1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

This “Committee of Honour of the Regatta elected from amongits members an executive, consisting of Messrs. Nyberg, Frestadius,van Rijswijk, Lundgren, Lagerkrantz and B. Clarino, whose task it wasto make all the necessary preparations for the entertainments thatwere to take place during the Regatta, viz., the reception festival andthe farewell banquet.At one of its meetings, the Committee determined to give its receptionentertainment at the Nynäshamn Bath Hotel, and the farewellbanquet at Hasselbacken, in Stockholm. The Nynäshamn Bath Hotelproved a most suitable place for the first entertainment, although itwas found necessary to take special measures for seating the greatnumber of guests expected to be present.A report of these entertainments and of the speeches made on bothoccasions will be found in the section of this book entitled “OfficialFestivities”.The work of the Special Yacht Racing Committee.The special committee for the races had, first of all, to draw upa form of invitation to the Olympic and International yacht racingand, in connection with the first of these, to give a definition of theword “amateur” as applied to yachtsmen, this definition to be approvedof by the Committee of the Swedish Yachtsmen’s Association for theOlympic Yachting Races in 1912. The invitation was issued, inSwedish, English and German, after a list had been drawn up ofhome- and foreign yacht-clubs and owners. The next. thing was toarrange the various courses. At Sandhamn there were the old onesready to hand, but at Nynäshamn it was necessary to buoy off noless than 5 different courses; 2 for the Olympic Races, 2 for theInternational events, and I foul weather course.The Committee visited the place and fixed the position of the startingline, the way in which it should be marked, and the length ofthe various legs of the triangular courses. The chart of the waterswas enlarged to twice the scale, and the courses were marked out onthis, giving the starting-line and all rounding flags, as well as all thespecial flag-marks that had to be laid out to distinguish dangerous shallows.In addition to this, harbour- and entrance charts of Nynäshamn andSandhamn were drawn, on which were given the positions of the extraflag-marks that had been laid out in order to mark the shallows.One thing that took a long time to arrange was the drawing up ofthe programme for the starts, a very comprehensive publication, andan early beginning was made with writing it in both Swedish and English.There afterwards being but very few entries from England andGermany, it was found unnecessary to publish this programme inEnglish, but some type-written copies of the description of the coursewere made in that language, and these were distributed to the competitorsfrom abroad.A very important matter was the stationing and mooring of all theyachts, both the competing vessels and those that were only spectators.At Nynäshamn, this question was settled by the building of a773