The San Francisco call., 1905-08-26
AMATEURS SAIL
TO NAVY YARD
Yachts of San Francisco
Fleet in Handicap Race
to SausalitO To Morrow
DEEP SEA TARS RETURN
Corinthians Enjoy the Time
of Their Lives on the
Beach at Santa Cruz

The feet of the San Francisco Yacht
Club will cruise to Vallejo to-day and
tomorrow will hold it's second race of .
the season down to Sausalito. The tide
turns to flood at 1:50 o'clock this after
noon at Fort Point, so there will be no
difficulty in making Vallejo in good time
in, the evening. 1t Is high water to-mor-
row at 10 a. M. and the racing yachts
will start at IL M, so the first part of
the race will be against flood tide. The
yachts will start on signal from the flag
ship and will have ten minutes in which
to cross an imaginary line drawn from
the float of the Vallejo Yacht Club to the
nearest point on the Mare Island shore.
The time of starting of each boat will be
taken from the shore, and owners must
announce the name of their yacht to the
timekeeper on the float as they cross the
line.
The finish will be across an imaginary
line drawn from the clubhouse wharf TO
a stakeboat anchored about 800 yards
easteriy from the clubhouse, the stake
boat to be left on the starboard hand.
In determining the time made by each
yacht for the race the arbitrary handi-
cap allotted by the regatta committee
will be deducted from the actual sailing
time. Prizes will be awarded to the
yachts taking first, second and third place.
The regatta committee. consisting OF
P. Rixford. has allotted the following ar
bitrary handicaps to the boats of the
fleet: Schooners Aggie and Chtspa, yawl
Tramontana and sloop Challenger,
scratch; sloop Annie, ten minutes; sloop
Queen, fifteen minutes; schooner White
Wings and sloops Thelma and Sappho-
twenty minutes: schooners Virginia and
Martha, thirty minutes; sloop Thetis. for
ty minutes; sloops Amigo. Ariel and Min
netonka. forty-five minutes; sloop Nauti-
lus, fifty minutes, sloop White Heather,
fifty-five minutes; slOop Merope, one
hour; sloop Phoenicia and I, schooner
Josephine, one hour and fifteen minutes;
sloop Curlew and yawl Royal. one hour
and thirty minutes; yawl Wave. one hour
and thirty-fxe minutes: sloopS Surprise.
and Juanita and yawl Jester formerly
Ripple, one hour and forty-five minutes;
yawl Witch two hours, and sloop Zada,
two hours and thirty minutes
After several attempts the race for the
Wallace trophy of the California Yacht
Club has been held. the winner being ].
j. Sherry's sloop Perhaps, which had
lead of four minutes nine seconds over.
the second yacht. The wind was light at
starting, but blew strongly in the chan
mel. T. Kendalrs sloop Albert did not de-
velop anything like the speed her owner
has claimed for her On the run home
the wind dropped, but picked up again,
SO t0dC the ydChtS were e0dDleQ 10 EcdCH
the finishing line.
The annual up-river cruise OF the Corin-
THAN fleet, which ended last Sunday, was
successful. Fulton Berry's sloop Mike
started "A day later than the flagship
Speedwell, the yawi Truant and the sloop
Genesta, but made fine run and sighted
the rest of the fleet at Ida Slough on
Monday, the 14th inst. The fleet anchored
at Walnut Grove on the 18th Included the
Speedwell, Genesta. Truant, Mike, Emile
and Pactolus. On board the Pactolus,
which carried Corinthian flag, were A
NJ and Mrs. Clay. Miss Clay and J. Gar
diner. Frank Pixley started with three
companions on the Emile, but all had to
leave at Black Diamond. after which her
owner sailed alone. On board the Mike
were Mr.. and Mrs. r. G.. Berry and two
others. The Mike and Truant were towed
up to Sacramento, but the rest of the
yachts did not get much higher than
Walnut Grove. On Thursday. the 17th.
the fleet began the return journey, max
ing Rio Vista that afternoon. Army Point
on Friday and Paradise Cove on Satur
day. where several Corinthian boats had
dropped anchor to welcome the returning
yachts.
The party on board the schooner White
Wings at Santa Cruz began the return
journey yesterday. During their stay of
nearly two weeks at the seaside town
they had the time of their lives, receiv-
ing much attention from the residents
They enjoyed their visit so greatly that
some of them say they will go again
next year If they have to row down. 1t
Is quite likely the Speedwell and Mike,
with one or two other boats. may make
the ocean cruise during the season OF
1906.
Commodore Robert Vincent Of the Cali
fornia Yacht Club, with his family. is
Oh T rufc EVnOSfti0n-
He will make the trip to Alaska before
his return.