The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-10
PILOTS GETTING In TRIM.
THE OCEAN REGATTA TO BE
SAILED NEXT THURSDAY.


Five Hundred Dollars In Prizes to be
Awarded-Nine Pilot Boats Expected
to Take Part in the Rsce-A New
Candidate for Honors Looked For
The Rules for the Regatta and the
Boats Expected.
The regatta committee for the coming
interstate pilot boat race off Tybee held
meeting yesterday morning, at which Vice
Commodore T. l. Kinsey presided and r.
III. Demere acted as secretary. II was de-
cided TO have the regetta next Thursday,
July IL.
Three prizes will be awarded, as follows:
Three hundred dollars to FIRST, $50 to
second and $50 70 third.
| As w. D. Simkins will not be in the city
be asked 20 be relieved from service on the
| committee, and g. P. Goodwin was substi-
| tuted. The following is the committee as
now constituted: I. l.. kinsey, chairman,
and r. NJ. Demere. F. S. Lathrop, H. A
Palmer, J. n. johnson, A. s. Bacon, ). 7.
Goodwin, NJ. w. Dixon and NJ. Y. Hender-
! SON.
The rules for the interstate regatta were
agreed upon at yesterdays meeting, Of
which the following is synopsis:
All boats entering TO be governed by rules
promulgated by the sailing committee, and
no appeal to be had from the final decision
| OF the judges, the committee reserving the
| right to postpone the contest or contests on
| account Of unfa vorable weather, or for other
| just cause.
The sailing committee, yet to be appointed,
| will determine the details of starting point
| and manner of starting.
Boats must enter at least twenty-four
hours before time set for the race, and the
sailing committee acquainted with the name
Of the captain or sailing master of the
vessel.
Time allowance fifty seconds per foot TO
be based upon the length OF hull, which
will be ascertained by adding the actual
length on water line to actual length over
all and dividing the total by two.
Only fore and aft sails will be allowed.
Four boats must enter and start or no
prizes will be awarded.
Some person Of competent authority must
report to the sailing committee for instruc-
tions an hour before advertised starting
time, and boats must take their station
within half an hour after orders.
One whistle will be blown for boats to get
ready, and ten minutes later two whistles to
start Twenty minutes will be allowed after
starting whistles for boats to cross the line.
The race must be finished in seven hours
or no race, and the course must be fairly
| kOhO ONcA WltuOuG LpuCI4uk OuOJ DOdb
or vessel to mark it out, and no vessel must
| be fouled in the race. Boats on the port
tack must invariably give way TO those on
the starboard, and boats going free must
| invariably give way to those on the wind.
A boat may luff to prevent another from
| passing to windward, but must not bear
away to hinder the other boat from passing
to leeward. The overtaking boat must not
luH until she has drawn clear ahead Of the
/ boat Sh has nUarta kpn The loo giH1 will
be invariably held to be that side on which
the leading boat carries her boom.
ANY violation of the rules must be re-
ported to the judges within an hour after
the regatta has been sailed, and reduced to
writing If so required.
| The course which has been determined
upon is the same as that sailed during Mer-
chants May week and is as follows: From
the inner bell buoy at Tybee, outer sea
buoy, thence to sea buoy off Warsaw.
Going, all buoys to DO left to starboard
except the north breaker buoy, which must
be left to port. Returning, all buoys to be
left to port, except the north breaker iuoy,
which must be left to starboard.
The pilot boat race promises to be one of
the most closely contested ever sailed ON the
| South Atlantic coast, and Ii is understood
that the prizes will be larger if the travel
to Tybee will justify the already liberal
prizes guaranteed by the Savannah and
Atlantic Railway Company.
A new candidate for the pennant and the
| first prize will make an appearance in the
regatta. 1t is believed that the new conner
will be dangerous rival. The vessel, the
Uriah Timmons. of Doboy, is the pilot boat
referred to, and, while it is a small craft, it
is said to run Ikea greyhound. The Frances
Elizabeth OF Charleston fl es the 1ybee
pennant, which she carried off at the last
annual regatta. and Capt. Swan remarked
| at the presentation that he believed in en-
couraging regattas and would defend the
pennantat the next annual regatta, SO that
it is thought safe to say that the Frances
Elizabeth will be in the race.
The Mecca will haul out on Willink's
marine railway to-day to be put in first
class order, for she cannot afford to go in
a race with such boats as the Frances Eliza
beth, the Uriah Timmons and the Telegram
and Oracle without being in the best trim.
The Mecca will come off the ways Monday
morning so that the Oracle, which will
arrive next Sunday, can go on Monday
afternoon.
| AS far as can be learned there will be
nine pilot boats in the regatta, as follows:
From Charleston-The Frances Elizabeth
| Capt. George Swan; the Sophie Amelia K
| Capt. Frank Bressel, Jr., and the Pride,
Capt. Frank Wyatt.
From Brunswick-The Telegram, Capt.
Samuel Brockington, and the Oracle, Capt
Duncan Wright.
From Doboy-The Uriah Timmons, Capt
| NJ. Dean.
From Savannah--The Neca, Capt. w. ].
Thompson, the Sprite, Capt Charles A.
Marmelsteiu, and the Mary Odell, Capt. j.
j. Thompson
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