The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-30
MN RULES IN YACHTING
INLAND LAKE YACHTING
ASSOCIATION
ARE OF INTEREST LOCALLY
Abandonment of the Water Line
Measurements Is the Most Rad
zeal of the Innovations De-
cided ON at Meeting.

CHICAGO, Oct 29-AlI Western yachts
men are interested in the vital changes
in rules enacted at special meeting Of
delegates to the Inland Lakes Yachting
association a few days ago. The asso-
cations annual meeting at Lake Geneva
last August forecasted a revolution in
the rules governing the construction of
yachts sailing for the championship of
the inland lakes, and those who advocated
a more wholesome type of boat have not
been disappointed
The most radical change was abandon
ment of Waterline measurements which
had come to be regarded as a nuisance
and something of a fake With it goes
the subterfuge that yacht entitled to
carry a crew weighing $50 pounds might
be measured with $50 pounds of dead
weight on board. Scarcely less radical
are the new restrictions as to thickness
| of planlxing and size of timbers
! Another important feature of the new
rules is the limit to weight of center
| boards; second is the ultimatum that
the club of jib or spinnaker must not
| exceed 10 per cent of the base of the fore
! triangle; a third is the ruling that the
| spinnaker boom shall not be dashed for
ward of the mast; fourth is the final
blow at anything approaching double
nun noat;-a fifth is the doing away of
the rule requiring air cans or alright
| ouIkheads; sixth is the decision that
yachts must not change the weight of
liked ballast or centerboard during
series of races; and another particularly
noteworthy innovation is the insistance
that yachts shall be sailed by amateurs
in all regattas held by the association
DELEGATES AT THE MEETING.
The delegates at the meeting and the
clubs they represent We're: c. d. Pea
cock, Chicago Yacht club; Edward Res-
ing, Green Lake; Henry l.. Hertz, Pista-
| kee; Or. Kellogg, Delavan; l.. c. Ordway,
! White Bear Yacht club; IL. Nunnemacher
and a. {. Rietbrook, Pine Lake; w. H
| Lyford and A. Z. Bower, Fox Lake; r.
] b. Mallory and IL. A. Coleman MIlWau-
! kee Yacht Clue; D. Hayes Murphy, Ocon
omowoc; Benjamin Carpenter, Lake &C.
neVa; w. L. Davis and William Gilbert,
| Neenah Yacht club; L. Pinkerton, ,Noda-
way Yacht club; George NJ. Conway and
IL l.. Atkins, Pewaukee; F. H Libbey
and J. III. Jones, Oshkosh Yacht club.
| The meeting took the agreement be-
tween the Royal st. Lawrence Yacht club
OF Montreal, and the White Bear Yacht
| clue, Of St Paul, for the last seasons
! contest of the Seawanhaka cup as a ba-
! SIS upon which to build the new rules
Ii was decided to hold next years cham
| plonShip regatta in September, instead
of in August, and during the first quarter
OF the moon. The executive committee
was increased from two elected members
ana the secretary TO three elected men,
pers and the president and secretary.
Under the new rules the miami lake
! yachts Will no longer be cIassed as
tWenty-footers and seventeen-footers,
| although no boat already built will be
barred from competition in next years
! championship regatta. in future they will
De known as class A and class 3 yachts.
CHANGE IN SECTIONS S AND ..
In the new rules sections s and g which
related to sails and sail area. of the old
rules, are incorporated, with the follow
ing changes:
The perpendicular of the fore triangle
snaH be the distance between the deck
and point on the forestry, where the
nnes OF the after leech of the lib inter-
SectS the forestry, above which the lib
| snail not be hoiSted
All jibs and spinnake must be trianen
lar sails, but they may have small clubs on
the heads not exceeding 10 per cent OF
the base of the fore-triangle, The spin
maker boom, when used in carrying saII
snail not be dashed forward of the mast
Tne area of the mainsa1I shall not exceed
4bO square feet in class A nor 2Sal S0II9 re-
feet IN class B.
The rules discarded merely restricted
Iasnlng the spinnaker boom to the bow
spirit or stem head.
Apart from the above changes regard.
Zig sails and sail area, the new rules are;
1achts shall not exceed SO feet over
al IN class A, and 81 feet over all in class
b. me sail area must not exceed 5Gl
square feet in class A, and $50 SQUARE
feet in class B. In class A the draft il
racing trim, with eenterboard down mus
exceed feet.
Centerboards shall not be loaded excep
TO overcome Notation, but metal plate.
tons: % The centerboard NAV he y
metal plate of practically uniform thick
ness, not over three-eighthS OF an incl
shicK at any point, and not weighing owe
sou pounds IN class A, nor over $50 pound
III CLASS d. Yachts must sail through
the series OF races with the same amour
Of HXeo ballast and centerboards of prac
9catly the same weight as carried in tn
first race.
A yacht must be so constructed tina
On a cross section, taken at anv noint
no part of the hull shall be sensibly 01 be
low the center part of the hull, exciusiy
of the false keel or skag
Aachts shall be constructed in accord
ance with the following instructions: Th
banking of the hull shall not be less tina
ohe-haf inch thick at any point Tn
frames frame or ribs shall be of oak, elm c
~, IMAM one and quarter square inches DE
" Iineal foot of length of vessel; they MAJ
d however 9ySs b be spaced as desired.
~ The deck plank shall not be less tina
~ Ohe-half inch thick, if without GOVERN:
a. put where covered with canvas NAV /
II tnree-elghths of an inch. The deck beam
square inches per lneaI foot of length
Internal bracing, floors, knees or otht
stlftening members shall not be include
IN tn, the area of the frames or deck beam
d. me total actual weight of the GREY
TX including all clothes, personal apparel an
ne belongings worn by them or carried 9
ne BOARD during the race, shall not excee
ig ESQ pounds.
S5 After and including 1901, in all rae,
of the association, the boats shall
sailed and handled entirely by amateI
yachtsmen.
d.