May 2i, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
823 
Pacific Coast Yachting. 
San Francisco, Cal., May 6 . —The yachting 
season on San Francisco Bay has been success¬ 
fully launched, and from now on the bay will 
be dotted each Sunday with whitewings, there 
being not a Sunday from now until October that 
is not covered by some of the clubs. Care has 
been taken not to have the schedules of .the 
various clubs interfere, and a season of great 
sport is anticipated. The Corinthian Y. C. held 
its opening cruise April 24 in the channel and 
the upper bay, and this was participated in by 
practically every boat flying the Corinthian flag. 
The South Bay Y. C., of Alviso, attended the 
opening ceremonies of the local club, the boats 
being towed down by a launch. Among the 
boats brought down from Alviso were Wanderer, 
Camarada, Muriel, Papoose and Mirth. On 
Saturday, preceding the opening cruise, the an¬ 
nual opening jinks were held at the club house 
at Tiburon with Port Captain John Keefe as 
master of ceremonies. He was assisted by Com¬ 
modore W. J. Hogg, Vice-Commodore John E. 
McFarlane, H. W. Westerfield, Chas. F. Morel, 
George Wagner and T. F. Tracy. In the eve¬ 
ning the Corinthians and their friends were en¬ 
tertained at the Majestic theater in Tiburon 
where home talent was enjoyed to its fullest. 
On April 30 the San Francisco Y. C. held its 
opening jinks at the Sausalito club house with 
its usual success. The announcements sent out 
were in a humorous vein, in part as follows: 
“Have you openers? The lid of our season’s 
jackpot will be lifted Saturday, April 30, and 
everybody is hereby ordered by the commodore 
to get into the game whether he have openers 
or not. It will be a drawing attraction, and if 
you cannot get a pear, get a peach. To begin 
with put on your smartest clothes and break all 
available bunting at 12 o’clock. Beauty will 
adorn the front veranda and there will be danc¬ 
ing as per usual. This lasts from 1130 to 5 130. 
If you are too old to emulate Maude Allen in 
her dance of spring, invite your young friends 
to occupy your allotted space.” 
One of the largest crowds in the history of 
the club was on hand to participate in the open¬ 
ing. After the guests had departed the club 
members sat down to a beefsteak dinner that 
lasted until well into the night. 
A trial race was held on May 1 between Ruby 
and Discovery, of the Corinthian Club, to find 
which of the two would be called upon to de¬ 
fend the San Francisco Perpetual Challenge Cup. 
This race was won handily by Ruby, and there 
is but little doubt but that she will be selected 
to act as the defender. Discovery was not han¬ 
dled by her owner, John McFarlane, owing to 
his illness, but those who witnessed the race 
were unanimously of the opinion that had he 
been there the difference in her handling could 
not have won first place for her. Three minutes 
were lost on the first beat to windward by mak¬ 
ing a long tack out into the tide, but otherwise 
she was well handled. Counting the time allow¬ 
ance Ruby was winner by 9 minutes 44 seconds. 
This race was held under the direction of the 
regatta committee consisting of William A. Bar- 
lage, W. B. Coates and George Lux. The chal¬ 
lenge of the ^Eolian Club for a race for the cup 
has 'been accepted by the Corinthians and the 
race will be held some time during the month 
of May. The iEolian Club has selected Merry 
Widow to represent it in the race in an effort 
to lift the cup. 
The auxiliary ketch Evean has been purchased 
in Southern California by Chas. C. Moore and 
has been brought to San Francisco by Dave 
Dean. Mr. Moore has joined the Corinthian 
Y. C. 
Fulton G., owned by Harry Anderson and 
Herbert Madden, has been launched in South 
San Francisco and will shortly be ready to join 
the ranks of the Corinthian Y. C. A large dele¬ 
gation of Corinthian yachtsmen were present at 
the launching at Anderson’s yards and the new 
craft created quite an impression. She belongs 
to the 44-foot class and a race between her and 
Yankee, owned by Chas. Miller, is being eagerly 
looked forward to. 
The ocean race between San Francisco and 
Santa Cruz to be held next July is already at¬ 
tracting a great deal of attention, and extensive 
planning is already under way to make the event 
the most successful of any that have been held 
at any time in the past. 
The Sequoia Yachting and Boating Club has 
opened the season on Humboldt Bay and weekly 
events will be held from now on. This club 
considered the proposition of challenging for the 
San Francisco perpetual cup last season, but the 
matter was allowed to drop. 
The yachting season on San Diego Bay will be 
opened on May 15 by the San Diego Y. C. and 
will extend to Oct. 4. This club is preparing to 
erect a new club house and already has a num¬ 
ber of large donations for this work, one being 
cash gift of $1,000 from L. J. Wilde. The fast 
racer Lurline has just been added to the fleet 
of this club, and were it not for the fact that 
a new club house is to be built, this boat would 
be entered in the race from San Pedro to Hono¬ 
lulu. To finance both of these propositions is 
more than the club cares to undertake. How¬ 
ever, a number of boats will be entered for the 
“Times Cup” race at San Pedro, and a large 
delegation of yachting enthusiasts from San 
Diego will be present to cheer on the Southern 
racing craft. The following boats will be en¬ 
tered from San Diego in this race: zEolus, 
Gretchen, Idler, Daisy II., Annis, Nackey and 
Butcher Boy. The complete program for the 
San Diego Y. C for the season is as follows: 
May 15.—Opening day picnic at La Playa club 
house; motor and sailing races. 
May 22.—First sailing race for Williams cup. 
May 28.—Cruise of sailing and motor boats fo 
Coronada Islands, returning May 30. Race home 
for ex-commodore’s cup. 
June 5.—Second Williams cup race. 
June 7. — House warming at the new club 
house. 
June 12.—Motor boat race, Classes A and B. 
June 19.—Third Williams cup race. 
June 26.—Motor boat race, both classes. 
June 30.—Open* date. 
July 4.—Open date for Tent City races. 
July 5.—Start of sailing races for San Pedro, 
ninety miles, at 10:30 o’clock a. m. 
July 7.—Start of motor boat races for San 
Pedro, 7:30 P. m. 
July 9.—Times cup race at San Pedro. 
July 17.—Motor boat race. 
July 24.—Sailing race for Kyle cup. 
July 31.—Motor boat race, both classes, for 
Ruben prize. 
Aug. 2.—Semi-annual meeting at club house. 
Aug. 7.—Seamanship race for cup. 
Aug. 14.—Assemble at Tent City. 
Aug. 21.—Motor boat race, both classes, for 
Tibbets cup. 
Aug. 24.—Sailing races for Lipton cup. 
Aug. 25.—Sailing races for Lipton cup. 
Aug. 26.—Sailing races for Lipton cup. Smoker 
to visiting yachtsmen in the evening. 
Sept. 3.—Cruises to Coronada Islands, return 
Sunday. 
Sept. 18.—Motor race over club course. 
Sept. 25.—Cruising race to Brickyard Cove, 
picnic and short races. 
Oct. 4.—Flag officers’ reception and distribu¬ 
tion of prizes at club house. 
New York Y. C. Cruise. 
At a meeting of the New York Y. C., held 
on Thursday, the annual cruise of the club was 
discussed and the plans outlined. The fleet will 
rendezvous at Glen Cove on Thursday, Aug. 4, 
and in the afternoon will race to Huntington 
Harbor as was done in 1907. The yachts will 
anchor there for the night, and on Friday, Aug. 
5, will sail to Morris Cove. On Saturday the 
fleet will run to New London where it will re¬ 
main at anchor on Sunday. On Monday, Aug. 8, 
the run will be to Newport; Tuesday, Aug. 9, 
to Vineyard Haven, and Wednesday, Aug. 10, 
back to Newport. The Astor cup races will be 
sailed on Thursday, Aug. 11, and the race for 
the King’s cup will be sailed on Friday, Aug. 12. 
The fleet will disband the next day. 
Royal Canadian Y. C. Fixtures. 
The Royal Canadian Y. C. has issued a neat 
card on which is embossed the club burgee and 
which gives the season’s fixtures, the classifica¬ 
tions of yachts and the prizes. The fixtures are: 
June 4.—Fourteen-foot dinghy class, open to 
all L. S. S. A. dinghies. Silver cup to winner, 
June 11.—Regatta first, second and third divis¬ 
ions and 16-foot class, Lome cup to winner of 
first division. 
June 25.—Cruising race to Olcott, first and 
second divisions; third division and 14-foot 
class. 
July 1.—Queen’s cup race at Toronto, Class 
Q and under. , 
July 9.—Sixteen-foot class and 14-foot dinghy 
class. 
July 18.—Cruising race to Whitby, first, sec¬ 
ond and third divisions. 
July 20 to 23.—L. Y. R. A. regatta at Kingston. 
Aug. 6.—Sixteen-foot and 14-foot dinghy class. 
Aug. 20.—Cruising race to Port Dalhousie, 
first and second divisions; third division. 
Sept. 3.—Cruising race to Hamilton, first, sec¬ 
ond and third divisions. Lansdowne cup to win¬ 
ner of first division. 
Sept 10.—Pfince of Wales cup race, all classes. 
The usual cash prizes will be given in each 
division. 
Classes D, E, F, J, K, L and M are first divis¬ 
ion; Classes N and P and 16-foot class, the sec¬ 
ond division and Classes Q, R and S and 14-foot 
dinghy class, the third division. 
Dories for Germany. 
The most popular sailing craft on the Atlantic 
coast is the dory. There are hundreds of these 
boats and they are found in every harbor from 
Maine to the Gulf. They vary in cost from $60 
to $275 each. The cheaper priced boat is the 
regulation dory, and that higher priced is an im¬ 
proved dory, really a knockabout with round 
bilges and decked over. These are raced at 
Portland, on Massachusetts, Narragansett and 
Gravesend bays with great success. When the 
Germans were here last summer with their Son- 
der class yachts they were very much impressed 
with the dory, which furnished so much good 
sport at so little cost, and they have recently 
purchased designs from Charles D. Mower with 
the idea of establishing the class in Germany 
and possibly in other countries where yachting 
is popular. It has been intimated that after they 
have got the hang of sailing a dory they will 
in all probability arrange an international race. 
Rhode Island Y. C. Cruise. 
The Rhode Island Y. C. will have its annual 
cruise this year from June 23 to 30. The plans 
have not yet been made known, but it is under¬ 
stood that it will be a blind cruise, and the day’s 
run will be announced by the commodore each 
morning. Yachtsmen generally favor the blind 
cruise because its uncertainty makes it so much 
more interesting. 
The club house was formally put in commis¬ 
sion last Saturday. Commodore Dunbar gave 
the signal for the flag raising from his flagship 
Artmar. The club will have a short cruise over 
Decoration Day. Fleet Captain Aldridge G. 
Pierce has resigned because of press of busi¬ 
ness and Commodore Dunbar has appointed 
Herbert W. Gardner in his place. 
Westward’s Fast Trip. 
Alexander S. Cochrane’s schooner Westward 
which sailed from Bristol on April 23 arrived at 
Southampton on May 7. She made the passage 
from Brenton’s Reef Light Vessel to Bishop’s 
Rock in 13 days 3 hours 50 minutes and to the 
Needles in 14 days. She is fitting out at Sum¬ 
mers & Payne’s yard for her racing career. The 
first race will be at Cuxhaven on June 20. The 
yacht’s racing spars and sails were taken on the 
steamship St. Paul. 
