June 25, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
1023 
The 22-Footers. 
There have been many one-design and re¬ 
stricted classes organized in the recent history 
of American yachting, some of which have been 
very successful and some have soon gone out of 
existence. The 40- and 46-footers, which were 
not one-design were very successful about 
twenty-five years ago, and these probably did 
more to help the sport of yacht racing than any 
other classes that have since been built. Of 
modern years the four 70-footers furnished good 
sport, and these were followed by the 30-footers, 
of which nineteen were built, and these boats 
have been raced steadily year after year. 
One of the best known on the eastern coast 
was the Massachusetts class of 22-footers. This 
class was started in 1903, mostly through the 
efforts of Sumner H. Foster, and although only 
a few were built, the year following saw the 
class leading the racing on Massachusetts Bay. 
The Boston Globe, referring to this class and 
the way it was scattered, says the first year 
out there were five boats, the championship go¬ 
ing to Opitsah V., owned by S. H. and H. I. 
Foster. The next year there were nine racers 
in the class and Clotho, owned by Cheney & 
Lanning, won the championship. The season 
of 1905 was the banner one for the class, with 
eleven yachts following the circuit. The cham¬ 
pionship that year went to Tyro, owned by 
William H. Joyce and sailed by Sumner H. 
Foster. The adoption of the rating rule by the 
association in 1905 killed the class, and only 
three boats were in the racing the following 
season. These were Tyro, Nutmeg and Marie 
L., the last having been built for the class dur¬ 
ing the winter of 1905-06. Tyro again took the 
championship. 
Since the summer of 1905 the boats of this 
class have been distributed by purchase along 
the Atlantic Coast from Nova Scotia to Graves¬ 
end Bay until now only Nutmeg is raced in 
Massachusetts Bay. Wherever the 22-footers 
have been bought they have been liked not only 
for the fun of the racing, but also because they 
have proved good day sailing and cruising 
yachts. 
The best known boat of the class is Nutmeg. 
In the last two seasons this boat has made a 
wonderful record for long distance races. Last 
summer she started out by capturing the Block 
Island race. Next she took part in the cruise 
of the Boston Y. C., and after making a fine 
run from Camden to Newport, went to Graves¬ 
end Bay for the race around Long Island. 
This contest Nutmeg won, and ended up by 
taking the ocean race of the New Bedford Y. 
C. from New Bedford to Newport around No 
Man’s Land. Nutmeg was designed and partly 
built by Hanley, but was finished by Lawley in 
1905. Peri II. is another of the class that has 
made a name as a good consistent racing boat. 
Built in 1904 for George Lee from designs of 
E. A. Boardman, she stood second that season 
in the racing. The following year she was raced 
by Dr. Morton Prince and finished fourth on 
percentage. 
In 1907 and 1908 she was owned by William 
J. Rooks, of Providence, and raced on Narra- 
gansett Bay, taking the championship one year. 
Last season she was bought for the Gravesend 
Bay racing and entered in class P by her owner, 
James S. Bradley. She proved her worth and 
won the championship. Medric II., a small boat 
of 1905, was also sold from here to Narragansett 
Bay in 1907, and has been raced by W. L. Frost 
for three years. Another one of the class that 
was on Narragansett Bay for a time is Opitsah 
V., designed by W. S. Burgess for Sumner H. 
Foster in 1903. She. is now owned by John 
Gubbel, of Philadelphia, who uses her at Dark 
Harbor, Me. Setsu, which was built from de¬ 
signs of Burgess & Packard for Samuel Lewis 
in 1903 and raced only three or four times, is 
now owned by J. A. Muffington, of Providence. 
Although a number of the class are owned 
along the Maine coast, these boats have never 
been raced as a class. Tyro, twice winner .of 
the championship, has been owned, by Miss 
Helen V. Curtiss, of Philadelphia, since. 1907, 
who has used the boat at Camden. Tyro is the 
only boat of the 22-foot class that was designed 
by B. B. Crowninshield. Three or four of the 
class are owned around Portland. These are 
Athlon, a Lawley boat, built for Henry H. 
Walker in 1903 and now owned by E. A. 
Randall; Clorinda, also a Lawley boat, built for 
Cheney & Lanning in 1905 and owned by Ver¬ 
non F. West; Clotho, a Small boat, built for 
Cheney & Lanning in 1904, which was known 
for part of the 1905 season as Chewink V., and 
Rube, a Small boat, built for Herbert L. Bow¬ 
den in 1905, owned by William L. Latta. 
Chief, one of the original boats of the class, 
designed by Lawley and built in 1903 for S. C. 
Winsor, was owned for a couple of years by 
Clinton D. Merrill, of Portland. Last year she 
was raced here and at Narragansett Bay by 
Hollis Burgess. Chief, now known as Marie, 
is owned by Harold B. Boyd. Four of the class 
continue to be enrolled in the yacht clubs of 
Massachusetts, although they have not been 
raced since 1905; in fact, two of these were 
never raced. 
Corinthian Y. C. j Races. 
• 
The Corinthian Y. C., of Marblehead, has is¬ 
sued its racing schedule for the season. There 
are thirteen racing days, and on three of these 
the races are open to yachts of any recognized 
club. The club races will be on June 4 and 18 
and July 9, 16, 23 and 30. The race to Port¬ 
land Lightship will be started on June 25, there 
will be open regattas on July 4 and Aug. 6, and 
the midsummer series will be on Aug. 3, 4 and 5. 
On Sept. 3 the season will close with the grand 
handicap. 
In addition to these events the club is in¬ 
terested in several others. It has challenged for 
a race for the Manhasset Bay challenge cup, now 
held by the Indian Harbor Y. C., and for the 
Quincy cup, held by the Boston Y. C. The Man¬ 
hasset Bay challenge cup is for yachts of 31 rat¬ 
ing. The dates for the races for this cup have 
not yet been set, but they will in all probability 
be sailed in July. The Quincy cup match will 
be sailed off Hull and the first race is set for 
July 23. The club’s representative in this match 
will be announced later and will depend on the 
performances of the new Sonder class yachts, 
several of which are owned in the club. 
The Corinthian club will also take charge of 
the races between the dories of the Massachu¬ 
setts Racing Dory Association and the Portland 
Y. C. for the Knight trophy. These races will 
be sailed in the mornings of the midsummer 
series and that same week the club will manage 
the races between the 18-foot knockabouts of 
Massachusetts and Narragansett bays. 
The Sir Thomas Lipton $1,000 cup for 31- 
raters, which stands for the championship of 
Massachusetts Bay, is now held by the club. It 
has to be won three times by the same yachts¬ 
man before it is his property. The yachts sail 
in the open races of the Eastern, Boston and 
Corinthian yacht clubs and the Yacht Racing 
Association championship races. John B. Fallon 
won last year with Timandra. 
This year the annual long distance race will 
be to Portland Lightship instead of the Isle of 
Shoals, and prizes have been offered by Rear 
Commodore H. S. Wheelock and ex-Commodore 
H. A. Morss. Commodore Harry H. Walker 
has offered the prizes for the handicap race. 
Championship prizes are offered in classes M. N, 
P, Q. R, S and the Sonder class, and the races 
that will count for these trophies will be sailed 
on June 4, 18, July 4, 9 , 16, 23, 30, Aug. 3, 4, 
5 and 6. 
Keystone Y. C. Races. 
The members of the Keystone Y. C. have ar¬ 
ranged this schedule for the season: 
June 18 and July 2—Fifteen-foot class sharpies. 
July 4—Beach party at Long Beach. 
July 16—Fifteen-foot class sharpies. 
July 23—Race for Class A; invitation race. 
July 30—'Race for 15-foot class sharpies to be 
sailed by boys under sixteen years of age. 
Aug. 6—Start of annual cruise to Great South 
Bay. 
Sept. 10—Race for 15-foot class sharpies. 
New Orleans Yachting. 
New Orleans, La., June 6—The Mobile Y. C. 
and the Southern Y. C., of this city, are arrang¬ 
ing an interesting program for the annual re¬ 
gatta to be held Sunday,and Monday, July 3 and 
4, in Mobile Bay. It is proposed to have a long 
distance race from New Orleans to Mobile of 
the various craft to be entered from this city. 
The Southern Y. C committee has offered a 
handsome clock as the prize for the winning 
motor boat and a fine binnacle for the sailing 
craft. It is proposed to start at West End at 
6 o’clock on the evening of July 1 from West 
End. It is stated that some of the motor boats 
have not sufficient tank capacity for their gaso¬ 
lene on so long a trip, and it will be necessary 
to stop on the way for this fuel. 
The prizes for the motor boat craft at the 
Mobile regatta are $25 and $20 for boats of 28 
feet and over and those under 28 feet, respec¬ 
tively. The races of the motor boats will take 
place on Sunday, July 3, and the sailing races 
will come off on July 4. 
The prizes and classes- for the sailing craft are 
as follows: Class A, cabin sloops, 28.5 feet and 
over, first prize, $60; second prize, $25. Class 
F, cabin sloops, under 28.5 feet, first prize, $35; 
second prize, $20. Class B, open sloops, 18 feet 
and over, first prize, $20; second prize, $12.50. 
Class C, machine sloops, 18 feet and over, $50. 
Class S. catboats, 21 feet and over, Dunlap cup. 
Class T, cats under 21 feet, $15. 
Invitations have been received here by the 
Southern Y. C. to participate in the Biloxi Y. C. 
regatta which will be held July 13 and 14. The 
regatta committee in Biloxi is composed of J. J. 
Kennedy, H. F. Sawford, B. Enochs, U. Des- 
porte and W. J. Grant. G. J. Wiltz is fleet cap¬ 
tain and Edward Brady, commodore. 
Calypso, cabin sloop sailing craft, has been sold 
by A. M. Cooke to Ralph Wood, an enthusiastic 
yachtsman. Calypso will take part in the Mo¬ 
bile regatta July 4. This boat has a fine record 
and has recently been overhauled and is said to 
be speedier than ever. She will contend with 
Cadillac for first honors. 
The annual opening regatta of the Southern 
Y. C. was held at West End on Lake Pontchar- 
train Saturday afternoon, May 28. The times of 
the yachts were: 
Class A, Cabin Sloop—Cadillac, 1.52.02; Che¬ 
wink III., 1.58.34. 
Class B, Open Sloop Racing Machines—Sea- 
wanhaka, 1.45.32. 
Class C, Cabin Sloops—Hiawatha, 1.30.45; 
Rogue, 1.57.38; Lois, withdrew. 
Class J, Open Model Sloops—Schemer, 1.36.46; 
Mohawk, 1.48.54. 
Class K, Knockabout Cabin Sloops—Sinner, 
1-33 40; Rascal, 1.51.01. 
Class O, Open Sloop Racing Machines—Hus¬ 
sey- 1-55-23; Flirt, withdrew. 
Class S, Catboats—Xiphias, 1.25.19; Augusta 
M., 1.48.08. 
Class W, Special Cabin Sloops—Agnes, 1.49.39; 
Susie B., withdrew. 
The course was triangular, four miles in 
length. Cadillac, Chewink and Seawanhaka 
sailed three times around and the smaller boats 
went the circuit twice. Captain Keep, the owner 
of Seawanhaka, protested to the committee and 
said his boat should not give over a five-minute 
.handicap, while the committee allowed an eight- 
minute handicap to Cadillac which won the race. 
Captain Keep declined to accept the second prize, 
a silver cup. 
Xiphias. the new catboat, surprised everyone 
by defeating all competitors. This boat belongs 
to H. Henry & Co. and is considered the fastest 
catboat in the Southern waters. 
New Class L Sloop. 
Commodore Leonard Richards and former 
Commodore Wilson Marshall of Larchmont Y. 
C. have ordered a sloop of class L to be built 
from designs by William Gardner. The yacht 
will not be ready until next season, when she 
will meet Shimna. Avenger and others that 
may be built. This will mean that the class 
will furnish good sport for two or three years 
to come. 
