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“Mermaid” outsailed a fleet of the fast- i 
est canoes of the American Canoe As- 
sociation. 
As a result, she was selected to be 
the defender, and, sailed by her skilful 
owner, she defeated easily the Cana- 
dian challenger in two straight races. 
Again in 1914 a second challenge was 
sent by the same club, this time also 
nominating Britton. At great expense 
the Canadians had built several canoes 
from which to choose a challenger, but 
the fastest one among them, the 
“Tomahawk”, was conclusively defeat- 
ed by the speedy “Mermaid”, which 
again had been the choice of the New 
York Canoe Club in selecting the de- 
fender. 
Besides winning both of these inter- 
national events, the “Mermaid” has 
won the National Sailing Trophy sev- 
eral times at the American Canoe As- 
sociation regattas, held annually on 
the St. Lawrence. In the same canoe 
Mr. Friede has also won the Mystic 
Cup, a perpetual canoeing prize offered 
by the Winchester Boat Club of Win- 
chester, Mass.; likewise the Eliot Sail- 
ing Trophy, representing the cham- 
pionship of the Atlantic Division of the 
American Canoe Association. 
Only twice has the “Mermaid” met 
with noteworthy defeat. First, in the 
fall of 1913 and again in 1919, both 
times while contending for the Union 
Boat Club Challenge Trophy on Charles 
River Basin, Boston. The winner in 
both series of races was the “Damosel”, 
sailed by James Newman, of Leomin- 
ster, Mass., a most skilful and re- 
sourceful canoeist. The “Damosel”, 
however, is also a Stevens production. 
Built more than twenty-five years ago, 
she is still in excellent racing condi- 
tion, a fact that demonstrates the un- 
usually high grade construction and 
workmanship found only in a Stevens 
built canoe. 
A MONG the many sailing canoes 
built by Stevens is a long list of 
noted prize winners. Famous 
among these are the boats built for the 
late Paul Butler, son of General Butler 
of Civil War fame and Governor of 
Massachusetts. They are the “Bee”, 
“Fly”, “Wasp” and “Bug.” With the 
“Wasp”, Mr. Butler successfully de- 
fended the International Challenge Cup 
in 1895 against Charles E. Archbald, 
of Montreal, Canada. 
Other well known canoes built by 
Stevens are the “Bat” for William J. 
Ladd, of Los Angeles, Cal., and the 
famous “Banshee” for Hermann Dud- 
ley Murphy, Esq., a canoeist of inter- 
national reputation. The “Old Glory” 
and “Uncle Sam” were built for Hon. 
Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston. The 
“Uncle Sam” was raced in England by 
Mr. Murphy in 1901, in an unsuccess- 
ful attempt to win the British Sailing 
Challenge Cup. The “Yakaboo”, in 
which Frederick A. Fenger cruised 800 
miles from Grenada to Virgin Islands, 
in the Caribbean Sea, was also the 
work of Stevens. 
While at Marblehead Stevens built 
the “Twilight” for W. Starling Bur- 
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