Jan. ii, 1902.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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SOLEDAD. 
Built by E. A. Brooks, Guantanamo, Cuba. 
view to speed, and will be both non-sinkable and non-cap- 
sizable. 
"The designs and specifications for both of these boats 
are at the office of Mr. Stuyvesant Wainwright, No. 81 
Fulton street, New York city, and members who are in- 
terested are earnestly urged to call as soon as possible 
and inspect them. It is the intention of the club to hold 
races every Saturday and holiday, and also for the small 
class built last summer. Suitable trophies will be given 
for each race and a special prize for the winner of the 
greatest number of points in twelve races. 
"We most earnestly ask each member of the club to 
give us his ideas and assistance, and to join with us in 
making next season the commencement of a new era in 
small boat racing for the American Y. C. Those members 
desiring to order a boat are requested to do so at once." 
Our Boston Letter. 
Boston, Jan. 6. — With the addition of the new Y. R. A. 
21-footer, which is being designed by Crowninshield for 
Livingston Davis, of the Corinthian and Manchester yacht 
clubs, there are now fourteen new ones assured for next 
season's racing. Crowninshield and Burgess have five 
each. Small Bros., have two and Hanley and Fred Lawley 
have one each. It is expected that this class will take 
the place of the raceabout class in Marblehead and 
vicinity. The raceabout class has been gradually thinning 
out, and up to this time it is not known that one new one 
is to be built for Massachusetts waters. Crowninshield 
has orders for seven raceabouts, but all of them are for 
New York parties. It is expected that -this class will be 
raced some at Marblehead, but there is no likelihood of 
its being patronized so extensively as in former years. 
The 25-footers, which form the class of the largest 
boats that are raced in the Y. R. A. circuit, will always 
command a certain amount of attention, but there are not 
nearly the new boats ordered for this class that have been 
ordered in the 21ft. class. In all it is expected that five 
25-footers will make their first appearance this season, 
and one of these is now considered doubtful. It was un- 
derstood that D. C. Percival, Jr.. had ordered a 25-footer 
from Herreshoff. This was indeed welcome news, for 
the Massachusetts designers are only too anxious to have 
a try with the Bristol wizard, but from all that could be 
gathered at Bristol last week, there is no M. Y. R. A. 
25-footer in sight there. This is no reason that one will 
not be turned out. and Massachusetts yachtsmen are still 
hoping that she will make her appearance before the open- 
ing of the racing season. 
It is expected that there will be a big fleet in the 18ft. 
knockabqut_ class, although there are not nearly as many 
boats building as were turned out last winter. One or 
two of last year's boats have been sold, and have left 
Boston waters, and it may be possible that othersa will 
follow, but there will still be enough left to make up quite 
a respectable class; and it is expected that the racing 
here and in Duxbury Bay between these boats will be 
just as keen as ever. The class should be faster this 
year than it was last, but that will not necessarily follow. 
It was expected last year that the class would be faster 
than it was the year before. The only new boats that 
had been built under the restrictions were those that raced 
in Duxbury Bay. and their construction was much heavier 
than the restrictions called for, and it was thought an 
easy matter to get away with any of the old boats; but 
much to the surprise of many, Malillian cleaned out the 
whole fleet nicely. Malillian was formerly called Spider, 
one of the original Duxbury Bay boats, and had but an 
indifferent record in those waters. She was sailed most 
of the time last season by a clever professional, and this 
may have accounted for her good work, but this year no 
such claim can be made, for the 18ft. knockabout fleet is 
to be Corinthian. 
The annual meeting of the South Boston Y. C. was held 
at the club house last Wednesday evening, when the 
following officers were elected: Com., Simon Goldsmith; 
Vice-Com., Edwin Shuman; Rear-Corn., D. N. Palmer; 
Sec'y, W. H. French; Treas., Thomas Christian; Trustees 
for three years, D. F. Carew and W. F, Cogan; Regatta 
Committee, Franklin O. French, V. B. Johnson, E. J. 
McKee, C. W. Nordwell and F. D. Perkins ; House Com- 
mittee, G. P. Field, Thomas Harrison, W. W. McKee, 
M. J. Lynch and W. J. O'Brien. The treasurer an- 
nounced that the finances of the club were in excellent 
condition, and the secretary announced that the member- 
ship was 347. and that several applications had recently 
been handed in. The new west wing of the club house 
has been practically completed, and will soon be ready 
for occupancy. There will be four new bowling alleys and 
a very roomy billiard room. 
Crowninshield has an order for two raceabouts. one for 
Slocum Howland and the other for Samuel C. Hopkins, 
both of Catskill, N. Y. He also has an order for a four- 
masted coasting schooner, which will be built in Maine. 
She will be of large tonnage, and will be equipped with 
every modern improvement. He also has an order to turn 
out a design for a standard tender, which will embrace 
every possible requirement that is asked of a yacht's 
tender. Designer Crowninshield has always been an 
ardent racing man, and it will be regretted that he will 
not get into the game very extensively this season. He 
is now designing an 18-footer for his own use, which 
will be built by Brown of North Haven. Me. This boat 
will not be built to conform to any particular set of re- 
strictions, but will be used entirely for afternoon sailing. 
Fred Lawley has an order for a 35-footer for W. H. 
Hart, of Philadelphia, and another for an auxiliary 30ft. 
cat for W. S. Hills. In the east shop the 30-footer for 
Bancroft C. Davis is planked, and the 104ft. steam yacht 
is about half planked. Several smaller boats have been 
started. The frames are being turned out for the Lippitt 
60-rater. She will be built in the west shop. 
John Stuart, of Wollaston, is building two 25ft. launches 
to be itsed on Lake Winnipesaukee. They will be very 
thoroughly built and will have cedar planking, copper 
fastened. They will haye a summer house, curtains 
rolling in the frames to afford protection in heavy 
weather. The interior finish will be white oak and cypress. 
There is also a 26ft.., a 22ft. and a 21ft. launch under 
construction. These will be fitted with mahogany trim- 
mings. He has orders for a number of mahogany and 
cedar power tenders. 
Small Bros, have an order for a 50ft. waterline cruising 
schooner for C. C. Warren, Commodore of the Sandusky 
Y. C. and President of the Yacht Racing Union of the 
Great Lakes. She will have auxiliary power and will be 
a model cruiser in every detail. Below decks she will 
be very roomy and well citt up. She has moderate over- 
hangs and the design is altogether very pleasing. 
There has been received as yet no challenge for the 
Quincy cup, and it is desired that this trophy should not 
pass into oblivion as a racing fixture. Boats for the un- 
restricted 21ft. class have not been built in recent years 
except to compete for this cup, and there does not seem 
to be any disposition^ the .part of Massachusetts yachts- 
men to build this winter. It has occurred to me that it 
would not be the most impossible thing in the world to 
make some arrangement by which the boats that com- 
pete in the trial races to select a challenger for the 
Seawanhaka's cup can all become challengers for the 
Ouincy cun and race for it after their first races have been 
finished. This might stimulate interest to such an extent 
that one or more boats would be built by Massachusetts 
yachtsmen. John B. Killeen. 
SoledacL 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Inclosed are a few photos of a 25ft. l.w.l. shallow-draft 
sloop which may be of interest to some of your readers, 
for I have built the boat from one of the deigns pub- 
lished in your paper (Feb. 2, 1001), and working to the 
instructions also published in your paper for. "Small Yacht 
Construction." 
The photographs you will find very bad. as we have no 
decent photographer here, and also the boat had not yet 
been painted above the waterline, which makes her look 
dirty and rough, though really she is very fair and smooth. 
The design was published by you in your issue of Feb. 
2, 1901, as a 25ft shallow-draft slocp. designed by Thomas 
Clapham. The only alteration that I made in the design 
was to deepen the draft Sin. more, and getting by this a 
little more headroom in the cabin, which is rather shorter 
than in the original plan, only having two berths and a 
separate galley and lavatory. 
Except the planking, which is of spruce, the boat is 
built entirely of a native timber called "majagua." which 
is quite as strong as oak and no heavier, and if anything 
easier to work and to bend. 
This week I am going down the coast for a few days' 
cruise, and on my return will try to find time to send you 
a short article with some pictures. We have very rough 
water and heavy storms most of the time around this 
part of the island, and this, together with the fact that 
there are very few Anglo-Saxons here, is responsible for 
the very few yachts to be seen in these waters. 
This is my first attempt at boat building, and it speaks 
well for your designs and instructions, which enable a 
novice to turn out a craft that not only can beat anything 
in these waters, but is also a good sea boat. 
E. A. Brooks. 
Central Solebad, Guantanamo, Cuba, Dec. 18. 
New Rules to Govern Centerboards. 
The new rule recently adopted by the Y. R. A. of Long 
Island Sound and the Seawanhaka Corinthian and Larch- 
mont yacht clubs rather favors a moderate draft cen- 
terboard boat of light power. To provide for this 
the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. has drawn up some 
special rules to cover centerboards. The following circu- 
lar has been sent out by Mr.. Allen E. Whitman, the Secre- 
tary of the club : 
The attention of yacht owners is particularly solicited 
to the fact that the new rule of measurement, adopted at 
the last annual meeting, will be in effect in all the races 
of this club in the coming season, for which entries can- 
not be received until the required measurements have been 
obtained. 
A copy of the new rule contained in the club book of 
1901, and' a statement of the measurements required by 
it is supplied herewith. 
Yachts shall be rated for classification and time allow- 
ance by racing measurement, which shall be determined 
by adding to half the load waterline length, half the 
square root of sail area, and a quantity expressed as L. 
and by dividing the sum of these quantities by 1.1. 
On all yachts launched after July 1, 1901. there shall be 
placed by the owner or his agent, on every vessel to be en- 
tered for racing, marks on each side of her to indicate the 
waterline, and other marks vertical to and 3m. above first 
named marks. These marks shall be placed immediately 
over the largest cross section of the submerged part o'f 
the yacht. 
The owner shall furnish to the measurer a certificate of 
the draft to the waterline as above indicated, and shall 
also include a statement of any greater draft, and whether 
the same is at a place or places forward or aft of this 
point. The certificate shall also state the measurement of 
the yacht's greatest breadth on the load water-plane, and 
the area of the submerged section when measured to the 
marks at the waterline, and also to the marks 3m. above 
it. These marks shall be kept on hand at the club house 
and supplied to all who require them; they shall be small 
disks of non-corrosive metal, each having a hole in the 
center through which it may be secured to the side of the 
vessel by a pin, the center of the latter to indicate the 
point measured to. 
In the case of metal hulls a cross such as can be made 
with a cold chisel may be used, the intersection of the lines 
to indicate the point measured to. The measurements 
furnished by the owner to be subject to verification by 
the club's measurer when called in question by protest, or 
when required by the Race Committee. 
Any yacht launched before July 1, 1901, whose meas- 
urements, made under the rule of the previous year, 
brought her within the limits of a class, shall continue to 
be eligible to race in such class, although when measured 
under the rule of 1901 she may exceed the limits of such 
class, or may fall below it, and all such yachts shall be 
