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at dinner on December 15 by members of the Larch- 
mont Y. C, who presented a handsome loving cup to 
him. He is a life member of the Larchmont Club. Mr. 
Sanderson owned and raced the 36-footer Countess last: 
summer. 
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The sloop Clytie, owned by Mr. J. W. Mossman, of 
Red Bank, N. J., has been bought by Mr. Lawrence; 
Kain, who will cruise in her on the Sound during the: 
coming- season. 
The yawl Pawnee has been sold by Mr. Theodore C. 
Zerega. N. Y. Y. C, through the agency of Mr. Frank 
Bowfie Jones, to Mr. John E. Wayland, of the same: 
The steam yacht Surf, N. Y. Y. C, Mr. C. K. Billings, 
:s being altered below decks at the Morse Iron Works,. 
South Brooklyn. 
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The work of changing the steamer -City of Quincy to. 
a house boat for Mr. Henry B. Anderson, N. Y. Y. C.,. 
is progressing satisfactorily under the direction of Mr.. 
J. Beaver-Webb, at Hoboken, N. J. 
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George W. Watson and Edward Martin, caretakers on. 
the schooner yacht Avalon, lying off Fort Hamilton, 
were seriously burned aboard the yacht on December 17 
by the explosion of a can of gasoline. The boat was. 
damaged to the extent of $1,500. 
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The boat shop of Sammis & Dickerson, of Huntington, 
L. I., was burned on Dec. 16. Nothing was saved. 
The yacht Helen, owned by Mr. Aldrich Sammis, the 
catboat Enda, a launch belonging to the Rev. Samuel T. 
Carter, two small sloops owned by Messrs. Lewis E. 
Funnell and T. J. Halle, of Stamford, Conn., and several 
working boats were destroyed. The firm's plans and 
models and considerable building material were also' 
lost. The firm will rebuild. 
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The well known schooner yacht Fortuna has geen sold 
for the esta,te of Henry S. Hovey through the agency of 
Messrs. Tarns, Lemoine & Crane to Mr. Henry Wolcott, 
of the N. Y. Y. C. The firm have also sold, for the estate 
of Mr. Hovey, the auxiliary ketch Cero, built last year, 
to Dr. Wm. M. Culver, of New York, for service in 
Florida waters. 
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Former Commodore J. Pierpont Morgan, N. Y. Y. C, 
has sold through the agency of Mr. Thomas Manning, of 
this city, to Mr. John Flagler, of the same club, the aux- 
iliary yacht Algonquin, formerly the Gadabout. The 
Algonquin is in Erie Basin, and Mr. Flagler is about to 
make some trifling alterations in her cabin arrangement. 
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Alniy Brothers, of Providence, R. I., have submitted 
to the Rhode Island Y. C. plans for a one-design class 
of cabin i8-footers. The plan shows a powerful and 
speedy boat, the general dimensions of which- are: 
Length over all, 29ft; length water line, i8ft.; extreme 
beam, 8ft.; load water line beam, 7ft. SJ^in.; freeboard, 
bow, 2ft. gin.; freeboard, stern, 2ft.; least freeboard, 
2p^in. ; overhang, bow, 5ft. 6in.; overhang, aft, 5ft. 6in.: 
draft,' 23in.; displacement, 3,875 pounds; area, lateral 
plane, 39.4 sq. ft. The sail plan calls for a mainsail with 
an area of 389.5 sq. ft, and a jib with 95 sq. ft. of canvas. 
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The Hanley Construction Co., at Quincy Point, Mass., 
is making extensive improvements in its plant. _A 
marine railway has been built, running into the basin, 
which is capable of holding a vessel of i,ooo tons and 
which has 28ft. of water on. the carriage at high water. 
The basin, which covers nine acres, has from 6 to i8ft. of 
water in it at low tide. A new machine shop and a joiner 
shop are being built and the machine shop will be 
equipped to construct marine engines and other marine 
machinery. Among the big yachts which are wintering 
in the basin are the steam yacht Viola, of New York, the 
sloop yacht Wrestler and the schooner yachts Princess, 
Jerfalkin and Palmetto, of Boston. 
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The annual meeting of the Indian Harbor Y. C. will 
be held on Jan. 9. The Nominating Committee to 
select the ticket for election at that meeting is Charles 
F. Kirby, John H. McKee and E. E. Zittel. 
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The steam yacht Priscilla arrived at Miami, Fla., on 
Friday, Dec. 21, from Havana, having on board her 
owner, Mr. Samuel M. Jarvis, and Mr. Edmond G. 
Vaughan. 
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Racing yacht Arbutus was the pluckiest and luckiest 
craft that encotmtered the fierce storm. She was an- 
chored at Winthrop, where the wind and surf had free 
play and gave her a merciless beating. She submitted for 
a while, then raised her anchor and departed. What 
course she took no one knows, as she went without cap- 
tain or crew, and how she steered clear of rocks and 
banks Avhere other vessels, with crews, stranded, is even 
more of a mystery. But she must have had an uneventful 
voj'age, for when she rode the foaming waves into Rowe's 
Wharf at 10 o'clock last night there was not even a mark 
on her indicative of rough usage. She was tied up at the 
wharf, the captain of police station No. 8 was notified of 
her arrival, and he had her removed to Constitution 
Wharf. — Boston Evening Transcript. 
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