FOREST AND STREAM. 
983 
June 22 , 1907 .] 
Boston Letter. 
Having scored three successive wins the 22- 
rater Eleanor gave her competitors the blues. 
1 he task of defeating her seemed almost hope¬ 
less, at best a long stern ebase, and comments 
I were heard to the effect that the rule was a 
partial failure since it apparently favored a model 
with hollow bows and a lean, pinched stern; in 
other words one with all the displacement amid¬ 
ships and ends of no sound merit. Then came 
the fourth race, and Io! Little Rhody II., which, 
because of her heavy displacement and high free¬ 
board and previous poor showing, had been too 
hastily dubbed an ice cart, snooped the lead at 
the first mark and calmly, dispassionately waltzed 
away from her rivals, defeating Eleanor by 2m. 
18s. She in turn led Sally IX. by im. 54s., while 
Dorothy' Q was im. 55s. astern of Sally, and 
■ Essex finished last, im. 3s. behind Dorothy. 
It seems that Little Rhodv has undergone 
minor changes, the nature of which are not 'dis¬ 
closed. Such changes are a part of the game, 
a step in tuning up, and if such improvement 
can be wrought in one boat perhaps others can 
be similarly improved. Meanwhile men continue 
to play as important a part as boats, and Dorothy 
Q was less to blame for being in fourth place 
than was her skipper for poor judgment of local 
conditions in the first windward leg. With a 
light easterly wind he went out into the bay in¬ 
stead of working the shores of Grape and Bum- 
kin islands, where the wind cants to the south 
and the ebb tide is less of a handicap. 
T hig was but the second Y. R. A. race, so 
I that Eleanor has as yet no irrevocable lead in 
the hunt for the Lipton cup. T he percentages 
stand as follows: Eleanor .900, Orestes .890, 
Little Rhody .700, Dorothy .500, Sally .400 and 
Essex .200. 
The Cape cats continue to furnish the prize 
riddle and it would be a brash man who should 
venture before a start to predict the winner. 
This week Iris pulled down the laurels, and 
with Dartwell, Busy Bee, Ariel and Arawah, fin¬ 
ishing in the order given, Almira and Emeline 
might as well have stayed in Vineyard Sound 
and Narragansett Bay for all they could show 
in the Wollaston race. 
A second sonderklasse match has been sailed 
and Mr. Macomber, with the new Chewink 
VIII., neatly executed the Manchester, Corin¬ 
thian and Windrim Kid, they finishing in the 
order given. Manchester is now owned and 
sailed by C. F. Adams II. and that explains why 
she led the newer Corinthian. 
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YET PEOPLE SAY THERE NEVER WAS A “FLYING 
DUTCHMAN.” 
On the eve of the trial races to pick the Ger¬ 
man bound trio there is nothing new to be said, 
save that Bomdrei will not be 111 the series. 
Skiddoo has been renamed Elfin. The new boats 
have the call and of them the favorite are Marla, 
Marblehead and Chewink VIII. 
I he Hull 15-footers have had their first regu¬ 
lar race, starting twelve strong and giving no 
end of excitement. Bonifor, George W. Wight- 
man, landed the blue pennant with five minutes 
to spare. C. W. Cole was second with Pals, and 
Nicknack II. was third to the satisfaction of her 
owner, E. B. Holmes. Thirteen minutes separ¬ 
ated the first and last boats, showing that the 
competition was much keener than in the Hing- 
ham O. D. C. fifteens on the same date, for in 
their case 27m. 50s. separated the first and eighth 
boats. The members of the Hull class are in 
for a fight to the finish with reputations to be 
made, sustained and lost. 
I he 24ft. knockabout Enola, purchased this 
spriMg by Mr. Edward S. Buxton, of the Boston 
^ • C., became a total loss 011 the evening of 
June 9. Mr. Buxton, with a party of guests of 
both sexes, had been out all day and returning 
late in the evening struck on the rocks north 
of Lovell s Island._ It is said that the accident 
was due to mistaking range light No. 2 for No. 
1 which had been passed unobserved. Such a 
situation has at least the merit of not being 
brought to pass by seeing two lights where there 
was only one. After clinging to the wreck, 
whose deck was washed by the seas, for three 
hours, two of the men reached shore in the 
dinghy and with the assistance of the lightkeep- 
ers and their boats rescued the rest of the party 
unharmed, but made most uncomfortable by their 
exposure. 
Ihe Eastern Y. C. is now busy with float 
projects. Some time ago I recited its lease of 
a property on Fort Point Channel and Northern 
avenue in Boston proper. This parcel is what 
is left of Snow’s Arch wharf in the city’s task 
of building a new bridge to South Boston. The 
club will remove the outer end of the old pile 
structure and replace it with a float from which 
a run will ascend to a small station with wait¬ 
ing and toilet rooms and a covered piazza par¬ 
tially overhanging the float. The plans disclose 
no evidence of the fruit stand and peanut roaster 
which were advocated as a means of reducing 
the expenses of this station and of providing a 
janitor for no compensation other than the pro¬ 
vision, rent free, of said stand and roaster. Per¬ 
haps the club members who took such a rigorous 
course in financial instruction and bookkeeping 
at the winter meeting have discovered that the 
cost of this venture can be charged, not to the 
annual expense account, but to floating indebted¬ 
ness. 
The other project involves a landing on the 
town side of Marblehead Harbor and was made 
necessary by the courts sustaining the town’s con¬ 
tention that the public had a riaht of way over 
Custom House wharf, the club’s former town 
landing. T ucker’s old wharf, between the ferry 
landing and the Boston Y. C. station, has now 
been leased for a short term with the privilege 
of renewal, and the pile structure in front of 
the stone portion of the wharf will be removed 
to make room for a float. 
What the pugnacious citizens of Marblehead 
will do with Custom House wharf, now that 
their rights have been adjudicated, remains to 
be seen. Probably they will forget all about it 
and look for some new weapon with which to 
harry the yachting interests that keep the town 
alive and are, therefore, to be fought relent¬ 
lessly. They know their rights, yes sir! they 
do. And, by heck! they’ll have ’em too. 
William Lambert Barnard. 
Atlantic City Notes. 
There is much rejoicing among the yachts¬ 
men of this city and vicinity over the favorable 
action of Gov. Stokes after several months’ in¬ 
decision in approving the bills which make avail¬ 
able an appropriation of $5,000 for a preliminary 
survey and staking of the inside channels along 
the Jersey coast from Bay Head to Cape May. 
An extra appropriation of $500 for channel 
buoys in the immediate vicinity of the (Absecon) 
Inlet is the subject of general satisfaction locally. 
While the inlet and main inner channels are 
fairly well marked at present the need of im¬ 
provement is everywhere mutely attested in the 
lesser inside thoroughfares by the empty gaso¬ 
lene cans and such other home made buoys which 
have been anchored in the various channels by 
some kind-hearted philanthropist. But for one 
channel or bar thus marked there are a hun¬ 
dred unlocated, for which the writer can vouch 
from experience much to his sorrow. With the 
expenditure of a comparatively small amount 
this much neglected harbor can be made avail¬ 
able to coasters of considerable draft, while the 
inside route properly staked would be an in¬ 
estimable boon to smaller craft. 
Although several very bad accidents have al¬ 
ready occurred it will no doubt take a loss of 
life to awaken the proper authorities to drastic 
action in the matter of removing the numerous 
and dangerous sawed-off pilings located here well 
out at sea and just south of the inlet. These 
logs, which formerly stood well above the high 
water when used for nets, were even then a 
grave menace to navigation, but as they now are, 
when after the owners were told to remove them, 
the pilings were merely sawed off on the low 
water and left in this condition they constitute 
a lurking danger to any strange craft unaware 
of their hidden presence. Three boats have to 
my positive knowledge recently been towed back 
in a disabled and sinking condition after an un¬ 
equal encounter with this submerged “picket 
fence.” 
At a recent meeting the Ventnor Motor Boat 
Club decided to hold another race on the Fourth 
of July. This will probably be in connection 
with a motor boat parade. The Atlantic City 
and Seaside yacht clubs as well as the Yachts¬ 
mens Association also have elaborate plans in 
hand for that date. The championship races 
of the association are to be held on July 10 
and 11. 
T here is some talk of the old steamboat pier, 
which adjoins the yachtsmen’s wharf at the in¬ 
let, being opened for motor boats, as at present 
such craft are effectively barred from the latter 
landing for fear of endangering the scores of 
sailing craft moored there. H. P. J. 
Putting a watch tackle on the balloon jib 
sheet and setting it up so flat as to carry it on 
a wind, was too much for Neola on Larchmont 
day. and her topmast went by the board in a 
puff. 
THE BENNETT CUP. 
Won by Ailsa Craig. 
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