174 FOREST AND STREAM. [Makch 2, 1901. 
'MOTOR MOU5CDOflT 
AUXILIARY HOUSE-BOAT— DESIGNED BY MR. 
HUBBE FOR 
ments of the boat, and they will be superb in every way. as 
it is Mr. Lor.'llard's intention to live aboard her several 
months of the year. The boat will be lighted throughout 
with electricity, and she will carry four boats — a skiff, a 
dinghy, a gig and a 3-horse-power motor launch. The 
power of the boat will be furnished by two 25-horse-power 
Murray & Tregur ha gasoline engine motors. 
The motor house-boat Wateree was also designed by 
Mr. M. Hubbe and built in 1900 by Mr. A. Hansen, of 
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, for Mr. L. G. B'llings. She is 52ft. 
long, 15ft. beam, 4ft. deep and 2ft. 6in. draft. Forward 
there is a storeroom and naphtha tank which has a capacity 
of five barrels. The large stateroom forward is 13ft. wide 
and 8ft. long, running the full width of the boat. In 
this room there arc two sets of folding berths, the lower 
the nursery another stateroom. Aft of the sleeping quar- 
ters is the dining room, which is iift. long by 22ft. wide, 
running the full width of ^he boat. Leading from the 
d'ning room is a large pantry sft. wide and 13ft. long. 
This connects w'ith a large galley, I2ft._ long and 9ft. wide, 
which is on the port side of the engine space. A large 
storeroom and ice box open from the galley. In the ex- 
treme after end of the boat on the starboard side, is ihe 
mess room, 6ft. by 14ft. ; opening from the mess room 
is a stateroom for the steward and cook and another for 
the captain and engineer, also a toilet room for the crew. 
There is good deck space both fore and aft. On he 
promenade deck is the deck saloon, wh'ch is practically 
the only obstruction. The promenade deck is 86ft. long 
and 22ft. wide, all covered with an awning. The deck 
BILLINGS. 
the numbers are now out of print, we publish them agam 
by request. These three designs are of the most prim.tive 
sort, but will appeal to the house-boater of moderate 
means. 
The first letter is from a San Francisco yachtsman, and 
a member of the house-boat colony of that city, his tiny 
craft being the second one from the right in the picture, 
with a yawl-rigged boat, the Muggamma Chuddee, beside 
it. The letter: 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
While the Forest and Stream has turned its attent'on 
to almost everything within its province with great im- 
partility — barring, of course, a weakness for cutters — 
there is one class of vessel that I think has not received all 
I'LAN-AIIXIL-IARY HOUSE-BOAT-DESIGNED BY MESSRS. CLAY & TORBENSEN. 
one being 3oin. wide and the upper one 24in. wide. From 
this room, leading aft to the living room, is a passage with 
a storeroom, bathroom and a smaller stateroom 6ft. wide 
and 6ft. 6in. long on ei her side. The saloon or livmg 
room is 14ft. wide and 14ft. 6in. long, and has two sofa 
and two folding berths ; aft of the saloon is the engme 
room, adjoining which and on the port side is the galley. 
On the starboard side, opposite the galley and leading from 
the saloon, is the companionway which leads to the 
promenade deck, which is entirely covered by an awnmg. 
In the pilot house is a berth for the captam. In the 
engine room are two berths — one for the engmeer and 
one for the steward. In the drawmg, a motor is shown 
for a single screw, but the owner decided to have t\vm 
screws, and two 7-horse-power Coscob motors were in- 
stalled,' which drive the boat at seven to seven and a half 
miles an hour. Wateree has proved so roomy, compact 
and convenient on such light draft that several other boats 
have been built from the same plans. 
The plans of the house-boat designed by Messrs. 1 ams. 
Lemoine & Crane for Mr. J. B. MacDonough, former 
owner of the 46ft. Fife cutter Jessica, show a very whole- 
some type of house-boat. As she is to be used mostly on 
Long Island Sound and in the vicinity of . New \ ork her 
des-gner was not especially restricted as to draft and for 
that reason he was able to turn out an ideal vessel She is 
beino- built by Samuel xA-yers & Son, of Nyack N. Y. ihe 
boat^is looft. over all, 23ft. beam and 6ft. draft. She is 
fitted with a loo-horse-power engine that will drive her at 
a speed of eight knots. Her cabins are splendidly ar- 
ranged having been laid out with much care and study. 
Forward is the owner's room. loft. 6in. long, running the 
full w'd h of the boat; from the owner's room aft to the 
dining room is a passage 3ft. wide with bath and state- 
rooms on each side. On the starboard side next to the 
owner's room is a good sized bathroom Sft. 6m. long and 
sft wide and adjoining this room is the guest room. Sft. 
6iil" wide and gft. long. Next aft is a smaller sta eroom 
6ft by Sft. 6in.. and beyond that another room and the 
compan=onway leading to the deck saloon or observatory. 
On the port side aft of the owner's room is the owner s 
bathroom. 6ft. by loft.; next aft is a stateroom 5ft. by 
joft. ; adjoiping Ihis il the pnrsery, loft, by 13ft. ; ait of 
saloon is iSft. long and i6ft. wide in the clear; in the 
after end are three bath houses and the staircase leading 
to the ber.h deck. Companionways forward and aft lead 
to the lower deck. The boat is lighted throughout with 
electricity. 
Messrs. Clay & Torbenseu were among the first to 
realize the possibilities of the house-boat in American 
waters. The boat of their design, which appears in this 
week's issue, is 67ft. over all, i6ft. beam with twin screws, 
the engines being in the extreme after end, leaving a 
large amount of space in the body of the boat for the 
saloon, staterooms, etc. The kitchen is fit.ed with a range 
set in brick, and the ordinary appurtenances of a house 
on shore. The e^^timated speed of this boat is from five to 
six miles. 
The two following letters, with photographs and 
sketches that accompany ihem, were published in the 
columns of Forest and Stream ?ome time ago. and as 
the notice its merits entitle it to. The merits and de- 
merits, advantages and faults of the "hundred-tonner" 
and "half-rater," the canoe and the "sneak box" and the 
punt have all been discussed at length in the columns of 
Forest and Stream, but as far as my knowledge extends 
the gentle, retiring and unobtrusive "ark" or "house-b:at" 
has been singularly neglected. Being one of those who 
go down to the seaside in arks, it occurs to me to put in 
a small wee plea for this kind of aquatic property. 
Some sort of description of the "house-boat" will, I 
suppose, be the proper thing at this juncture. Firstly, it 
consists of a float or fla boat from 16 to 60ft. long (this 
and all other dimensions and details of this craft are gov- 
erned by the length of the proprietor's purse) and from 8 
to 40ft. wide, and from 17m. to 4ft. in depth. This is 
built entirely with an eye to strength and durab'li-y. and 
with no pretensions to model ; the sides straight, the ends 
sloping at an angle and the deck perfectly flush and level 
TrROUP OF HOUSP-BOATS, SAN FRANCISCO PAV. 
