Cruising Club of America
THE CRUISING CLUB OF AMERICA
The Cruising Club of America was launched in the fall of 1921 by a group of yachtsmen interested in cruising and the development of the cruising type of yacht. It was felt that this branch of the sport never had attained the position it deserves in a country so rich in sea-going tradition and whose natural advan tages are so peculiarly favorable to cruising, possibly because of the fact that there never has been any con certed action by cruising enthusiasts.
The yacht clubs of the country have made racing a large part of their activities and there are several inter-club associations devoted to the advancement of this branch of yachting, but there never has been in this country an organization comparable,for example, to the Royal Cruising Club, which, in the last forty years, has done so much toward making cruising a national institution in Great Britain.
And so the Cruising Club of America was launched and it was but natural that its founders, familiar as they were with the work of the Royal Cruising Club, should have moulded it somewhat along the lines of the older organization.
THE CRUISING CLUB OF AMERICA
The rules of the Club provide for the publication of a year book of which this modest volume is the first. In future years it is planned to include the logs of prize-winning cruises and such other information as may be of general interest to the members.
OFFICERS
1922
Commodore
William Washburn Nutting
Secretary
Sydney S. Breese
Board of Governors
George P. P. Bonnell
James K. Brugler, Jr.
Frank B. Draper
Roger Griswold
Martin S. Kattenhorn
Herbert L. Stone
Henry A. Wise Wood
Samuel Wetherill
OFFICERS AND STANDING COMMITTEES
1923 Commodore
Herbert L. Stone Secretary
Sydney S. Breese
Board of Governors
William Washburn Nutting
Herbert L. Stone
Sydney S. Breese
Martin S. Kattenhorn
Clifford D. Mallory
Alexander W. Moffat
James K. Brugler, Jr.
Samuel Wetherill
Henry A. Wise Wood
A. D. Seymour, Jr.
Membership Committee
Martin S. Kattenhorn, Chairman 6
OFFICERS AND STANDING COMMITTEES
Committee on Plan and Scope
Henry A. Wise Wood, Chairman
Cruising Committee
Frank B. Draper, Chairman
E7itcrtainment Committee
Walter Sullivan, Chairrfmn
Committee on Apprentice Plan
Alex. W. Moffatt, Chairman
Year Book Cottnniftee
James K. Brugler, Jr., Chairman
CHARTER MEMBERS
Alden, John
Alker, James W.
Bacon, Daniel
Baekeland, Dr. L. H.
Baldwin, P. W.
Bonnell, George P. P.
Breese, Sydney S.
Brugler, James K., Jr.
Davis, C. G.
Draper, F. B.
Fenger, Frederick
Foster, C. H. W.
Greening, Harry
Griswold, Roger
Grosvenor, Gilbert
Hand, William H., Jr.
Howard, Henry
Jarvis, Aemilius
Kattenhom, Martin S.
Mallory, Clifford D.
Marsland, C. A.
McClurg, Ogden T.
Nield, C. F.
Nutting, W. W.
Peters, Harold
Phelps, John J.
Pierce, S. S.
Raymond, Irving E.
Seymour, A. D., Jr.
Stone, Herbert L.
Thurber, Frederick P.
Tousey, Dr. Coleman
Wetherill, Samuel
Wise Wood, Henry A.
Day, Thomas Fleming (Honorary)
Stephens, W. P. (Honorary)
CLUB RULES
I. 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 seamanship, and the navigation and handling of small vessels,
(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 membership, sub ject to approval of the Membership Committee.
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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, and to that end shall, on admission, inform the Secretary of the coasts, rivers and lakes with which he may be familiar.
5- Classes of Members—There shall be three classes of members, regular, life and honorary mem bers. Any member may become a life member by the payment of one hundred dollars and thenceforward he shall be exempt from all payments of yearly dues. Honorary members shall have no vote, but otherwise will enjoy all the privileges of regular members.
6. Dues—The yearly dues shall be ten dollars for regular members, unless fixed at some other sum at an annual meeting of the club.
7. Initiation Fee—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. Adrassion of Members—Membership shall be by mutation only^ Every candidate for membership shall be nominated by one member, and seconded by another member, to both of whom he sonally known, unless the Committee special circumstances, dispense with
must be pcrshall, under such personal
ow edge, and his name and address, and any other t Committee may require, shall be sent 0 e Secretary, with an intimation of the belief of ® proposer that such candidate is socially a fit and proper person to be admitted into the Club, idate s Book shall be kept by the Secretary, in ^nich the above details and any others which the onrmittee may think fit shall be entered.
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Members other than Honorary Members may be elected at any meeting of the Committee duly 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 Membership Committee, when all candidates duly proposed shall be submitted to the Committee for election, and the Committee shall, after rejecting any candidates whom they may consider unfit for election, select from the remaining candidates, without regard to the priority of their nomination, the candidate most eligible for membership, and all candidates neither rejected selected for membership shall be eligible for election to fill any subsequent vacancy.
The Secretary shall forthwith notify to an elected 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.
9. 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 unworthy of a gentleman, or inimitable to the welfare of the Club, shall render such member liable to suspension or expulsion by a majority vote of the annual meeting.
Yearly dues shall be payable, in advance, on the first of January of each year.
II. Any member whose dues shall remain unpaid the first day of February shall be notified by the Secretary, and 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 Committee.
10. on 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 Board of Governors, and the members notified at least thirty days in advance of the date of the meeting. At the same time the members shall be notified of the busi ness 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 Governors and Secretary and Treasurer, and any business that the Board of Governors may order to be inserted in the notice convening the Meeting), shall be discussed at such Meeting, unless notice thereof be given to the Secre tary before the first day of February prior to such Meeting; each Member shall have one vote, and the Chairman an additional casting vote.
Every question shall be determined by a majority of votes cast. Members absent from an Annual or other General Meeting may vote either by proxy or by previously sending their vote in writing to the Sec retary.
13. A special meeting of the club may be called at any time by the Board of Governors on fifteen days’ written notice to the members. The Secre tary shall call a meeting of the club on written request signed by twelve members of the club, provided, how ever, that no rules or by-law may be altered at any meeting so called.
14. Officers—The Chairman of the Board of Gov ernors shall be Commodore of the Club. There shall also be Vice-Commodores residing in ports other than New York—such ports to be designated by the Board
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and such Vice-Coramodores to be elected by members of their station.
15. Board of Governors—There shall be a Board of Governors consisting of nine members,five of whom must be actually boat owners. They shall serve for and shall be elected at the annual meeting one year of the club.
16. Duties—The Board of Governors shall decide on all details concerning the annual competitions, the award of prizes, etc., and on all matters pertaining to the management of the Club. It shall also act as Committee on Admissions.
17. Five members of the Board of Governors vot ing either in person or in writing shall constitute a quorum.
i8. Meeting of the Board of Governors—Meet ings of the Board of Governors may be convened by of its members, upon at least five days’ no- any two tice, or may be held at regular stated intervals, as decided by a majority of the board.
19. Secretary and Treasurer—There shall be a Secretary and Treasurer elected at the Annual Meet ing to serve for one year, who shall be a member exofficio of the Board of Governors and who may vote at a meeting of the Board in case of a tie vote.
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Stations.—The chief station of the Club shall be in New York City, but 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.
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RULES FOR CRUISING COMPETITIONS
1. A cruise may consist of a single voyage or a series of voyages made during the year, and the “best cruise” shall be the cruise that shows the most skill and enterprise. In considering their award the judges shall give credit for:
(a)—Good seamanship,
(b)—Accurateand skilful navigation and pilotage,
(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 coast and harbors not generally known to yachtsmen,
(f)—Precise information in pilotage that may be of use to other cruisers, and which is not found in the official publications.
RULES FOR CRUISING COMPETITIONS
2. Every competitor must take the leading part in the navigation and command of the vessel, and must state fully what assistance (if any) he has had from his crew, amateur or paid, and from other persons.
3. The cruises shall be adjudicated upon by judges appointed by the Board of Governors, who shall, if they cannot agree in their award, refer the matter to a vote of the whole club.
4. Each competitor must send to the Secretary an account of his cruise on or before December first. The Board of Governors may for sufficient cause grant any competitor an extension of time for sending in his account of his cruise.
5. Every account of a cruise must be clearly written, or typed, and must be concise. It should be in the form of a log giving for each day;
(a)—Such information as mil enable the judges to follow the course of the vessel from the place of departure to the place of arrival,
(b)—The distance made good, and whether under sail or otherwise,
(c)—The direction of the wind,
(d)—Height of the barometer at such times as may be material and convenient.
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(e)—Any inforaiation deemed of interest to members. There should also be a summary showing in tabular form the distances made good, and a small scale chart or plan showing the track followed and the places visited.
Failure to strictly comply with this rule shall not disqualify provided the information given is sufficient to enable the judges to form an opinion as to the merits of the cruise.
6. 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 entered for competition.
8. The member to whom a prize is awarded shall receive it at the club dinner next following the award.
CRUISING CLUB OF AMERICA LIST OF MEMBERS
LIST OF MEMBERS
New York, N.Y (25 Broadway)
New Rochelle, N. Y (37 Carlton Crescent)
LIST OF MEMBERS
LIST OF MEMBERS
Marblehead, Mass
Port Washington, L. L, N.Y.
New Haven, Conn
New York, N.Y (412 Eighth Ave.)
Boston, Mass (P.0. Box 5253)
Philadelphia,Penn (26 So. Fifteenth St.)
New York^ N.Y
(714 W. 181st St.)
April 20, 1923
Charter
Jan. 12,1923
Charter (Honorary)
Jan. 12, 1923 Life
Feb. 9,1923
Charter
LIST OF MEMBERS
(24
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(502
July 10, 1922
Mar. 21, 1923
Feb. 9, 1923
LIST OF MEMBERS
Chicago, 111
(Cort Theater, 125 N. Dearborn St.).
Boston, Mass
(53 State St.)
New York, N. Y
(17 West 42nd St.)
Cleveland, Ohio
(Grasselli Chemical Co.)
New York, N.Y
(37 W.44th St.)
July 6, 1922
July 6, 1922
LIST OF MEMBERS
LIST OF MEMBERS
Boston, Mass (53 State St., Room 905)
Hackensack, N. J (Redtowers)
New York, N. Y (N. Y. Yacht Club, West 44th Street)
New Haven, Conn (Orange & Pitkins Sts.)
Bronx, N.Y (2490 Tiebout Ave.)
Boston, Mass (54 Devonshire St.)
of Election
Stamford, Ck>nn,
May 11, 1922
April 20, 1923
Mar. 22, 1922
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(27
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(53
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LIST OF JIEMBERS
New York, N. Y... (154 E. 74th St.)
Boston, Mass (48 Franklin St.)
Mar. 22, 1022
July 0, 1022
TnuRBER,
Morris W, 102
Pro%’klenct, R. I (Tildcn-Thurber Corp.)
New York, N. Y (1 Madison Ave.)
Charter
88
New York, N. Y... (145 Nassau St.)
Charter