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Yachting Fixtures for 1907. 
Secretaries of yacht clubs will confer a favor 
)V notifying us of any errors , new dates or 
hanges in racing dates . 
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New York and Long Island Sound Waters. 
MAY. 
). New Rochelle Yacht Club. 
). Atlantic Yacht Club. 
). Bridgeport Yacht Club. 
). Greenwich Yacht Club. 
). Harlem Yacht Club. 
). Indian Harbor Yacht Club. Special classes. 
). Motor Boat Club. Members’ race, 
i. Seawanhaka Yacht Club. 
JUNE. 
. Bensonhurst Yacht Club. 
. Knickerbocker Yacht Club. 
.. Seawanhaka Yacht Club (Center Memorial). Class 
N. Y. 30’s, S. C. Y. C. 15-footers. 
!. Seawanhaka Yacht Club, 15-footer series. 
1. Seawanhaka Yacht Club, 15-footer series. 
!. Motor Boat Club. This week James Gordon Bennett 
cup. 
i. Brooklyn Y. C. ocean'race to Bermuda. 
!. Brooklyn Yacht Club. 
i. Manhassett Bay Yacht Club. 
i. Motor Boat Club. Race to Bermuda. 
South Coast Yacht Club, California. Ocean race to 
Honolulu. 
New York Yacht Club. Spring cups, Glen Cove. 
Atlantic Yacht Club. 
Larchmont Yacht Club. 
Motor Boat Club. 
New York Yacht Club. 
Seawanhaka Yacht Club spring regatta. 
Seawanhaka Yacht Club annual open regatta. 
New York Athletic Club ocean race to Block Island. 
Indian Harbor Yacht Club cruising race to New 
London. 
Atlantic Yacht Club. 
Motor Boat Club. 
New Rochelle Yacht Club. 
Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. 
Boston Waters. 
MAY. 
Sotrth Boston Yacht Club, open race. 
JUNE. 
Boston Yacht Club. 
South Boston Yacht Club. 
Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead. 
Boston Yacht Club at Hull, Class Q and X. 
Wollaston Yacht Club, Class D and X. 
Boston Yacht Club, open race at Hull. 
Corinthian Yacht Club and ocean race to Isles of 
Shoals. 
Mosquito Fleet open race. 
City Point. 
Work a< Astoria. 
| Smith & Mabley, at Astoria, have at present 
| ait little new work, they having filled all their 
all orders, the last of which, a 40ft. by 5ft. 
iouble planked mahogany racer, for Mr. Broesel, 
or use on Lake George, is ready for the painter, 
ler engine equipment will be a go horsepower 
Simplex motor and a speed of 26 miles is guaran- 
eed for her. She is to be delivered May 15. 
I Astern of this boat waiting for her machinery 
j s a 32ft. by 5ft. mahogany and teak yacht 
1 ender for Venetia, owned by Ex-Com. Plant, 
>f the New York Y. C., with a 50 horsepower 
! 907 Simplex. This boat is to make 19 miles 
; n hour. The racers Simplex No. 9 and No. 10, 
12ft. by 5ft. 3in., are fitting out for the James- 
. own races. These were used at Florida last 
I vinter. 
; dhis firm has also built a 40ft. gasolene tug 
| *oat iiXft. wide, 3ft. draft, for towing on canals 
• in d for power will have a 75 horsepower Sim- 
* dex. She looks like a pocket edition of a big 
UR boat. 
J Several other launches have been delivered, 
mong them the fine "Tt. by iopMt. trunk cabin 
| ruiser Simplicity whose picture we print. She 
s the property of Robert Lundell and with a 
5 horsepower engine makes 13X miles an hour. 
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HOW PIEPGRASS BOARDED THE DELVIN. 
means great 
bulk under water, is necessary to 
a successful craft, the “laced in” process, as you 
may call it, was carried to extremes. 
Yachts called 3 tonners, such as Snarley Yow 
and Mascotte, were built about 34ft. long and 
only 4ft. 9in. wide. Not much wider than a 
rowboat and yet carrying 4^/2 tons of ballast and 
755 square feet of sail. 
The beam was kept as small as possible to 
keep the racing measurement low, the rule read¬ 
ing: 
Length—Beam X Beam X X Beam 
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English measurement. Such a rule where the 
beam was used as a multiplier would naturally 
develop a very narrow craft. It was the corset 
man 
when sailing 
as he 
landed 
water, 
could 
they 
was little 
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Trere is another form of sickness among boats, 
that resembles hereditary diseases, in that they 
are handed down through succeeding years as a 
result of mere custom. The cause of this form 
of ailment, nine times out of ten, is some arti¬ 
ficial limitations, called racing rules, to suit which 
the yacht’s shape is distorted just as women, to 
be in style, will lace themselves into a sixteen 
inch waist measure or will pad themselves out 
of all proportion to their natural shape. 
In England, for instance, where the yachts 
have to sail in waters that are generally very 
rough and choppy, heavy displacement, which 
which produced the narrow waist, It was such 
a cutter, the Delvin, here in America, of which 
the story is told how Piepgras, the City Island 
builder, went to board from a rowboat. He put 
his hands on the rail, gave a vault up 
supposed on to her deck, but instead he 
clear over the other rail plump into the 
Down below in such boats one 
hardly crowd past another, and 
laid over on their ear so far there 
comfort to be got aboard them, and they were 
abominably wet. As one yachtsman, fond of 
cutters, replied when he came ashore from the 
cutter Muriel and was asked if cutters were wet. 
“Ah ! my boy! you should have been along with 
us to-day; we have been sailing and never shipped 
a drop of water; she’s dry as a bone.” But as 
he turned and walked away you could hear the 
water squelch in his shoes and a trail of drops 
and wet foot prints marked his course on the 
sidewalk. He was soaking wet. 
American yachtsmen would not stand for such 
uncomfortable craft and so this disease never 
spread to American yachts. In America the rule 
for classifying yachts had nothing to do with 
beam or width, simply measuring length and the 
amount of sail carried. 
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L X V Sail Area 
--— -^American measurement. 
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Here width, the untaxed dimension, became ex¬ 
cessive and boats were built nearly half as wide 
as they were long. The catboat Fannie, built by 
the Herreshoffs, was 10ft. wide and 21.5ft. long 
on the waterline, though the larger boats were 
from 1/3 to X their length in width. 
Compare for instance the width of Mascot in 
English waters in 1882 and Shadow, sailing 
in American waters at the same time and an 
idea of the extreme difference in model can be 
better appreciated : 
Mascot 34ft. oin. over all, 4ft. gin. wide; 
Shadow 36ft. Sin. over all, 14ft. 4m. wide. 
, //here he .stood 
still A rmnutt. 
tfljkin 
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SLOOP SHADOW AND CUTTER MASCOT. 
WATER SQUELCHED IN HIS SHOES. 
Now why should there be such a difference? 
i he answer is the ideas, hereditary ideas, handed 
down through generations, were clung to with 
that stubborn persistency still seen in many ol 
the every day walks ot life. 
International racing has been the best doctor 
ever put upon the case, as it is bringing each 
country to the ha medium. Each by sacri¬ 
ficing some of its pet fads and fancies have 
greatly improved the models of their boats. 
Hereditary diseases have been nearly wiped out 
and now that the public's ideas have been in¬ 
fused with a touch'of the ocean racing spirit 
a demand for far more wholesome boats is the 
result. 
Messrs. Purdy & Collison are working over¬ 
time and Sundays to get the Stevens Bermuda 
racer ready so her engine may be tried out a 
little before the race starts. 
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