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relation of factors prevents an indefinite enlarge¬ 
ment of a boat to come within a specified 
rating. 
Those who devised the present rule intended 
to curb the tendency to build boats with scow 
bows and with excessive overhangs, and in order 
to check any distortion of form to beat the rule 
they wrote a paragraph which reads as follows: 
“In case there are any notches, jogs, curves 
or angles, at or near the plane of measurement 
of either the load waterline or quarter-beam 
length they shall be taken to a fair line bridg¬ 
ing such notches, curves, jogs or angles.” 
Now the questions arise: Just what is a 
notch, jog, curve, or angle, and just what does 
the phrase, “At or near” the place of measure¬ 
ment mean? What is “near?” Three inches, for 
example, or three feet? And who is to define a 
notch, jog, etc.; a race committee or the meas¬ 
urer? Nowhere in the rules is authority con¬ 
ferred on a race committee, while the language 
defining such authority is vested in him. This 
is the view taken by the official who measured 
the Manhasset Bay cup racers and by the minor¬ 
ity member of the race committee, and they 
are supported by many racing men. 
This matter was pretty freely discussed at the 
meeting of the Yacht Racing Association of 
Long Island Sound, held recently, and in the 
end the executive committee of the association 
was directed to take it into consideration and 
to report upon the advisability of defining ex¬ 
actly a “jog, notch, curve,” etc., and of in¬ 
terpreting exactly the phrase, “At or near” the 
place of measurement, either by an addition to 
the rules or by resolution authorizing the issu¬ 
ance of instructions to measurers. 
The discussion goes even further. It is com¬ 
monly said that no two measures will, or can 
give a boat the same rating. This is not true 
of any two measurers fully qualified for the 
work, but undoubtedly is true of two measures 
taken at random from the clubs in waters ad¬ 
jacent to New York. The work is such that 
the services of experts are required, and in all 
the thirty and more clubs racing in Gravesend 
Bay and Long Island Sound, there are not more 
than five or six measurers who are expert at 
the work. A member of the New York Y. C. 
must have a certificate of measurement from 
the measurer of that club, Dut all other clubs 
usually accept the certificates of the measurers 
of “all recognized yacht clubs,” subject to re¬ 
vision or remeasurement by their own club 
measurer, “in case of protest, or if the regatta 
committee so requires.”—Boston Globe. 
Meteorological Charts. 
Secretary Wilson some time ago ordered the 
Weather Bureau to prepare for publication meteo¬ 
rological charts of the North and South Atlantic 
and the North and South Pacific and the Indian 
Oceans, and of the Great Lakes, and these charts 
are now being distributed. In collecting the data 
utilized in the preparation of these charts, the 
services of 2,416 co-operative marine observers 
have been enlisted, and 10,669 books of weather 
reports have been issued for their use. The 
popularity of the meterological charts continues 
undiminished among ship masters. The wireless 
telegraph service and the vessel reporting ser¬ 
vice, the first conducted through co-operation 
with various wireless telegraph companies and 
the latter at the sea coast stations of the Atlantic 
and Pacific coasts, have been particularly ser¬ 
viceable to marine interests. Twelve wrecks 
occurred between Cape Henry and Hatteras dur¬ 
ing the year, all of which were reported by the 
Life Saving Service to the officials in charge of 
the Weather Bureau telegraph stations at Cape 
Henry, Hatteras and Manteo, who promptly tele¬ 
graphed the information to agents, owners and 
others interested. It is estimated that fully 
$328,250 was saved through the assistance ren¬ 
dered the vessels as the result of these reports. 
Timely information of eighteen casualties on 
Lake Huron, in which property valued at $350,- 
000 was endangered, was also given out from 
the Weather Bureau station at Alpena, Mich., as 
a result of information received over Weather 
Bureau land and cable lines. 
M®t®r B®aitms 
To Frisco via Panama Canal. 
George Washington, a 21-foot power dory, 
will start from Providence this week on a 6.000- 
mile voyage, bound for San Francisco, where 
she is scheduled to arrive on Washington's 
birthday, going by way of the Panama Canal. 
The owner and lone navigator of the George 
Washington is Harry Richie, a mariner of New 
York city, who is 34, and who has been going 
to sea since he was “knee high to a grass¬ 
hopper,” mostly on the coast and in the West 
Indies trade. He is a tall, rawboned, sailorish 
looking man. 
He arrived in Providence the other morning 
in the George Washington from Fall River, 
where he purchased the craft. He will fit out 
here and make the main preparations for his 
long voyage. He will proceed to New Haven 
and New York, and will then go by the outside 
route to Delaware Bay, up that body of water 
to Philadelphia, thence by the canals into the 
Chesapeake, and on to Washington. 
At Washington he says he will have to trans¬ 
act business of much importance to the success 
of the trip. The Panama Canal is navigable now 
for small boats all except the 12 miles of the 
Culebra cut, as he understands it, and he must 
obtain a permit from the War Department for 
the transportation of his little craft through the 
cut. After obtaining this, he will jog down the 
Chesapeake and out Cape Hatteras, stopping at 
Charleston and Savannah, and thence to Key 
West. From there he will go across 90 miles 
of open water to Havana. 
After a stop there he will hit it up for King¬ 
ston, Jamaica, departing from that port direct 
for Colon, a little jaunt of 480 miles across the 
Caribbean Sea. Then he will move up the canal 
to the Culebra Cut, have his boat transported 
overland to the ditch leading in from the Pa¬ 
cific Ocean, and again start up his motor. He 
expects to find the first stage of his voyage in 
the Pacific the hardest and most hazardous ex¬ 
perience of the trip, because for a distance of 
800 miles he will pass along a coast from which 
no supplies will be obtainable. There are plenty 
of harbors into which he can nut his boat, but 
it is a wild country, inhabited only by Indians, 
and gasolene and boat stores are not to be had. 
The boat will be fitted to carry 100 gallons 
of gasolene, which he expects will keep his five- 
horsepower motor going between all the ports 
at which he will touch. 
"I hereby advise the people of San Francisco, 
through the Evening Bulletin and its press con¬ 
nections, extending, I doubt not, into the four 
corners of the world, that if they, the said peo¬ 
ple of San Francisco, will look out, on the 
morning of next Washington’s Birthday, on the 
broad, gleaming surface of the Pacific, they will 
see a little speck coming through the Golden 
Gate. 
“That will be me, Harry Richie, all the way 
from Providence, Rhode Island, by way of the 
Panama Canal, in my boat George Washington. 
Everybody get up early, splice the main brace 
and be down on the beach to have a look at the 
George Washington when she comes through 
the Golden Gate on Washington’s Birthday 
next.” 
According to Capt. Richie, San Franciscans 
need not laugh and put off the day of looking 
for his arrival in their fair city, to April 1. He 
avers that he is going to get there somehow, 
and indeed he looks as resolute as he talks. 
The George Washington is one of the regula¬ 
tion Swamscott clipper-built dories, with a fair¬ 
sized cabin. During her voyage she will fly the 
national colors at her stern, and the State flag 
at the bow. 
A Novel Power Boat. 
A cruising power boat has just been ordered 
by Egbert H. Gold, of the Chicago Y. C. The 
plans have been drawn by Gielow & Orr, of this 
city, and the yacht is being built at Burger’s yard 
at Manitowoc, Wis. Mr. Gold has cruised in 
Houseboat For Sale 
45 x 20 on deck. Living room, 15 x 12. Three state¬ 
rooms with beds; one stateroom with berths; bath 
room, store room and kitchen. Partly furnished. 
Kitchen utensils, stores, anchors, etc. Boat was 
thoroughly repaired last autumn. Now at Wilming¬ 
ton, North Carolina. Will sell cheap. 20 
A. L. BURNS, 250 Fifth Ave., New York City 
ARTHUR BINNEY 
(Formerly Stewart & Binney) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker 
Masen Building, Kilby .Street, BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address, “Designer,” Boston 
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Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects 
15 William Street - New York 
Telephones 1375 and 1376 Broad 
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Naval Architects. Engineers and Yacht Brokers 
Plans, Specifications and Estimates furnished for Constructi on 
Alteration and Repairs. Large list of Yachts for Sale, 
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15 Exchange Street, Boston, Mass. 
Telephone 23 Main 
SAILING, STEAM, GASOLENE AND AUXILIARY YACHTS 
OF BVERY TYPE AND SIZE FOR SALE AND CHARTER 
Mail 10 cents in stamps for a Copy of our 
Magazine ana Catalogue. 
YACHT and BOAT SAILING 
Hy the late Dixon K.emp 
Tenth edition. Published 1904. We have a copy in 
fairly good condition, published at $12, which we will 
sell for $9.00. 
POREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
