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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Avc. Io, 
1907. 



rather, does 
as much as does the ordi- 
mits of stronger construction or, 
not weaken the keel 
nary centerboard. 
The rope by which the board is lowered and 
hoisted is so placed that it gives instant and 
constant leverage on being pulled, as it is fitted 
inside the board in a slot resembling the sheave 
of a block and covering an are of 9o degrees. 
The ordinary centerboard rope is made fast to 
the upper after corner of the board to give a 
straight pull, and a certain amount of force 
is always wasted by pulling against the arc 
through which the board must swing. 
Still another advantage possessed by the Mac- 
Lean centerboard is ease in shipping and un- 
shipping it. There is a shoulder on the bottom 
edge of the board just forward of the pin and 
this so guides the board when it is hoisted into 
position that the hole for the pin inevitably 
comes opposite the holes in the keel through 
which the pin is placed. 
Mr. MacLean has several models covering his 
adapted for use in 
while others are 
boats. He has 
designers, build- 
which are 
commercial vessels, 
yachts and small 
to leading yacht 
patents, some of 
the largest 
suitable for 
exhibited these 

ers and shipping men who have been favorably 
impressed. with his idea and have in many in- 
stances indorsed his plans. At present the in- 
novation has not been adopted by any vessel, and 
in order to demonstrate the value of the in- 
vention Mr. MacLean is desirous of having 
someone experiment with it on a full scale. Any- 
one interested should address Donald M. Mac- 

Lean, 14 Long Wharf, Boston, and he will supply 
the necessary data and permission to make use 
of the same to responsible parties. 
WILLIAM LAMBERT BARNARD. 
Cornfield Light Long Distance Race. 
THis race, held under the auspices of the Sea- 
wanhaka Y. C., turned out to be one of the 
record trips for fast sailing, and for variety of 
weather it would be difficult to exceed it. Tht 
start was scheduled for 10:30 A. M. Saturday, 
\ug. 3, off the black spar buoy off Oyster Bay. 
Eleven yachts appeared and_= started, but the 
flukiness of the wind soon divided them into twu 
divisions, seven getting in Sunday morning be 
fore the wind died out, as it did later in the 
day, leaving the others knocking around drift- 
ing helplessly in a calm. 
Commodore Benedict’s steam yacht Oneida 
anchored abreast the black spar buoy, was on 
time at the start, but the wind had dropped to 
a mere zephyr, so the “race postponed” signal 
was set. ‘The starters and their owners are as 
follows: Red Rover, T. B. Bleeker; Vagabond, 
T. W. Satterthwaite; Dahinda, W. E. Roosevelt; 
Carlita, F. C. Swan; Melody, William J. Mathe- 
son; Regina, F. G. Stewart; Capsicum, C. Sher- 
man Hoyt; Little Peter, H. T. Weeks; Ariel, 
Dr. Forbes -_Hawkes; Mopsa, F. D. Sullivan; 
Vingt Trois, Robert A, Brown; Tanya, E. T. 
Granbery; Busy Bee, R. L. Cuthbert; Montauk, 
W. Sheldon, and Monsoon, R. B. Stoddard. 
At 11:15 a light westerly breeze set in 
the rune whistle blew. _ At -11:25 the start 
was made, all the boats setting balloon jibs, and 
one or a spinnakers. After the fleet rounded 
the bell and spar off Eaton’s Neck, Red Rover 
was leading; Regina next with Little Peter, and 
Dahinda side by side outside of them, but astern 
and inshore abreast these two came a bunch of 
several running along close together with Vaga- 
bond and Mopsa as rear guard. From here all 
but Tanya and Busy Bee laid a straight course 
for Stratford Shoal, those two holding in close 
and 
to the Long Island shore, and for a while seemed 
to get an advantage by doing so. Tanya drew 
up even with the’ leader. 
Off Old Field Point, Busy Bee skirting the 
shore, passed Tanya and Little Peter, and 
Dahinda had caught Red Rover, while Regina 
dropped back to fourth or fifth place. 
There was all kinds of light winds during-the 
night, but just after midnight it began to rain 
hard and then it breezed up from the north- 
ward, favoring the main body of the fleet that 
had held the middle course and putting Tanya 
and Busy Bee several miles to leeward. 
It blew harder and harder every minute, and 
but’ for- 
so that lights could easily be 
distance; in fact, so many lights 
by the time Cornfield’s red and 
lights were made out, that two 
with no moon was a very black night, 
tunately was clear, 
seen a long 
were in sight 
flashing white 
boats got confused with long ocean tows, sound 
steamers and sailing vessels’ lights all around 
them and mistook Plum ‘Island light for Corn- 
field and got lost somewhere down that way. 
Commodore Benedict's Oneida, lying to the 
southwest of the lightship, burned a red, white 
and red coston signal at intervals to assist the 
amateur tars in picking up the mark and timed 
the boats as they rounded. 
It blew great guns on the way home, and while 
the day before had been a roasting hot one it 
was now so cold, blue flannel shirts, sweaters 
and oilers failed to keep the chill out when one 
was wet and shivering, as the crews drove their 
yachts on for home. It must have been com- 
fortable aboard such cruising boats (?) as. Busy 
Bee—a small open raceabout. 
Tanya’s throat halliard gave away, and while 
re-reeving it a single reef was put in her main- 
sail and even then she logged eight. miles an 
hour. Some idea of the time can be formed 
when you think that she rounded the Cornfield 

AN OLD TIME CUTTER. 
Lightship at 3:51 A. M. on Sunday and finished 
in Oyster Bay at 11:08, a distance of 54 miles 
in 16h. 8m., about 734 miles an hour. 
Regina was the first boat to finish with Red 
Rover a few minutes behind her, and Capsicum 
next, Vingt Trois, Dahinda, Vagabond and 
Tanya. Capsicum won first prize, as her time. 
allowance put her over an hour ahead of the 
two leaders. Vingt Trois got second prize and 
Regina third, while Tanya won the prize in the 
handicap class. The summary: . 
‘ Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 
Regina, F. G. Stewart....... 833 15 210810 21 08 15 
Red Rov er, T. F. Bleeker.. 8 38 00 211500 2113 00 
Capsicum) (\G.gs. Hoytessss « 8 47 00 21 2200 19 48 06 
Vingt Trois, R. A. Brown... 9 07 06 21 4206 20 03 47 
Dahinda, W. E. Roosevelt.10 1500 22 50 al 22 50 00 
Vagabond, 7, Satterthwaite.10 16 57 99 51 5 21 39 16 
Tanya, G. P. Granbery..... 11 08 40 22 43 40 22 33 10 
F. C. and W. S. Sullivan’s Mopsa, F. M. Week’s Little 
Peter, R. L. Cuthbert’s Busy Bee, and W. A. Apple- 
ton’s Pommeranian not timed at finish. 
Order of finish with allowances: Capsicum, 
first; Vingt Trois, second; Regina, third; Red 
Rover, fourth; Vagabond, fifth; Tanya, sixth, 
and Dahinda, seventh. 
Tanya wins cup offered for the handicap class. 

Beverly Y. C. 
Four hundred and first regatta, the fourth 
Corinthian race, was held off the club house, 
July 205) judge, Bo LES Gabots, Wind) <S:Sawa; 
good breeze, hauling to S. by E. 
21-footers—Course 15, 1014 Miles. 
Elapsed. 
Terrapin, Lit: Dabney..asscccheciaiewesine sistesticlse 1 34 50 
Barnacle, Woy (Con Beustisus cin areitcsietteme siset ae 1 35 22 
Ovid; By Ca Pairie vn ooeane cose hace ae eae 1 38 2 
Amanitay LETS Voshuz) Grane ec. cee aera 1 38 41 
: 18-footers—Course 18, 8% Miles 
Wizard, F. W. Sargent, Jr 1 15 28 

Jap, GedPacGardner Trivdese-decls cieeeae eee 116 46 
15-footers—Course, 2 
Anita,” Co EC eliterine.cupsmecencncetateen ieee 0 57 15 
Tinker, Ho Ne eimmonss sascha taaonnn eens 0 59 18 
Rebekah’, Wi “W. eHobbs..cste eae cee co eees 0 59 30 
Yalu, Miss Margaret Codman..5-.s,2001r eee 0 59 38 
peeps, Miss Warren icj.icsce cece ftomeume eine eerie 1 00 03 
Peacock, Robert “Winsor...ocacee usec: pees 1 00 46 
Jub: Jub; Eloward ‘Stocktomesanecedecseeneneaunns 1 02 14 
Jack; Ro Fo Herrick;, Jiricsicsacson ee eeeeeowere 1 02 28 
aly, Miss Mary E. “Williamse:in.cscnne eerie 1 02 38 
Four hundred and second regatta, the fifth 
Corinthian race, was held off the club house, 
July 27. Judges, Chas. Whittemore and F. A. 
Eustis. Wind, N.W., 25 knots. 
21-footers—Course 9, 14 Miles. 
Elapsed. 
Terrapin, L.S; Dabney.co-c-.snencee qocesmeerans 1 55 1b 
Owl, Fat. Pam. is'. seas cserue ttacaet heen 1 58 50 
Amanita, IIL. Joshua, ‘Crane... sciexsecsennsesnereeree 
Barnacle, Wi. He. "C. Wustish.: .caamesicaetere rears Disabled. 
18-footers—Course 21, 5% Miles. 
Wanderer, A. S. Whiting... 2. 6c. nese Seats aflame 1 20 56 
*Jap, G.P.. Gardner; Jr iiceinsumscte eee eerdeeeate 1 19 52 
Wizard, FF. W;, (Sate ent cicactcn .cee een epee ne Be by ¢ 
15-footers—Course 21, 5% Miles 
Seeps, 'S. D:.Woarren..isn:- occkulcuemes noone aa 1 19 05 
Mongoose, Miss BE. B. Emmons.c2c-s cenit 1 22 55 
Anita, Walter vH:- Gellieris: a... eee 1 24 52 
Peacock, Robert Winsor) Jit. ennenehecmmeseenten 1 25 56 
* Disqualified. 
Four hundred and third regatta: Sixth Corin- 
thian race. Club house, Aug. 3. Judges: Chas. 
Whittemore and L. S. Dabney. Summary: 
21-footers—Course 11, 135g Miles. 
Elapsed. 
2 18 24 
Verrapin; Vs. S. DADney:. pertcisemnuayenjep neal 


Owl, F. C. Paine 41 
Illusion, C. M. ce 26 
Amanita ILl., Joshia:Craxies..j..ssteh iene 2 29 10 
Barnacle, W. EG: Bustis:: secs) sa eee 2 33 02 
18-footers—Course 14, 113%, Miles. 
Wizard, BF. W. Sargent, Wr. ce. cress: clicteniieeeieneeenae 
Jap, Gs Pi Gardner, Jri.ca.cteeees teenie eee 2 26 29 
Wanderer, A. 5S. Whiting......c0 «005 casu ener cceeeee ene 
15-footers—Course 18, 8% Miles. 
Anta, (W.. H.. Plellierson.csecstletisuninceee eee 1 40 22 
Mongoose, Miss E. 3B: Emmonsi.. «sen ssseenianee 1 41 58 
Peacock, Robert “Wiinsonict..cscsene carameeeeeeen 1 42 49 
Vim; BE... W. Sargent, Jincc disc canals sic oe 1 43 00 
Warda,e John Parkinsons lictecesuseceen neers 1 43 OL 
Yalu,” Miss ‘Margaret Codman...00. eae eee 1 48 46 
Seeps, £S... Do. Warren cass s.<is ais 5.ciate oie ene 1 43 53 
Jack, (R. BS lerrick. Ji. cece «acs cieninn eee 1 45 22 
Bantam, Miss Hilda W. Williams............... 1 45 26 
Fly, Miss Maryse Williamsz,-.re sec tectam eee 1 48 29 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
To decide a question that was raised in a 
launch race, I wish you would decide, viz., that 
in a club race of launches for a prize (club 
pennant) is it necessary for each launch taking 
part in the race to display the club pennant 
throughout the race? If a launch does not dis- 
play the club pennant and wins the race, can 
she be disqualified for not carrying the pennant? 
All other launches had the pennant, name of 
boat and American flag flying throughout the 
race. Kindly give this decision in the next issue 
of your paper, as the club meets in the middle 
of the week and I would like. to bring your 
decision before it. By so doing you will greatly 
oblige a constant reader of your paper. 
{Such a decision rests entirely with the in- 
structions usually given out before the race; if 
the rules require each yacht to carry the club 
pennant, she puts herself in the way of being 
disqualified if she fails to do so. If nothing is 
said about it in the rules, she cannot be fairly 
disqualified. The carrying of flags is primarily 
intended to serve as a guide to the judges, and 
to prevent mistakes in attributing the times of 
rounding to the wrong boat. These flags are 
usually marked with large, clearly distinguishable 
numbers or letters; all other superfluous nee 
in a race are left ashore. The carrying of a’ 
club pennant is more of an advertisement for 
the club, and in no way helps to fix the identity 
of a certain yacht, unless there be a crowd of 
other boats as spectators crowding the course, 
when it shows the judges one of their boats is 
coming. As to the advantage one boat gains 
over another by the omission of a flag, it seems 
to be splitting hairs.—Ebrror. | 

Natap tried to jump over instead of sailing 
around a pile of rocks off New Rochelle, but 
only landed half-way across, and a motor boat 
pulled her off. 





