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50-FOORT WATERLINE FISHING SCHOONER SAIL PLAN DESIGNED BY B. B. CROWNINSHIELD FOR H. HUGHES. 
The results of this season's events are the establishment 
of annual inter-lake yacht racing in at least one class, 
and a yacht owning and building mania such as has 
never existed on this lake before, achievements of which 
the aggressors, the Columbia Y. C., of Chicago, may well 
feel proud. E. T. B. 
Design for a Fishing Schooner. 
Strange as it may seem, there are many yachtsmen 
who are still opposed to the features which enter into 
the design of the modern cruising boat and still con- 
tend that the old-fashioned boats with the plumb or 
clipper stems and deep underbodies with straight stern 
posts, make better sea boats. This prejudice is in some 
cases inborn, and then again these men have seen ex- 
treme racing machines of poor design behaving badly 
in a seaway. We have always been exponents of the 
properly designed modern yacht, and we still claim that 
she is superior in seaworthiness to any sailing vessel 
that floats. Then, again, the modern boat has far more 
room below than the earlier vessels had of the same 
waterline length. 
When the America's Cup boat Defender was first 
seen, she was looked upon as an extreme racing 
machine, but before her career was ended she was 
conceded by all who had anything to do with her that 
she was a remarkably fine sea boat. Had she been con- 
structed of different and more lasting materials she 
would undoubtedly be afloat to-day and used as a cruis- 
ing yawl or schooner. 
It was demonstrated to the satisfaction of all those 
who had the good fortune to participate in the run 
from Vineyard Haven to Provincetown, on the New 
York Y. C. cruise two years ago, what the modern boat 
could do in a heavy breeze of wind in the open sea 
ujider very trying conditions. That run made many 
converts to the modern boats, and those who were sure 
such boats as the Herreshoff 70-footers and other so- 
called racing machines would never stand the rack and 
would fill and sink or lose their rigs, were greatly sur- 
prised when out of the huge fleet that went around 
the Cape they were among the first to finish and were 
in Provincetown hours in advance of many of the so- 
called "deep sea cruisers" of twice their size and ton- 
nage. The 70-footers carried working topsails all the 
w^y around, and light sails whenever possible. When 
the boats hauled on the wind to beat up Massachusetts 
Bay for Provincetown, there was a heavy sea running, 
and it was blowing harder than ever, but the 70-footers 
were making good weather of it, and jib topsails were 
set on some of them. After these boats reached their 
anchorage many of the large old type schooners could 
be seen outside under short sail bobbing up and down 
in the big seas and making little or no headway. That day 
a number of old boats; large and small, turned tail 
and went back to the Vineyard, but several of the 
Buzzard's Bay one-design boats, modern craft only 
SOit. on the waterline, came through without difficulty. 
The boats built for the Gloucester fishing service and 
the craft designed for similar use in the North Sea, 
perhaps meet the toughest and most vicious weather 
than any vessel has to contend with, both winter and 
summer. These craft are owned in part or entirely in 
many cases by the men who command them, and when 
these very men go to a yacht designer for the plans 
of any new schooner they may build, it is pretty good 
evidence that the modern yacht with some modifica- 
tions is the craft best suited to their requirements. Of 
course speed is a factor in their business, because the 
boat first in gets the best prices for its catch; never- 
theless, these craft must be most seaworthy. 
In England the fishermen who ply their trade in the 
North Sea realized the advantages of the modern boat 
for their purpose, and Mr. Linton Hope and other 
British designers have turned out many boats for this 
service that have proven better in every particular than 
the older craft of antiquated design. The Gloucester 
men were quick to grasp the advantages of the modern 
boat, and their vessels have kept pace in design with 
the yacht for some years past. Mr. Edward Burgess 
designed many boats for the Gloucester fishermen, 
but his craft were not such wide departures from their 
original boats as were the ones Mr. B. B. Crownin- 
shield turned out for them. At first Mr. Crowninshield's 
boats were looked upon as experiments, but after giv- 
ing them a fair test they have won over all the croak- 
ers, and the modern boat is now accepted as being the 
most desirable for the work allotted to them. 
No yacht designer has been so successful in getting 
out the plans for fishermen as Mr. B. B. Crownin- 
shield. He has made an exhaustive study of these 
craft, and found out what was necessary to make up a 
successful and satisfactory boat. Consequently he has 
received many orders for boats to be used off the 
Banks. The vessels he turned out for the Gloucester 
service proved such able and fast craft that he became 
known widely, not only as a yacht designer, but as a 
designer for fishermen's boats. 
Last year Mr. Crowninshield received an order for 
a schooner to be used in the Pacific for halibut fish- 
ing. This boat was for Mr. H. Hughes, of Seattle, 
Washington, and the boat's lines and sail plan are 
published in this issue. 
She is an interesting little craft, and presents a very 
shippy appearance, and with some slight changes would 
make a very desirable cruising yacht. Many of the 
best features of the modern yacht are combined in her 
design, and yet , she has proven herself fast and sea- 
worthy and altogether a very satisfactory little craft. 
The design will bear careful examination and study. 
The boat has 4in. double moulded frames sided 6in. 
at heels and 4in. at heads. The planking is 2in. thick, 
and there is a i}im. ceiling. She carries 20 tons of 
ballast, all of which is inside. 
Her dimensions follow: 
Length — 
Over all 70ft. iiin. 
L. W. L. $oft. 
Overhang — 
Forward 8ft. Sin. 
Aft 12ft. 3in. 
Breadth- 
Extreme ... i6ft. iiin. 
L. W. L i6ft. sin. 
Draft- 
Extreme ........................... 9ft. 3in. 
Sail area — 
Jib 298 sq. ft. 
Staysail 205 sq. ft. 
Foresail 433 sq. ft. 
Mainsail ........ 1,144 sq. ft. 
Area lower sails.............. 2,080 sq. ft; 
Main topsail 186 sq. ft. 
Fore topsail 126 sq. ft. 
Jib topsail 236 sq. ft. 
Total sail area ................... 2,628 sq. ft. 
Atlantic Y« C. 
The Regatta Committee of the Atlantic Y. C. has 
given out the following table, which gives the record 
of each yacht that started in its regattas and shows how 
the prizes were distributed: 
Ocean Races. 
Starts. Firsts. Seconds. Thirds. 
Class K. 
Class L. 
Class M. 
Vivian II., S. E. Vernon.. 
Bobtail, E. F. Luckenbach. 
Vagabond, T. A. Vernon. 
Corona, J. E. Beggs. 
Class P. 
2 
2 
2 
1 
'i 
1 
1 
2 
'2 
2 
3 
'2 
4 
1 
1 
'i 
s — Class 
C. 
1 
1 
'i 
2 
1 
2 
"i 
1 
1 
3 
1 
2 
1 
14 
4 
3 
2 
10 
1 
4 
12 
5 
1 
'i 
1 
1 
i 
1 
3 
'i 
'2 
3 
1 
3 
12 
6 
3 
2 
11 
4 
2 . 
9 
1 
1 
'i 
6 
1 
2 
1 
2 
'i 
7 
5 
2 
'2 
1 
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