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FOREST AND STREAM 
lApHit 29, 1905. 
Boston Letter. 
Elmina II. Launched. — Elmina II., designed by 
Messrs. A. Gary Smith & Ferris for Mr. F. F. Brewster, 
of the New York Y. C, was launched from Lawley's west 
shop on Tuesday morning, April 18. The schooner was 
christened by Miss Anna H. Fitch, a cousin of the owner. 
Elmina was started down the ways at 9:55 and took the 
water gracefully. A snubbing hawser parted when she 
fetched up on it and Elmina fouled a small schooner in 
the basin, but no damage was done. Mr. Brewster is in 
Europe, but several relatives and friends attended the 
launching, and there was the usual throng of spectators 
seen at the Lawley shops when a big yacht is sent over- 
board. Within a short time the designation of succession 
will be taken from the new schooner, as the old Elmina's 
name is to be changed. The new schooner is a handsome 
craft in the water, and although she is not yet down to 
her lines, there is sufficient to show the fine form of the 
hull above water. She is 124ft. over all, 87ft. waterline, 
25ft. breadth and 15ft. 6in. draft. While the new Elmina 
will undoubtedly be raced as often as possible during the 
coming season, she is also intended to be a most comfort- 
able cruiser. Below decks she is well laid out, there being 
comfortable quarters not only for the owner and his 
guests, but also for the officers and crew. Abaft the 
main companionway, leading to the owner's quarters, is 
an after cabin extending the full beam of the ship. There 
are berths on each side and transoms. A bath' tub is 
placed below, the floor and the washbowl is under the 
companionway stairs. Passing forward, there is a bath- 
room on the port side, which may be reached from the 
passage or from a stateroom adjoining. There is an- 
other stateroom forward of these rooms on the same 
side. On the starboard side, just off the companionway 
stairs, is a smoking room, which contains a berth and 
sofas and a good-sized closet. There is a swinging table. 
Off this room is a toilet room. Forward of the smoking 
room, on the same side, is the owner's room, containing 
berth and sofa, with bath beneath the floor. Next for- 
ward is the main saloon, which has sofas on each side, 
bookcase, writing desk and extension table. At the for- 
ward end of the room is a fire-place, while on each side 
there are sideboards. Forward of the main saloon is the 
galley, of good size and having all accommodations for 
cruising. Off the galley, on the starboard side, are two 
staterooms, one for the stewards and the other for the 
cooks. The officers' messroom is forward of the galley, 
having berths on the port side, while on the starboard 
side is the captain's stateroom. Then comes the crew's 
quarters fitted with pipe berths and forward of this are 
closets for stores and the chain lockers. The lazarette 
aft is fitted with shelves for stores, light sails, etc. 
New Yacht Yard at Marblehead. — Messrs. Burgess 
& Packard are to establish a yacht yard and building 
plant at Marblehead and will move their building plant 
there from Salem some time in June. They have acquired 
about three acres of land on the town side, between the 
Rockmere Inn and the electric light station, upon which 
a shed is now being erected. This shed^ will be 100 by 
40ft. In addition they will maintain a store for ship 
chandlery and engine supplies and will also erect a small 
machine shop. A marine railway will be built which will 
have a capacity of ,300 tons, in front of which there will 
be 14ft. at mean low water. It is rather interesting to 
note that the .new yard is on the site of the original 
Marblehead shipyard, in which ships were built in the 
early part of the nineteenth century. It is known as the 
Charles W. Parker estate. In addition to the Boston 
office at 131 State street, an office will be established on 
Nashua street, Marblehead. This firm has in the finish- 
ing stages at its Salem shops a 40ft. auto boat for Mr. 
William Wallace. This boat is 4ft. gin. beam and about 
2ft. draft, with a motor of 200 horsepower. She will 
probably be entered for the big events during the coming 
season. They are also building a 30ft. power boat, whose 
model is similar to Mercedes, U. S. A., and which will 
have a motor of 45 horsepower. A cabin launch, 36ft. 
long is being built for Mr. S. W. Wilder, which will 
have a motor of 18 horsepower. This boat will be en- 
tered in the ocean race of the Knickerbocker Y. C. from 
New -York to Marblehead. The light draft, 40ft. water- 
line jib and mainsail Cricket, built for Commodore J. A. 
Rawlins, of New Orleans, was shipped from New York 
last Wednesday on the deck of a steamer to Galveston, 
Tex. She will compete in the South Coast races. 
Eastern Y. G. Cruise. — Instead of holding its annual 
cruise after the arrival of the New York Y. C. fleet at 
Marblehead, the Eastern Y. C. will hold its cruise in July. 
The month of August, in which the New York fleet will 
be at Marblehead, is one of fogs along the Maine coast, 
and it is possible that many yacht owners would not care 
to take chances on being held up at different ports. Then, 
too, some of the yacht owners will commence to think 
of hauling out soon after the end of the New York Y. C 
cruise, and this would also be liable to decrease the at- 
tendance at a late cruise. The itinerary for the Eastern 
Y. G. cruise has been announced by the regatta commit- 
tee as follows : 
July 7, Friday. — Rendezvous at Marblehead. Captains will re- 
port on board the flagship at 8:30 P. M. 
July 8, Saturday.— Fleet will sail at 3 for Gloucester. 
July 9, Sunday.— Gloucester to Isles of Shoals. 
July 10, Monday. — Isles of Shoals to Boothbay. 
July 11, Tuesday.— Boothbay to Camden. 
July 12, Wednesday.— Fleet will proceed at will to Islesboro. 
July 13, Thursday.— Islesborr to Bartlett's Narrows, 
July 14, Friday.— Bartlett's Narrows to Bar Harbor. 
July 15, Saiurday.— Races at Bar Harbor. Fleet disbands. 
New Sails by Cousens & Pratt. — Messrs. Gousens & 
Pratt, at their shops in the Lawley yards, have received 
orders for sails for the following yachts: Commodore 
J. O. Shaw's 90ft. schooner Alert; 43ft. schooner build- 
ing at Lawley's for Mr. Bancroft C. Davis; schooner 
Winnebago, 3"5ft. sloop building by Lawley for Mr. 
Myers ; 22-footer Medric II., Mr. H. H. White ; 22-footer- 
Rube, Mr. H. L. Bowden ; -i8-footer Hayseed II., Mr. H. 
L. Bowden; new i8-footer for Mr. A. R. Ti'ain; Mr. E. 
B. Holmes' i8-footer Nicnack; 21-footer lola of the 
Osterville class; Mr. Longfellow's 4''ft. sloop Wyvern; 
Mr. W. H. Wheelock's 25-footer Carina II. ; ten new 17- 
footers for the Cohasset Y. C, two 21-footers and one 
30-footer for Stockholm, Sweden; a 21-footer for Viborg, 
p-ociq ; i^T- C. V. Pickr- icinn's uew catboat, eight one- 
design tenders for the Manchester Y. C., 22ft. knock- 
about Ejako, Cape cat Marvel, Mr. John D. Batchelder's 
schooner Marie, Mr. T. H. Bickwell's 21-footer of the Os- 
terville one-design class, 22ft. vawl building by Schiverick 
for a member of the Savin Hill Y. C, Mrs. C. H. Will- 
iams' i8-footer Kotik, 22-footer building for Messrs. C D. 
Lanning and Commodore B. P. Cheney, 21-footer for Mr. 
C. F. Beyers, of Erie, Pa. ; four Larchmont one-design 
21- footers by Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane, and one 
22- footer by the same designers; Mr. E. A. Shuman's 
sloop Lament, Seawanhaka challengers for Mr. J. L. 
Bremer and Mr. A. Henry Higginson; 30ft. yawl for Mr. 
R. D. Floyd, of New York; 30-footer Vivian II., Mr. S. 
E. Vernon, New Y'ork; 17-footer for Mr. George Lee; 
21-footer Rooster II., Mr. Henry Whiton, Lakewood O., 
seven suits for yachts in Sweden, and awnings, covers, 
etc., for Commodore Lewis Cass Ledyard's steam yacht 
Rambler. 
Boston Y. C. — There will be a regular meeting of the 
Boston Y. G. at the Rowe's Wharf clubhouse on Wednes- 
day evening at which a proposed amendment to change 
close of the fiscal year to Dec. 31, will be considered. It 
has been announced that the floats at the Dorchester sta- 
tion will be put in position on April 29 and the station 
will be opened May 13. The station at Hull will be 
opened June 10. The floats at this station will be put in 
position early in May. New floats will be built to take 
the place of those destroyed by storm last year. A small 
machine shop is to be baintained at the Hull station this 
season at which launch owners may make minor repairs 
to their motors. 
Yawl for Ocean Race. — -There has been built at Booth- 
bay, Me., from designs of Messrs. Small Bros., a 30ft. 
waterline yawl for Mr. R. D. Floyd, of New York. This 
yacht was built to compete in the ocean race of the Brook- 
lyn Y. G. from New York to Hampton Roads, and has 
been designed essentially as a safe, sane cruiser, at the 
same time showing a very nicely turned hull. She is 
40ft. over all, 30ft. waterline, beam 13ft. and sft. sin. 
draft. The headroom is over 6ft. and there is plenty of 
elbow room in the cabin. She carries 862 sq. ft. of sail 
and has 6,550 pounds of iron on her keel. Mr. S. N. 
Small intended to start from Boothbay to Marblehead 
yesterday. 
Auxiliary Schooner with High Power. — Messrs. 
Burgess & Packard have designed an auxiliary schooner 
of 103ft. waterline which is now tinder construction at 
the yard of A. G. Story, Essex, Mass. The owner's name 
is withheld by the designers for the present. The 
schooner will be 133ft. over all, 103ft. waterline, 25ft. 7in. 
beam and 15ft. draft. She will have a motor of 300 horse- 
power, which is expected to give her a speed of about 
twelve miles an hour without sails. 
Kerosene Motor Boat of 120 Horsepower. — Last week 
work was started at Lawley's on a twin-screw launch, 
96ft. in length, 14ft. beam and Sft. draft. The yacht was 
designed by Mr. Fred D. Lawley for a Boston man whose 
name is withheld. The yacht will be propelled by two 
kerosene motors aggregating 120 horsepower. The ac- 
commodations will consist of three staterooms and a large 
dining saloon. In one of the staterooms and in the dining 
saloon there will be a fire-place. 
Mr. H. L. Bowden's Boats Tried Out. — The 22-footer 
Rube, built at Graves' yard, Marblehead, from designs 
by Messrs. Small Bros., was launched on Tuesday, April 
18. On Wednesday she was given a trial in company 
with Mr. H. H. White's 22-footer Medric II., and made a 
satisfactory showing. Mr. Bowden'_s new i8-footer, Hay- 
seed II., also designed by Messrs. Small Bros., was also 
given a trial on Wednesday, being put against last year's 
champion Hayseed. The new boat is said to have shown 
up well. John B. Killeen. 
Revive the Catboat* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Your editorial "Revive the Catboat" is encouraging, 
comprehensive and timely. Although it must, of neces- 
sity, be known to you, that to the Crosbys of Osterville 
is chiefly due the credit of placing before yachtsmen the 
fast, able and inexpensive Cape cat; you have somewhat 
unjustly, I think, omitted mentioning the fact. You say 
"if properly designed catboats can be made to balance 
properly." " To me this seems rather "a consummation 
devoutly to be wished," than an accomplished fact. To 
put it mildly, in a Cape cat equipped with the large sail 
plan essential to speed it is somewhat difficult to retain 
ease of steering. Your remarks on the cat and the knock- 
about are entirely correct and to the point. We believe 
with you that with the thought, science and skill of 
modern designers the cat can be made the perfect small 
yacht. Even now, putting aside the question of hard 
steering (a thing practically obviated by the wheel gear) 
I can see no quality in which the cat is inferior. Con- 
sidering its simnlicity, seaworthiness, durability, speed 
and comfort the Cape cat retains to a much greater degree 
than the knockabout the old, pre-eminent essential quality 
of being a "ship." George M. Sheahan. 
QuiNCY, Mass., April 24. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Permit me to congratulate Forest and Stream on the 
article which appeared in this week's issue on the catboat. 
I feel sure that it will accomplish a great deal toward re- 
viving interest in this distinctly American type of boat, 
and the point which you make very clear in regard to 
the expense of building a modern racing boat, as com- 
pared with the cat, is certain to appeal to many. _ At the 
present time a one-design class of catboats is being con- 
sidered, by members of the New Rochelle Y. C.'for next 
season, and there is every prospect of its being a suc- 
cess. The Gape Catboat Association is certainly a step 
in the right direction, and their rules and restrictions 
are both simple and sensible. J. D. Sparkman. 
New York, April 21. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Was delighted to read your article on catboats in last 
week's Forest and Stream. No sloop or knockabout 
compares with the catboat of the same length, in accom- 
modations, ease oLhandling, safety and cheapness,- Your 
article covers the entire ground and will be appreciated 
by air who have sailed catboats in all kinds of weather ; 
keep up the good work, ^ 0. H, Chellborg. 
Nm York, April 24, i,- , . -^^-i-*-* 
The Canada Cup Challengers. 
Toronto, April 22. — There will be three Canadian can- 
didates for the honor of challenging for the Canada Cup, 
and there will be two additional entries in the trial races, 
so that the final challenger should be a fairly fast boat. 
The "two additional entries" will be Beaver and In- 
vader, both of Canada Cup fame, but while they will 
rnake excellent trial boats it is not at all probable that 
either will be selected for the fifial contest, as neither 
exactly fit the new 30ft. class. 
Of the three new yachts two are owned by Toronto 
men and a Hamilton syndicate owns the third. She will 
be_ known as Hamilton II., the head of her syndicate 
being Mr. J. H. Fearnside, who built Hamilton I. for the 
contest of 1899. Mr. William Johnston, who designed 
Hamiltoii I., is the designer and builder of the new boat. 
His previous Canada Gup effort was a pure fin-keel craft 
and Hamilton II., while technically a semi-fin, resembles 
her very closely. Her sides are carried down to the fin 
with a curve which shows little variation, and while she 
has hollow garboards her fin is quite a distinct feature. 
The sternpost rakes at an angle of about 45 degrees, but 
the forward profile is more nearly perpendicular. 
Hamilton II. is built of Indiana oak frame, with Michi- 
gan pine planking below waterline and British Columbia 
cedar above. Her lead ballast, which amounts to four 
tons, is in a nearly straight slab, extending all the way 
along the bottom of her fin. It is 8ft. long. She is 50ft. 
6in. over all, 30ft. waterline, and her draft is 7ft., at least 
it is calculated at 6ft. ii^in. 
_ There is little possibility of variation in general dimen- 
sion among the Canada Cup craft owing to the fact that 
the rules are hard and fast, racing measurements being 
now secured by specification instead of formula. The 
30-footer under the measurements of the Yacht Racing 
Union is ,30ft. on the waterline, must be 9ft. 6in. beam, 
must not draw more than 7ft., must not spread more 
than 1,500 sq. ft. of canvas, and must have a cabin-trunk 
I9in. high. The new boats stick close to the maximum 
and minimum in every case, and consequently have their 
principal dimensions in common. Even the relative size 
of their jibs and mainsails can show little variation, for 
the proportions are fixed at 25 and 75 per cent, respec- 
tively — at least the mainsail must not exceed 75 per cent, 
of the total area, which makes this sail 1,125 sq. ft. with 
325ft. for the headsail triangle. The three boats are all 
rigged alike, as jib and mainsail sloops. It is principally 
in over all length that individually is shown. 
One of the Toronto challengers is owned by Mr. Fred. 
Nicholls and designed by Mr. William Fife, Jr., of Fairlie. 
She is a graceful boat with long ends, her after overhang 
being 12ft. and her forward one lift., or very near it. Her 
counter is carried out until it intersects the line of the 
deck. Forward her profile is by no means abrupt, having 
no more fullness than that of the original Canada — a Fife 
boat, by the way. The curve of her stem is carried down 
to the lead at the bottom without much reverse and her 
lead is shorter than the Hamilton boats. Her sternpost 
rakes greatly and she has a pear-shaped rudder. Her 
sides flare slightly, so that her breadth, which is 9ft. 6in. 
at the waterline, is nearly loft. on deck. Her garboards 
are quite hollow and there is comparatively little dead- 
wood in her fin. 
The other Toronto boat is owned by Mr. James Worts 
and was designed by Mr. Alfred Mylne. She is much 
shorter, particularly aft, where her counter is cut off with 
a neat transom. This reduces her over all length to 48ft. 
Her garboards are not so hollow as those of the Fife boat, 
and were it not for the slight tumblehoine of her sides 
her section would more nearly resemble a V shape. Her 
sternpost rakes greatly, but not so much as the Fife boat, 
and her lead ballast is in a shorter and more compact 
bulb. She carries more of it, too, having 5 tons 1,760 
lbs. to the Fife boat's 5 tons 1,460 lbs. The bulb is flat 
on the bottom. From the forward end of the lead the 
profile sweeps up to -the stemhead with little departure 
from the one curve. The two old-country boats are alike 
in being very fine forward. 
The Toronto craft are both the immediate product of 
Gapt. James Andrews' shop in Oakville, a little lakeport 
twenty miles west of Toronto. It is here that all the 
Canadian challengers and defenders of the cup have been 
built so far. Captain Andrews being the best known 
builder in Ontario. These two boats are only his in part, 
however, having been completely framed in England and 
Scotland by the designers, and then sent out by package 
freight to be planked. Their frames are of English oak 
and elm, and their sails and a part of their gear are of 
English make, although local sailmakers may also be 
given orders for suits, as was done in the case of Strath- 
cona. They are planked with Douglas fir, a very hard 
and durable Canadian wood. The cabin finishing in all 
three will be quite elaborate, but it will not be completed 
until after the races are over. 
The sail plan of the Nicholls yacht, Temeraire, as she 
will be called, is long on the base and not very high. 
The Worts boat's sailplan shows a generous hoist 
and short mainboom, this latter spar being only 37ft. 
in length while the mainmast is over 50ft. She has 5ft. 
more hoist than Invader. The Hamilton boat's sailplan 
is more like Temeraire's. All three have the modern 
short horn, the bowsprits being 4ft! outboafd. 
The displacement of the two Toronto boats is about 
equal. They both show a high proportion of wetted sur- 
face, possibly 30 per cent, more than is necessary. 
In the two Toronto boats all the running gear leads 
below. This plan was followed in Beaver and Minota 
with good results in 1899, but they were flush decked 
vessels, and when on a wind could send everybody below. 
The cabin trunks which the new boats have to carry pre- 
vent any effectual economy of windage, but of course 
provide full head room, there being 6ft. under carlins. 
The trial races will begin at Toronto on July 22. Mr. 
E. K. M. Weed will sail Temeraire and Mr. J. H. Fearn- 
side Hamilton II. Who the other skippers ' will be is un- 
certain at this date. It was hoped that Mr. ALtnilius 
Jarvis, the famous amateur skipper, would sail the chal- 
lenger, but the latest announcement regarding him is that 
he will spend the summer in Mu.skoka on account of hi^ 
health, which was not of the best even at the time of the 
last Canada Gup contest. It is possible, however, that it 
will be sufficiently improved in time to permit him' to take 
the stick. He has sailed every challenger and defender 
