

SEPT. 7, 1907.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Spider Wins the Tompkins Cup. 
SprpeR, owned by Mr. Hendon Chubb, and 
from designs of Messrs, Tams, Lemoine & 
Crane, won the trophy presented by Mr. 
Tompkins for competition among classes N, 
P and Q. The prize went to Spider as a result 
of the race sailed off the Atlantic Y. C. on 
Wednesday, Aug. 28, she winning by over 4m. 
from Soya. 
Races for this cup were sailed as mid-week 
races, usually on a Wednesday. ‘The first race 
was June 26, the second July 31 and the last on 
the 28th, as stated. 
Joy, the Mower-designed boat, started in only 
the first race and did not even finish that, as it 
fell almost a dead calm, and since then she 
entered no more of the races of this_ series. 
This left practically three boats competing for 
it, Spider, Soya and Vingt-trois. 
The last race resulted as follows, which gives 
the cup to Spider: 
Start, 3:15—Course, 8 Miles. 
Finish. Elapsed, 
spider, Hendon Chubbiwccceccds cut. 6 06 50 2 61 50 
OVA en, UO ALSCOW s eiacicls cine cicle slau «10's 6 10 53 2°55 53 
Minguudrais. Rs tA. BrOWMN.:. 6. deceees 6 6 13 05 2.58 05 
Manhasset Bay Y. C. Race. 
Mip-week races lack the enthusiasm of a 
Saturday or holiday, as the number of business 
men who race. yachts cannot get away from 
business those days. So the Manhasset Bay Y. 
C.’s mid-week race on Thursday, Aug. 29, 
proved a very tame affair, about equal to the 
mid-week races held all season in Gravesend 
Bay. There are always a few lucky ones who 
can get off and like to utilize the summer to get 
all the racing possible. For these such races 
are held. 
No large schooners appeared, and none of 
the 57-footers, as was hoped, but Neola and 
Effort sailed a duel, and also three of the N, 
Y. thirties, Aleria, Banzai and Altair. 
There was a nice sailing breeze from the 
northwest, but ag if realizing the unimport- 
ance of the race, neither of the sloops made a 
good start, Neola not crossing until Im. 7s. 
after the gun, and Effort 3m. after. They sailed 
a course of 2134 miles. The first leg from the 
starting line off Execution Light was N. E. by 
E. % E., 934 miles to a buoy off Greenwich 
Point; the second leg S. by W., 4% miles to a 
point off Oak Neck Point, L. I., and the home 
leg W. % S., 734 miles. The thirties covered a 
triangle of 10% miles. 
Neola lead Effort around the two first reaches, 
but on the last leg home, coming to windward 
from Oak Neck buoy, Effort showed her 
superiority and finished almost neck and neck, 
leading Neola by 50s.; but as Neola had to 
allow her time, being a larger boat, Effort won 
by 2m. 23s., corrected time, The summary: 

Sloops—Class J, 68-footers—Start, 12:54—Course, 21% 
Miles. 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Eetroregee ety TV PSENLILIUGE earn cleineiesealsieeets<)e 3 27 06 2 42 06 
Neola, J. A. Blair, Jr 3 27 56 2 42 56 
Corrected times: Effort, 2.40.33; Neola, 2.42.56. Efvort 
wins by 2m, 23s. 
One-Design Class, 30-footers—Start, 
New York Y. C., 
1 

2.55—Course 10% Miles. 
Averia, A, H. & J. Ws Alker..c.ce coos 2 54 24 1 59 21 
Banzai, G. Di & Pi RR. Mallory. 2 54 59 1 59 59 
Apa Gre fu boc LOVER, cs calalmans 2°56 25 2 01 25 
Aleria beat Banzai 38s., and Atair 2m. 4s. 
Beverly Y. C. 
THE 404th regatta of the Beverly Y. C. was 
sailed off the club house Saturday, Aug. 10, 1907, 
, Tournament Race—21ft. Class. 
First heat: Terrapin and Radiant—Terrapin 
Owl and Amanita—Amanita wins. 
wins; 
Second heat: Terrapin and Amanita—Terrapin wins. 
18ft. Class. 
NVazard.” BW Oarrentynctssics asia vinieteacsicics ete iare 1 34 43 
PSPs Pree CaARCEIOE: | agitpe/nictarctelneacelaee es san oe alk afe 1 34 44 
NWVRTICLOTEE mea coo AV Ml UIT Oalocrcie(eeielnte welcile veces cle ee 1 36 48 
19ft. Class. 
First heat: Mongoose and Rebekah—Mongoose wins; 
Bantam and Peacock—Peacock wins; Yalu and Vim— 
Yalu wins; Jack, sailover; Anita and Fly—Anita wins. 
Second heat—Mongoose and Peacock—Mongoose wins; 
Yalu and Jack—Yalu wins; Anita, sailover. 
Third heat: Yalu and Anita—Anita wins. 
Final heat: Mongoose and Anita—Mongoose wins. 
The 4osth regatta, Mattapoisett open, was 
sailed on Aug. 24, 1907. Judges—Louis Bacon 
and Charles H. Taylor, Jr. Wind, E. to S.E. 
First Class—Course 4, 91% Miles, 
Wounes Miss) Do I oWihittemore i). ois sc ewiecte eee 
Meemer, (On (Cc Sanborn... sickavecccacceecccha aes 
Class C—Course 4, 914 Miles. 
Merrapiny 10S; Dabney... 
Amanita III., 
Owl ak. C. 
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Class K—Course 8, 
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Wanderer, (Ad Sl) Witting eo cic ance ciclersioreisiaes. veistete z 
Poltoose, Mrs. W. G. Nickerson............... Withdrew. 
Class E—Course 8, ; 
PATNI ee VN oie oe EN LIL GT rerrtrrsrettisvelainns ainyaies slelelel= er steloipie°si= i BBHB 
Seis ee ISSUE yVALTEN ies deniucistccls as c's dewic sce seis-< 1 35 06 
Mongoose, Miss E. B. Emmons...........,... 1 40 16 
Vii tee DAT ROME Hoc ck acl ciiac nageeiateveuwes 1 42 27 
Catspaw, S. D. Warren, Jr 1 42 51 
Yalu, Miss Margaret Codman 3 30 
PON Re Ep mE MGI TA CHE ome aetaoatairte ccaleseieeiorersieteiel a= 8 47 
Jack, Rebekah and Peacock did not finish. 
Class C—Course 1, 12 Miles, 
EASE ele VY PED Tita tects s oisiapurainys cieldiate mere miniajqi ah aa 1 53 02 
Pie Ate ge Cho L REM SRRIND 5 accu orate cys alayeccpassiasaieyesaia's aac Withdrew 
Class H—Course 1, 12 Miles. 
yeast” StOriny oe. bee aoOthTOD yar vais aed e/a, ccte ap ats 2 04 33 
Mortse Wh. bly Ray inond oases ns cnicce warts wie sern'eaa 2 03 23 
The race on Aug. 10 was in the nature of an 
experiment for our club. We described the 
event as a tournament race. The boats were 
drawn in pairs exactly as in a tennis tourna- 
ment. The various pairs first sailing together, 
and then their respective winners sailing to 
gether. The experiment proved interesting, 
and, I hope, will. be repeated. 
The race at Mattapoisett came at the end of 
a week of celebration, due to an anniversary of 
the founding of the town. It was an open 
event largely attended. 
Boats, Ancient and Modern. 
OLp-TIME yachts, like the community owning 
them, were very decorous and well behaved. 
With jibs down, they would lie to an anchor 
with mainsail hoisted just as a weather vane 
would point to the wind, but can as much be 
said of a modern boat? No, because half of 
them have such very short, deep keels that the 
sail balance cannot be figured as in an old-timer. 
You hoist the mainsail on a modern raceabout, 
and she will at once begin to sail up on her 
anchor. When she gets to the end of the rope, 
she cuts all sorts of pigeon wings, jibes over— 
all standing—and in such anything but de- 
corous manner intimates that sail is not to be 
hoisted until there is some sailing to be done. 
Where is a novice in yacht designing to begin 
to unravel the terrible muss such boats have 
made of all former accepted ideas and axioms 
in regard to sail balance? The center of area 
of the sails was generally put a trifle forward of 
the point where the hull will push evenly side- 
ways through the water. 
Yet some of the modern boats will beat up 
to windward nicely under mainsail alone in 
light breezes. The addition of the jib when it 
breezes up does not seem to affect the balance. 
The extra speed produced by the jib adds just 
about enough pressure under the lee bow to 
keep it from paying off. Let the wind lighten, 

so that the lee bow wave is not rolled up, and 
the boat’s head pays off unless the tiller is 
quickly put down a little to prevent it. With 
a good wholesail breeze the balance is just even, 
and in a downright hard breeze, where an old- 
timer would “come up in the wind and look 
at you,” as the saying is—that is, she would luff 
in spite of her helm being as hard up as it would 
go—the modern boat just carries a fairly hard 
helm and jumps out to windward when the 
pressure is for a second released, just as a sea 
is coming at her. for all the world like a wet 
and shiny porpoise, perfectly at home and per- 
fectly balanced. 

3ut, oh! what frail, delicately-constituted 
creatures these craft really are! How little it 
takes to get them out of order, and what a 
splendid lot of boat sailers they would produce 
were each to study and thoroughly master the 
intricacies of his craft. 

FLORENCE II.—DESIGNED BY MESSRS. STEARNS & McKAY FOR MR. A. H. MARKS. 

