April 2, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
543 
May 1, 1910. Such entries must be in duplicate 
and be accompanied by a full description of the 
yacht. 
Protests.—Protests concerning non-eligibility of 
a yacht must be in writing and be made not less 
than forty-eight hours before the time fixed for 
starting. The committee reserves the right to 
reject an entry if the. boat is in any way un¬ 
suited for ocean racing or is defective _ in hull, 
rig or stores. The committee upon written re¬ 
quest will inspect any boat and certify as to her 
eligibility. A. P. B. 
Gravesend Bay Dates. 
The delegates to the Yacht Racing Association 
of Gravesend Bay met in the Crescent Athletic 
Club house, Brooklyn, last week and arranged 
the racing schedule for the season. Twelve 
championship races will be sailed and in arrang¬ 
ing the schedule care has been taken to avoid 
clashing with Larchmont race week so that the 
lower bay yachts can go to the Sound without 
fear of losing points in local events. 
Commodore Frederic Thompson, of the Ben- 
sonhurst Y. C., has offered a handsome cup for 
the handicap class. Sir Thomas Lipton has of¬ 
fered through the Crescent A. C. a challenge 
trophy' for the S class, and a series of races will 
be sailed late in the season, and it is hoped that 
the S class yachts will go from the Sound to the 
lower bay to compete for this prize. 
The racing will be of the best on the lower 
bay this season. Three new class Q yachts are 
being built. These are for W. A. Barstow, Hen¬ 
don Chubb and F. S. Eagle. The first two are 
from designs by Clinton H. Crane and the last 
named from designs by William Gardner. Six 
new boats are being built for the Gravesend 
knockabout class and there will be more than 
twenty in this class. 
The Crescent A. C. before the opening of the 
season will have its yachting dinner. This din¬ 
ner always marks the opening of the season, and 
any member of a club enrolled in the association 
can join with the New Moon organization. The 
dinner this year promises to be a bigger success 
than ever. 
The dates as agreed on follow: 
May 28—Atlantic Y. C. 
May 30—Brooklyn Y. C. 
June 4—Bensonhurst Y. C. 
June 11—Atlantic Y. C. 
June 18—New York Canoe Club first cham¬ 
pionship. 
June 25—Crescent A. C., second championship. 
July 2—Atlantic Y. C., third championship. 
July 4—Bensonhurst Y. C. 
July 9—Marine and Field Club, fourth cham¬ 
pionship. 
July 16—Crescent A. C. 
July 23—Bensonhurst Y. C. 
July 30*—Atlantic Y. C., fifth championship. 
Aug: 6—Bensonhurst Y. C. r sixth champion¬ 
ship. 
Aug. 13—Brooklyn Y. C., seventh champion¬ 
ship. 
Aug. 20—Atlantic Y. C., eighth championship. 
Aug. 27—Marine and Field Club, ninth cham¬ 
pionship. 
Sept. 5—Atlantic Y. C. 
Sept. 10—Brooklyn Y. C., eleventh champion¬ 
ship. 
Sept. 17—Atlantic Y. C., twelfth championship. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
An indication of the promising outlook for the 
coming yachting season is the large number of 
transfers which have taken place during the win¬ 
ter, and these transfers are becoming more 
numerous as the season advances. Gielow & 
Orr report business brisker than it has been for 
some time. These sales have been made through 
their agency: 
The steam yacht Emeline, Commodore Charles 
Sweeney, Atlantic Y. C, to John C. Eaton, of 
Toronto. The yacht is now at Tebo’s basin, 
Brooklyn, fitting out, with Capt. J. Francis Gott 
in charge. She will probably go into commis¬ 
sion about April 20, and her owner may take her 
on a West Indian cruise before she goes to her 
home waters on Lake Ontario. Emeline was 
built of steel at Elizabethport, N. J., in 1903, 
and is 173 feet over all, 142 feet waterline, 22 
feet beam and 10 feet draft. 
The steam yacht Oneta, George W. Elkins, to 
William J. Conners. Oneta was originally Mari¬ 
etta III. She is 173 feet over all and was built 
from Mr. Gielow’s plans for Mr. Harrison B. 
Moore. 
The twin screw high speed steam yacht 
Halawa, Raymond Hoagland, to George W. 
Childs Drexel, who has renamed her Actus. 
She is now cruising in Southern waters. 
The cruising motor yacht Columbine, Charles 
M. Gould to William L. Marshall, who has 
changed her name to San Toy II. 
The raised deck cruiser Cho Cho, Archibald 
McLaren, to W. H. Nichols, Jr., who will em¬ 
ploy her mostly for ferry purposes. 
The fast day cruising power boat Moji, for 
Earl H. Potter, to T. F. Randolph, for ferry 
service between New London and Fisher’s 
Island. 
The raised deck cruiser Rena, for J. B. Rey¬ 
nolds, to the United States Government. Rena 
will be taken to Aransas Pass, Texas. 
The trunk cabin cruiser Madegare, for E. P. 
Lawson, to Dr. Arthur C. Neish, for cruising 
among the Thousand Islands. 
The day cruising launch Gretchen, for Samuel 
Stenson, to James MacKeen, for use in Maine 
waters. 
The auxiliary yawl Kittiwake, for Royal B 
Curtiss, to Theodore Sternfeldt, for general 
cruising. 
An error in last week’s Forest and Stream 
credited the transfers of the yachts Wasp, Syba- 
rita and Bellemere wrongly. These yachts were 
sold through the agency of Cox & Stevens. 
New York Y. C. Meeting. 
At the second general meeting of the year of 
the New York Y. C. an amendment to the by¬ 
laws relating to representation was finally adopt¬ 
ed. This amendment requires sail vessels in 
future to be 38 feet on the waterline or over, in-' 
stead of 30 feet as heretofore, to be entitled to 
enrollment, and that steam or power vessels must 
be 55 feet on the load waterline or over. These 
must be full decked vessels with reasonable lock- 
pits excepted. Vessels enrolled in the club pre¬ 
vious to May 1, 1910, and all yachts built to de¬ 
fend the America’s cup that do not comply with 
the full provisions of the chapter noted, such as 
being out of commission two consecutive years, 
are entitled to enrollment. 
Twenty-three new members were elected. Miss 
Helen W. Smith, daughter of the late James D. 
Smith, who was commodore of the club in 1882 
and 1883, was added to the flag members. Her 
yacht is the auxiliary schooner Viking, which her 
father had in commission many years. 
Boston Y. C. Cruise. 
The Boston Y. C. has announced the details 
of the annual cruise. The schedule follows: 
July 9, Hull to Gloucester; July 10, Gloucester 
to Isle of Shoals; July 11, Isle of Shoals to Cape 
Porpoise; July 13, Cape Porpoise to Portland; 
July 13, Portland to Winnegance Bay; July 15, 
Winnegance Bay to Boothbay Harbor; July 16, 
special race at Boothbay Harbor and disbanding 
of the fleet. 
Entertainments are being arranged at the dif¬ 
ferent ports at which the fleet will touch. There 
will be a dance at Cape Porpoise and at Port¬ 
land a banquet will be tendered the visiting 
yachtsmen by the Portland Y. C. A special race 
at Portland is to be arranged by the local club 
in which the visiting yachtsmen will be invited 
to compete. 
Commodore Sweeny’s Appointments. 
Commodore Charles Sweeny, of the Atlantic 
Y. C., has announced the following appoint¬ 
ments : Fleet Captain, Robert W. Speir; Fleet 
Surgeon, C. E. Gilbert, M.D.; Fleet Chaplain, 
Rev. Lindsay Parker; Regatta Committee, 
Horace E. Boucher, Kenneth Lord, John E. De 
Mund, M.D. 
Ocean Yacht Race Criticised. 
Admiral V. A. Montagu and the London 
Field have started to criticise the proposed 
ocean yacht race of the Atlantic Y. C. for which 
President Taft has stood sponsor by allowing 
the cup to be named for him. The conditions 
to govern this contest have not yet been framed 
and so some of the criticisms are rather prema¬ 
ture, and it would seem a little out of place. 
Ocean racing by yachts suited for that sport 
have always been interesting. There have not 
been many across the Atlantic, but those that 
have been sailed have attracted attention on both 
sides of the Atlantic and they have been success¬ 
ful. There is no reason why the race for the 
President Taft’s cup should not be even more 
interesting than the race for the German Em¬ 
peror’s cup. 
No one who has a fondness for ocean racing 
would think of starting a yacht in racing trim, 
and the few racing yachts that have taken part 
in these contests have been rigged to suit the 
weather and conditions under which they have 
sailed. 
The Field still harps on the difference in rat¬ 
ing rules and the requirements of the European 
yachts. This country is not a member of the 
International Association, and for that reason 
the Field recently declined to lend its approval 
to a suggested contest between the 8-meter 
yachts of this country and of England. It 
is unfortunate that this country is not in the 
International Association, but in time the 
yachtsmen may join. In the meantime there is 
no reason why the yachts of Europe and of the 
United States should not meet in a contest such 
as has been proposed by the Atlantic Y. C. 
The Field’s criticisms are based on a letter 
written by Admiral V. A. Montagu. Admiral 
Montagu is a yachtsman of the old school. He 
has owned and raced many yachts in his time 
and his comments on yachting and on racing are 
always read with interest and are often profit¬ 
able. This letter is as follows: 
Sir—I read that the Atlantic club of New 
York proposes an international race across the 
Atlantic Ocean for next year. Much as all 
yachtsmen will appreciate this proposed hospi¬ 
tality, I should like to suggest that the racing 
part of it should begin and end in American 
waters, because in my humble opinion I think 
it very questionable, looking at it in a sporting 
sense, whether it is fair to ask seamen to run 
the risks they are bound to have while crossing 
this silver streak (so-called) in the modern rac¬ 
ing craft under their conditions of construction 
and general cutter rig so much in vogue. I will 
only mention a few instances showing the risks 
attached. Are these fin-shaped keels adapted to 
insure a vessel being able to lay to in heavy 
weather when their abnormal weight is concen¬ 
trated on a very short length of keel? Are cut¬ 
ters with enormous main booms easily handled 
before the gale, during the gale and after the 
gale is over in a huge Atlantic swell? Are 
crews safe on the decks of vessels with abso¬ 
lutely no bulwarks, whose decks may be swept 
fore and aft for days together? 
“It is of no use contemplating a lovely pas¬ 
sage across. Atlantic weather if only of a 
moderate bad sort is virtually a gale of wind 
for racing vessels of modern day construction. 
Fancy running with a strong quarterly wind and 
rolling sea in a cutter with the main boom in the 
water at every roll, and perhaps fifteen feet of 
the after lurch trailing in the water, force of 
the wind only six and the barometer still falling. 
What then? And it may be during the night! 
We are just as good seamen'as we ever were, 
and nothing can surpass the capabilities of crews 
that man our racing yachts, but our ships are 
very different to former days, and we know per¬ 
fectly well what took place in the days of Hen¬ 
rietta, Dauntless and in other races across when 
yachts were far better adapted to be ‘sea boats’ 
than now. And after all is there much excite¬ 
ment and interest in looking out and scanning 
the distant horizon from Sandy Hook to see a 
speck on the water denoting the first craft in 
sight when the next vessels might y only follow 
two days later? Sir, I have no wish to throw 
cold water on this contemplated race. I only 
