Oct. 29, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
703 
SECOND SERIES. TEN RACES. 
Yacht. Starts. Firsts. Seconds. Thirds. 
Phryne . 12 4 1 2 . 
Alera . 11 3 2 3 
Nepsi . 12 2 3 2 
Dahinda . 11 2 0 0 
Caprice . 12 0 4 2 
Rowdy . 12 0 1 0 
Carmelita . 6 0 0 0 
Nautilus . 6 0 11 
Ibis . 10 0 0 
Juanita . 10 0 0 
The first sweepstakes was won by Nepsi and 
the second by Phryne. 
In the competition for the championship of 
the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island 
Sound the percentages were: Alera, .776; 
Phryne, .712; Nepsi, .671; Caprice, .602; Rowdy, 
.438; Ibis, .333; Nautilus, .333; Dahinda, .328; 
Juanita, .141; Carmelita, .003. 
In the class championship sailed for under 
special rules the percentages were: Alera, .812; 
Nepsi, .794; Phryne, .760; Caprice, .746; Rowdy, 
.564; Dahinda, 444; Nautilus, Ibis and Carmelita 
did not sail the necessary number o fraces to 
qualify. 
Interclub One-Design Class. 
Last winter twelve yachts were built by mem¬ 
bers of the Larchmont and other Sound clubs 
which then formed the Larchmont Inter Club 
Class. William Gardner designed the yachts and 
they are well suited to afternoon sailing and 
racing. Their owners have had lots of sport 
with them and are now looking forward to next 
season. 
These boats are 33 feet 7 inches over-all, 21 
feet 4 inches on the waterline, 7 feet 9 inches 
beam and 5 feet 6 inches draft. They carry 1,900 
pounds of lead on their keels and spread 500 sq. 
ft. of canvas. They were built by Robert Jacob and 
cost $1,000 each. The records of this class for 
the season are: 
Un- 
Starts. 
lsts. 
2ds. 
3ds. 
placed. 
Festina, A. Bryan Alley 
. 16 
8 
2 
0 
6 
Lewanna, Spence Bros.. 
. 23 
5 
5 
3 
10 
Dagmar, P. T. Tierney.. 
. 21 
3 
3 
2 
13 
Hamburg, M. Goldschmidt 19 
0 
4 
2 
13 
Yukan, N. D. Weir ... 
. 19 
2 
3 
5 
9 
Wild Thyme, A. H. Morris 16 
6 
3 
1 
12 
Como, I. R. Edmonds . 
. 16 
i 
2 
1 
12 
Salas, M. B. Pendas ... 
. 8 
i 
0 
4 
3 
Triton, Lawrence Darr. 
. 20 
4 
2 
1 
13 
Babbette, R. P. Clark... 
. 17' 
1 
0 
3 
13 
Three series of races were 
sailed and 
these 
were all won by Festina. 
The class champion- 
ship consisted of twenty 
selected 
races. 
The 
percentages of each 
yacht 
in 
this 
series 
were: 
Festina, .83; Lewanna, .70: Hamburg, .60; 
Yukan, .60; Dagmar, .59; Wild Thyme, .50; 
Como, .46; Salas, .45; Triton, .42; Babbette, .34. 
The series for the championship of Long 
Island Sound extended throughout the season. 
The percentages in that competition were: Fes- 
tina, .775; Lewanna, .66; Hamburg, .60; Yukan, 
.60; Dagmar, .59; Wild Thyme, .50; Como, .47; 
Salas, .47; Triton, .47; Babbette, .36. 
Another series was arranged by the Larch¬ 
mont Y. C. This consisted of twelve races and 
the percentages were: Festina. .99; Lewanna, 
.87; Dagmar, .73; Hamburg, .73; Yukan, .64; 
Wild Thyme, .59; Como, .58; Triton, .44; Bab¬ 
bette, .38; Salas, .37. 
In all, twenty-five races were sailed by these 
yachts, and Lewanna made the most starts— 
twenty-three. Ten yachts took part in these 
races and the total number of starters was 175. 
Festina won Rear-Commodore H. L. Max¬ 
well’s cup for the Larchmont series and the P. 
J. Tierney cup in the championship series. 
Lewanna won the R. E. Robinson cup for 
second place in the Larchmont series and the 
Wilson Marshall cup for Larchmont race week 
series. 
L. G. Spence won the helmsman’s prize' offered 
by A. Bryan Allen. 
Dagmar won the H. F. Lippett prize, being 
third in the Larchmont series. 
The class is to be continued next season and 
raced. A committee of owners is now consider¬ 
ing suggestions toward adding, if possible, to the 
attractions of the competitions, and it is pos¬ 
sible that other yachtsmen seeing the advantages 
of the class for afternoon sport will build more 
boats. 
To Prevent Mildew on Sails. 
The following is a formula for a mixture to 
prevent mildew on sails, awnings, skylight covers, 
etc.: 
Dissolve one pound of borax in two gallons 
of water and one pound of sugar of lead in two 
gallons of water. Allow each solution to stand 
ten hours, then mix them together, adding twenty 
gallons of clear water and allow to stand for 
five hours. The solution must be agitated thor¬ 
oughly prior to using. The canvas should be 
dipped in or thoroughly painted with this solu¬ 
tion. 
This operation will not restore canvas that is 
mildewed, but it will prevent mildew. It has 
been used successfully for twenty years to pre¬ 
vent mildew on sails, awnings, etc. 
It is sent to Forest and Stream by one who 
says that it has been used successfully for a 
number of years. By treating the canvas with 
the solution it will no doubt greatly lengthen the 
life of the same, as mildew undoubtedly weakens 
that portion of the canvas upon which it accu¬ 
mulates. 
Boating in India. 
Although India distinctly is a country of 
waterways, boating is by no means as popular 
as one might suppose, for the Anglo-Indian is 
apt to neglect this particular opportunity of de¬ 
veloping his muscles and keeping his liver in 
working order, says the Scottish Field. Except 
at Allahabad. Naini Tal, Poonah, Bombay, Cal¬ 
cutta, Lucknow, and one or two other places, 
the river does not attract the exile. 
At Naini Tal, the “hot weather” capital of 
North Western India, where the Government 
officials are to be found during the summer and 
autumn, there is a lake half a mile in length 
and a quarter of a mile broad. Upon its sur¬ 
face innumerable holiday-makers disport them¬ 
selves. the boats often being coxed by ladies; 
friendly contests between rival four-oars oc¬ 
casionally take place; and of an evening the 
soldiers of the depot charter outriggers. Yacht¬ 
ing also is popular, though, owing to the ab¬ 
sence of a strong breeze in this Himalayan 
summer resort, existing records are not as¬ 
tonishing. It also should be noted that during 
the day the white oarsman must wear a “solar 
topee” (sun hat), for so fierce is the sun that 
to go out between the hours of eight and five 
in any other form of head-gear is to court sun¬ 
stroke. Indeed, more than one newcomer—de¬ 
ceived by the comparative coolness of the at¬ 
mosphere—has. with disastrous consequences, 
worn a straw hat or cap. 
Poonah, in Western India, possesses an ex¬ 
cellent boat club, with an extensive member¬ 
ship. Here the European inhabitants of Poonah 
and Kirkee—an adjoining station—are to be 
found every evening. When darkness sets in, 
and prevents the oarsmen from telling the row- 
locks from the stretchers, members adjourn to 
the club building, where they are joined by the 
lady members of the club. The climate, unlike 
that of most “plains stations,” is never un¬ 
pleasant. 
The river at the last-named station, but for 
its exceedingly strong current, is very suitable 
for rowing purposes; it is so broad that as 
many as fifty outriggers may be rowed abreast. 
The residents of the North Western capital, 
however, seldom patronize the river, partly on 
account of its distance from the town. 
In Bombay sea-boating attracts a number of 
people, and in Calcutta a few crews may be 
seen of an evening on the river Hooghley. In 
both cities the boat element is supplied by the 
mercantile clerks, soldiers, brokers, banking 
assistants, and nondescripts. In neither town 
do regattas take place, though in Lucknow one 
is held every autumn, when visitors and com- 
oetitors from the neighboring stations are at¬ 
tracted by the dozen. For many days before¬ 
hand the crews train assiduously, and on the 
occasion of the regatta all Lucknow puts in an 
appearance, refreshments being provided by 
the boat club. Among the competitors are 
Royal Engineer officers, cavalry and infantry 
officers, grey-bearded Indian civilians, consist¬ 
ing of sessions judges, collectors, and commis¬ 
sioners, sundried “opium-wallahs” and canton¬ 
ment magistrates, and inspector-generals of va¬ 
rious departments. 
The Eurasian officers of native regiments 
take to boating more or less kindly, and many 
of them manage their oars in quite a skilful 
manner, and show tb great advantage at local 
regattas. But the natives do not care for the 
sport. The unadulterated black man prefers to 
be borne in state in a barge which resembles a 
galley, reclining therein at ease, and smoking a 
hookah, or chewing “pan”—a most filthy con¬ 
coction. Should he be wealthy, he may expend 
several thousands of rupees upon his boat. 
Greenwich’s Famous Clock. 
Probably no hill in the world, says the Lon¬ 
don Graphic, has had so strangely varied a 
history or played so important a part in the 
affairs of men as that at Greenwich. The 
granite line across the footpath on its summit 
is the meridian from which the longtiude on 
every British map and chart is calculated. All 
England sets its time by the mean solar-clock. 
There is a large galvano-magnetic clock fixed 
on the outside wall of the observatory and di¬ 
vided into twenty-four hours. 
There are still many who believe this clock 
is kept going by the sun. They do not know 
that the fixed stars are the real timekeepers 
from which Britishers check their daily pro¬ 
gress. To this galvano-magnetic clock in the 
wall comes every Monday a woman who makes 
$2,500 a year out of the queerest occupation in 
England. She sells the time to London watch¬ 
makers. Her name is Miss Belleville of 
Maindenhead. 
Eighty years ago the then astronomer royal 
suggested to her father that if he took the cor¬ 
rected time of a certified chronometer every 
week he could no doubt find numerous clients. 
So he bought a famous watch made for the 
Duke of Essex, one of the sons of George III., 
and soon worked up a business with it. When 
he died his widow sold the time till she reached 
the age of 81, and then she handed the busi¬ 
ness over to her daughter. When Miss Belle¬ 
ville visits Greenwich at the beginning of every 
week her chronometer is corrected and she is 
given an official certificate. From that her fifty 
customers correct their watches and clocks. 
Size of the Sea. 
Most men seem to be as ignorant about the 
size of the sea as they are of the distance be¬ 
tween the heavenly planets. Here are a few 
facts: The Pacific covers 68.000.000 miles; the 
Atlantic 30,000,000, and the Indian Ocean, 
Arctic and Antarctic 42,000,000. To stow away 
the contents of the Pacific it would be neces¬ 
sary to fill a tank one mile long, one mile wide 
and one mile deep, every day for 440 years. 
Put in figures, the Pacific holds in weight 948,- 
000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. The Atlantic aver¬ 
ages a depth of not quite three miles. Its 
waters weigh 325,000,000,000,000,000 tons, and a 
tank to contain it would have each of its sides 
430 miles long. The figures of the other oceans 
are in the same startling proportions. It would 
take all the sea water in the world 2,000.000 
years to flow over Niagara. A tank to hold 
it all would have to measure nearly 1,000 miles 
along each of its sides. 
Yacht Sales. 
The Hollis Burgess yacht agency has sold the 
fast 18-foot sloon Cheroot, owned by Vice-Com¬ 
modore R. T. Paine, 2d. of the Eastern Y. C., 
to Harrv H. Bloomfield, of Winthrop, Mass., 
who . will race her in the 18-foot class next sea¬ 
son. 
The Hollis Burgess yacht agency has sold the 
auxiliary yawl Sultan, of the Boston Y. C„ to 
a yachtsman of Bar Harbor, Me. Sultan is 44 
feet over-all. 33 feet waterline, 13 feet 6 inches 
beam and 4 feet 6 inches draft, has a large cabin 
and comfortable stateroom. It is equipped with 
an eight horsepower Palmer engine. 
