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Yachting Fixtures for 1907. 
Secretaries of yacht clubs will confer a favor 
by notifying us of any errors, nezv dates or 
changes in racing dates. 
New York and Long Island Sound Waters. 
MAY. 
25. New Rochelle Yacht Club. 
30. Atlantic Yacht Club. 
30. Bridgeport Yacht Club. 
30. Greenwich Yacht Club. 
30. Harliem Yacht Club. 
30. Indian Harbor Yacht Club. Special classes. 
30. Motor Boat Club. Members’ race. 
30. Seawanhaka Yacht Club. 
JUNE. 
1. Bensonhurst Yacht Club. 
1. Knickerbocker Yacht Club. . 
1. Seawanhaka Yacht Club (Center Memorial). Class 
N. Y. 30’s, S. C. Y. C. 15-footers. 
2. Seawanhaka Yacht Club, 15-footer series. 
3. Seawanhaka Yacht Club, 15-footer series. 
3. Motor Boat Club. This week James Gordon Bennett 
cup. 
5. Brooklyn Y. C. ocean race to Bermuda. 
8. Brooklyn Yacht Club. 
8. Manhassett Bay Yacht Club. 
8. Motor Boat Club. Race to Bermuda. 
11. South Coast Yacht Club, California. Ocean race to 
Honolulu. 
13. New York Yacht Club. Spring cups, Glen Cove. 
15. Atlantic Yacht Club. 
15. Larchmont Yacht Club. 
15. Motor Boat Club. 
20. New York Yacht Club. 
21. Seawanhaka Yacht Club spring regatta. 
22. Seawanhaka Yacht Club annual open regatta. 
22. New York Athletic Club ocean race to Block Island. 
25. Indian Harbor Yacht Club cruising race to New 
London. 
29. Atlantic Yacht Club. 
29. Motor Boat Club. 
29. New Rochelle Yacht Club. 
29. Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. 
JULY. 
1-5. American Yacht Club. 
3. Seawanhaka Yacln c.ub. Class Q for J. A. Blair, 
Jr., cup. 
4. Brooklyn Yacht Club. 
4. Huntington Yacht Club. 
4. Larchmont Yacht Club. 
4. Indian Harbor power boats. 
6. Bensonhurst Yacht Club. 
6. Riversidie Yacht Club. 
6. New York Yacht Club. Glen Cove cups. 
6. Seawanhaka 15-footers. 
13. Atlantic Yacht Club. 
13. Greenwich Yacht Club. 
13. Indian Habor Yacht Club annual regatta. 
13. Seawanhaka Y’acht Club 15-footers. 
20. Brooklyn Yacht Club. 
20. Huntington Yacht Club. 
20. Larchmont Yacht Club. 
20. New Rochelle Yacht Club ocean race to Marblehead 
for power boats. 
20. Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. 
21. Larchmont Yacht Club. 
22. Larchmont Yacht Club,. 
23. Larchmont Yacht Club. 
24. Larchmont Yacht Club. 
25. Larchmont Yacht Club. 
26. Larchmont Yacht Club. 
27. Larchmont Yacht Club. 
27. Bensonhurst Yacht Club. 
27. Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. Ladies’ race. 
AUGUST. 
Races at Kiel, Germany, this month; entries close 
June 1. 
New York Yacht Club cruise; date decided later. 
3. Atlantic Yacht Club. 
3. Corinthian Yacht Club of Hartford. 
3. Horseshoe Harbor Yacht Club. 
3. Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15 footers and Bartlett Reef 
buoy distance race. 
10. Brooklyn Yacht Club. 
10. Bridgeport Yacht Club. 
10. Huguenot Yacht Club. 
10. Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. 
17. Atlantic Yachto Club. 
17. Hartford Yacht Club. 
17. Stamford Yacht Club. 
17. Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. 
24. American Yacht Club. 
24. Bensonhurst Yacht Club. 
24. Motor Boat Club. Start for Jamestown, Va. 
24. Northport Yacht Club. 
24. Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. 
30. Seawanhaka Yacht Club. Cup for sloops; all in one 
class. Class P and New York 30’s, Alfred Roose¬ 
velt memorial cup. 
31. Seawanhaka Yacht Club autumn annual, all classes. 
31. New York Yacht Chib. 
31. Huntington Harbor Y^acht Club. 
SEPTEMBER. 
2. Atlantic Yacht Club. 
2. Indian Harbor Yacht Club. Boat, canoe and water 
sports. 
2. Larchmont Yacht Club. 
2. Norwalk Yacht Club. 
2. Sachem Head Yacht Club. 
5. New York Yacht Club autumn cups, Glen Cove. 
7. Indian Harbor Yacht Club fall regatta and ocean race 
to Hampton Roads. 
7. Larchmont Yacht Club. 
7. Marine and Field. 
7. Seawanhaka Yacht blub 15-footers. 
9. Jamestown race week starts. 
14. Atlantic Yacht Club. 
14. Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. 
21. Brooklyn Yacht Club. 
21. Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. 
23. Motor Boat Club, power boats, fhree days races. 
Race to Poughkeepsie. 
28. Bensonhurst Yacht Club. 
OCTOBER. 
5. Motor Boat Club. 
Not a Snap Shot. 
Did you ever know it to fail when a man goes 
out for a stroll and it is the first time in a hun¬ 
dred such wanderings when he leaves his camera 
home, how certain he is to come across a prize 
picture? The hunter always sees his best shot 
when without a gun, just as the fish lost is 
always the biggest ever hooked. Maybe, if I 
had had my camera and got a snap of the pic¬ 
ture, the result would have been merely an ordi¬ 
nary one. But the picture as it lives in my 
memory to-dav has the advantage of all the color 
and surroundings that set it off like a becom¬ 
ing frame. 
I had wandered all through the Erie Basin 
where huge iron cargo steamships were dry- 
docked, where propellers stood, tons in weight, 
sixteen to twenty feet in diameter, where cables 
and six inch hawsers represented the cordage 
used, and everything had an air of commercialism 
about it that breathed too much of South street 
and great busy mercantile houses. There was 
one yacht there, if you can call it a yacht, when 
it takes a huge steel craft about a hundred and 
thirty feet in length and close on to forty tons 
of lead ballast. She was the Shamrock hauled 
out. It would take hundreds of dollars to get 
such a craft ready to sail. 
And next to this I wandered up and down the 
decks at Manning’s yacht basin, where palatial 
private steamships, fitted up like palaces, were 
shedding their covers and starting to overhaul for 
the season. 
Perhaps it was the contrast. At any rate I 
walked over to the forlorn woe-be-gone sort of 
marine waste basket where hulks half buried in 
the slime reared their black, slimy wreckage like 
great toads coming up out of the mud. Along¬ 
shore a fringe of small boats represented the 
poor man’s yachting fleet, and here is where I 
came across my prize picture. She, was a small 
old-fashioned catboat, now converted with a 
home-made bowsprit, such as needs no words of 
description, into a sloop. On a narrow, steep 
strip of beach, one bilge resting on an empty 
box, while her owner with a broom scrubbed 
the slime off the bottom, while the tide was 
high, preparatory to painting it later. 
She had a cabin; yes, you could just about sit 
up in it, and a small deep cockpit that three 
could get into. A new square chafing strip of 
yellow pine with about two feet of its after end 
painted a bright red to see how the color con¬ 
trasted with the shiny black topsides that were 
painted on that side. The stump of a brush laid 
across a can of black showed the other side was 
yet to' be done. Worn out pieces of sandpaper, 
a small pot of red paint, and some brown putty 
completed the inanimate objects, but a small boy, 
so intent on whittling a point on a piece of drift¬ 
wood with his daddy’s big jack knife that he did 
not see me, gave animation enough to enliven 
the picture. 
I sat down to drink in the beauties of such a 
sight. You know my nose does not go up in the 
air when I see enthusiasm even in such lowly 
craft. Her owner was a poor man, there was 
no doubt of that, but he was a man, a human 
brother to the richest on earth even if advan¬ 
tages in education and money had not come his 
way, and I greeted him with a cheerful, “Well! 
I see you are hard at it,” as he emerged from 
behind the offside and straightened up to rest, 
while the kid put his new boat afloat to see how 
it would set in the water. 
“That kid is crazy on boats,” he replied, as 
we both watched the youngster. “Every stick of 
kindlin’ in the home he cuts into boats. We 
had a funeral up our way to-day, so I got a 
day off and took advantage of it to try and paint 
her up. Yes, she’s a pretty good little craft. I 
just bought her last week. Been offered,more 
for her three times since, too'. You can’t get 
a boat around here; everything in sight is sold.” 
There must have been nearly a hundred small 
boats in all stored all around the sh'ore or already 
afloat. “A friend of mine,” he added, “works in 
the ship yard, and is handy with tools, Jim is. 
He put that strip on there for me the other day. 
He was laid off so it don’t cost me nothing in 
that way. I take him out with me sometimes. 
I had a boat down in Canarsie last summer that 
was the first boat I ever owned. She was one of 
them cats. 
“The first time I went out it was blowing 
good an’ hard, and I didn’t know nothing about 
handlin’ a boat and the kid I had with me he 
got scared and laid down in the bottom. I kept 
trying to turn her round and go back home, but 
she only seemed to want to go one way, so I 
let her go. There’s a railroad trestle across the 
bay down there, and first thing I knowed she 
went bang into that trestle. That stopped her. 
Well, there was a fellow fishing on the trestle, 
and it’s a good thing there was, for a train was 
coming an’ he got holt of my mast and pushed 
it away an’ held it so’s the train wouldn’t hit 
it or she’d a taken the whole rig offen me. 
“We got the sail down then an’ rowed her 
hard around the other way and then hoisted sail 
again and say, she did come back home a boil¬ 
ing. I know a little more about sailin’ now if 
someone else can steer her.” 
On the whole my mind conceived a very en¬ 
joyable picture of humble yachting. But whether 
the camera would have shown a picture equal 
to my imagination is doubtful. 
ARABIC SENTENCE. THE MOHAMMEDAN CONFESSION 
OF FAITH. 
What here looks like a cross section of an 
ocean liner or battleship is nothing more than 
the Mohammedan confession of faith: “There 
is no god but God, and Mohammed is the 
prophet of God.” The letters used are the 
ancient Cufic form of Arabic letters. 1 he man 
who built this pious sentence into a rude re¬ 
semblance to a ship of war was a prisoner in 
jail, who gained a pittance to ease his lot by 
making such mottoes for the wall. 
