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FOHEST AND STREAM. 
[May 21, 1904. 
HIGH SPEED LAUNCH DESIGNED BY TAMS, LEMOINE & CRANE, AND BUILDING BY FRANK WOOD. 
Desigfn iot Higfh Speed Latmch. 
H16H speed launches are in great demand this year. 
None of the new boats are attracting more widespread 
interest than those turned out by Messrs. Tams, Lemoine 
& Crane. Through the courtesy of this firm we are able 
to publish this week the designs of one of their most 
interesting boats. 
^ Her dimensions are as follows: , 
Length — r 
On deck 47ft. 2 in. 
L.W.L. .47ft. 7 in. 
Breadth- 
Extreme Sft. 7 in. 
Draft of hull— • . . : ' : : : 
Extreme ift. i^in. 
F reeboard — 
Forward ■ 3ft. 8 in. 
Aft, lowest 2ft. 4 in. 
The boat is being built in a most superior manner by 
Mr. Frank Wood at his City Island plant. She is of 
very light but strong construction. The planking is 
double, the inner skin being of cedar and the outer of 
mahogany. 
There are two cockpits. The forward one is i8ft. 6in. 
long, and divided into three parts; the after one is lift. 
6in. long and water-tight. There is 2ft. 6in. deck space 
between the two cockpits, and under this is located a 
gasolene tank. 
In the low compartment of the forward cockpit is a 
place for the helmsman. The two 90 horse-power 
Mercedes engines are just aft of the steering gear, each 
one having a separate compartment. With this power ' 
it is expected the boat will do better than 25 miles an 
hour. ' 
Boston Letter. 
Boston, May 13.— Nearly alk of the yachts that have 
been built during the winter for the racing classes have 
been put in the water, and have been tried out in im- 
promptu scraps. The number of new i8-footers far ex- 
ceeds that of any other class, and these boats have had 
several tryouts off Marblehead. Mirage II., which was one 
of the first of the new ones to be put in the water, is 
showing up very well in the preliminary races. On each 
of the past two Sundays, four of the i8-footers have been 
in scrub races off Marblehead, and Mirage has won each 
time. It is said that in a little rub with Mr. T. K. 
Lothrop's new 30-footer, Sauquoit, the smaller boat gave 
the larger all she wanted to take care of. Mirage was 
designed by Mr. E. A. Boardman. 
Not only the new boats, but many of the older ones 
are getting ready for the opening of the racing season, 
especially among the i8-footers. The first race will be 
en Memorial Day, given by the South Boston Y. C, and 
this will make the twenty-eighth consecutive year that 
this club has opened the racing season in Massachusetts 
Bay. Classes will be provided for 30, 22, 18, and 15- 
footers of the Y. R. A. classes, and in addition to these 
there will be provided handicap classes. 
Down in Buzzard's Bay preparations are being made for 
the racing season by the Beverly Y. C. As the bulk of 
the membership of this club is composed of summer resi- 
dents, however, the season does not open as early as in 
other sections. The 30-footers will be most prominent in 
the racing. Zingara, one of the 30-footers, has been sold 
by Mr. E. M. Farnsworth to Mr. Alexander Forbes. 
She will remain in the club, however, and as Mr. Forbes 
is one of the new members, he will probably try to make a 
record with her. Two new yachts will join the 21ft. 
class. They are owned by Mr. Joshua Crane, Jr., and 
Mr. C. N. Baker. A new class of i8-footers has been 
Organized which should furnish good racing. This is a 
one-design class, for which five boats have been turned 
out by Herreshoff. This class vvill compete later jn_ the 
season with a one-design class, built under the restrictions 
of: the -Massachusetts Eighteen-foot Knockabout Associa- 
tion, from designs by Mr. E. A. Boardman. The regatta 
committee of the Beverly Y. C. has arranged the follow- 
ing fixtures for the season: 
June 17, Friday— Club race, 
June 18, Saturday — Club race. 
, June ^5, Saturday — Club race. 
' . July' ,2, Saturday — First Corinthian. 
July. {4, Monday — Open sweepstakes with, prizes added by club. 
July; "9, Saturday — Second Corinthian, 
tuly 16, Saturday — Third- Corinthian. 
July .23, Saturday— Fourth Corinthian. 
July 30, Saturday— Fifth Corinthian. 
Aug. 6, Saturday — Sixth Corinthian. 
Aug. 13, Saturday— Club race: 
Aug. 27, Saturday— Sevench Corinthian. 
■ Sept 3, Saturday— Open race. 
Sept. 5, Monday— Open race. 
Sept. 10, Saturday— Club race. 
In the above schedule all of the races are to be sailed 
cflF the club house. Wings Neck, with the exception of the 
open race on September 3, which will be sailed at Matta- 
poisett. Only the Corinthian races count for club 
championship. 
Th? new club house of the Winthrop Y, C: which -is to 
take the place of the one that was destroyed by fire last 
fall, is rapidly taking shape, and it is expected that it 
will be ready for occupancy early in July. Although 
minus a club house, the members of this club are not lack- 
ing in enthusiasm. The floats have been out for some 
time, and many yachts are at the anchorage. The regatta 
committee has arranged the following list of fixtures : 
June 4, Saturday — Class handicap. 
June 18, Saturday — Class handicap. 
June 26, Sunday — Club run. 
July 2, Saturday — Class handicap. 
July 16, Saturday — Class handicap. j 
July 24, Sunday — Club run. 
July 30, Saturday — Class handicap. 
Aug. 6, Saturday — Class handicap. 
Aug. 20, Saturday — Class handicap. 
Aug. 21, Sunday — Club run. 
Sept. 3, Saturday — Class , handicap. 
The following fixtures have been announced by the 
regatta committee of the Columbia Y. C. : 
June 4, Saturday — Club handicap. 
June 17, Friday — Cruise to Gloucester. 
July 2, Saturday — Cruise to Portsmouth. 
July 16, Saturday — Club handicap. 
July 17, Sunday — Ladies' -day. 
Aug. 6, Saturday — Club handicap. 
Aug. 14, Sunday — Ladies' day. . ., 
Sept 3, Saturday — Squadron run to Salem Willows. ' 
Sept. 4, Sunday — At Salem Willows. 
Sept. 5, Monday — Squadron run, Salem Willows to Nahant. 
The regatta committee of the South Boston Y. C. has 
announced the following fixtures: 
May 30, Monday— Y. R. A. open. - 
June 17, Friday — Club cruise. 
June 18, Saturday — Club cruise. - -. 
June 19, Sunday — Club cruise. 
July 9, Saturday — Club handicap. " ■. : 
July 24, Sunday — Ladies' day. 
Aug. 6, Saturday — Ladies' day. v-. ... 
Aug. 20, Saturday — Club handicap. 
Sept. 10, Saturdaj' — Handicap, City Point to. Hull. 
Last Tuesday morning the steam yacht Visitor, de- 
signed by Swasey, Raymond & Page for Mr. W. Harry 
Brown, of Pittsburg, Pa., was launched at Lawley's west 
shop. The yacht was christened by Mrs. Brown. Visi- 
tor is a twin-screw, high speed, steel steam yacht. She 
is 98ft. over all, 93ft. waterline, 14ft. beam and 4ft. 3in. 
draft. She is of the torpedo boat type, with low cabin 
trunk and raised deck house forward. It is expected that 
she will make 24 miles an hour. 
John B. Killeen. 
Rhode Island Letter. 
Providence, R. I., May 14. — Work has been very active 
at the Herreshoff shops at Bristol for the past few weeks, 
both in completing new work on hand and in getting a 
number of craft out of winter quarters and into shape for 
the season. Several of the new boats of the 21ft. class for 
sloops are now nearly ready for launching. Thej" are 
finely modeled craft, with moderate overhangs, and are 
expected to prove very speedy. A new steam yacht of 
about I20ft. waterline, under construction for M. C. D. 
Borden, of New York, is about half completed, and work 
on her will be rushed. 
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt's steam yacht Mirage has 
Ix'.en repiped, and is nearly ready to leave for New York. 
Mr. August Belmont's steam yacht Scout has had a num- 
ber of improvements in the engine room, and is now in 
the hands of the painters. 
Rear-Commodore W. O. Todd, of the Rhode Island Y. 
C, has a new 58ft. cabin launch, built by the New York 
Yacht and Launch Engine Company, at Morris Heights, 
N. Y. She arrived here early this week. She is called 
Roberta, is 58ft. over all, and 12ft. breadth, and is 
equipped with a Twentieth Century motor of 12 horse- 
power. The finish is mahogany throughout. The engine 
room is at the after end of the cabin house, and forward 
of this are toilet room, galley accommodations, and a 
13ft. main cabin and a large pilot house. She has two 
pole masts, carries a tender swung on davits, and all in all 
is one of the handsomest cruising launches in Narragan- 
sett Bay. . _ 
Mr. Jesse H. Metcalf's steam yacht Endion has been 
purchased by Mr. Leroy Fales, of Barrington, who is a 
member of the Rhode Island Y, C, so that the boat will 
still remain in the club fleet. 
" C. F, Tillinghast's new 22ft. knockabout, built, at the 
Chase Pulley Company's shop in this city, will go into 
the water in a day or two. She is called Little Rhody, 
and was designed by Mr, George Owen, of Toronto, 
Canada, a former resident of Providence. She has a 
model of more than ordinary beauty. She is a keel boat, 
with about 3,000 pounds of outside lead, and is double 
planked inside with cedar and outside hard pitie. : The 
frarningris of the best quality of white oak, and there is 
a double planked water-tight cockpit. The after end of 
the cabin and the hatch and companionway are of 
mahogany. She is 34ft. 6in. over all, 21ft. gin. waterline, 
8ft. 6in. beam, and 5ft. 6in. draft. Little Rhody will 
probably be one of the contestants in the Brooklyn Y. C.'s 
ocean race in July. Her sail area as yet is uncertain, as 
she was built for the Narragansett Bay Twetity-two Foot 
Sailabdut Asscciation, crganize'd last winter, atfd as there 
are no other boats building for the class, it is not probable 
that her owner will hold her sail plan down to the 650ft. 
named in the restrictions. 
At the Chase shop there is also a 22-footer, designed by 
Mr. W. H. Hand, of New Bedford,, for Mr. D. D. Aller- 
ton, of New York, to race under the rules of the Graves- 
end Bay Y. R. A. She is combination keel and center- 
board, with 2,500 pounds of outside ballast. The model 
IS peculiar, showing a very long forward overhang At 
the same shop, a Messrs. Burgess & Packard design, 
an atixihary sloop, Keewaydin, has just been finished for 
Mr. G. F. Holmes, of Plymouth, Mass. She is 35fL 6in. 
over all, 22ft. waterline, loft. beam, and 2ft. 6in. draft, 
and_ IS fitted with a 6 horse-power Murray & Tregurtha 
engine. She has a good sized cabin, and makes a com- 
fortable cruiser. 
_ Mr. David Stranger has sold his 2Sft. cat Idler to a 
Barnegat Bay yachtsman. She was built last year by 
Mr. A. C. Davis, of this city. 
The Edgewood Y. C. took in 27 new members this 
week, bringing the total enrollment to more than 450, 
and it is expected that the limit of 600 members will be 
reached before the end of the season. The annual cruise 
of the Edgewood fleet this year will be in August, the 
same week as the racing series of the Narragansett Bay 
\. R. A., the fleet following the different racing events, 
and being at Newport for the Astor cup races. 
. ^- H. Young. 
laterlake Yachting Letter. 
Cleveland, O., May 13.— Yeota, the first of the 21ft. 
restricted class, is overboard. She was launched at 
Grassy Island last Thursday. Yeota was designed for 
Mr. Kenneth Stevenson, of Detroit, by Messrs Burgess 
& Packard, and built by Edward C. Bryan, of Wyandotte, 
Mich. The boat is of the compromise keel and center- 
board type. She will carry 1,000 pounds of outside bal- 
last. Her gaff, boom and mast are hollow, and the sails 
were finished by Messrs. Cousens & Pratt, of Boston. 
She IS designed right up to the top of the class, and her 
owner looks for Yeota to give a good account of herself 
m the Lipton races at Chicago and the Waker races at 
Detroit. It is for these two series of races that she was 
especially built. She vifill be sailed by R. D. Potter, of 
loledo, assisted by Geo. Wilds, of Detroit, John Barch 
and Douglass Perkins, Jr., of Cleveland. Her dimensions 
are: Length over all, 35ft. iVA'm.; waterline, 21ft.; 
beam at waterline, loft. 5in. ; extreme beam, loft. 8in.; 
draft at post, 2ft. iiin. ; sail area, 949 square feet. 
Several of the others will be launched next week. Mr. 
E. L. Ford's boat, designed and built by Joe Pouliott, of 
Wyandott, has been finished for some time, and will be 
launched in a day or two. She is a good looking boat, 
and almost an exact counterpart of Little Shamrock, the 
craft that won the Walker cup last year. Mr. H T. 
Schmidt's boat, built at Marine City, Mich., is just about 
finished, and will be shipped to Detroit in a few days. 
John H. Smedley, Jr.'s, announcement that he was having 
a 2i-footer built in the East came as a surprise. The 
Smedley boat was designed by Mr. Chas. L. Seabury, and 
is being built at Morris Heights, N. Y. Mr. Chas. L. 
Seabury also sold the Vesta, Commodore Smedley's 
yawl, to eastern parties, and the Commodore, in turn, 
purchased the Vennessa, a 76ft. over all auxiliary yawl, 
from eastern parties. A letter received from E. T. 
Affleck, Jr., of Toledo, O., now on his way to the lakes 
with Hussar II., recently purchased by Commodore E. T. 
A.ffleck, states that good time is being made, and the craft 
' will reach Toledo, her new home, about June i. 
Several new boats are building at Toledo, and the 
yachtsmen of that place are looking forward to a good 
season. At the Harrison Boat Works a number of 
launches, including five high speed boats, have been built, 
the most conspicuous of the lot being one for Lacy Bros., 
also of Toledo. She is an improved Dolphin, and her 
owners hope to do better than 12 miles with her. She 
will be equipped with a 12 horse-power Lacy engine. 
The Puritana, Commodore W. C. Richardson, Jr.'s 
schooner, was launched two weeks ago, and left yesterday 
on a fishing trip to cover a period- of several weeks. 
Commodore W. C. Sterling, Jr., of Monroe, Mich., 
bought the ^ola, of Buffalo. ^Eola is of the sharpie 
type. The 21-footer built by Wier, of Hamilton, and de- 
signed by Mr. W. H. Hand, Jr., has been finished and 
delivered to Mr._H. L. Chamberlain, of Buffalo. 
The original idea of racing the new 15-footers from 
Port Colburn to Buffalo on their initial trip has been 
abandoned, and they will be towed from Hamilton to Buf- 
falo instead. Dr. E. P. Hussey's 30ft. yawl has been 
completed, and is an excellent looking craft. For a boat 
of her size, she has a remarkable amount of room. She 
should also have a fair amount of speed, especially in a 
breeze. Lucinda, of Sandusky, was sold to a member of 
the Buffalo Y; C. 
Things are doing in the Lakewood Y. C, of Cleveland. 
Messrs. W. F. Nash, Geo. I. Hall, and H. P. Wheton 
purchased the Rooster II. fram Hon. Chas. . Francis 
Adams 2x3, of Boston, and hope with her to wrest dom^ 
