Nov. i6, 1901.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
S9S 
ALOHA. 
iPhbtpe by jaines Burton, New York. 
LADY GODIVA. 
haka cup trials, and if he does turn out a boat it is be- 
lieved that she will make an excellent showing. 
Mr. H. P. Clark, of the White Bear Y. C, is consider- 
ing sending a boat on from the West. The j'achtsmen 
on White Bear Lake have made great advancement in the 
designing of fast skimming dishes, and it is hoped that a 
boat may come from White Bear in order that compari- 
-sons can be made with our Eastern boats of the same 
type. 
Aloha and Lady Godiva. 
SATCRnAY, June 29, the third and last day of the series 
of races held by the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. off 
Oyster Bay, Long Island Sound, .was made most inter- 
esting by a match race between the American auxiliary 
Aloha, owned by Messrs. D. W. and A. C. James, and 
the English auxiliary Lady Godiva, which boat at that 
time was owned by Mr. H. C. Houses but has since been 
sold to Mr. Tracy Dows. 
It is seldom that one sees these boats under sail alone, 
and it is unusual for them to race against one another. 
For this reason we believe that the accompanying picture 
of Aloha and Lady Godiva will be of very general inter- 
est. Aloha won the race. 
Aloha is an auxiliary screw brigantine. She was de- 
signed by Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. 
Tams, Lemoine & Crane, and was built of steel in 1899 
by Messrs. J. N. Robins & Co. at Brooklyn. She is i6oft 
over all. 139ft, waterline, 27ft. beam and I4\':. draft. 
Lady Godiva is a steel auxiliary topsail schooner. She 
was designed by Mr. St. Claire Byrne and built by Messrs. 
Laird Brothers at Birkenhead in 1890. She is 138ft. 
waterline, 23ft. beam and draws 13.35ft. 
Our Boston Letter. 
Boston, Nov. 11.^ — The past week has been a very quiet 
one for Eastern yachtsmen. Work in the shops has not 
yet commenced to be heavy, although it is expected that 
within a few days things will commence to boom. The 
designers have been busy since the close of the racing sea- 
son, and there is no doubt that there will be enough 
n.ew ones to keep all the builders busy. 
Perhaps the most wonderful feature that has been shown 
thus far is the great interest that has been aroused in 
the Y. R. A., restricted 21-footers. Burgess has received 
an order for another of these boats, making three that 
will come from his board. For whom she will be de- 
signed and built is another one of those mysteries with 
which this class is surrounded, and it is; likely that she 
will, remain a dark horse until the work' of construction 
has been started on the rest of the new ones for the class. 
It has developed within a few days that two more new 
ones for this class will probablj^ be heard from. It will 
imdoubtedly be the largest class of 21-footers that has 
ever been seen in Massachusetts Bay. 
There were still many yachts at their mooring in Dor- 
chester Bay last week, but undoubtedly the cold waA^e, 
which struck Boston yesterday, will drive these hardy 
mariners to the beach or basin. The first bunch of yachts 
lo be put out in the spring is generally seen in Dorchester 
Bay, and it is always in these waters that the last straggler 
is seen late in the fall. The yacht clubs in the vicinity 
nre nol closed soon after the .sailing season is ended, but 
are kept open all winter. Every day and evening a few 
members may be found in each, while on Sundav there 
is sure to he a gathering. They arrive early in the" morn- 
mg and by noon there is scarcely a subject connected with 
yachting that h-is not been thoroyghlv gone over. City 
Point was the birthplace of j'^achting in New England, and 
it is quite probable that there is no other place on the 
coast where such a large aggregation of practical yachts- 
men may be found. 
Strangely enough, there have been very few yachts for 
the Y. R. A. restricted classes built and owned by mem- 
liers of the clubs at City Point or Dorchester. The ma- 
jority of the yachts are cruisers, which are raced only in 
the handicap classes. On both sides of the bay there are 
classes of sailin.g tenders which take the place of the 
15ft. over all class, which was so popular in these waters 
only a few years ago. The sailing tender class was 
started by the South Boston Y. C. three years ago, and 
was the cause of the development of the one-design sail- 
ing tender class at the Savin Hill Y. C. this season. A 
series of races was sailed between the South Boston Y. C. 
tenders for the championship, which was won by Eugene 
E. Merrill. The championship was awarded on points— 
10 for first, 6 for second, 4 for third, 2 for start and 3 
for finish. The record of each boat is as follows, the 
boats having no names, are known by the names of their 
owners : 
Name. , Points. 
Eugene E. Merrill. 52 
Dr. W. L. Colson 50 
F. O. French...... 41 
H. L. Stickney. 37 
L F. Trotman 24 
C. M. Dolbeare 16 
In former years there Avas a class of boats 15ft. over all, 
most of which were owned by members of the Mosquito 
Fleet Y. C. ; in fact, it was to foster small boat racing 
that the Mosquito Fleet Y, C. was organized, and that 
is where it gets its name. Since the advent of great over- 
hangs, interest in the class has been lost. Like the sailing 
tenders now, this class of the old days was raced mostly 
by the youngsters, and some of the cleverest racing skip- 
pers in the East had their first schooling in these little 
boats. A good school it was, too, for the skill required 
in keeping one of them on her feet and making her go 
was much greater than is necessary in any of the modern 
restricted classes. They invariably carried very .-large 
rigs. One of the most misproportioned was that of the 
Skipper. She was 14ft. Tiin. on top. but her main boom 
was 22ft. and her jib 17ft. on the foot, truly a marvelous 
amount of sail for so small a craft. It was expected that 
this_ class, with a 15ft. over all limit would be revived 
again by the Colonial Y. C, many of whose members 
raced the little fellows in former years, but nothing has 
been heard of it up to date. The class is probably extinct, 
but there are few of the yachtsmen who will forget Tan- 
trum, Katj-^did, Bessie, Princess, Skipper, Midget, Nellie, 
Baby and many others of the Mosquito Fleet. 
The work of breaking up Independence was finished last 
week. Her frames and floor plates are lying all about the 
west shop at Lawley's, but her plating has been carefully 
laid away, Because the easiest and best method of taking 
her apart, that of cutting away the rivets, and all of her 
plates laid away systematically and whole, that they 
would be more saleable articles, one scribe has discovered 
that this looks like grounds sufficient for the belief that 
she will be rebuilt from the same plates and frames. Poor 
old Independence! She is not allowed to rest quietly in 
her grave. There does not seem much likelihood of her 
coming to life again, either with old plates or nCAV ones. 
Among the new orders of the Boston designers are 
several cruisers, the yawl being the popular type. Small 
Bros, have two, one an auxiliary, 50ft. on the waterline. 
and the other a sailing yawl, 3rft. on the waterline. Both 
are wpnde|-fq| examples of what can be done in letting a 
large amount of room below decks. Starling Burgess has 
turned out a 30ft. yawl for his uncle. Vice- Com." Walter 
Burgess, which should prove a comfortable cruiser. Com. 
Burgess intended building a yawl 28ft. 6in. on the water- 
Ime, ratmg 25ft., Y. R. A. rules, to see what could be 
done with this type in the restricted class, but he later 
decided to add to the waterline and get a straight cruiser. 
The new boat is 30ft. on the waterline, 43ft. 4in. over 
all, lift. loin. beam and 4ft. Sin. draft. She is a center- 
board and there is much bulk to her hull, her displacement 
being 23,ooolbs., but her appearance above water will not 
indicate this, as her freeboard is quite normal and she 
has good but very moderate overhangs. 
She is very well laid out below. There are two large 
hangmg lockers, besides numerous .smaller ones, while 
the space under the berths and transoms is all utilized for 
stowage. There is 6ft. 3in. headroom in the main cabin, 
which takes up most of the space under the trunk. There 
are two full-length berths on either side, in front of which 
are \yide transoms. A stateroom could easily have been 
provided, but the owner desired to have the cabin open. 
There is a good galley forward, in which is a three-burner 
Primus stove, ice chest, water tank and lockers, while 
further forward is a stationary and a swinging berth. 
This space will be well lighted and ventilated. Her sail 
area is 1,314 sq. ft., and is well balanced. She will carry 
a spnt top.sail, the sprit being set forward of the pole 
mast, and the lower end made fast by a heel lashing, thus 
•giving the appearance of a small topmast. 
Crowninshield has an order for two 30-footers for the 
Long Island Sound Yacht Racing Association. One of 
these is for De Ver H. Warner, of Bridgeport, Conn., and 
the other for T. L. Park, of New York. 
The new west wing of the South Boston Y. C.'s big 
hou.se is fast going up, and will be entirely closed in 
\vithin a few weeks. It will contain several lockers, be- 
sides bowling alleys and billiard room. ' 
Small Bros, are turning out an open racing yawl for 
G. S. Mashek, of Cornell, Mich. She is of the semi- 
keel type, 20ft. on the line, 31ft, over all, 8ft. gin. beam 
and 2ft. 6in. draft. They also have an order for a is- 
footer for C. H. Kelley, of the Winthrop Y. C. 
Burgess has turned out plans for four 18ft. knockabouts, 
Y. R. A., on the same lines. They were ordered by R 
Hopkins Smith, and are intended to form a one-design 
class at Casco Bay, but- two of them will follow the 
Y. R. A. circuit next season. Thev are now being built 
by Graves, of Marblehead. They will have mahogany 
planking and will be finished bright. 
John B. Killeen, 
Yacht Club Notes, 
At the annual election of the Jamaica Bay Y. C, the 
following officers were chosen: Com., I. R. Jagger ; Vice- 
Corn.. William Schoer; Rear-Com., Joseph F. Sabin • 
Fleet Capt., A. P. Marion ; Fin. Sec'v, A. C. Christopher ' 
Cor. Sec'y, C. P. Daly : Treas.. M. H. Christopher; mem- 
bers of the Board of Directors. John J. Jones, Beniamin 
F. Daly and James E. Lent ; Chairman House Committee 
Frederick H. Plate: Chairman of Regatta Committeei 
John C. LefTerts; Chairman of Membership Committee,' 
C. V. Dykeman; Chairman Entertainment Committee! 
James E. O'Donnell. Owing to the fact that the proposed 
70ft. highway, which the P. H. Flynn syndicate are 
building across the watei-.. of Jamaica Bay. will cut the 
present course in two and make it very difficult to hold 
regattas, it was decided to move the club house, float 
and estate nearer the ocean. Several sites were visited 
but the one that found th? most {t?,YOr was 3,t Rockawav 
Park, '~ ' 
