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ripping the folds of the mainsail loose and liable 
to carry it all away. 
For once this grizzly old slave-driver spoke 
softly and cautioned us to be careful. It was 
several minutes before we got a chance to run 
and get into the weather main rigging, owing 
to the heavy sea tops crashing aboard all along 
the weather rail; but once started, you can 
make sure we scrambled up as fast as possible 
to get above the danger zone above where the 
seas could reach us. 
A landsman considers going aloft dangerous, 
but a sailor would rather be like a monkey up 
aloft any time in bad weather than be knocked 
about in the seas on the deck. 
As we climbed up the ratlines, for once we 
found it difficult to do so. The wind even on 
such a small surface as our backs exerted such 
a force, as at times to actually flatten us against 
the rigging, so we could not raise our knees 
to get our foot up on the next ratline. 
I have to smile now as I think of that trip 
aloft. Joe, a Hollander, my watchmate, was 
following me up, and as the bark took a heavy 
lee roll, the shrouds would be laid out hori¬ 
zontal and the skirts of my oilskin coat from 
the leather buckle about my waist would balloon 
out like a sail and send me lurching head first 
against the shrouds, and get under my so’wester 
and pull so hard, the strap under my chin 
choked me so I could not breathe. I heard 
Joe below me sputtering out a mixture of Dutch 
and English cuss words as his clothes acted 
the same. 
I stood it a few minutes, but finally grabbed 
the cloth strap and ripped the button off, and 
with a fling I sent the so’wester flying off to 
leeward like a bird. Joe hove his away, too, 
and so with our hair blowing out like two wild 
men, we went on up, made our way out to the 
weather yard arm and trapped the ropes round 
and round the loose canvas as tight as we could 
heave it. 
[to be concluded.1 
Two Important Races at Chicago. 
Yachting on the lakes promises to be ex¬ 
ceedingly brisk this summer. Besides the Lipton 
cup races scheduled for August, the Chicago 
sailors have received a challenge from the 
Duluth Y. C. for the Sir John Nutting cup, now 
held by the Chicago Y. C. 
Ever since the Nutting cup was presented to 
the Chicago Y. C. Mr. G. H. Atkin has been 
trying to interest yachtsmen of other cities in 
the event, and now that Duluth has promised to 
try to lift the handsome trophy, his efforts have 
been rewarded, so that a contest of general in¬ 
terest to fresh-water sailors is assured. 
With Apache, Seminole and Pequod still in 
the race, it is absolutely certain at this time that 
there will be four starters at least when the first 
race of the 1908 series is sailed on Sept. n. 
The Columbia Y. C. has promised to build 
an 18-footer to go after the classic of her sister 
club, providing the Chicago Y. C. club builds 
a 20-footer to compete in the Lipton races of 
the Columbia club. Inasmuch as yachtsmen in 
the Van Buren street organization are now 
raising funds to build the 21-footer, a return 
entry from the Randolph Street Club for the 
Nutting event can be counted upon. 
Several Canadian clubs have become inter¬ 
ested in the Nutting cup event through the mis¬ 
sionary work of Mr. Atkin and his associates, 
and it is considered likely that a Canadian craft 
will be seen in the races next fall. With an 
entry from one or more Canada clubs the Sir 
John Nutting cup competition will assume an 
international importance that will be certain to 
attract a large number of entries from other 
sources in the next year or two. 
The races this year will be sailed Sept. 11, 12, 
14 and 15, and the Lipton contests will be held 
in the second or third week in August. 
Marblehead—Bermuda Race. 
• 
One more entry has been received for the 
ocean race to Bermuda, this time a yacht in 
Class D. The boat entered is yawl Chaos, 
owned by Mr. Chas. A. Gabor, Jr., and repre¬ 
senting the Morris Y. C., of New York. Chaos 
is 42 4-10 ft. over all, 29 8-10 ft. waterline, 10ft. 
beam and 6ft. draft. 
The other actual entry in Class D is the yawl 
Lila, owned by Mr. R. D. Lloyd, and the two 
boats are of almost exactly the same size, so 
there shall be good racing between them. 
The committee has also heard from Mr. 
Daniel Bacon, of the New York Y. C., owner 
of the yawl Tamerlane. He says the event ap¬ 
peals to him in every way, and he expects to 
go in the race and will be much disappointed if 
unable to start, but cannot make a definite en¬ 
try at present. Two years ago Tamerlane, when 
owned by Commodore Maier, of the New 
Rochelle Y. C., won the first race to Bermuda, 
sailing against Lila and the sloop Gauntlet. 
Under ordinary circumstances, the club house 
of the Corinthian Y. C. at Marblehead would 
be open on Saturday, May 30, but in view of 
this' race the house committee has decided to 
open it one week earlier, namely, on Saturday, 
May 23. 
All possible arrangements will be made for 
the comfort and convenience of visiting yachts¬ 
men, and the priviliges of the floats and club 
house extended to them before the race. 
A representative of the race committee will 
be at the club house all the time for a few days 
preceding the race to give all those who have 
entered whatever information thy may need 
concerning the race itself, where fitting out work 
may be done in Marblehead, and concerning 
supplies of all kinds. 
As it will be necessary to measure every yacht 
sailing in the race, yachts will be required to re¬ 
port to the committee forty-eight hours before 
the start, and every yacht’s rating will be de¬ 
termined in the trim in which she will sail 
in the race. 
A circular giving what information is neces¬ 
sary, in addition to that already sent out, will 
be printed and sent to each owner sometime 
during the month of May. 
It was reported in one of the London even¬ 
ing papers recently, that Mr. Fife had fallen 
from the deck of Sir T. Lipton’s new yacht 
into the “hold,” that he fell on his head, and 
was unconscious. Happily, this was not the 
case. The fact is that Mr. Fife slipped on the 
temporary cabin floor-boards, and fell into the 
bilge of the yacht. One of his ribs was broken, 
but medical assistance was at hand. We under¬ 
stand that Mr. Fife is progressing favorably, 
and no doubt he will be aboard Shamrock IV. 
when she takes her first trial spin.—The Yachts¬ 
man. 
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Boston yachtsmen lament the recent death at 
the age of 35 years of Sumner H. Foster, a 
young and much liked lawyer of that town. He 
was one of the American yachtsmen who went 
to Germany last year to race the American built 
Sonder boats against the German boats at Kiel. 
.Spain to Give an Ocean Race. 
The New York World announces the inten¬ 
tion of the Spanish yachtsmen to hold an in¬ 
ternational ocean yacht race over an historic 
course from Palos, Spain, to the Canary Island, 
over which Christopher Columbus sailed on 
the first stage of his voyage to the New World. 
Members of the Eastern Y. C. received the 
news from the yachtsmen of Spain, who wish 
them to participate in the race. 
It is planned to send the contestants away on 
Aug. 3, the 416th anniversary of the sailing of 
Columbus, and to have the start as near the 
point as possible from which the Santa Maria, 
Pinta and Nina weighed anchor. The finish will 
be at Santa Cruz, on the island of Teneriffe, a 
distance of about 600 miles, which Columbus 
covered in six days. 
All the yacht clubs of North and South 
America will be invited to join with the 
Spaniards, and it is possible that European clubs 
may also be asked to participate, but at present 
it is the intention to confine the race to those 
countries directly benefited by the discoveries 
of Columbus. 
The event had its initiative with the Royal 
Mediterranean Y. C., of Malaga, and its sug¬ 
gestion to the authorities of Palos that the race 
be started from that port met a ready and cor¬ 
dial response. The city of Huelva, just across 
the bay from Palos, and the principal port in 
southwestern Spain north of Cadiz, will also 
join in the enterprise. 
Although the course, like that of the New 
York-Bermuda contest last year, is straight¬ 
way due southwest, the yachts will have more 
favorable winds and better weather than is 
usually experienced on this side of the Atlantic. 
After getting clear of the land and passing the 
Straits of Gibraltar, the northeast trades are 
usually picked up, and from that time it will be 
a broad off the wind affair, with no fogs, no 
Gulf Stream to cross, but clear weather and a 
wet sheet, a flowing sea and a wind that follows 
fast. 
The finish line will be in the harbor of Santa 
Cruz, where there is an excellent anchorage, 
and where there is almost sure to be a week or 
more of entertainments. The yachtsmen from this 
side of the ocean can then hoist sail and con¬ 
tinue on across the Atlantic. 
Old Yachts. 
The fate of old historical yachts is always in¬ 
teresting. There is a charm, a certain person¬ 
ality about them that causes one to regret hear¬ 
ing of any harm befalling them, and the oddity 
of their demise from active life is beyond 
imagination. 
The good old schooner yacht Coronet, that 
fearlessly sailed all seas on all sorts of missions, 
left Freeport, Me., on_ Oct. 31, with “Elijah” 
Sanford and his missionaries of the “Holy 
Ghost and Us Society” aboard, bound for the 
island of San Salvador, has not been heard of 
since. The Coronet was built by C. & R. 
Poillon, of Brooklyn, in 1885. 
The Dauntless, built by Forsyth & Morgan, 
of Mystic, Conn., in 1866, famous for her record 
as an ocean racer, lies moored in the Con¬ 
necticut River below Hartford, the home port of 
her dead owner, Mr. Colt, a floating memorial 
to his name and used as a sailor’s home. 
Moored in Manning’s basin in what is known 
as the Erie Basin, Brooklyn, is the old schooner 
yacht Fleetwing, used as a floating seaman’s 
church. Religious services are regularly con¬ 
ducted aboard her and lectures given during the 
week. 
The schooner Magic, once famous for speed 
as a yacht, only a few days ago met her end 
down off Key West, Fla., where she capsized 
when racing into port with a fast local built 
craft. Magic was originally a sloop, called 
Madgie, built in 1857 at Philadelphia, Pa., by 
F. Byerly & Son. 
Members of the Knickerbocker Y. C. have 
pooled together and had an ice yacht built by 
H. Percy Ashley. 
