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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 27, 1911. 
Yachting Fixtures, 1911. 
MAY. 
27. Atlantic Y. C. opening regatta. 
27. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. special. 
27. Quincy Y. C., club. 
27. Babylon N . C, dories. 
29. Philadelphia Y. C., race week. 
30. Harlem Y. C., annual. 
30. Bridgeport Y. C., spring. . 
30. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., special. 
30. Fall River Y. C., open. 
30. South Boston Y. C., open, \. R. A. 
30. Bangor Y. C., cruise. 
30. National Y. C.. open. 
JUNE. 
3. Knickerbocker Y. C., annual. 
3. Seawanhaka Corinthian \ . C., 15-footers. 
3. Bensonhurst Y. C., spring. 
3. Edgewood Y. C., open. 
3. Mosquito Fleet Y. C., open, Y. R. A. 
3. Bermuda race, Boston to Bermuda. 
3. Boston Y. C., open. City Point. 
3. Hingham Y. C., club. 
4. American Y. C., Newburyport, cruise. 
8-11. Portland Y. C., cruise. 
10. Manhasset Bay Y. C., annual. 
10. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-iooters. 
10. Atlantic Y. C., open. 
10. East Greenwich Y. C., open. 
10. Corinthian Y. C., Marblehead, open. 
10. Quincy Y. C., ciub. 
10. Columbia Y. C., club. 
10. Royal Canadian Y. C., Lome cup. 
10. Hingham Y. C., club. 
10. Savin Hill Y. C., open. 
10. Winthrop Y. C., club. 
17. Larchmont Y. C., spring. 
17. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
17 New York C. C., 1st championship, G. B. V. K. A. 
1 i. Boston Y. C., Hull, Y. R. A. 
17. Babylon Y. C., club. 
11. Squantum Y. C., cruise. 
17. American Y. C., club, Newburyport. 
17. Beverly Y. C., club. 
17. Columbia Y. C, cruise. 
17. Columbia Y. C., Chicago-Michigan City race. 
17. Hingham Y. C., club, Hingham. 
17. Nahant D. C., club. 
17. New Bedford Y. C., cruise. 
17. Philadelphia Y. C., spring races, power. 
17. South Boston Y. C., club run. 
17. Winthrop Y. C., club. 
18. Columbia Y. C., cruise. 
IS. New Bedford Y. C., cruise. 
18. South Boston Y. C.. club run. 
18. Squantum Y. C., club. 
20. Fall River Y. C., Cotton carnival. 
22. New York Y. C., spring cups, Glen Cove. 
23. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., special. 
24. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., annual. 
24. New York A. C., Block Island race. 
24. Larchmont Y. C., inter-club class. 
24. Crescent A. C., second championship, G. B. Y.K.A. 
24. Bristol Y. C., open. 
24. Corinthian Y. C., Marblehead, ocean race. 
24. Columbia Y. C., club. 
24. Quincy Y. C., club. 
24. Royal Canadian Y. C., cruising race. 
24. Beverly Y. C., club. 
24. Columbia Y. C., club. 
24. Hingham Y. C., club, Crow Point. 
24. Manchester Y. C., one-design. 
24. Sippican Y. C., sonder, Marion. 
24. Toledo Y. C., Taft cup elimination trials. 
24. Winthrop Y. C., club. 
26. Squantum Y. C., moonlight sail. 
29. Indian Harbor Y. C.. race to New London. 
Some News and a Little Gossip. 
After months of planning and weeks of hard 
work to fit the yachts, the racing season will 
open to-day. In this section the Atlantic Y. C. 
will have an open regatta for all classes on the 
Sound, the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. will 
have special races, and in eastern waters the 
Quincy Club will have a club regatta. While 
many yachts will be taking part in these events 
many more will be tuning up sails, and those 
owners who are a little backward in getting 
their boats in shape will be hustling things in 
the yards. Decoration Day really marks the 
formal opening of the season, and on that day 
many races have been arranged for all types of 
boats. 
The schooner Elena, built for Morton F. 
Plant, sailed from Bristol last Saturday with her 
owner on board. The centerboard was shipped 
earlier in the week. The weather was not favor¬ 
able to fast sailing, the wind being light and 
later thick fog settling down. The yacht reached 
New London safely and will make that port 
her headquarters while being tuned up for the 
races. 
The new steel schooner Enchantress, built by 
Lawley for William E. Iselin, reached City 
Island last week. Her furnishings were put on 
board at once, and on Monday the work of 
bending sails began. She had her first sail on 
Wednesday and pleased every one. A. Cary 
Smith, of the firm of designers, has charge of 
the tuning up of the yacht. 
Mr. Iselin anticipates a great deal of pleasure 
in the use of Enchantress during the approach¬ 
ing season. The vessel represents the advanced 
ideas of naval architecture as applied to the 
form and construction of schooner yachts, and 
there are no reasons why she should not be very 
conspicuous, if not well at the top of the list, not¬ 
withstanding the other new schooner yachts 
that she may be compared with and opposed to 
in the races in which she takes part. A. Cary 
Smith, the designer of Enchantress, believes 
that she will be a credit to the New York Y. 
C. and to all that are interested in her. Mr. 
Smith laments that the draft of Enchantress 
and her gasolene and electric outfit will be a 
drawback to her speed. “A yacht of Enchan¬ 
tress’ length, 100 feet on the waterline,” he is 
reported to have said, “should draw two feet 
more at least (15 feet is her draft), but the com¬ 
fort of the owner, who is a veteran at the sport, 
has been the first consideration, and 15 feet 
draft will give access to harbors where 17 feet 
draft might cause anxiety of mind and restricted 
anchorage location.” 
Enchantress is fitted with a centerboard, and 
it drops 8 feet or so, which added to the 15 feet 
draft naturally gives a matter of 23 feet, or there¬ 
abouts, for holding on purposes when the yacht 
is beating to windward. 
Enchantress is 136 feet over all, 100 feet on 
the waterline, 27 feet beam and 15 feet draft. 
She is fitted with a 25-horsepower gasolene en¬ 
gine to drive a dynamo of sufficient power to 
get the anchor and hoist the sails. She was de¬ 
signed for an auxiliary, and the intention was to 
install an oil engine, but difficulties arose and 
the owner abandoned the idea for the present. 
The propeller aperture is plated up. The engine 
room is enclosed in steel and nothing has been 
spared to make it absolutely safe. 
There are steel tanks for seven tons of water 
aft the engine, so fitted that one tank may be 
operated without affecting the others. There is 
a hot water heating apparatus aft the tanks, 
with radiators to each room and to the fore¬ 
castle. 
The 31-raters, Joyant, built for Commodore 
William H. Childs, and Corinthian, owned by a 
syndicate of members of the Seawanhaka-Cor¬ 
inthian Y. C., left Bristol early in the week and 
will said their first race to-day off Oyster Bay. 
The schooner Westward is expected at Bris¬ 
tol about the middle of June. Already prepara¬ 
tions are being made for the reception of the 
yacht. The mould makers and sail makers have 
started work getting new fittings ready for the 
crack schooner. It has been stated at Bristol 
that Elena is about 40 tons heavier in construc¬ 
tion than Westward. There is about five tons 
less weight above the waterline on Elena than 
Westward. Eleana’s area is 12,600 square feet 
or about 900 square feet more than that carried 
on Westward. It is thought that with her 
centerboard Elena will be able to more than 
hold Westward when turning to windward. 
This will be the third season in which the Sir 
Thomas J. Lipton cup for 31-raters has been 
raced for in eastern waters. The first year it 
was won by John B. Fallon’s Timandra and last 
year by Charles B. and Harold S. Wheelock's 
Amoret. This trophy is held by the Corinthian 
Y. C., and will become the property of the 
yachtsman first winning it three times. This 
year the races to count for this cup are: May 
30, South Boston Y. C., City Point; June 3. 
Boston Y. C., City Point; June 17, Boston Y. 
C., Hull; July 1, Eastern Y. C.; July 4, Cor¬ 
inthian Y. C.; Aug. 7. Eastern Y. C.; Aug. 8, 
Boston Y. C., Marblehead; Aug. 9, 10, 11 and 
12, Corinthian Y. C.; Aug. 17. Gloucester Y. C.; 
Aug. 19, Annisquam Y. C.; Aug. 25, Boston Y. 
C., Hull; Aug. 26, Quincy Y. C.; Aug. 29, Bos¬ 
ton Y. C., Hull; Aug. 30, Boston Y. C., Hull. 
Getting Busy on Old Barnegat. 
These are busy times around the club houses 
of the various yacht clubs on Barnegat Bay. In 
most instances arrangement is being made to 
open up on May 30 for the summer. At Bay 
Head and at Mantoloking, where other sports 
are connecting with yachting, the tennis courts 
at the yacht clubs are being laid out for the 
summer and arrangements are being made for 
tennis contests, as well as for yacht racing. 
These two clubs, situate well up the bay, put 
in most of their racing on the sneak-box class, 
and several new ones have been built this winter 
for the contests, which take place twice a week, 
from July 4 to Labor Day. 
At Sea Side Park there are big preparations 
being made for the coming summer. The club 
house is being overhauled and a new pier built, 
and moorings will be arranged for a large in¬ 
crease in the fleet. The field sports between 
the Sea Side Park and Island Heights yacht 
clubs, which were the occasion of so much fun 
last summer, will be repeated this year. One 
Saturday afternoon at each resort will be given 
to these competitions. 
Ocean Gate is rushing the work on its new 
club house and pier, and Commodore E. T. 
Ramer is reported as saying that the contractors 
would have the house completed for the open¬ 
ing as per program on May 30. A large num¬ 
ber of the yacht club members are expected 
down for the week-end and to stay over the 
holiday for the opening. Dr. Hearne, of Phila¬ 
delphia, has his powerboat in commission. 
Joseph M. Sellinger has put his yacht in shape 
for the summer and disposed of one of his fleet 
to another member of the club. Mr. Tyrrell, 
of Washington, D. C., has his motor boat Scat 
here for the summer. 
John P. Crozer, of Upland, Pa., a leading ■ 
spirit in Beach Haven yachting and the owner 
of the finest fleet of yachts on the Jersey Coast, 
is having his various craft overhauled by Cap¬ 
tain Will Smith at Tuckerton, where they were 
laid up for the winter. Mr. Crozer’s fleet in¬ 
cludes the famous Herreshoff creations, Happy 
Princess and Merry Thought, which have won 
many cups on the coast from Toms River to 
Atlantic City. James G. Lieper, of Philadelphia, 
is also having his famed racing sloop Mar¬ 
guerite overhauled and tuned up for the sum¬ 
mer’s regattas. Lester J. Osborne, of Camden 
and Beach Haven, has sold his power yacht St. 
Albans to N. V. Lane, of Tuckerton. 
Little is doing at Harvey Cedars, High Point 
and Barnegat City as yet in the yachting line, 
the club members having made few trips to the 
shore. The new yacht club house at High Point 
has been completed and promises to be a social 
center at that resort. 
At old Barnegat the racing spirit shows itself 
in motor boat and speed boat racing. The 
Gaskill brothers have a fast speed boat known 
as the Jersey Devil, which is likely to give a 
good account of herself this year, while the 
sneak-box Mineola has never yet been beaten 
in heavy weather. Henry Kilpatrick has just 
launched a 30-footer. Howard Perrine, a noted 
builder, is putting up several of his famous 
models. 
Few of the yachtsmen have arrived at Island 
Heights as yet and the most of the racing blood 
will show itself first this year in the Delaware 
River races, one of the promoters of which is 
former Commodore John A. McAvoy, of the I. 
H. Y. C. 
