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FOREST AND STREAM 
March i, 1913 
Duxbury Y. C. 
The Duxbury Y. C. is building a new house 
to be ready iu May. The building will cost 
$10,000, raised by subscriptions of the members. 
It will stand on the shore near the Duxbury 
wharf on land where formerly a building owned 
by John Irwin and occupied as a club house by 
the club stood, and will be 84 feet long and 44 
feet wide with a 15-foot piazza with a covered 
porch on the front. The main hall will be 50 
by 32 feet and will have a large stage where 
entertainments can be given during the year. 
Last summer a movement was made to se¬ 
cure another location where the club could have 
easy access to deep water and this point of land 
was secured and a building committee composed 
of Arthur R. Train, of Duxbury, Chairman; 
George W. Benedict, William L. Benedict, L. B. 
Goodspeed and Dr. W. H. Potter, of Boston; 
Alfred E. Green, of Duxbury; J. Henry Hunt, 
Harvey Y'. King, Robert C. King, of Boston; 
F. R. Maxwell, of Brookline; C. E. Rogerson, 
of Milton; Thomas Weston, Jr., and Winthrop 
C. Winslow, of Boston, was named. This com¬ 
mittee has made rapid progress and foundations 
are now in and work on construction will begin 
immediately. 
At the annual meeting recently held the fol¬ 
lowing officers were elected: George W. Bene¬ 
dict, Commodore; L. B. Goodspeed, Vice-Com¬ 
modore; Harvey W, King, Secretary and Treas¬ 
urer; J. K. Burgess, Measurer; Arthur R. Train, 
Charles E. Rogerson, Dr. William H. Potter, 
Directors; Arthur R. Train, Edwin S. Good- 
speed, Robert S. Gorham, House Committee; 
Frank L. Converse, Mrs. Waldo Kennard, Miss 
Helen King, Entertainment Committee; Charles 
E. Rogerson, William F. Shedden, Frank B. 
Converse, Membership Committee; Thomas Wes¬ 
ton, Jr., Chairman; Dr. William H. Potter, Her- 
vey W. King, J. Plenry Hunt, Francis C. Roger¬ 
son, Regatta Committee; George W. Benedict, 
Frank R. Maxwell, Winthrop C. Winslow, Chas. 
E. Rogerson, Edwin S. Goodspeed, J. Henry 
Hunt, Dr. J. B. Brainerd, Judges. 
San Francisco Bay Yachting Notes. 
Walter S. Leland, a member of the commit¬ 
tee appointed some time ago by Thomas L. 
Miller, president of the syndicate that is to build 
a 23-meter yacht to race against Sir Thomas 
Lipton’s Shamrock in 1915, has returned from 
an Eastern trip and rendered an interesting re¬ 
port on the various types of racing yachts there. 
The committee will hold a meeting shortly to 
select the general style of the racer that will 
be built here. 
The schooner Edris, which left New York 
Harbor over a year ago bound for this port, 
has arrived and is attracting much attention. 
The trip was made by the way of the Straits 
of IMagellan, and much bad weather was en¬ 
countered. Not a member of the original crew 
was aboard the boat when she reached her desti¬ 
nation. The yacht is the property of Captain 
John Barneson. 
The Oakland Y. C. has been formed at Oak¬ 
land and headquarters have been established on 
the estuary at the foot of Twelfth avenue. 
Officers have been chosen as follows: Commo¬ 
dore, Frank H. IMosher; Vice-Commodore, 
Eugene Shafter; Secretary, William E. Scully; 
Treasurer, William E. Judge; Port Captain, Bert 
Watkinson. John Sherry will be official meas¬ 
urer. The fleet at present consists of seventeen 
yachts. 
Bayside Y. C. Appointments. 
Commodore G. Waldo Smith, of the Bay- 
side Y. C., announces the following appointments 
for the season: Fleet Captain. C. D. Kells; 
Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Charles B. Story; Chaplain, 
Rev. Charles A. Brown; Legal Adviser, James 
A. Dayton; Chairman of the Plouse Committee, 
Eaton V. Reed, Chairman of the Regatta Com¬ 
mittee, Willard H. MacGregor; Chairman of 
the Entertainment Committee, John P. Floan; 
Chairman of Library Committee, Austin Healy. 
Yacht Sales. 
A Boston agency has sold the 44-foot 
motor boat Helen, owned by Fred A. Porter, of 
Bangor, Maine, to Frank A. Schirmer, of New¬ 
ton, Mass., and the 2S-foot waterline sloop 
yacht Sentana, owned by G. Walter Vialle, of 
Concord, Mass., to Rufus T. French, of New 
York, 
Boston Y. C. Power Squadron. 
History is being made by the new power 
squadron of the Boston Y. C. P'he organization, 
which was known as the power boat division last 
year, is unique — the only one in the world of its 
kind. At its first annual meeting, held last week 
at the Rowe’s Y’harf station of the club, the 
results of the first year’s experience were dis¬ 
cussed, carefully thought out rules, based on this 
experience adopted, and plans for another sea¬ 
son made. 
The idea of this organization has been taken 
up by other yachting organizations which have 
watched the success the Boston Y. C. has had 
with solving the old problem of what to do 
with the power boats. Other organizations have 
been waiting merely to get a set of rules under 
which the squadron will sail this year to start 
out for themselves in the formation of like or¬ 
ganizations. Among the clubs that were men¬ 
tioned at the meeting which intend to have 
power boat divisions were the Edgewood Y. C. 
of Rhode Island; the Columbian Y. C., of New 
York; the Albany Y. C., and the Portland, !Me., 
Y. C. 
There has long been need of education 
among power boat men in the rules of the road 
and in navigation, as any pilot of any harbor 
in the country can tell you. To raise the sport 
of power boating to the level at which no slurs 
can be put upon it by seamen and other yachts¬ 
men, an important rule was incorporated in the 
book. There will be a board of instruction, com¬ 
posed of the commander of the Power Squad¬ 
ron and two other members, to instruct and 
examine the members of the squadron in the 
rules of the road, ability to operate and navi¬ 
gate power boats and in rules of the United 
States governing and applying to power boats. 
In the matter of flag signals, through which 
all orders are given from the flag boat, the 
squadron probably has the most complete list 
of any yacht club, and every contingency, so 
far as possible, has been provided for. The 
old international code has been followed out to 
some degree in the special code, and there are 
many additional two-letter signals. 
When Commander Upton first put the propo¬ 
sition o'f a power boat organization with naval 
discipline and naval tactics up to the club mem- 
liers a year ago, it was mentioned that a naval 
officer had hinted that such an organization 
might be of service in time of war and might 
be given recognition by the Navy. Iu view of 
that fact a letter referred to by Mr. Upton at 
a meeting is not surprising. A Japanese naval 
officer has written to the commander asking for 
full particulars of the scheme, as he said that 
so far as he had been able to learn, a similar 
scheme might well be encouraged in Japan. 
The officers elected at the meeting were: 
Roger Lepton, Commander; C. N. Burnell, Lieu¬ 
tenant-Commander; N. L, Stebbins, Secretary 
and Treasurer. Commander Upton appointed 
W. A. Hopkins flag lieutenant and F. P. Huck- 
ins, second lieutenant. 
New York Motor Boat Show. 
That the fascination the public holds for 
the power boat is increasing at a most remark¬ 
able rate was never better exemplified than dur¬ 
ing the show last week at the Madison Square 
Garden. The attendance was very large, much 
larger than at any previous boat show, and the 
interest shown by all classes of visitors is evi¬ 
dence that the motor boating sport will be more 
popular than ever this season. 
The show is declared by all interested to have 
been the most interesting ever held by the Manu¬ 
facturers’ Association. The exhibitors are de¬ 
lighted with the successes. Everyone did good 
business, and in addition to many orders already 
placed, many tentative orders were received. 
Motor boating this year promises to be more 
popular than ever before in its history. 
