Chief Station:
NEW YORK CITY
Commodore:
WILLIAM WASHBURN NUTTING
Secretary:
SYDNEY S. BREESE
Governors:
GEORGE P. P. BONNELL
JAMES K. BRUGLER
FRANK B. DRAPER
ROGER GRISWOLD
MARTIN KATTENHORN
HERBERT L. STONE
HENRY A. WISE-WOOD
SAMUEL WETHERILL
1.—Name—The name of the Club shall be “The Cruising Club of America.”
2, Objects—The objects for which the club is ^ formed are;
(a) To promote and facilitate cruising by am¬ ateurs,
(b) To encourage the development of suitable types of sail, motor and auxiliary craft for cruising purposes,
(c) To stimulate an interest in .seaman.'^hip, and the navigation and handling of small ve.ssels.
(d)—To gather and keep on file all information which may be of value to its members in cruising in any waters.
● ■ 3.—Membership—Any amateur who has proved his Ability to .sail, handle and navigate a yacht or small vessel, shall be eligible to member.ship, sub ject to approval of the Membership Committee.
4.—Duties of Members—Every member shall by the fact of membership, undertake to give and shall give every local information in his power to his
fellow members, on application, anil to that end shall, on admission, inform the Secretary of the coasts, rivei-s and lakes with which he may be fam iliar.
5.—Classes of Members—There shall be throe classes of members, regular, life and honorary mem bers. .\ny member may become a life member by the payment of one hundred dollars and thence forward he shall be exempt from all payments of yearly dues. Honorary members shall have no vote, but otherwise will enjoy all the privileRc.s of rcppilar members.
6.—Dues—The ycaidy dues shall be ten dollars for rejmlar member.^, unle.ss fixed at some other .sum at an annual meeting of the club.
7.—Initiation Fei The initiation fee shall be Fif teen Dollars, except that a member who starts as a life member shall be exempt from payment of this fee.
8.—Admission of Members—Membenship shall be by invitation only. Eveiy candidate for member ship shall be nominated by one member, and sec onded by another Member, to both of whom he must be personally known, unless the Committee shall, under special circumstances, dispense with such personal knowledge, and his name and ad dress, and any other particulars the Committee may require, shall be sent to the Secretary, with an intimation of the belief of the proposer that such candidate is socially a fit and proper person to be
admitted into the Club. A Candidate’s Book shall be kept by the Secrctai*y, in which the above de tails and any others which the Commitee may think fit shall be entered.
Members other than Honorary Members may be elected at any meeting of the Committee duly con vened for that purpose, after formal notice of these names has been sent to all -members thirty (30) days before the date of formal action by the Mem bership Committee, when all candidates duly pro posed shall be submitted to the Committe for elec tion, and the Committee shall, after rejecting any candidates whom they may consider unfit for elec tion, select from the remaining candidates, without regard to the priority of their nomination, the candidate most eligible for membership, and all candidates neither rejected nor selected for member ship shall be eligible for election to fill any sub sequent vacancy.
The Secretary shall forthwith notify to an elec ted candidate that he is admitted a Member of the Club, and shall send him a copy of these Rules, and a list of Members.
Any new Member failing to pay his initiation fee and dues within a period of thirty days after his election, shall ipso facto cease to be a member.
—^Expulsion of Members—Every member on joining the club impliedly undertakes to comply with these rules and any refusal or neglect to do so, or any conduct unw’orthy of a gentleman, or inim-
icable to the welfare of tlic Club, shall render such member liable to suspension or cxjiulsion by a maj ority vote of the annual meeting.
10.—Yearly dues shall be payable, in advance, on the first of January of each year.
11.—Any member whose dues shall remain unpaid on the first day of Februaiy shall be notified by the Sccretai*>-, anil if dues are still unpaid on the first day of March, his name may be removed by the Board of Governors from the list of members, but may be restored at the discretion of the Com mittee.
12.—Annual Meeting—The annual meeting of the club .shall be held during the month of February of each year, the specific date to be .set by the Boai'd of Governors, and tl\c mcmbei's notified at least thiiiy days in advance of the date of the meeting. At the same time the members shall be notified of the business that is to be brought up at such annual meeting.
No business (except the passing of the accounts and the election of the Board of Govemors and Sec retary and Treasurer, and any bu.sincss that the Boai’d of Governors may order to be inserted in the notice convening the Meeting), shall be discussed at such fleeting, unless notice thereof be given to the Secretary before the first day of Febniaiy prior to such Meeting; each Member shall have vote, and the Chairman an additional casting vote.
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of votes cast. Members absent from an Annual or other (Jenenil Meciin;? may vote either by proxy or by previously .sending their vote in writing to the Secretary.
13.—A .special meeting of the club may be called at any time by the Hoard of Governor.s on fifteen day.s’ written notice to the members. The Secre tary .shall cull a meeting of the club on written reque.st signed by twelve members of the club provid ed, however, that no rules or by-law may be altered at any meeting .so called.
14.—Olncers—The Chairman of the Board of Gov ernor.s shall be Commodore of the Club. There shall also be Vice-Comnaodore.s residing in port.s other than New York—.such ports to be de.signated by the Board and .such Vice-Commodores to be elec ted by members of their station.
15.—Board of Governors—There shall be a Board of Governors con.si.sting of nine members, five of whom must be actually boat owners. They shall seiwe for one year and shall be elected at the an nual meeting of the club.
16.—Dutiet ●The Board of Governors shall decide on all details concerning the annual competitions, the award of prizes, etc., and on all matters pertain ing to the management of the Club. It shall also act as Committee on Admissions.
^ I7.r--Five members of the Board of Governors vot ing either in person ,or in writing shall constitute a quorum.
18.—Meetin" of the Board of Governors—Meet ings of the Board of Govemoi*s may be convened by any two of its members, upon at least five days' notice, or may be held at regular stated intervals, as decided by a majority of.the board.
19.—Secretary and Treasurer — There shall be a Secretaiy and Treasurer elected at the Annual Meeting to serve for one year, who shall be a mem ber ex-ofiicio of the Board of Governors and who may vote at a meeting of the Board in case of a tie vote.
■The chief station of the Club shall be in New York City, buf whenever four or more members reside in any locality, they may found a station, thereon giving notice thereof, to the Sec retary, who shall notify the other members of the Club. ■
20.—Station:
1.—A cruise may consist of a single voyage or a series of voyages made dunng the year, and the “best cruise” shall be the cruise that shows the most skill and entei-prise. In considering their award the judges shall give credit for:
(a)—Good seamanship,
(b)—Accurate and skillful navigation and pi¬ lotage.
(c)—Distance made good and number of ports visited, having regard to the size and capabilities of the vessel, the assistance given by the crew, the time devoted to the cruise, the weather encountered, and the nature of the cruising ground,
(d)—Care and foresight in providing .suitable equipment, gear, etc.
(e)—Enterprise in exploring coas-t and harbors not generally known to yachtsmen.
(^)—Precise information in pilotage that may be of use to other cruisers, and vrhich is not found in the official publications.
2.—Every competitior must take the leading part in the navigation and command of the vessel, and ’
mu>t state fully what assistance (if any) he has had from his crew, amateur or paid, and from other per sons.
3.—The ci-uiscs shall be adjudicated upon by judjjcs appointed by the Hoard of Governors, who shall, if they cannot a.urec in their award, refer the matter to a vote of the whole club.
4.—ICach competitor must send to the Secretaiy account of his cruise on or before December an The Hoard of Governors may for sulllcient >;rant any competitor an extension of time first, cause for sendinjj in his account of his cruise.
5.—Every account of a cruise must be clearly written or typed, and muj^t be conci.se. It should be in the form of a log giving for each day:
(a)—Such information as will enable the jud ges to follow the course of the vessel from the place of departure to the place of airival.
(b)—The distance made good, and whether un der sail or otherwise.
(c)—The direction of the wind,
(d)—Height of the barometer at such times as may be material and convenient,
(e)—Any information deemed of interest to members. There should also be a summai*y showing in tabular form the distances made good, and a small scale chart or plan showing the track followed and the places \’isited.
Failure to strictly comply \rith this rule shall not disqualify provided the information given is suf ficient to enable the judges to form an opinion as to the merits of the cruise.
G.—No cruise which has previously been published or entered for any cup or prize offered by any other organization shall be eligible for competition, and the winner of any prize shall not at any time after wards compete with the same cruise for any prize offered by any other organization, nor shall he pub lish an account of his cruise before it has appeared'' in the club journal.
7.—The judges shall not award a prize if in their opinion no cruise of sufficient merit has been en tered for competition,
8.—The member to whom a prize is awarded shall receive it at the club dinner next followng the atvard.
Alker, James W.
Alden, John'
Bacon, Daniel
Baekeland, Dr. L. H.
Baldwin, P. W.
Bonnell, George P. P.
Breese, Sydney S.
Brugler, James K.
Davis, C. G.
Draper, F. K.
Fenger, Frederick
Foster, C. H. W.
Greening, Hany
Griswold, Roger
Grosvenor, Gilbert
Hand, William
Howard, Henry
Jarvis, Aemilius
Kattenhom, Martin S.
Mallory, Clifford S.
McClurg, Ogden T.
Nield, C. B.
Nutting, W. W.
Peters, Harold
Phelps, John J.
Pierce, S. S.
Raymond, Irving
Seymour, A. D.
Stone, Herbert L.
Thurber, Frederick P.
Tousey, Dr. Coleman
Wetherill, Samuel
Wise-Wood, Henry A.
Day, Thomas Fleming (Honorary)
Stephens, W. P. (Honorary)