FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 8, 1910. 
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The voyage had lasted but three and a half 
days—far too short from the viewpoint of the 
passenger, but to the Captain the end of the 
journey meant a few days respite, with a chance 
to eat and sleep without forever having on his 
mind a moving vessel. The passengers, who 
might better be termed invited guests, left the 
ship, with the pleasantest of memories of their 
450-mile schooner sail from New York to 
Stockton, Maine. 
Latitude 44 0 27' N.; longitude 68° 50' W. 
Palmer H. Langdon. 
Mr. Langdon is a member of the Crescent 
Athletic Club. He owns one of the club 
dories, has taken part in many of the club races 
and once sailed his dory from Bay Ridge to 
Watch Hill, quite a long cruise for such a 
small boat. Mr. Langdon is an enthusiast 
though, and goes in for everything in a most 
thorough manner. He wrote the account of 
his trip on the coasting schooner for the club 
magazine, and it was published in The Crescent 
last month. 
Handicap Ocean Racing. 
A new trophy has been offered by Commo¬ 
dore Clarence A. Martin for ocean racing, and 
it will be known as the Canarsie Y. C. Cup for 
Ocean Racing for 1910. The Still trophy, which 
was for racing over an outside course, was won 
last season by the sloop Cornelia, and Com¬ 
modore Martin realized that unless some new 
trophy was offered there would be no incentive 
for outside racing this year. A committee has 
been appointed, consisting of Vice-Commodore 
Joseph R. Hodgson, Canarsie Y. C.; C. H. 
Green. Bergen Beach Y. C.; Harry Walker, 
Old Mill Y. C.; John P. Levine, Jamaica Bay 
Y. C., and W. H. Wright, Sheepshead Bay 
Y. C., to frame conditions to govern the racing 
for this trophy. Commodore Martin’s ideas are 
that it should be for a series of races over a 
course starting at Rockaway Inlet and going 
to the Ambrose Channel and Scotland Light¬ 
ship, fourteen and one-half nautical miles. The 
races are to be sailed on the handicap system, 
the handicaps based on the known performance 
of the racers and changed each week. Just 
how many races are to be sailed has not been 
decided. There may be three, five or even 
more. The committee has decided, though, that 
vessels of all rig are eligible to compete and 
that the smallest vessel eligible must not be 
less than 22 feet over all in length. This cup 
should boom ocean racing considerably, and 
yachtsmen who are fond of that kind of racing 
will doubtless be attracted to Jamaica Bay. 
Date Fixed for Motor Boat Race. 
The Motor Boat Club of America has set 
Aug. 20 as the date for the race for the British 
International cup for which British motor boat 
men are to send three representatives. The club 
has formally accepted the challenges and now 
preparations are being made for the defence of 
the trophy. The deed of gift says that the 
course over which the boats are to race must 
be selected by the defending club twenty -days 
after the challenge is accepted, but that has not 
yet been done. There seems no reason why 
Huntington should not be chosen again. That 
is the best course for a race of this kind any¬ 
where in this vicinity. It was praised very 
highly by the visiting British yachtsmen two 
years ago. Efforts, it is understood, are being 
made to make the course off Larchmont. The 
water off Larchmont is not sheltered as it is 
at Huntington, and almost any wind will make 
sea enough there to bother fast motor launches. 
At Huntington only a northwest wind can cause 
any trouble and the wind rarely blows from 
that quarter in August. 
Those who are seriously interested in the de¬ 
fence of the trophy agree that the boat to win 
must be much faster than Dixie IT. Since that 
boat won two years ago, the British have gone 
ahead with small launches and gasolene engines 
and have been working with the idea that the 
trophy must be captured the next, time it is 
raced for. ft is rumored that two boats are to 
be built for the defence of the cup. There 
should be many more than two. The chal¬ 
lengers are going to send three and there should 
be three defenders in the race and those three 
should be selected for a good sized fleet tried 
out in the eliminating races. In the course of 
a week or two the Motor Boat' Club will issue 
a circular giving particulars of the races and 
asking yachtsmen to build for the defence of the 
trophy. The club will this year discourage those 
who build simply for advertising purposes, and 
only boats that are really entitled to considera¬ 
tion will be allowed to compete. 
Pacific Coast News. 
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 24. —The heavy 
storms early this month seem to have put a 
stop to yachting on San Francisco Bay for the 
winter. Many of the smaller boats have been 
taken out of the water, and the rest will remain 
tied up, according to present plans, until the 
spring season. While some of the local; enthu¬ 
siasts enjoy an occasional spin around the bay 
during the winter months, this season has started 
in with such severe weather that there is likely 
to be little opportunity for anything of the kind 
before the end of March at the earliest. Last 
winter there were a few motor boating events 
on the inland waters of California, but most of 
the motor boats are in winter quarters at pres¬ 
ent, and so far no plans have been announced 
for events during the next few months. A good 
many of the yachts are now drawn up at the 
various boat yards for overhauling. 
Unable to enjoy their usual sport, the mem¬ 
bers of the San Francisco Y. C. took advantage 
of a pleasant day last Sunday to- make an “over¬ 
land cruise” to Jolly’s Beach, across the hills 
from Sausalito. The jaunt started at 10 o’clock, 
led by Commodore J. R. Hanify, and attended 
by about sixty members and twenty guests. W. 
G. Morrow and A 1 Hanify acted as chefs, and 
after the walk their repast of bacon and broiled 
steak was highly appreciated. The club has 
planned a number of shore trips and jollifica¬ 
tions for the winter, including a club dinner at 
the house Jan. 9, an overnight tramp to Muir 
'woods in Marin county Jan. 15, and two in¬ 
formal dances at the club house Jan. 29 and 
Feb. 26. 
College boating has been given a boost at 
Stanford University by the gift to the boat club 
of all the equipment which had formerly be¬ 
longed to the entire student body. It is ex¬ 
pected that a number of rowing regattas will be 
•held between the coast colleges next fall. 
To fill in the time of the closed season the Los 
Angeles yachtsmen have started a custom more 
in keeping with their favorite sport than the 
measures resorted to by the San Francisco clubs, 
through the greater warmth of wind and water 
in the south may have something to do with it. 
They are devoting considerable time, when the 
weather permits, to dory sailing, for which the 
outer harbor at San Pedro now offers a favor¬ 
able opportunity. Under the auspices of the 
South Coast Y. C. races are to be held every 
Sunday afternoon, and on such holidays as the 
boatmen care to devote to the sport. The fleet 
of dories has been divided into different classes 
to give facilities for trying out for the cham- 
pionshin, and the season will be divided into 
two halves, the winners of the first and second 
half meeting in a championship race at the close 
of the season to compete for a cup. A. P. B. 
Motor Boats in China. 
Motor Boats are in demand in China, ac¬ 
cording to the report made bv Consul-General 
Leo Bergholz, of Canton. This is because of 
the light draft of these boats, and the Chinese 
have not succeeded in duplicating these boats 
and motors. The questions of electricity and 
petrol consumption are too complex. Ameri¬ 
can engines at present have almost a mononoly 
of the market. Both English and German firms 
act as agents for American engines and seem 
to prefer them even in their own motor boats. 
The simplest style of engine consistent with 
efficiency is the most popular with the Chinese, 
as the native engineers do not master the more 
complex. Added to simplicity should be cheap¬ 
ness, an appeal which Chinese can rarely resist. 
Eventually, owing to the necessity of shallow- 
draft boats to navigate far up to the sources 
of the shallow rivers and in the delta of this 
region, it is predicted that the motor engine 
will come into practical and extensive use. The 
navigation of streams is a very live question 
with Chinese, who have to depend almost en¬ 
tirely on them for transportation. 
Canoeing • 
A. C. A. 
VlCE-COMMODORE THEODOR QuASEBART, of 
the Atlantic Division, has just sent out the fol¬ 
lowing circular letter to members: 
“A Happy New Year to you and may the 
coming season bring you all the good sport 
you are looking for, and if you stick to the 
A. C. A. and join us in our doings you are 
bound to have a good time, may you paddle or 
sail a canoe. It is rather early to come for¬ 
ward at this date with definite plans and infor¬ 
mation, but for those who want to spend their 
vacation with us, I deem it wise to give some 
advance tips. 
“The A. C. A. spirit has been well established 
among the Hudson River canoeists, thanks 
to the enthusiasm of my predecessor, but some 
work has still to be done along the Delaware, 
and with this point in view, I am planning a 
cruise for the last week in June (including. July 
4th), from Easton down the Delaware, calling 
on our friends at Park Island on the way down 
and winding up with a four to five days’ camp 
on Burlington Island on the Delaware. Here 
the usual Paddling and open Canoe Sailing 
Races and other events are to be held, while 
it is my intention to run off the Decked Canoe 
Sailing Races during a Labor Day meet at 
Hermit Point on the Hudson. Other cruises 
and events are being planned and you will be 
informed of such in due time. 
“I wish to call your special attention to our 
official organs, Forest and Stream and The 
Indian Girl Paddler, the latter one edited by our 
fellow-member, ‘Joe’ Rushton. Both papers are 
only too glad to help the A. C. A. spirit, and 
I ask especially the secretaries and correspond¬ 
ents of the various clubs to send in reports of 
cruises, camps, lists of officers, etc., to these 
papers. Write for both papers and read them. 
Commodore Charles P. Forbush, in one of his 
appeals, said: ‘Why have an official organ if 
you don’t use it; tell me?’ If you have any 
suggestions to make, do so and write to me 
and I shall be pleased to take them up.” 
The National Meet will be held on Sugar Isl¬ 
and, in the St. Lawrence River, Aug. 12 to 26. 
Down the Mississippi in a Canoe. 
New Orleans, Dec. 29. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: Kiyo Sue Inui,* the Japanese student 
and lecturer, who came here in an 18-foot canoe 
from Lake Itasca, at the head of the Missis¬ 
sippi River, has completed his journey to the 
Gulf and returned to New Orleans. He will 
deliver a lecture at the Y. M. C. A. in this city 
Sunday night on the subject: “The East vs. 
the West.” Mr. Inui says he intends to ship 
his canoe to Japan as a curiosity. He is a 
great adventurer and athlete and states he en¬ 
joyed his long journey down the river. He 
expects to deliver several illustrated lectures in 
Japan on the United States, especially the Mis¬ 
sissippi Valley. He has gathered a good deal 
of valuable information about this country. He 
claims to be a graduate of the University of 
Michigan. It has been intimated by some that he 
had a deeper motive for this long trip than 
mere pleasure or the gratification of an eccen¬ 
tricityand there are those who believe he will 
file with the government of Japan complete 
reports of the country traversed by him in his 
travels for its information. He traveled by 
water 3,160 miles. F. G. G. 
