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city. All contestants must be measured by the club’s 
measurer at least 48 hours before the start. An entrance 
fee of $50 must accompany entry as a guarantee of good 
faith, same to be returned if boat starts. 
Protests.—Protests covering the rating or eligibility of 
any boat must be made in writing within 24 hours after 
the finish of the race. 
Inspection.—All contestants must report at the anchor¬ 
age of the Motor Boat Club of America, or at such- time 
and place as the Regatta Committee shall designate for 
the purpose of inspection and measurement. 
Start.—The start shall be made from the station of the 
Motor Boat Club of America, on Saturday, June 8, 1907, 
at 3 P. M. 
The committee reserves the right to reject any entry 
if in their judgment the boat is unseaworthy or unsuit¬ 
able for long distance racing, or is deficient in any par¬ 
ticular. All entries will be accepted subject to inspec¬ 
tion and approval by the Regatta Committee previous 
to the start. 
The committee urges strict compliance with the letter 
and spirit of the conditions, as above stated, and will be 
pleased at any time to inspect plans or boats under 
construction. 
Work at Morris Heights. 
There is considerable yacht, launch and marine 
machinery work in course of construction at the 
plant of the Gas Engine & Power Co., and 
Charles L. Seabury & Co., Consolidated, at the 
present time. 
The keel has been laid for a new 140ft. single 
screw steel steam yacht, for a prominent Detroit 
yachtsman, who is a member of many clubs. The 
vessel is from the designs of Mr. Charles L. Sea¬ 
bury, and a cruising speed of 16 miles per hour 
has been guaranteed. The “Seabury” triple ex¬ 
pansion engine, and “Seabury” water tube boiler, 
will be installed. Delivery, May 15, 1907. This 
boat is very similar to the steam yacht Galatea 
finished this year by the firm and which was il¬ 
lustrated in Forest and Stream of May 19. 
The new' 175ft. twin screw steel steam yacht 
for Mr. Cyrus Curtis, of Philadelphia, is pro¬ 
gressing’ very rapidly. 
A large number of contracts are in hand, for motor 
boats of various sizes. Among them is a single screw 
cruising yacht for a New York gentleman, 68ft. over all, 
12ft. beam, 3ft. 6in. draft. The joiner work throughout 
will be of hardwood; the furnishings and equipment will 
be the best. The motive power will consist of a four- 
cylinder gasolene engine of about 60 horsepower. The 
speed of the boat will be 12 to 13 miles per hour, and is 
to be ready for delivery April 15, 1907. 
. A cabin motor boat for Mr. E. W. Clark, Philadelphia, 
Pa., 55ft. over all, 10ft. beam, 3ft. 6in. draft, equipped 
with four-cylinder, 60 horsepower Speedway engine. This 
launch has been specially designed as a tender for Mr. 
Clark’s large racing sloop Irolita. The plans show a 
very roomy, comfortable and seaworthy craft. Delivery 
May 1, 1907. 
A cruising gasolene launch for a New Orleans gentle¬ 
man, for use on Long Island Sound, will be 50ft. over 
all, 10ft. beam, 4ft. draft. This boat will have raised 
pilot house, engine room, toilet room, galley and large 
after saloon. The machinery will consist of a four- 
cylinder, 28 horsepower Speedway engine. The boat will 
be finished throughout in mahogany, and will be ready 
May 1, 1907. 
A fast open launch for Mr. Lewis Herzog, New York 
Y. C., for use on the Maine coast, at North Haven, it 
is 66ft. long, 7ft. beam, and will be planked and finished 
throughout in teak The motive power will consist of two 
six-cylinder Speedway engines, 60 horsepower each. A 
speed of 21 miles per hour has been guaranteed. She 
has been specially designed as a craft for.general service 
and is similar in type to the Kite and Vampa, both of 
which were satisfactory and successful boats. 
A fast cabin launch for Mr. Ralph E. Slaven, of New 
York, for use at Bar Harbor, Me., is 45ft. long, 6ft. 6in. 
beam, with cabin and toilet room forward, followed by 
motor compartment, -with large cockpit aft. A six- 
cylinder 60 horsepower engine will be installed. The 
launch will be very much on the type of Brush By and 
Sheboygan. Twenty miles per hour has been guaranteed. 
A motor boat, 38ft. over all, 6ft. beam, for Mr. Garret 
A. Hobart, of Paterson, N. J., is being built for use’ on 
one of the Rangeiey Lakes, Maine. A six-cylinder Speed¬ 
way engine will give a speed of 21 miles. 
A 65ft. twin screw cruising motor boat for Mr. J. P. 
Wetherill, of Philadelphia, Pa., is building, and will be 
fitted with two four-cylinder 28 horsepower Speedway 
engines. 
A new hunting cabin launch 38ft. over all, 8ft. 6in. 
beam, for Mr. R. W. Barger, Chicago, Ill., for use 
on Oconomowoc Lake, Wis. It will be equipped with 
four-cylinder 15 horsepower Speedway engine. 
A semi-speed launch 30ft. long, 6ft. beam, with torpedo 
stern, for Mr. C. W. Bingham, Cleveland, O. The four- 
cylinder 15 horsepower Speedway engine will be arranged 
forward, under hinged covers, with copper ventilators. 
The steering wheel, reverse lever and -engine controls 
arranged on bulkhead aft of engine. This launch will be 
shipped to- Palm Beach, Fla., early in January. A speed 
of 12 miles is guaranteed. 
A duplicate of the launch for Mr. Bingham is also 
being built for Mr. George B. Van Dyke, Milwaukee, 
Wis., and a 30ft. launch of a little different type, for 
Mr. J. B. Uebelhoer, Buffalo, N. Y., both of these 
boats being for Oconomowoc Lake, Wis. 
A cabin launch 38ft. over all, 8ft. 6in. beam, for- C. L. 
Loree, Lake Charles, La. This boat is nearing com¬ 
pletion. and will be shipped at once. It is equipped 
with 10 horsepower naphtha engine. 
The 32ft. light draft motor boat Don Jorge, for the 
Mexican Petroleum Company, was shipped a few days 
ago to Mexico. This boat is built on the tunnel stern 
system, giving her a draft of only 15in. The speed was 
12% miles per hour. 
The new 30ft. cabin naphtha launch Libertad, for Ruiz 
de Gamiz Co., has been shipped to Havana, Cuba. The 
Gamiz Co., are the Seabury agents for Cuba. 
A 25ft. 6 horsepower open naphtha launch, for Mr. 
C. B. Barker will be shipped to Jacksonville, the end of 
December. 
A new 25ft. gasolene launch for Mr. W. C. Teagle, 
New York, will be shipped to Egypt early in January. 
It will be fitted with a two-cylinder 7 horsepower Speed¬ 
way engine. 
A new 25ft. gasolene launch with two-cylinder 7 horse¬ 
power Speedway engine, a 23ft. whaleboat, and a 14ft. 
dinghey, are being completed for the Lighthouse De¬ 
partment, Philadelphia, for steamer Sunflower. 
A new 30ft. 6 horsepower naphtha launch has been 
shipped to Pensacola, Fla., for the U. S. Engineer’s De- 
pjartment, on the Gulf of Mexico. This boat is to re¬ 
place naphtha launch which was destroyed in recent 
tornado. 
A new 30ft. launch with Seabury fore and aft com¬ 
pound steam engine and Seabury water tube boiler, will 
soon be shipped to Thomas Canty, Rio de Janeiro, 
Brazil. This boat is for navigating shallow rivers and 
streams, and will be provided with stern paddle wheel. 
The 20 and 25ft. mahogany launches, the two 22ft. 
mahogany lifeboats, and the 14 and 16ft. dinghys, for 
Mr. F. H. Stevens’ steam yacht O-We-Ra, building at 
Leith, Scotland, will be shipped to Southampton, Eng¬ 
land via American, Line, early in January. 
The 20 and 25ft. launches, the 18ft. cutter and 14ft. 
dinghey, all of mahogany, for Mr. C. W. Harkness’ new 
steam yacht Agawa, built at Leith, Scotland, will be 
shipped via Anchor Line, to Leith, via Glasgow early 
in January. 
A number of new Seabury safety water-tube boilers 
have revently been shipped, one to the Risdon Iron & 
Locomotive Works, San Francisco, Cab, for a U. S. 
Army transport. 
One also to Moran Bros. & Co., Seattle, Wash., also 
for a U. S. Army transport launch. 
One to Morse Iron Works, Bay Ridge, New York, 
for the steam launch tender on steam yacht Niagara II., 
Howard Gould, New York Y. C. 
One to William H. Smith, of the Ward Line, at 
Havana, Cuba, for use in a 40ft. launch. 
One to the U. S. Engineer’s Department, Tampa, Fla., 
for the steamer Hillsboro. 
One to the Mexican Petroleum Co., Mexico, for a 55ft. 
steam launch, Seabury build, formerly owned in New 
York, and shipped to Mexico five years ago. 
Complete machinery plant, consisting of a triple ex¬ 
pansion engine, Seabury boiler, shafting, pumps, pro¬ 
peller wheel, etc., for large passenger steamer on the 
Pacific coast. 
Twelve Speedway engines of various sizes were quite 
recently shipped to Mr. A. M. Burdick, Buenos Ayres, 
Brazil, S. A., who is the agent for the Seabury Com¬ 
pany in the River Plata district. 
A new six-cylinder 90 horsepower Speedway engine 
is now being prepared for shipment t£> Boston, to be 
installed in the cruising motor boat Clethra, owned by 
Mr. Alanson Bigelow, Jr. 
New four-cylinder 15 horsepower Speedway engine has 
just been installed in Mr. C. PI. Hyam’s 36ft. cabin 
launch Violet V. 
A three-cylinder 10% horsepower Speedway engine is 
being installed in Mr. G. H. Powers’ 32ft. cabin launch 
Mary A. 
A new four-cylinder. 28 horsepower Speedway’ engine 
has been installed in the sloop Ollie, owned by the E. W. 
Bliss Co., used as a waterboat and for freight at Sag 
Harbor, L. I., where the Bliss Company has large fac¬ 
tories and proving grounds for torpedoes. 
A new four-cylinder 28 horsepower Speedway engine 
has been shipped to Mr. Chas. J. Schofield, Detroit, 
Mich., for use in new speed launch now building. 
New^-Motor Yacht. 
There is being built at the yard of Messrs. 
Purdy & Collison, City Island, a cruising launch 
for Mr. C. -M. Gould, of Manhasset Bay. The 
boat has been designed to plans and specifications 
of Mr. Henry J. Gielow who has had many suc¬ 
cesses with this type of boat, the principal dimen¬ 
sions of which are: 
Length, over all, 70ft.; waterline, 62ft. pin.; 
beam, extreme, 13ft.; draft of hull, 2ft. 9m. The 
boat has a pleasing sheer, good freeboard, a slight 
overhang forward and the whaleboat type of 
stern, which is found .to be a good seagoing form. 
For six feet amidships the hull is decked over 
flush, giving good strength and rigidity of con¬ 
struction and serving as a steering bridge, and 
has a seating capacity of six to seven peo¬ 
ple. Forward of tins is a mahogany cabin trunk 
twenty-four inches in height, with plate glass 
windows and a companionway hood and slide in 
after end leading from the bridge down to the 
owner’s stateroom. This room is 10ft. 6in. in 
length, occupying the full width of the boat and 
fitted with lockers and a double berth. Forward 
of this is a dressing room four feet in length with 
lavatory. 
Aft of the owner’s stateroom are located galley 
and engine room, after which there is a stateroom 
with a berth on each side. This stateroom is 
6ft. 6in. in length and extends the full width of 
the vessel. Abaft of this stateroom is a toilet 
room on port and a large wardrobe on starboard 
side with a 36m. passage between. The ward¬ 
robe is 36m. by 48m., arranged for stowing 
valises. Aft of this will be the main cabin, 9 
feet in length and extending the full width of 
vessel, with a buffet and sideboard forward on 
each side and a wardrobe on each side in after 
end. The interior finish will be in polished ma¬ 
hogany and white and gold. _ 
The cockpit will be 8 feet in length, finished 
in mahogany, without stationary seats; but willow 
chairs will be used instead. 
The boat will be fitted with a 50 horsepower 
gasolene motor, which will give a cruising speed 
of fully 12 miles per hour. The craft will be 
equipped with two boats, electric lights, with 
stprage battery, and her construction will be 
thoroughly substantial and seaworthy. The in¬ 
terior furnishings and fittings will be tasteful and 
complete, making an attractive floating summer 
home. 
The l contract provides for the completion of the 
boat on or before May 15, 1907. 
This is the second boat Mr. Gould is having 
built from plans and specifications by # Mr. Henry 
J, Gielow, of this city. 
House Boat Tomoka. 
The well-known houseboat Tomoka, built in 
1900, for the late Pierre Lorillard, has been sold 
by Mrs. Lily A. Livingston, of Jobstown, N. J., 
to Mr. Conrad E. Kremp, of this city, through 
the agency of Stanley M. Seaman, New York. 
Tomoka may well be considered one of the hand¬ 
somest pleasure craft ever built, no money having 
been spared to bring her up to Mr. Lorillard’s 
ideas of a yacht. She is 77ft. over all, 16.4ft. 
beam, and about 22m. draft, constructed in the 
best possible manner, including copper bottom. 
Accommodations consist of two state- rooms on 
deck, two below for guests, bath room, dining 
saloon and social hall, besides there is a large 
galley with all modern conveniences, and com¬ 
modious forecasle for crew. State rooms finished 
with burlaped walls, hard wood trim. Saloon 
in red rose and Chippendale. She is most lavishly 
equipped including green Mission interior furni¬ 
ture, French draperies, wicker deck chairs, 
tenders, etc. The yacht is now at Trenton, N. J., 
where her new owner intends making some alter¬ 
ations to get her ready in time for an early spring 
season. He expects to make her his home dur¬ 
ing the summer of 1907. 
Thomas Fleming Day, the well-known yacht¬ 
ing writer and editor of the Rudder, has been 
seriously ill at his home, but is recovering satis¬ 
factorily. 
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The steam yacht Zarina, recently reported to 
have been sold to Mr. Charles Sweeney, of New 
York, will have her name changed to Emeline. 
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Mr'. Leonard Richard’s, New York Y. C. 
steam yacht Carola II., is to be refitted with new 
boilers during the winter. The yacht is in. charge 
of Captain Hayden. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
new members proposed. 
Atlantic Division.—William S. Elliott, N. Y. 
city, by H. L. Quick. 
BOOKS ON WATER SPORTS. 
Small Yacht Construction, Linton Hope. .$3.00 
How To Build a Motor Launch from 
Plans, Davis. 1.50 
Houseboats and Houseboating, Hunt. 3.34 
Steam Yachts and Launches, Kunhardt... 3.00 
Canoe Handling and Sailing, Vaux...... 1.00 
Canoe and Boat Building, Stephens. 2.00 
Canoe Cruising and Camping, Frazer. 1.00 
Canoe and Camp Cookery. 1.00 
Gas Engines and Launches, Grain. 1.25 
Yacht Architecture, Kemp.16.80 
Manual of Yacht and Boal Sailing, Kemp. 12.00 
These books are more fully described in the 
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which will be sent free to any applicant. 
