The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-19
SAUSALlTAN
TARS SAIL
UP THE BAY
San Francisco Yachts
men Will Enjoy Clam
bake and Other Sports

~ HIS evening the fleet Of the San
Francisco Yacht Club. with the ex-
ception of the sloop Ariel, will
leave its moorings at Sausalito and
will cruise to Paradise Cove. At IL o'clock
tonight hot frankfurter sausages and &C
cessories will be served the yachtsmen on
the shore
Tomorrow morning the sloop Ariel,
chartered by the Haley brothers, will sail
from Sausalito, bringing up to the cove
non-Owners and yachtsmen who are not
able to make the trip this evening. When
all the yachtsmen and their guests are
assembled tomorrow morning a big cook
ing range will be constructed on shore
from the bricks Astounding in that region
and clam chowder, with other good
things, will be prepared under the able
supervision of Jim" Logan, the chowder
chef of the San Francisco Yacht Club.
After a suitable interval the nautical
games and sports will begin. The first
event will be a swimming race for a suit
ably engraved cup and a rowing race in
yachts yawls for a similar trophy.
There will be a race in which the con-
testants, in a skiff, paddle with their
hands to a yacht. at the crosstrees of
which a prize will be hung. The man
who climbs the mast and succeeds in de-
taching the prize keeps 1t. Then there
will be sack race, the winner receiving
a silver key ring, and foot race for a
matchbox; also a three-legged race and
a partnership race. In the last event one
partner carries the other for half the
distance and then is carried for the re-
mainder. The prizes will be leather
belts This is the last event of this kind
the San Francisco Yacht Club will hold
during the present season and no efforts
Will hos =Anc az
possible.
Next week the yacht owners will be
busy preparing their craft for the annual
regatta of the San Francisco Club. which
will take place on Sunday, the 9th inst,
over the channel course. This event will
be under the mana cement of the regatta
committee. which consists of George E
Smith, chairman, J. B. Levensaler and w.
L. Spencer. The start will be of Powell
street wharf, Preside shoal buoy and the
dredger at Blossom Rock being used as
marks
This afternoon the yachts Of the Corin-
THAN fleet will leave Tiburon Cove and
will make Vallejo tonight AS II is high
water at San Francisco harbor entrance
at 1914 tonight the tide serves favorObly
for a run up to Mare Island Tomorrow
the fleet will sail back to its mornings at
Tiburon
The handicap regatta OF the California
1dCnt CluD lot the cup piCSClIcu " GA
Vice Commodore Robert Vincent, owner
of the yawl lola, Will not take place to-
morrow. as set down on the schedule, but
on Sunday, the 9th.
Percy Bun of the yawl kittiwake, to
which the regatta committee of the Pa
cific Inter-club Yacht Association award
ed the second flag in the 20-foOt special
race sailed on Admission day, has notified
a member of the committee that she
fouIed one of the stakeboats anchored at
the starting line off Powell-street wharf.
This disqualifies the yawl and gives the
second flag to the Sloop Mistral Of the
San Francisco Yacht Club.
Last Sunday the wind being light in the
1Ipper bay, many of the yachts cruised in
the channel Among them were the flag
shin Thetis of the San Francisco Yacht
Club the slooDs Challenger and Annie
and the yawl Wave The sloops Queen,
Ariel Curlew and Halcyon. with the yawl
ROYAL. sailed to Paradise Cove The
sehooners Chispa and White Wings went
out last Saturday afternoon, returning on
Sunday The yawl Gypsie, the sloops
JessiefE and other boats of the Califor-
MIA feet were also cruising in the channel
on Sunday