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FOREST AND STREAM. 
by Messrs. C. H. Seeley and Wilson Marshall. 
The one-design class boats for members of the New 
Rochelle Y. C. are well under way. Six boats have been 
ordered and they will be finished and turned over to their 
owners on May 24. The owners are to draw lots for the 
boats, and a race will be sailed on the day they are 
turned over to the owners. They are keel boats with 
outside lead ballast and are 23ft. over all, 15ft. waterline, 
7ft. 2 in. breadth and 3ft. 6in. draft; 387 sq. ft. of canvas 
are carried in the mainsail and jib. 
Mr. Huntington has built from his own design for Mr. 
Frank Maier a cruising yawl. She is 35ft. over all, 27ft. 
6in. waterline, 11ft. 4m. breadth and 4ft. oin. draft. She 
is a wholesome little boat and very roomy below decks. 
She will be known as Fanshawe. 
At City Island, Messrs. Jacob and Wood have both 
had a very busy winter. Mr. Jacob now has over a hun- 
dred men in his employ. The new marine railway is 
nearly finished. The work is being done by Messrs. H. 
I. Crandell & Co., of Boston. The railway will have 
a 1,000-ton capacity, and there will be 22ft. of water at 
any tide, so that the largest vessels can be hauled at any 
hour. Now that the schooner Marjorie that was built 
for Mr. Frank St. John has been launched, the men will 
be put on the other yachts and the work of fitting out 
the eighty boats now in the yard will be begun. Some 
changes are being made on the schooner Elmina, and the 
cutter Hester is being altered below decks. The Watson 
designed cutter, Queen Mab, has been almost entirely 
rebuilt by Mr. Jacob. Her steel frames have been re- 
placed throughout and she has been entirely replanked, 
and a new deck has been -laid. Three more of the 
Manhasset Bay Y. C. one-design boats have been fin- 
ished, and they will be put overboard in a few days. 
One is for Mr. H. L. Quick, another for Mr. Thomas 
Ratsey, and the third is for Mr. H. Hennen. The sail 
lofts built by Mr. Jacob for Mr. Thomas Ratsey, the 
English sailmaker, are now completed. They are the 
largest sail lofts in the country, with the exception of 
the Government loft at the Brooklyn navy yard. The 
new lofts are 175ft. long and 50ft. wide. The floor space 
is unobstructed, as girders take the place of the usual 
supports for carrying the floors. Only American sail 
makers will be employed by Mr. Ratsey. 
At Wood's yard there are five new boats building m 
the shop. These were designed by Messrs. Tams, Le- 
moine & Crane. Three of them are about 30ft. on the 
waterline, and are designed to fit the 30ft. class under the 
new rule. The boats are for Messrs. Walter S. Ladd. 
N. E. Macy and John B. Trevor. They will be raced 
first on the Sound, and will then be taken to Bar 
Harbor. The raceabout for Mr. H. M. Crane is prac- 
tically finished, and she is a superior little boat. The 
fifth boat is for Mr. John Y. Suydam, who will race her 
on Great South Bay against Pleasure and Electra, two 
Herreshoff boats. Mr. WoQd has done a remarkably 
good job on all five of these boats. The cruising sloop 
that Mr. Wood built from Messrs. Gardner & Cox's 
designs for Mr. George Bullock is entirely completed. 
She will be named Cleona. 
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FOREST AND STREAM DESIGNING COMPETITION HONORABLE MENTION DESIGN—SAIL PLAN. 
Submitted by "Noira" (John M„ James), Glasgow, Scotland. 
Our Boston Letter. 
Boston, April 7. — A new state of affairs is to exist this 
season that has never been known before, and which is 
to be of great benefit to yacht racing. The Corinthian 
Y. C. and the Eastern Y. C. have consulted with Y. R. A. 
clubs in regard to the selection of open dates, and with 
the Boston Y. C. and the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. in 
regard to the selection of club events. The result is that 
racing throughout the bay will be, as nearly as possible, 
in perfect harmonjt. The benefit the sport will receive 
from such action is well known to every yachtsman who 
has been puzzled about where to race on days when two 
or more clubs have given races at the same time. A 
meeting was held at the B. A. A. on Thursday, March 
24, at which the following representatives were present: 
Boston Y. C, Walter Burgess; Corinthian Y. C, D. H. 
Follett and Geo. W. Mansfield; Eastern Y. C, Henry O. 
Howard; Hull-Massachusetts Y. C, J. T. Humphrey; 
FOREST AND STREAM DESIGNING COMPETITION — 
Submitted by "gyntax" (E, P. 
•HONORABLE MENTION DESIGN- 
Morris), N§w J?jve»? CoWfc 
SAJL PLAN, 
Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts, Louis M. 
Clark. Geo. W. Mansfield was chosen chairman of the 
meeting and J. T. Humphrey secretary, and then the 
representatives proceeded to harmonize yacht racing with 
very good results. 
The feature of the Corinthian Y. C. and the Eastern 
Y. C. not only consulting with representatives of Y. R. A. 
clubs so that dates might not conflict, but alsp conceding 
certain dates in the interest of those clubs, is one that 
has not been noted before. Neither of these clubs are 
members of the Y. R. A., nor have they been in favor of 
such an organization. Throughout the winter there, was a 
movement on foot to confine the racing in the restricted 
classes to the waters of Marblehead, and the fact that 
two of the Y. R. A. clubs are now asked to change their 
dates by the Eastern Y. C, might be taken by some as 
an indication that such a movement is taking definite 
form ; but if conditions are viewed in a fair light, it will 
be seen that these clubs, one of which has adopted the 
classes which the Y. R. A. has worked hard to establish, 
have not only recognized the value of the classes, but at 
this time are recognizing the Association itself. ' 
This year the Eastern Y. C. proposes to make the 
special feature of giving open races for 18ft. knockabouts, 
21-footers and 25-footers, a feature that is indeed un- 
usual, as this club does not enroll yachts of less than 
30ft. waterline. It has asked the Mosquito Fleet Y. C. 
to change the date of its open race, which was scheduled 
for July 5, and also wants to give an open race on 
July 4. This request is made so that two days of open 
racing may be had at Marblehead. The Corinthian Y. C. 
proposes to give an open race on the morning of July 4. 
That these clubs are not asking anything that would not 
be equitable can be plainly seen from the fact that they 
have given up dates, which they scheduled early in the 
season, m the interest of Y. R. A. clubs, and that there 
might be a good attendance at all open races. The 
Corinthian Y. C. has given up its race scheduled for May 
30, so that the opening Y. R. A. race of the South Boston 
Y. C. at City Point might not be interfered with. This 
club has also given up June 17, and the Eastern Y. C. has 
given up the same day in the interest of the Hull-Massa- 
chusetts Y.'C. It is perfectly plain that, if no arrange- 
ment had been made, races would have been scheduled 
on these days at Marblehead, and also on every Saturday, 
which is the day taken by most of the Y. R. A. clubs for 
their open races. Both of these clubs have arranged 
their dates so that the Saturday open races already 
scheduled will not be interfered with. There was no 
inducement for them to give up their dates except to 
benefit yacht racing by creating harmony. And when 
.they have so willingly conceded days to the Y. R. A. 
clubs, on which they might have held opposition races, it 
is only fair that the Y. R, A. clubs should make the 
same endeavor. The request of these clubs is consistent; 
it is far from being a demonstration of "hogging" the 
races in Marblehead, and the attitude taken by them is 
most sportsmanlike in every particular. 
The Eastern Y. C. has asked for July 5 and Sept. 6— 
days that have already been scheduled respectively by the 
Mosquito Fleet Y. C. and the Quincy Y. C. There is 
every prospect that when the season opens there will be 
no conflict on these days, and that the open race of every 
club in the bay will be sailed without any opposing race 
being held. This is a situation which, if continued, will 
be the greatest boon to yachting and yacht racing that 
