June 7, iffi&t 
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Seeress are very evenly matched in running, that Seeress 
is faster in reaching, while Massasoit is superior in wind- 
ward work. Massasoit is a remarkably clean looking 
boat, with a narrow, high rig.. Her sails seemed to set 
perfectly. Mr. Herbert Jennings, who had his leg broken 
when Massasoit capsized a week previous, was at the 
helm during the race with his foot in a plaster cast. 
In the raceabout class six boats started. Scamp winning 
after a pretty race. J. R. Maxwell, Jr.'s Pompilio was 
second. The Marcia won in the knockabout class, the 
Lambkin in the Manhasset Bay yachts class, and the 
Knave in the New Rochelle one-design class. 
Walter Kerr and Charles Leland managed the race. 
Seawanhaka Cup Class — Start, 3:40. 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Massasoit, Bridgeport Y. C. Syndicate 5 14 44 1 34 44 
Seeress, Mower and Hunt 5 16 11 1 36 11 
Nutmeg, Seely and Marshall 5 22 40 1 42 40 
Tecumseh, Bridgeport Y. C. Syndicate 5 20 37 1 40 37 
Club Raceabouts — Start, 3:45. 
Jolly Roger, T. B. Bleecker 5 26 58 1 41 58 
Snapper, A. B. Alley 5 28 59 1 43 59 
Indian, H. W. Maxwell... 5 27 10 1 42 10 
Pompilio, J. R. Maxwell 5 26 50 1 41 50 
Mavis. Gordon Pirie 5 31 40 1 46 40 
Scamp, A. Pirie 5 24 28 1 39 28 
Whistlewing, H. M. Crane 5 26 48 1 41 48 
Club Knockabouts — Start, 3:15. . 
Marcia, Johnson de Forest 6 02 40 2 47 40 
Go wan, F. G. Stewart 6 04 20 2 49 20 
Vagrant, Brown and Low 6 05 22 2 50 22 
Bobs, W. A. W. Stewart 6 11 15 2 56 15 
Manhasset Raceabouts — Start, 3:55. 
Arizona, J. Corry. 5 54 17 1 59 17 
Mab, Hoyt 5 57 55 2 02 55 
Lambkin, Stephen Roach 5 54 15 1 59 15 
New Rochelle One-Design Class — Start, 3:55. 
Caper, P. L. Howard 5 55 42 2 00 42 
Knave, W. N. Bavier 5 51 18 1 56 18 
Club Catboats— Start, 3:55. 
No. 1, Percy Hudson 5 54 20 1 59 20 
No. 2, Satterthwait 5 57 31 2 02 31 
Marine and Field Club. 
BATH BEACH, GRAVESEND BAY. 
The little Wyckoff one-design boats of the Marine and 
Field Club will have plenty of racing this year. Three 
trophies are offered by members of the club. Isaac 
Snedeker donates one for the craft winning the greatest 
number of points in six races. The President, Theodore 
L. Cuyler, and F. W. Dauchy have presented cups 
which go to the winner of the best two out of three con- 
tests. In reckoning points for the Snedeker trophy, 
first place counts four, second three, and one point is 
given to every craft starting. The schedule for 1902 
follows: 
May 31. — One-design class. Points on Snedeker trophy. 
June 7.— Atlantic Y. C. Y. R. A. G. B^ 
June 14. — One-design class. Points on Snedeker trophy. 
June 21.— Brooklyn Y. C. Y. R. A. G. B. Points on Snedeker 
trophy. 
June 28.— New York C. C. Y. K. A. G. B. First leg on Cuyler 
cup, 
July 12.— Marine and Field Club. Y. R. A. G. B. Second leg 
on Cuyler cup. 
July 26.— Atlantic Y. C. Y. R. A. G. B. Points on Snedeker 
trophy. , 
Aug. 2— Brooklyn Y. C. Y. R. A. G. B. Points on Snedeker 
trophy. 
Aug. 16, — One-design class. Last race for points on Snedeker 
trophy. 
Aug. 23.— Marine and Field Club. Y. R. A. G. B. First leg on 
Dauchy cup. 
Sept. 6.— New York C. C. Y. R. A. G. B. Second leg on 
Dauchy cup. 
Sept. 13. — Women's race. 
Sept. 20— Y. R. A. G. B. regatta off Atlantic Y. C. 
In the first race of the season held on Saturday, May 
31, Stinger, A. P. Clapp owner, was the winner. The 
boats covered a triangular course three times, aggre- 
gating between seven and eight miles. Stinger gets four 
points, Kelpie three and the other boats one each on the 
series for the Snedeker trophy. The summaries follow : 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Marine and Field Class— Start, 3:05. 
Stinger, A. P. Clapp 6 06 00 3 01 00 
Kelpie, W. K. Brown..... 6 08 30 3 03 30 
Vixen, Mahoney & Chandler 6 10 00 3 05 30 
Quinque, L. H. Smith 6 15 25 3 10 25 
Harlem Y» C» Annual Regatta* 
CITY ISLAND, LONG ' ISLAND SOUND, " 
Friday, May 30. 
The twentieth annual regatta of the Harlem Y. C. was 
held on Decoration Day, Friday, May 30. Twenty-eight 
boats started. 
The 43 and 36ft. classes sailed a course of eighteen 
nautical miles from City Island Point to Matinicock 
Buoy, thence to Delancey Point, and thence home. The 
course for the 30-foot and 25-foot classes was thirteen 
nautical miles long, from City Island Point to Prospect 
Point, thence to Delancey Point, and thence home. The 
courses for all the smaller classes was from City Isl- 
and Point to Prospect Point, thence to the north and 
westward of all buoys on Execution Reef, and home, a 
distance of nine nautical miles. 
The wind was W.S.W., making the first leg a run, the 
second a reach and the last a beat. It blew hard at the 
start, but the breeze lightened up considerably as the af- 
ternoon wore on. 
In the 36-foot class Anaotok had everything her own 
way as did Snapper in the 25-foot class. Just before the 
start the 15-footer, Pollywog, capsized and had to be 
towed into Belden's Point. The 36- foot sloop Eleanor, 
owned by J. H. Andrews, collided with W. P. Shearer's 
25-foot catboat Lauretta, smashing in the catboat's star- 
board bow and breaking her own anchor and jibstay. 
Aquila made the best actual time of the Harlem Y, C. 
boats over the course, so gets the second leg in the D. M. 
Williams Cup. She won her first leg in the cup last 
year, and if she wins it again it becomes the property of 
the owner. 
The summary follows: 
Sloops— 43ft. Class— Start, 2:10. 
Racing Length. Finish. Elapsed. 
Sunshine Christie and Jones 39.8 5 58 15 3 48 15 
Mystral, R. Evans 37.4 Did not finish. 
Sloops— 36ft. Class— Start, 2:10. 
Amatok, J. E. Mmin 5 18 18 3 08 18 
Annie, W. J. Baxter 33.2 6 05 00 3 55 00 
Aquila, J. K. Getty 34.7 6 56 30 3 46 30 
Cabin Catboats-25ft. Class— Start, 2;15. 
Dada, J. H. Symmons 20.5 5 19 28 3 04 2S 
Golden Rod W. A. Towner 22.0 5 08 10 2 53 10 
Hiawatha, Dayton and Branch........ 24. 6 6 02 00 3 47 02 
Open Catboats— 25ft. Class— Start, 2:15. 
Emily, T. Wimmer 21.5 5 28 20 3 13 20 
Drift," W. Glenn 20.6 5 45 00 3 30 00 
Open Sloops— 25ft. Class— Start, 2:20. 
Adelaide, J. J. Dwyer... 22.7 4 57 54 2 37 54 
Houri, J. II. Esser 22.7 4 59 41 2 39 41 
Cabin Sloops— 25ft. Class— Start. 2:20. 
Tammany, Muhlfield and McCready.23.6 5 10 39 2 50 49 
Snapper, A. B. Alley 25.0 4 50 56 2 30 56 
Romance, W. Williams 24.3 4 58 29 2 38 39 
Fortuna, A. L. Brush.. 20.7 6 01 20 3 41 20 
Gertrude, Curtis and Morstadt 21.5 Did not finish. 
Una, YV. Scardsfield, started ahead of signal. 
Cabin Catboats— 30ft. Class— Start, 2:25. 
Tuanita, S. C. Hunter 27.3 5 05 10 2 40 18 
Lou, G. J. Oakes 26.2 5 58 18 3 33 18 
Sloops— 30ft. Class— Start, 2:30. 
Revel, L. B. Bigelow 26.3 5 42 40 3 12 40 
Vim, G. G.- Brannert 27.2 5 08 12 2 38 12 
Existence, T. Deshort 27.7 Started ahead signal. 
New Rochells One-Design Runabouts— Start, 2:35. 
Caper, P. L. Howard 4 40 07 2 05 07 
Knave, W. N. Bavier *. 4 39 00 2 04 00 
Me Too, H. T. Foote Withdrew 
Winners — 43-foot sloop, Sunshine; 36-foot sloop, 
Anoatok; D. M. Williams' Cup, Aquila; 25-foot cabin 
cats, Golden Rod; 25-foot open cats, Emily; 25-foot cabin 
sloops, Snapper; 25-foot cabin sloops, old style, Tam- 
many; 25-foot open sloops, Adelaide; 30-foot cabin cats, 
Juanita; 30-foot sloops, Vim; New-Rochelle, one design, 
Knave. _____ 
Penataquit-Corinthian Y, C. 
BAY SHORE, L. I. 
Members of the Penataquit-Corinthian Y. C. of 
Bay Shore are planning a fine season of sport. Con- 
tests for the Lighthouse Cup presented by J. Campbell 
Smith in May, 1901, which proved so interesting last 
year, will be continued. 
The conditions of the cup demand six races each year, 
and the trophy becomes the personal property of the 
member winning the series of each season three times, 
not necessarily consecutively. 
Competition is open to class N sloops, subject to cer- 
tain conditions and the point system is used in scoring 
each race. In 1901 Mr. Smith's crack sloop, Amy Fos- 
ter, carried off the honors after a hard struggle. 
John R. Suydam, of New York, has had a boot 
designed by Clinton H. Crane and built at City Island 
in an endeavor to win a leg on the coveted trophy. She 
is now at Bay Shore. J. Campbell Smith has been ap- 
pointed fleet captain of the club and Dr. W. A. Hulse 
fleet surgeon. The schedule for the. season of 1902 fol- 
lows: 
June 28. — Spring regatta. First race for Lighthouse cup. 
July 5. — Summer regatta. Second race for Lighthouse cup. 
July 19. — Third race for Lighthouse cup. 
Aug. 2. — Open regatta. 
Aug. 15. — Annual cruise. 
Aug. 23. — Fourth race for Lighthouse cup. 
Sept. 2. — Fall regatta. Fifth race for Lighthouse cup. 
Sept. 6. — Last race for Lighthouse cup. 
How to Build a Launch from a 
Set of Plans, 
BY C G. DAVIS. 
Indian Harbor Y« C* 
GREENWICH, LONG ISLAND SOUND. 
Friday, May 30. 
The opening of the Indian Harbor Y. C. on the morn- 
ing of Friday, May 30, was followed in the afternoon by 
a handicap race for club boats and the first race for the 
championship of the Y. R. A., of Long Island Sound, in 
the raceabout class. The wind was strong from the 
southwest at the start, but finally hauled to the north- 
east and petered out to a great extent. Three- boats 
started in the raceabout class, two were disqualified 
(.Mavis and Scamp) for sailing over the wrong course. 
Cymbria won in her- class. The course was of five miles 
and triangular, around Captain's Island. Following is 
the summary : 
Club Handicap. 
Start. Finish. Elapsed. 
Cymbria, F. C. Henderson. ....... .3 10 00 5 27 31 2 17 31 
Maya, E. I. Sanford 3 02 00 5 31 20 2 29 20 
Robin Hood, G. E. Gartland 2 50 00 5 43 48 2 58 48 
Bantam, Francis Page 2 30 00 Did not finish. 
Scoot, H. S. Shonnard 2 35 00 Did not finish. 
Mingo, T. L. Guild 2 20 00 Did not finish. 
Raceaboiit Class- — Start, 2:10. 
Pompilia, H. L. Maxwell 4 27 40 2 17 40 
Mavis, G. L. Pirie Disqualified. 
Scamp, A. H. Pirie Disqualified. 
The members of the regatta committee were Frank 
'Bowne Jones, Chairman; Charles F. Kirby, Frank C. 
Henderson. Charles E. Simms, and R. Babcock. 
Bridgeport ^. C. 
. BLACK ROCK HARBOR, LONG ISLAND SOUND. 
Friday, May 30. 
The race for the "Citizen Cup" was held in Black 
Rock Harbor under the auspices of the Bridgeport Y. C. 
on Friday, May 30. Four boats started, two of which, 
Massasoit and Tecumseh, were built for the trial races 
for the Seawanhaka Cup. Viper, one of Crowninshield's 
last year's raceabouts, was also entered. Viper was the 
first boat to start, but qn the first leg of the course her 
spinnaker pole went overboard and she had to stop and 
recover it. While doing this Massasoit and Tecumseh 
passed her. Before the finish Viper overtook Tecumseh 
and finished second. The boats sailed over a triangular 
course of eleven miles. The summary : 
Start. Turn. Finish. 
Massasoit, Bridgeport Y. C. Syndicate.. 2 30 00 3 58 00 5 02 45 
Viper, Dever H. Warner 2 36 00 3 59 00 5 07 18 
Tecumseh, Bridgeport Y. C. Syndicate.. 2 30 00 4 10 00 5 13 14 
Arbeeka, Kenneth Mc Neil 3 36 00 4 13 30 Withdr'w 
Riveting Up. 
If you have riveted on each plank as you went along 
you are now ready to caulk, plane her off, sandpaper, 
putty and paint her. In boat shops the planks are all 
gotten out, hailed on and then, when the shutter is in, 
the apprentice will hold a chunk of iron against the frame 
inside the boat while the experienced man drives all the 
nail heads in solid with a nail set — which is simply a 
short piece of steel which he holds in his left hand and 
holds it against the nail head, hitting it with the hammer 
instead of the nail, and so driving the latter in the full 
depth of the countersink without bruising the wood 
around it. Fig. 30. 
Pig,-3Q 
holding; on 
RON 
Mr. Frank Bowne Jones has made the following sales: 
46-footer Sayonara, sold bv the estate of Clifford B. Hen- 
dricks to Mr. John Hubbard, N. Y. Y. C; sloop 
Gretchen, sold by Mr. William M. Ivins to Mr. Robert 
M. Ireland; the raceabout Scamp, sold by Mr. Johnston 
de Forest to Mr. Allan H. Pirie. 
When all the nails are punched in they change places — 
the apprentice holding some heavy piece of iron, such 
as the pointed end of a top maul, against the nail head 
that sticks through the frame, while the builder puts 
the burrs on the ends of the nails, tapping them on with a 
burr set if they fit as they should to be right — so tight 
you can't quite get them on by hand, cutting off the ends 
of the nails with a pair of cutting pincers and riveting the 
end of the nail over the burr, drawing the head and burr 
tightly up against the wood (Fig. 27)., It's queer to see 
and hear the way these riveters work, and note the sig- 
nals they use to tell each other just what is wanted — a 
sort of home-made telegraphy. For instance, what at 
first sounds like a perpetual tap-tap-tapping, you discover 
in reality is seven or eight tap-tap-taps followed by two 
quick short tap-taps; as soon as these are given you will 
see the apprentice move his weight to the next nail, 
changing every time to a new nail when he hears those 
two short tap-taps. 
Clamps. 
When all the fastenings are riveted, and before you 
proceed to finish up the planking, which should be the 
last job, put in the clamps or strip of wood similar to the 
sheer strake that goes along on the inside of the frames. 
This, in our boat, should go from stem to transom and 
be of oak or yellow pine 34in. thick, a straight piece 
sprung into place and securely nailed to the frames with 
round wire galvanized nails. It would make a neater 
and stronger job, perhaps, to put this clamp in at the 
same time as you put on the sheer strake, and let the 
one fastening go clean through, riveting up on the inside 
of the clamp. You can do it here because this clamp fol- 
lows just the same shape as the sheer strake. If you don't 
want to make the clamp as wide as the sheer strake, let 
the upper row of rivets only go through the both pieces 
and substitute a galvanized wire nail for the lower fasten- 
ing. 
As the deck is arched up in the middle, or "'crowned," 
as boat builders call it, keep this clamp up quarter of an 
inch higher than the sheer strake, so when you bevel 
the tops off, the board that covers them up — called the 
"covering board" or "planksheer" — will have a slant to 
drain the water off over the edge of the boat. 
Try and make the covering board out of one length 
of plank on each side 2^in. wide and %in. thick. Being 
quite narrow you may be able to bend these around cold, 
but it is safer to stick the end that is to be forward into 
the steam box for a little while and then bend it while 
it is hot. A 20ft. plank 6in. wide will make both covering 
boards for this little launch, but it will take a wider piece 
to cut the connecting piece across the stern. If you do 
have to use two pieces on each side, as would-be the case 
in a larger yacht, there are several ways ; of mak- 
ing the joint. The most common way'" is called 
a butt, usually cut slanting, so one holds the 
other on; another way usual in large boats is to cut 
what is called an anchor stock scarph. One piece hooks 
into the other and gives great strength, as one is locked 
securely into the other to resist end pull. This is far 
more difficult to cut than the first, which is simply a 
staight saw cut. Do not try any halving one piece on to 
the other, as the sun will draw the thin end thus formed 
up and make it curl. 
This joint is used extensively in building rowing shells 
and light yacht tenders where the planking is only J4in. 
or J^in. thick; it is glued and riveted with fine copper 
tacks, but is no good for launch work. 
Keelson. 
Our launch would now be quite strong, but to keep 
her so we will put in on top of the oak floors that cross 
the keel a yellow pine piece running parallel to and j'ust 
over the keel called a keelson (Fig. 31) 2 l / 2 m. deep and 
T^in. thick. Spike it down to the stem and into each oak 
floor as it crosses them, ending with a coupe of spikes 
into the after deadwood as the plans show. 
