April 13, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
473 
Ticks from the Ship’s Clock. 
The following appointments are announced 
by J. Stuart Blackton, Commodore of the At¬ 
lantic Y. C.: Ernest E. Malcolm. Fleet Cap¬ 
tain; Charles E. Gilbert, M.D., Fleet Surgeon; 
Nehemiah Boynton, D.D., Chaplain; Regatta 
Committee—Carlos de Zafra, Chairman; Alvah 
Nickerson, F. Lewis Luckenbach. 
The Camden Y. C., of Camden, Me., of which 
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, of Philadelphia, is com¬ 
modore, has built a new club house to be ready 
for occupancy on June i. It is of wooden con¬ 
struction of attractive design. It has a wide 
piazza on three sides. The main room is 89 
feet by 58 feet, in 'which is a large stone fire¬ 
place. The locker room and the room for 
skippers is in a separate building 88 feet long 
by 24 feet wide. The club has arranged to have 
a water boat this summer which will add to the 
convenience of visitors. 
Yachting on San Francisco Bay. 
At the annual meeting of the Corinthian Y. 
C. the following program was arranged: May 
4 and 5, Paradise Cove and return; May ii and 
12, Vallejo and return; May 18, open; May 25 
and 26, Petaluma drawbridge and return; June 
I and 2, open; June 8 and 9, McNear’s and re¬ 
turn; June 15 and 16, open; June 22 and 23, 
Vallejo and handicap race home; June 29, open; 
June 30, Hammersmith trophy; July 4, recep¬ 
tion at club house; July 6 and 7, Paradise Cove 
and return; July 13 and 14, open; July 19, 20, 
21, Santa Cruz; July 27, Santa Cruz; July 28, 
return; Aug. 3, Paradise Cove; Aug. 4, small 
boat races; Aug. 10 and 11, McNear’s and re¬ 
turn; Aug. 17 and i8th, river trip; Aug. 24 and 
25, return from river trip; Aug. 31, Sept, i and 
2, Alviso trip; Sept. 7 and 8, open; Sept. 9, in¬ 
terclub regatta; Sept. 14, open; Sept. 15, motor 
boat day, aquatic sports; Sept. 21 and 22, Para¬ 
dise Cove and return; Sept. 28 and 29, San 
Rafael and return; Oct. 5, Paradise Cove; Oct. 
19, closing day, Oct. 20, cruise in squadron. 
The Sausalito Y. C. elected: Commodore, A. 
Reubold; Vice-Commodore, Walter Marr; Port 
Captain, W. H. James; Measurer, W. Wood¬ 
ward; President, Otto Rhode; Vice-President, 
Robert Brandlien; Secretary, T. L. Suther¬ 
land; Treasurer, Dr. M. E. Simon; Regatta 
Committee—Dr. M. E. Simon. Dr. H. L. 
Lacoste and William Reeves. Captain Wood¬ 
ward is having many changes made in the Folly; 
Surprise, owned by Vice-Commodore Marr, is 
being remodeled, and the sloop Comet is being 
fitted with new decks for her owner, L. F. 
Secor. The program for the season is: April 
20, opening; April 21, cruise in squadron; May 
4 and 5, open; May ii and 12, Vallejo and re¬ 
turn; May 18 and 19, Paradise Cove, clambake; 
May 25 and 26, open; May 30, race for Soren¬ 
son cup; June i, cruise to McNear’s; June 2, 
race home for Reubold cup; June 8 and 9, open; 
June 15 and 16, open; June 22 and 23, cruise to 
Vallejo and race home for Secor cup; June 30, 
river cruise; July 14, return from river cruise; 
July 21 to 28, Santa Cruz; Aug. 4, Paradise 
Cove; Aug. ii, race for perpetual trophy; Aug. 
17 and 18, Sheep Island; Aug. 24 and 25, open; 
Aug. 31, Sept. I and 2, Redwood City and race 
home for Marr cup; Sept. 7, 8 and 9, Petaluma 
and race home for Rhode cup; Sept. 15 and 16, 
open; Sept. 22, outside cruise; Sept. 28 and 29, 
McNear’s; Oct. 5 and 6, open; Oct. 12 and 13, 
Paradise Cove; Oct. 19 and 20, ladies’ days; 
Oct. 27. closing day. 
San Francisco Y. C. program; April 27, 
opening dance, dinner and jinks; April 28, cruise 
m squadron; May 4 and 5, cruise to McNear’s 
and return; May 12, open; May 19, Paradise 
Cove; May 25 and 26, Vallejo and race home; 
May 30, picnic at Marin Islands; June 2, open; 
June 8, race over motor boat course for Pol- 
hemus Low cup, then cruise to Paradise Cove; 
June 9, clambake at Paradise Cove and return 
home; June 16, Farallone race; June 22 and 23, 
Petaluma drawbridge and return; June 30, open; 
July 4, cruise to Volante; July 6, rendezvous at 
Vallejo; July 7, race to Sausalito; July 14, an¬ 
nual regatta; July 21, lightship race; July 27 and 
28, Paradise Cove and return; Aug. 4, open; 
Aug. II, motor boat races and aquatic sports; 
Aug. 18, cruise to Hunter’s Point; Aug. 31, 
Army Point: Sept, i to 9, river cruise; Sept. 
15, triangle race; Sept. 21 and 22, Bolinas and 
return; Sept. 29, fishing trip to Red Rock for 
non-yacht owners; Oct. 6, motor boat regatta; 
Oct. 13, cruise to Winehaven; Oct. 26, clos¬ 
ing dance, dinner and jinks; Oct. 27, closing 
cruise in squadron. 
Encinal Y. C., of Alameda, officers are: 
President, S. M. Haslett; Vice-President, Ed¬ 
ward M. Shaw; Secretary, Harry H. Shed; Di¬ 
rectors—S. M. Haslett, Frank Paul, H. H. 
Shed, J. A. Landsberger, R. L. Weinmann and 
J. Evelyn Hall. 
The Corinthian Y. C., of San Francisco, has 
decided to abandon the Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
rules of measurement, and has adopted the uni¬ 
versal rule which has been given a thorough 
tryout here during the past two seasons. The 
sloop Corinthian, built by members of this club 
to challenge for the perpetual cup in 1904, and 
successful in two contests for the cup, is to be 
offered for sale. This club has received a sug¬ 
gestion from A. J. Mitchell, of the Sunset Y. 
C., of Los Angeles, that a race be arranged 
from San Francisco to San Pedro. 
Golden Gate. 
Abolish Cup Giving. 
At a meeting of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
Y. C., April 3, George E. Roosevelt, Secretary 
and Chairman of the Regatta Committee, recom¬ 
mended the abolishment of buying prizes for 
the winners of the yacht races. 
He said it is not the value of the prize that 
attracts the yachtsman, but the record he is able 
to make with his boat. His idea is that a stand¬ 
ard form of medal be adopted as a prize, thus 
materially reducing the expenses and at the 
same time pleasing the owners just as well as 
would an expensive trophy. Those present 
agreed that the matter should be submitted to 
the other clubs on the Sound and to the Yacht 
Racing Association. 
It was announced that Cornelius Vanderbilt 
has offered a cup for the small schooner class 
now being constructed to race the coming sea¬ 
son; also that races for the Jewel S. class 
will be held off Oyster Bay every Saturday dur¬ 
ing the season, as well as races for the 15- 
footers. The first race of the season for the 
club will be on May 25, when a special race will 
be held for the New York Y. C. 30-foot class. 
Y. R. A. of Jamaica Bay. 
The annual meeting of the Yacht Racing As¬ 
sociation of Jamaica Bay was held April 2. 
Officers were elected and courses for racing 
selected. 
The question most important was the adop¬ 
tion of an outside course for the larger type of 
boats instead of the Beach Channel course, the 
smaller craft to use the Beach Channel course 
and the larger boats to sail the triangular course 
off Manhattan Beach. 
Starting from the bell buoy off Sheepshead 
Bay, the first leg to be a fixed buoy in Am¬ 
brose Channel near Romer Shoal light, thence 
to the bell buoy off Norton’s Point, to the 
starting line. The Beach Channel course will 
start from Rockaway Point and the turning 
mark will be near the Long Island trestle in 
Broad Channel. 
Boat owners will have the option of sailing 
either of these courses, but must continue in 
the series in which the first race is sailed. 
The following five clubs decided to give up 
holding open club races and devote the date to 
handicap racing: Canarsie, Bergen Beach, 
Jamaica Bay, Bay View and Sheepshead Bay. 
The Rockaway Point Y. C. was elected to 
membership association. 
Former Commodore Clarence A. Martin, of 
the Canarsie Y. C., was re-elected president for 
the third time. Other officers are: Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, Dr. L. C. Heimer, of the Bay View Y. 
C.; Treasurer, Fred Cox, of the Old Mill Y. 
C.; Secretary, William McLaughlin, of the 
Canarsie Y, C,; Measurer, C. H. Greene, of the 
Diamond Point Y. C. A meeting will be held 
on April 30 for the purpose of arranging the 
racing dates. 
Handicap Y. R. Class. 
The annual meeting of the Handicap Yacht 
Racing Class of Long Island Sound was held 
on March 29, and the following officers were 
elected: President, G. P. Granbery; Secretary, 
Herbert L. Stone; Treasurer, R. B. Budd. The 
reports of committees showed the class to be 
in flourishing condition, with about forty boats 
racing throughout the season, while the class as 
a whole furnished nearly one-half the starts in 
the races under the auspices of the Long Island 
Sound Yacht Racing Association. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has sold 
the Herreshoff Buzzard’s Bay one-design class 
30-foot sloop yacht Arabian, owned by Robert 
Winsor, of Boston, to Ernest G. Adams, of 
Worcester, Mass.; also the 52-foot motor boat 
Totem owned by Richard H. Hammond, of 
Worcester, Mass., to Fremont Kimball, of 
Wakefield, Mass.; and the Herreshoff 21-foot 
raceabout Clitheroe owned by the Estate of 
Walter L. Dean, of Boston, to Henry P. Ben¬ 
son, of Salem, Mass. 
Reliance V. vs. Dixie, Jr. 
Reliance V., owned by J. J. Ryan, and the 
Dixie, Jr., built from designs by Tams, Lemoine 
& Crane, have been matched for a race. These 
two boats are of about the same size, and the 
race will be interesting because it will demon¬ 
strate two different ideas in motor boat design¬ 
ing and engines. 
Reliance V. is what is known as a one step, 
two plane hydroplane, a model credited with 
having made phenomenal speed in the West. 
The boat is flat-bottomed and this part ends 
abruptly at the step. The after part looks as 
though the end of another boat had been 
tacked on. These parts do not appear to fit, 
the bottom of this after end being about four 
or five inches above the bottom of the forward 
end. This makes the step. Air is pumped into 
this step, the idea being to raise the hull and 
let it plane over the water rather than drive 
through it. This boat is engined with a six- 
cylinder. 6o-horsepower motor of Van Blerck 
make, which actually develops more power than 
the nominal amount. It is a very light motor. 
Dixie, Jr., in trials has made 37 miles an hour. 
It is modeled very much like the famous Dixie 
IV., but is only 20 feet long and is driven by a 
6o-horsepower, six-cylinder Sterling motor. 
Mr. Ryan announced he was willing to match 
his new Reliance V. against any boat in the 
world, for any distance, and with no limit on 
the stake, and found a ready taker among T. 
L. & C. enthusiasts, and so the match was made. 
