Dec. 30, 1,303.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
841 
A 59-Foot Cruising Schooner. 
There is now building at the yard of the George 
Lawley & Son Corp., the 59ft. waterline cruising 
schooner, the sail and cabin plans of which we publish 
in this issue. The design is from the board of Mr. 
Fred D. Lawley whose work has attracted so much 
attention during recent years. 
The boat was designed for cruising primarily, but it 
is expected that she will have a good turn of speed, and 
her owner, whose name has not been given out, ex- 
pects to get his share of the prizes in the class racing. 
The plans show a particularly handsome craft, and 
in appearance she is the smartest looking boat of this 
type Mr. Lawley has yet turned out. For a vessel of 
59ft. waterline she has unusual accommodations; in fact, 
she has more room below under a flush deck than any 
sailing yacht of her inches we have seen. Not only 
has the boat an unusual number of cabins, but they are 
all of good size. 
The companion stairs lead to a good-sized steerage 
or passageway, which gives access to all the owner’s 
and guests’ quarters. 
The after cabin is 7ft. long, and it extends the width 
of the vessel. On each side are wide berths with 
transoms in front. A bureau is placed against the after 
bulkhead, and at the foot of each of the berths are 
hanging closets. Overhead is a skylight, and over each 
berth in the side is a port hole. 
A bathroom 5ft. long separates the after cabin from 
the owner’s room, which is on the starboard side. The 
bath is fitted up with the most modern open plumbing. 
The owner’s room is 9ft. long, and it is fitted with a 
double berth, a desk, a bureau, a transom and a large 
hanging closet. Two port holes are placed over the 
owner’s berth, and there is a skylight overhead, 
On the port side of the passage are two single cabins 
and a toilet. Both rooms are 6ft. 3in. long, and each 
has a berth, a transom and a bureau. Port holes light 
and ventilate both these cabins, and the toilet room. 
The main saloon is nearly lift, long, and it is most at- 
tractively and completely fitted up. Besides the tran- 
soms, there is a fireplace, lockers, buffets, etc. Li 
either side there is a port hole, and overhead a skylight. 
Next forward is the galley. It is 9ft. long and is un- 
usually roomy. Here are to be found all modern ap- 
pliances and fittings. On the starboard side of the 
galley is the captain’s room. The forecastle is 12ft. 
bin. long with accommodations for eight men. 
The boat’s rig is a liberal one. Two boats will be 
carried on the davits. The dimensions are as follows: 
Length — 
Over all — 92ft. 
L. W. L ...59ft. 
Overhang- 
Forward 2oft. 6in. 
Aft 12ft. bin. 
Breadth — 
Extreme 20ft. 
Draft — 
Extreme nft. 
Freeboard (top of rail) — 
Forward 7ft. 
Least 4ft. 3in. 
Aft 5ft. 
Sail Area — 
Jib 522 sq. ft. 
Staysail .' 412 sq. ft. 
Foresail .. 825 sq. ft. 
Mainsail 2241 sq. ft. 
4000 sq. ft. 
Boston Letter. 
With the New Classes.— Although there has been 
considerable agitation over the building of new boats 
to rate under the new uniform rule of measurement, 
the amount of practical development has been exceed- 
ingly small, so far. There is one 22-rater building at 
the yard of Messrs. Burgess & Packard, at Marblehead, 
but so far as is known, the only other development of 
the class in Massachusetts waters has been on paper. 
Two 5Sft- schooners are sure, one having been finished 
and the other now building, and there is some prospect 
of another for the same class. These boats should make 
fine racing and considerable valuable data should be 
obtained from their season’s work. It is not any too 
soon to start in on the smaller classes, if boats are 
to be built for them, for the sooner one or two boats 
are under construction, the sooner will others be forth- 
coming; and there is plenty of room in the shops now 
for the building of new boats. If classes under the new 
rule are not favored by new boats for the coming sea- 
son, we shall have to fall back on the data to be ob- 
tained from the older boats. There seems to be a gen- 
eral tendency to waiting until somebody else has built 
and the work of the boats noted; but it is strange that 
there has been no hesitancy in building boats of freak 
dimensions and form, likely to be a drug on the market, 
when in the case of a boat built under the new rule, 
the worst that the owner could get would be a sub- 
stantial cruising craft that could always demand a rea- 
sonable percentage of the original cost. 
In the Older Classes. — It has been decided by the Y. 
R. A. of Massachusetts to retain the three popular 
classes, and the Cape cats and sailing dories, although 
adopting the new uniform rule for yachts up to 40ft. 
rating. In none of the older classes is there any marked 
