New Yachts for Class Q. 
There is every indication now that the racing 
season on Gravesend Bay this year will be 
very good indeed. Early in the fall members 
of the Atlantic Y. Y. C. tried to arrange an 
international race, inviting some British yachts¬ 
men to come here and race against 8-metre 
yachts built to conform to the requirements of 
the European rule. These efforts were of no 
avail, and those yachtsmen who were ready to 
build 8-metre yachts have now arranged to 
have 25-footers or Class Q yachts. Two for 
this class are now being built by Frank Woods 
at City Island. These are for Hendon Chubb 
and W. A. Barstow, who have owned and raced 
Spider and Soya, respectively, with consider¬ 
able success. These new boats have been de¬ 
signed by Clinton H. Crane, who was the de¬ 
signer of Spider and Soya. . 
Others are to be built in this class. It is 
probable that E. F. Luckenback, who raced the 
Class P boat Sue, will have one; F. G. Noble, 
who last year raced Gunda, is thinking of hav¬ 
ing another, and R. A. Brown, owner of Flor¬ 
ence, will build if he can sell that yacht. Flor¬ 
ence is a very fast yacht, and it is a matter of 
opinion if she has yet been shown at her best. 
Last year Commodore W. H. Childs had More 
Joy built by Herreshoff. More Joy did not 
make a particularly good showing in her first 
year, but she will be in better shape next sum¬ 
mer and will make the best of the new ones 
hustle to win. These new boats, with the older 
craft, such as Joy, Princess, Edmee, Capsicum 
and Eleanor, will make one of the best classes 
of the season. . . 
One thing about this class is that it is not 
one design. The several boats represent dif¬ 
ferent ideas in design and construction. One- 
design classes do little good for yacht design¬ 
ing. They may help to develop good sailors 
up to a certain point, because one-design boats 
are practically on even terms when they begin 
to race. To win one skipper must be a little 
more skilful than the others. Then in a class 
of one-design boats much depends on the way 
a boat is kept. In a class of yachts of various 
designs things are different. Clever sailing, of 
course, always counts, and so does the condi¬ 
tion in which an owner keeps his yacht. \ acht 
racing is a sport that is conducted not only for 
the pleasure owners can get out of the game, 
but to improve the models of yachts, to learn 
more about construction and to enable design¬ 
ers to study out problems that they are unable 
to do in turning out a class from one set of 
drawings. 
Yacht clubs have agreed on a classification 
dividing vachts into groups or classes. It 
would be'much better for the sport generally 
if these clubs would discourage the building of 
special or one-design classes and induce those 
yachtsmen who are willing to build to select 
one of these regular classes. It has been argued 
that often some members of a club wish to 
have a class of yachts of one design, so that 
they may sail a series of club races for some 
special prize for which only club members are 
eligible. There would be nothing harmful in 
this, but why cannot the yachts be.designed so 
that they are eligible to compete.in a regular 
class if the owner should so wish ? Racing 
these boats in the regular classes would dem¬ 
onstrate something and would greatly improve 
the sport. A one-design class is now being 
built for some members of the Larchmont Y. C.. 
which is too large for the regular Class S and 
too small for Class R. The promoters of this 
class hoped that members of other clubs would 
build from the same design and so be able to 
arrange inter-club races. Such raqes would be 
much more interesting had these yachts fitted 
some regular class, and there would then have 
been much more likelihood of arranging inter¬ 
club races. 
There is another thing that those who build 
yachts should consider. It is much more easy 
to sell a yacht built for a regular class than it 
is to dispose of a yacht of.special design. The 
specially-designed yacht will suit only a com¬ 
parative few, while the yacht that fits a regular 
class will suit many. 
The Sonder Boats. 
There seems to be some uncertainty about 
what racing the sonder class will have this year. 
There will, of course, be lots of racing for these 
boats in the regattas of Eastern clubs and on 
Buzzard’s Bay. Several new yachts, are being 
built for the' season’s sport, and in Eastern 
waters these boats have become very popular. 
The Quincy Cup race will also be for boats of 
this class, as it was last season, and the races 
for this challenge trophy will be sailed off the 
Boston Y. C. house at Hull. 
There has been talk of the Spaniards sending 
two boats of this class here to race against 
American boats. After the races last summer 
with the German boats a cable announcement 
was made that the two Spanish boats had been 
selected. Beyond that the Eastern yachtsmen 
have heard nothing more from Spain and it is 
thought that the political and labor troubles of 
Spain have had much to do with the match not 
being definitely made. 
C. H. YV. Foster offered a cup through the 
Corinthian Y. C. of Marblehead for an inter¬ 
city match. The dividing line was to be Cape 
Cod, and the match was to be between boats 
whose home ports were north and south of the 
Cape. Such a match would be a very interest¬ 
ing one, but, at the request of the Eastern 
Y. C. chairman, nothing more has been done 
about this match. Last fall, too, the Beverly 
Y. C. appointed a committee to confer with the 
Eastern Y. C. about racing on Buzzard’s Bay, 
but, like the inter-city match, that has been 
held up. 
The Waterways League. 
The Waterways League of Greater New York 
closed the year with a roll of 800 members, 
belonging to seventy-nine clubs. This league 
was formed on Feb. 22, 1909. by Major Gilman, 
Fred Reid, R. C. Kerr, Commodore Acker, 
Comptroller H. A. Metz, and about twenty 
other members of the Canarsie Yacht Club. 
The original idea of the league was to bring 
about improvements on the waterways about 
New York and on Long Island Sound by open¬ 
ing those that had been illegally closed by 
railroad companies and highway bridges and to 
solicit the assistance of the national and civic 
governments in deepening and making, safe 
other passages connecting the bays and rivers. 
But the scope of its efforts has since been 
broadened and the organization has taken up 
all public matters, including .buoying and light¬ 
ing waterways and the keeping of the anchor¬ 
ages and channels clean and wholesome. 
During the past season the league secured 
from the Government six gas buoys for Jamaica 
Bay and Rockaway Inlet; it also secured the 
opening of Twenty-second avenue to Grave¬ 
send Bay and the reform of the sewer nuisance 
in that locality. It also obtained from the Gov¬ 
ernment a grant for a preliminary survey of 
Little Hell Gate and the Bronx Kills, looking 
to opening those channels. 
As soon as 1,000 members are enrolled the 
league proposes to have a club room in a cen¬ 
tral locality for winter meetings and lectures 
similar to the Yachtmen’s Club of Philadelphia. 
Thomas Fleming Day, one of the two honorary 
members of the league, said, when asked his 
opinion of the organization: “It is the best 
thing that has happened for yachting in years. 
It will give the sport power to demand what 
justly belongs to it and which, in the past, we 
have not received from either city or national 
government. This City of New York has done 
almost nothing for its yachtsmen. All other 
sports—golf, autoing, tennis, driving, rowing, 
etc—have been looked after, but yachting has 
not, to my knowledge, been officially recog¬ 
nized. With a thousand men, all voters, behind 
a demand, the league will have the power to 
obtain a hearing and to get for yachtsmen what 
justly is theirs: the right to voyage on clean, 
well-buoyed and well-lighted waters, and the 
use of miles of water front for houses and 
anchorages.” 
The officers of the league are: President, 
Edward R. Gilman; Treasurer, Fred Reid; Sec¬ 
retary, Robert C. Kerr, Jr.; the Commodores of 
clubs enrolled and Vice-Presidents. I he annual 
dues of the league are $1, and the Treasurer’s 
address is 581 St. Mark’s avenue, Brooklyn. 
New House for Albany Y. C. 
The Albany Y. C. is to have a new house 
built this winter. The new house will be erected 
on the improved State Street Pier and is to 
cost about $20,000. The building is to be. of 
Colonial style. It will be three stories high 
and 36 feet by 85 feet, the longer side running 
north and south. The material for the outside 
walls will be tapestried brick and the roofs will 
be gabled on the sides and ends. The east side 
of the building will extend along the basin dock 
and from the first floor will be the entrance to 
the floats and boats. The front of the building, 
with its Colonial three-story portico, will be 
about twentv feet back from the dock of the 
river. The first floor will be about seven feet 
above the level of the dock, so there will be no 
danger of flooding from the spring freshets. 
The main entrance, in the north , end, will be 
through a wide doorway and vestibule, on one 
side of which will be the cloak room and on 
the other the office. . Back of this will be a 
room 32 by 44 feet for 200 lockers. Back of 
the locker room there will be a work room 
where members can repair their boats, the 
steward’s room, and at the extreme south end 
the wash room, where there will be shower 
baths and a room containing the heating and 
vacuum cleaning plant. 
The second floor will be handsomely finished 
with white trimmings. At the head of the stair¬ 
case will be two retiring rooms and in the cen¬ 
ter of the floor will be a large assembly hall 
32 by 62 feet, where club dances and receptions 
are to be held. The third floor will be finished 
in mission oak with the old Dutch Inn effect. 
At the north end will be the steward’s room, 
the pantry and kitchen, which will be equipped 
with both coal and gas ranges. The main part 
of the floor will be occupied by the grill room, 
32 by 44 feet. On one side will be an open fire¬ 
place and on the other the opening into the 
balcony. This room is large enough for din¬ 
ners and other club functions, where 150 can be 
seated. A billiard room and a room for the 
Board of Governors will be at the. south end. 
The Albany Y. C. was organized in 1873 and 
now has a membership of 300, a motor boat 
fleet of 150 vessels and a fleet of. nearly one 
hundred canoes. Each summer during the past 
few years the club has entertained many yachts¬ 
men while on their cruises to and from Lake 
Champlain or the Great Lakes by way of the 
Canal The officers are: Commodore. John K. 
Scopes: Vice-Commodore, Matt McCarty, and 
Fleet Captain, T. J. Fitzgerald, Jr. 
