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New Rochelle Y. C. One-Design Class—Start, 1:40— 
Course, 9% Miles. 
Nereid, George W. Fuller. 4 54 07 3 14 07 
Echo, B. R. Stoddard. 4 42 05 3 02 05 
Virginia, E. H. Waldorf. 4 54 28 3 14 28 
Special One-Design Class—Start, 1:40—Course, 9% Miles. 
Madiana, H. H. Smith. 4 32 46 2 52 46 
Mischief, J. H. Mitchell. 4 31 14 2 51 14 
American Y. C. Dory Class—Start, 1:40—Course, 9% 
Miles. 
Tautog, G. G. Fry. 4 12 25 2 32 25 
Faraway, A. B. Fry. 3 57 45 2 17 45 
The winners were: Istalena, Houri, Alera, 
Chinook, Rascal, Okee, Quest, Arizona, Viva, 
Thelma, Iney, Nateka, Big Bug, Echo, Mischief 
and Faraway. 
Yachting in California. 
San Francisco, Cal., June 19.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: The annual class regatta of the 
California Y. C. was held June 14. The run was 
made over the new course, starting from Brooks 
Island to Southampton Light, thence to the upper 
Southampton shoal buoy and back to the start¬ 
ing line. _ The entries were of three classes: 
Class A, including yachts of 25ft. or less racing 
length; Class B, yachts of 25ft. to 30ft., while 
Class C comprised the larger craft. The small 
yachts of Class A covered the three legs of this 
course—estimated at eight nautical miles—once, 
while the larger boats of Classes B and C, after 
covering it, beat out for the second time to and 
around Southampton Light and ran back to the 
starting line, the total distance being estimated 
at twelve nautical miles. The start being at the 
fire of a single gun, the time of each yacht was 
calculated from the starting time of her class. 
The greatest interest of the race was centered 
in the Class C event between the old rivals, Tom 
Kendall’s Alert and Sherry’s Perhaps. The first 
part of the race was nip and tuck, Perhaps hav¬ 
ing fifteen seconds the best of it, but on the 
second beat out to the light this boat did not 
act so well and was beaten by twelve minutes 
at the finish. 
In Class B Secret crossed the starting line 
twenty seconds and Tigress im. 30s. after gun 
fire. Tigress sailed an excellent race, beating 
Secret ten and one-half minutes in elapsed time. 
In Class A Flash beat Sea Fox by nearly nine¬ 
teen minutes actual time. Though the time al¬ 
lowances, which each boat should receive ac¬ 
cording to its sailing length, were not calculated, 
the margins of the leading boats in each class 
were so considerable that Alert will win the flag 
in Class C, Tigress in Class B and Flash in Class 
A. The regatta was under the management of 
Arthur J. Carrod, Dr. D. M. McRae and F. V. 
Du Brutz. The details are shown in the table: 
Class C—Start, 12:66. 
. , Actual start. Finish. 
Alert .12 64 OO 2 27 35 
Perhaps .12 63 45 2 39 36 
_. Class B—Start, 12:16. 
Tigress .12 11 30 2 49 00 
Secret .12 10 20 2 59 30 
Class A—Start, 12:20. 
Flash .12 20 50 2 19 25 
Sea Fox .12 22 40 2 38 05 
Elapsed. 
2 27 35 
2 39 36 
2 39 OO 
2 49 30 
1 59 25 
2 18 05 
Last Saturday and Sunday were gala days for 
the yachting people of San Pedro and vicinity. 
The fleets of the various clubs enjoyed over¬ 
night cruises to various points, returning Sun¬ 
day evening. The weather was ideal. The San 
Francisco and Corinthian yacht clubs had a 
cruise to Petaluma drawbridge, the Golden Gate 
Y. C. sailed over to Paradise Cove, where a 
clambake and game were held, and the /Eolian 
Y. C. members and their lady friends enjoyed 
an overnight cruise to Point San Mateo, where 
a clambake was held yesterday. The day was 
an ideal one for yachting and the cruises of all 
the clubs were well attended. Quite a large fleet 
of the Golden Gate Y. C. boats spent Saturday 
night at Paradise Cove, and yesterday morning 
the non-yacht owners were taken over to the 
cove by Com. W. W. Haley in the flagship 
Sappho to enjoy the clambake. 
Gladys, McDonald’s new model, which was 
competing for the first time, won the prepara 
tory race for the Dickey cup yesterday on the 
model yacht lake in Golden Gate Park. The 
race was under the auspices of the San Fran¬ 
cisco Model Y. C., and as the result of the vie- 
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tory of Gladys she will meet Hays’ Agnes, the 
present holder of the Dickey cup in the chal¬ 
lenge race for the trophy probably next Sunday. 
Only five yachts, Skiddoo, Mischief, Arrow, 
Ruth and Gladys were entered, and Gladys 
proved an easy winner. 
Among the yachtsmen considerable interest is 
being taken in the cruise of the little yacht 
Lydia, which sailed from here yesterday, bound 
for Seattle. This little pleasure craft was built 
in New York for E. M. Eddy, a Seattle capi¬ 
talist, and was brought to the coast in the 
steamer G. W. Fenwick, which arrived here May 
1. Lydia is 75ft. in length, 14ft. beam and draws 
five feet. 
The launching of a new yacht, which may 
prove a formidable challenger for the San Fran¬ 
cisco perpetual challenge cup, is expected in a 
few days. The yacht is owned and being built 
by A. F. Rousseau, an enthusiastic member of 
the Golden Gate Y. C., and is to be christened 
the Merry Widow. Rousseau has been keeping 
the building of the boat quiet, but he made the 
announcement yesterday that she would be ready 
for launching toward the end of next week. 
The new yacht is of the fin keel type with 
extreme overhang forward and aft. It is figured 
that her racing length will be twenty-three and 
eighty-five hundredths feet. Her length over all 
is 40ft. with a load waterline of 22j^ft. and her 
extreme beam is 10ft. She will carry 650 square 
feet off the wind. This yacht was built mainly 
for the purpose of challenging for the San Fran¬ 
cisco perpetual challenge cup. 
The launching of the new yacht Wasp, built 
for A. M. Squire, of Los Angeles, was one of 
the events of the week in the southern part of 
the State, about fifty members of the South 
Coast Y. C. being present. Her owner is an 
enthusiastic member of this club and the Wasp 
is expected to lend interest to the coming re¬ 
gattas. She is of the 35ft. class which has up 
to this time been represented by Venus alone 
in Southern waters. The first race of these two 
boats is being eagerly looked forward to by the 
sailors there. 
The difference in the measurements of the two 
is very little, as will be seen by the following- 
table : 
Wasp. 
Length over all . 35.0 
Length waterline . 22.0 
Beam . 9.6 
Draft . 5.2 
Displacement .8,900 
Mainsail, square feet .*700 
*Estimated. 
Venus. 
34-9 
23.0 
9.0 
5-2 
7,Soo 
660 
In many ways Wasp is a radical departure 
from the ordinary racing shell. Like Venus she 
is heavily built, her frames being of oak, i l / 2 
by 2 inches, and her white cedar planking being 
seven-eighths of an inch in thickness. In ap¬ 
pearance she is as near a twin sister of the boat 
she was designed to defeat as it would seem 
possible to build two boats. Even below decks 
there is very little difference, both having roomy, 
comfortable cabins and plenty of locker room. 
Next Saturday, June 20, the yachts Helen and 
Moonlight, of the Golden Gate Y. C., will meet 
in a challenge race, and the crew of the winning 
yacht will be the guests of the losers at a dinner. 
The winner will also have a new suit of sails 
at the expense of the loser. This race was to 
have.been sailed last week, but Helen met with 
-a mishap _ and a postponement was necessary. 
The race is creating- no little interest among the 
members of the Golden Gate Club. The course 
will be from the club house at Sausalito to and 
around the Presidio shoal buoy, thence to and 
around Goat Island shoal buoy, then to and 
around Presidio shoal buoy, and back to the 
finishing line which will be the same as the start¬ 
ing line off the club house. The start will be 
a one-gun one and there will be no time allow¬ 
ance. 
The schooner yacht Queen, Mr. J. Rogers 
Maxwell owner, is fitting out at Jacob’s yard, 
City Island. 
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The Huntington Mfg. Co. has applied for a 
petition in bankruptcy, Mr. E. A. Nelson having 
given up the yacht building business. 
Lloyd’s American Register. 
The sixth annual volume of Lloyd’s Register 
of American Yachts for 1908 is now ready for 
delivery .to subscribers. The book, which shows 
a material increase in size over last year, has 
been thoroughly revised in all particulars; es¬ 
pecially in those relating to the engines of the 
rapidly growing fleet of cruising launches. 
There are listed a total of 3,670 yachts, both 
sail and power, owned in the United States, 
Canada and the West Indies, with a total of 
some 3,500 yacht owners. The color plates give 
2,013 private signals of American yachtsmen and 
the burgess of 365 yacht clubs. 
One of the most interesting features of the 
book as showing the growth of American yacht¬ 
ing is the list of yacht clubs. The first Ameri¬ 
can yacht list, published in 1874 by the late Neils 
Olsen, listed a total of thirty-two yacht clubs, 
and the greatest number listed prior to the es¬ 
tablishment of Lloyd’s Register of American 
Yachts was about 170. Lloyd’s club list has 
grown steadily since 1903 until it has now 
reached a total of 386 clubs, distributed in all 
parts of the United States and British North 
America. Not a few of these clubs have been 
established during the past winter. 
This great increase is made up in three ways: 
First, of yacht clubs established in new locali¬ 
ties, as in the States of Washington and Oregon, 
in British Columbia and in southern California! 
Second, of new clubs established to meet the 
recent growth of the sport in localities where 
many clubs already exist, as in the vicinity of 
New York and Boston, the friendly rivalry ap¬ 
parently benefiting both old and new. The third 
class of clubs, a large one and distributed in all 
parts of the country, is made up of the so-called 
“power boat,” “motor boat” and “launch” clubs, 
organized by men who had no special interest 
in the.older forms of yachting, but are enthu¬ 
siasts in the cause of the modern power boat. 
As many of these clubs are located on narrow 
inland waters where sailing is out of the ques¬ 
tion they appeal to an entirely new class from 
which in the future the ranks of American 
yachtsmen will be largely recruited. 
Auxiliary Race Around L. I. 
On the evening of Friday, July 3, four 
auxiliary sloops started on one of the most 
unique contests ever sailed. The boats were 
allowed to use either sail or power, or both; 
it was a sort of catch-as-catch-can race, and was 
held under the auspices of the Y. R. A. of New 
York Bay for a cup offered by Mr. T. F. Day. 
The course was from a starting line off the Erie 
Basin Y. C. anchorage near Crane’s dock. South 
Brooklyn, along the south side of Long Island, 
around Montauk Point and back down Long 
Island Sound to a finishing line in Flushing Bay. 
As they crossed the line, two of the yachts 
had sails set, but the others were under bare 
poles. The Gretchen. the property of W. Bruns, 
Pavonia Y. C., was the first over the line. She 
crossed under power only at 6.36.10. John 
Mahnken’s Myrtelee, under power and sail, 
was the next to start, being timed at 6.39.10. 
Then came the Sallie, F. D. Cadmus, also under 
power and sail at 6.39.10. These two yachts 
both flew the burgee of the Erie Basin club. The 
last boat to start was the sloop Uikato, E. G. 
Utz, of the Pavonia Y. C. Under power alone 
she crossed the line at 6.40.02. 
They were followed to Norton’s Point by the 
regatta committee, of which John J. Moran is 
chairman, in the power yacht Elizabeth. When 
the yachts reached the ocean the Gretchen had 
a comfortable lead, with the Sallie a good sec¬ 
ond. All set sails when once around Coney 
Island Point, and when last seen they were 
plowing ahead toward Montauk in a fair breeze 
from the west. 
The new Butts steel motor boat has been 
taken from the yard of the defunct Purdy & 
Collison Co., at City Island, to B. Frank Wood’s 
yard to be completed. 
