The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-25
INTERNATIONAL YACHTING.
CHALLENGES FOR SAVANNAH
AND CANADA CUPS.

osbko sh Yacht Club VIII Try TO BRING the
Canada Trophy Across tho Border
New Rule OF Atlantic Club works
Well-Many New Boats Planned.
II Sir Thomas Upton arranges another
m atch for tho Americas Cup, to be sailed
next season, there will be three interns-
tional matches in which yachtemen OF this
country will be interested. The Oshkosh
Yacht Club has challenged the Royal ST.
Lawrence Yacht Club for a race for the
Seaw anhaka Challenge Cup for small boats
Tho Canadians have held this trophy, which
was offered by the Seaw anhaka Corinthian
Yacht Club, for nine years, and are anxious
that the next series OF races should be with
an English boat. So far no English club
has challenged, and it looks as though the
Canadians would again have to meet an
American boat next year.
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club has chal-
lenged the Rochester Yacht Club for race
for the Canada Cup. A committee repre-
senting the challenging club visited Roches-
ter last week and conferred with the local
yachtsmen. The terms OF the race were
soon arranged, as each side was anxious
for another contest. The last series OF races
was sailed last year, and the lrondequoit'
built from designs by William Gardner,
defeated the Strathcona, designed by A. +.
Payne OF Southampton, England These
boats were 40 feet on the water line, and
the committee agreed that %o-footers were
too expensive. 80 II was decided that next
years class should be So-footeB. 1t ID
probable that both sides " Ill have three or
four of these boats built and select the best
for the international races.
The races are to begin on Aug. IL and
will be sailed on Lake Ontario on Charlotte
The match will be three out OF five races.
The first, third and fifth races will be over
triangular courses. These COURSES will be
three miles to each leg and will be sailed
ever twice One leg, the first II possible. will
be to windward. The second and fourth
races will be to windward or leeward and
return, each leg being four miles. and it will
be sailed twice over. The races are 70
be started at II o'clock each day and the
time limit is five and q half hours. No
race will be started later than o'clock.
The yachts are to be OF wooden oonstxuc-
ton and built In accordance with the scant-
ling rules Of the Yacht Racing Association
of the Great Lakes. w. p. Stephens Of
Bayonne LIS the referee on construction.
Each club will select one Of the judges, and
these two will select the third. The judges
arctic form the regatta committee.
This cup has always been won by the
CHALLENGING yacht, and the Rochester Yacht
Club will make great efforts to break this
record and keep the trophy in this country.
The racing down the Bay this year has been
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have competed for the prizes offered by
the Atlantic and other clubs. They have
raced under the new rules Of measurement
which were adopted last winter. These
rules are very similar to those Of the New
York Yacht Club, but differ slightly in the
way the length is taken. The Atlantic
Club, however. in figuring time allowance
only figures on 90 per cent. Of the theoretical
allowance while the New York Yacht Club
figures on 30 per cent. The Atlantic rule
has worked out well. All the races have
been very closely contested, and in many
Of them seconds only have separated the
leading yachts. In the New York Yacht
Club the 30 per cent. allowance has been
too much and the smaller boats have re-
ceived too great an allowance to make the
contests fair. In strong winds the 90 per
cent. allowance works out all right but the
average weather in these waters makes
the rule work to a disadvantage to the
larger beat. II is very probable that some
slight change will be made this winter to
put large and small boats on more even
terms.
The outlook for building this winter Is
very good Several plans are now being
made for men who are wanting boats for
next seasons sport. Two big schooners
fitted with auxiliary engines are to be built,
and the plans are now being prepared.
Other yaohtsmen are looking for small motor
boats Of about rs feet, which can be
used a. ferries 10 take them to and from
the city and their country homes each day
The advantage Of gas boats OF this sire
over steam yachts Is that they cost less. are
more economical In running, and give more
room in the boat
Several yachts have changed hands
recently. Stanley Seaman reports the fol-
lowing transfers through his office: Auxil-
tary cat boat Keystone, sold BY Ernest NJ
Bull to Frederick T. Mason Of New London
sloop Kangaroo, sold by o. F. Smith to
g. W. Wright Of Brooklyn; jlb and mainsail
boat Knave, sold by w. N. Bavier to e,
Hope Norton.
Commodore Morton F. Plant Of tho Larch-
mont Yacht Club last year had the steamer
parthenia built by Herreshon. This boat
was too small for his purposes, and In tho
spring he talked Of having another larger
and faster boat built. While In England
recently he purchased the steam yacht
veneaa OF F. W. Sykes Of Leith. The