The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-15
REGATTA DECIDED ON
WILL TAKE PLACE THE LAST OF
THIS MONTH OR FIRST OF JUNE.
YACHT CLUBS GALA DAY.
STEWARDS DETERMINED REGATTA
SHOULD BE GIVEN.

There Had Been Some Difference in
the Club and Among the Members
of the Board as to Holding 1t and
the Announcement of the Decision
Will Be Received With Interest.
Usual Festivities VIII Take Place
on Regatta Day-FinnI Arrange
ments to BE Made Next Tuesday.
No Material Change in Programme
of Former Occasions Probable.
The Savannah Yacht Club will give its
annual regatta at Thunderbolt some time
during the latter part of the present
month or the first few days of June. This
was definitely decided at a meeting of
: the Board of Stewards held yesterday
morning.
The meeting was held at the offices of
the Commodore, Mr.. Julian Schley, in
the Board of Trade building.
OF late months some considerable oppo-
sition to holding regattas annually or at
any other period has developed among
the members of the club and has found
its way into the Board of Stewards.
With this latter body full power and au-
thority to decide whether a regatta shall
be or shall not be held and to arrange
all subsidiary matters connected with the
question, are vested by the club rules.
1t was generally known that the ques-
ton would be decided at yesterdays
meeting and for this reason not only the
members of the club, but a considerable
portion of Savannahs population, by
whom the annual regattas are looked for
ward to as one of the chief events of the
summer, were awaiting the decision of
the board with considerable interest
1t was decided that the regatta should
be held and that it would take place dur
ing the latter part of the present month or
early in the month of June. All other ar
rangements were left until meeting of
the board of stewards, which will be held
Tuesday.
At this meeting it will be decided just
how many classes of yachts there will be-
the courses over which the races will be
sailed, the prizes to be awarded in each
class and the festivities that will mark
the occasion.
1t is expected that there will be no ma
terial change in the programme that has
been followed by the club at former re-
gattas and that the classes into which
the yachts will be divided, the course over
which the races will be sailed and the
prizes that will be awarded will be practi-
cally as they have been in the past An
excursion steamer carrying the members
of the club and it's guests, will accompany
the yachts over the course and in ad-
dftion make the trip from the city to- the
club house and return.
The action of the board of stewards was
announced at the meeting of the club held
in the afternoon and was received with
pleasure and approval by those members
of the club present at the meeting, who
had not already heard of it. No other
business of Importance was transacted.
The course usually followed in the re-
gattas is from a line in front of the
club house at Thunderbolt to and around
the Cabbage Island spit buoy and return
to the starting point This is for yachts
of the first and second classes; for the
third and fourth class boats shorter
course is mapped out. The course for
the larger boats is about twenty nautical
miles in length
The day the regatta will be held de-
ponds upon the state of the tide, to which
Difference must necessarily be paid This
question and all others will be deter
mined Tuesday.