The New York herald., 1922-03-21
FLYING CLOUD WELL
FITTED FOR RACING
Schooners Should Be a Big
Feature of the Coming
Yachting Season.
By ARTHUR +. ALDRIDGE.

The schooner yacht Flying Cloud. re-
Gently purchased BY Winthrop ",
Aldrch. Is TO be put in first class racing
trim at Fife yard at Glenwood Landing.
The work will be done under the super
vision Of Tams & King The yacht will
be fitted with new hollow spars and
q new suit of Ratsey sails. She will
be raced as often as il is possible and
take part in the cruises. AS this is to
be schooner year and many yachts
OF that type viii be in commission, the
flying Cloud VIII have lots of sport
II IS long time since there was =
good fleet of schooners taking part in
the sport but very steadily this type
Of yacht Is regaining popular favor.
Nearly all OF the schooners to-day are
auxiliaries. Their owners have had
small gasoline engines fitted. which are
used when the wind fails OF to work
/ in and out of harbors These engines
do not hurt their sailing speed very
materially. Two new schooners nave
been ordered and will be built as soon
as possible. One, a wooden vessel is
to be seventy feet on the water line.
\ The other. a steel vessel. viii be ninety
feet on the water line. These viii be
.auXiliaries
Victory Sioops Change Hands.
Since the close OF last season MANY
changes have been made in the owner
ship OF the Victory sloops. These yachts
! We're built in the spring of 1920 from
designs by William Gardner and We're
raced consistently by their owners for
two seasons. There were twenty built.
I This year some OF the owners are go-
/ ing abroad others are Interested III
\ = I,4 ct ,.Ia ntla nI,N
/ class S, and SO many have changed
\ ownership. Three-Buddy, owned by
4 Carroll 3. Alker; Briquette, owned by
John T. Pratt. and Otranto owned by
4 +. 3. Meyer-have been sold to some
/ Buffalo yachtsmen and will race on
4 the lakes.
I Adrian Iselin I'd has sold the Ace TO
4 II. w. Buck. vice-commodore Junius
:. Morgan. Jr.. has sold the Mary Rose
70 Lewis Tselin. Harry NJ. Curtis has
I sold the Mongolia TO r. r. Coudert.
The Gopher, originally owned ty f. w
\ Hine. Is now the property OF Walter
I Elmer.
II is very probable that the yachts
racing this year in this class on Long
Island Sound will be II. w. Bucks
! Ace. Commodore j. 3. Ford's Blue
Jacket. Harold |. Pratts SDsd. ]. s
Swans Soixante Quinze. Donal Cows
v ~. a IT,, r. lTuDee lawson NdNld-
tor. L. +. Coudert's Mongolia. Walter
Eimes's Gopher and II. s. shonnard's 5
Garry on.
Many Yacht Transfers.
The following transfers OF yachts have
been reported recently, which indicate
that as the weather grows warmer so the
yachtsmen will grow more busy
Butler Whiting. Larchmont Yacht
Club has sold the Buzzards Bay 30
footer Young Miss TO Leonard r.
Schwarcz, who will race in the handicap
class. Mr.. Whiting will sail one Of the
new six meter yachts. The schooner q.
a. Dollicer has been sold by Alex w
Moffatt to Oliver Perry OF the Princeton
club who will use the yacht cru'sing on
the Sound and to the eastward. The
Yacht is So feet length over all
The auxiliary hetch Awessema. for
merly Kishima. has been sold by II. r.
Pulsifer TO Ellsworth Ford. Kent. Conn
The yacht viii assume her original
name Kishima, Arthur Schieren has
cold the express day cruiser White Gull
TO Russell w. Earle. These transfers
were made through the office Of Frank
Bovine Jones.
Commodore James W. Alker Of the
Manhasset BAY Yacht Club he's pur-
+ cNdstu the power yacht AiGeNO. ONHeu
recently by Herbert +. l.. Funke The
Alcedo was formerly sloop rigged, but
was changed in 1920, She Is so feet
long
The auxiliary sloop Quissana. for
merly Dixie. has been sold by F. T..
F'redericks to 4. NJ. Reese Of the New
Rochelle Yacht Club
These transfers are reported through
Henry J. Gielow. Inc: The 60 foot
power houseboat Ripsando. sold ny Dr
VI. p. Baruck to Roy r. York OF Cleve-
land. The yacht has been overhauled
under the supervision or II. i. Gielow
1 and is now on It's way TO st. Augustine
where its owner will board II. The
auxiliary bugeye Avocet sold by r. H.
Rex to IT, w. Dobbins, Jr.. of Newark
and later sold BY Vt. w. Dobblns TO Her
man Weiss or Yonkers. The 90 foot
Hcrreshoff built power Yacht Esloma
has been sold for the estate or w. H.
Naedervoort 10 Logan @. Thompson Of
Cincinnati The yacht will be. ramed
sylvia III
The auxiliary ketch Thetis has been
aod by william II. Park 10 Edward G.
Ely. This ketch, with the Iiishinaa and
Consort III. owned by ~. Ford will
cruise in company a great deal this sum
mer