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27-FOOT SPEED LAUNCH DESIGNED AND BUILT BY THE HOLMES SHIPBUILDING CO., 1902. 
recognize this, to them, familiar sight. 
No. 14. Is another one of the Larchmont Y. C.'s 34 
rating class, a boat called the Voraiit II., designed by- 
Mr. Charles Olmsted, of Brooklyn, and built by him at 
Bay Ridge for Mr. George Tyson. She was an elaborately 
built craft double planked. Mahogany outside, finished 
in its natural red color and varnished. Her scroll work is 
just as elaborate as her construction, and illustrates an- 
other specimen of Charlie Brown's work. 
No. 15. Is the ornament on Vorant II.'s transom ; the 
mass of gilding in yellow, red and silver gold leaf en- 
hanced the beauty of the mahogany planking. 
No. 16 and 17 is a reproduction from a sketch made by 
Mr. John Harvey for me to illustrate the beauties of the 
English butterman schooners of the year 1850, many of 
which Mr. Harvey turned out at his "Saiiity Shipyard," 
Wy\'enhoe, England, before he came to America. 
No. 18. Is a relative of No. 2, showing a popular style 
of figurehead on the small American working craft. 
No. 19. Is the figurehead of the 25 rater Nameless, de- 
signed by Wm. Gardner and built by Frank Wood at City 
Island for Mr. C. W. Wetmore, and shows a very shippy- 
looking little craft. 
Boston Letter. 
Boston, Feb. 16. — A meeting of the Boston Y. C. will 
be held at the American House Wednesday, Feb. 25, 
at which final action is expected to be taken upon the 
question of amalgamating with the Hull-Massachusetts 
Y. C. The committee appointed to investigate as to the 
advisability of such a move has reported favorably, and 
has recommended that the Boston Y. C. assume the 
lij-bilities of the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C, taking in its 
present membership, and that the Boston Y. €. accept a 
conveyance of all of the property of the Hull-Massa- 
chusetts Y. C. to it. 
This is by long odds the most important yachting deal 
that has been proposed in Massachusetts for many years. 
It means that the consolidated club will start in with a 
itiembership of 721, a gross pi'operty asset of $73,370.14 
and a net property asset of $44,369.32. With the ad- 
vantages to be offered in the five stations of the consoli- 
dated club, it is the belief of the committee that fully 
10 members will be added to the list before the opening of 
the season. 
; A new possible Seawanhaka cup challenger has been 
heard from. W. W. Meek will design this boat and she 
, will be built for him by Mr. F. A. Peacock, of New York, 
^he will be built to fit all the requirements of boats racing 
fbr the Seawanhaka cup and, if the Manchester Y. C. 
\yill allow her to compete in the trial races upon condi- 
tions that will'be satisfactory to Mr. Peacock, he will en- 
ter her. If not, he will take her to Canada and race her 
there throughout the season. Mr. Peacock resides in 
Canada during the summer months and he is anxious to 
get_ a crack at the Canadians in a cup race. Mr. Meek is 
laying down the new 25-footer for Mr. J. E. Doherty, and 
has a 35-footer hunting launch iri the mold. 
'.Burgess and Packard have an order for an i8-footer for 
\Y- Caleb Loring, Jr., and a cruising 21-footer for C. W. 
Tfalbot, of Osterville, Mass. Mr. Packard has just re- 
celived the appointment of Professor of Naval Archi- 
tecture at the Institute of Technology. Mr. Packard's 
career as a student was very brilliant, and since he has 
been engaged at his profession he has applied his knowl- 
edge in a practical manner with much honor to himself. 
Pie has been with the Herreshoff Company and with the 
New. York Shipbuilding Company. He looked after the 
construction plans of the Columbia and superintended her 
construction. He also worked on the construction 
pl.nns of the new cup defender. Pie is in every waj' de- 
serving of the new honors he has received. 
Small Bros, have an order for a 25ft. auxiliary 3'-awl 
for W. Mosely Swain, of Philadelphia, to be supph'ed with 
an 8'^horse-power engine. They have an order for a 3ofL 
hunting launch for Mr.^ F. C. Plaisted, of Bangor, Me. 
She will have a 9 horSe-power engine. .\ 30ft. speed 
launch for Mr. G. T. Sperrj-, of Springfieli!, will have an 
8 horserpower engine. . 
E. A. Boardman has an order for a 22-footer for Mr. 
C. W.' Whittier, a cftuisiiig- 2irf©oter for Mr. T. W. Wat- 
son and an i8-f6oter for Mxi T. W. Malcolmson, of 
Providence. ' - '■ \ '. 
Holli's Burgess has sold the hoaseboat Clarina to a cor- 
poration, which will use her for a floating hospital. 
The John Stuart Company, of Wollaston, is building 
a 45ft. cruising launch for a member of the Hull-Massa- 
chusetts Y. C. She will haye a 25 horse-power engine, 
which is expected to give her a speed of about 11 miles. 
Her planking will be white cedar and her cabin will be 
finished in mahogany. Two 25ft. launches are being built 
for Boston parlies. A 21ft. speed launch is being built for 
Mr. A. G. Yongquist. of the Wollaston Y. C. 
Mr. B. B. iCrowninshield has designed a new i8-footer 
for Mr. B. S. Permar, to take the place of last year's 
champion, Malillian. The new boat is now being built 
by Graves, of Marblehead. 
At Lawley's the 36-footer for W. B. Rogers is practi- 
cally finished. C H. Clark's Sdt. ^ckooaex it finished jm4 
will be launched the first of the week. Maj. Bent's soft, 
schooner is planked and the deck is being laid. A 25- 
footer for John Swift, Jr., is partly planked. Trenor L. 
Park's 43-rater is partly in frame. A cruising 21-footer 
for L. H. Spaulding is planked and the cabin trunk is 
being planked. Francis Adriance's 34ft. yawl is finished 
and has been hauled out of the shop. The 40-rater for R. 
H. Morgan is being laid down. The steam yacht for C. 
A. Fletcher is nearing completion. The plating is being 
put on the steam yacht for C. G. Emery. In the boat shop 
the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. launch is all planked. A 
4Sft. launch for W. F. Dreer is being laid down. 
Isaac B. Mills has turned out the lines of a 28ft. water- 
line cruising 3^awl for B. D. Amsden, of the Boston Y. C, 
which is now being built at Hanley's. The 35ft. launch, 
which is being built from his design by Meek, is for Mr. 
George H. Street. Linnell, of Savin Hill, is building two 
30ft. launches of his design. One of these is for Mr. Fred 
S. Srnith and the other for Mr. J. P. Eustis. Sheldon is 
building a 27ft. speed launch from designs by Mr. Mills, 
for Col. Sidney M. Hedges. 
At the annual meeting of the Quincy Y. C. it was pro- 
posed to take measures to have restrictions of some sort 
put upon the boats competing for the Quincy Cup, or have 
the Y. R. A. 2i-footers eligible. For that purpose a com- 
mittee was apopinted, to act with a like committee from 
the Manchester Y. C. While restrictions might be a good 
thing in this case, there might be some diffi- 
culty in having them adopted. A member of the 
Manchester Y. C, one of the owners of Lookout, said 
last \veek that there would be no restrictions, if he could 
help it. He is not over fond of the types of boats that 
have been competing for the cup, but he thinks that the 
cup should be taken from the Manchester Y. C. if it is 
to be taken, under the same conditions that it was won. 
He says that the Quincy Y. C. should win the cup under 
those conditions and then it can supply any restrictions 
n may think necessary. John B. Killeen, 
of each day's happenings was kept throughout the trip. 
The working of the ship, the life of the men, their trials 
and amusements are all combined in the story; in fact, 
the book gives a better idea of the life on a "lime 
juicer" than any previous work we have seen. 
War broke out between England and the Boers dur- 
ing the voyage, and when they learned of it from the 
pilot, which they picked up off the English coast, the 
astonishment of those on board was very great. Mr. 
Lublock, after leaving the ship, served in the English 
army in Soiith Africa. 
The story is true, and in consequence, is doubly in- 
teresting, and the author has been very modest and re- 
ticent when speaking of himself. Several splendid 
photographs and a number of clever sketches made by 
the author serve to make the book, which contains 
nearly four hundred pages, more attractive. 
Rottnd the Horn Before the Mast* 
Round the Horn Before the Mast, is the title of a 
new sea story recently published by E." P. Button & 
Co. The author of the yarn is a young Englishman 
named A. Basil Lubbock, a man of wide experience, 
who has knocked around the world a good bit and one 
who has tried his hand at many things. Mr. Lubbock 
returns to San Francisco from the Klondike and there 
ships before the mast on the four-masted English bark 
Royalshire. From the time the vessel left 'Frisco until 
she reached Liverpool bad weather was experienced, 
and the foremast hands suffered considerably from ex- 
posure and lack of proper nourishment. 
The author is a man of education and refinement, 
but was not lacking in courage and grit, as was shown 
by the way he stood the hardships of the voyage. The 
story is very well and interestingly told, and a record 
Twenty-seven Foot Speed La«nch, 
W^E publish herewith the outboard profile and half 
deck plan of a 27ft. speed launch designed and built by 
the Holmes Shipbuilding Compa;iy, of West Mystic, 
Conn. The boat is 22ft. over all, 4ft. Sin. breadth and 
loin. draft. 
She is built to go over the water, with a stern that 
cannot squat or drag water. She will be equipped 
with two 4^ H. P. Lathrop motors coupled together 
on one shaft, making 9 PI. P. in all. The engines will 
be arranged to operate separate if desired. These en- 
gines will_ turn up to 450 under ordinary conditions; 
however, in this boat we shall run them up to 600 or 
650. Owing to the bad weather and the ice in the 
river at Mystic, the builders have not been able to com- 
plete the trials with the boat, although she has been 
given several tests with a 4^ horse-power Lathrop 
motor of the two cycle type, which is just one-half 
the power that will eventually be used. The first trial 
with the 4l4 horse-power motor was made with an 
i8in. 3 bladed propeller, which test resulted in about a 
lo-mile speed — a 22in. 2 bladed wheel was then tried, 
and the boat developed a speed of nearly 11 miles. 
Running at a speed of 11 miles, the boat makes very 
little disturbance and she leaves the water very clean. 
The builders expect to get 15 miles out of the boat 
when she is tried with the two 4^^ horse-power motors. 
The Steam Yacht Isis. 
Isis was designed by Mr. J. Beavor Webb and built 
by T. S. Marvel & Co.. Newburgh, N. Y., in 1902 for 
Messrs. W. S. and J. T. Spaulding, of Boston. She is 
of steel throughout, and has twin screws. She is 200ft. 
over all, 164ft. waterline, 24ft. 6in. breadth and lift 
6in. draft. 
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-DESIGNED BY J. BEAVOR-WEBB, 190?, 
Pboto by N. li. St9k\>im. Bootof. 
