Active Yachtsmen Sail Dinghies on Charles

Though in no way connected with the Harvard Athletic Association, the Harvard yachtsmen boast that they often get a better workout than the victims of conditioning exercises.

Scorning all landlubbers who look upon racing as sitting in a puddle in the bottom of a boat, the yachtsmen stoutly maintain that holding a mainsheet is just as much work as pulling an oar.

The 15 active members, there being about 40 others who still belong from past years, use the boats and facilities of the Community Boat Club and sail in the Charles River Basin. Membership to the Boat Club being rather costly, the Harvard Yacht Club owns three tickets, which members must take with them when they want to sail.

Weekly meets are often held with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with Northeastern, with the supply school, or with the Tech aviation corps.

Competitions for various annual trophies are run by the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association, of which the Harvard group was one of the five original members. Around the end of June comes the MacMillan Cup Race, the most important in college yachting. The Danmark trophy, recently won by the Harvard yachtsmen, is one of the big summer events.

Commodore of the Yacht Club is David C. Noyes '44, of 59 Plympton Street. The other officers are Lyman G. Bullard '44, of Eliot House, Secretary-Treasurer, and John C. Burton '44, of Winthrop House, Vice-Commodore. Though 25 years old, the Club had been inactive until about five years ago.