1922 Mid-Summer Number Lake Michigan Yachting News

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ILAKIE h,{ICHIGAN

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AIRPLANE VIEV/ OF BELMONT HARBOR

This aerial photoglaph, made by Whitney Speer, shows our beautiful anchorage in Lincoln Park Yacht

Ilarbor. White cross indicates location of new clutr house. Arrow points to the Carrier, mr temporary headquarters. Can you spot your boat?

OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND COMMITTEES

CHICAGO YACHT CLUB 1922 OFFICERS VICE COMMODORE

COMMODORE

717 N. Michigan Ave.

TREASURER

REAR COMMODORE Clark C. Wright JUDGE ADVOCATE Jbhn L. Shortall FLEET SURGEON I Dr. John A. Wolfer

SECRETARY Harold BradleY

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Sheldon Clark

Phone Superior 9100

Richard.G. Jones

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MEASURER

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Ctark C. Wright

FLEET CAPTAIN J. E. Roberts

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COMMUTTEES HOUSE COMMITTEE Bertram M. Winston, Chairman

WilliamC. Moulton R. G. Jones A. Von Wening Geo. Hult Portei

REGATTA COMMITTEE Frank B. Evers, Chairman

Irrank B. Wever

Fred C. Taylor

Charles Scates

E. C. Webster

ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE Evan Evans, Chairman

Don B. Sebastian Francis Taylor

H. P. O'Connell

James N. Smith

MOORINGS COMMITTEE A. C. King, Chairman

B. H. Pistorius Wm. Geo. D. Orr

Geo. Dalseg

N. L. Hurd

ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE Geo. Hull Porter, Chairman Augustus S. Peabody Charles W. Wrigley E. E. Sheridan James O. HeYworth

PRESS COIUUTTIBE J. M. Handley, Chairman

Gaar Williams

Byron Willis

Wm. D. McJunkin

Bernard J. MullaneY

LINCOLN PARK RELATIONS COMMITTEE Col. Wm. N' Pelouze, Chairman Charles R. Francis, Vice-Chairman Geo. E, Harding, Jr.

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AVIATION COMMITTEE J. F. Cornelius, Chairman W. Mitchell Blair Philip K. Wrigley

NEW CLUB HOUSE FINANCE COMMITTEE

Samuel Insull, Chairman, A. M. Andrews, LauranceArmour-, Le-ste-rArmour, {r1d'k H. B:rtlett, DlYchv, Ctarles b;.-w. i. B;-"*;-R prr A. gona, John F.'Corcor-a-n, Joseph-M..Cu{3hn SL*q='l 5.-b"r,i.y, GE;;d"-W: niion, nobirt \ill. Dunn, Chirles B. Brrrg' $_tai!9s E. Fox, Cha4esDaniel Geqrgg F.-H11dr1ry' Jr., Bvron S-. [I-ar1ev, F;t; C:'i{. j. r'l;re; George F. Getz, Albert Y. Gow-en, Heyw6rth, Chauncey Ke'ep,_O.gden T._McClurg, $-o!grt Ilr-MgporH;;;; H. ii.iti.i,'l"meiO. ji C"t.-Wm. tt._peto',!.e, Fu{in9.$.-!i89, A.. N, $9b91i,.Walden W. Shaw, iii"ti,-1. l.

- wfit"irin,' A. o. Sri,riaan, W. J. Sutherlarid, T. Philip Swift, -EtSq-\Y, Upham,

Milton Wilsoi, Garrard B' Winston, Philip K' Wrigley' DELEGATES TO LAKE MICHIGAN YACHTING ASSOCIATION Frank B' \l[/ever Ogden T. McClurg Charles Scates

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%chtin{f,teus PUBLIS}IED BY CHICAGO YACHT CLUB Mid-Summer Number, 79 22

OF'F ON MACKINAC RACE! As we go to press the annual Chicago Yacht Club cruising race to Mackinac

started from Van Buren Street GaP. One of the largest fleets on record got the gun for this historic event' Chicago Yacht Club skippers are hoping to wipe out the signal defeat their boats had to endure last Summer when the Jackson Park Qs swept the board.

It is unlikely that similar conditions, favoring the small boats, will prevail again. Barring the squall encountered in the Manitou Straights, last year's was a "steering race" with wind after of the quarter from start to finish.

Such a race invariably favors the srnaller, light weather boats of the extreme racing type. With weather conditions different, with contrary winds and a variety of navigating problems to meet, the bigger boats are in better position to cope with these'unfavorable conditions of wind and sea.

Mackinac races of the past have afforded a wide scope for seamanship, for tests of the cruising merits of the entries.

Some of the ra,ces have been sailed in a gale of wind, notably the race when Amorita set her famous record of a fraction over 30 hours for the 331 mile course.

Others have been sailed in baffling, changeable airs that put a premium o# experience and weatherwise skippers.

Races have been sailed in heavy northerly blows that tested the endurance of ship and crew, as the race whic,h Mistral won.

And there have been races so close that seconds.separated the first boats, as in

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some of the historic duels between the Vencedor and Vanenna, and last year's

Q boat victory.

The Mackinac Cup race has always been eventful. It has always hdd its epic side. And though the race has been sailed every year since 1905,. with the exception of during the war period, it is a tribute to the seamanship and ability of the skippers a4d crews, and the

staunchness of the bbats that no calamity has ever marred this severe triai. The only boat lost in all these years was Vencedor, in the famous race of 1911, and her crew was fortunate in being brought safely to harbor.

Poor old Vencie died as she would have-wanted to die had her gallant spirit been able to express itse'lf. For she went down fighting.

Following the Mackinac Cup race this year yachtsmen will have the opportunity to compete in a three-day regatta at Cherlevoix on July 27,28 and 29. , Cfarlevoix is one of the loveliest of all the Northern Michigan resorts. The regatta will be held on Pine Lake, . which is a splendid body of water 12 miles long and widening out -to 4 miles in parts.

There is good deep sailing water practically everywhere on the lake and it has been arranged to lay out a good triangular course opposite the resort hotels so that the entire race can be w,atched from the high ground surrounding the lake where the hotels and cottages are located.

This triangular course will serve for the first and third days. The second day

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a l2-mile race to Boyne City, t' . ; wiIIttt"offer end of the lake. This race ott "t into almost any tin-d of a "i develop may coniest-depending on the wind' It may

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be a spinnaler run, a broad reach, a close hauled run, or a l2-mile beat' The Charlevoix Chamber o[ Commerce has hung uP $500 in Prizes -and it is oromised-thit ttris prize list will be supilemented by additi-onal prizes offered by the hotels and bY cottagers.

The George Trammels, Lloyd Steeres' Georse Chailton, and other members of the Ciicago Yacht Club, who are deeplv interested in sailing, have Summer cottases at Charlevoix and are helping to plln the half week's festivities' There will be a dinner at BoYne CitY after the 12-mile race on Friday, and there is to be a big dance and preqentation of prizes at the Cherlevoix hotels after the last day's racing ends and winners are declared. Incidentally there will be open house for the Yaehtsmen all during their three daYs' staY. But to return to the Mackinac CuP race. Great interest attaches to the fipt aooearance in this event of Albert Pack's rii""ala ketch Esperanza. She will be the biggest boat in the fleet and is quite the ideil type of cruiser for this race.

Esperanza is fast, able, splendidly seaworthy, and every inch a yacht. Henry Grebe- will be in charge of her in the race and this means she is assured a good handling, for Henry is one of the wise and expirienced sailors on the lake. He will g& all the speed there is in the big boat. And if the weather is bad, and the going boisterous, keep an eye on Esper-

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Intrepid and Mavourneen will hook up in another one of those hotly contested duels that have made these two boats so interesting in recent . racing.. Mavourneen and Intrepid both have won the event in the past, Mavourneen won the ' 1911 race that tried the souls of men, finishing first in actual sailing time as well as corrected time. Sailing through the gale that forced many of the bigger boats to hunt the shelter of protected shores and harbors.

Mavourneen always gets bullY handling. Gaiver anrl his crew of vikings are formidable competition. Don Prather Page 2

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and Vernon Farrell have a wonderful crew on Intrepid and have been tuning the Lig mahogany racer up all season with this special e'vent in view. The

Ratsey mainsail has been re-cut and resewed and fits beautifully now.

The Mackinac Cup race is the sportiest event in yacht racing anywhere. It is an honor to cornpete in it. It is a signal honor to win it. It is a wide open race. Luck and weather conditions have always 'made it a race of surprises.

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MY MOST THRILLING YACHTING EXPERIENCE Last month roe started a series under the abooe

ti.tle. This ,nonth zoe offer a harrotoi'ng exqerience

endured by George Seagrooe, one ol the,crew ol Vanatlis, bxperieiced in the famous old sloop.

Vunenna. Next month ue will' lrint the stoty ol

the arech ol Vencedor on Fi'sherman's Reet, oft' Chorleooix,in the lamous race of l9ll to Macki.nac.

John Brady gioes i.n this stor! one ol the most epic experiencis il yachting on Lahe Michigan, Don't miss it.

By George Seagrove of Vanadis It had been a hard week-end at Muskegon; and when the morning came for sailing ba,ck io .bfri."go we were sh--ort handed, most of the

crew having returned to the city- !Y st-eamer.

There wai left a fifteen-year-old boy known now as Buddy Mayhew, myself, an Eastern athlete, two bbard of trade men and a native of Muskegon, who agreed to cook for his

passage to Chicago.

-Vanenna,

then nearing her ThJ ship was death. Her planks were old and tender' and

she was a big boat to be handled by so young a crew, To a mild following wind the start was made at noon. In time the wind began hauling and by three in the afternoon we were beating into a stiff sou'wester with everything flat and

a weary complement trying to get a few winks to make up for the lost sleep of the week end.

The wind freshened as twilight drew near, and two men'were put to the stick-an object that looked like a wagon tongue and would mow

a battaiion down if it ever got away from

the helmsman.

Just at twilight as o1d Van bucked into a hi[h one the dingy painter snapped and our only boat went coasting down the sea. A11 hands were called and the ship put about to recapture it. Running to lee of it in the gathering dusk we stuck her nose into the wind and sidled up alongside. In the deepening twilight it was hard to judge distance, particular1y when the seas were high and forceful.

The unexpected thine-and the worst-happened. Vanenna, in lifting on a sea, sucked

of water was .sloshing back and forth in the cabins-and Pumps.

--Wfr.tt.t tonoruh bick or to go on-that was the question. It was six of one, half a dozen of th-e other. Running before it tons and-tons oi *it"i ruih.d into'the forward end of- the On -a ttip,-iGoti causing her to dive under', t..i- 'logy, it. J"*e wat'er laid her down, sluggish almost to the skYlights. and At leneth we decided to go on.

It was'i night I shan't forget. Black, windy, rough going,- and everybody dead tired and worried. for I may mentlon ln passlng. we nao

no life preserveis either' All through -th-e nisht we'worked to patch that hole, onlv half suZceeding. All through the night a bu-cket gang with pails, skillets, paint pots-anythrng ihat" would' hold water-fought to keep her afloat.

Exhausted, two of them dropped to the floor,

"Let her go," said one "we're through."

"I'm read-y to go," the other admitted-and he meant it.

And as for the cook, he went temporarily in' sane, whittling away at the mainmast with a ladyts nail file, in the absurd hope that he could cut it down and make a raft for himself.

This continued onlv -until he was kicked in a place where it would6o him the most good and -out to work on the buckets.

Dawn found us sailing due West toward the Wisconsin coast with the decks getting closer to the water every minute, and everybody worn out.

Here let me say a word for the Eastern athlete. His courage and his strength seemed endless. By his own effoits he kept the craft

afloat, bailing tirelessly when the other members of the crew could no longer turn a hand.

At eight o'clock we sighted a harbor-Waukegan. It was a cheering sight, for now the ship was so full of water that her decks were almost awash and with each heave of the sea she threatened to do her last dive.

Finally we made port. The. lines had

the dingy under her lee and came down upon

scarcely been gotten out. when Vanenna, with a gasp and a gurgle, took her last mouthful

through a hole two feet in diameter two feet

her decks were under, her long keel supporting her weight against the piers.

There was the situation-night, a shorthanded vessel with a hole in her bottom you could throw a chair through, in mid-trake in a high sea. and no pumps!

For a few moments we were panic stricken in our efforts to plug the hole. Tried mattresses, planks, netting, everything; but every man that went _forward to work on the job was half suffocated or drowned by the Sea.s that swept almost unbroken into the forepeak.

In desperation we tried her on every point of sailing in the hope that we could keep the gaping hole at least partly out of water until

C. Y. C. YACHTSMAN WINS AT FOX LAKE

it with terrifftc force. Almost the same instant we heard the crash, the cabin light showed a small sea of water rushing aft below the water line.

we could get it patchetl.

By this time her well was full and two feet

and settled down on the bottom of -Wauke-

gan harbor. She did not sink completely but

Later, she was raised and sold, but I never think of her without thinking of that night and how close we all were to that unpopular place, Davy Jones' locker,

There has been good motor boat racing at Fox Lake, and Harry Goetz, a member of the C. Y. C., has been winning a large share of

the events with his 2\-f.oot speed boat Modesty.

Modesty is powered with a 100 H. P. Hall Scott aviation motor and is a sure contender in the Pageant of Progress Regatta.

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RACE RESULTS-L. M. Y. A. Iluly 4,1922

20 and 25-FOOT CLASS-11:00 A. M Yacht

No.

Pequod ....

Wenonah II Seminole .. .

M6 M7 M8 Mt2 Mt7

Dolphin

Seneca ,....

Renegade ..

M18 M19

Mildred .. ..

Sea Bird....

IN'I21

Rogue .....

M22 M23 M25 M34

Wetona

Lillian .. ..

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Vandal

M3

Diamond ..

Peggy .. ...

M10

o3 .s

Flora.......

Vega ,......

5

E4

Omoo ...

Owl.....

E15

Windward Avalon

G18 G19

D6

Neoga .

Beaver .. .

G15

Sari .. .. . ..

Yank......

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Colleen .. ..

Gossoon ...

South Shore

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Rival . . ..

Hobo . . ..

Msl

Rainbow ..

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M35 M36 M37

Springtime

Invader ..

Wee Jax

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Conqueror

L15 L18 L23 L25 L22

Ste. Claire Iroquois ..

Edith rr. . .

Columbia

Cherry ...

Spider .. .. . ..

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Jackson Park II

Virginia

Gem

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Princess

Chaperon ......

Siren

Illinois

Naniwa ....

Sally VII

Seboomook

Mokahi ..

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Place

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Won Znd

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2nd

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11 :05:00 11 :05 :00 1 :31 :09 J. P. c. Y. c.

11 :05 :00 l:37:03 c. Y. c.

11 :05:00 1:24:03 11 :05:00 l:32:51 c. Y. c.

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YAWLS-11:05 A. M.

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Finish , Elapse Start :00 Did not finish.

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11 :00

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l:16:23 l:51:23 l:44:16 3rd

11 :25:00 11 :25:00

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7:43:25 1 :50:02

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1:51:11 I :43:30

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Won 2nd

CLASS-II:25 A. M.

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SALLY VII WINS L. M. Y. A. REGATTA

With a slashing fresh breeze out of the ning, the biggest fleet of the year got the star-ting gunJFourth of Jutry molning.It was a bully sailing day, with. plenty oI action and enough close competition in all classes to afford plenty of excitement to

best time record, tion '. for the daY's of Sire,n in S"i; save one his best sails on of these the'popu-lir Q class, in which seven ilttie boats started. He had a hard i""a"t'-.

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Gossoon getting the judges'eye at the finishing

reouest for re-ieasurement has been filed by seieral of the boats which lost close decisions

south-east and a nice little lump of a sea run-

;- Ch"o.to.r". Virginia and Jackson Park *ith Chaperone in second place and Jackson iark wai third. Disqualifving of Intrepid sailors and watchers.

Siren time prize in the universal class' The little chaps were sent away promqtly at gave ' S"ff" VII asain demonstrated that they've 11 a. m. and tlie old Vandal, reveling in the to beat the ooinq. 1ed the twelve boats in the 20 and 25- ""t-io" wrissle-some if they expect in every plank she foottlasses around on elapsed and corrected 61d water Eiake. Wiggling those phenomenal exhibitions of time, There was keen rivalry in this class and *"a. o". offor whiih she is famous and, aliiii-sailing some close, well contested racing. the P class, Five minutes later the yawls and schooners ifr"ueh sta"rting from scratch withthe fleet and went acress, and the Jackson Park Yacht Club ihe f;ranae.d ti wriggle through tive Omoo sho#ed'a clean pair of heels to all com- finished first of all with Intrepid only petitors. Seven started, six yawls and the seconds behind her. is a wonderelapsed iittl. t.i- schooner Fame. Omoo was first to fulSallie's -over time of 7;43:.25 under preand course this showing time. corrected first in and finish conditions. water and wind vailine next and away were sent class R The snappy It Jeems that the protests which have folas Drettv a race as anyone will want to see deviloped between Goisoon, Sari, Yank and lowed this "rule-cheater" whereverAshe has Colleen. The four finished seconds apart with sailed are not going to die dow!. -special line, Sari next and then Yank. Colleen was fourth.

Nylund's Springtime-that perennial good oerfbrmer-gave inother one of her sterling

m"ad6 him hirstle to win, but he finished first

to her on JuIy Fourth. That their reque-st-is not withoui cause anyone who has seen Sally under canvas, and at anchor, will testify. ,The old Seawanhaka boat has let down ierformancei. The Raceabouts and 3O-foot famous llass were sent away together to a good start so on her long water line that not eve-n jacking and topping lifts, would at 11:15, There was some crowding at thfe up with jib haUiards start and Hobo fouled the mark and was dis- seem enough to make her qualify for the low qualified. Then they set down to as pretty a racing rating she enjoys.

The t922 L. M. Y. A. Regatta proved a trebit of sailing as we've seen around here.

Springtime led around the cribs at a terrific mendous success. Forty-four yachts .Lakestarted, Michpace and with her big handicap allowance was the cream of the sailing craft of hgured a sure winner. She not only won in igan. and a1l the classes were hotly contested. her class, but she made the best corrected time We had a fair sprinkling of Milwaukee boats, though not as many as anticipated. We bad of the day, l:39:37.

This marvelous little boat has reaped a per- hoped.to see some of the bigger Cream City fect harvest of victories and there is great yaihts here, such as the big schooners and our anticipation over her successor which Nylund o1d frientl Dorello, but they didn't materialize. has designed and built, as he designed and Do1phin, Rogue, Conqueror and Cherry built Springtime. If the new Ny1und boat is spoited the colors of the South Shore Yacht better than Springtime, who is going to beat Club of Milwaukee; Peggy, Lillian and Diaher ?

Good old Columbia, which has been making history on this lake since Commodore McGuire

was a kid in knee breeches, is still good enough to cop some of the classics of today and beat

the 30-foot class with a corrected time of 1:38:33, giving Sa1lie VII her closest competi-

rnond came down from the Racine Yacht CIub. Dolphin won a second place .in the 20-25 foot

class, Rogue got a fourth in this race and Cherry took second in the 30-foot class.

It was a corking day's sailing, arrangements were excellent and the racing was all that any hardshell racing man might desire.

CHICAGO YACHTSMAN PRAISED The. letter quoted below will no doubt prove interesting to those of our readers who appreciate the niceties of yacht handling.

The "Buccaneer fI," the boat referred to, is yawl rig, and her dimensions are 38Vz ft. overall, 26 f.t. water line and 9 ft. 3 in. beam. She is owned by Louis A. Ferguson, Jr., a Chicago rnan who served with distinction as an Ensign in the Navy during the war, and is the son of L. A. Ferguson, Vice-President of the Commonwealth Edison Co. He sailed his boat, single handed, into one of the harbors on the Rhode Island eoast and Page 6

on returning to his ship in the morning found the following note lying in the cock pit: "To the Captain of the Buccaneer: "I have been spending a three weeks' vacation afloat in these waters and one of the greatest pleasures I have had during my stay was to observe the skillfu1 handling of your craft when you brought her to a mooring singlehanded last Sunday morning. It was a clever

bit of seamanship.

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"Yours verY trulY, "John D. Breck,

"Newton Highlands."

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SKIPPERS AHOY! WHY! OH, WHY!

By Charles Scates, Member C. Y. C. Regatta Committee

I am writing this article as a plain member o{ the Club, speaking in the forum furnished by the Club, and not as a mernber of the Regatta Committee.

After a man has been a member of Regatta Committees for twelve or fifteen years he becomes somewhat callous to complaints and

trouble, having learned that very little of it, as a rule, is properly chargeable to the Regatta Committee.

I venture to say that the schedule set forth

in the brown folder mailed to every member of the Club (two to every boat owner) contains as complete and comprehensive a racing schedule as was ever furnished by any Regatta Committee in the country. It answers auto-

matically about every possible question which normally would be asked by any man. It gives the following information: 1. The kind of race, the date, starting time

and course.

2. Explanation of gun and flag signals.

3. Instructions as to the course, postpone-

ments, numbers, etc.

4. Ciassification of each yacht and starting time of each c1ass,

5. Percentage table.

There is perhaps one thing that should have been in the schedule, viz: that in case of failure o{ gun fire a flag will be dipped. In a recent race both guns missed fire and the committee had no flag handy to dip. Score one on the

Regatta Committee.

Notwithstanding all this information it is a sad fact that just before and during the starts the committee is barraged with questions by a certain class of skippers of which the fol-

lowing are samples: "Say! What kind of a race is this?"

"Is it the outside or the inside course?"

"What class am I in today?"

"How many minutes is it now before mY

gun?"

"Which way do .we go first?"

It is only fair that yachtsmen should bear in mind these things: That the committee at the start is busy manipulating its guns and flags, checking off and writing the boats down and watching for fouls; that it is usually a long distance from the starting line, and is sometimes shorthanded; that it requires as much skill in a race for a yachtsman to keep accurate track of the time (by checking first with the warning gun and 25 minutes later with the prep and then with each class until he gets his own) and to bring his yacht to the line at the proper time, as it does to sail any other part of the race. This being so it is obviously unfair for the Regatta Committee

after the prep gun, which is the beginning .of the race, to give to any one any preferential information al to time which is not given to

his competitors.

If a man is careless and neglect{ul before the race he should blame no one but himself and willingly pay the penalty if there is any. The schedule states the signals announcing any change or indicating an emergency. The habit

of remaining at the mooring until too late and then hurrying out and jamming around asking questions of everyone is a very bad one, and should be corrected, it seems to me.

I am authorized. by the Regatta Committee to say that hereafter no information (except in an emergency and upon signal) will be

given by the judges after the prep gun.

I desire to call attention to rules which have been overlooked or ignored lor many years, viz: that the committee has the option to establish, by means of a buoy or buoys, a re-

stricted area about the starting line within which no yacht shall enter until the preparatory signal of her class is made; that before her prep gun she must keep clear of yachts whose prep gun has fired; and that after she has finished she must give way to dll yachts still in the race. It hassbeen the practice on Lake Michigan for skippers, before their prep gun, to sail back and forth across the starting line and parallel with it, regardless of the

class that is maneuvering for the starting gun. often interfering with and blanketing those boats. The starting gun often finds yachts oh the wrong side of the line, making it necessary for thbm to come about or gibe, losing headway, and causing fouls.

I would like to suggest that the best helmsmen I have ever known have invariably ranged their boats back and forth on the right side of

and parallel with the line, and at the proper distance (depending upon the wind) so that by merely bearing away or coming up they

could bring their boats to the line at the

proper time under good headway and perfect

control, I believe that skippers will find this an excellent rule and one that will improve their starting.

I would like also to call attention to the rule that a yacht crossing the starting line too soon must return and recross, and in doing so, or when otherwise working into position from the wrong side of the line must keep clear of all, and give way to all competing yachts.

This rule also does not seem to be generally known. It is an added reason why a skipper, between his prep and starting gun, should keep on the right side of the line, always.

The judges will always signal a yacht that has crossed too soon, if it is possible to do so, by short blasts o{ a horn or whistle, or by

hailing, but it is not always feasible to do this, and a skipper should not rely upon it,

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"colors" observance. Yet this is really one of the nicest little bits of nautical etiquette known to Yachtsmen.

There is no excuse in our case. During the war we marked none of the traditionary customs of yachtsmen because we were, ostensibly, out of commission.

But the war has been over a long time.

Why not restore these nice customs, so rigidly adhered to by yacht clubs everywhere?

ILAKE, NdICHIGAN

Then we allow visiting yachts to come here without extending to them the cour-

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with the burgees of all yacht clubs.

Publishcd monthly by the

tesies of a visitor's salute. This is pure laxity. There is no excuse for it.

Most clubs keep a flag locker equipped

When a visiting yacht cornes this burgee is hoisted to the yard arm or flag staff No. 11 Mid,-Summer Number, 1922 and the saluting gun is fired as a mark Vol.2 of welcome. It is a nice custom, one we Chicago Y. C. J. M. HANDLEY, Editor should observe.

Chicago Y, C, GORDON SEAGROVE We have seen only a very few Owners' Jacftson Parft Y. C. EDWARD BUKER pennants hoisted and rarely an "absent Soulh Shore y. c.

JAMES BARR yachts in the harbor. flag" on Milutauftee Y, C. J. MANSCHOTT These are all small things, in themRacine Y. C H. JENSEN selves, but they are the little things that rare quite important in the aggregate, be.

Subscription, $l'50 a ycar.

-Singlc copy' twcnty-five Advcrtisrng rates on application. cents. cause thejr are representative.

Before the war, and when our fleet was Address communications to: 8OO Wriglev Bldg" Chicago I. M- HANDLEY anchored off the Monroe Street clu6 -tl."iness Office. Grant Park Clubhouse Tcl. Rand' 6810 house, we observed these cus,toms more carefully and consistently. "Colors" was a daily event. The flag ship fired the NEED guns in the morning and at sundown, and We are now a great big club, one of burgees and ensigns came fluttering the biggest and livest on any waters-. down at the end of the day and were OuiEeet is large, our 1700 members sent up every morning. represent the best of the best. We have Welcoming salutes were fired. A flag a hne club house down town and we are officer usually managed to pay a courtesy going to have a finer house soon at Bel- call on the visitor some time during the mont Harbor. first day of, arrival. And the courtesies Now let us think how we can live uP of the club were extended. to all these fine things.

Chicago Yacht Club was a good place In the first place, for such a fine yacht- to visit. 'We haven't had many visitors ing club, we are mo'st lax,in regard to lately, but mighty little attention has thE ni,ceties of the sport. There is a cer- been paid to the,m, that is to say formal, tain yacht club etiquette which we - do not observe properly-in fact we rather official attention.

These formalities, these customs, are forget there is such a thing. dne of the yacht club life ceremonies good builders of club morale.

Yachting is a gentleman's sport. The which always have impressed us as particularly interesting is "Colgrs.". At 8 observance of the etiquette of the sport every morning and at sunset, the is reflected not alone in a keener ob"colors" gun should be fired and colors silrvance of the courtesies that should set, or struck, on every yacht in the har- mark such a sport, but in the general bor. Also on the club house flag staffs. attitude of the sailors themselves. They So far there has been no sYstematic take a greater pleasure in the spotless

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FLEET GREETS NEW

Ilai.nl,oqc, \'r*^ I;lartsltil, of C. Y. (1. on:lrrital

at Chicago *itlt Conmodort Shtlion Clark at tltc Ilelm ol'IIi: tr'inc Nr*^ Sch.ooner

By Albert Baenziger

(YachtinE Ealitor Chicago Evening American)

Accorded the honors of a conquering hero returning from a conquest, Commodore Sheldon Clark of the Chicago Yacht Club, accompanied by the combine'd mo-

tor boat and sailing fleet of the club, arrived in Chicago Sunday, JuIy 16th,

from Detroit with his new flagship Rainbow.

Probably never before in the history of the sport around Chicago has a yachtsman received such a popular demonstration as wa,s given fo the commodore when the yachts saluted the trim schooner flying the co,mmodore's flag and a long

homeward bound pennant as it passed through the fleet ten miles off-shore, beating her way to the harbor.

On account of head winds, it was after the appointed hour of 4 p. m. before Fleet Captain Roberts on board the patrol boat Mawrence sighted the new canvas of the stranger through a mist of smoke caused by the offshore breeeze. A blast from his whistle apprised the rest of the flee,t of his discovery and the boats then lined up in a regular formation and bore down on the flagship.

As the Mawrence passed the stern of

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Owinq,to its oeculiar environment of swiftly his ability to grasp and absorb atrl the-frne points of th.e s-aqre as so much of a sift of .##'t"?;;ir,".'"J.iaitlio;;;h-i"h;;;essitate but a favcred ferv, as to i" .o*- irature,- vou-ch-sJfed tounnecessarv. strenuous actrvrty, r.r"rii-ri "C-ii*.r more or less make detailed study iii.-"i?if-riti,iiioir! i""of"irrs.

His assump,tion that the rules, on their face, fiil;:,;i"1ir. ;;d;r;;;&:'v11r'I-r*ing pi.t-

clear and understandable .!s pardonable; il;;;;"';;i.-ffivltlo-"gili-oo? i"t.t' are his ;f,il"}# great mistake is in-failing-to realize lii I'i:."t"t.;-;b;";r;;;"oi it..-* than any but re-quire examination and studv in thei that existence.

31fr";.ilil';;;il'I" -'Ar;d tleir .application for order to fully comprehend il-i. fortinate il h;;G-; a basis a"a to a concrete case which mav involve peculiar tr,ill- ,"r..'ih;-.d;";;"ti;;,-i"peii."i. r.'-t""dieds of and .pnzzling combinations of separate and *tffi;;;i ;i";f-;;ii.il have who i.gittiioti -;f -iIr"i.availed them- district ruies' ;#;'i;"i;i -il;;Gdl; It is not an uncommon occurrence to have ,'a '"d]r; ;i'th^" "ili&icl tt e a protested or protesting vachtsman .triumil;.--.;Ua;,i-1i i" irtt';;rili*; ta*i '" -f"i'tfr" ,,rules of the road" at sea, the wor:Id ionteniion, and then to have his attention regatta. judge to a o""i'ur"- tir!'-6"ii.-"t-tt" ."iL. ttat gove.rn called,by- an e-xperienced or- a-qualjfviTe word in ;h;'i";i;ri rr.r,i or ilre-iinliii boats'In the p,arenthetical,!|?_lt? rule, entirely overlooked by him, which *ftil5 giT,i; way" rules, themselves, are the i."aiit-it'" "16 *i'Lriv-1"'ppiitttr"'to his of but in r6afity casg, or.absolutelv against-him' "i-p16, iirr., .o"iirL The above remarks-. applv strictlv to .the "ri4"'ip*r."itV irr"i.a'i" "fr.ri" ii;";;;-iiiefultv ou the s,o-called "right of way" rules, which.ar.e, since i;i;;-".'ih; illirlt--.itli"g-."p.ri.nce to cover al- the Atlantic-Coast conference, practicallv uni#?;f;ir;;; ;h;'aJrli;;;e t#; which migirt form with all clubs in the United States' as ff;;";;;;;-pilriU]"--Sit"ition The measurement rules are also uniform *'itft*itt.trnding arise. these attempts, the chang- to all universal boats. Some clubs and asso.acl. ciations have special rules o.f,measurement for i";';;;aliii;;-i"i .o-p"tii;;s iti et'erv s"ailirrg" handicap ra-ces, -and some still use the Seawanli'a ii.i*ti.ia;d ;;a-;.iidents ofprovidtid haka rules for the old boats. As to the minor ;ffi"fi;;;;|f"-i"tiiitv foiisein'and instructions, entries, manof th.se rules at rules with regard torestrictions f;;:;;k;-til"-uppli*iio.,t.oublesome as to trim' and pro_posi-, qcepeli of races. ii";;;;;ry-aim.-r1-t ""a RegatL eo*-' Corinthianism there are some slight differences ii"iii. tfriit"rrippv ""a puled beco-e i target for d_ue t-o spgcial requirements in different localiilii;;ilI"h;ili"p.;i;;. ties, but those are unimportant and ane easilv iil';;6;i-sf,iipJt ooi"rs ot tfre contlest;.ng - learned yachtsman changes his racing boats.

- e"6" iudees and jurors in maritime cases habitat' when a i";i;i;d1h'. iigrriot-*jv at sea are at times It cannot be too.stronglv-impressed upon .

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of-"ir..r-riances which iequire that they sh-ould-read and study. the racing IJ-rjfii-rii."""d-Eo.ifli"t and stutli to r-ules carefullv. It -is onlv in this wav that ;i;'fi;;i-;;rii"f-l*r*i"ition can_ develop- the IuIl meaning. of- some aiiiai - V;ilt is characteristic of the average western they of- the rules, which at fir-st appear-simple, but are in fact complicate, and determine 6iioalv,-""." though he-has never which rules are.applic.able in a gjven^case. "r.fr-tr-i" rules, ihat he w!-rl sei- which ;;d.-;;;-rt"dyG'the J c6nfident. off-hand they .iil-tiJiti,i"-io-ofer . The.y will probably be surprised to find that have always h-ad erroneous imqre-ssions I"iiii"" .iiinv question raised under th.e rules.

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customeal to the rigid adherence to these fluence. was brou€ht up at the last :Htitr-tlft"'o:"JX'"';# if".f,::t'.il,o,ff": ' ,ns subject meeting of 1he Boat Owners' Associa- They comment on them when they go tion. Fleet Captain Roberts promise-d to back East. They say we may be"ab-le see that something should be done about to sail boats and thit we mJy have a it. But, after all, it isn't only the club fine fleet and a fin. club, and lot"s of other that should act in this. Every yacht nice things, but they'll speak of our laxowner should make it his business to live ness in ob-serving the nicelies of the sport. :up to these rules of yachting etiquette, \Me don't wani this reproach. It -isn't for his own sake as we'll as for the sake that we don't know how, just that we've let ourselves grow careless. of .the club.

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The Harbor of Refuge, off the Municipal Pier, will be the scene of what promises to be the biggest motor boat racing event of the

year beginning August 3rd and throughout the week.

Commodore C1ark is chairman of the Regatta Committee having charge of the events.

The programme offered promises thrills galore.

Last season's regatta resulted in some of the best hydroplane racing of the season.

Practically all the crack boats were here and competition was keen and close. Commodore Clark's speedy boat, Miss Chicago, distinguished itself and set startling records.

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by Capt. Charles Ferran; Vogler Boy, owned

by Fred Vogler of Port1and, Ore.; Baby Sure Cure, owned by Fred Strasburg of Detroit, and Miss Toronto, owned by Fred Miller of Toronto. And of course Miss Chicago, champion single engine craft, owned by Chicago syndicate headed by Commodore Sheldon Clark,

will compete, -The

programme for this season includes

classes for hydroplanes, runabouts and cruisers,

and includes a Great Lakes Speed Bqat Cham-

pionship in which a star fleet will compete.

At this writing the entries are not all on hand, but those already received insure a series of

thrilling contests.

Following is a list of events:

HYDROPLANES Class 1300-Start, 2 P. M., daily, August 3,

4, 5, Distance, 10 miles or 4 laps,.

Class 320-Start, immediately after finish of preceding race. Distance 5 miles or 2 laps.

Class 705-Start, imrriediately after finish of preceding race. Distance 10 miles or 4 laps.

Free for AII (Single engines)-Start, immediately after finish of preceding race. Distance 15 miles or 6 laps.

C1ass 940-Start, immediately after finish of preceding race. Distance 10 miles or 4 laps.

Class 151-Start, immediately after finish of preceding race. Distance 5 miles or 2 laps.

Great Lakes Speed Boat Championship-For

the Harry Sinclair Trophy-(No restriitions)

after finish of -Start, tance, 20 miles or 8 laps.

preceding race. Dis-

RUNABOUTS Class 625-Start, 2:30 P. M., August 11, 12, 13. Distance l0 miles or 4 laps.

Class Bear Cats-Start, after finish of above

race. Distance 10 miles or ,tr laps.

Free for All-(No restrictions)-Start, after finish of foregoing race. Distance 15 miles or 6 laps.

Bear Cat Circus-Exhibition by Bear CatsAfter finish of above race.

GREAT LAKES SPEED BOAT CHAMPIONS.HIP

For the Harry Sinclair Trophy-No restrictions, open to all classes of boats, hydroplanes.

etc. August 3, 4. 5. Distance 20 miles or 8 laps.

ONE-HALF MILE. SPEED TR,IALS 2:30 P. M., August 6th. Three dashes in P.gc ll

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SONGS OF THE SEA

By Bud Handley I've held the wheel of a roaring car , That spanned the miles like feet,

And driven it home round the racing dome, And gained a thrill from the feat.

I've held the reins on a jumping cob And spurred him to the stand As. he lifled o'er the six feet four, And I thrilled to feel him land.'

I've driven many a thrill machine, And sought an ideal in vain, Until the great day when I sailed away Aboard the Sally Macmein.

A fifty-five footer, a yawl was she, With sails of snowy white, A crew of six men-she should have had tenAnd a six-foot tiller to fight.

You may sing of your racers and speed bugs Going ninety miles an hour,

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You grip the deck with your feet And you bend your back to meet the slackGreat gods man, it can't be beat.

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There's a thrill that grips your heart As long as the longest trick.

And ne'er you'll meet rapture so sweet As the kick of that six-foot stick.

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the Rainbow the patrol's ensign dipped, her cannon roared and three flags of the inte,rnational code Z, B, H, indicating the word welcome, were broken out on her signal yard. Each following yacht repeated the greeting and in turn was answered by the commodore. The boats then .escorted their flagship to the harbor off the Monroe St. clubhouse, where open house was held aboard by Cornmodore Clark.

The new craft, which will be sailed by Clark in the Mackinac Island, was built in Nova Scotia. It is 57 feet over all and because of its extreme beam of 13 feet

has plenty of deck space with private staterooms and a roomy cabin below decks. As it appeared off Chicago harbor it seemed to be somewhat undercanvassed, but this may have been due to the fact that it was not carrying any topseils.

Even under these conditions it stepped along very speedily under the light breeze,

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GREEN LIGHT GOSSIP Where not to cruise-MACATAWA BAY The irnmaculate Dauchy, and the immaculate

Sari, are figuring in the headlines more than ever. It looks as though the beautiful mahogany R boat was going to have a sparkling season with her new Marconi rig.

We nominate for the youngster skipper on Lake Michigan former Commodore McGuire.

He may have it on some of us in years, but his heart is younger than that of the youngest junior member. If you doubt .it watch him sail a boat in a race. No kid could get more kick out of a brush when the breezes are

blowing good.

If Frank Evers never did anything else during his incumbency of the job of Chairman of the Regatta Committee the finish of a race he pulled off in front of the Monroe Street Club House July lst would entitle him to farne. It gave the veranda sailors the first sailing thrill

many of them ever experienced. More of them, F'rank.

Where not to go cruising-MACATAWA

Sirtn's Ntt Yachting Coslumes De I'uxc derbies. We are indebted to Miss Pistorius for the excellent photograph of Fox, Barker and Phillips, oI the Siren crew, in this distinguished costume de liguer.

Have you attended the Sunday Concerts?

Delightful programmes of good music, very well interpreted. An ideal way to spend and enjoy an afternoon.or evening. A good din-

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Are you going to Charlevoix for the threeday regatta. If not you'll miss a bul1y time.

They sure like to see the yachts there.

Where not to go cruising-MACATAWA

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"Tommy" Atkin and the members of the caraval in the Mackinac Race. "Tommy" agrees to give an exhibition of how to pick up a mooring off the club house before the season ends. Make your reservations now for front

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The Boat Owners' Association of the Chicago Yacht Club is planning to expand its organization, take a more active part in affairs

of the c1ub, and make its influence felt. In the old days of the club when Billy Baum, William Hale Thompson, Fred Price, "Tommy" Atkin, George Clinch, Billy Cameron, Ogden McClurg, Billy Ott, Jim Heyworth, Charley Fox, and others of the times, were active in yacht racing this organization had a whole lot to say about the running of the club and they were powerful influences for the good of the sport.

They started a new style of 5rachting toggery on Siren in the Michigan City race. On arriving the crew all rated opera hats or black

Where not to go cruising-MACATAWA

We admire Mr. Tilt's converted subchaser.

But she sure filIs a lot of space in the Balmont anchorage. A few more of these big motor cruisers and the sailing yachts will have to find a new place to moor.

And, talking about motor boats, there are still plenty of the motor boat yachtsmen who come tearing in to their anchorage at top speed to the great detrim6nt of every boat in the harbor. They send out a bow wave that rattles the spars of every boat in the

fleet. A little consideration in entering the harbor and making for a mooring would be greatly appreciated.

As a candidate for the unpopularity contest which we are thinking of starting we commend

one unnamed individual whose motor boat,

moored right in everybody's way, in the thick of the small boat fleet, shows a supreme disregard for everyone's comfort and well being

every time he enters or leaves the'harbor.

What's his boat's name-Execration, we believe, or something like that, We've never

heard it called by the same name twice, but

they a1l sound alike.

Al Pach's splendid auxiliary Ketch Espenanza sa'iled into port July 10th. She is a glorious ship. Woultl that there were more like her in the fleet.

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THIRD HANDICAP RACE A TREAT TO THE VERANDA SAILORS The third handicap race of the season, sailed JuIy lst, gave the rocking chair crew a thrill

and a sensation.

For the first time in the memory of this

oldest sailor a finish was arranged so that the veranda crowds could really see it. The finishing line was established between the south end of the veranda of the Monroe Street club house and a buoy 2'00 feet due east,

Across this short line came tearing the

twenty-seven boats that "competed in the race.

A prettier sight was never afforded lovers of beautiful sail craft.

With full canvas set, and a fresh north breeze that set scuppers awash, the yachts

came pelting down to the line in clusters. So

fast and so close did they finish that the two guns used in saluting the finishing boats could

hardly be served fast enough. By twos and threes, and once four boats at a time came rushing over in a smother of foam, so closely

that calling them was almost impossible.

We warrant the belief that a few more such finishes off the clubhouse wili bring out record crowds. Never before have Chicago nonsailors been afforded such a real sporting sight in a yacht race.

Mr. Evers, chairman of the regatta com-

mittee, or whoever is responsible for the innovation, must be congratulated on having done something that put a real thrill in yacht racing for the observer, for yachting is rarely exciting to the watchers, no matter how exciting it may be to the men who are handling the boats.

When the race started there was a fresh

southwest breeze blowing which took the competing boats out to the crib in a hurry. Then the wind changed to the north and the fleet had a run with started sheets to the Van

Buren Street gap. Instructions were that the boats must pass along the outside of the outer government breakwater, then around its south end, through the Van Buren Street gap, around the steamer stake in the harbor entrance and to th.e finishing line off the club house.

Little Fame had the honor of leading the fleet to the finish. The handsome little schooner, in her glowing new suit of canvas,

barely get the numbers as they shot over the line.

Springtime won in the Seawanhaka class with Invader second. In the Universal class Sari won another handsome victory in her new Marconi rig, beating Yank, her other Marconi rival by over a minute, corrected time, with Vega third and Colleen fourth. The summarles:

Yank ..... R 3:15 4:16:44 l:01:,44 46,.lO 2r:.d

Vega ......

It is a veritable inspiration to see this

doughty skipper at the stick. He admits.that he is past seventy, but I doubt if there is a keener, more enthusiastic sailor in the entire fleet. And how he reveled in that romping finish of the beautiful boat he iailed. - HE wouldn't have traded places with the President of the U. S. that afternoon.

The yawl Owl was about seven and a half minutes behind him. Then they all began to

pile in. It was a sight to be remembered.

Water smooth as a mill pond, a corking whole sail breeze, a foaming wave at every bow,

4nd competition so close that the judges could

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Colleen .. . R 3t75 4:17:40 l:02:40 47:OG 4th

Siren ..... a 3:20 4:18:05 58:05 48:03 Spider .... a 3:20 4:19:0O 59:00 48:46 Gossoon ..

a 3:15 4:19:08 1:04:08 48:34 Virginia . a 3:20 4:19:16 59:16 49:39 Mavourneen P 3:20 4:19:18 59:18 54:18 Wind, N. W., shifting to north, fresh. Judges: Chas. Scates, F. R. Evers, F. P. Wever, Weather, clear. Sea, smooth.

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O3 Pentland O 3

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Vandai. , 25-ft. 3 ':'Pequod 25-ft. 3

Wetona. 25-ft. 3

Seneca. . 25-ft. 3

Ste.Clair 30-ft. 3 Sp'gtime Rcbt. 3

Invader Rcbt. 3

Wee Jax Rcbt. 3

Seb'm'ok 35-ft. 3 Illinois. 35-ft. 3

SallyVII 35-ft. 3

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58:00 47;40 3rd 4 10:35 1 :05:35 54:4t 4 :72:72 I :02:12 48:44 4th 4 :12:13 I :02:13 47:54 Disq. + :15:07 I :05:07 5l:43 4 :15:54 I :05:54 53:53 + :10:13 1 :00:13 50:04 4 :12:36 57:36 45:35 Won + :12:56 57 :56 46:02 Znd, 4t:19:03 I :04:03 52:02 4 :17:26 57:26 5l:58 4 :18:32 58:32 52:09 4::18:45 58:45 54:01 4 :03:00

*Started ahead of time. shifting to north, fresh. Judges: Chas.

- Wind, F. Scates, R. Evers, F.'P. Wev-er. -Weather

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couple of deck planks were awash, came down to the line with good old Commodore McGuire at the stick and loving every minute of it.

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MISS FOLGER WINS RACE . Miss M-abel Folger. sailing the sixteen-footer

Ancona I_II, won the worian skippers' race

over the Chicago Yacht Club,s Be1m6nt harbor course, Sunday, July tOth. Mrs. Abbie Dalsegsailing Naiad, was second, and Mrs. V. Colbiat the stick on Active, was third. Summariei:

Start 3 P. M.

Ancona III

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Lake Michigan Yachting News

JACKSON PARK YACHT NEWS

By Edward Buker

set the faster theY go. Columbia of the boats -beating the whole fleet bY 25 only missed

Georse Radulic has brought to Jackson Park a friendship sloop, the Irene. .She is one ot tr,i- za-i;"t fisher-man type boats brought-out

This i" Wirl"i-Morse of Friendship, Maine' to be is the first one of this famous type .t ippea here and she should be the forerunner and healthv tvpe for Gleat Lakes ;i-';;* cruising.

'W'e were visited by a number, of South Shore i. C. (Milwaukee) bovs- during. the recent L. M. Y. A' races. They hope to have the regatta in Milwaukee next season.

seconds. .We saw Sport Hermann sailing the Swastika

and he did iot have on a straw hat, Somebody better tell him about this'

.Don't iorget that the folks at Charlevoix

are planning- on a series of races and a b1s enteitainmeit for all of the yachtmen on the way back lrom the island. Good grub, good prizes, good times.

For rent by the day, week or month,- one first class summer,resort known as the Jack- John O'Rourke told me when he turned this ;;; p;tk Yacht Club. See Vice Commodore prit o1 tt. p.p.r over to !re, "yo9 wilt g-et

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The season is starting out well. N-o news of intlrest, send it to 1415 South Michigan ort"id" of a few minor-items; Gem blew out Ave. and we will run it'

one jib; Princess lost one mast; . Columbla one bi;;'.;; mainsail in two; Siren had onlv Had a few sails down at Marblehead a short ;;i; ;;;.h;A itt rr.. bow; virginia had her down there i;;; J;;;h;d (page the rntrepid); -gobd outside of time ago' Thev are a month later time was getting iq the water, and so out a.month ttingr, a ;-i;;";1il;rliiti earlier. Prices of boats have come down a had by all' are still much too high. There are I [ttle, but cruising boats at a reasonable figure but George Richards has the Fidelo,mar, form- s-ome erlv the Hawk. i" .o--i"iiJ"*u"a-it i.i"i"g the racing craft are out of sight' foi Green Bav and points north for a twou'-rooter and is !",::lt:,.:lliir.t#.'rl 3. ,.fi,,llr"u3irlT *"."sf #,1[:i,""n..?:,:l.l]: in the grub Art Amundson was around the club and is ytrg#"ff'* ffi1ni'?,18;o51ies some of the old time inte,rest in sh"*lng sailing -again. Sooner or later they all come

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back.

The Nais is on her annual cruise to French Riven, Georgian Bay, with Mr. and Mrs. Kraft

for ina sof Hirper. Wish we all had time t*o rnbnths up there with the whole "fooi fleet,

Doctor Miller is leaving with the Wyllys Fine, in T for MacGregor BaY and BaY Georeian Bav for a month's trip. Bet the new oil birrning Shipmate gets worked overtime.

Ed. Demarais came around with a new disrri*L. ot. and a half weeks' old. Looks kind 6t .pitry but maybe it will wear off.

We might look into the idea of somethin-g like thev-did in Miiwaukee, combine the S. S. P. B. CIub, J. P. Y. C., C. M. B. Club and C. Y. C. and have a real hot dog club, bigger

and better than anY in the countrY

Anvone who missed the L. M. Y. A. regatta sure rnissed one of the finest races ever pulled off in Chicago, Fine breeze, smooth water,

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NEW YACHT FOR DR. MAYO A palatial private yacht is being built in St.

Paul Jor Dr. W. J. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn.

It will be the most elaborate, most convenient

and most luxurious, besides the largest ever operated on mid-western rivers or lakes. This ciaft will be a novel combination of yacht and house-boat. It will be 723 feet in length, with a beam of 24 ieet and will draw but 30 inches of

water. Its light draft will enable it to operate in the shallowest of rivers and lakes, while its unusual power will give it a speed equal to that of the average river steamer. The power plant will consist of twin eight cylindered heavy duty marine gas engines. The latest devices for Iishting. heating, cooking and plumbing will be in-stalled. This floatins summer home will have accommodations for carrying automobiles and for quickly shipping and unshipping- them so that [hey may- be used as tenders for the owners and guests. The new boat. will be-ready fo-r launc-hing about May 1' This magnificent cra{t will then begin its series of spring and summer cruises. which will probably take it to all of the important mid-western racing regattas and croisirrg pageants during the season of 1922.

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Our Marine Dinin$ Room overlooking berautiful Lake Michigan is the most d.elightful place in Chicalo to lunch or dine. A relular Luncheon is served daily from 12 to 3 p. m. Members wives $ivin$ afternoon bridge parties, should take advantage of the Club for these occasions. Phone Mr. Albert, Randolph 6810 for special menus.

The new Station \il/agon now ready for service, leavin$ the east side of Michigan Avenue at Monroe Street every few minutes.

@he refreshment atand at the Canrier provides light refreshments, sandwiches, coffee, iced drinks.

Lake Michigan Yachting News

MILWAUKEE NOTES rs"",nB'sil:*?f,l?cr"ur

passing the bottom with onlv the two upper decks The south Shore Yacht club -iir. is The toninasts were lowered last ifre inl to qui.t'i";ai. through a rather "fo".-*it.r. iirrei mdst blew down inthea f;l';"[-iil dustrial depression "-"'t["rui"t!.iti." tlie winter. Just recentlv "r,a'[f,]' td;;[ after an intense p.rio[ lt"..i]"iii, awa-y and iria foremast weie cuther has been almost.at a standstill; but has ap-- "io.*-a".-Gformer of wreck a "i.i"*"*t now but fi;-ti.1]i.EE parently passed tt,ouiii'i"iJ"'iryj;^";;;i or some ;iih;;i s6.io,,,of ross, _otlher than thaf it.,.o1j 3.#i31, the'fleet. The club is on a :li'l"i"lm #?iiJ.#T* of the boats the new club house will more solid foundation today than ever before, ifrrt tV next summer of land which will be i. irlttia." ihe.point and it needs but the,iitiJ,i,."i"r-ii;;it.-;i lavs' now ship the where made active of fh;;;;;i;b h;;"; ;"d ii;;'-t;;;i"4i"; construction work on the new home ot the The Park Board is sraduallv bringing order club to start things going'itto-t g"itt"" "".t. some or tr,. rou* *,.t r,ave been rost to :n*rtl**m"*#:r??lfl}"';1.",'fg."i.l-ff Ave' iust above the club site the club are Dixie, which has gone to,Harb-or i;;;[J;Heuiahremoved ind the gro}n{ is now Sorinps: Peesv. which has been added to the ii.". rU-f.."

The bluff above the i*'t"t""'Y;;f;,-'cr"ti"w",ona, which went to G;g?1d"d-and.se.eded' p;.'tt'""E F;+;r, is beins terraced and when the Chicaso; Gypsy, Crp.iJ;ff' r"liJ"..ri!-rr*, "of the lagoon iround the ship is comwhich belong to the iVIli*i"f..J-V.'.trt'Cf"t. fiili"g as This leaves ,the fleet i:i!1y'fiiari,--"-r'Lt, U"i pili.f, South Sflore Yacht Club will have *,"i. is .,,"'y p,o.p".t-ioi-",".',.iai new i:oati [';j$:lt.t.ltfl:1,f. :i{"f]l}":t ,:fl'*f; next vear' tiii'i'--tt';1"-hundred feet ;;;iiii"tti-tii*L The showing-o.f South Shore boats at-Chi- i."iii.'I.i'tti, rrfri.t will make available for gratlfying to all the club members, ,i.fr.,i."'g.- uii iiri-rpr." to the north of the clg_o Ooti-frin Second in the 2S-foot class, club,s siTe. *i"tfr Easonly by -Corrq-u..ot Rogue fourth, Cherry was beatenFor the in{ormation of visiting yachtsmen Columbia in the 3g-foot-.G", ,"a lh frii .fird W" thi club wishes to call attention to the fact alone failed to finish *.jf "p ina ;ii 1i".;- a;,,qu.,o, ;-4"--i;t1;i *f[n,1,,"."',%'STu*.:'1fl:u1",:1",tll'?I*,1t'.'; be heard from again. lX; visitors r,o- oir,., r,,,ilrs wil almost rair l?ffi."?ni:?f; *1rT:ilf,ii5ilrtii.-ii:t! been tt""i"tut, -to'enter the harbor at either thb t",.i.gtii^ S6otii-Sto... The ship has ;;;;d;;;d;.:;,;i;b--h;rse ind now rests on north oi the south end of the breakwater'

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.THIS IS THE CR.UISING SEASON North of river, itr'bight of sand spit.- Go-od town, good store$. The entrance harbor for a fine &ain of lakes where fishing iti very fine. there by boat, however. , You can't get -Frarikfort you swing around Pt. Leavins Betsy arid head for South Manitou Island' Doni fail to put in here. There is a large-proLctetl harboi between North and South Manitou Islands. The entrance is wide and easy, marked by a lighthouse. Don't make the mist"t. t *ia. th]e first time I went in here. I aiopped my hook about 400 vards off the -littIe

Tire chain ran out until I wondered "ifiii.. if i-fi;a anchored in the bottomless pit. Fullvfi{tv fathoms ran out before it gave signs of t r"i"g hit bottom' The lifeguards on shore iuatched my performance gave me the "rho laueh, Next time I went to within 200 feet of of the street, or roa$, =rr"?.- risht off the end ionniire \Mest on the island. A beautiful spot'

Vou'll ?et fine white fish and lake trout here

lio- ti" fishermen. Also good fruit and vegetables, grown on the island.

Fullins oit from Manitou harbor head East

thioueh-the straights. You'll pass Sleeping E.a. ?oi"t. that wonderful pile of ciear, white 400 feet high, with no vegetation "rtd..orr.t on it'save a tuft of trees' right onilts s-ummit' These trees have the appearance ot a sleeplng Prge 20

bear, and- this is what gave this curious sand

its name. formation 'We are now in the straights, on the steamer course, and you'Il have to watch out for the bio freiehters and the many passenger steamtt a'i follow each other through here, "ri almost like street cars on State Street.

Yoqr chart will warn you of the spots to av6id. You'll sail past the entrance to Grand

tr.ti.s.

Bay and Che headland-y-ou'lrl tliscover

tiaes Cfrattevoix from sight. Off this point, is tr'isherman's Island and reef, where Vencedor went to her doom in the storm of 1911.

Charlevoix lays in a bay. Ilere is a -g-ood nlace to stop. You enter by the river. Have

io sisnal for bridee which is always lifted orornitlrr. and vou find yourself in Round Lat<e. R sood inchorage and a fine place to be if it is 6lowing outside' Well sheltered' Pass lhrough another bridge and you'll be in Pine Lake. -An exquisite hill-bordered bo{v of *ate. twelve mileJ long and four miles wide in soots. The hills are covered with cottages fi*" hotels. There is a good tirne to be had "nd here.

Stop off a while and enjoY Yourself.

In our next issue we'll give you further information about cruising and where to go'

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