The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03
YACHTING.
Prospect OF a Meeting Between Boston
and Grayesend bay Class u Boats.

There is every prospect Of yachts repre-
senting this city and others from Boston meet
ing later in the season to settle a question
of championship. The Massachusett Yacht
Racing Association has this year a new trophy
given by Sir Thomas Upton for which Glass
q boats or boats that race in the - foot rat
ing class are to compete. This trophy is a
cha mpionship one and is for the yacht that
ma kes the best record during the season, 1t
has created considerable enthusiasm among
Eastern yachtsmen and there is everp indi-
cation of there being some lively sport.
Glass Q is one OF the best racing classes
down the bay and for two years now 1t has
furnished the liveliest kind OF sport among
che clubs OF the Gravesend Bay Yacht Racing
Association. As the boats of the two asso-
Citations are built to conform 10 the same
rule they would meet on an equality. which
has been an impossible thing to arrange
in former yea rs, M hheT en was son srn the eS win iaer
of the Sc~awanhaka challenge cup, agalnt
the More Trouble, one Of the cracks OF the
under widely different rules and there was
no way of bringing them together IN a salts;
factory way. This year i has been suggested
matter has already attracted the attention
of the y~achtsmen. c.s
In referring to this l for' yo TEd = S risss w SSSEs;
last year attracted much attention and FUR
nished good sport was the Grayesend Bay
by several designers and rated under the
New York Yacht Club rule. The five boats
which constituted the class divided tho honors
in the races during the summer and now
three new o boats have been built.
During the last winter Sir HON as Upton
offered a clp 10 be raced for on Massachusetts
of % footers under the universal rule. which
is the same rule as obtains for Class q in
Gravesend Bay.
at appears desirable to call special at
~tention to this matter as one that possesses
interesting possibilities, tending to revive a
healthy rivalry between the, yachtsmen OF
Boston and New York-a rivalry which. with
TWO notable exceptions, has languishrd for
some years, In the, invasion by Minosa
and Doris. respectively. of Boston and New
York waters last year there was not deve op al
the int crest which might have been eXptc1ed,
as the boats in question did not necessarily
meet yachts designed under the new, rule
of rating. A meeting Of the champion boats
of the Massachusetts, Glass Q and the Graves
end Bay Class . Mt some neutral point as
Newport late in the fall would furnish the
climax to a series of races that would be but
second to any such event on our Eastern
seaboard. There are now three months In
which a programme may be arrange Tor
the meeting of the champions Of the Boston
and New York q class.
such a. elimination "a. what promises TO
be a good season for this particular class
will tempt able and competent men to ar
range and to bring to "A successful issue a
championship race. Such a championship
will not alone promote and maintain agree
able relations between the most important
communities of yachtsmen, but will also
which will tend to demonstrate it's entire
desirahility. This will. remove, from yacht
building a shadow which has been but too
prominent OF late years.