
FOREST AND STREAM. 


Enforcing the Laws. 
THERE is no question but what the Govern- 
ment has gone in in earnest to enforce the laws 
as to lights and whistles, foghorns, bells, etc 
All over the country they have been overhauling 
delinquents this past summer, working under 
difficulties as they were in not having proper 
craft to patro! the waters under their jurisdic- 
tion. But in 1908 things will be different. The 
Government is building proper patrol boats for 
the inspectors and many boats will be appre- 
hended that escaped last year, owing to the 
deep-draft chartered tugs not being able to go 
where the shallow pleasure craft could go. 
Even at sea, a week’s sail from land, sailors 
are just as careful to keep their side lights burn- 
ing as though they were in a crowded harbor. 
It is second nature to a true sailor. Every 
watch the lookout on the fo’castle head calls 
out whether the lights are burning all right or 
not. The trouble generallv is in the raw recruits 
of the sport who are unacquainted with the cus- 
toms of the sea. They will have to learn, and 
learn quickly. or Uncle Sam will have some of 
their coin as fines. 
That it is not always the amateur’s fault, the 
following experience of a lake yachtsman_ will 
show: 

In a driving blow, accompanied bv snow 
flurries and temperature below freezing, the big 
auxiliary yacht Czarina was partially wrecked 
in Maumee Bay on the night of Noy. 10, and 
for many hours Captain Al. M. Gallagher and 
crew of four men from Port Clinton suffered 
intensely from exposure. The night was inky 
black, the craft. with battered hull and rigging 
torn, was helpless, leaking badly and it was 
momentarily expected that she would sink or 
be dashed to pieces. 
Mr. Gallagher and four young amateur sailors 
left Port Clinton Saturday evening in the yacht. 
Toledo was their destination, but they expected 
to stop in the vicinity of West Sister Island for 
several hours fishing. The weather was squally 
and cold and they put back into Port Clinton. 
Early next morning they made a second start 
and expected to arrive at Toledo that evening 
to lay up the yacht for the winter. 
Some fish had been caught in the vicinity of 
West Sister and at 7 P. M. the yacht arrived in 
Maumee Bay. The wind was blowing fresh 
from the southwest, so that it was necessary to 
tack into port. Captain Gallagher was at the 
wheel, with other members of the crew trimming 
sail or on watch. Every inch of canvas on the 
big yawl was set and drawing hard. The lee 
rail was awash and the craft, with a bone in her 
teeth, was making steamboat time. 
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the form of an obstruction, and before the 
course of the yacht could be altered she had run 
bow on into a heavy fishing scow, anchored 
without lights about 200 feet from the steam- 
boat channel, off the crib lights. 
The terrific impact stove into the yacht’s 
bow, opened some of her seams and damaged 
the forward rigging considerably. 
The boat, helpless in the trough of the sea, 
drifted upon a shoal about half a mile from the 
crib lights. There she pounded all night long, 
leaking considerably. 
Mr Gallagher, in his dinghy, rowed first to 
Gard Island and then to the crib lights in the 
hope of establishing communication with the 
city and obtaining relief for his craft left in such 
perilous position. He was unable to do so, 
however, but “Hickory” Jennings, the Bay 
Range light keeper, loaned the shipwrecked 
yachtsmen a staunch, heavy rowboat, which was 
taken alongside the Czarina for use in case the 
yacht should be pounded to pieces. 
The yachtsmen were wet, cold and hungry. 
and their gloves froze to their hands as they at- 
tempted to clear up the wreckage and pump the 
water out of the bilge. At midnight Captain 
Gallagher managed to cook a meal of fish on 
an oi! stove. It was a difficult task, with the 
yacht pounding and pitching on the bar. 
Next morning the wind subsided, and after 
daybreak a fisherman’s boat was hailed. The 
fisherman towed the wrecked yacht into the T. 
Y. C. basin, and the members of the exhausted 
crew left her in charge of employees at 
Harrison’s boat works. 

New Rules for San Francisco. 
SAN Francisco, Cal., Nov. 16.—Editor Forest 
and Stream: San Francisco yachtsmen are con- 
sidering a change of rules, and with this end in 
view, the delegates of the Pacific Interclub 
Yacht Association are preparing for next year’s 
sailing and racing events. Ever since the asso- 
ciation organized in 1894 the annual regatta and 
in fact all the races of the principal clubs on 
the bay, have been sailed under the system of 
time allowance known as the Corinthian-Sea- 
wanhaka rule. In the East, the rule is more or 
less obsolete, clubs there having adopted the 
new Universal Rating rule for classification and 
time allowance. A committee composed of 
representatives of bay clubs has been appointed 
to learn whether or not the latter rule is meet- 
ing with favor. The committee has opened cor- 
respondence with the principal yacht clubs in 
the East for this purpose. The delegates of the 
Interclub Yacht Association will also take 
under consideration the compiling of a new 
signal code, as the one now in use was issued 
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prior to the revision of the international signa 
code used in maritime service. 
Hawaii has raised through popular subscrip 
tion the necessary $10,000 to build a yacht te 
contest with the yachts of the Pacific Coast 1 
the second Pacific Ocean yacht race, to be saile« 
from San Pedro, Cal. to Honolulu, i. Ee 
next summer under the auspices of the Soutl 
Coast Y. C. The building -of the Hawaiia1 
craft, which will be christened the Hawaii, wil 
be begun at once in the Honolulu ship yard o 
Sorenson & Lyle from designs by Crownin 
shield already detailed in Forrest AND STREAM 
The vessel will be modeled on the lines of the 
Cape Cod fishing boats and the designer ha: 
promised that it will be both fast and seaworthy 
As far as practicable all the material to g¢ 
into the yacht will be of Hawaiian origin. He 
inside furnishings will be of Hawaiian ma 
hogany and native woods will be used for hei 
framework. The yacht will be sailed by the 
Hawaii Y. C. 
The /AKolian Y. C. has filed articles of in 
corporation at San Francisco. The director: 
are Herbert Hansen, E. F. Evans, Crosby Mc- 
Connell, W. Woodward, I. S. Bailey and J. A 
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Dick Moore a Life Saver. 
Turee boys, Harry Denna, fourteen years old;} 
John Denna, sixteen years old, both of whom 
live with their parents at Bay Twelfth street and 
Bath avenue, Bath Beach, and Abraham Mes- 
erole, of Bay Twelfth street and Cropsey avenue, 
having lost their oars in an attempt to return 
against the tide, were being swept into the lower 
bay when they were picked up off Coney Island 
Point recently by Dick Moore, of Bay Nine- 
teenth street. Bath Beach, and George Sesan- 
gade, cf New Yory city, who were returning 
in their sloop yacht from a fishing trip down the 
bay. | 
After they had eaten their Thanksgiving din- 
ner the boys thought it would be good fun to 
go fishing in Gravesend Bay. They made their| 
way out into the bay in a rowboat, anchored and 
fished for a time. As it became late they de-| 
cided to start for home. In the meantime the 
tide had turned. The boys pulled with all their 
strength, but were unable to gain any headway. 
Then, finding they were at the mercy of the | 
tide, all three began to cry. Darkness set in 
and they were being swept out of Gravesend 
Bay past the lights at the Atlantic Y. C., at 
Coney Island Point. 
their cries were heard by Richard Moore and 
his friend 
Dick is one of the best sailors on the bay. | 
He was the skipper of the Bensonhurst that won 
the Lipton cup this summer. They picked the} 
boys up and landed them safely at Bath Beach. 


1908 Bermuda Cup for Power Boats. 
Dersicns for a $1,000 cup to be raced for in| 
1908 have been sent to Bermuda for the Royal} 
Bermuda Y. C.’s committee to select from. One 
design was made by Bailey, Banks & Biddle, 
who made last year’s prize, and the other design 
is by the C. F. Monroe Company. Lucky will 
be the company who gets the order; but 
luckier still will be the power boat that wins 
the cup next summer. 

No Swedish Cup Challenge. 
THe present financial difficulties have put an 
end to any idea of a race between 9o-footers, 
the Royal Swedish Y. C. having dropped the 
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