The San Francisco call., 1905-05-13
TIDE ATTRACTS
The YACHTSMEN
San Francisco Tars Start
for Vallejo Tomorrow and
Corinthians for Petaluma
LONG RACE rs PLANNED
Many Speedy Craft Entered
for a Sail From Mare
Island to SausalitO Shore

The San Francisco Yacht Club fleet
will cruise to Vallejo this afternoon
and the Corinthian fleet to Petaluma
drawbridge. AT Fort Point the tide
floods from 1896. The yacht owners
of the San Francisco Club are re-
Quested to cast OFF from moortngs at
Sausalito at 2:30 o'clock this after
noon. This will be the first visit paid
by the yachtsmen TO Vallejo during
the present season. and. on their ar
rival, they will be entertained tnfor-
mally by the Vallejo Yachting and
Rowing Club.
Tomorrow the San Francisco fleet
will take part in a race from Vallejo
to Sausalito, each yacht receiving an
arbitrary handicap according TO its
performances or known speed. The
start will be made at 1920 a. m.
Yachts will have ten minutes within
which to cross the line without PEN
atty, the time at which each boat
crosses being taken by a timekeeper
on shore. Owners must announce the
name of their yacht to the timekeeper
on the float as the starting line Is
crossed.
The flagship Challenger, the yawi
Tramontana and the schooners Agsie
and Chispa are the scratch boats, the
rest of the fleet receiving the following
allowances: Sloop Annie, 10 minutes;
schooner White Wings and sloops
Thelma, Sappho and Queen, 20 min
utes; schooners Virginia and Martha,
20 minutes; sloop Amigo. 40 minutes;
sloops Ariel and Minnetonka. so min
utes; sloops Thetis, Nautilus and
White Heather, 55 minutes; schooner
Josephine, sloops Phoenicia and
Merope, l hour Is minutes; sloop Cur
lew, yawls Royal and Ripple, hour
80 minutes; yawl Wave, hour 35
minutes; sloops Surprise and Juanita-
1 hour 40 minutes; yawl Witch, z
hours; sloop Zada, 3 hours.
This evening the members OF the
California Yacht Club will enjoy a
clam chowder supper at their club
house, but the usual jinks will be dis
pensed with, as the club desires to
husband its resources for the con-
struction and equipment Of the new
quarters to be built on the platform
adjacent to the Emeryville pier. To-
fornia fleet will be taken on signal
from Commodore Robert Vincents
yawl lola, the flagship.
Tomorrow the Oakland Canoe Club
| members will cruise to the quarters
of the Encinal Yacht Club at Ala
| media, where they will leave theft
craft in readiness for the opening
| races of the Encinals next Saturday.
The canoeists will cruise back to their
own quarters on Sunday, May 21.
Tomorrow is the opening day of the
season for the Vallejo Yachting and
| Rowing Club. The officers are: H. E.
| Chapman, commodore; ]. A. Browne.
| vice commodore: H. McManus, fleet
| captain: George II. WarfOrd, port cap
| tain; Charles Blum, recording secre-
tary; j. P. Scully. financial secretary;
S. j. Mcknight, treasurer; G. p. Ryan,
| measurer; DR.. F. L. Bond, fleet sur
geon; d. Barry ST., NJ. X Giant, Ed
ward Kavanagh, DR.. F. z. Lovejoy
and j. j. Madigan, directors.
In the race to be held next month
| between the yachts Corinthian and
( Challenger for the perpetual chal-
lenge cup the San Francisco boat will
have an almost entirely new crew.
| Harry Helen being said to be the only
man of last years crew available. On
| the Corinthian every man with the
| possible exception of Neill Mclean.
who is busy on some construction work
for the United States Government)
who sailed in the last contest, will be
| in this years race