Feb. 26, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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“Notwithstanding the fact that the big sloops 
were with us, the principal interest in race week 
centered in the second leg of the Thompson 
trophy for class Q boats. The finest fleet of 
25-footers ever gathered together in a single 
contest sailed in the series, and the winner was 
F. G. Stewart’s Princess. The S boats had an 
interesting race for a cup offered by Capt. 
Francis M. Wilson. The trophy was won by 
Catseye, the property of J. F. Adams. 
“Your committee found it exceedingly dif¬ 
ficult to obtain Long Island Sound entries for 
race week. The fixture was well announced in 
the daily press and besides when practically 
every owner on the Sound received a personal 
letter from your chairman. Still the number of 
entries, barring only the 25-foot division, was 
not satisfactory. It is the belief of your chair¬ 
man, therefore, that race week might be im¬ 
proved by looking in other quarters for yachts, 
and he would suggest that cups be offered for 
a series of races among the one-design classes 
of the south side of Long Island to be sailed 
for during the annual race week of the club. 
“Your chairman believes furthermore that it 
is imperative that your regatta committee be 
appointed not later than Dec. 1 of the season 
prior to which it is to serve. Such a move is 
absolutely necessary if you are desirous of see¬ 
ing the club carry through a successful racing 
program of the more important events.” 
Acting on this suggestion, the club decided 
to ask the trustees to see if things could not 
be arranged so that the annual election take 
place in December instead of February. Mr. 
Boucher has been renominated as chairman of 
the regatta committee for this year. 
Barnegat Bay Association. 
The yacht clubs having headquarters on 
Barnegat Bay have formed an association, 
which is to be known as the Barnegat Yacht 
Racing Association. The delegates from the 
eight clubs met at the Yachtsmen’s Club, Phila¬ 
delphia, last week and organized. . The clubs 
represented were Seaside Park, Bay Head, 
Mantoloking, Island Heights, Barnegat City, 
Bayalette ; Cedar and Tom’s River. The annual 
meeting is to be held on March 14, when the 
organization will be perfected by the election 
of officers. The nominating committee will 
then offer the following ticket to the delegates: 
President, John C. McAvoy, Island Heights Y. 
C.; Vice-Pre.sident, Dr. E. A. Pennington, Bay 
Head Y. C.; Secretary-Treasurer, Herman 
Muller, Seaside Park Y. C.; Executive Commit¬ 
tee—Dr. A. L. Mulford, Cedar Y. C.; Commo¬ 
dore Charles E. Smith, Barnegat City Y. C.; 
Racing Committee—Guy A. Luberg, Island 
Heights Y. C.; R. Herbert Crowell, Seaside 
Park Y. C.; Dr. E. A. Pennington, Bay Head 
Y. C.; Charles M. Horter, Cedar Y. C.; Edgar 
P. Earle, Montoloking Y. C.: Charles E. Smith, 
Barnegat City Y. C.; Charles C. Eareckson, 
Lavalette Y. C. 
The association has been formed to encour¬ 
age yacht racing and yacht building, and to es¬ 
tablish and enforce uniform rules for the gov¬ 
ernment of races on Barnegat Bay. The forma¬ 
tion of this association has already given the 
sport quite a boom, and it is announced that as 
the outlook is very satisfactory, eight new yachts 
are to be built for the coming season’s racing. 
The association is to encourage a sound type of 
yacht that is speedy and suitable for cruising 
or for afternoon sailing. 
President McAvoy, who has done much to 
bring about this new state of affairs, says, “We 
have been trying for several years to bring 
about the formation of this association, and now 
that this has been accomplished, I predict that 
Barnegat Bay will rapidly assume its proper 
place among yachting sections. The inter-bay 
races of last season were largely instrumental 
in bringing things to such a state that the or¬ 
ganization! was made possible. By a new system 
which will be inaugurated ■ by the association, 
instead of each club having open races for sneak 
boxes, these races will be conducted by the 
governing body, which will award points in each 
race to be counted for the championship. The 
big regatta each season will be run by the as¬ 
sociation, and it will be a three-days’ regatta 
with handicap events for all types of yachts.” 
Revised rules for the Sewell and Morgan cup 
races have already been drafted. They are very 
different from the old rules and call for boats 
of sane type instead of the freaks that the old 
rules produced. The rules follow: 
The cups will be raced for by catboats which 
conform to the following limitations and do not 
include boats having square sides, snub-nosed 
bows, bilge boards or double centerboards or 
rudders. 
Racing length, for time allowance shall be the 
length over all added to the square root of the 
sail area, divided by two. 
Length over all shall not be less than 24 feet 
or more than 28 feet, and is measured from the 
fore side of the stem to the after edge of the 
stern-board or transom and does not include 
the rudder post. 
Sails.—A mainsail only shall be used. 
Ballast.—Shifting of ballast shall not be al¬ 
lowed. Outside ballast shall not be allowed. 
The centerboard shall be of wood with only 
enough ballast to make it sink easily. 
Crew.—Limited to three and a helmsman. 
Pot-lead, etc.—The use of pot-lead, graphite, 
grease or other similar substances on the hull 
shall not be allowed. 
Scantling restrictions: 
Stem.—Sided at head 3)4 inches. Oak. 
Keel.—Minimum sectional area at after end 
of centerboard well, 48 square inches, includ¬ 
ing keelson and deadwood. Oak. Minimum 
thickness (depth), 3)4 inches. Breadth of keel 
may taper from greatest section to 3)4 inches 
at bow and stern. 
Frames and Deck Beams.—Minimum total sec¬ 
tional area per foot of spacing, 2)4 square 
inches. Oak. Maximum spacing 12 inches be¬ 
tween centers. 
Clamp and Shelf.—Sectional area at center 
for clamp and shelf shall total at least 6 square 
inches. Yellow pine. 
Bilge and Side Stringer.—Sectional area at 
center for bilge and side stringer shall total 
at least 7 square inches. Yellow pine. 
Planking and Deck.—Shall not be less than 
J^-inch finished. (A reduction of inch allowed 
if canvas covered.) 
Floor Frames.—Over the keel shall be at least 
as large in area as the heel of the frame. 
Materials.—If other than those called for in 
these scantling restrictions are used, the sizes 
shall be such as to give at least as much 
strength. 
Existing Boats.—Any catboat built previous 
to Jan. 1, 1909, whose over all length is not 
less than 22 feet or more than 30 feet is eligible 
to race for this cup ; 
All boats must conform to the spirit of these 
limitations in the estimation of the commitee 
and their decision shall be final. 
New Fast Steam Yacht. 
A fast steam yacht similar in type to M. C. 
D. Borden’s Little Sovereign is building at the 
Seabury yards at Morris Heights for a member 
of the New York Y. C., which will be used this 
season as a private ferryboat plying between the 
owner’s country home on the Hudson and the 
city. Charles L. Seabury designed the yacht 
and her general dimensions are 140 feet over-all, 
133 feet, on the waterline, 13 feet 8 inches beam. 
The keel, stem and sternpost of the new yacht 
are of oak. The center keelson, bilge keelsons, 
engine and boiler seatings, sheer strake, main 
deck stringers, main bulkheads, floors, breast 
hook and coal bunkers are of steel. The frames 
are of white oak, steam bent and the planking 
is of two thicknesses. The hull is about com¬ 
pleted and the machinery is well under way. 
The yacht will be fitted with two Seabury 
triple expansion engines, with twin screws and 
a Seabury water tube boiler of the latest design. 
The forward deck house will be used as a 
dining room and arranged with buffet and dumb¬ 
waiter to the galley below. The crew’s quarters 
and officers’ staterooms with the galley, as noted, 
are in the forward part of the vessel. Directly 
aft the machinery space there is a double state¬ 
room for the owner, which will have a brass 
bedstead on the starboard side and wide tran¬ 
som on the port side. There are also a small 
saloon, a bathroom and guest’s stateroom with 
separate toilets connecting the same. 
The yacht will be steered from the bridge on 
the after deck house. Thirty-two miles an hour 
has been guaranteed as the speed of the boat. 
The owner of the Little Sovereign was guaran¬ 
teed a speed of thirty miles an hour and she 
made thirty-four miles an hour. Delivery of the 
new yacht will be made on or before May 1. 
Carnegie Back from Long Voyage. 
The non-magnetic yacht Carnegie, which has 
been taking magnetic observations for some 
months, arrived here last week from New 
Haven. It was the first time she had been in 
port since last August. When Carnegie sailed 
away in August she went to St. John’s, and 
from there worked her way along the Labrador 
coast. Then she did some deep sea work, voy¬ 
aging to Madeira and Bermuda. The data gath¬ 
ered through the cruise will prove of the great¬ 
est benefit to science. Some surprising, and 
heretofore unknown things have been learned 
about the movements of the magnetic needle. 
The data gathered also show that the magnetic 
charts will have to be revised. Several serious 
errors have been discovered in them. This in¬ 
formation will be given the Hydrographic Office 
and corrected charts for navigators will be is¬ 
sued. New York is the first American port 
visited by the yacht since she started on her 
cruise. She has covered an area of about 8,000 
miles in her quest for information. The vessel 
had a stormy passage from Bermuda to New 
Haven. She weathered the same storm which 
is supposed to have sent the Navy tug Nina to 
the bottom. Carnegie will be overhauled and 
additions made to her equipment. This done, 
she will be reprovisioned and started on a long 
cruise of the North Atlantic. She is to work 
as far as the coast of England. Prof. Edward 
Kidson, Dr. R. R. Terfel. J. P. Ault and Dr. 
C. C. Craft were among those on board during 
the cruise. 
Southern Y. C. 
New Orleans, La., Feb. 15.—During the week 
the Southern Y. C. held its annual meeting and 
elected the following officers: A. Baldwin, 
Commodore; Ernest Jahncke, Vice-Commo¬ 
dore; C. A. Farwell, Rear-Commodore; J. J. 
Hooper, Treasurer. Governing Committee—A. 
F. Landry, T. D. Miller, E. H. Keep, E. H. 
Wharton Davies and J. M. Kinabrew. The re¬ 
port of the treasurer showed the indebtedness 
of the club is $3,500, of which $1,800 is bonded. 
Some of the members of the club desire to 
issue bonds to the extent of $6,000 and pay 
off the debts of the organization in addition 
to making a number of improvements and re¬ 
pairs to the club headquarters at West End on 
Lake Pontchartrain. Out of a membership of 
434 only twenty-two votes were cast at the an¬ 
nual meeting and election of officers. There 
appears to be a lack of interest on the part of 
many of the members. 
Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 
Commodore Frank S. Hastings, of the Sea- 
warihaka Corinthian Y. C., has made these ap¬ 
pointments : Fleet Captain, George Emlen 
Roosevelt; Fleet Surgeon, Homer Gibney, 
M.D.; Fleet Chaplain, Rev. Robert Davis. 
The trustees have decided to open the club 
house at Oyster Bay on Friday, May 27. The 
club will go in commission on Saturday, May 28. 
Bay View Y. C. 
At the annual meeting of the Bay View Y. 
C., held at Holland Station, Rockaway Beach, 
these officers were elected: Commodore, Ed¬ 
ward E. Effinger; Vice-Commodore. L. C. 
Heimer; Rear-Commodore, Harry Groth; Fleet 
Captain, Jesse Walker; Treasurer, Nicholas P. 
Lorenzo; Financial Secretary, Edward Duncan; 
Recording Secretary, John Woehr. 
