The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-30

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race. It 10 for the winner Of a eer1es Of
three races, the others being. sailed on
Larchmont on Thursday and with the
American Yacht Club on Friday. It 10
thou ght that some Of the Gravesend Bay
boats may 60 after this trophy.
be the Larohmont annual. Indian Harbor
motor boat races, Brooklyn annual, Shelter
Island annual. Hartford annual. BayRtde
special races, Jamaica Bay club races and
Crescent dory race.
annual regatta on the Sound on Friday.
On Saturday the New York Yacht Club
regatta for the Glen Cove cupe Will be
sailed. starting of Glen Cove; the Riverside
Yacht Club will hold it's annual regatta
Yacht Club will sail its fifth raoe Of the
series for is ~footers. the Atlantic. Yacht
Club will have a regatta for yachts OF
Glasses NJ and below and the Shelter Island
Yacht Club will have a regatta.
Tho Larchmont annual regatta on Thurs
day is for all o~lasses-reguler. special, re-
strlcted and one design-and the Colt cup
will be raced for by schooners OF the
90 foot class. The courses will be signalled
by. the regatta committee fifteen minutes
before the preparatory signal is given.
Entries for these races close with the
regatta committee at 8 p. NJ. on Tuesday.
Yachts must be measured before starting
and must carry racing numbers on their
sails. There will be a first prize in each
class in which two yachts start. a second
prize II three start and a third prize IL five
start, The members OF the committee are
Charles p. Tower. Edgar B. Carroll and
Walter B, Nanny.
The Brooklyn Yacht Club is the oldest
Incorporated yacht CLUB in the country.
IT was incorporated just a little before the
the New York Yacht Club, although that
club is the oldest organized club. The
hftleth annual regatta Of the Brooklyn club
is 10 he sailed on Thursday, and special
Efforts are being made by the members
to make the fla a memorable one. The
regatta will be for schooners, GLASSES G and
below, sloops and yawls, classes X, L and
Nj in one class, classes n and P in onelclass,
class Q, GLASS Q special and Glasses r and 8
sailing in one class. Entries will he ao-
cepted up to = O'Clock on the morning Of
the race. The starting line will be on
Gravesend Bay and schooners andb big sloops
and yawls will go 70 the Southwest Spit
and Scotland lightship and back. Glasses
N and 2 will go 10 the Southwest Spit and
the bell buoy of the point of the Hook and
back, and the smaller boats will go to Old
Orchard Shoal. These courses are 70. ~
and Is miles in length respectively. The
warning gun will sound at 1880 O'Clock
and the schooners will start at IL O'Clock.
Other classes will be sent of at intervals Of
five minutes. There will be n first prize II
two or more start, a second prize il four
start and a third prize il eight start in each
class. The regatta committee is DR.. J. E.
DeMund and William H. Griffin.
The annual races for motor boats Of the
Indian Hsrbor Yacht Club will take place
on THURSDAY, and entries for these races
must be made on Wednesday. The regatta
committee will classify the boats in its
discretion and the announcement Of his
classification will be made before the start.
The start will be OF the clubhouse and
boats over so rating will 60 TO the bell buoy
nn 1lOVH'I Point and haNk fUiNo nvar
S2.2 statute miles, and smaller boats will go
to the Cows gas buoy, OIL Shippan Point
and back, twice over 1917 statute miles.
There will be a first prize in classes in which
five start. A special prize is offered to the
boat In any class making the best average
time over a measured nautical mile. These
trials will be run after the other races.
The racing will begin at 2 o'clock.
Attention Of power boat men 10 called
to the date, July 1, as closing the entries
for the Marblehead race for the Stevens
cup. The race is open TO cruising power
boats under forty feet over all length and
not less than thirty feet over all length.
Rochelle Yacht Club. Entries should be
sent to r. NJ. Haddock, New Rochelle, N. Y.
The night sgnal Of the S~eawanhaka Cor
inthian zach. Club has been changed and
has been registered with the Commissioner
Of Commerce and Labor in Washington as
lOllOWb. VINE HRIJ IOIWdIu T0u HRuJ
amidships AMI white light aft. or as it will
appear at the club station. a light burning
white, red and white in succession.
The Motor Boat in commenting on the
race to Bermuda says:
The first Bermuda race has been run and
won by a boa, especially built for it. De-
spite the fears of the sup~ercautiorS nothing
direful happened. But then the weather
was fair to niddling, just average June
weather. and therefore the final test Of a
thorough paced storm was lacking. The
engine Of one Of the boats stopped four
minutes to shit an igniter; the engine OF
the other boat was stopped sixty-ive min
utes on account Of carbureter trouble due
TO impurities in the gasolene. This proba-
bly, lost boat No. ? the race; but then in an
event Of this kind there are always a num-
Der of probabilities; the family OF ifs is
usually large.
The boats we're sent of from Gravesend
Bay, within haling distance OF the great
city, without much eclat. There are eight
yacht clubs on Gravesend Bay, yet not
one of these sent out a single curious person
to see what was going on. Bar the press
tug and the attendant yacht Marie, which
served as a committee boat. there was not
another craft in sight as the boats were sent
on their long journey. Not a prominent
boat builder wat present TO see the last
word, or at least the latest word, in speedy
and deep sea motor yacht construction.
Both boats achieved sufficient glory.
W hlle the WlIlleT, Oh COuIse. AnnbAeu al
the glamour which attaches to victory, the
boat that ran second, considering all the
factors in the case, may, In the degree OF
honor won, almost be bracketed with the
Ailsa Craig. Each boat embodied style,
speed and reliability. In the matter OF
looks the Ailsa Craig is as handsome a craft
as floats on any waters in any country.
The net result OF the race cuts two ways:
First, there will he an annual Bermuda
race; secondly, the thoughtless general
public will hereafter all the more readily
believe that a motor boat can be driven
500 miles out to sea with a certainty that
the engine will faithfully attend to business
all the way.
20 10 Thomas Fleming Day, who founded
the race; James Gordon Bennett, who
gave the cup; James Craig, owner Of the
kilsa Craig; Cary-Snith a Ferris. designers
of the Ailsa Craig; Peter Shields, owner OF
the Idaho; w. b.. Stearns Stearns d Nc
Kayl, who designed and built Idaho, and
Eho niloted her TO Bermuda.
The two competitors In the Bermuda
race carried men expert in all phases OF
motor boating. They were on the alert
FOR the practical lessons which might be
learned from this severe test OF motor craft.
Cop,a NJ the high points brought out by