Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-10-12
BOHEMIAN YACHT CLUB.


General Peremtorv Orders No. 1920.
The following orders-as peremtory as
they are explicit have been issued by the
Bohemian Yacht Club:
The Club shall consist of FIVE members or
more-an yacht owners-and shall have a
Commodore, Vice Commodore, Admiral,
Vice Admiral, and Captain, and should more
members join they shall be assigned to the
culinary department, as there are not enough
offices to 60 around. The Commodore shall
always have his yacht in good order, subject
to the wishes and use Of his friends and
public at large, and shall have mounted on
the poop brass gun with sufficient breech-
ing and gear to prevent its kicking etc. The
latter failing is too prevalent among both
members and guns The Commodore shall
only fire his guns on state occasions, and as
the Club is averse to the patronage of cheap
labor the use of Chinese bombs is prohibited.
The following rules have been issued to gov
ern the Club, and any attempt to evade
them will subject the offender to the most
severe punishment.
l. The custom of sailing before the wind
must be avoided if possible, as experience
has demonstrated that it is much better to
wait and carry the breeze along with you, if
it is not too heavy.
2. Boat-keepers and yacht-masters are ad-
dicted to the practice of Staggering under
all they can carry" This must be dis
continued, as it is much better to 60 twice
for an unusually heavy load.
3. When dirty weather is threatened, or
when yacht is likely to be struck by a
squall, she must never strike back, but the
sailing master should heave two, or three,
but never more than four.
4. In the sea cruises to Santa Cruz or
Monterey, which are the delight of our Club,
as their frequency shows, the dog watchs"
should be abolished, as they tend to en-
courage idleness among the yachtsmen and
necessitates the keeling on board number of
useless beasts whose presence must be any
thing but desirable.
5. While beating to windward yachtsmen
must keep fulr' all the time, and care
should be taken to have sufficient quantity
of starboard tacks ON board to prevent run
ming into the winds eye.
6. All anchors should be accurately
weighed when first taken on board, and the
weight plainly marked on each, thereby saw
ing useless repetition of labor whenever a
yacht takes departure.
Z. The ceremony of splicing" must be per-
formed by the chaplain, as they are usually
we'll up in those matters and can tell a
needle from marlinspike.
s. When sailing in warm weather the
breeches of the yachts guns should be re-
moved and stored away, to be replaced on
reaching cold weather.
g. Should yachtsman inadvertently lose
his watch below and fail to find it on his re-
turn, the Commodore shall provide him with
another from his locker.
10. The practice of carrying logs merely
for the pupose of "heaving" them is of ques-
tionable propriety, and will form a subject
for one of the winter evening lectures of the
Club.
II. When all hands are "piped" below the
officer in charge must issue each man plug
of tobacco, a plug hat never.
IL. The use of whips on board of yachts
should be encouraged. They tend to increase
a yachts speed, and, if little penny whistle
is added, they will afford considerable amuse-
ment, as they will give the yachtsmen
chance to use their lungs and blow. A lack
of this exercise is noticeable of late.
13 AS every yachtsman has the fastest
yacht Tin his mind), it is desirable that they
should remain there, or have them framed
with flaring label. Such things catch the
public, and cheap notoriety is better than
none at all.
IA. The annual election shall be held On
the 1st of April, or oftener, if any of the minor
officers want to attain the dignity of Com
modore.
Is. The next general orders will be issued
when the above are understood and obeyed.