Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-07
Eastern Yacht Club Fleet
Leaves Marb|ehead.
Start al Seven O'clock Friday
For Portland HarbOT.
Assurance OF Best Races In Many
fears.-The Maine Itinerary.


than a score of trim yachts of THE
Eastern Yacht Club fleet spent today
in taking in final stores for the an
nual cruise of the club along the
shores OF the Gulf Of Maine The fleet
will make Z o'clock start tomorrow
morning for the first days run, takes
the boats into Portland harbor with 50
miles of actual racing.
Pho presence of the three big
schooners. the Elena. Enchantress and
Irolita. assures some of the most in
teresting and hotly contested races in
many years. II the wind is not strong
enough tomorrow the start will he
transferred to Cape Ann whistler and
the course shortened from IS to 20
miles. The start out of Portland on
saturday will not be quite sors'arly for
it is only desired to reach Roothbay
with a racing run around Old Seguin
island finish off the Cuckolds light.
An anchorage inside of Squirrel Is
land should be reached by mid-after
noon.
There will be no racing on Sunday,
the fleet proceeding at win i'm order
that the yachts may have leisure to
make Tenants Harbor either by the
Muscongus bay route or around Alien
island
Racing will be resumed on Monday
with start well eff White Island
light and probable chance for a
good thrash to windward as the first
leg is round old Clley's ledge off Mon
hogan The finish will be at the
Graves and the yachts will harbor that
night in Camden.
viii he of
ure but on Wednesday there WIFI be an
interesting race in the east Penohseot
that will take the yachts. upNthe bay
from the anchorage in Fox Islaed thor-s
oughfare, round Turtle Head and to
Billings cove.
For several years the Eastern feet has
been trying TO get into Blue Hill Bay
but the log has always interfered. Thera1
will be another effort this year and 'aff
day on Thursday the 18th will be given
the yachts to make an anchorage in Bart
lett S Narrows at the head OF the bay and
Oft the Northwestern end of Mount Desert
The neat two days will be devoted TO
the racing On the 14th the feet will run
down Blue HUI Bay and make Winter Har-
Dor on the 18th.
Bar Harbor will BE reached after race
down to Great Duck Island. The
tomary dinner at the Bar Harbor reading
room. which is the Clubs Eastern station.
will be held on Saturday night In adj
dition 10 club prizes for the Individual
daily racing runs there will be gix spe
ciai prizes for the best tota1as 9svsrected
time for the three divisions ofrssf Boomers.
the two divi ions of sloops and Sawis and
prizes are offered by Vice Commodoraa R
T. Paine. 2nd Rear Commodore H...$a.
Sears. Fleet Cant S. B. Sanger. Capt 2
]. Bliss, Capt w. o. Gay and Capt. II. A.
Morse.
Long distance racing is one of mo tea-
lures of the Clubs schedule thtr year
and the last event of the cruise r.siil be
the race for the Norman cups frog. Bar
Harbor to Marblehead. This will De the
second race for these trophies which were
presented last year ty Mr.. Guy Norman
and in which the schooner Savarona. own
ed by c. Fl. Clark. has a leg.
The gathering on board the flagship
Emerald numbered 20 captains and it was
quickly decided to start the fieets for
Portland tomorrow at A. NJ. i
The regatta committee issued a racing
course of rs miles with a start off Mar
blehead Rock and leaving Cape Ann to
port, with a finish at Cape Elizabeth
lghtship.
1t was also decided that if the wind
proved light the yachts would be lowed
to Cape Ann whistler for a start at that
point
The roll call showed the following cap
tains present: Commodore F. l.. CLARK
of the Emerald Vice Commodore r. I.
Payne, End Humma; C. II. Clark. Savar-
ona; e. w Clark. Taormina; w e. 1se-
lin Enchantress; w, A. Amery Con-
stance; H. A. Morse, Vision; d. b. Pratt,
Suffolk; ID. NJ Wright, representing
Commodore Plant, Elena; c. c. Rumrlll
Adventures D. Lloyd, Seneca; r. h.
Saltenstall, Tammany; L. w. Atkinson.
Bagherra; L. L. Bacon, Vanessa E. w
Manahan, Affair: C. Akin, Robin; p. j.
Bliss, Venona; A. Douglass, Shyessa; Z.
H. w. Foster, Arterla.