New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06

The 3O-footer Rex lately purchased in Boston by
F. NJ Rahdan made fairly good showing in the
final races Of the season and was hauled up Tor
the winter yesteTaay ne rex Wds tb,s year
The Executive Committee Of the American Canoe
Association will meet at Buffalo on October II 10
select The place for the annual meet next year
Stave Island on the st. Lawrence River, has here.
W. comTit.en think that a change would be Oene-
fetal, and IT is probable that Lake George will he
selected for the camping-ground or lS"'
Most OF the yachts OF the Jamaica Bay Yacht
Club have gone out OF commission. The sloops
Memo and Cutie have been laid up beside the club
house.
In the racing Of next year the yachts will be
classified differently. Among the schooners the
first class will include all above 100 feet, the 100
foot class all over 80 and not over 100 feet. the
foot class all s. feet and not over 50 feet and
the 65-foot class not e feet Among the sloops
md as hs s s G o1e ef AM o ne
So feet. the 52foot class all over AZ feet and
n 0d net o Over p feet the sf6ot class ali over
20 feet and not 90 feet and the 3ofoot class not
30 feet. Yawls will sail at 30 per cent or their
racing length.
The regular ferry service to and from the oyster
Bay Railway station ceased yesterday at the Sea-
wanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. but morning
and evening boat will run each day until further
tend for golf yacht racing and other autumn sports
offered by the club.
Clifford BrOkaw, OF the Iarchmont Yacht CLUB,
has sold the cutter Uvira. which Of the
earlier creations Of ". Fife. jr. OF Farlie the de-
siener OF the cup-challenger Shamrock. The Uvira
was built in England and brought to America about
1891. The new purchaser Is Rooert +. Doremus.
of the Atlantic Yacht Club.
The yawI Natka. owned by Frederick De Funiak.
OF the New-York Yacht Club has Just returned
from A cruise down the Sound
The schooner yacht Iroquois which is now bound
out for Porto Rico and other Southern ports. has
nd - Oyafn
Paw from which she will start soon Com
modore Rouse gives the word
Captain Pagel is preparing the steam yacht Du-
ouesne for a cruise 10 Southern waters. The yacht
is now at South Brooklyn receiving new wheel
and further painting. Theodore r. Hostetter, OF
the New-York Yacht Club, is the owner OF the Du-
quesne. and will go South in her as soon as the
preparations are completed
The sloop yacht Hypatia has gone TO Crosby's
yards for repairs.
CAPTAIN John Terry is at the HerreshoT yards, at
Bristol engaged in the work Of extending the ways
out three hundred feet into the harbor for the pur
pose OF hauling out the cutter Defender. This yacht
will it is said. receive new aluminium plating
her The deck beams that are now made OF alumni
mum win be removed and replaced by steel. for
laying OF the new ways into deeper water. as dif-
fondor a,tcr she Was built For day or two she
refused 10 go off the ways, owing " was said; TO
their being extended into suihciently deep
water.
The London Field" Is anxious 20 have the new
cup-defender 20 over and race the English yachts
early next summer in races like that from the More
10 Dover The remarks suggest that the stanch-
ness Of the American boat Will be open to question.
and il saws that a trip up the back Of the Goodwlns
would afford evidence as to her seawort Illness,
this being test that the shamrock VIII have to
face AS 10 this It may be said that Commodore
Morgan will probably accommodate THE Field"
by racing the new yacht 10 the fullest extent in
England after tho cup races are sailed.
r,senh s,icknev OF the New-York Yacht Cluh
is now on a cruise down the Sound his steam
yacht Susquehanna.
Captain Atkinson will command the big auxn-
larry Eleanor next year for Mrs. Cardeza OF Ger
mantown Penn. who has purchased the yacht
from William A. Slater. OF Norwich. Conn.
The dismasted schooner yacht Mascot will not be
placed in commission again this year. She Is al
Essington, near Philadelphia