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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 19, 1908. 
Gravesend Bay Championships. 
A meeting of the Gravesend Bay Y. R. A. 
was held at the Imperial, Brooklyn, on Saturday, 
Dec. 12. The chief business transacted was pass¬ 
ing on the championships which had been figured 
out by Secretary G. R. LeSauvage. Twelve 
races were sailed and championships were an¬ 
nounced in six regular classes. 
In the 27-foot class Crescent, owned by J. B. 
O’Donohue, was the winner easily over Sue. 
Three raced in the 22-foot class and the win¬ 
ner was W. A. Barstow’s Soya. I11 this class 
each yacht started in every race. 
In Class S, 15-footers, Gunda beat M and F. 
This was a surprise, as M and F had won so 
many races that it was thought that yacht had 
won easily, but Gunda was knocking at the door 
in each race early in the season and won later 
on, while M and F lost five points through a 
disqualification. M and F finished second to 
Goblin in one race and that race cost her the 
championship. 
Adyta was the winner in the second division 
of the handicap class and Mischief won in the 
first division. 
Slow Poke won the dory championship. 
Early in the season the dories and knockabouts 
were in one class, but they were divided later 
and a separate class made for knockabouts. 
This was because Slow Poke and Merry Widow 
did not conform strictly to the restriction rules. 
Commodore Childs of the Bensonhurst Club 
offered prizes for the knockabouts for a series 
of six races. The-first prize was won by Mouse, 
and Bobs and Cherub tied for the second prize. 
In each race points were credited according 
to the usual system, one for each yacht beaten 
and one for a start. A per centage was figured 
on the total points scored and the total possible 
if the yacht had won every race in which it 
started. The tables following give the records 
of all the yachts that competed for the cham¬ 
pionships : 
Brooklyn Y. C. Election. 
At the annual meeting of the Brooklyn Y. C. 
the report of. the committee on the new club 
house was particularly encouraging. Nearly 
all the funds have been raised for the extensive 
improvements to be made to the new Benson¬ 
hurst property early next spring. The mefn- 
bers took possession of their new home a week 
ago, but in view of the winter season it was 
deemed best to postpone the alterations to the 
buildings until later in the season. The archi¬ 
tect’s plans call for an expenditure of over 
$20,000, and when completed the Brooklyn club 
will have one of the finest yacht headquarters 
on the Atlantic coast. The election of officers 
resulted as follows: 
Commodore, Wm. C. Towen, schooner Tam¬ 
many; Vice-Commodore, Thomas A. Nevins; 
Rear-Commodore, Leo S. Herzig, sloop Gar¬ 
denia; Secretary, John G. Faist; Treasurer, 
Willard Graham; Measurer, Edson B. Schock. 
Trustees for three years—A. C. Soper, V. Hugo 
Koehler, William P. Kiggins. Trustee for two 
years-—David E. Austen. Trustees for one year 
—Neptune B. Smyth, Edward Hassett. Regatta 
Committee—William H. Griffin, William P. 
Kiggins, A. C. Soper. Membership Committee 
—James S. _ Bradley, Comrad R. Schmitt, 
Maurice Deiches. Nominating Committee— 
Walter D. Haviland, E. M. Youmans, George 
Gattel. 
Atlantic Y. C. Meeting. 
A special meeting of the members of the At¬ 
lantic Y. C. was held at the Hotel Astor on Dec. 
It was called by the trustees for the pur- 
have to be submitted at another meeting, are as 
follows : 
1. To appoint a house committee consisting 
of not less than three members, at least one of 
whom shall be a member of their board. Also 
to appoint a library committee, entertainment 
committee, and such other committees as they 
shall deem necessary. 
2. To borrow such moneys on note or other¬ 
wise as may be necessary for the current ex¬ 
penses of the club. 
3. To make such rules as they deem proper 
respecting, the use of the club houses and prop¬ 
erty not inconsistent with the constitution and 
by-laws. 
4. To prescribe rules for the admission of 
strangers. 
5 - To fix penalties for violations of the rules 
and to enforce the same. 
6. To remit penalties for offenses against the 
rules and for unintentional and excusable viola¬ 
tions of the constitution and by-laws. 
7. To elect members in the manner herein¬ 
after provided and to suspend or expel any mem¬ 
ber for violation of . the constitution or by-laws, 
or for conduct not in. violation of the constitu¬ 
tion or by-laws, but improper or prejudicial to 
the interests of the club. 
8. To make rules for their own government 
and for the government of the committees ap¬ 
pointed by them. 
9 - To appoint a measurer and to provide for 
the official measurement of yachts, the proof and 
recording of the same, and to fix the fees there¬ 
for. 
10 
pose of considering proposed changes in the con¬ 
stitution and by-laws which the trustees thought 
would be for the benefit of the club. These 
changes, give the trustees more power and de¬ 
fine their duties more carefully. The changes, 
which were passed by the members and which 
Name and Owner. 
SLOOPS—CLASS P. 
Crescent, J. B. O’Donohue. 
Sue, E. F. Luckenbach. 
SLOOPS-CLASS O. 
Soya, W. A. Barstow... 
Joy, W. IT. Childs. 
Spider, Hendon Chubb. 
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Atlantic 
June 20. 
Brookly 
June 27. 
Atlantic 
July 4. 
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July 11. 
Atlantic 
July 18. 
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Sept. 5. 
Crescent 
Sept. 12. 
Atlantic, 
Sept 19. 
Total 
Points. 
Possible. 
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18 
22 
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.818 
.550 
.866 
.600 
.533 
Mower Designed Yachts. 
Charles D. Mower is busy with several yachts 
to be built this winter. One that he is paying 
close attention to is the Sonder boat by Com. 
W. H. Childs. A model has been made of this 
yacht, but naturally Mr. Mower does not care 
to give away the details until later on. 
The largest power boat he has is 70 feet long 
and is for A. B. Cartledge, of Philadelphia. He 
has a 40-foot high-speed launch for P. H. Hes- 
ser, of Cincinnati. This boat is to be fitted with 
a 6-cylinder no horsepower motor and thirty 
miles an hour is expected. 
He has designed a 20-foot waterline auxiliary 
sloop for a Philadelphia yachtsman, which is for 
use on Barnegat Bay. A 25-foot waterline sloop 
has been designed for Charles J. Lincoln and is 
being built at the Baker Yacht Basin. A 30-foot 
power yacht tender for a racing yacht 'is also 
being built at the Baker Yacht Basin. This ten¬ 
der is to make twelve miles an hour and has 
many novel features. 
SLOOPS-CLASS S. 
Gunda, F. S. Noble. 4 
M. and F., C. M. Camp. 5 
Goblin, Speidel Bros. 3 
Pester, R. S. Childs. 
Bluebill, D. D. Allerton. 
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46 
45 
55 
HANDICAP CLASS—SECOND DIVISION. 
Did not qualify. 
Did not qualify. 
Did not qualify. 
.844 
.836 
Knockabouts for Cedarhurst Y. C. 
Adyta, R. von Foregger. 4 
Carolin, R. Rummell. 5 
Miana, W. J. O’Niel. 6 
La Cubana, J. N. Ives. 2 
Ondas, A. j/Menton. 7 
Squaw, E. R. Valentine. 3 
Gamma, A. Snedecker. 1 
HANDICAP CLASS—FIRST DIVISION 
Mischief, J. L. Mitchell. 
Madiana, H. H. Smith.. 
Toy, T. Hamilton. 
SLOOPS-CLASS X—DORIES. 
Slow Poke, Insley and Stringer. 2 
Merry Widow, Atkinson & Zim¬ 
merman . 1 
GRAVESEND BAY DORIES. 
Mouse, G. R. Le Sauvage. 
Bobs, R. W. Speir. 
Cherub, B. Atkinson . 
Dot, C L Clayton. 
Nancy, W. L. Sweet. 
Masque, L. S. Tiemann... 
Chico, W. IT. Fales. 
Anne, J. M. Copeman. 
Queen, F. L. Dillingham. 
Jiff Jag, M. de Mendonca. 
Joker, N. Eagle. 
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Did not qualify. 
Did not qualify. 
Did not qualify. 
22 24 .917 
Did not qualify. 
Did not qualify. 
8 
7 
11 
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9 
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22 
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15 
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.681 
41 
45 
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35 
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.795 
35 
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30 
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.681 
22 
33 
.636 
20 
33 
.606 
16 
33 
.464 
The members of the Cedarhurst Y. C., who 
have a club house at Lawrence Beach, near the 
Rockaway Hunting Club, are to have a one- 
design class of knockabouts built from designs 
by Cox & Stevens. These boats are to be raced 
on the inlet and on the ocean, and it is expected 
that inter-club matches will be arranged too 
with some of the members of the Great South 
Bay Club. The boats are to be 22 feet over all, 
15 feet waterline, 6 feet 6 inches beam and 2 
feet draft. They will carry about 800 pounds 
of outside lead ballast and spread 250 square 
feet of canvas. 1 hey have good freeboard, 
moderate overhang and fairly sharp sections and 
will be a comfortable craft in average weather. 
They are being built by Warren Purdy, at Amity- 
ville. Eight have been ordered and it is thought 
that there will be twelve when the season opens. 
In the New York Canoe Club race on Aug. 15, the dories were unable to finish 
0 
Did not qualify. 
Did not qualify. 
Did not qualify. 
Did not qualify. 
owing to lack of wind. 
Yacht Sales. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has sold 
the crack 18-footer Raduga, owned by H. B. 
Miller, of New York, to Dr. A. C. Mair, of At¬ 
tleboro, Mass. Dr. Mair is secretary of the 
Narragansett Bay Yacht Racing Association, 
and will race the boat in these waters next sea¬ 
son. The Raduga will be enrolled in the Rhode 
Island Y. C. 
