FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 9, 1907. 
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The Teredo. 
Few yachtsmen know what 
that destructive little wood 
boring worm, called the 
teredo, that eats a boat’s 
keel or planking, really 
looks like. I have a piece 
of spruce before me now as 
as I write showing a little 
hole at the end of the wood 
no bigger than a pin hole, 
but the side of the piece 
of wood shows the rapid 
growth of this teredo. 
The worm itself has now 
dried up and crumbled away 
like so much lime. But when the wood was cut, 
soon after being taken from the water, the 
teredo looked like this sketch. The body re¬ 
sembled an oyster in color, but in shape was 
more like a snail. Its head was • armed; with a 
shell-like set of cutters, one overlapping the 
other, forming a perfect auger that cut as clean 
a hole as the sharpest steel tool could make. 
The canal behind this interesting little creature 
SheH like cutters> 
^Lycwe tike coating 
On hole. 
was coated with a thin lime-like substance that 
cracked away into flakes at the touch. 
The sketch below shows how close together 
tliey wilt bore. One never crosses the track of 
another, though they often come so close that 
a mere film of wood separates the two. 
C. G. Davis. 
Avoid Collisions. 
Rochester, N. H., Feb. 27 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In Forest and Stream is an item, a 
warning to yachtsmen and it is good. A short 
storv is apropos. A man wanted a coachman 
and having several applicants asked one how 
close can you drive to that, pointing to a road 
that ran on the brink of a deep cut. One 
answered within three inches and others from 
that to a foot. Finally one said, “Just as far 
away from it as I can get.” Flaving spent the 
most of my life in Boston as team owner and 
driver and yachting a good deal, I think I can 
appreciate the advice, and I always found that 
any one looking for trouble and taking chances 
to "get it always succeeded. E. C. Neal. 
Canoeing. 
American Canoe Association. 
A letter through your paper to the mem¬ 
bers of the A. C. A. regarding my trip down 
east last week may be of interest as conveying 
some idea of what is going on in canoeing cir¬ 
cles around the Hub. 
I had the pleasure of being the guest of the 
Swastika Canoe Club, at their annual banquet, 
at the Crown Hotel, Providence, on the evening 
before Washington’s birthday. Fifty-nine sat 
down to one of the pleasantest gatherings it has 
ever been my good fortune to attend, and the 
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enthusiasm and earnestness displayed over canoe¬ 
ing and the A. C. A. was really astonishing. 
A number of the clubs have taken concerted 
action, and obtained permission to use the park 
lakes for canoeing, in addition to their rivers 
and Narragansett Bay, and they are making- 
elaborate plans for an active season. Quite a 
number are planning to attend the A. C. A. 
meet at Sugar Island, which will add much to 
the interest, especially as they have a number of 
first class paddling men. 
As promised you a few weeks ago, I went 
out to Marblehead and visited the works of 
Messrs. Burgess and Packard, and saw the new 
canoe they have built for Vice-Corn. Ohlmeyer, 
which was of great interest to me, as it is con¬ 
siderable of a departure from anything that has 
heretofore been built. The builders not only 
gave me permission to take note of such things 
as I wanted, in order to describe it, but also 
agreed to furnish me with the lines for publi¬ 
cation. 
The annual dinner of the Eastern Division was 
a notable success on Saturday night, at the 
American House, and from the faces at the head 
table one might have thought he was in New 
York instead of Boston, as most of the places 
of honor were held by men from the Atlantic 
Division. 
Vice-Com. Bodwell presided and was flanked 
on each side by three men from New York. He 
allowed me the honor of telling the men from 
the east some of the plans for this year’s camp, 
and what arrangements are under way for net¬ 
ting them there. If the transportation commit¬ 
tee succeeds in getting the necessary car for the 
transportation of canoes we will have twice as 
many men at the meet from that vicinity than 
we have ever had before. 
He also called on Vice-Com. Ohlmeyer to re¬ 
spond to the toast of the Atlantic Division, and 
Dan Goodsell to the Racing Board. Both re¬ 
sponded in their usual happy vein to the envy 
of others who cannot do so well. 
The bond of friendship between the members 
of the Association, regardless of what division 
they belong to, was more clearly shown than 
ever before, for the eastern men certainly en¬ 
tertained us in royal style, and what is more 
to the point, not in a mere formal way, either. 
Most of the members of the New York Canoe 
sides. Same condit-ons as No. 7. 
No. 9. Club race, 4% miles. First three from each 
club to count points. . 
No. 10. Relay, club race, handicap. Twice around 
Sugar Island. To include the whole fleet. Sail area 
limited to 85 square feet on second round. For prizes 
offered by Vice-Commodore Ohlmeyer, of the Atlantic 
Division. 
No 12. Upset and man-overboard, % mile. 
No. 13. Open canoes, handicap, 3 miles. 
No. 14. Open canoes, handicap, 2 1 / 4 miles, small tri¬ 
angle, l 4 mile sides. 
No. 15. Open canoes, handicap. Twice around Sugar 
Island. Fleet to be divided Tnto three classes. Ten 
minutes’ handicap for each class over the one higher up. 
No. 16. Open canoe trophy race. Run in three heats, 
3 miles each. Scratch. 
PADDLING EVENTS—RACING CLASS. 
No. 17. Trophy, 1 mile. (Open also to the cruising 
class.) 
No. 18. One man, single blades, Yz mile. 
No. 19. Tandem, single blades, Yz mile. 
No. 20. One man, double blades, Yz mile. 
No. 21. Tandem, double blades, Yz mile. 
PADDLING EVENTS—CRUISING CLASS. 
No. 22. One man, single blades, Vz mile. 
No. 23. Tandem, single blades, Yz mile. 
No. 24. One man, double blades, Yz mile. 
No. 25. Tandem, double blades, Yz mile. 
No. 26. Tail-end race, Ys mile. 
No. 27. Hurry-scurry; run, swim, paddle, jump over¬ 
board (at signal); climb in again and finish. 
No. 28. Cruising race, tandem, single blades. Around 
Sugar Island, 200 pounds ballast, of which any amount 
may be in the shape of a passenger. There will be a 
short carry across the neck’ of land at Buffalo Wallow. 
No. 29. Club Fours, single blades Yz mile. 
No. 30. Mixed tandem, single blades, % mile. 
No. 31. Ladies’ tandem, Yk mile, single blades. 
No. 32. Blindfold race, paddle around a buoy and 
return, by directions shouted from shore. 
No. 33. Tilting tournament. 
Note.—It is intended to start the sailing races on 
Tuesday, Aug. 13, and schedule them to be through on 
Tuesday or Wednesday, the 20th or 21st, allowing an 
extra day or two in case of bad weather. To start the 
paddling races on Saturday, Aug. 17, finishing up with 
the trophy paddling and all of the races for the racing 
class on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 21 and 22. 
These latter races will be scheduled for a certain day 
(or two days) whichever may be decided upon, and run 
off on that day or days, regardless of weather. 
Club went out to the works of John Robertson, 
at Riverside, where a number of dinghies are 
being built for them. 
I inclose herewith the proposed programme of 
races for the coming meet, which will be of 
general interest. Geo. P. Douglass. 
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME OF RACES FOR 
A. C. A. MEET, AUGUST, 1907. 
No. 1. Combined sailing and paddling, 3 miles. 
No. 2. Paddling, % mile. 
No. 3. Sailing, 3 miles. 
Nos. 1 to 3 are record events and are limited to open 
canoes of the cruising class. 
SAILING EVENTS. 
No. 4. Trophy, 9 miles; time limit, 3% hours. 
No. 5. Mab trophy, 7 Yz miles; time limit 3 hours. 
No. 6. Trial, 6 miles; time limit 2 Yz hours. 
No. 7. Handicap, 4 1 4 miles. Boat, man, rig and 
weather considered. Handicap posted beforehand, and 
the allowance in time made at the start. First man 
heme wins. . 
No. S. Handicap, 3 miles, on small triangle, % mile 
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PIECE OF OAK FROM A YACHT’S KEEL, EATEN BY WORMS AS THE TEREDO ARE CALLED. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division.—Warren H. Prentzel, Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa., by C. T. Mitchell; J. H. Stroye^ 
N. Y. City, by A. M. Poole; George Beasome, 
N. Y. City, by H. H. Near; James McGahan 
and James G. Simpson, both of N. Y. City, and 
both by G. R. Stark. 
BhouMn^ 
=—1 lrol& made, 
in a pieco 
o | spruce. 
Central Division.—Gerter C. Shidle, E. Carne¬ 
gie, Pa., by W. H. Brown. 
Eastern Division.—Howard E. Mason, Provi¬ 
dence, R. I., by S. D. Burnham; F. A. Dore, 
and F. H. Pedersen, both of Providence, R. I., 
and both by S. B. Burnham. 
Western Division.—Frank J. M. Petritz and A. 
S. Fleming, Rockford, Ill., by H. F. Norris; E. 
F. Fuller, Milwaukee, Wis., by A. Pritzloff; 
George J. Cowan, Chicago, Ill., by J. E. Dixon. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—5236, Ames Chipperfield, N. 
Y. City; 5238, Walter Drey, N. Y. City; . 5239 - 
Joseph G. Miller, Plainfield, N. J.; 5248- William 
C. Lloyd, N. Orange, N. J.; 5249, Warren H. 
Prentzel, Philadelphia, Pa.; 5 2 54 > J- Hutton 
Stroyer. N. Y. City. 
Central Division.—5237, Walter. H. Crofts, 
Pittsburg, Pa.; 5251, Gerter C. Shidle, E. Car¬ 
negie, Pa. 
Eastern Division.—5240, Harry T. Sanford, 
Manchester, N. H.; 5241, William C. Bennett, 
Manchester, N. H.; 5242, Arthur E. Neill, Edge- 
wood, R. I.; 5243, William- H. Handling, Provi¬ 
dence, R. I.; 5245. Howard E. Mason, .Provi¬ 
dence. R. I.: 5252, Francis A. Dore, Providence, 
R. I.; 5253, F. Henry Peders<N , Providence, R. I 
Western Division.—5244, Frank J. M. Petritz, 
Rockford, Ill.; 5246, A. S. Fleming, Rockford, 
Ill.; 5247, E. F. Fuller, Milwaukee, Wis.; 5250, 
Geore-e T. Cowan. Chicago. Ill. 
