FOREST AND STREAM 
[Dec. 8 , 1906 . 
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WILLIAM GARDNER, 
Naval Architect, Engineer, and 
Yacht Broker. 
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No. 1 Broadway, Telephone 2160 Rector, Now York. 
Gas Engine & Power Co. 
and 
Chas. L. Seaburv & Co. 
(Consolidated,) 
Morris Heights, New York City. 
YACHT BUILDERS 
Steam Yachts and Gasolene Launches for 
Cruising or Racing. 
Send for Catalogue. 
SWASEY, RAYMOND Cel PAGE 
- OF BOSTON 
DESIGNERS OF - 
MOTOR AND STEAM YACHTS 
THE PIGEON HOLLOW 
SPAR CO. 
The Oldest Makers and Most Reliable Hollow 
Spars Made. Write for prices. 
116 Condor Street, East Boston, Mass. 
Hints and Points for Sportsmen. 
Compiled by “Senera.” Cloth. Illustrated, 244 pages. 
1’rice, $1.50. 
This compilation comprises six hundred and odd hints, 
lieips, kinks, wrinkles, points and suggestions for the 
shooter, the fisherman, the dog owner, the yachtsman, 
the canoeist, the camper, the outer; in short, for the 
field sportsman in all the varied phases of his activity. 
Hints and 1‘oints” has proved one of the most prac¬ 
tically useful works of reference in the sportsman's 
library. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
PENATAQUIT Y. C. ONE-DESIGN CLASS. 
Designed by Mr. Chas. D. Mower. 
in our blind devotion to the sport’s best tenets, 
it is when we see, ail around us, the callousness, 
carelessness of those indifferent yachtsmen- who, 
without observing the articles of faith by which 
we. conduct ourselves, seem nevertheless to ob¬ 
tain by mere good fortune all the plums which 
our greater experience and more intelligent 
efforts barely serve to win for us. 
Treat the broker as if he were as honest as 
any other man—he probably averages more 
honesty than do the bulk of his clients. Re¬ 
member that life is too short, and commissions 
too small, for him to demonstrate the claims of 
his clients. He can reassure you as to a boat’s 
qualities or a purchaser’s credit if you will pay 
for this special knowledge, but don’t ask or 
expect something for which you are unwilling 
to pay. 
Do not tempt a broker by giving him two 
prices on your boat. The purchaser will insist 
on knowing the lower one and will at once con¬ 
clude that you will go lower yet. Thus you 
demoralize prices. Put a fair value on your 
boat and refuse to be annoyed by unfair offers— 
when a buyer does approach your valuation you 
can then begin to trade. 
Never expect a broker to hustle for you if 
you list your boat with all his rivals. He knows 
that in case of a sale he will have to face rival 
claims for the commission and, what is more, 
complete with the unprofessional rival who re¬ 
bates a portion of the already low commission. 
Choose a good broker, a well-known one, a 
hustler, and leave the whole affair in his hands, 
giving him accurate and detailed information. 
Above all, tell him the truth about your boat or 
your requirements—don’t measure headroom 
from the cabin floor straight up through the 
hatch to the underside of the boom. Don’t fill 
your inventory with articles you have worn out 
or lost overboard. Remember that you do not 
want the other man to feel “stung” and pass the 
word along that you are more than smart. 
Do not mingle business with the sport of sail¬ 
ing, nor funny business with the task of selling. 
You did not need this and never will, but store 
it away until the casual yachtsman crosses your 
path and then sear his soul with it. You may 
save him and remove one bolt from tarnish 
which his kind ever keeps us polishing away. 
William Lambert Barnard. 
The auxiliary yawl Huntress, designed by Mr. 
Henry J. Gielow, and recently completed at the 
yard of Robert Jacob, is now fitting out at South 
Brooklyn prior to leaving for southern waters. 
On trial Huntress made a speed of 9.8 miles, 
which is in excess of the contract speed. The 
yacht is the property of Dr. R. Y. Pierce, of 
Buffalo, and her plans appeared recently in the 
columns of Forest and Stream. 
f r r 
Recently Mr. Julius Stewart, an American 
artist, has finished a painting of the start of the 
race between Fleetwing. Henrietta and Vesta dff 
Sandy Hook in 1866. The painting is to be pre¬ 
sented to the New York Y. C. 
Small Yacht Construction 
and Rigging. 
A Complete Manual of Practical Boat and Small Yacht 
Building. With two complete designs and numerous 
diagrams and details. By Linton Hope. 177 pages. 
Cloth. Price, $3. 
The author has taken two designs for practical demon¬ 
stration, one of a centerboard boat 19ft. waterline, and 
the other a cruising cutter of 22ft. waterline. Both de¬ 
signs show fine little boats which are fully adapted to 
American requirements. Full instructions, even to, the 
minutest detail, are given for the building of both these 
boats. The information is not confined to these yachts 
alone; they are merely taken as example; but what is said 
applies to all wooden yacht building according to the 
best and most approved methods. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Gas Engines and Launches. 
Their Principles, Types and Management. By Francis 
K. Grain. 132 pages. Price, $1.25. 
Here is a pocket manual indispensable to every man 
who uses a motor-boat. It deals in simple untechnical 
fashion with the running of the marine gas engine, and 
with the difficulties that the marine gas engineer is likely 
to meet with. These engines are described, some pages 
are devoted to launches in general, with practical advice 
to the man who contemplates purchasing a power boat. 
The main feature of the book, however, is a clear descrip¬ 
tion of the difficulties met with in running a gas engine, 
their causes and how to remedy them. In this discussion 
all technicalities are avoided, and the author has boiled 
down a vast amount of practical knowledge into small 
space and into every-day language. The amateur power 
boat man needs this book, for it will save him much time 
and trouble, and probably not a little money. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
When writing say you saw the adv. in 
“Forest and Stream.” 
