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FOREST AND STREAM 
Feb. 17, 1912 
chairman; William P. Bigelow, Robert M. 
Levering Myer Rosenbiisli, William H. Evans, 
Harry B. Little, Albert H. Likes, W. W. 
J J, H. Ivirw 3 ,n, Howsrci Brysnt, 
James ’C. ’ Callis, Harry G. Leland, O. L. 
Molter, Jacob Mayer. Gustav F. Krug, Joseph 
A. Vaeth, Ambrose Vogt and Edward A. 
Weiler, to act in conjunction with the club coin- 
mittee on entertainment and assist in entertain¬ 
ing the members of the National convention. 
This committee will call on Mayor Preston and 
Robert Crain and formally tender its services. 
The Treasurer, Edward A. Weiler, submitted 
his annual report, which showed excellent finan¬ 
cial condition. James C. Callis was appointed 
chairman of the Racing Board. George W. 
Marsheck was appointed chairman of the House 
Committee. 
MOSQUITO FLEET Y. C. 
The Mosquito Fleet Y. 'C.. at the annual 
meeting elected officers as follows for 1912; 
Commodore, Thomas J. Kelley; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, Edward L. Hopkins; Secretary, Richard 
S. Landers; Treasurer, Cornelius J. Driscoll; 
Measurer, Edward T. Landers; Directors 
James H. White, Henry J. Lannon, Richard F. 
Quirk. 
STAMFORD Y. C. 
Strenuous was the evening of Feb. 5 in Stam¬ 
ford, Conn., when the yacht club held its an¬ 
nual election. The women members were called 
upon to exert their influence and practice bal¬ 
lot casting. They did both and helped the regu¬ 
lar ticket win out. The officers elected were: 
Commodore, E. Y. Weber; Vice-Commodore, 
Edward Corning, of New York; Rear-Com¬ 
modore, Irving E. Raymond; Directors—W . W. 
Heroy, Theodore R. Hoyt, Bartholomew Jacob, 
William H. Martin, Erank Shea, Douglas L. 
Elliman, William H. Judd, James S. Jenkins, 
John J. Radley, Herman C. Fleitmann. Richard 
H. Gillespie, Jr., Charles D. Lockwood; Nomi¬ 
nating Committee—Edward C. Hoyt, New 
York , chairman; Walter Daskan, Charles E. 
H. Phillips, Wilson L. Baldwin, Malcolm R. 
Pitt. The defeated ticket was headed by John 
B. Phillips. It was composed mostly of Stam¬ 
ford men, whereas the regulars were many of 
them New Yorkers. 
WATERWAYS LEAGUE. 
The annual election of Waterways League, 
held last Tuesday night, put into office the fol¬ 
lowing: Commodore, William A. Strong; First 
Vice-President, Commodore Joseph B. Acker, 
Canarsie Y. C.; Second Vice-President, Hon. 
Herman A. Metz; Brooklyn Y. C.; Third Vice- 
President, Commodore Joseph _W. Masters, 
Belle Harbor Y. C.; Honorary Vice-Presidents 
—Cpnimodore George J. Vestuer, Colonial Y. 
C. ; Commodore William S. Braisted, Morris Y. 
C.; Commodore J. E. Schiffmacher, Sheepshead 
Bay Y. C.; Commodore E. A. Chapman, Bergen 
Beach Y. C.; Commodore C. A. Schiffmacher, 
Keystone Y. C.; Commodore William Arm- 
bruster, Old Mill Y. C.; Commodore M. W. 
Houck, New Rochelle Y. C.; Commodore Wil¬ 
liam C. Towen, Brooklyn Y. C.; Commodore 
A. H. Brook, Canarsie Y. C.; Commodore Wil¬ 
liam J. Hogg, Stuyvesant Y. C.; Commodore 
William FI. Barnard, Atlantic Y. C.; Commo¬ 
dore J. A. Lannan, City Island Y. C.; Com¬ 
modore G. J. Harrison, Metropolitan Y. C.; 
Commodore Louis M. Pultz, N. Y. Canoe Club; 
Commodore A. W. O’Donnell, Mecca Y. C. 
Treasurer, Fred Reid. Assistant. Treasurers— 
Commodore F. J. Robinson, Morris Y. C.; E. 
C. Schiffmacher. Sheepshead Y. C. Correspond¬ 
ing Secretary, Otto B. Schmidt, Canarsie Y. C. 
Assistant Corresponding Secretary, Commodore 
G. M. Sprague, Ben Machree B. C. Recording 
Secretaries—Robert C. Kerr, Jr., Brooklyn Y. 
C.; Butler C. Pfeiffer, Morris Y. C.; Clarence 
M. Strong. Nassau Y. C.; Ramsey McElvery, 
Flatlands Y. C.; Joseph C. Zwack, Stuyvesant 
Y. C.; Arthur Haas, Hudsou River M. B. C.; 
George H. Schiffmacher, Keystone Y. C. 
Board of Governors—Commodore William J. 
Moran, Jamaica Bay Y. C., chairman; Commo¬ 
dore William A. Strong, Commodore Joseph B. 
Acker, Hon. Herman A. Metz, Commodore 
Joseph W. Masters, Treasurer Fred Reid, Otto 
B. Schmidt, Commodore Thomas Northridge, 
M.D., Commodore George J. Vestuer, Commo¬ 
dore J. E. Schiffmacher, Commodore Mont¬ 
rose W. Flouck, Commodore J. Stuart Black- 
ton, Commodore William E. Powers, Commo¬ 
dore Edward Effiuger. Commodore William S. 
Boyd, Commodore Louis C. Daul, Commodore 
G. A. Cooper, Commodore John A, Still. 
EAST GREENWICH V. C. 
The following officers and committees have 
been elected for ensuing year by East Green¬ 
wich, Rhode Island, \. C.: Commodore, F. 
Herbert Smith; Vice-Commodore, Dr. William 
H. Heald; Rear-Commodore, Henry E. Allen; 
Secretary, F. S. Nock; Treasurer, L. W. Dug- 
dale; Fleet Captain, M. A. Newwomb; Fleet 
Surgeon, Dr. F. G. Taggart; Measurer, F. S. 
Nock; Assistant Measurer, G. L. Spencer; 
House Committee—A. P, McCabe (Chairman), 
A. E. Leu, R. V. S. Read, Wm. Nason, W. A. 
Congdon; ’ Racing Committee—F. S. Nock 
(Chairman), Walter Sherwood, 1 . Drew Dun- 
nell, Wm. Nason, C. H. Mandeville; Represen¬ 
tatives to Narragansett Bay Y. R. A.—F. S. 
Nock, Wm. Mason, C. H. Mandeville; Ways 
and Means Committee—Frank Church (Chair¬ 
man), M. A. Newcomb, Senator T. H. Galvin, 
John Bisbee, Wm. H. Taylor, 1 . A. Briggs, C. 
H. Mandeville, Thos. Flussey, J. J. Brant, G. F. 
Brownell; Official Reporter,^ A. E. Leu; Re¬ 
ception Committee-—Dr. F. T. Rogers, William 
Hodgman, Arthur Knight, William L. Sharpe, 
Arthur B. Lisle, Col. Robt. B. Treat, L. H. 
Tillinghast, George P. Tyler, A. A. Earnshaw, 
Senator C. G. Hill, T. Drew Dunnell, Joseph 
Lawton, Thomas Kilkenny, Clarence M. Dun¬ 
bar. F. S. Nock, W. H. Taylor, William Halk- 
yarcl, Moses J. Barber, C. H. Mandeville, Hon. 
David J. White, H. Anson Richmond, Louis L. 
Lorillard, B. Frank Vaughn. W. A. Browning, 
Frank H. Arnold, Gideon Spencer, Daniel Jack- 
son, Dr. H. F. Powers, A. E. Leu, J. R. Champ- 
lin. Dr. George B. Langmaid. 
rodbin’s reef y. c. 
At the annual election held at their Bayonne, 
N. J., club house the Robbin’s Reef Y. C. 
elected the following officers: Commodore, P. 
J. McDermott; Vice-Commodore, James Dunn; 
Rear-Commodore, Michael Hanner; Treasurer, 
Valentine Steinmetz; Secretaries, Frederick 
Golding and C. D. Stalling; Measurer, Samuel 
Seals; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Oscar Ditmar. 
EDGEWOOD Y. C. 
Six new officers of the Edgewood Y. C., 
Providence, R. L, were elected Feb. 10. They 
are Commodore, Vice-Commodore and Rear- 
Commodore and three members-of the Board ol 
Directors, all among the young, enthusiastic 
members. 
Fred W. Bartels, the new Commodore, holds 
office in the organization for the first time. 
During his membership in the club for the past 
three or four years he has become very popu¬ 
lar,' and his boat, Alzada III., built by Fred S. 
Nock, is one of the handsomest raised deck 
cruisers in the fleet. It will be a worthy suc¬ 
cessor to Dutee W. Flint’s Unome III. as flag¬ 
ship. . 
Walter D. Wood, the new Vice-Commodore, 
has been one of the most prominent members 
of the club for several years in the racing as 
well as the social end of the club’s activities. 
Dorothy, a new 18-foot knockabout last year, 
was one of the team which opposed the visitors 
from Massachusetts Bay in the inter-bay races, 
and Nautilus, his class cabin power boat, aided 
in carrying spectators and entertaining visitors 
during a number of races. Mr. Wood is coim 
sidered a true sportsman. _His popularity is 
shown by the unanimity of his election. 
The new Rear-Commodore is Thomas J. 
Critchley. These men, by virtue of their offices, 
hold positions on the Board of Directors. The 
three new members of the Board with them are 
B. B. Manchester, Jr., Howard N. Knight and 
John M. Latham. This makes six of a total 
of nine members of the Board who are new, a 
fact which has aroused keen interest in the first 
meeting, which is to be held soon, as the policy 
of the organization, for the coming summer will 
be outlined at that time. 
The officers retired by the election, by their 
own request, were Commodore Dutee W. Flint, 
Vice-Commodore Charles F. Markham. Rear- 
Commodore John D. Peck, and Directors Her¬ 
man G. Possner, Harvey J. Flint and John H. 
Stone, all of whom have been prominent in 
Narragansett Bay yachting activities for a mim- 
ber of years. 
Simple Navigation. 
BY A. G. GOLDSMITH. 
The science of navigation, if gone into thor¬ 
oughly, proves such an inexhaustible subject that 
the majority of amateur yachtsmen have left 
it severely alone, being apparently smitten with 
the idea that without months of ardent study it 
is impossible to gain sufficient knowledge of the 
art to enable them to leave the beaten track and 
navigate their craft with comparative confidence 
into distant waters, hitherto unknown to them 
by any previous practical experience. This may 
he due to the fact that those of their fellow 
yachtsmen who possess a fair knowledge of the 
rudiments of navigation have sought to initiate 
them into its higher branches before they have 
mastered the ground work, thereby erroneously im¬ 
pressing them with the difficulties which ie in 
the path of the budding navigator; or possibly 
it may be owing to their having sought to in¬ 
struct themselves from hooks compiled for the 
use of those who intend qualifying for Board 
of Trade certificates, and which, to the uniniti¬ 
ated, appear to bristle with difficult problems 
and long technical expressions. In summing up 
the science of navigation as a difficult one, the 
amateur yachtsman is making a big mistake, for 
nothing is simpler or easier to understand than 
the majority of rules, tables and formula by 
which he can with safety navigate his craft, 
either on deep sea or coasting trips, thus avoiding 
the inevitable monotony of coutiiuial y cruising 
in home waters, with which he has for so long 
been familiar. 
■Without ever having to handle a sextant or 
depend in any way upon stellar or solar obser¬ 
vations, there is no reason why the owner of 
any yacht should not cruise around almost any 
coast in Europe in perfect safety, provided of 
course he is possessed of a sound knowledge of 
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YACHT and BOAT SAILING 
"By the late Bijeert K.emp 
Tenth edition. Published 1904. We have a copy in 
fairly good condition, published at $12, which we will 
sell for $9.00. 
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