April 23, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Six-Meter Yacht for Finland. 
Karl Arrhinius, of Nystad, Finland, has 
commissioned Cox & Stevens to design and 
have built for him a sloop to race in the 6-metre 
class abroad. The plans are well under way, 
and they have shown a boat approximately 
33 feet over all, 21 feet waterline, having 7 feet 
beam and carrying 540 square feet of sail. The 
construction is the very best, the planking being 
of yellow pine, the frames and keel of oak, the 
cabin and interior finish mahogany, and fasten¬ 
ings copper and composition. 
The boat will have watertight cockpit and has 
in the cabin sleeping accommodations for four 
men. together with toilet, which is rather un¬ 
usual for a racing boat of this size. The new 
boat will race against a number of very fast 
vessels in her class at St. Petersburg, Helsing¬ 
fors, in Stockholm this summer, some of these 
being built by American designers, others hav¬ 
ing been designed in Englapd, and in addition 
there are a number of fast boats that have been 
designed in Finland. 
As this new boat is expected to make a good 
showing, no expense is to be spared in the way 
of her outfit and equipment; hollow spars being 
contemplated, Ratsey sails and bronze blocks— 
these items all being ordered from American 
manufacturers. 
Seafarer to Make Long Cruise. 
The handsome auxiliary schooner yacht Sea¬ 
farer, of San Francisco, fresh from the yard 
of the builders at Boothbay, Me., has arrived in 
Boston Harbor, and is anchored on the yacht 
anchorage off Rowes Wharf. L. A. Norris, a 
wealthy resident of San Francisco, has planned 
an extended cruise for the new craft. When 
Seafarer is outfitted she will leave here for San 
Francisco by way of the Suez Canal in order to 
avoid the rigorous weather off Cape Horn. 
On the way to San Francisco the yacht will 
visit many of the ports in the Mediterranean 
and the far east. She will stop at Chinese and 
Japanese ports and also at the Hawaiian 
Islands. The trip will be about 20,000 miles 
and will occupy from six to eight months. 
Seafarer is 64 feet on the waterline and 98 
feet over all. She has two masts, with a yard 
on the foremast to carry a square sail in favor¬ 
able winds. She has a short bowsprit, with a 
long overhang fore and aft. She is painted 
black. Her equipment includes a gasolene 
launch and a working boat. 
Seafarer has a 30-horsepower auxiliary engine 
that burns crude petroleum, so she can obtain 
her oil fuel at any foreign port visited. She 
was built from designs of B. B. Crowninshield. 
Pacific Coast Yachting. 
San Francisco, April 14. —The annual meet¬ 
ing of the Pacific Coast Interclub Yachting As¬ 
sociation was held in San Francisco March 31, 
and the following list of officers was elected to 
serve during the ensuing year: President, 
Douglas Erskine, Corinthian Y. C.; Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, W. L. Sutherland, Golden Gate Y. C.; 
Treasurer, G. A. Dorn, Aeolian Y. C.; Secre¬ 
tary, F. G. Phillipps, San Francisco Y. C. The 
Regatta Committee was also selected, one mem¬ 
ber being taken from each club, as follows: 
Roy C. Ward, San Francisco Y. C.; Ross 
Wright, Corinthian Y. C.; L. C. Knight, 
Aeolian Y. C.; Wood O. Watson, Vallejo Y. 
C.; W. L. Sutherland, Golden Gate Y. C., and J. 
J. Sherry, California Y. C. It was not decided 
just when the annual cruise of the association 
would be held, but it is likely that July 3 will 
be the date named, as most of the clubs have 
selected that date for a cruise to Vallejo. 
At this meeting it was decided that it would 
be wise for the local clubs to adopt the uni¬ 
versal rule for measuring yachts in racing, and 
a resolution was passed adopting this rule. 
The local clubs have been sailing for many 
years under the rules formerly in vogue in the 
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C.. but the adoption 
of the universal rule by most of the prominent 
clubs in the east has brought about a feeling 
that this should also be adopted here. The 
delegates who represented the California, Cor¬ 
inthian and San Francisco yacht clubs were in¬ 
structed to vote for the universal rule, but the 
delegates from the Aeolian and Golden Gate 
yacht clubs were not given definite instructions. 
The San Francisco Y. C. held a meeting re¬ 
cently, and the season’s program was decided 
upon. April 30 has been selected as the open¬ 
ing date; May 1, opening cruise in squadron; 
May 15, race from club house around Goat 
Island shoal, Presidio Shoal buoy and return 
to the club house; May 21 and 22, cruise t:o Mc- 
Nears and return; May 28, race to Vallejo; 
May 29, at Vallejo; May 30, race from Vallejo 
to the club house; June 5, non-boat owners' 
cruise; June 12, lightship race; June 18 and 19, 
Paradise Cove and return; June 25, Farallon 
race; July 2, to Volante; July 3, to Vallejo; 
July 4, race from Vallejo to Sausalito; July 10, 
annual club regatta; July 16 and 17, Petaluma 
and return; July 23 and 30, open on account of 
the Santa Cruz races; July 31, aquatic sports at 
the club house; Aug. 13 and 14, cruise to Vallejo 
and race Jiome; Aug. 20 and 21, cruise to Mc- 
Nears and return; Sept. 3 to n, inclusive, river 
cruise; Oct. 1 and 2, McNears and return; Oct. 
9, power boat regatta; Oct. 15, closing day; 
Oct. 16, closing cruise in squadron. 
One of the most noticeable changes in this 
program as compared with previous seasons 
has been the changing of the date for the 
Farallon race. Formerly this has been held in 
September, when at times the race has been 
a farce, owing to the lack of wind. This year 
it will be held in June, when strong breezes are 
the usual rule. 
That there will be some lively racing on the 
bay this year for the San Francisco perpetual 
challenge cup is already assured, and even at 
this date the present holders, the Corinthian 
Y. C., have been challenged. However, this 
challenge has been sent back to the Aeolian 
Y. C., as April first is the earliest date for a 
challenge to be sent. The race must then be 
sailed not less than thirty days or more than 
sixty days after the receipt of the challenge. 
Yachting Notes. 
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.’s, turbine steam yacht 
Tarantula is being overhauled and refitted at 
Port Jefferson. 
E. C. M. Fitzgerald has purchased the house¬ 
boat Buccaneer, which was owned by J. Gilroy. 
Buccaneer is 63 feet over all, 15 feet beam and 
is being fitted out at Tebo’s, South Brooklyn. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt’s sloop Aurora is to 
have a new mast. She is fitting out at Herre- 
shoff’s at Bristol. • 
Commodore Frederic Thompson, of the Ben- 
sonhurst Y. C., is to have a Sonder boat for 
this season’s racing. He hopes to boom the 
class on Gravesend Bay. 
George H. Collyer, of the Boston Y. C., has 
purchased from Commodore Edwin P. Boggs 
the 21-foot knockabout Penikese II. 
The Newport Y. C. now has a membership 
of 400. One hundred and seventy-five members 
were elected during the winter. 
Elmina I. Sold. 
The schooner yacht Elmina I., built for 
Frederick F. Brewster in 1901, and which has 
been laid up at Greenport since he had Elmina 
II. built, has been sold to Frederic Gallatin, of 
the New York Y. C., through the agency of 
Tams, Lemoine & Crane. The yacht will be 
overhauled and refitted at once. She is 99 feet 
2 inches over all, 68 feet on the waterline, 20 
feet 2 inches beam and 12 feet draft. The yacht 
has been renamed Nancy. 
Commodore Richards’ Appointments. 
Commodore Leonard Richards, of the Larch- 
mont Y. C., has made these appointments: 
Fleet Captain, Morton W. Smith; Fleet Sur¬ 
geon W. E Bullard, M.D.; Regatta Committee 
—Charles P. Tower, Howell C. Perrin, Edgar 
B. Garroll. 
Atlantic Y. C. Delegates. 
The delegates of the Atlantic Y. C. to the 
Gravesend Bay Y. R. A. are Horace E. Boucher 
and Dr. John E. De Mund, and to the American 
Power Boat Association, Horace E. Boucher, 
Kenneth Lord, Dr. J. E. De Mund, and Henry 
J. Gielow. 
Motor 'Boating. 
Motor Boats at Monaco. 
The annual motor boat racing meet, under 
the auspices of the International Sporting Club, 
of Monaco, opened on Friday, April 1, with the 
exhibition of the yachts that were to compete. 
The racing began on Monday, April 3, under 
weather conditions that were' not at all favor¬ 
able to the sport. 
Two vessels that attracted much attention at 
the exhibition were the Duke of Westminster’s 
Ursula, which won the Coupe des Nations last 
year, beating among others Dixie II. and Mac- 
kay Edgar’s Maple Leaf II. This is one of the 
trio coming here to try and win the British 
International cup. She is very light but strong¬ 
ly stayed and has a powerful 12-cylinder Or¬ 
leans motor. It is expected that this boat will 
make a hard fight with the more powerful 
Ursula in the race for the cup. It is estimated 
that the boat’s speed is 35.5, or half a knot 
faster than Ursula. This is a little more than 
40 statute miles an hour. If she can make that 
speed, American designers and builders have a 
hard task in successfully defending the trophy. 
The Yachting World says that the most not¬ 
able features of the exhibition were the pre¬ 
ponderance of hydroplanes and the great size 
of the cruisers. Some very extraordinary 
freak boats were shown. There were ninety- 
one exhibits, a greater number than in any 
previous year. 
The third English exhibit was F. May’s 
Defender II., which is not classed for the con¬ 
test for the Coupe des Nations, but. stands a 
good chance of carrying off other prizes. She 
has done 48 kilometers an hour on the Thames. 
Defender II. is last year’s hull fitted with a 
more powerful motor. It was only on the eve 
of the closing of the entries that Mr. May de¬ 
cided to telegraph his. The boat had only been 
out five times, but had given such unexpectedly 
good results that he thought himself justified 
in sending her to Monaco. 
Among the curiosities of the show were Lilli- 
put. designed by M. Rebikoff, designer of 
Fleche, which folds up to a size no bigger than 
that of an ordinary trunk and yet can make from 
16 to 18 kilometers an hour; and Soulier Volant, 
which in truth is the exact shape of a slipper, 
and though, as a hydroplane, it can .make a 
great speed, must have to contend with such 
terrible buffetings that it becomes almost .un¬ 
manageable in anything but a millpond calm. 
One of the most interesting boats in the ex¬ 
hibition was Fleche, the designer of. which is a 
Russian, M. Rebikoff, one-time president of the 
Russian Society of Electricians, who. believes he 
has in Fleche an idea on which will be based 
the small torpedo boats or coast defenders of 
the future. The boat is of French construction 
and is expected to make at least 70 kilometers 
an hour, though M. Rebikoff hopes that with 
improvements he has already in mind boats of 
the same type may do 9° or even 100 kilometers 
an hour in a year or two. 
Chantecler II. is a cruiser which, piloted by 
the owner, M. Coulomb, achieved a remarkable 
feat in July last by doing the journey from 
Paris to Havre and Trouville in one day, start¬ 
ing at nine o’clock in the morning.. 
The races started on Monday with an inno¬ 
vation. This is the Omnium Handicap in seven 
heats, each of which represents a “serie." five 
being for cruisers and two for racers. 1 he first 
heats were contested over one round of the 
course (about 6 T 4 kilometers, or, approximately, 
3j£ miles). 
The winners of each heat will qualify for the 
final, which was to have been decided on Tues- 
