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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 9, 1910. 
Pacific Coast Yachting. 
San Francisco, Cal., March 29—The annual 
meeting of the members of the Corinthian J. 
C. owning yachts has been held and a schedule 
of events made for the coming year. The real 
activities of the season commenced on March 
27, when the drawbridge across the liburon 
Lagoon was opened and the boats taken front 
their winter quarters. The opening day will be 
on April 23. This season there will be a num¬ 
ber of new events on the program, among which 
will be a non-owners’ day upon which those 
who do not possess a boat will be the guests 
of the owners, and a cruise will be made to a 
point to be decided upon later. A motor boat 
day has also been decided upon, as many of the 
members of the club have motor boats and are 
interested in this kind of racing, as well as 
yachting. It was decided not to hold the cruise 
to Alviso this season, as in the past the un¬ 
favorable tides have marred the pleasure ot this 
trip. In the place of this trip a cruise to Red¬ 
wood City has been decided upon. 
One of the great events of the year, and one 
that is steadily increasing in popularity is the 
ocean race to Santa Cruz, and already prepara¬ 
tions are being made for this. The annual club 
regatta will be held on June 11, and with an in¬ 
creased membership and a larger number of 
boats than ever before, the showing that is 
made should be a good one. Another event of 
importance with this club is the race for the 
Hammersmith trophy, held at the present time 
by Yankee. The complete schedule for the sea¬ 
son is as follows: April 23, opening day; 
April 24, opening cruise in squadron; April 30, 
cruise to McNears; May 1, return from Mc- 
Nears; May 7 and 8, open; May 14 and 15, 
Vallejo and return; May 21 and 22, open; May 
28, Vallejo; May 29, cruise around Suisun mid¬ 
channel buoy and return to Vallejo; May 30, re¬ 
turn to Tiburon; June 4 and 5, McNears and 
return; June 11, annual regatta; June 12, non¬ 
yacht owners’ day; June 18, Petaluma draw¬ 
bridge; June 19, return; June 24 and 25, open; 
July 2, Army Point; July 3, through Monte¬ 
zuma Slough to Vallejo; July 4, return; July 9, 
10 and 16, open; July 17, handicap race for 
Hammersmith trophy; July 23. Santa Cruz race; 
Aug. 7, return from Santa Cruz; Aug. 13 to 
23, river cruise; Aug. 27 and 28, Redwood City 
Creek and return; Sept. 23, Paradise Cove; 
Sept. 4, Vallejo; Sept. 5, return; Sept. 9, inter¬ 
club regatta; Sept. 10 and 11, open; Sept. 17 
and 18, Paradise Cove and return; Sept. 24, 
Sausalito; Sept. 25, outside cruise; Oct. 1, open; 
Oct. 2, motor boat races; Oct. 8 and 9, open; 
Oct. 15, Paradise Cove; Oct. 16, Corinthian 
games; Oct. 22 and 23, open; Oct. 30, closing 
cruise in squadron; Nov. 13, drawbridge closes. 
The San Francisco Y. C. has named a com¬ 
mittee to -take charge of the building operations 
at the Sausalito club house. This committee 
consists of W. G. Morrow, Phil J. Fay and F. 
G. Phillips. 
E. K. Wood has just returned from a month’s 
cruise in a launch on the upper waters of the 
Sacramento River. 
The sloop Pronto is to be placed on sale 
shortly, and her owner, young Leslie Stone, 
son of Frank Stone, is to go East shortly to 
study na^val architecture in the Massachusetts 
School of Technology. 
The schooner Cliipsa is being thoroughly 
overhauled at the Anderson yards in South 
San Francisco, and when she makes her ap¬ 
pearance again on the bay, she is expected to 
be greatly improved in speed. New masts and 
new sails are being provided, and a new center- 
board casing put in. Director Hillefeld, of the 
San Francisco Y. C., is the owner, and Captain 
Chas. Chittenden has the boat in charge during 
the yachting season. 
The Aeolian Y. C. is to challenge for 
the perpetual challenge cup, and the sloop 
Merry Widow is spoken of as the yacht that 
will be selected to make the attempt to wrest 
the cup from the Corinthians. 
Tr. Clay’s yawl Mary is being fitted with a 
new set of sails in anticipation of the com¬ 
mencement of the yachting season. 
New Rochelle Y. C. 
Twenty-three new members have been 
adde'd to the New Rochelle Y. C., which brings 
the total membership up to 236. After the 
number has reached 250, only yacht owners will 
be admitted. New yachts in the fleet are: Ad¬ 
venturess, E. J. Bellows; Alarm, A. D. Sey¬ 
mour; Joyette, W. W. Swan; Kathmar, R. 1 . 
Fowler; Red Wing, M. R. Lowey; Floela, A. 
H. Bullard, and Verna, C. J. Sullivan. These 
yachts make the fleet number 105 vessels. 
G. P. Granbery has purchased the Bar Har¬ 
bor 25-footer Scud and will bring her from 
Marblehead early next month. This will make 
the fifth of this class in the New Rochelle 
Club's fleet. One is the Wallulah, owned by H. 
L. Stone, and this yacht is the challenger for 
the Brooklyn Y. C. challenge cup now held by 
the New York Athletic Club. It was won last 
year by Victory, owned by Commodore H. A. 
Jackson, Jr. 
The cruising season of the New Rochelle 
Club opened on March 22. Fearless and Io 
sailed over to Lloyds’ Harbor and back. 
These two are the first yachts in commission 
on the Sound. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The following transfers of yachts are reported 
through the Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency: 
The 48-foot waterline schooner Olivette, sold 
by W. R. Chapin, of Brookline, to Charles H. 
W. Foster, of Boston. A motor is to be in¬ 
stalled, and Olivette will be made into a com¬ 
fortable cruiser. 
The raceabout Miscreant, sold by George O. 
Cutter, of Boston, to Percy H. Tarr, of Beverly, 
Mass. 
The fast 18-footer Owl, sold by Walter Bur¬ 
gess, of Boston, to A. B. Leonard, of Chicago. 
The Herreshoff knockabout Jub Jub, sold by 
Howard Stockton. Jr., of Boston, to A. B. Hast¬ 
ings, of Brockton, Mass. 
Schooner for H. S. Vanderbilt. 
Harold S. Vanderbilt has ordered a cruis¬ 
ing schooner yacht to be built by Herreshoff, 
which will be ready in June. This yacht will 
be 76 feet over all, 58 feet on the waterline, 17 
feet 6 inches beam and 10 feet 6 inches draft. 
She will have a liberal freeboard, and lots of 
accommodation for a yacht of her size. The 
interior finish will be butternut and mahogany. 
The sail spread will be about 3,500 square feet. 
Motor 'Boating. 
Motor Boats Building. 
Several motor boats designed by Cox & 
Stevens are nearing completion. A preliminary 
trial trip has been made of the motor boat 
Topsy, built by Lawley for John C. King, with 
most satisfactory results. Topsy is the first of 
the large size motor boats to be completed this 
year, and promises to be a great success. She 
is of maximum dimensions to go through the 
Erie Canal, her length being 99 feet, beam 15 
feet, and her motor power two ioo-horsepower 
Standard engines, which have already given a 
speed of better than 16 miles an hour in the 
preliminary trial. Topsy is flush deck, having 
good freeboard, with a straight stem, torpedo 
boat stern; has a large and low deck house con¬ 
taining the dining room, and below has three 
staterooms the Tull width of the boat and two 
bathrooms for the owner and his guests, as well 
as liberal accommodations for the officers and 
crew. The yacht will be at her anchorage off 
Columbia Y. C. by the first week in April. 
Good progress is also being made on the 118- 
foot steel motor boat Alacrity, now building at 
Pusey & Jones, Wilmington, this boat being so 
far advanced that she will be launched in about 
two weeks’ time. Alacrity is to have two 300- 
horsepower Craig engines and will undoubtedly 
be one of the most attractive of the fleet, as 
particular attention is being given in her design 
to producing an exceedingly smart, rakish-look¬ 
ing craft, all the details of construction having 
been carried out with great care, so as to effect 
this result. Although Alacrity is to have high 
power and speed, she has at the same time ex¬ 
cellent accommodation, for in addition to large 
deck dining room, four staterooms for the 
owner and his guests and two bathrooms, all 
of the staterooms being the full width of the 
vessel and extremely liberal in size. 
The ioo-foot steel motor boat Dushka is also 
well advanced in construction, and will be de¬ 
livered to her owner, H. W. Savage, about June 
15. Dushka is 100 feet over all, 16 feet beam, 
has two deck houses and unusually hberal ac¬ 
commodation below, her motor power being 
two ioo-horsepower Standard engines. It was 
the idea of Mr. Savage to have built a large 
roomy boat, and the designers have secured this 
for him. She is of flush deck type with steamer 
bow and stern, and while no guarantee is in the 
contract, it is anticipated that she will make at 
least 15 miles an hour. 
The Mahapa II., an 85-foot wooden power 
boat, for H. A. Parsons, of Cleveland, is weli 
under way. This boat is of the steamer or 
Viator type, and is fitted with two 60-horse¬ 
power Craig engines, which will give a speed 
of better than 14 miles an hour. The hull is 
completely planked and decked, joiner work is 
well advanced, engines installed, and she will 
be launched by the Matthews Boat Company, 
her builders, in about two weeks’ time. 
The motor boat Navette is practically com¬ 
pleted at Stearns & McKay, and will be de¬ 
livered to Alfred Mestre, her owner, in about 
two weeks’ time. Navette is an attractive little 
cabin cruiser, 40 feet long over all, 8 feet 9 
inches beam, and is fitted with a 30-horsepower 
Jencick motor; all her cabin house and deck 
fittings, as well as the interior joiner work, are 
of teak. The boat will be most attractive when 
in commission. 
Another vessel under construction is a cabin 
cruiser 44 feet by 9 feet 6 inches for Mr. 
Chambers, of Montreal, which vessel is well ad¬ 
vanced; a steam yacht 70 feet by 10 feet, of the 
torpedo boat "type for W. H. Cubley, and a high 
speed motor boat, 50 feet by 9 feet, to be fitted 
with ioo-horsepower high speed motor, for 
service in the St. Lawrence River. 
Among the sailing vessels that Messrs. Cox 
& Stevens have under construction from their 
designs at the present time are the 6-metre 
sloop for Mr. -Karl Arrhinius, of Nystad, Fin¬ 
land; a 5-metre sloop for Dr. Leonard Petersen, 
of Finland, which is well advanced toward com¬ 
pletion; five one-design sloops known as the 
Noroton class, 22 feet over all; two additional 
Jewel class sloops, and six sloops for the Stam¬ 
ford one-design class. 
Chicago Motor Boat Show. 
The Motor Boat Show held at Chicago, and 
which ended on April 2, was the most success¬ 
ful exhibition of boats, engines and accessories 
that has been held in that city. The First 
Regiment armory was occupied by the Manu¬ 
facturers’ Association, and it was crowded every 
day, and judging by the enthusiasm about boats 
and motors, and the number of sales that were 
made, the western lakes and rivers will have a 
large fleet of pleasure craft equipped with 
motors this coming season. 
There were boats ranging in size from the 
power dory to the 50-foot cruiser, and while 
small, swift craft attracted some attention, the 
cruiser was the most popular boat in the show, 
and some of those shown were offered at a re¬ 
markably low price. 
In the engine department simplicity of design 
was the general trend. As far as possible the 
complicated parts are weeded out, so that now 
the prospective purchaser is not frightened at 
the start by fear that none but a master 
mechanic or a graduate engineer can run a 
motor craft. In fact, with a few simple instruc¬ 
tions any one can now run the majority of 
them, and their reliability is such that if vou 
start out a return is certain. It is also notice- 
