The San Francisco call., 1905-04-22
Amateur Tars to Receive Guests on Board
Gayly Decorated Pleasure Craft.
Jolly Supper and links for the Sailor Boys

The yachting season of 1905 will be
opened to-day. Large flags will fly
over the home of the San Francisco
Yacht Club at Sausalito and all the
available bunting will be employed to
decorate the pleasure craft lying at
anchor off the water front. Not quite
all the fleet is in commission vet. but
the finishing touches. are being put on
as rapidly as possible and in a week
or two all the yachts will be ready for
cruising.
During the afternoon there will be
music and dancing in the main hall Of
the clubhouse and impromptu recep-
tions on board the yachts. The recep-
ton at the clubhouse will be from
2:30 to $50 p. m. At o'clock supper
Will be served in the boatroom and at
Sis the yachtsmen and their friends
viii adjourn to the main hall for the
jinks. There will be vocal and instru-
mental music, story telling. an, exhi-
bition of japanese elf-defense and
other interesting items. At IL o'clock
a light supper will be served. At mid
night a launch will leave the club float
to convey back to- -San-F'ranciseo such
of the guests as desire to return to
their homes. Tomorrow morning the
opening cruise of the season will be
taken, the signals being given from the
sloop Challenger, w. G. Morrow's flag
ship.
The sloops Espy, Sans Souci, Merope,
Amigo and Phoenicia, which fol-. several
seasons past have sailed under the flag
Of the Corinthian Club, will fly the San
Francisco burgee this year. Espy has
been renamed Nautilus and Sans Souci
will be called White Heather. 1t is
likely that Phoenicia will sail under a
new appellation.
On Saturday, the 29th' inst. the
Corinthian Yacht Club will hold it's
opening reception and dance in the
afternoon at it's Tiburon quarters. At
night the opening jinks will be given
On Sunday, the Both, the opening cruise
Of the season viii be held on signal
from Commodore T.. jennings sloop
Speedwell.
1t has been decided that, the. opening
entertainment of the Oakland Canoe
Club shall be held on Saturday. Nav. 6.
and the first cruise on Sunday, May T.
Commodore Charles Stewards sloop
Beatrice, while waiting to go upon the
ways at Alameda, had a hole punched
in her by a sunken pile. new plank
has been inserted and she is as sound
as ever. A schedule of events for the
season is nearly ready. ~
the Encinal Yacht Club. announces
that the season will be opened on Sat
urday, May 20, with an afternoon of
races and aquatic sports, in which the
Oakland Canoe Club has been invited
to take part. In the evening a dance
viii be given in the Encinal clubhouse.
The South Coast Yacht Club will open
the season with race on Saturday.
the 18th inst. The course. will be six
miles to leeward of the anchorage off
Terminal Island and back The event
is open to all yachts in. the club The
owner Of the winning boat will receive
a handsome cup presented by ]. Pugh.
On June IL the South Coast Yacht Club
will hold one Of the most ambitious
yacht races ever held on the Pacific
Coast. This will be a race from San
Pedro around Santa Barbara Island
and back, distance of ITO miles. 1t
is expected that two days will be re-
quired to cover the course.