Good Yachting

"I am rather anticipating some exciting times . . . yachting, I may say, is going to be very good this summer. . . . His Majesty permits me to say that four feet will be cut from the mast of the Britannia (Royal sailing yacht]. . . . Besides I am permitted to announce that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will offer, at Cowes, a new cup for competition by dinghies. . . ."

Thus spoke last week at a dinner of the Yacht Racing Association, in London, Major Philip Hunloke, groom-in-waiting to the King-Emperor, personal friend and chief yachting adviser to His Majesty. At the dinner members plumed themselves that their King and Emperor will cut four feet off the Britannia's mast because the Yacht Racing Association has this year changed its class specifications for racing craft, making necessary the royal curtailment.