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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 19, I 9 IQ - 
Pacific Yachting. 
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 8 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: The annual elections of officers 
are now being held by the various yacht clubs 
in San Francisco, and active preparations are 
being made for the coming racing season. The 
Corinthian Y. C. held its annual meeting in the 
Argonaut Hotel, when the following list of 
officers was elected. Commodore, William J. 
Hogg, sloop Meteor; Vice-Commodore, John 
E. Me Far lane, sloop Discovery; Port Captain, 
John H. Keefe. These officers with the fol¬ 
lowing will constitute the Board of Directors: H. 
W. Chesterfield, C. F. Morel, Theodore F. 
Tracy and George Wagner. The Regatta Com¬ 
mittee, which will frame up a program for the 
coming season, consists of William A. Barlage, 
Chas. Gerlach and W. W. Coates. 
The San Francisco Y. C. will hold its annual 
election on Feb. 9, and the nominating com¬ 
mittee has completed its labors. This commit¬ 
tee consists of F. G. Phillips, Philip J. Fay and 
Archie J. Treat, and the following ticket has 
been named to be voted upon. Commodore, 
John R. Hanify, schooner Martha; Vice-Com¬ 
modore, Lawrence T. Wagner, of the power 
boat Roamer; Secretary, Harry A. Russell; 
Financial Secretary, George B. Dinsmore; 
Treasurer, Chas. C. Nichols; Directors at 
Large, William G. Morrow, of the sloop Chal¬ 
lenger, and Otto Hillefeld. The constitution of 
the club has been revised this year, making the 
office of port captain and official measurer ap¬ 
pointive instead of elective, and adding the two 
directors at large to the board of directors. 
As there is no opposition ticket in the field 
this year, the list named will be elected. 
The Aeolian Y. C., of Alameda, has held its 
annual election of officers and the regular ticket 
won out. Arthur F. Rousseau, whose name 
was at the head of the opposition ticket that 
had been put in the field, gracefully withdrew 
before balloting commenced. The membership 
of the club is now greater than at any previous 
time in the club’s history, and more boats are 
in the fleet. The following list of officers was 
elected at the recent meeting: Commodore, 
Louis T. Ward, of the yawl Iola; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, Lawrence Chester Knight, of the sloop 
Emma; Secretary, Clarence Badger, of the 
launch Coming; Treasurer, Sidney Wilson; 
Port Captain, George Postel; Measurer, Simon 
Boysen. of the sloop Aeolian. Directors—B. 
Joost, Sr., of the sloop Speedwell; Carl Strom, 
of the sloop Nautilus; Dr. Howard K. Davis, 
of the sloop Dawn; Chas. Kletzker. Regatta 
Committee—Samuel Lee, D. Chester Martin 
and Mot Marston. A. P. B. 
Bellport Bay Y. C. 
The Bellport Bay Y. C. held its annual mid¬ 
winter dinner and meeting at the rooms of the 
Aldine Association, Fifth avenue. New York, 
on Tuesday evening, Feb. 1. Among other 
matters taken up were the consideration of let¬ 
ters from the Lake Michigan Yachting Asso¬ 
ciation with reference to the one-design class, 
and from Sir Thomas Lipton, referring to 
South Bay yachting matters. The most im¬ 
portant matters discussed were the raising of 
membership dues, the efforts of the Motor 
Boat Association to prevent legislation adverse 
to the interests of the owners of all small 
motor boats—the Great South Bay Yacht Rac¬ 
ing Association and Class P boats, and the 
present system of prize giving. 
The action of the club in opening the Old 
Inlet last season as a club station was com¬ 
mended by the reappointment of the committee 
and the authorization to renew the lease for 
two years. 
The matter of the one-design class was taken 
up enthusiastically. Three new boats are al¬ 
ready ordered and are entering the present 
successful class of eight boats. Messrs. C. E. 
Osborn, John A. Connolly, Jr., and Malcolm 
Fraser offered special prizes for these boats for 
the coming season. Mr. Osborn offered a cup; 
Mr. Connolly a model of the boats, and Mr. 
Fraser a painting of one of the boats, worth in 
value $500. 
The meeting closed with a vote of apprecia¬ 
tion of the work of Commodore Francis H. 
Holmes, who was re-elected for the season 1910. 
Stamford Y. C. 
At the annual meeting of the Stamford Y. C. 
the following officers were elected: Commo¬ 
dore, Richard H. Gillespie; Vice-Commodore, 
George C. Blickensderfer; Rear-Commodore, 
James S. Jenkins; Secretary-Treasurer, Herbert 
Lawton; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. J. Howard Staub; 
Measurer, Harry S. Hart; Chaplain, Rev. 
Charles J. Ryder; Directors—Walter C. Allen, 
Edward Corning, Harry S. Hart, Bartholomew 
Jacob, William H. Martin, Frederic G. Mather, 
John B. Phillips, John J. Radley, Herbert C. 
Reed, Henry G. Ridabock, Frank Shea, Charles 
F. Waterbury. 
The club is in a very prosperous condition, 
as the reports submitted to the members 
showed, and a busy season is anticipated. 
Motor 'Boating. 
The Marine Motor. 
When the first long distance power boat race 
was arranged a few years ago and a fair sized 
fleet started from New Rochelle to race to 
Marblehead, veteran yachtsmen who had done 
lots of off-shore cruising in big vessels shook 
their heads and declared that the idea was a 
crazy one. They had not faith in the marine 
gas engine, had no faith in engines anyhow, 
and called it foolhardy to attempt to take a 
boat under 30 feet long around the Cape. The 
race was a good one. Those who took part in 
it had some hard times, but all got safely to 
port and were enthusiastic about their success. 
The Marblehead race is now an annual fixture. 
Then came the Bermuda race, and although 
the two yachts that took part in the first race 
were built specially to compete on the long 
ocean course, these pessimists again denounced 
the race as absurd. To them it proved nothing, 
even if the vessels arrived safely at their des¬ 
tination. 
They were wrong. These races proved a 
great deal. They showed that the marine 
motor was reliable, even if in those days it was 
something new. It showed the builders of 
those motors just where their weaknesses were, 
and it showed the designers and builders of the 
hulls just what type of boat was required to 
withstand the buffeting of the big seas, and now 
a staunch, able cruising craft has been de¬ 
veloped through these first experiments. These 
races showed, too, that the gas engine was not 
just a toy, but that its uses in vessels of all 
kinds were unlimited, and it has been very 
largely through the experiments made in these 
races that the gas motor has become so gen¬ 
erally used. 
The gasolene motor is rapidly driving the 
old-time sailing craft out of trade. There are 
comparatively few sailing vessels now that are 
not equipped with an auxiliary motor. The 
fishermen who used to sail to the bank now 
have motors in their vessels. They sail when 
the weather is favorable and start the motor 
going in calms and when working into harbor. 
They have put small-powered motors into their 
dories, so that now after having made a catch s 
the men return to the big vessels under power 
instead of having to pull through the seas after 
a hard day’s work. 
Vessels equipped with motors are trading 
along the coast, where formerly only sailing 
craft were used. Small tugs fitted with gaso¬ 
lene motors have been built and have proved 
very successful, and on rivers and small pieces 
of water the gasolene motor has taken the 
place of steam engines on many of the vessels. 
It is not only in vessels of trade that this 
motor has become so popular, but in yachting, 
too. There were some yachtsmen not very 
long ago who frowned on anything that was 
propelled by an engine of any kind. They be¬ 
longed to the old school and wanted nothing 
but sailing craft. A few of these enthusiasts 
are left, but many of them have become con¬ 
verted, and some now have out and out motor 
boats, while others have had motors put in 
their ’ sailing vessels and converted them to 
auxiliaries. 
The auxiliary is growing more popular each 
season. It combines the two attractions on a 
sailing yacht and a motor yacht. Its owner can 
sail when he wishes to without being hampered 
with cumbersome machinery, as were found in 
the steam auxiliaries, and when the weather is 
not favorable, he can have the motor started 
and get back to port. 
The advantages of the gasolene motor over 
the steam engine are many. A motor boat of 
80 feet length will have as much accommoda¬ 
tions as a steamer of twice its size. 4 his is be¬ 
cause the space occupied by the motor is 
smaller than that necessary for the engine and 
boilers on a steam yacht. The tanks in which 
the gasolene is carried do not take the room of 
the coal bunkers. The initial cost of installing 
these two engines shows a saving in favor of 
the gasolene motor. With a ^ steam engine 
licensed engineers, oilers and firemen are re¬ 
quired—one or two men will care for a motor, 
and they are not licensed. The motor is so 
simple that the owner can handle it, if he so 
cares, just as he does his automobile. 
There is no dust, dirt or great heat with a 
motor as there is with a steam engine with its 
boilers and furnaces. It will take some hours 
to get .up steam on a vessel equipped with 
steam engines, and after the day’s run the fires 
have to be raked down and banked. With a 
gasolene motor, a turn of a crank will start the 
motor working and the vessel will go ahead, 
and when the run is ended the motor is stooped 
and is ready for the next run at any time. 
These are just a few of the advantages, and 
yachtsmen are just beginning to find them out. 
More motor boats are being built this winter 
than steamers and sailing craft combined. 
The Havana Race. 
Six motor boats have already been entered 
in the race of the Yachtsmen’s_ Club from Phil¬ 
adelphia to Havana, which will be started at 
Philadelphia on Saturday, May 21. This race is 
attracting an unusual amount of attention, not 
only by those in motor yachts, but by yachts¬ 
men generally because it is the longest event 
of its kind ever arranged for. The yachts 
entered are Caroline, Caliph, Freelance, Ilys, 
Georgiana and a boat to be equipped with a 
gas producer plant. Ilys is owned by Commo¬ 
dore J. G. Naefie Whitaker, and won the race 
from Bermuda last year. Freelance is building 
at the Nilson yard, Baltimore. Caliph is a new 
boat, and Georgiana and Caroline are two boats 
that were out last year. Another boat is being 
built at Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington, 
and a boat to be named Bernego is being built 
by Alexander McDonald at Mariner’s Harbor 
for Granbery & Williamson. These two will be 
entered if they can be finished in time. There 
are several other vessels that are eligible for 
this race, and the committee in charge is very 
busy trying to induce others to enter their 
boats. 
Commodore J. G. N. Whitaker is chairman 
of the race committee, and he is an enthusiast. 
He had prepared a very handsome illustrated 
program of the race, which gives the conditions, 
a chart of the course and a short statement of 
the advantages of long distance racing, and the 
many lessons learned by those who take part in 
these events. Referring to the race, Commo¬ 
dore Whitaker says: 
“This will be the first long distance race 
ever held from Philadelphia, and, it is our be¬ 
lief, will be the big event of 1910, and undoubt¬ 
edly the greatest motor boat race ever held. 
The prizes are magnificent, and the people in 
Havana are making great preparations to en¬ 
tertain the visiting yachtsmen upon their arrival. 
“The beauty of such a race over the Bermuda 
trip will be that at no time will a boat be over 
one hundred miles from a harbor in the remote 
case of the complete breakdown of the motive 
power, and will always be in the track of a 
