June 6, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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TANYA AND FEARLESS, TWO HANDICAP CLASS BOATS. Photo by W. H. J. Ehler. 
San Francisco Yachting. 
The San Francisco perpetual challenge cup is 
• to he sailed over a fourteen mile course, known 
as the Channel course this afternoon, May 23. 
This is the fourteenth race for this cup which 
is now held by the Corinthian Y. C. The race 
will be between Discovery, the Corinthian boat 
which won the race last year from the South 
Coast Y. C. Valkyrie, and Neva, of the San 
Francisco Y. C., which was not entered last year. 
The measuring of the contestants which occurred 
yesterday resulted in a surprise. It was expected 
that the Corinthian defender Discovery would 
measure more than Neva, and that at least a 
minute and a half would be allowed the latter. 
The measurements, however, gave Neva 22.24 
as the official measurement, while Discovery was 
returned as 22.23. On this showing there will 
be no time allowance to either boat. Great in¬ 
terest is manifested in the race, as considerable 
changes have been made in Neva since last year 
The yachts have raced before on many occasions 
and the score between them is fairly even. The 
last time they sailed against each other was in 
the Inter-Club Regatta on Sept. 9 last year. On 
that occasion Discovery beat hy about seven 
minutes and a half. 
Ex-Commodore Morrow, of the San Francisco 
Y. C, will be in charge of Neva, and Captain 
McFarlane will have charge of Discovery. Capt. 
L. H. Turner will act as referee. Roy C. Ward, 
Douglass Erskine, J. E. Neylan will act as judges 
and Lester Hammersmith, A. W. Follansbee, Jr., 
and F. H. Muchmore will act as timers. The 
preparatory signal will be given at 1:2s, and the 
starting signal at 1:30. A time limit of five 
hours will be placed on the race. 
Lady Maude Lurline and Gwendolyn II. have 
been formally entered for the San Pedro-Hawaii, 
Honolulu Trans-Pacific yacht race by Los 
Angeles yachtsmen and Skidbladnir is expected 
to be entered within a few days. There is also 
a possibility that Evian Aggie and Yankee Girl 
will be added to the list. The Honolulu con¬ 
testant. Hawaii, is ready and will be on hand at 
San Pedro in time for the start. The question 
of raising the necessary money for the race 
seems to have been settled, as the Los Angeles 
Chamber of Commerce, the San Pedro Chamber 
of Commerce and the South Coast Y. C. have 
just about secured the necessary $10,000. 
The start will be July 4, across a line between 
the end of the San Pedro breakwater and Dead 
Man’s Island, thence around a stakeboat off Long 
Beach, and from this mark the boats will bear 
away on their course to Diamond Head. 
The South Coast Club is offering two cups 
as first and second prizes in the Honolulu race. 
The first prize will he a $500 cup and the second 
a $250 cup, and the final selection of designs 
will be made June 1. 
Boston Races. 
The Boston Y. C. has officially announced the 
issuance of a challenge for the Quincy cup, now 
in the possession of the Corinthian Y. C., of 
Marblqhead. The Boston club’s challenger will 
be Charles P. Curtis, Jr.’s, sloop Ellen, which 
was built by the D. Fenton Company, at Man¬ 
chester, Mass., in 1906, from designs by E. A. 
Broadman. Ellen is 37ft. 9m. over all, 19ft. ioin. 
on the waterline, 7ft. 4m. beam and 5ft. 8in. 
draft. Her hull is wood. 
Regarding the international motor boat race 
being arranged, the regatta committee says: 
“A cup has been offered for an ocean race for 
motor boats from Boston to Shelburne, N. S., 
by the Binnacle Club of Harvard University. The 
Boston Y. C. regatta committee has been asked 
to take charge of the start of this race, and 
has consented to do so, the Shelburne Y. C. hav¬ 
ing agreed to take charge of the finish. This 
race is to be started off the Hull station of the 
Boston club, where due recognition is to be given 
the importance of the event. 
“This race will be novel, particularly in the 
manner in which it is proposed to handicap the 
boats. Trial tests are to be given all contestants, 
by which their rates of speed will be determined, 
and these rates will be applied to the full dis¬ 
tance of the race. It is expected that the boats 
will start on handicaps, the slowest boat starting 
first. 
“This race will be open to all power boats of 
not more than 55ft. over all and not less than 
30ft. over all.” 
Cassandra. 
Built in 1908 by Messrs. Scotts Shipbuilding 
and Engineering Co., of Greenock, Scotland, for 
Mr. Roy A. Rainey, of New York, and designed 
by Mr. A. S. Chesebrough, Bristol, R. I. She 
is- 284ft. over all, 239ft. on the waterline, 33ft. 
moulded beam and 20ft. 6in depth. The owner’s 
and guests’ rooms are situated both forward 
and aft of the machinery and consist of twelve 
staterooms and seven bathrooms, the owner’s 
private suite being immediately abaft of machin¬ 
ery casing. In forward end of deck house is 
dining room, the hall and passageway extending 
past the machinery space aft to the drawing 
room. The smoking room is in the after end 
of the deckhouse. 
On Saturday, May 9, speed trials were held 
on the Firth of Clyde, and over 15 knots per 
hour was made under natural draft and 16 knots 
under assisted draft. 
Death of Col. C. A. Postley. 
Another prominent yachtsman has been lost 
to the sport in the death of Col. Clarence Ashley 
Postley, who for several years was commodore 
of the Larchmont Y. C., the flagship being the 
schooner yacht Colonia. He was also owner at 
one time of the schooner yacht Ramona. 
Col. Postley was fifty-nine years of age and 
his death resulted from heart disease. Though 
gone now his memory will live on with his 
brother yachtsmen among whom he was very 
popular. 
Pfifer Bros, won out in the club race for the 
new one-design class of skip jacks, designed by 
Fred Goeller, on Sunday last at the Metropolitan 
Y. C. race on Pelham Bay. At the Morrisania 
Y. C. the .boat, sailed by the designer Fred 
Goeller and Harry Curtiss, won out after a hot 
five round course from three other boats of the 
same design. 
