March 30, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
409 
Ticks from the Ship’s Clock. 
One hundred motor boat owners organized 
the Joliet, III., Motor Boat Owners’ Protective 
Association. Officers were elected: Commodore, 
John F. Kelly; Vice-Commodore, Clarence 
Schmitz; Fleet Captain, E. J. Robinson; Secre¬ 
tary-Treasurer,, R. E. Fuller; Directors—Wm. 
La Fontaine, Harry Hauser and H. R. Good- 
speed. The principal object of the organization 
was to secure if possible, protection from 
thieves. It is also desired to stimulate in¬ 
terest in motor boating, arrange for regattas 
and promote the welfare of members. 
We herewith, without any financial remunera¬ 
tion, offer Chicago Y. C. as a name for the new 
cup defender this: Chicidee. And if explana¬ 
tion be necessary, we might say it came from 
Chicago-Idea. If it should be accepted, we 
would feel somewhat puffed up and might there¬ 
fore take unto ourselves the last three letters 
of Chicago, changing “a” to “e” and suffer 
henceforth from that disease. Anyhow, in our 
mind Chicidee is a bird. 
New Starting Regulations. 
The starting regulations adopted at the last 
meeting of the Racing Association of South 
Jersey Yacht Clubs should be of interest to all 
yachtsmen. These regulations were formulated 
by a committee of the Racing Association of 
South Jersey Yacht Clubs, consisting of A. K. 
White, chairman of the Regatta Committee of 
the Seaside Y. C., Chairman; W. D. Snow, 
former commodore of the Ocean City Motor 
Boat Club, and Joseph L. Bailey, of the Holly 
Beach and Wildwood yacht clubs, the new sec¬ 
retary of the association. 
The regulations lead off with the require¬ 
ments that all salutes of visiting or other 
officers shall cease thirty minutes before the 
start of the first race and shall not be resumed 
until the last race has been started. 
SURVEYED COURSES. 
Each course shall be accurately measured by 
a competent surveyor, who shall plot same, giv¬ 
ing two copies to the home club, who shall for¬ 
ward one copy to the secretary of this associ¬ 
ation. That the course should be marked by a 
red ball on a staff (contained in the box of 
paraphernalia') from a small anchored boat, or 
on a float anchored in position at each turn. In 
any event it should be four or five feet elevated 
from the water, and easily visible where the 
waters are large and open. 
All clubs should insist that complete entries 
be in and official rating received five hours be¬ 
fore the start of the first race, and that all 
races start with handicaps deducted so that first 
boat in wins. 
The timers should elect the best watch as 
chief and the other watches be used to check 
this one. Captains should compare their 
watches with this chief watch. 
SIGNALS FOR CLASSES. 
_ Each class should be designed by a proper 
signal to be displayed while the class is being 
run off and replaced by the signal for the next 
class, and so on, and this signal to be used 
should be advertised (by the use of the rubber 
stamps provided) on the instruction cards given 
the captains participating in the races. 
The preparation signal, the signal for start 
and recall for any class should be the same in 
all classes. 
Boats shall be divided into three divisions, 
each division representing the general character 
of boat, as—cruisers, launches, racers—each di¬ 
vision divided into two or more classes. 
DIVISION NO. I. 
For Cruisers.—Divided into one or two 
classes, according to the requirements of the 
entries, to be known as Class A and Class B. 
The signal to be displayed designating that 
Class A is to be run off would be a white pen¬ 
nant, approximately three feet long with the 
letter C in color sewed thereto. 
Class B would be a pennant half white and 
half blue, divided vertically, with the letter C on 
the white part of the field. 
DIVISION NO. 3. 
For semi-speed boats and family launches: 
Class C—A blue pennant three feet long with 
the letters SS in white sewed thereto. 
Class D—Family Launches—A pennant di¬ 
vided horizontally white and blue with the letter 
VENONA, HOLDER OF LEG ON NORMAN CUP. 
F in color on the white ground, and L in white 
on the blue ground. 
DIVISION NO. 2 . 
For racing boats: 
Class E to be a rectangular white flag with 
the letter R in color sewed thereto. 
Class F—Rectangular flag divided horizont¬ 
ally blue and white with the letter R in white 
on the blue ground and the figure 2 in color 
on the white ground. 
Class G—Similar rectangular flag divided ver¬ 
tically blue and white, with the letter R and 
the figure 3. 
STARTING SIGNALS. 
At five minutes before the start of any race 
or class, the pennant for that class shall be run 
up and stay up until all the boats of that class 
are off. Three minutes before the start of the 
class a red rectangular flag, measuring approxi¬ 
mately three feet square, and attached to an 8- 
foot staff, held by one of the starters on the 
judges’ boat, should be elevated at an angle of 
about 45 degrees from the starting line, and a 
gun or whistle to call the attention of the boats. 
This flag should be so held until starting time, 
when it shall be dropped as near vertical down 
as permissible and a gun or whistle to call at¬ 
tention. Time shall be taken from the drop of 
the flag and not from the gun or whistle. 
Recall is by waving this flag up and down 
over the starting line. 
'When starting boats where their time allow¬ 
ance is computed and they cross the starting 
line with handicaps deducted, in general the 
same method will be pursued, that is, five 
minutes before the time the flag of class being 
run up, to remain up until all of the boats of 
the class are off, the first boat will have the red 
flag raised by the starter, three minutes before 
their starting time, and the attention gun or 
whistle. Also the racing number of the boat 
will be held beside the red flag, so that the 
boats maneuvering may see it plainly. 
At the starting time the red flag drops and 
the attention gun or whistle is fired. If more 
than three minutes elapse before the second 
boat, the red flag will be raised three minutes 
before starting time, but without the gun or 
whistle. 
The second boat’s racing number will be held 
beside the red flag as before and at the start¬ 
ing time the red flag will drop, and so on for 
each succeeding boat. There will be no gun 
after the first boat is off. 
In case of a recall for this character of start¬ 
ing, the number of the boat to be recalled shall 
be held continually turned toward the boat, 
indicating that she is to come in and make a 
fresh start. 
Eastern Y. C. Schedule. 
According to the program just issued by the 
Eastern Y. C., the ocean race for the Clark cup, 
one leg of which has been won by Morton F. 
Plant’s Elena, will start at Newport instead of 
New London, finishing at Marblehead. The fol¬ 
lowing Tuesday the annual regatta will be held 
off Marblehead. The principal interest is in 
the Puritan trophy at this meet. On July 12 
the race for Norman cup will start, finishing at 
Marblehead. Irolita and "Venona each has won 
a leg on this trophy, so that it promises to be 
decidedly interesting. The race will end about 
July 14, giving contestants ample time to get 
in line for Larchmont and New York Y. C. 
events. 
On Decoration Day the cruise to Bar Harbor 
commences, during which sufficient time will be 
allowed for participation in regattas en route. 
Associated Y. C. of America. 
At the suggestion of 'William Hale Thomp¬ 
son, commodore of the new organizction, 
power boats were admitted to the Associated 
Yacht Clubs of America. The title was changed 
to Associated Yacht and Motor Boat Clubs of 
America. 
Two more officers were elected—Treasurer 
Nelson N. Lamper, and Secretary E. P. Farley. 
About $10,000, including the $S,ooo Wrigley cup, 
have been contributed toward the big carnival 
to be held this summer. 
Reports from builder Wood at City Island, 
N. Y., show the new syndicate defender to be 
progressing rapidly, and the committee, at a 
meeting at St. Hubert’s Grill, decided to enter 
the new racer in the Manhasset Bay cup races 
on June 15, after which she will be shipped to 
Lake Michigan. A name for the new boat will 
be selected shortly. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency reports 
the following sales: 
Thirty-six foot motor boat Ahmed, owned 
by A. H. Munsell, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., to 
J. F. Appleton, of Salem, Mass. 
Auxiliary yawl Aspinet, owned by Ernest G. 
Adams, of Worcester, Mass., to Stephen R. 
Bartlett, of Boston. 
Motor boat Mahdeen HI., owned by A. D. 
Bull, of Quincy, Mass., to a prominent New 
York yachtsman. 
Fifty-foot auxiliary fishing schooner Malicia 
Enos, owned by Roland C. Nickerson, of 
Brewster, Mass., to Albert Story, of Gloucester, 
Mass., and William Hawkley, of Rockport, 
Mass. 
