The New York herald., 1922-07-02
MANY REGATTAS TO
KEEP YACHTS BUSY
New York Yacht Clubs Race
to Be Sailed Next Saturday
From Glen Cove.
By ARTHUR #. ALDRIDGE.

The New York Yacht Club will hold
its annual regatta next Saturday and
will start from line off Glen Cove
This the the seventy second annual re-
gatta OF this club and in addition to the
usual prizes the yachts viii race for the
New York Yacht Club course cups,
which were donated to the club by for
mer Commodore James Gordon Bennett
ia 1871. There are two of these cups,
one for schooners and one for sloops.
In each division the yachts race as in one
class. with time allowance.
The start will be made at / o'clock.
daylight saving time. and the courses
will be signaled before the warning sig
nal Is set. The race committee Is H..
deb. Parsons. Gherardi Davis and Clin-
ton Mackenzie
This week Is to be very busy one
for yachtsmen everywhere. The Amer
lean Yacht Club will hold it's annual re-
gatta tomorrow and the starting line
will be at the Scotch Caps in full view
of those at the club house at Milton
Point. Schooners, fifties, forties, thir-
ties and yachts in classes NJ. N and p
and the first and second divisions of the
handicap class will sail 16% miles.
The smaller classes will sail shorter
courses and the six meter class will have
the longest course yet set for this class,
twelve nautical miles. The warning
signal will be made at 1 so o'clock and
the fifties and class o, the Larchmont
thirty y-nine footers, will be sent away at
:05 o'clock. The race committee is H.
deb. Parsons. William Remsen. John B.
Shethar, Frederic w. Sherman and d.
Raft Richardson. Many very handsome
prizes have been donated by the flag
officers and members for these races.
Larchmont's Big Event.
On Tuesday. independence Day. the
Larchmont Yacht Club will hold its
forty-first annual regatta and the first
class will be started at noon, daylight
| saving time. AS usual the courses,
which are triangular. will be signaled as
early as possible.
On this day there will also be club
races at the Seawanhaka- -Corinthian, In
dian Harbor, Bayside, Stamford and
many other yacht clubs.
| The Port Washington Yacht Club will
hold its second annual regatta next Sat
rrday, July 8. Last year this club had
q regatta on the Tuesday In Larchmont
race week. but this year because of the
New Rochelle Yacht Club holding an
ocean race instead of a championship
event the Port Washington Club, which
is one of the progressive young organ
izations. obtained Saturday and a
! championship event. The start will be
| made at o'clock from a line Ut the
| Back and Red Spar Buoy to the north
ward and eastward Of Execution Light.
The courses vary in length from to
| 151a nautical miles This regatta Will
lie managed by z. w. Dusinberre, Ad-
rian Iselin I'd, Z. V. Willis. l.. G.
| Hamersley and w. L. Gilmore.
Annual Block Island Races.
| The New York Athletic Club will
: start its annual races to Block Island
next Saturday. The yachts will start
off Huckleberry Island and race through
the Sound to the West Harbor. Block
Island 100 miles away. 1t will be the
seventeenth annual race for cabin sal
yachts of 20 to As feet water line length
and the thirteenth annual race for power
cruisers 2S to 65 feet water line length
Many New York yachts will this wsel
start with the Eastern Yacht Club on 1t.
annual cruise from Marblehead to Bal
Harbor This Is always very popular
cruise because the runs are usually
short. the yachts go through the .sland.
off the Maine coast and the yachtsmer
have lots of time for visiting on~shor'
or on the yachts. The start will b'
made next Wednesday from Marblehead
I and after reaching Bar Harbor on July
12 some of the yachts will race bacl
to Marblehead for the Norman cup
Others will get back 70 Larchmont a:
soon as possible in order to take part II
the week of racing that will begin or
Iuly 1 d