NOV. 2$, 1904;| 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and iii. 
New Launch for Use in New Mexico. — The Standard 
Boat Company, of Steinway, N. Y., have on the stocks 
a high speed passenger launch for a lake in New Mexico, 
a commodious steam launch for the Peruvian Government 
Health Department; also several smaller craft. Prospects 
with them are excellent for a busy season. 
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Cabin Launch Shipped to Mexico. — Through their 
Mexican agency the Racine Boat Manufacturing Com- 
pany, of Muskegon, recently shipped to Frontera, Mexico, 
a 45ft. stock cabin launch. A very interesting thing to 
note in connection therewith is the item of transportation 
from factory to destination. Freight to New York was 
$78.12; lighterage and freight from New York to final 
destination, including insurance, $525.30, or a total of 
$603.42, exclusive of duties. They have just received 
from the west for shipment abroad an 18ft. launch for 
Seville, Spain; a n^ft. ducking boat for Tabasco, 
Mexico, and an 18ft. "Turbine" launch for Buenos Ayres. 
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New Electric and Steam Launches. — The Electric 
Launch Company will have ready for delivery December 
1 three 60ft. steam launches for harbor work for the New 
York Police Department. They shipped last week two 
electric launches 18ft. and 25ft. long respectively to Palm 
Beach, Fla., for Mr. Joseph Jefferson. 
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Nirodha Changes Hands— The house-boat Nirodha 
has been sold by Messrs. Macconnell & Cook to Mr. 
Waldo P. Clement and Mr. J. E. Childs, of the New 
York Y. C. 
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Auxiliary Ketch for Harrison B. Moore. — Mr. 
Henry J. Gielow has recently finished the plans of a 
.cruising ketch for Commodore Harrison B. Moore, 
Atlantic Y. C. She is 92ft. over all, 66ft. waterline, 20ft. 
breadth and 6ft. 8in. draft. The boat is intended for 
cruising in southern waters, and will be fitted with a 
25-30 horse-power Craige motor. Mr. Gielow has also 
completed designs for a 50ft. high-speed gasolene launch 
and an 86ft. waterline steam yacht. 
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Old Mill Y. C. Officers. — At a meeting of the Old 
Mill Y. C, held on Nov. 13, the following officers were 
elected: Com., C. J. Mehrtens; Vice-Corn., W. Wheeler; 
Rear-Corn., John Stahle; Cor. Sec'y, Henry H. Robert- 
son; Financial Sec'y, T. Boyle; Treas., Harry Walker; 
Meas., William Myers; Trustees, D. S. Van Wicklin, 
John May, Henry Lange, John Schepp and W. 
Reynolds. 
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Schooner Quickstep Purchased by E. B. Havens.— 
Rear-Commodore Edwin B. Havens, of the Atlantic 
Y. C., has purchased the schooner Quickstep. The boat 
was built of steel in 1889 by H. Piepgrass at City Island 
from designs by the late Edward Burgess. She is 85ft. 
over all, 65ft. waterline, 20ft. breadth and 7ft. draft. 
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New York Y. C. Officers. — The Nominating Commit- 
tee of the New York Y. C. have selected the following 
gentlemen to serve as officers and on committees dur- 
ing 1905: Com., Frederick G. Bourne; Vice-Com., 
Henry Walters; Rear-Corn., Cornelius Vanderbilt; 
Sec'y, G. A. Cor mack; Treas., Tarrant Putnam. Re- 
gatta Committee— Oliver E. Cromwell, chairman; H. 
de B. Parsons and C. L. F. Robinson. _ Meas,. Francis 
W. Belknap. Committee on Admissions — Henry C. 
Ward, chairman; Frederick Gallatin, Cornelius Vander- 
biL, Tracy Dows and John Jacob Astor. House Com- 
mittees—Thomas A. Bronson, chairman; John M. 
Goetchius, Jr., and William H. H. Beebe. Library 
Committee — T. O' Conor Sloane, chairman; Charles 
Sooysmith and John H. Cole. Committee on Models- 
Theodore C. Zerega, chairman ; Robert Goelet and J. 
Rutherford Buchan. Committee on Club Stations — 
William H. Thomas, Henry H. Rogers, F. August 
Schermerhorn, Augustus C. Tyler, Charles Lane Poor, 
C. L. F. Robinson, W. Frazier Harrison, Henry C. 
Ward, William Lanman Bull and J. Rogers Maxwell. 
The annual meeting of the club will be held on the 
evening of Thursday, Dec. 15. 
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New Boat for F. J. Havens.— There is building at W. 
F. Down's yard at Bayshore, L. I., a racing boat for 
Mr. Frederick J. Havens, from designs made by Mr. 
Henry J. Gielow. The boat is intended for racing in 
Class Q of the Gravesend Bay Y. R. A., and is 33ft. 
over all, 25ft. waterline, 7ft. 6in. breadth and 5ft. 6in. 
draft. She will carry 575 sq. ft. in the mainsail and jib. 
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Alterations on Schooner Priscilla. — The old schooner 
Priscilla, once an aspirant to America Cup honors, now 
owned by Mr. George H. Worthington, of Cleveland, 
O. is being converted into an auxiliary by Messrs. A. 
Cary Smith & Ferris. Priscilla is now at Detroit, and 
in addtion to the 60 horse-power auxiliary motor, she 
will be given an electric plant and fitted with a new deck. 
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American Export Methods.— As straws show the 
direction of the wind, the following from our English 
contemporary, the Yachting World, explains the fear of 
American aggressive export practice: 
"Again, look at the Chinese rivers and waterways 
within our own sphere of influence, full of trade; and the 
hundreds on hundreds of miles of South American rivers, 
such as the Parana, navigable for fifteen, and the Para- 
guay, navigable for twenty degrees from its mouth, for 
fair-sized vessels; to say nothing of their tributaries, 
mostly large ones. Are we doing anything to push the 
trade in commercial marine motors and river boats there; 
or are we waiting until six or seven years hence, when 
the Americans have got all the trade ? Some local assist- 
ant consul reports that there is a demand for them. Re- 
verting again to New Zealand in this connection, a ferry 
boat capable of carrying seventy passengers has been in 
use m Dunedin for over a year, both boat and motor 
having been built by the Standard Motor Company, of 
■ San Francisco." 
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Work at the Smith & Mabley Shops.— A visit to the 
Smith & Mabley boat shop finds several high speed 
launches in winter quarters, among which we noted th" 
following : Vingt-et-Un I. with 21 horsepower Smith & 
Mabley motor; Challenger, 150 horsepower Sw'^'m & 
Mabley "Simplex;" XPDNC, 90 horse-power Mrtiftes ; 
Vingt-et-Un II,, with 75 horsepower S. & M. "Sin, --.ax;" 
also cruiser Hobo, equipped with 75 horsepower S.~& M. 
Simplex." They have on hand a 57ft. launch ready for 
a 150 horsepower S. & M. "Simplex." In course of con- 
struction they have a 35ft. hull semi-speed boat. Motive 
power will be 30 horsepower S. & M. "Simplex" at U en- 
gine speed to develop 12 miles per hour. They are build- 
ing six yacht tenders to weigh complete not to exceed 
3,000 pounds each, which, with 30 horsepower S. & M. 
"Simplex" engines, are guaranteed a speed of 14 miles per 
hour. 
"■Forest and Stream ^Designing 
Competition No. IV. 
Sixty-foot Waterline Cruifing Power Boat* 
$225 in Prizes. 
The three designing competitions previously given by 
Forest and Stream have been for sailing yachts. In 
this competition, the fourth, we are to change our sub- 
ject and give the power boat men an opportunity. The 
competition is open to amateurs and professionals, except 
that the designers who received prizes in any of the three 
previous contests may not compete in this one. 
The following prizes will be given : 
First prize, $100. 
Second prize, $60. 
Third prize, $40. 
Fourth prize, $25, offered by Mr. Charles W. Lee for 
the best cabin arrangement, 
Mr. Henry J. Gielow, N.A., has very kindly agreed to 
act as judge. In addition to making the awards, Mr. 
Gielow will criticise each of the designs submitted; and 
the criticisms will be published in these columns. 
The designs will be for a cruising launch propelled by 
either gasolene or kerosene motors, conforming to the 
following conditions: 
I. Not over 60ft. waterline. 
II. Not over 4ft. draft. . 
III. A signalling mast only to be shown. 
IV. Cabin houses, if used at all, to be kept as low 
and narrow as possible. 
V. Construction to be of wood, and to be strong, 
simple, and inexpensive. The cost of the boat complete 
in every detail must not exceed $9,000. 
VI. The location of tanks and engine or engines to 
be carefully shown. Either single or twin-screws may be 
adopted. The power and type of the motor must be 
specified. 
VII. The boat must have a fuel capacity sufficient to 
give a cruising radius of 700 miles at a rate of 8 miles 
an hour. The maximum speed shall not be more than 14 
miles nor less than 10 miles. The estimated maximum 
speed must be specified. 
VIII. All weights must be carefully figured, and the 
results of the calculations recorded. A thousand-word 
description of the boat and a skeleton specification must 
accompany each design. 
The design must be modern in every particular, with- 
out containing any extreme or abnormal features. We 
wish to produce an able, safe, and comfortable cruising 
boat, one that will have ample accommodations, so that 
the owner and his wife and two guests, or three or four 
men, can live aboard, and one that can easily be managed 
at all times by two or three paid hands in addition to the 
steward. The draft is restricted to 4ft. in order that the 
boat may have access to nearly all harbors, canals and rivers 
North and South, and may thereby widely increase the 
cruising field. We have in mind a boat that can be used 
North in the summer and South in the winter, and a 
craft well able to withstand outside passage along the 
coast in all seasons of the year. 
Special attention must be given to the cabin arrange- 
ment. The interiors should be original, but devoid of any 
impractical features. Arrangements should be made for 
a direct passage forward and aft without going on deck. 
Drawings Required. 
I. Sheer plan. Scale, ^in.=ift. 
II. Half breadth plan. Scale, ^4in.— ift. 
III. Body plan. Scale, ^in.r=ift. 
IV. Cabin plan and inboard profile and at least one 
cross-section. Scale, ^4in.=ift. 
V. Outboard profile. Scale, ^in.==ift, 
The drawings should be carefully made and lettered; 
all drawings should be preferably on tracing cloth or 
white paper, in black ink. No colored inks or pigments 
should be used. 
The drawings must bear a nom de plume only, and no 
indication must be given of the identity of the designer. 
In a sealed envelope, however, the designer must inclose 
his 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, not later than February 3, 1905. All drawings will 
be returned. Return postage should accompany each. 
The Forest and Stream reserves the right to publish 
any or all the designs. 
Newport Y. C. Officers.— The Newport (R. I.) Y. C. 
held a meeting a short time ago and elected the following 
officers: Com., Herbert L. Marsh; Vice-Com., John A. 
Allen; Rear-Corn., Alexander Fraser; Sec'y, William M. 
Arnold ; Treas., John S. Coggeshall ; Meas., Albert Hass ; 
Fleet Surgeon, Dr. S. C. Powell; Regatta Committee- 
John G. Costello, W. Douglass Hazard, William Edson; 
House Committee— William M. Borden, Frank H. Scan- 
nevin, James D. Hidler, Alexander Fraser, Ray B. Wil- 
son, Jr.; Finance Committee— Alvah H. Sanborn, Dalton 
E. Young, Hugh L. Taylor; Library Committee— -Wil- 
liam H. Arnold, John S. Coggeshall, and Hugh L. Taylor, 
The Launch Ptesidente. 
Some two months ago the Lozier Motor Co. 
shipped the launch Presidente to South 
'America. Her destination was Brazil, where 
she will be used by the customs officers. Presi- 
dente is 31ft. long over all, and is fitted with a 
double cylinder two-cycle engine cf 15 horse- 
power: ; , The boat is beautifully built, and no de- 
tail was overlooked in her construction and equip- 
ment to make her as complete as possible in every 
detail. 
The builders sent an expert with the launch 
to Brazil, in order that full instructions re-; 
garding the handling, etc., could be given to. 
the native operator. 
NANCY ANN. 
Designed and built by the Gas Engine & Power Co., and Charles L. Seabury & Co., Consolidated. 
Owned by W. L. Moody, Galveston, Texas. 
