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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March i, tgoi. 
ffdchting. 
Designing Competition. 
In view of the continued and increasing interest in 
yachting, a designing competition will be opened in the 
columns of Forest and Stream. In America the yacht- 
ing season is comparatively a short one, and such a com- 
petition as has been determined upon will serve to stimu- 
late the interest in the subject during the winter months. 
The competition is open to both amateur and professional 
designers. Three prizes will be given for the best de- 
signs of a yacht conforming to the following conditions : 
I. A pole mast sloop. 
II. 25ft. load waterline 
III. Not over 4ft. draft (with centerboard hoisted). 
IV. At least 50 per cent, of ballast outside on keel. 
V. 5ft. headroom under cabin carlins. 
All abnormal features must be studiously avoided in 
the design ; and the construction, sail and cabin plans 
should be of the simplest character. It was our idea in 
laying out the conditions of the competition to make them 
simple as possible, so as not to hamper in any way 
the designer, and yet convey to all that we wished to 
produce a safe, comfortable cruiser on which two or 
three amateurs could live with comfort for a period of 
two or three months and cruise along our eastern sea- 
board from New York to Halifax with safety. A center- 
board boat of moderate draft was decided upon, as so 
many more harbors would be accessible to a boat of that 
type. 
DRAWINGS REQUIRED. 
I. Sheer plan, scale iin. = ift. — showing center of 
buoyancy and lateral resistance. 
II-. Half breadth, scale iin. = ift. 
III. Body plan, scale iin = ift. 
IV. Cabin plan, scale iin. — ift. 
V. Sail plan, J4in. = ift., showing center of effort. 
The sails should consist of a jib, mainsail, spin- 
naker and balloon jib. No topsail will be carried. 
A table of offsets and an outline specification must 
accompany each design. The drawings should be care- 
fully drawn and lettered. All drawings should be made 
on white paper or tracing cloth in black ink (no colored 
inks or pigments should be used). The designs must 
bear a nom-de-plume only and no indication must be 
given of the author. In a sealed envelope, however, the 
designer should inclose his own name and address, to- 
gether with his nom-de-plume. All designs must be re- 
ceived at the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing 
Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, not later than 
Feb. 28, 1002. All drawings will be returned, but postage 
should accompany each. 
The Forest and Stream reserves the right to publish 
any or all the designs. 
The prizes offered are as follows: 1st prize, $25.00; 
2d prize, $15.00; 3d prize, $10.00. Mr. Theodore C. Zerega 
offers an additional prize of $10.00 for the best cabin plan. 
Honorable mention will also be made of meritorious 
designs. 
Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. Tams, 
Lemoine & Crane, has kindly consented to judge the 
designs and make the awards. Mr. Crane's professional 
standing is so high that he needs" no introduction, and 
every confidence will be put in his ability and fairness. 
A number of packages containing drawings for our de- 
signing competition have already been received at this 
office. All plans must be in our hands by Friday, Feb. 
28, and it is to be hoped that all intending competitors will 
send their drawings in time to reach us on that day. 
An J 8-Foot Waterline Racing Sloop. 
We publish in this issue the lines, construction, deck 
and sail plans of an 18ft. waterline racing sloop that was 
designed by Mr. Charles D. Mower for Mr. W. H. 
Childs. It was Mr. Childs' idea to race the boat on 
Long Island Sound and Gravesend Bay, but when the 
Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound adopted the new meas- 
urement rule last fall, it was found that the boat would 
measure over the 21ft. sloop class, for which she was 
designed, and in consequence Mr. Childs gave up the 
idea of building for a year at least. 
The design shows a boat very much like the Massa- 
chusetts Y. R. A. 18-footers, the boats that have been 
so popular down east for the past two seasons. The 
boat should have been easily driyen by her moderate 
sail plan, and would have made an excellent craft for 
day sailing single-handed, and the roomy open cockpit 
gives ample space to take a large number of persons 
without crowding. 
A coach roof is arranged over the forward end of the 
cockpit, which gives a place to keep light sails, etc., and a 
place on top on which to place cleats for halyards, etc. 
There will be a thousand pounds of outside ballast, and 
the boat would be non-capsizable. Her dimensions are as 
follows : 
Length — 
Over all 31ft. oin. 
L.W.L 17ft. pin. 
Overhang — 
Forward 6ft. iin. 
Aft 7ft. 2in. 
Breadth- 
Extreme 8ft. oin. 
L.W.L 7ft. 6in. 
Freeboard — 
Forward 2ft. 4m. 
Aft ift. ioin. 
Least ift. 6in. 
Draft- 
To rabbet ' : ift. 2in. 
Extreme 3 ft. oin. 
Board down v. 6ft. 6in. 
Sail Area — 
Mainsail 407 sq. ft. 
Jib 130 sq. ft. 
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