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SAIL PLAN OF 15-FOOTER DESIGNED BY NORMAN L. SKENE FOR PROF. JOHN W. PILLSBURY. 
Designing Competition Awards. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Your paper is to be congratulated on the splendid re- 
sults of the designing competition offered by you last 
autumn. No less than twenty-seven sets of plans of 
4b-footers having been sent in to compete for the three 
prizes, and the cabin or arrangement prize. 
The designs have been marked according to the fol- 
lowing table, and I think your readers will be interested 
iir the system employed : 
Con- Ar-' 
struc- range- Specifica- 
Model. tion. ment. Style. Rig. tions. Total. 
Possible mark: 10 10 10 10 5 5 50 
Lanyard 7 8 8 8 4 3 38 
Buster Brown.. 6 5 9 7 3 3 33 
Weather Helm 5 8 6 5 _ 3 3 30 
Xfirst prize, Lanyard"; second and cabin prize, Buster Brown; 
third prize, Weather I-Ielm. 
The first prize, of one hundred dollars, goes to Lan- 
yard, Mr. Charles D. Mower, of New York City, whose 
plan received a total of thirty-eight marks in a possible 
fifty. The second prize, of sixty dollars, goes to Buster 
Brown, Mr. Harold W. Patterson of Yonkers, N. Y., 
who receives thirty-three points. The third prize, of 
forty dollars, goes to Weather Helm, Mr. A. E. Luders, 
New York City, with thirty points. 
The prize of twenty-five dollars offered by Mr. T. C. 
Zerega, for the best interior plan, has been awarded to 
Buster Brown, Mr. Harold W. Patterson, who is marked 
nine points out of a possible ten in the column headed 
arrangement. 
The various points to be considered have been divided 
into six heads: Model, construction, arrangement, style, 
rig and specifications. As marks on these "points were 
considered to cover the requirements of the competition 
under the first four headings, 10 was taken as a possible 
score, and under the other two, 5, as these were con- 
sidered to be more or less stereotyped by custom, and, 
therefore, less latitude could be taken by the competitors. 
Lanyard, Mr. Chas. D. Mower, presents a very hand- 
some and well thought out design, which has received 
a high mark in all requirements. The model is fair and 
easy, the construction good, arrangement fair, good fore- 
castle, galley and cabin, and some very novel features 
of entrance and after cabin. The deck plan is novel and 
looks very comfortable. The companionway on one side 
is an interesting feature. Mr. Mower gives an excellent 
general description with his specifications, which I hope 
you will find space to print. 
The second prize of sixty dollars has been awarded 
to Buster Brown, Mr. Harold W. Patterson, who has 
sent a very handsome design, very well thought out. 
The construction is somewhat different from Lanyard, 
as the frames are all bent. His cabin arrangement has 
received the highest mark of all the designs, and the 
"Cabin Prize" has been awarded to him. The features 
of the cabin plan are a good forecastle where the crew 
will be contented and stay throughout the commission, 
a comfortable stateroom for the owner, with good toilet 
room opposite, hall arranged cabin and an entrance sep- 
arate from the cabin where a man may shed his wet 
things when going below in the rain, and where charts 
may be consulted. This boat presented the most com- 
fortable plan of the twenty-seven, but I am not sure 
that the last word has yet been said upon the arrange- 
ment of the room in a 40-footer. An excellent descrip- 
tion accompanies this set of plans. 
The third prize of forty dollars goes to Weather Helm, 
Mr. A. E. Luders, who presents a boat of good model and 
of excellent construction. Style, rig, and specifications, 
fair. The cabin plan from the companionway to the 
forward end of cabin is perfect, but forward of that 
point there is too much attempted. The galley lacks 
headroom except under a small skylight, and the state- 
room and captain's room crowd each other uncomfort- 
ably. A captain's room on a 40-footer is of doubtful 
utility, as the owner is supposed in this size boat to be 
able to accept the responsibility of command. 
Clinton H. Crane. 
St. Paul Letter. 
St. Paul, March 30.— The annual meeting of the 
White Bear Yacht Club was held March 9, in St. 
Paul. There was a large attendance, and the officers for 
1904 were elected. As this year will be a red-letter year 
for the White Bear Yacht Club, especial attention was 
paid to selection of the new officers, all of them being 
men in whom the club members feel the utmost confi- 
dence. J. P. Elmer was unanimously chosen commo- 
dore, W. C. Reed was elected vice-commodore, G. W. 
Rodenberg was re-elected secretary, and W. B, Geery 
was for the second time given the office of treasurer. 
Henry Van Vleck will hold the office of captain. 
The executive committee is as follows: H. P. Clark, 
L. P. Ordway, T. G. Wann and C. M. Griggs. The 
regatta committee will consist of William Rees, Dr. C. 
M. Owens, Dr. J. M. Welch and Henry Merrill. 
Although there are numerous trophies and pennants 
for each of the^ different classes of boats on White Bear 
the interest for the coming season is centered in the 
coming race with the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. for the 
Seawanhaka cup on Lake St. Louis. There will also 
be much interest shown in the selection of two boats for 
the regular Inland Lake Y. A. meeting, which will be 
held at Oshkosh or Lake Winnebago in the latter part 
of x\ugust. 
There will be a large class of small boats, known as 
"B" boats, and as most of these are owned by the sons 
of the regular members a great deal of sport is expected. 
Johnson, of White Bear, is building fifteen of these boats, 
all the same model, five of which remain on White Bear 
and the rest go to Spring Lake. These yachts are almost 
the same model as the Massasoit, which was a contestant 
in the Bridgeport trial races to select a challenger for 
the Seawanhaka cup in 1902. Gus Amundson has fin- 
ished three "B" class boats, of somewhat the same model 
as his last year's winner of the "B" class at Oshkosh. 
Both Johnson and Amundson have started to work on 
the new Seawanhaka challengers, and the third, which 
is built by Jones & Laborde, of Oshkosh, has already been 
finished. It was at first proposed to build four boats, 
and it was in the Forest and Stream to that effect, but 
the committee has since changed its mind, and now there 
are only going to be three. The first trials will be held 
June 13, and after the fastest boats have been found, 
.they will be raced at Oshkosh under conditions quite 
similar to those at Lake St. Louis, Montreal. 
: Bald Eagle is a small lake not far from White Bear, 
and although there has only been sailing there for four 
years, the Yacht Club has made rapid strides. The mem- 
bers are nearly all young men, and are very enthusiastic 
over the sport. A new class has been added to the fleet; 
this class is very similar to the old "seventeen- foot" class 
of the White Bear Y. C. There are ten boats, all of the 
same model, being scows and twenty-five feet over all. 
The club will have a new club house, which will not be 
expensive in style and furnishing, being built more for 
comfort. 
The officers elected at a recent annual meeting are: 
Z. H. Thomas, Commodore; Charles H. Hart, Vice- 
Commodore; A. Geisberg, Secretary; J. A: Mull, Treas- 
urer; A. Holterholf, Captain. The sailing committee 
consists of R. B. Hall and I. E. Sifveland. 
The Lake Minnetonka Boat Club was incorporated 
Tuesday, March 29. The membership fee is $10 an- 
nually. The officers are Carl Puckett, Commodore; Roy 
H. Wagner, Vice-Commodore; T. E. Hawkins, Secre- 
tary; and F. B. Zahn, Treasurer. J. G. Ordway. 
British Letter. 
The French paper. Yachting Gazette, for March iS>. 
is a nicely got up, well illustrated number, full of good 
photographs of the yachts and motor launches taking 
part in the racing at Marseilles, Cannes, Nice and 
Monaco, but to Britishers the Riviera regattas this 
year are of little interest, and the chief contests are be- 
tween French and Italian yachts. The most important 
event from a sporting point of view will be the races 
for the Coupe de France at Nice, on April 2, 4 and 5. 
This trophy was won by Mr. Harrison Lambert's 20- 
rater, Gloria, in 1898, the defending boat, Esterel, being 
distinctly unlucky in losing. The cup was successfully 
defended by the Royal Temple Y. C; Mr. E. Hore's 
Payne-designed Laurea beating the Due Decazes' Anna 
on the Solent in 1899, and once more successfully de- 
fended it against the same owner's Quand-Meme I, at 
Ramsgate the following year. In 1901 the Royal 
Temple Y. C. enlisted the services of Fife's invincible 
S2-footer, Magdalen, to oppose a third challenge by the 
Due Decazes with a new Quand-Meme. Unfortunately, 
a short time before the races were fixed to take place, 
it was discovered that Magdalen was over 20 tons, 
French measurement, and as her owner, Baron de 
Forest, refused to allow her to be altered to suit the 
rule, the cup had to be returned to France. 
Magdalen and Quand-Meme II had a private match 
at Weymouth, the best out of three races, in which 
the Scotch boat won the first two in a most decisive 
manner, thus rendering a third contest unnecessary. 
Before the end of 1901 the Duke of the Abbruzzi 
challenged on behalf of the Regio Yacht Club Italiano, 
and the size of the competing boats was reduced from 
2a to 10 tons. The Italian-built Artica scored a very 
lucky win over the French boat Suzette in 1902, but 
the following . year . the . cup . went, back to France, 
Suzette getting her revenge for the defeat of the pre- 
vious year. This year , the French boat is a new one, 
and the challenging boat is Sally, the property oi 
Chevalier Coltelletti. Sally is one of the three boats 
built last year with the view to defending the cup, 
though she was not then chosen. 
The glories of the Riviera regattas, however, seem 
to have departed for the time. During the closing 
years of last century there were always some of the 
big English cutters present at the chief regattas and 
splendid races were organized for them. Many stirring 
matches were sailed when Britannia, Satanita, _ Ailsa 
and other such heavy weights hoisted colors in the 
blue waters of the Mediterannean, but since Sybarita 
and Kariad sailed a series of one-sided races out there 
two years ago no big vessels of note have graced the 
Riviera. There has, however, been a great increase 
in motor boats, and the small raters keep up their 
numbers. Of course, the absence of big British racers 
is easily accounted for, because there are none fitted 
out for English racing. 
Col. Bucknill, well known in Solent yachting circles, 
and more widely so as a writer under the pseudonym 
of Thalassa, has been elected captain of the Solent 
One-Design Class for 1904. Col. Bucknill was one of 
the principal starters of the class in 1896, and was its 
first captain. The class is still going strong, and Mr. 
H. Maryetti, who owned and raced the old Richardson 
cutter Irex, the last three seasons in the big handicap 
class, is building a boat for the Solent One-Design 
Class. There will be at least a dozen of these little 
craft afloat this year. E. H. Kelly. 
Boston Letter. 
Boston, April 4.— The work of fitting out has com- 
menced at the various yards, and, in some instances, 
yachts are to be found at their moorings. These cases 
are rare, however, for the fitting out season has been 
the most backward in several years. Generally, at this 
time, there are scores of yachts with running rigging 
in place, sails bent an their sides glistening with fresh 
paint, ready to take their dips as soon as there have 
been two or three days of warm weather. The warm 
days had not arrived up to last Sunday, however, and 
so little or nothing has been done. In other years 
many amateur yachtsmen could be found working on 
their boats during the first days of April, but this year 
there are very few yachts that have had their winter 
coverings removed. 
Mr. Lawrence F. Percival's 3Sft. speed launch has 
been launched at the Marblehead Yacht Yard, and she 
was given a trial last Saturday. She did not develop 
the speed that was desired. It was discovered that the 
shaft strut had pulled off and spoiled the lead of the 
screw. As soon as this has been fixed she will be given 
another trial, when it is expected that she will develop 
all the speed that was intended. 
The second general meeting of the Eastern Y. C. for 
1904 will be held at the St. Botolph Club, Tuesday 
evening, at 8:30. At this meeting the advisability of 
purchasing the wharf at Marblehead, now used as a 
club landing station, will be discussed. This property 
is one of two parcels, in which ownership was hotly 
contested by residents of Marblehead recently. The 
other parcel is owned by the Boston Y. C. The Marble- 
head residents claim that each of these wharves had 
been used as public thoroughfares for a number of 
years, and that the yacht clubs had no right to inclose 
