April 27, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
537 
Ticks from the Ship’s Clock. 
The New York Y. C. has now 488 vessels in 
its fleet and the gross tonnage is 66,269.84. Of 
these 93 are schooners of 8,714.40 tons; 99 
sloops and yawls of 2,882.77 tons; 197 steam 
yachts of 49.239.85 tons, and 109 power boats 
of 5.432.82 tons. In addition to these there are 
75 motor launches specially listed in the club. 
At a recent meeting of commodores of several 
yacht clubs it was decided to hold a motor boat 
race on Decoration Day, the course to be from 
New York to Albany. Mayor Gaynor is to send 
a message to Governor Dix, it is hoped, by the 
winner. 
The racing schedule for the Bristol _Y. C. this 
season is one regatta shorter than previous sched¬ 
ules, according to the list of events arranged re¬ 
cently by the Narragansett Bay Yacht Racing As¬ 
sociation. There is to be no September regatta 
in Bristol, unless the Bristol club holds a special 
race. 
Usually there have been open regattas in June, 
August and September. Whether there will be 
a Brenton Reef cup race this season for a special 
cup is not definitely known. Last season such 
an event was eliminated from the schedule for 
the reason that the annual run on the excursion 
steamer to the King’s cup race more than made 
up for the contest to Brenton’s Reef and return. 
Bristol’s first regatta will be on June 29. 
Nat Herreshoff’s new 50-foot power boat, 
which is being constructed at the shops of the 
Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, 
will be ready the latter part of May. 
Former Commodore Arthur C. James received 
his new mahogany speed boat as a tender to the 
steam yacht Aloha last week at Newport, the 
little craft proceeding from Bristol under her 
own power, making about eighteen miles an hour. 
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. is arranging a 
regular series of contests for the jewel S class 
yachts each Saturday afternoon during the sea¬ 
son, This class is about 19 feet waterline and 
28 feet over-all. designed by Cox & Stevens in 
1909 and built by Robert Jacob, at City Island, 
at a cost of $1,100 each. The club has options 
on six at $700 each, which will he turned over 
to members purchasing. 
The talked of challenge from Chicago Y. C. 
to the American Y. C. for Manhasset cup has 
been received. The yacht building at Woods 
Yard. City Island, to defend the international 
trophy on the Great Lakes will be the entrant. 
The race will be sailed before July i. 
150'Mile Big Schooner Race. 
The first event on schedule of the Eastern Y. 
C. will be the race from Newport to Marble¬ 
head. the most important long distance race of 
the season, with classes for big schooners, 
smaller schooners, and one for sloops and 
yawls, over a course of about 150 miles. 
The big schooners will race for the gold cup 
offered by Commodore F. Lewis Clark. Last 
year Elena won one leg on the cup. The 
smaller schooners and the sloops will race for 
prizes presented by two other members of the 
club. In this event entries will include Elena, 
Irolita, Enchantress. Sea Fox, Princess, 
formerly Elmina L; Taormina, Vagrant, 
Shimna, Avenger, Adventuress and Acushla 11 . 
On the same day the club will hold a regatta 
at Marblehead for yachts of not more than 46 
feet rating, and in this there will be the regular 
rating classes, and probably the Sonder class 
and Marblehead one-design classes. 
On Tuesday the annual regatta of the East¬ 
ern Y. C. will be held off Marblehead, in which 
all the yachts taking part in the ocean race will 
enter. 
On Wednesday evening there will be a cap¬ 
tains’ meeting on board the flagship, and early 
on the morning of Thursday, July 4, the fleet 
will start on the cruise to Bar Harbor. 
For the racing runs there will be regular club 
prizes each day, while special prizes for the yacht 
making the best total corrected time on all the 
racing runs of the cruise have been offered by 
Commodore Paine, for first division schooners; 
Vice-Commodore Sears, for all auxiliaries sail¬ 
ing in one class; Rear-Commodore Whitehouse, 
for first division sloops and yawls; M. F. 
Plant, for second division schooners; Fleet 
Captain Emmons, for third division schooners, 
and Arthur Winslow, for second division sloops. 
On Friday afternoon, July 12, the race for 
the Norman cups from Bar Harbor to Marble¬ 
head will begin. Ample time will be allowed 
for yachts wishing to take part in Larchmont 
regatta, beginning July 20. 
The Eastern Y. C. will give a special race 
off Marblehead for yachts of not more than 
46 feet rating on Aug. 5. This will be the 
first day of the regular Alarblehead race week 
in connection with the midsummer series of the 
Corinthian Y. C. 
Camden (Me.) Y. C. 
The new club house of the Camden Y. C., lo¬ 
cated on the site of the old lime kiln property 
on the south side of the harbor, will be ready 
for occupancy in early June. It is of wooden 
construction, provided with a wide piazza on 
three sides and with all facilities of a modern 
club house. The main room is 89 feet long 
and 58 feet wide. The dock has a granite bulk¬ 
head and is 167 feet long, and there is twelve 
feet of water in front of the dock at low tide. 
At one end of the property, in a separate build¬ 
ing, is a large storeroom and locker room, 
which will be used for skippers. Seventy-five 
feet of frontage provides ample room for boats 
or tenders. 
This year the club will provide a water boat 
for the convenience of its members and guests. 
The commodore is Cyrus H. K. Curtis, of Phil¬ 
adelphia. 
Corinthian Y. C. Schedule. 
The schedule of the spring series races, race- 
about class, of above club for the season are 
as follows: 
Saturday, May ii; Saturday, May 18: Satur¬ 
day, May 25; Thursday, May 30; Saturday, June 
i; Saturday, June 8; Saturday, June 15, Satur¬ 
day, June 22; Saturday, June29. Open to race- 
abouts belonging to all organized yacht clubs. 
Prizes.—A prize will be awarded in each race 
in which two boats start with full intention of 
completing the course; a second prize, in which 
four or more start with like intention; and a 
third prize, in which seven or more start with 
like intention. A series prize, presented by 
Vice-Commodore C. Howard Clark, Jr., is 
offered for the winner of the greatest number 
of points. Points to count as follows: 
In each race, each boat competing will be 
credited with as many points as the number of 
boats she defeats, with one point added as a 
premium for sailing race. 
A boat that starts and does not finish will re¬ 
ceive no point, but will be counted as a defeated 
boat in crediting points to boats that complete 
the race. 
The award of points will be made each day 
on the basis of the largest number of boats 
starting on any day, it being assumed for the 
purpose of this competition that the number of 
boats starting is the same each day. 
Courses.—The committee will decide on the 
morning of the race which course will be sailed, 
and will announce the same at least one hour 
before the preparatory signal. 
Racing Signals.—i :55 P. M., preparatory 
signal, blue peter; 2:00 P. M., starting signal, 
red ball dropped. (The red ball will be hoisted 
one minute before gun-fire; the signal to start 
will be the fall of the red ball and gun-fire.) 
Entries.—All boats shall carry racing num¬ 
bers, which shall be placed above the reef 
points, at equal distance from the luff and leech, 
on each side of the mainsail. No boat will be 
timed which does not display her racing number. 
A race in which no boat has finished at one- 
half hour after sunset shall be declared off. 
Opening of Delaware Season. 
The yacht racing season of the Corinthian Y. 
C., of Philadelphia, will open May ii, to be sailed 
off Essington. The series will last until June 29, 
the races being sailed on Saturdays and Decora¬ 
tion Day. 
A prize will be awarded in each race in which 
two boats start with full intention of completing 
the course; a second prize, in which four or 
more start, and a third prize, in which seven or 
more start. A prize is offeree^ by Vice-Commo¬ 
dore C. Floward Clark, Jr., in the series to the 
winner of the greatest number of points. 
Entries should be made before May ii. Addi¬ 
son F. Bancroft (Chairman), George Breed and 
Charles Longstreth constitute the race committee. 
Yacht Sales. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has sold 
the 33-foot waterline sloop yacht Lady -Mary, 
owned by Gifford K. Simonds, of Fitchburg, 
Mass., to Philip L. Saltonstall, of Boston. 
Lady Mary is a Lawley built cruiser formerly 
owned by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode 
Island, and will be changed by Mr. Saltonstall 
to an auxiliary for use on Vineyard Sound. 
The same agency has also sold the crack 
Herreshoff 25-footer May Queen, owned by J. 
C. McCoy, of Providence, R. L, to J. S. Crosby, 
of New York, who will race her on Long Island 
Sound. 
M(D)iL(D]r Boaitmi 
San Diego Cruise. 
The cruise committee of San Diego Exposi¬ 
tion held a meeting yesterday and settled some 
of the details of the cruise. 
Competing yachts will leave New York early 
in September, 1914, and thereafter, according to 
the handicaps allowed to each under normal con¬ 
ditions, should they arrive at Colon within a few 
hours of each other. The cruise is divided into two 
sections, one from New York to the canal, the other 
from the canal to San Diego, prizes being offered 
.for both legs. Pacific coast yachtsmen will par¬ 
ticipate in the latter leg, so that when the fleet 
leaves Panama northward along the Pacific coast, 
it will be made up of the best power yachts of 
Atlantic and Pacific clubs. 
Bermuda Race. 
Commodore Whitaker, of the Yachtsmen’s 
Club of Philadelphia, announces that that club 
will handle the Bermuda power boat race this 
year and that the start will be made from Phila¬ 
delphia on July 27. This race previously has 
been conducted by the Motor Boat Club of 
America. It was not held last year because the 
date was set too early in the year to permit 
boats to get ready. The committee in charge to 
assist J. G. W. Whitaker is comprised of M. E. 
Brigham. Chairman: A. Harry Edson, Mr. Field, 
Charles Lagen, IMr. Cartledge, Jr., R. M. Vander- 
herchen. F. G. Strassburger and Dr. Eugene 
Swayne, Secretary. 
