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SAIL PLAN OF FAST CRUISER DESIGNED BY B. B. CROWNINSIIXELD, 1898. 
Rochester was named as the next place for the annual 
meeting. 
The fo'lowing officers were elected: Pres., A. G. 
Wright, Rochester Y. C; Vice-Pres., F. B. Hower, 
buuaio Y. C. ; Hon. Sec'y-Treas., Frank M. Gray, Royal 
Canadian Y. C., Toronto; Council: Messrs. John Mott, 
Oswego Y. C; E. H. Ambrose, Royal Hamilton Y. C; 
T. L. Stephens, Victoria Y. C, Hamilton; Owain Mar- 
tin, Queen City Y. C, Toronto; Frank Strange, Kings- 
ton Y. C. 
The following delegates were appointed for the Yacht 
Racing Union of the Great Lakes: Messrs. J. E. Bur- 
roughs Toronto; F. Monck, Hamilton. 
Mr. /Emilkis Jarvis was appointed delegate for the 
annual meetii g of the Y. R. U. of N. A. 
The meeting then adjourned, the delegates being very 
handsomely entertained at dinner by the Kingston Y, C. 
Rules and Restrictions* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your issue of Nov. 12 you have at last brought 
forward what has been for the past three years my pet 
solution of the measurement question. 
You indorse the action of the Y. R. A. of Long Island 
Sound, taken on Nov. 3. on the ground that at present it 
can at least do no harm; but why not go further and 
seriously discuss the merits of a rule which would not 
only put a stop to firnsy construction, but also insure 
the patient cwrer a sensible, usable type of boat? 
Briefly, let us adopt a table of scantling for each class, 
and then let us restrict what I may call the fundamental 
■dimensions, including a demand for a certain area of 
mid section, or mean, cf a number of sections, and 
3, certain amount of ballast. We have the rules of the 
Knockabout Association as a basis to work upon, and 
to my mind with a very few changes in these rules we 
would develop two very good types of boats, one keel 
and the other centerboard. Finally, let us adont these 
rules for a term of years, say five; certainly not less than 
three. 
These rules would govern the regular classes, for which 
the regular prizes are given: and any boat Jailing to com- 
ply with these rules would be debarred from racing. 
Vested interests should not be taken into consideration. 
If we are going to make new rules, and good rules, let 
us go to the root of the matter. 
Partly to give existing boats a chance, however, and 
in order that the designers may make experiments, let 
us make special classes (to take the place of the present 
one-design classes), governed by the present Seawan- 
haka rule, or by a simple waterline rule. 
Of course, the foregoing is a suggestion, and not what 
we are looking for, i. e.. a rule; but we have any num- 
ber of committees made up of experienced men, to 
whom the task of picking out some good existing boat 
as a standard should not be so very difficult, or should 
they fail to find such a standard let the designers get up 
two boats, one centerboard and the other keel, and let 
the committee select their standard froriT the designs 
submitted. 
This may seem like a lame conclusion after all these 
years of figuring on rules of from iin. to 1 ft. long in 
ordinary type, but it is the simolest way of getting at the 
root of the difficulty, and it has been arrived at after 
some little figuring at the aforesaid '"factor" rules. 
We want gocd, honest, inexpensive and fairly fast 
boa+s. If we pick out a good standard and are forced to 
stick fairly close to it we will get them, and they will 
be more useful than one-design boats, because they will 
have individuality, ard therefore building to 
will go on until at the end of a few years 
have a dozen good beats in each class; and 
mistaken that is what we want. 
the classes 
we should 
if I am not 
B. T. 
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