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pose that her form of hull is superior to that of 
the big cutters built by Fife for the Interna¬ 
tional Rule. Her sail plan, rigging and steel 
construction is a masterpiece, worthy of her 
eminent designer, Herreshoff. She is the most 
efficient and weatherly schooner ever seen in 
Cowes Roads, and that is the highest praise we 
can give. The story goes that Herreshoff at 
first said that he could not design a good ves¬ 
sel under our International Rule. It taxed 
draught, and he could not stand Lloyd’s scant¬ 
lings. However, after much persuasion, he was 
induced to make a first attempt with the West¬ 
ward. After hearing the comments upon her 
behavior by those who sailed her. he must have 
altered his opinion, for whereas Ingomar and 
Queen, the schooners built to American rules, 
were almost unmanageable when hard pressed 
with canvas in a strong wind. Westward proved 
easy and handy when hard driven in a breeze 
and a perfect ship in a sea. As to draught. 
Herreshoff gave her 16 feet 11 inches, and sail 
area—well, no one ever heard Herreshoff com¬ 
plain of a rule being too easy on sail, and every 
Herreshoff boat not only has plenty of it, but 
can stand up to it. 
“The only yacht which could make any show 
against the Westward at Cowes was the Sham¬ 
rock, and Sir Thomas Lipton made a plucky 
attempt on Monday, August 1, with his cutter, 
with a waterline of 75 feet, to compete against 
Westward, with her L. W. L. of 97 feet. Sham¬ 
rock carried only 9,800 feet of sail, against 
Westward’s 13,400 square feet. As to time al¬ 
lowance, interested critics should remember 
that under the international scale for amalga¬ 
mated classes a cutter has to allow a schooner 
no less than 20 per cent, for rig allowance, and 
Westward only had to give Shamrock 3sec. per 
mile—1 sec. for each quarter metre. Shamrock 
sailed at her actual rating (23 metres) increased 
by 8 per cent., which amounted to 25 metres, 
whilst Westward sailed at her actual rating 
(29-09) metres) reduced by 12 per cent., which 
was 25% metres. In fifty-two miles, therefore. 
Westward had to allow Shamrock 2 minutes 36 
seconds. There was a fresh breeze of nice 
weight to carry jackyard topsails, and enough 
at the end of the day to make 15-metre boats 
stow baby jib topsails to windward. The West¬ 
ward beat the English cutter by 14 minutes 20 
seconds. This was a very fine performance, 
and the great part, in fact nearly all the gain 
was in reaching and very close .reaching. The 
great feature of the American schooner’s sail¬ 
ing compared with Shamrock’s appears to be 
that on a long close reach with plenty of wind 
the Westward can haul her mainsheet in as 
close as the cutter, and that she can then sail 
clean away from the Shamrock. Of course, as 
it would be only reasonable to expect. West¬ 
ward can easily beat the cutter reaching with 
sheets, checked, whilst upon a dead run there is 
very little difference in their speed. On the day 
when our Yankee visitor caused history to re¬ 
peat itself by outsailing the British' cutter 
Shamrock the latter yacht was no less than 13 
minutes 19 seconds ahead of the Germania and 
18 minutes 47 seconds ahead of Meteor. This 
was, of course, a tremendous beating for Sham¬ 
rock to give the German yachts, which hitherto 
have been regarded as very fine schooners, and 
had it not been for the appearance of the West¬ 
ward sailing home to Cowes round old Castle 
Point at least a couple of miles ahead of Sham¬ 
rock at the end of this fifty-two miles race the 
position of Sir Thomas LiptOn’s yacht, leading 
Germania, Meteor, Cicely and Susanne, would 
have been regarded as amongst the great, if not 
the greatest, triumphs for British yachting. As 
it was. everyone felt that on August 1, 1910. it 
was the ‘Westward first and the rest nowhere.’ 
"This, however, is really rather a sentimental 
view.to take, of the Royal London Y. C.’s race, 
for, just as in 1851, when Queen Victoria, hav¬ 
ing learned that the America had won the cup. 
asked ‘And which yacht is second?’ the reply 
is said to have been given, ‘Your Majesty, 
there is no second.’ As a fact, on that historic 
occasion the little Aurora was only some 18 
minutes astern and was a very good second, 
and so on August 1. 1910. so small a vessel as 
the Shamrock did well to be within 14 minutes 
of the Westward. Nevertheless, we hope the 
Westward may race at Cowes next year, and 
that other yachts from America, 23 metres, 19 
metres and 15 metres, will race at our interna¬ 
tional regatta, and that British yachting may 
have so far revived that the vessel in pride of 
place will have been built in Great Britain. 
‘‘What a salting everybody had on August 
2, the day of the King’s Cup! Lord Dunraven 
won the first cup given by King George with 
his ketch Cariad, but the race, as usual, was 
confined to yachts belonging to the Royal 
Yacht Squadron, and the club could only mus¬ 
ter four starters. Originally the idea of making 
the match a handicap was to secure a large en¬ 
try. In the 15-metre class Mr. Stothert’s Ma- 
riska won in the gale of August 2 and again in 
the very light airs on August 4. Mr. W. P. 
Burton won the commodore’s International 
Cup of the Royal London for the third year in 
succession. This prize he won with the old 
Britomart in 1908 and with Ostara in 1909 and 
1910. The cup itself is intended for a perpetual 
trophy, the winner receiving a replica of the 
cup or its equivalent each year. The honors, 
therefore, in the 15-metre class have been di¬ 
vided between Mariska and Ostara. I'he 12- 
metre yachts behaved splendidly in the strong 
wind, the whole fleet of six vessels facing the 
heavy sea in the West Channel. There was only 
one mishap—Alachie carried away her bow¬ 
sprit. The American yachtsmen at Cowes 
watched the 12 metres sailing in the summer 
gale with keen interest and agreed that their 
own boats of about the same rating (39-4 feet) 
would not have made such good weather of it, 
and that their gear would not have held on so 
splendidly. They said there would have been 
many more accidents. The comment is of in¬ 
terest, because we in this country generally 
have the highest regard for American spars, 
gear and rigging. The Fife boats have borne 
off the palm, and Major Andrew Coats’s Cintra 
and Mr. George Coats’s Alachie have led the 
class at nearly every mark in all kinds of 
weather. Wednesday. August 3, at the R. Y. 
S. was a great day for the schooners. The 
Westward was over the line at the start, and 
humbugged by a tugboat and a host of moored 
craft to boot, but Barr twisted her round and 
nipped away through the fleet as easily as if 
his vessel was a 70-foot cutter. Although she 
lost 3 minutes in returning, before she had 
cross-tacked for five miles down the West 
Channel she had overhauled Susanne. Germania 
and Cicely, and then, in a merry breeze, run 
and reach as she would between Lymington 
and the Bullock, the great Germania—which 
holds the speed record for the ‘Old Queen’s’ 
course—could not pass Westward. 
“Germania, from being about a couple of min¬ 
utes astern at Lymington, caught Westward be¬ 
tween Nab and Bullock, but pass ber she could 
not. and Barr, by a pretty little maneuver fa¬ 
miliar to all class racing jnen, shook off Ger¬ 
mania again when 200 yards from the Bullock 
buoy; then, reaching back to Cowes pretty well 
close hauled, the Westward kept the Germania 
in her wake.” 
Gulf Y&chting. 
New Orleans, August 2.— It is stated that 
an effort will be made by a syndicate in Pass 
Christian, Miss., and in this city to buy the 
Massachusetts, the sloop which defended the 
Seawanhaka Cup in the races at Manchester. 
W. H. Bofinger, Jr., is at the head of the syn¬ 
dicate. It has been stated that if the Massa¬ 
chusetts cannot be purchased the syndicate will 
have the designer of the boat draw the plans 
for a sailing craft similar to the Massachusetts. 
In the regatta sailed at Pass Christian during 
the past week Kibosh defeated Cricket by sev¬ 
eral minutes. Kibosh was sailed by Berny Cho- 
tard, while Cricket was handled by Captain Ha¬ 
gan. There were some eighteen in the various 
contests, including motor boats. The regatta 
proved the most successful of the season and 
was largely attended by yachtsmen from New 
Orleans, Biloxi. Mobile Bay. St. Louis and 
various other coast towns. Kibosh and Sea¬ 
wanhaka will sail a match race at West End 
during the week. 
In the regatta held at West End under the 
auspices of the Southern Y. C. Seawanhaka de¬ 
feated Kibosh over a twelve-mile triangular 
course. The time of the craft was: Seawan¬ 
haka, 2.16.51; Kibosh. 2.32.5r. Berny Chotard 
handled Kibosh, while Captain Keep sailed the 
Seawanhaka. The race was right interesting 
and was witnessed' by a large crowd. The vic¬ 
tor clearly won over her rival. The breeze was 
very poor for some time, but freshened up con¬ 
siderably towards the latter part of the race. 
The regatta of Saturday at West End was 
participated in by numerous craft and was in¬ 
teresting. Agnes won from Susie B. by 12 sec¬ 
onds. Cricket, of Mobile, won from Cadillac 
and Chewink III. Seawanhaka won without 
any opposition in her class. Alpha Tan won 
from Dolphin. Sinner won over two compet¬ 
itors. The regatta season has now closed of 
the Southern Y. C. and along the gulf coast. 
The season has been successful and interesting. 
The various regattas along the coast have been 
fairly well attended, but the interest in them 
has not been as great as in former years. Nei¬ 
ther have the motor boats distinguished them¬ 
selves this summer. It is stated that more in¬ 
terest will be taken in the craft next summer. 
A number who have given much time to both 
sailing and motor boating now seem to be giv¬ 
ing more attention to automobiling and other 
pleasures and diversions. 
A number of yachtsmen are seriously consid¬ 
ering the plan of forming a syndicate for the 
purpose of having a sloop built which will de¬ 
feat Cricket, which belongs 1 to a Mobile syndi¬ 
cate. Cricket is the champion of the Southern 
waters-. The members of the Southern Y. C. 
want a boat which can win the championship 
and do not relish the fact that Mobile has the 
champion in Cricket. 
Inter City Match. 
The 31-raters of Eastern waters Amoret, Ma- 
vourneen and Timandra are to come around 
the Cape this week and sail a series of races 
against the New York boats Cara Mia, Wind¬ 
ward and Mimosa III. This series of races 
will be one of the most interesting of the sea¬ 
son. Only recently Mavourneen came to New 
York waters to sail for the Manhasset Bay Cup 
and was beaten by Cara Mia in a series of races 
sailed in light weather. Mavourneen on her 
showing made in Eastern waters this year is a 
light weather boat and she was consequently 
beaten in weather just to her liking. With 
three yachts representing Eastern sailors they 
have vessels good in all conditions and the 
three New York boats are also good whether 
it blows high or low. These races are to be 
sailed during the race week of the Atlantic 
Y. C., which begins next Wednesday after¬ 
noon. 
The terms of the match have not been def¬ 
initely arranged yet. but will be as soon as 
the owners of the boats can be got together. 
The points system will probably be used to de¬ 
termine the winner. 
Boston yachtsmen seem to be misinformed 
about the New York boats Cara Mia and Wind¬ 
ward. They think they are racing machines and 
at a disadvantage with their craft. The Boston 
Globe says: "These boats are out and out rac¬ 
ing machines lightened down to the lowest pos¬ 
sible amount in construction and are mere 
shells. On the other hand, our 31-raters are 
built to scantling, cabin house, freeboard and 
cruising restrictions. In fact, the boats here 
are fully equipped for cruising off shore.” 
Cara Mia and Windward are by no means 
racing shells. They have just returned from 
the ten days’ cruise of the New York Y. C., 
and their owners and friends lived on board 
during the whole cruise. They, too. were built 
to the rules and to scantling restrictions and to 
be enrolled in the New York Y. C. must come 
uo to the cruising requirements. Before criti¬ 
cising it would be well to study the models and 
constructions of the New York boats,and it 
will be seen that they are every bit as,good as 
the Eastern yachts. 
