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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 18, 1908. 
English Letter. 
The week has again been a busy one for the 
23-meter and 15-meter classes. Immediately 
after the close of the racing on the Thames a 
start was made for Kingstown, Shamrock put¬ 
ting in at Southampton for some repairs to be 
carried out. The Lipton cutter had a^ pretty 
rough tow, her experience round Land’s End 
being particularly lively. After two days’ rac¬ 
ing in Dublin Bay a quick move had to be made 
for Bangor where a couple of races were given 
by Sir Thomas’s first America’s cup sponsors 
and Royal Ulster Y. C. Racing finished in Bel¬ 
fast Lough on a Wednesday and the boats had 
another all night tow, so as to be present at 
the opening of the great Clyde carnival, known 
the world over as “The Fortnight.” On the 
Queen and Northern rivers there is a very full 
programme of nine consecutive days’ racing, the 
only breaks for rest being the Sundays in be¬ 
tween. Finishing up on the Clyde on July 4 the 
class boats are due again in the South of Eng¬ 
land the following week, and Royal Temple hav¬ 
ing fixtures for the 15-meter boats at Ramsgate 
on July 5 and for the 23-meter class on July 7. 
As the boats will all need a good scrub after 
the Clyde regattas we can see some of the clubs 
being disappointed. 
At Kingstown on the concluded day the breeze 
was very fluky and the result was no test of 
the sailing. White Heather was' due for an¬ 
other win, but her victory by i^m. gives a 
poor idea of the closeness of the finish. A 
quarter of a mile from home it was anyone’s 
race and the merest fluke would have put any 
one of the competitors ahead. The race was 
originally fixed for three rounds of a total dis¬ 
tance of fifty miles, but only two rounds were 
sailed. 
On the first day of the Royal Ulster regatta 
the prospects of a good race were spoiled at 
the start by a foul in which the participants on 
this occasion were Nyria and Brynhild. The 
keenness with which the boats are sailed is bound 
to lead to mishaps and I am afraid that we will 
have a lot of fouls and protests before the sea¬ 
son comes to a close. In this case Shamrock, 
Nyria and Brynhild were reaching for the line 
a bit too early, and to avoid crossing before the 
gun they luffed up with the result that Nyria 
fouled Brynhild which had not sufficient room 
at the mark, and her port whisker being carried 
away she gave up. White Heather was very 
unfortunate in being forced over the line too 
soon, as she lost nearly two minutes in recross¬ 
ing and was never able to recover the handicap 
all day. Shamrock beating her by 3m. 20s. on a 
fifty mile course which was sailed in 5T1. 6m. 
On the last round Shamrock was logging about 
eleven knots an hour. Nyria had an allowance 
as an old boat of 7s. a mile and this enabled her 
to qualify for the second prize, subject of course 
to the protest. The time White Heather lost 
in recrossing the line at the start would have 
given her the second prize. The race was sailed 
in a fresh northeasterly breeze and the boats 
were just able to carry their clubtopsails. 
On the concluding day in Belfast Lough, Bryn¬ 
hild found her own weather conditions—-a fresh 
northeasterly breeze which, in the opinion of 
all the skippers, was a bit too stiff for jack- 
yarders. How much a good start means to any 
of the three 23-meter class was again shown as 
Brynhild, getting away at the lead, was never 
caught all day. although Shamrock was closing 
up on her during the last round of the race. 
Shamrock lost the race at the start. Coming 
full for the line to the lee berth she hit it too 
soon and was recalled with the result that she lost 
52s. in recrossing, and in the end she was only 
beaten by 43s., so that it is but fair to promise 
that had she got away with the lead she would 
have added another first to her record. Bryn- 
hild's victory was very popular, as her owner 
has been a most enthusiastic supporter of yacht 
racing here and has had very little luck. 
The Clyde “Fortnight” opened with a bit of 
a fizzle. All the competitors were towed across 
from Belfast Lough, but both Shamrock and 
White Heather decided to go into dock at 
Greenock instead of racing on the opening day. 
This left Brynhild and Nyria to fight out an¬ 
other duel. The fates were, however, against 
the spectators being treated to a good display 
of sailing, as the breeze, which was very light 
and variable, was also very fluky, and Nyria 
gave up in the second round leaving Brynhild 
to finish alone, the Nicholson cutter thus win¬ 
ning her second match in the week. 
Shamrock’s first appearance in her home waters 
took place close to Fairlie, being under the aus¬ 
pices of the Royal Gourock Y. C., a rising young 
organization which only just recently received 
royal recognition. As on the opening day the 
breeze was very fluky and Shamrock had an 
extraordinary bit of bad luck getting becalmed 
about eighty yards from the finishing line and 
having to give up after being passed by all the 
other boats in the fleet. White Heather won by 
gm. 39s. from Brynhild, but Nyria took second 
prize on her time allowance. There is, however, 
another protest against her by Brynhild, so that 
the destination of two second prizes of the 
week’s sailing has yet to be decided. The breeze, 
it is worth noting, was so light that the boats 
took five and a half hours to sail twenty miles, 
the course being reduced to one round. These 
sort of days are by no means strangers to the 
Clyde where there has been more fluking in the 
history of the sport than at any other center in 
the United Kingdom. 
The class has now sailed exactly a dozen 
matches, so that it is becoming possible to see 
how the different rivals are likely to fare for 
the season. I am still of opinion that the new 
boat will come out well at the head of the class, 
but it is particularly gratifying to find the prizes 
going round so well, as last year Nyria and 
White Heather quite monopolized the talent 
money. The record to date is now as follows: 
Firsts. Seconds. Total. 
Shamrock . 5 3 8 
White Heather . 4 2 6 
Brynhild . 3 2 5 
Nyria . 4 4 
I can promise you a good race when the Duke 
of Westminster’s 40ft. motor racer Wolseley- 
Siddeley turns up on the LIudson River on Aug. 
1 to do battle for the British International motor 
boat challenge cup, won at Cowes last year by 
Captain Pearce’s Dixie. Wolseley-Siddeley will 
be shipped from the Thames on the steamer 
Minneapolis on July 18. She will be in charge 
of Mr. N. M. Robins who was so successful with 
her in the Mediterranean, and will have a few 
trial spins before the race. Mr. Robins is a 
yachtsman as well as a motorist, and his sail¬ 
ing experience often stands him in good stead. 
He was for a number of years honorary secre¬ 
tary of one of the most popular of the junior 
yacht clubs in the Thames district and is no 
mean hand at the tiller of a small rater. Should 
Wolselev-Siddeley prove unequal to the task of 
lifting the cup I have it on good authority that 
Mr. Selwyn F. Edge will build a new racer of 
phenomenal power and try his luck again on the 
water. Lord Howard de Walden has also en¬ 
tered his Daimler II. as a British challenger, so 
that we will have some trial races here before 
Wolseley-Siddeley leaves. Daimler II., as her 
name indicates, is fitted with a couple of Daimler 
motors of 160 horsepower each, so that she is 
nearly as powerfully engined as the Craig boat 
which I understand is being built on your side 
as a possible defender of the cud. 
Everywhere there is evidence here of a great 
revival in yacht racing, and we seem to be on 
the eve of another boom time. If only the heir 
to the throne would follow in the footsteps of 
his Royal father and build a 23-meter boat, what 
a time'we would have again! As showing how 
the sport is prospering, it is interesting to note 
that at the Royal Mersey Y. C.’s regatta the 
other day'there were ninety-eight starters out 
of 101 boats entered, and over 250 Corinthian 
yachtsmen were engaged among the crews. And 
this, too, with the purely local sport, as none of 
the crack racers were entered for. Big fields 
were also the rule at the Belfast Lough regattas. 
On one day there the programme consisted of 
fourteen events for which there were over 
eighty entries. They are also having some fine 
fleets on the Clyde. 
In my last contribution I mentioned that the 
race from Dover to Heligoland for the German 
Emperor’s cup was likely to prove a very pro¬ 
tracted affair. Such proved to be the case, as 
the big schooner Hamburg, which it will be 
remembered, was second in the race across the 
Atlantic some years ago which took 51J4 hours 
to sail the course of 335 miles. Strong head 
winds and heavy seas were experienced all the 
way. Susanne was the winner with a lot of 
time in hand and there is no doubt that Captain 
Robert Wringe is handling the schooner mag¬ 
nificently. She finished within fifty minutes of 
Hamburg, from whom she had an allowance on 
the international time scale of 3I1. gm. 50s. 
The Cary-Smith schooner Ceylon was about 
thirty-six hours later in finishing. She is manned 
by a black crew from Ceylon, and as beating 
in a strong head wind is not" her strong point, she 
had no chance from the first. Just as I write 
I hear from her owner, Captain R. V. Webster, 
that they had some exciting experiences over 
the race. These I hope to give in my next. 
R. R. 
N. Y. Y. C. Race. 
The attendance at the New York Y. C.’s Glen 
Cove cup races was not as large as expected. 
Outside of the two fifty-sevens and eight of 
the one-design thirties, there were only three 
boats. But what boats were there enjoyed a 
good race, for though the wind was light part 
of the way, toward the finish a spanking good 
southwester made a most glorious sail of it. 
Unfortunately for them, five of the thirties, 
in their eagerness to get a good start, went 
over before the gun and were recalled. All 
but two came back and restarted, so they were 
disqualified. 
Wind S. to S.W., light; tide ebb; course 19% 
miles. The summary: 
Sloops—One-Design Class—57-raters—Start, 1:35. 
Finish. Flensed. 
Aurora, C. Vanderbilt . 4 46 42 3 It 42 
Istalena, G. M. Pynchon. 4 48 18 3 13 18 
Handicap Class—Start, 1:40. 
Katrina, schr., James B. Ford. 5 08 47 3 28 27 
Katrina’s actual start was 1.41. 
Sloops—Special Class—Start. 1:40. 
Dorwina, E. C. Rov. 5 22 15 3 42 15 
Mimosa III., G. Wainwright. 5 23 24 3 43 24 
Actual start: Dorwina, 1.41.06; M’mosa TIT., 1.41.00; 
Corrected time: Dorwina, 3.42.15; Mimosa III., 3.24.54. 
N.Y.Y.C. 30ft. Class—Start. 1:50. 
Dahinda, Georsre F. Roosevelt. 5 29 40 3 39 40 
Hera, IT., R. N. Ellis. 
Atair, G. C. and T. E. Meyer. 5 33 41 3 43 41 
Alera, T. W. Alker. Disqualified. 
Phrynej T. R. Maxwell. 5 35 46 3 45 46 
This, T. P. Morgan, Tr. 5 33 20 3 43 20 
Minx, Howard Willetts . Disqualified. 
Nepsi, Johnston De Forest. 6 02 45 4 12 45 
Thus the Aurora wins by im. 36s. _ Katrina 
walked over in the handicap class. Mimosa II. 
defeats Dorwina, on corrected time, by 17m. 21s., 
and Dahinda is the winning 30-footer by 4m. is. 
Motor Boat Races Postponed. 
As but few of the defending motor boats 
were ready for the trial races off Huntington 
Harbor, as scheduled, these races have been 
officially postponed until July 27 and 28. Eight 
boats are entered so far: 
Dixie I., E. J. Schroeder, fitted with 130- 
horsepower Simplex engine. 
Dixie II., E. J. Schroeder, fitted with an 8- 
cvlinder Crane & Whitman motor of 200-horse¬ 
power. 
Gray, Messrs. Atken & Wheeler, fitted with 
40-horsepower 4-cylinder Gray motor. 
Autowin, Mr. E. J. Webster, fitted with two 
8-cylinder AnHoinette motors of 200-horse 
power each 
Simplex NHL, Mr. W. C. Whitehead, fitted 
with a 4-cylinder joo-horsepower Simplex 
motor. 
Den, Mr. J. H. Hoadley. 
Chip III., Wainwright & Llawkins, fitted with 
twin screws. 
The Elco-Craig, Messrs. Sutphen & Craig, 
fitted with Craig motor of 160-horsepower. 
Sea Otter, Mr. W. J. Suadecki, of Bridgeport. 
