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FOREST AND STREAM 
March 23, 1912 
Y. R. A. Gravesend Bay Dates. 
Racing dales for the season of 1912 were 
adopted at a meeting of the Yacht Racing As¬ 
sociation of Gravesend Bay, held at the Crescent 
Athletic Club, in Brooklyn, March 14. Races 
will be held on each Saturday and holiday 
throughout the season with the exception of 
July 20 and 27, these being the two Saturdays 
held open for Larchmont week. 
The delegates decided to make no changes in 
the racing courses this year. Gherardi Davis, 
of the Atlantic Y. C. donated two cups for com¬ 
petition under different conditions than those 
that govern the championship races. The or¬ 
ganization also decided not to govern the handi¬ 
cap class. 
On motion of Horace E. Boucher, Atlantic 
Y. C., the following explanation of Section 7 of 
Rule 6 was adopted: 
“Racing numbers, with class letter or class 
distinctive mark directly above them, must be 
displayed on both sides of the mainsail. They 
shall be painted in clear, black, block type on 
separate pieces of canvas and securely attached 
to the sail so that the centre of the number will 
be midway between peak and upper reef points 
and on perpendicular line from peak of gaff 
parallel to the waterline. The size of the num¬ 
bers and the letter shall not be less than 18 
inches and need not be more than three feet in 
height.” 
The racing dates adopted are as follows: 
May 25—Atlantic Y. C. 
May 30—National Y. C. 
June I —Bensonhurst Y. C. 
June 8—Atlantic Y. C. 
June 15—New York C. C. championship. 
June 22—Crescent A. C. championship. 
June 29—Atlantic Y. C. championship. 
July 4 —Bensonhurst Y. C. 
July 6—National Y. C. championship (tenta¬ 
tive). 
July 13—Atlantic Y. C. championship. 
Aug. 3—Marine and Field Club championship. 
Aug. 10—National Y. C. championship. 
Aug. 17—Atlantic Y. C. championship. 
Aug. 24—Bensonhurst Y. C. championship. 
Aug. 31—Marine and Field Club championship. 
Sept. 2—Atlantic Y. C. 
Sept. 7—Crescent A. C. championship. 
Sept. 14—Atlantic Y. C. championship. 
Larchmont’s Race July 20. 
Commodore Leonard Richards, of the 
Larchmont Y. C., appointed Horace E. Boucher, 
•Lawrence Dally and Frederick Sperry as Re¬ 
gatta Committee. This committee held its first 
meeting and announced that Larchmont week 
will be seven days later than it was last year. 
The week starts July 20 and ends July 27. 
The change was made as the result of several 
meetings of the regatta committees of the New 
York, the Larchmont and the Eastern yacht 
clubs. For several years the dates of these or¬ 
ganizations have clashed and many Corinthians 
who have desired to take part m the fixtures of 
the three clubs have found it impossible. 
Because of weather conditions along the coast 
of Maine it was not feasible to hold the eastern 
cruise on an earlier date. The Larchmont 
fixture, therefore, had to be changed, but to put 
it later in the year conflicted with the annual 
cruise of the New York Y. C. The latter or¬ 
ganization was willing to advance the date of 
its cruise to Aug. 8, which would enable the 
Larchmont Club to hold its race week during 
the week of July 20. 
With the knowledge that it will be possible 
for the big schooners to race once more at 
Larchmont, the organization has decided to 
make the racing in this class the feature of the 
week. Commodgre Richards has offered a cup 
for Elena, Westward, Enchantress and Irolita. 
Vice-Commodore George M. Pynchon will 
give the trophy for the next class of schooners, 
which probably will include Corona, Elmina, 
Nancy, Endymion, Muriel and Princess. The 
smallest schooners will race for a cup offered 
by Rpr-Commodore Francis M. Wilson. In 
the division there probably will start Cygnet, 
westward, with everything drawing. 
Eclipse, Miladi, Dervish, Vagrant, Grampus, 
Katrina, Vision, Winona, Shyessa and another 
schooner about to be built for an Eastern Y. 
C. owner. With so many double-stickers start¬ 
ing, the Larchmont race week will be the most 
important one that the club has given in years. 
Has Westward Retired? 
A REPORT is current in yacht racing triangles 
that A. S. Cochran, owner of Westward, will 
not put his handsome schooner into commission 
this year. The basis of the report seems to 
arise from the following conversation in the 
New York Herald: 
“Captain W. S. Dennis, master of the schoon¬ 
er yacht Elena, owned by Morton F. Plant, N. 
Y. Y. C., has secured the services of Harry 
Klyfve. the mate of the schooner yacht West¬ 
ward, for the approaching season. Klyfve has 
been in charge of Westward since she was laid 
up at City Island for the winter, and when he 
told Mr. A. S. Cochran, the owner of Westward, 
of the offer that he had received from Captain 
Dennis, he was released and was informed that 
Westward would not be brought out this year.” 
If Mr. Cochran is correctly quoted, his de¬ 
cision means a serious set back to the develop¬ 
ment of this fine big class of racers. Owners 
of Elena, Irolita and Enchantress have said 
their boats will be ready for competition this 
season, and it is sincerely hoped Mr. Cochin 
will take sufficient interest in the sport to bring 
Westward from her City Island berth in time 
for the N. Y. Y. C. cruise and the ocean race 
of the Eastern Y. C. 
Automatically Tripped Life Rings. 
There is perhaps no means of transportation 
in which so much is required in the way of safe¬ 
guarding the lives of those intrusted to it, and 
which has to be equipped with so many and vari¬ 
ous appliances for the achievement of this end, 
as the modern passenger sh p. In a bad storm 
a sailor and even a passenger may be washed 
overboard, or a passenger or fireman, tempor¬ 
arily deranged, may leap overboard into the sea. 
To provide for an emergency of this kind, one 
or more boats are always kept so that they can 
be launched at a moment’s notice, as consider¬ 
able time would be lost if the tarpaulin cover¬ 
ings had to be removed as with the regular life¬ 
boat. A safety device, which has given excel¬ 
lent satisfaction, is a device for releasing life 
rings fore and aft, both on the port and star¬ 
board side of the vessel. As soon as the news 
of “man overboard” reaches the bridge, either 
by the “wig-wag” or the ship’s telephone, the 
officer on duty gives one turn of a valve and the 
life rings are automatically released. After they 
have all reached the water, a red electric light 
flashes up at the top of the apparatus, showing 
that the mechanism has performed its duty.— 
Scientific American. 
Lloyd’s Harbor Y. C. 
The Lloyd’s Harbor Club has been incorpo¬ 
rated by Henry Doscher, C. W. Voltz, H. H. 
Moulton, B. R. Stoddard and C. S. King. The 
board of trustees is composed of the following: 
C. A. Marsland, G. P. Granbery, E. H. Tucker, 
W. R. Berth and W. S. Sullivan. The officers 
for 1912: C. A. Marsland, Commodore; W. S. 
Sullivan, Vice-Commodore; W. R. Berth, 
Treasurer; E. H. Tucker, Secretary. The club 
is comprised of good fellows, boat owners and 
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