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Two Boats for Monaco. 
Two fast power boats are to race in Amer¬ 
ican interests at Monaco. The entries for these 
have been sent by the Motor Boat Division of 
the Automobile Club of America, and the boats 
named are E. J. Schroeder’s Dixie II. and Price 
McKinney’s Standard. The entries are made 
on behalf of the Thousand Islands Y. C. The 
entry of Dixie II. was expected, but that of 
Standard is a surprise. 
The first Standard four years ago established 
several new records in local waters, and then 
Mr. McKinney purchased the boat and took it 
to the St. I.awrence. Now a new Standard has 
been built in which are to be installed the en¬ 
gines of the old boat which, however, has been 
thoroughly overhauled and very much im¬ 
proved. This engine is a single motor of six 
double-action cylinders, practically equivalent 
to twelve cylinders rated at 500 horsepower. 
The cylinders have a lo-inch bore, lo-inch 
stroke and are equipped with four magnetos. 
The new hull is 49.2 feet long, a 15-metre boat, 
and was built from designs by Clinton H. 
Crane who designed Dixie II. The hull is 
built of mahogany, double planked, and is 
nearly finished at Wood’s yard at City Island. 
The boat will be in charge of Capt. Peterson, 
who has had lots of experience in handling fast 
craft, and J. H. Purtnell will be engineer. There 
is to be a third man in the boat, and this will 
probably be Secretary Charles L. Hayden, of 
the Thousand Islands Y. C., and he will repre¬ 
sent Mr. McKinney while the yacht is abroad. 
Standard and Dixie II. will be shipped early 
next month, and will be on exhibition at 
Monaco on March 31. The conditions require 
that all boats taking part in the races shall be 
in the exhibition. Mr. Schroeder expects to 
go to the other side with Dixie II. The new 
hull of that yacht built at Lawley’s has arrived 
at Mr. Schroeder’s headquarters in Jersey City 
and is having the motor installed. Dixie II. 
and Standard are to be tried out here before 
being shipped. 
Entries for both boats have been made in 
four races, the mile and kilometre speed tests, 
the Monte Carlo prize, 50 kilometres (31 miles) 
and the International Grand Prize too kilo¬ 
metres (62.1 miles). 
The building of the new 15-metre Standard 
was the result of the fine showing made last 
summer by Dixie II. Mr. McKinney thought 
that with a new and better hull Standard could 
beat Dixie II., and he gave an order for a 
boat to show a speed of 37 statute miles an 
hour. Dixie had in her trial shown better than 
36 miles. 
This will be the first time that American 
boats have raced at Monaco. Their perform¬ 
ances will be watched with much interest, as 
they will meet the pick of all the fast motor 
boats of Europe, and several are being built 
specially for these races. 
This invasion of Europe is not new, but it is 
the first time that two boats have been entered 
for any foreign races. Three years ago the 
Challenger went to England for the British In¬ 
ternational motor boat cup, but did not get it. 
Then two years ago, E. J. Schroeder, seeing 
possibilities of success in his Dixie, went after 
the cup and brought it back, although the race 
itself was hardly worthy of the name of an in¬ 
ternational event. Last year, for the first time, 
England sent over two of her best boats, 
Wolseley-Siddeley and Daimler II., and, to the 
surprise of all, Dixie II., which only made her 
appearance a week before the races in Hunting- 
ton Bay, beat the renowned Wolseley-Siddeley 
by II seconds in a grand race, Daimler II., 
unfortunately, breaking down. Dixie H. only 
averaged in that race about 28 nautical miles, 
or 32.15 statute miles an hour, but in subse¬ 
quent races she has greatly exceeded that speed, 
I having done a trifle better than 36 statute miles 
I in mile trials, and over the ten-mile course in 
the Hudson River races last September. The 
most creditable of her long-distance perform¬ 
ances was in the Thousand Islands races last 
' season, when she won the Gold Challenge Cup, 
averaging for the three races 90 miles in all, 
34^ statute miles. 
As the English challenger Wolseley-Siddeley 
was one of the famous boats in the Monaco 
races a year ago, Dixie IP’s victory was a 
notable international event, and she enters the 
Monaco series with a reputation thoroughly 
acknowledged abroad. 
Nothing like the speed that has been con¬ 
sistently shown by Dixie H. has ever been 
made at Monaco. Last year the best time was 
practically an even thing between the French 
boat Panhard et Lavassor and Wolseley-Sid¬ 
deley, each doing a trifle better than 30 statute 
miles. The English boat, owing to a broken 
clutch, was beaten by the French boat for the 
championship of the Mediterranean, a 200-kilo- 
metre race, the vistor averaging about 29 
miles. 
The powerful 500 horsepower Standard, 
which is ten feet longer than Dixie IL, is ex¬ 
pected to be fully as fast. Curiosity as to her 
abilities will be set at rest within the next 
month, as both boats will .be put through a 
grueling series of trials, and the designer of 
Dixie H. believes the new hull which has been 
built for her in Boston will add somewhat to 
her speed. 
More than thirty high-speed boats, it is re¬ 
ported, will be entered from France at Monaco, 
and the Germans will be represented as never 
before. The hydroplanes, one of the racing 
sensations last year, will be largely in evidence 
again, and some phenomenal speeds from these 
smaller and remarkable boats are predicted. 
J. T. Moore-Brabazon, of England, has been 
building a hydroplane, to be fitted with an 
eight-cylinder Antoinette engine, and, in boat¬ 
ing parlance, it is expected to be a “hummer.” 
Two fast hydroplanes have been finished in 
France, to be fitted with Brasier engines, one, 
if not both, to have two loo-horsepower 
motors. Among the big racers that Dixie H. 
and Standard will meet are Lorraine V., 
equipped with a large Lorraine-Dietrich en¬ 
gine; a Delahaye racer, and a new Mors racing 
craft. 
This year’s Monaco motor boat races will be 
the sixth annual meet of that character, and it 
promises to eclipse all of its predecessors in 
general interest. The Grand Prix International 
event, in wdiich Dixie IL and Standard will 
race against teams of three from France, Ger¬ 
many, England, and Italy, and probably other 
countries, is a loo-kilometre race, 62.1 miles. 
The prizes are 10,000 francs to the winner, 
2,500 francs to the second boat, 1,500 francs to 
the third, and 1,000 francs to the fourth. In the 
starting, nautical mile and flying kilometre, 
which are run together, the prizes are 3,000 francs 
to the winner and the Prince of Monaco cup, the 
second boat getting 1,000 francs. The Monaco 
racing rules are the most elaborate in respect 
to detail that have ever been compiled for 
motor boat contests and in the award of prizes 
it is stipulated that 10 per cent, of the winning 
money goes to the builder of the motor and 10 
per cent, to the builder of the hull. 
The races will last from April 4 to ii, the 
Grand Prix event coming on April 9, the mile 
and kilometre trials on the closing day, and the 
50-kilometre race, in which the American boats 
are entered for the Monte Garlo prize, on 
April 5. 
New Boat for C. B. Borland. 
Chauncey B. Borland, of the Eastern Y. G., 
has sold his steam yacht Monaloa IL to Com¬ 
modore Gordon Dexter, of the same club, will 
have a new boat built next season from designs 
by Arthur Binney. The new boat will be 130 
feet waterline, and it may have gas engines. It 
will be built at Lawley’s. 
Com. Richards Going South. 
Some alterations are being made in the brig¬ 
antine-rigged auxiliary yacht Columbine re¬ 
cently purchased by Commodore Leonard 
Richards, of the Atlantic Y. C., and as soon 
as these are completed, the yacht will start on d 
cruise to the West Indies, stopping at Bermuda 
some time on the cruise. 
Cleveland Yachtsmen Worried. 
Cleveland yachtsmen are rather worried be¬ 
cause there is a possibility of the annual regatta 
of the Inter-Lake Association being taken 
from Put-in-Bay and sailed at Toledo. For 
some years now this regatta has been sailed 
on Put-in-Bay because that was regarded as 
the most central place for all yachtsmen, being 
midway between Cleveland and Detroit. The 
Toledo yachtsmen are trying to have the course 
changed, and there will be a lively time when 
the rnatter is discussed at the meeting of the 
association. 
The event of this season will be the race for 
the Sumner Foster cup, for which a Massa¬ 
chusetts 18-footer is being built as challenger. 
A member of the Cleveland club, while east, re¬ 
cently visited White’s yard, where the new boat 
is building for A. W. Finlay. According to 
this yachtsman, the new boat is a keel craft, 31 
feet over all, 17 feet 10 inches waterline, 7 feet 
4 inches extreme beam, 7 feet waterline beam, 
5 feet draft, 6 feet 6 inches overhanging aft, 
4,040 pounds displacement. Her fin is thin like 
Hayseed’s and carries a lead shoe weighing ex¬ 
actly 1,780 pounds. 
Comparing her with Hayseed, some marked 
differences are apparent. Although she has the 
same waterline beam, she has less breadth on 
deck, making her a trifle more straight-sided. 
Her ends are a little higher and finer, while her 
fin is shorter where it leaves the garboards. 
John Small, the designer, talking of the new 
boat, said: 
“We ’thought it best to make no radical de¬ 
parture from Hayseed’s design. The sides are 
a little straighter and the lateral plan a little 
less. Having less beam, the ends are perhaps 
sharper, but not to any noticeable extent. We 
hope she will be as fast as Hayseed in a breeze 
and a little faster in light weather.” 
The eastern boat is double planked, white 
cedar, pj-inch inner and )4-inch outer skin. 
The most painstaking care is being taken to 
build her to the design. She will be an open 
boat with .water-tight cockpit. With the best 
spars and sails that money can buy, and real¬ 
izing that in the design they have played safe, 
it looks as though the Massachusetts Bay men 
were going to make Lakewood hustle to hold 
their present place in the 18-foot class. 
Work at Herreshoff’s. 
The new racing sloop being built at Her¬ 
reshoff’s shops at Bristol, for Chester C. 
Rumrill, of Springfield, will rate in the M class, 
and will be of composite build. The steel bulb 
angles have arrived at Bristol, and the frames 
are being bent. It is thought that Herreshoff 
must have orders for two sloops of this class, 
judging by the size of the shipment of angles 
received. 
A fast motor boat of small dimensions has 
been built this winter, and is to be tried in the 
bay as soon as the weather permits. Other 
yachts under construction are a steam tender 
for a New Haven yachtsman, a motor launch 
60 feet long and a 15-foot racing sloop. 
Spars have been received for the old sloop 
Rainbow, which will come out this year as a 
schooner. Business has improved very much, 
and the men in the shops are working full 
time. 
Motor Boat Legislation. 
Representative Greene, of Massachusetts, 
has introduced a bill in the House which pro¬ 
vides that after June i, 1909, all motor vessels 
shall carry life preservers of a kind to be ap¬ 
proved by the Board of Supervising Inspectors, 
one for each person. This act has a clause 
which applies to foreign vessels, compelling 
them to carry life preservers after Dec. 31, 1909. 
The penalty, for failing to comply is ten dollars 
for each preserver lacking. The bill was intro¬ 
duced in the Senate by Senator Frye, and the 
Senate Committee on Commerce has reported 
it favorably. 
