The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1920-02-14
YACHT CLUB At new
ORLEANS PLANS TRIP
To BAY ST. LOUIS
Bay St. Louis and Cat Island TO BE
Objective Of What Promises to
Be Record Cruisc-South-
ern Yacht Club
PLANS CRUISE OF 120 MILES IN
MONTH OF MAY.
Event Should Mean Much to Bay St.
Louis and Preparations Ac-
cordingly Should Not &c
Lost Sight OF.

New Orleans, Ia, Feb. 10.-Fif-
5y power boats an expected TO part
cipate in the first cruise Of 1920 G.
the Southern Yacht Club. TIVE tE-
six boats took part in the CIR So asst
August up the Tchefuncta rive. and
the increased interest has causAd Of
ficials to believe the trip beginning
May IA will be the largest power
boat cruise ever held ky any yacht
club. Since the local yachting organ
izati0n is the largest in the world,
with a fleet of $50 power boats, the
surmise is believed reasonable.
The program for the cruise. which
will be headed by "Violet," the hand
some glass cabin cruiser owned and
driven by Percy S. Benedict, recently
reelected commodore, has been map
ped out as follows, and probably will
Re carried out very closely along
these lines:
CRUISE STARTS MAY IA.
Leaving the s. Y. C. clubhouse at
West End, at II A. NJ. Friday, May
IA, the cruisers will proceed through
the lake and the Rigolets to Bay St.
Louis. arriving there between ; and
6 P. NJ, speed depending on the aver
age speed of the sloWest boat in the
fleet, which probably will be around
eight miles an hour. Dinner will be
served there either on the boats, or,
IS it was so eXcellently served lest
year by Manager Mitchell of the
club, with his corps of assistants on
shore. The evening will be spent
on the boats, around bon fires on the
beach, or in trips to the town Of Bay
St. Louis, as the cruisers desire.
Early Saturday morning q light
breakfast will be served for the fish
ermen, who will get the forenoon
until ten or twelve o'clock to pursue
their favorite sport in the bay, or up
me Jordan river or other streams IN
that locality. At 10 A. NJ, general
breakfast will be served, and, short
ly after noon, the boats will cruise
to Cat Island, in Mississippi sound,
where lunch VIII he served on the
boats, canoeing and exploration trips
over the island Will be in order At
ter dinner, there will be a bon fire, a
/ kangaroo court and storytelling on
/ the beach. The cruisers will spend
/ tLe night on the boats.
/ SPORT AT BAY ST. LOUIS.
/ Sunday morning early, the boats
Will return to Bay st. Louis, Wher"
water sports, now being arraa~ad hF
/ special committee, will be hs'I
/ These will consist of swimming r~c.&,
! diving contests, canoe fitting, water
football, canoe racing and similar
events. About 2 o'clock in the after
noon the boats viii be released to Re
turn home as they choose, though pro-
badly many Of them will return in
naval formation, n the same manncl
/ in which they left West End.
The distance to Cat Island, the
farthest point of the cruise, is approx
imately 60 miles from West End, so
that the round trip will be about 120
miles. nearly double the distance Of
last years cruise across Lake Pont-
chartrain and up the Tchefuncta river
to Wolverine Heights, the beautiful
country home Of f. Bruguirere. 1t IS
planned to increase this distance for
the second cruise of 1920, going, if
possible, through the Barataria and
Lafourche Company Canal at
Westwego, across Lake Salvador,
down Barataria Bayou and across Ba-
rataria Bay to Grand and Grand Ter
re Islands. on the rim of the gulf.
Some Of the more adventurous spirits
/ are advocating the return by way Of
the open gulf, Southwest Pass and the
/ Mississippi river.