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ic., Toronto, T. A. World, F. S. Knowland, W. 
G. H. Ewing; Royal Canadian Y. C., C. G. 
Marlatt, J. S. McMurray, Louis S. Mc- 
Murray. . 
The officers elected were: President. C. G. 
Marlatt, Toronto; Vice-President, George W. 
Reeves, Watertown, N. Y.; Secretary-Treas¬ 
urer, E. K. M. Weed, Toronto. Council—Guy 
R. Judd, Royal Hamilton Y. C.; Col. Strange, 
Kingston Y. C.; Charles Van Voorhis, Roches¬ 
ter Y. C.; E. A. Fearnside, V. Y. C.; W. H. 
Ewing, Queen City Y. C.; John T. Mott. 
Oswego Y. C., and F. L. Wilson, Sodus Bay 
Y. C. Delegates'to Yacht Racing Union— 
Thomas B. Pritchard, Aemelius Jarvis and J. S. 
McMurray. 
The next annual meeting will be held at 
Kingston. After the dinner, the delegates were 
entertained at dinner by President Marlatt at 
the National Club. 
new lightship is named out of compliment to 
the United States engineers who have worked 
so long in completing the new channel. The 
work was in charge of Brig.-Gen. William L. 
Marshall until the latter recently took up the 
post of chief of the corps of engineers. 
In the official description of the new light- 
vessel it is set forth that No. 87 is a straw- 
colored, schooner-rigged, steam vessel, two 
masts, but no bowsprit; with circular iron hoop 
mark at each masthead. She has a straw- 
colored funnel and fog signal between the masts 
and three straw-colored deckhouses. On each 
side are the name and number in large black 
letters. 
By night No. 87 will show an intermittent 
white light every fifteen seconds, as was the 
habit of No. 51. She has a 12-inch fog whistle 
and a submarine bell. Her approximate posi¬ 
tion is lat. 40 deg. 28 min. 2 sec. north, long. 73 
deg. 50 min. 1 sec. west. 
Sandy Hook Lightship No More. 
Sandy Hook Lightship, known officially as 
No. 15, is no more. For years it has marked 
the entrance to New York harbor. It has been 
the starting point of many races, it has been 
the turning mark of others. Now it is gone, 
and in its place is a new lightship known as 
the Ambrose Channel No. 87. Steamers ap¬ 
proaching the yellow strand of Sandy Hook 
will no longer see a staunch red lightship 
rolling at its moorings but a bright yellow ship, 
the new No. 87. 
Although the first Sandy Hook lightship was 
placed in service fifty years ago, the present 
one has been on duty only since 1892. When 
the second Sandy Hook light vessel was placed 
in service, in 1884, she was the wonder of the 
coast, being fitted with more modern equip¬ 
ment than any previous vessel of the kind. But 
even with her newer appliances, the career of 
the second ship was a short one. It was soon 
realized that a better craft was needed for this 
important post and the new light vessel this 
time had electrical equipment and steam power. 
The Ambrose Channel lightvessel will be 
anchored about three miles to the northward of 
the old position, or about the same distance 
that the entrance to the Ambrose Channel is 
from the old Gedney Channel entrance. The 
Course in Nautical Science. 
During the academic year 1908-09 Columbia 
University offers a course of lectures in nautical 
science, with instruction in the use and care of 
instruments. The lectures deal with the astro¬ 
nomical facts and principles upon which is 
based the art of navigation, and are intended 
for yachtsmen and all persons interested in the 
science of navigation.- The lectures will be 
given by Charles Lane Poor, Ph. D., Professor 
of Astronomy, on Thursday afternoons, begin¬ 
ning Dec. 10, in 304 Fayerweather, at 4:30, and 
will be illustrated. 
I. —Dec. 10.—The Sun and its Motions; Dec. 
17—The Earth as an Astronomical Body; Jan. 
14—The Making of an Almanac. 
II. —Jan. 21—Time and its Determination; 
Jan. 28—Finding One’s Position at Sea; Feb. 
4—Latitude; Feb. 11—Longitude. 
III. —Feb. 18—The Cause pf the Tides—The 
Moon; Feb. 25—The Prediction of the Tides; 
Mar. 4—Tides and Tidal Currents of Our Coast. 
The lectures are open to the public. No 
tickets of admission are required, but it is re¬ 
quested that those who desire to attend the 
course regularly will notify either the secretary 
of the University or Professor Poor. 
Power Boat for E. B. Hawkins. 
E. B. Hawkins has placed an order for a 
cruising power boat of the raised deck type, 
which is being built at the Stamford Motor 
Works from designs by Whittlesey & Whit¬ 
taker. This yacht is to be named Itaska and is 
to be 75 feet long, 15 feet beam and 3 feet 4 
inches draft. She will be driven by two 50- 
horsepower Standard motors, which, with twin 
screws, will give the vessel a speed of 14 miles 
an hour. The crew’s quarters are to be for¬ 
ward, and aft of these will be the space for 
the motors. Then there will be the galley, 
which is to be the full width of the yacht. Aft 
of this will be the saloon which is to be 12 feet 
by 15 feet. This will be finished in African 
mahogany and will have wide transoms on each 
side over which will be lockers for glassware, etc. 
Aft of the saloon on the starboard side will be 
a guests’ stateroom fitted with a double berth, 
and on the port side will be a bath and toilet 
room. In the after end of the yacht will be 
the owner’s stateroom, which will occupy the 
full width of the vessel. This room will have 
a double berth on the port side and a wide 
divan on the starboard side. The yacht is to 
be finished early next year. 
Chesapeake Y. C. Officers. 
The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the 
Chesapeake Bay Y. C. was held in the club 
house at Easton, Md., last week. These 
officers were elected: Commodore, Col. F. 
Carroll Goldsborough; Vice-Commodore, Col. 
Oswald Tilghman; Rear-Commodore, T. Clif¬ 
ford Morris; Secretary, Andrew A. Hathaway; 
Treasurer, Alfred Lee Tharp; Board of Gov¬ 
ernors, Dr. James A. Stevens, J. H. Caulk 
Kemp and M. T. Goldsborough; Regatta Com¬ 
mittee for 1908—Meredith Dryden, St. Michaels; 
Edward Woodall, Royal Oak, and J. Graham 
Johnston, Easton; Official Measurer, T. Clifford 
Morris. The club, which is the oldest yacht 
club in Maryland, is in a flourishing condition 
and is making preparations to hold the biggest 
regatta in its history during the summer of 
1909. 
