The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
FIFTY YACHTS JOIN
SEAWANHAKA FLEET
Cruise Will Last Two Days and
VIII Come to an End ut
New London.
FLEET THEN TO DISBAND

Seawanhaka harbor was well filled
with yachts last night. They gathered
there By order of Commodore Daniel
Bacon OF the S~eawanhaka Corinthian
Yacht Club to take part In a two days
cruise to New London. All the best
known racing and cruising yachts In
the country will gather at New ON
don tomorrow afternoon preparatory to
starting on the annual cruise Of the New
York Yacht Club. n he Sea wanhaka
Corinthian Yacht Club has arranged a
short cruise TO make things pleasant for
them something TO do while sailing down
the Sound.
Commodore Bacon received the yachts
men In tGe clubhouse at 8 80 o'clock.
This reception was attended by cap
tsins. their guests and members, and at
! 80 O'Clock "A mess Inner was served
and the accommodations Of the club
house were severely taxed. After din
ner there was "A dance and at 9:3t
O'Clock all the yachts in the harbor
were illuminated.
Commodore Bacon owns the yacht So
lita, and tomorrow morning he will
transfer his flag to the steam yacht
Floretta, owned by Capt. ]. w. Alker.
About noon the flagship will signal
the yachts TO proceed at will to Morris
Cove. and to-night the fleet will be ~
anchor off the New Haven Yacht Club
house. The regatta committee Will be
on board the yacht Mareva. owned by
Capt. L. Y. Weber. who Is commodore
OF the Stamford Yacht Club.
Early on Monday morning the nee:
will be ordered to proceed to New Lon
don. and an hour after the harbor start
the yachts will cross the line, when
will be off the eastern breakwater. The
yachts are to race to New London, mn
lshing off Sarah's Ledge. and they will
leave Faulkuer's Island. Cornfield lighf
vessel. Bartlett's reef light weasel and
Sarah's Ledge bell buoy to port. Com
modore Bacon has offered the prizes Tor
sloops and ya~ls. Commodore George r.
Baker. Jr.. OF the New York Yacht Ciun
has offered the prizes for schooners, for
mer Commodore August Heckscher has
donated the prizes for the ffties AND
thirties and Vice-Commodore Howard
Smith. Rear Commodore George Nichols.
=. W. Rouss and others have offered
other prizes.
At about 1870 o'clock, after arriving
ut New London, upon a one gun sigma
from the flagship each yacht In the nee'
will salute with one gun and the
squadron OF the Seawanhaka Corinthian
lacnt Nlup Will ulSpdli's
the New York Yacht club will simu!ta'
~neously lower the Seawanhaka CORN
THAN burgee and Will masthead th-
burree OF the New York Yacht Club.
Among the yachts that VIII particl-
pate in the cruise are former Commo-
dore Arthur Curtiss Jamess Mona, }. T.
Morgan's Corsair and his nfy footer
Crawling, Commodore q. +. Baker
Ventura, Ralph Ellis's Iroquois H.. both
nifty foo,ers of the New York Yacht
Club John c. Cutters Alera, Or! c B.
Keeler's Alice. G. i. Granberys Anita
George Riggs's Opitsah H., Ogden Mills
Reds Lena. Herbert \. Prentices Sill
houette. J.. A. Mahlstedt's Okee H..
Daniel Bacon's solita, r. F. Humphreys
Din. c. II. b. Rouss's Arvia. Everett
Domln!ck's Colleen. a Piunketts
Sapho, George Bullock's Cleona. Guy
Norman's Iris, Lyman c. Buffers Sa-
kama. and J. Hyslop's Tern There VIII
be A, least fifty yachts in the fleet. TIT
regatta committee in charge OF the rae
ing is made up OF Colgate Hoyt. Jrr
Victor /. Cumnock. Henry H.. Landon
John Clinton Work and Beverley II
Robinson.
The Nuts had a race yesterday after
noon. Il was the first OF the second
series and was won by Colgate Hoyts
Iosephus. with lima Nut second. The
summary:
sroops-Nt'T ~CLAss-sTARr, $50
COURSE No. D.