FOREST AND STREAM. 

[Nov. 16, 1907. 




_ YACHITIING 







Bermuda Race for Motor Boats. 
THE joint committee of the Royal Bermuda 
Y. C, and the Motor Boat Club of America has 
issued the following conditions for the motor 
boat race in June next from New York to 
Bermuda: 
The Bermuda cup, valued at $1,000, is pre- 
sented by a member of the New York Y. C. as 
a challenge trophy to be raced for by sea-going 
power boats. The trophy is placed jointly in 
the custody «of the Royal Bermuda Y. C. and 
the Motor Boat Club of America. It will be- 
come the property of the owner who wins it 
ihree times. 
PRIZES. 
The possession of the Bermuda cup to the 
boat finishing first and $1,000 in cash, also 
offered by the member of the New York Y. C. 
This boat will also receive a commemorative 
shield, presented by the Motor Boat Club of 
America. 
Second boat, commemorative shield, present- 
ed by the Rudder. If more than five boats start 
a third prize will be given. 
CONDITIONS. 
Race.—From the station of the Motor Boat 
Club of America, New York Harbor, to stake- 
boat at Bermuda, placed by the Royal Bermuda 
Ne Ge 
Boats.—Opeén to seaworthy power boats not 
more than 7oft. over all. A seaworthy boat is 
a substantially built, full decked vessel, having 
engine and living accommodations housed. in 
and being equipped with all the tackle and ap- 
plances necessary to enable her to make a 
long passage in open water. 
Propelling Power.—Any form of internal 
combustion engine may be employed for pro- 
pulsion purposes. 
Fuel—The committee, comprehending that 
those entering the race have a thorough knowl- 
edge of the fuel necessary to make the passage, 
does not specify any quantity, but same must be 
sufficient to complete a distance of at least one 
and one-half times the distance between New 
York and Bermuda. No ingredient shall be 
used to increase the power of fuel. 
Sails.—Boats must be equipped with suitable 
spars and rigging to carry sufficient sail to give 
them steerage way in a moderate breeze. This 
sail can be spread in any shape, but the total 
area of the canvas must not exceed six square 
feet for each foot of over all leneth. A square- 
said and storm trysail may also be carried. 
Stores and Water.—Stores and water 
sail and storm trysail may also be carried. 
Crew.-—No boat will be allowed to start with 
less than six men on board, one of whom shall 
be a practical navigator, one a practical en- 
gineer and at least half of each crew must be 
amateurs, 
Equipment._-A boat or life raft must be 
carried of sufficient buoyancy to save the whole 
crew, or else two boats or a boat and a ratft. 
Also a ring buoy or life jacket for each mem- 
ber of the crew. A full set of navigating in- 
struments, a spare compass, sea anchor, oil bag 
and at least one gallon of crude petroleum or 
other oil, and fire extinguishers must be car- 
ried. Suitable arangements for fitting an 
emergency tiller must be made. An assortment 
of spare parts and gear to the satisfaction of the 
committee must be carried. 
Tanks.—Fuel must -be carried in at least two 
distinct tanks, which shall have distinct feed 
lines to engine or engines. Fuel for lighting or 
cooking purposes may be carried in separate 
receptacles. Water to be carried in at least 
two separate tanks, all tanks to be securely fitted 
and fastened to the hull of the vessel to the 
satisfaction of the committee. 
Entries and Measurement.—Entries 
suf- 
will be 
received up until thirty days before start of the 
race upon blanks which will be furnished Ly 
the secretaries of the clubs. All contestants 
must be measured by the club’s measurer at 
least forty-eight hours before the start. 
Protests.—Protests covering violations of 
sailing rules must be made in writing within 
twenty-four hours after finish of race. 
Inspection.—All contestants must report at 
the anchorage of the Motor Boat’ Club of 
America, or at such time and place as the re- 
gatta committee shall designate, ior the purpose 
of inspection and measurement. 
Start.—The start shall be made Saturday 
June 6, at such hour and place as the committee 
may hereafter designate. 
Course.—From starting line in the harbor of 
New York to a stakeboat at Bermuda, off St. 
Davids Head, distance 670 nautical miles. 
The committee reserves the right to reject 
any entry if, in its judgment, the boat is unsea- 
worthy or unsuitable for long distance racing, 
or is deficient in any particular. All entries will 
be accepted subject of inspection and approval 
by the regatta committee previous to the start. 
The committee urges strict compliance with 
the letter and spirit of the conditions as above 
stated, and will be pleased at any time to in- 
spect plans or boats under construction. 

Racing Rules. 
THE heavy and unexpected squall that recently 
struck the country, not only capsized several 
banks, but it sent many yachtsmen who con- 
sidered themselves well above the high water 
mark of trouble, floundering about in deep 
water. 
You can hardly expect a drowning man to 
stop and argue with you when he is striking 
out for the shore, and perhaps this accounts for 
the delay in calling together the delegates of the 
Yacht Racing Association, constituting its execu- 
tive committee, for the purpose of adopting a 
uniform method of applying the present rule of 
measurement. 
This rule, particularly that section of it re- 
lating to displacement and to the factor L, is 
so difficult to calculate that different results are 
often obtained by measuring the same boat two 
different ways. The idea is to standardize one 
way of measuring. 
The various club measurers, it is proposed, 
are to appoint one official measurer in each 
yachting section, such as one for the eastern 
end of Long Island, one for the western end, and 
one for New York bay waters. He will be the 
official association measurer. 
Then, in case of any dispute over a boats’ rat- 
ing, these measurers could appoint one man to 
act as a referee. This, in a way, is what Forest 
AND STREAM has for some time been advocating. 
It is not making a whole bite of the apple as 
we proposed, but is reducing the number of bites 
perceptibly over what is now being done where 
each club has a measurer. 
The meeting where all this was to have been 
brought up should have been held in November, 
but it looks now as if it would stand over until 
at least the Ist of December. 
Another. suggestion is to adopt cabin restric- 
tions for the 22ft. and 27ft. classes, or what 
would have the same effect put a premium of 
freeboard so as to discourage the building of 
practically flushed-decked racers with little or 
no accommodations in them. 

’ 
THE New York Y. C. has appointed a com- 
mittee to confer with the handicap class in New 
York waters with a view to establishing such a 
class among the large old time craft. 
‘lenge cup for small boats. 
International Yacht Races. 
THERE is every likelihood of there being three 
and possibly four international yacht races de- 
cided on this side of the Atlantic next season, 
and yachtsmen who are interested in small boats 
are making their plans now to meet as far as 
they are able the conditions of these contests. 
They will all be for small craft, but small boat 
racing has become so popular on this side of the 
Atlantic that these races will prove even more 
instructive than a race for the America’s cup, 
which has never made a season a good one 
from a yachting point of view except for racing 
in that one class and for steam yachts. The 
America’s cup contests have always been spec- 
tacular, but so much attention is paid to the 
class for which the match is arranged that all 
others are neglected. 
It is Germany’s turn to visit this side of the 
Atlantic and race against American built craft. 
The Americans have won at home and the Ger- 
man yachtsmen defeated them this year in their 
waters, and now the German sailors are am- 
bitious to defeat the Americans here. They 
learned a lot when off Marblehead two years 
ago, so much that they were able to win in a 
most decisive manner when they met the Ameri- 
can sonder boats at Kiel this year. The 
Spaniards, too, are ambitious, and it is very 
probable that races will be arranged to be sailed 
off Marblehead next summer, at which both 
German and Spanish yachtsmen may compete. 
Whether the Sonder class boats will be main- 
tained or whether another class will be arranged 
for has not yet been settled, but plans are now 
being made on both sides of the Atlantic, and 
when completed will be announced by the 
Eastern Y. C. committee, which has brought 
about these International contests and carried 
them through to such a:successful finish, 
The Canadians, or rather the Nova Scotians, 
are going to try to recapture the cup the’ 
American dories won last summer when sailing 
off Shelburne. That race was arranged by the 
Shelburne Y. C. and the Massachusetts Dory 
Association, and the conditions that governed 
the first race for the cup will prevail in the next 
contest. Each side will be allowed three dories 
and a series of three races will be sailed, 
It is very probable, too, that the Canadians 
will try to, win back the Seawanhaka gold chal- 
This trophy is now 
held by the Manchester Y. C. There was some 
talk of the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. challeng- 
ing for a race last winter, but it decided to: wait 
another year in the hope that some other club, 
preferably one from the other side, might try 
to take the cup abroad. ; 
The British International cup for motor boats 
is now held by the Motor Boat Club of America 
and it will be defended next year, when British 
boats and possibly some from France and Ger- 
many will come here to try to beat the American 
craft. This trophy is for boats less than forty 
feet long and with any power that they can 
carry. The races are run without time allow- 
ance. Each challenger is allowed three repre- 
sentatives, and, as a rule, when more than this 
number of yachtsmen wish to compete for the 
trophy, eliminating trials are held in order to 
settle which are the best three. It is early yet 
for challenges to come for this cup, but the 
Motor Boat Club has been assured that it is 
not to be allowed to take citizenship papers in 
this country as the America’s cup was, and a 
determined effort will be made to win it away.— 
New York Sun. 
Tue City Island Shipbuilding Co. is the new 
name for Purdy & Collison’s plant. They have 
the steel frame of the steel launch they are 
building there all set up ready to plate. 

