July 30, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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New York Y. C. Cruise. 
The fleet of the New York Y. C. will rendez¬ 
vous at Glen Cove next Thursday for its annual 
cruise. This year the fleet will touch at Hunt¬ 
ington, New London, Newport, Vineyard Haven 
and New Bedford, and in addition to the port 
to port runs, the yachts will race for the Astor 
and King’s cups. 
Commodore James issued the general orders 
for the cruise some time ago, and the regatta 
committee, H. de B. Parsons, Ernest E. Loril- 
lard and Granville Kane, have now sent out the 
sailing instructions. 
There will be the customary runs from port 
to port in cruising trim. On application to the 
regatta committee special classes will be 
arranged, provided they do not interfere with 
the class racing. A yacht starting alone in any 
class will race with full time allowance for a 
special prize against the yachts in the classes 
of nearest rating, but this will not interfere with 
the prize for the class in which a yacht is thus 
placed. The squadron runs will be sailed with¬ 
out time limit. 
Crossing the starting line with private signal 
and racing number displayed will be regarded 
as an entry, provided the yacht’s rating measure¬ 
ment is on file with the committee. Special 
classes for auxiliaries, both for steam and motor 
auxiliaries, will be arranged. These yachts are 
to use sails only. They will be divided into two 
classes, those 65 feet load waterline or longer 
and those under 65 feet load waterline. 
After the commodore has ordered the squad¬ 
ron under way the committee will establish the 
starting line. The starting and finishing lines 
will be between a white flag on the committee 
boat and the point indicated. At the finish the 
committee boat will display a regatta committee 
flag and a red ball. After dark it will show the 
club night signal and will burn club signals at 
intervals. In fog it will at intervals ring the 
bell rapidly for about five seconds. Should the 
committee not be at the finish line yachts will 
take their own time when the designated mark 
bears at right angles to the direction of the last 
leg of the course and distant not more than one 
cable’s length. 
The fleet will rendezvous at Glen Cove on 
the morning of Thursday, Aug. 4. That day 
there will be a race, and after the race the fleet 
will anchor in Huntington Harbor for the night. 
Two courses have been selected for this race 
and the one selected will be signalled before the 
start. Course D is from Gas Buoy 17 off 
Matinicock Point, leaving it to starboard, to 
Buoy C, 2 o l / 2 off Long Neck Point, leaving it to 
starboard; to Buoy G, 15^2 off Oak Neck, leav¬ 
ing it to port, to a mark in Huntington Harbor 
anchored about ij^miles southwest by west of 
Eaton’s Neck light, leaving Buoy 15 off Center 
Island and Bell Buoy 13E2 off Lloyd’s Neck to 
starboard, 25 miles. Course X is shorter. It 
is from Gas Buoy 17 off Matinicock Point to 
Buoy 2, 2014 off Long Neck Point, leaving it 
to starboard, to the mark in Huntington Har¬ 
bor, 15 miles. 
On Friday the run will be from Huntington 
to New London, 65 miles. This is the longest 
run of the cruise and the yachtsmen are hoping 
for a good wind. The start will be from off the 
mark 1% miles southwest by west from Eaton’s 
Neck light to Buoy 13 off Eaton’s Neck, leaving 
it to starboard, to Sarah’s Ledge Bell Buoy, 
leaving Cornfield light vessel and Bartlett’s Reef 
light vessel to port. 
The run on Saturday, Aug. 6, will be from 
New London to Newport. The start will be 
made off Sarah’s Ledge Buoy and the finish will 
be off Brenton’s Reef light vessel, a distance 
of 40 miles. Yachts are to leave Race Rock 
and Point Judith whistling buoy to port. 
At Newport the fleet will be at anchor on Sun¬ 
day. . On Monday the run will be from Newport 
to Vineyard Haven. The start will be off Bren¬ 
ton’s Reef light vessel and the finish off West 
Chop Buoy, distance 37 miles. The Vineyard 
Sound light vessel must be left to port and the 
bouys marking Lucas Shoal and the Middle 
Ground to starboard. 
On Tuesday, Aug. 9, the' fleet will go to New 
Bedford. The start will be off West Chop Buoy 
and the finish off Wilkes Ledge Buoy, 30 miles. 
The fleet will keep north of the Middle Ground 
and leave the Vineyard Sound lightship to star¬ 
board. 
From New Bedford the run will be to New¬ 
port, 27 miles. The start will be off Wilkes 
Ledge Buoy and the finish off Brenton’s Reef 
light vessel, and the Vineyard Sound lightship 
will be left to starboard. 
At Newport there will be the races for the 
Astor and King’s cups. The Astor cups, one 
for schooners and one for sloops, will be sailed 
on Aug. 11 over the usual courses, and the 
King’s cup, for all yachts in one class, will be 
sailed for on Friday, Aug. 12. There are four 
courses laid out for this prize and the one 
selected will depend on the wind. 
The starting signals will be: Warning, one 
white ball; five minutes later, preparatory blue 
peter, cone or flag; five minutes later, start for 
all auxiliary classes. Class P and New York 
Y. C. 30-footers, one red ball; five minutes later, 
start for classes E and F, two red balls; five 
minutes later, start for classes L, M and N, 
three red balls; five minutes later, start for 
classes G, H, J and K, four red balls; five 
minutes later, start for classes A, B, C and D, 
five red balls. The starts for all classes will be 
one gun. That is, the time will be taken from 
the signal. 
Many special prizes have as usual been 
offered for these runs and races. Commodore 
James’ cups will be sailed for on the run from 
Huntington to New London; Vice-Commodore 
Blair’s cups on the run from New London to 
Newport; Rear-Commodore Pratt’s cups on the 
run from Newport to Vineyard Haven. Each 
of these officers has given two cups for schoon¬ 
ers and two for sloops and yawls. The first 
division of schooners will be classes A, B and 
C; the second division, classes D, E and F; the 
first division of sloops and yawls will be classes 
G, H, J, K and L; the second division, classes 
M, N and P, and the 30-footers. 
The Navy Challenge cuos will be sailed for on 
the run from Vineyard Haven to New Bedford, 
one cup for schooners and one for sloops. The 
Alumni Association of United States Navy chal¬ 
lenge cups, one for schooners and one for sloops, 
will be sailed for on the run from New Bedford 
to Newport. The Aloha cups offered by Mrs. 
James will be sailed for on the squadron run 
from Newport to Vineyard Haven. There is a 
cup for each class of auxiliaries. 
In each class there will be a first prize if two 
or more start, a prize for second if four start, 
and a prize for third if eight start. 
Eastern Y. C. Cruise. 
The eight days’ cruise along the Maine coast 
of the Eastern Y. C. ended at Bar Harbor on 
July 16. The cruise ended as it began, in a flat 
calm. 
The cruise this year was unusually enjoyable, 
although the racing was less than customary, 
there being only three sporting events. The 
winds were very light throughout, and of 277 
miles covered by the fleet, no miles were at 
the end of tow lines. 
The racing portion of the fleet covered 85 
miles in three runs, and honors in those events 
rested with the schooners Irolita, owned by E. 
Walter Clark, of Philadelphia, and Iris, owned 
by F. M. Whitehouse, of New York, and sloops 
Adventuress, owned by C. C. Rumrill, of 
Springfield, Mass., and Dorello, owned by 
George L. Batchelder, of Boston. These yachts 
won special cups, while club prizes for indi¬ 
vidual runs were captured by the schooner 
Taormina, owned by William S. Eaton, of Bos¬ 
ton; the sloop Amoret, owned by A. W. 
Stevens, also of Boston, and the flagship Em¬ 
erald. 
Commodore Clark has presented a cup for 
large schooners for a race from New London 
to Marblehead following the annual Harvard 
and Yale races, the permanent possession being 
given to the yacht owner winning it three times. 
It is expected that a cup will be offered under 
similar conditions for sloops and yawls. Sou¬ 
venirs will be presented to the yearly winners. 
It is also announced that Guy Norman has pre¬ 
sented a cup for large schooners for a race from 
this port to Marblehead on the day following 
the end of the annual cruise, the cup to be won 
three times by a yacht owner. Mr. Norman, in 
addition, presents a cup for sloops and yawls 
for a race from Bar Harbor to Marblehead next 
year. 
The total corrected time for the races of the 
week is as follows: 
Commodore Clark’s Cup for Sloops and Yawls. 
Adventuress, S. C. Rumrill.■_ 12 19 17 
Humma, R. T. Paine. 12 38 17 
Doris, S. C. Reed Anthony. 12 55 56 
Cacique, I,. H. Armour./.. 13 48 57 
Rear Commodore Sears’ Cup for Schooners. 
Irolita, E. Walter Clark. 12 02 08 
Taormina, William Eaton . 12 02 25' 
Iris, F. M. Whitehouse. 12 25 36 
Capt. Hayden’s Cup for Small Sloops. 
Dorello, G. L. Batchelder. 13 56 48 
Edjako, S. A. Raymond.15 09 49 
Capt. Morse’s Cup for Auxiliaries. 
Iris, F. M. Whitehouse. 11 04 38 
Yeruna, E. J. Bliss. 11 50 04 
Savarona, C. Howard Clark. 11 55 40 
Cacique, L. H. Armour. 12 33 18 
Irolita Wins Long Race. 
Four schooners sailed in the first race for the 
Guy Norman cup, starting from Bar Harbor 
on July 19. The course was to Marblehead, 161 
miles, and only ill. 17m. 27s. separated the four 
at the finish. The schooners that took part in 
this race were Irolita, Commodore E. Walter 
Clark, Philadelphia-Corinthian Y. C.; Savarona, 
Vice-Commodore C. Howard Clark, Man¬ 
chester Y. C.; Emerald, Commodore F. Lewis 
Clark, Eastern Y. C., and Iris, Francis M. 
Whitehouse, Eastern Y. C. They raced on the 
full rating measurement, and one of the agree¬ 
ments between the owners was that no light 
sails should be used between 7 r. m. and 4 A. m. 
They were sent away at 12:25 in a light S. E. 
air. All except Savarona made a good start, 
but that schooner, not having steerage way, was 
stern to the line at the signal. 
Hard luck soon came to Emerald, for Irolita 
and Iris picked up a nice breeze and went by 
the Commodore’s yacht, as did finally Savarona, 
while Emerald lay still in one of those calm 
spots so often found. 
After the three schooners had gained about 
two miles on Emerald, she caught the breeze 
also and, with light sails set, began to make 
fine time. This light S. E. breeze held with the 
yachts until well after sundown, but between 
8 and 9 at night all lost the breeze. 
At this time both Emerald and Savarona had 
passed Irolita, and the former well to seaward 
of the others, was leading. Just before 10 
o’clock the breeze began to come off the shore 
from the northward, and Irolita, which was in 
under the Great Duck Island shore, felt the new 
air first; then it struck Savarona, and later 
Emerald picked it up. 
This new northerly breeze was very light. 
Savarona showed the best speed and slowly left 
Emerald, although both were within sight of 
each other all night. At daybreak, when the 
two leaders were well up on Thatcher’s Island, 
Savarona had a lead of about five miles over 
Emerald. 
With the rising' sun the breeze strengthened, 
and as it began to haul to the eastward light 
sails were added as soon as the time of the 
agreement was up. So quickly did the crew 
of Irolita work that a spinnaker was drawing at 
4:02 in the morning, but the other boats were 
not far behind in getting on light sails. 
As the breeze grew stronger, Emerald picked 
up Savarona rapidly, and probably if the course 
had been five miles longer she would have led 
Savarona across the finish line. 
Savarona crossed the finish line at 10:30:42, 
for at that time all the others were in sight and 
his wait was nearly over. 
Emerald followed Savarona across 4m. 20s. 
later, then came Irolita, 31m. 10s. astern, well 
within her allowance. Iris was last to finish. 
Elapsed. 
Irolita, E. W. Clark. 22 13 12 
Savarona, C. H. Clark, Jr. 21 38 42 
Emerald, F. L Clark. 21 43 02 
Iris, Francis M. Whitehouse. 22 56 09 
Corrected. 
20 46 37 
21 23 OS 
21 43 02 
21 44 17 
