Some News and a Little Gossip. 
The New York Y. C. at its last meeting chose 
a nominating committee to select officers and 
members of standing committees for next sea¬ 
son. This committee will prepare a ticket which 
will be submitted to the members at the next 
meeting of the club. The committee is: Former 
Commodore J. Pierpont Morgan, former Com¬ 
modore Lewis Cass Ledyard, former Commo¬ 
dore Frederick G. Bourne, Stuyvesant Wain- 
wright, F. H. von Slade, R. P. Doremus, Col. 
Daniel Appleton, W. Butler Duncan, Jr., Wilson 
Marshall and Newberry D. Thorne. 
Captain Charles Barr, who sailed Westward 
in all her races, and in fact every time she has 
been under sail since she was launched, says 
that she is the best yacht he has ever handled. 
Captain Barr sailed Columbia, Reliance, Ingo- 
mar. Corona, Minerva, Navahoe, Mineola and 
many other famous vessels, and he should know 
what he is saying. Some think that Westward’s 
successes may be the means of changing condi¬ 
tions relating to America’s cup. The New York 
Y. C. still insists that an obsolete rule shall gov¬ 
ern. This rule has produced a racing machine 
pure and simple. Now Herreshoff has shown 
that under the European rule he can turn out a 
vessel able, staunch and fast, and those custo¬ 
dians of the cup should not fear for its safety 
if they accepted what the world would consider 
a fair sportsmanlike match. 
The regatta committee of the Boston Y. C. 
has announced that next season it will hold a 
series of six open races for catboats. These 
will be sailed on Hull Bay, two each day until 
the series is ended. Three trophies are to be 
offered and there will also be cash prizes in each 
race. The Cape Catboat Association is to deter¬ 
mine the rule for rating, and the opinion is that 
the yachts will be rated on over-all length. The 
races are to be. sailed about the same time as the 
series for the Inter Bay Challenge Cup. That 
trophy will attract catboats from Narragansett 
Bay, Barnegat Bay and possibly from other 
yachting centers to eastern waters. 
The Yachtsman's Club of Philadelphia is to 
have a new home. At a meeting held recently, 
at which 75 per cent, of the members were pres¬ 
ent, it was decided to lease for a term of years 
the house at 1317 Locust street, Philadelphia. 
The club has the privilege of purchasing the 
property. It was also voted to spend $7,000 in 
fitting out the new club house which will be 
ready for occupancy next month. Commodore 
J. G. N. Whitaker has accomplished two big 
things during his term of office. He succeeded 
in making the motor boat race to Havana one 
of the best ever conducted, and now has se¬ 
cured quarters for the club which will place it 
in the ranks of the leading yachting organiza¬ 
tions of this country. Next season the mem¬ 
bers are planning to have a cruise going to the 
eastward, possibly as far as Bar Harbor. 
The Lynn Y. C.. which has grown wonder¬ 
fully of late, is to have a new home which will 
cost $15,000. Plans and specifications have been 
submitted to the members, and a special com¬ 
mittee has been appointed to take charge of the 
scheme. 
There is every indication that next season will 
see quite a boom in schooner racing. This must 
be credited to the successes of the schooner 
Westward. The yacht has shown speed, strength 
and seaworthiness, and at the same time makes 
a most comfortable cruiser. The European rule 
has been thoroughly tried and proven to be a 
good one, and there is no doubt that the Ameri¬ 
can rule can produce a vessel just as good as 
Westward. Some yachtsmen will doubtless this 
winter try to improve on Westward and be 
ready to meet that yacht when she returns to 
these waters, if she does do so. There have 
been rumors that she has been sold to a British 
yachtsman. 
According to a well known designer. West¬ 
ward has given an impetus to schooner racing 
not only on the other side of the Atlantic where 
it is reported vessels are to be built this winter 
to try to beat the American, but on this side 
where schooners are to be built this winter. In 
these waters there was little schooner racing out¬ 
side the cruising runs of the New York Y. C. 
On that cruise, however, the fleet was a large 
one, and several classes filled well. Years ago 
the schooner classes furnished the best yacht 
racing, but of late years the single sticker has 
been the most popular type. Now it is said that 
five or six schooners are to be built this winter, 
and these, with those already built, will make 
the season of 1911 a memorable one. These new 
yachts will in all probability be in the 55-foot, 
65-foot and 75-foot classes, and there has been 
talk of one and possibly two being built for the 
Queen class. 
The present rule seems rather to favor the 
smaller yachts. “LTnder this rule,” said this de¬ 
signer, “schooners are classified at go per cent, 
of their actual rating, and in some way the be¬ 
lief has gained credence that on account of this 
the larger schooner will allow only 90 per cent, 
of the actual time allowance to the smaller one, 
and that consequently the smaller yacht is at a 
disadvantage. As a matter ,of fact it is just the 
other way and really the larger yacht is at a 
disadvantage. This will be shown if the figures 
are studied. Take for instance two schooners, 
one rating 88 and the other 55. That is their 
actual rating. The time allowance tables make 
the 88-foot schooner allow the 55-foot schooner 
61.01 seconds a mile. 
“At go per cent, of their actual rating, how¬ 
ever, the 88-foot schooner rates at 79.21 and the 
s5-foot schooner at 49.50. and the allowance in 
favor of the smaller yacht is 64.28 seconds a 
mile. This would seem to show that a yachts¬ 
man does not have to build in the larger class 
in order to have a chance to win, but the allow¬ 
ance is increased more by having a smaller yacht. 
The time allowance tables are calculated on a 
basis of 60 per cent, of the theoretical allow¬ 
ance, so that the allowance between schooners is 
increased to 63.25 per cent, of the theoretical 
allowance. It is the general belief that a large 
schooner compares more favorably with the 
sloop than the small schooner, so that this slight 
difference in favor of the smaller schooner is 
just as it should be.” 
The records of the handicap class were printed 
last week. Tt seems that during Larchmont race 
week there was a slight mix-up. Rascal III. and 
others of the one-design raceabout class were 
racing- in one special class and not in the handi¬ 
cap division, hence the mistake which is pointed 
out by George E. Gart’and in a letter 
“I read with much interest your article on the 
handicap class. Tn the third division, however, 
in which my Robin Hood II. competed, vou have 
credited me with seven starts, four firsts and 
two thirds. The seven starts is correct, but T 
should be credited with five firsts as follows: 
Indian Harbor annual, one: Indian Harbor fall, 
one; Larchmont race week, three, as follows: 
Saturday, July 16; Thursday. July 21; and Satur¬ 
day, July 23. The other races in which T started 
was at Stamford annual, one third; and at 
Larchmont on Labor Day. one fourth. 
“In the race of July 16 at Larchmont the news- 
papers gave credit to Rascal III. as winning in 
the third division. As a matter of fact, how¬ 
ever, Messrs. Morse, of the Chinook, and Hop¬ 
kins, of Rascal III., agreed to sail in the race¬ 
about class during race week, and both started 
on that day in the raceabout class on its signal 
at 12 :os, the signal of the third division being 
at 12:15. This would make me the winner of 
three firsts out of three starts in race week and 
winner of the series prize. 
“Cliphora, that you have in the third division, 
is not a member of the class so far as I know. 
She simply sailed in one race at Stamford and 
asked the committee to be allowed to sail against 
the third division’s best time, not having a com¬ 
petitor.” 
William Fife has agreed to build a racing 
schooner of the first class to race against West¬ 
ward. The name of the yachtsman who is to 
race this yacht is at present a secret. 
Records of 30-footers. 
The New York 30-footers this year ended 
their sixth season, and this one-design class 
seems to be just as popular as when it first made 
its appearance in 1905. Eleven of the class took 
part in the season’s racing, and as usual the 
races were closely contested. This class is prob¬ 
ably the most popular one ever built, and the 
yachts bid fair to last for several more seasons 
and are just as hard to purchase as they were 
after their first season’s racing. Originally the 
class was nineteen yachts. They were built by 
Herreshoff in 1905 at a cost of $4,000 each. Each 
season the owners form a committee to frame 
rules to govern the season’s sport and to ar¬ 
range for prizes for which they shall sail. This 
year the committee was Johnston de Forest, Ed¬ 
ward P. Alker and George E. Roosevelt. Two 
series of races were arranged for sweepstakes 
and one series taking in all the races of the 
other two which was called the championship 
series, and the prizes were cups. For the sweep- 
stakes the owners subscribed $20 each and the 
total sum was divided equally between the win¬ 
ners of the two series of races. For the cham¬ 
pionship series the prize was a cup worth $200 
to the winner, a $100 cup to second and a $50 
cup to third. In addition to these series races 
the yachts raced in regular regattas for the cham¬ 
pionship of Long Island Sound. The full record 
of these yachts is shown in the following: 
Yacht. Starts, lsts. 2ds. 3ds. 
Alera, J. W. and E. P. Alker.. 28 12 4 7 
Nepsi, Johnston de Forest. 28 9 7 5 
Phryne, J. P. Morgan, Jr. 28 7 7 4 
Caprice, Ralph N. Ellis. 25 3 7 5 
Dahinda, G. E. Roosevelt . 24 '2 0 3 
Rowdy, H. S. Duell . 24 1 4 1 
Nautilus, E. E. Dickson, Jr. 6 0 1 0 
Banzai, Gottfried Piel . 4 0 1 0 
Ibis, H. W. Maxwell . 7 0 0 1 
Juanita, S. C. Hunter . 6 0 0 1 
Carmelita, F. T. Catlin. 5 0 0 0 
There were thirty-four races in which these 
yachts took part, and the total number of starters 
in these was 185, making an average of more 
than five starting in each race. 
Alera started in twenty-eight races and she 
won twelve, which is a fine showing for a yacht 
in a class where handling counts for everything. 
Alera won the championship of Long Island 
Sound and the class championship. 
In the series races the records are: 
FIRST SERIES, EIGHT RACES. 
Yacht. Starts. Firsts. Seconds. Thirds. Per Cent. 
Nepsi . 6 3 2 1 .^16 
Alera . 6 3 1 1 .854 
Caprice . 7 2 1 2 .78(5 
Phryne . 5 0 2 0 .675 
Ibis . c. 6 0 0 1 .291 
Dahinda . 5 0 0 0 . 200 
Rowdy . 4 0 1 1 *... 
Nautilus . I 0 0 0 — 
Rowdy' and Nautilus did not sail in races 
enough to qualify. 
