Nov. ii, 1911.] 
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‘'Dakotah was built by the Messrs. Herreshoff 
for Henry Allan, a member of the great Glas¬ 
gow yachting family of that name, and in the 
Clyde season of 1894 her score was thirty-three 
races, twenty-five firsts and one second, and in 
that of the Mediterranean of the following year 
eleven races, nine firsts and one other prize. 
Dakotah was one of the boats the greatest of 
which could not be shown by the mere presen¬ 
tation of her scores. 
“To the figures on the prize list had to be 
appended some account of the fascinating ease 
with which the majority of her prizes were won. 
Even a fairly well skilled observer is often at 
a loss to tell how it is that one boat in a class 
so often comes out considerably ahead of the 
others in the matter of prizes, and more particu¬ 
larly first prizes, because she seldom seemed to 
be appreciably speedier than they were. Even 
the uninitiated, however, after watching Dakotah 
sailing half a round, became quite cognizant that 
she was a speedier boat than those pitted against 
her; in fact, they quickly let it be known that 
they had become cognizant of her superiority by 
exclaiming, No, no; our boats are no use against 
the little Yankee; she’s too fast through the 
water for them.’ 
The Prince of Wa'es knew what a wonder¬ 
ful boat she was, and he took an early oppor¬ 
tunity on her arrival in the Mediterranean to 
have a row round her (examining her most care¬ 
fully the while) in the gig of his own cutter, 
Britannia. After his inspection of Dakotah he 
got his eye on Mr. Fife, bareheaded, at the mast¬ 
head of Ailsa, in the midst of a most searching 
inspection of everything aloft. Heading his gig 
to the new cutter, he went aboard her and had 
Mr. Fife called from aloft, when he had qu'te 
a long and most interesting talk with him. 
Mr. Allan, while a most capable Corinthian 
himself, was careful to have a powerful profes¬ 
sional crew on the Dakotah. The men were 
William Morris (Largs), J. Currie, J. Hogarth 
and W. Hogarth (Port Bannatyne), the last 
named being skipper. Several of the prizes won 
by Dakotah in the Mediterranean were of very 
considerable value from a monetary point of 
view. That gained by her in a heavy and pun¬ 
ishing race from Cannes to Monte Carlo was 
so outstandingly valuable that on her passing 
Britannia at the close of it the genial and gen¬ 
erous skipper, John Carter, cried delightedly, 
Well done, my lads; you’ve sailed a great race, 
and the prize is big enough to buy you a new 
boat,’ ” 
Changes in Motor Boat Rules. 
The Bug, A. E. Smith’s fast little hydroplane, 
and the latest boat of this type. Mosquito, 
owned by Rear-Commodore J. Stuart Blackton, 
have caused some sensations among motor boat 
racing men and shown the necessity of chang¬ 
ing the rule so that they may be properly rated. 
These two little craft have shown phenomenal 
speed, and on account of their peculiar forma¬ 
tion of hull rate so low that boats of wholesome 
type have to allow time. Bug showed such 
speed that she easily won the races in which she 
took part often without being driven to her 
highest speed. Mosquito, which was built to 
sting Bug, can do still better. She is faster, 
and being smaller, she gets an allowance. At 
the close of the racing season it was pointed 
out in the New York Sun that if racing was to 
be improved the rules would have to be changed 
to take care of such racing craft, and it was sug¬ 
gested that it might be well to separate the 
hydroplanes from the displacement type of 
boats. Not only is a revision of the rules neces¬ 
sary in the racing classes, but in the cruising 
classes, and it will be necessary this winter to 
clearly define what a cruiser is. 
Several boats raced last summer in the cruis¬ 
ing classes which were really semi-speed boats. 
I hey technically complied with the requirements 
of the rule in that they had the necessary beam 
and displacement, but no sane man would care 
to make an off-shore cruise in some of these 
craft. They were equipped with high-powered 
motors which took up most of the space in 
the interior of the boat. They were fitted with 
folding berths, had little holes which were called 
galleys, and so passed as cruisers. At the next 
meeting of the American Power Boat Associa¬ 
tion the rules will come under consideration, 
and it is very probable that the delegates will 
have considerable trouble working out a formula 
that will satisfy the owners of the many types 
of motor boat who like to take part in races 
when they think they have some slight chance 
of success. If these rules of measurement are 
revised there is no doubt that the sport will re¬ 
ceive quite a boom. 
(Continued on page 729.) 
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