The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-15
READY FOR RACING
New York Bay Clubs Craft
Will Sail Tomorrow
For a Cup.
PAvONIA's REGATTA ON MONDAY.
Republican Clubs Tournament
Wheeling, Baseball and
Aquatic Notes.

The vachtsmsn Of the New York Bay
{ Yachting Club, will stretch sails tomorrow
afternoon. The second race for the Com
modore's Cup viii be sailed Every boat in
the fleet has entered, and the owners have
been very busy for several days getting the
craft in shape. Many changes have been
made in the boats to increase their speed, as
there is a strong friendly rivalry to win the
honors she first season. n every yatchts-
man fancies if he can get his rigging just
right or the ballast nicely adjusted that his
boat can excel any in her class. Every inch
of sail that can be safely carried will be
aloft when the signal to start is given. All
that is needed to make the race a grand sue
cess is a fair breeze. Chairman w. 2. Vree-
land, of the Regatta Committee, has every
thing In shape for the event, and has an
nounced that the boats will be started at
three O'Clock sharp.
PAvoNIA'S
The twenty-fifth annual regatta of the
Payonia Yacht Club will be sailed next
Monday, and will be with favorable weather
one OF the best given by the club. One
hundred boats nave entered. The smartest
boats in this section will participate as the
regatta is open to the New York, Brooklyn,
Atlantic, Seawanhaka, Knickerbocker.
Larchmont. New Rochelle, American.
Marine Il Field, Corinthian, Cedar Point,
Riverside, Indian Harbor, Douglaston,
Sewaren, and the clubs composing the New
York Yacht Racing Association. 1t is said
there will be contests in each Of the
fifteen classes as two or more yachts
nave been entered even in the
schooner and cabin sloops. Forty Jersey
City boats will compete, and the local
yachtsmen are-eonfident that they will carry
home a majority of the pretty prizes. The
Iron steamboat Cygnus has been chartered,
and the friends of the club will enjoy a
pleasant excursion, as the Cygnus will go
over the long course down to the perch and
ball buoy, close to the Atlantic Highlands.
Those at the clubs summer home will be
able, if the weather is clear, tosee the yachts
turn the buoy. TIL steamboat will leave
Twenty-second street, North River, at 9
A. NJ. Morris street, this city, at $50 and
Pier No. /. North River, at ten o'clock. The
young folk may dance, as a band will be
aboard.
The local yachtsmen will have a busy day
on Sunday entertaining the visiting yachts
men who will bring their boats down to
Communipaw Bay tomorrow and Sunday to
be ready for the early start on Monday.
TO RACING RULES.
The Yacht Racing Association viii meet
this evening to take action on the amend
ments to the racing rules. The rules have
caused some friction. as they were at vari-
ance with the rules eff many of the clubs in
the organization. The amendments are
sSection l All races or regattas given by
any club a member of the association or by
the association, open to one Or more clubs
members of the association, shall be sailed
under the rules of the association, and the
measurement for allowance for time shall be
by one of the following systems, which shall
be known respectively as the hull measure
Inent' and length and sail area measure
: ment,' which are as follows:-First, the hull
measurement or old rule, which reads as fol-
lows:-sThe length on deck, measured from
the forward part of the stem to the extreme
stern over all; to this add the length of the
load water line measured when in sailing
trim and divide the total by two, and the
result thus obtained shall be the sailing
LENGTH"
Tn second is the new sail area rule, which
follows
sYachts shall be rated for time allowance
according to the following measurement
$50 the load water line length add the
square root of the sail area and divide the
sum by two.
The load water line length shall be the
distance in a straight line between the points
furthest forward and furthest aft where the
hull, exclusive of the rudder stock, is inter-
sected by the surface of the water, when the
yacht is afioat in racing trim, with all per-
sons on board when the measurements IS
taken amidships. The measurer, at the time
of taking his measurements, shall aftix a dis
t~inctive mark at each point.
1.-THE said area shall be aScertained by
taking a perpendicular along the after side
of the mainInast, from the under side of the
gaf topsail block or sheave on topmaSt to
the upper side of boom when resting on the
saddle, or on the lowest part OF gooseneck;
the distance of which point from the main
deck or house deck shall be recorded by the
measurer, together with the other points
used in measurement
The committee has also changed section 3
30 as to read
In all races or regattes given by any
club belonging to the association open to
one or more clubs members of the associa-
ton. notice shall be given in the notice or
invitation for such race or regatta of the
rule of measurement to be used in such race
or regatta, and this rule shall not prevent
race OF regattas being given under the
length and sail area measurement for cabin
yachts and hull measurement for open
yachts, provided notice thereof is given in
the notice or invitation for such race or re-
gatta."
The adoption by the association of these
changes in the sailing rules, it is thought,
will stop all troubles, as hereafter a club
can hold their races under either rule they
wish. which was almost the sole bone of
contention before.