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FOREST AND STREAM 
Dec. 28, 1912 
NEW YORK Y. C. 
At the meeting of the New York Y. C., 
held Dec. 19, His Majesty, King George V., of 
Great Britain, was elected an honorary mem¬ 
ber of the club. The massive gold cup which 
he presented to the club, was on exhibition. 
Twenty-three regular and seven naval can¬ 
didates were elected to membership. The fol¬ 
lowing are the officers and committees elected 
for 1913: 
Commodore, Dallas B. Pratt; Vice-Com¬ 
modore, George F. Baker, Jr.; Rear-Commo¬ 
dore, J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr.; Secretary, 
George A. Cormack; Treasurer, Tarrant Put¬ 
nam; Measurer, William Hallock; Regatta 
Committee—H. de B. Parsons, J. M. Mac- 
donough, and C. Sherman Hoyt; House Com¬ 
mittee—Thomas A. Bronson, Samuel A. Brown 
and Commander James F. Carter, U. S. N.; 
Committee on Admission—William Buttler 
Duncan, Henry A. Bishop, Charles Lane Poor, 
Harold S. Vanderbilt and Commander F. L. 
Sawyer U. S. N.; Library Committee—Charles 
W. Lee, Henry B. Kane and James D. Spark¬ 
man; Model Committee—John Neilson, Fred¬ 
erick M. Hoyt and W. Harry McGill; Commit¬ 
tee on Club Stations and Anchorage—J Pier¬ 
pont Morgan, Jr., Robert E. Todd, Vernon C. 
Brown, Charles Lane Poor, Arthur Curtiss 
James, George F. Baker, Jr., and Harvey 
Ladew. 
Twin Screw Ocean Cruiser for Canada. 
J. Murray Watts, naval architect, has 
designed a 63-foot boat now being built for Mr. 
Fred Magee, of Port Elgin, N. B. The owner’s 
requirements called for a seaworthy type of 
vessel, suitable for the rough waters of the 
Nova Scotia coast, and as it was intended that 
the boat should take extended trips along the 
coast, a pilot house was fitted, from which the 
boat could be controlled in bad weather, while 
there is a steering position on the bridge deck 
for summer use. 
The motive power consists of two four- 
cylinder, heavy duty oil engines, with their 
center of gravity corresponding to the center 
of buoyancy of the vessel. This is an ideal 
arrangement for sea-going work, not only on 
account of the proper location of weights, but 
it allows of short shafting with a small angle 
of rake and simple controls to the steering 
position. 
The engine room skylight is very large, so 
that the motors can be easily lifted out for 
repair or replacement. The use of oil instead 
of gasolene makes more safety, and economy 
in cost of fuel on long runs. 
The most noticeable feature of the design 
is the very large stateroom for the owner, 15 
feet long and 13 feet wide, with a dressing room 
and toilet communication. This stateroom is 
reached from the chart house by means of 
steps leading into a lobby which also has access 
to the toilet room. The chart house is fitted 
up to make a comfortable saloon with sofas 
2 feet 8 inches wide on either side, making a 
very pleasant lounging place in bad weather. 
The floor of this chart house is sunken to 
form a well 4 feet wide and 6 feet 6 inches long, 
which comes down right over the double bed 
in the stateroom and leaves plenty of head- 
room all around. This well is supported by the 
four posts of the double bed in the stateroom 
and is concealed by a chintz canopy, matching 
the other hangings of the stateroom, which is 
finished in Colonial style. 
The after quarters consist of a large dining 
saloon with wide sofa transoms SO' arranged 
that three or four bachelor guests could be 
taken for a cruise and given comfortable sleep¬ 
ing accommodations in this room. There is a 
folding table fitted which can be stowed away 
after meal times. A commodious galley has 
access to this saloon. 
On the port side is a dressing room and 
toilet. Amidships is the engine room, venti¬ 
lated by a large stack, in which are installed 
the two heavy duty four-cylinder engines, a 
separate electric power plant and a work bench. 
There are two transoms for the crew at the side 
of the engine room and two pipe berths, so 
that four men can be carried in an emergency. 
The dimensions of this boat are 63 feet 
over all, 14 feet 9 inches beam and 3 feet n 
inches draft. With two 35-horsepower engines, 
she is expected to develop a speed of i2 l / 2 miles. 
New Cox <0. Stevens Steam Yacht. 
A twin screw oil-burning steam yacht is now 
under construction for D. C. Jackling, of Salt 
Lake City. She was designed by Messrs. Cox & 
Stevens, of New York. The contract has been 
let to the Seattle Construction Company, Seattle, 
Wash. The dimensions of the vessel are: Length 
over all, 212 feet; length of waterline, 205 feet; 
beam, 27 feet; draft, 12 feet 6 inches. 
This yacht has many striking features, Mr. 
Jackling having imposed upon his architects the 
task of designing for him a vessel combining an 
unusually high maximum speed with the greatest 
possible accommodation, and a vessel that should 
have a steaming radius of at least 3.500 miles at 
cruising speed and capable of extended ocean 
cruising in heavy water with comfort and safety 
to those on board. 
The adoption of twin screw propulsion and oil 
fuel large reduced the length of space assigned to 
the machinery department; also made a con¬ 
siderable reduction in the force required in the 
engine department and made it possible to secure 
the unusually large cruising radius. The con¬ 
struction is to be in accordance with Lloyds’ re¬ 
quirements. 
The interior of the continuous deck house on 
the main deck provides a large amount of avail¬ 
able space. While there is a passage on each 
side of the vessel on the main deck outside of 
the deck house, an interior passage also has been 
provided, so that the owner and his guests may 
pass from the dining room throughout the whole 
length of the deck house and also from the quar¬ 
ters below forward to those below aft without 
going on deck. 
Hardwoods, particularly Circassian walnut, 
are used throughout the interior equipment. The 
placing of this order in Seattle is of especial 
interest, as when completed Mr. Jackling’s yacht 
will be the largest on the west coast, and the 
only steam yacht of any size ever built in any 
of the Western ship yards. This is undoubtedly 
a direct result of the near completion of the 
Panama Canal, which, when in operation, will 
open entirely new cruising grounds to yachts 
owned either on the Atlantic or the Pacific coast. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has 
sold the 35-foot waterline auxiliary yawl Re¬ 
becca, owned by E. E. Conway, of Boston, to 
a Marblehead yachtsman, who will use her for 
cruising along the coast next season; also 25- 
foot waterline sloop yacht Mignon, owned by 
E. A. Coupal, of South Boston, to E. A. Nel¬ 
son, of New York; and the knockabout Edythe, 
owned by F. H. Davis, of Cambridge, Mass., 
to C. P. Cottrell, of Westerly, Rhode Island. 
For This—Thanks. 
Chicago, Ill., Dec. 16.—Forest and Stream 
Publishing Co.: Gentlemen—Having read 
Forest and Stream for a number of years, I 
cannot refrain from writing in order to let you 
know how much I have enjoyed it, especially 
the yachting news. 
I have come to look each week for the 
yachting news, and I find I derive more in¬ 
formation from reading it than from any other 
paper. It is so good, I regret you do not de¬ 
vote more space to it. Am always pleased to 
recommend Forest and Stream to fellow 
yachtsmen, for it is a live-wire on yachting 
news. 
With best wishes for a prosperous New 
Year, I beg to remain, 
Sincerely yours, 
(Signed) Sheldon Clarke, 
Secretary Chicago Yacht Club. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division. — 6559, Robert Edward 
Fithian, Bridgeton, N. J.; 6560, William John 
Herdina, 54 Riverdale avenue, Yonkers, N. Y.; 
6561, Clarence N. Capes, 43 West Thirty-seventh 
street, Bayonne, N. J. 
A Lighthouse Takes Life. 
An old sportsman of Normandy declares 
that round the lighthouse of Barfleur last No¬ 
vember there were picked up in the course of 
four nights 10.000 birds of all sorts, including 
1.800 woodcock. The lighthouse on the Pointe 
de Penmarch, in Brittany, has a revolving, light 
of 30,000.000 candle power. Visiting this on 
Nov. 10 last year, and again on the 12th, an ob¬ 
server saw tens of thousands of birds.whirling 
round, and it seemed to him that the light shot 
out a perfect hail of electric sparks among the 
migrants. Next morning he was present while 
the dead bodies were being collected. . They 
are dispatched every day to Paris by train, and 
the “catch,” he was told, often comprised from 
2,000 to 4,000 victims: one morning alone there 
had been more than 500 woodcock in the “bag.” 
—The Argonaut. 
