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FOREST AND STREAM. 
Third — To all schooner-rigged sailing yachts ; prize, sil- 
ver cup valued at $1,000. 
Fourth — To all single-masted sailing yachts measuring 
not over 7sft. in length on the load waterline ; prize, silver 
cup valued at $750. 
Fifth — To all single-masted sailing yachts measuring not 
over 65ft. in length on the load waterline; prize, silver 
cup valued at $750. 
Sixth — To all single-masted sailing yachts measuring 
not over 51ft. sailing length under the rules of the New- 
York Y. C. ; prize, silver cup valued at $500. 
Seventh — To all schooner-rie-aed fishing vessels, to be 
sailed for without time allowance; prizes, $1,000, $500 
and $250. 
The courses for yachts will be triangular, clear df all 
headlands, about 30 miles in length, with, starting line off 
Boston Lightship. 
As most of the yachts which are likely to compete in 
these races were built under the rules of the New York 
Y, C, time allowance and measurement for time allow- 
ance will be based upon these rules. 
The racing rules of the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. will 
govern except as otherwise specified. 
Entries may be sent to Charles E. Hodges, secretary of 
the committee, 40 Water street, Boston, and should specify 
the length on the load waterline and racing length. 
The start of the race will be so arranged that the fisher- 
men and yachts will not interfere. 
David Barrie, Sir Thomas Lipton's American repre- 
sentative, was in Boston this week for the purpose of 
' securing a tender for Shamrock II. He looked over the 
Bay Line steamer Cape Cod, and had a conference with 
the directors of the company that owns her in regard 
to chartering. When Mr. Barrie left for New York 
Thursday night nothing definite had been settled. He will 
return to Boston on Monday, when it is expected the busi- 
ness will be finished up. It is thought that Mr. Barrie 
will take the Cape Cod. 
Work in the yards is still on the boom. Lawley has all 
that he can attend to. The keel of the Y, R. A. 21- 
footer for Starling Burgess was laid this week, and the 
keel of the Y. R. A. 21-footer for H. H. Wiggin, of the 
Annisquam Y. C, will be set up next week. Mclntyre, of 
Neponset, is busy with the four i8-footers designed by 
Starling Burgess. Hanley, of Quincy Point has all he 
can attend to in the Canada cup defender and two Y. R. 
A. 25-footers. Smith launched two boats last week. 
John B. PCilleen. 
required by the proposed rule. 
This summer we will have some foreign naval architects 
with us. Cannot we get them together in consultation 
with our designers here and an international rule be sug- 
gested that will be acceptable to everybody? 
Modification of the English rule to suit American con- 
ditions ; 
C. L. -1- v57A. -f .6B -i- .6C. G. -f G. D. 
The New Measurement Rule. 
The following interesting letter has been received 
from one of the best known yachtsmen in America. His 
comments on the new rule, adopted by the Seawanhaka 
Corinthian and Larchmont yacht clubs, clearly indicates 
that he has given the subject careful consideration. Any 
of the three modified rules suggested by him are thought 
to be superior by many yachtsmen to the rule recently 
adopted : 
The same old question involved Ln all yacht measure- 
ment rules is presented as to how the fully developed 
racer can be handicapped and penalized to enable the 
family cruiser of slow speed to beat her in the races and 
take away from her all the prizes. 
A rule may be all right, as applied to existing boats, and 
may accomplish the results desired of putting the racing 
yacht, so to speak, out of it and bringing into prominence 
as a mug winner the steady old family wagon of the fleet ; 
but, if when the problem involved in the building of new 
boats to meet the new conditions is undertaken, and the 
designer finds that, as the expression is, "he is able to 
drive a horse and cart through the rule," and a boat of the 
most pronounced freak t3'pe is the only possible product of 
the remedial legislation, one can understand how im- 
portant it is for clubs to act in these matters deliberately 
and advisedly in arriving at a conclusion. 
The important point, therefore, in any rule, is not so 
much how it will affect existing boats, but what kind of 
yachts will have to be built to take all the advantage pos- 
sible of its limitations. 
It is not assuming a great deal to say that among the 
American designers who have given the rule any con- 
sideration, there would be few who would not undertake 
to produce designs which would show the restrictions of 
the rule to be entirety ineffectual to accomplish the ob- 
jects desired. 
The normal boat, the ignis' fatuus of the cruising, and 
would-be, at the same time, racing yacht, will never 
materialize in successful form in the yacht racing fleet. 
Normal dimensions do not prevent abnormal features. 
Any rule which brings racers in the regular classes back 
to the level of cruisers checks progress in designing. 
It is a very dangerous thing to make rules which limit 
the development of speed in racing yachts. It may be 
proper to limit sail area to length, or to displacement, but 
imposing penalties and limitations on form or design is a 
dangerous departure to make in j^acht measurement. 
The measurement rule for the regular classes should 
leave the designer as free as possible, and limitations of 
dimensions and form should be made applicable to special 
design classes only. 
One of the most notable defects apparent in the rule is 
the dropping down much below the limits of the class of 
boats heretofore at the upper limits of their class. 
This is noticeable in the 75ft. class of schooners. 
There will be this season in the racing four schooners 
built to the top of the present class, which, under the new 
rule, would measure some 5ft. below their class limit. 
The opportunities that would be afforded the designer of a 
new boat to put these four schooners entirely out of the 
racing must be apparent to even the most inexperienced, 
racing man. 
The same may be said of the operation of the rule in 
the 51ft. class of sloops. 
The advantage of taking the area of the submerged 
midship section, overtaking the measurements of the 
outline of the same, is not apparent. The English system 
of taking the midship section measurements is in every 
respect simpler and_ better. 
The outline or girth of the submerged midship section 
affords a suggestion of an easy solution of the problem 
of effectually and equitably penalizing abnormal propor- 
tions of the midship section without the necessity of in- 
yokijjg the involved measurements and calculations of area 
2.5 
C. L'. = L. Y. C. rule corrected length. 
S. A. = sail area. 
B. = extreme beam. 
C. G. = chain girth. 
D. G. = difference between chain and skin girth. 
Modification of the Larchmont rule I. 
C. L. 4- \'S7a. + G. D. 
2.1 
.Syce 50.8 
C. L. = corrected length as in L. Y. C. R. 
G. D. = girth difference between skin and chain girth. 
Modification of the Larchmont rule II. 
^ . . 7^ — T , ^ ( Amorita 73'73 
C. L.4- VS. A. -f-M.S. M . j -Wasp r,o.50 
2.1 I Syce 49.85 
C. L. = corrected length = length of L.W.L. + beam 
at L.W.L. taken at one-eighth of its length from fore 
end + beam at L.W.L. taken at one-eighth of its length 
from after end — greatest beam at L.W.L. 
S. A. = sail area = taken as heretofore. 
M. S. M. = midship section measurement = .9 of skin 
girth of submerged midship section, less the sum of the 
extreme L.W.L. beam and the extreme draft. 
Design for an Open Launch* 
Owners are beginning to realize the many advantages 
to be had by using power boats for tenders to their yachts. 
The additional comfort derived and the time saved com- 
pensate for the additional expense put into such a boat. 
The launch plans which appear in this issue were de- 
signed for Mr. W. C. Allison, of Philadelphia, Pa. He 
will use her as a tender to his 32ft. cruising cutter, plans 
of which were reproduced in Forest and Stream Feb. 23, 
1901. Both of these boats were designed by Mr. B. B. 
Crowninshield, and were built this winter by the Geo. 
Lawley & Son Corp., of South Boston, Mass. The Allison 
launch is a handsome boat with a square transom and full 
waterlines forward. She will make a fast and dry boat in 
all weather. The cockpit, which is forward, is large and 
roomy. Her dimensions are as follows: 
Length- 
Over all 23 ft. 4 in. 
L.W.L 2ift 10 m. 
Overhang — 
Forward S^-gin. 
Aft 9Hin. 
Beam — 
Extreme 5ft. 7^in. 
L.W.L 5ft. S^in. 
Freeboard- 
Bow ^ft. 6S4in. 
Taffrail ift gVs'm. 
Least ift. 5 m- 
Draft- 
Extreme ift. 10 m. 
To rabbet ift. 3 in. 
Displacement 3,727lbs. 
She will be driven by a 2-horse-power Gas Engine and 
Power Co. and Chas. L. Seabury Co. engine. 
Gren, Bwtlef and the Yacht America. 
In the article entitled the "History of the Develop- 
ment of the Racing Yacht" which appears in these 
columns this week, mention is made of the yacht Amer- 
ica during the time she was owned by Gen. Benjamin 
F. Butler. In this connection the following iriteresting 
note from a contemporary issue of the N. Y. Sun dem- 
onstrates that the boat was in the hands of an owner 
who was a thorough yachtsman; 
Gen. Butler's hobby is his yacht America. She lies 
now in Boston harbor, with a crew aboard, and some 
day soon, when the notion takes him and a big storm 
threatens, he will take a cab, drive at full tilt for her 
wharf, and start for some place beyond the reach of tele- 
grams. When he took his Southern trip in his yacht 
from Fortress Monroe last spring, he waited before going 
to sea- until he could get a good northwest storm. When 
Gen. Hazen of the Weather Bureau, in response to his 
telegrams, sent him word that a northwest wind was 
coming, and that it was probably strong enough to suit 
him. Gen. Butler crowded on all the sail he could, set- 
tled himself in the cockpit, planted his arms akimbo and 
audaciously faced the storm. The America skimmed the 
waves with such speed that Gen. Butler declared that he 
would yet sail into some European port with her and 
astonish the timid yachtsmen. He puffs away all care 
at the end of his finger tips when he treads the deck of 
the America, eats four meals a day, has a game of penny 
ante with his guests at night, and is up early the next 
day looking out for a storm. If there could be found a 
sea of perpetual storms. Gen. Butler would probably 
make for it. There are enough amusing stories told of 
his adventures at sea to fill a summer book of fun. It is 
said that his yacht never yet carried enough sail for him, 
and that he has not yet met a storm that has even dis- 
turbed him. Sometimes his sturdy old captain (Mr. 
Reed"), who is as strong-minded in his way as Gen. But- 
ler is in his. has a wordy encounter with the General 
about the chances the latter seems to have to take, and 
once he is said "to have told Gen. Butler to take his " 
old yacht," and run it as he pleased, when in face of the 
trepidation of the crew and the prudence of the Captain, 
the General wanted to crowd on more sail. Mr. Reed 
tells of several hairbreadth escapes, as well as amusing 
adventures, he has had with Gen. Butler at sea, and some 
of his crew have predicted that if Gen. Butler dies at all. 
he will become food for whales. When the storm runs 
so high as to make every one on board seasick except 
the captain and the owner. Gen. Butler is sure to be 
found seated in the cockpit, with his old, mysterious 
smile curving about his face. 
Yacht Guh Notes. 
The Indian Harbor Y. C, whose house is near Green- 
wich, Conn., is first in the field of the Sound clubs, with a 
cup valued at $500 for a race of the 90-footers, to 
windward and leeward, seven and a half miles each way, 
to be sailed over twice, making a total distance of thirty 
miles. This race will take place probably in the last 
week of June. 
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The yacht clubs on Gravesend Bay have formed an 
association which is called the Gi-avesend Bay Yacht 
Racing Association. The clubs in the Association are the 
Atlantic, Marine and Field and Brooklyn Yacht Clubs 
and New York C. C. 
At the meeting to complete the organization, which 
was held at the Yachtmen's Club, Manhattan, on Mon- 
day evenmg, April 1 5, the organizing clubs were repre- 
sented by delegates, as follows: Atlantic Y. C, George 
Hill; Brooklyn Y. C, John R. Brophy and P. H. Jean- 
not; Marine and Field Club, Arthur Clapp; New York 
C. C, Capt. Speer and Barron Fredricks. 
George Hill acted as chairman and Arthur P, Clapp 
as secretary. The rules of the Long Island Sound were 
adopted and it was agreed that handicap races should be 
arranged, the handicaps being figured on past perform- 
ances. The following schedule was arranged: 
June I, Atlantic Y. C, all classes; 8, Brooklyn Y. C, 
open regatta; 15, New York C. C, annual regatta; 22, 
Marine and Field Club, open regatta; 29, Atlantic Y. C, 
regatta; July 4, Gravesend Bay Yacht Racing Associa- 
tion, first open regatta, all classes open to yachts en- 
rolled in club fleets; Aug. 3, Atlantic Y. C. ; 10, Brook- 
lyn Y. C; 17, New York C. C, midsummer regatta; 31, 
Marine and Field Club, regatta; Sept. 2, Gravesend Bay 
Yacht Racing Association, second series of races; 7, At- 
lantic Y. C, races; 14. Brooklyn Y. C, fall races; 21, 
New York C. C, fall regatta. 
It is announced that King Edward will resign the post 
of Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron. He will 
become, instead, its patron, in the place of the late Queen 
Victoria. 
The annual meeting and election of officers of the Amer- 
ican Model Y. C. was held at the Liberty Hotel, Fulton 
street, near Clark street, Brooklyn. The election resulted 
as follows: Com., James H. Lane; Vice-Com., John C. 
Meyer; Sec'y. George F. Pigott; Treas., George W. 
Townley; Meas., William Heme; Board of Trustees, 
Michael Ondosko, John C. Meyers and Edward Antenen. 
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Mr. James Baird, of the Larchmont Y, C, has resigned 
as Rear-Commodore of the club, and Cora. Adams has ap- 
pointed in his place Mr, Fred Hoyt, the owner of Isolde. 
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The Cohasset Y. C. has elected the following-named 
officers and committees for 1901 : 
Com., Dr. John Bryant; Vice-Corn., Daniel H. Tower ;- 
Sec'y and Treas, Charles H. Cousens; Executive Com- 
mittee, William H. Crane, Charles W. Gammons, Amos 
A. Lawrence, Lyman D. Willcutt, George W. Collier; 
House Committee, Samuel C. Bates, Russell B. Tower, 
Paul J. Bates; Membership Committee, Harold B. Cou- 
sens. William C. Appleton, Burgess C. Tower, Sheldon 
N. Ripley, F. R. Pegram, H. E. Mapes, E. F. Willcutt; 
Regatta Committee. Ralph B. Williams, Arthur O. Hig- 
gins, Francis J. Moore, Frederick H. Piatt, James Dean. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
Mr. Robert P. Doremus, N. Y. Y. C, has purchased 
from- Mr. N. C. Nash, of Boston, through' the agency of 
Mr. Frank Bowne Jones, the schooner yacht Loyal. 
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The Taunton Yacht Works is building a Crowninshield- 
designed yawl for Mr. Sanford, of New' York cit}^ She 
is Sift, over all, 30ft. waterline, lift, beam and draws 
6ft. 6in. Work has begun on a 27ft. racing boat for Mr. 
Gilpin, of Philadelphia. 
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Mr. R. D. Evans, N. Y. Y. C, has .sold his auxiliary 
schooner yacht Lesbia to Mr. W. H. Bromley, Philadel- 
phia, through the agency of Messrs. Gardner & Cox. 
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Mr. A. B. Hart, of St. Louis, has bought from Mr, John 
H. Cromwell, of Newark, N. J., through the agency of 
Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane, the schooner yacht 
Scimitar. 
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The schooner yacht Wayward has been sold by Mr. 
Charles Smithers, N. Y. Y. C, through the agency of Mr. 
A. J. Mcintosh, to Mr. Frank W. Duryea, N. Y. Y. C. 
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The steam j'acht Wanda has been chartered by Mr. G. 
Searing Wilson, N, Y. Y, C, through the agency of Mr. 
A. J. Mcintosh, to the Associated Press for the races to 
be held by the New York Y. C. 
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Mr. A. P. Bliven has sold the following boats through 
his agency: Schooner yacht Woodmansie. by Edward F. 
Cole, to Dr. B. F. Curtis; sloop Flora, by Mr. H, H. Lan 
don to Mr. James N. Norris, of Brooklyn. N. Y. 
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Mr. William C. Whitney has chartered the twin screw 
steam yacht Artemis from Mr. Frederick G. Bourne, 
N. Y. Y. C. 
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The fast steam yacht Kanawha has been sold through 
•the Gas Engine and Power Co. & Charles Seabury & Co. 
The name of the buyer has not been announced. 
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The schooner yacht Southern Cross, owned by Mr. 
Edward F. Cole, N. Y. Y. C., is having new spars and 
sails and a general overhauling at Bridgeport, Conn. 
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The steam yacht Mayita, which hfi? been purchased by 
