April 15, 1911.] 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 
delphia, last week, and after a very full discus¬ 
sion, decided to adopt the American Power 
Boat Association rules to govern motor boat 
races. The Cape May Y. C. has scales on which 
the boats can be weighed, and when a boat is 
measured, a rating card will be sent to the as¬ 
sociation, and one to each club in the associa¬ 
tion. H. E. Dantzebacher was chosen as meas¬ 
urer. I he schedule of dates is as follows: 
Stone Harbor Y. C., Saturday, July 1; Yachts¬ 
men’s Club, Saturday, July 8; Seaside Y. C., 
Saturday, July 15; Ocean City M. B. C., Satur¬ 
day, July 22; Ventnor City Y. C., Saturday, July 
29; Ocean City, Y. C., Saturday, Aug. 5; Sea¬ 
side Yacht and Motor Club, Saturday, Aug. 12; 
Holly Beach Y. C„ Friday, Aug. 18; Wildwood 
h. C, Saturday, Aug. 19; Cape May Y. C., 
Saturday, Aug. 26; Chelsea Y. C., Saturday, 
Sept. 2. 
The meeting was attended by M. E. Brigham, 
chairman; R. S. Murphy, secretary-treasurer, 
and the following delegates: Cape May Y. C., 
Commodore R. W. Starr. Reuben B.' Clark; 
Holly Beach, W. L. Dickel; Ocean City Motor 
Boat Club, Commodore W. D. Snow, H. D. Le 
Cato; Ocean City Y. C., Samuel Wood, George 
Bissler, Jr.; Sea Isle City, Y. C., the Hon. J. J. 
Coyle; Stone Harbor Y. C., Commodore James 
Thompson, Fred Biddle; Ventnor City Y. C., 
Commodore Joseph Thompson, Frank R. Scull, 
Joseph R. Stubb; Wildwood Y. C., Minor 
Harvey; Yachtsmen’s Club, J. G. N. Whitaker, 
Richard L. Young and Walter Bibble; Chelsea 
\C., Commodore Joseph Swoyer, Ward 
Nichol, Edward Liebe. 
At a meeting of the Jamaica Bay Yacht Rac¬ 
ing Association it was decided to have all re¬ 
gattas on the New Beach Channel course, and a 
committee consisting of Vice-Commodore Thos. 
King. Old Mill \ . C., and C. H. Greene, Bergen 
Beach Y. C., to decide and lay out a course 
feasible for the waters. The adoption of the 
Beach Channel course will in no way interfere 
with any club holding its open races over the 
established course on the north side of the bay, 
the special advantages of the former course be¬ 
ing that the yachts contesting will have much 
deeper water in which to sail. It is hardly be¬ 
lieved that a triangular course can be estab¬ 
lished on Beach Channel owing to the narrow¬ 
ness of the channel and the prevalence of sand¬ 
bars, and it is most likely that a straightaway 
course will be recommended. The races to be 
held over this course will be sailed on the handi¬ 
cap system in a series of events, the prizes to 
be awarded to the yacht having the greatest 
number of points to its credit. The association 
will offer two handsome prizes, one for sail and 
the other for power boats, to be awarded at the 
end of the series. 
Owing to the large number of pleasure yachts 
that visit Rockaway Point during the yachting 
season there will be much more interest taken 
in these events than there was shown when the 
races were confined to the north side of the bay. 
President Clarence A. Martin, Canarsie Y. C., 
was re-elected for another term. The other 
officers chosen are: Vice-President, Thomas 
King, Old Mill Y. C.; Frederick Fox, of the 
same club, Treasurer; William McLaughlin, 
Canarsie Y. C., Secretary. C. H. Greene, Ber¬ 
gen Beach Y. C., was appointed measurer and 
official handicapper of the association. 
A new class of S boats is being built for 
yachtsmen who have summer homes at the east¬ 
ern end of Long Island, and these new boats are to 
be raced on the southwestern edge of Gardiner’s 
Bay. They will fly the burgee of the Gardiner’s 
Bay B. C., and J. N. Steele, Jr., is responsible 
for the class. He has induced six lovers of the 
sport to order boats, and he expects that others 
will join the class before the season opens. 
The boats have been designed by Morgan 
Barney and five are now being built at the Mil- 
ton Point Works at Rye. The contract for the 
sixth will be signed soon. These boats will fit 
the S class and it is possible that the best of the 
lot may be sent to Gravesend Bay later in the 
season to try and win a leg on the Lipton cup, 
held by the Crescent Athletic Club. They will 
rate about seventeen according to the measure¬ 
ment rules. Their general dimensions will be 
28 feet over all, 18 feet waterline, 7 feet 2 inches 
beam and 4 feet 7 inches draft. They will spread 
375 square feet of canvas in mainsail and jib. 
1 hey are keel boats and will carry 1,100 pounds 
of outside lead on their keels. Among those in¬ 
terested in the class are Mr. Steel and Pich- 
mond Levering, who owned the Heather, win¬ 
ner of the Bermuda race two years ago. 
A new club house is to be built on the Gardi¬ 
ner’s Bay shore, four and a half miles from East 
Hampton. Tennis courts, a pier and bath 
houses are to be built and be ready by June 1. 
Plans are under consideration at Harvard and 
Yale for a joint cruise of the yacht clubs of the 
two colleges. The trip will be under the 
auspices of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., of 
Oyster Bay, L. I. If the plans go through the 
trip will start from New London the day after 
the big college crew races, and they will go to 
the Seawanhaka club on Long Island. Harvard 
has four 35-footers and six 25-footers, and more 
boats will be added if the proposed trip is under¬ 
taken. 
A thoroughly renovated and improved club¬ 
house will greet the members of the Rhode 
Island Y. C. when they begin to gather there 
within the next few days. Repairs and improve¬ 
ments more elaborate than have been attempted 
during any winter for some time have been go¬ 
ing on during the past few months and they are 
now practically complete. 
When the house is open within the next 10 
days the members will find one new float, repair 
to the old ones, a new bridge, an improved 
house exterior and much painting and finish¬ 
ing on the interior. 
Already several of the members’ boats are 
anchored off the club house and others are 
arriving from shipyards daily. 
The official opening of the house will prob¬ 
ably take place about May 1 as usual. A break¬ 
fast for the board of governors will be pro¬ 
vided. 
Norna Now a Freighter. 
Twenty-seven years ago A. Cary Smith de¬ 
signed the yacht Norna, and she was built at 
the yard of C. & R. Poillon, Brooklyn, for the 
late Charles H. Contoit, according to the 
Herald. She was intended and proved to be a 
comfortable and thoroughly seaworthy schooner. 
Her waterline length was 95 feet, her beam 21 
feet 6 inches and her draft 12 feet. She was a 
keel boat. An old school captain commanded 
her, and she was affectionately known as the 
“coal schooner.” The color of her sails may 
have suggested the name. 
Mr. Contoit was a member of Trinity vestry, 
and was one of the leading citizens of his day, 
whose word was as good as his bond. 
Owner, builders, skipper made their last 
cruise years ago. The designer, rich in yacht¬ 
ing experience and, what is a matter of con¬ 
gratulation, still active, buoyant as a youth and 
progressive, is turning out phenomenal 
schooner yachts for the leading members of the 
N. Y. Y. C., in connection with his other marine 
work. 
And Norna still lives, doing duty as a 
freighter somewhere in the waters of the an¬ 
tipodes. Like many other yachts famous in 
their day her career has been varied, almost re¬ 
markable. Her second owner was a yachtsman 
who had been in the Royal Navy of England, 
and he kept her up in real navy style. During 
his ownership, the stern post was raked and the 
forefoot reduced. The third owner engaged a 
successful racing skipper, who tried the yacht, 
set her masts up about eighteen inches and had 
the new sails made. Behold, the maligned 
schooner became a fast boat, well able to cope 
with the Fortuna, at that time the best keel 
schooner of the day. famous for defeating the 
renowned Montauk for the Goelet cup of her 
class, off Newport, in 1885. The day was a bad 
one and the sea fitted the day. 
Fortuna, with her brass quarter rail in the 
water, showed her heels in such a superb way to 
the fleet Montauk that the yachtsmen of the 
N. Y. Y. C. fleet looked on with astonishment. 
I he same day Puritan defeated Priscilla, and all 
the vaunted heavy cutters found the weather too 
much for them, and after carrying away bow¬ 
sprits, gaffs, etc., deemed discretion the better 
part of valor and retired. 
The next owner of Norna went on a long 
cruise. A trail of mourners was left behind the 
yacht clear to New Zealand, where she fell into 
the clutches of the law, and the last news of her 
is that she was purchased in Sidney and that 
with the removal of her interior fittings she was 
turned into a freighter. 
Years ago, after a long and successful career, 
Fortuna was turned into a fisherman, but in her 
early days her model was sent to an exhibition 
in Glasgow, when the late George L. Watson 
told the designer that he had never seen a more 
beautiful model. 
Duxbury Y. C. Schedule. 
The regatta committee of the Duxbury Y. C. 
composed of H. W. King, G. T. Winslow, J. H. 
Hunt, Thomas Weston, Jr.j and C. M. Roger- 
son, are planning a very interesting racing sea¬ 
son for the club. This will open Saturday, July 
1, and the racing will close Saturday, Sept. 16. 
New courses for this summer’s races have 
been arranged that are better both for the 
yachtsmen and those that follow the races from 
the shore. 
Racing will be given for 18-foot knockabouts, 
t 5-foot knockabouts, a handicap class and power 
boats. Prizes will be given by the club to the 
15-footers having the highest and second highest 
percentage for the season and the midsummer 
series. Also to the 18-footers and the handicap 
both having the highest season’s and midsummer 
series percentage, and also to the boat having 
the highest percentage in the ladies’ day series. 
The schedule for the season follows: Satur¬ 
day, July 1; I uesday, July 4; Saturday. July 8; 
Wednesday, July 12, ladies’ day; Saturday, July 
1 5 Saturday, July 22; Wednesday, July 2b, 
ladies’ day; Saturday, July 29; Saturday, Aug. 5; 
1 hursday, Aug. 10. midsummer series; Friday, 
Aug 11, midsummer series; Saturday, Aug. 12’ 
midsummer series; Wednesday, Aug. 16, ladies’ 
day; Saturday, Aug. 26; Monday, Aug. 28, ladies’ 
day; Thursday, Aug. 31; Monday, Sept. 4; Satur¬ 
day, Sept. 9; Saturday, Sept. 16. 
Yacht Sales. 
The Hollis Burgess yacht agency has sold the 
auxiliary sloop Zeruah, pwned by W. Chamber- 
lain, of Portland, Me., to James A. Veech, of 
Connellsville, Pa., who will use her on the Bay 
of Fundy. 
The same agency has also sold the fast Herre- 
shoff racing sloop Virginia, owned by Hollis 
Burgess, to Charles L. Joy, of Dorchester: the 
42-foot motor boat Saracen II., owned by E. E. 
Synge, of Boston, to George H. Griggs, of Win- 
throp, Mass; the knockabout Bee, owned by 
Charles W. Barron, of Cohasset, Mass., to J. W. 
Merrill, of Manchester, Mass.; and the Sonder 
Klasse racing sloop Eel, owned by Herbert M. 
Sears, of Boston, to Commodore E. W. Clark, 
of the Philadelphia Corinthian Y. C., and has 
chartered the steam yacht Jule, owned by Benj. 
P. Cheney, of Boston, to Roger Upton, of Mar¬ 
blehead, Mass. 
Motor Boating. 
Challenge for Gold Cup. 
The Motor Boat Club of America has decided 
to challenge for the Gold cup of the American 
Power Boat Association, which is now held by 
the Frontenac Y. C., having been won last year 
by Frederick K. Burnham’s Dixie III. This 
trophy is for high speed boats 40 feet in length 
with unlimited power. The Pioneer started in 
the race last season and had to withdraw be¬ 
cause she hit a sunken log and bent her shaft. 
