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FOREST AND STREAM 
[June 25, 1910. 
Recent Publications. 
Nautical Science in its Relation to Practi¬ 
cal Navigation, Together With a Study of 
the Tides and Tidal Currents, by Charles 
Lane Poor, Ph.D. Cloth, 329 pages. New 
York and London, G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 
Charles Lane Poor is professor of astronomy 
in Columbia University and the book that he has 
prepared will be read with interest by those who 
wish to know how ships are navigated. The 
principles that form the basis of all navigational 
methods are explained in simple, untechnical 
language and without the use of complicated 
mathematical formulas. The book is one of 
great value to the practical navigator. At the 
end of each chapter is a short appendix, and in 
these appendices are to be found the mathemati¬ 
cal formulas and necessary astronomical tables. 
Chapters are devoted to “The Earth as an As¬ 
tronomical Body,” “The Motions of the Earth,” 
“The Sun,” “The Stars and Planets,” “the Mak¬ 
ing of an Almanac,” “Time and its Determina¬ 
tion,” “Finding One’s Position at Sea,” “Lati¬ 
tude,” “Longitude” and “Tides.” The book is 
fully illustrated with photographs and diagrams. 
British Yacht Register for 1910. Cloth, $7.50. 
New York and London, Lloyds Register of 
Shipping. 
This volume grows more valuable to the 
yachtsman each year. It contains as usual the 
names, particulars and character of yachts 
classed by the society as well as the names and 
details of other yachts. In a separate list it has 
classified yachts of the international rating. It 
also gives the officers of the many yacht clubs, 
the flags of these clubs in colors and an index 
of yacht signal flags. There are 7,499 yachts de¬ 
tailed of a tonnage of 374,825. 
The list of contents, key, to the register, the 
titles of the various sections of the book and 
the headings of the columns are this year printed 
in English, French and German. The register 
also contains a list of builders and designers, 
with the names and tonnages of vessels built or 
designed by them. 
The Yachtsmen’s Annual Guide and Nauti¬ 
cal Calendar. Boards, 404 pages, $1. Bos¬ 
ton, Benjamin F. Teel & Co. 
The Yachtsmen’s Annual Guide is this year 
much larger than ever. It was published for 
several years by J. K. Waters, but owing to his 
decease, has been issued by B. F. Teel & Co., 
who intend to make it much more complete 
next year. It contains the international code 
signals, distances between various points along 
the coast, harbors from Calais to Norfolk, arti¬ 
cles on the compass, information about canals, 
time tables, tide tables and charts of many of 
the important harbors on the Atlantic coast. It 
is a very valuable collection of matter to those 
yachtsmen who are fond of cruising. 
Great South Bay Events. 
The Great South Bay Y. R. A. has arranged 
three races for championships. These regattas 
will be managed by the clubs in whose waters 
they are sailed. The president of the associa¬ 
tion is, however, to appoint an arbitration board 
of three, to whom appeals may be made. These 
races are: 
July 4—South Bay Y. C. at Patchogue. 
Aug. 13—Bellport Y. C. at Bellport. 
Aug. 27—Babylon Y. C. at Babylon. 
In addition to the championship the South 
Side Y. C. will hold its annual open regatta at 
Sayville on Saturday, July 23, and in that re¬ 
gatta the yacht making the best corrected time 
over the course will win the Queen of the Bay 
cup for 1910. 
Cup for Inter-Club Class. 
A cup to be known as the Vice Commodore’s 
Cup has been offered for races between the 
Larchmont Inter Club Class. This cup is for 
yachts owned and enrolled in the Larchmont 
Club and the series will begin with the race 
of July 4. 
Bermuda Race Postponed. 
The committee of the Atlantic Y. C. an¬ 
nounced this week that the race for sailing 
yachts, scheduled to start to-day for Bermuda, 
was postponed until July 9. This was done be¬ 
cause some of those yachtsmen who wished to 
take part in the race could not get their yachts 
ready in time. 
Motor 'Boating . 
Motor Boat Fixtures. 
JUNE. 
25. Start race to Bermuda. 
25. New York A. C. Block Island race. 
25. Dorchester Y. C. 
26. New York Motor B. C., club. 
To Race to Albany. 
The entries for the second annual race from 
New York to Albany and return will close on 
June 30 with W. E. Little, chairman of the com¬ 
mittee of the New York Motor Boat Club, in 
Broadway, N. Y. This race is for motor boats 
under 40 feet with a waterline beam of not less 
than one-fifth the waterline length. The course 
is from off the club house of the New York 
Motor Boat Club to the Albany Y. C. house and 
return, 270 statute miles. The start is to be 
made at 7 p. m. on July 2 and all yachts must 
finish before 7 p. m. on July 4. An entry fee 
of $10 is charged which includes the measure¬ 
ment fee. The rules of the American Power 
Boat Association, 1909, will govern. There are 
three prizes offered, a special prize for the best 
actual time, and each yacht finishing will receive 
a souvenir shield suitably engraved. Last year 
there were fourteen starters and the race was 
won by Martha in 32I1. 45m. actual time. She 
beat Elmo II., winner of the Marblehead race 
by 15m. Already eighteen boats have been en¬ 
tered. 
Learn the Rules of the Road. 
The New York Boat Club Bulletin contains a 
copy of a resolution recently introduced at a 
meeting of the club and some terse comment 
on the rules of the road. The resolution is as 
follows: 
Resolved, That no member of the New York 
Motor Boat Club be permitted to fly the pennant 
of this club until he or the navigator in his em¬ 
ploy has passed an examination before and re¬ 
ceived a certificate from the flag officers’ com¬ 
mittee, which certificate will be issued only when 
the committee is convinced that the navigator or 
member is competent to pilot a motor boat, 
knows the rules of the road and intends to play 
the game according to the rules to the end that 
he may become an uplift and not a menace to 
navigation, and will carry our flag in such a 
manner that its very appearance is a sign of 
efficient seamanship. 
In its comment the Bulletin says: 
“Did you ever notice that tugboat captains and 
the pilots of steam vessels very seldom signify 
to you, Mr. Motor Boat Owner, what course 
they are going to take or what course they ex¬ 
pect you to follow? It is because the pilots have 
learned that comparatively few power boat men 
know the signals or the rules of the road.” 
It is well for owners of motor boats to know 
the rules of the road, and no one who is not 
familiar with these rules should attempt to take 
any boat in crowded waters. But there are 
other reasons why captains of steam yachts do 
not signal to small craft. It is easier for them 
to call attention to their own course and let the 
owner of a small craft keep out of the way. A 
captain of one of the Sandy Hook steamers re¬ 
cently talking of this matter said: “I never give 
one or two whistles to any small motor boat, but 
when approaching one usually give several short 
toots on the steamer’s whistle. This quietly 
calls the attention of the motor man to the ap¬ 
proaching vessel. I might give one or two 
whistles to indicate a course, and the motor boat 
might reply, but I would never hear the reply, 
because his whistle is too small. Then there 
are owners of motor boats who would not under¬ 
stand the whistles and they would be useless.” 
Seaside Y. C. Schedule. 
The Seaside Y. C. of Atlantic City has ar¬ 
ranged a good schedule of races for the season 
and the majority of the events are for motor 
boats. It has arranged a series of races for 
what are known as “cricket boats” for every 
Saturday afternoon and July 4, which will last 
until September 10. There are seventeen races 
in the series, which are for boats owned in the 
club, and on the point system they will race 
for the championship and other prizes. In the 
club races these boats are limited to 108 square 
feet of canvas and in open races they are al¬ 
lowed to carry 120 square feet. 
This club offered the prize for the return 
race from Havana, which was won by the 
Caliph. The rest of the schedule is: 
July 8. Yachtsmen’ Club annual ocean race 
for motor boats and auxiliaries; 14, open race 
for motor boats, from Atlantic City to Sea 
Gate; 18, inside open race for speed, family 
launches and small cruisers; August 1, annual 
regatta and open ocean races, 30 to 40 feet, 
power cruisers, 50 feet and over, for Bolte Cup; 
2, Seaside Y. C. cups and pennant races for 
open boats, 20 to 40 feet, open race for speed 
launches. 
In addition to these events there will be club 
races for motor boats July 4, August 13 and 
27, and a race to Beach Haven on September 
10. 
The officers of the club are: Commodore, 
E. A. Parker; vice-commodore, L. T. Brown; 
rear commodore, Thomas D. Bowes; secre¬ 
tary, C. C. Adams; financial secretary, George 
Ireland; treasurer, William A. Maupay; fleet 
captain, Walter Cramer; fleet surgeon. Dr. J. 
M. Barton; house committee, Colonel L. T. 
Brown, Orville T. Crane, E. Kirk Loveland, 
Charles E. Bowker, Harry Cranmer; regatta 
committee, J. Haines Lippincott, Thomas _ S. 
Crane, William A. Maupay; measurers, Orville 
T. Crane and Harry Andrews. 
Motor Boat on Pacific Coast. 
The championship race for motor boats on 
the Pacific coast will be held at Portland, Ore., 
on July 4. These races have been sanctioned 
by the American Power Boat Association and 
the association will donate a cup for the 32- 
foot class. Boats will be entered from Seattle, 
Tacoma, San Francisco and other cities, and 
there will be races for the 32 and 40-foot classes 
which are sure to fill well, and a long distance 
race of 100 miles is to be arranged. 
There are some fast motor boats on the Pacific 
coast. J. E. Wolff, of Portland, owns Wolf II., 
a 40-footer, and Pacer, another fast boat, hails 
from that city. These two won at Seattle last 
summer. R. F. Cox and W. C. Slattery, of 
Portland, have had a new speed boat named 
Pacer II. built, which is 32 feet long, 5 feet 
beam and has a 6-cylinder Leighton motor of 
120 horsepower. 
Maybell Christened with Roses. 
F. W. Thompson’s new motor boat Maybell 
was launched at Lawley yard, Boston, last week. 
Instead of breaking a bottle of wine on the 
yacht’s bows as she slipped down the ways, Mrs. 
Thompson, the wife of the owner, hung a large 
bouquet of roses on the vessel. Maybell is 76 
feet long, 15 feet beam and 3 feet 6 inches draft. 
She has a 45 horsepower motor which it is ex¬ 
pected will drive her twelve miles an hour, and 
her tanks will hold gasolene sufficient for a 
cruise of 800 miles. In the forward part of the 
vessel there are quarters for a crew of four. 
On deck there is a house which will be used as 
the dining and living room, and adjoining is a 
large galley fitted with a large cooking range, a 
refrigerator and heating arrangements for the 
entire yacht. In the engine room are two 
motors and an electric lighting plant. Aft there 
are three staterooms, one of which is a double 
room and a bathroom. 
