Oct 8, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
583 
FLEET WELL BUNCHED AT A TURNING MARK. 
Virginia’s Fine Record. 
The record made by the sloop yacht Virginia, 
owned and sailed by Hollis Burgess, is probably 
the best made by any one yacht this year. Out 
of fifteen starts in the regattas of the Boston 
Y. C. and the Inter Club Association, Virginia 
won thirteen firsts, one second and one sixth. 
Virginia won the Boston Y. C. championship in 
the first special rating class with a perfect per¬ 
centage. which means a victory in every race 
sailed. She won the Corinthian club's midsum¬ 
mer series prize with three straight firsts 'and 
won the trophy for the highest number of points 
scored on the daily runs of the Boston Y. C.’s 
cruise from Marblehead to Boothbay Harbor; 
won the trophy offered by the Quincy Y. C. for 
the annual run from Quincy to Marblehead; won 
the trophy offered by the Corinthian Y. C. for 
the smaller class in the midnight ocean race 
from Marblehead to Boston Lightship, thence to 
Eastern Point and return to Marblehead; dis¬ 
tance, thirty-five miles. 
Virginia is easily the fastest 25-footer in local 
waters, and is very fast in all conditions. She 
has often beaten the new Class P boats, boat 
for boat, although they are seven feet longer 
on the waterline, and with the regular time 
allowance, which she receives, is a good match 
any time for any of the class P boats. 
Virginia, formerly named Nike, had been laid 
up for three years in Cold Spring Harbor where 
she was purchased by Mr. Burgess and was for¬ 
merly owned by Victor T. Cumnock, of New 
York. She was built by Herreshoff ten years 
ago, is forty-one feet over all twenty-five feet 
waterline, ten feet beam and six feet draft. She 
carries almost 1,100 feet of sail, has about 9,000 
pounds of lead on keel and has a large cabin, 
making her a good cruising boat as well as a 
racing boat. Virginia has a locker fiiled with 
valuable trophies as a result of this season’s 
racing, and her remarkable record has attracted 
much attention in the yachting world. 
Holystones. 
The 'learned Recorder of the City of London 
appeared to be nonplussed at the expression 
"holystoning decks” which fell from a witness 
in a marine larceny case tried before him on 
Sept. 12. His lordship repeated the phrase, mus¬ 
ingly and wonderingly, and casually asked what 
there was “holy'’ in the operation. It is, we be¬ 
lieve, accredited tradition that the term arose 
from the discovery by the Navy, in NelsQnian 
®r earlier days, that derelict wave washed, tomb 
stones from the submerged portion of old Brad- 
ing church yard were highly suitable for scour¬ 
ing and whitening decks of men of war. The 
inroad of the sea at this place had ravaged the 
old burial ground, and this jetsam of old me¬ 
morials of Brading parishioners was a white 
friable rock which admirably suited the purpose 
when men of war lay at Spithead or were 
weatherbound under Bembridge Point. Sailors, 
having superstitious reverence for consecrated 
ground, entitled these stones “holy,” and be¬ 
lieved that they brought luck with their use. 
In course of time the phrase became a standard 
nautical term, in merchant service as well as the 
Navy, for any similar material employed for 
deck scrubbing.—The Field. 
Sonder Corinthian Sold. 
The Hollis Burgess yacht agency has sold the 
Sonder boat Corinthian, owned by Chas. P. Cur¬ 
tis, Jr., of Boston, to Thomas R. Mould, of 
Jamaica, a member of the Royal Jamaica Y. C., 
Kingston, Jamaica. 
New Spars for Ingomar. 
The schooner yacht Ingomar, once raced suc¬ 
cessfully by Morton F. Plant on both sides of 
the Atlantic and now' owned by D. E. Hanna, 
of Cleveland, is at Bristol getting new spars and 
sails. The yacht was to have been fitted out 
for racing early in the season, but Mr. Hanna 
had to change his plans, and the yacht was 
moored off City Island all the summer. She was 
recently towed to Bristol where she will receive 
her new spars, rigging and sails, and then be 
taken back to City Island and laid up. She will 
be commissioned early next year and raced. 
Long Cruise of Alcedo. 
George W. Childs Drexel has had the steam 
yacht Alcedo prepared for a long voyage. The 
yacht is now at anchor in the Delaware and will 
leave about Oct. 10 for Liberia and the west 
coast of Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Childs and sev¬ 
eral friends are to make the party on board. 
Many ports on the African coast are to be 
visited, and then passing around the Cape the 
yacht will go through the Persia Gulf and into 
the Mediterranean before returning home. The 
cruise will be more than 20,000 miles and will 
last several months. 
To Sell Club Station. 
The Rhode Island Y. C. at a recent meeting 
decided to sell its station at Prudence Island. 
This station has never been a success and had 
not been supported by the members of the club. 
A nominating committee was appointed to pre¬ 
pare a ticket to be submitted to the members 
on Oct. 26. This committee is Harry K. Kim¬ 
ball, Fred. Nock, T. R. Goodwin, Scott Burling- 
hame and George Browmell. 
