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Well, the FEN for the start position of Apothecary1 is

r2wccw2r/1anbqkbng1/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/1ANBQKBNG1/R2WCCW2R w - - 0 1

You could copy-paste that to WinBoard after you set it to apothecary1 (by Ctrl-V or the menu item Edit->Paste Position).

To automate this you could save that FEN in a file called apo1.fen, and add a line at the bottom of the winboard.ini file in the Sac Chess install:

/loadPositionFile=apo1.fen

This should make WinBoard use the position in that file for every New Game, loading it into the engine. The winboard.ini file would then look something like:

/settingsFile=settings.ini
/saveSettingsFile=settings.ini
;
/cp
/fcp="fmax.exe"
/fd="./Fairy-Max"
/scp="fmax.exe"
/sd="./Fairy-Max"
;
/variant=apothecary1
/size=middling
/autoLogo true
;
/showTargetSquares=true
/pieceMenu=false
/sweepPromotions=true