Jan. 14, 1911.] 
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dangered there is an anchorage to the west and 
in that part of New York Bay which is ad¬ 
jacent to Bayonne, where several hundred 
yachts and pleasure boats are annually moored, 
and forms the outlet for all those who enjoy 
outings on the water, and who reside in Bay¬ 
onne, Jersey City, Hoboken and points far to 
the northward and also the westward as far as 
the Oranges. Many even who live in the 
greater city of New York have found this the 
most accessible as well as the safest place to 
leave their boats. 
A number of boats had hit this obstruction 
and been damaged to a greater or less extent, 
so that some time ago the Pavonia Y. C. of 
Bayonne, which uses a portion of this westward 
part of the bay, came to the conclusion that the 
Government ought to erect and maintain a 
beacon or mark of some nature over the rocks, 
and accordingly brought this matter to the at¬ 
tention of their Congressman, the Hon. E. P. 
Kinkead. He went before the lighthouse board 
and has succeeded in having the board establish 
the Pavonia Crib Beacon as a permanent mark. 
Three prominent yacht clubs held annual 
meetings last Wednesday and officers and com¬ 
mittees were elected at each. The Seawanhaka- 
Corinthian Y. C. Members dined at the New 
York Club and later attended to business with 
the result that these officers were elected: 
Commodore, Frank S. Hastings, ketch Peggy; 
Vice-Commodore, Edward F. Whitney, steamer 
Arrow; Rear-Commodore, Daniel Bacon, sloop 
Avenger; Secretary, Everett Dominick; Treas- 
urer, Colgate Hoyt, Jr.; Measurer, C. Sherman 
Hoyt; Trustees (class of i9i4)_J a mes A Blair, 
Jr., Alfred Ely, Beverly R. Robinson. Franklin 
•A-* Plummer was chairman of the nominating 
committee. 
The meeting of the Bensonhurst Y. C. was 
held in the Clarendon Hotel, Brooklyn and the 
following officers and committees were elected: 
Commodore, G. R. Le Sauvage, sloop Joy; 
Vice-Commodore, Samuel Cochrane, motor boat 
Eronel; Rear-Commodore, Dr. C. L. Atkinson 
sloop Althea; Secretary, W. W. W. Roberts; 
Treasurer, F. L. Billingham; Measurer, Alfred 
Mackay. Regatta Committee—H. L. Leggatt, 
Chairman; J. Wunder, H. T. Lane, J. F. Dout- 
pey.J- T w ; Cherrie. Nominating Committee— 
W. L- Inslee, Chairman; C. H. Clayton, M. B 
Hoffman, C. H. MacKrell, H. D. Scribner. 
Auditing Committee—A. H. Hawkins, W. R. 
Sainsbury, J. F. Doutney. Executive Board— 
C H. Clayton, R. W. Rummell, J. L. Mitchell 
H. A. Robbins, A. H. Hawkins, M. B Hoff- 
man, R. B. Moore, G. B. Waters, F. R Smyth 
John Brown. Board of Directors—A. V. Finn, 
W. A. Collins, E. Zimmerman. Delegates y! 
R. A. G. B.—H L. Leggatt, W. L. Inslee! 
Delegates A. P. B. A.—Walter M. Bieling F 
R. Smyth. s ’ ' 
./he meeting of the Corinthian Y. C of 
Marblehead was held in Boston, and the officers 
elected were: Commodore, Charles B Whee- 
lock; Vice-Commodore, William P Wharton- 
Rear-Commodore, John B. Fallon; Secretary! 
Herbert S. Goodwin; Treasurer, Fred W 
Moore; Executive Committee—Arthur K. Simp¬ 
son and Frederick P. Bowden; Membership 
Committee—Percival Pope, Merrill Hunt, 
Samuel W. Lewis and Harold Peters; Regatta 
Committee—William L. Carleton, Lawrence F. 
Percival, George Upton, George H. Mayo and 
Leonard M. Fowle; House Committee—Pierce 
L. Fish. 
Commodore Wheelock owns the 31-rater 
Amoret, and is an enthusiastic racing man. 
. T1 je Manhasset Bay Y. C., at its annual meet- 
nig last Tuesday, elected the following officers’ 
Commodore, John F. O’Rourke; Vice-Commo- 
dore Clarkson Cowl; Rear-Commodore, E. A. 
t ’ Secretary, B. G. Loomis; Treasurer, E 
J. West; Measurer, William Gardner; Trustees 
(class 1912)—A. H. Alker and Robert B. Sizer. 
The newly elected officers of the Philadelphia 
Y. C. are: Commodore, S. B. S. Barth; Vice- 
Commodore, J. H. Johnson; Rear-Commodore, 
George S. Schilling; Recording Secretary, S. 
W. Bookhammer; Financial Secretary, C. Car- 
roll Cook; Field Surgeon, Dr. F. J. Haerer; 
Harbor Master, Barnard Bloch; Measurer, 
Alexander G. Rea; Trustees, J. H. Bromley, W. 
A. Christy, A. English, G. W. Fite, J. H. 
Simon, W. N. Stevenson, R. J. Williams'. 
The Chesapeake Bay Y. C. has purchased 
a three-story brick building at Easton, which 
was formerly the residence of the late Gen. 
Richard Thomas. It contains fifteen bedrooms 
and other apartments, and is well suited for 
club purposes. It has been thoroughly over¬ 
hauled, and when opened, will make one of the 
best club houses on Chesapeake Bay. 
The Boston Y. C. has challenged the Quincy 
Y. C. for a race for the Quincy cup, which was 
won last year by the Sonder boat Harpoon, 
owned and sailed by Charles Francis Adams 2d. 
The challenger named is the Ellen II., a new 
Sonder boat now building for Charles P. Curtis 
Besides the Boston Y. C. it is expected that the 
Eastern Corinthian of Marblehead, Manchester 
Hingham, Beverly and Sippican Y. C. will have 
starters in this series of races. Several new 
Sonders are being built and this series will 
bring together the best of the fleet. The races 
will be sailed in Hingham Bay, starting off 
Hough’s Neck. 
New Yachls for Cruising or Racing, 
Bowes & Mower, the Philadelphia naval 
architects, are very busy with new work for the 
coming season, and have on hand orders for 
many different types of racing and cruising 
boats. 
The largest vessel for which an order has 
been received is a three-masted schooner of 275 
gross tons for Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, for 
service in connection with the Labrador Mis¬ 
sion. This vessel will be about po feet long, 
28 feet beam and 12 feet mean draff. She will 
be a working vessel designed to carry freight, 
but is designed to be much faster than a regular 
working schooner and will have somewhat the 
appearance of a yacht with a handsome clipper 
bow and an overhang stern. She will be 
equipped with auxiliary power sufficient to give 
a speed of six knots. She will be built of wood 
and in accordance with the requirements of the 
American Bureau of Shipping. 
. Plans ate being prepared for a 125-foot cruis¬ 
ing power yacht for a member of the New York 
Y. C. She will be built of steel and will have 
unusually fine accommodations and will be 
equipped with every modern and up-to-date de¬ 
tail for comfort of her owner. 
Orders have been received from Philadelphia 
yachtsmen for a 65-footer, a 50-footer, two 45- 
footers and a 40-footer of the famous Ilys type 
designed by Mr. Bowes, which combines com¬ 
fort with speed and seaworthiness necessary for 
long distance ocean racing. 
A shoal draft auxiliary schooner, 78 feet over 
all, 60 feet waterline has been ordered by a 
San Francisco yachtsman, and the contract will 
be placed with the Salisbury Marine Construc¬ 
tion Co. She will be a sea-going type similar 
to the Atlantic City fishermen with a pole- 
masted rig and will have a 40-horsepower 
Murray & Tregurtha engine for auxiliary 
power. 
For the racing classes a Class Q boat has 
been designed and is now building by Sheppard 
at Essington, Pa. 
A new Sonder boat has been designed for 
Herbert M. Sears, of Boston, and the contract 
ff>r building has been placed with the Fenton 
Company, of Manchester, Mass. In design she 
is an improved Cima, a boat of Mr. Mower’s 
design, which was one of the boats chosen to 
sail on the American team against the Spanish 
boats at Marblehead last season and also 
selected as one of the three boats to go to Kiel 
next June to race against the Germans. 
A new 18-footer has been designed for 
Harvey J. Flint, of Providence, and is now 
building by the Narragansett Yacht Yard. 
. ^ boat to compete for the Taft cup at Toledo 
is being designed, and she will be an improved 
Possum, the winning boat of 1909. 
For Lake Ontario a Class R sloop has been 
ordered by a syndicate of the Crescent Y C 
of Watertown, N. Y. 
. A 35;foot day service launch has been de¬ 
signed for E. E. Sargent, of Newark, N. J., for 
use on Lake Hopatcong, and orders have been 
received for five 28-foot runabout launches 
similar to the Thousand Islands one design 
class built last year from Mower designs. 
n auxiliary sloop of 22 feet waterline has 
been designed for a Vancouver yachtsman and 
a 25-toot waterline auxiliary yawl for a ’New 
York owner. A large auxiliary party boat with 
knockabout rig has been designed for Herbert 
Smith, of Ocean City, N. J., and a 30-foot raised 
deck auxiliary cruising knockabout has been 
ordered by C. T. Schaefer, of Germantown. 
Yachting on the Chesapeake. 
Rear-Commodore Graham Eckel, of the 
Corinthian Y. C. of Baltimore, has written very 
interestingly of the sport on Chesapeake Bay 
He tells what was done last year and what the 
yachtsmen of those waters are aiming to do 
^’ S i/ e H r ' T here I s lo ? s of yachting on Chesa¬ 
peake Bay, lots of racing in many classes, and 
it is an ideal cruising ground. Some yachtsmen 
who are wishing for other fields might do well 
to pay a visit to Chesapeake Bay during the 
season, which opens early and closes late. 
Commodore Eckel says: 
“The yachting season of 1910 on Chesapeake 
Bay was a remarkably good one in several ways 
I he weather during the months of July, August 
and September was ideal for the sport—fair 
weather, plenty of wind, few squalls. This was 
very encouraging to the owners of craft of all 
descriptions. Then the formation of the ‘Yacht 
Racmg Association of Chesapeake Bay’ gave 
this delightful sport an impetus which it greatly 
nee uf d 'i u h ? °-D g f^’ zat ' on of two n ew motor 
yacht clubs in Baltimore also had its effect in 
increasing the number of enthusiasts afloat 
1 he rapidly increasing number of power craft 
on the Patapsco and other tributaries of the 
upper Chesapeake i's a very good indication of 
tie increased interest that is being manifested 
m yachting and especially of the desire to know 
more of the beauties of the waters of the 
Chesapeake and its tributaries. 
“The people of this city are not alive to the 
fact that in the Chesapeake Bay, its rivers 
creeks and inlets, they have the finest body of 
water for yachting, especially in small craft, that 
It t0 u j '° un ,d ’ n this country. Beginning at 
the head of the bay with the beautiful Susque¬ 
hanna, with its high banks and rolling hills 
d< T n T7n° T* stern Sh ore, we find the Northeast 
and Elk rivers, with Bohemia Creek, where is 
located the _ well-known Bohemia Manor; the 
Sassafras, with Worton and Fairlee creeks! and 
the noble Chester River and Corsica Creek. 
1 hurther south we find Eastern Bay, with 
lovely Miles and Wye rivers. On the western 
shore are the Bush, Gunpowder, Middle and 
Back rivers and the P.atapsco. well named as 
the river of White Caps. The picturesque 
Magothy is the next river that entices the lover 
of nature, with its islands—Gibsons, Dutch Shin 
and Round Island. The Severn, with the State 
capital Annapolis, at its mouth, is better known 
probably than any of the others, and many 
Baltimoreans are establishing summer homes 
on its beautiful banks; a great many are also 
locating on the Magothy. 
“All of these sheets of water are within 50 
miles of Baltimore and accessible to cabin 
motor boats, and many of them to boats of al¬ 
most any size. Each has a beauty all its own 
and the writer has not the ability to fitly de- 
scribe them. To those who do not wish to 
travel so far, the creeks tributary to the Patap¬ 
sco offer scenic inducements that are worth 
while. Curtis Creek, with its lovely coves, and 
Furnace Branch, with the ruins of the old 
non furnace where thev made cannon during 
the Revolutionary War; Stony Creek with its 
rolling hills; Rock Creek, Bodkin Creek and 
