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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 8, 1907. 
Yachting Fixtures for 1907. 
Secretaries of yacht clubs will confer a favot 
by notifying us of any errors, nezv dates or 
changes in racing dates. 
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Seawanhaka Yacht 
N. Y. 30’s, S. C. 
Seawanhaka Yacht 
Seawanhaka Yacht 
Motor Boat Club. 
JUNE. 
Club (Center Memorial).- Class 
Y. C. 15-footers. 
Club, 15-footer series. 
Club, 15-footer series, 
This week Janies Gordon Bennett 
Brooklyn Y. C. ocean race to Bermuda. 
Brooklyn Yacht Club. 
’Manhassett Bay Yacht Club, annual. 
Motor Boat Club. Race to Bermuda. 
Keystone Yacht Club, 15-foot class. 
Atlantic Yach Club. .. _ 
South Coast Yacht Club, California. Ocean race to 
Honolulu. . _ 
New York Yacht Club. Spring cups, Glen Cove. 
Atlantic Yacht Club. 
Larchmont Yacht Club, spring. 
Motor Boat Club. 
Keystone Yacht Club, Class A. 
Bayside Yacht Club. 
Atlantic Yacht Club. 
New Rochelle ocean race to Marblehead. 
New York Yacht Club. 
Seawanhaka Yacht Club spring regatta. 
Marine and Field Club. 
Keystone Yacht Club. 15-foot class. 
Morrisania Stratford Shoal race. 
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. 
Atlantic Yacht Club. 
Motor Boat Club. 
Bayside Yacht Club. 
Ne\fr Rochelle Yacht Club. 
Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. 
Boston Letter. 
The season of 1907 has at last unfolded its 
petals for the racing yachtsmen and the laurel 
wreaths are beginning to crown the brows of the 
victors. 
The boats of Class Q have met twice, and 
twice the Herreshoff designed Eleanor, Mr. 
Francis Fabyan owner, has humbled the old 
champion Orestes and the new rivals, Dorothy 
Q.. Little Rhody II., and Sally IX. The Crown- 
inshield-Alden boat Essex has yet to make hei 
debut, minor alterations, to correct her trim and 
bring her down to her designed load waterline, 
having kept her out of the two initial contests. 
Both of these races were at South Boston, the 
first and M. Y. R. A. open event conducted by 
the South Boston Y. C., and the second a club 
race of the Boston Y. C. Both were sailed in a 
fresh wholesail breeze, but the first event pro¬ 
vided but little windward work. Eleanor, with 
DOROTHY Q—CLASS Q. 
her very hollow bow and knockabout lig, de 
feated Orestes by nearly two minutes, she in 
turn leading Dorothy by a scant 27 seconds. 
Little Rhody was fourth and Sally fifth. I hese 
two have lost ground by poor judgment of 
the tide and Little Rhody having suffered the 
further handicap of a broken chock that allowed 
her throat halliard, block to slip down. Dorothy 
seemed a shade faster than Orestes, but lacked 
the perfect handling which the latter received 
from C. F. Adams, 2d. 
In the second rate Dorothy led at the start, 
let was soon down and out as her bowsprit, a 
short, stocky, stubby little thing, with no bob- 
stay, carried away, d bus the saving of two 01 
three pounds in weight Cost her a very good 
chance to score. Eleanor went out into the lead 
and was never in danger, winning by over three 
minutes, with Orestes again second, after a long 
hard fight with Sally IX. in which but six sec¬ 
onds separated them at the finish. Little Rhody 
II. was fourth, 2m. 45s. astern of Sally. 
The speed of the 22-raters is now a lively 
topic for discussion and this is but natural. That 
they should be dubbed slow because not as fast 
as the fastest of the old 25-footers is, however, 
monstrous injustice. Such criticism entirely 
overlooks the objects for which the present rule 
was formulated and the intention to compel the 
construction of boats that should be of moderate 
proportions first and as fast as the limitations 
might allow', rather than fast regardless ^ of 
everything else. The rule is a protest against 
a frenzy for speed and to expect it to produce 
boats as fast as Sally VII. is not only unfair, but 
silly! And the answer to all such criticism is 
that the boats are fast—they are fast boats, but 
not fast machines. 
In the Cape catboat class the two first, clashes 
promise as hard fought a season as that of 1906. 
Iris has a first and a fourth to her credit, 
Arawah has scored two seconds, the newly im¬ 
ported Emeline has a first and a fifth, and the 
other new comer, Almira, has scored one third, 
and owing to all accident had to be content wfith 
sixth place in her first race. 
The sender class boats have yet to meet in 
a formal race. The ten entries for the trial race's 
are as follows: 
Corinthian, owned by Benjamin C. lower, 
Corinthian Y. C., designed by F. D. Lawley, and 
built by the George Lawley & Son corporation. 
Chewink VIII., owned by F. G. Macomber, 
Jr., Corinthian Y. C., designed by Small Bros, 
and built by the David Fenton Company, Man¬ 
chester. 
Marblehead, owned by W. H. Joyce and Sum¬ 
ner H. Foster, Corinthian and Boston yacht 
clubs, designed by B. B. Crowninshield and built 
by Hodgdon Bros.. East Boothbay, Me. 
Marla, owned by Maximilian and R. L. 
Agassiz, designed by William Gardner and built 
by the George Lawley & Son Corporation. 
Spokane II., owned by F. Lewis Clark, Vice- 
Conn E. Y. C, designed by Clinton H. Crane 
and built by B. F. WLods, City Island, N. Y. 
The boats of last year’s build which have been 
entered are : . 
Auk, owned by A. H. Rollins, which was sailed 
in the’ international match last year by Charles 
Francis Adams, 2d.; Bonidrei, owmed by George 
Abbott; Spokane, owned by F. Lewis Clark; 
Windrim Kid, owned by George Lee; Sally 
VIII., owned by A. P. Loring. 
The boats must increase their displacement 
1/64 for the trials, to bring them down to the 
point at which they would float m Kiel, where 
the water is brackish. Some of last year s boats 
may have difficulty in passing the measurer when 
this weight is added. 
The trials will be sailed off Marblehead, June 
18, 19 and 20. 
William Lambert Barnard. 
Two of the most important races in the his¬ 
tory of yachting in this century start this week. 
Fifteen small sailing yachts, the largest of which 
is 86ft. and two power launches just under 60ft. 
in length, sail ocean races to the island of Ber¬ 
muda, a distance of 650 miles from New York. 
The sail boats start at 10 A. M. on Wednesday, 
June 5; the launches at 12 noon, on Saturday, 
Tune 8. 
The fellows who have to hike up to wind¬ 
ward and get baptized with salt water showers 
this season are to be excused if found with a 
bottle of life preserver in their hip pockets, for 
it is the coldest racing season on record so far. 
SALLY IX.—CLASS Q. 
LITTLE RHODY' II.—CLASS Q. 
