Atlantic’s Ocean Race. 
The proposed race across the Atlantic for 
the President Taft cup, which is being arranged 
by the Atlantic Y. C., is still the subject oi 
criticism and comment in the English papers. 
The Field quotes from the accounts printed on 
this side of the plans of the club for the race 
which, by the way, are only yet being talked 
about and then adds: 
“We can only reiterate the opinion of Ad¬ 
miral the Hon. Victor Montague, expressed in 
his letter to the Field of March 19, together 
with the view set forth in our comments in the 
same issue. No one would venture to describe 
Admiral Montagu as a fair-weather sailor or a 
smooth-water man. He has as much experi¬ 
ence of ocean sailing as any one. The Admiral 
has also, however, considerable experience of 
pure-bred racing yachts, having built a 20-rater, 
Siola, and the 40-raters Corsair, Vendetta and 
Carina, and he has given his opinion that ‘it is 
very questionable (looking at it in a sporting 
sense) whether it is fair to ask seamen to run 
the risk they are bound to have while crossing 
the silver streak (so called) in the modern rac¬ 
ing craft.’ This, indeed, should be the opinion 
of all gentlemen who own racing yachts and 
sail them for sport. 
“If it were proposed that the race should be 
between big, wholesome auxiliary cruising 
yachts, that would be quite a different story; 
but even then, as Lord Brassey, the owner of 
Sunbeam, has said, there would have to be rules 
to limit the amount of sail carried by the com¬ 
petitors. . 
“Before the 1905 trans-Atlantic race started 
Lord Brassey wrote: ‘The Atlantic should be 
the winner of the German Emperor s cup. As 
a sea-keeping cruiser her masts must be con¬ 
sidered too taunt. Let us not allow ocean rac¬ 
ing to lead to the building of vessels not suit¬ 
able for the sea service. A competent commit¬ 
tee should be able to put some limit to the area 
of sail in proportion to tonnage.’ Of course, 
as it turned out, the yacht mentioned by Lord 
Brassey, the three-masted fore and aft schooner 
Atlantic, a peculiar useless type of freak built 
expressly for trans-Atlantic racing, was the 
winner. 
“If the race were promoted again, and Ameri¬ 
can yachts were permitted to compete, some 
wealthy citizen of the United States would build 
an even more extreme vessel than Atlantic to 
carry off the prize. 
“If American yachtsmen wish to take part.in 
International racing with European countries 
let the United States build yachts under the 
rules of the International Yacht Racing Union, 
which are now in force throughout Europe. At 
present there seems in the United States to be 
a tendency on the part of the New York Y. C. 
to retain the America’s cup upon conditions 
wholly favorable to Americans, and on the part 
of the Atlantic Y. C. to propose a trans-Atlantic 
race upon terms which cannot in the opinion 
of the most competent deep-sea sailors produce 
sport. The trans-Atlantic race—without acci¬ 
dent—would be a foregone conclusion for the 
largest and most adventurous freak yacht de¬ 
signed uoon more exaggerated lines than Mr. 
Wilson Marshall’s Atlantic. Unless elaborate 
restrictions were nroposed. she would not, in 
the words of Lord Brassey, be ‘suitable for the 
sea service.’ , 
“With regard to the proposal for a week s 
international racing for European yachts over 
the Sandy Hook course in the summer of ign, 
the Americans should remember that the French 
will give an international festival under the 
auspices of the Yacht Club de France in that 
season. 
“We do not think that European yachtsmen 
will be altogether pleased, while they are among 
themselves making considerable sacrifices to 
avoid the clashing of fixtures, to find a club not 
affiliated to the Union offering counter-attrac¬ 
tions quite independently of recognized Euro¬ 
pean regattas.” . , ^ . XT 
The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 
has this to say: 
“Apparently the Atlantic Club, of New York, 
is to organize an ocean yacht race next summer, 
and already the advocates of the 23-metre class, 
as the bee-all and end-all of class racing, are 
up in arms against the proposal, on the score 
of unfitness of their boats and danger to the 
crews. It is now recognized that this new type, 
the seaworthiness of which has been their main 
claim to improvement over the older type, are 
not ocean boats, however, fitted for coasting 
matches they may be. There has always been 
a charge against the New York Y. C. that it 
insisted upon competitors going over on their 
own bottoms, whereas the New York defenders 
built a shell of a boat, and therefore handi¬ 
capped the challenger out of the game, and it 
has been pointed out that those conditions made 
it impossible for our class-racing fleet to be 
used in such challenges, because they were sea¬ 
worthy boats. 
“The present lament over their ocean-going 
shortcomings rather gives the case away, and 
proves that there are two sides even to the At¬ 
lantic and the America’s Cup controversy. If 
the bigger English and Continental yachts take 
part in this cross-ocean racing, it will help to 
establish the superiority of handicap racing to 
that of the class-racing of little boats. The 
former has long been the most popular with 
owners who can afford a big boat. There are 
two reasons for this; one is that the purchase 
of a class boat ties an owner down to design 
and measurements, so as to make his boat of 
no use to him for anything but racing. Where¬ 
as when big boats are built for cruising, com¬ 
fort can be studied, and the handicap can bring 
them into the racing fleet. But even if these big 
boats do race, the excitement cannot be very 
great for those on board, who may not see a 
competitor-antagonist from start to finish; and 
for spectators, except by the second-hand means 
of the press, and the telegraph, the race might 
as well not be. There is this to be said, that 
anything that would supersede the America s 
Cup mania, on perfectly even terms for all sides, 
would be a welcome change from sport run by 
Wall Street.”_ 
Chesapeake Bay Association. 
T he annual meeting of the Chesapeake Bay 
Racing Association was held at the Hotel Ren¬ 
nert last week. The delegates _who attended the 
meeting were: Dr. W. W. Grier, of the Capital 
City Y C., of Washington; Lieutenant-Com¬ 
mander C. S. Stanworth, of the Hampton Roads 
Y C.- J. Austin Dinning, F. W. McAllister and 
Dr. Dudley Williams, of the Baltimore Y. C.; 
ex-Commodore George W. Golden, W. W. Estep 
and Graham Eckel, of the Corinthian Y. C.; W. 
P. Bigelow, of the Maryland Motor Boat Club; 
Dr E. S. Linthicum, of the Baltimore Motor 
Y acht Club, and T. C. Morris, of the Chesapeake 
Bay Y. C., of Easton, Md. . 
The officers elected were: Dr. W. W. Grier, 
of the Capital City Y. C., of Washington, Presi¬ 
dent; T. C. Morris, of the Chesapeake Bay Y. C., 
of Easton, Vice-President; Commander John H. 
Robinette, of the Corinthian Y. C., of Baltimore, 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
The dates for the annual cruise are July 18 to 
24. The fleet will gather at Colonial Beach on 
Tuly 18 and the next day will race to Oxford, on 
the Tred Avon River, sailing yachts to race in 
cruising rig. Tuly 20 the yachtsmen are to be 
guests of the Chesapeake Bay Y. C.. and this will 
recall the most enjoyable occasion in 1909, when 
the fleet was at Radcliff Manor and had such an 
enjoyable time. The following day, July 21, a. 
great race meeting of yachts will be held, with 
a start at Oxford and return near the same 
point. In this racing the sail, as well as the 
power, boats will compete in racing trim. July 
22 there will be a race of the fleet from Oxford 
up and across the Chesapeake Bay and with a 
finish at Annapolis, sailing yachts to be in cruis¬ 
ing rig. 
The association has adopted the rules of the 
Long Island Sound Racing Association to govern 
its racing for sailing yachts. W. W. Estep, of 
the Corinthians; Dudley Williams, of the Balti¬ 
more Y. C., and Hurins, of the Capitol Cuy 
Club, composed a committee to regulate the sail¬ 
ing yacht races. Rules to govern the power boat 
races will be arranged by S. Linthicum, of the 
Baltimore Motor Y. C.; W. P. Bigelow, of the 
Maryland Motor Boat Club, and George W. 
Golden, of the Corinthian Y. C. 
This year cups will be given by the associa¬ 
tion to the winners of the races which will be 
held at Oxford and at Annapolis,. Md. The 
Chesapeake Bay Racing Association is composed 
of the Hampton Roads Y. C., with 250 members; 
Capital City Y. C., of Washington, with 200 mem¬ 
bers; Baltimore Y. C., with 300 members; Balti¬ 
more Motor Y. C. with 100 members; Corin¬ 
thian Y. C., with 100 members; Chesapeake Bay 
Y. C., of Easton, with too members, and Mary¬ 
land Motor Boat Club, with 250 members. 
New 31 -Raters. 
The two new 31-raters, building by Hodgdon 
at East Boothbay" for George Lee and C. H. and 
H S. Wheelock, will be ready by the end of the 
month and will then be taken to Marblehead to 
tune up. These boats will race against Timandra, 
Wianno, Onda I. and others for the Lipton cup 
on Massachusetts Bay this year, and it is hoped 
that later in the season they may be sailed 
against Cara Mia, formerly Naulahka and Wind¬ 
ward in these waters. 
These boats are much larger than Wianno and 
Timandra in all ways, longer over all, longer 
waterline, greater beam, greater displacement 
and will carry a larger sail spread. A Boston 
yachtsman who was at East Boothbay last week, 
in speaking of the boats, said they looked very 
powerful and should prove to be very fast. The 
Wheelock boat is not as far along as the Lee 
boat, but appears to be larger; that is, the 
Wheelock boat is longer over all and will have 
a slightly greater displacement. This boat has 
longer ends and looks finer drawn out, while the 
Lee boat appears to carry her bootn much further 
The layout of the two boats below deck will 
differ, the boat for George Lee will be like 
Dorello, Timandra and. Wianno, while the other 
will have an open cabin. 
Yacht Now a Fisherman. 
The steam yacht Philomena reached T wharf, 
Boston, last week with 13,000 pounds of pollock 
caught on the shore grounds. This vessel was 
formerlv one of the nattiest yachts on Casco 
Bay and was owned by Jeremiah Campbell, of 
East Boston. Mr. Campbell thought the vessel 
would make an excellent steam fisherman after 
some slight changes were made. Some of the 
mahogany and plate glass were removed to make 
cargo space, the pilot house was raised almost 
as high as the buff-painted smokestack and the 
Philomena not otherwise changed took a seme 
boat with net in tow and started out to the fish¬ 
ing grounds. Philomena was built in East Bos¬ 
ton by A. A. Martin in 1893. She is 84 feet 
over all, 65 feet on the waterline, 14 feet beam 
and 6 feet draft, and has a triple expansion 3- 
cylinder engine. 
