The San Francisco call., 1898-04-23
YACHT SEASON
 OPENS AT NEW SAUSALITO.
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new CluDhOuSe at SduSdllIO. uSio VIII be a reception in the afternoon and a dance at night. The yachts will be dec- orated with flags while daylight lasts, and at night with strings of lanterns. Commo- dore Dr. T. L. Hill requests all owners who have lanterns to employ them in the decoration of their yachts. At the dance the directors of the club will serve as floor committee. Supper will be served by Charley Dexter at Il o'clock. There will be an extra ferry-boat from the city at 7:50 D. m., and from Sausalito at mid night. On Sunday there will be boat races and swimming races, after which the yachts of the San Francisco fleet will get under way to escort visiting yachts home ward. Invitations to be present at the opening festivities have been issued to all the yacht clubs on the bay, and it is ex- pected that there will be many visitors.
 The Pacific Yacht Club will open the season at the clubhouse and grounds, Sausalito, on Saturday, May T. All yacht owners are expected to dress their craft, anchor them off the club grounds and be prepared to receive guests on board. Members desiring to lunch or dine at the club should notify the steward at Sausa tito or the president, commodore or secre- tary in San Francisco not iater than May 6. During the afternoon SauSalito can be reached by the regular ferry boats; tug will leave the AlSSion-Street wharf at p. m. and will return to the city at Il p. m. Officers and members of all the yacht clubs on the bay will be welcomed at the clubhouse on May :, and will be ad- mitted during the afternoon and evening on presentation Of their membership cards.
 The Corinthians are busily engaged in getting ready for thcr Cpv.
 50. The yacht-owners are scraping, paint ing, vanishing and putting theIr craft into readiness for the coming season. While some of the yachts are ready, many will not be in sailing trim until the end of the month. The Thetis and R. R. lHommedieu's Phoenicia came over to Tburon last Sunday from Oakland Creek, where they lay during the winter. The Phoenicia will remain at T1buron during the season, and has taken her old moor ing there. Commodore Carl Westerfeld'S Aeolus has come off Stones ways at Tib- uron, and will attend the opening of the San Francisco Yacht Club, as also will the Ella, Frank BartlettS Queen and pos sibly the Freda. EX-Commodore J. w. Pew's Truant is on Stones ways, the NiXie having come off F. w. Hurndall has been elected a member of the Corin- thian Yacht Club. Engelbrecht is having 8 new boat, about twenty-five feet over all, with weighted keel built for him by the San Francisco Launch Company.
 The jinkS committee Is working hard to make the opening entertainment on opening night successful. A rehearsal of the singers was held on Monday, and of the farce on Thursday. For the cruise in squadron on May l it is proposed to dec crate the yachts with flags, according to a practice common among British yachts men. Secretary k. B. Lathrop, after an absence of month from sickness, has returned to business.
 The Encinal Yacht Club, at It's opening night on May fl. will give a vaudeville entertainment for members of the club and their families Some tirSt-class anna teur talent, both vocal and instrumental views will also be shown. Yanke's or chestra has been engaged, and proceed ings will probably be wound up with a dance. Next day there will be a cruise in squadron. General invitations have been issued to the commodore and owners of the other yacht clubs to be present at the opening and join in the cruise.
 The club is on d prosperous footing and expects to get many new members. The directors are active, and the clubhouse is well attended, the bowlng-alley and billiard-tables being much used. Though not many of the yachts are yet in com mission, it is expected that all will be ready for the opening cruise on May 15
 The programme of the Encinal Yacht Club for the season is as follows May 14 opening day and reception to visiting yachtsmen; May 15 cruise with visiting open; May 2S, owners day; May %, cruise to witness class flag race of California Yacht Club; May 30, cruise to witness Corinthian regatta; June 4, ladies cruise to San Mateo; June 5, return in squadron; June Il, annual regatta for challenge pen nant; June F, open; June IS, cruise to Mo
 
 and 26, open; July 2, join Pacific Inter- club Yacht Associations cruise; July 3. rendezvous at Vallejo. July 4, return July 10, open; July Is, annual re- gatta for class flags; July 17. cruise to witness regatta of California acht Club; July g, cruise to Point Pinole (clambake); July 24, return; July 30, an nual up-river cruise; July 31, return of es- corting yachts; August 6, ladies' cruise to Baden; August ', open: August 13 Tcla IA open; August 20, free-for-an race; August 21, open; August H, cruise to Petaluma drawbridge; August 2S, return; September 3 and 4, open; September 5, Labor day; September 9, Pacific Interclub Yacht As sociation regatta; September 10, go-as- you-please; September Il, witness small cruise to lower bay; September IS, re- turn; September 24 and 25, October 1. ?. 8 and g, open; October 15 hunting cruise; October 16, return; October 22, closing day.
 The following yachts of the California fleet will attend the opening of the San Francisco Yacht Club to-day: E. N. Walters Embla, flagship, carrying on board the owner, Commodore C. J. Lan- caster, Gibbs and J. Laughland Director E; J.. Mofitt's launch Augusta Eugene Flanders launch Ariel: Captain A. C. Lees sloop Surprise; Captain A. R. Will sons yawI Pilgrim; Director Harry Brydges, Hope; yawl-rigged; Captain George tum Students sloop Regina: Cap tain Frank Langstroths yawl Lupita; Captain George Woodsun's yawl Verona; Captain H. s. Pratts yawl Idler; Cap tain Allen M. Clay's sloop Sea Fox; Cap tain l.. $. Sherman's slOop Royal; Cap tain Jules Hartman's sloop Mascotte
 Admiral E. A. von Schmidt intends to draw his sloop Whirlwind out on the beach and to let her moorings be taken by Secretary G. F. Gathers sloop U & L Director Harry Brydges will soon have his sloop Hope transformed into a yawl, and Port Captain Sherry's yawl Gypsie will be in commission In about two weeks The Halcyon will be ready to sail in beautiful order in about week. Ex- Secretary Charles Loring and J. J. Horner have sent in their resignations. Ellis sherman will bring the sloop Royal, formerly Mirth, down to her summer moorings tomorrow. H. S. Pratt of the Yawl 1dler has returned from Honolulu and is getting his boat ready for sailing Eugene Flanders of the launch Ariel in tends to get a larger launch, and will sell the Ariel when his new craft Is ready The sloops Stranger and Mist are out of commission. The latter is for sale The Edna, though she will sail with the Cor inthians during the season, still keeps her moorings in the creek, and will lie at them next winter.
 Secretary G. F. Gathers sloop U & I will carry as crew T. E. Gather Roscoe l.. Flames and Fred L. Lopp.
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