The San Francisco call., 1898-05-21
YACHT CLUBS
 READY FOR REGATTAS
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The stormy weather last Saturday kept many yachts from taking part III the cruise to Vallejo, set down on lhe pt oraunes of the Pacific, San Franclsco' Sorin+bisn and California clubs. Alex J' Vorno,s Clara sailed up to McNear 5 landing on Saturday night and dropped anchor there; the Corinthian boats 6ar- , poon and Ella. and G. T. ;. Whpe "Nt o, the Wisp of the San Franciscos spent the night at Paradise Cove; AeoIus' iIu ont PIide. Nixie, Freda, Edna and Aml- yo of the Corinthians, Sappho. Embla ana Royal of the Californias, got up 10 al leio. At about 1 on Sunday morning stiff breeze began to blow from the south and continued for some hours SeVerai o1 the yachts which were lying pretty close +oeather dragged their anchors ana 1ouleo each other On the way nome lheTe was a lively breeze, causing some ol lhe smaller boats to reef. ,a
 Arthur Franklin's yawl Bachelor anu M Claws sloop Sea Fox started last week down the Oakland Creek with @ the intention of cruising to Vallejo. After lying for the night at tHS Fba lati faSshin En- fla with Commodore C. J. Lancaster anu anu E. N. Walter on board; l.; ;. SheTihsfI5Ild SII fId sIoop Royal, Vice Commodore d' D. EU IS s.oGe ssr'e sI0op Sappho and Harry " Brydges' yawl Hope also set out on 1I,Lle Lne Vallejo cruise. Royal, Sappho anu anu Smn- 6av F II Moffitt'S launch AuguSta ! i dlI down to West Oakland and towed Miller Hager's new sloop Secidene sas tc cbristened IiS on behalf of the club by J. ". 1OtiiTt; iIi1G About in the afternoon the Gr4ieitlsi PeItai yachts Bachelor. Hope, Empla an9 d rloS oI9eh I1 came in Hope reported wet ana Ioush Ss trip. She lay behind Point Plnole all sat- urday night. ,z ..o sloon Mist to Carl A. Tarnberg, who has 1olnedqa qa iie Lis California Club. A. NJ Gay mas soIu G,,rar 1.aT former moorings to L. 5: SherlndIit oMnTSh oMS of Royal and has bought some 1ormer1y used by G. F. Gather Of the sloop and l. .r +borA was a meeting of the directors and regatta com nittee of the CanIorniaS, at when s ai- engagements were made for the class nag rapstfa to be held on May 29. E. A. von Schmidt has been measuring the 9dcHt9, and owners are looking for cHance chan to han1 their craft out on the spit. The sec retary invites members of all the yacnl clubs to witness the regatta, ana ,Hi ah1 nounces that the reports sidarad snen !.a of ,fo Call and Examiner will be consluereu o4- iIiai It is expected that the following yachts 1s will enter the California Club regatta; f: x SageTjs sIoop Edna Stevenson's sloop Thelma, Vice Commodore G. b. hosaI Sa sloop Sappho, E. N. Walters Embla, flag Sharman's sloop Royal, c. A. Tarnberg sioop Mist THommedieu and Delama,, ter's sIoop Phoenicia, H. Spratt ydWI Idier. c. tum Students sloop Regtnai Frank Langstroths yawl Lnplfa, n: Wi wi Brydges' yawl Hope, A R. wilson's vi on sba5or yawl Jules Hartmans sloop Mascotte; A M. Claws sloop Sea Fox and G. F. Gathers sioop and l.. The following launches eusta. Eugene Flanders Ariel, Prather's Fl Cazadero and J. J. Hanitin Jr s Doris
 The thirteenth annual regatta Of the Corinthian Yacht Club will be held on Decoration Day. The course will be rom the foot of Taylor street round the h's Ere sidio shoal buoy. thence round Blossom Rock buoy to a Stake-bOati thence round Presdio shoaI buoy to starting line. Prlze flags will be offered for yachts or the PoIl classes. ty-1ve-foot thirty-foot, thirty-slX-foot and class l.
 . class after rounding the stake-boat re- turn to the starting line and finish; yachts of the twenty-foot class, after rounding Blossom Rock buoy, return to me start ing line and finish The race will begin at Il :45 a. m., and yachts will be allowed ten minutes within which to cross the inc The regatta committee consists of John H. Hoops, P. J. Martenstetn and ". F. DiXey; T; l. Miller being measurer: l allowances calculated, during this after noon and tomorrow; owners are request ed to be on hand, that this work may be completed before regatta day.
 In class I are included all yachts having a racing length of more than thirty-sX feet, viz: Clara, Ella, Nixie, Speedwell. all yachts of a racing length exceeding thirty feet, but not exceeding thirty-sx Thelma, Queen, Edna, Thetis, Freda, Naiad Arcturus and Wave. In the thir ty-foot class are Aeolus, Truant, Amigo, Mignon, Secret, Emile and Halcyon, all these having a racing length of more than twenty-five feet, but not exceeding thirty feet In the twenty-ffve-foot class are Phoenicia, Cupid, May, Ceres, Cisne, Mis- tral and MerOpe, all of which exceed twenty feet but do not exceed twenty five feet. In the twenty-foot class, con- sisting of boats over fifteen feet racing length, but not over twenty feet, are Idler. Venture, Dart, Witch, Phyllis, Dreadnaught and Kittiwake.
 Vice-Commodore G. T. S. Whites Will O the Wisp, of the San Francisco Yacht Club, returned to her moorings at Saul salIto early last Sunday. The vice-com- modore has lost two of his crew: F. A. |. Roberts. formerly of the Bank of British Columbia, having returned to England via the Canadian Pacific Rail- way and Arthur Naylor having bought a sloop of his own, which he sailed down from Benicia last Sunday, reaching Saul salito on Monday evening. She is not named yet, but will be enrolled with the San Franciscos.
 There will be dance at the house of the San Francisco Yacht Club this even ing. under the management of the house pr. A. ". Mckenzie, Financial Secretary w G. Morrow and Secretary Charles B. Hill. For the convenience of visitors from the city a tug will leave Mission street wharf at 7:30 p. m., and will leave the clubhouse on the return trip at H.
 The opening entertainment and dance of the Encinal Yacht Club at Alameda last of the bad weather; but the opening cruise set down on the programme for Sunday did not come off. To-day Is an owners day, and tomorrow Is open.
 E. A. Wiltsee, whose fine schooner Ag- gle was the flagship of the Pacific Yacht Club. and is also on the roll of the San Franciscos has resigned the office of com modore of the Pacif1cs. Of the six half raters built by Engebrecht for the Pa cifics last season, only one Is at present in a seaworthy condition; this was kept by R. R. pHommedieu in the Oakland Creek during the winter.
 Now that the San Franciscos have ac- cepted the advance made by Dr. C. l.. Tisdale. president of the Pacific Interclub Yacht Association. all the six clubs on the bay will be represented in the associa- tion
 WILL SWIM AMI DTVE