Eastern Men Are Busy. 
Those yachtsmen who make their head¬ 
quarters in eastern waters are very hopeful 
that next season will be a more brilliant one 
than they have had for some time. Racing has 
been rather dull in many ways because few new 
boats have, been built, but the outlook now for 
new craft is very good indeed. The action of 
the delegates to the Atlantic Coast Conference 
has given considerable confidence to those who 
have talked of building, and now that the elec¬ 
tion is about over, matters will pick up. Some 
were afraid that radical changes would have 
been made in the . rule of measurement and 
waited to find out just what would happen be¬ 
fore making plans. It is rather unfortunate 
that yachtsmen have always to fear that a 
change may be made in the measurement rule 
at any time, and this fear keeps men from build¬ 
ing new boats, as one does not want to have 
a racing craft built that will be legislated out 
of racing the next season. 
In England there is a governing body which 
has power to act for the clubs enrolled in it. It 
adopts a rule for a period of time, and the 
present British rule will stand for ten years 
from the time it was adopted. On this side 
the delegates to the conference have no power. 
They simply discuss things, agree together on 
rules and then report back to their respective 
clubs, and those clubs can adopt or reject their 
recommendations. 
The rule of measurement has been tried and 
given general satisfaction, and although at the 
conference efforts were made to adopt some 
radical changes, these failed and the rules 
stand as it was, so that designers and builders 
can now get to work. 
The International race for the Sonder class 
will stimulate things a great deal. Mr. Howard, 
who has this class in hand, is confident that 
there will be a large fleet of yachts ready next 
summer to take part in the trial races, and these 
yachts will come from all parts of the country. 
He has had many replies to his letters, which 
have , been sent to all yacht clubs and been 
promised much support. 
It may be that this class will keep other 
classes from being boomed. There has been 
talk of new boats in classes N and P, but those 
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yachtsmen who were thinking of building in 
those classes may decide to wait another year 
and enter the Sonder class, where they will 
have Jots of sport at much less cost. 
At present it looks as if there would be two 
new boats to meet Dorello, and there may also 
be two or three 27-footers built. The 22ft. 
class is dead, as far as Massachusetts is con¬ 
cerned, and those boats that have furnished 
such good sport in these waters will in all 
probability be seen in New York waters, where 
the Thompson cup is such a big attraction. 
In several clubs one-design classes are being 
arranged for. These classes furnish a fair 
amount of sport, which, however, is almost en¬ 
tirely local. Racing one-design boats develops 
sailors, but do not do much in developing type. 
In a good one-design, each boat handled by an 
equally capable man, everything depends on the 
condition in which the boat is kept and the ad¬ 
vantage gained at the start. Now, if those men 
who are interested in one-design classes would 
pay. some more attention to the sport of yacht 
racing generally and had its general success 
more at heart, they would build in the regular 
classes. Then they would have yachts that 
could race in any regatta, up and down the 
coast, and the interest in the sport would be 
many times greater than it is as present. 
The Cape Catboat Association at its annual 
meeting last week amended the rule, so that 
in future the boats will have to race without 
.libs. In their anxiety to win, owners of these 
boats increased the size of the mainsails, and 
then to balance things better, had to put bow¬ 
sprits and jibs on the boats. A catboat with a 
jib was a homely looking craft. The mast of 
a catboat is stepped, right in the bow and the 
model of the craft is made to give symmetry 
to this, but when a. long bowsprit is stuck out¬ 
board and then a jib set they look something 
like the queer craft that are raced in Australia, 
where the rule seems to be to pile on all the 
canvas one can and trust to luck. With their 
big rigs it was necessary to have six or eight 
men in the crews, but with the change in the 
rule, the boats will sail as originally intended 
and smaller crews will be in order. 
The winter promises to be a busy one for 
power boat men, and in many of the yards boats 
are already being built and orders are being 
placed fast. Fred Lawley has designed a 50ft. 
cabin gasolene cruiser for John H. Proctor 
which is to be driven by a 6o-horsepower motor 
She will go 15 miles an hour. 
Stearns & McKay have an order for a 60ft. 
over all. 42ft. waterline, pole masted, auxiliary 
schooner which has been designed by Mr. 
Stearns. 
Yachts Laid Up. 
These, are the dreary days. The yachting 
season is oyer, and to take a vessel to the 
basin to lay it up for the winter has a more de¬ 
pressing effect on the average yachtsman than 
all the gloom of a November day. The delight¬ 
ful times spent sailing about the seas are over. 
The dainty craft that has drifted listlessly in 
the calms or seemed like a thing of life in the 
wind and storm and sea is dismantled. It is 
shorn of its beauty. The sails are stored away, 
the rigging is in burlap, the spars are weather 
stained, and the clean white sides of the hull are 
spattered with dirt and mud. The only ones 
happy are those who own thq basins, and they 
are thinking of the dollars they will reap 
through the storage of the yachts and the work 
that will have to be done to fit them out for the 
next season. 
Occasionally through the long dreary winter 
the yachtsmen will visit these basins and inspect 
their yachts. They will gather around the club 
house fire and talk over again the battles of 
the past season and plans for the season to 
come. 
Among the steamers laid up at the yards of 
Seabury & Co., at Morris Heights, are: 
Helenita, Commodore Frank J. Gould; Lyn- 
donia, C. H. K. Curtis; American, Miss Grace 
Watt; Cherokee, S. H. Vandergrift; Crescent, 
George. Rose; Duchess, L. J. Busby estate; 
Corinthia, T. M. Turner; Jessie, A. E. Austin; 
Vitesse, Gen. Brayton Ives; Vixen, J. D. Arch¬ 
bold; Wasp, John T. Williams; Scud, Samuel 
Untermyer; Little Sovereign, M. C. D. Borden; 
Vamoose, Walter Lewisohn; Advance, .W. W. 
Cole; Seabird, W. E. Burnham estate; Mabel. 
Royal Insurance Co.; Mohawk, H. Wallerstein; 
Embla, E. S. Perot; Privateer, R. A. C. Smith; 
Golden Rod, William C. Hinds; The Limited, 
A. C. Bostwick; Lowando, J. G. Jennings; John 
Duff and Katherine, O’Rourke Construction 
Co.; F. M. Stinson, Mrs. W. D. Ferle; Rox¬ 
ana, Lars Andersen; Chicota, Edwin Gould; 
Presto, H. Smyth Martin. 
Motor boats stored at Morris Heights are: 
Osprey II., C. R. Runyon; Mary Ann, Lemuel 
Ely Quigg; There She Goes, Julius Fleisch- 
mann; Skylark, J. H. Ottley; Veba, A. Velle- 
man; Ranger, C. H. Hyams, Jr.; Speedway, J. 
R. Delamar; Chic, Whitney Lyon; Green 
Dragon, George W. Baxter; Sally Growler, H. 
L. Terrall; Tioga, William Sperb. Jr.; Kawita, 
H. T. Bragg; Ketchikan II., Edward Kemp; 
Bantam II., George D. Pratt; Tequila, David 
Dows; Jessamine, M. Schrenkheisen; Lady 
Jane, Reliance and Shadow, John F. O’Rourke; 
Galavant II., E. L. Dolson; Sea Wolf, J. A. 
Blair, Jr.; Beat It, William M. Fleitman; Ar¬ 
cadia, Rev. J. D. Roach; Iram, J. Dowd; Le 
Blanche, Mrs. W. J. ICress; So So, A. A. 
Stewart; Irene, Walter Lewisohn; Winona, J. 
L. Buchanan; Roma, R. L. Niles; Beatrice, 
estate of E. R. Reynolds; Ella, G. H. Wolley; 
Iroquois, Theodore Richards; Zust, R. Bertelli; 
Frances, F. E. O’Callahan; Mavis, R. A. Shaw; 
Polly, F. F. Proctor; Fledermaus, A. M. 
Huntington; Normona, P. Gibert Thebaud; 
Harry, J. W. Sullivan; Peggy, Charles E. 
Warren; Caprice, Mrs. F. L. Redfield; Pam¬ 
pero, L. F. Leland; Danoosh, J. D. Acker; 
Willada, H. Newman; Intrepid, Lloyd Phoenix; 
INVINCIBLE AND WILD DUCK. 
SIDE-WHEELER CHARMARY—TEBO’S. 
