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OUTBOARD PROFILE AND SAIL PLAN OF SEAWANHAKA TRIAL BOAT. OWNED BY MESSRS. MOWER AND HUNT. 
schooners collapsed, and the clubs never sought to en- 
courage them by giving separate races for this rig. 
One of the most notable boats now building is a fine 
schooner for Mr. Cecil Quentin. She is designed by 
Fife and is being built by Messrs. Fay & Co., of South- 
ampton. Though she is being built regardless of racing 
and to Lloyds' highest class, she will be all there when 
paced against any other schooner. One highly _ signifi- 
cant feature of the ship is that the deadwood aft is being 
left sufficiently thick to admit of a motor engine being 
fitted later on. Given a good motor, this spells the begin- 
ning of the end of the moderate-sized steam yacht. Very 
few yachtsmen go into steam without a twinge of con- 
science, and fewer still will take the plunge when they 
find that all the advantages of steam are at their dis- 
posal, together with those of sail, at half the cost, both 
running and initial. 
Mr. W. P. Burton, who is having a new 52-footer 
built, is trying to have our luffing rule altered. He wants 
to avoid an overtaken yacht waiting until the other gets 
abeam to windward, and then luffing into her. Of course 
it is very unpleasant when this happens — for the overtak- 
ing boat — but it is also very unpleasant to have another 
vessel planted bang between you and the wind. Nothing 
is likely to come of the idea, for it is worded in a shock- 
ingly vague way. 
Kariad arrived at Marseilles on Jan. 30. She was be- 
ing towed by her tender before Gibraltar was reached 
and the rope broke. Both vessel then made for the port 
"on their own," and Kariad got there first. Sybarita 
made the passage from Falmouth to the Rocks in five 
days. Sir Thomas Lipton's steam yacht Erin is being 
put in order for a spring commission. At Messrs. Sum- 
mers & Payne's yard, Southampton, a very bad fire broke 
'out on Mr. Albert Brassey's fine steam yacht Czarina. 
She was having new decks, etc., and the fire broke out 
through the explosion of a paraffin lamp. The damage 
to the yacht herself is considerable, but it did not 
spread beyond her. 
The captain of the steamer Ban Righ (Libertador, she 
is called now) is Capt. Willis, of Southampton. He 
was for years the sailing master of the big yawl Lethe, 
and sailed her remarkably well. He is a fine sailor, but 
nobody suspected him of such bellicose proclivities. He 
took out an English crew of yachtsmen, some from 
Southampton and some from the neighborhood of the 
Colne, Essex. When they got out to South America the 
Essex men came home, but the Southampton men thought 
they would go through with it. Probably the Essex men 
chose the better part, but the experience of our yachts- 
men points to the desirability of having the deep-sea 
sailor or fisherman as a paid hand, rather than his coast- 
wise brother. 
No doubt your readers have heard that there will be 
a great motor exhibition at Berlin next summer. This 
ought to be a good opportunity for motor makers to 
exhibit their engines in Europe. Of course, they will 
be copied at once, but they need hardly fear the German 
imitation. A canoeist who has returned from a trip in a 
canoe-yawl through the French canals to the Mediter- 
ranean", tells me that he wanted to buy a Primus cooking 
stove en route. The dealer showed him three, and ex- 
plained that one was the real Primus, the second a 
French adaptation and the third a German imitation of 
the French make. The prices were graduated, in the 
above order, from high to low, and the dealer explained 
that the French stove would work fairly well, and so 
would the German imitation, but that after a time it would 
explode! That fairly well represents the methods of 
both countries. By the way, a trip through the French 
canals is an ideal holiday, but for some reason the jacks- 
in-office at the British Embassy and Consulate in Paris 
appear to put all manner of impediments in the way of 
their countrymen. There must be some reason for it, but 
the French themselves are delightful. 
E. H. Hamilton. 
Seawanhafca Cup News* 
As the season progresses, more interest is manifested 
in the trial races to be held by the Bridgeport Y. C. for 
the selection of challenger for the Seawanhaka Cup. Four 
boats have been ordered and the work has been started 
on all of them. 
The syndicate at Bridgeport headed by Mr. T. H. 
Macdonald will have two boats, one of which is to be 
designed by Mr. B. B. Crowninshield,' of Boston, and 
built by Mr. Wm. B. Smith, of Quincy Point, Mass., and 
the other is to be designed and built by Messrs. Jones 
& La Borde, of Oshkosh. Wis. Messrs. C. Barnum Seely 
and Wilson Marshall will have a boat that will be de- 
signed and built by Mr. L. D. Huntington, of New 
Rochelle, and the fourth boat was designed by Mr. 
Charles D. Mower and is now building by Mr. Thomas 
Smith, at Bayonne, N. J. The Hanley boat has been 
abandoned. * 
The four boats thus far ordered come from the boards 
of men who have had more or less experience with this 
type of boat before. Mr. B. B. Crowninshield's first at- 
tempt at this type of boat was when he turned out the 
Nahant splasher dories. These boats were of light con- 
struction and carried about 500 square feet of sail, and 
they proved very satisfactory, as they showed consider- 
able speed. In 1899 Thelma and Algonquin came out; 
both were from Mr. Crowinshield's design. Thelma was 
designed to have a try for the Quincy cup and was a 
very slick looking craft. She did not show up very well, 
and it has always been a matter of surprise because she 
did not develop more speed. Algonquin's failure to win 
out in the Seawanhaka cup trial races was due solely 
to her poor handling. She was a very fast boat, and did 
.not do better as her crew sadly lacked practice and ex- 
perience in that type of boat. Mr. Crowninshield also 
designed the Marblehead 16-footers. These boats are 
extreme fin keel scows with restricted sail area and have 
shown great speed. Mr. Smith, who will build the 
Crowninshield boat, is a clever workman, and in addition 
to this was the builder of Hostess, the Quincy cup win- 
ner, and has excellent ideas about the designing and con- 
struction of these boats. The Crowninshield-Smith com- 
bination is undoubtedly a strong one. 
For several years past the championships of the Inland 
Lake Yachting Asociation have been won by boats de- 
signed and built by Messrs. Jones and La Borde. Their 
boats are all of the extreme scow type; and have proven 
wonderfully fast. Up to a short time ago this firm was 
little known in the East, but the recent successes of their 
productions have placed them in the front rank of de- 
signers of fast racing craft. Milwaukee (the Canada cup 
trial boat), Emanon, Anita, and Caroline were designed 
by this firm. 
None of the men who are designing trial boats for the 
Seawanhaka cup races this year is better qualified to 
undertake the work than Mr. L. D. Huntington. From 
the time Mr. Huntington turned out the famous 15- 
footer, Question, the pioneer of the scow type of boat, 
his name has been associated with fast racing craft. Fol- 
lowing Question came Paprica, and after her Mr. Hunt- 
ington turned out Keneti and Skate. The year following 
he built Akabo, which proved to be the fastest craft he 
had yet produced, and had she been well sailed would 
have unquestionably won out in the Seawanhaka trial 
races. After Akabo Mr. Huntington designed and built 
Palm, his first fin boat, and she was not a success. How- 
ever, he is satisfied that there is speed in the fin boats, 
for the craft he is now building is of that type. With the 
exception of Palm, all his boats have proven very fast, 
and generally at their best in strong breezes. As Mr. 
Huntington is to sail his own production this year he 
will be able to bring out all there is in her, and she should 
make a formidable competitor. 
The first boat of note turned out by Mr. Charles D. 
