Two Fast Power Boats Building. 
Two power boats are being built by the 
Greenport Basin & Construction Company, at 
Greenport. for Richmond Levering and William 
C. Proctor, both of Cincinnati. These vessels 
will be of the raised deck cabin type, and 58 
feet over all, 51 feet on the waterline, 12 feet 
beam and 4 feet draft. Each will be equipped 
with one 6-cylinder 75-horsepower motor, which 
will drive the boat I3k2 miles an hour. The 
interior arrangements of these boats, which are 
duplicates in every detail, consist of a saloon, 
after stateroom, toilet room, engine room and 
galley. 
Each will be fitted with a mast on which can 
be set a trysail and a jib. There will be a 
steering gear on the bridge deck with telegraph 
controls to the engine room, as well as dupli¬ 
cate gear at the after end of the cabin trunk. 
The after deck, as well as the bridge deck, will 
be provided with awnings. The interiors will 
be finished in mahogany and white enamel, and 
there will be an acetylene gas plant on each 
yacht. The gasolene will be carried aft in 
galvanized tanks, while the water supply will 
be furnished from a tank placed in the fore 
peak. A novel feature for boats of this size 
will be a shower bath adjoining the owner’s 
stateroom. An electric searchlight will be run 
by an independent motor, and each boat will 
carry a tender ii feet long and a 13-foot launch 
equipped with a 3-horsepower motor. These 
boats are to be ready for delivery by June 15. 
These boats are to be used as ferries be¬ 
tween New York and Amagansett, where sev¬ 
eral Westerners are building a colony of sum¬ 
mer houses and establishing a resort known as 
New Devon. Docks and basins are to be built 
there, and by next summer it will be a flour¬ 
ishing settlement overlooking Gardiner’s Bay, 
the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound. 
In addition to these two boats, the Greenport 
Basin Company is overhauling James B. Ford’s 
schooner Katrina and F. F. Brewster’s schooner 
Elmiea. 
Power Boat Racing at Palm Beach. 
The fifth annual carnival and races of the 
Palm Beach Power Boat Association will take 
place on Lake Worth on March 16 to 19 in¬ 
clusive, and not on March 2, as was originally 
announced. Theodore D. Wells is chairman of 
the regatta committee. The classification is as 
follows: 
Class A—All boats, A. P. B. A. rating rule. 
Class B—32 feet and under, L. W. L. 
Class C—32 feet and over, L. W. L. 
Class BC—All boats,. L. W. L. 
Class D—17 Miles speed and under. 
Class E—17 miles and over. 
Class DE—All boats, speed. 
Handicaps or time allowance will be figured 
for Class A in accordance with ratings obtained 
under the A. P. B. A. measurement rule and 
for Classes E. C, and BC, D, E, and DE; the 
endurance run and consolidation race in accord¬ 
ance with the actual speed ability system used 
by Mr. Theodore D. Wells in the four previous 
annual regattas. 
Motor boats not equipped with mechanical 
means for going astern, will not be allowed to 
contest in the different events of the regatta. 
Motor boats under 12 miles speed ability, will 
not be allowed to contest in the general racing, 
but will have two races, one race on Wednesday 
and one on Thursday. 
Motor boats eligible for the speed contest 
for Florida boats must be designed and con¬ 
structed in Florida, and certifificate so stating 
must be filed with the regatta committee by 
March 8. 
The trophies for the speed records (average 
of six trials over the mile course) and the speed 
contest for Florida boats will not be awarded 
unless the record making boats complete 75 
per cent, of the remaining general races of the 
regatta for which they would be eligible, and 
excused from the remainder for cause.' 
Length of races and speed requirements are 
in nautical miles. 
The schedule of events according to the new 
programme is: 
Tuesday, March 16.—10:30 A. M.—Speed 
record trials. Average of six trials over the 
mile course. Palm Beach cup. 2:30 P. M.— 
Speed contest; Florida designed and constructed 
boats only; no time allowance; nine miles; 
Pabst cup. 3:30 P. M.—Class A; all boats, A. 
P. B. A. handicap; nine miles. 
Wednesday, March 17.—10:30 A. M.—Contest 
for boats under 12 miles speed; miles. 
11:00 A. M.—Class B; contest for boats under 
32 feet L. W. L.; 4)^ miles. 11:30 A. M.—Class 
BC; contest for boats over 32 feet L. W. L.; 
4)4 miles. 3:00 P. M.—Class BC; contest for 
boats of all lengths; 9 miles. 
Thursday, March 18.■—10:30 A. M.—Contest 
for boats under 12 miles speed; 4Y2 miles. 11:00 
A. M.—Class D; contest for boats under 17 
miles speed; 414 miles. 11:30 A. M.—Class DE; 
contest for all boats over 12 miles speed. 2:30 
P. M.—Class E; contest for boats over 17 miles 
speed; 9 miles. 3:00 P. M.—Contest for all 
boats over t 2 miles speed; 13I4 miles. 
Friday, March 19.—9:00 A. M.-—^Endurance 
contest for all boats; 90 miles. Closin.g Event— 
Consolation race; all boats over 12 miles speed; 
4)4 miles. 
Colonial Y. C. Committees. 
The members of the Colonial Y. C. met to 
receive reports of officers last week. The sec¬ 
retary showed that there were 169 members of 
the club, 104 of whom were elected last year. 
In the fleet there are 97 motor boats. The 
board of directors reported that they had 
elected W. Gerald Phlippeau, Chairman, and 
Ernest G. Valliant, Secretary. Commodore 
Vestner announced the appointment of these 
committees: 
National Cup Race Committee—Ludwig 
Arson, Chairman; S. W. Granbery, James 
Wallace, Jr., Clark B. Ferry, David Crow, E. 
B. Brown, H. S. Hart. Regatta Committee— 
Ernest T. Valliant, Chairman; William Murphy, 
R. W. Clark, Nathan Salmonsky, George H. 
Murray. I.aw Committee—W. Gerald Phlip¬ 
peau, Chairman: John T. Canavan, Frank E, 
Hippie. Membership Committee — E. H. 
Georgie, W. P. Wallace, Lester Mayer. 
Erie Y. C. Officers. 
The members of the Erie Basin Y. C. have 
elected the following officers: Commodore, 
John H. Mahnken; Vice-Commodore, William 
H. Nichols; Rear-Commodore, Joseph P. 
Collins; Secretary, George Stademann; Finan¬ 
cial Secretary, William T. Nelson; Treasurer, 
John T. Moran; Trustees-—Otto G. Hildebrand, 
Harry Pape, William Thompson; House Com¬ 
mittee—William Oswald, Charles Moran, H. 
Crawford, Otto Palm, Shelby King. 
Commodore Mahnken appointed R. Sam- 
baskey. Fleet Captain, and T. F. Patterson, 
M.D., Fleet Surgeon. 
The members presented former Commodore 
Charles W. Cooper with a set of chinaware for 
his new yawl Nip C. II. 
Com. A. C. James’ Appointments. 
Commodore Arthur Curtiss James, of the 
New York Y. C., has appointed Franklin A. 
Plummer Fleet Captain, and George A. Dixon, 
M.D., Fleet Surgeon, 
Dinghy Sailing. 
The members of the New York Canoe Club 
have a class of sailing dinghies which for two 
years has furnished some good sport for those 
who own them and for those who have 
watched the races. Last year there were seven 
in this class, and several more have been or¬ 
dered by other members of the club for the 
coming season, and the class will number 
probably fourteen boats. Sailing dories have 
for some time been popular with Toronto and 
Halifax yachtsmen, and the Yachtsman of 
London has a letter which tells of these boats. 
It says: 
“In the spring of 1901 three or four mem¬ 
bers of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squad¬ 
ron, decided that in the interests of yachting 
some small, safe sailing crafts should be built 
to interest the junior members, and in con¬ 
sequence some three or four dinghies were 
built, and during that season sufficient races 
were held. This had its effect, for in the fol¬ 
lowing year we found some eight or ten en¬ 
tered for the first race. During the season 
of 1902 all interest seemed centered in the 
dinghies, as all boats were of a one-design 
class; and, as one who has and sailed one of 
these boats, I must say no better fun can any 
one desire. The sailing committee from the 
first insisted that all races must be governed 
by the regular sailing rules laid down for the 
larger boats as far as possible, and any in¬ 
fringement of them led to disqualification, the 
consequence being that the boys learned the 
rules of the road and the amenities of racing. 
“To-day those who were sailing dinghies a 
few years ago are all (or a great many of 
them) in larger boats, and it is a noticeable 
fact that they are better skippers by reason of 
their earlier experience. As a matter of fact, 
it is the writer’s opinion that their success is 
a great deal due to the necessity of properly 
trimming the sails intelligently, and this they 
learned in the dinghies, as the very slightest 
disarrangement meant a ver}^ great deal at the 
finishing line. 
“In the spring of 1907 a dinghy club was 
formed on the northwest arm. called the Boul- 
derwood Dinghy and Canoe Club, and, as the 
water there is smooth and more adapted for 
dinghy sailing, the number of boats is increas¬ 
ing by leaps and bounds. This year (1908) 
races were held every Saturday afternoon, and 
to see these little sailing craft maneuvering for 
the start is really a most interesting and very 
pretty sight, especially as different colored 
sails are beginnin.g to make their appearance. 
It must be remembered, as these boats are off 
one design, it is only a matter of seconds be¬ 
tween them at the finish line, which makes their 
racing interesting, even for the ‘landlubber.’ 
“Every yacht club should look after the boys, 
and get them interested in sailing, and no 
better way is there than by promoting a ‘one- 
design’ dinghy class. These boats are not 
ballasted, under canvased, and if by chance 
they are capsized (which really is a very rare 
thing, as sheets must not be belayed) they 
will float, and the crew can easily hold pn 
until they are picked up. Let no man buy or 
sail in a ballasted open boat, or under any con¬ 
sideration whatever allow a boy to sail one. 
The lead keel decked-in yacht, or the entirely 
unballasted, are positively the only really safe 
sailing craft. Let any yacht club that has not 
a one-design dinghy class get interested at 
once. These small boats are cheap, and if a 
sufficient number to make good racing, more 
real fun can be had in them than with larger 
boats. 
“If in what has been said, you who do not 
know these boats, believe they are only for 
boys, allow me to say they are not. Men 
