New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
SmalI Yachts
For Youngsters
Boom to Sport
$l25 Crate Will Enable
Youths to Learn Tricks
of the Racing Game
By Gerald T. White

Feeling that the future Of yachting
depends upon interesting the sons of
present day Corinthians in the sport,
proposals long have been made to build
class of very small, safe boats that
could be turned over to pair of twelve
year-old embryo yachtsmen, and in
which the boys could learn not only
to handle sails, but to pick up the
necessary racing kinks that cannot be
taught except by personal experience.
These proposals are now to become
realities.
Charles D. Mower has been commits
stoned to design, and there are now be-
/ ing built, class Of one design sailing
dinghes carrying fifty-ive square feet
of sail in a leg-of-mutton rig. The sail
is Of the loose footed type with
spirit boom.
One great feature Of the boats is
their adartabi!ity. They are designed
to tow and row easily, and are light
enough so that Chat they may easily
be hauled without davits upon the deck
of q larger vessel For this reason
they are to be used on many of the
one-design sloops as tenders. When
not in use for this purpose they will
be turned over to the younger genera
tion for impromptu racing under tho
watchful eyes of older men, who will
manship from point of vantage. There
is little doubt that the Older men
will take pleasure in racing the little
boats as we'll.
AS these boats are to cost only s125,
complete with sail, they arc thus
cheaper than the usual run of strictly
rowing dinghy. The owners of the Vic
tory Glass sloops are taking great
interest in the little craft and many
hoyy y,1n al. I'll.
are being built at Marmaroneck, N. Y.
Interest in Small Glasses
In spite of the fact that the. coming
Americas Cup races are naturally the
subject of great deal of discussion,
of more personal interest to the rank
and file of the yachtsmen.
or the new onedesign boats, per-
haps the most interest is being shown
III the new Victory class. Sponsored
by j. S. Morgan jr., James D. Sparkman
and James w. Alker, these boats were
ordered from the designing firm of
William Gardner e. Co. They are of
the raised sheer type, 81 feet over all
and 19 feet s inches on the line. So
far there are about forty of the class
ordered. The majority are being built
a. Nevin's yard at City Island A few
OF the boats are being built down East,
as we'll as some on the Delaware and
several in Great Britain.
The latter fact makes the class in
tcrnatlonal in scope, and it is to be
hoped that in time we shall see an in
ternationa series in this class. In
small one-design racing of this sort 1T
is quite possible to hold the events
without the necessity of shipping the
boats across the ocean. The challeng-
ing yachtsmen can come across with
out their craft, sailing boats Of the
same class here. To insure fair treat
ment, the visiting crews could draw
lots for the purpose of deciding which
of the American boats should be sailed
by them.
This plan mas been worked out very
successfully in racing among the
smaller classes on the Great Lakes
and the other inland waterways of the
Middle West
Use Marconi Mainsail
One feature of the design is the use
Of the Marconi type of mainsail. This
rig has been used in isolated cases
during the last few days, but it is
probable that the entire Victory class
will be fitted with the tall, sprung
stick that is the salient feature of the
Marconi rig. Although intended pri-
niarily for racing, the boats have suffi-
cletn cruising accommodations for a
small party on short trips. Apropos of
the class name, II is planned %o name
each of the new boats after some bat
tie OF the great war in which Ameri-
can troops were engaged.
The Bayside Yacht Club, always to
the fore with new classes, will add a
new name TO it's roll Of Bayside Bees,
Bayside Birds, Bayside Butterflies,
etc The new boats are to be called
the Bayside Blues, and are to be 20
feet over all and feet wide, of the
siocp type. They are modified scow
bcats, fast and comparatively sea-
worthy.
On the Great South Bay the yachts
Men are not behind those on the
Sound in getting up new classes. At
Bsyshore there is At be a new class
OF sailing dories, designed by Charles
D. Mower and built by Berger, at Say
vile. Dory sailing has always been
popular on the Bay, for the shallow
GRAFT, seaworthv dory is suited for the
wind and weather conditions that are
encountered