21-FOOT BERMUDA SLOOP LINES AND CONSTRUCTION PLAN. 
Designed by Fred. M. Hoyt. Built by the Greenport Basin & Construction Co. 
put into Greenport for repairs, will be ready to start 
across the ocean this week. For some thirty-two hours 
during the storm which they encountered shortly after 
leaving Sandy Hook all hands were kept below deck. 
Only for the loss of the forward hatches, which flooded 
and disabled one engine, even at that they would have 
proceeded south toward Charlestown, their first stop. 
Power equipment of Gregory consists of two six- 
cylinder i2in. by I4in. gasolene engines of the well- 
known Standard make. The tankage for a supply of 
gasolene for the trip, even with stops at Bermuda and 
the Azores, would necessarily have to be immense. It 
speaks well for the hull construction that after the three 
days' gale she should have been able to make Greenport, 
L. !., under one engine. Reports are that she has shown 
a speed of 26 miles, and that Gregory will race at 
I\Tonaca and also compete for the Charley Cup. 
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Tiring of High Speed Gasolene Engines. — One of 
our English contemporaries, the Yachting World, re- 
marks, "it is therefore interesting to note that practical 
men are becoming heartily tired of the type in France. 
Several speakers at the recent Marine Motor Congress 
pornted out its defects at length, and their remarks ap- 
peared to agree with the sense of the meeting." It is 
universally agreed among American yachtsmen that the 
development of high speed steam yachts and gasolene 
power boats is something of a fad, and outside of speed 
supremacy there is little to be gained. In order to get 
the best speed, vast sums have been spent and the end 
in America, at least, is not yet. The coming season will 
show some remarkable achievements, and those who pre- 
tend to know say that the Standard has still a iew 
miles in reserve. If such is the case, it looks as if she 
M'ould need hei- reserve power if she would maintain her 
prestige. Tlie high speed autoboat has accomplished 
much for the betterment of the marine engine art, and 
while its life must necessarily be short, 'it has fully 
demonstrated that the excessive weight employed ten 
years ago can be readily and practically reduced until the 
happy medium is reached. An engine can be too heavy 
as well as too light. 
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LiLjEGREN & Clark Dissolve.— Messrs. Liljegren & 
Clark, the firm of naval architects, marine engineers and 
yacht brokers, of 45 Broadway, New York, have dis- 
solved partnership, and Mr. Montgomery H. Clark has 
taken over the business, and will carry it on at the same 
address. 
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Wanted — A Better Knowledge oj the Power Boat 
BY THE Power Boat Owner. — Note the following from 
The Yachtsman, English : ' 
_ The Paris Motor Launch Congress has finished' its sit- 
tings, and in another column will be found a report -of the 
resolutions adopted. The results are valuable, inasmuch 
as they represent the consensus of international opinion 
on motor launch questions. All kinds of clubs— both 
yacht clubs and automobile clubs— were represented, and 
the_ solutions are, in principle, good and sound. The 
cruiser rating rule, if not perfect, is sensible, and the pro- 
posal to measure power by consumption is an acceptance 
of the only logical method. 
The formation of a collection of records and data is an 
excellent idea, and one that we have often suggested. 
Progress without knowledge is impossible, and knowledge 
to be useful must be accessible. At present it is stored 
away in the mmds and data books of manufacturers and 
owners, and the process of diffusion is slow in the ex- 
treme. Some points there are, of course, that represent a 
man's intellectual capital, and therefore cannot be given 
out to all the world, but full and free information can be 
given on many vital points. Such publicity would be for 
the informant's ultimate benefit rather than for his 
prej udice. 
There is another side of this question. How often is 
this reticence due to disinclination, and how often to- 
Ignorance We have known cases where designers- 
strange as It m.ay seem— are ignorant of sundry data of 
their boats, and where motor makers haye no idea what- 
ever of the B.PI.P. their motors give out, or what their- 
consumption was. 
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E. Burton Hart Buys Kestrel— The Fife cutter 
Kestrel has been purchased by Mr. E. Burton Hart from - 
Mr. Henry S. H. Wood through the agency of Mr 
Frank Bowne Jones. Kestrel was built at Wood's Yard" 
