Jan. 15, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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TIMANDRA-—REEFED DOWN. 
the few comic interludes of the voyage. One 
pleasant early evening all three young fellows 
were below, enjoying a cup of tea, when they 
were startled by hearing Capt. Kerr crying in 
a dramatic sort of whisper: ‘Come abune at 
aince, lads; the sea serpent’s tryin’ to come 
alangside!’ On reaching the deck Barr and the 
other two did see in the wake of the beautiful 
little cutter something, which had undoubtedly 
a wriggly or serpentine look about it in the 
grey and fading light of the summer gloaming. 
A little investigation, however, showed that the 
‘serpent’ was nothing more formidable, noth¬ 
ing more mytserious than the brace of the 
boat’s own spinnaker boom, the loose end of 
which had slipped over the side in one of the 
cutter’s rolls! 
“When two-thirds of the passage had been 
made, a record had been set up in ocean sail¬ 
ing for a vessel of the size and sort of Minerva. 
Such wild weather, however, prevailed during 
the concluding third, especially in the vicinity 
of Cape Cod, that Boston was not made till 
twenty-eight days after Fairlie had been left. 
1 he little clipper arrived ‘all well,’ and the pass¬ 
age was, under all the circumstances, a fine feat 
in seamanship.” 
Sixteen years afterwards Barr made a very 
different sort of trip across the Atlantic—a trip, 
moreover, that, whether it may be ultimately 
superseded or not in the mere matter of speed, 
will always remain a classic of the pastime. In 
1905 the German Emperor gave a valuable cup 
for a race from America to Britain, and Barr 
had the honor not only of sailing the winning 
yacht, but of making the speediest passage ever 
accomplished by a yacht on the Atlantic. This 
vessel was a very fine three-masted fore-and- 
aft schooner of 542 tons and the following 
measurement: Length over all, 185 feet; length 
on the lower water line, 135 feet; beam, 29 feet 
6 inches; draft, 15 feet. She was the property 
of Mr. Wilson Marshall and she bore, not in¬ 
appropriately, the name Atlantic. Her time from 
Sandy Hook to Bishop’s Rock was n days, 16 
hours, 11 minutes, and to the Lizard, which 
was the winning post, 12 days, 4 hours; while 
her average speed for the full passage of 3,013 
miles was 10.31 knots. The Lizard would have 
been made a little sooner but for a tantalizing 
calm which fell practically in sight of home. 
The Atlantic’s best four and twenty hours sail¬ 
ing gave the splendid result of 341 miles, with 
an average of 14.2 miles. 
“This grand bit of traveling fairly captured 
the imagination of her owner, and he gave 
expression to his pleased feeling in these terms 
in the vessel’s log: ‘Of all days, to-day is the 
day will ever be fixed in our minds with the 
greatest pride and joy, for the good yacht 
Atlantic broke the record, held by the old 
Dauntless since 1887, for the greatest day’s run 
on the passage from New York to England, 
traveling during the 23 hours 31 minutes 30 
seconds, from noon of May 23d to noon of the 
24th, 341 miles, or 14.20 miles per hour, the 
record so long held being 328 miles.’ During 
the greater part of this historic run the Atlantic 
was under all sail, which included jib and stay¬ 
sail, foresail and mainsail and spanker, with 
topsails over them. Ultimately the wind in¬ 
creased to such an extent that it was deemed 
judicious to take off the spanker and topsails. 
As she was kept at it, however, she ran out 
the day at an average of 14^2 knots. 
“In the previous year Barr made an admir¬ 
able Atlantic passage in the Ingomar, a beau¬ 
tiful schooner of 227 tons, belonging to that 
well-known American yachtsman, Mr. Morton 
F. Plant. Although Ingomar was only fitted 
with cruising canvas, and was not driven with 
the keenness and indifference to comfort, and 
even to danger, with which Atlantic was sailed 
in the race for the Emperor’s cup, yet she made 
the passage from Bristol, Rhode Island, U. S. 
A., to Southampton between April 20th and 
May 6th. The full time for the voyage was 15 
days 9 hours, and the best day’s sailing—which 
curiously enough was on the concluding day— 
was 2605^ miles. 
“The great skill with which Barr navigated 
both Ingomar and Atlantic was the subject of 
very favorable comment among seamen of the 
mercantile marine, as well as among the leading 
navigators of the pleasure navy. His fame in 
this direction found its way to the knowledge 
of that greatest of royal yachtsmen, the Ger¬ 
man Emperor, and on Barr arriving at Trave- 
mund in charge of a yacht at regatta time, soon 
after these outstanding passages had been made. 
His Imperial Majesty gave orders to have him 
presented, so that he might have a talk with 
him about the navigating of the ocean in yachts. 
On learning that the chart which had been 
used in the race was on board Barr’s boat, the 
Emperor caused it to be brought, and after he 
had studied the course as picked out on it very 
carefully, he remarked with generous warmth 
that while he had seen many charts of Atlantic 
sailing courses he had never seen a better one 
than that of Barr. When Barr had taken his 
leave, the Emperor remarked to the others 
present that it was an unusual, if not even a 
unique circumstance, to see combined in one 
person knowledge and exceptional skill in grand 
circle sailing and ocean navigation, and the 
entirely different knowledge of seamanship 
necessary for the handling of yachts in short 
courses.” 
Race with Spaniards Arranged. 
The Eastern Y. C. committee has announced 
that there will be a race for boats of the Sonder 
class owned by Spanish and American yachts¬ 
men off Marblehead next September. The 
Eastern Club not long ago sent a formal invi¬ 
tation to the San Sebastian Y. C., asking that 
three Spanish yachts be sent here to race 
against three American yachts for suitable 
trophies. An acceptance of this invitation was 
received a few days ago and the committee will 
at once proceed to make arrangements for the 
races. 
In 1908 the three American Sonder boats 
that raced at Kiel, Germany, went to San Se¬ 
bastian upon invitation of the yacht club there 
and were defeated in a series of contests. An 
informal invitation was then extended on be¬ 
half of the Eastern Y. C. to the Spanish yachts¬ 
men to come to Marblehead for a return series. 
The Dons began to prepare for the contests 
that winter and during the past summer have 
been busy trying out boats in anticipation of 
the formal invitation from the Eastern Y. C.. 
which they have just accepted. The Spanish 
boats have been picked, and judging from the 
excellence of the seamanship displayed by the 
Spanish skippers in the series at San Sebastian 
in 1908 they will furnish some inetresting sport 
for the American yachting public off Marble¬ 
head. 
The Eastern Y. C. has not yet made any 
definite arrangements for the event, nor has 
it decided upon the system that will be used in 
determining what boats will sail against the 
Spaniards, but it is probable that the trial races 
will be open to boats enrolled in any organized 
yacht club in the United States, and that much 
the same rules as prevailed in the Gerrnan- 
American trial races last summer will govern 
these contests. 
Bayside Y. C. Meeting. 
The annual meeting of the Bayside Y. C. was 
held at Liberty Hall, Bayside, L. I., on Satur¬ 
day, Jan. 8. There were 136 members of the 
265 present. Commodore G. Waldo Smith was 
re-elected and is now the senior commodore 
of the clubs on Long Island Sound. By a vote 
of 96 to 31, the club passed a resolution pro¬ 
hibiting the sale of liquor at their yacht club 
house on the shores of Little Neck Bay, Bay- 
side. Liquor has never been sold at this club 
house, and the resolution was presented to 
ascertain the sentiment of the members on the 
subject. Commodore G. Waldo Smith presided, 
and during the course of the meeting the sub¬ 
ject of promoting sociability in the club was 
brought up for debate, when certain members 
favored the plan of selling liquor at the club 
house with a view to breaking down barriers 
and promoting good fellowship. A friendly 
though vigorous debate for and against the sale 
of liquor in the club house followed, when, in 
order to get a vote on the question. Judge H. 
Stewart McKnight introduced the resolution 
prohibiting the sale of liquor, and the resolu¬ 
tion was carried by the vote as given above. 
The club has a membership of 265, and out of 
the 136 members present nine refrained from 
voting on the prohibitory resolution. 
The new club officers elected for the ensuing 
year are: Commodore, G. Waldo Smith; Vice- 
Commodore, W. H. Baker; Recorder, J. F. 
Calder; Secretary, William H. Johns; Treas¬ 
urer, Frederic Floyd-Jones; Measurer, William 
J. English; Board of Governors (to serve three 
years)—Archibald Nesbett, William Teller and 
James Nash Webb. The club has 100 yachts in 
its fleet. 
