Dartmouth Goes to Sea
Some people have ashed us if we were going to buildboats to sail on Mascoma Lake. Others expected us torevive the Dartmouth Crew. Our purpose is to further theinterests of Yachting and Boating among Dartmouthmen, by presenting speakers of note in yachting circles,by providing opportunities for the discussion of racingrules and technique, and by sending a good team to theAnnual Intercollegiate Regatta.
THE DARTMOUTH CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB has raised its burgee to the hill winds of New Hampshire, and called to its colors all sailors who are hibernating 'neath the Hanover snows. About 35 of them met last month in Dartmouth Hall and ratified a constitution for the club as drawn up by the seven charter members who represented Dartmouth in the Intercollegiate Regatta at Southport, Conn., last June.
Since 1928 crews from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have had an annual contest for the H-Y-P Trophy, presented by George May. This last year has seen the formation of an Intercollegiate Association, including, besides the above-mentioned colleges, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Williams. The Green's participation in this recent collegiate rivalry comes as the result of the efforts of James B. Moore, Jr. '32, a sailor of considerable note on the sound, who negotiated with Rushmore Mariner, the Commodore of the Yale Yacht Club, while on a water polo trip to New Haven, and entered Dartmouth in the association. W. B. McMillan, charter member of the Princeton organization, put up a trophy for the newly formed group.
Jim Moore then obtained the permission of the Athletic Council to organize a team of two crews to compete in the annual regatta last June.
THE FIRST COMPETITION
The men who made up the team were: J. B. Moore '32, skipper; M. Howard '32; J. F. Woods '33; Y. R. King '3l, skipper; R. W. Ferris '33; G. H. Zimmerman '32. G. N. Proctor '3l was originally one of the skippers, but when he became seriously ill, and was unable to sail, a substitute was put in his place.
These men went down to Southport, Connecticut, where they were very well entertained by the members of the Pequot Yacht Club, the sponsors of the 1930 regatta. The Captains of Pequot and of the Black Rock Yacht Club provided the twelve Atlantic Class one-design sloops for the college crews. This class was brought over to the Sound from Germany some few years ago. The sloops are thirty-five feet long, with very large open cockpits, and rigged with marconi or jib-headed sails. Because of the weather conditions the Regatta Committee started three races on each of two days, instead of two on three days. The crews changed boats after each contest. Points were scored on the number of boats beaten, plus one for finishing.
The morning of June 16 a fresh southwest wind was chopping up the sea off the Pequot Yacht Club anchorage. The starting gun sent off the twelve crews on a four mile windward-leeward course for the first race of the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association. The Yale men finished one, two; Princeton third; Harvard fourth and fifth in this race. Dartmouth followed in seventh and last places. Harvard placed first and third in the second finish on this day, but her leading boat was disqualified for forcing a Yale sloop at the start; and so the twelve points for first went to Vie King's crew who led the other Crimson skipper at the finish by a half a length.
A southwester blew up strongly during the third contest, so that the crews had a fast and fancy time of it, driving their Atlantics along to their best, without pounding, and without sliding off the wind. In this race Jim Moore fought an exciting duel with P. H. Cummings of Princeton, and finished eleven seconds behind him. The standing at the end of the first day was: Princeton, 47; Yale, 47; Dartmouth, 46; Harvard, 44; Williams, 38; Cornell, 15.
That evening the crews were entertained at a dinner at the Tide Mill Tavern, after which they organized the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association, made rules for the annual regatta, and discussed plans for the future. J. O. Pease of Princeton was elected chairman of the Association.
THE SECOND DAY'S RACES
On the seventeenth of June the skies were gray over Pequot and the water in the sound was calm. A very light southerly finally came up, and the crews tacked their sloops out of the anchorage between rocks and breakwater to the starting line. Smoke from several tug-boats towing coal barges far across the Sound drifted about as lazily as the smoke from the starting gun for the first race that day. The sloops hugged the line waiting for the signal, because they had difficulty keeping their headway in light air. The gun was fired off, Jim Moore leading most of the fleet "on an easterly tack along the north shore. Vic King had trouble clearing away, made a bad start, but tacked out across the sound in search of better wind. Meanwhile the tugboats had traveled in their slow fashion about two miles. The smoke from their stacks no longer left a black smudge'behind. A fresh breeze had come in from across the Sound, and was working slowly inshore. King's crew were in a position to take advantage of the breeze before it reached the rest of the fleet. As a result they crossed the line first, and five minutes ahead of the second boat. Jim Moore came in well enough to the front so that the total Dartmouth score at the end of this fourth race put the Green in second place, one point behind Princeton, and five ahead of Yale.
In the last contest Jim Moore won a fine race, beating Johnny Muhlfield, one of the Sound's Victory Class skippers, by a whole minute.
HOW THE COLLEGES FINISHED
The final standing of the teams was as follows: Princeton 99 Yale 91 Harvard 88 Dartmouth 81 Williams 68 Cornell 38
Last Christmas vacation the executive officers of the association who are the commodores of the several clubs met in New York, and made their plans for the coming year. The 1931 Regatta will be held under the auspices of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club at Oyster Bay, Long Island, in late June. Each club is going to borrow two Atlantic Class Sloops for the series.
The officers of the D. C. Y. C. are: Commodore, J. B. Moore, Jr. '32; vice-commodore, H. W. Ferris, Jr. '33; secretary-treasurer, J. F. Woods '33.
The club meets once a month. Elections of officers take place in the fall of the college year. They are chosen from the three lower classes. Membership is open to all undergraduates and alumni of Dartmouth College. The initiation fee is five dollars, and the annual dues are three dollars. These imposts are for the purpose of defraying the expenses of stationery, insurance on boats borrowed for the regattas, the traveling expenses of speakers, pennants, and the cost of printing copies of the constitution and by-laws of the club.
The commodore has already secured Carl Weagant, to show movies taken of his trip from Ithaca, New York, to Ithaca, Greece, in the small ketch "Carlsark" for which he was recently awarded the "Blue Water" medal for outstanding seamanship, by the Cruising Club of America.
DARTMOUTH TAKES THE LEAD Left to right Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard in rear to right
THE DARTMOUTH CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB'S FIRST TEAM Left to right: Ray Ferris, George Proctor, Morry Howard, Vic King, Gus Zimmerman, Jim Moore, Jim Woods,
THE BURGEE COLORS OF THE D. C. Y. C. (White star and white stripe on green field)
