Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01

be on hand with his beautiful steam
zach Margaret. He saw the start and
followed the racers to the ending, which
was marked by the Dorrette coming in
in ID minutes and seconds ahead of the
Chenoden, even with handicap Of al
most 10 minutes.
Commodore Emerson reached the club
anchorage in Curtis bay before the finish
and. after anchoring, invited the crew OF
the Dorrette on board the Margaret,
where he presented the cup.
The race was a round of twenty-eight
and one-half miles from between stake
the yacht club, thence passing quarantine
to the starboard and can buoy No. to
the same side, the turning point being
the Baltimore lighthouse, which was
rounded and kept on the starboard side.
The finish was at the point Of begin
ming, keeping the same course, but
holding the outward markers on the port
side
A stiff northwest breeze. which at times
reached velocity of twenty-five miles
an hour. gave the racers an exciting send
off as they crossed the line at 1898 am.
At 1:45 pm the Dorrette rounded the
Baltimore light and started on the home
ward leg, about ten minutes ahead Of the
Chenoden. which then was making the
space smaller between them. At the be-
ginning the DOrrette carried all working
sails and spinnaker until Rock creek
was reached, when the spinnaker was
loon jib and staysail set.
Starting on the homeward stretch, after
rounding the Baltimore lighthouse. every
thing was taken in but working sails.
but even with this care the clew of the
mainsail carried away. making an ugly
split in the sail, and the mainsheet block
broke to pieces under the terrific strain
on the traveller. While in this condition
preventers were made of lines and the
crew sewed up as best it could
the rent in the sail. The centerboard
damned and could not be lowered. which
was serious in the blow, but the craft
held on beautifully and went to wind
ward better than the Chenoden.
It was calculated that the Dorrette
made fourteen taeks against the heavy
head gale until off Dundalk, when the
last was made with a calculation that
brought her directly into the stake boat
was regarded as the result of one of the
finest calculations a sailing master could
have made under the weather conditions.
On the return the Chenoden met with
two accidents to gear, one Of which was
the carrying away of the throat hal
yards, but the master hand directing her
overcame them and fought under adverse
conditions for the cup. In the fight for
given great credit by even the vanquished
crew of the Chenoden, Of which Capt. J..
Austin Dining was the controlling mind.
Capt. Williams had as crew w. B. w.
Mann, no amateur In yacht sailing, ana
Graham Eccles, who knows just when a
sheet needs attention or when a halyard
requires swaying up or Stacking
Capt. j. Austin Dining had as his
aids DR.. F. w. Robertson, who often has
sailed the Eaglet to victory, and Harry
Foster. Harry Schafer and J. A. Davis.
who all have the reputation of being
thorough seamen and yachtsmen-
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1t is predicted that the next regatta OF
the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Asso-
citation will be held at Oxford. Cambridge
and Solomons Island. The last race down
the bay to Hampton roads proved to be
a little too much for the craft entered
In the event, and the races next summer
undoubtedly will be held on the upper
bay.
So many accidents marked the run from
Solomons Island to the finish line Off
Willoughby spit that there are not more
than two yachtsmen willing to cover the
same ground again, or at least not In a
race, when 1t is necessary to keep going
no matter what comes in the way of
wind or sea. Baltimore yachtSmen are
in favor of holding the 1912 meeting
either at Annapolis (off the mouth of the
Severn) or off the mouth Of the Patuxent,
while local yachtsmen do not care very
much where the races are held, just so
they do not have to plunge into the
lower bay, where conditions are almost
always unfavorable for small yacht
events.