May 20, 1911.] 
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lantic Y. C. will open the yachting year on 
Grayesend Bay. The first race of the season 
will be an open regatta for all classes of 
schooners, sloops and yawls to be sailed on 
baturday, May 27. The season will end with an 
open regatta for Class M and below on Satur¬ 
day, Sept. 16. John E. DeMund, M.D., is the 
chairman of the regatta committee, and his as¬ 
sociates are Walter H. Sykes, Jr., and Carlos 
de Zafra. It is their intention to make the 
annual race week of the organization the most 
important in the history of the club. It has 
been customary to hold this fixture over Labor 
Day, but during the past few years the weather 
during the first of September has been miser¬ 
able for yachting, so the club has decided to 
hold the week earlier this than in former sea¬ 
sons. The racing will start on Tuesday, Aug. 
22, and will continue until Thursday, Aug. 24. 
This will give all visiting tars plenty of time to 
reach Sea Gate and return home without 
missing any of their regular club fixtures. 
Indications point to more boats than hereto¬ 
fore starting in the race week this year. 
Horace E. Boucher, for the past few years 
chairman of the regatta committee of the At¬ 
lantic Y. C., is now holding a similar position 
at the Larchmont Y. C. It is the intention to 
awaken interest among Long Island Sound 
sailors, in the Gravesend Bay fixture and secure 
as many entries for the Atlantic race week as 
possible. In return. Dr. De Mund and his as¬ 
sociates have guaranteed an unusually large 
number of lower bay boats for the big race 
week of the Larchmont club. In this manner 
the two most important sections of New York 
yachting will be brought together far better 
than in former years. 
The most important feature of the Atlantic 
fixture will be the race for the Thompson trophy 
for Class Q boats. This trophy has been up 
for competition for several years and has done 
much to help the sport of yachting. As in 
former years, the Crescent Athletic Club will 
hold its Lipton cup series during the race week 
of the Sea Gate tars. The trophy is for Class S 
yachts. Already several new boats have been 
built for this division. The racing schedule for 
the summer follows: Saturday, May 27, open¬ 
ing regatta for all classes; Saturday, June 10, 
opening regatta for Class M and below; Satur¬ 
day, July 1, open regatta for Class M and be¬ 
low; Saturday, July 29, open regatta for Class 
M and below; Saturday, Aug. 19, open regatta 
for Class M and below; Tuesday, Aug. 22, race 
week for all classes; Wednesday, Aug. 2 3’ race 
week for all classes; Thursday, Aug. 24,’ race 
week for all classes; Monday, Sept. 4, annual 
regatta for all classes; Saturday, Sept. 16, open 
regatta for Class M and below. 
According to the announcement made by the 
regatta committee of the Larchmont Y. C., the 
annual race week of the organization, the most 
important yachting fixture in Metropolitan 
waters, will start on Saturday, July 15, and con¬ 
tinue over Saturday, July 22, giving the tars six 
days of racing. Series races for yachts of all 
the recognized classes will occupy the attention 
of the Corinthians on every day of the week 
with the exception of Tuesday, July 18. That 
day has been set aside for water sports and row¬ 
ing. Unlike former years, the regatta commit¬ 
tee has made no arrangements for motor boat 
contests. 
. During the winter, the Larchmont Y. C. 
joined the Yacht Racing Association of Long 
Island Sound. The move was made in accord¬ 
ance with plans drawn up by Leonard Richards, 
Commodore of the organization, and Horace E. 
Boucher, A. R. Schmidt and Butler Whiting, its 
regatta committee. The present officers believe 
in open races, and as a result a most attractive 
schedule has been arranged for the summer. 
The season will open with the annual spring re¬ 
gatta on Saturday, June 17. The race is open 
to all classes of schooners, sloops and yawls. 
The next open race is the 32d annual regatta 
of the organization, which will be sailed on 
July 4. During the race, there will be sailed a 
contest for the famous Colt cup. The trophy is 
open for competition among yachts of Class B. 
Race week is the next feature that will occupy 
the attention of the Larchmont tars and then 
things will be quiet at the big Sound club until 
i-abor Day, when there will be sailed the annual 
tall regatta of the organization. It also is an 
open race. 
Although the regatta committee has arranged 
an interesting program of open fixtures the 
members of the organization, who own boats of 
the Larchmont inter-club class, have not been 
forgotten, and three races are scheduled that 
should furnish the best of sport. The first con¬ 
test will be sailed on Saturday, June 24, the next 
is scheduled to be decided on Saturday, Sept. 
2, and the last of the series will take place ori 
Saturday, Sept. 16. In addition to the races 
scheduled, there is. a strong possibility of the 
big schooners sailing a special regatta under 
the auspices of the Larchmont Y. C. late in 
the season. 
Race week, of course, is the most important 
feature of the program. This fixture without 
doubt is the most important yachting series held 
11? th , e country. Unfortunately, this year, the hig 
single-stickers of Class K are not going into 
commission, so the largest sloops expected at 
Larchmont are the yachts of Class L. The 
schooner class, however, is unusually fine this 
year and these boats will more than make up 
• ? , ss of Winsome, Aurora and Istalena. 
While the larger classes will be missing, indi¬ 
cations, point to the smaller divisions filling in 
a surprising manner. The regatta committee al¬ 
ready is in communication with many clubs that 
have one-designed classes that heretofore have 
n ot raced at Larchmont, and answers indicate 
that the record for starters will be broken this 
year. Gravesend Bay will send practically its 
entire racing fleet to Larchmont, and in addi¬ 
tion, the Red Bank Y. C. will be represented by 
its one-design class of 30-footers. 
The schedule for the year is as follows: 
Saturday June 17, spring regatta open to all 
classes; Saturday, June 24, race for Larchmont 
inter-club class; Tuesday, July 4, 32d annual re¬ 
gatta; Saturday, July 15, race week, open re¬ 
gatta for all classes; Monday, July 17, race week, 
series races; Tuesday, July 18, race week, water 
sports; Wednesday, July 19, race week, open re¬ 
gatta for all classes; Thursday, July 20, race 
week, series races; Friday, July 21, race week, 
series races; Saturday, July 22, race week, open 
regatta; Saturday, Sept. 2, race for Larchmont 
inter-club class; Monday, Sept. 4, annual fall re¬ 
gatta; Saturday, Sept. 16, race for Larchmont 
inter-club clas. 
Put-In-Bay Programme. 
The secretary of the Interlake Yachting Asso¬ 
ciation has issued a tentative program for the 
eighteenth annual regatta to be held at Put-in- 
Bay the week of July 16. On that day the 
yachts of the twenty affiliated clubs are due to 
assemble at the historic anchorage, although not 
all of them are expected until Monday noon. 
On Monday afternoon there will be a program 
of other sports and a band concert. The annual 
smoker and vaudeville takes place Monday eve¬ 
ning at the Hotel Commodore. 
The racing starts Tuesday morning at 8:30, 
when the first class of sail yachts, probably the 
21-foot class, will be sent away, followed at five 
minute intervals by Class R, the veteran cruis¬ 
ers, 18-footers, 16-footers, veteran cruisers, 14- 
footers and catboats. The course is a nine- 
mile triangle for all but the 14-footers and cat- 
boats, these two classes sailing over a short 
course of four and one-half miles. In the after¬ 
noon at 2 o’clock the big speed boat races take 
place. These consist of scratch races for 26, 
32 and 40-footers, and will be one of the racing 
features of the week. 
Wednesday is entertainment day, although the 
sail yachts will have their usual races in the 
morning. The afternoon is devoted to the 
squadron sail, and inspection of the fleet by 
Commodore Winton and staff. In the evening 
the boats will be illuminated and there will be 
a reception aboard the new flagship, LaBelle, to¬ 
gether with a band concert and general enter¬ 
tainment aboard all the assembled yachts. 
On Thursday the other sports committee will 
hold forth in the morning with swimming, canoe 
and dinghy races and other aquatic diversions 
Jn the afternoon the power boats will race. 
I he big feature of this day will be the scratch 
events tor the cruiser classes. The annual ball 
wilt be held in the evening at the Colonial 
pavilion. 
1 he last day of the regatta is given over to 
sail yacht races in the morning, the power boat 
races in the afternoon, and distribution of prizes 
and entertainment, which closes the regatta Fri¬ 
day evening. The annual program which is 
being prepared by the committee, of which 
Charles W. Mears, of Cleevland, is chairman 
is to be issued this year a month before the 
regatta opens, and will contain, besides the pro¬ 
gram, racing rules and other information inci¬ 
dent to. the regatta,. a complete history of the 
association since its inception in 1894. 
Yachting on the Pacific. 
Berkeley, Cal., May 10 .—Editor Forest and 
.Stream: The yachting season opened on San 
brancisco Bay on April 31, and most of the 
clubs, held cruises. The Corinthian fleet left its 
moorings at Tiburon early in the day and sailed 
to Sausalito where it maneuvered in front of 
the club house of the San Francisco Y. C and 
exchanged salutes with that club. Following this 
the fleet sailed for Fort Point and later cruised 
along the San Francisco water front, attracting 
a great deal of attention. The return to Tiburon 
was made through Racoon Straits. The follow¬ 
ings were the yachts that made the opening cruise 
of the season: Meteor, Commodore W. J. Hogg; 
Mischief, Vice-Commodore Ed. Convey; Yankee’ 
C. E. Miller; Olga, J. E. Praig; Gypsie, C. D. 
Gresham; Magic, G. Kane; Presto, W. F. Stone- 
Vega, Carl Tornberg; Discovery, J. E. McFar- 
ane; Mignon, G. V. Biber; Starlight, M, J. Bal¬ 
lard ; zEolus, H. P. Dimond; Fulton G., Louis 
R. Holm; Alert, T. M. Kendall; Harpoon, H. E. 
Picker; Helen, Fred. Muhlner; Freda, T. F. 
Tracy, and Kathleen, F. C. Raymond. 
The San Francisco Y. C. fleet remained at 
the Sausalito anchorage until after the Corin¬ 
thian yachts passed in review, and salutes had 
been exchanged and then sailed to Presidio buoy 
and along the water front. Alcatraz and Angel 
Islands were encircled and the fleet then passed 
the Corinthian headquarters. The yachts of this 
club under sail were: Annie, Commodore 
Emmett Rixford ; Seafarer, Vice-Commodore L. 
A. Norris; White Heather, C. P. Carruthers; 
Neva, J. F. Campbell; Surprise, G. W. Thomas; 
Amigo, J. F. Lanagan; Aggie, J. V. Coleman; 
Fleur de Lis, C. McCarthy; Caprice, A. M 
Brown; Monsoon, F. G. Phillips; Mary, E. A. 
Clav; Challenger, W. G. Morrow, and Martha, 
J. R. Hanify. 
The class flag regatta of the California Y. C., 
which was to have been held May 7, has been 
postponed until May 21, as -a number of boats 
are not yet in commission. Golden Gate. 
A Roomy Small Houseboat. 
A NEAT little house boat has been designed by 
W. Edgar John, of the Standard Marine Con¬ 
struction Company, of Philadelphia. The di¬ 
mensions of this boat are: Length, 34 feet; 
length of house, 26 feet; breadth of hull, 14 feet; 
breadth of outside of runners, 18 feet; depth of 
hull, 3 feet. 
The plans show the large accommodation 
which may be obtained on a boat of this type, 
and as a quiet way to spend a summer for those 
who have not the time to maintain a yacht a 
house boat would be hard to beat. The boat 
will comfortably sleep five persons. The top 
of the craft which is covered by a substantial 
awning, forms a very spacious place for 
lounging. 
The boat is heavily built, with 3-inch yellow 
pine sides and two-inch bottom. The deck and 
side runners are of i^-inch yellow pine, with 
2 by 4 inch spruce floor beams, plate and studs. 
The bottom is fastened to 4 by 6 inch fore-and- 
aft stringers, with 5-inch galvanized spikes, 
while the sides are fastened to the upright studs 
with Jfj-inch galvanized rivets 8 inches long. 
