May 9, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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N. Y. A. C. Block Island Race. 
Last year there were thirty-three yachts in 
the New York Athletic Club's race to Block 
Island, and it was one of the most popular 
events in small boat racing of the year. A 1 
kinds of boats participated, and for the second 
time the Mahlstedt brothers’ little sloop Okee 
surprised all by winning. 
Twenty-five boats have already agreed to go. 
and it is safe to say this number will be about 
doubled when June 20—the date of the race— 
comes around, as. Harry Jackson, the energetic 
chairman of the N. Y. A. C.’s yachting com¬ 
mittee, is looking up every eligible boat with a 
view to getting them to start. 
Conditions governing the New York Athletic 
Club’s fifth annual Block Island race: 
Start—Saturday, June 20, 1908. at 5:30 P. M- 
Open to deck or cabin yachts in cruising trim 
of less than 31ft. waterline. Fin-keels barred. . 
Course—From Whortleberry Island to the 
West Harbor of Block Island, leaving all buoys 
and Government marks on the channel side, 
except the bell buoy at entrance of West 
Harbor, which may be left on either hand. Dis¬ 
tance 100 nautical miles. 
Starting Line—Between two boats flying club 
flags anchored to the northeast of Wortleberry 
Island. . . , 
Time of Start—Warning signal, 5:30; pre¬ 
paratory signal, 5:35; starting signal 5:40. 
Finish—Leave committee boat (flying club 
flag and at night a red and white light) inside 
of West Harbor on either hand. (In order 
to check any possible errors each boat will 
take its own time when the light on the outer 
end of the West Harbor Breakwater bears 
south and fifty yards distant.) ' 
Crew—No restrictions as to crew, but only 
Corinthians may steer. 
Sails—No restrictions as to size, number or 
manner of carrying sails. 
Time—Twelve minutes per over all toot. 
Allowance—Yawls 5 per cent, and auxiliaries 
5 per vent additional. 
Cruising Trim—Yachts will be considered in 
cruising trim when they carry lead line, com¬ 
pass. charts, fog signal, two anchors and cables, 
one life preserver on deck, the regulation lights 
and their cabin fittings, tanks, etc., in then 
usual places. . .... ... 
R u ] es —Unless otherwise specified in this 
notice the rules of the Yacht Racing Association 
of Long Island Sound will govern. 
Tide—High water at Whortleberry Island 
June 20 at 4:04 P. M. 
Prizes—Five prizes in open event. Special 
prize to handicap class. Special prize to best 
elapsed time. 
Measurement—Certificates of measurement 
giving over all and waterline length will be re¬ 
quired, but in figuring allowance the over all 
length to the nearest half foot will be taken. 
Auxiliaries—Auxiliaries must report to the 
committee before 3 P. M. on the day of the 
race for ensealment of engines. Seals to be re- 
moved by the committee only at Block Island 
under penalty of disqualification. 
Protests—Verbal notice of protest must be 
made to the judge within fifteen minutes after 
finishing and be followed in one hour by a. 
written statement of the facts on which it is 
based. 
Note—Steamers leave Block Island daily, 
making connections for New York city and 
other points. 
Entries—Close June 15. 
Yachting Committee—H. A. Jackson, Jr.. 
Chairman. 230 Canal St., New York city; C. S. 
King. A. B. Fry. 
Although the circulars have not yet been 
printed, the following boats are pledged to 
enter: 
Notos, Commodore R- C. Mitchell; Saladm, 
R. W. Rathborne; Alyce, W. A. Leib; Tanya. 
G. P. Granbery; Rebel, A. H. Terhune; Tillicum 
II.. C. S. King; Mist, H. A. Jackson. Jr.; Nut¬ 
meg. A. C. Jones: Marguerite, Commodore W. 
F. Clark; Vingt-Trois, W. A. Brown; Fearless, 
Commodorp B. R. Stoddard; Mopsa, Sullivan 
Brothers; Little Peter, F. M. Weeks; Kenosha 
II., C. W. Voltz; Dipper, Commodore H. H. 
Van Rensselaer; Surprise, M. S. Kattenhorn; 
Okee, Mahlstedt Brothers; Io, G. A. Marsland; 
(not named) L. D. Huntington, Jr.; Sagola, W. 
H. Linderman; Ramea, P. L. Howard^ Kitti- 
wake, Curtis; Little Rhody, Charles F. Tilling- 
hast; Polly, A. Erdman, Kenosha I., W. R. 
Berth. 
A motor boat race over the same course will 
be started half an hour after the sailing race, 
the cup being offered by Mr. Thomas Fleming 
Day. 
Yacht Sales. 
The following yachts have been recently sold 
by Henry J. Gielow: 
The schooner yacht Miladi for Mrs. S. H-. 
Mason to Mr. Geo. W. Scott, of the New York 
and Larchmont yacht clubs. 
Yawl Scapha. Mr. E. T. Hall, to L. H. 
Armour, who is installing a 17-horsepower 
gasoline engine. 
Yawl Janet, Mr. F. H. Adriance, to Mr. W. 
H. Dixon; the yacht is now being fitted out at 
the Marine 'Basin, Bath Beach. 
Yawl Ebisu, Mr. Harrison W. Smith, to Mr. 
Henry F. Aim. 
Sloop Possum, Messrs. E. C. and k. B. 
Seward, to Mr. H. Beverley Robinson, who, 
with some friends, will sail the yacht about the 
middle of May to her new home port, St. John, 
New Brunswick. 
Cabin launch Runaway, Mr. W. S. Craighead, 
to Mr. L. Arnson. ’ 
Hunting cabin launch Irene, Mr. S. W. Cran- 
bery to Mr. Alfred Mestre. 
Auto launch Yvonne, Mr. J. R. Robinson, Jr., 
to Mr. Wallace T. Foote, who has taken the 
boat up to his camp on Lake Champlain. 
The cruising motor yacht Ida Belle, has been 
chartered for the season for Mr. Louis Kahn- 
weiler to Mr. S. A. Adler. 
The 25ft sloop Eumareia, owned by Ralph L. 
Foster, of Providence. R. I., has been sold to 
Mr. Frederick L. Hodges, of Boston, through 
the Hollis Burgess yacht agency. 
The same agency has also sold the 35ft. yawl 
Varande, owned by Arthur B. Denny, of New¬ 
ton, Mass., to Frederic W. Perkins, of Lynn, 
Mass._ 
Exit, the little double ended sloop, familiar 
to people around New Rochelle on Long 1 -sland 
Sound, will fly the private flag of Mr. A. K. 
Gallaudett this summer. 
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Mr P L. Howard has purchased the sloop 
yacht Ramea from Mr. C. L Robinson of 
Hartford, and will sail under the flag of the 
Horse Shoe Harbor Club this summer. 
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Sailors in Port. 
FTER about four months’ 
hard work, we had the bark 
nearly loaded and the boys 
wanted to go ashore at least 
for one day. So one Sun¬ 
day morning, as soon as 
breakfast was over they 
prevailed upon me to go aft 
and ask for a liberty day. 
When the old man ap¬ 
peared on deck smoking 
his T. D. (a brand of clay pipes), I went aft 
and asked for permission to go ashore. 
“How many of you want to go?” he asked, 
and I told him. “Well, you can go.”, he 
asked, and I told him. “Well, you can go,” he 
said in a rather hesitating manner; “but mind 
you all come back. The last voyage I let the 
crew go ashore here, and I had to ship a,new 
crew in their place; they never came back.” 
“Oh, we’ll come back,” I assured him; “only 
we want a chance to stretch our legs on dry 
land.” 
“I suppose you’ll want some money, too, 
won’t you?” he queried. . 
“Why yes,” said I, and I nearly laughed in 
his face, for back of him around each side of 
the fo’castle I saw groupes of anxious faces, 
wondering what we were talking so long about 
and anxiously hoping my request would be 
granted. 
I had to repeat the whole conversation in the 
fo’castle, and when they heard we could go, out 
came the long hidden shore clothes, and the 
bottom of clothes bags were explored for a 
clean shirt or the shore-going shoes that had 
been carefully stowed away there. 
It was comical to see the care the boys be¬ 
stowed upon their toilet and dress. Joe s hair 
fairly shone with the polishing of soap he had 
given it to make it lie smooth. Bill screwed 
his face about before a fragment of looking 
glass he had, in endeavors to comb his beard 
into something like decent shape. Joe donned 
a loud, checked shirt that made him look like 
a thoroughbred Dutchman that he was. Old 
Bill togged out in a badly creased dress suit 
and rubbed up his derby or “hard hat,” as he 
called it. Joe capped his loud face with an im¬ 
mense soft felt sombrero. Hans rigged him¬ 
self out in a blue suit and squeezed his little 
feet into a small pair of dancing pumps with 
real shoe laces in them. All my shoe laces had 
long since departed, but to “dress up, I rove 
marlin ones in place of the rope yarns used in 
every day work. 
My shoes were the ordinary convict-made 
dollar shoes, but I cut them down, so they made 
pumps or low shoes with only a short lacing in 
front. A brand new cotton shirt from the slop 
chest and the blue serge suit I shipped in at 
HOUSEBOAT AGLAIA. 
