The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-17
WHAT whitney
SAYS ON YACHTS
The Editor of Outing Writes
About the Pleasure
Boats.

'ullt Tor MesSrS Vanderbilt, Whitney,
)uryea and Belmont. These were of one
lesign and were supposed to be cruisers
instead of racing machines. All proved :.
yoefully deficient in stability ard have TO
90 back to the builders for thorough
,verhauling and strengthening. Caspar
Whitney has treated of the matter very
in the November number of
Outing but he writes much more interest
ngly, to us, in regard to small yachts.
this term including, with them everything
from 50-foot water line down, covering
the classes and sizes OF boats most adapt
able to our needs. Mr. Whitney tells
the story so much better than we can
that we quote at length from his articaG.
He says:
Despite the seventy-footers. the yacht
ing season was made notable by the de-
ve.opment and prosperity of the small
boat. And so long as the classes for thr
small boat continue to grow and thrive
We can view failures in the Larger
classes with complacency. For the small
boat-the raceabout, knockabout and 9TH
ers of that species-is the cradle of Co
rinthianism. 1t is the schoolship of tee
American yachtsmen-or at least, of the
Unfortunately, not all the men who own
sailing yachts, or who pretend to san
their own boats, are yachtsmen, but the
average of skill is annually increasing.
and the fact is directly traceahle to the
growth of interest, within recent years
| in the small boat. Yacht club regatta
committees should bear this well in mind.
and at all times lend every possible en-
Encouragement to the smaller classes
| Apropos of the successful small-Sc9t
season the Yacht Racing Union, which
| administers to its needs, at a recent
meeting very properly expressed omca&A
disapprobation of the racing measnre-
lment rules extant, and decided to reScsRa
the present rule until a new one Is puf
forth. Meantime Union clubs may usts
!. locally such rule OF measurement as theI
consider most desirable for the purpose
: There is no doubt of the need of a new
rule. but nothing will be gained If the
proposed changes do not provide a penai-
ty for freaks so heavy as to insure
healthful life to the small boat.
In the extremes to which the freak
development were carried in the SeaW1n-
INSTRUMENTATION Challenge Cup class. SH>
Union Committee has ample warming fne
tendency to create a mere racing H1-
chine must be checked and Thoroughly
discouraged The racing machine CRAZE
, has eventually killed every class OF boat
sailing, small and large in which it has
been tolerated.
!, The races next year for the Seavan-
1 haka- Corinthian Cup, which the Royal
! st. Lawrence Yacht Club (Toronto) sue
e cessfully defended last month against
I the White Bear Sailing Club (St Paul..
$ Will afford an opportunity for seeing tn
what degree of skill the English have at
n tanned in small boat building and hand
ling, since Spruce ~ made a try for the
u same trophy and was beaten several
II years ago.
y The ST. Lawrence Club has just nc
e cepted, through the Island Sailing Cfuh
II of Cowes, the challenge of Mr.. Lorue
e Campbell Currie of Havre, France
e There never has been class of small
boats to equal the thirty-footers in even
", ly matched or sport-giving racing. For
A three years of this class has furnished IN
d diminished enthusiasm and exciting con-
le tests off Newport, and there is every in
Al dication of it's being good for three more
* years. Some of the boats have changed
he hands since launched-but their speed
qualities have not been 1essened thereby;
indeed, in one or two instances they tmye
a. been considerably improved.
m But the most valuable service of this
20 class, as of the raceabouts and knock
10 abouts, has been it's missionary work
among the younger generation of axRa-
CT teur Sailormen, and with very happy re-
no suits. In the first year of the class the
8 majority of the boats had professional
O. shippers, but this last season amateur tai
be ent was Overwhelmingly in the majority
70 and also in the lead. Incidentally may
al add that the groundwork for the skill Mr.
r. Herman Duryea exhibited this year OF
the Yankee was acquired during the sew
20 eral seasons racing on one of these thfr
or ties-Vaquero, think, = was his boat
-, name.
;Io The past season was an especfan
in popular one for the thirties-for not onI
bo have the owners, but a number of fhei
of friends also offered cups, and great inter
IaSt haG toka in IA ~.
no fifty-eight races sailed this year tweat
~ were for cups.
I'd A class of which not a great deal wa
seen this year, perhaps because we wer
If so busy with the wretched seventies, bu
oh which seemed to promise much goO
of sport if properly developed-was the s
an footers-as represented by Affair an
W. Shark. Both of these yachts were on III
ret New York Yacht Club cruise, and eac
made a very creditable showing; subs.
.ea quently Affair made commendable 20
If ord against the famed Syce, but Shar
ow retired to Boston waters and did not I'm
NV Their reveal her capabilities.
ith AT all events, enough was seen to a
tract attention to the good looks of q
beats, and their economical and wor]
manlike construction. Now there is Ia
of several more being added to the cia.
next spring. / hope the talk will real
'r's result in action. The more boats we al
to the fifty and sixty-foot classes, u
uei Detter IL Will be Tor American yachting
TO always provided, of course, that the nc
boats are real yachts and not the film
is racing skeletons which constituted
oie seventy class. The 51-footer is one of {
most satisfactory sizes; it gives a vac
nen plenty large enough for cruising and y
TOO not so large as to be unwieldy and expe
on sive in racing.
An, 1t is interesting to compare the wi
ming types Of Atlantic Coast small boa
ing as represented, for instance, by Jo
Ter Roger and Wa Wa, with the small sic
aoy Aeolus, which on the Pacific Coast
equally as famous. 1t is plain to see IL
Il she is much ADLER and more seawortI
She is not so speedy by great deal,
doubt, but, on the other hand she
more of yacht and less of a racing n
chine
in San Francisco Bay has quite respe
ma able fleet of boats in about this class, a
re- an annual race OF great interest anne
them for the perpetual challenge C
male which the San Francisco yachtsmen p
cry chased in 1895 by subscription, and VIII
dia was first won by ]. w. Leonard's
Sueno. Any recognized Pacific Coast C
may challenge for this cup, and the r
must take place between May and