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well. Venona led the second division with the 
big knockabout Marchioness going fast, but not 
pointing so high and Edith Anna far astern of 
all. But to Bermuda is a long pull, about 675 
nautical miles. 
Venona Arrives First at Bermuda. 
The handsome little white schooner yacht 
Venona, owned and sailed by E. G. Bliss, of 
the Eastern Y. C-, of Marblehead, went romp¬ 
ing past St. David’s Head, at Bermuda, at 3:34 
P. M., on Sunday, June 7, having made the run 
of 675 miles in four days three hours and thirty- 
two minutes. The smallest craft in the fleet, 
Venona was entitled to one hour and twenty 
minutes from her opponent in Class C, March¬ 
ioness, yet she finished boat for boat ahead of 
not only her, but the 85ft. and 88ft. schooners 
of Class B. 
Venona won by driving through the south¬ 
east gale of Saturday night. As she drew near 
the finish line she presented a picture worthy 
of even a Gloucester fisherman’s admiration. 
She was driving hard and carrying on sail as 
only a perfect hull, perfect rig and stout hearts 
can drive a boat Everything in Bermuda was 
pressed into service on land and water to take 
the enthusiastic Bermudians out to a vantage 
point to view this craft, as the news was flashed 
into town that one of the boats was coming. 
Venona swung up into the wind only long- 
enough to take on a pilot, and then on she came 
past the finish line amid a din of booming 
cannons, screeching whistles and cheering peo¬ 
ple. 
The Philadelphia craft Marchioness, a big 
knockabout, was sighted off Bermuda, but did 
not get in before dark. 
Venona was designed by A. Cary Smith, of 
New York, for Robert Olyphant and Robert 
Olyphant, Jr., and built by Robert Jacob, at City 
Island, in 1905. She is a wooden boat with a 
keel that gives her a draft of 9ft. 6in. She is 
only 28 tons, 65ft. 6in. over all, 43ft. 6in. on the 
waterline, with an extreme beam of 15ft. 
In 1906 and last summer she made a record 
for herself on the New York Y. C. cruise, fre¬ 
quently defeating vessels more than twice her 
size. Last fall she won the Indian Harbor Y. 
C.’s race from Greenwich, Conn., around Mon- 
tauk Point to Hampton Roads, by beating Roy 
A. Rainey’s 90ft. schooner Invader on time al¬ 
lowance. 
Dervish Wins in her Class. 
The schooner yacht Dervish again wins the 
Bermuda race in Class B. Both boats in the 
C class beat her on actual time, which goes to 
show the large element of luck that enters into 
long races. 
Venona and Marchioness, by standing way off 
:o the eastward, were able to lay their course 
for Bermuda with a beam wind when the heavy 
southeaster hit them, while the three larger 
5oats more to the southward had to beat up 
igainst this heavy wind. Dervish finished at 
12:40 on Monday morning, June 8, making her 
dapsed time 109I1. 23m. 45s. She caught the 
•oughest weather on Saturday, the day the two 
ittle motor boats left Bensonhurst with a clear 
ky and smooth sea. 
For several hours Saturday Dervish had to 
leave-to under foresail. She was in company 
vith Zurah and Esperanza until Friday morn- 
ng, when it came on to blow hard from the 
ast and they were lost sight of. 
Daily runs made by the yachts that have fin- 
'hed: 
Venona. Marchioness. Dervish. 
une 4 . 173 182 185 
une 5 . 108 118 183 
une 6 . 191 173 194 
une 7 .. 193 167 158 
hlapsed time—Venona, 99h. 32m. 15s.; Marchioness, 
'5h. lm. 40s.; Dervish, 109h. 23m. 45s. 
„ Edith Anna it has been reported has put into 
doucester, abandoning the race on account of 
laving sprung her main masthead the first night 
'ff Cape Cod. Had there been a fair wind in¬ 
tend of a head one this interesting little craft, 
vhich is a perfect witch off the wind, might 
iave shown her big sisters some sailing. 
Class B.—Schooner Esperanza, 88ft. over all, 
owned by J. Dalzell McKee, of Pittsburg, and 
sailing under the burgee of the Atlantic Y. C., 
of New York. 
Schooner Dervish, 85ft. owned b^ Henry A. 
Morss, of Boston, and sailing undetvthe burgee 
of the Corinthian Y. C. of MarblehSfed. 
Schooner Zurah, 84ft. owned-, by Henry 
Doscher, of New Rochelle, N. Y>, flying the 
New Rochelle Y. C. colors. 
Class C. — Knockabout Maftthietness, 67ft., 
owned by John P. Crozer, of Philadelphia, fly¬ 
ing the flag of the Yachtsman’s Club of Phila¬ 
delphia. 
Schooner Venona, 65ft., owned by E. G. Bliss, 
of Boston, and sailing under the Boston Y. C. 
burgee. 
Schooner Edith Anna, 54ft., owned by Thomas 
Henderson, of Philadelphia, with the flag of the 
Yachtsman’s Club of Philadelphia on her fore¬ 
mast. 
Night Signals.—Esperanza, red, green, red; 
Zurah, red, green, white; Dervish, red, white, 
green. 
Night Signals.—Venona, green, white, green; 
Edith Anna, green, white, red; Marchioness, 
green, red, green. 
Summary of Previous Bermuda Races. 
RACE OF 1906— MAY 26. 
Yawls. 
Tamerlane 
Racing 
Length. 
Actual 
Time. 
126.09 
ithdr’w. 
217.10 
Lila . 
Gauntlet ... 
Sloop. 
RACE OF 1907 —JUNE 
s- 
Dervish .... 
Schooners. 
Racing 
Length 
Time. 
91.50 
122.00 
104.56 
116.20 
1 9 0 9 5 
Mist . 
Shamrock .. 
Priscilla ... 
Zurah . 
Hyperion .. 
Lila . 
Yawls. 
100.20 
103.45 
164.35 
Flamingo .. 
Zena . 
Sloops. 
138.20 
124.05 
135.23 
Zinita . 
Isolt . 
The Orienta Y. C-, of Mamaroneck, has a 
membership of one hundred and will try to im¬ 
prove the condition of its harbor with buoys. 
Brooklyn Y. C. Ocean Race. 
While it is not an out to sea race it is even 
more difficult to navigate along the coast where 
shoals and rocks are ready to hook one up un¬ 
expectedly, as one has to do in the race to Cape 
May, starting on July 4, from Gravesend Bay. 
The entry list closes on June 15. To date 
there are entered the following: 
Schooners.—Tammany, Commodore W. C. 
Towen, Brooklyn Y. C.; Uncas, G. W. Titcomb, 
Brooklyn Y. C. ; Shamrock, Frederick Thomp¬ 
son, Brooklyn Y. C., and Vigil, John Lewis, 
Brooklyn Y. C. 
Sloops.—Ondawa, Vice-Commodore David E. 
Austen, Brooklyn Y. C.; Gardenia, Rear-Com¬ 
modore Leo S. Herzig, Brooklyn Y. C.; Zinita, 
Hyman Cohen, Brooklyn Y. C.; Mimosa III., 
Stuyvesant Wainwright, American Y. C.; But¬ 
terfly, Oliver Iselin, Jr., New York Y. C.; 
Mopsa, Sullivan Brothers, Harlem Y. C., and 
Josephine, Milton Smith, Brooklyn Y. C. 
Yawls.—Sakana, Haviland brothers, Brooklyn 
Y. C.; Lila, Richard D. Floyd, Brooklyn Y. C., 
and Flyperion, Commodore Frank Maier, New 
Rochelle Y. C. 
All yachts will sail as one class with the regu¬ 
lation time allowance for rig. 
I 0 Dismasted. 
The little cutter I. O. has been sailing for 
some time with a rather shaky spar for a mast, 
and last Sunday on their way home from 
Lloyd’s the masthead was carried away, letting 
all her rig down by the run. Captain Marsland 
had her re-rigged with jury rig in just one hour 
and made Larchmont when the sloop Old Glory, 
Capt. Geo. P. P. Bonnell, came along and gave 
them a tow to their moorings at New Rochelle. 
The following yachts have been sold through 
the agency of Mr. Stanley M. Seaman: The 
sloop Sagamore to Mr. A. C. Maderia, of Phila¬ 
delphia; the auxiliary sloop Kismet to Mr. H. 
L. Stone; the sloop Omoo to Mr. H. M. Lorran, 
of the Horseshoe Harbor Club, and the auxiliary 
sloop Micmac to Mr. W. S. Fairchild, of New¬ 
ark, N. J. 
The Hollis Burgess yacht agency, of Boston, 
has sold the gasolene launch Vim to Mr. Roy 
J. Gibbs, of Pocasset, Mass. 
The steam yacht Bellemere has been sold by 
Commodore Roy A. Rainey, Indian Harbor Y. 
C, to Mrs. M. H. Slater, of Boston, through 
the agency of Mr. Frank Bowne Jones. 
HAWAII READY TO LAUNCH. 
Forest and Stream published the plans of this schooner in the issues of Dec. 14 and 28, 1907, by the courtesy 
of Designer B. B. Crowninshield, of Boston, Mass. She is now on her way to the United States’to participate in 
the ocean race to Hawaii. ' From Shipping Illustrated. 
