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Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. 
Designing Competition. 
First Prize Design. 
We publish in this issue the plans submitted by Mr, 
Allen D. Woods, of New York city, which took first 
prize in the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. designing 
competition. The design is the work of a capable drafts- 
man and the boat's good points speak for themselves. 
The boat's dimensions are as follows : 
Length — ■ 
Over all . 21ft. 6 in. 
L.W.L 14ft. 6 in. 
Overhang — 
Forward 3ft. SJ^in, 
Aft 3ft. 6%in. 
Breadth — 
Extreme 5ft. nin. 
L.W.L 5ft. 3m. 
Freeboard — 
Forward ift. 9in. 
Aft . ; ift. 3V 2 in, 
Least ift. ij^in. 
Draft- 
Extreme 3ft. 7^in. 
To rabbet ift. 8^in. 
Sail Area — ■ 
Mainsail 237 sq. ft. 
Jib 61 sq. ft. 
Total , 298 sq. f t. 
Weight of hull - 950IDS. 
Weight of lead 95olbs. 
Weight of rig isolbs. 
Weight of outfit . . 5olbs. 
Weight of crew '. . 30olbs. 
Total 2,40olbs. 
Displacement 2,410ms. 
C.B. from fore end of L.W.L 7-93ft. 
C.G. of lead from fore end of L.W.L.... 8.42ft. 
C.E. from fore end of L.W.L 7ft. 9>^in, 
C.L.R. from fore end of L.W.L 8ft. 1 in. 
Area of greatest immersed section 6.33 'sq. ft. 
English Letter. 
It is stated that Meteor III. will take part in the return 
match from Heligoland to Dover for the prize presented 
by Mr. Carl von Buch, of the Royal London Y. C. 
Although they will thereby miss many of the Baltic re- 
gattas there are already ten entries for this race. The 
prize is a silver cup of the value of £600, and a second 
prize is presented by Sir H. Seymour King, the third 
being provided by Mr. Lorne C. Currie, of International 
fame. The match is open to yachts of German owner- 
ship only, so that, much as it might be wished, Meteor 
will- not compete with the new Fife schooner, building 
for Mr. Cecil Quentin, in either the outward or the 
homeward race. The distance from Dover to Heligoland 
is about 500 miles — a grand course for Meteor to do some 
record breaking. 
On Saturday, May 17, one of the new Fife 36-footers 
sailed her first race in the Solent. This is Capt. J. Orr- 
Ewing's Nyama, and for her only opponent she had 
Cuckoo — built by Sibbick last year, and only a very mod- 
erate success. It blew very hard, which is supposed to 
be all against the Sibbick craft, yet the new boat only 
beat her by two minutes, Cuckoo actually gaining 18 
seconds on the second round. Cuckoo is a very hol- 
low sectioned boat as compared with the Fife craft. 
•On the same day Mr. R. E. Froude sailed his first race 
with his new 24-footer, Campanila, and won it, all the 
others giving up through accidents or other causes. Mr. 
Froude's boat was getting beaten, when the leader 
fouled a mark and retired. One cannot judge from first 
races, and Campanila ought to turn out well, for Mr.. 
Froude designed the terror of the 18ft. class, in the little 
Larkspur. He is in charge of the Admiralty model test- 
ing tanks at Portsmouth, and, so far as such tests go,, 
has probably more information at his command than any 
professional designer, He was the chief advocate of our 
new rule. 
So far the Solent classes — the forcing house of small 
Y. R. A. small-class racing — bid fair to be rather poor 
this year. "Thalassa" gave you some reasons a few weeks 
since for the attenuation of open racing, and the follow- 
ing will serve to show what needless expense has become 
fashionable among these little boats. If we take a 30- 
footer (a boat of some 28ft. water-line) : Her first cost 
would not be less than £500 and a very moderate esti- 
mate of the season's expenses would be £250 more. 
It is the custom to haul these boats up at least every 
week-end, and when a few idle days come together, she 
is pulled up in a cradle, sandpapered and polished, and 
launched again on the morning of her next match. 
Knowing, as I do, how mysteriously a builder's bill runs 
up at Cowes, when designed on the materials and time 
principle, the cost of this procedure must be enormous. 
Compare this boat with one of the Solent one-design 
class. The latter is a far more comfortable or useful 
boat, costing £280, having just the same number of races, 
and involving one-third the working expenses of the 
other, beside being saleable at any time for at least half 
her first cost. I can easily imagine anyone who designs 
his own boat selecting the open class, but for pure sport 
and pleasure the O. D. C. is far ahead. 
1 Kariad arrived last week from the Mediterranean fly- 
ing a string of twenty winning flags. She had a very 
rough voyage home across the bay of Biscay. Indeed, 
the weather in Europe has up to the present time been 
colder than it often is in the depth of winter. 
The designing competition of the Royal Canoe Club 
for "canoe-yachts" of 24ft. L. R. attracted very few en- 
tries. The winning design was by Mr. C. P. Crossley, 
of the firm of Linton Hope & Co. The conditions of 
the affair must have made judging a somewhat difficult 
matter, for, though the boats were supposed to be de- 
signed under a racing rule, as many points were to be 
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