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Yachting Fixtures for 1907. 
Secretaries of yacht clubs ivill confer a favor 
by notifying us of any errors, neiv dates or 
changes in racing dates. 
New York and Long Island Sound Waters. 
JUNE. 
Atlantic Yacht Club. 
Larchmont Yacht Club, spring. 
Motor Boat Club. 
Keystone Yacht Club, Class A. 
Bayside Yacht Club. 
Bayside Yacht Club. 
Sonder class trials at Marblehead. 
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. 
Cor. Y. R. U., Stratford Shoal. 
Indian Harbor Yacht Club cruising race to New 
London. 
Atlantic Yacht Club. 
Atlantic Yacht Club. 
Motor Boat Club. 
Bayside Yacht Club. 
New Rochelle Yacht Club. 
Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. 
Bayside Yacht Club. 
Boston Waters. 
JUNE. 
15. Boston Yacht Club at Hull, Class Q and X. 
15. Wollaston Yacht Club, Class D and X. 
17. Boston Yacht Club, open race at Hull. 
22. Corinthian Yacht Club and ocean race to Isles of 
Shoals. 
29. Mosquito Fleet open race. 
29. City Point. 
15. 
15. 
15. 
15. 
15. 
15. 
IS. 
19. 
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22 . 
22 
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22 . 
22 . 
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25. 
26. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
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29. 
29. 
The Bermuda Ocean Race. 
Gravesend Bax, on the morning of June 5, 
was the most attractive sheet of water for 
yachtsmen in New York waters, and to it quite 
a crowd were traveling. During the night it 
had rained hard but by daylight the rain stopped, 
the clouds scattered and a gentle southeast 
breeze came in on the first of the flood tide. 
Off the Brooklyn Y. C. club house lay a mixed 
lot of craft, from the handsomely groomed hull, 
taut rigging and white canvas of the schooner 
yacht Dervish to the sloven, ill-kept, hard- 
driven sand schooners, loaded scuppers-to, with 
Irish pennants fluttering from their rigging and 
grimy sails half rolled up on the painted 
booms. The last finishing touches were being 
put on the gear of eleven yachts. Covers were 
secured over hatches and skylights, small boats 
were lashed fast on deck, sails hoisted and every¬ 
thing made ready to get underway. 
By 9 o’clock a crowd had congregated on the 
dock at the Brooklyn Y. C., where the last of 
the racing crews were bundling aboard their 
dinghies, friends bidding them goodby, visitors 
in groups taking it all in and occasionally 
breaking out into a hail of welcome as some 
one recognized a familiar face aboard the 
judges’ launch—a double-decked gasoline craft 
called the Bell Harbor—tied to the float, where 
Dr. De Mund and Mr. Haddock, of the re¬ 
gatta committee, were answering a thousand 
and one questions as they prepared the signal 
flags and cannon for giving the signals. From 
the shore all the facers could not be recognized 
amid the surrounding craft; but when the launch 
steamed out and anchored in front of the 
Brooklyn Y. C., each boat in turn was seen as 
they were passed, from the tiny 36ft. Zena, hail¬ 
ing from Bermuda, to the large schooner yacht 
Dervish and still larger 86ft. Gloucester fishing 
schooner Priscilla. 
As each yacht in turn got underway and 
sailed about the committee boat we had a good 
chance to see at close range what they looked 
like, and to size up the crews by their actions 
collectively. Individuality was lost track of 
among so many, and it would require an ob¬ 
server on each boat to record all that actually 
happens. 
The preparatory gun was fired at 10 A. M., 
and all but the cutter Zinita broke out their 
anchors and sailed back and forth waiting for 
the starting gun, which was delayed, unfortu¬ 
nately, for half an hour, due to the schooner 
Shamrock getting aground a few minutes 
after getting underway. Her skipper hoisted 
topsails and jib, but there wasn’t wind enough 
to heel her over and drag her over what some 
thought must be a shoal spot formed over the 
wreck of an old schooner that capsized and 
sank several years ago in a heavy gale in just 
about the spot where Shamrock, drawing 10ft. 
of water, grounded. A power launch passed 
her a line, but made no impression on her, 
then another passed a line to the first and the 
two pulled tandem on the yacht, but she failed 
to move. 
Some of the contestants, not seeing Sham¬ 
rock’s plight, failed to understand the hitch in 
the starting signals and kept hailing the com¬ 
mittee boat, “When do we start?” to all of 
which Dr. De Mund answered, “Watch the 
signals.” The large tug boat Catherine Moran, 
under charter by Mr. Thompson, owner of the 
Shamrock, lay tied up at the Atlantic Y. C. dock 
and a launch was despatched to ask her to 
come to Shamrock’s assistance. The first 
slight yank on that boat’s towline set Sham¬ 
rock free and she stood out into the bay. 
Dervish, that aristocratic looking little 
schooner with a square sail yard crossing her 
foremast low down and every detail from sky¬ 
light brasses to her unspotted, glossy-black 
sides shinning with the perfect care and atten¬ 
tion bestowed upon it, looked like a miniature 
Lasca in model, and seemed fit to cross the 
ocean instead of only going part way. Nearly 
every one picked her out for the winner in that 
class, but as it is all depending on the wind, 
none can prophesy who will get there first. If 
the yachts run into a gale of wind the heavy, 
sturdy Gloucesterman, Priscilla, will go romp¬ 
ing through it just in her element, while the 
light waisted yachts may have to close reef; 
but Dervish, even under such conditions, and the 
old Shamrock, too, if driven, will give her a 
run for her money, and if the weather holds 
moderate, the two yachts have by far the better 
chance. 
Hyperion is a far better boat than Tamerlane, 
m which Com. Frank Maier won the Lipton 
cup last year. She has more length, a flatter 
floor and more stability. There is no question 
as to her reaching ability with a beam wind, 
and, as the start later proved, she has very lively 
heels going to windward also. She was likened 
to a butterfly by some newspapers, because the 
light shining through her clean, yellow-tinted, 
crosscut canvas, bright varnish and clean white 
paint impressed one by the general air of clean¬ 
liness aboard. Her hull is very heavy in con¬ 
struction, however, and her rig, though not 
heavy looking, has a simple strong look to it. 
Zurah and Tammany are two of the modern 
shovel-nosed schooners, the former appearing 
to be wider and more powerful in hull, though 
her masts look rather light, being so lofty, and 
the latter apparently the same character of a 
hull, only very much sharper fore and aft. 
Both are painted white. Shamrock, once a 
single-sticker, has in earlier days often thrashed 
out and around the lightship, when she and 
1 itania used to fight for supremacy and mugs. 
Her schooner rig is a large, powerful looking 
one with an immense bowsprit and jib. Her 
hull has the old style of clipper bow balanced 
aft by a long overhang. 
Another of the contestants that hovered about 
the committee boat close enough to be ob¬ 
served was the tiny Zena, built at Bermuda and 
sailed here to race home. Her peculiar rig, a 
leg-o’-mutton mainsail hoisted on a long raking 
mast and a jib, enabled her to be easily identi¬ 
fied with its tiny blue British yacht ensign 
fluttering halfway up the after leach of the sail. 
It was close quarters aboard her where four or 
five men huddled into a little cockpit—a great con- 
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trast to the comfort aboard the broad after deck 
of Zurah. _ Her small, square-ended punt was 
lashed upside down on deck and a brown water¬ 
proof cover laced over the top of the cabin to 
keep out water apparently. She was very fast 
for her size and decidedly weatherly. 
1 he balance of the fleet kept away from near 
the committee boat. Shamrock and Priscilla 
were way out in the bay and the rest of the 
fleet to windward or inshore of the line when 
the preparatory gun sounded at 10:30. There 
was just a nice moderate wholesail breeze blow¬ 
ing at that time, just enough to let the yachts 
maneuver nicely, but not enough for the heavy 
black fisherman, Priscilla, and hardly enough 
for Shamrock to maneuver in. The sun was 
all but through the banks of high puffy clouds 
and with a strong flood, setting in the water 
very smooth. 
As the start became a question of seconds, 
Hyperion, with Bob Bavier at her wheel, just 
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