The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-20
Annual Races of Rhode Is
land Yacht Club.
CIassificatIons Arranged and Courses
Determined Upsn.
Prizes to be Competed for By Six
Glasses Amount to $275.

The ninth annual open regatta OF the
Rhode Island Yacht Club Is announced
for next Monday and the race officials are
busily engaged in attending to all the
preliminari~s that the several events may
come off without hitch.
The gentlemen who are on the race
committee this year are G. r. Smith,
Samuel Whiteley, A. M. Potter, Il. r.
Hubbard, Il. p. Greene, measurer A. NJ.
Black.
They have already finished the work OF
classification and determining the amount
of the prizes and marking of the
Glasses 1 and 2; based
on sailing length as per rule II, section
8, sailing regulations. Glasses 3, 4, 3, 81
0fsS soops ON %asf sna ya%s 9ss: l. s5 feet and
under 30; class 2, 20 and under S5 feet;
class 8, II and under n feet.
Cats and yewls, class 4, "a feet ana
over; class B 81 feet and under "a feet;
class 9, under 21 feet.
in saiis; class B, rfalpsail and mzzen;
classes 4 and 9, mainsAil only.
signed U Vas to be e easiiy shifted, Viii Sc al
lowed.
Prizes Class /, first prize, $50; second
Class q afst pirze, ta5; second prize,
Glass 3 Arst prize, SIS; second prize
,ias Class ar;s prize s2S; second prize $751;
,S1 Siis sS,Ss Tis 1Ts. PMEl'' * 'a'' second prize
Class 9, ffrst prize, s,5, second prize,
$40; third prize, IS.
The number Of prizes awarded in any
class shall always be less than the num-
ber OF competing yachts.
Eptr xxffl hn
enrolled in any yacht club, and the water
line length should be stated by the
owner when known.
Each entry must be accompanied by
the entrance fee, as follows: IS for the
first class, SO for the second, third and
fourth classes; 81 for the fifth and sixth
classes. No entrance fee will be returned
except to such yacht OF any class which
shall be the only starter. Entries must
be received on or before IL a. m. of Mon
day, August 26.
MEASUREMENT.
A certificate Of measurement from any
club having the same rule OF measurement
as the Rhode Island Yacht Club Will be
accepted, but the race committee reserve
the right to have any yacht measured.
All yachts entered are requested TO report
to the committee or measurer at the clu b
house by 8 a. M, OF the day OF the race,
to be measured, and any yacht starting
in its class unmeasuTed must report 10 the
judges boat for instructions Immediately
after crossing the finish line or forfeit all
claims to o prize.
The sailing regulations and time allow
nnce of the Rhode Island Yacht Club will
govern in all cases.
The committee may place n club men,
Der upon any boat TO see that the rules
are observed. 1t will be the duty Of such
person to report any intraction of the
rules to the Judges Immediately after the
finish Of the race.
Yachts will receive their numbers from
the committee, and must be fastened one
on each side OF the mainsail, midway
above all reefing points. Yachts falling to
comply with this rule may not have their
time taken.
THE START.
The start Will be off the club house,
and signals bearing the numbers OF the
courses to be sailed will be displayed on
the judges boat.
Tie upper signal will give the number
of the course for classes j, 2, and and
the lower signal will give the number OF
the course for classes 8 and g.
AS near as possible to IL o'clock m. a
gun will be fired or whistle blown aboard
the judges boat, and a blue peter set,
which will be the signal to prepare to
start. Ten minutes later gun will be
fired or whistle blown which will be the
signal for class to start and at intervals
of FIVE minutes thereafter, gun or
whistle will sound for classes 2, 3, 4 and
to start. Five minutes will be allowed
for each class to cross the line; any yacht
starting later will be timed from the ex-
piration of the five IN minutes.
All boats must go channel side of
buoys, beaoons and lighthouses, passing
to the eastward of can buoy one mile
south of Conimicut Light, and to the
northward of spar buoy of the north end
of Prudence Island.
THE COURSES.
Courses for classes 1, 2, 3 and 4 are:
Course No. !, start, passing between