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oci. .7, igos.] FOREST AND STREAM. 
Joat Club have made a great impression on the 
isitors by their hospitality. The river at the 
•resent time is lower than it has been in the 
ast thirteen years and only those who are ac¬ 
quainted with the channel can navigate a boat 
rawing more than 4ft. after Freeport is passed. 
The annual clambake of the Aeolian Y. C. 
as held recently and twelve yachts set forth 
or Aeolian Cove with large parties of mem- 
>ers and friends on board. A glorious time 
yas experienced and all the male members and 
heir friends were given their annual ducking, 
10 one being excepted. Director Edward F. 
ivans, who has been on the board of directors 
ver since the club was organized, was presented 
vith a handsome bronze clock as a wedding 
•resent from the members of the club. 
A. P. B. 
Records of the New York 30-Footers. 
The 30-footers, better known as the New 
fork Y. C. thirties, have finished another suc¬ 
cessful season. This class, which was built in 
905, has been the most successful one-design 
class that has ever been promoted in these 
vaters. The boats were built by Herreshoff 
ind cost $4,300 each. The owners framed rules 
ind regulations to govern their racing, and they 
ire so evenly matched that in average weather 
t is all a question of handling. This class has 
lone much to make good sailors of those who 
lave owned the boats and the racing has been 
;ery keen from the first race in which they 
mailed. 
This year twelve boats took part in the races. 
Twenty-nine races were sailed and the total 
lumber of starters in those races was 192. 
5 ome of them took part in other events and 
showed up well, but in taking their records only 
class races are taken into consideration. Five 
series of races were aranged and a committee 
if owners kept the records. The record for the 
ull season was kept by J. W. Alker, who sailed 
\lera, and the records for other series were 
cept by Ernest E. Lorillard. 
In all races sailed Alera made the best show- 
ng, scoring just a slight percentage better than 
Phryne and Nepsi. A sweepstake championship 
cup was subscribed for by the owners and cer- 
ain races of those scheduled were to count for 
hat prize. The subscription went to purchase 
1 suitable trophy for the winner. The Long 
Island Sound championship pennant and the 
•weepstake cup were won by Nepsi, owned by 
fohnston de Forest. The Newport champion- 
i ship cup was won by Alera, and that yacht also 
von the Larchmont series cup sailed for during 
race week. The cup offered by the New York 
Y. C. for those boats still owned in the club 
ind sailed in club regattas was won by Dahinda, 
‘ iwned by W. Emlen Roosevelt. 
The full record of the season is as follows: 
Percent- 
lsts. 
2ds. 
3ds. 
Starts. 
age. 
1 Alera, A. H. & J. W. Alker.. 
8 
7 
5 
27 
79.30 
Phryne, J. F. O’Rourke. 
1 Vepsi, J. De Forest . 
7 
8 
2 
27 
78.10 
6 
4 
6 
24 
76.40 
1 Mair, G. C. & J. K. Meyer.. 
2 
3 
9 
29 
67.05 
Minx, Howard Willets . 
ilera II., Ralph Ellis . 
O 
O 
2 
3 
19 
65.49 
1 
2 
2 
13 
60.68 
i Paprice, Mrs. A. Vanderbilt. 
1 
0 
0 
5 
55.55 
Melody, W. J. Mathewson... 
ibis, T. P. Morgan, Jr. 
0 
0 
0 
1 
44.44 
0 
1 
1 
16 
43.05 
: Oahinda, G. E. Roosevelt.... 
1 
2' 
1 
24 
39.81 
i Zarlita, Frank Swan . 
0 
0 
0 
2 
38.88 
lossip, E. D. Morgan. 
0 
0 
0 
5 
24.66 
SERIES FOR SWEEPSTAKE CHAMPIONSHIP. 
For this series twenty scheduled races during 
he season of 1908 were selected, and each con- 
estant contributed a certain amount to be used 
n the purchase of an appropriate prize for the 
-vinner. 
The system of scoring for this series is as 
'ollows: 
“In each race each yacht competing will be 
iredited with as many points as the number of 
yachts she defeats, with the one point added as 
1 premium for sailing the race. A yacht that 
•tarts and does not finish will receive no point, 
but will be counted as a defeated yacht in the 
crediting of points to yachts that complete the 
"ace. The award of points will be made each 
lay on the basis of the largest number of yachts 
starting on any day, it being assumed for the 
purpose of this competition that the number of 
yachts starting in a class is the same each day.” 
The record of a yacht will be the percentage 
which the total number of points to her credit 
at the end of the season bears to the total 
number of points she would have had if she 
had won every race in which she started. 
No. of Possible Actual P’rcent- 
Starts. Points. Points, age. 
Nepsi . 15 135 106 .785 
Alera . 16 144 111 .771 
Phryne . 15 135 98 .726 
Minx . 12 108 76 .704 
Atair . 17 153 104 .680 
Hera . 13 117 66 .564 
Melody . 1 9 4 .444 
Dahinda . 14 126 54 . 428 
Ibis . 13 117 47 .402 
Carlita . 3 18 7 .389 
Weather conditions prevented the sailing of 
three scheduled races. The above record in¬ 
cludes all boats sailing in races which counted 
for the sweepstake championship, some of 
which, however, did not sail in a sufficient num¬ 
ber of races to qualify for the series. A boat 
had to start in at least 75 per cent, of the races 
scheduled to qualify. 
SERIES FOR CHAMPIONSHIP OF LONG ISLAND SOUND. 
The system of scoring for this series is as 
follows—the same as in the championship cup 
series: 
No. of Possible Actual P’rcent- 
Starts. Points. Points, age. 
Nepsi . 10 72 58 . 805 
Phryne . 10 69 50 .725 
Alera . 12 81 51 .630 
Atair . 12 81 50 .617 
Ilera II. 7 51 29 .569 
Minx . 9 65 36 .554 
Ibis . 9 65 19 .291 
Carlita . 2 15 4 .267 
Dahinda . 10 72 17 .236 
The above record includes all boats sailing 
in races which count for Sound championship, 
some of which, however, did not sail in a suf¬ 
ficient number of races to qualify for the series. 
A boat had to start in at least one-half of the 
number of races scheduled to qualify. 
Atlantic in Trade. 
One by one the well-known old yachts are 
disappearing. Many of them have been broken 
up and some of the more staunchly-built have 
been sold for use as traders. The last of these 
to enter trade is the schooner Atlantic, which 
was built as a possible cup defender in 1886. 
She was built for a syndicate of members of the 
Atlantic Y. C., among whom were Latham A. 
Fish, J. Rogers Maxwell, William Ziegler, and 
Newbury D. Lawton from design by Philip 
Elsworth, a brother of Captain Joe Elsworth. 
This designer had turned out some good craft, 
among them being the schooners Montauk and 
Grayling. The yacht was built by J. F. Mumm 
at Bay Ridge and was launched in the spring 
and got in shape for the trial races. She was 
handled by Capt. Terry, who had sailed Gray¬ 
ling, and Capt. Joe Elsworth. 
Lieut. Ftenn had challenged for a race for the 
cup that year and had brought over the cutter 
Galatea. For the defence of the trophy there 
was Puritan, which yacht had beaten Genesta 
the previous year; Priscilla, which had been 
changed somewhat since she had been beaten 
by Puritan; Mayflower, a new yacht designed by 
Edward Burgess, and Atlantic. Atlantic was 
95ft. lint over all, 82ft. iin. on the waterline, 
23ft. 2in. extreme beam, 22ft. 8in. waterline 
beam, 10ft. 6in. depth, 8ft. ioin. draft without 
centerboard and 20ft. 6in. draft with her board 
down. He least freeboard was 3ft. 3m. She 
displaced 108 tons, had 33 tons of lead ballast 
on her keel and 9 tons of inside ballast. 
She was beaten in the trial races and May¬ 
flower, which has just been lost at sea, was 
selected to defend the cup. Atlantic was laid 
up and for some years she was not used. 
In 1889 she was altered from a sloop to a 
schooner and was purchased by Wilson Mar¬ 
shall and C. B. Seeley, who had the yacht fitted 
out very comfortably. In 1903 she was rebuilt 
and her dimensions then were 99ft. over all, 
83ft. on the waterline, 23ft. beam and 10ft. draft. 
When Mr. Wilson was married he purchased 
Mr. Seeley’s interest in the yacht and ran her 
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