- Model Yachting Developments at the Capital. The Washington Model Yacht Club already is patting itself on the back over the successful summer season it fondly hopes to enjoy this year. Model yachting has taken a serious hold on. Washington, and the fleet grows daily.
- New Deed of Gift for Brooklyn Eagle Cup.
le acl Sa RRR ae TERM 56 YACHTING Model Yachting Developments at the Capital HE Washington Model Yacht Club already is patting itself on the back over the successful summer season it fondly hopes to enjoy this year. Model yachting has taken a serious hold on. Washington, and the fleet grows daily. The first thing on the coming program is completion of three classes designed for the club by Thomas Moore, naval architect of the Navy Department, and an ardent club member. The first two, approximately 51 and 40 inches overall, were drawn up to carry off honors in C and D classes. The third, 30 inches overall, was designed especially for the city’s school boys, who have already gone at the business like experienced salts. Several of the larger classes are now on the ways, being built both by the planked-up and the bread-and-butter methods. They are both Marconi rigged sloops of considerable draft and sail area, and it may be said right here that they were designed with an eye to taking the hides off model yachtsmen trom Norfolk, who so handily licked the young club in a two-day regatta last year. The club has accomplished several important things during the winter. First, it engaged the attention atic interest aio reed of the Capital Yacht Club, whose members, known all up and down the east coast, have offered great encouragement in the club’s aspiratiéns to draw Washington lads back to the water. Later, though the snow was falling and typical Washington weather prevailed, a meeting of the club drew almost all the teachers of manual training in the public schools, headed by the director of that school department. Blue prints of the 30-inch sloop were placed in their hands and quite a number became so interested they de- July, 1924 clared they intended to build themselves, and already they have several school boys building to the plans. Most interesting in this program was the placing of a drawing in a high school print shop, where blue prints and tables of offsets were printed up for all the schools. It is the intention of the director of manual training to have model yacht construction become a regular part of the school shop course. In order to do this in shipshape fashion, he put the tables of offsets in the boys’ hands and started them to drawing out their own lines and plans. W. F. Germain, a club member, and editor of Stars and Stripes, has offered a trophy for the boys to race for this summer, A series of contests is to be held on the reflecting pool of the famous Lincoln Memorial, an ideal model pond, and the winner will be the boy making the highest percentage during the series. The club intends to further this aim by posting a suitable trophy for the best workmanship shown in a boy-made model. New Deed of Gift for Brooklyn Eagle Cup Last year the Model Yacht Racing Association of America held a series of races for the Brooklyn Eagle Perpetual Trophy for model yachts under new conditions, and the famous cup was won by the Prospect Park Model Yacht Club of Brooklyn, N. Y. Conditions under which the cup will be raced for provide for any organized yacht club in the United States or Canada entering with a team of three boats of the B, C, or D class under the Model Yacht Racing Association Rule and sailing a team race in three heats. The new deed of Gift, governing competition for the Cup, has just been completed and its chief points are given herewith. (Continued on page 70) Yachting Calendar, July. Cruising. We have all an there. a, a Oy di) Ca ia\ bbe 70 YACHTING New Conditions for Brooklyn Eagle Cup STEARNS – MS KAY MARBLEHEAD ANTIFOULING GREEN BOTTOM PAINT (Continued from page 56) It is expected that many clubs will race for the trophy this year. The new Boston Y. C. will probably send down a team, and it is h®ped that the Washington Model Y. C. and the Detroit Model Y. C. will also send a three-boat team. Norfolk, Va., may also be represented. The races this year will be sailed in September. Here are the terms of the contest: TROPHY The Trophy herein designated is hereby donated by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and shall always be known as “The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Perpetual Trophy for Model Yachts.” DATES, SEA SLED AT HIGH SPEED one PAINTED WITH MARBLEHEAD GREEN STAYS CLEAN “Concerning your Marblehead Green Paint for the bottoms of Sea Si we have no hesitancy in giving it our highest recommendation.”—The Sea SI mpany, Ltd. 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MODEL YACHT BUILDERS MEASUREMENTS AND SAILING RULES This Trophy is open to all duly organized and recog nized Model Yacht Clubs in the United States of Amet ica, Canada, and Newfoundland, of known good standing and responsibility, and composed of members of lawful age, having a regular place of stated meetings, a headquarters, a sailing station, and a boat house, and is to be sailed for, once each year, in open waters, unaffected by trees, headlands, buildings, docks or other obstructions, and at such place where a triangular course can be laid out, each leg of which shall be equal in length and depth of water enough for B Class Boats, on the second Sunday after Labor Day, and if stormy, the next clear Sunday thereafter. There shall be a series of Inter-Club Races to be known as the “Eag’e Cup Races” and shall be open to Three Entries from any yacht club, as hereinafter provided. Each Club may enter not more than three boats, which boats shall be rated in either the “B,” “C” or “D” Classes under the M. Y. R. A. A. Measurement Rules. Clubs are permitted to enter all of one class or a combination of the three classes. There shall be three races held on the date specified, each race not to exceed the total distance of one mile. The Club scoring the greatest number of points for the three races shall be declared the winner. These races shall be under the auspices and supervision MODEL TRAWLER, TUGBOAT, etc., 4 ft. parts and plans similar to above. on board. 12-METRE MODEL. overall. Set of Price 32/6, carriage free L.O.A., 63 in.; L.W.L., 41 in.; Beam, a ee 12.5 in.; Draught, 8.15 in. Set of parts to construct this Model, with all brass screws, copper pins, and set of construction ahd sail plans. All parts cut from best selected mahogany. Price 47/6 net, cagriage free on board. 6-METRE MODEL (2 in. to 1 ft.). L.O.A., 64 in.; Beam, 13 in.; L.W.L., 41 in.; Draught, 10 in. Set of parts and plans obtainable. Price $2/6 net, carriage free on board. §-RATER MODEL. L.O.A., 42% in.; L.W.L., 30 in.; Beam, 10 in.; Draught, 7 in. Set of parts and plans. This set includes lead keel, mast and spars. Price 30/-, carriage F.O.B. This Model being only 9% lbs. weight when complete is most suitable for boys arid has been adopted by several M.Y. Clubs as a one-design class for juvenile members. DICKIE Model & LENNOX Yacht Designers 195 High Street, AYR, Scotland Please enclose stamped envelope for replies of the Model Yacht Racing Association of America, and all details, such as the laying out of courses, judging, timing, and the handling of protests and disqualifications shall be under the jurisdiction of a committee appointed by the M. Y. R. A. A. and whose judgments and decisions shall be irrevocable. The Measurements and Sailing Rules as adopted by the M. Y. R. A. A. shall govern these races. The three classes of Sailing Models, namely, Class B, C and D, shall be handicapped from the top rating of each class ; that is, the B Class boats shall allow all boats sailing in the C Class time allowance to the top of theC (¢ lass. and likewise the B and C Classes shall allow the D Class boats time allowance to the top of the D Class rating. All entries must be received by the Secretary of the M. Y. R. A. A. at least ten (10) days before the date specified herein for the races, which entries must specify the names of the owners, the Class, and the names of the yachts, accompanied by a Certificate of Measurement of each yacht, signed by the Official Measurer, Commodore, and Secretary. Any protest on the measurement of any yacht to be set tled by the Official Measurer of the M. Y. R. A. A. The place where the races are to be sailed shall be named by the club holding the cup at least sixty (60) days prior to the date named for said races. PROPERTY The Brooklyn Eagle Perpetual Trophy, when won, shall be the property of the club (for the time being only whose representative yachts won it, and shall always b« held subject to competition as herein set forth.
