374 FOREST AND STREAM March 22, 1913 
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23-Foot Auxiliary Cruising Caiboat. 
The plans on page 375 are of an auxiliary 
cruising catboat, designed by Swasey, Raymond 
& Page, Inc., of Boston, Mass., dimensions being 
23 feet over all, 21 feet 6 inches waterline, 10 
feet 6 inches beam, 3 feet 3 inches draft, 4 feet 
2 inches freeboard bow, 2 feet freeboard stern 
and I foot 9 inches freeboard least. Her design 
is a little different from the ordinary Cape cat- 
boat. She has a typical high bow and lots of 
sheer and regulation extra wide breadth of beam. 
She is a little deeper and has more dead rise, 
and her sections would make an easier boat to 
drive in rough water than usually found on cat- 
boats ; still she has a hard bilge, which will make 
her stand up in a breeze. 
The sections aft are brought down with an 
S-shape curve which will give depth for the 
engine and will also make a boat which will 
steer well in a following sea, and in any bilge 
water will be aft under the cockpit rather than 
in the cabin. 
She will have about 4,000 pounds of ballast, 
3,000 pounds of which will be inside well winged 
out, as is the usual practice for the best results 
in wide boats to give them the most stability 
at ordinary angles of heel, and 100 pounds on 
the keel, which will give more range of sta¬ 
bility and help in case of bad knock downs. 
Her sail plan has 550 square feet, which 
is fairly moderate, but by using an engine in 
light airs, should prove sufficient and also avoid 
the necessity of reefing too often. Her arrange¬ 
ment plan is quite unusual for such a small boat. 
There is practically no waste room in her. The 
cockpit is 6 feet long and 7 feet wide, and has 
a seating capacity for from six to eight people 
comfortably by utilizing the bridge deck also. 
She steers with a wheel. 
A raised hatch in the cockpit floor gives ac¬ 
cess to the engine, which is a single cylinder, 2- 
cycle, about 5 horsepower engine, which is the 
regular arrangement in Cape catboats. 
Under the cockpit seats on either side are 
water and fuel tanks of twenty-four gallons 
capacity each. Between the cockpit and cabin 
is a bridge deck, under which is a food locker 
and a large refrigerator. In the cabin on the 
port side is a toilet room over 4 feet long, and 
on the starboard side aft is a galley with sink, 
dish lockers, galley table, coal stove space, etc. 
Forward of these are two transoms which 
are of the extension type and will sleep two on 
each, these transoms being about 3 feet 6 inches 
wide when extended. The dining table is hinged 
from the centerboard trunk. Forward of the 
cabin in the fore peak is a large clothes closet 
with shelves, racks, etc., for bags, etc. 
The cabin has 5 feet 4 inches head room in 
the lowest part. A small bowsprit is shown 
mainly for the purpose of carrying the anchors 
and to act as a fender when making landing at 
floats. The bowsprit makes a very convenient 
place to carry the anchors. All you have to do 
is to hoist them up and fasten them to the hook 
under the bowsprit, and they are always in readi¬ 
ness for use. 
Yachting in California. 
More interest is being taken in yachting on 
San Francisco Bay by local enthusiasts than has 
been the case in many years, and the outlook 
is that many new boats will be in commission 
this year. Great preparations are being made 
for the regatta in 1915 when yachts from all 
countries are expected to be here to compete 
for the many valuable prizes that have already 
been arranged for. Sir Thomas Lipton has 
promised to be here with his yacht Shamrock IV. 
and has offered a valuable trophy that will be 
strongly contested for. This will be for 23- 
meter boats, and already plans have been made 
to build a boat for the San Francisco yachts¬ 
men. The challenge of Sir Thomas Lipton was 
accepted almost on the spot by Thomas L. Miller, 
and within a few days a hundred enthusiasts had 
volunteered to assist in building a boat. Capt. 
W. F. Stone, a veteran skipper, will sail this 
vessel, and will spend several months this sum¬ 
mer in securing ideas and data which will be 
incorporated in the construction of the yacht. 
At the annual meeting of the Corinthian 
Y. C., officials were chosen as follows for the 
ensuing year: Commodore, H. E. Picker; Vice- 
Commodore, J. F. Campbell; Port Captain, John 
Keefe; Treasurer, C. F. Morel; Secretary, H. W. 
Westerfield; Directors in addition to the officers, 
William J. Hogg and Gus Dorn; Regatta Com¬ 
mittee, Robert A. Dean, Clarence Dobie and 
Fred Webster. 
The new officers of the San Francisco Y. C. 
are: Commodore, R. C. Pell; Vice-Commodore, 
G. P. Carruthers; Secretary, Jack Russell; 
Treasurer, Gordon Thompson; and in addition 
to these as a directorate William G. Morrow and 
Frank Garden. Commodore Pell will use the 
Vixen as flagship for a few months, but has 
ordered a new yacht from the East that should 
arrive here by the first of July. J. M. Punnett, 
of this club, has purchased the sloop Monsoon, 
now flying the club’s colors, and will sail her 
this summer. 
The Sequoia Yachting and Boating Club, of 
Eureka, will formally present a challenge for a 
race for the San Francisco perpetual challenge 
cup early in May. Creades, owned by Arthur 
Way, of Eureka, will represent the Northern 
yachtsmen. 
President C. C. Moore, of the Panama- 
Pacific International Exposition, has received 
word from the Hawaii Y. C. to the effect that 
the club was ready to support in any way the 
International trans-Pacific yacht race planned 
for 1915. 
The Power Boat Association, recently organ¬ 
ized as the California section of the American 
Association, has elected its first officers as fol¬ 
lows: Chairman, I. H. Cory, of the San Fran¬ 
cisco Y. C.; Vice-Chairman, E. Forrest Mitchell, 
of the Sacramento Boat Club; Secretary, Frank 
E. Baker, of the Corinthian Y. C.; Treasurer, 
Harry L. Burleson, of the Pacific Motor Club; 
Delegates-at-Large, Frank M. Garden, of the 
San Francisco Y. C., and Emil Stauf, of the 
Corinthian Y. C. 
The Vallejo Yachting and Rowing Club has 
elected officers for 1913 as follows: Commo¬ 
dore, Theo. Swanson; Vice-Commodore, Herman 
Streichan; Fleet Captain, Bert Ryan; Port Cap¬ 
tain, R, H. Demon; Recording Secretary, J. H. 
Browne; Treasurer, S. J. McKnight; Measurer, 
W. A. Kirkland; Regatta Committee, Horace 
Etzel and Oscar Sutterquist. 
900-Mile Yacht Race. 
A 900 -MILE yacht race from Chicago to 
Duluth is being considered by Commodore James 
O. Heyworth, of the Chicago .Y. C. This race, 
the longest held by any fresh water yacht club, 
is made possible by the large number of big 
sailing vessels which have been purchased or 
built for the Chicago fleets this year. 
Commodore Heyworth will place the race 
on this season’s schedule if enough entries are 
received; otherwise the big event will be held 
next year. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division.^—Stanley J. Cypher, 13 
Eastern avenue, Ossining, N. Y., by A. Rivers 
Genet. 
Western Division.—Arthur Santmier, Chi¬ 
cago, Ilk, by R. F. Rogers; Arthur Lyle Gourley, 
Highland Park, Ill., by John W. McConnell. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Eastern Division.—6622, George H. Holland, 
49 Sheridan street, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; 6623, 
James C. McFarlane, 6 Dalrymple street, Jamaica 
Plain, Mass. 
Western Division.—6617, Waldemar R. Peter¬ 
sen, Dundee, Ill.; 6618, Joseph L. Gillson, 706 
Forest avenue, Wilmette, Ill.; 6619, Carl G. 
Gruner, 607 Elm street, Rockford, Ill.; 6620, 
Eugene Miller, 1621 W. Division street, Chicago, 
Ill.; 6621, Edwin H. Tryon, 539 Ryerson avenue, 
Elgin, Ill. 
RESIGNATIONS. 
Western Division.—5272, Walter W. Kellner, 
Milwaukee, Wis.; 6350, Robert J. Nordhold, 
Chicago, Ill.; 6466, John F. Moffett. 2d, Chicago, 
Ill. 
