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Beckler, F. S. Mason, J. J. Devereux, F. H. Richardson, 
J. J. Nicholson, F. F. Rogers, Jr., and F. H. Byrne. This 
will be Sec'y Bird's fifteenth year in office, and, in point of 
service, he is the oldest secretary of a yacht club in New 
England. 
Lawley has received the plans and model of the Tobin 
bronze 6o-rater which he is to build from Gardner & Cox's 
design for Harry F. Lippitt. She will be 51ft. on the 
waterline, and 89ft. on top. Things are commencing to 
boom in the shope. Several boats have been started and 
more are to be set up within two weeks. 
Last Friday Mr. B. B. Crowninshield delivered a lecture 
on yacht designing to the students of naval architecture 
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which the 
students appreciated very much. John B.^ Killeen. 
Westwind, 33ft. Hunting Launch. 
The hunting launch Westwind, plans and illustration 
of which appear in this issue, was designed and built by 
Mr. V. D. Bacon, of Barnstable, Mass., for Mr. William 
Sanger. In designing the boat Mr. Bacon had to con- 
sider several requirements laid down by the owner. It 
was his wish that the boat should be high-sided, full- 
bodied and that the cabin and cockpit should be large and 
roomy. The result was very satisfactory, for she has 
proved to be an excellent sea boat, and of good speed for 
her length. It was thought that the boat might roll con- 
siderably in a heavy beam sea on account of her high 
sides and high weights, allowance was therefore made for 
some inside ballast should it be found necessary, but she 
has been found so steady that it was never required. 
On the run from Barnstable, Mass., to Cos Cob, Conn., 
where the owner keeps the boat, she encountered some 
very nasty weather off Newport and Block Island, and 
behaved splendidly under most trying conditions. Nine 
miles an hour was averaged throughout the entire run. 
Dnrin-g the past summer she has been tried over a 
measured course repeatedly, and makes nine and one- 
eighth miles an hour, and will turn completely around in 
a circle 75ft. in diameter. The owner states that he' 
has been from Cos Cob to New London ten times during 
the past season, and on these long runs the engine, which 
is a lo-horse-power Globe, has never failed to run per- 
fectly. The boat is now laid up in the yard of the Electric 
Launch Co. at Bayonne, N. J., and in taking the boat to 
that place from Connecticut, the engine was run for ten 
hours without stopping. 
Westwind is rather a departure in design from the 
average launch with her greater freeboard, beam power 
and speed, but gives more interior room and makes a far 
better heavy-weather boat than the average launch with 
low freeboard and high cabin house. Westwind has been 
tried purposely by her owner in the worst weather ex- 
perienced during the svimmer and fall, and has shown 
herself to be a safe, dry, comfortable and fast boat under 
all conditions of wind and weather. 
The cabin house is 13ft. long and there is 5ft. Sim head- 
room under carlins. On the port side of the companion- 
way is the lavatory, which is fitted with a water closet and 
folding wash basin. There are also lockers for oilskins, 
linen, etc. 
Opposite on the starboard side is a large ice chest and 
a space for a stove. Next forward is the cabin, on the 
port side of which is a buffet and clothes locker. On 
each side of the cabin are wide transoms, under which 
are lockers for general stowage.. , A cabin table hangs 
from the carlins, and in this way the cabin floor is un- 
obstructed. A large skylight and four port holes keep 
the cabin well lighted and ventilated. The cockpit is 13ft. 
long. Under the cockpit seats are lockers. The motor 
is places in the forward end of the cockpit and is well 
otit of the way. When not in use, it is protected with a 
water-tight covering. Large water tanks are placed un- 
der the deck just of the cabin house. The principal 
dimensions are : 
Length — 
Over all 33ft. o in. 
L.W.L 30ft. o in. 
Overhang — 
Forward 2ft. 6 in. 
Aft oft. 6 in. 
Freeboard — 
Stem 4ft. o in. 
Lea?t 2ft. 6 in. 
Taff rail 2ft. 8 in. 
Beam — 
At deck 8ft. 7 in. 
L.W.L 8ft. 3 in. 
Draft- 
To rabbet ift. lo^^in. 
Extreme 3ft. i in. 
Displacement io,5oolbs. 
The frames are of oak, i^4'n. by i-l4in., spaced I2in. on 
centers. The planking is of %in. yellow pine. The gen- 
eral finish both on deck and in the cabin is of mahogany, 
oak and cypress varnished. 
The lo-horse-power Globe gas engine makes 35s revolu- 
tions a minute. The propeller has three blades, 30in. 
diameter and 38in. pitch. 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
t^ic. 21, 1901. 
Whence Comes the Northeast Wind? 
An interesting letter with the above heading appeared 
in the Sun a few days since, and the writer of it has evi- 
dently given his subject much thought and study. He 
says in part : 
"Why is it that a northeast wind is exactly the reverse 
in its character of every other wind that blows ? 
"All other winds are generated in the quarter from 
which they blow. For instance, when we are having a 
gale of wind for several days from the northwest, we 
know it comes directly from out of the northwest, away 
off from the plains of the Dakotas; but not so with a 
northeaster, for that is made up in a direction directly 
opposite to itself. Its coming is announced from the 
West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico, and it backs up 
against itself as it advances up the Atlantic coast, until 
it finally passes off away to the northeast, ending where, 
if like other winds, it would have had its beginning." 
If it is true that the northeast wind does not generate 
from that point of the compass, will not some of our 
readers tell us whence it cometh. 
