YACllTI G for June
Ingomar, a new 6-mt tt r boat, owntd by Htnry B . Plant, undtr nil. l-Ia r»~, owned by W. A. \V. Stewart, l oo~• vtry much like L~a. The Month in Yachting
Class "P" Revived on Long Secretary of the .A ssocia tion anti Long- b land Sound Association conmmnications from those de ir rule!> for the 31 foot rating cia . Islantl Sound in ~ 10 enter their bo;U hould he 1 f !>a ib arc da111aged beyond ::.cr FTER sncral years, durin~ addres> cd to him. viceaLlc repair, new sails may be A which there has been practi All races to be sailed without ordered. cally no racinl-{ in the "P" class on time allowance, unless it i shown J\ prize for the season's cham Lonl-{ Island Sound, it is pleasing that a handicap system is necessary, pionship will be awarded. For the to sec this fine cla~s . which wa · and under the restrictions of trim purpose o f giving light weather and formerly very popular, being rc and equipment, scantling rules, etc., heavy weather boats an equal op vircd, with the prospects of some laid down for the 31 foot rating portunity to win this trophy, the line racinl-{ this Summer. The fleet cla ~s by the rules of the Long season's championship races shall be on the Sound has dwindled to some hland Sound Yacht Racing Asso divided equally in a spring series three boats, two o f them hei n~ out ciation. Yachts to race in cruising and a fall series, and the two boats classed by Nallma, then owned by trim, with anchors, cabin fittings, winning the g-reatest number of Addison Hanan, but with the ac cushion. , etc., on board, and with points for these two series shall quirin~ of two more boats, a clas. two suitable li fc preservers on deck. have a match race for the charn "P" a sociation has been formed to Some wise restrictions have been pi o n ~hip trophy on the day of the promote racinl-{ and to boo!'t the adopted, especially re~ardin g haul Annual R e~atta o f the Handicap class. ·ng out and sails. Yachts shall not Yacht Racing Association. The Nallma ha'> been botight by be hauled out, put in drydock, or on C. L. Weyand and the IVimln•ard the beach more than once in four The 6-Meter Trial Races has been brought back from Hali weeks, and shall not remain out of About the first boats to be racing fax, where she: has been for a num the water more than four conseetl on the Sound this year were the 6- IJcr of years, by G. \V. Ford and tirc days at any allowed time of Meters, which arc tuning up early, \\'m. Scofield. Then J. A. Santry hauling out or docking. In case preparatory to the series of elimi hao; come down from ~[arblehcad of any accident or bad weather, nation races with the Scawanhaka with his Ahmeek and joined the this rule may be suspended by vote Yacht Club that has arranged for clas-s. With the ~c three and Amo of majority of the members of the the. purpose o f choosing the inter ret, owned by P. C. Pfeiffer, and Association. natiOnal team to go to England in 1Viu1111o, owned hy I Jamilton ll. Each yacht shall be allowed but July. These trial races arc to be Downe, there will he five boats, in one suit o f sails during the season. gin June 11th and will continue un addition to one which Thco. S. llalloon jibs, reaching jibs and til the selection committee is satis Clark expects to purchase. spinnakers may be carried provided fied as to which four will make the P. C. Pfeiffer has been elected that their size conforms with the hest team to go abroad. 375 JANUARY, 1923 Y A CHTING 15 One-Design or Open Classes Something for Racing Yachtsmen to Think About
N order better to systematize the improved by successive trials. In L ist, the actual number starting in I conduct of races held by the the subject matter, every important the races of the season was but clubs forming the Yacht Racing point has been stated as clearly as 166. Many of these, however, Association of Long Island Sound, possible, and but once, repetitions started but once or twice, and the and to properly collect and preserve being avoided as merely confusing. total starters in more than 25 per the data of such races, a Recorder Except in one instance, the rules of cent. of the races was only 100. was appointed by the Association the A ssociation have not been The total number of yachts in the last Spring and has just completed quoted in the program, as the one-design classes was 156, but the his year's work. This R ecorder proper source of information on number starting in more than 25 was W . P. Stephens, editor of rules is theY. R. A. book itself. A per cent. of the races was only 70. Lloyd's R egister of American large size of type with a plain face In a number of classes in which Yachts, and his first report has just has been used, and much more care races were regularly scheduled and been rendered to the Association at has been taken in the separation of prizes offered and awarded, the a meeting held in October. At this these various lines and columns. so regular starters were as few as time the championship winners as to make the matter as easily leg four, three or even two. were announced, being the earliest ible as possible. One size of sheet In view of the money expended date at which the season's results has been used by all clubs. by the clubs in prizes and the ex have been announced in many Races penses incidental to the running of years. Other racing Associations the races, and of the time and labor might well follow the lead of the T he scheduled races of the Asso freely given by race committees, Long Island Sound Association in ciation numbered 24, of which 20 the results in point of competition this matter of appointing an offi cial were championship events. Except are not encouraging, and it may recorder. for one club, from which no report fairly be said that the support on As the report brings up, also, has been received, the Recorder al the part of the owners of racing many other important matters for ready has the record of every cham yachts is not in proportion to the consideration it is printed (in part) pionship race. work done for them by the clubs. herewith. Particularly in respect The racing list for the season in It is only too plainly evident that cluded a total of 226 yachts, divided to these portions dealing with the the one-design and special classes among 26 classes ; of which 18 were decline of open class racing and the once so popular have undergone a influence o f one-design racing one-design; 4 handicap; 1 re process of disintegration ; and st ricted; and 1 rule classes. !thould yacht clubs and yachtsmen Effect of 011e-Desig1£ Raci11[J while the number of such classes give serious consideration. If Questio11able for which races and prizes must be !rOmething is not done to build new Though in theory, at least, yacht awarded is diminishing slowly, the classes and to keep up the interest racing in America is conducted decrease in entries in each class is in existing classes, the sport w ill under a fixed rule of measurement, much more rapid. The Sound ~ ufTer in the next few years. M r. and the "Universal Rule" adopted Schooner Class, once popular, has Stephens' report contains m atter in 1905 is now on the books of all afforded but little sport this year, which m ust be weighed and acted the leading yacht clubs, it is wor on a number of days only one tlpon. 111e sooner this is done the thy of serious consideration that representative being present at the better for the sport. but one n1le class was represented line. The old "Sonder Oass," Report of the Recorder of the Yacht on Long Island Sound this season, identical in principle thought not strictly one-design, has also fallen Racing A11ociatlon of L. I. Sound and that was built to a foreign rule. The new 38-ft. schooner off badly in the number of starters. As the racing season o f 1922 is The "Jewel" Class, also popular in now closed, I beg to report as fol- class created thi! year still remains only on paper, there were a few its day, shows a similar decline. lows upon such matters as have Whether it is to be classed as cause come to my notice as Recorder o f desultory starters in the larger ~hoo n e r classes, and one yacht of or effect, the fact is apparent that the Association:.-- the old class organizations which Advonlogts of S ta11dord Rau Oass N was at the line on several occasions, failing to find a com created and fostered these special Program cl~sses have also fallen apart, there During the past \ Vinter a stand petitor; even the smaller rule classes once popular, P , Q, R, and bemg at the present time no head ard fonn of Race P rogram was pre to a class and no one responsible pared by a s~cial committee and S , have entirely disappeared. The question whether this abandon for its welfare. There is a serious recommended to the clubs for adop danger that most of the one-design tion; all but one club have acted on ment of the long establi!hed prin and ot her special cla s~e<; will go to this recommendation, with a mater ciple o f designing to a rating rule, and the concentration of all effort pieces before new classes are estab ial improvement in this important lished to take t heir place. detail o f racing. on the development o f one-design One of the duties of the R ecorder and special classes, is a help or a R ace M a11ageme11t hindrance to that revtval o{ yacht has been to work with the race The make-up of it s race commit committee; of such clubs as desired racing which is the immediate end tee is a matt er which rests with his services in the preparation and o f all yacl1ting organizations, is one each club. W hile it is absolutely oi ~ t r ibu ti on of the program, the ex which may well engage the atten necessary that there shall be one or perience thus gained being most tion of the Y. R. A. thi ~ W inter. two men on the committee with a valuable. Followin$!' the general T he result of the racing may be tho rough knowledge of racing and fonn of the tandard program, the c; ummarized as follows : with a typographical arrangement has been total o f 226 yacht! on the Racirrq (Co 11lirr11 ed 0 11 page 24 )
30 YACHTING }ANUARY, 1923 • MODEL YACHTING Another lnteruatiounl Model Y neht Unce Possible ' At the last meeting of the Model Yacht Racing Association of America the following communica tion was received from the Model Yacht Racing Association London Institution, London, Engiand to gether with other correspondence pertaining to international model yacht racing: Dear Sirs : This association, representing the majority of sailing clubs on this side, welcomes the advent of Amer ican models to compete in this country. . In order to secure that coopera tion of the sailing clubs which is essential for international com petttJOns, they suggest that the ... American and British associations, .2 representing such clubs, cooperate in fixing arrangements for Inter •..E national racing. ] My association will be pleased to hear from you in this connection as it believes that it is only in this way that representative National .. competitions can be successfully or .:c·= ganized. "0 Yours truly, ::.. (signed) Chas. J. Loeder, Secretary. The M. Y. R. A. of America is !l ~ now sounding the opinion of the c 0 various clubs included within its " membership, and at the present \ writing the response has been satis l factory. The Central Park M. Y. C., Prospect Park M. Y. C., Irving ton M. Y. C. and the Montclair M. Y. C., have pledged one hun dred dollars each to help carry the financial part of the venture, and others arc pending. As to the rule under which boats arc to be built, a proposed rule is ' given elsewhere in this issue, which as a test rule appears satisfactory. It is believed progress is being made towards a fix ed understand ing and cooperation between the two associations and when con cluded this may well bring about a big event in each season to come. Those clubs and members who have been keeping their weather eye ,on the larger aspect of model yacht racing, and have noted the response and attention accorded the first International Race here last J unc, see in this attempt to get on a common basis a real step forward in the model yachting game. It is up to all those interested to decide I ... :::...; I , , whether or not the sport is to be ~___, Ui ·~· I J broadened and assume the dignity ··#. , this sterling pastime deserves. -- -- ,:;l \ jANUARY, 1923 YACHTING 13 The Month in Yachting
When the Fish Run It was on the committee boat at Gloucester, during the late un- pleasantne- of the l'i ~ h e rm e n ' Race, that I heard the tory, and it i too good not to let it circulate where it will be mo t apprcciated am on~ sailormcn. apt. ncllen, a \"eteran fi shing skipper who ha spent mo ~ t o f h i-; life on the fishing banks, told it. lt's too bad that print won't convey his accent and the emphasis he put on it. In pitc of his 85 years Capt. Snel len had arisen at 4 A. 1£. to get from ~larblehead to Gloucester in time to get aboard comfortably, and he was on his feet till the Com mittee boat landed at 6 P. M . 1-ish ing, evidently, toughens a man up a bit. It happened a number of years ago when he commanded a mall banker out of Gloucester and wa-, fresh fi hing one winter on the Sable I land Grounds. It had come on bitterly cold, with the ther
mometer down below zero and the Loll of toltnt in 1 amoll boot. (Left to riaht) Vice-Commodore Ccorll• Nichol•. \"(. . ~utltr little ,·cssel was all iced up o the Duncan and Cobaon Fohnu todt of tht Nt w York Y. C. aoilo n11 ont of the C lau S one men couldn't fi sh. The gang was dnig,u. below keeping the foc's'le stove reel "Arc the fecsh runnin' ?" Vice Commodo re, George Nichol', hot an' joshin' each other, just to "Naw, they ain't runnin' ye t; hut ~ l o o p Caroli1ta. pass the time. I suspect they wi ll be along about Rear Commodore, Vincent A tor, The skipper stuck his head out the heat of the day," answered the power yacht N Oll rmallal. of the cabin companionway to take doughty Yankee. Secretary. George A. Cormack ; a squint round and sighted a small Foll owed a pause on the part of tr ea~ u re r , Tarrant Putnam; meas French fi shing bark bearing down the French skipper. Then in won urer, Harold \V. \\'ebb. on him. He knew she was going to der: i\lemherh, ip Commit tee, Charles speak him and guessed he'd be "Heat of ze day-vat you call ze Lane Poor, Henry A. Bishop, asking about fish. The old skipper, heat of ze day?" George M. Pynchon. H . G. S. with pardonable national pride, "Oh, about two hours, mebbe, Noble, Capt. R. D. W hite, U.S.N.; didn't want to let any Frenchman when the sun gets up a li ttle higher E . Town end Irvin. know that they ever thought it too -then they'll begin to run." Race Committee. Gherardi Davis, cold to fish, so he ran for'ard. "Sacre" came the answer, and Clinton Mackenzie. O liver Iselin. shoved back the foc's'le slide, and the F renchman swung his yards House Committee. Samuel A. shouted down: and fill ed away while the gang on Brown, Charle· :'IL Billings, J ame "Tumble up here, boys, lively, the Gloucesterman hustled below D. Sparkman. and get your Jines over; there's a again to the stove. Library Committee,- F . Gilbert frogeater close aboard. Nev~r mind H insdale, Roher! 0 . Bacon, Capt. about your coats. Come JUSt as New York Yacht Club ]. F. Carter, U . S. N. you are." i\f odel Committee. C. Sherman Up the gang tumbled, and sli d Election H oyt, Charles D. :'l fower, H orace aft to the tubs of lines. "Get 'em At the annual meeting of the E . n oucher. over quick" admonished the kip New York Yacht Club, helu at the Committee on Club Station". J. per. ' " NO\~ roll up your sleeves club house on December 21 st, the P. M o r~a n, V incent Astor, J. Har and we'll show this F renchy we regular ticket was elected for 1923. vey Ladcw. ain't stopped by the weather." Commodore Harold S. Vanderbilt Over the lines went, and when and the other Aag officers, George Inlcrnalionnl Six-Meter Race the Frenchman backed his main Nichols· and Vincent Astor, were yards and Jay to within hailing dis re-el ect ed. The most important Assured tance, there was a gang of m~n, change was in the Race Committee, The challeng-e o f the Seawanhaka bareheaded and in shirt sleeves w1th where H . deB. Parson'>, chairman Corinthian Y. C. to the RoyaT a line in each hand, s:Hving up and since 1907, decl ined a nomination. Northern Y. C. o r Great Britain, down. The personnel of the new committee for the old Seawanhaka Cup, which The French skipper, standing is Gherardi Davis, Clinton Macken was won hy Coila II I off Manches a ft, hailed through cupped hands : zie and Oliver Isel in. ter, last September. has been ac " Schooner ahoy! Vat schooner The full ticket elected foll ows : cepted, ami a race wi ll be sailed for is dat ?" Commodore. Harold S. Vander the trophy on the Clyde late in "The Eva May, of Gloucester:•• bilt , schooner V agraut. August. This will be a match race Y i\CHTJ NG for October
Phot o by Albm Coolr F 1nt home I M i.u Ne'DI Bedford, owned by George Cherry, winning speed boat race at New Bedford Yacht Club Race week. Open Racing Classes Should <.:on tents-Yachting out by the facts. It is true that he Encouraged there may be an outstanding boat October, 1923 in an open class, but judging from There i ~ a mo\'ement under way the Six-Meter Class last year with among yacht--men on Long I land Vol. XXXIV Number IV boats from different designers, one Sound to bring about a re umption II ERBERT L. STON E, EDITOR would say that they were so nearly of racing in open cia-; es, and a equal in ·peed that almost any of t.ov~r Uc§lgn-Sc hooncr ~caram o ucla e. committt:e wa appointed by the 1' /ooto by Col/woe. them could have been made win Frontl!piece--Buffalo Regatta. Photo by Long h lanu Sounu Yacht Racing l< oun(
Coila Ill {left) &nd Lea racing on the Clyde for the Seawanhaka Cup a fler 1he S .x-Meler malch on 1he Solrnl. the American team, 28, though The International Six-Meter Ra~es three of the British team topped her WHEN the American team to and one turned out to be a drifting in the scoring. Clytie was close be go across to meet the Brit match that required about all the hind her team mate with 27 points, ish in this year's six-meter races time limit to sail. In only one of and "Cliff" Mallory did well with was picked it was felt by most of these races did the American team her. She was the only boat o f our us on this side of the water that our win-the fifth race, in a light breeze team to win a race (the fifth), boats had a better chance than they in which our boats were at home though Lea could have taken this if had in 1921 when the first race was and took the first four places. In she had not elected to keep some sailed. Our designers had had the day of drifting we were out of of the British boats covered and be three years to work on the rule. luck in the fluky conditions or else content with second place. Coila Our crews had the experience of did not know where to look for the III , as was the case last year, was this previous race in British waters breaks, for the British team got the high point winner on the British and thus knew conditions oetter first three places. On the days it side, with 39 points. She was sailed than they did in 1921, and it was breezed up (and it did blow) there by John Stevens. 1-Iaw!t and lu.qo felt they would have boats better was only one team to it-the Brit mar brought up the rear. suited to the weather likely to be ish. Our boats were nowhere near The following table shows how met. But even at that we were not the equal of their. competitors in the the teams stood in the scoring and over optimistic of the result. No conditions that prevailed. their respective positions: one, however, looked for quite such The courses used on the Solent BRITISH an overwhelming defeat as was appear strange to those who are Yacht Pts. Pos. handed to us by the four British used to equilateral triangles or Coila Ill ...... 39 1 boats, especially as three of them windward and leeward courses, and R eg ...... 33 2 were not new boats and two of them for the most part are irregular in Suzette ...... 31 3 were on the team we defeated here shape, so that the legs are f re Capelle ...... 26 6 last year. Capelle, owned by Sir quently uneven in length. The A.\IERICAN William Burton, was the only new strong tides are also an important Yacht Pts. Pos. British boat. She is from designs factor in those waters an1l local L ea ...... 28 4 by Nicolson. knowledge plays an important part Clytie ...... 27 5 Of the four boats on our team, in the result. Whether this is more Ha·wk ...... 17 7 two were logical choices, L ea, sailed so on the Solent than in the lluky I 11gomar . . 14 8 by · Sherman Hoyt, and Clytie, airs of Long Island Sound is open Summing up, it would look as if owned and sailed by Clifford D. to doubt. our designers cannot yet turn out Mallory. Concerning the new Lea did the best of the Americ:.1n boats equal to the British under the boats, Hawk, W. A. W . Stewart, team. She was especially gootl in conditions which prevail on the and btgomar, owned by H . B. going to windward, and frequently Solent and that the British team Plant, there was some difference of worked into the lead or worked were better handled (barring Lea opinion. They had not done much through the entire British team on and. Clytie) than ours. Designers in the racing over here, and many the windward leg. This was espe are naturally under a handicap in thought that Grebe, a sterling per cially apparent in the first, second turning out boats for conditions former in two previous 6-meter and fourth races. In the second different from those which prevail series, should have been included, race she was over the starting line in home waters, and to design a especially as she was at her best in too soon ;,tnd though recalled she boat tha t will be fast enough to win the winds likely to be found on the had worked up to second posi tion at home and be selected, and at the Solent. However, she was not at the end of the windward leg. same time fast enough to win chosen. and that ends that. But running and reachin~ she abroad where winds are very hard, Of the six races sailed in the se proved inferior to the British boats. with lots of weight in them, and the ries, one was sailed in a hard blow, all of which were especially ~o o d seas short and steep, is a difficult three in fresh to strong breezes, one on these points of sailing. task. The reverse also holds true in a light to moderate true breeze, L ea won most of the points for as regards British designers. 236 In the Lee of the Longboat By CAP STAN Among the multitude of long dis believing the speed of his craft to tance races held this year, the Bay have been amply demonstrated in side-Block Island Auxiliary Race the past. The Selection Committee was a particularly interesting one evider:tly did not relish the stand to me for two reasons--first, it is taken by Grebe's owner, and selected teaching us a lot about the: efficiency the team from the boats which com of engines and wheels in auxiliaries, peted in the trials, amongst which and second, it is bringing men and were several of last year's craft, and boats into competition who have two new ones. As I said before, never raced before. We have a lot this may or may not be the right to learn yet as to what kind of in dope, but I can't .help feeling that stallation is best in an auxiliary, and our team would have made a far the best way to sift the wheat from better showing had Grebe been a the chaff is to stack one outfi t up member of it. against another. There was hardly * * * a boat in the Bayside race which Many . racing man goes blunder- had previously competed in any ing along, hurting his own chances other event, long or short. The and the chances of others in the more new blood we get into the race, and causing protests and hard game the better for yachting, for feeling in the class, solely because just as competition is the life of he doesn't understand the rules of trade, so is it the spur necessary to the game he is playing. In time, if develop yachting, as the records he sticks in the game long enough, prove that where racing ceases, he usually learns, often by being yachting activity in general becomes disqualified and losing a prize, or sluggish. Fred Stiles and the Bay lowering his standing in a series. side bunch are doing fine work. But the r~ is no reason to dub along May their efforts continue to be this way. For if all skippers, old crowned with success. and young, would read-and study • • • -the Handbook of American Yacht A number of people have a!ked Racing Rules, they would immedi me why Grt be, our stellar heavy ately grasp many, many things weather performer, was not a mem which it woul By ARTHUR WENDELL t\ the: October issue of Y Ac un Nc the di,placrmen t as a factor of measure heavily penalized, as it is when designing I Editor made a stroniZ nil'-"\ for more ment superseded the old, cheatablc to a defini te rating measurement, the de consideration of the onl'n rh«rs of the "len~th-and-sa il -area" formula. Because signers of the next Cup contestants will Long Island Sound Yacht Racing Asso length is so essential a factor of speed in have to depend for speed upon perftc· ciation, pointing out that practically all sailing vessels, and can no longer be tio 11 of f orm rather than upon excessive racing on the Sound in recent years has "stolen" through long fl at overhangs, it power. If this deduction is correct, Sir been confined to various one-design is now taken legitimately and equalized Thomas Lipton should be in no quan classes, the only open class showing any hy g re;~ t e r di splacement, which In tu rn dary in the matter of selecting the de continuous activity being O ass P (31 brings its co mp en s~ ti o n in the shape of signer of his fifth challenger I feet rating). the m~ximum drivi ng power the J en ~th Our yachting authorities certainly have The question arises : What effect has allows. Experiment only wi ll detc: rmrne some real problems to conjure with this this had upon the welfare of the sport? the proper limit in each cl ns~ . which W inter and next. And let us hope they In the minds o f some yachtsmen it is will vary, o£ course, :~cco rd l n g to llver will take steps, before another contest ha\ i n ~ so detrimental an effect that it is age weather conditions in diiTereu t local for the America's Cup, that will prevent hoped the subject will receive the ear ities. It is to be hor ed that in the the noblea t •Port of all being held up to nest consideration of those who guide future om designers wi ll be given more ridic ule by the humiliating spectacJe of the de•tinies of yacht dubs when they opportunity to solve this problem by ob two Jaree yacht• declining to race in a meet this \Vintcr to take up such mat serving the performances o f their yachts 25-knot breeze, either beca111e of the ters. in home wa ters. The promise of aevc:ral fragile construction o f one or the unsea Naturallr, in this situation, our dc Class "0" boa ts, each of a diiTerent de worthy form of the other! 'igners have had bu"t little opportunity sign, for next c:a,on's r:~cln g on the to compete with one another or to eX Sound is a move in the right directi on. ( Ed. Note--In 1899 Arthur Wendell, who contributes this a rticle, and C. S. periment with the present measurement rule--a fact which we may have good The Lessons of the Last America's Cole designed and built the sloop reason to regret two yean hence, with Cup Match Zt11da, which raced in Detroit waters a contest for th e America's Cup in pros for six conJecutive years without suffer pect for 1925 between yachts built to the ~o clonht the last races for the pre in g a single defeat. Mr. W endell wa.s a limit of one of the Universal Rule mier yachting classic taught both sides member o f }he Detroit Yacht Club in the 90's, a cl•arter•member of the Detroit Classes and sailed without tim ~ al/ow valuable lessons. In that contest Boat Club Yachtsmen and one of the Oilcc. Herrcsho fT well deserved the glory he Inasmuch as our measurement rule won, not alone for perfecting the only jud ~:es at the Inter-Lake Meet at P ut clemancls a high ratio of displacement sane measurement r ule we have ever in -Bay in 1900.) to length but permits a very small ratio had, but es p ec i:~ ll y for having had the of sail area to displacement, it should be co ma~:e to carry out the spirit o f the borne in mind that in producing yach ts ru le in giving Rrsolute her easy form, Watch Your Step, Cap Slan under similar restrictions the British de free from all :~b n o rm a l features-even •igncrs have had vastly more experience though the conditions governing the con Dear Cap S tan:- than have thei r American contempora test im pell ecl him to burden the Amer ican defender with an excessive amount 1 rise to a point of personal privilege, ries. Fi fc in particular proved, thirty and ask that you correct the very trro odd years ago, that he was a master o f o f sail and a da n ~::e ro u s l y light rig to car ry it. neoqs and misleading statement alJont this prohlem when he designed /lfi11uva "AI" Loomis and myself in your last ;md Uvira, these two cutters making a On the other hand, the E ngli sh de 'igner, ~ i c h o l son , deliberately but vainly cargo. You say we "unanimously agreed clean sweep of their class against A mer that Malabar beat Damaris in the Ber ic.a n yachts carrying 15 to 33 per cent. tried to beat the rule by producing a yacht o f the ve ry type that the r ule was muda race because she got the lucky mor <' canvas on the same J en ~ h . That designed to prohibi t. The penalty he breaks." \Ve never agreed. said, sup thl' Scotch clcsigncr has lost none of his posed or thought any such thing. H ow II WINNEl~S II ' SINCE • 182.7 The ((CLYTIE" and uL'ESPRIT" The two fast little six meter boats that glided ~ictoriouslr ~er the line with ~~Aq uatite .'' Varnish \''CLYTIE" OUIC.Hr:D ll'l. P': M. HOYT . .l>Ull.'r!IY H. l!l.. . H%VIN!J. '\r; E.SPQI'I' ". The u SPEEJACKS" has returned from DfSIGHfO &Y A. G. HAHAtt her 35,000-mile round-the-world trip and ~UILT flY fl. f. WOPO 6 50N brought back with .her-its whiteness un ,marred by 15 months of continuous travel in foreign climes and tropical seas her original coating of Smith's Yacht White "~PEE.JACKS" OfSIGHED AHO BUILT BY CONSOLIDATED ~HIP ~\.OG. COQP. NO. 577-Six Metre boat "Ace,'' one of the best in the Class for Long Island Sound conditions. Mower de signed, built by Jacob. Price reason able. We also have all the other Sixes which are for sale and will send full information on request. They are fine boats for afternoon sailing, as well as for racing , and could have small cabins fitted if desired. For full information apply to Charles D. Mower, Naval Architect and Yacht Broker, 350 Madi son Avenue, N ew York. ~ ; " .. l'ltoto by M. R ounfdd When the breeze freshens ! Schooner rac1ng 11 a game requiring nerve and skill. The foresail of the schooner m the foreground has just split along the foot as it breezes. The yachts are Ingomar and E lmira. - ' , ...... Notes from British Waters HE coming season promises to be a most interesting one for T British yachtsmen. We on this side of the Atlantic are lookmg fonvard keenly to the renewal of the British-American team races for six-metre boats, and also to the appearance of the first two yachts to be built to the International Rule as revised for yachts of above 12 metres. With regard to the first of these events, I shall be much surprised if the American team of Sixes does not show a distinct advance over any of the four teams which have already represented America. I have read in YAcmiNG the accounts of how the Seawanhaka and Scandinavian Gold Cups were won last season by yachts from the Baltic, but I cannot.agree that the results of these contests go to prove that American design is necessarilYp inferior to. Scandina vian. It ~appeared to me that in the races lor the Gold Cup the American boat not only had shockingly bad luck, but that she was also somewhat hardly treated. The old Lea is such a wonder ful boat in her own weather that she might easily have won had it not been for the aforesaid bad luck, but it must be remembered that in the eliminating heats she had to meet, among others, three Scandinavian yachts, each of which was a specialist in her own particular kind of weather. Had Lea been chosen as defender for the Seawanhaka Cup, she would certainly, barring accidents, have retained it, just as she would, on the Clyde, have beaten Coila more easily than did lA11ai, when the latter regained the Seawanhaka Cup from Brirain. It is not an easy matter to beat the best of the old boats under the International Rule, but indications tend to show that there are still possibilities which would make for an advance in design. These possibilities lie, I believe, in the direction of refinement of design and perfection of sail plan rather than in that of abnormal ity in any particular direction. In lA11ai, the lines of which Mr. Clinton Crane- in his characteristically sporting spirit- has allowed to be published, one is given an example of a type of boat which is hard to beat in windward work in a strong breeze, and I hope that in the American team which is to visit our. shores next season, we shall see at least one boat to Mr. Crane's design. If that boat has a little more" sailing length" than lA11ai she will indeed be hard to beat. Of one thing I feel certain -we shall have to produce a better team than could have been found among our Sixes last season if we are to keep the new British American Cup on this side of the Atlantic for the next two years. I very much doubt if we have, at the present time, any Six which is appreciably faster than Zmilh, a boat whose form is well known on Long Island Sound. While it would seem necessary for Amcrican·designers to concentrate on getting just that little bit of extra speed which is required on a broad reach, it is equally necessary for British designers to con centrate on windward work, and especially on windward work in light weather. It is not possible to say, at the time of writing, just what our chances are of forming a strong team, but I understand that there are to be two new Sixes from Mr. Fife's board which will, natu rally, stand a very good chance of being selected. One of them is for Mr. Evelyn Parker: who owned last season's Clyde crack, Fmvola, and the other IS, I hear, to be steered throughout the SCfiSOn by one of ?Ur best ama teur helmsmen. These two boats, With Mr. F. A. R1chards' Felma, and Stmshiue or Zmilh should make up a team .worthy of meet.ing your boats on the c'tyde on July 13th, on wh1ch date the senes of races is due to begin. As the ~aces for the cup are to take place well down the Firth of Clyde, It should be an easy matter for a course, or courses, to be iJutually agreed upon, which will make it possible to obtain n rca Y tru~ test of the capabilities of the boats. With plenty of sea roo~ available, team racing should be seen at its best, and es fh~lally ~now t~a.t ~ defini~~ understanding has been reached on . quesuon. o~ ndmg off. For team racing to be thorough! :h~~~~dc~ory 1 ~ IS dbfil.utely essential that the rules of the gam~ chance of t~u.tte .e m~e and .that there should be no possible Th k elr.bemg e1.ther misunderstood or misinterpreted. of th: t\:enest mterest IS bei~~ ta.ke.n, on this side, in the coming new, 0 ne'y 75-footers. Wh1le It 1s generally assumed tha t the li iHil: i :~~;':ll~e~l~lnbteeronf tt.he tlyRpe lwh.ic~l will probably be pr .. duu:d , . a 10na u e, It 1s oss1bl · · ~ ,,, , C rouing l l Ohio, own~d by E. \V. S crippo, hu juot completed a lona voyaae acrotl the Pacifi c hy way of H onolulu, in the excellent time of 22 dayo. S he i1 powered with two 350 H.P. D iuelo. town Yacht Club for the spring regatta of that club give promise of Ohio Completes Long Pacific Voyage making it the most interesting motor boat regatta of this season in the liE new Di e ~ cl motor yacht ~ u c ce s~ ful voyage. She sai led from East. T Ohio, owned by E. W. Scripps J Jonolulu on l\larch 26th and ar The important event will be the and built Ia t year hy the Newport ri ved at Yokohama on April 7th. 100-mile race for express cruisers, News Shipbuilding and Dry Docl< T hi ll makes her total " steaming" under A.P.U.A. rating, for the Company from designs hy ~ l e u rs . time approximately 22 days fo r a trophy donated by the Nation~! Cox & Stevens, has recently com· pa,•agc of about :5 .6.30 mtle,. As ociation of Engine and Boat pleted a long trans-Pilcific voyage in T he Ohio is 172 feet in length, Manufacturers, and the title of Ex remarkably good time for a vessel ha5 a hca m o f 26 fee t, a draft of 11 press Cruiser Champion of Amer of her moderate size and power. feel, and i1 equipped with two 350 ica. This event will be run in two The 0/rio left San Diego, Cal., on h.p. Winton engines. I t marks a legs. The first on June 30th, from l\farch 8th and arrived at 1f onolttltt d i ~ t i n c t advance in the reliability of the club house at Middletown, down on l\farch 18th aft er a pleasant and internal combustion machinery, and the Connecticut River to Long in strength and seaworthiness o f Island Sound, finishing at Stoning construction, when a ve.s~ l of these ton Harbor. The contestants and relatively ~ ma ll dimensions can suc following fleet will lie over th<\.t cessfull y, and with comfort to those night, Saturday, at Watch Hill, on hoard, undertake so long a voy holding a cruise next day to Block age. Island. On Monday the final leg will be run from Block Island up Launching of the New Six· the Sound, to a finish off the Meter Yacht Sachem's Head Yacht Club. The only two new 6-meter yacht The run of the first day will be to be built thi year were launched in conjunction with the first leg of together from the yard o f their the race for the Express Cruiser builder, Henry B. Nevin' . City Championship of the Connecticut Island, on April 28th. One o f River, thus giving the entries for these, the I ngomar, i from designs the National trophy a chance ~o by Fred H oyt. he i owned by compete also in the local one. Henry B. Plant. who sailed Cly tie in last year's International Race. American Yachtsmen Invited The other is for Commodore \V. A. to Participate in the Swed· \ V. Stewart. She is named Haw ll and was designed by Henry J. ish International Regatta Gielow. In connection with the Jubilee Both are exceedingly likely look Exhibition, which the city of Goth ing b ? at ~ and should be fa ~t . ft r_q o enburg, Sweden, is holding this mar ts lrke a refined Clytie, while Summer, is a sailing regatta which H_mul: r_esembles L ea, Ia t year's will be one of the principal features ~vmn e r, 111 many ways, though she of the event. The Swedish yachts ts not as extreme a departure from men have issued an invitation to all the conventional as was the latter American yacht owners to partici boat. pate in this event and have asked They have already been tried out American yachtsmen to be their under sai l against L ea. They both guests at Gothenburg during the ' showed speed against the older regatta and the celebration con boat, but in the first meeting did not nected therewith. se~m to have any_thing on last year's The yacht races will take place Launchina of Ingomar and HaDit, the two wmner, though this, of course, wa between July 11th and 16th and new 6-meter yachll of the year, from Nevin'• to be expected in their first trial will include all of the regular classes Yard, oo April 28th. under sail. 307 YACllTI G for June Ingomar, a new 6-mt tt r boat, owntd by Htnry B . Plant, undtr nil. l-Ia r»~, owned by W. A. \V. Stewart, l oo~• vtry much like L~a. The Month in Yachting Class "P" Revived on Long Secretary of the .A ssocia tion anti Long- b land Sound Association conmmnications from those de ir rule!> for the 31 foot rating cia . Islantl Sound in ~ 10 enter their bo;U hould he 1 f !>a ib arc da111aged beyond ::.cr FTER sncral years, durin~ addres> cd to him. viceaLlc repair, new sails may be A which there has been practi All races to be sailed without ordered. cally no racinl-{ in the "P" class on time allowance, unless it i shown J\ prize for the season's cham Lonl-{ Island Sound, it is pleasing that a handicap system is necessary, pionship will be awarded. For the to sec this fine cla~s . which wa · and under the restrictions of trim purpose o f giving light weather and formerly very popular, being rc and equipment, scantling rules, etc., heavy weather boats an equal op vircd, with the prospects of some laid down for the 31 foot rating portunity to win this trophy, the line racinl-{ this Summer. The fleet cla ~s by the rules of the Long season's championship races shall be on the Sound has dwindled to some hland Sound Yacht Racing Asso divided equally in a spring series three boats, two o f them hei n~ out ciation. Yachts to race in cruising and a fall series, and the two boats classed by Nallma, then owned by trim, with anchors, cabin fittings, winning the g-reatest number of Addison Hanan, but with the ac cushion. , etc., on board, and with points for these two series shall quirin~ of two more boats, a clas. two suitable li fc preservers on deck. have a match race for the charn "P" a sociation has been formed to Some wise restrictions have been pi o n ~hip trophy on the day of the promote racinl-{ and to boo!'t the adopted, especially re~ardin g haul Annual R e~atta o f the Handicap class. ·ng out and sails. Yachts shall not Yacht Racing Association. The Nallma ha'> been botight by be hauled out, put in drydock, or on C. L. Weyand and the IVimln•ard the beach more than once in four The 6-Meter Trial Races has been brought back from Hali weeks, and shall not remain out of About the first boats to be racing fax, where she: has been for a num the water more than four conseetl on the Sound this year were the 6- IJcr of years, by G. \V. Ford and tirc days at any allowed time of Meters, which arc tuning up early, \\'m. Scofield. Then J. A. Santry hauling out or docking. In case preparatory to the series of elimi hao; come down from ~[arblehcad of any accident or bad weather, nation races with the Scawanhaka with his Ahmeek and joined the this rule may be suspended by vote Yacht Club that has arranged for clas-s. With the ~c three and Amo of majority of the members of the the. purpose o f choosing the inter ret, owned by P. C. Pfeiffer, and Association. natiOnal team to go to England in 1Viu1111o, owned hy I Jamilton ll. Each yacht shall be allowed but July. These trial races arc to be Downe, there will he five boats, in one suit o f sails during the season. gin June 11th and will continue un addition to one which Thco. S. llalloon jibs, reaching jibs and til the selection committee is satis Clark expects to purchase. spinnakers may be carried provided fied as to which four will make the P. C. Pfeiffer has been elected that their size conforms with the hest team to go abroad. 375 JULY, 1932 PloU> bv B. Lmu llom,.uKml fJfllllltl - nl tire emf of n tow finl' after tlr f' roN> half complctctl boa t on hi, ha ntl, , famed for their rough weather 1 hopt.: :>omco 11 e come::. along aud ability it looks a5 if our team ha•l l1itl ::. 111 the boat, a ud will give battle a toug'h nut to crack.. H ere's hop next year. A nti if 13ill wants to ing that H oyt anti h1s team mate, throw open the gates, he may find turn the trick. one or two oth t: r Loat reatly tu • • * • face the :,tarter on the tlay ::.et for I hereby a pologize to the yachts th e I o n ~ trek acro:>s the \V csteru m en o f Narragansett Bay for inti Ocean. mating, in the June issue, that • • * * yachting had died a peaceful d~ath Anyone who has been to lllock in their sector. For I have Jlbt hlantl thi year will under tand received a circula r, stating that the why the New York Yacht Club Conanicut Yacht Club, o f J ame; scheduled the first run of their town, will hold a n in vitation race c ru i ~ e to th at port. O h you Roar for cruising schooners, yawls and ing Forties a nd F ighting F ifties ! ketches under 50 foot overall * * * * m easurement on A ugust 25th. F ine By the time this meets your eye, business. I hope they get a fl ock o f Sherman Hoyt and his team m a t e~ starters, a nd the Editor o f Y ACIIT will be g iving battle on the Solen! ' NG and I will have a set-to if he to the best which our Dritish doesn't give his readers a full ac cousins can produce in the 6-meter count of the " doings." class. Sherman ic; again at the helm of Lea, last year's stand-by. The * * * * veteran Cliff Mallory will handle One of the pleasant s urpri se~ the stick on Clytie, another con which awaited us at Bermuda was sistent performer last sea on. to see the little 40 foot aux il iary Young Henry Plant will sail In S ea Lure swinging easily at anchor _qomar, a new boat turned out hy in the harbor, her owner, ::\1 r. Frederick Hoyt, while W. A. W. George n. Doane, enthusiastically Stewart will handle Haw k ; another welcoming his countrymen at the new one, from designs from the finish of their long g rind. ~~ r. veteran H . J . Gielow. The Ia t Doane, a member o f the Cruising two boats were designed for hard Club of A merica, m ade the long breezes. Clytie is an excellent all trip to Bermuda solely to be pre• round performer, while Lea should ent at the fini sh o f the big race. be the light weather ace, though l\f r. Doane is not only an a rdent a dangerous foe under any condi supporter of ocean races for small tions when handled by an expert era ft- he belongs to the ever like H oyt. While our team la ~; t g rowing fl eet o f American y a cht ~ year won the series, it was largely m en who not o nly own seagoing due to piling up point e; in two light craft. but actually use them the weath er r:J ces, the nritish boats ac way they were meant to be u The A merican and Britiah 6-meler teama on the Solenl. Sloops-M owee11, C. G. A_kin, 8 Americans Lose To British 6-Meter Team points. Surf, H . Allen, 5 pomts. On race days, the crews thor HE principal international Late in August the Lea traveled oughly enjoyed the exce_llent chow T yachting event of the month to the Clyde and met the Coila in der served to all hands m the club was of course that of the 6-Meter three races for the Seawanhaka house a fter the races. Tuesday Team Race sailed on the Solent in Cup. With one race to the credit evening there was a dance, Thurs August, which the American te~m of each the Lea parted some of her day a clambake, and Saturday_ a lost so handsomely. The showmg rigging in the third race and lost buffet lunch served at the conclusiOn made by the four boats from Long the match. Well , better luck the of the water sports, in which local Island Sound was far from impres next time. men and maids entertained a large sive and they received a thorou~h crowd of spectators with an excel drubbing at the hands of the Bnt lent program of swimming, diving, ish boats. In only one race of the New Bedford Race Week water polo, etc. The week was six did Sherman Hoyt and his t~am (C0111imted from page 155) voted a big success, and will un win, and that was on a hght George Knowles, 16 points. Flyinq doubtedly be continued as an annual weather day. . Cloud, Lawrence Grinnell , 16 poin ts. fi xture. It is too early to get an anal~!> t s Class 1 Yawls-Osprey, Allen -of the series from the other s1de Weeks, 6 points. Minstrel, T. D. and the special story of the event Last Call for Winners Ponchcr, 3 points. The well known and authentic will appear in the next number of Class 2 Yawls-1-/alcyoll, 8 Y ACIITI NG. Knowledge of local booklet TVi111rers, a record of the points. Mashiba, 5 points. Cll ero sail and motor boat races in Ameri -conditions always plays an impor llrr, 5 points. tant part in any race sailed on tl~e can water , has appeared in its nine 18-ft. Knockahouts-Skid, A. S. teenth issue an ~1 the publishers, Ed Solent but the licking we got th1s Francis, 7 poin ts. Bat, R. Pierce, year was so impressive that it ward Smith & Co., 127 \Vest Ave .. 6 points. would seem that it would· take Long Island City, have distributed Alden 15 -footers-Bug, 9 points. it widely. -s omething more than this t? a~ Mobaloo, 7 points. count for it; and the c~n.clus1on ts If you ha\·e not received your I Jerreshoff 15-footers-Anita, 10 copy, write at once. They tell us inevitable that the Bnttsh boats points. P tiloris, 6 points. were better or they were better there are still a few left. sailed-perh'aps a combination o f both. Of the four boats we sent Bayside-Block Island Auxiliary Race -over, Lea, Clytie, l11,qomar and llon t Owner Club Elnp. Time Allowance Cor. Time Order of h.m.s. h.m.!. h .m.s. Finish Hawk the two latter had not Covn ...... A. Vonrlerlnnn ....Ori entn ...... 61:53:16 3:15:00 58:38:16 9th ·shown' very much on this side of Snkn•n .. .. I. 11. F. "er ...... l.orrlnuo u t ...... SJ :2~ :57 I :37 :JO 51 :47 :27 First 'inoolo ... .. il. A. lllnmnn .. ... l.nrrhmont ...... 60:52:10 2:.17 :30 58:14 :40 6th the water, but it was thought that lflrnona /1 .. W. E. \ Vehh, Jr ... l.orrll'nont ...... 1\9:,10 :00 .1:,10 :00 66:00:00 lith this was because they were better Rnm/Jier ... Alex. r.rnnnner .. llny•i•le ...... 59:29:30 I :52:12 57:37:18 5th 1/ulokn .... r.. n. llroke ...... llny,hlt• ...... 54 :35:30 54:35:30 ~th suited to Solent conditions. Evi T l1ornnn ....(" , ). Th•Kier ...... $ llv•r ll•nch ..... 56:59:54 2 :37:.10 54 :22:24 Third n olt/<111 .. . r. c. lllrrh ...... l.arrhmont ...... 2 :22:30 W ithdrrw ·dently they were not. The British 'lrminn/1 .• 'F_ 1!. Coop for1923 ''ChYTEE" Juno 20th,l923. Edward Smith & Co., • Long leland City,N.Y. Gentlemen: I It was our intention to use your Aquatite again on the • "Clytie" this year but we experimented with another varnish in the • trial raoes. However, we are again using your Aquatito on the "Clytie" I an~ she will be proteoted with it during the International Rac os in • England, as we find it the moat aatiafaotory varnish~ /? • very':f¥ure,Q. ~ · ~ ''ll(GOHAR" June 20th.l923. Edward Smith & Co., Long Island City, N.Y. Gentlemen: The "Ingomar" is finished throughout with your Aqu.ati te "Varnish and your Marine White Enamel. A lot of testing of varnishes baa been done on the Six-Meter boats this year but I am oonvinoed that nothing will wear eo well as your Aquatite and Karina Enamel, and as a result 1 am using them. ~ Very trul~;re, ~ 'J7AWK" June 20th,'l.923. Edward Smith & Co. , Long Island City, ll. Y. Gentlemen: I have tried out other varnishes but am writing to let you know that the final finishes on the "Hawk", which she will carry in the International Six-Meter Races in England, are your Marine White Enamel and Aquatite Varnish. All the teste that I have made have proven thatl3o materials are the beat· on the market.~ 7tl Very truly your a.,/Vv- '..U/. ---...::... . - The "Memory" Winner Class B, 1923 Bermuda Race. Finished with SMITH'S YACHT WHITE and "CUP DEFENDER VARNISHES" .• The "Malabar IV" Winner Class A, 1923 Bermuda Race. I. Finished with 11 CUP DEFENDER VARNISHES" 127 WEST AVE. 'EDWARD SMITH & co 3532 so. MORGAN ST. "·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·"'LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. . ., CHICAGO, ILL 169 OF INTEREST TO THE SKIPPER British Connection for Sen explorers encountered plenty of ice Lloyd's Register of American Sled Co. bergs before Mr. McDonald left Yachts for 1923 them to return home, as the pictures The new issue of Lloyd's R egis The Sea Sled Company, West show. ter of American Yachts ma~ks _the Mystic, Conn., announce that T he Elto was selected by the majority of this u sef~t l pu~ltcat 10n, Messrs. Swan, Hunter & Wigham. party for usc with their ship's ten as it was first establtshcd m 1903, Richardson, Ltd., the famous old der, mainly because of its ease and in response to a de~and fr?m English shipbuilding firm, have reliability in starting in severely yachtsmen for a regt~tcr whtch bought the exclusive manufacturing cold climates. would meet the then raptdly ch an~ and selling rights for Sea Sleds un Dr. MacMillan, who was with ing conditions of t~1e spor~. Tl_liS der Hickman patents for the United Peary in one of his expeditions an_d it has done, incrcasmg m stzc wt th Kingdom, the continent of Europe, who has gone back to the Arcttc the growth of th.e yacht fl eet, at~d and Japan. They will immediately seven times since, is a seasoned ex adding new notatiOns for _the .van commence construction of Sea plorer and there is much interest in ous new agents of propulsiOn mtro Sleds in Great Britain at the works Iu s present expedition. The Chi duced in recent years. of Phillip & Son, Ltd., Dartmouth, cago Radio Laboratory has sup Prior to the first issue of the one of the plants controlled by plied him with a complete radio re American Lloyd's, there were listed & Swan, Hunter Wigham, Richard ceiving and sending apparatus of in this country less than 1,900 son. long wave lengths and he will be the yachts, of which 1,350 were pro It is expected that this new con first Arctic explorer to be in con nection, linking up as it does one stant communication with civiliza pelled by sail alone,. a:nd the ma tion. Radio fans everywhere are jority of the remammg 500 by of the oldest and best known ship steam; the Register for 1923 lists building concerns in the world, to looking forward to a series of most the Sea Sled interests, will result in interesting messages from Dr. Mac a total of over 3,600 yachts, of large scale production of Sea Sleds Millan's party. The ship Bowdoi11, which about 80 per cent. are in order to meet the varied require which carried the expedition, sail ed equipped wit~ _some typ~ of engine, ments of different countries. Boats from \Viscasset, Maine, on J nne IS. either as auxtltary to sat! or as the for the U nited States and South sole propulsive power. Except in A merica wi ll continue to be manu a limited number of the largec;t factured at \Vest Mystic, by the Sea "Cup Defender" V nruish ou yachts, the steam engine has disap Sled Company, Ltd., and in Can Three Six-Meter Boats peared, the marine type o f gasoline engine is largely in the majority, ada by Canadian Vickers, Ltd., of To the long list of American Montreal. the D iesel engine is increasing in racin g boat ~. covering nearly three numbe r ~ each year, though still quarters of a century, that have limited to yachts o f 80 feet length Speeds Up His Work with au been varnished with the Cup De and over, engines running on kero fender Va rnishe , there was added sene, and those running on heavy Evinrude this year the Clytie, Haw k and In oil on other than the D iesel system A recent visitor to J apan was f!lllllar, three o f the four boats are few in number, and the electric surprised to see a small canal hoat which represented America in the motor as the sole element o f pro powered by an Evinrudc i\fotor Si x-1\feter Races at Cowcs. Last pulsion is absent. The mixed sys make its appearance in the Kyo year the Clytie and L' Esprit were tem, of an internal-combustion en bashi vegetable market in the heart fini ~ h e d with the same varnish. gine, usually Diesel, for the driving of Tokyo. Although the canal was Ow in ~ to tests that were made o f an electric generator, with an fill ed wi th craft of various sizes and this year, a report seems to have electric motor for the final drive to gained circulation that another descriptions, the Evinrude operator ~h e main shaft, is gradually coming m :~ke o f va rnish was n ~e d on all o f had no diffi culty in piloting his boat mto use for large cruising yachts. through, between and around the the American boats this year. Lt·lt cr c; from the captains of the The effect of the late war on other vegetable-laden harg e~. mo ~ t six-meter yachts slate that three yachting was far more serious and of which were propelled hy labori lasting than most people realize · it of thi ~ year's boats and two of last ous poling or sculling as is custo is only with the new Lloyd's ti1at year's were li n i ~ h c d with the Cup mary with the Japanese sampan. the account is closed to a certain This ic; hut another exam•llc of tlw Dcfcnclcr Varnishes, manu f acturcd hy P.dwarcl S mith & Co. extent ; the last of the yachts owned increasing use of time savi ng and hy the Government being dropped labor saving machines in the Far as permanently out of yachtin"'. East. Lnrscn Y ncht Sails The use of existing yacht· and the construction of new ones are still. Loui s J. L ar~ e n, sail maker o f 45 however, retarded by the foolish Elto Goes with MacMillan f.ulton Street, New York City, has and unproductive tax imposed on been receiving many orders th i ~ plcac;me era ft by narrow-minded Arctic Expedition year for sail s for yacht use, and legislator . Mr. E. F. McDonald, Jr., of the many new boats of the season. The new yachts o f the year num Chicago Radio Laboratory, recently among them a number o f ra cin~ ber ahont 120, of which 20. in the sent to O le Evinrude, Presiden t o f yachts arc bein~ equipped with sn~a ll cr classes, arc propelled by the Elto O utboard Motor Com sai ls from this lo ft. The little yawl sal) alone: 30 arc auxiliaries, and pany, an interesting set of photo Dai11/y in the Lermucla Race car 70 arc power craft, in sizes from graphs taken while with the Mac ried a well fitting suit of c;ailc; macle I SO down to 30 feet and varying in Millan A rctic Expedition, which hy Larsen, and c;c vcral of the one type hct ween cruisers and high Mr. McDonald accompanied as far design cl asses on the H n cl ~o n River speed craft. The clubs number as Battle Harbor, Labrador. The were also outfittc