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Boston Letter* 
Boston, Dec. i4.-^Thefe now sfeertls to be every pfos- 
' pect that a class of 30-footers will be formed in Massa- 
chusetts Bay. In fact an association has been formed, 
• or is about to be formed, for the purpose of furthering 
this class. Circulars are being gotten out, giving the 
restrictions of the new class. This is not the 30-rating 
class, which was proposed in the Yacht Racing Associa- 
tion of Massachusetts by Mr. Louis M. Clark, but has 
been formed by Marblehead yachtsmen. It is understood 
that the yachtsman who fostered the class is Mr. Thorn- 
ton K. Lothrop, Jr., who became prominent among racing- 
yachtsmen through his ownership of the 21-footer, Little 
Haste, and the 25-footer, Great Haste. It is understood 
also that there are other yachtsmen, who at present own 
25-footers, who are interested in the new class and will 
build yachts for it. 
I Those who have been interested in the formation of the 
class, have gone about the matter very quietly, and, up to 
within a very short time, there were few who knew any- 
thing about a definite movement toward this end. The 
new class will be governed by scantling restrictions, as 
was the old class of Y. R. A. 30-footers, the racing 
measurement being taken from the waterline length and 
a fixed limit of over all length specified. It is understood 
that the limit of over all length is placed at 50 feet. For 
modern yachts this gives a comparatively reasonable 
amount of overhang. It is less, in proportion, than those 
of the 22-footers, which are also limited, and infinitely 
less than those of the 25-footers which raced last season, 
whose over all length was not limited. These boats will 
probably be of moderate form all over, as it is understood 
that the sail area is to be quite moderate, something about 
1,250 square feet. There was a provision requiring at 
least 5,000 pounds of outside ballast. This amount seems 
quite small for boats of such a size, and it may be possible 
that the rule has been changed. Full headroom is required 
in the cabin, although there was some talk of having the 
amount of fittings optional with the owner. 
The fact that an association to govern such a class 
has been formed, at a time when a 30-rating class has 
been suggested, would seem to indicate that Massachusetts 
yachtsmen are not quite yet ready to take up a rating 
rule. The fact that those who have become first interested 
in the new class are in some tases owners of existing 25- 
footers, may have some bearing upon the racing of the lat- 
ter class next season. All of the 25-footers are understood 
I to be now in the market, and they may find new owner.? 
I before the season opens. A very recent rumor is to the 
effect that even if these boats are not disposed of, they 
will not be raced by their present owners. It is believed 
to be the intention to bring the new association governing 
the 30-footers before the Yacht Racing Association of 
Massachusetts and requesting the greater body to adopt 
the class, as was done in the case of the 22-footers and 
tlae i8-footers. 
If this class should receive any amount of patronage 
it is practically certain that the proposed 30-rating class 
will have to go over until some future time. There will 
be a great amount of satisfaction in having some class of 
30-footers started, for it may be the means of bringing 
back an interest in still larger classes. There now seems 
to be more prospect of racing yachts of 30ft. waterline 
than there has been since 1899. 
With the 30-footers racing and the 25-footers out, there 
will be five restricted classes in next season's events. The 
22-footers will utidoubtedly race and the i8-footers are 
more numerous than ever. There will be a fair amount of 
15-footers. The development of the new 21ft. class is a 
little slow yet, but it is thought that it will become well 
patronized when the yachtsmen have found out the value 
of the restrictions. John B. Killeen. 
Interlafce Yachting: Association* 
The tenth annual meeting of the Interlake Y. A. 
was held in the club rooms of the Toledo Y. C. at 
Toledo, Ohio, Saturday, Dec. 5. The attendance was 
large and enthusiastic, all of the ex-commodores, with 
one exception, and more than forty delegates, being 
present. During the banquet, which preceded the 
meeting, speeches were made by the commodores and 
many of the prominent fresh water yachtsmen, in 
which the growth and progress made and the favorable 
outlook for the future were freely discussed. At the 
conclusion of the festivities, the meeting was called to 
order by the commodore, Henry Tracey, of Toledo. 
The following officers were elected to serve for the 
coming year: Com., John H. Smedley, Detroit B. C. 
Y., of Detroit; Vice-Com., W. C. Sterling, Monroe 
Y. C, of Monroe, Mich., and Geo. W. Maytham, of the 
Bufifalo Y. C, of Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. H. Coy Glidden, 
of Detroit, was elected secretary and treasurer; Chas. 
P. Sider, of Detroit, was elected measurer, and Dr. 
J. P. Mclnnes, of Toledo, fleet surgeon. There was 
a contest for places on the Regatta Committee, after 
which the following were elected: Mr, Mark W. Allen, 
of Detroit, and Mr. John A. Rathbone, of the same 
place; Mr. E. E. Pettibone, of Cleveland, O.; Mr. Wm. 
E. . Seitz, of Sandusky, O., and Mr. Joe Grasser, of 
Toledo. Mr. John L. Dexter, of Detroit, was re- 
elected chairmair of the Entertainment Committee. 
Three delegates to represent the Interlake at the Yacht 
Racing Union of the Great Lakes, were also chosen. 
Mr. John A. Rathbone for the long term, two years, 
and Dr. Jennings, of Detroit, and Mr. Myron B. Vorce, 
of Cleveland, for the short term. The union embraces 
the Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan and Lake Erie (Erie, 
St. Clair and Huron) divisions. 
Dr. Jennings then made an eloquent appeal to have 
the association adopt the new 21ft. restricted class that 
had been adopted by the Country Club of Detroit. 
After considerable argument the matter was referred 
to a committee, for its investigation, said committee to 
report its findings to the association within thirty days, 
when it will be acted on by that body. 
The new 21ft. class adopted by the Country Club, of 
Detroit, is the same as adopted by the Columbia Y. C. 
of Chicago, a class that proved very successful in its 
races for the Sir Thomas Lipton trophy. The object 
of the class is to promote inter association racing. 
hsLot season two boats were built, and at present four 
are utider process of constfuction. Mf. E. L. Ford 
heads the list with a likely looking craft, which is near- 
ly-completed. She was designed and is being built by 
Joseph A. Pauliot, who turned out Hoosier, which 
competed in the Lipton races at Chicago, and is prac- 
tically an improvement on the latter. Mr. Kenneth 
Stevenson, of Detroit, is having one built, which is 
from the board of Messrs. Burgess and Packard. Mr. 
E. Bryan, of Detroit, is also preparing to get in the 
game, with one from designs by E. J. Kistenmacher, 
of Davenport, la, while a syndicate composed of mem- 
bers of the Country Club are considering several de- 
signs, one of which will be selected and built in time 
for next year's racing. Mr. Harry Wheeler, of Cleve- 
land, has laid down a boat in the same class, designed 
by himself, which will be completed early in the spring 
and be raced at Detroit and Chicago. Mr. J. W. Mar- 
shall, of Toledo, will also build for the class, and has 
plans from an eastern designer. 
Alert. 
Last season Alert was raced in almost all the con- 
tests where there was a class for her. As defender of 
the Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup, Alert was success- ' 
ful, winning two firsts and one second, out of the- 
series of three races; this showing was niade against a 
large field, there being eight starters in these races. 
Alert won the championship pennant of the Y. R. A. 
of Long Island Sound for the 30ft. class, and at Shel- 
ALERT. 
Designed and built by the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Owned by J. W. 
Alker. 
Photo by Tieman, New York. 
ter Island she not only won her class cup, but also'Vhe 
Maxwell Cup, which was raced for by sloops of all 
classes from 30 to Sift. Alert finished the season on 
Sept. 19-20 by winning the Atlantic Y. C. Cup for the 
36ft. class in a series of three races. 
Alert was designed and built by the Herreshoff Mfg. 
Co. in 1902. She is 42ft. 6in. over all, 28ft. 6in. water- 
line, pft. 6in. breadth and 4ft. 2in. draft. Alert is a 
combination keel and centerboard boat, and she car- 
ries 1,150 sq. ft. of sail. She is owned by Mr. James 
W. Alker, of the Manhasset Bay Y. C, who sailed her 
in most of the races. 
An AIl-Afo«nd Small Boat. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Wishing to have a boat that would carry only one per- 
son, and one that I could use either as a canoe, a row- 
boat, or a sailboat, some time since I got a number of half- 
inch cedar boards, 14 inches wide, at a sawmill down in 
South Jersey, and built a bateau 11 feet in length and 32 
inches in width, with the thwart set very low. The lum- 
ber, after being planed, was less than of an inch in 
thickness. The boat when finished looked so neat and 
trim and pleased me so well that I built another of the 
same dimensions as the first; one of which I have up at 
the "Little Bresh" hut at Oakledge, and have used it dur- 
ing several summers on the lakes and streams in Con- 
necticut; the other I have used on the streams and on 
several good sized lakes around here — Milhurst, New 
Jersey. 
As a canoe I use each with either a single or a double, 
blade paddle. As a rowboat I have for each a pair of 
very light steel oarlocks and blocks, and a pair of shoU 
oars ; and as a catboat I have for each a rudder and an 
adjustable keel 10 inches deep, mast 12 feet in length set 
well up into the eyes of the craft, a boom 11 feet in length, 
and a triangular or leg-of-mutton sail of hea\'y muslin, 
with II feet hoist and 11 feet along the foot, with two 
rows of reef points. Each boat will weigh about 50 
pounds. As a canoe with myself and dufHe aboard, each 
will float where a musquash can swim, as Nessmuk said; 
consequently one can navigate a very shallow lake, or go 
up or down a small stream in it. 
When they are used as catboats they will stand up far 
better under a stiff breeze than anyone would suppose, and 
it is surprising to see how fast they can travel either be^ 
fore the wind, going free, or close hauled, and they wilt 
bold their own with many much larger sailboats. 
I have spent many enjoyable days with the two little 
boats either in the capacity of canoes, rowboats, or sail- 
boats. When used as canoes I like either of them fully as 
well as any of the regulation pattern that I have paddled, 
and I have used many different ones. 
A. L. L. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES, 
for advettising relating to ttlrdfeimrtnaeflt see pages li and iii. 
Mr. trattk A. Wilmot, of Bridgeport, Cofln., has sold; 
the auxiliary yawl Hussar II., through Mr. Stanley M. 
Seaman, to Mr; George H. McNeely, of Philadelphia, 
Pa. 
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The officers of the Sea Gull Y. C. are as follows: 
Com., Fred Voettle.r; Vice-Com., Charles Seib; Sec, 
Joseph Imhof; Fin.. Sec, Joseph ilesse; Treas., Will- 
iam Henry; Sergeant-at-Arras, George Fuess; Trustee, 
Henry Hamm. The organization has been in existence 
four years, and has a well-equipped club house at Sand 
Bay, Canarsie. _ The membership at present is limited 
to sixty, with a^QUt twefctty .On thp waiting list, 
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The annual meeting of the Pavonia Y. C. was held in 
Franklin Hall, Jersey City, on Tuesday evening, Dec. 
8, and was attended b}'- one of the largest gatherings 
of members seen in recent years. While some disap- 
pointment was felt at Com. Lyne's repeatedly declining 
a renomination, for the reason that he will have to give 
his business closer attention next year, it was felt that 
the club had secured an excellent commodore in Walter 
A. Ward, owner of the steam yacht. Chief, and who_ 
served as vice-commodore during the year just com-, 
pleted. The full ticket elected Tuesday night was as 
follows: Com., Walter A. Ward; Vice-Com., E. H. 
Moore; Fleet Captain., J. -H. Ferraier;' Fin. Sec, W. 
F. Tobin; Cor.. Sec, H. Smith; Treas., Charles F. 
Crane; Meas., A. P. Curtis; Fleet Surgeon, W. J. 
Parker, M. D. Board of Trustees; W. D. Salter, L. 
F. Lyne, E. J. Smith, F. G. Agens and A. L. Koerner. 
House Committee: D. A. Woodruff, C. Smith, D. Al- 
lan, Jr., W. Willis and A. F. Roe. Delegates to the 
American Power Boat Association, W. A. Ward and 
L. O. Coder. On New Year's Day, 1904, the newly 
elected officers will give a dinner to the members of 
the club and their friends at the club house. At this 
dinner the plans of the club for the seasoti of 1904 will 
be discussed and decided upon. 
The firm of Messrs. A. Cary Smith & Barbey will be 
dissolved on January I by mutual consent. Messrs, Tams, 
Lemoine & Crane have taken Mr. Barbey into partnership, 
and Mr. Smith has taken Mr. Theodore E. Ferris into 
partnership. Mr. Ferris was formerly in Mr. Smith's em- 
ploy, but for several years past he has acted as Superin- 
tendent of Construction for the Townsend & Downey Co., 
at Shooter's Island, S. I. 
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A class of one-design boats will probably be built dur- 
ing the winter for members of the Indian Llarbor Y. C, 
from plans, made by Mr. Morgan Barney. ' . • 
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The annual meeting of the Shrewsbui-y Ice Boat and 
Yacht Club was held at Pleasure Bay, N. J., on December 
4, and the following officers, were .elected : Com., Edward 
W. Reid; Vice-Com., William A. Seaman; Recording 
Sec'y, Harold Seaman ; Financial Sec'y, Edward H. 
Green ; Treas., John L. Price ; Meas., Thomas Riddle and 
Harold Seaman _; Regatta Committee — William H. Martin, 
Frank P. McLain, John White, John P. Lane, and C. H. 
C. Clark; Fleet Captain, G. P. Joline. 
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At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Corin- 
thian Y. C, Charles H. Brock, W. Barklie, Henry and 
Charles Longstreth were appointed a committee to con- 
ceive some plan whereby an interest in small boat racing 
on the lower Delaware River could be increased. The 
committee decided on a one-design class similar to the 
Seawanhaka Corinthian Club's 15-footers as the most 
wholesome type. Their missionary work was so success- 
ful among the racing element of the organization that 
eight members have decided to build boats in time to race 
next spring. 
These boats are to be handled exclusively by amateurs, 
and their rowing expenses are to be limited to a small 
cost per month. The committee has arranged for the 
boats to be built for a moderate sum, of single white pine 
or cedar planking, fitted with Wilson & Silsby sails and 
rigging complete, and with a water-tight bulkhead. 
It is likely that the adoption of the little craft will 
awaken an interest in small boat racing among the mem- 
bers of the fleet. It is also likely to revive the dormant 
subject of interclub races between the Oyster Bay and 
Corinthian Clubs.— Philadelphia Item. 
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Members of the Manhasset Bay Y. C. have organized a 
new one-design class and ten boats haye already been 
ordered. These clipper dories are being built by Mr. E. 
Gerry Emmons, of Swampscott, Mass., from designs made 
by Mr. Charles G. Mower. They are 21ft. 6in. over all, 
15ft. 6in. waterline, and 6ft breadth. The boats are to be 
substantially buiU, the keel and the frames to he of white 
oak, and the planking white pine. The standiiig rigging 
will be of steel, the blocks of brass, and the decks will be 
covered with canvas. The spars will be of spruce, and 
the boats will carry a gaff mainsail and jib. The dories 
will cost, freight on board at Swampscott, $135, and 
freight, $5; mainsail cover, $3; 400 pounds of ballast, $10, 
and a contribution to the prize fund, $10, will bring the 
total up to $163. 
The Monroe Y. C. was organized at Monroe, Mich., 
two years ago, and has ever since figured conspicuously, 
though modestly, among the yachting organizations on tlie 
western waters of Lake Erie. A commodious and pic- 
turesque club house was built at the Monroe piers, which 
