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about a week for the yachts to reach Havana. 
There was a rest of a week for the yachtsmen 
there, and then it took another week for the 
race back to Atlantic City. This meant that 
those who took part in the race were away 
from their business for three weeks without 
taking into account the time spent in preparing 
for the race. Following the Havana race was 
the Bermuda contest, which this year attracted 
only two starters. Next on the schedule was 
the race of the Brooklyn Y. C. over the Cape 
May course, and that had to be declared off for 
lack of entries. This should have been started 
on July 3. At the same time smaller craft took 
part in the race to Albany and back, and this _ 
event filled well. It was started on Saturday ' 
afternoon and Monday was a holiday, so that 
yachtsmen could take part in the race and not 
neglect business. Another race that filled well 
was that to Block Island. This, too, was started 
on Saturday afternoon, and those who took part 
in it were able to get back to town by Monday 
morning. The Marblehead race came about the 
middle of July, and in this race there were only 
four starters, although valuable prizes were 
offered. This race is another that takes some 
time, and it meant at least a week’s work to 
get to Marblehead, fit out and come back. 
It has been suggested that some association 
be formed to encourage these cruising races, 
and then by a careful arrangement of dates and 
conditions, each event will cater to a certain 
type of vessel and each race will benefit. It 
might be arranged that the Havana race should 
be for those yachts measuring between 50 and 
100 feet'. The Bermuda race can be for those 
between 40 and 60 feet, and the Marblehead 
race for those under 40 feet. The Block Island 
and Albany races do well as at present arranged, 
and with no more long distance events for 
motor boats these should always be successful. 
Those clubs wanting long distance races can 
arrange to start them early in the day and send 
the yachts over courses of such length that they 
will reach the finishing line sometime the same 
evening. Such races would undoubtedly fill well 
and help boom cruising motor boating. 
The Rhode Island Y. C. held its annual meet¬ 
ing last week, and the announcement made by 
the officers that the club was out of debt was 
received joyously by the members. There are 
not many yacht clubs so happy, and the debts 
of some clubs cause much anxiety and worry. 
The usual reports were made by the committees 
and then the members proceeded to elect 
officers and committees for the coming year. 
The nominating committee failed to report a 
candidate to succeed Commodore Dunbar, and 
that officer will consequently hold over until a 
new flag officer is chosen. The following were 
elected: Vice-Commodore, Richard P. Jenks; 
Rear-Commodore, Dr. George W. Van Ben- 
schoten; Secretary and Treasurer, Frederick A. 
Barnes; Measurer, Scott C. Burlingame; House 
Committee—William B. Streeter, Chairman; 
Dr. A. C. Mair and Thomas H. Rhodes. Social 
Committee—Herbert W. Gardner, S. E. Lyons, 
W. W. Aldridge, A. N. Stedman and W. W. 
Massie. Race Committee—Frederick S. Nock, 
Chairman; George H. Smead, Lewis H. Till- 
inghast, Bradbury L. Barnes, Frank H. Sweet. 
Sub-Station Committee—Dr. Harry W. Kim¬ 
ball, Frederick S. Nock and George L. Spencer. 
Directors-at-Large—T. R. Goodwin and Dr. F. 
T. Rogers. Delegates to the Narragansett Bay 
Yacht Racing Association—Frederick S. Nock, 
William J. Brooks and Bradbury L. Barnes. 
Yachtsmen are already heading South. Some 
are going first to Chesapeake Bay for shooting 
and later will continue on down the coast to 
Florida and the Gulf, and their owners will get 
away from the cold weather in the North. Com¬ 
modore Francis M. Wilson, of the Crescent 
Athletic Club, sent his yacht Sumida to the 
Chesapeake a few days ago and will shortly 
join her there. Later the yacht will proceed 
to St. Augustine. F. C. Underwood’s steam 
yacht Alice, which has been in the Delaware 
for some time, has left for Norfolk and will be 
joined there by her owner and some friends 
for a southern cruise. The yacht will winter in 
Florida waters. John R. Dos Passos is to go 
South on his steam yacht Gaviota. These are 
but the advance guard of the fleet of pleasure 
craft to go South. 
Now that the inter-bay trophy for catboats 
is in Eastern waters, the yachtsmen of that sec¬ 
tion are determined to keep it there if possible, 
despite what the Narragansett Bay or Barnegat 
Bay yachtsmen may do. Those yachtsmen are 
to build catboats this winter, but the Eastern 
men have made arrangements for so much rac¬ 
ing in the catboat class that it is probable that 
several boats will be built. There will next 
season be the usual series races for the cham¬ 
pionship of the Massachusetts Association and 
for the Inter-Bay Association pennant. The 
Quincy Y. C. is to have a series of races, and 
now the Boston Y. C. has offered prizes for a 
series. This offer was made to the Cape Cat- 
boat Association at its recent meeting by B. S. 
Permar, chairman of the regatta committee of 
the Boston Y. C. The offer was accepted. The 
series will be six races, two sailed each day for 
three days, off Hull for cups and cash prizes. 
The Catboat Association appointed F. E. Davis. 
F. F. Crane and N. S. Nickerson a committee 
to confer with the Boston Y. C. on dates, etc. 
The rules to govern these races were left with 
the association, and it was agreed that boats 
eligible for these races should conform to these 
requirements. 
The catboat which this series hopes and in¬ 
tends to develop shall be a seaworthy and 
cruising yacht of the centerboard type, strong¬ 
ly constructed, properly ballasted with fixed 
ballast, having good freeboard and substantial 
cabin accommodations for cruising. The inten¬ 
tion is to produce types of catboats free from 
all freak features, such as sharpies, catamarans, 
double hulls or other unusual types, or any 
boat fitted with bilge fins, bilge boards or other 
similar contrivances. No boat shall be admitted 
having a full blunt bow, square sides, double 
rudders, bilge or lee boards or reversed curves 
in the fore and aft lines or any unusual feature. 
The boats will race on over all measurements, 
with a time allowance of seven seconds per 
foot per mile, and the maximum length was 
limited to boats of 30 feet and not less than 22 
feet over all. The Boston Y. C. intends to offer 
three cups for the series, a first, second and 
third, and suitable cash prizes for each race. 
The cups are to be decided upon a point sys¬ 
tem, awarding one point for a start, one for a 
finish and one point for every boat defeated. 
A boat will lose three points for every race in 
which a start is not made. It is hoped that all 
the best catboats along the shore will take part, 
and the winner of the series will be named as 
the fastest catboat of America. 
In racing measurements it was decided that 
the rule in force for the past few seasons should 
hold for another year—the waterline length 
plus one-third of the overhangs. In connection 
with the racing measurement for 1911 the sec¬ 
retary was instructed to keep a record of the 
1910 racing upon the following measurements: 
Over all length, waterline length plus one-half 
the overhangs and waterline plus two-thirds the 
overhangs. 
The officers elected were: Frank F. Crane, 
President: W. W. Arnold, Vice-President; F. E. 
Dawes, Secretary-Treasurer; A. W. Combs, I. 
M. Whittemore, Delegate to the Y. R. A., and 
F. PI. Smith, and PI. W. Robbins, Dinner Com¬ 
mittee. Ira M. Whittemore, the Delegate to 
the Y. R. A., was instructed at the annual meet¬ 
ing of the Y. R. A. of M. next year to vote for 
a basis of 80 per cent, for the season’s cham¬ 
pionship. 
Vessels Built in this Country. 
The Bureau of Navigation reports 127 sail 
and steam vessels of 14,020 gross tons built in 
the United States and officially numbered dur¬ 
ing the month of August, 1910. Of these, six 
steel steamers of 2,243 gross tons were built 
on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and five steel 
steamers of 8,611 gross tons on the Great Lakes. 
Long Distance Racing. 
Those yachtsmen who like racing over long 
courses where skill as navigators enters largely 
into the contest, have had a busy season since 
last May, and for both sailing craft and for 
motor boats there have been many races. It 
is the opinion of many that there have been 
too many ocean races, and as a result, some 
have suffered because of a falling off in the 
entries. Notable instances of this were the 
Bermuda and Marblehead races. 
Ocean racing takes time, not only for the 
contest itself, but for the preparation of the 
boats and an event like that to Havana and 
back takes at least three weeks for the race and 
getting home, without the time spent in prepar¬ 
ing the yacht for the voyage. 
With the exception of the Bermuda race, the 
contests for sailing craft over long courses were 
well supported. I11 the Bermuda race there 
were only two starters, Harold Vanderbilt’s 
Vagrant and Shiyessa IV. Vagrant won, but 
only managed to get the lead when Hamilton 
Harbor was in sight. 
Leo. S. Herzig’s Gardenia won the race of 
the Brooklyn Y. C. over the Cape May course, 
defeating the schooner Tammany and the sloop 
Adyta. This race did not fill as well as it had 
in former years. 
The Indian Harbor Y. C. had a race from 
Greenwich to New London, getting the yachts 
there before the Harvard-Yale boat race, and 
a good fleet started. Istalena defeated Aurora 
by 21m. 30s. Avenger beat Shimna 3m. 48s., 
and Adventuress beat Eleanora 7m. 51s. 
Some forty yachts took part in the annual 
race of the New York Athletic Club through 
Long Island Sound to Block Island, and 
Wanderer IV., owned by R. B. Budd, won in 
fast time. Lambden & Morse’s raceabout 
Chinook was second, R. N. Bayler’s Interim 
third and Pilot was fourth. 
The race for the Brooklyn challenge cup, 
which takes the yachts through the Sound to 
the Vineyard Sound lightship and then back 
’ south of Long Island to Gravesend Bay, was 
won this year by PL L. Stone’s Waialua of the 
New Rochelle Y. C.. It was held by the New 
York Athletic Club, having been won last year 
by PL L. Jackson, Jr.’s, sloop Victory. There 
were five starters in this race and the yachts¬ 
men experienced all sorts of weather. Rowdy 
finished second. 
There were nine starters in the race of the 
New Rochelle Y. C. to and around Cornfield 
Lightship and back, 140 miles. Windward 
finished first, having taken 33I1. 39m. 30s. W. H. 
Childs’ More Joy finished only 5m. 30s. behind 
Windward and being a smaller boat, won on 
corrected time. In the Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
Y. C.’s race over the same course, J. Peabody’s 
Janet finished first, but was disqualified for 
having a professional crew. This gave the race 
to IT. L. Jackson, Jr.’s, Victory, with T. B. 
Bleecker’s Red Rover second. Nine yachts 
started. 
The annual race of the Rhode Island Y. C. 
to Brenton’s Reef Lightship and back was won 
by J. E. Fletcher, Jr.’s, Duchess. 
On the other side of Cape Cod there were 
some good long distance races this year and 
the yachtsmen were favored with fine weather. 
The Corinthian Y. C., of Marblehead, changed 
the course of the Isle of Shoals race and sent 
the yachts to Cape Elizabeth Lightship and 
back, and they came home in a strong wind, 
so that fast time was made. G. L. Batchelder’s 
fine sloop Dorello led the fleet and made the 
best actual time. She also won her class race 
from the new sloop Alice. The schooner race, 
in which there were four starters, was won by 
Venona with Vision second. Onda II. beat Ti- 
mandra. and the handicap races were won by 
A 1 Kyris and Fight. 
The Eastern Y. C. wound up its annual cruise 
with a race from Bar Harbor to Marblehead, 
and this race was won by E. Walter Clark’s 
schooner Irolita. This race is to be an annual 
fixture. 
In the motor boat races F. D. Giles, Jr.’s, 
Elmo II. was the best winner of the season. 
