Changes in Measurement Rules. 
The delegates to the Atlantic Coast Confer¬ 
ence got through with a lot of work at their 
sessions at the New York Y. C. on Thursday, 
Oct. 8. They met first at 3:30 o’clock in the 
afternoon and again at 8 o’clock in the evening, 
and before midnight had gone through the long 
list of amendments that had been proposed and 
disposed of all without making any radical 
changes in the rule. In fact, the result of the 
conference was an endorsement of the rule, 
and such changes as were made were simply 
correcting errors and refining the rule, so that 
it will work better in the interest of producing 
a safe and sane yacht. Some of the amend¬ 
ments if adopted would have caused consider¬ 
able trouble and would have upset things very 
much, but now that such few^changes have been 
made, those yachtsmen who had contemplated 
building for next season’s sport can go ahead 
with their plans. 
Charles Lane Poor, of the New York Y. C., 
and Louis M. Clark, of the Eastern Y. C., were 
appointed a committee with power to put the 
rules in proper English and send them to the 
different clubs and associations. Those clubs 
and associations will at their meetings ratify 
the action of their delegates to the conference. 
Those present at this conference and the 
club or association they represented were: 
Atlantic Y. C.-—John R. Brophy, W. A. Bar- 
stow, George H. Church, R. W. Speir, and H. 
E. Boucher. 
Beverly Y. C.—Robert W. Emmons 2d, and 
Samuel G. King. 
Brooklyn Y. C.—Leo Herzig, William C. 
Towen, Dr. De Mund and Colonel D. E. 
Austen. 
Corinthian Y. C., of Marblehead.—Henry A. 
Morss and H. H. Walker. 
Corinthian Y. C., of Philadelphia.—Addison 
F. Bancroft. 
Eastern Y. C-—Stephen W. Sleipner, Charles 
E. Hodges, Louis M. Clark and Henry Taggart. 
Larchmont Y. C.—William Gardner, Charles 
P. Tower, Addison G. Hanan and Frederick M. 
Hoyt. 
Narragansett Bay Y. R. A.—Theodore Ray 
Godwin, W. Louis Frost and Charles F. Tilling- 
hast. 
Yacht Racing Association of Long Island 
Sound.—Stuyvesant Wainwright, H. F. Parme- 
lee, PI. A. Jackson, Jr.; F. C. Sullivan and Ed¬ 
ward M. MacLellan. 
Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts.— 
Charles Francis Adams 2d. 
New York Y. C.—W. Butler Duncan, Jr., 
William Hallock, Walter C. Kerr, Harry L. 
Maxwell, H. de B. Parsons, Charles Lane Poor, 
James D. Sparkman and C. Sherman Hoyt. 
W. Butler Duncan, Jr., was chairman of the 
conference, and Charles Lane Poor the secre¬ 
tary. 
The first amendment was to the rating 
formula. This had been expressed as follows: 
L VSAr 
Rating measurement —- 
5-5 VD' 
new boats rate near their waterline length, or 
to substitute 5 in place of 5.5 and raise the 
classification limits 10 per cent., were all lost. 
The wording under the formula was amended, 
so that it now reads: 
“The result is the measurement for classifica¬ 
tion and time allowance of sloops. Yawls shall 
be rated at 93 per cent., and schooners at 90 
per cent, of their actual measurement as deter¬ 
mined from the rating formula.” 
This necessitates striking out Rule IV., which 
relates to allowance for rig, and it raises the 
rating of schooners from 85 to 90 per cent. 
The amendments to change length caused 
long discussions. Some of these amendments, 
it was said, had been favored by Herreshoff, and 
the adoption of any one would have radically 
changed the rule and its working, but these 
were all rejected, as was also the amendment to 
define quarter beam. 
The amendment relating to sail area was 
adopted. The rule stands as it originally was, 
as far as B, G, P and H are concerned, but the 
paragraph beginning “The area of the mainsail 
and topsail, etc.,” is stricken out and in its 
place is substituted the following: 
“D. The diagonal measured from the end 
of the boom, when mainsail is fully hoisted, to 
the upper point of measurement of H. 
“T. The length of the leach of the working 
topsail or jib-header. 
“The area of the mainsail in sloops, schooners 
and yawls, and of the mizzen in three-masted 
schooners and in yawls shall be obtained from 
the above measurements by multiplying B by 
H, and G by D, adding the two products to¬ 
gether and dividing the result by 2. 
BXH + GXD 
“The area of the working topsail, or jib- 
header, shall be calculated from the above meas¬ 
urements by assuming the three sides of the 
topsail to be G, P-H, and T. In pole-masted 
vessels carrying sprit topsails, the length from 
the highest point of the sprit to the upper point 
of measurement of H shall be used instead of 
P-H in computing the area of the topsail.” 
An effort to make it obligatory to calculate 
sail area exclusively from measurements taken 
from spars or sails when set was lost, as was an 
amendment to allow the spinnaker boom on 
yachts 33ft. rating and under to be 40 per cent, 
of the length of the base line. This was an 
effort to change the rule from yachts 27ft. rat¬ 
ing to 33ft. rating. 
The amendment relating to club topsails was 
amended to read, “The area of the club topsail 
shall be found from the measured length of the 
three sides.” 
Several limits and penalties were proposed, 
which, if they had been adopted, would have 
limited the working of the rule considerably. 
Only one, that relating to draft, was adopted. 
This rule now says: 
“The limit of draft of yachts shall be in feet: 
L + 2.5 B + 12 
The amendment which was adopted removed 
the figures 5.5 from the denominator and substi¬ 
tuted the equivalent (18.2) per centage before 
the fraction, so that the formula now is: 
Rating measurement = 0.182 
The amendments to remove the figures 5.5 
are: Write before the fraction a percentage, prob¬ 
ably 0.155, or a fraction so adjusted as to make 
9 
where L is the quarter-beam length and B is 
the waterline breadth. Any excess of draft, ex¬ 
clusive of centerboard, as per above formula, 
shall be multiplied by 3 and added to the 
rating.” 
The amendment to raise the limit of sail area 
was lost. Another amendment to limit displace¬ 
ment was lost, and so were the amendments to 
limit quarter-beam length and the minimum of 
freeboard. 
An effort to make the measurer personally 
measure spars, load waterline and quarter-beam 
length was lost. 
The rule relating to classification was 
amended, so that it now reads: 
“Each yacht launched after Jan. 1, 1909, ex¬ 
cept those in Classes A and F, shall rate at 
the highest limit of her class, when racing in 
her regular class.” 
By another amendment, relating to restric¬ 
tions (racing trim) “a sloop over 27ft. rating 
measurement may carry a club topsail.” 
Yachts of Class L in racing trim in future 
will not have to carry a boat ten feet in length 
as formerly. The rule relating to boat carried 
on yachts in cruising trim will now read: 
“Each yacht of Classes A and B of schooners 
and F and G of sloops and yawls shall carry a 
serviceable non-collapsible boat not less than 
fourteen (14) feet in length; each yacht' of 
Classes C and D of schooners and of H and J 
of sloops and yawls one such boat not less 
than twelve (12) feet in length. Each other 
schooner and each sloop and yawl of Classes 
K and I. one such boat not less than ten (10) 
feet in length; each sloop or yawl under 40ft. 
rating shall carr}' or tow one such boat not less 
than eight (8) feet in length. 
“Yachts of 33ft. and under may carry collaps¬ 
ible or sectional boats.” 
It was decided to adopt the scantling restric¬ 
tions for yachts 33ft. rating and under similar 
to those now in use by the Yacht Racing As¬ 
sociation of Massachusetts and to adopt the 
same association’s cabin house restrictions for 
yachts 27 and 22ft., rating classes P and Q. 
The time allowance formula was changed to 
read: 
2160 
—- + 183.63 
VR 
This reduces the allowance to 60 per cent, of 
the so-called “full” allowance. 
It was agreed that the measurer need only 
remeasure the factor protested instead of the 
entire yacht, as under the old rules. It was 
also decided to reduce all classifications of 
schooners 10 per cent, in each class. The con¬ 
gress then adjourned subject to the call of the 
chair. 
Ya.chts Change Hands. 
The following transfers of yachts are re¬ 
ported through the agency of Stanley M. Sea¬ 
man : 
Gasolene cruising launch Opitsah, sold by 
Ira A. Kip, Jr.,_N. Y. Y. C., to J. J. Harty, 
Kingston, Ontario. 
Knockabout Runaway, sold by M. W. Alex¬ 
ander, Glen Cove, L. I., to J. H. Wort, New 
York city. 
Forty-foot waterline auxiliary yawl Dawn II., 
sold by Wm. Hanson Hodge’s Estate, Balti¬ 
more, to Jos. A. Dunn, New York city. 
Gasolene launch Mary Jane, sold by Geo. C. 
Foster, N. Y. Y. C., to M. T. Breed, New 
York city. 
Herreshoff high-speed steam launch Sunbeam, 
sold by Seth Low, N. Y. Y. C., to Fred J. 
Schussell, Oyster Bay. 
Cruising launch Eleanor III., sold by H. S. 
Ford, Nyack, to Myer Rosenbush, Baltimore. 
Speed launch Sagitta, sold by Geo. A. Everall, 
New York, to Conrad Stein, Rhinebeck. 
Schooner vacht Atlantic, sold by Geo. C. 
Rector, to W. T. Smith, Fulton Market, New 
Y ork. 
Gasolene cruising launch Rena, sold by C. C. 
A. Wilson, Philadelphia, to Wm. C. Norris, 
Omaha. 
Cruising sloop Sybilla, sold by Ralph D. Pat¬ 
terson. Philadelphia, to Jos. Zwack, Orange. 
Cruising launch Iris II., sold by L. C. Berrian, 
