The New York herald., 1921-07-17
PLANNING TO BUILD
MANY NEW YACHTS
Sport Is Booming Rapidly and
Promises to Be More POpu-
lar Than 1t Ever Was.
BY ARTHUR r. ALDRIDGE.

Yachting has come back faster and
better than the most optimistic fol-
lower of the sport imagined. On the
coast and on inland lakes and waters
the fleet of yachts, sailing and power.
in commission this year is much larger
than has been seen for many years, and
many owners who refrained from put
ting their yachts in commission are now
sorry that they have no vessel in which
to sail The racing everywhere Is very
keen. The new small boat classes which
were built to interest the juniors. par
ticularly those OF the Seawanhaka
Corinthian. Cedarhurst. Indian Harbor.
Corinthian of Marblehead Annisquam.
Mantle and Island Heights clubs. have
done all that was expected Of them.
They have stimulated so much interest
among the younger boys and girls that
new and larger classes are already be-
ing planned The veterans Of the sport
have laid proper foundations and from
now on there will be a steady growing
interest in yachting.
At Oyster Bay the Sea awanhaka Corin-
THAN Yacht Club which. since its forma-
ton way back in the seventies has
always been most progressive, has in ad-
dition to its Fish, S and Victory classes
class of Kittens. small catboats in
which boys and girls under 16 years of
age are instructed in the art of yacht
sailing. and the races sailed by these
boats three times week are most keenly
fought out.
The Cedarhurst Yacht Club has a
class of Sea News, small catboats in
which the youngsters" are learning. A
series of races extends over a month.
Three or four races are sailed each
week. The winner gets points the Sec
ond boat points and the third | point,
and each boat also gets l point for each
boat 1t defeats. The winner of the series
is the boat scoring the most points. A
winner Of a race also gets a small blue
pennant which he attaches to the leach
of his sail, and the young sailors are
very proud of those pennants. Then
there are prizes for seamanship and the
way the boats round up and pick up
their moorings and the way the sails are
slowed. &C., are taken into consideration.
Other prizes are given for the way
the boats are kept in proper condition
and for the greatest number of starts
and finishes in each month 1t Is i'm
pressed on all that good yachtsman
always will finish a race IN which he
starts II 1t Is possible to 90 so.
New Yachts In prospect.
There is talk now of several new
classes being built for next seasons
sport. Some members of the New York
Yacht Club favor a yacht somJwhat t
larger than the 30-footers. Some yachts
men in other clubs want to revive the
Q class, while others favor the r class.
1t Is very probable that the New York
Yacht Club class will be built, but the
...It1 1a exo1x
what the British yachtsmen elect TO
come with next year. This year the
| Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club
sent to England four 6-meter yachts
built under the British rule. These will
start their racing at Cowes on July 29.
Next year the British are TO visit this
| country and race at Oyster Bay, and the
yachts they will come with will be set
tied while the Seawanhaka Corinthian
men are abroad. If Class r is selected
It is very probable that large fleet OF
and they will be designed. too. by differ
ent naval architects, so that the very
best model may be developed.
! In looking over the summary OF a
regatta where so many special classes
! are mentioned as having raced, one
wonders If the one design class has not
been overdone, and II II would not be
better to build more boats to the regular
| classes One design yachts do not do
much to help the science OF yacht de-
signing. They furnish good sport and
help to develop good sailors. but after
a time their racing gets monotonous
The best racing ever witnessed in this
country has been in classes where four
or moro different designers have been
represented. Where many yachts OF
different type and model compete. such
as in the 30 and 40 footers of years ago
the racing is very keen and the winnings
were evenly divided. Efforts are now
being made to revive the class racing
which did so much to build up the sport
Moriches ". G. Reorganizes.
The Moriches Yacht Club. one OF the
best known OF the southeastern Long
Island section. has been reorganized
and building committee. of which Dr
C. ]. Pflug Is chairman. plans to have
n temporary home ready by the middle
os the season on a site offered the ciut
by Commodore Reginald Fay. A perma-
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