- Model Yacht Slipper to Represent the United States Abroad. After a series of races lasting over three days, the Central Park Model Yacht Club’s Sipper, owned by Joseph Weaver, was selected to represent the Model Yacht Racing Association of America in the forthcoming races for the Yachting Monthly Cup, to be sailed at Gosport, England, July 31st to August 3rd.
Photo by Wide Weld Maneuvering for the start in the trial races sailed on Charles River Basin, Boston, for the selection of a challenger to go to England to race for the Yachting Monthly Cup. The boat at the right is Weaver’s Slipper, and the one in the foreground John Black’s Bostonia. Model Yacht Slzpper to Represent the United States Abroad FTERa series of races lasting over three days, the Central Park Model Yacht Club’s Sipper, owned by Joseph Weaver, was selected to represent the Model Yacht Racing Association of America in the forthcoming races for the Yachting Monthly Cup, to be sailed at Gosport, England, July 31st to August 3rd. The trial races were sailed on the Charles River Basin, Boston, under the auspices of the Boston Model Yacht Club. The following clubs were represented with models, each club being allowed to enter one boat only: Prospect Park Model Yacht Club, F. D. Trapp. Central Park Model Yacht Club, Slipper, Joseph Weaver. Boston Model Yacht Club, Bostonia, John Black. The new Class P boat Avis, designed by John A. Connolly, which has been winning races on Great South Bay. Detroit Model Yacht Club, Miss Detroit, W. J. Stevenson. Marblehead Model Yacht Club, Fred L. Pigeon. The first race was sailed in a true, moderate southeast wind and was won easily by Shpper, with Bostonia second. The second race was sailed in a hard blow from the southwest and rough water. Slipper again won with Bostonia, John Black, second. On the third day two heats were sailed under conditions simulating as nearly as possible those to be met with abroad, except that the boats were handled from rowboats. On both windward legs, Sipper won. On the running leg, the Bostonia won, something going wrong with the Slipper’s steering gear. The board of judges, consisting of George Owen, Francis Lee Herreshoff and H. L. Stone then selected the Slipper. E. A. Bull’s boat, Polka Dot II was not entered from the Prospect Park Model Yacht Club. She sailed the last day by courtesy, and raced the next day at Marblehead. She is a very fast boat and might have been chosen had she been the representative of the Club. On July 12th, at Marblehead, she beat the Slipper and the rest of the fleet and won the handsome trophy put up by Com. Nathaniel F. Ayer for that event, the first one, by the way, given by a yacht club of the standing of the Eastern, for models. The Boston Model Yacht Club were ideal hosts. They offered every facility to the visiting sailors, and they fought out gamely every race to the finish. The hopes of American model sailors will go across with “Joe’’ Weaver. He sailed on July 18th and should have arrived in the ‘‘enemy’s country’’ on the 24th, with a week to tune up before the Internationals. He has a fast boat, one of the best in this country, and he has had, probably, more experience in sailing under the conditions he will meet abroad than any other man on this side of the ‘“ pond.”
