JUNE 9, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

19. Lynn, club run. 
19. Columbia, Chicago, Lipton cup. 
19. Newport. 
20. Atlantic, open. 
21, Columbia, Chicago, Lipton cup. 
22. Moriches, women’s race. 
21-22-28. Gold challenge ie power boat races, 
Bay 
23. Diy ricuth, BY cokes Plymouth. 
24. Quantuck, club. ; 
24-25, Duxbury, Y. R. A., Duxbury. 
25. Moriches, Association race. 
25. Brooklyn, championship race. 
25. Royal Canadian. 
25. Corinthian, Marblehead. 
25. Keystone, special. 
25. Huguenot, club. 
25. American, Northport, Y. R. A. 
25. Wianno, club. 
25. Beverly, Corinthian, Buzzard’s Bay. 
25. Wollaston, club championship. 
25. Moriches, association race. 
25. Cohasset, club. 
25. Lynn, sail and power boats. 
25. Hingham, club, Bayside. 
25. Rhode Island, regatta, Potter’s Cove. 
25. Kennebec, Bath, championship. 
25. American, Newburyport, dories. 
26. South Boston, ladies’ day. 
27. Newport. 
27-28-29, Cues Cod, Y. R. A., Provincetown. 
28. East Gloucester, championship. 
29. Quantuck, women’s race. 
30. New Bedford, Ricketson cups, South Dartmouth. 
31 and Sept. 1: Wellfleet, Y. R. A., Wellfleet. 
31. Pan-Quogue, women’s race. 
31. Beverly, open, off Mattapoisett. 
Chippewa 
SEPTEMBER. 
Knickerbocker, Vice-Commodore’s cruise. 
New York C. C., championship race. 
Corinthian, club, Marblehead. 
Indian Harbor, Hartford, Larchmont. 
Westhampton, open. 
Royal Canadian, first class. 
Wianno, club. 
Hingham, O. D. C., Bay Side. 
Cape May, power boats, 
Taunton, club run: 
Bristol, regatta. 
Kennebec, cruise to Booth Bay. 
Sippican, at Marion. 
Winthrop, 18-footers. 
-2-8. Huguenot, club cruise. 
-8. Wollaston, club cruise. 
-8. Erie Basin, annual cruise. 
Taunton, dory race. 
Larchmont, fall regatta. 
Tarrytown, power boats. 
. Royal Canadian, 
Indian Harbor, ladies’ race and water sports. 
Norwalk, Sachem’s Head, Larchmont, 
Westhampton, Association championships. 
Corinthian. Marblehead, grand handicap. 
Wianno, club. 
Beverly, Labor Day open, Buzzard’s Bay. 
Atlantic. open, 11 A. M. 
Audubon, power boats. 
Red Bank, power boats. 
Yonkers, power boats. 
Westhampton, association. 
lynn, Y.. RA. open. 
East Gloucester, club, morning and afternoon, 
Corinthian Marblehead, handicap, 
Columbia, Mass., cruise, Hull to Gloucester. 
. Beverly, open, Buzzard’s Bay. 
Cohasset, club. 
-4-5, Detroit Country Cluh cups. 
Atlantic, closed, 3 P. M. 
New York, Glen Cove, autumn cup. 
Larchmont, Manhasset Bay. 
Boston, club, Hull. 
Royal Canadian, Prince of Wales cup. 
Hingham, club. 
Beverly, Corinthian, Buzzard’s Bay. 
Wollaston- Squantum, inter-club. 
Atlantic, open, championship Y. R. 
Bay, Seb Mi 
Brooklyn. 
Keystone, consolation. 
Manhasset’ Bay, fall regatta. 
Sguantum, interclub. 
. Winthrop, 18-footers.- 
Kennebec, Bath, championships. 
. American, Newburypcrt, cruise. 
p Edgewood, club. 
Massachusetts Y. R. A., rendezvous Hull. 
13-15. Atlantic, series for special schooner and 
classes, Sandy Hook. 
15. Atlantic, championship. 
15. Seawanhaka. 
15. Knickerbocker, ladies’ race, power boats. 
15. Middletown, power boats. 
15. Eastern, Roosevelt cup. 
16. Lynn, club run. 
19. Atlantic, open, 3 P. M. 
22, American. 
22. Atlantic, open, fall regatta, 11 A. M. 
22. Lynn, club race. 
22. Kennebec, Bath, open sweepstakes. 
22. Winthrop, handicap. 
23. Williamsburg. 
29. Bensonhurst, open. 
29. Winthrop, 18-footers. 
—. Brenton’s Reef cup. 
—.. Cape May cup. 
—. Haouli cup. 
—. Niagara cup. 
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OCTOBER. 
20. Knickerbocker. club closing. 
OWNERS AND BUILDERS. 
Wiru Decoration Day over and the yachting 
season open, a word as to the relation between 
owner and builder may conduce to the exercise 
of a spirit of forbearance on both sides. A 
perusal of A*sop’s fables supplies many sermons 
which have a direct bearing on this relation. 
With the return of fall the yachting season 
comes to a close, yachts are put in winter 
quarters, and with six to eight months ahead, 
the owner leaves but scant directions for the 
care of his boat and sees her no more till early 
spring. ; 
The adie of sailing and motor driven yachts 
of wood is comparatively a simple matter, but 
few realize the great amount of time consumed 
in finishing, and deliveries of engines for 
launches or auxiliaries are often most uncertain. 
It is readily admitted that no field of activity 
requires so broad a knowledge and so much 
ability to handle successfully the endless detail 
as attends the building of yachts. 
Repair work has always been credited with 
yielding a greater percentage of profit than 
new work, but the continuous work attending 
the building of a new boat at a smaller percent- 
age is more remunerative. 
Many owners complain at this time that their 
orders for alterations are not carried out as 
promised, and it is indeed annoying to undergo 
the vexation of waiting weeks for a boat with 
no satisfaction other than poor excuses. On 
the other hand, to show that builders make 
good their promises, some 75 yachts were put 
in the water by a single firm and delivered to 
their owners on time in one season. 
As in all things we have the just and the un- 
just, and only foresight and a familiarity with the 
building and commissioning yachts can remedy 
an evil, which, though troublesome, has rather 
a tendency to grow less. A consideration of 
the number of new yachts put afloat as com- 
pared with other years proves conclusively that 
yachting is no longer in an experimental stage. 
It will only be when owners require the major 
portions of repairs to be done within a I:mited 
time after the boat is laid up, at a time when 
comparatively few contracts are let, that an 
owner may have the least certainty of sailing 
on an early spring day. The builders are more 
careful, more observant than they formerly 
were, and it is a satisfaction to call attention to 
their ability and responsibility and their readi- 
ness under conditions of pressure to attempt to 
carry out the most sanguine expectations. 
When owners realize that they will obtain far 
better work if done at leisure in the summer, at 
a cost considerably less by giving their com- 
missions in June rather than December or later, 
and realize also that the work of a yard cannot 
cater to the desires of one owner, but to all 
patrons alike, we will have reached a point that 
will remove from the business side of yachting 
that which has caused to both owner and builder 
much worry and dissatisfaction, and has driven 
away men unwilling to take up a sport that 
would add more to their cares than to their 
recreation. 
New Launcu For Mr, H. C. CusHMAN, JR.— 
Mr. Charles D. Mower has finished the designs 
Ofeaslaunchmrom Mr eb Ge@ushman, Jrs tor use 
on Long Island Sound. The boat is now under 
construction at the Huntingdon yard at New 
Rochelle. The boat will be 25ft. long and the 
engine will be of 11 horsepower, 
The Bermuda Yacht Race. 
On Saturday, May 26, at noon the Brooklyn 
Y. C., after the usual ceremonies, went formally 
in commission. The many yachts off the anchor- 
age, dressed for the occasion, made a fine sight. 
The three little racers that were to start on their 
long race to Bermuda for the cup offered under 
the auspices of the Brooklyn Y. C. by Sir Thomas 
Lipton, were the center of attraction, and the as- 
sembling of the crews and stowing of stores kept 
the tenders and launches busy. 
The day was an ideal one, clear with a good 
easterly breeze blowing. Shortly before 3 o'clock 
Lila, Tamerlane and Gauntlet got under way, 
they crossed the starting line within a few sec- 
onds of each other and ‘headed down the Bay. 
When off Sandy-Hook Lila met with an accident 
in the hard puffs and rough sea, carrying away 
her mast about Oft. below the gaff jaws. A tug 
was hailed and Lila was towed back to the Brook- 
lym Y. C. followed “by Tamerlane. Gauntlet, 
somewhat behind the racers, had made to sea 
and did not know of the accident. 
The race to Bermuda is the outcome of the 
ocean racing so well fostered in the able hands 
of Mr. Thomas Fleming Day, the moving spirit 
in the management of our contemporary, the 
Rudder. Mr. Day for many years has advocated 
ocean racing as the best way to make men self- 
reliant and able in small boats, which would also 
encourage a phase of yachting that would be far 
more beneficial mentally and physically than rac- 
ing in machines on our many sheltered bodies of 
water. The advocacy of the development of this 
side of the sport has done much toward the pro- 
pagation of Corinthianism and the acquisition of 
knowledge relating to the navigation of vessels 
over the pathless wastes of the ocean, 
The idea that sailing small boats at sea out of 
sight of land is foolhardy and dangerous, is al- 
together erroneous and springs from the lack of 
available knowledge on the subject of sea sail- 
ing, for this art is in the hands of the fishermen 
whose life has been spent on:the bosom of the 
deep where a keen observation and watchfulness 
are the price of safety. When it is considered 
the number of small vessels putting out from the 
coasts of. Europe to the North Sea _ fishing 
grounds, to the coast of Iceland, and the French- 
men who regularly cross the Atlantic for the 
fishing season on the Grand Banks of Newfound- 
land, a race to Bermuda at this season of the 
year is anything but foolhardy. 
It must be placed to ignorance that fears exist 
as to going to sea in small vessels, but who has 
not read or heard of Captain Slocum’ s voyage 
alone around the world; many other instances 
could be cited of the safe voyages undertaken in 
small boats, who, in light of the present entrants 
to the Bermuda race, were very ill arranged and 
worse fitted for the work required of them. Un- 
aly a seaman with a good boat under him 
and an adequate amount of food and water, and 
a certain knowledge of navigation, may, if he 
desires, visit every corner of the remotest sea in 
safety. 
The propagation of the art of sailing great dis- 
tances opens a field of interest for the cruising 
yachtsman that has been but thought of with 
awe and wonder for all time to the present. 
Mr. Day, in development of the Bermuda race, 
has been fortunate in finding men that would 
own, have the ability, and desire to entet their 
boats in the event, and it is regrettable that more 
entries were not available. 
The distance as the crow flies from New York 
to St. David’s Head is about 650 miles, and with 
a good chance the boats should take from seven 
to nine days; the course will be between the Gulf 
Stream and the coast to the latitude of 30°, when 
an easterly course will be made for the islands. 
Bermuda is reputed to be one of the most diffi- 
cult land falls there is to make, as the land lies 
low, and from the deck of a small boat is an 
aggravation of the trouble. Stories are variously 
told of some captains having to return to the 
coast of America to get proper bearings, one cap- 
tain reported on his arrival in Maine, that the 
islands had completely disappeared. 
The weather that will be encountered on the 
way down, says the Herald, the wind will be from 
S.E., S. to S.W., with a velocity of 18 to 28 
