FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 15, 1910. 
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tive prizes ottered and with every inducement 
given 10 visiting yacntsmen, 1 nruiiy Delieve 
tnat Nairaganseu uay siioulu come to tne iront 
once more as an important yacncmg center 111 
this country. 
“I hilly agree with Mr. Barnes that the big 
sloops, such as 22- and 25-ioOLers, like May 
Queen and Medric, are ideal boats lor racing 
on W arragansett Bay. The 18-footers are a 
splendid class and otter a great deal of sport, 
but it is pititul to think that a great sheet of 
water like hi arragansett Bay should have these 
small boats as its leading class. 
"1 think there are two main reasons why 
yacht racing has fallen off on this bay. One is 
too many protests; the other, lack of hospitality 
to visiting yachtsmen. In my experience in 
racing along the coast I have never seen so 
many protests filed in racing as on Narra- 
gansett Bay. The desire to win at any cost, 
which is an essentially American feeling, is alto¬ 
gether too prevalent on Narragansett Bay. Pro¬ 
tests have often been filed for the most trivial 
reasons and ‘sea lawyers’ are very numerous 
along the bay. These protests engender bad 
feeling and have driven many a good yachtsman 
out of the game forever. 
“To show that it is not necessary to have so 
many protests, I will point out that during the 
Sonder class racing at Marblehead this summer 
there was not a single protest issued, though 
several times boats having fouled marks of 
other boats voluntarily withdrew. The spirit 
throughout the Sonder racing has been to race 
in a gentlemanly way, to withdraw if you were 
in the wrong and not to try to win a race by 
protesting another boat for some slight in¬ 
fringement of the rules. I believe that if a 
heavy penalty was inflicted upon a yacht mak¬ 
ing a protest which was not sustained by the 
judges, much fewer protests would be heard of. 
Yacht racing is a gentleman’s game and the 
practice of trying to win by disqualifying other 
boats should be frowned upon. 
“The other question—lack of hospitality to 
visiting yachtsmen—seems to me of great im¬ 
portance. In Marblehead, on Long Island 
Sound, as well as other yachting centers, every 
inducement is offered to encourage visiting 
yachtsmen to race. Special courtesies are shown 
them and everything is done to make them feel 
at home. So-called local feeling is all wrong. 
If a man comes from Boston or New York and 
wins a race on Narragansett Bay, it seems to 
me that his victory should be applauded and 
that local yachtsmen should show the proper 
appreciation of his good luck. Yacht racing is 
too big a sport to be localized and zest is 
added to the game in any locality if yachtsmen 
from other places are present. 
“If the Narragansett Bay Yacht Racing As¬ 
sociation will do its best to discourage protests, 
will give many well-managed races and will 
offer every inducement to yachtsmen to come 
to the bay from Marblehead, Long Island and 
elsewhere. I feel confident that Narragansett 
Bay. the finest place for yachting in the coun¬ 
try through its natural location, will once more 
regain its position as a yachting center. Narra¬ 
gansett Bay yachtsmen are too good sportsmen 
to let the good name of Narragansett Bay sink 
into obscurity, and I am certain that a renewal 
of intere f in the great sport is at hand.” 
Cruise of Wanata. 
^ • D. Baker, owner of the sloop Wanata, 
John Hyde and Walter H. Funke, all members 
of the Bayside Y. C., made a cruise last summer 
in Eastern waters, and Mr. Funke wrote a story 
of that cruise which was published in the Log 
Book of the Bayside Y. C. Tt is a good story 
of a thrilling experience. It is dated from 
Gloucester. July 24, and is as follows: 
While the boys are ashore buying grub I am 
gome to write you a few words about the doings 
t ik C T T P j St week since W - D - Baker (owner), 
lonn Hyde and myself left the mooring at the 
Bavside Y. C. 
The ship’s clock struck eight bells as we an- 
chored off the yacht club here this morning in a 
drizzling rain after an all night run. Day was 
just commencing to break as we stretched our 
tired out limbs on the bunks, and the air was 
chilly, but we soon thawed out under our heavy 
blankets. 
Had a great experience last Wednesday while 
trying to reach Cape Cod. On our way out we 
encountered high seas and thick fog; decided 
to put back. Running down the home stretch 
we struck a sand shoal about three miles off 
shore. ' We sailed by compass, but the tide must 
have carried us on top of it. When she struck 
we lowered sail immediately to take off as much 
strain as possible. The breakers were washing 
over her side for three hours, pounding to beat 
the band. We expected to see the mast go at 
any time. It looked bad for the good ship the 
way she was tossed around. We stuck to her 
and pumped all the time, preventing her from 
filling. We knew if she capsized it would be 
the end of her, so we got our suit cases together 
and transferred them to the dinghy. Finally a 
native came alongside in his catboat and offered 
his services. We then piled all our luggage on 
board his boat, and after hard work we man¬ 
aged to float her with the flood tide and the 
valuable assistance of the native. 
We left Chatham yesterday at 5:30 a. m. (we 
had been there three days) just simply disgusted 
with the place, and made the longest run that 
day of the whole cruise—over one hundred miles. 
Rounding; Monomoy Point (the last harbor be¬ 
fore reaching Provincetown in back of Cape 
Cod) we had to stand a good ways offshore to 
prevent being washed up on the sand shoals. 
The ocean was rough and we had our stern to 
the seas the entire way along the coast. I 
counted twenty-eight working schooners, the 
majority of them heading west. 
We carried full sail for a while, but soon had 
to tie in a double reef, as the wind came up 
very strong. Reaching Cape Cod a little ahead 
of time we decided not to run in back of the 
Cape to Provincetown, but instead hold our 
course and make Gloucester early next morn¬ 
ing. About midnight the wind let up a little, 
shifting more to the northeast. With sheets 
started a wee bit, finally made out the twin 
lights off Cape Ann, then about fifteen miles off¬ 
shore. After spotting these we had little trouble 
in finding our way into the harbor. Massachu¬ 
setts Bay is an enormous body of water. Sail¬ 
ing across it you cannot see land on either side. 
The country through here is beautiful with 
its high cliffs and wonderful homes. Great fish¬ 
ing center. The boat was hauled out Monday 
for repairs, as she strained her plankings off 
Chatham on the “Common Flats” in the episode 
which I have told you of earlier in my letter. 
The rest of my story shall be related by this 
clipping from the Gloucester Daily Times of 
July 22: 
“Walter Funke and John Hyde, two New 
York young men, who are here on a vacation 
trip in the sloop yacht Wanata, owned by W. D. 
Baker, of New York, had a thrilling experience 
in their yacht off the East Gloucester shore near 
Bass Rocks, last evening, and were rescued from 
their perilous position by Capt. Nelson M. King, 
of the Dolliver’s Neck Life Saving Station. 
“Yesterday Mr. Baker had some business in 
Boston and the two young men, who are well 
able to handle a boat, went out on a fishing 
trip. They started from the East Gloucester 
Y. C. early in the morning and sailed down the 
shore, taking in quite a number of fish, and 
along towards evening started to return, but en¬ 
countered a strong head southwest wind. 
“The boat is a narrow one of the racing type, 
and it was difficult to put her up against the 
head wind and tide and expect her to eat her 
way up to windward under the prevailing con¬ 
ditions. A puff of wind.caught the jib early in 
the evening and tore it into ribbons. 
“The sea was rough and it was blowing a 
good sized gale. 
“The young men stood gallantly to their task 
to make this port, but they were up against it 
good and plenty and could not make any great 
headway. 
“For more than three hours they were thrashed 
about in the heavy sea and adverse tide, making 
not the slightest headway to their destination. 
The people at the Moorland Hotel fortunately 
noted the predicament in which the crippled 
craft was and telephoned to Captain King, of 
the life saving station. 
“The captain was all alone at the time, as the 
members of the crew were dispersed on their 
annual summer lay off, but he put out the big 
power lifeboat, and made a quick run to the 
disabled boat. When he arrived on the scene 
the two young men were pretty well exhausted 
and Hyde was pretty well near all in. 
“Captain King gave them a line and towed 
the boat into harbor, landing the young men at 
the Rockaway house float, and they were given 
a change of clothing, some warm food and a 
lied at the hotel for the night. This morning 
they appeared to be all right and again took up 
their quarters on the yacht. 
“They had been out all day, without anything 
to eat, were wet, cold and hungry and pretty 
well used up when Captain King made his wel¬ 
come appearance with the power lifeboat.” 
jfc ^ ^ 
Well, it certainly was some cruise, but we 
had a fine time. Business compels me now to 
return home, but Baker will keep on to the coast 
of Maine. Walter H. Funke. 
Sound Championships. 
Secretary J. W. Alker, of the Yacht Racing 
Association of Long Island Sound, has an¬ 
nounced the winner of the championship 
pennants for the season of 1910. 
In Class P, 31-raters, Stuyvesant Wainwright’s 
Cara Mia is the winner. This yacht has a fine 
record, having won many races from Windward, 
Mimosa III. and others in her class, and won 
the Manhasset Bay challenge cup, which is now 
held by the American Y. C. In that series of 
races she defeated Mavourneen representing the 
Corinthian Y. C., of Marblehead, and Wind¬ 
ward, the defending yacht of the Indian Harbor 
Y. C. 
Alera, owned by J. W. and E. P. Alker, has 
won the championship in the class for the New 
York Y. C. 30-footers. The racing in this class 
was of the best. Many yachts took part, and 
every race was most closely contested. 
Hoyden, owned by B. S. Litchfield, won in 
Class R. This is a Mower-designed boat and 
has been a winner now for several seasons. 
There is talk of others being built to sail in 
this class, which is the only one of the small 
ones that does not fill well. 
In Class S the winner is Nereid, owned by J. 
B. Shethar. Nereid was built two years ago 
from designs by H. J. Gielow for the Lipton 
cup races sailed on the Lower Bay. She fin¬ 
ished third in that series. Mr. Southard pur¬ 
chased the yacht last spring. 
The Larchmont inter-club class had ten yachts 
racing it it. These were built from designs by 
William Gardner, and the championship winner 
is Lewanna owned by Spence Brothers. 
H. Duden won the pennant for the Larch¬ 
mont 21-footers with Iola. J. J. Dwyer’s Rascal 
won in the series for the American Y. C. race- 
abouts. Clarkson Cowl’s Ardette won in the 
contests for the Manhasset Bay one-design 
class. The pennant for the Manhasset bug 
class was won by George A. Corry’s Big Bug. 
Motor Hooting. 
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Underbody of Pioneer. 
When the British motor boat Pioneer was 
first tried in the Solent, she turned turtle and 
her owner, the Duke of Westminster very 
nearly lost his life. The yacht was saved, her 
engine thoroughly overhauled and it suffered 
little from its immersion in salt water. While 
the motor boat was floating bottom up, photo¬ 
graphs were taken which show her peculiar 
form of underbody. She has six planes which 
are distinctly shown in the picture. 
