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The 35ft. schooner Redskin III. was built by Embree, of 
Quincy Point, for the Sturtevant Brothers, and was 
launched in May, 1900. She is a centerboard boat of the 
new Skow type, and her original plans were made by 
Gardner & Cox, but numerous changes were made during 
the course of construction, and they do not lay any claim 
now to the design. She is 6ift. over all, 34ft. on the water- 
line, i6ft. beam, 4ft. 6in. draft and 3ft. least freeboard. 
Bolted to the hull is a hollow fin 13ft. long on the bottom 
and 3ft. deep. A centerboard 12ft. long and 3ft. wide 
houses in the fin. It is a solid steel plate 4in. thick and 
weighs about 2% tons. The rudder is hung on the after 
end of the fin and the steering wheel is in the forward 
end of the cockpit. The rudder fin centerboard and fittings 
weigh nearly 7 tons. The centerboard is raised by a 
powerful winch in the cabin. The hull is built with oak 
keel and frames and double planking, the inner being of 
cedar and the outer of yellow pine. The outer planking 
is screwed to the inner from the inside, so that the boat 
is free from all plugs that would cover fastenings. About 
60,000 screws were used in this work. The cabin house is 
24ft. long with over 6ft. headroom throughout its length. 
There is a stateroom with two berths on the starboard 
side of the companionway and a toilet room on the port 
side opposite. The cabin has the usual berths, lockers, 
etc., and is very roomy. Forward is the galle3^ reached 
by a companionway in the forward end of the cabin house. 
The pole mainmast is 71ft. and the foremast is 70ft. long. 
The main boom is 42ft. and the gaff 27ft. long. 
Yacht Qtfb Notes. 
The members of the Rochester Y. C. have unanimously 
accepted the invitation of the Buf¥alo Y. C. to attend the 
rendezvous of the L. Y. R. A. at Buffalo during the Pan- 
American Exposition next summer. The Buffalo Club 
has offered $2,500 in prizes for the races which have been 
pkmned. 
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The success of the contests carried on during the last 
season of the Seawanhaka Y. C. for the Centre Island 
cup has led the donor to offer a similar prize for com- 
petition during the coming season. This cup will also 
he known as the Centre Island cup, and will be open to 
competition by Seawanhaka knockabouts owned by club 
members. It will be awarded to the yacht having the 
highest record in a series of seven races on June 15 and 22, 
July 6, 20 and 27, and Aug. 10 and 17, based on the 
following system of scoring : 
In each race each yacht shall be cr-edited with a number 
of points equal tO' the number of yachts she defeats, with 
one point added as a premium for entry. A yacht which 
starts and does not finish, or is disqualified, will receive 
no points, but will be counted as a defeated, yacht in 
assigning points to her competitors. In order to qualify 
for the series prize a yacht must start in at least five 
of the seven races above sclieduled. No yacht shall be 
counted in awarding points to others after it has become 
impossible for her to qualify in this series. 
The record of a yacht shall be the percentage which 
t1ie total number of points to her credit at the end of 
the series bears to the total number of points she would 
have recei\^ed had she won every race in which she started. 
Two yachts at least must start to constitute a race. 
In addition to the cup to be awarded to the winner of 
the series, the club will present a second prize to the 
yacht finishing second on the same system of scoring, and 
to the winner of each individual race the usual pewter 
mug, provided no other prizes are arranged for. 
Should the yacht winning the first or second prize in the 
above series have been manned with a strictly Corinthian 
crew in all her races the club will present individual 
Corinthian prizes to each member of her crew. 
Should the offer of the Centre Island cup result _ in 
arousing sufficient interest, the donor purposes continuing 
the gift annually, for such classes as may be determined 
upon, as long as the interest justifies it. 
The Race Committee of the club will continue the 
"Corinthian list" the coming season. Of it, the com- 
mittee says : 
For the benefit of those who are not familiar with the 
purposes of this list it may be well to say that it is in- 
tended to be a record, or list, of amateurs who may desire' 
to act as members of crews of racing yachts during the 
coming season, and who will be willing to attend at races 
and for practice purposes with as much regularity as may 
be practicable'. The "Founder's Fund" has been estab- 
lished, the income of which is to be applied for the pur- 
pose of "encouraging racing in small yachts manned by 
amateurs, and of encouraging attainment of proficiency in 
all other matters relating to seamanship." 
When the list is made up the committee will send a 
copy to the owners of racing yachts and invite them to 
organize their crews from the persons appearing on -the 
list. 
"The club," the committee says, "has had an enviable 
record for amateur racing in the past, and we hope that 
the junior members especially will co-operate with us in 
this renewed efi^ort to revive the old spirit." 
The general yachting fever due to the coming inter- 
national races extended to Auburn, N. Y., on Monday, 
March 18, when delegates from central and western New 
York yacht clubs, representing a- membership of over 
700, met at the Osborne House to form an association to 
be known as the Interlake Yacht Racing Association. 
The delegates were from the following clubs : The Syra- 
cuse Y. C, the Lakeside Y. C, of Ithaca; 
the Sheldrake Y. C, the Frontenac Y. C, of 
Union Springs ; the Canandaigua Y. C, the Skaneateles 
Y. C. the Seneca Falls Y. C. and the Owasco Lake Y. C. 
The object of the Association is to promote amateur racing 
and yachting and to systematize the racing plans for the 
coming season. The first two weeks in August were 
named for the first series of races on Cayuga Lake. On 
Decoration Day a race will take place at Ithaca, and a 
regatta, course to be decided upon, will occur on July 4. 
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Mr. Charles D, Mosher lectured on "High Speed in 
Steam Vessels" to a large number of the members ot the 
YftelitsmeiV^ QVi% % "\Y^<ine§day evening-. Mar^^ f% 
