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ing thoroughly tried out in the waters in which she is 
to compete for the cup. 
Five new 2S-footers are now in process of construc- 
tion. This will make a fair class if they will all race 
together throughout the season, and it must be said 
that the prospect for racing in this class looks better 
than it has since the close of last season. Four of 
these boats are from designs by Starling Burgess, and 
the fifth has been designed and is being built by Walter 
Kelley. They will all be of extreme over all length 
and will have considerable beam. The boat for Mr. 
F. G. Macomber, Jr., is said to have truss bracing 
which comes up through the floor of the standing 
room. It does seem too bad that it should be neces- 
sary to put such bracing in a yacht that has been built 
for an alleged restricted class, but such features may 
be the means of bringing about good results in changes 
in rules that have been thought necessary. Com. 
Doherty, who has ordered one of these boats from 
Burgess, seems to be considerably in doubt as to 
whether these extreme features are going to be good 
for the class. In his own boat he has asked for con- 
siderably more headroom than is required under the 
rules, and is also going to get along without any of 
the braces, which have been heretofore seen in Quincy 
cup boats and in abnormal i8-footers of the unrestricted 
class. It is the claim of some that the new boats will 
pound themselves to pieces as soon as they have been 
put to a test in a seaway, while there are others who 
Ijelieve that they will come through a rough chance all 
right, the angle of heel giving them sufficiently sharp 
entrance to prevent pounding. Just what will happen 
to them can only be found out when they are put to 
the test, and that time will not be long in coming now. 
Starling Burgess is to have the cutter Edith altered 
into an auxiliary. She will be given a short mast and 
a kind of jury rig, which is thought best suited to the 
purposes for which Mr. Burgess wants her. She will 
have a Murray and Tregurtha 4-cylinder engine of 
good power, which, with her lean underbody will be 
considered sufficient to drive her at a fair rate of speed. 
Mr. Burgess will use her for cruising and will live on 
board throughout the summer. 
At the annual meeting of the Chelsea Y. C, held 
last Tuesday^ evening, the following officers were 
elected: Commodore, Thomas Harrington; Vice 
Commodore, W. F. Birch; Treasurer, William Thirk- 
ell; Financial Secretary, E. J. Bailey; Recording Sec- 
retary, George Barrie; Measurer, F. E. Walters; 
Board of Directors, R. W. Wagner, J. F. Cooper, W. 
S. Young, C. G. Lenfest and F. W. Jaynes. The an- 
nual dinner of the club \Vill be held at the Quincy 
House, Boston, Feb. 21. 
The annual meeting of the South Boston Y. C. will 
be held at the clubhouse, Columbia Road, Wednesday 
evening, Jan. 7, at which the officers for the year will 
be elected. The report of the secretary shows the 
membership to be 384, and he also reports that a sub- 
stantial sum of money has been paid over to the treas- 
urer during the past year. It is announced that the 
35th anniversary ball of the club will be held in Paul 
Revere Hall, Wednesday evening, Feb. 4. 
The work of bending the frames for the Emery 
steam yacht is still going on at Lawley's, and the 
decks are being finished up on the Fletcher steam 
yacht. The east shop is now pretty well filled with 
boats, and there are others to be started there as soon 
as the on'es under construction are finished. It is 
noticeable that in this shop, as in the shops of other 
builders, the majority of yachts being built are for 
cruising classes, or are out-and-out cruisers, without 
regard to class. 
Power dories and launches have been brought into 
great favor among the yachtsmen, and there is scarcely 
a yard where there are not some of these boats being 
built. Nearly all of the owners of yachts of 25ft. and 
over are to have power tenders, while many others are 
ordering them for skimming around in the harbors. 
John B. Killeen. 
Ice Yachting on North Shrewsbury. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The ice yachtsmen of the North Shrewsbury River 
have been for some time making preparations for the 
winter. Several new ice yachts are about completed, 
and several others have been rebuilt, or radically al- 
tered. The type of boat most in favor at Red Bank, 
which is the headquarters of the North Shrewsbury 
Ice Y. C, is the lateen, of just under 350 sq. ft. of sail 
area, and 15 to 16 feet track, locally known as third 
class. The fourth class lateens carrying up to 250 sq. ft. 
of sail are also in great favor on account of ease of 
handling combined with a high degree of speed, con- 
sidering the size. 
There are two distinct types or classes of lateen ice 
yachts, and concerning the respective merits of each 
class the experts are at odds. The distinguishing fea- 
ture is the method of hanging the sail. In one case it 
is pivoted at the tack of the sail or point of the boom 
to the end of the bowsprit. In this method of rigging 
the yard is drawn up closely to the crotch of the sheer 
poles, and acts as an inclined mast, while the boom 
is free to move or to lift, in case of easing the sheet. 
The advantages are simplicity of rigging, no after stays 
or spreader being required, and greater speed off the 
wind, the sail acting like a large jib. In the other class 
the boom is encircled by a band at from one-third to 
one-quarter of the length of boom from its forward 
end, which band is connected by a turntable to the 
keel at a point varying from 2 to 4 ft. forward of the 
runner plank. While this type of ice yacht may have a 
shorter keel than the former, it requires afterstays to 
the sheer poles, as well as fore and after spreaders. But 
the sail may be trimmed flatter, and the yard swings 
with the boom, further out, or less than the boom, de- 
pending upon how far inboard the boom is caught. The 
weight of opinion is that the first-mentioned class is 
better off the wind, and the latter is better on the wind. 
The latter class without doubt sticks to the ice the 
better. 
