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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 13, 1911. 
July 23-30, cruise up river; Aug. 13, McNear’s 
Point; Aug. 14, race home, Rebold cup; Aug. 
20, ladies day; Sept. 3 and 4, Redwood City; 
Sept. 9, Interclub regatta; S^pt. 17, outside 
cruise; Oct. I, Point San Quentin; Oct. 15, 
Paradise Cove; Oct. 22, closing cruise. R. II. 
Glissman and S. T. Hynes, of this club, have 
just purchased the yacht Ariel and will shortly 
have this craft in commission. 
At the annual meeting of the San Francisco 
Y. C. officers were elected as follows: Com¬ 
modore. Dr. Emmett Rixford; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, L. A. Norris; Secretary, A. C. Thompson; 
Financial Secretary, G. B. Dinsmore; Directors- 
at-Large—William G. Morrow and J. M. Pun- 
nett. At this meeting the retiring Commodore, 
J. R. Hanify, was presented with a set of silver¬ 
ware designed for use on his schooner Martha. 
Instructions were given to the building commit¬ 
tee to proceed with the plans for enlarging the 
club house and this work will probably be com¬ 
pleted this year. It is proposed to add a large 
grill room and a number of living rooms. The 
Regatta Committee of the San Francisco Y. C. 
for the season will be C. E. Bead, L. A. Weid- 
muller and W. K. Smith. The motor boat com¬ 
mittee will consist of J. H. Cory, J. P. Jones 
and Lawrence T. Wagner. It is announced that 
James F. Lanagan, the well known Coast 
athlete, will sail with the San Francisco club 
this season, having purchased and fitted up the 
Amigo, formerly owned by George Lowell. 
The Corinthian Y. C. will open the season 
of 1911 on April 29 with a jinks and dance at 
the Tiburon Club house and the active season 
will commence on the following day. The fol¬ 
lowing is the season’s program: April 30, 
cruise in squadron; May 6 and 7. Vallejo; May 
20, McNear’s; May 30, annual regatta; June 3, 
Petaluma drawbridge; June 17, San Pablo 
Point; July 1, Army Point; July 2, Rio Vista; 
July 3 and 4, Vallejo and return home; July 15, 
Paradise Cove; July 23, handicap race for 
Hammersmith trophy; Aug. 5 and 6, Santa 
Cruz race; Aug. 12, river cruise; Aug. 19, Valle¬ 
jo; Sept. 2 and 3, Alviso; Sept. 9, interclub re¬ 
gatta; Sept. 16, Fulton Basin; Sept. 17, outside 
cruise; Sept. 24, motor boat races; Sept. 30 and 
Oct. 1, San Rafael; Oct. 7, Paradise Cove; Oct. 
8, Corinthian games; Oct. 21, closing day; Oct. 
22, cruise in squadron; Nov. 5, bridge opening. 
A number of San Francisco yachtsmen are 
considering the proposition of building boats 
of the Sonder class and there is a likelihood 
that before long these one type boats may be 
seen in action on the bay. The dory type will 
probably be adopted and yachting enthusiasts 
in other Coast ports will be interested in the 
project and attempts will be made to have all 
the boats in this section built from the same 
plans. Golden Gate. 
Seneca Back from Long Cruise. 
Demarest Lloyd’s auxiliary schooner Seneca 
arrived in New York last week, after an ex¬ 
tended cruise in West Indian waters. The 
schooner left New York Jan. 21 for Porto Rico. 
From Porto Rico, Seneca visited Santo Do¬ 
mingo, then Kingston and Port au Prince. On 
the return voyage Seneca went to Santiago de 
Cuba and Nassau, and thence to Charleston, S. 
C. by easy stages she worked her way up the 
Atlantic Coast and dropped anchor in New 
York Harbor. Seneca will go around the cape 
the latter part of the month, and Lloyd intends 
to enter the yacht in the coast ocean races. 
Motor Boating. 
Speed Trials over Mile Course. 
In preparing a program of events to be held 
during the National motor boat carnival at 
Huntington, L. I., Sept. 4 to 9, it has been pro¬ 
posed to hold time trials for speed boats over a 
measured mile. 
With the building of possibly nine boats in 
the 12-meter class intended as defenders of the 
famous Harmsworth trophy in the British In¬ 
ternational races to be held commencing Aug. 
24, it is a foregone conclusion that some one of 
these boats will be able to create a new Ameri¬ 
can and probably world’s record in these mile 
time trials. 
If this event is included in the program of the 
National motor boat carnival, it is believed that 
this form of competition will be welcomed by 
the speed boat fraternity. The timing and gen¬ 
eral supervision of these mile time trials would 
be most accurate and satisfactory in every par¬ 
ticular and the competition will be keenly en¬ 
joyed by racing men and spectators alike. 
During the New York Motor Boat Show, W. 
H. Fauber, the inventor of the Fauber hydro¬ 
plane, stated that he firmly believed that 1911 
would see a record of a mile a minute estab¬ 
lished for motor boats, and that one or more of 
the American defenders now building; would in 
all probability be capable of establishing such a 
record. 
Schuylkill Motor Boat Men Organize. 
A meeting of Schuylkill River motor boat en¬ 
thusiasts was held last week at the Yachtsmen’s 
Club, Philadelphia, and the Flat Rock Motor 
Boat Club was organized with the following 
officers: Commodore, George C. Krusen; Vice- 
Commodore, John H. Field; Fleet Captain, J. 
Stanley Nelson; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Eugene 
SwayneL Secretary, Walter J. Miller, No. 115 
Carson street, Manayunk; Treasurer, James T. 
Francis; Board of directors, two years, John 
Innes, Willows and Walter Fancourt, De Lyte; 
one year, Burt Sudell, Maples, Edward Miller, 
Wenonah. Commodore Krusen and Vice-Com¬ 
modore Field were chosen delegates to the Del¬ 
aware River Yacht Racing Association. 
Vice-Commodore Field in outlining the ob¬ 
jects of the new organization, said, “The new 
club should appeal to every boat owner along 
the Schuylkill River to make it a success. We 
want every one with a boat or who is in any 
way interested in the upkeep of the Schuylkill 
to join. The river is a part of our playground 
and becoming more popular every year. There¬ 
fore it is necessary to have a club in order to 
regulate the movements of boats, especially after 
dark, to keep within some bounds the number of 
swimmers who use the river and to lessen those 
evils common to a large body of water.” This 
club was organized by the representatives of 
twelve boat clubs on the river, and will be a 
division of the Delaware River Racing Associ¬ 
ation and allied with the American Power Boat 
Association. 
Yacht Work at Stamford. 
Several boats are nearing completion at the 
Stamford Motor Company’s shops at Stamford, 
and others which have been stored there for tlie 
winter are fitting out. A 45-foot, raised-deck 
cruiser for Loren P. Bradley, of the New 
Rochelle Y. C., is nearing completion. This 
boat is from designs by Whitlesey & Whitlesey 
and is to be named Mollie. It is fitted with a 
four-cylinder, four-cycle motor and is expected 
to make 11 miles an hour. 
A bridge-deck motor boat 65 feet over all has 
been built for Commodore W. F. Blaisdell, of 
the Port Washington Y. C., which is to be 
named Flor del Mar. She has a six-cylindei 
motor. 
A mahogany tender is being finished by the 
company for the sloop Nalolo, owned by N. L. 
Mead, Jr., of the Harlem Y. C. 
The sloop yacht Curlew, owned by F. Galla¬ 
tin, of Noroton, Conn., is receiving a general 
overhauling and will soon be placed in commis¬ 
sion, as is the sloop Dart, owned by R. H. 
Gillespie, of Stamford. The motor yacht 
Hakucho, E. H. Du Vivier, of New York, is 
also in hand and will be ready for service the 
middle of May. 
The motor yacht Dorisella, owned by Otto 
H. Franc, of New York, is receiving a general 
overhauling and will be placed in commission 
early. She will be used on the Hudson Rivei. 
The motor yacht Uncas, Rear-Commodore 
G. C. Blickensderfer, of the Stamford Y. C., has 
been placed in the best of condition by the com¬ 
pany and will be delivered to her owner in a 
few days. The Commodore will do considerable 
Sound and coast cruising this season. 
Work is well advanced on the motor yacht 
Melloise, owned by George E. Conley, of the 
Hudson River Y. C., which will be in commis¬ 
sion by Memorial Day. 
The sloop yacht Weona, owned by Louis 
Scofield, of New York, is receiving a general 
overhauling and will be given a new suit of sails, 
in addition to the installation of a new engine. 
Mr. Scofield intends to cruise most of the sum¬ 
mer. 
Two mahogany tenders are being built for A. 
W. Young, of New York. Stamford motors 
will be fitted. 
The schooner Adrienne, S. E. Elliott, is be¬ 
ing refitted for the season and is being given 
one of the company’s new type heavy duty 
four-cylinder two-cycle motors and also new 
sails. The owner will cruise on the Sound. 
The Bermuda Race. 
The annual race for motor boats to Bermuda 
this year will be the most successful in the 
history of the race. The change in the con¬ 
ditions allowing boats much larger than those 
of former years to compete has had the desired 
effect, and some new boats, as well as some of last 
year’s craft will be starters. The Motor Boat Club 
of America is confident that there will be at least 
six yachts in the race and probably more. 
Those that seem to be sure starters are the new 
Sybilla II., built at the Mathis Yacht Building 
Yard at Camden for J. F. Betz, of Philadelphia; 
a new boat building for A. W. Teele, of New 
York, from designs by Whittlesey & Whittlesey; 
Caliph, owned by Commodore M. E. Brigham, 
of the Ventnor Y. C., and Eronel II., owned by 
Vice Commodore Samuel Cochrane, of the 
Bensonhurst Y. C., winner of last year’s race. 
Sybilla is 82 feet long and has Craig motors. 
The Teele boat is 75 feet long, and the Caliph 
won the race from Havana to Atlantic City 
last year. 
Commodore Melville, of the Motor Boat Club, 
has asked the Government to allow two torpedo 
boats to convoy the racers from Gravesend Bay 
to Hamilton. He says the Navy has sent ves¬ 
sels for aeroplane flights and for other yacht 
races, and there is no reason why such an escort 
should not be given the racing motor boats. 
These boats are demonstrating the reliability 
of the gas engine and doing other things of 
great benefit to the marine world. With an 
escort it is likely that many more owners will 
take part in the contest. 
Two Boats for Island Heights Y. C. 
Two 36-foot cruisers have been, built at the 
Mathis Yacht Building Yard, at Camden, for 
Edgar J. Mickley and Archer C. Riege, mem¬ 
bers of the Island Heights Y. C. One has been 
tried and made 11 miles an hour. 
The boats are 36 feet over all, by 8 feet 3 
inches beam and 2 feet 6 inches draft. The 
main cabin is slightly raised above the forward 
deck line, which gives plenty of head room in 
cabin and allows for large practical windows. 
The most unique and practical thing about these 
boats is the screen doors of the companionway. 
Every one who has had much experience with 
the mosquitoes and flies on some of the Jersey 
bays will appreciate what a great improvement 
these doors are over the old type. They have 
to be seen to be appreciated. They cannot be 
left partially open, and have strong springs on 
them, and the sliding-top screen to keep them 
in place. When the screen doors swing open 
they push back the top screen at the same time, 
when the top screen locks the doors open. Upon 
pushing the top screen back the doors are re¬ 
leased and close, closing the top screen at the 
same time. The windows will be equipped the 
same way. 
The engines are amidships, with clutch, car¬ 
burettor and ignition control to cockpit aft, be¬ 
side steering wheel. One boat has a 12-horse¬ 
power Hall engine in it, the other an 18- to 25- 
