Dec. 6 
FOREStr AND STftEAM. 
Am 
40-FOOT CRUISING LAUNCH OUTBOARD PROFILE AND CABIN PLANS DESIGNED BY W. STARLING BURGESS, 1902. 
40-FOOT CRUISING LAUNCH CONSTRUCTION PLANS 
be built for the class, and that he had hopes of more 
prospective owners showing up now that the class has 
received the support of one of the largest clubs in the 
bay. 
At the meeting of the Corinthian Y. C. the follow- 
ing commitee was elected to nominate officers, to be 
voted for at the annual meeting: Frank E. Clark, 
George P. Hodgdon, F. W. Moore, F. A. Gunnison 
and Roland Worthington. 
Some time ago a movement was started by members 
of some of the North Shore clubs to revive the race- 
about i class. At the time considerable interest was 
mct-ftifested, but subsequent developments do not augur 
much success for the revival movement. It is not 
known that any orders for raceabouts have been placed 
up to date, and from the present outlook there does 
not seem to be much prospect of any. There are 
yachtsmen who want to build and will do so if there 
is any assurance of a number of boats built for the 
class, but they do not appear to relish the idea of going 
it alone. Some of those who were most interested in 
reviving the class have since said that they did not in- 
tend to build, and this has undoubtedly held others ofif. 
At present it looks as though the decline of the race- 
about in Massachusetts Bay is for good. It will take 
only the hardest kind of work and thorough organiza- 
tion to bring it back to the popularity it enjoyed three 
years ago. 
The classes of the Yacht Racing Association are 
still in the unsettled state they were left in after the 
last special meeting. Work upon three 25-footers is 
still going on, and these boats will probably race, 
although it is considered doubtful if the boats that 
raced in the class last year will compete with them. At 
Fenton's the 25-footer designed by Burgess for Mr. 
F. G. Macomber, Jr., has been finished and hauled out 
of the shop, and work has been started on the 2S-footer 
by the same designer for Mr. T. K. Lothrop, Jr. There 
have been no new 2i-footers heard of, and it is not 
likely that there will be while the rules are in their 
present iipettled, unsatisfactory shape. The move- 
ment is stW on foot to race the boats of normal dimen- 
