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Designing Competition. 
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$225 in Prizes, 
Two designing competitions have been given in 
FoREST^ AND Stream. The first was for a 2Sft. water- 
litte cruiser; the second was for a 15ft. one-design class. 
Both competitions were very successful. The great in- 
terest taken in those competitions has prompted us to 
give a third one, open to amateurs and professionals. 
The prizes which will be given are as follows: 
First prize — $100. 
Second prize— $60. 
Third prize— $40. 
Fourth prize— $25, offered by Mr. Theodore Zerega 
for the best interior plan. 
The designs are for a yacht conforming to the fol- 
lowing conditions: 
I. Centerboard cruiser, 40ft. 1. w. 1. 
II. Boat must not draw over 6ft with centerboard up. 
TIT. The lowest freeboard to covering board must 
be 3ft. 
The design must be modern in every particular, with- 
out containing any extreme or abnormal features. The 
conditions have been made as simple as possible, that 
competitors_ might have all latitude and scope in work- 
ing out their ideas. We wish to produce an able and 
comfortable cruising boat, one that shall have ample 
accommodation for two or three men living aboard for 
a period of several months, and one that can be easily 
managed at all times by two or three paid hands. The 
draft is restricted to 6ft. in order that the boat may 
have access to nearly all the desirable harbors, and 
may, thereby, widely increase her cruising field. 
Drawings Required, 
I. Sheer plan, scale ift— showmg center of 
buoyancy, center of lateral resistance and center of 
effort of both rigs. 
II. Half breadth, scale ^'m.=ih. 
III. Body plan, scale ^in.=zift. 
IV. Cabin plan, inboard profile and at least one 
cross section, scale ^in.=zih. 
V. Two sail plans, scale J4in.=ift.; one as a yawl; 
one as a pole mast sloop. 
In the case of the yawl rig the position and height 
of the mast and length of gaff are to be the same as 
in the cutter rig. Plans must show working topsail and 
size of light sails. 
VI. All ballast outside on keel except amount neces- 
sary for trimming. 
An outhne specification must accompany each de- 
sign. The drawings should be carefully made and let- 
tered. All drawings should be on white paper or 
tracing cloth in black ink. No colored inks or pig- 
ments should be used. The designs must bear a nom- 
de-plume only, and no indication must be given of the 
author. In a sealed envelope, however, the designer 
niust inclose his own name and address, together with 
his nom-de-plume. All designs must be received at the 
office of the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
346 Broadway, New York City, not later than March 
I. 1904. All drawings will be returned, but postage 
should accompany each. 
The Forest AND Stream reserves the right to pub- 
lish any or all of the designs. - 
FOREST . AND STREAM. 
Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. Tarns, 
Lemoine & Crane, who passed upon the designs sub- 
mitted for the 25ft. with great care, has again con- 
sented to judge the designs and make the awards. 
Little Shamrock's MeastJtement. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The statement of Mr. C. W. Schmidt, Jr., in his article 
on "Lake Yachting" in your issue of this date, regarding 
the measurement of the yacht Little Shamrock is 
incorrect. 
First — The bow of Little Shamrock complies with rule 
4, being within the thirty degree limit. 
Second— That the yacht Little Shamrock was measured 
before participating in last year's Country Club competi- 
tive cup races by Mr. S. Russell, the official measurer of 
the Country Club, assisted by Mr. J. W. Dyar, at that 
time secretary of the yachting committee of the Country 
Club. 
^ I had charge of and sailed the Little Shamrock in the 
Country Club competitive cup races, and personally re- 
quested that the yacht be measured before starting in the 
races, and was present when measured, and I am there- 
fore positive no fault can be laid to the owners of Little 
Shamrock or its crew as to its adm.ission to competition 
in last year's Country Club competitive cup races. 
I can very easily comprelfend how the bow could bs 
measured on a drawing and found over the thirty degree 
limit, as on measuring three different drawings of deck 
plan it was found that one measured thirty and one-half 
degrees, another exactly thirty degrees, and the other 
twenty-nine and one-half degrees. This is very easily 
accounted for, as a reduction of a deck plan from thirty- 
six feet to thirty-six inches make it so small that the 
minutest increase in inked line on the drawing will make 
angle vary a half degree one way or the other, or the 
slightest variation of pen or ruler will do the same thing, 
and such a measurement can only be determined by 
measurement of the deck of yacht itself. 
Little Shamrock is laid up here, and can easily be 
reached and measured, and thus stop all controversy on 
this subject, which all seems to have arisen from the bare 
statement of a disappointed designer and builder who 
lias made two attempts to build within the rules and failed 
in both instances. Edward T. Balcom. 
[Jan. 16, 1904. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and iii. 
Messrs. Wilson & Silsby, the Boston sail makers, have 
recently gotten out a very handsome picture of the 
auxiliary schooner Ariadne. The sails for Ariadne were 
made by this firm and the picture shows off the splendid 
suit of canvas to the best advantage. 
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The annual meeting of the Indian Harbor Y. C. will 
be held at the Club Cottage, Rocky Neck Point, Green- 
wich, Conn., on Wednesday, January 13, 1904, at 8:30 
P. M. The nominating committee presents the follow- 
ing nominations for officers, : directors and regatta com- 
mittee: Com., George Lauder, Jr., schooner Endymion ; 
Vice-Corn., Edward Shearson, schooner Quickstep; Rear- 
Com., Wilbur C. Fisk, yawl Onawa; Sec'y, Charles P. 
Geddes; Treas., Richard Cutwater; Meas., Morgan 
Barney; President of the Corporation, Charles T. Wills. 
Directors (term expiring 1907), Charles T. Wills, Louis 
R. Albcrger. Regatta Committee, Frank Bowne Jones, 
chairman; Charles E. Simms, T. J. McCahill, Jr.; E. 
Sterne Wheeler, Geo. J. Bradish. 
The handsome club house of the Winthrop Y. C, of 
W mthrop, Mass., was totally destroyed by fire on Decem- 
ber 28. The club house was of wood, and with the flames 
fanned by a strong breeze the building was soon con- 
sumed. The damage sustained by the club will be $10,000 
for_ the club house and $1,500 On its furnishings, upon 
which there is only $5,000 insurance. Absolutely nothing 
was saved. The loss to members in sails, rigging, tenders, 
etc., cannot be fully estimated, but the total will be large! 
A_ meeting of the directors to take action on rebuilding 
will be called at once. 
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_ There is building at Woods' yard, City Island, a cruis- 
ing yawl from designs made by Messrs. Gary Smith & 
Ferris. The boat is for Mr. Henry S. Gibson, and her 
dimensions are as follows: Over all, 50ft.; waterlinf, 
30ft.; breadth, 12ft. 2in., and draft, 7ft. 
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The ' schooner yacht Dixie owned by the Rev. S. C. 
Thomson, of Coxsackie, N. Y., encountered a bad storm 
off Cape Charles and was dismasted. The yacht was 
towed into Norfolk, where she will repair and proceed 
to Jacksonville, Fla. 
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Mr. PI. E. Tinker is having a cruising schooner built 
at Bayley's yard. Port Jefferson, L. L' The yacht is a 
centerboard boat of heavy wood construction. She is 
looft. over all and 70ft. on the waterline. The boat wil! 
be coppered. Mr. Tinker will name the boat Palestine. 
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Vergemere, the auxiliary schooner owned by Mr. Albert 
C. Bostwick, which left Nev/ York on December 22, ex- 
perienced good weather on the run down the coast until 
v/ithm fifty miles of Bermuda. At this point a S. W. 
gale struck the yacht and she was hove to for some time 
Vergemere was designed by Messrs. Gary Smith & Bar- 
be3', and built by the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, 
Wilmington, Del. She is of steel throughout, 158ft. 6in. 
over all, 120ft. on the waterline, 28ft. breadth, and i6ft. 
draft. The engine is of the compound type, with cylin- 
ders I2in. and 24in. in diameter by I4in. stroke. Steam is 
supplied by two Almy boilers. The yacht has liberal sail 
plan, with about 10,000 square feet of canvas in the lower 
sails. 
In another column we print a letter written to us by 
Mr. N. D. Lawton. Mr. Lawton comments on the time 
allowance tables now in general use, and advances some 
new_ theories on the subject that are most interesting. It 
is difficult to tell how measurement rules will work until 
they are put into actual practice, and the same thing may 
be said of new time allowance tables, but we believe Mr. 
Lawton's suggestion has 'merit, and we hope it 'will bring 
about some beneficial results. 
The Nomads on the Osage. 
BY PERRY D. FRAZER. 
The Story which won the Second Prize of $25 in "Forest 
and Stream ** Canoe Cruising Competition, • 
The canoe in which the cruise I am about to write 
of was made, is an all cedar Indian model opeii pad- 
dler, 15 feet in length, 321/^ inches beam, and 47 pounds 
weight. She was built by J. H. Rushton, Canton, N. 
Y. Her ribs are fashioned like those of the common 
canvas-covered canoe, being very broad and continuous 
from side to side. In the center they are about two 
inches in width and are spaced that far apart, while 
the space between each rib for' almost the entire length 
0? the craft is filled, with a bit of cedar of equal thick- 
ness with rib, and of such length that these pieces 
and' the ribs form a solid floor, which, is far superior 
in regions where there is as much mud as in Missouri, 
to 'the regulation floor-boards or gratings. Another 
feature made possible by the adoption of these wide 
ribs is that this canoe has no ihwales. Each rib is 
made fast to. the gunwale with a round-head brass 
screw. Mud,' sand or dead leaves may, therefore, : be 
swept out of the canoe almost as . readily as though 
her interior were perfectly; smooth,, either by turning 
the canoe- on her side On' shore and using, a moist 
sponge, , or by washing the interior thbroughry while 
she is in- the water arid 'then shaking the water out in 
the customary way. She has three thwafts*' and'very 
short decks. Her sheer ' is pronounced. She has a 
,fubstanti?!.!" oak" shoe' her- full length, and 'this and the 
gunwales, which are of cherry, constitute all the ma- 
terial in her make-up that is not white cedar, the cop- 
per nails and brass screws also excepted, . Nomad, has 
a very flat floor and such full lines that her capacity 
is enormous for her size, but while she is not as fast 
as the average canoe, she is surprisingly steady and 
a good load carrier. Single blade maple paddles," 5ft. 
4in. and 5ft. 5in. long, are used. 
The outfit consists of the following principal articles: 
A brown conical tent 8^ft. high and 9ft. wide, fitted 
with door awning, window, sod cloth and floor cloth, 
with netting for both window and door. No poles or 
pegs were taken, although both are at other times 
used. Two pneumatic mattresses, each 25 by 75 inches, 
in size, arid three small air cushions jOjccupy- small space 
when deflated. There are. two ' heavy-' army and two 
other double blankets, two small "pantasote blankets, 
a mackintosh cape and a pantasote coat, heavy sweat- ' 
ers, a heavy wool cape, which my wife^wears when the 
days are cold, and rubber soled canvas sneakers for 
canoe wear. A round box of heavy tin, 10 by 11 
inches in, size, and with a hinged cover, protects a 
vapor stove, two quart kerosene cans, pints of 
wood alcohol for priming the vapor stove, and several ' 
tight top tin boxes containing matches, soap, salt, 
etc. A small padlock protects the contents. The grub 
box is 15 by 16 by 8 inches in- size. It has- a shallow ' 
cover which is braced with a brass rod when serving 
as a table. It has four removable . legs, and. these 
were stowed within the box, ' together with ' five alum-, 
inum plates, three 'aluminum cups that nest*" in ' the 
foffee pot, an agate w^re frying-pan,": a kettle and a low 
coffee pot, also agate ware. Three shallow saucepans, 
a long thin cracker can for spoons, forks, etc., a coffee 
ball,, whetstone, waterproof salt and pepper shakers, 
and several tins for daily supplies, all were stowed in 
this box for shipping. A rather large tackle box con- 
tained screwdriver; file, cleaning material for firearms, 
cbrhbs, etc., and was a most useful companion. A 
folding camp chair, two cork cushions, and a brass 
lantern cornplete the outfit. 
It was "oh 'September 26, 1903, that I paddled Nomad 
from .Meramec Highlands three miles up the Meramec 
river to Valley Park, with my outfit packed for ship- 
ment. At the railway bridge I went ashore, and hail- 
ing -_a. small _.boy_ andjiis sister, who happened to be 
driving by in a wagon, persuaded them to haul the 
canoe and outfit to the railway station, a short dis- 
tance fromrthe. river. In a few minutes, therefore, the 
outfit was p]aced''iri"the~wagon, and with the canoe 
over all, we started for the station. Arrived there, the 
young people were satisfied to name 25 cents as their 
reward, 'and "drove away well pleased, whi|e I con- 
gratulated myself that I had met at least two persons 
that day who had not been spoiled by contact with 
fee givers. " " 
The station platform was broad, there the canoe was 
placed on a'lafge piece of burlap, a sail needle and a 
bair of twine produced, and I went to work. The 
paddles were" tied to two thwarts, the chair, a bag of 
light stuff and the lantern to the other one, and then 
the canoe Wsts sewexi'Ttp' in the burlap and tagged. 
The grub" bOx was wrapped in the tent and securely 
tied, as it was heavy though frail. The floor cloth wai 
