Following a traditional custom, 11 yachts in three different classes started from Scotch Caps, off Milton Point, in Rye, New York, last Wednesday evening, in the American Yacht Club's eighth annual overnight race to the scene of the festivities of the Harvard Yale rowing regatta in New London.

Rated according to length, Class A contains boats over 50 feet on deck; Class B specifications calling for boats of from 35 to 50 feet over all; and smaller craft entering the C class. Three 10-meter sloops and a Larchmont O boat have been entered in Class A, two cutters, a schooner, and a sloop making up Class B, and two yawls and a sloop forming the last class. Prizes are to be given for class winners and division winners, the classes being split into racing and cruising categories.

The starters in Class A are as follows: Grey Dawn (Schaefer) of Larchmont, Valencia (Shethar) of American Y. C., Revenge (Lauder) of Indian Harbor, and Dragon (Morris) of American Y. C.