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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 3, 191L 
Yachting Fixtures. 
JUNE. 
3. Knickerbocker Y. C„ annual. 
3. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. 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-footers. 
10. Atlantic Y. C., open. 
10. East Greenwich Y. C., open. 
10. Corinthian Y. C., Marblehead, open. 
10. Quincy Y. C., club. 
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. Y. R. A. 
17. 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. 
18. 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.R.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. 
The yachtsmen had several busy days begin¬ 
ning last Saturday and ending with Decoration 
Day. There were club openings and races and 
other festivities, and at each club house the 
fleet of yachts was a large one. The boats are 
mostly small ones, however, which shows that 
the tendency of the American yachtsman is to¬ 
ward the small craft, sometimes only large 
enough for afternoon sailing or racing and 
sometimes suitable for cruising with a small 
party on board. The larger boats will come 
later in the season. 
At Oyster Bay last Saturday the Seawanhaka- 
Corinthian Y. C. formally opened the club 
house. Commodore Hastings, on the steam 
yacht Oneida, gave the signal to masthead the 
burgee and then the yachts in the fleet dressed 
ship. In the afternoon there were races for 
31-raters, 30- and 15-footers. On Sunday divine 
service was held on board the Oneida. On 
Monday those members who have formed a 
syndicate to defray the cost of building the Cor¬ 
inthian, the challenger for the Manhasset Bay 
cup, were entertained at dinner. On Decoration 
Day there were more races for the same classes 
as on the opening day. The club has issued a 
pamphlet telling the members just what is to 
happen during the season. Each Saturday eve¬ 
ning there will be dancing in the club house. 
On July 1 the Harvard-Yale clubs cruising race 
will be started from New London and members 
of those clubs and members of the Harvard 
and Yale clubs of this city will have the priv¬ 
ileges of the Oyster Bay house extended to 
them. The racers are expected to reach the har¬ 
bor on Sunday, July 2, when the members will 
give them a hearty welcome. The next day will 
be Harvard-Yale day. There will be music and 
tennis during the afternoon, and a dance and 
harbor illuminations in the evening. 
The Atlantic Y„ C. was opened formally 
on Decoration Day. Commodore William H. 
Barnard ordered the fleet to gather at the club 
anchorage at 11 o’clock. At noon, on a signal 
from the flagship Sagamore, the burgee was 
mastheaded and the yachts dressed ship. Three 
minutes later the yachts saluted each with one 
gun. Official calls were made and later there 
was a reception on the flagship. Commodore 
Barnard has appointed Ernest E. Malcolm Fleet 
Captain; Charles E. Gilbert, M.D., Fleet Sur¬ 
geon; Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, D.D., Chaplain; 
Dr. John E. De Mund, Chairman; Walter H. 
Sykes, Jr., and Carlos de Zafra, Regatta Com¬ 
mittee. 
The Indian Harbor Y. C. was placed in com¬ 
mission last Saturday. In the afternoon Com¬ 
modore William H. Childs held a reception in 
the club house. The Manhasset Bay Y. C. went 
in commission on Saturday, and the members 
celebrated the day with a dinner and later music 
and an entertainment. The Huguenot, Marine 
and Field, Crescent A. C., Stamford, New 
Haven, New York Motor Boat, Belle Harbor, 
Corinthian of Marblehead, Edgewood, Rhode 
Island and many other clubs formally opened 
on Decoration Day. 
The series of races for the Manhasset Bay 
challenge cup this summer will be the most in¬ 
teresting in the history of that trophy. The 
Larchmont Y. C. has named Windward, owned 
by R. A. Monks, as its representative, so that 
now eight yachts have been entered, and of 
these, four are from local clubs and four from 
eastern clubs. The cup will be defended by 
Cara Mia, owned by Stuyvesant Wainwright, of 
the American Y. C. This yacht won the cup 
last year, defeating Windward, then the de¬ 
fender and Timandra. Windward has won the 
trophy in 1909 for the Indian Harbor Y. C., so 
that this series will be the third meeting of 
these two boats in races for this cup. The In¬ 
dian Harbor Y. C. will be represented by 
Joyant, a Herreshoff boat built for Commodore 
William H. Childs, and the Seawanhaka-Cor- 
inthian Y. C. will be represented by the new 
Flerreshoff boat Corinthian. The four boats 
to come around the Cape are all built from de¬ 
signs by George Owen. Of these, Italia, owned 
by George Lee, of the Boston Y. C., and Sayo- 
nara, owned by Vernon F. West, of the Port-' 
land Y. C., have been built this year. The 
others are last season’s boats, and are Timandra. 
owned by J. B. Fallon, Eastern Y. C., and 
Amoret, owned by C. B. Wheelock, Corinthian 
Y. C. It is very probable that in order to 
make the trip around the Cape more interest¬ 
ing, a race will be arranged starting from 
Marblehead and finishing somewhere in the 
Sound. 
Morton F. Plant’s new racing schooner 
Elena, the most important craft launched this 
spring, will be given her first real brush in the 
opening regatta of the Larchmont Y. C., to be 
sailed on Long Island Sound, Saturday, June 
17. The announcement has just been made by 
Horace E. Boucher, Butler Whiting and A. R. 
Schmidt, the regatta committee of the club, that 
former Commodore Plant has entered his craft 
and that she will try her speed against E. W. 
Clark’s Irolita. The latter craft: formerly was 
called Queen, and was the property of the late 
J. Rogers Maxwell. For several years Queen 
has been considered the queen of the American 
racing squadron. The race between Irolita, 
considered to be one of Herreshoff’s fastest 
creations and the latest schooner to be designed 
by the wizard of Bristol lends unusual interest 
to tlie first important regatta of the Long Island 
Sound season. In addition to the two flyers, 
the regatta committee of the Larchmont Y. C. 
announces that George W. Scott’s Miladi and 
Margaret, the property of George W. Runk, 
also have entered the regatta. These boats will 
make an excellent schooner class for so early 
in the year. 
Although no mention was made in the regular 
racing program of the club, the Larchmont 
committee has arranged a special motor boat 
race for its spring regatta. This is a decided 
innovation and was suggested by Leonard 
Richards, Commodore of the club. The race 
will be for cruising boats and will be similar to 
the successful contest given for the same type 
of craft during the race week of the club, last 
year. The yachts will be divided into two 
classes. One division will be for boats that are 
less than 50 feet over all length, and the other 
class will be for yachts that are more than 50 
feet over all length. 
Racing Season Opens. 
Everyone is happy. The racing season has 
come again, and after many dreary weeks 
ashore, the yachtsmen are afloat and their 
yachts, looking spick and span, are in prime rac¬ 
ing condition. It takes several weeks of hard 
work to get the racing craft in shape, but it is 
work that pays, for, win or lose, the real 
yachtsman is happy if he can be afloat and is 
contented to have made a good race even if he 
has to be content with second or third place. 
All cannot be successful in a race, and if one 
yacht should win every time, the sport would 
become monotonous. 
The season promises to be a very brilliant 
one. It will be a season of small boat racing, 
but there is just as much good sport to be had 
in a 25-footer as in a 90-footer. The small boat 
may not be as speedy as the larger one and its 
sailing may not be as spectacular, but relatively 
a class of 15-footers furnish just as much in¬ 
terest and excitement as a class of 90-footers. 
Then, too, the 15-footers are usually sailed by 
their owners and an amateur crew helps. On a 
90-footer a professional is usually at the wheel 
and a paid crew does the work, so that from a 
real sportsman’s standpoint the 15-footers furn- 
ish'the best sport. 
Atlantic Y. C. 
The season opened on the Lower Bay with 
the regatta of the Atlantic Y. C. sailed last 
Saturday. This regatta was an important one 
for two reasons, it opened the Gravesend Bay 
season and it brought out four new yachts and 
two others have been much altered since last 
year’s racing. In the Q class there were two 
new boats—Gherardi Davis’ Alice, a Gardner 
boat, and Suelew, owned by E. F. Luckenback 
and built from Mower designs. Suelew is an 
odd name, but it is made up of sylables of the 
daughter and son of the owner. Grayjacket, 
last year’s champion, a Gardner boat, was a 
starter, and in the fleet were Soya and Spider, 
two of last year’s boats designed by Clinton 
H, Crane, which have had some lead removed 
and had other alterations made this winter. It 
was hardly expected that the new boats would 
outsail the others so early in the season. They 
are both fresh from the shops and not in shape 
yet, so every excuse must be made for their 
performances. Grayjacket was in fine shape, 
and she was well handled, too. F. S. Noble, her 
owner, knows his boat, while the others have 
yet to learn theirs. When the course signal 
was set the wind was southeast and gave indica¬ 
tions of backing, so the committee sent the 
boats to Buoy 24, Craven Shoals, Bensonhurst 
and Sea Gate, twice around, 12 miles. The wind 
did not back. It hauled more to the south and 
then went to its original quarter and the yachts. 
