The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-05-22
CITY POINT YACHT CLUB
TORM4L OPENING OF THE SEASON
 TUESDAY, MAY3 90.
Annual Sa il and CIambaIxe With Enter- tainment Ina the Evening -Will go to Fleet Boats fin the Club.

Double Beach This Sear-Number oi
 Fleet Boats fin the Club.
 The City Point Yacht club will for
 mally open for the season on Tuesday
 May 30. On that day the fifth annual
 opening sail and clambake of the club
 will take place. The event this year
 promises to be one of the most enjoya
 ble and successful in the history of the
 club. Nearly all the members of the
 club have announced their intention of
 taking the sail and for the convenience of others of the non-active members and
 their friends who wish to go the club has chartered a large slOop
 The sail this year will be to Double
 Beach. This was finally decided upon at the last meeting, although number of the yachtsmen were in favor of mak- ing the sail longer one. It was found, however that the sail to Double Beach is one which can be easily taken by the smaller boats of the club, and it was so decided upon.
 The start will be made from the club house at o'clock and the regular course laid for their destination. Ar rived there, a splendid old-fashioned clambake will be partaken of and the afternoon spent in games and other forms of amusement as the members desire. The start for home will be made so as to arrive here between 7 and 8. In the evening an entertainment at the clubhouse will round off the day.
 The club this year will undoubtedly prove one of the most active organiza- tions of the kind on the sound. It's plans for the season, although as yet not complete, arrange for number of enjoyable events. The annual Fourth of July and Labor day cup races will take place, besides a number of special class races and ladies days. There Is some talk also of holding an open re- gatta, which, if successful, would be
 made an annual event. The institution of such would undoubtedly become one of the annual events of interest in yachting circles in New Haven, as the clubs races last year were exciting and sportsmanlike events and awakened considerable interest among the yachts men of the other clubs of the vicinity.
 A glance over the fleet of boats an- chored in the club basin yesterday showed a number of yachts that are lia- ble to give local yachtsmen food for re- fection during the coming season. In the sloop class are the boats Cora, Stranger, Annie and Spray, the latter three of which need no introduction in yachting circles. The Stranger, new acquisition of the club this year, is the property of Gus Marshall and Harri- son Wagner, jr. As the property of Captain John McCauley of the New Ha- ven Yacht club she was one of the swiftest boats of her class in New Ha- ven harbor. The fame of her exploits spread all along the sound, and her d- mensions and water line were known in the yacht clubs from New York to Boston. For the past few years, how ever, through the indisposition of her owner she has been out of commission, but this year will once more see her carrying her canvas. She has been thoroughly overhauled by her present owners, who have also made number of important changes in her rig, and it is expected that she will again prove one of the most dangerous rivals to boats in her class on the sound. Sev- eral trials have already been given her by her present owners, who are delight ed with her performances.
 The Cora is new thirty -six-foot knockabout owned by George Ashton Kay of Brooklyn, formerly of this city. She was built in the latter part of last summer according to the design and specifications of her owner. As yet she has only been sailed in her trials" and a few open races. Her performance in all of them was eminently satisfactory to her owner, who proposes to give local yachtsmen a chance to judge of her | merits this season. In the "jib and mainsail' class the three principal factors are the Typhoon, | owned by Frederick Catlin; the Made leine, owned by John Mason, and the | Algeria, owned by ex-Commodore | Barnes. The former two measure about | twenty feet at the water line and twen- ty-six feet over all. The Typhoon prov ed invincible in nearly every race in which she entered last season, and the Madeleine came a close second. The | owners of both craft made a number of | changes in the boats while they were at Thatcher's yard during the fall, and | their trials this season are awaited with | considerable interest by yachtsmen in general.
 In the catboat class the Mamma, own- ed by John Hackett; the Ellen D., own ed by George Kay ST., and the Handy Andy owned by Andrew McQueeny, are three boats we'll known in New Haven waters. The two former have been ri- vals in many contest to the exclusion of other entries while the third, al- though little larger, is also one of the fastest boats in her class in the har- bor.
 With these boats the City Point Yacht club is sure of making a commendable in any race in which it chooses to enter, and with two of the largest boats as dark horses, and a fleet of oth- CTS in the various classes to choose from, it would not be surprising if the broom and the City Point pennant flew side by side at the conclusion of many an ex- citing race this season.
 The following boats will take part in the opening sail of the club:
 Schooner--Curlew, Major George D. Albee.
 Sloops-Spray, Commodore Frank | Swift; Nellie, Vice Commodore Charles Stevens; Stranger, Fleet Captain Gus Cora, George Ashton Kay; Paula Clarence Eaton; Annie, Samuel Harr:son; Edna, George Roberts Flor ence B., F. H. Simmons; Bessie A.,