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YACHTING. _| 






Stratford Shoal Race. 
On Saturday, Aug. 17, at 3:10 P. M., eleven 
yachts started across the line on an all-night’s 
race out on the. Sound and back, from Man- 
hasset Bay to and around Stratford Shoals 
Light in the middle of Long Island Sound off 
Port Jefferson and back. 
Eleven yachts participated, and all sailed a 
very even race up to near daylight, when the 
breeze began fo die out until it was a flat calm. 
Then they became widely scattered, due to local 
puffs helping one and not the other. 
Capsicum was off pretty near with the crack 
of the gun, at 3:10 P, M. Wink, sailed by Bob 
Bavier, was only a second or two behind; Mist, 
Harry Jackson’s craft, was 6s. after the gun, 
with Trixie, Tanya, Manhasset, Mopsa, Mon- 
soon, Melody, Grace and Kenosha I., all cross- 
ing inside of about a minute. 
With a brisk S. S. W. breeze, spinnakers were 
set off the sand spit, sails jibed over, rounding 
Gangway Buoy, and spinnakers carried until 
the buoys off Sands Point were passed, then it 
was a broad reach all the way to the light. That 
there was an elegant breeze, the time proves, for 
at 8:15 Mist, which was then about fifth boat, 
rounded the light and stood home on the port 
tack, bucking the ebb tide. If the breeze had 
held the whole fleet would have eaten breakfast 
at the club house, but true to its old habit, the 
breeze dropped. Several yachts anchored for a 
quarter of an hour or more, and then, with 
breeze enough to stem the tide, proceeded. 
Manhasset, a brand-new Q boat, similar to 
Dorothy, from Gardner’s design, entered this her 
maiden race as a try out, never having sailed 
before and was wholly unprepared. Yet on the 
beat home she led the way with Capsicum close 
behind her. 
The leaders held a fairly good breeze all the 
way home, but the last ones got left in a calm 
off Hempstead and lay motionless for hours. 
Manhasset finished first at 7:55:13 Sunday 
morning, but owing to her having cut inside the 
black spar buoy right in the heme harbor was 
disqualified. .It would only have made a few 
seconds difference, if any, to have gone outside 
this buoy, and though it is a bitter disappoint- 
ment to lose a race in this manner, it teaches a 
valuable lesson. Tamerlane learned the same 
thing, when -in the Block Island race she cut 
inside the buoys off Lloyds Point. 
Capsicum finishing at 8:07:37 won the race, 
due to Manhasset’s error. Tanya was the first 
handicap boat home, but Monsoon won the 
prize in that class, as she finished well within 
her allowance. The breeze hauled to the west- 
ward on the way back, making it a test of a 
boat’s windward qualities, but fell so light it 
was “drifter’s day.” 
It is seldom a fleet of boats will run so 
evenly as did this fleet, all being within about a 
mile of each other when the first rounded the 
light. And at daybreak, Sunday morning, all 
were in sight of each other off Oyster Bay. 
seven or more being in a bunch so close they 
could talk to one, another. 
Capsicum had some difficulty -with her cook- 
ing gear or lamps, as flames were seen spouting 
up aboard of her on the run out when suppers 
were being cooked, and a little later a flaming 
mass was seen to go over the stern and burned 
some time on the water astern. 
Mist had bad luck, as both jaws of her gaff 
broke off, necessitating lowering the sail and 
lashing a mast hoop to the throat of the sail to 
keep the butt of the gaff against the mast. This 
in turn carried away during the beat home, and 
she finished in a crippled condition. 
The summary: 
Start, 3:10 P. M. Saturday. Sunday. Elapsed. 
anya, (Ge (P= Granbery.. setae stat 9 08 05 17 58 05 
Melody,.H. M. Matheson ............. 9 21 57 18 11 57 
Monsoon, B. R. Stoddard............. 11 05 23 19 55 23 
Mist, H. H. Jackson, Jr *12 36 35 
Capsicum, C.°S. Hoyt.veccsscssescc.-+ 8 07 37 
16 57 37 
Kenosha Is; MIR: Berthossseeaecse. Did not finish. 
Wink: Ls > Vitlbes, seen cco camer *1 03 00 21 53 00 
Mopsa, F..C. & W. S.:Sullivan.. 3)... *1 04 17 21 54 17 
Grace, ©. Pit Pearson: ootecaksitee couse Did ‘not finish. 
Manhasset,.C. H. Robbins........ 7 55 13 16 45 13 

Drixie, Ret lasobs ties. cekeee ne ats 412 3450 21 24 50 
*p, , 
Corrected time: Capsicum, 15.56.37; Manhasset, 15.44.13 
(disqualified); Tanya, 17.50.36; Melody 18.31.57; Monsoon, 
19.13.25; Mopsa, 20.17.42; Mist, 20.28.25; Wink, 20.32.37. 
Trixie was not measured. 

Harlem Y. C. Stratford Shoal Race. 
Mist, the little black sloop owned by Harry 
Jackson, of the N. Y. Athletic Club. won the 
first prize in the Harlem Stratford Shoal race, 
sailed Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 24 and 25, in 
a fluky variable wind, with thunder, lightning, 
rain and a vicious westerly wind at the finish. 
The start at 3:25 P. M. Saturday off Belden’s 
Point, City Island, was made in a very light 
easterly air. Six yachts started, the sloops 
Mist, Mopsa, Katherine, Bedouin and Rough 
Rider, and the yawl Sagola. 
Mopsa and Sagola were leading, 
of wind to the northward put Mist 
while. 
Sands Point was passed at 4:15; Matinnicock at 
7:30. Off Hempstead it was practically a drift- 
ing match, in which Mopsa excelled and again 
took the lead. After sunset a wicked looking 
thunderstorm broke loose, and it rained in 
torrents. Then the wind came out strong from 
the southwest and the fleet with ballooners was 
making grand time east, when it suddenly fell a 
flat calm off Oak Bluff, and again the fleet 
drifted east on the ebb tide. 
Eaton Neck was passed at 11:15 P. M., and 
with a good southwest breeze the flood tide 
was bucked across Smithtown Bay. Old Field 
was abeam at 1:30 A. M., Sunday morning. It 
was about 2 A. M. when Mist rounded Strat- 
ford Shoal, and the ebb t:de having set in again 
about an hour before Mist headed west on her 
course, while Mopsa and Sagola stood in under 
the Long Island shore;*but as the wind shifted 
to the west, it put her well to windward of the 
other two. She held her port tack well in to- 
ward Green’s Ledge Light, tacking off it at 
4:10. Eaton Neck was south at 7:03 A. M. 
Sagola was then about half a mile ahead of her, 
with Bedouin about the same distance astern, 
while Mopsa had fallen far astern. 
Off Oyster Bay it started in to 
vicious squalls f west to northwest, 
but a shift 
ahead for a 
blow in 
and 
from 



though the Bedouin overhauled Mist and passed 
her, she did not save her time. 
Sagola finished first about 20m, 
Mist, and Bedouin about 2m. ahead. 
It cleared up about the time the fleet sighted 
Stratford Shoal, but after rounding, it rained 
all night long in squalls. 
Mopsa finished too late to save her time, so 
Mist wins the first .prize, with Mopsa getting 
second prize. 
ahead of 
Stamford Y. C. Race. 
In spite of the fact that a great many other 
yacht clubs were holding races: on Saturday, 
Aug. 17, the Stamford Y. C. made a very good 
shawing on their seventeenth annual regatta. 
twenty-five yachts sailing the courses laid out 
for the various classes. 
At the start the breeze was very light, but it 
kept breezing up until there was a good stiff 
whole sail breeze at the finish. The summaries: 
New York 30-footers—Start, 1:25—Course, 15 Miles. 


Finish. Elapsed. 
Carlita, s Roe  Swanw cose eee 4 24 02 2 59 02 
Dahinda, G. E. Roosevelt............. 4 24 29 2 59 29 
HANDICAP DIVISION. 
First Division—Start, 1:35—Course, 13 Miles. 
Marguerite We «9-5 Claricy. 2. sneer 4 16 13 2 41 13 
@hslema, JAgeiG. Blacksans sence caer 4 21 52 2 46 52 
Second Division—Start, 1:40—Course. 13 Miles. 
Busy Bee, R. L. Cuthbert 4 28 2 2 48 20 
Jolly; Rogess.H. [aiNortheons ease 4 42 18 3 02 18 
Tom Boy, John Y. Tendas..s.5e. 4 51 10 3 11 10 
Grasshopper, Hi. Bee eryonien shi 4 52 27 3 12 27 
Third Division—Start, 1:45—Course, 13 Miles. 
Kenosia, L0.5 Ci We Voltzuenven sieseeee 4 52 45 2 07 45 
Huntress; "2 Ht Dyergieieecue tees 4 43 18 2 58 18 
Fourth Division—Start, 1:45—Course, 13 Miles. 
Montauk) WW.) Sheldon. fe.urasesmmemienn 4 y 3 00 25 
Okee,sJo Agiéa J. Eo Mahisted-* ores 4 3 08 23 
Special Class—Start, 2:10—Course, 13 Miles. 
Kazaza, TPS. Penton, s]rac asses 5 26 48 3 15 48 
Pristiss7A.2b. Blacks. ct node eeremaee 5 30 19 3 20 19 
New Rochelle One-Design Class—Start, 1:50—Course, 4% 
Miles. 
Boho; Ba Revstoddard..scamwsceeenieee 3 17 22 122, 22 



Nereid, "Gay. Pullére ccnp sence .. 317 48 1 22 48 
American Dory Class—Start, 1:55—Course, 434 Miles. 
ZA, GS GETB rye. J excuccsedte ners . 8 82 20 1 37 27 
Lal, TA, BaREry@ sci. dsise eee cs eRe OI UnOL 1 52 51 
3, Coe Sate ced. icn coratacotlonarenaisiaity ae ersieael 1 48 49 
ZIOGA. Vanderldan. tre csstcnmasntiget ne 3 49. 30 1 54 30 
ZS." J. \Westerbrook i tan cossmencc eect 3 42-39 1 57 39 
Catboats—Start, 1:55—Course, 434 Miles. 
Gitty; "J... Wav iliams te... onessanscde eneeOron 1 25 31 
Stamford One-Design Class—Start, 1:55—Course, 4% 
Miles. 
Sundae, Ndwe Sawyeresmacsuvanccmananen 4 01 00 2 06 60 
Bly; «-B. “Bakpess, \Jirwasncieave cr eens 4 09 00 2 14 00 
Blank R-) Struthers) rs ements 4 30 00 2 35 00 

CROWD ON THE PIER AT ROCHESTER WATCHING THE RACES FOR THE CANADA’S CUP. 



