Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-10
SOUTH COAST FLEET OFF FOR
SANTA BARBARA
BAKER CUP INCENTIVE TO RACE
UP COAST
Yachtsmen VIII Hold Sway in Channe
City Next Week and Many
Events Have Been
Planned
ny JACK vIvARTTAs


ing race of the season, from San Pedro
to Santa Barbara, for the w. c. Baker
cup. were issued yesterday by the regatta
committee of the South Coast Hacht cluo'
Six fleet craft will line up for the start
ing gun at 1926 this morning for cruise
that will take anywhere from twenty
four to forty hours No doubt Columolne
will be the favorite in this event, but she
Is largely an unknown quantity in this
class of racing, never having figured IN
such a long seagoing trip before.
Against her will be pitted Monsoon,
twice winner of the race around Cata-
lima island; Mischief l, former cluo
champion, which in this race will be
sailed bv Skipper Fritz Whitney of Col
umbine; Minerva, one of the staunchest
of seagoing craft in the club, and Arrow,
a new yawl built last winter by Joe Eel
lows for the Hay boys, and which as yet
has never had real tryout.
Arrow sailed in the race around Cata-
lima in June but she was then too new
to tell much about her sailing qualities,
and with her high freeboard and great
sail area she is very likely to have more
than a thinking part in the run up the
coast.
Minerva was recently sold by Captain
HebeIer to Captain Spaulding, formerly
of the racing crew of Marie. and as both
shippers will sail on her, the single stick
ers will have real sailing cut out for
them to get to windward of her
To get clear of the current in the chan
mel the course for the wise ones Will
probably lie up the coast to Cape Vim
cente. which will be straight windward
work, then an offshore tack to and
around Santa Barbara island. There the
wind should blow clear and unimpeded
by the channel islands, giving a chance
for an easy beat into Santa Barbara har-
Dor.
With anything like a good sailing
breeze, which, by the way, is just what
can't be depended on so early in the day,
the yachts should make Vincente by or
8 o'clock, and be we'll clear of the 18TH
mus by sundown. No doubt it will re-
quire the greater part of the night to
get around Santa Barbara island, maxi
ing it after sundown before the fleet can
be expected to finish in the northern
harbor.
Trophy Recently Acquired
The Baker cup will be new acquisi-
ton to the clubs trophy locker, this be-
ing the first race for 1t. Captain w. Z.
Baker. the donor will be remembered
among the jolly tars as the former owner
of Ebus but that is an old story.
Captain Baker is at present mayor or
Providence, r. l., which he has made his
home for several years past When he
heard of the cruise to Santa Barbara he
wrote the club, offering to put up a prize
for the race up the coast. His offer was
at once accepted, and he commissioned
Joe Pugh and Fritz Whitney to select the
cup for him at a local store.
The official instructions for this race
and an outline of the regatta at Santa
Barbara are as follows:
1.-The race to Santa Barbara for the w.
C. Baker cup will start from the easterly
end of San Pedro breakwater at 1880
o'clock this morning. Preparatory gun
at 1925 Finish at flag set midway
between steamer and boat wharves at
Santa Barbara. After-dark lanterns will
be swung from finish stake, a white light
being placed below a red light pass leav-
ing stake boat to port. Boats finishing
after dark must carry light so placed as
to show numbers on sail. Contestants
are requested to take their own finishing
time in case judge is off duty at the time
they finish.
THE first race at Santa Barbara will
take place on Wednesday, August IA, and
will be for all yachts under thirty-five
feet racing length, for the Santa Barbara
challenge cup.
ION Thursday, August 10, there will be
races for all classes represented at Santa
Barbara, for cups and prizes offered by
Santa Barbara organizations.
"On Friday, August 10, there will be
an arbitrary handicap race open to all
boats competing on previous days for
cups and prizes offered by Santa Bar
bara citizens.
1.-The courses for the races will be an
nounced on the evening before each race.
Boat owners are requested to call at re-
gatta committee headquarters at the Pot
ter hotel for final instructions
"a reception will be given to visiting
yachtsmen at the Potter hotel on
Wednesday evening. On Friday evening
The Santa Barbara club and the Country
club will also entertain the yachtsmen
during their stay at Santa Barbara.
Members are also requested to regis
ter at headquarters on arrival"
Besides the starters in the cruising
race, there will be a dozen or more boats
of the various classes, schooners, sloops
and power boats, attend the regatta at
Santa Barbara, some of which started
earlier in the week. while the rest will
tow up.
Four Stay Home
Considerable disappointment is ex-
pressed by the racing members of the
club because four of the club racers will
not be taken north. Mischief II, winner
of the Times cup race July 4 and a long
list of prizes of other seasons, is detained
through the illness of her skipper, Wal
ter Folsom.
Neither Venus, Detroit nor Yankee will
go, the two latter not being considered
seaworthy enough for the trip, and Cap
tain Bradley of Venus is too busy to get
away for a whole week at this time of
the year. Slkidoo, which rates in the
same class, has been relegated to the
rank of family boats, and not allowed
out of sight of the San Pedro break
water, except for an occasional trip to
Avalon or the isthmus
OF the three sloops entered for the race
Columbine, Monsoon and Mischief 1,
there is not much room to pick a winner
by any kind of safe margin. All are fast
in different kinds of wind and weather,
and as all kinds of both may be expected
on such a trip they have a nearly equal
chance.
Columbine will go well when it is not
too rough, and since her decks have been
canvassed she can take all kinds of water
on deck without getting loggy. Monsoon
was not much hurt by stranding at Ven
ice, and should sail good race from the
start She is very comfortable boat in
all kinds of weather, as we in Minerva