April 6, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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London Yachtinjg. 
Five years ago there was one lone sailboat 
on the river Thames. To-day there is a fleet 
of motor and sail boats that numbers twenty- 
five and is valued at nearly $30,000 and six 
others will be launched as early as possible in 
the spring. 
These results,, says the Montreal Star, have 
been brought about largely by the work of an 
energectic motor boat association which has 
wrought wonders by getting the river in a 
navigable shape and demonstrating to people 
that boating on the Thames is a real pleasure 
and that there is scenery to be viewed that it 
is worth a trip to see. More than this, the 
members have found a little summer resort of 
their own at “Wonderland,” one of the beauty 
spots on the river and from earliest spring until 
as late as possible in the fall a colony of busi¬ 
ness men who own boats and their families 
spend a delightful outing there. 
Every September a regatta is held in which 
there are dozens of contestants for each event, 
hundreds of dollars’ worth of the choicest prizes 
are donated by members of the club and by 
local merchants who have ever been hearty 
supporters of the motor boat association. The 
regatta is attended by thousands of citizens 
who line the banks or hire canoes or rowboats. 
The course is a serpentine one extending over 
three and a half miles through country that is 
exceptionally beautiful. Except at the city end 
there is a good depth of water and every year 
sees larger boats. The club has never lost_ a 
member except through removal from the city 
and many of the members who started with 
small craft now own the largest and best boats 
on the river. 
Mr. W. J. Thorne is the energetic president 
of the association, and he has a body- of hust¬ 
lers to help him. Everything the association 
undertakes goes. 
“We were never in better shape than at the 
present time,” said Mr. Thorne. “Our mem¬ 
bership is growing steadily and the boats are 
better every year. It’s rather an interesting 
fact that in proportion to its population Lon¬ 
don has more than twice as many boats as To¬ 
ronto or Hamilton, notwithstanding that those 
cities are situated right on the lake and have 
natural advantages that are impossible in an 
inland city. 
“Our latest plan is for a big new boat house 
in which our members can keep their boats and 
hold social affairs. The only trouble will be 
to build it big enough to accommodate our 
rapid growth. This season will easily break all 
records, but we have done that every year since 
we started and expect to keep on. While our 
strip of water is limited it is exceptionally 
beautiful and all who start boating become en¬ 
thusiasts.” 
Mr. W. H. Priestly is vice-president of the 
association, and Mr. Sim Threapleton secretary. 
Crescent A. C. Yachting Dates. 
The yachting committee of the Crescent 
Athletic Club announces two full regattas for 
the Gravesend Bay championships this year on 
June 22 and Sept. 7. Starts, as usual, from off 
the Atlantic Y. C. dock at Sea Gate. The series 
of races for the Lipton cup will be sailed dur¬ 
ing the race week of the Atlantic Y. C. This 
cup is for yachts of Class S and must be won 
three times by the same yachtsman before it 
becomes his permanent property. Legs have 
been won by Richard Moore’s Blue Bill and by 
Dr. C. L. Atkinson’s Cyric. 
There will be two motor boat regattas, June 
15 and Sept. 14. There will be races for cruis¬ 
ing yachts and high speed boats and launches. 
Commodore Edgar F. Luckenback, Vice- 
Commodore Charles Lembcke and Rear-Com¬ 
modore G. G. McIntosh have been renominated 
as flag officers of the club. Commodore Luck¬ 
enback has offered the prizes for one of the lower 
bay sailing regattas to be sailed for on June 22. 
The annual yachting dinner of the club will 
be held on April 17, when prizes won last year 
will be distributed. 
Atlantic Coast 20-Footer Championship 
The Cambridge Y. C. will hold a regatta on 
June 28 and 29 for the Atlantic Coast champion¬ 
ship for 20-foot motor boats. Six boats already 
are entered. This event, it is expected, will 
eclipse the annual races at Peoria and give to 
Maryland waters great prestige among motor 
boatists. 
Those entered are A. K. and C. D. White, 
who will have Sand Burr II.; Peter V. Hoy, 
who has a new boat to replace the Pee Vee Ho; 
Commodore Alfred 1 . du Pont will have a boat 
with a guaranteed speed of 40 miles an hour; 
T. Coleman du Pont, whose boat has already 
made 40 njiles an hour, and James Busic’s new 
speed boat. William K. Vanderbilt, at a recent 
conference with Commodore Du Pont, an¬ 
nounced he might have a boat entered. 
The five entries already made overshadows 
the regattas at Peoria, where not more than 
four 20-footers competed. 
A very handsome trophy will be given by 
Commodore Du Pont. Governor Phillips Lee 
Goldsborough has offered a trophy, and the club 
will give a special trophy. 
There will be a special race for bugeyes and 
another for schooners, and there will also be a 
special race for boats of all classes, power and 
sail, open to craft flying the flags of the yacht 
clubs of Baltimore. This race will start from 
Baltimore early on June 27 and finish at Cam¬ 
bridge. 
James Smith, chairman of the racing board, 
was in Baltimore recently and called upon prom¬ 
inent local yachtsmen and issued invitations to 
enter. 
Probably Not Huntington Harbor. 
F. H. Morley, secretary of the Motor Boat 
Club of America, has written boards of trade at 
Northport and Huntington that the board of 
governors finds several serious objections to 
Huntington Bay and are considering other 
courses near New York. 
Some'time ago a letter was received from 
the Motor Boat Club by George B. Johnson, 
secretary of the Northport Board of Trade, 
saying the principal objection to Huntington 
Bay was the large expense connected with the 
removal and replacing of oyster stakes which 
dot the course. Considerable expense was in¬ 
curred by the Motor Boat Club of America last 
year for this work, and the secretary wrote that 
it would not stand this expense again. Dexter 
K. Cole, manager of the Northport division of 
the Sealshipt Oyster Company, which leases the 
largest number of oyster beds along the course, 
agreed before the town trustees that not more 
than $25 would be charged for the work this 
year. 
At a meeting of the board of governors last 
week, however, it appears that other objections 
to Huntington were raised, among which were 
the uncertainty at to whether the Chateau des 
Beaux Arts will be open and the difficulty the 
general public would have, as they did last 
year, in reaehing the course to view the races. 
Suggestions made in the letter received on 
Monday by Mr. Strawson and Town Clerk 
Sammis are: 
First—The committee think that your board 
might possibly start arrangements with the 
Long Island Railroad to see if additional train 
service could be had during the days of racing. 
Second—What arrangements can be made for 
the transportation of people to and from the 
Beaux Arts pier, whether the street railway can 
be induced to extend its line to the pier, so that 
it would be in service at the time of tbe races 
or some other method of transportation be 
provided. This is a very important point, as 
a great many people last year did not get 
nearer the races than the Huntington Station, 
others at the end of the car line, etc., etc. 
Third—Is the Chateau des Beaux Arts to be 
open this year? If so, can you give us any idea 
who is going to have it? 
It is known, however, that the wealthy resi¬ 
dents of East Neck are opposed to the presence 
of the throngs of people who come to view the 
races and are inclined to trespass upon their 
estates, and it is possible that they have used 
their influence against the motor boat events. 
There has been much comment upon the pos¬ 
sibility of the purchase of the Chateau des 
Beaux Arts by the New York Y. C. It is feared 
that if the sale is made another objection 
against the races will be raised, as that would 
preclude all chance of the public viewing the 
races from the pier. 
Nassau County Yachting Association. 
At a meeting of the Long Beach Motor Y. 
C., held on March 27, at Hotel Nassau, the or¬ 
ganization of the Nassau County Yachting As¬ 
sociation, which was temporarily organized 
last summer, was perfected. Commodore Ro¬ 
land H. Mayland, formerly first flag officer of 
the Hempstead Bay Y. C., was elected Presi¬ 
dent, and A. A. Dal Molin, secretary of the 
Nassau Y. C., Secretary. 
It is planned during the summer in Raynold’s 
Channel and at other places along the shore to 
hold a series of events which will include races 
between hydroplanes, high speed contests and 
probably races between aeroplanes and motor 
boats. 
Among those present were Commodore 
Baker, of the Nassau Y. C.; Commodore Shiff- 
macher. and Mr. Smith, of the Keystone Y. C.; 
A. A. Dal Molin, George Schiffmacher and R. 
H. Dal Molin. Senator William H. Raynolds 
and Frank Bailey, of the Title Guarantee and 
Trust Company, were interested listeners. 
Atlantic Division. 
Burlington, N. J., March 26 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: Now that the first event of the 
canoeing season of 1912 has been held, in the 
shape of a dinner in Trenton, on Feb. 17, we 
must awaken to the fact that there are other 
and possibly more interesting events following. 
The cruising men can look forward to a de¬ 
lightful cruise down the Ramapo River on May 
II and 12. On the advice of the commodore, 
we substituted this river for the Hackensack; 
and while I am not personally familiar with 
this section, I am informed by those who have 
been there that it far exceed the Hackensack in 
beauty of scenery, more exciting in the abund¬ 
ance of quick water, rifts and possible spills, 
and that it is a more desirable and pleasurable 
trip in many ways. Rear-Commodore A. D. 
Berning is chairman of the committee of 
arrangements for this cruise, and associated 
with him are R. H. Nash, Charles Spenner and 
H. N. Wilson. Mr. Wilson has a shack on 
this river, where he lives a greater part of the 
summer. All of these men are thoroughly 
familiar with the trip and they promise it will 
be the best cruise in many years. Any informa¬ 
tion the Atlantic Division members may desire 
(or members of any other division) before the 
details of same are mailed to them can be had 
from the committee. As this is the opening 
paddling event, both the committee and myself 
would feel greatly pleased to have a big turn¬ 
out, and I trust everyone who possibly can will 
arrange to go. 
On May 25 and 26 will be held a cruise down 
the Rancocas Creek, already famed for its 
beauty of virgin wildness and placid waters. 
This is an ever-popular trip with the Delaware 
River canoeists, and always appeals to the man 
from a distance who once makes it. Above a 
point eight miles from the Delaware River, the 
Rancocas is divided into two branches—the 
north branch being navigable from Hanover 
Furnace to Delanco, a distance of, forty-five 
miles; the south branch from a little above 
