
Aries . 
... 4 16 10 
Skeets . 
Dis. 
Crescent A. C. Officers. 
The yachtina' members of the Crescent A. C., 
of Brooklyn, dined together at the country house 
at Bay Ridge on Thursday, June 10. The dinner 
was arranged as a welcome to Commodore 
Francis M. Wilson who has just returned from 
a tour around the world. The commodore told 
some of his interesting experiences and other 
members talked yacht. 'I'he club this year is 
doing more in yachting than ever before. It 
has two open regattas to be sailed down the 
Lower Bay, a race for yachts of all classes sail¬ 
ing as one for the championship of the day for 
which the prize is a Wilson cup, the power boat 
race to Marblehead which will start on July 17, 
and that evening it waS decided to offer a cup 
for a race home by the power boats at Bermuda. 
Commodore F. M. Wilson was re-elected com¬ 
modore. The new vice-commodore is Edgar F. 
Luckenback and the rear-commodore Charles J. 
McDermott. 
Vice-Commodore Luckenback has recently pur¬ 
chased the steam yacht Inca which was built by 
Lawley in 1898 and purchased by the Govern¬ 
ment for use as a gun boat during the war. 
I.ater this yacht was used by the Rhode Island 
Naval Militia. She is 120 feet over all, 96 feet 
on the water line, 16 feet 3 inches beam and 7 
feet draft. She has engines of 400 horsepower 
and makes 14 nautical miles an hour. Com¬ 
modore Wilson’s flagship in the power boat 
Sumida, and Rear-Commodore McDermott, who 
sold his yacht last year, is to purchase another 
in a few days. 
Seawanhaka 15-Footers. 
The second race of the series for 15-footers 
owned by members of the ^seawanhaka Cor¬ 
inthian Y. C. was sailed June 12 off the club 
house at Oyster Bay. There was a very light 
wind from the west and poor time was made. 
The race was won by Hen, owned by George 
Nicoll. F. Coudert’s Alys was second, and H. 
Tuckerman’s Iris third. There was to have 
been a race for the new Jewel S class, but only 
one of these boats. Topaz, started. The sum¬ 
maries; 
S. C. Y. C. 15-footers — Start, 3:15. 
Finish. 
Hen . 5 09 10 Water Baby 
Alys . 5 11 1.5 Cicada . 
Iris . 5 11 45 Grayling ... 
Sabrina . 5 12 08 Thelema 4 . 
Imp . 5 12 40 
Jewel S Class — Start, 3:17. 
Topaz . 5 13 08 
Finish. 
5 13 03 
5 13 06 
.5 13 08 
5 13 50 
Sanders’ First Race. 
The Sonder class boats sailed their first race 
of the season last Saturday in the regatta of 
the Corinthian Y. C. off Marblehead. In the 
contest was the new boat for Charles Francis 
Adams, 2d, built by Lawley as yet unnamed; 
Spokane III., owned by F. Lewis Clark; Lady, 
owned by Boardman & Foss; Eel, owned by 
Herbert M. Sears; Demon, owned by F. B. 
Crowninshield, and Manchester IL, owned by 
a syndicate, all built this year from designs by 
E. A. Boardman; Alarm, owned by Max Agassiz, 
built by Herreshoff; Wolf, owned by Caleb Lor- 
ing and built by W. Starling Burgess; Sally X., 
owned by L. F. Percival, and Skeezix, owned 
by F. M. Hoyt and designed by William Gard¬ 
ner. There were also the Caramba, a 1906 boat, 
and Bandit, a last year’s boat, both from Board- 
man designs. 
The race was won by the unnamed, owned by 
Charles Francis .\dams, 2d, which had been 
under sail only twice before. Wolf, although 
ready for some time, had done no sailing until 
she went to the line. 
The wind was westerly, a good breeze at the 
start. It lightened as the lioats began the wind¬ 
ward leg of the course and then freshened again 
and came southwest. The Adams boat and 
Spokane HI. by standin.g offshore got this shift 
first and benefited considerably by it. They had 
all the wind the boats of this type cared for and 
the race showed that it is in fresh wind that 
these two are better than the others. 
Spokane HI. got the best of the start with 
Wolf second. There was some crowding at the 
first mark and Bandit, Skeezix, Sally X. and 
Manchester HI. were passed by the others in 
the race. On the windward leg the Adams boat 
and Spokane HI. took the offshore tack and 
Sally X. headed those that held inshore. When 
tlie wind freshened the Adams boat sailed away 
from Spokane HI. and won the race. She beat 
Spokane HI. 2:34; Lady, 3:21; Bandit. 3:28; 
Wolf, 4:35; Caramba, 5:13; Eel, 5:27; Skeezix, 
5:55; Sally X., 6:19: Demon, 6:30; Manchester, 
ITT., 7:12, and Alarm, 15:55. 
Wianno and Timandra sailed a " match race 
as Marie L. fouled Nutmeg just before the start 
and had four planks stove in. Timandra was 
late at the line because she picked off some of 
the crew of Marie L. Wianno won the race 
by 3m. 45s. In Class Q, Gringo beat Tabasco 
HI. 4m. los. 
On Saturday afternoon the Sonder boats Vim 
and Bandit were towed to Buzzard’s Bay, where 
they will race in the regattas of the Beverly Y. 
C. against Windrim Kid, Sally VIIL, New Or¬ 
leans and the new Mower designed boat Bessie. 
Turning Buoys. 
A POINT has been raised by some of the yacht 
owners who took part in the opening race of 
the Atlantic Y. C. on Decoration day that the 
regatta committee did not particularize enough 
in its instructions. The yachtsmen were told 
to sail to the Southwest Spit, then to the Bell 
Buoy off the point of the' Hook No. 5, leaving 
it to port, and then home over the same course. 
Now Buoy No. 5 off the point of the hook is a 
collection of buoys, a bell and a spar, borne 
of the yachts turned both buoys, while others 
turned only the bell, shooting in between that 
and the spar and gaining considerable ad¬ 
vantage. When the yachtsmen reached the club 
house after the race, the committee was asked 
for a ruling on the point raised, but no protest 
was made. 
The committee wrote to each owner, asking 
him how he turned the mark, and will decide 
later what action will be taken. It has been 
generally understood in yacht racing on the 
Lower Bay that when some stated buoy is to 
be turned it does not mean simply one buoy, 
but the collection of buoys on that mark. 
Some years ago a similar point was raised about 
the Southwest Spit and the committee ruled that 
the “Southwest Spit Buoy,” as expressed, 
meant the collection of buoys at that point, anu 
not the spar or the can. A similar point was 
raised about Craven Shoals, where there is a 
bell and a spar and “Craven Shoals Buoy” 
meant both buoys on that point. 
The committee, it is said, will rule similarly 
about Buoy No. 5. known as the Bell Buoy off 
the point of the Hook, and to support their 
ruling it has been pointed out that the Light¬ 
house Board in its regulations states that the 
“No.” assigned to a buoy means the collection 
of buoys at that particular point and not just 
one buoy. 
American Y. C. Classes. 
The American Y. C. announces that their 
21-foot one-design class has been reorganized 
and intends racing this season absolutely as 
one-design. As an encouragement to the sport. 
Com. George Mercer, Jr., of the American Y. 
C., offers a $200 trophy to be raced for on the 
point system; the schedule of championship 
events of the Long Island Yacht Racing As-- 
sociation only to count. The following boats 
will compete, it is hoped, for the above prize: 
Tdowdy, Com. George Mercer, Jr.; Rascal L, 
J. J. Dwyer; Jolly Tar, H. S. Duell; Maryola, 
C. Giffen; Cricket, Howard Willets; The Kid, 
Oliver Harriman. 
There will be, in addition to the above, in¬ 
formal races over the American Y. C. courses 
off Milton Point Sunday afternoons for this 
class, and also for the three raceabouts—Rogue, 
Joseph M. Macdonough; Busy Bee IL, Richard 
T. Wainwright; Rascal III., Samuel C. Hop¬ 
kins—as well as the American Y. C. dories. 
Winthrop Y. C. 
The first of the handicap races of the Win¬ 
throp Y. C. was sailed on June 12 off the club 
house. There was a strong southwest wind. 
At the start Marion HI. was disabled. C. T. 
Joy’s Kit won the race in the 25-foot class, beat¬ 
ing Alpha 28s.; Idalia, 4 :58; There5a, 6 ;44, and 
Rattler, 13:20. Alpha finished 41s. ahead of Kit, 
but lost through her handicap. In the 18-foot 
class A. E. Whittemore’s Kittiwake V. beat 
Aurora 15s.; Mouse, 2:35; Answer, 4:23; Zetes 
V., 5 :2i, corrected time.' Acanthus was disabled 
and Apache did not finish. 
