y, lool.l 
although by this decision, the Association loses the op'- 
porttinit3^ for a decided revival of that intefestihg class, it 
will not lose yachts, for the majority of those who con- 
templated building 30-footers are going to build for the 
i-'Sft. and 2ift. restricted classes. 
One thing that is calculated to bring out a great interest 
in the 25ft. restricted class is the advent of a yacht from 
Ilerreshoff's board for Lawrence Percival, of the Cor- 
inthian and Burgess yacht clubs. For some years none 
but Massachusetts designers have been represented in this 
class, and it is interesting to know just how the local 
men will fare against the avowed invincible. They do not 
seem to have any fears of the Bristol man. but, on the 
contrary, arc very anxious to compete with his models. 
Burgess and Crowninshield are the only ones, at pres- 
ent, who are at work on Y. R. A. 25-footers. Burgess has 
three and Crowninshield one. It is not known that Han- 
ley has one in prospect, but it w^ould not be surprising 
if both he and Shiverick are represented before the sea- 
son opens. So keen is the competition for next season's 
racing that most of the yachtsmen who have placed 
orders have given strict commands that their names be not 
to be divulged. There seems to be no valid reason for 
this except that they wish to figure as dafk horses. One 
of the Burgess ix)ats, a 28ft. yawl, rating 25ft., is known 
to be for Vice-Corn. Walter Burgess, of the Boston Y. C, 
but the other two still remain in the dark. Crownin- 
shield's 25-footer is for F. G. Macomber, Jr., of the 
Corinthian and Burgess yacht clubs, who is very de- 
.siroirs of booming the class. Mr. Macomber was the 
owner of Chewink, which showed up well in last season's 
races. 
But the star class will be the restricted 21-footers. As 
in the larger class, some of the prospective owners of new 
ones wish to be unknown at present, but there are enough 
on the ilst of open ones to insure the greatest number 
of entries the cla s has ever known. It is known that 
nine of these boats are to be built, and there seem to be 
prospects for more. Four of the new 21-footers 
will he designed by Crowninshield. They are for Charles 
Francis Adams, 2<1 ; C. H. W. Foster. Richard Hutchin- 
son and Charles Hayden and Arthur H. Parker. Burgess 
has two — one for Sumner H. Foster, who raced Opitsah 
III. during the i)ast season, and the other for a dark 
horse fi-om Marbleliead. It was learned to-day that Small 
Brothers are to design two, Init the owners are not known. 
Vice-Com. H. H. Wiggin, of the Annisquam Y. C, has 
said that he will build a new one to take the place of 
Tabasco 111., and there is little doubt that Fred Lawley's 
order is from him. It is possible that Reginald Board- 
man, of the Manchester Y. C. will order a new one. 
Burgess. Crownin-hield and Small Brothers have orders 
for i8ft. knockabouts, and there is little doubt that this 
cla:ss will be as much in favor as during the past season. 
The members of the Knockabout Association have got the 
Corinthian bug, and at their meeting Friday evening, it 
was voted that a new rule he established, making it 
compulsory for the yachts to he sailed by amateurs, each 
of whom must be a member of the club in which the yacht 
is enrolled. The final outcome of this measure will de- 
pend on whether the Yacht Racing Association of Massa- 
chusetts will adopt it in its rules governing the class. 
If the Association should not adopt the rule there woidd 
likely be a combination of professional and amateur 
skippers in the open races. 
The yacht yards are commencing to fill up; Borden's 
beach is nearly full, and Hanley has a number in the 
basin and on the beach, while Lawley's basin and yard are 
filled. In Lawley's basin are the steam yachts Yalda, 
Dreamer, Cloelia, Aquilo, Peregrine. Telka, Avenel, My 
Gypsy, Attaguim and Elida ; sailing yachts, Hildegarde, 
Senta. Alert. Clarissa, auxiliary schooner Idler, Hope 
Leslie. Ivanhoe, Alborak. Jubilee. Charmer, Coronilla, 
Petrel, Ventura, Elaine. Gorilla. Verande, Indra and 
Triton. On the beach are the steam yachts Monoloa 
Ilybius. Iris, Sally, Eugenia, Anago and Apache; sailing 
yachts. Sybyl, pundred, Gloriana, Shark, Milicete. King 
Philip, Vidofner, Sirona, Heron. Halaia. Rowena, Oeewa, 
Hullabaloo, Anaqua, Suzette. Helene, Bobs. Rip, Paola, 
Helen, Brigand, Melusina. Idle Hour, Handzel, Vraik, 
Babs; Chappequoit, Julnar, Hyperion, Virginia, Oriana, 
Tabasco III,, Ursula. Aspinette, Dixey, Squeteague, Sally 
Parsons, Pepper, Guide, Kate C, Edith, Melma, Polly, 
Wafreda. Hulda. Minister and The Wind. 
There is to be a class of one-design sailing dories at the 
South Boston Y. C. The design has been drawn by 
Saniuel Coupal. of Crowninshield's office, and the boats 
are likely to be built by Graves, of Marblehead. A class 
of these boats were sailed at the Dorchester Y. C. during 
the past .season with much success, and there is good 
prospect of interclub racing next season. Six new ones 
have been ordered by members of the South Bo.ston Y. C, 
and it is expected that more are to follow. 
Crowninshield has an order for a 35ft. launch for F. W. 
Merrick and a 12ft. fin-keel scow for George Lee. 
Small Brothers are designing a 50ft. auxiliary yawl for 
C. C. Warren, of Sandusky. O. ; a 31ft. cruising yawl 
for F. C. Rogers, of Providence : an iSft. knockabout, 
two 21-footers, Y. R. A., and a 23ft. cruising yawl. 
Isaac B. Mills has an order for one of the largest 
cruising schooners that has been designed here for a 
nuni.ber of years. She will he 104ft. on the waterline. 
123ft. over all. 25.3ft. beam and 12.5ft. draft. She will 
be built at Gloucester, and, like the fishermen that are 
turned out at that port, she will be very heavily timbered. 
Slu V II have all the interior fittings of the modern cruis- 
ir"-' schooner. Mills also has an order for a .30ft. cruising 
1'n.d Lawley is working on designs for a 46ft. auxiliary 
a 50ft. auxiliary schooner, a 21ft. auxiliary knock- 
.■'li-ut. a'Y. R. A. 2i-footer, an 18ft. knockabout and a 
:.5:t. speed launch. John B. Killeex. 
Y. R. A, of Longf Island Sound* 
On Thursday. Oct. 31, delegates of the different clubs 
belonging to the Yacht Racing .Association of Long 
Islaiid Sound met at the Hotel Manhattan. New York 
city, to discuss the advisability of accepting the new 
rating rule that has been recently adopted by the Larch- 
mont and Seawanhaka Corinthian j'acht clubs. 
Th enieeting was called at the suggestion of the Sea- 
wanhaka Corinthian Y. C. the members of which club 
felt that unless all the clubs and the Association 
race under one rule there would be constant friction and 
trouble. The majority of the delegates representing the 
different clubs are not in favor of the rule, but all felt 
that it would be disastrous for the two largest clubs on 
tli£ Sound — namely, the Larchmont and Seawanhaka 
Corinthian— to race imder one rule while the Association 
was racing under another,' and rather than have this state 
of affairs exist, it would be better for them (the Associa- 
tion) to adopt the rule, even should it prove a poor one 
for them to continue under the present rule. 
Some amendments were suggested, and it was finally 
agreed that the Executive Committee of the Association 
should confer with the Larchmont and Seawanhaka 
Corinthian yacht clubs with the idea that some modifica- 
tions could be made that would make the rule suitable 
to all. On Friday, Nov. 15, another meeting will be 
held, and at this time the committee will report as to the 
result of the conference. 
It is greatly to be regretted that the present unfortu- 
nate state of affairs exists, and it is due in a measure to 
the fact that the Larchmont Y. C, the largest and most 
influential club on the Sound, does not belong to the 
Association. Their strength is so great that the Asso- 
ciation is forced in many ways to await any action that 
the Larchmont may take, and make their arrangements in 
accordance. If the Larchmont Y. C. belonged to the As- 
sociation all this would be obviated. The Larchmont Y. 
C. can get along without the Assoiation better than the 
Association can get along without it, and that club feels 
by joining that it has nothing to gain, and perhaps some- 
thing to lose. The Association should be supported, and 
not until all the clubs on tlie Sound are united can there 
be harmony and success. 
At the City Island Yards* 
All the builders at City Island with the exception of 
Hawkins have had a very busy fall hauling yachts and 
getting them berthed in their winter quarters. The 
autumn has been so open and the weather so perfect for 
sailing that a number of owners have deferred laying 
up their boats I ill the last minute, and there are several 
boats still in the water. 
At Hawkins' yard tliere are but four l)oats, and the 
beach looks bare. The cup defender Columbia is there; 
she has been entirely stripped .and her mast removed. A 
shed has bc-'n built over her deck, .and her topsails and 
bottom will he protected by canvass. The 70-footer Mine- 
ola, the 46ft. fin-keel cutter Carmita and Departure com- 
plete the !i.st at Hawkins'. 
At Robinson's yard, which adjoins Hawkins', are the 
following: William Ringler's steam yacht Comet and the 
steam yacht Pioneer. The sloops in the yard include 
Bradley Eaton's Tomah, T. W. Sattcrthwait's Olga, 
James Paul, Jr.'s, Momo, J. R. Collin's Rambler, T. Hub- 
bard's Marjorie, William Wood's Ladona, M. W. Bron- 
son's Trociiilusj W. W. Hall's Nautus, R. Di-yer's yawl 
Clytie, William Anderson's yawl Active, T. M. Hall's 
catboat Pastime, the cutters Carita and Hispaniola, and 
the catboat Juanita, and Jessie, Mignon. Nomad, Flora, 
Mystic, Ventura and Ondawa. 
Robert Jacobs has in his basin and yard already some 
fifty steam yachts, schooners and sloops. In the basin 
are these steam yachts: Archibald Watt's Golden Rod, 
E. H. Townsend's Bo Peep, and G. Hansel's Alemeda. 
Other steam yachts in the yard are: Howland Leavitt's 
Rush, Charles J. Miller's Mariquita, Clark Miller's Wol- 
verine, John D. Criramins' Christine, and E. H. 
Weatherbee's Twinkle. Mr. Jacobs also has William 
Brewster's schooner Elmina, W. G. Brokaw's schooner 
Amorita, C. H. Clemens' yawl Adventurer, and William 
C. Whitney's bath-boat. 
Among the sloops are L. H. Smith's Queen Mab, 
George E. Tde's Cara, Joseph Fallert's Scapha, WiUiam 
M. Fleiss' Josephine, Georige F. Parker, Jr.'s, Razma- 
tang, William Jackson's Walre, John Woodbury's Ade- 
laide, William Putnam's Hus.sar L, R. T. Wainwright's 
Natahka, LI. G. Noble's Gwendolen, H. O. Havemeyer, 
Jr.'s, Esperanza, R. N. Ellis' Hera. Charles Stewart's 
While Away, J. D. Biliard's Tempus. Frank Touccy's 
Nirvana, J. M. Ellsworth's Lorelei. R. H. Eggleston's 
Sunshine, William Barnum's Ala, M. W. Barball's Tona, 
T. D. Young, Jr.'s, Chipmunk, J. M. Laidlaw's Geral- 
dine, M. Vernon's Vivien, Clifford Brokaw's Mab II., 
A. H. Landon's Lucille, Charles M. Pratt's Shrimp, 
Charles Hart's Simita, F. L. Rosenwald's Irex, David 
Gregg. Jr.'s, Po.'^sum, John Hy.slop's Fern, E. H. 
Weatherbee's Bubble, Charles Johnston's Arna, Dwight 
Braman's Fredonia, Charles Pratt's O'Shima, and the 
Hester, the Indra and the .Atala. 
Mr. Jacob is building for Mr. Grier Hirsh, of York, 
Pa., from designs made by Mr. C. D. Mower, an aux- 
iliary cruising yawl. This boat is now being planked, and 
will be completed about Dec. r. When finished Mr. 
Mower will take the boat, with several friends, to Florida, 
where she is to be used. She is 27ft. on the waterline, 
38ft. over all, lift. 6in. beam, and i8in. draft. The sail 
plan contains 850 sq. ft. She is equipped with a five horse- 
power Snedeker motor. There is 6ft. headroom in the 
cabin, which is 8ft. long with a berth on either side. 
Forward on the port side is the lavatory, and opposite is 
the gallery. The boat has oak frames and is planked with 
yellow pine. 
Mr. Jacob will also build an auxiliary cruising 
schooner from designs made by Mr. Llenry Wintering- 
ham for Mr. Frank St. John, the present owner of the 
46ft. cutter Nautilus. 
The English cutter Queen Mab is to be partly rebuilt. 
Her copper has been taken oft', and she is to have a new 
deck and some new planking and frames. This work is 
being done by Mr. Jacob. 
At Wood's yard are the following boats: J, B. ^Mills' 
Kestrel, Roger Maxwell's Hummer. Harry Maxwe'l's 
Leda. J. S. Wood's Infanta, and Clifford Brokaw's Dor- 
wina. 
The cruising cutter that Mr. Wood is building for Mr. 
George Bidlock, of Cincinnati, from designs made by 
Messrs. Gardner & Cox. is now in frame. She is a hand- 
some boat of a healthy type, and will make a fine 
cruiser. She is of semi-composite construction, and Air. 
Wood is putting most superior work in her. The boat 
will be finished by the first of December, and will be 
taken to Na,ssau, Bahama Islands, her owner intending 
to use it for winter cruising in the West Indies. 
A. Hansen, whose South Brooklyn yard has been ab- 
sorbed by the Morse Iron Works, has moved to City 
Island and taken a yard there. Mr. Oswald G. Villard's 
Hilgarda, A'Ir. George Matthews' yawl Escape, Mr. 
George Rockwood's schooner Minta, Mr. F. S. Turner's 
schooner Rowena, and the 70ft. sloop Eleanor are laid 
up at this yard^^ - 
Pantooset* 
Pantooset, the steel, ocean-going steam yacht, build- 
ing at the Bath Iron Works, from designs made by Mr. 
W. J. J. Young, for Mr. Albert S. Bigelow, of Boston, is 
now in frame, and the builders hope to have the yacht 
ready for delivery to the owner by May. 1902. Mr. 
Bigelow contemplates a trip arourid the world as soon as 
the yacht is completed. 
Pantooset will be 175ft. on the waterline, 212ft. 6in, 
over all, 27ft. 2in. moulded beam, i6ft. 6in. moulded 
depth, and 13ft. draft. The yacht is being constructed 
under survey of the United States Standard Shipbuilders' 
and Owners' Association, and all her scantlings will equal 
or exceed their requirements, and she will therefore re- 
ceive the highest classification. 
The interior of the vessel is well laid out, and the 
following description is taken from the Boston Herald: 
The dado of these rooms will l)e finished in Hungarian 
ash. above which the sides will be covered with cretonne. 
The ceilings will be finished in white gloss. Just forward 
of the owner's rooms are located two staterooms. These 
two rooms will be finished in birdseye maple. The 
officers' quarters are situated between the collision bidk- 
head and the owner's rooms. They consist of a room fo:- 
the captain, a stateroom for the mates and a stateroom 
for the steward and chief cook. A bathroom is also pro- 
vided for the use of the officers. A dotd)!e forecastle is 
located in the extreme forward portion of the vessel. 
Abaft the machinery space are located the main saloon 
and accommodations for guests, consisting of four state- 
rooms and two toilet rooms. 
The forward end of the deck house contains the vesti- 
bide. with stairs leading to quarters below. Abaft the 
vestibule a commodious dining room, finished in ma- 
hogany, is situated. It is furnished with the usual tables, 
chairs, sideboard and buffets. Adjoining the dining room 
the pantry and galley are located, which are fitted with 
all the necessary conveniences. The officers' mess room 
is situated in the deck house, between the boiler and en- 
gine rooms, over the transver.se coal bunker, and is con- 
nected with the galley by a passageway. The quartcr- 
inaster's room and the deck storage room are located just 
aft of the officers' wardroom. The chief and assistant 
engineers are quartered in the deck house, aft of the en- 
gine room, and the doors are so arranged that they lead 
to the metal balcony over the engine room, thus keeping 
the engine room officers near their stations. The deck 
drawing room and the after vestibule are located in the 
after portion of the deckhouse. They will be finished in 
mahogany, and the drawing room fitted with set pieces 
of furniture. 
The chart house will be built of teak, and all fastenings 
will be non-magnetic. In the forward part the wheel 
room will be situated, and the after part wiU contain 
the navigator's room, which will be furnished with all 
the necessary facilities. The top of the chart house will 
be carried out to the sides of the ship, forming the navi- 
gating bridge. 
The motive power consists of a vertical, triple-expansion 
engine, which, under forced draft, will develop 1.100 
indicated horse-power. The cylinders are 16 by 26in. by 
42 by 27in. stroke. Steam will be furnished by three Almy 
water-tube boilers. The speed of the vessel will be about 
fourteen knots. She will have a bunker capacity, when 
full, of 145 tons. A double bottom under the fire room 
forms the reserve feed water tanks. Besides the usual 
auxiliary equipment, the. vessel will have an evaporating 
plant. 
The Pantooset will be commanded by Capt. Alex Cork- 
um, and the chief engineer will be Mr. Fred C. Bailey. 
These gentlemen are superintending the construction of 
the hull and machinery. 
Small Yacht Construction and 
Rigging. 
BY LIITTON HOPE. 
Part II,— Chapter II.— Benditg and Setting Sails. 
The art of bending sails and stretching tliem properly is very 
little known among amateurs, and can only be thoroughly ac- 
quired alter many years' experience. Even among professional 
yacht skippers there are many who cannot stretch a njw sail 
properly. 
Most sails are spoiled by hauling out the head and foot too 
tightly on the spars. A new sail should only be hauled out on the 
spars till the bolt-rope is ju.st ""hand" tight; and when it is laced 
it should be slack enough to just admit one's finger -between the 
spars and bolt-rope, JNiore strain can be put on the. luff of the 
sail than on the head and foot, as the roping is stouter, and in 
most modern racing sails it is of wire, so that there is no fear of 
overstretching it. 
To bend a gaff mainsail shackle the throat cringle to the Jaws 
of the gaft'; or if the sail is very high-peaked, like a gunter lug, 
seize the cringle to the jaws with a little drift, so as to allow a 
small amount of vertical movement when the gai¥ iy. well up and 
down the mast. 
Reeve the peak lacing through the hole in the end of the gaff 
and haul out gently, as described above; pass about four turns 
through the lacing liole and peak cringle, and as many more 
around the gaff, finishing off" with two half-hitches round the lot. 
All tlie lacings niust be spliced, either directly into Uie cringles 
on the sail or else have an eye-splice in one end and be rove 
through the cringle and their own eyes. The latter method enables 
the lacing to be easily detached from the sail without cutting the 
splice. 
The head of the sail has now to be laced to the yard, and the 
lacing must be made fast, as above, to the throat cringle, and not 
to the first lacing eyelet, as is usually done. The object of this 
departure from the old custom is that if the lacing is made fast to 
the fir.st eyelet it is always tending to drag that portion of the sail 
round the spar; whereas, if it is fast to the cringle itself, the .strain 
on all the lacing eyes is equal. This should be especially borne in 
mind in reeving a luff lacing round a ma.st. The head lacing 
should have a marline hitch at each turn. .Seize the tack cringle 
with wire to the eye on the reef gear at the fore end of the boom, 
and get it down as closely as possible or it will not roll up well. 
Reeve the clew lacing through the reef gear eye on the after end, 
and haul the foot of the sail out in the s'ame way as the hea<l 
was done, but passing the turns of the lacing round the boom 
backward and forward instead of round and round. Tlie rhject 
of this is to prevent the sail from twisting round the boom vsiicu 
