FCJREST AND STMAM, 1S1 
MEEMER. 
tJesigfied tj* G.- C. Sanley for R, C. Nickerson. Photo by Jacksafl, Matbiehead'. 
Feb. 33, 1901.3 
the cup offered by the Knockabout Association, the Bur- 
gess Y, C. will offer either a cup or cash prize, or both, for 
these boats. 
The Eftstet-H Y. C. has elected the foUowmg officers for 
(Jdi : ,CbM.^ Albert S. Sigelow; Vi^ie-Coni., WSltef Ab- 
jott :..Rejir-C>jiii., F. L. Afries; Seti'y, t3e,orge Atkinsdti, 
J(tj Treas.,. Patrick T. Jaeksoii : Meas., Heiiry "taggard; 
iytehibei-s of Council at Large, G. A. Goddar,d stnd F. B. 
McQiiesteii; Regatta, Committee, H. H. Buck, Heni-^ 
HbW'Rrfi, UMc R. Thomas, Hehry D. Bennett and Odin 
B. Roberts; Committee oii Adtriissibfis, .Goj-dpn Dexter, 
Theophilus Parsons, Robert Saltonstall, C. Rdc'keiiiainin 
and Geo. Atkinson, Jr. ; House Committee. George Atkin- 
son, Jr., H. K. White, John A. Jennings, Frank Brewster 
and F. O. North. 
.W,. Starling Burgess, the young designer who is to take 
his father's place iti the yachting world, was recently 
biirhefi bbt, MVd hA,s fefflo.ved his quartel's to 15 Exchange 
sti-eef, iiUh M Ms offitts -mik liis tilicjie. Viee-Coni.; 
Walter Burgess. He Has Slfeady rt;fc^iv,ed 1- ntiiiijDef of 
orders for boats of various sizes, and bids fair to have a 
very successful career. His work shows much care and 
study, and is very clean cut throughout. 
Smith, of Quincy, has the 26-footer. of Crowninshield 
deslbi) in frame. The Y. R. A. 25- footer, designed by 
Mills , fbi- W. 0. Ttifflgf , k pat tly planked, 
It is said that fHef-'e \^ili be t^o rrioJ'e bcsats for the 
i8ft^ knockabout class, one of which ^iil t)e dfe^igiled 
by Starling Burgess. Humphreys and Lauriat are H^viiig 
their knockabout built by Hanlcy. She will be a center- 
board and will carry no outside ballast. 
It has been rumored about here that Lawley has re- 
ceived orders to put Jubilee in commission, to be used as 
9 ttial liofse fof the Boston Cup defender. Mr. Crowtt- 
ihshifeld savs thfet Geti. Paitle has said nothing about it 
to hihl, ^hd that he. has hot heard of ally sUfih ofder given. 
It Wotild be very iiice td havg tlie did b'oat iil cdiHnlissioH. 
ahd if. shfc should sail during-, tlie seasdri 'l^ith the Crdwii- 
ihshield gd-footer it would do hluCih to grilif eh fachtiiig 
ih this section, biit. as a trial hdrse it is ilot likely 
that slie. Wotild be of gi-eat valiie. While she is like the 
Boston boat iii riiatly fesfifectSi shfe is so radically different 
on others that any comparison betweeri tlie t\Vo would be 
of no great value in determining the relative speed of tlie 
Boston Cup defender as regards that of the Belmont 
syndicate boat now building at Bristol. 
It is with great pleasure that 5'our correspondent can 
announce that the committee appointed by the South 
Boston Y., C^ to consider withdrawing from the Massa- 
ehUsfetts Y. R. A: lias, aftef hplditig a joint conference 
■tVith a cohimittfee of thfe Assofeiatioii, Voted ttnanifflously 
to report to their club that it would hot fee adf i.sable to 
make such a withdrawal. It is much to the credit of tile 
committee of the South Boston Y. C. that it agreed to 
hold this conference and not make any rash arbitrary re- 
ports, without having first thoroughlv investigated the 
qiiestioh hi hahd. If itlofe of the disgruntled clubs were 
to adopt these methods there wolild be a better under- 
standing between the clubs and the Association and yacht 
racing in Massachusetts waters would be benefited. 
At Lawley's the 85ft. auxiliary schooner for W. T. 
Sloane, of the New York Y. C, is partly in frame. The 
keel of the 120ft. steel steamer for W. T. Eno has been 
set up and the 86ft. steamer from Binney's design, for C. 
B. Borland, is in frame. The Curtis 35ft. schooner has 
been finished and hauled out of the shop, and the King 35- 
footer is all ready for launching. The 2S-footer designed 
by F. D. Lawley for Judge F. C. Lowell has been laid 
down. The 46-footer for Theophilus Parsons and the 
2S-footer for F. E. Peabody are being planked. The firm 
has just received an order for an 85ft. steamer from lines 
by C. H. Crane. She will have a speed of twenty knots. 
The 50ft. steam yacht which was designed by T. S. 
Poekel, of Lawley's, for Mr. Gray, to be used in South 
America, and which was to be shipped from New York 
early in the month, is back again in the west shop. When 
she was taken out by Capt. W. F. Kirby it was found 
that she was very much by the Head, .and that the defect 
could not be_ remedied without altering the boat. She 
has been cut in two and will be lengthened out amidships 
and her counter will also be carried out further. It is 
expected that these changes will make her all right. It 
may be possible that the boat, when finished, will proceed 
under her own steam to Dutch Guiana. 
Another one-design class has been started in Dorchester 
Bay, the latest by the Savin Hill Y. C. The members 
of this club are expert small boat sailers, and the new- 
class is to be for sailing tenders, 12ft. over all. They 
will be loft. on the waterline and will all carry the same 
amount of sail. Fifteen of these boats have been ordered 
from a Scituate builder. 
Crowninshield has an order for a 21ft. launch for W. C. 
Allison, to be used at Bar Harbor. This launch will 
probably be used as a tender for Mr. Allison's 32-footer, 
which has recently been completed at Lawley's. 
Howland, of Monument Beach, has cast the keel for 
the Wightman i8ft. knockabout. Tlip De Ver H. Warner 
.38-footer has been set up. The same builder has three cat- 
boats in frame. John B. Killeen. 
Meemer and Ashumet. 
Meemkr, the champion of the Massachusetts Y, R. A. 
30ft. class last season, is a shoal draft, beamv, centerboard 
boat designed and built by Hanley in 1898 for her present 
owner. Com, R. C. Nickerson. Her dimcn.sions are as 
follows: 44ft. 4in. over all, 29ft. loin. on the waterline. 
13ft. io:n. beam and 2ft. 8in. draft. She carries 1.800 
sq. ft. of sail and about 3,ooolbs. of ballast. 
Ashumet was designed and built by Hanley in 1895. 
She is 45ft. 4in. over all, 30ft. on the waterline. 14ft. loin! 
beam and 3ft. draft. 
Bigf Season for Oiicagfo Yacht Club, 
Chicago, 111.. Feb. 9.— Five boats will contend for the 
honor of defending the Canada cup against the challenger 
of the Royal Canadian Y, C, of Toronto, Ont. The 
Pynchon syndicate will enter Illinois. There will be a 
new boat from Milwaukee, not yet named, and another 
Davis boat, entered by the George Lytton syndicate. Com, 
pnari^s wrne wtll Ql^er griff, jilter^d to ma'n^^-i -j^^^- 
jib rig, and tuned up anew. Messrs. J. Meyer afld Ed- 
ward Rosing have still another boat, of their own design, 
Whieh will be built by yet another Chicago syndicate; nof 
is this the eiid of the possible list. It is a toss up as to 
the honors at this stage, of course. 
The growth of the Chicafo Y.- C. is properly within the 
class described as phenomenal. The club took in 103 
members in the month of January of this year. The work 
on the beautiful new club house is beginning this week 
and will probably be completed by June. The programme 
of the regatta committee shows a race for every Saturday 
of the coming season and a regatta for Fourth of July 
and Labor Day. The old sailing course around the 
northern cribs has been abandoned and a new coorse laid 
out to the southward, entirely free of the ordinary fout«S' 
of the commercial craft. There will he pletity 0/ sailing^ 
and of a satisfactory sort. 
Vencedof, bought by Mr. Fred Price this p&st -Week^ 
will be in coniniission in Chicago this summer. Siid like- 
wise Siren and Vaflefifia, so that we shall have & -fine- 
showing of the ds-footefs. This year is the most fJW- 
portant one in the history of the Chicago Y. C, and it? 
considered as making the cltlb a distinguished suc' 
cess and putting a stamp upon the spoft of yachting on the 
Great Lakes such as it has never yet aflained. 
HwGH?,- 
ASHUMET. 
Designed by Q. C. Hanley. Photo by Jackson, Marblehead, 
