Yachting Fixtures for 1907. 
Secretaries of yacht clubs will confer a favor 
by notifying us of any errors, new dates or 
changes in racing dates. 
New York and Long Island Sound Waters. 
JUNE. 
22. Marine and Field Club. 
22. Keystone Yacht Club. 15-foot class. 
22. Morrisania Stratford Shoal race. 
22. Seawanhaka Yacht Club annual open regatta. 
22. New York Athletic Club ocean race to Block Island. 
22. Cor. Y. R. U., Stratford Shoal. _ . 
25. Indian Harbor Yacht Club cruising race to New 
London. 
26. Atlantic Yacht Club. 
29. Atlantic Yacht Club. 
29. Motor Boat Club. 
29. New Rochelle Yacht Club annual. 
29. Bayside Yacht Club. 
29. New Rochelle Yacht Club. 
29. Seawanhaka Yacht Club 15-footers. 
29. Bayside Yacht Club. 
Boston Waters. 
JUNE. 
Shoals. 
29. Mosquito Fleet open race. 
29. City Point. 
The Bermuda Race. 
That handsome little black Boston schooner 
yacht, Dervish, owned and sailed by Com. H. A. 
Morss, of the Corinthian Y. C., not only led the 
fleet out past Sandy Hook at noon, on June 5, 
but was the first yacht to arrive off St. David’s 
Head, Bermuda, and won the handsome $i,ooo 
cup offered by Com. Frank Maier. A variety 
of weather was encountered by all the boats, and 
all weathered it according to their ability as sea 
boats. The heavy, sturdy Gloucesterman of the 
Priscilla did not mind it very much, while the 
old schooner yacht Shamrock labored consider¬ 
ably and the little schooner rigged Mist, once 
the 40ft. cutter Babboon, called it a cyclone and 
rode it out hove to. 
An interesting feature of the race is the fact 
that the smaller class, the boats that raced last 
year, when so many called it a suicide experi¬ 
ment, not only made good weather of it, but two 
of them actually beat all the larger boats to Ber¬ 
muda on actual time except Dervish. 
Perseverance won out for Captain Floyd, of 
the yawl Lila. In the race last year this yawl 
was dismasted off Sandy Hook. She came back, 
got a new spar put in, and started again, but for 
some reason gave up and put into Hampton 
Roads. This year profiting by last year’s exper¬ 
ience, Lila came to the line better found, and 
though Hyperion beat her to Bermuda, Lila won, 
as Hyperion was so much larger she had to 
allow Lila 6h. 45m., and only finished 3I1. 34m. 
ahead of her. Lila therefore wins the cup in 
the second division, the size of boats that raced 
last year. Some idea of the conditions under 
which the race was sailed can be gained from 
the logs as follows: 
“Notes from the Dervish’s log show that she 
had a light southeast breeze on the first day up 
to about 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Then there 
was a heavy squall of rain and hail, and the 
wind shifted to the southwest. The distance 
made by Dervish from 10:45 o’clock Wednesday 
morning, June 5, the day of starting on the race, 
up to noon of Thursday, June 6, twenty-five 
hours and fifteen minutes, was 162 knots. 
“Dervish entered the Gulf Stream at 6 o’clock 
on the morning of June 6, and got out of it at 
10 o’clock that night. On June 7 the weather 
was fine and the wind southwest. The yacht 
logged 233 knots up to noon, when the wind 
shifted to the northwest and continued from that 
direction for about one hour. Then it backed to 
the southwest. 
“Light breezes from the southeast ruled dur¬ 
ing the morning of June 8 and Dervish logged 
to noon that day 131 knots. . 
“At 2 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, the wind 
hauled southwest and was_ of such strength that 
all topsails were taken in, the mainsail close 
reefed and the jib stowed. St. David’s Head 
Light was sighted at 3:30 o’clock this (Sunday) 
morning, and Dervish crossed the finish line at 
6:25 o’clock, New York time.” 
Notes from Hyperion’s log: 
“From 10:45 A - M., June 5, to noon of June 
6, logged 145 knots. About 2 o’clock, afternoon 
of June 6, passed a schooner yacht, which looked 
like Priscilla. Lost sight of her early next morn¬ 
ing. 
“Entered the Gulf Stream at 4:15 o'clock June 
6, the wind blowing hard from the southwest. 
Had to take in and furl the mainsail. To noon 
of June 7, logged 174 knots. 
“At 3 o’clock in the afternoon of June 8 struck 
a southwest gale. Took in jib and^ put thiee 
reefs in the mainsail, and at 10 o’clock that 
evening had to take in and tie up the mainsail. 
To noon of June 8, logged igo miles. 
“The gale continued throughout the night, with 
heavy rains and thunder squalls, the wind blow¬ 
ing about forty-five miles an hour. Sighted St. 
David’s at 12:45 this (Sunday) afternoon and 
crossed the finish line at 2:51 o’clock. 
THE MAIER CUP. 
Won by Dervish. 
Lila’s logr 
“After leaving on June 5, at 11:25 m the 
morning, we ran into a squall off Sandy Hook, 
and from that time saw nothing of the other 
yachts. We had southwest winds practically the 
whole trip.” 
The log shows the runs to be as ioilows: 
139, 170, 147 , 150, 53 knots. 
“The weather was fairly good until June 8, 
when it blew very hard, but we drove the yacht 
through it, though the seas swept the deck. Dur¬ 
ing this heavy weather Lila logged more than 
eight miles an hour. We ran into the Gulf 
Stream on the afternoon of June 6 and got clear 
the afternoon of June 7 - Made a good landfall. 
Shamrock’s log: 
“Shamrock had hard luck, else she would have 
won surely. At 4 o’clock A. M. yesterday Sham- 
rck was off the finish line, waiting for the ris¬ 
ing sun to give her her bearings. 
“After getting away last she led the whole 
fleet at 5 o’clock that afternoon, and saw the 
last yacht fade astern of her at sundown that 
night. During this time, in her battle against 
her well-tuned competitors in gales aiqd seas, 
three of her sails had been carried away, both 
spreaders of her bowsprit had given way, a 
foot of water washed in her hold, with the pumps 
refusing to work. Her mainmast had sprung 
and her log had been torn away. 
“This last mishap practically cost her the race. 
When she came to finish in the darkness yester¬ 
day Captain Lindeberg was unable even to ap¬ 
proximate his position, and before the sun was 
up the yacht was driven by heavy seas thirty- 
seven miles south of Bermuda.” 
Zurah’s log: 
“Mr. Doscher's Zurah also came in for some 
rough handling. She kept company with Sham¬ 
rock almost throughout the entire run, losing her 
on Saturday morning. One June 7 Zurah carried 
away her fisherman’s staysail and on June 8 she 
lost’ her main peak halyards. On Sunday she 
lay to under staysail and main trysail, Mtor 
having blown away the foresail with two reefs in it. 
“They bent a new foresail and put three reefs 
in the mainsail and got under way again, the 
accidents having cost them a full day, as they 
found themselves to leeward after drifting about 
effecting repairs. Zurah crossed the line at 1 430 
this afternoon.” 
Mist’s log: 
“Mist ran into the center of a cyclone on June 
9, during which the seas were terrific. The little 
schooner behaved handsomely and rode out the 
cyclone creditably. One of the seas, however, 
that broke over the yacht carried away the hatch 
covering and the ventilator top, although double 
fastenings were placed on everything on deck, 
allowing a great deal of water to get below. 
During this serious trouble the wheel was lashed 
down and all hands remained below. Mist’s 
best run was 195 knots. She crossed the line 
at 12 :36 this afternoon.” 
Priscilla’s log: 
“Although the schooner Priscilla did not ex¬ 
pect to win, those on board had every confidence 
in their vessel reaching the stakeboat first. They 
were, however, severely handicapped by ex¬ 
tremely light winds experienced on Saturday, 
when she logged only four or five knots an hour, 
and because of their inability to get observations 
on Sunday morning they ran forty miles past: the 
island and had to beat back. Priscalla finished 
at 7:37 this morning.” 
Flamingo’s log: 
Flamingo arrived at Bermuda at noon on 
Wednesday, June 12, having taken just a week 
to make the run, but behaved splendidly the en¬ 
tire trip. For twelve hours she lay to under 
a trysail. After crossing the Gulf stream calms 
and light weather delayed her. 
