Marcu 24, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 



Brooklyn Y. C. Ocean Challenge 
Cup Conditions. 
Tue Brooklyn Y. C. offering a perpetual Chal- 
lenge Cup, to be known as the Brooklyn Y. C. 
Ocean Challenge Cup, donated by the Brooklyn 
Y. C., designed to encourage the building and 
sailing of small seaworthy yachts, to make popu- 
lar the art of navigating or cruising upon deep 
water and to develop a love of true seamanship 
in the amateur sailor, hereby sets forth the terms 
and conditions under which this cup can be chal- 
lenged and raced for: 
ARTICLE I. 
Any organized yacht club in good standing, of any 
country, shall have the right to challenge for this cup 
and sail for it, provided the challenge be made in ac- 
cordance with spirit, terms and conditions of this instru- 
ment. 
ARTICLE II. 
The cup shall be raced for by vessels propelled by 
sails only. Boats to compete shall not exceed in their 
erg length 40ft. Such measurement to be taken 
rom the fore side of the stem to the after side of the 
sternboard or transom. The boats must be yachts built 
and used for cruising, and must conform to the following 
requirements: 
_To be of a seaworthy type, substantially built, strongly 
rigged and properly ballasted, with closed cabins and 
water-tight cockpits. They must have a specified head 
room over a specified number of square feet of cabin 
floor as follows: 
Length over all. Head Room. 
25 to 28 feet 4 feet 10 inches 
28 to 32 feet 5 feet 2 inches 
82 to 36 feet 5 feet 6 inches 80 square feet 
386 to 40 feet 5 feet 10 inches 384 square feet 
This measurement for head room shall be taken from 
the under side of the deck or cabin top beams to the 
top side of the floor boarding, this latter to be laid over 
and not between the frames. The square feet of floor 
space to be found by taking the length and breadth of 
the floor space over which the specified head room 
exists, and not to include space taken up by bunks, tran- 
soms or lockers, but to include space occupied by cen- 
terboard trunk or table. 
Boats must carry a complete cruising outfit of an- 
chors (two), cables or chains (two), lights, lead line, 
charts, etc., Stores sufficient for’ten days must be car- 
ried. 
Lower sails must be those carried by the boat when 
cruising; no restrictions as te light sails. 
A United States Life-Service cork jacket for each 
person, also two ring buoys on deck must be carried. 
The combined length of the fore and aft overhangs 
shall not exceed one-third of the boat’s over all measure- 
ment. 
Boats with bulb keels, metal fins or balanced rudders 
are barred. 
ARTICLE III. 
Races shall be sailed under the rules of the challenged 
club, except as regards the rule for measurement for 
computing the time allowance. This measurement to 
ascertain the racing length shall be taken as follows: 
The distance between the fore side of the stem and the 
after side of the stern board or transom is the racing 
length. If any portion of the boat’s hull projects beyond 
stem and stern, such portion shall be included in the 
measurement. The time allowance shall be 4 seconds per 
foot per mile without allowance for rig, increasing one 
second per foot per mile for each decreasing foot in 
length. 
ARTICLE IV. 
The race shall be managed by the regular regatta com- 
mittee of the club holding the cup, but there shall also 
be chosen three judges, to whom shall be referred all 
questions in dispute or protest, and upon which they 
shall sit and give decision. These judges shall be 
selected in this way: One from the challenged club; one 
from the challenging club, and a third to be chosen by 
the two, but this third person must not be a member 
of any club having a yacht entered in the race. The de- 
cision of these judges shall be tinal. 
ARTICLE V. 
The crew of a competing yacht shall not exceed six 
persons, all of whom must be amateurs. The master or 
skipper of the vessel must be a member of the club 
under whose flag the yacht is entered. No _ paid 
pilot or navigator shall be carried or be employed 
in any capacity aboard a competing vessel. An ama- 
teur is one who does not “follow the sea” as a means 
of livelihood, or who has never accepted remuneration 
for sailing or poreing on a yacht. 
Inside cabin must have permanent transoms or bunks 
and lockers. The water tank must be fixed, and a sup- 
ply of 8 gallons per man must be carried. 
ARTICLE VI. 
The master of each competing yacht shall file with 
the committee twelve hours before the start a list, giv- 
ing the names and occupations of his crew, and shall 
certify to their being amateurs. 
Cabin Floor. 
16 square feet 
24 square feet 


ARTICLE VII. 
The club holding the cup shall be open to a chal- 
lenge at any time, but the races shall only be sailed be- 
tween June 1 and Sept. 1, and there shall not be more 
than one race during one season. All challenges must 
be in writing and be delivered to the challenged club 
not less than thirty days before the date chosen for the 
starting of the race. 
ARTICLE VIII. 
The course shall be upon the open ocean, clear of all 
headlands, except that the start and finish may be made 
in a port, bay, sound or harbor, and shall be not less 
than 250 nautical miles, or more than 500 nautical miles 
in length. It shall be a straightaway course or passage 
from port to port, either the starting or finishing line 
must be off the anchorage of the Brooklyn Y. C., New 
York Harbor. The course for race shall be determined 
by the club holding the cup. 
ARTICLE IX. 
After the challenge of the challenging club has been 
accepted by the club holding the cup, any other organ- 
ized yacht club may enter a yacht or yachts for the race, 
upon its officers agreeing to observe and maintain the 
terms and conditions of this instrument. Any of the 
clubs may be represented by one or more yachts. 
AR CIE xX. 
In case the club holding the cup within nine months 
dating from the first day of January following the last 
race does not receive a challenge and hold a race for 
the cup, it shall be returned to the custody of the Brook- 
lyn Y. C., and the unchallenged club shall forfeit all 
claims to its possession. If the club having custody of 
the cup shall be dissolved or cease to exist the cup 
shall revert to the Brooklyn Y. C., and in both cases be 
again offered by that club for competition under the 
terms and conditions of this instrument. 
ARTICLE XI. 
If deemed desirable, the terms of this instrument may 
be altered or modified by the Brooklyn Y. C. when the 
cup is in its possession, and when in the possession of 
another club, by mutual agreement between the Brook- 
lyn Y. C. and the club holding the cup. But such al- 
terations or modifications shall not be made during the 
time a challenge is in action, unless all challengers 
consent to the change. 
ARTICLE XII. 
The challenged club, or the committee appointed by 
it to manage the race, shall have the power to reject the 
entry of any yacht in whose design, construction or 
equipping is shown an inclination to evade the terms of 
Article II., either in substance or spirit. 
Start—Will be at 10 A. M., Saturday, July 7. 
Course—From the starting line off New Rochelle Y. C. 
to and around Montauk Point; thence to and around 
Northeast Lightship off Cape May; thence to finish line 
off Brooklyn Y. C., Gravesend Bay. 
Distance—Four hundred miles. 
Entries—Must be received at New Rochelle Y. C. on 
or before midnight of June 30. All boats entered must 
be at New Rochelle Y. C. anchorage, Echo Bay, at or 
before 10 A. M., Friday, July 6, for measurement and 
inspection. ) ; 
Prizes.—In addition to the challenge cup, a special prize 
will be awarded to the winner; second and third prizes 
will also be awarded. ; 
Regatta Committee: G. P. Granbery, Chairman, 114 
East 14th St., New York; L. D. Huntington, Jr.; i D 
Sparkman, Secretary. 
British Letter. 
Tue INTERNATIONAL RATING RULE.—Since the 
conference of delegates of the various European 
countries met in London in February and unani- 
mously passed the rating rule which I described 
in a former letter, a rift has appeared within the 
lute. France has apparently signified her inten- 
tion not to adopt the rule, and Austria is not so 
enthusiastic about it as she was. It is certainly 
a pity that the French delegates did not signify 
their dissent at the time the meetings were being 
held, though it is just possible that linguistic 
difficulties were at the bottom of their hesitation. 
The news has certainly come as a great surprise 
after the apparent complete unanimity among the 
whole of the delegates, but France insists upon 
including the midship section as a factor in the 
measurement, and will not be satisfied with any- 
thing short of it. It therefore looks as though 
another conference will have to be called, but for- 
tunately there is plenty of time. A great deal 
would be accomplished if a satisfactory rule could 
be framed for yachts above say 42ft. rating. Many 
comments have been made on the new formula 
and the opinion of a large number of knowledg- 
able men is that, whatever rule is passed for the 



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larger classes, there will have to be another for 
the small fry. This opinion has been abundantly 
proved during the past ten years, and it is even 
quite an open question whether it would not be 
as well to let each country cater for her own 
small raters. 
Tue New First Crass.—Much is being made 
of the idea of the principal class for next season, 
and there is no doubt that its revival, even with 
a fleet which does not really contain a first class 
cutter in the strict sense of the word, with the 
exception perhaps of Kariad, has created a great 
amount of interest. Nothing more has_ been 
heard about Bona changing hands, but Navahoe, 
which was in the market, has been withdrawn by 
her owner, Mr. WaAtjen, and is to join issue with 
the others. It is understood that she is to be 
rigged as a cutter. There is a rumor that 
Sybarita may come over and join in the racing, 
but so far it is only a rumor. Needless to say she 
would be heartily welcomed, and would doubtless 
win a fair share of the prizes. Under Y. R. A. 
allowance she ought to have a better chance than 
any boat but Kariad. 
Tue Mopern Fast Crutser.—There is a ten- 
dency even among people who are supposed to be 
well acquainted with yachting matters to regard 
the modern fast cruiser as a racer in lines and a 
cruiser in point of construction, This is a great 
mistake, and one has only to see even so old a 
boat as Bona, built in 1897, moored alongside of 
Valdora or White Heather to distinguish in the 
old racer the regular thoroughbred appearance in 
the long, fine-drawn lines, as compared with the 
bluff and distinctly tubby appearance of the cruis- 
ers. As regards speed, the latter are simply not 
in it. Valdora is but little, if any, faster than the 
old fast cruiser Namara, built nine years earlier, 
and I have seen Watson’s fine old ship dress down 
the newer boat handsomely. The coming season 
will show how close the fast cruisers can get to 
the racing boats on Y. R. A. time allowance, but 
unless they have more than their fair share of 
luck I think that White Heather and the new 
Nicholson cutter will figure nearer the bottom 
than the top of the prize list, especially if Syba- 
rita joins the class. Bo DeSeLny, 
Yachting in the South Long Established. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Times-Democrat of New Orleans has had 
a man at work for some time delving into old 
newspaper files, and has gotten down at this 
time to printing the interesting happenings in 
the South some sixty years ago. The gentle- 
man has been asked by me to keep an eye out 
for: yachting articles of those early yachting 
times and the first bit of information struck re- 
lating to the sport was printed in the N. O. 
Bulletin sixty-four years ago, and it may inter- 
est the antiquariers of the sport elsewhere. The 
Times-Democrat gives the following as among 
the items of interest culled from the daily jour- 
nals published here in the year 1842: 
“Mention was made in the Bulletin of the arrival from 
Barcelona in this port of a yacht which had been owned 
by Napoleon Bonaparte in the heyday of his imperial 
power and military glory. The once favorite yacht had 
now been converted into a merchant vessel; was the 
property of a citizen of Greenock, Scotland, and was 
named “The Little Corporal.” It had previously been 
converted by the Emperor into a ten-gun brig, when it 
was captured by the English, and hence came into 
possession of the Scotchman.” 
Not much is known of the early history of 
yachting in this section of the country, and 
comparatively nothing dating further back than 
the time of the organization of the Southern 
Y. C. in 1849. The diligent search of the old 
newspaper files may bring to light interesting 
and valuable facts pertaining to the introduc- 
tion of the sport here, which was only a few 
years behind the North in taking up the yacht- 
ing as a pastime. L. D. SAMPSELL. 

