June i, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
697 
Ticks from the Ship’s Clock. 
Regular races of the Warwick Neck one- 
design class at all of the club regattas on the 
bay appear to be probable within reasonable 
time. An order, received at Nock’s yard, East 
Greenwich, recently, for three more of these 
boats brings the total on the bay to fifteen, thus 
making it practically certain that there will be 
ten or twelve in each race. The guaranteed date 
for delivery of the new boats is June 22, and it 
is expected that they will enter their first race 
on Saturday, June 29. With the increasing num¬ 
ber of these boats in the lower bay and the 
greater recognition of the amount of sport that 
can be secured from them, it is believed by 
many yachtsmen that clubs in other parts of the 
bay will take them up and include them on their 
regatta programs. 
The United States Government has purchased 
from the Regal Gasolene Engine Company of 
Coldwater, Mich., one of their lo-horsepower 
medium-duty engines for use in connection with 
the fish hatchery at Gloucester, Mass. This en¬ 
gine will be installed in a boat 25 feet long with 
a 7-foot beam, the framing of which is of native 
New England white oak. The boat has been 
built to stand rough service, and is of very sub¬ 
stantial construction throughout. It will be in 
use the year round as a tender and work boat 
attached to the U. S. Fish Hatchery at Ten- 
Pound Island near Gloucester, Mass. 
Larchmonf Course Altered. 
The Regatta Committee of the Larchmont Y. 
C. has been in communication for some months 
with racing men of Long Island Sound, asking 
opinions regarding the turning of the south¬ 
west stake boat of the regular Larchmont 
courses. In courses that have to be sailed twice 
it has been found that the big sloops and 
schooners interfere with the smaller classes, and 
that in turn the little fellows are always in the 
way of the larger boats at this stake boat. The 
consensus of opinion was that it would be ad¬ 
visable to place two stake boats at the south¬ 
west mark, which is directly opposite the 
anchorage of the club, and send the large yachts 
around one and the smaller ones around the 
other mark. 
A mark boat will be placed about too yards 
northeast by east of the present southwest stake 
boat, and the new mark will be turned by Class 
N and larger. The smaller boats will turn the 
old mark, as in other years. It is believed that 
the change will be a great improvement. 
The Larchmont Y. C. will enforce the rule 
recently passed by the Yacht Racing Associa¬ 
tion of Long Island Sound regarding the plac¬ 
ing of racing numbers on the sails of competing 
yachts. Under no consideration will the regatta 
committee time any boat that violates this rule. 
Club Elections. 
At the annual meeting of .the Beechhurst Y. 
C.. held May 14, ofificers elected were: Commo- 
dore, L. F. Eggers; Vice-Commodore, E. D. 
Smsabaugh; Rear-Commodore, J. H. Surridge; 
Victor H. Cohn; Fleet Surgeon, 
Treasurer, J. J. Iris; Secretary, 
rva' J Financial Secretary, Walter 
Clifford. The House Committee is D E 
Holmes, S. M. Sidgel, Victor H. Cohn A. a’ 
Andruss, W. H. Reddy, A. E. Meeks and L. F. 
Eggers. The club will have its official opening 
on June T. 
On account of the resignation of Commodore 
K. V. Mooney and Vice-Commodore T. J. 
Morrison, the board of directors of the Ar- 
^'^‘^ted Frank H. Graf Commodore 
and Frank D. Brown Vice-Commodore. Fred¬ 
erick Petry was elected a director. The club 
will go into commission Saturday afternoon. 
May 25. 
At a recent election of the Ocean Y. C., of 
Stapleton, S. L, the officers selected for 1912 
were as follows: Commodore, Casper G. La- 
line; Vice-Commodore, Charles Hamilton; 
Rear-Commodore, Leo Rostetter; Fleet Cap¬ 
tain, Wm. Spiegelberg; Treasurer, J. Schmeiser; 
Financial Secretary, John Schron; Correspond¬ 
ing Secretary, F. G. Almstaedt; Measurer. 
James Dunn. Their first event of the season 
will be a 35-mile race around Staten Island to 
be held on May 30, Decoration Day. 
The first meeting of the newly organized 
yacht club of the New York Athletic Club, under 
the direction of the Board of Governors of that 
organization, was held in the New York Athletic 
Club on March 23. The following officers were 
elected: Commodore, Dr. Emile Heuel; Vice- 
Commodore, Edward A. Sumner; Rear Commo¬ 
dore, John H. Wallace; Secretary, Charles L. 
Burns; Treasurer, Albert E. Fetterech. 
The regatta committee is composed of the 
following members: J. Mahlstedt, Secretary 
Burns and Treasurer Fetterech. The represen¬ 
tatives to the Long Island Yacht Racing Asso¬ 
ciation is Harry L. Jackson, formerly chairman 
of the yacht committee. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has sold 
the crack 22-foot cabin sloop yacht Nereis, 
formerly Opitsah V., owned by S. Reed Anthony, 
of Boston, to Herbert A. Macinnis, of the 
Boston Y. C., who will use her for racing and 
cruising. 
The 21-foot waterline knockabout Jacobin, 
owned by the estate of Theodore W. King, of 
Dorchester, Mass., to Charles F. Adams,’ of 
Brookline, Mass.; the 21-foot raceabout Loafer, 
owned by Horace B. Stanton, of Boston, to 
Sylvester L. Gookin, of the South Boston Y. C.; 
the 25-foot waterline auxiliary yawl Brynhild, 
owned by Elmer F. Smith, of Marion, Mass., 
to John C. Edwards, of Brookline, Mass.; the 
21-foot raceabout Opitsah HI., owned by John 
C. Edwards, of Brookline, Mass., to a promi¬ 
nent member of the Boston Y. C. 
Massachusetts Motor Boat Protective 
Association. 
Delegates from various yacht clubs near 
Boston met in the committee rooms in the Tre- 
mont _Bldg. on May 25 and formed a temporary 
organization known as the Massachusetts Motor 
Boat Protective Association. 
The association will be incorporated under the 
laws of Massachusetts and perfect the organiza¬ 
tion on June 21, when a code of by-laws will be 
adopted. The committee on by-laws consists of 
Dr. J. C. Borrows, of the Jubilee Y. C.; C. C. 
Lee, of the Chelsea Y. C., and David Hickev, of 
the South Boston Y. C. 
The object of the'association is to afford pro¬ 
tection to power boat owners from illegal prose¬ 
cution. _ It will also make an attempt to secure 
legislation which will protect power boat owners 
and to repeal certain statutes now in force which 
are detrimental to the sport. 
One of the essentials for membership in the 
association will be that every applicant must 
have his boat properly equipped according to all 
the laws as they now stand. 
The temporary officers are: Commodore 
Whitney, of Beverly. President; Frank E. This- 
sel, of Beverly, Secretary; Ed. Pickett, of 
Beverly, Treasurer; F. L. Roberts, of Beverly, 
Financial Secretary; the officers, with A. H. 
Menslage, J. R. Groce, David Hickey and John 
J. Harlan, of South Boston; F. L. Dodge and 
J. C. Saunders, of Saugus; C. E. Webber and 
Dr. J, C. Burrows, of Beverly; C. C. Lee, of 
Chelsea, executive committee. 
Atlantic Y. C. 
Gravesend Bay yacht racing started May 
“' 5 * ^ Atlantic \, C. held its opening re- 
gatta with twelve class Q yachts. 
r.n '^°1fh'"0''fhwesterly breeze rippled 
on the water, when five class Q boats started 
across the line with Gray]acket 
just astern p windward. Soya, Suelew and Joy 
strung out in that order. The boats went over 
on a close reach, with booms to port. Gray- 
jacket and Alice soon drew away from the others 
and kept the lead to the finish line, and in the 
onds from A^lfce ^y three sec- 
Careless got away from Gunda at the start 
n the ^handicap division and bettered her lead 
to the nnish of the class X entrants. Mouse out¬ 
distanced S.ow Poke and Pike and was the first 
boat of any class to cross the finish line 
1 he regatta committee was: Carlos de Zafra 
C^hairman; Alvah Nicl^rson. H. S. Scribner and 
Horace E. Boucher. The summary; 
Sloops—Class Q—Start, 3 ;00—Course 6 Miles. 
Gray Jacket, F. C. Noble. 
Alice, G. Davis . •..!!!!!!!! 4 49 36 ^9 ^ 
Soya, \\. A. Barstow. 4 51 40 i an 
Joy, L. ^vage and Geer. 4 54 15 1 54 15 
Suelew, E. F. Luckenbach. 4 56 13 1 56 13 
Handicap Class—Second Division—Start, 3:05—Course 6 
r- 1 « X, Miles. 
Careless, K. Rummell . 4 56 4S 1 61 as? 
Gunda, W. H. Hall. i!:: 5 04 58 1 59 58 
Corrected times: Careless, 1.51.48; Gunda, 1.56.^^^ 
Al 3:l<t-Course, 6 Miles. 
-u. and T. H., Camp & Marchant. 4 53 33 l 43 33 
Cync, Dr. C. L. Atkinson. 4 54 15 1 44 15 
VT S'oops-zClass X—Start, 3:15—Course 4 Miles. 
Mouse K Dmgrnan . 4 23 18 1 08 18 
1 Ike, K. Kummell, Tr. 4 34 44 i iq 44 
Slow Poke, F. L. Dtirland. 4 43 10 1 28 10 
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. 
O^vster Bay, May 25.—Nine yachts com¬ 
peted for prizes offered by the Seawanhaka Cor¬ 
inthian Y. C. in its first race of the season to¬ 
day. It required nearly six hours for all to 
complete the course. 
It was initial day for New York Y. C.’s one- 
design 30-foot class, and the race was a special 
one. The Seawanhaka’s 15-foot sloops, which 
started in a race over the Oyster Bav inside 
course, gave up for lack of wind. 
The start, at 12:15, was pretty. With a light 
breeze from the north-northeast and nine yachts, 
with booms to port on a reach for the buoy with 
a free sheet, flattening as they closed up on it. 
All luffed at the start. 
With sheets flat on the port tack each yacht 
was just able to lie the first leg of the triangular 
course across the Sound. While the little fleet 
was well bunched at the start, J. H. Mahlstedt’s 
Okee and G. E. Roosevelt’s Dahinda had a little 
the best of the weather positions. Alera’s skip¬ 
per put her about for a hitch to windward. 
It was a four and three-quarter mile beat to 
the red spar buoy oft' Greenwich Point, and they 
made slow progress. After rounding this mark 
the wind freshened a bit and came out of the 
northwest, so the yachts, with free sheet and 
booms to starboard, made fairly good time to 
the second mark, five miles to the eastward. 
To the finish it was a five and three-quarter 
mile leg, with S. S. W. W. as the course. 
After rounding the second mark the wind shifted 
to the southwest, making it a beat. At 4 o’clock 
J. P. Morgan, Jr.’s, Phryne, sailed by the owner, 
was ahead. She was within a mile of the finish 
when the wind died. Caprice and Nepsi, hold¬ 
ing a light air and being further to the west¬ 
ward. passed Phryne and finished in that order. 
Caprice winning by 3m. 14s., Phryne .being third.’ 
The summary follows: 
Finish. 
Nepsi, J. De Forest. 5 29 43 
Phryne, J. P. Morgan, Jr. 5 44 25 
Alera, J. \V. and E. P. Alker. 6 05 48 
Dahinda, G. E. Roosevelt . 5 55 50 
Carlita, C. B. Kulenkampff. 6 01 15 
Caprice. B. N. Ellis . 5 26 29 
Okee. J. A. Mahlstedt . 5 44 45 
Rowdy, H. S. Duell . 5 45 IQ 
Juanita, S. C. Hunter. 5 48 00 
Caprice wins by 3m. 14s. from Nepsi. 
Elapsed, 
5 14 43 
5 29 25 
5 50 48 
5 40 50 
5 46 15 
5 11 29 
5 29 45 
5 40 10 
5 33 00 
