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From the present outlook it seems that the Boston Y. C. 
intends to have a very busy season in racing events. At 
the annual meting, held last week, it was voted to appro- 
priate'$6oo to the Regatta Committee to be used for prizes. 
In addition to this amount, Com. B. P. Cheney offered 
$300 to be expended for cups. The $600 will be used for 
club and open events. The Cheney cups will be com- 
peted for only by club boats. Com. Cheney did not specify 
that the cups should be raced for only by yachts owned in 
the club, but left the matter to the discretion of the Re- 
gatta Committee. That body thought it wisest that the 
cups should be competed for only by yachts whose owners 
would and could become members of the club. Nine 
hundred dollars may not seem a great sum to be placed at 
the disposal of the Regatta Committee of a club for its 
races, but when it is considered that the yachts which will 
compete for the prizes will be less, than 30ft. on the water- 
line, and in the majority of cases less than 25ft. water- 
line, the amount given appears to be very generous. 
The work of driving piles for the new station at Marble- 
head has been started, and is expected to be finished very 
soon. Nearly all of the material for the building is 
there, and work will be started on the structure just as 
soon as the piles have been driven. Seventeen lockers 
are provided for in the new building, and as there were 
many applications for them, it was decided to auction off 
the choice at the annual meeting. The bonus on the 
seventeen was $143, and the highest amount paid for 
bonus on a single locker was $43. 
Amendments were made to the constitution as follows : 
"That the Board of Trustees, instead of being elected an- 
nually, shall be elected one for three years, one for two 
years and one for one year, and that at each annual meet- 
ing one shall be elected for three years; and that the 
House Committee, instead of being elected individually 
for a term of years, shall consist of five members, who 
shall be elected annually." 
The officers elected for the year under the laws of the 
club as amended were as follows: Com., Benjamin P. 
Cheney; Vice-Corn., Walter Burgess; Rear-Corn.. Elmer 
H. Smith ; Sec'y, Albert C. Fernald ; Treas., William H. 
Bangs; Measurers, W. Starling Burgess and Jefferson 
Borden ; Trustees, Commodore, ex officio, C. W. Jones, 
H. W. Wesson and W. C. Lewis; Regatta Committee! 
Walter Burgess, B. D. Amsden. C. A. French, C. G. 
Browne and Sumner H. Foster ; Membership Committee, 
Commodore and Secretary, ex officio, W. C Lewis E h' 
Tarbell, W. D. Turner, Albert Geiger, Jr., and' C.' G." 
ALBICORE— SAIL PLAN. 
Browne ; House Committee, W. D. Turner, Miner Robin- 
son, T. Walcott Powers, W. B. Jackson and Herbert W. 
Wesson. 
Crowninshield has an order for a 50ft. waterline cruis- 
ing schooner for Thomas G. Bush, of Mobile, Ala. She 
will be 73ft. on top, 16ft. beam and 4ft. ioin. draft. She 
will be built in the South, in the vicinity of Mobile. The 
boat will have a light draft for cruising in Southern 
waters. There will be as few bulkheads as possible, so 
that as much sweep of air as possible may be had through 
the cabin. She will carry inside ballast entirely, and 
there is also a provision whereby a shaft and wheel can 
be put in if auxiliary power is desired. 
Burgess has an order for a 25-footer for Dr. R. S. 
Souther. 
At Lawley's work is going on on the 104ft. waterline 
steam yacht, and on others in the east shop. The Lippitt 
60-rater has not commenced to take form yet in the West 
shop, but is expected that she will commence to go up 
in a few days. John B. Killeen. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
At the Townsend and Downey yard at Shooter's Island 
the Emperor's new schooner has received her priming 
coat of paint. The steel deck house aft is nearly finished 
and the deck is laid. As soon as the deck fittings are in 
place the interior cabinet work will be put in place. The 
three-masted schooner yacht Shenandoah, building at this 
yard for Mr. Gibson Fahnestock, is plated, cemented and 
painted, and the work of laying the deck is well along. 
The auxiliary schooner for Mr. Alessandro Fabbri, build- 
ing at Shooter's Island from designs . by Messrs. Cary 
Smith & Barbey, is more than half plated, and her deck 
and interior joiner work is being made in the carpenter 
shops. 
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To the Greenport Basin and Construction Company, of 
Greenport, L. I., has been awarded the contract of de- 
signing and building the one-design boats for the members 
of the Ardsley Y. C. These craft have been so planned 
that they can be carried on the davits of steam yachts, sev- 
eral of the owners having this idea in view. The prin- 
cipal dimensions are as follows : Length over all. 25ft. 
gin. ; waterline, 15ft. 6in. ; breadth, 6ft, and draft 4ft. 
There will be i,20olbs. of ballast, all of which will be on 
the keel. The boats will carry just over 400 sq. ft. of 
sail, which is divided between the mainsail and jib. The 
construction of the boats will be simple and strong. The 
stem, keel and stern post will be of white oak, and the 
planking will be of cedar, and the boats will be copper 
fastened throughout. Under the new rule recently adopted 
by the Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound, the boats meas- 
ure just 18ft. It is expected that at least a dozen of the 
boats will be built. The Greenport Basin and Construc- 
tion Company is also building an 18-footer for a. member 
of the Shelter Island Y. C. This firm is also constructing 
a cruising sloop of the following dimensions: Length 
over all, 34ft. ; waterline, 22ft. 6in. ; beam, 9ft., and draft, 
5ft., which will be used solely for cruising, and will be 
put together in the most substantial manner. 
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The American Power and Construction Company has 
sold the schooner yacht Leslie to James N. Norris, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. ; the auxiliary yawl Flora to Cornelius Mc- 
Lean, Mount Vernon, N. Y., and the cabin launch Mystic 
to W. E. Blanchard, Boston. 
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The purchasing of the 70-footer Yankee by the veteran 
yachtsman, Mr. J. Rogers Maxwell, has given new life 
to the 70ft. class. The "seventies" will be the largest 
single-stickers seen in the racing next season, and it is 
now announced that Charlie Barr will be in charge of 
August Belmont's Mineola. This means that splendid 
racing will be seen, and all four of the boats will be in 
commission. Perhaps Mr. W. O. Gay will come around 
the Cape from Boston and try conclusions with the New 
York 70-footers now that his boat Athene made • in- 1 ! an 
excellent showing against them on the New York Y. C. 
cruise last season. 
Yacht Club Notes. 
Louring the past year the Hampton Roads Y. C. was 
incorporated and the organization is now in a most 
flourishing condition. The club felt the need of a new 
club house, and the Building Committee has already ac- 
cepted plans submitted by the architects, and work on the 
new building will be commenced at once, so that the club 
house will be ready for occupancy at the opening of the 
coming season. 
The site finally selected hy the club is near the end of 
Willoughby Spit and extends from Chesapeake Bay 
on one side to Willoughby Bay on the other. 
There is probably no site in this vicinity posses- 
