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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 28, 1910. 
Gulf Yachting. 
New Orleans, La., May.i8.-The cabin sloop 
Cadillac has sailed on a cruise to Pensacola, t la., 
and will return in about two weeks 1 hose on 
board were: E. H. W. Davies, who owns the 
craft, and his guests, J. H Duggan, of 1 exas, 
Captain George Bruce, of England L. K. 
Hoover, C. B. Fox, W. J- O Donnell and V. W. 
Davies Cadillac has been thoroughly overhauled 
and is now in perfect condition. Commodore 
Davies desired to take a recreation trip on his 
boat and invited a number of friends acc °"', 
pany him. Cadillac is the champion of the Louth 
in her class and always attracts a big crowd 
when participating in the regattas 
The governing board at its meeting held dur- 
i J th/week for the Southern Y. C. appointed 
the following regatta committee: N. Emile 
Baumgarten, Chairman; F. W. Crosby and T. 
Thomas Barr. This committee has had a great 
deal of experience in regattas, and it is expectc 
that it will arrange very attractive programs tor 
the coming season. At the meeting it was re¬ 
ported that the membership of the Southern \. 
C. had increased ninety-eight since the reorgani¬ 
zation some weeks ago. lhe total membership 
1S Work^is progressing well on the new dining 
room and kitchen addition to the club and it 
is expected they will be opened within the next 
ten days It is stated that the best short older 
meals will be served and this prove an attrac¬ 
tive feature at the club. The annual, regatta 
opens the last Saturday m May Hiawatha, 
Nvdia, Mohawk, Susie-B., Sinner Juanita, Ras¬ 
cal Schemer and various sloops and sailing ciatt 
are undergoing an overhauling at West En 
preparatory to entering the regatta. lhe pro¬ 
gram for the regatta will be announced by the 
committee in a few days. 
Yachting Seasonl Opens. 
There will be two regattas in New York 
waters to-day. The Atlantic Y. C. will have a 
regatta starting off its club house at Sea Gate, 
and the New Rochelle Y. C. will have a regatta 
on the Sound. Several clubs will go in commis¬ 
sion and on Monday all along the coast and on 
inland waters yachtsmen will be busy with races 
and openings and the outlook for the season is 
remarkably bright. . , 
There are new yachts in the regular classes, 
new one-design classes have been built and new 
vessels have been added to the older special 
classes Many vessels have changed ownership 
since the close of last season. Some of these 
will be raced in the regular classes, others wi 
compete in the handicap classes, and some will 
join the large fleet of cruisers. lhe yacht 
basins and ship yards have been busy spots tor 
several weeks, and those yachts not yet m 
commission will be ready now in a few days. 
Beverly Y. C Fixtures. 
The racing on Buzzard's Bay this year will 
be of more than ordinary interest because sev¬ 
eral of the Sonder class yachts are to race there 
before going to Marblehead for the trials, and 
there will be racing there again in September to 
select representatives to send to Kiel next year. 
Two new yachts will race in the restricted 21- 
foot class, one Phantom built by W. Starling 
Burgess and the other a Herreshoff boat. The 
season will open on June 17 and last until Sept. 
10. The schedule follows: 
June 17, 18 and 25.—First, second and third 
club races. 
July 2.—First Corinthian race. 
July 4.—Sweepstakes races. 
July 9.—Fourth club race. 
July 11, 12, 14, 15.—Open Sonder class races 
off Marion. . 
July —Second Corinthian and special open 
Sonder race off club house. 
Tuly 23.—Third Corinthian races. 
July 30.—Water sports in morning; fourth 
Corinthian races in afternoon. 
Aug. 6._Van Rensselaer cup off Marion. 
Aug. 13.— Fifth Corinthian races. 
Aug. 20 and 27.—Fifth and sixth club races. 
Sept. 2.—Sippican open race off Marion. 
Sept. 3.— Mattapoisett open race off JUatta- 
poisett. 
Sept. 5—Open race. 
Sept 10.—Seventh Corinthian race. 
On June 25, July 9 and 23, Aug. 6 and 20, and 
Sept. 10 the Sonder boats will race off Marion 
These, with the races of June 18, July 2, 16 and 
30 and Aug. 13 and 27, will constitute the cham¬ 
pionship series for Sonder boats in Buzzard s 
Bay. __ 
Dates of Sonder Races Changed. 
At the request of the Spanish yachtsmen who 
are to bring three Sonder class yachts to race 
against three American boats of similar size 
the dates have been rearranged. The Interna¬ 
tional races were set for the week beginning 
Sept 5 They will instead begin on Wednesday, 
Aug 17. The trial races were to have been 
sailed Aug. 15 to 21, but now they will be 
sailed in the week beginning Aug 8 
The committee of the Eastern Y. C has an¬ 
nounced that the trial races to be sailed f° r the 
purpose of selecting three yachts to go to Kiel 
next year will be sailed on Buzzard s Bay be¬ 
ginning Sept. 3. Buzzard’s Bay has been chosen 
because the waters there more nearly resemble 
the waters at Kiel than does the water at 
Marblehead. Only those owners who are will¬ 
ing to take their yachts to Kiel will be al owed 
to compete in these trials, and the boats chosen 
will be shipped to Kiel next May. 
Yachting Notes. 
The Newport Yacht Racing Association has 
offered prizes for a regatta sailed off Newport 
when the yachts reach there in July. I he com¬ 
mittee is George L. Rives, Max Agassiz, H. H- 
Ward, Royal Phelps -Carroll, F. K. Sturgis and 
C. L. F. Robinson. 
Avenger, now owned by Vice-Commodore 
Harry L. Maxwell, is painted black. She will 
be raced against Morton F. Plant’s new sloop 
Shima, which will be sailed by Addison G. 
Hanan. 
The 65-footers Aurora, Istalena and Winsome 
are expected to sail their first regatta at Indian 
Harbor on Decoration Day. 
The South Boston Y. C. will cruise to Booth- 
bay Harbor this year, starting from Hull on July 
10' and stopping first at Kittery Point. Return¬ 
ing, many stops will be made. 
Allen C. Jones’ sloop Nutmeg, winner of many 
long distance races, has had 300 pounds of lead 
added to her keel which enables her to spread 
150 square feet more canvas. 
The San Francisco Y. C. starts sailing races 
in order of allowance. The yacht with the 
greatest allowance is sent off first. Each yacht 
gets a separate gun and the first one to reach 
home wins the race. This is good from a spec¬ 
tacular point, but poor for the scratch yacht, as 
it not only has to allow time, but has to take 
the worst position and work through all the 
yachts that have started ahead. 
Harry Payne Whitney has chartered the three- 
masted auxiliary schooner Atlantic and intends 
to cruise to Labrador. 
The Eastern Y. C. opened its house at Marble¬ 
head last Thursday. The Corinthian Y. C. will 
open its house to-day. 
Three schooners have been entered in the race 
for sailing yachts to Bermuda which will be 
started by the Atlantic Y. C. on June 25. ihese 
are: Harold S. Vanderbilt’s Vagrant, Vice- 
Commodore George W. I itcomb s Uncas an 
Demarest Lloyd’s Shiyessa. Elmer J Bliss, ot 
Boston, has offered a prize for this class. 
Tim three new Class Q yachts will make their 
debut in the Atlantic club’s race to-day These 
are - W. A. Barstow’s Soya II., Hendon Chubb s 
Spider II. and F. S. Noble’s Gray Jacket. 
W. F. Harrison’s raceabout Quakeress won 
the race of the Corinthian Y. C. last Saturday,, 
defeating W. S. Runk s new dypee by 2 minutes 
37 seconds. 
Commodore F. Lewis Clark s schooner 
Emerald will be ready for commission at New 
London on June 14. 
The new Class P yachts, designed by George 
Owens, are in Marblehead Harbor ready i° r e 
season’s racing. They are Mavourneen owned by 
George Lee, and Amoret, owned by C. B. ana 
H S Wheelock. They were built by Hodgdon 
Bros, at East Boothbay, Me. Mauvourneen is 50 
feet over all. 31 feet waterline, 10 feet beam and 
7 feet draft. She spreads 1,300 square feet ot 
canvas in a knockabout rig. Amoret is slightly 
larger. They will race against 1 imandra, 
Wianno and Onda II. __ 
Motor 'Boating. 
Race to Havana. 
Five motor yachts started at 12:45 o’clock 
last Saturday to race from Philadelphia to 
Havana. The signal to start was made by 
Mayor Reyburn and the yachts crossed a line 
off'the foot of Race street, near the Camden 
side of the river. It was a gay time on the Del- 
nwnre vachts tugs and excursion steamers 
were out and many of these followed the racers 
down as far as Reedy Island. They started 
against a flood tide, and just as they went oyer 
the line a heavy rain squall broke and spoiled 
the picture, but there was any amount ot en¬ 
thusiasm which the rain could not spoi . 
In the smooth water of the Delaware River 
the racers made good time. They were helpec 
much by the tide, which shortly atter they had 
started ran ebb, helping them on their course. 
Reedy Island was passed at 4 :39 ° cl ° c £’ 
Berneyo in the lead. Loantaka, Caliph, lly 
and Caroline followed in the order named, and 
the last was 8 m. astern of Berneyo. 1 his point 
was 46 miles from the start. Berneyo passed 
out by Capt. Henlopen at 10:30 at night and 
leaving the Overfalls Lightship on starboard 
hand took a course for the Diamond Shoals 
Lightship off Cape Hatteras, 225 miles away. 
The leaders in the race passed the Diamond 
Shoals Lightship early on Monday morning. 
The steamship Ogulchee sighted one at 8 p. m. 
on Sunday off Roanoke Island. She was mak¬ 
ing about' 7.5 miles an hour. 
Loantaka was obliged to quit the race and re 
turn to Philadelphia. She had trouble several 
times on the Delaware' River with heated bear¬ 
ings and with her steering wheel and had to 
make several stops for repairs. She reached the 
Overfalls Lightship on Sunday morning and had 
more trouble, and then her engineers reported 
that it was useless to try to proceed, and after 
remaining in Delaware Bay for some hours, she 
returned to the starting point with everyone on 
board disgusted. 
The race was promoted by the Yachtsmen s 
Club to help to demonstrate the reliability of 
the marine motor, the staunchness and sea- 
worthiness of the yachts and the skill of the 
navigators and ability of the crews, nearly al! 
of whom were amateurs. Rules had peen 
framed to govern the owners in the building 
and equipment of their yachts, but unfortunately 
the committee established a precedent which 
may work to the detriment of ocean racing. 
The rules for these races are framed by men 
who have had experience in ocean racing, and 
are drawn so that the chances of accidents may 
be reduced to a minimum and, in such races as 
that now in progress they cannot be too careful, 
and the committees in charge of these races 
cannot be too severe in seeing that the rules 
are complied with. . , 
One rule which was published when the race 
was first thought of stipulated that all gasolene 
should be carried in at least two tanks, and 
that these tanks should be securely fitted and 
fastened to the hull of the vessel to the satis¬ 
faction of the committee. One yacht, Caroline, 
carried out this rule absolute!v. Two extra 
tanks 15 feet long and 24 inches in diameter 
