Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-07
BY WIN. B. LAUB, JR.


The Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing
Association will include only Wash.
ington and Baltimore yachtsmen here
after, as the Hampton Roads Yacht
Club of Norfolk has voted to with
! draw from the organization. This
comes as only mild surprise to the
local yachtsmen who have attended
the annual bay regattas, as the down
bay club has never taken a great deal
of interest in the interclub races, an6
last summer did not send Il single craft
to the Oxford and Cambridge meets
On their own waters, however. their
end of the game was admira bly, held
up last summer. when the entire
squadron raced from Cambridge to
Hampton roads, and the Norfolk
yachtsmen not only entered every sail
ing and power boat race held there,
but entertained all hands in manner
to make their hosts of the eastern
shore green with envy. and that is ex-
| ceeding the required number Of knots
| per. For this reason the resignation
of the deep-water sailors from the as
ISOLATION is keenly regretted, but sc
| far as racing entries are concerned it
is thought that another club will come
into the fold before the annual meet
ing in April.
Next Thursday night the annual cleo
ton of officers will be held at the Cap
that every member of the club will be
present. AS the coming season will
be one Of the busiest and probably the
most successful the CAPABILITIES have
ever experienced, there is quite nat
urally a great deal of interest being
| manifested i'm the reSu1fS ThnrSda "
| evening
4 sight over the weather rail will show
the necessity of having highly efficient
crew on watch. There is the race to An
napolis over the seth of May holidays,
| the annual cruise from that port with the
/ Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Associa-
| ton squadron and the strong probable v
OF club regatta or two on the Severn,
winding up with a race home early In the
| fall, The regatta oyster roast the 3Oth of
| october will prove to be responsible for
an added interest being taken in these at
fairs. especially by the power boat men
of the club. That event was great sue
cess from start to finish, and almost
| every man participating in the races de-
| clared that he would certainly enter the
Washington-Annapo contest next
| spring, and the regatta committee. having
| correctly ascertained the rating of almost
every gasoline driven craft in the club, is,
| of course, In a position to handle a race
Of those crafts with a higher degree OF
| accuracy than ever
| AS for the cruise in July, it is certain
that the power boat men will turn out
when they know that there is not single
| cup offered in their events that they can
not capture, the motor entries of the
| other clubs in the association being far
| below the local standard.
| The sailing fleet will be augmented by
a couple of @ class sloops and very like
| ly the yawl Nenemoosha if Commodore
Hewins does not decide TO spend his time
on the broad Atlantic. Therefore t e
| need Of the best corps of officers the
club can produce and the lads in the
! foe sic are as busy as a man with both
anchors dra 5ging TO pick them OFT. 1t
| Is thought by many that there will be a
few reflections, as the retiring staff has
| handled the affairs of the club in a
| highly creditable manner. and as far as
| the regatta committee is concerned il
| Is the unanimous opinion that Commo-
dOre HeWins must be made member OF
it to insure a proper handling of regat-
tas, as his work in this respect during
| the past season, though not a member
of the committee, has been very efficient.
| With Fleet Capt. Eugene F. Harley as
| aid, the commodore turned the October
| oyster roast into a real yachty affair.
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George r. Sullivan, owner of the power
cruiser Mermaid, has done away with
| the twin engine system of propulsion in
his craft and Is installing an $40 morse
| found two small engines driving separate
| screws to be case of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Trouble, instead of one individual trouble
| to be more easily dispelled; hence the
change.
| The Mermaid is a thirty-foot trunk
| cabin cruiser with flush deck aft unoer
| which the engines were installed, and
| the small amount of headroom about
pairing difficult. The boat was brought
| down from Rhode Island by her sowner
! last August.
| j. E. Robey has scraped and revar-
nished the interior of his launch, Armda.
| The craft will go into commission in
February.
The power boat Dauntless, owned by
George T. Dalton Of the Capital Yacht
Club, sank at her mornings last Monday
night, but was floated later without sus-
| tanning serious damage. While on a
| hunting trip in company with the aux
| iliary yawl Nenemoosha, during the holi-
days, the stuffing box on the little craft
| developed a serious leak. which probably
Mr.. Dalton is planning the purchase of a
| more suitable boat for duck hunting,
, probably one similar to the Dauntless, but
more comfortable. and his present craft
| will be disposed Of before spring.
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| owner Is berthed for the winter In Fors-
| bergs slip, next to the steam yacht
| Cloelia.
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| The steam yacht Gaivota, owned by
| Senior John r. dos Passos of the Capital
Yacht Club, is one of the few yachts in
| that organization kept in commission
| throughout the winter. The owner Of the
| craft makes trip to his country plac'
| on the Yeocom,co river about every tw
weeks during the year and steam is con
| stantly kept up In readiness for such &
| run no matter how stormy or cold the
| weather may he. The Yeocomico il
about eighty miles below Washington.
! and the Gaivota can ordinarily make the
| trip In less than seven hours.
| Adrian Steers new power cruiser
| Chadouuin has been successfully launched
| n the canal above Sycamore Island and
| will be brought down to Georgetown as
| soon as navigation Is open in the water
| way The new boat appears to be We'll
designed for deep water work and will
! be eau pped with auxiliary sail to insure
| steadiness in a seaway and to take ad-
| vantage of favoring breezes
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| Officials of the Georgetown Gas Com
1 pany have promised boat owners who
moor their craft N the vicinity of its
| works that no more gas tar will bt
thrown off into the river. The news viii
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