March 26, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
503 
September. 
3. Corinthian, grand handicap, Marblehead. 
5. Lynn, Y. R. A., open, Nahant. 
10. Boston, club, Marblehead. 
11. Y. R. A, of M, rendezvous and parade, Hull 
to City Point 
Narragansett Bay Meeting. 
The delegates of the Narragansett Bay Yacht 
Racing Association met recently and elected 
officers. It has been expected that the racing 
schedule would be adopted, but the schedule 
committee reported that it had not been able 
to agree on a full schedule and submitted a 
tentative one. The officers elected are: Presi¬ 
dent, T. R. Goodwin; Vice-President, William 
M. Arnold; Secretary-Treasurer, W. Louis 
Frost; Registration Secretary, W. B. M. Fuller; 
Delegate-at-Large, Benjamin Peckham. These 
officers with J. Louis Potter form the Execu¬ 
tive Committee. The Pawtuxet Motor Boat 
Club, the King Philip Y. C. and the Bay Springs 
Y. C. were elected to membership. 
The delegates present were: Bay Springs Y. 
C., C. C. Mackey and A. J. Webb; Conanicut Y. 
C., T. R. Goodwin; Edgewood Y. C., Harvey 
J. Flint; Fall River Y C., J. W. Borden and A. 
H. Hathaway; Handicap Association of Narra¬ 
gansett Bay, Fred B. Thurber; King Philip Y. 
C., James F. Derring; Eighteen-foot Associa¬ 
tion of Narragansett Bay, Benjamin Peckham 
and Dr. A. C. Mair; Newport Y. C., William M. 
Arnold; Pawtuxet Motor Boat Club, Scott C. 
Burlingame; Taunton Y. C., G. W. Reichenberg, 
C. V. Sanders and F. P. Canedy; Rhode Island 
Y. C., W. J. Rooks and T R. Goodwin; Wash¬ 
ington Park Y. C., W. L. Frost, W. J. Holt and 
O. P. Bliss. 
The chief changes in the racing rules made at 
the meeting, freed of their technicalities, are: 
First—In measuring the sail area, but 85 per 
cent, of the fore triangle, instead of the full 
area, shall be used. 
Second—The executive committee is author¬ 
ized to appoint an official measurer whose 
measurements shall in all cases be considered 
final. 
The rule in regard to appeals was made to 
read as follows: “Any person interested may 
take an appeal to the executive committee of 
the association from the decision of the regatta 
committee within fifteen days after the an¬ 
nouncement of its decision. Notice of intention 
to take an appeal from the decision of the re¬ 
gatta committee shall be given the said regatta 
committee within ten days after the announce¬ 
ment of its decision, and the appeal shall be filed 
with the Registration Secretary of the associa¬ 
tion. A deposit of $5.00 shall accompany such 
appeal, which sum shall be returned to the ap¬ 
pellant if he prevails; otherwise it shall go into 
the treasury of the association.” 
The tentative schedule is: 
Saturday, Aug. 13, P. M.—Bristol Y. C. 
Monday, Aug. 15, A. M.—Washington Park 
Y. C. 
Monday, Aug. 15, P. M.—Edgewood Y. C. 
Tuesday, Aug. 16, A. M.—-Barrington Y. C. 
Tuesday, Aug. 16, P. M.—Rhode Island Y. C. 
at Potter’s Cove. 
Wednesday, Aug. 17, P. M.—Taunton Y. C. 
at Fall River. 
Thursday, Aug. 18, A. M.—King Philip Y. C. 
at Fall River. 
Thursday, Aug. 18, P. M.—Fall River Y. C. 
Friday, Aug. 197 A. M.—Conanicut Y. C., 
Jamestown. 
Friday, Aug. 19, P. M.—Newport Y. C. 
Saturday, Aug. 20.—N. B. Y. R. A. Day at 
Newport. 
These dates take in only race week. Others 
agreed on by the committee are: 
May 30—Fall River Y. C. at Fall River. 
June 4—Edgewood Y. C. opening regatta. 
June 18—Rhode Island Y. C. ladies’ day. 
June 25—Bristol Y. C. spring regatta. 
July 4—Washington Park Y. C. 
July 16—Edgewood Y. C. 
Sept. 3—Bristol Y. C. fall regatta. 
New York Y. C. Schedule. 
The regatta committee of the New York Y. 
C., H. deB. Parsons, Ernest E. Loril'lard and 
Walter C. Kerr, has announced a tentative 
schedule of the season’s racing. Two events 
will be sailed off the Glen Cove station, and 
the other races will be off Newport. The sea¬ 
son will open on Thursday, June 16 with races 
off Glen Cove for the spring cups. In July 
there will be three days’ racing off Newport. 
The annual regatta will be sailed on July 7, and 
the Bennett cups will be sailed for in that re¬ 
gatta. On July 8 and 9 there will be special 
races off Newport. The annual cruise will, as 
usual, be held in August, and in September the 
season will close with races for the autumn 
cups sailed off Glen Cove. 
Lake Yachting. 
The Lake Michigan Yachting Association, 
for the purpose of putting an end to arguments 
against the universal rule, has decided on a 
compromise for the coming season. Yachts of 
Class N and over will be rated under the new 
rule and the smaller yachts will be rated under 
the old system of measurement. In the pro¬ 
gram of the Chicago Y. C., with two excep¬ 
tions, small yachts will be measured under the 
old rule. The exceptions are the Mackinac 
cruise, which is to be sailed on July 23, and the 
St. Joseph-Michigan City-Chicago cruising race 
Sept. 2, 3 and 5. 
The W. C. Thorne cup handicap, June 25; the 
annual L. M. Y. A. regatta, July 2 and 4; the 
handicap race for schooners and yawls, July 16, 
and the Commodore Baum cup handicap, Sept. 
10, will be sailed under the old rules so far as 
the smaller boats are concerned. Those boats 
not affected by the new rule are those under 
the 35-foot class. The Sir John Nutting cup 
races, being for the' small boats, the 21-foot 
raceabouts and 18-footers, will be on flat time, 
and there will therefore be no handicapping to 
worry over. 
While the compromise is scarcely a direct 
bowing to the old rule, it means practically the 
same, as it has been given out that the boats 
will be handicapped “according to past per¬ 
formances.” 
The races for the Sir John Nutting cup will 
be held Aug. 26, 27 and 29, followed by the tri¬ 
angular race and then the Commodore Baum 
cup on Sept. 10, which is the last scheduled 
event of the season. 
One of the features of the program will be 
members’ day, July 9, in conjunction with the 
power boat race to Indiana Harbor and return 
for the Vice-Commodore Gilmer cup. On this 
day those members owning boats will place 
their craft at the disposal of the non-owners for 
the afternoon. The boats will sail around out¬ 
side the harbor and move in in time to witness 
the finish of the power boat race. If the one 
day draws enough of the non-owners to make it 
a success, it will be repeated in September. 
A number of cups have been presented this 
year to the club by members, two of which, the 
Commodore Baum cup and the W. C. Thorne 
cup. will be raced for by the sailboats, and the 
Vice-Commodore Gilmer cup and the Charles 
E. Fox cup. and the Elliot Carpenter cup are 
offered for power boats. To further encourage 
the interest in power boats, the Chicago Y. C. 
decided to have a power boat week, commenc¬ 
ing with July 9, when races will be sailed from 
Chicago to Indiana Harbor and return. The 
following is the schedule: 
May 30—Club opening; fleet goes into com¬ 
mission. 
June 25—W. C. Thorne cup handicap round 
C. Y. C. long course, all classes. 
July 2 and 4—L. M. Y. A. annual regatta 
under auspices of the Chicago Y. C.; race for 
Cloarec cup. 
July 9—Members’ day; power boat races for 
Vice-Commodore Gilmer cup to Indiana Harbor 
and return; fleet evolutions. 
July 16—Handicap race for schooners and 
yawls. 
July 23—Chicago-Mackinac race, 3 P. M. 
Aug. 26, 27 and 29—Sir John Nutting cup 
races. 
Sept. 2, 3 and 5—Triangular race to St. 
Joseph, Michigan City and Chicago. 
Sept. 10—Commodore Baum cup handicap 
races for all classes. 
British Yachting. 
The visit of the schooner Westward to waters 
across the ocean, the new schooners building 
there, the racing in the 23-metre class and other 
new vessels under construction gives promise 
of making the season in British and German 
waters unusually brilliant. Referring to the 
international racing to come, the Yachting 
World says: 
“Now that the racing rules of Europe have 
been consolidated into one common code, the 
Yacht Racing Association is taking steps for 
the promotion of international sport between 
the countries affiliated to the International 
Yacht Racing Union. With that end in view, 
arrangements are being made to hold a series 
of great international regattas, the first to take 
place on the Solent next August. The festival 
will probably extend over a fortnight, and all 
the principal Solent yacht clubs will be asked 
to give prizes for the classes scheduled under 
the International Rules. It is proposed to pro¬ 
mote similar regattas in France in 1911 and in 
Germany in 1912, and in future the festivals are 
to be triennial. In order that the time-honored 
Clyde and Irish regattas should not offer a 
counter attraction to the proposed international 
festival in Germany and thus imperil its success, 
the Scottish and Irish clubs have consented not 
to offer such prizes at their regattas in 1912- 
as would tempt owners to remain in home 
v-aters rather than take their yachts to Kiel. 
“The regatta in the Solent should produce 
particularly fine sport in all classes, for many 
of the smartest racing yachts in Europe are 
certain to compete. Chief interest, however, 
will center upon the A class for vessels exceed¬ 
ing 23 metres rating, which will be represented 
by the finest fleet of big schooners seen in 
British waters for many years past. The bright 
particular star of this fleet will probably be 
Mr. Alexander Smith Cochran’s new American 
schooner Westward, which has been designed 
by Herreshoff to compete against the English 
and German vessels of similar rig in the Solent 
and at Kiel. Westward is the first yacht de¬ 
signed by the wizard of Rhode Island under the 
International Rules, and it wall be exceedingly 
interesting to see how the ideas of the Amer¬ 
ican draftsmen as to the possibilities of the 
formula compare with those of British and 
German naval architects. That she will be a 
speedy vessel may be taken for granted, for 
Herreshoff has turned out many fast schooners, 
including Tngomar, which showed such brilliant 
form in European waters in 1904, and Atlantic, 
which won the historic race across the Atlantic 
a few years ago. Germany will be represented 
in the class by the German Emperor’s Meteor 
IV., built last year from the design of Herr 
Max Oertz, and her sister ship Germania, which 
carries the colors of Herr Krupp Von Bohlen. 
The Fife-design Susanne, a particularly success¬ 
ful schooner, built in 1904 to fit the German 
rule, will sail under the French flag, having 
been recently sold to that country. England 
will be represented by Mr. Cecil Whitaker’s 
Fife-designed Cicely, which, although built as 
long ago as 1902, is likely to take a deal of 
beating in moderate or light weather. In hard 
winds, however, she does not appear to have 
much chance against Germania, which estab¬ 
lished a great reputation in 1908 by lowering 
the record for the old Queen’s course by over a 
quarter of an hour. 
“In the 15-metre division, England, Spain, 
Germany and France will probably be repre¬ 
sented. With Ostara, Vanity. Mariska, Ma’- 
oona. and the new boat now building for Mr. 
G. C. Lomer from the design of Mylne, this 
country should play a prominent part. in the 
coming contest, but Spain, with TTispania. 
Tuiga and Enearinta is likely to prove a dan¬ 
gerous antagonist. A few vessels now in course 
