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will get the biggest prizes, no matter what his means. 
Now if the smaller club persists in holding to its schedule 
it will simply become a matter of who gives the greatest 
inducements. In such a case the outcome of the races 
in the smaller club can be easily foretold. The larger 
club will increase its racing fleet, but general racing in 
Massachusetts Bay will suffer, and the popular classes will 
die out instead of increasing. It has been distinctly proven 
that attempts at confining racing to one small district are 
rank failures and that the sport suffers in consequence. 
At Lawley's, Illinois, the Pynchon syndicate defender 
of the Canada cup, is about completed, and she is a 
very slick looking craft. The men who have worked on 
her are very enthusiastic and swear by her. The Sloane 
85ft. schooner is all in frame, as is the Bar Harbor 25- 
footer. The Parsons 46-footer is all planked. The Pea- 
body 25-footer is nearly completed. An 85ft. steamer, de- 
signed by C. H. Crane for Edmund Randolph, is ready 
to be laid down. The frames will be set up on the Eno 
i2oft. steamer this week. A 70ft. steamer and a 3S-footer, 
of Binney design, will be started soon. 
The Boston Y. C. will attempt to revive the racing 
spirit of its members this year by giving an open Y. R. A. 
race, which is to be held June 29. There will also be a 
club cruise to Marblehead and Gloucester on June 15, 16 
and 17. Twelve new yachts have been built during the 
winter for members of this club, and there is a bunch of 
Y. R. A. racers among them. 
John B, Killeen. 
Endymion and Ellida. 
By courtesy of Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of 
Tarns, Lemoine & Crane, we are able to reproduce in this 
issue the cabin and sail plans of two highly successful 
cruising boats that were designed by the above firm. 
Although the designs represent wide extremes as _ to 
size, Endymion being looft. on the waterline, while Ellida 
measures but 28ft., yet both the boats have been remark- 
ably successful as cruisers. 
Endymion was owned by the late George Lord Day, who 
did not live to take many cruises in the vessel, but who 
had the satisfaction of winning one of the greatest honors 
that a cruising yacht could achieve, that of breaking the 
ocean record for yachts. Endymion started on her first 
cruise from New York at noon on Jan. 31, 1900, and 
reached Bermuda on Feb. 3, the run being made in seven- 
ty-one and a half hours. From Bermuda she touched at 
Barbadoes on Feb. 16 (1,200 miles in five days) and ar- 
rived at Trinidad the next day. The cruise was continued 
all through the West Indies, the yacht finally returning to 
New York on April 18. From Cape Charles Lightship to 
Winter Quarter Shoal, about 61 nautical miles, Endytnion 
sailed in four hours and eighteen minutes, making at times 
fourteen knots an hour. Endymion made a remarkable 
run on her outward voyage from Sandy Hook to South- 
ampton. The following figures are taken _ from Endy- 
mion's log for the passage across the Atlantic. The runs 
given are from noon to noon, and as about one-half an 
hour a day is lost on the eastward run across the Atlantic, 
the runs were made in practically twenty-three and one- 
half hours, and not twenty- four hours. The upper figures 
are from the mate's log and the lower figures from the 
skipper's. The lower figures are corrected for distances 
through the water and are more nearly accurate than the 
others : 
June 21, 3 :32, Sandy Hook Lightship abeam. 
July 
22, noon 
23 
24 
25 
26 
27 
28 
29 
30 
I 
2 
3 
4 
218 
222 
214 
264 
222 
200 
226 
270 
144 
215 
268 
291 
259 
3,013 
40.38 
40- 54 
41.23 
41- 55 
42.3 
43.22 
44.24 
45- 1 1 
45.38 
45.36 
46.46 
47-47 
49-25 
68.27 
63-35 
59.40 
53-52 
48.53 
44-50 
39-49 
33-34 
30.15 
25-2 
19.18 
12.46 
6.40 
June 22 
33 
24 
25 
26 
27 
28 
29 
30 
I 
2 
3 
4 
July 
218 
222 
213 
266 
222 
188 
234 
273 
144 
230 
256 
298 
268 
3,032 
At 12:30 passed Scilly Island, twelve days sixteen 
hours; at 4 P. M. passed Land's End, twelve days and 
twenty hours; at 5:08 P. M., July 5, passed Needles; at 
6:30 anchored at Cowes. 
This works out a daily average for the whole distance 
of 236 knots per day, or nearly ten knots an hour for the 
whole distance. The greatest day's run showed an aver- 
age of thirteen knots an hour for the twenty-four hours, 
which is good as compared with any sailing vessel's daily 
average ever made. 
The largest figures shown in Crowninshield's account of 
the privateer America are very much less than these. She 
beat the record held by Mr. James Gordon Bennett's 
schooner Henrietta by- nearly two hours. Endymion was 
built at the yard of George Lawley & Son Corp., South 
Boston, and' was launched on Nov. 18, 1899, and is a 
splendid example of the fine work turned out by these 
builders. The yacht is of composite construction, the 
frames being of steel, the planking of yellow pine and the 
deck fittings of teak. While in England she_ was hauled 
out. recaulked and coppered. Her dimensions are as 
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Length — 
Over all 
136ft. 
