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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 27, 1905. 
The rest of the boats were pretty well bunched. Uto- 
wana's skipper got out to windward of Valhalla, and 
when it was found impossible to keep the latter vessel off 
both crossed to the eastward of the line. Captain Craw- 
ford, of Utowana, which vessel had the same sail set as 
Atlantic, headed after the leaders. 
A ship-rigged yacht is a great curiosity and Valhalla 
came in for more than her share of attention. "When 
this vessel, like Utowana, crossed the wrong side of the 
starting line and both were recalled, the spectators had 
an opportunity to see how the big vessel was handled. 
The work was considerable of an undertaking but most 
interesting to the watchers. 
Hamburg was the next boat to start properly, and she 
crossed at 12:16. She had all lower canvas set and two 
working topsails. Following the example of the others, 
a maintopmast staysail was set after crossing. Endymion 
got away two minutes after Hamburg, and she was under 
the same sail. 
At 12 :20 Thistle started with Mr. Robert E. Tod at the 
wheel. Fleur de Lys got a poor start and she did not 
cross until 12:26. Both these boats were under lower 
sails and working topsails. 
The famous old Sunbeam got away at 12:30 followed 
by Apache over four minutes later. 
In the meantime, Utowana and Valhalla had been 
working their way back after the committee's recall sig- 
nals in order that they might cross properly. Utowana 
working back into position and was timed when she 
crossed at 12:55. The unwieldly Valhalla did not cross 
until ten minutes later, and was timed at i :05. 
■ As each boat went over a loud tooting of whistles that 
deadened the cheers of the spectators greeted them. All 
the boats crossed on the port tack. 
Atlantic moved along at a lively pace and soon took 
the lead. Hamburg also showed she was no slouch and 
gave Atlantic a good chase. Fleur de Lys moved along 
at a smart clip and was well up with the leaders. 
The fog that had held off pretty well during the morn- 
ing began to shut in about an hour after the start, and as 
it became thicker the tugs and yachts turned back one 
by one. The steam yachts Oneida and Niagara held on 
some time, the former sticking it out into the evening. 
When she put back it was thick and nasty and there was 
considerable sea on. 
All the boats were headed about southeast and the first 
boat to tack was Endymion. It was shortly after i o'clock 
when she was put on the starboard tack and headed in 
toward Long Island. 
The only woman on any of the yachts is Miss Candace 
C. Stimson, a daughter of Dr. Stimson. She is a splendid 
sailor and has always accompanied her father in the long 
cruises taken in Fleur de Lys. 
The fleet seems to have divided itself into two sec- 
tions. Some have chosen the northern route, while 
others have elected to follow a more southerly course. 
Of those going well north, Endymion seems to be lead- 
ing from the reports received by incoming steamers, 
while Atlantic was ahead of those following the southern 
route. The last report from Atlantic as we go to 
press shows she has averaged over 8 miles an hour 
since starting. She has had a fair S.W. breeze most of 
the time, and has made fair time, although still behind 
the record average, which is 9.66. 
Boston Letter. 
Making 22-footers Ready. — Last Monday the 22-footer 
Nutmeg, designed and built by Mr. C. C. Hanley for Mr. 
A. C. Jones, was launched at the shop of her builder on 
the Town River, Quincy. She was taken to Lawley's, 
where her lead keel will be put on and her cabin work 
will be finished. It is stated that the builder's reason 
for not putting the lead keel on at the time the hull of 
the boat was started, was that he desired to find out just 
what the actual weight of the hull would be without the 
lead, so that just enough weight might be added in the 
lead keel. This is something of a novelty in the manner 
of figuring actual displacement in a new boat, but the re- 
sults obtained may be worth the extra trouble. Last sea- 
son's champion, Clotho, has been sold by Commodore B. 
P. Cheney and Mr. Charles D. Lanning to a Boston rac- 
ing man whose name is withheld for the present. Clotho 
will be raced, however, and Messrs. Small Brothers, her 
designers, have been commissioned to make any necessary 
changes that may improve her speed. She was about 700 
pounds over the required weight last season, and some of 
this will be taken off. The lead will also be dropped and 
deadwood will be put on the after end of the keel. She 
will also be given a deeper rudder to make her steer more 
easily. It was thought last season that she was more 
tender than some of the other boats, as she often sailed 
under reefs. Her former owners explained this, however, 
by stating that it was the fault of the steering, and that 
in a heavy breeze she could not have been handled unless 
she had been reefed. Clotho, with her low ends, which 
take the water upon the lightest angle of heel, will un- 
doubtedly be made faster than she was last season and 
may be looked for to give the new boats all .they can do 
to get away from her. The new Clorinda, built for Com- 
modore Cheney and Mr. Lanning, will be weighed and 
measured again on Monday. She was only a few pounds 
under weight before, and as her waterline measurement 
at that time was quite short, there is no doubt that she 
will be found well inside the restrictions. The new boats, 
that have been in the water for some time, have been 
tried out quite thoroughly and should be in good shape 
for the opening race on Memorial Day. 
Catboat Association Rules. — The first growl has been 
heard from the quarter of the Cape Catboat Associa- 
tion. This is over the refusal of the Association to ac- 
cept the entry of Harriet, owned by Mr. A. L. Lincoln. 
Harriet is a yacht with some reputation and was some- 
thing of a racer a few years ago, having captured a Y. 
R. A. championship in 1900. Her entry was sent to the 
newly formed Cape Catboat Association and she was ac- 
cepted by the measurer, as conforming to the rules. The 
executive committee, however, barred her on the ground 
that she did not conform to the spirit_ of the rules. Ac- 
cording to- the rules governing dimensions and the deter- 
mining of the type according to the position of the mast, 
Harriet seems to be well within the restrictions, and her 
owner is much disturbed over the decision of the execu- 
tive committee. This appears to be another of those in- 
stances which show the necessity of making the actual 
rules so binding that no question of evading their spirit 
can be raised. Either a boat does or does not conform 
to the class for which she is entered. 
Invitation to the Eastern Y. C. — Mr. R. G. Hervy, 
of Shelburne, N. S., an enthusiastic yachtsman, visited 
Boston last week and extended to the Eastern Y. C. Re- 
gatta Committee an invitation to have all of the yachts 
take part in the ocean race of the club from Marblehead 
to Halifax, and visit Shelburne after the finish of the race 
at Halifax. Mr. Hervey guarantees a series of races, for 
which substantial prizes will be offered. 
Cruise of Dr. F. T. Rogers' Yawl.— The 36ft. auxil- 
iary cruising yawl, designed by Messrs. Small Brothers, 
and built at East Boothbay, for Dr. F. T. Rogers, Com- 
modore of the Rhode Island Y. C, is now cruising from 
Boothbay to the westward.^ -Mn-Jijlim Fr Sm-aik went to 
East Boothbay last Thursday, where Dr. Rogers was met. 
The yawl was tried out the next day and then started on 
her voyage around the Cape to Narragansett Bay. Stops 
will be made at various harbors along the coast, and it is 
expected that the trip will take about ten days. The yawl 
is an admirable type of cruiser with graceful, moderate 
ends and good accommodations below decks. She is 55ft. 
gin. over all, 36ft. 6in. waterline, 14ft. beam and 8ft. 
draft. She has eight tons of ballast outside and carries 
1,837 sq. ft. of sail. On one side of the main companion- 
way is a closet, a chart locker and a toilet room, while 
on the other side is a stateroom. On the starboard side 
of the main saloon there are twO' berths, and there is one 
berth on the port side. The galley is quite roomy and in 
this space the engine, a Standard of 12 horsepower, is 
placed. There are pipe berths forward for the crew. 
Among the Power Boats. — Messrs. Small Brothers 
have designed a cruising launch for Mr. A. L. Lincoln, 
of Hingham, which will be built by Mr. Geo. C. Loring, 
of East Braintree. She will be 32ft. long and 8ft. beam, 
with an engine of about 12 horsepower. This boat is a 
possible entry in the long distance race of the Knicker- 
bocker Y. C. from New York to Marblehead. 
The 90ft. twin-screw launch Prosit, built by the O. 
Sheldon Co. for Mr. John B. Schoeffel, will be launched 
at the yards of her builders on Tuesday, May 23, with 
considerable ceremony. At the same yard a 40ft. speed 
launch for Mr. Samuel Powers for use on Lake Winni- 
pesaukee is in frame. She will have a 40 horsepower 
Buffalo engine. A 65ft. speed launch is to be built for 
Mr. Lewis Audenried, of Philadelphia, which will be 
equipped with a 75 horsepower Globe engine. The 65ft. 
launch for Mr. Alanson Bigelow, Jr., is nearing comple- 
tion. 
At Messrs. Murray & Tregurtha's Mr. George H. 
Wightman's 45ft. launch A. C. will be launched next 
week. An i8ft. launch for Mr. J. D. Crosby was given 
a satisfactory trial last week. Another i8-footer from 
the same molds is being built for Mr. Frank H. Stanyan, 
of West Medford. This launch will be used on Lake 
Cobbossecontee, Me., where Mr. Stanyan has a summer 
residence. A 20 horsepower engine has been installed in 
the launch Zip, owned by Mr. T. W. King, of the Boston 
Y. C, in place of the 12 horsepower engine with which 
the boat was originally equipped. The additional power 
has been productive of more speed. 
Mr. W. L. Wright, of Brocton, has ordered a 22ft. 
power dory from the E. Gerry Emmons Corporation. She 
will be fitted with a 3 horsepower Palmer engine, and will 
be used on Assawumsett Pond, Middleboro. The same 
firm has an order for a 21ft. power dory to be equipped 
with a Toquet engine of 5 horsepower, for use at Vine- 
yard Haven. 
Messrs. Swasey, Raymond & Page have received an 
order for a 50ft. speed launch for use on Lake Chapala, 
Mexico. She will be equipped with a 75 horsepower en- 
gine and will have a guaranteed speed of 18 miles an 
hour. The same firm has an order for a 50ft. launch for 
Dr. Ralph Gordon, of Seattle, Wash., which will have a 
50 horsepower engine.- John B. Killeen. 
Motofboats in China. 
motorboats. During the past summer the rates charged 
were about two and one-half times the rates charged 
for household goods. As yet there have been few ship- 
ments around by the Atlantic. At present the tendency 
is to buy Pacific coast goods as far as possible, because 
of the rates, but the Pacific coast manufacturers have 
not been making motors and machines of the grades 
and at the prices which will reach the bulk of the trade 
in the Far East. The more popular sized and medium 
to cheap grades of boats made in the Eastern: States 
are what are required in China. 
'As a rule the Chinese are good boat_ builders when 
they have good models to work from, and it would be 
practical for American boat builders to ship boat ma- 
chinery here and have the hulls made in China. _ It 
will be a long time before the natives will be making 
boat-propelling machinery of the modern sort, but it 
will be a very short time until they make as good, hulls 
as are made elsewhere. In Shanghai the other day I 
saw a Chinese carpenter and furniture maker making 
a hull from the model of one of the American boats sold 
there. He was making a very creditable boat. The ma- 
chinery was to come from the United States. With a 
little instruction and practice these carpenters' will turn 
out good boats at figures^ which will make American 
prices look exceedingly high. Chinese labor is so cheap 
that in a product, like a boat hull, in which the chief 
cost is the labor expended upon it, China has an ad- 
vantage which is overwhelming, other things being 
equal. Of course, many people appreciate the ad- 
vantages of having a boat completely built by experts 
in the United States. American manufacturers ought 
to be able to meet the requirements of this trade in 
either line, and I see no reason why they cannot easily 
do so." ^ ^ . 
Semillant. 
The 40ft. cruising launch Semillant, whose plans are 
shown in this issue, was designed by Mr. Norman L. 
Skene, of Boston, for Dr. S. Gandreau, of Quebec, for use 
on the St. Lawrence River and Gulf. Jt is a popular type 
of boat, being very able, roomy and fast. The scantlings 
are medium. 
The motor used is a twenty horsepower four-cylinder 
Jager gasolene engine which will drive the boat at a 
speed of about twelve miles an hour. Gasolene is carried 
in two tanks, one of 120 gallons capacity forward, and 
one of thirty gallons under the cockpit seats. Gasolene 
is drawn from the smaller tank, which is filled occasion- 
ally from the larger. 
The cabin plan shows a toilet room with water closet, 
lavatory and large lockers way forward. Abaft of this 
is the main cabin with 8ft. transom. The back cushions 
of these may be laid on the floor making comfortable 
sleeping quarters for three people. 
The space on the port side of the engine is used as a 
galley with store, drawers, lockers, etc. On the star- 
board side is a transom seat with tool lockers beneath 
and a hanging pipe berth above for a man. An unusual 
.4_ w-lh 10 C*nteui 
, George E. Anderson, - U. S. Consul at Hangchau, 
China, writes as following regarding motorboats: 
_ "The whole of China is a network of canals and 
rivers upon which motorboats, especially boats of light- 
draft capacity, can be operated. Within the past few 
years the accepted mode of travel has been by house- 
boat, towed by a steam launch. Where the regular lines 
of steam launches do not run, the old-time houseboat 
with a yuloh or scull is employed. These boats are 
very slow, and grow more and more unpopular. It will 
be many years before this travel is displaced by rail- 
roads, and in the meanwhile there is a growing favor 
for power boats, both for the private ownership of those 
who are compelled to go about considerably in China 
and for a more or less public service. The motorboat 
as it is now made in the United States is practically 
unknown in China. In Shanghai and other prominent 
trading points on the coast there are a number of 
modern small launches, but the great interior is prac- 
tically untouched. The Chinese people who have suf- 
ficient means to buy such things are turning more and 
more in the direction of modern western inventions, 
and I have no doubt that a consistent and persistent 
campaign in behalf of American motorboats, of cheap 
and substantial grades, would result in building up a 
great and permanent business. The need of motor- 
boats is here, and the Chinese and foreigners domiciled 
here are appreciating the need. So far there has been 
little done to meet it. There is an agency for one line 
of American launches in Shanghai, and several other 
firms there have a working arrangement with concerns 
in the United States for the sale of boats, but the 
business is not pushed, and there will probably be little 
change , in the situation until the manufacturers of the 
United States go at the matter systematically and with 
energy. The boats sold in Shanghai are usually of high 
grade and high prices, and most people of moderate 
means do not realize that there are motorboats within 
their reach. It is quite possible that a strong adver-' 
tising campaign, even in English, would result in a 
good start for a motorboat boom, and catalogues in 
Chinese would undoubtedly be effective. But the real 
need is personal representation and hard work for a 
while. 
"At present Pacific freight rates are unfavorable to 
SEMILLANT Midship section. 
arrangement is the utilization of the roomy torpedo boat 
stern for sleeping quarters for two people. This was the 
principal object in adopting this type of stern. The head- 
room in the cabin is 5ft. 8in. and the finish is of butter- 
nut. 
The steering is done from the forward end of the cock- 
pit and the throttle, spark and reverse levers are located 
right near the wheel, so that the boat is readily controlled 
by one man. The principal dimensions are as follows : 
Length — 
Over all 40ft. oin. 
L.W.L 38ft. 2in. 
Breadth — ■ 
Extreme 7ft. 6in. 
L.W.L 6ft. Sin. 
Draft— 
Exti-eme 2ft. loin. 
Rabbet ift. 6in. 
Freeboard — 
Forward 3ft. 8in. 
Aft, lowest 2ft. 6in. 
Mr. Norman L. Skene, of Boston, is a graduate of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, although a 
young man, has shown much ability. He is a close stti- 
dent of all that pertains to naval architecture and his 
work has been favorably commented upon by those who 
have seen it. He has already written an elementary trea- j 
tise on yacht designing, which is one of the best of its 
kind that has been produced, and he is now at work on 
other launches. 
A Change in Business.— Mr. Hollis ^ Burgess, who 
has been known to yachtsmen as a yacht broker and later I 
as the prime mover in the Maritime Stores Co., of Bos- j 
ton, and who has been in racing craft from childhood, .^ 
has succeeded to his father's insurance business, and will j 
pay attention to the merchant marine and also yachts, 1 
from force of habit, in connection with, his general in- 1 
surance business. He handled much marine insurance 
when a yacht broker and has had that experience which 
gives best results to his plients, ' , 
