" March 22, 1902J 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
288 
FOREST AND STREAM DESIGNING COMPETITION SECOND PRIZE DESIGN SAIL PLAN. BY CHARLES H. HALL, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
The dimensions are as follows : 
Length — 
Over all 
L.W.L 
Overhang — 
Forward 
Aft 
Breadth- 
Extreme 
L.W.L 
Draft— 
Extreme 
To rabbet 
Board down 
Freeboard — 
Forward 
Aft i 
Least 
Displacement 
Ballast outside (lead) ' . . . 
C.L.R. from fore end of L.W.L. 
C.B. from fore end of L.W.L. . . 
C.E. from fore end of L.W.L. . . 
Sail Area- 
Mainsail 
- Jib 
37ft. 
25ft. 
7 in. 
o in. 
6ft. 6 in. 
6ft. 1 in. 
10ft. 6 in. 
9ft. 4 in. 
4ft. o in. 
2ft. Sy 2 in. 
6ft. 4 in. 
3ft. ij^in. 
2ft. %in. 
ift. io^in. 
I4,ooolbs. 
6,ooolbs. 
14ft. 2 in. 
13ft. 2 in. 
12ft. 11 in. 
772 sq. ft. 
209 sq. ft. 
Total 981 sq. ft. 
Mast from fore end of L.W.L 
4ft- 
0 
in. 
36ft. 
0 
in. 
0 
in. 
2lft. 
0 
in. 
22ft. 
0 
in. 
6ft. 
9 
in. 
Our Boston Letter* 
Boston, March 17. — At last the names of the owners of 
the new boat which W. Starling Burgess has designed to 
compete in the trial races to select a challenger for the 
.Seawanhaka cup have been given out, and the announce- 
ment was attended with much surprise. It was a natural 
conclusion to think that the owners of the new boat would 
be the former owners of Hoodlum, who are the present 
owners of Lookout, as both of these men are members 
of the Manchester Y. C. This was all wrong, however. 
The owners of the new boat are Hollis Burgess, a cousin 
of the designer and T. K. Lothrop, Jr. They are both 
members of the Boston Y. C, and Mr, Lothrop is also 
a member of the Corinthian Y. C, of Marblehead, 
Stearns, of Marblehead, has started work on the boat, 
which is to be built in a special shed. Hollis Burgess 
avows that the special shed is not because any secrecy is 
desired, but simply that the work may go on more 
smoothly than if she were to be built in the big shed with 
other boats. It is desired to get her into the water as 
soon as possible. It is expected that she will be ready 
for a trial about the last of April or the first of May. 
The candidate for Seawanhaka cup honors which has 
been designed by Crowninshield has been started by 
Smith, of Quincy Point, and by this time she should be 
nearly planked. 
Crowninshield received an order last week which is one 
of the best that has been given to any of our American 
designers this winter. It is for a 21-footer to compete 
in the races for the German Emperor's cup at the Kiel 
regattas. The order came from George Harvey, and is 
dated on board the Nahma, at Gibraltar. Mr. Ogden 
Goelet is cruising in the Mediterranean, in the Nahma, 
and it is thought that the boat is for him. She is to be 
built by Fenton, of Manchester, in the most elaborate 
manner. She will be of the raceabout type, with 550 
square feet of sail, and will carry about a ton of ballast 
on her keel. There are no restrictions except that the 
deck shall be planked with five-eighths stock, that the 
sum of the waterline length, the beam and the draft shall 
not exceed 32ft., and that she shall displace not more than 
4.050 pounds. Her dimensions, consequently, will be as 
follows: Waterline, 21ft.; beam, 6ft. 6in.; and draft, 4ft. 
6in. Her over all length will be 31ft. ioin. On account 
of the displacement restriction and the lack of restrictions 
on scantling, the hull of the boat will be constructed as. 
lightly as possible. She will be planked with Spanisl- 
cedar. 
The annual spring meeting of the Yacht Racing Asso- 
ciation of Massachusetts will be held at Young's Thurs- 
day evening, at which the open racing dates for the com- 
ing season will be selected by the delegates representing 
the different clubs. Several of. the clubs have already 
made up their schedule for the season, and it is thought 
that by the time the meeting is held the other regatta 
committees will have arranged their dates, so that there 
should be no difficulty in selecting dates. Some of the 
clubs will want more than one open race. The Hull- 
Massachusetts Y. C has already scheduled four and the 
Boston Y. C. has scheduled three. It is more than likely 
that some of the clubs on the north shore will want more 
than one date. In some cases clubs can only hold races 
on certain days on account of the amount of water and 
the time the tide serves. In these cases the other clubs 
will be called upon to make some, change, but this is a 
matter that has always been easily adjusted, and it is not 
anticipated that there will be any friction this year. At 
the meeting the officers of the association for the year 
1902-03 will be elected, and there will be several amend- 
ments to -the by-laws and racing rules proposed. These, 
however, will not affect the general aim of the associa- 
tion, but are made to simplify rules and make them more 
binding, so that each rule will be fair to all. It is pro- 
posed to adopt the percentage table used by the Beverly 
Y. C. in figuring the season's records. This is one of the 
best tables that has ever been produced, and there is little 
doubt that it will be adopted. 
The coming season promises to be the brightest that 
has ever been known for racing boats in the popular 
classes in Massachusetts Bay. More new boats have been 
built than in any previous year. Every one N of these 
boats, with the exception of two, that have been built 
for ur-estricted classes under 18ft. waterline, have been 
built lor the 25ft. and the 21ft. classes of the Yacht 
Racing Association of Massachusetts, and for the 18ft. 
knockabout class, also restricted, which has been adopted 
V the association. It would seem that this fact alone is 
sufficient to show that the aims of the association in re- 
gard to the formation of restricted classes have been in 
the right direction. If the classes were not right, the 
yachtsmen would not expend their money in building 
boats for them. As to where these boats will race, there 
has been a difference of opinion, but I have no doubt 
that they will follow the Y. R. A. circuit generally. _ This 
is a matter which generally regulates itself, and it has 
been distinctly proven in former years that racing classes, 
as classes, cannot exist when a fence is put around them. 
At the yards everything is on the boom. Work is be- 
ing rushed on the boats at Lawley's and at other places. 
The east shop at Lawley's is filled with boats, and there 
are others to be started as soon as there is room. In the 
west shop work on the Lippitt 60-rater is well along, and 
she has taken definite shape. The Binney 46-footer is 
nearly all planked. Fenton, of Manchester, has a shop 
full and has already turned out five or six that have been 
completed. Stearns, of Marblehead, has about finished 
the last of the Burgess 18-footers, and is at work on a 
number of power launches. Mclntyre, of Neponset, has 
completed seven of the thirteen one-design 15-fdoters 
that he is building for the Sippican Y. C, of Marion. 
It was stated last week that Smith, of Quincy Point, 
is at work on a new boat of the scow type for Henry M. 
Faxon. It was not stated what her waterline length will 
be. but it will not be surprising if it should be found to be 
21 ft. This piece of news has a peculiar significance. 
Challenges for the Quincy cup may be received any time 
