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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Jan. 2, 1909. 
Cruiser for M. ^ C. Houck. 
M. & C. Houck, of Greenwich, have ordered 
a cruising power boat to be built at the yard of 
the Luders Marine Construction Company at 
Port Chester, which, if it comes up to expec¬ 
tations, will probably be entered in the power 
boat race to Bermuda. This craft was designed 
by A. E. Luders and will have accommodations 
on board for eight persons. 
There will be a bridge in the center of the 
yacht between two cabin houses from which the 
yacht will be steered and on the forward house 
will be an observation seat. Aft there will be a 
flush deck ii feet 6 inches long. The model is 
the double-ender or whale boat type and it bas 
a very smart appearance. A Jencick motor, 4- 
cylinder, 4-cycle of 75 horsepower, is to be in¬ 
stalled which will drive the yacht 12 miles an 
hour, and she will carry gasolene sufficient to 
cruise 325 miles on one charge. 
A companionway is to lead from the after 
house on the starboard side to a vestibule be¬ 
low. On the port side will be a bath and toilet 
room. The owner’s stateroom will be in the 
after part of the yacht, and will be 7 feet 6 
inches long. It is to be fitted with a double 
berth, sofa, bureau and wardrobe. Forward of 
the vestibule will be the main saloon, which is 
to be 10 feet long and contain a transom sofa, 
Pullman berth, dining table and lockers. The 
galley will be next forward, and this will be 
reached from the saloon, and by means of a 
vertical ladder at the forward end of the after 
house. Forward of the galley and separated 
from it by a watertight bulkhead is to be the 
engine room which will be entered by a com¬ 
panionway on the port side. The gasolene tanks 
will be at the after end of this room, and will 
h^ve 6 feet 3 inches headroom. There will be 
sleeping quarters for the captain and cook in 
this compartment. Forward of the engine room 
is to be a large stateroom. 
Cruising in a Dory. 
Lewis B. Franklin, of the Bayside Y. C., 
last summer made a cruise in the dory Happy 
Return from the club float at Bayside and sailed 
through the Sound, visiting different ports, 
through Gardiner’s Bay and other bays to 
Canoe Place. A Swampscott dory is a little 
craft only 21 feet over all, but the trip was an 
enjoyable one and proved that lots of fun can 
be had cruising in a small craft. Mr. Franklin 
has written a short account of this trip which is 
as follows: 
“The impression seems to be quite general 
that it is not possible to make an extended 
cruise in a small open sailing craft without great 
discomfort. As so many of the Bayside Y. C. 
fleet is of this class, it may be of interest to hear 
a short account of a cruise which demonstrated 
the falsity of this idea. 
“On Aug. I of this year the Happy Return, a 
Swampscott dory 21 feet over all, left the club 
float for Shinnecock Bay, L. I., with a crew of 
three. The morning dawned gray and lowering, 
with a constantly increasing breeze from the 
northeast. By the time we were ready to start 
(7:30 A. M.) it was necessary to reduce sail 
to a double-reefed mainsail and a reefed jib. 
With the wind dead ahead after passing Willet’s 
Point, and a heavy sea running, it was the 
roughest kind of work, but by keeping in the 
lee of the islands and points we made good 
progress. On the way east we took advantage 
of every lee possible and by 5:30 P. M. we made 
harbor at Noroton, Conn., a run of 25 mile.s, 
every inch of it a beat with a heavy head sea. 
I need not say that it was a wet trip. 
“It having cleared at sunset, we expected a 
strong northwester the following day, and we 
were not disappointed. Starting at 7:30, we had 
a light breeze for about an hour and then it 
began to blow. We finally reduced sail to 
double-reefed main and full jib, and with a 25- 
knot breeze over tbe quarter we only touched 
the high places. With a beautiful sky above us 
and tbe blue waters of the Sound dotted with 
white sails, the trip along the Connecticut shore 
was as fine as any sailor could wish for. At 5 
P. M. we made harbor at Westbrook, Conn., 
having covered 58 miles in 9^ hours, some¬ 
thing of a run for a small boat. 
“Starting the following day at 6:30, we held 
a light N. E. breeze to Plum Gut through which 
we passed just as the tide started to turn 
against us. 
“Catching the flood running in from Gard¬ 
iner’s Bay, we carried it with us through Green- 
port Harbor, Southold Bay, Little Peconic and 
Great Peconic Bays to our destination. Canoe 
Place Canal, where we arrived at 4:30, having 
held a favoring tide for nearly eight hours. 
The distance covered was 39 miles, and during 
most of the day there was hardly a breath of 
wind. 
“The boat proved herself an able craft in 
heavy weather, and in light airs she asked no 
odds of anything under sail. • 
“As to food and sleeping quarters, there is 
little difficulty. Enjoying as we do the privi¬ 
leges of nearly every yacht club on the Sound, 
and having innumerable hotels to fall back on, 
it only requires a little judgment in sailing to in¬ 
sure a comfortable night’s lodging. For lunch 
we found a thermos bottle filled with hot soup 
or cofifee a great addition to our canned sup¬ 
plies.’’ 
Club Elections. 
The members of the Old Mill Y. C. have 
elected these officers: Commodore, George W. 
Sniffen; Vice-Commodore, William E. Powers; 
Rear-Commodore, George Conger; Recording 
Secretary, J. Buehler; Corresponding Secretary, 
Robert Grennell; Treasurer, Frederick Dudley; 
Financial Secretary, Hugo Beyer; Measurer, 
Peter Nuhn; Board of Trustees—Harry Walker, 
D. S. Van Wicklen, John Otto, Thomas King 
and Dr. C. A. Cooper. 
These officers have been elected by the 
Tacoma Y. C., which has just been organized: 
Commodore, C. R. Claghorne; Vice-Commodore, 
Prescott Sawyer; Rear-Commodore, Carl L. 
Stebbins; Secretary, Arthur Foss; Treasurer, 
Ray Freeland; Trustees—C. R. Claghorne, C. 
E. Hogberg, C. T. Lundberg, M. P. Potter, S. 
S. Auss and H. T. Engoe. 
The Pensacola Y. C. members have elected 
the following officers: Commodore, George T. 
Morgan; Vice-Commodore, J. C. Watson; 
Rear-Commodore, Ben. H. Thomas; Secretary- 
Treasurer, Dan Sheppard; Fleet Captain, W. A. 
Dunham; Lieutenant, R. B. King. 
At the annual meeting of the Inter-Lake 
Yachting Association, held at Cleveland, officers 
were elected as follows: Commodore. S. S. 
Richardson, Jr., Toledo Y. C.; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, C. W. Kotcher, Detroit Motor Boat Club; 
Rear-Commodore, Harry V. Bisgood, Jr., 
Buffalo Y. C.; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Wadsworth 
Warren, Country Club, Detroit; Measurer, 
Carlton Wilby, Detroit M. B. C.; Delegates to 
the Yacht Racing Union, Myron B. Vorce, 
Lakewood Y. C.; Dr. C. G. Jennings, Country 
Club, Detroit. Joseph M. Grasser was ap¬ 
pointed Secretary-Treasurer. 
Bayside Y. C. Racing. 
The regatta committee of the Bayside Y. C 
has published a report of the season’s racing. 
Seven races were sailed in the series for the 
one-design boats, and tbe summary of the 
points was: Peggy 48, Kid-O 44. Edna_ 42, 
Breeze 34, Alberta 34, Embee 188, Tiger Lily 9 
and Pam 7 - 
Three special races were sailed by the one- 
design boats, and Edna won a first and two 
seconds; Breeze, one first, and Pam, one first. 
H. G. Rockwell won the skippers’ race; J. E. 
Hill was second; M. Stuart, third; A. C. 
Andrews, fourth, and J. A. Dayton, fifth. 
Mrs. Alfred Evans was the winner of the 
ladies’ race; Mrs. W. H. MacGregor, second; 
Mrs. A. Nesbett, third, and Mrs. W. A. Knapp, 
fourth. 
The record of points in the six races sailed 
in the handicap class series is: F-J 39, Invader 
30, Ruby 19, Elaine 4, Crescent 4. 
The summary in the handicap class special 
races is: F-J, two first, three seconds; Ruby, 
one first : Invader, one first, one second and one 
third; Crescent, one third; Elaine, one third. 
Ketch for Daniel Bacon. 
An auxiliary ketch is being built by L. D. 
Huntington, Jr., for Daniel Bacon, of the New 
York Y. C., which will be used cruising about 
the Bahamas and may possibly be entered in 
the race to Bermuda next June. This craft will 
be fitted with a 5-horsepower motor, which, 
when in a race, will be taken out and ballast 
substituted. 
The new boat will be full bodied, high-sided, 
a double-ender and of these dimensions: 
Length over all, 30 feet 9 inches; length load 
waterline, 24 feet; beam, 9 feet; draft, 5 feet 
4 inches. There will be 6 feet headroom in the 
cabin, which will have sleeping accommodations 
for four persons. The yacht will be staunchly 
constructed and will carry about 2 tons of out¬ 
side ballast. She is expected to carry her small 
rig through any kind of weather and prove to 
be a good small sea-going craft. 
Huntington is also building an 18-foot cabin 
catboat for a New York yachtsman, which will 
have a 4-horsepower motor. This yacht is now 
in frame. 
Power Yacht Antares. 
Alexander Stein, owner of the fast power 
boat Veritas, is to have a cruising power boat 
built from designs by Morgan Barney. This 
craft is to be named Antares and the dimen¬ 
sions are as follows: Length over all, 70 feet; 
beam, ii feet; draft,, 4 feet. A Craig engine is 
to be installed of 70 horsepower. 
The hull is to be built of double planked yel¬ 
low pine and cedar, the pine outside being %- 
inch thick and the cedar lining 54-inch thick. 
The interior will be finished in curly butternut. 
The galley is to be forward. The stateroom 
will come next aft, and then there will be the 
space for the motor and the gasolene tanks. 
Aft of the machinery will be the owner’s state¬ 
room and aft again the saloon in which there 
will be two Pullman berths and two transoms. 
The cockpit will be ten feet long. 
Canoeing. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW members proposed. 
Eastern Divi.sion.—Lewis Dexter Nisbet, 12 
Rhode Island avenue. Providence, R. L, by 
Robert Bonner. 
new members elected. 
Central Division.—5630, Alexander H. Bovard, 
915 Jancey street, Pittsburg, Pa.; 5631, Harry P. 
Blair. 254 Melwood street, Pittsburg, Pa.; 5632, 
R. Edson Emery, La Belle Steel Works, Alle¬ 
gheny, Pa.; 5633, S. Stewart Graham, Wilmer- 
ding, Pa.; 5634, Sidney R. Gittens, Wilmerding, 
Pa.; 5635, Edw. D. Kaulback, Kendall avenue, 
Bellevue^ Pa.; 5636, John F. Miller, care of 
Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Wilmerding, Pa.; 
5637, G. F. McNaught, 52 21st street. Pittsburg, 
Pa.; 5638, W. W. Patterson, Jr., 54 Water street, 
Pittsburg. Pa.: 5639, John McC. Price, 1105 
Century Building, Pittsburg, Pa.; 5640, Edwin 
H. Riggs, 5Qo8 Rural avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.; 
5641, Chas. A. Brown. 109 Miffiin avenue, 
Wilkinsburg, Pa.; 5642, C. 1 . Miller, East Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. 
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