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International Motor Boat Racing. 
The International Association of Yachting 
Automobile, of which the Automobile Club of 
America has recently been appointed the Amer¬ 
ican representative, is composed of the repre¬ 
sentative motor boat clubs and automobile clubs 
of different nations, as follows: 
The Automobile Club of France Yachting 
Commission and the Motor Y. C. of France; 
the Kaiserlicher Y. C. and Kaiserlicher Automo¬ 
bile Club of Germany; the Motor Y. C. and the 
Royal Automobile Club of England; the Royal 
Y. C. of Belgium; the Regio Y. C. of Italy; 
the International Sporting Club of Monaco; the 
Automobile Club of America. 
The purposes of the International Association, 
of which Count Recope, the president of the 
Yachting Commission of the Automobile Club 
of France, is president, are the drafting of in¬ 
ternational regulations for motor boat races 
and the proper enforcement of the same. 
The appointment of the Automobile Club of 
America to represent the International Associ¬ 
ation in America carries with it the duty of en¬ 
forcing in America the rules of the International 
Association, annually formulated at the Inter¬ 
national Congress, in which each nation repre¬ 
sented is entitled to one vote, and of assuming 
the responsibility for all recognized interna¬ 
tional races held in America under the sanction 
of the International Association. Under the 
rules recently adopted, the association pro¬ 
hibited all international racing except such as 
is sanctioned by its representatives; it thus takes 
cognizance of international races only, and 
leaves to the local clubs of each country the 
framing of regulations for local and national 
races, although it does not prohibit the inter¬ 
national formula from being adopted for such 
racing. For all international events, however, 
challenges, both from America and from 
Europe, can be made only through the Auto¬ 
mobile Club of America as the representative of 
the International Association. 
The rules of the International Association 
provide for a series of classes for “racing 
cruisers” and racers. 
The racers have a maximum length of 15 
metres (49 feet') and are divided into two 
classes: Class 1, in which the diameter of the 
cylinders is limited to 155 millimetres (6.1 
inches) for a 4-cylinder motor, or its equivalent, 
whatever the number of cylinders; and class 2, 
“racers” of unlimited power. 
“Racer cruisers” have a maximum length of 
18 metres (60 feet) and are divided into five 
classes. The first is a special, in which length 
is not a factor, and in which the boats are 
limited only by the weight of their hull under 
load. These are craft having a single cylinder 
motor 4 inches maximum bore or equivalent, 
with a minimum weight of 1.4.30 pounds. 
Aside from this first special class “racing 
cruisers” are divided into four other classes, 
according to their length. 
The second class comprises boats having a 
length of 6.5 metres (20 feet) or less. 
The third class comprises boats of more than 
6.5 metres but not exceeding 8 metres (26 feet). 
The fourth class comprises boats of more 
than 8 metres, but not exceeding 12 metres 
(40 feet). 
The fifth class comprises boats of more than 
12 metres, but not exceeding 18 metres (60 feet). 
In each of these classes the power of the 
motor is limited, and the ratio of the power of 
the motor to the weight of the boat is fixed. 
The maximum bores are fixed for the four 
classes, as follows: 
Second class, go millimetres (3.5 inches) per 
cylinder in a 4-cylinder motor, or the equivalent 
in piston surface. 
Third class, 106 millimetres (4 inches) per 
cylinder in a 4-cylinder motor, or the equivalent 
in piston surface. 
Fourth class, 130 millimetres (5 inches) per 
cylinder in a 4-cylinder motor, or the equivalent 
in piston surface. 
Fifth class, 155 millimetres (6.1 inches) per 
C)dinder in a 4-cylinder motor, or the equivalent 
in piston surface. 
The above classification has the advantage of 
permitting a very large number of boats to take 
part in races on an equal footing, in each class; 
and its adoption will residt in making future 
international races more interesting, while at 
the same time it will encourage development in 
the construction of motor boats. 
The International Association will disqualify 
every competitor who enters an international 
race under other rules than those adopted by it, 
the exception being made of events already ex¬ 
isting or which have been publicly announced. 
The committee of the motor boat division of 
the Automobile Club of America will be made 
up of representatives from all the leading yacht 
clubs and motor boat clubs in this country. 
Among those who have been invited to appoint 
a representative to serve on this committee are 
the following: 
New York Y. C., Larchmont Y. C., Seawan- 
haka-Corinthian Y. C., Motor Boat Club of 
America, American Power Boat Association, 
Columbia Y. C., Detroit Y. C., Southern Y. C. 
of New. Orleans. Eastern Y. C. (of Boston), 
Columbia Y. C. (of Chicago), National Asso¬ 
ciation of Engine and Boat Manufacturers. 
The Automobile Club of America has no in¬ 
tention to assume charge of national motor boat 
racing in this country; and, in fact, at the con¬ 
vention of delegates from yacht and motor boat 
clubs in the United States, which it is pro¬ 
posed to hold during the National Motor Boat 
Show in Madison Square Garden in February, 
next, in all probability, a national body will be 
formed for the purpose of framing uniform rules 
for the government of national racing. The 
motor boat division of the A. C. C. will do all 
in its power to assist the formation of such 
national bodv. 
Hampton Roads Y. C. Meeting. 
The annual meeting of the Hampton Roads 
Y. C. was held in the club house last week and 
the following officers were elected: 
Commodore, R. P. Waller; Vice-Commodore, 
E. L. Woodward; Rear-Commodome, J. Ralph 
Jones; Paymaster, J. H. Thompson; Secretary. 
Charles McDermott, and the following Board 
of Governors, T. F. Tilgham, L. Mansbach, W. 
M. Jones, Jr., C. L. Conrad, Ivor Page, C. F. 
Stanworth. 
The following committee on membership was 
appointed: C. F. Stanworth, Chairman; B. F. 
Mitchell, S. R. Chandler, George Briggs and E. 
G. Face. 
The finance, auditing and regatta committees, 
the fleet surgeon and the official measurer will 
be named at the first meeting of the Board of 
Governors, which will be held in the near 
future. 
No action was taken on the invitation of the 
Marblehead Eastern Y. C. to participate in the 
trials to be held next spring for qualification in 
the finals for the international regatta to be 
sailed next summer. It will be necessary for 
the club to build a boat for entry in these trials 
and the matter will be discussed at a special 
meeting of the stockholders to be held on Dec. 
10. It is understood that some of the members 
of the club favor building a boat and accepting 
the invitation, which may give them a chance 
to participate in the international regatta. 
Rule for Rating Old Yachts. 
Since the adoption of the present rule of 
measurement, owners of yachts that were built 
under the old rule have complained bitterly 
that their yachts have little chance of success 
against the new ones because they have been 
legislated out of racing by the new rule and with 
their yachts they have to pay heavy penalties 
which give them no chances of success. Several 
times schemes have been proposed by which it 
was thought that some fair racing might be 
arranged for older boats, and such schemes 
are always of interest to yachtsmen, particularly 
at this the dull season of the year when they 
like to figure and plan what can be done for the 
benefit of the sport. 
T. R. Goodwin, president of the Narragansett 
Bay Racing Association, recently issued a letter 
to the members, of that association in which he 
set forth what in his idea would be a fair rule 
to adopt for yachts to be rated under. Pie says: 
“The proposition which has confronted all 
who have been interested in rating racing 
yachts has been from the very first a rule which 
will rate boats of varying dimensions and form 
by a system of measurement which will fix their 
respective ratings at figures proportionate to 
their speed. Each new rule which has been 
adopted has developed a certain fixed type of 
boat, and has,relegated to the bone yard or 
into the cruising class all boats which do not 
conform closely to its limitations. 
“The present so-called universal rule in many 
respects develops the most satisfactory type of 
boat which we have ever had, but it, too, has 
very serious drawbacks. The principal one. at 
least from the standpoint of Narragansett Bay 
yachtsmen, is the fact that in the smaller classes 
it develops a boat expensive of construction and 
with comparatively limited accommodations. 
Our racing men as a general rule consist of the 
younger set of business men whose boating 
means more to them than the racing end and 
who desire to use their boats for short cruisers 
as well as racing and who demand fairly good 
living accommodations on a not too large nor 
expensive craft. 
“Under the universal rule the very smallest 
class in which the required amount of room can 
be had is the 27 to 32 rating class, boats entirely 
beyond the means of the average man in this 
locality. 
“This being the case, it is necessary for them 
to turn to the more scow-like type of craft, 
whose liberal beam allows interior advantages 
not to be obtained in the narrower craft de¬ 
veloped under the new rule. 
“There are already in these waters a number 
of yachts of this description, the most popular 
of which are the boats of the old Yacht Racing 
Association of Massachusetts 22-foot class. 
These boats are fast, able, roomy and eminently 
suited to our waters, although perhaps a trifle 
too flat for outside sailing. 
“It is for 11s, the Narragansett Bay Yacht 
Racing Association, to furnish a rule of meas¬ 
urement which will rate these boats at a fair 
rating as compared with other dissimilar types, 
to provide as far as possible against their being 
outbuilt and outclassed under the rule and at 
the same time admit of the purchase or building 
of new boats of a similar description. 
“Our present measurement rule in formula 
rates yachts in a very satisfactory manner, as 
was shown in the regatta given under the 
auspices of this association on Sept. 19. 
“In class I* there were Peri II., Medric II. 
and Nutmeg, all 22-footers, and Dorothy Q, a 
boat of totally dissimilar type, but practically 
equal speed, all sailing on exactly the same 
rating. There was also Wanderer V., a wide 
centerboard type, with the biggest sail spread of 
