- Racing at Melrose Highlands.
- Model Yachts to Race at Put-in-Bay.
72 Yocdti July, 1926 Model Yachting O* June 27th and 28th a series of races will be sailed on Malden Pond, near Boston, for the selection of a challenger to represent the United States in England at the race for the Yachting Monthly Cup, the only international challenge cup for model yachts in existence. Several Boston boats have been entered and two from the Providence Miniature Yacht Club. The races will be sailed under as nearly the same conditions as obtain in England as it is possible to get them, and they will be under the supervision of Joseph Weaver, last year’s international challenger who raced at Gosport with the Slipper. The international race itself will be held again at Gos- port sometime the latter part of August. This should give the owner of the American boat selected plenty of time to get across and have a week of tuning up on the waters on which the race will be sailed. F. H. Tucker heads the selection committee appointed by the American Model Yacht Racing Association. Racing at Melrose Highlands HE Club held three very successful races at Lake Quannapowitt during the monthof May. On May 16th and 23rd the races were won by T. D. Wildon’s Phantom. On May 30th Roswell Roulston’s Shark finished first, with Phantom second, Sulma third, Twilby fourth. The standing on the season’scup isas follows: Phantom, T. D. Wildon, 41; Shark, Roswell Roulston, 33; Sulma, A. R. Brown, 18; Twilby, Penley Ellis, 6; Rascal, Henry Andrews, 6. This club visited the Boston Model Yacht Club on May 31 and were entertained by Commodore Black of that organization. Plans for one “‘R”’ boat built according to the new rule of the Association are completed and co: struction is well under way also on one six-meter mod¢ Model Yachts to Race at Put-in-Bay HIS year, as has been the case in the past two seasons, the model yachtsmen of the Great Lakes will have a place in the annual regatta of the Inter Lake Yachting Association, to be held at Put-in-Bay during the week of July 12 to 17. The races will be held on Monday and Tuesday of thx week and will be governed by a committee, the chairman of which was appointed by Commodore Shantz of the I. L. Y. A. The racing and rating rules will be those adopted by the Model Yacht Class R is rated by the Universal Rule to a scale of 114” to the foot and should interest the skippers of the larger craft, as well as the model men. Many entries are expected in both classes, these coming largely from the Detroit Model Yacht Club and the Toledo Model Yacht Club. The power boat class is limited to the displacement type with a piston displacement of 1 cubic inch, engines to be run by saturated steam. Fast time has been made in previous years, in excess of 20 miles per hour being attained. Entries in this class have heretofore been small, but there is a possibility of an entry from the present record holder, H. C. Field, of the Detroit Model Y. C. (Aly “Eca® IN THE CRO NEST LOOKING DOWN ON THE: worR_.d = fe GILOSE HAULED ABOUT: ONE OCK NAVIGAONE’S NOODLE Racing Association of America. The sailing will be in Class C and the new Class R. This should be interesting, as Class C is governed by a rule which was devised strictly for model yachts, while NO PLACE FORA PUNK HEART ~ Impressions of a first sail on a racing yacht — By one who knows nothing about ’em.
