Records for Big Sloops. 
The 65-footers Aurora, Istalena and Win¬ 
some. although they have just finished their 
fourth season of racing, proved to be just as in¬ 
teresting as a racing class as the year they 
first made their appearance, 1907. They sailed 
very closely in all their races, and the total 
elapsed times for the aggregate of miles sailed 
is rather remarkable and shows that even then 
they are very close together. These three 
yachts are of one design, but since they were 
built some changes of trim have been made, so 
that it is not altogether a matter of handling, 
and one yacht is a little better than another on 
different points of sailing. 
Aurora is owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
and this year she was sailed in all her races by 
W. Butler Duncan, Jr., and he made a fine 
collection of cups and trophies. Istalena is 
owned and sailed by G. Mallory Pynchon, and 
Winsome is owned and sailed by Henry F. 
Lippitt. 
Since the season opened with the regatta of 
the New Rochelle Y. C., there have been thirty- 
four races sailed in which these yachts have 
started. In addition, to these, during the cruise 
of the New York Y. C. they not only sailed as 
a class in the squadron runs, but sailed against 
smaller sloops and yawls in races for special 
trophies. 
All three started in every race scheduled, and, 
except in one race, all three finished without 
losing a spar or having any serious accident. 
This is rather remarkable and shows how well 
the yachts are rigged and how cleverly they 
were handled because at times they were caught 
in some good hard blows. The only accident 
was in the second race of the Atlantic Y. C. off 
Sandy Hook. Istalena parted her jib stay and 
sprung her bowsprit and was forced to with¬ 
draw. In one race Winsome did not finish. 
That was in the spring regatta of the Larch- 
mont Y. C. when the racers were caught in a 
hard squall, and Winsome, being the last of the 
trio and with no chance of winning, withdrew. 
With these two exceptions, the three yachts 
finished every race, which is also a remarkable 
fact in connection with their racing. 
Aurora has the best record for the season. 
She won 16 firsts and 12 seconds. Istalena 
won 10 firsts and 11 seconds, and Winsome won 
8 firsts and 11 seconds. Istalena started off 
well, and by the opening of Larchmont race 
week had seven victories to her credit, while 
Aurora had won four races and Winsome one. 
Just before that race week Winsome had some 
changes made in her rig and rake of mast which 
very much improved her sailing ability, so that 
after that she was nearly always a factor in 
the race. 
When the New York Y. C. cruise began 
Aurora and Istalena were tied with eight vic¬ 
tories each, and Winsome had won three races. 
After that Aurora showed the best work and 
finished the season champion in her class. In 
addition to class prizes she won the Bennett 
cup in the annual regatta of the New York Y. 
C. The Istalena had finished first in this race, 
but was afterward disqualified for having 
fouled Winsome at the start. Aurora won the 
Larchmont Y. C. series prize during the race 
week. During the cruise she won the Astor cup 
because Polaris was disqualified for not leav¬ 
ing a certain buoy on the proper hand, and the 
next day she won the King’s cup. These vic¬ 
tories were to a certain degree luck. Polaris 
could have sailed the right course and won. but 
for the mistake of her skipper, and Aurora, 
being second boat, benefitted by her error. In 
the King’s- cup race Winsome had the race well 
in hand until the last leg. She had done well on 
the wind, and then, in spite of very fluky wind. 
had kept her lead on the second leg. Reaching 
home on the last six miles of the course, 
Aurora, which was astern of Winsome, was 
favored by a little breeze which enabled her to 
gain enough to win the race by a few seconds. 
The total distance sailed in the thirty-four 
races was 955 nautical miles. The total time 
of Aurora was 132 hours 9 minutes 17 seconds. 
Istalena sailed in all 92414 miles, having with¬ 
drawn from the second Atlantic race. Her 
time for that distance was 130 hours 56 minutes 
53 seconds. Winsome did not complete one 
race off Larchmant, and in all she sailed 925 
miles in 130 hours 6 minutes 56 seconds. 
In all these three yachts sailed together 
894P2 miles, after having eliminated the races 
in which Istalena and Winsome did not finish. 
The time of Aurora for that distance was 124 
hours 10 minutes 11 seconds, for Winsome 126 
hours 15 minutes 34 seconds and for Istalena 
126 hours 48 minutes 30 seconds. This shows 
that after sailing 894^2 miles, Aurora had beaten 
Winsome 2 hours 5 minutes 23 seconds, and she 
had beaten Istalena 2 hours 38 minutes 19 sec¬ 
onds. Over the same distance Winsome had 
beaten Istalena 32 minutes 56 seconds. 
During the cruise of the New York Y. C. 
these three yachts sailed 29 miles, and, strange 
to say, Winsome made the best total time, 38 
hours 52 minutes 31 seconds-. Aurora’ time was 
38 hours 57 minutes 59 seconds, and Istalena’s 
time was 39 hours 50 minutes 27 seconds. 
It was on the cruise that the speed of the 
new §himna, owned by Morton F. Plant and 
sailed by Addison G. Hanan, could be properly 
compared with the speed of other yachts be¬ 
cause they all sailed the same course. Shimna 
is a much smaller yacht than the 65-footers, but 
she made a remarkably good showing. She 
sailed the 299 miles in 40 hours 39 minutes 23 
seconds. Winsome rates at 65, Aurora at 64.8, 
and Shimna at 54.6, so that the 65-footers had 
to allow Shimna 25.59 seconds a mile. The total 
allowance for the 299 miles would be 2 hours 7 
minutes 32 seconds, so that Shimna’s corrected 
time would be 38 hours 32 minutes 51 seconds, 
or several minutes faster than the best of the 
65-footers. 
While Avenger was in commission Shimna 
met her eleven times and won seven races 
and once sailed a dead heat with the older boat. 
Twice she sailed races against the Class M 
sloops and won both easily, and during the 
cruise she won the Commodore’s, Vice-Commo¬ 
dore’s and Rear-Commodore's cups when sailing 
against the 65-footers. 
In Class M the racing was interesting be¬ 
cause- the four sloops which took part in most 
of the races were designed to sail under dif¬ 
ferent rules. Eleanora was built to the old 
Seawanhaka rule of sail area and waterline 
length, Irondequoit was built to the lake rule 
which took into consideration 75 per cent, of 
displacement. Gardenia was built to the Hyslop 
rule which was adopted by the Larchmont Y. 
C. for a short time, and Adventuress was built 
to the present rule. Naturally Adventuress fits 
the rule well, and Irondequoit also measures 
very favorably, while Eleanora suffers much 
through light displacement and sail area. 
Irondequoit, which was sailed this season by 
A. H. W. Johnson, was put in fine shape 
for racing by ber owner, H. G. S. Noble, and 
secured 7 first prizes and 9 seconds. Ad¬ 
venturess won 7 firsts and 3 seconds, Eleanora 
2 firsts and 5 seconds, the yawl Polaris 3 firsts 
and 2 seconds, and Gardenia 1 second. 
In all seven yachts raced in this class. There 
were nineteen races and in all eighty-two 
starters in those races. It is very probable that 
next season Adventuress, Irondequoit. Elea¬ 
nora and Gardenia will race together under 
some special rule which the owners will agree to. 
Handicap Yacht Racing of L. I. Sound. 
The prejudice which at one time existed very 
strongly among yacht owners, against com¬ 
peting under the % sign of the handicap yacht 
racing class of Long Island Sound has evidently 
disappeared. The class chronicled in 1910 the 
most successful season it has known, and in 
furnishing to hundreds of yachtsmen the op¬ 
portunity to indulge in their favorite pastime, 
it gave to the Sound regattas more than half 
their fleets, and did great work in developing 
ability among our Corinthians. Every day the 
utility of this flourishing organization is be¬ 
coming more apparent. 
There are hardly two more successful craft 
than W. H. Child’s More Joy among Q boats, 
and B. S. Litchfield’s Hoyden among S boats, 
yet both found it advisable to take membership 
in the handicap class. After they had gone two 
or three times to big regattas without being 
able to race for lack of opponents, they decided 
to provide against any more disappointment 
by joining the class. Now they are always 
sure of competition. 
During the summer of 1910, handicap boats 
gave 381 starts, while competing ,as a class, 
which does not include long distance events, 
waterway races, special matches, etc., in which 
they had to compete against all-comers, usu¬ 
ally on universal rating. 
The fleet was split into five divisions, each 
of which raced as a separate class. Nearly two 
hundred prizes were won by members, and 
among them every first in the long distance 
events. Wanderer IV. took the Block Island 
race; Waialua the ocean challenge cup of the 
Brooklyn Y. C.; More Joy the first Cornfield 
race; Victory the second one, and Crescent the 
Stratford Shoal event. One and all are handi¬ 
cap class boats. The victories are the more re¬ 
markable that except in the Block Island run 
universal rules of measurement were in force, 
and this naturally placed the older type of 
boat at a disadvantage against such crack 
modern craft as Cara Mia, Windward, and sev¬ 
eral others which competed. 
Crescent, owned by Rear-Commodore A. G. 
Hill, of the Staten Island Y. C.. proved the 
most successful boat of 1910 in the entire class. 
She not only took the greatest number of 
prizes over the short triangular courses—7 
firsts, 4 seconds and 3 thirds out of sixteen 
starts—but aggregated more points than any 
other boat on Long Island Sound in the open 
cruising events, thus earning the right to fly 
the championship pennant for long distance 
sailing. 
Among the other successful craft in the first 
division were Robert Bavier’s Interim with 6 
firsts, 4 seconds and 5 thirds, out of 21 starts, 
and A. E. Black’s Sally IX., with 5 firsts (one 
a sailover), 7 seconds and 1 third out of 18 
starts. 
George Granberry’s. Scud leads the second 
division with 6 firsts, 2 seconds and 1 third; 
and F. L. Vulte’s Quest is next with 5 firsts, 
1 second and 2 thirds. 
The third division, composed entirely of race- 
abouts, was less active than usual, owing to the 
American Y. C. monotypes' racing separately 
and Chewink and Rascal III. often starting in 
the open raceabout class. The leadership of 
this division rests between these two boats. 
Hazen Morse’s Chinook won 5 firsts, 6 seconds 
and 3 thirds, out of 14 starts, taking most prizes, 
but S. C. Hopkins’ Rascal III. made a far bet¬ 
ter average, registering 6 firsts, 1 second and 1 
third, out of only 8 starts. 
There is small difference between the three 
top boats in the fourth division. Phil. Howard’s 
Ramea -has to her credit 5 firsts, 2 seconds and 
1 third; W. R. Berth’s Kenosha I., 3 firsts, 4 
