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three big silver flower-stands as perpetual challenge cups 
for the big, medium, and small sailing yachts. The one- 
design boats race in one class. 
Rowing Section.— At all times some rowing has been 
going on in the society, so those who like that sport have 
founded the rowing section. There are some good teams, 
who often won the national championship. One training 
chief and two commissaries manage this section. 
Motor Launch Section.- — There are about 20 motor 
launches besides the steam launches. The first motor 
launch regatta took place in 1901, but no classification was 
adopted but the number of horsepower and the length; 
the 4 horsepower boat had to race against the 6 horse- 
power craft, etc. This was not satisfactory, and a com- 
mission of several members tried to solve this difficult 
question. Now they have adopted the formula of the 
American Power Boat Association. 
Boston Letter. 
Boston, Dec. 11. — Whatever may be done by the 
clubs of Massachusetts Bay, in regard to accepting the 
proposed new rating rule, it is quite certain that there 
will be no new developments, so far as building is con- 
cerned, except in the classes that have already been 
formed here and raced, chiefly 22-footers, 18-footers 
and 15-footers. There may be more or less racing of 
handicap classes, which form of competition became 
somewhat popular among the older yachts last season, 
the allowances being arranged upon a percentage basis. 
In some cases the remedy of one-design classes has 
been applied where restrictions have been believed to 
have been weak; but it is not at all likely that one- 
design classes will ever become very popular in 
Massachusetts Bay. 
The greatest development will be found in the 22ft. 
class, in which it is believed that there are as many as 
six boats already ordered, with more to follow. Messrs. 
Small Bros, have designed two of these boats, one 
being for Mr. H. H. White and the other for Mr. H. 
L. Bowden. Mr. H. H. White is also to have another 
22-footer designed by Mr. E. A. Boardman, so that he; 
will have two types from which to choose the faster 
boat for championship honors — that is, if both of the 
designs should be built to. Under the rules, only one 
boat can compete in the same class entered- by one 
owner, and so Mr. White's search for championship 
honors may prove doubly expensive. Mr. B. B. Crown- 
inshield will have one of his designs in the 22ft. class 
for the first time next season. Mr. Crowninshield will 
not state for whom he is designing the boat, but it is 
believed that she will be for Mr. W. H. Joyce, who 
owns the 22-footer Tayac. Mr. E. A. Boardman may 
have another boat in the 22ft. class. It is said that he 
has already designed the boat for a member of the 
Eastern Y. C, and that the order for building her has 
been given to the Lawleys, but Mr. Boardman denies 
any knowledge of such a craft. It is strange that in 
Massachusetts Bay, where there has been so much de- 
velopment in small classes, that those intending to build 
give orders to the designers to maintain the strictest 
secrecy. It does not avail much, as a rule, and is 
more likely than anything else to keep yachtsmen out 
of classes in which they would build if they had some 
idea of how many yachts were coming out and who 
the owners would be. 
Mr. C. C. Hanley, who built Genesee, and who has 
turned out many champions in the Massachusetts^ Bay 
classes, is to try a hand in the 22ft. class. He is to 
design and build a keel boat for Mr. A. C. Jones. Mr. 
Hanley feels confident of being up with the leaders 
with this boat, and his record in the past in small boats 
would lead one to believe that he has considerable 
ground for this confidence. It was confidently expected 
that Mr. George Lee would be in the game with a new 
boat of Boardman design, but he has changed his mind 
and will race one of the older boats; and thereby hangs 
a tale. It seems that Mr. Lee, who is the owner of 
Peri II., has been watching Medric, owned by Mr. H. 
H. White during the past season and when, in an ex- 
change of skippers in a scrub race at Provincetown Mr. 
Lee sailed Medric and beat Peri II., he became all the 
more impressed with her ability. So, instead of build--* 
ing a new boat, he purchased Medric from Mr. White, 
through Messrs Small Bros. Dr. Morton Prince, who 
has become an enthusiast in racing, has purchased Mr. 
Lee's Peri II. through Mr. E. A. Boardman. Dr. 
Prince has commissioned Mr. Boardman to make such 
alterations as will improve Peri II., and she will be 
raced constantly next season. It is thought that there 
will be other new 22-footers before the spring. It 
would not be surprising if Messrs. Burgess & Packard 
should get an order for one before very long. No new 
boat has been heard from yet for Mr. Summer H. 
Foster, the sponsor of the 22ft. class, but it is believed 
that he will be out with one when the season opens. 
Messrs. Burgess & Packard have received an order 
for a racing 30-footer, but who the yacht is to be for 
has not been announced. They have also received the 
order for the new floating hospital ship for the city 
of Boston. They have orders for two 15-footers whose 
owners' names are withheld. They are at work on the 
lines of a 25ft. and a 23ft. launch. 
Ten one-design 17-footers are being built at Lawley's, 
from designs of Mr. E. A. Boardman, for members of 
the Cohasset Y. C. It is understood that it was not the 
desire of the members to have the boats conform to 
the restrictions of the Massachusetts Eighteen-Foot 
Knockabout Association, although they could have done 
so easily enough, and in this resolve a compliment is 
paid indirectly to the Y. R. A. of Massachusetts, as well 
as to the Massachusetts Eighteen-Foot Knockabout 
Association. The reason is said to be because it was 
feared that if the boats conformed to the association 
restrictions, they would not stay at home, but would be 
out chasing the Y. R. A. of Massachusetts circuits. Mr. 
Boardman last week received an order for a Seawan- 
haka Cup challenger from a syndicate of Manchester 
Y. C. members headed by Mr. A. Henry Higginson. 
It has been stated that Mr. Boardman has received two 
orders for Seawanhaka boats, but this is really the 
first one. It is expected, however, that he will receive 
gn order for a second boat. This designer has turned 
out the lines for a fleet of one-design 14ft. sailing 
tenders, which will be raced at Manchester. 
Col. W. R. Nelson, of Kansas City, Mo., who has 
been for some years a summer resident of Gloucester, 
has sold his cruising schooner Hoosier to Mr. Edgar 
Harding, of the Eastern Y. C. The Hoosier is a fine 
type of cruising yacht, 125ft. over all, 104ft. waterline, 
25ft. 2in. beam and 12ft. sin. draft. She was designed 
by Mr. Isaac Mills, and was built on the molds of 
the Burgess fishing schooner Fredonia by Mr. John 
Bishop, of Gloucester. 
Mr. Alanson Bigelow, Jr., is to have a fast cruising 
gasolene launch from plans of Messrs. Swasey, Tay- ' 
mond & Page. She will be used by Mr.. Bigelow as a 
ferry between Boston and Scituate. The new boat will 
be 65ft. over all, 60ft. waterline and 8ft. 8in. beam. She 
will have a 75 horsepower engine. Messrs. Swasey, 
Raymond & Page have orders for two 40ft. cruising 
launches; a 35ft. auxiliary yawl; a 36ft. auxiliary yawl; 
three 30ft. cabin launches, and one 30ft. speed launch. 
At the annual meeting of the Beverly Y. C, held in 
the committee room, 322 Exchange building, Boston, 
on Friday, Dec. 9, the following officers were elected: 
Com., Lewis S. Dabney; Vice-Corn., W. E. C. Eustis; 
Sec'y, F. A. Eustis; Treas., Lawrence Whitcomb; 
Meas., F. E. Cabot. Members of Council at Large — 
E. M. Farnsworth and N. H. Emmons. Regatta Com- 
mittee — Howard Stockton, Charles Whittemore, F. E. 
Cabot, Chas. H. Taylor, Jr., Joshua Crane, Jr., R. W. 
Emmons 2d and F. A. Eustis. House Committee — Dr. 
E. S. Wood, W. E. C. Eustis, N. H. Emmons, Law- 
rence Whitcomb and Louis Bacon. Admission Com- 
mittee — F. L. Dabney, F. A. Eustis, F. W. Sargent, 
John Parkinson, Jr., and David Rice. A committee, 
consisting of David Rice, J. L. Stackpole and R. W. 
Emmons 2d, was appointed to report to the club, as 
soon as possible, recommendations for revising the rules 
of the restricted classes of the club and also to recom- 
mend restrictions for a new 15ft. class. The reports 
of the secretary and the treasurer showed the club to be 
in good condition. John B. Killeen. 
British Letter. 
Some few weeks ago there was considerable discussion 
in the yachting papers of this country upon the subject 
of yacht sailors and their racing money, and indirectly 
the subject of their wages was brought in. The con- 
tention of many owners was that the prize money which 
it is usual to allot to the crew of a winning yacht is 
out of all proportion to the value of the prize won, es- 
pecially in view of the fact that the men are paid a 
very good weekly wage for their services, and are 
supplied with clothes and grub money when racing. 
There is no question but that the cost of yacht racing 
has increased enormously of late years, owing to the 
development of the modern type of vessel with her 
heavy lead keel and immense spars and sails. It is also 
equally beyond doubt that the value of the prizes of- 
fered has not increased, but rather diminished, so that 
a considerable amount of extra expense falls on the 
back of the owner. Add to this the fact that the life of 
racing yachts, however successful, rarely lasts more 
than two seasons, and that when done with as racers 
they are very difficult to dispose of; and it will be seen 
that the owner of a modern racing yacht is severely 
handicapped as compared with racing men of twenty 
years back, and it behooves them to do all they can in 
the way of proper economy. 
It has been the custom for many years to give the 
crew one pound apiece for every first prize won; ten 
shillings for any other prize, and five shillings per man 
for each race when no prize is won. Some owners 
consider this excessive, and there can be little doubt 
that they are right. The mate gets a regular wage of 
thirty-two shillings a week — more in some cases — and 
the crew twenty-six shillings a man, besides which 
various sums from one shilling six pence to two 
shillings six pence a man are allowed for grub money 
on race days. For owners who pay their men so 
liberally as this and also provide them with clothes, 
shoes, caps, oilskins and sou'westers, to be saddled 
with prize money in the ratio quoted above, seems, to 
say the least of it, unjust. 
A meeting of owners was held at the Royal Thames 
Y. C. on Nov. 1, to consider the question of prize 
money, and it was understood that an agreement was 
come to that prize money should bear a certain pro- 
portion to the value of the prizes won. What that 
proportion was to be was, however, not fixed, but was 
left for a future meeting to decide. 
It is a healthy sign to see the matter taken up by a 
club, but it would be far more satisfactory to find the 
attention of the only body that is capable of dealing 
with such a subject directed to it. That body is, of 
course, the Yacht Racing Association, but it is to be 
feared that it will not make any move in the matter, 
seeing that it will do nothing to improve its rating rule 
or to bring in tables of scantlings to insure yachts be- 
ing solidly and substantially built. The Y. R. A. is in- 
variably afraid to make a move in times of stress, and 
we have in consequence the unpleasant spectacle of the 
ruling body in yachting matters, refusing to take up 
anything in the way of reform. Nobody wishes to give 
the professional yachtsman less than his due; but it 
is quite certain that the majority of owners cannot 
afford to pay them more than they deserve, and when it 
is considered how these same men make a living during 
the winter months— some in fishing smacks, some in 
coasters and nearly all working hard during the cold, 
bitter months when the sea is a very different _ place 
to what it is in the sunny summer months — it is felt 
that a reasonable reduction and rearrangement of prize 
money will be no injustice to them. The Y. R. A. ought 
certainly to take the matter up and settle it at once, 
so that the next season may be begun with a clear un- 
derstanding between owners and crew. 
Following on the news that we are to have a 
Herreshoff 52-footer in competition with our _ boats 
next season, comes the equally welcome intelligence 
that Mr. W. P. Burton, one of our most ardent ama- 
teur helmsmen and keenest of yachtsmen, is going to 
replace his Fife boat Lucida with a 52-footer from the 
board of the young Glasgow designer Mylne, a former 
pupil of the late Mr. G. L. Watson. Mylne is already 
represented in the class by Moyana, which was last 
year's crack and very little inferior to this year's 
champion Maymon. Mr. Burton had thoughts of get- 
ting a boat from Herreshoff, but in view of the fact 
that one has already been ordered by Mrs. Turner 
Farley, who will be a newcomer to the class, he thought 
it more in the interest of the sport if he went to a 
British designer. He has made a wise choice, for 
Mylne has had a most successful record for some years 
past, and at the present moment he leads the list of 
Clyde winners in no fewer than five classes out of 
eight. Moyana is a beautifully proportioned boat; but 
Mylne will have no difficulty in improving upon her, as 
she is only the second 52-footer he has designed, and 
Mr. Burton may be sure of having a very fast boat. 
The building of two new vessels for this class assures 
its success for another year. E. H. Kelly. 
" Forest and Stream'' Designing 
Competition No. IV. 
Sixty-foot Waterline Cruising 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 6bft. 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. 
j 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 snould be made for 
a direct passage forward and aft without going on deck. 
Drawings Required. 
I. Sheer plan. Scale, y 2 'm.=ift. 
II. Half breadth plan. Scale, ^in.=ift. 
III. Body plan. Scale, ^4in.=ift. 
IV. Cabin plan and inboard profile and at least one 
cross-section. Scale, y 2 m.— 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. , 
