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sport and an effort would now be made by a com¬ 
mittee of the Jamestown International Motor 
Boat Carnival Committee to this end, and that 
if that committee decided on a new rule, the 
changes made meeting the necessary requirements 
of a better rule, that the club would in all prob¬ 
ability be asked to adopt them. 
Lake Worth Races. 
The Palm Beach Power Boat Association has 
announced the schedule of the racing which will 
take place at Lake Worth, from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1 
inclusive. The classification is as follows: 
I.—Below Soft, rating. II.—Above 80ft. rat¬ 
ing. ML—All boats. IV.—Under 35ft. waterline. 
V.—Over 35ft. waterline. VI.—All lengths. 
The programme includes two five-mile races 
for Class I. on Jan. 29; a five and a ten-mile 
race for Class II. and a ten-mile race for Class 
III. On Jan. 30 a five and a ten-mile race for 
Classes I. and IV.. two ten-mile races for Classes 
II. and V., and a fifteen-mile race for Classes III. 
and VI. are offered. On Jan. 31 two five-mile 
races for Class IV., two five-mile races for Class 
V. , and a five and a fifteen-mile race for Class 
VI. will take place. Feb. 1 will be given over 
to a five-mile consolation race, two six trial 
events at one mile, and an endurance run. 
The races are under the management of the 
Executive Committee, including W. Gould Bro- 
kaw, Lieut. Hugh L. Willoughby. J. S. Clarke, 
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., A. D. Proctor Smith, 
James K. Clarke, H. L. Bowden, and George E. 
Andrews, and under the personal direction of 
Theodore D. Wells of the Atlantic Y. C. 
Last week Mr. Garfield Chard and Mr. Sidney 
Stokes sailed from Greenwich, Conn., for the St. 
John River, Florida, 1,200 miles distant. Their 
boat, called the Teal, 30ft. long, schooner rigged, 
fitted with a small cabin, is well provisioned 
for the long trip, which is expected to end about 
Christmas time. The journey down the coast 
should be safely accomplished. There are one or 
two long stretches of beach, but for the passages 
the weather will have to be watched. Mr. Chard 
is a good man in a boat, having spent much time 
in small boats, and last summer was syord fish¬ 
ing about Nantucket and Block Island, a good 
school for the sailorman. When the St. John 
River is reached a number of expeditions are 
planned after game and fish. 
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The power houseboat Whileaway has been 
sold by Mr. J. H. Carpenter, of Ossining, N. Y., 
to Mr. James L. Hutchinson, of the N. Y. Y. C., 
through the agency of Stanley M. Seaman, 220 
Broadway, New York. Whileaway was built in 
1904, measures 61 ft. over all, 17ft. beam and 3ft. 
draft, equipped with 25 horsepower Standard 
engine. Mr. Hutchinson has taken the boat to 
Norfolk, where she will winter and undergo alter¬ 
ations next spring being used about the James- 
ations next spring, being used about the James¬ 
town Exposition and cruising in the North Caro¬ 
lina sounds and Chesapeake Bay, arriving in 
Shelter Island, her home port, about the first of 
June. 
Mr. Hutchinson also owns the well-known 
power yacht Skylark. 
AN A. B. 
An “A.B.” or able seaman’s duties are both legally 
and by custom defined by three expressions, “hand,” 
“reef” and “steer,” to which custom, at least, in the 
words of the immortal “Pinafore,” might add that he is 
“never, never sick at sea.” If he can perform the three 
duties before enumerated, which means furling or mak¬ 
ing fast sails, reefing them and steering the ship, his 
wages cannot be reduced for incompetency. Yet these 
things are the A, B, C of seamanship only. A good 
seaman is able to make all the various knots, splices 
and other manipulations in hempen or wire rope with¬ 
out which a ship cannot be rigged; he can make a sail, 
send up or down yards or masts, and do many other 
things, the sum total of which needs several years of 
practice and experience. With the disappearance of sail 
before steam such seamen are fast becoming extinct, 
and are almost totally unnecessary in modern steam¬ 
ships, except when the engines fail in a gale of wind 
or when the ship is otherwise in peril, and it becomes 
necessary to launch the boats.—Pacific Marine Review. 
The Cruise of the “Keen Kutter.” 
From Michigan lo St. Louis in a 40ft Launh, 
Covering Five Hundred and Seventy-seven 
Miles in Five Days. 
The object of the writer is not so much to ex¬ 
ploit the adventures and pleasures of four con¬ 
genial men, as it is to awaken enthusiasm 
concerning the most healthful and enjoyable 
sport of cruising among St. Louisans, as it ap¬ 
plies especially to the Mississippi and Illinois 
rivers. Unless one is especially interested in 
natural cures for chronic indigestion, insomnia, 
nervousness and bad disposition, they should 
read no further. If they are interested, and 
THE BRIDGE WHICH SLIDES UP AND DOWN. 
especially in the pleasures to be derived while 
seeking out these cures, this article may be of 
some interest. 
Before elaborating on the beauties of the 
great Lake Michigan in its fury, the Illinois and 
Mississippi rivers, it seems opportune to present 
a brief itinerary of the trip, which briefly is as 
follows: From Muskegon to Chicago across 
Lake Michigan, then through that most remark¬ 
able of rivers, the Chicago River, the once busy 
Illinois and Michigan canals, and, by the way, 
one can almost imagine they see Garfield “riding 
a mule” with a book in his hand, and also hear 
the cursing of the canal boat captains and alter¬ 
cations of the lock tenders most anywhere along 
this unnavigated, artificial stream; then into the 
Illinois River at La Salle, 224 miles from its 
mouth, down the Illinois through its pretty 
villages and under its many railroad bridges, 
until it empties into the great Mississippi at 
Grafton, 41 miles from St. Louis; then winding 
your way between dikes, sandbars and “bad 
navigators” of motor launches, past the inter¬ 
esting Chain of Rocks Reservoir, with the great, 
big intake tower rising up out of the center of 
the river like a phantom at night, with two big, 
red lights, which look like fiery eyes of a 
monster throughout the darkness, to St. Louis, 
which makes a trip of about 577 miles. 
Our party consisted of four congenial and, 
ARTHUR BINNEY, 
(Formerly Stewart & Binney.) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker, 
Mason Building, Kilby Street, BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address, “ Designer,” Boston. 
BURGESS PACKARD, 
Naval Architects and Engineers. Yacht Builders. 
131 State St.. BOSTON, MASS. Tel. 4S70 Main. 
Marblehead Office and Works: Nashua St., Marblehead, Mass. 
300-Ton Railway Modern Building Shops. Two new 
Storage Sheds. 10-Ton Steam Shearlegs. 21 feet of water 
off our railway. Large Storage Capacity. Ship Chandlery 
and Machine Shop. Repair Work of all kinds quickly 
handled. 
HOLLIS BURGESS. 
Yacht Broker. General Marine Agent. Insurance of all 
kinds. Ag.nt for the purchase and sale of Gasoline Engines. 
Main Otime, 10 Tremont St. Tel 1905-1 Main. 
Branch Office, 131 State St. Tel. 4S70 Main. D0ST0I1,M3SS. 
ERNEST E. LORILLARD 
(Successor to Lorillard & Walker) 
yacht 'Broker, 
Telephone 6950 Broad.' 41 Wall St., New York City. 
C. Sherman Hoyt. Montgomery H. Clark 
HOYT (& CLARK. 
NAVAL ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS, 
YACHT BROKERAGE. High Speed Work a Specialty. 
17 Battery Place, New York. 
SMALL BROS. 
NAVAL ARCHITECTS. YACHT BROKERAGE. 
No. 112 Water Street, BOSTON, MASS. 
Fast cruisers and racing boats a specialty. Tel. 3556-2 Main. 
! HENRY J. GIELOW f 
I Engineer, Nava! Architect £ 
| and Broker I 
§= 50 Broadway, - - New York £ 
gj 1 Telephone 4673 Broad 
CHARLES D. MOWER., 
Naval Architect. 
CRUISING AND RACING YACHTS 
29 Broadway. Telephone 3953 Rector. 
COX (BH STEVENS. 
Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects, 
68 Broad Street, - New York. 
Telephones 1375 and 1376 Broad. 
RALPH DERR I Lessee) 
Marine Construction Company 
Yachts, Launches and .Tow Boats in Wood and Steel. 
Small Steel Barges and Tow Boats a Specialty. 
NEW YORK OFFICE, - 32 Broadway. 
WORKS: Staten Island, It. Y. City. 
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Marblehead, Mass., U. S. A. 
NAVAL ARCHITECTS AND YACHT BUILDERS. 
Designs to suit any requirements. 
Send 10 c. stamp for illustrated catalogue. 
The H. E. BOUCHER 
MANUFACTURING CO. 
105 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK. 
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Fittings for Model Yachts. 
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