The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16
YACHTSMEN BEGIN TO
TRIM THEIR SAILS
White Bear Club VIII Have
Several New Fast
Ones

All indications point to another success
IuI season for the White Bear Yacht club,
and already great preparations are under
way Tor the active part of the work Dur
ing the winter a large number of yachts
were built at the various boat works at
.he iake. OF these good proportion will
"e shlpped to outside waters OF the
outsiders I Minnetcnka. Duluth. Milwaukee.
ohlcago and Winnipeg were the best
"a @ il itnollS Inc White Bear yachts have
kIe1i1led Iaed reputation for speed and excel
tte OF construction which extends
IhTouSfout the yachting world
fo,. RMaIus Nv" rus or dozen new boats will be
Ior Sr tlie local club and these. in addition to
tdst year fleet. will increase the num-
siderably 'es''''d coll-
The Ice went out of the lake on April
| this year. which is from ten to fifteen
days earlier than the average. How
ever, number of boats have been placed
IN the water and the work of rigging is
gong on rapidly. and within a few davs
white wings will be sailing about in great
numbers The greater part of the racing
Meet does not usually put in its appear
ance Until after May /, and the trying ont
and tuning up process gone through i'm
tion day.
OF the old boats in the club many will
race the starter again this season. Glass
A Will be better and stronger this season
than ever before in the history of the
club. Beta. White Bear and Delta, three
of the Seawanhaka trial boats built last
season. have been reduced to conform to
the rules regulating inland lake contests
and will all be eligible for the big class
on White Bear In addition to these
Gamma. Alpha, Moccasin and the new
ReeS boat will all be in the game with a
possibility of the two time champion
Seeress butting in for the purpose of pull
ing down third piece of bunting
Inc new ReeS boat is formidable look
ing craft with plenty of beam to make
her stif enough for anything that blows
She looks like racy affair as she rests
on the ways but she will have to go some
to beat the cracks that will constitute the
class Alpha. the winner of the inland
lake championship last season, has been
completely overhauled and will be sailed
by her new owner, DR. MacIaren. Alpha
annexed the championship at Oshkosh.
She seems to be equally good in strong
and light winds. With the exception of
Gamma. Alpha is the only boat in class
The White Bear which came so close
to lifting the Seawanhalla cup at Mont
real last year. will be sailed by Jack
Ordway. Eighteen inches had to be cut
on In order to get her down to the proper
length.
In class the boats will necessarily be
divided into two shifts as last season in
order to accommodate the number of
entries. Wanderer is expected to be the
pacemaker for the new class, but she will
have to earn everything she gets when she
meets the new boats which Taylor, GriggS
and johnson will have in. to say nothing
of the fast ones which competed last sea
son. some of which were we'll known tC
have been terribly out of tune
AS TO the other classes Capt. TarboX
is at present at work securing list OF
the total number of boats likely TO COM
pete this season, and 1t IS likely that thd
open class and class G will be made up
of such boats as will not be eligible for
the two principal classes.