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Smith’s 
Spar Coating 
Appearance 
The week after, even two months 
after, there probably will not be very 
much apparent dif¥erence between the 
best and half a dozen favorably 
known brands, but thereafter every 
week counts, every month makes 
the inherent difference clearer. 
SMITH’S SPAR COATING stands 
severe winter weather so successfully 
that those using other brands are in¬ 
credulous. 
Durability 
Spar Coating is much like Port 
Mine. The latter must be of a good 
vintage, the former of good ma¬ 
terials ; and both must be aged but 
not until matured are they really 
“worth while.’’ SMITH'S SPAR 
COATING is never sold until it is 
without question “worth while.” 
Cost 
To “age” Spar Coating properly 
means extra cost, but nowhere near 
as much as its additional value to 
you. The difference in your bill is 
slight, the difference in durability and 
appearance is great. 
Verification 
SMITH’S SPAR COATING was 
used on the International Cup- De¬ 
fenders, and has the endorsement of 
the leading Naval Architects, Boat- 
Builders, and Owners, at home and 
abroad. 
Winners 1908 
Giving names of winners of last 
season’s races, club officers, etc. Free 
on request. 
Edward Smith & Co. 
Varnish Makers for 82 Years 
CHICAGO NEW YORK 
TRADE MARK, 
very interesting class they make. Rumor tells 
us that the last boat on the list from the French 
designer’s board is a good deal of the scow 
type, with high freeboard and generally rather 
the look of a ilerreshoff boat. She has a ‘sawn- 
off’ counter, which is very flat underneatl'i. 
Possibly she may prove a llier in smooth water, 
but we do not fancy her chance in a seaway. 
“Many years have passed since such a strong 
class of vessels has competed, and it has been 
said that the eight 15-metre yachts will compare 
more readily to the old 40-tonners of the ‘six¬ 
ties’ and ‘seventies’ than any other rating of 
vessel—that is to say. they will fill in modern 
yachting the place occupied in the olden days 
by Bloodhound, Norman. Christine, Coralie, 
Myosotis. Christabel. and Britannia, the fine 
old vessels which fought their battles round the 
coast before their type came to be out-built by 
the narrow lead mine type by which it was 
succeeded in the eighties, and of which Silver 
Star, Sleuthhound. Annaxna, May, and Tava, 
can alone be called to mind. Our new 15-metre 
boats are 50 tons Thames measurement, about 
74 feet over all, 50 feet waterline, and nearly 
14 feet beam—big, wholesome ships planked 
with mahogany over steel frames. It has been 
found that they are all-round craft. Very fast 
in light weather witii their great sail spread of 
4.000 square feet, good in a breeze when reefed 
down, and most capable under a trying sail for 
making passages. The skippers of these boats 
all tell the same story, that they have no fear of 
them on a passage in the hardest wind that blows 
on our coast in the yachting season. The strength 
of their construction, and particularly their 
thick planking and decks, makes them a tight 
job and comfortable and dry below. Their 
combined strength and handiness, or, to use 
Mr. Froude's phrase, ‘a combination of habita¬ 
bility and speed,’ is fast proving to be the key¬ 
note of the success of this international class, 
which, in 'size, appears to have struck a happy 
medium suited to the requirements of a wide 
section of yachtsmen.’’ 
ARTHUR BINNEY 
(Formerly Stewart & Binney) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker 
Mason Building, Kilby Street, BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address, “Designer,” Boston 
COX ^ STEVENS 
Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects 
15 William Street, - -New York 
Telephones 1375 and 1376 Broad 
W. STARLING BURGESS CO., Ltd. 
John R. Purdoh, Mtnwer. 
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Office (& Works. MARBLEHEAD. MASS. 
Brokeraee and Insurance Dept., 153 Milk St., Boston, Mass 
C. D. CALLAHAN. Naval Architect. 
Designer of Y achts and Motor Boats. Construction supervised. 
San Pedro, CALIFORNIA. 
Famous Yachts Change Hands. 
Several of the best known of the racing 
and cruising yachts have recently changed 
owners, and the yachtsmen who have purchased 
them are making radical alterations in them. 
The schooner Iroquois, built years ago from 
designs by A. Cary Smith, and which weathered 
the blizzard of i888, has been purchased by a 
New York yachtsman, and is now at Wilming¬ 
ton, where she is being fitted with a gasolene- 
engine and an electric light plant. 
Frederick M. Hoyt has sold the schooner 
Amorita to Dr. W. L. Baum, of the Chicago 
Y. C., through the agency of Frank Bowne 
Jones. Dr. Baum had intended to build a 
schooner, but learning that Amorita was in 
the market, he secured that yacht. This yacht 
was also designed by A, Cary Smith, and is to 
be equipped with an auxiliary engine of 50 
horsepower and taken to the lakes. This yacht 
will be entered in the Mackinac race, which 
will be sailed in July. 
The sloop Irolita has been sold by Commo¬ 
dore E. W. Clark, of Philadelphia, to L. R. 
Alberger. This sloop was built by Herreshoff 
in 1903, and is now at Bristol where she will 
be changed to a yawl. 
The steam yacht Buccaneer, formerly Carola 
III., has been sold by George W. Wood to J. 
J. Martin, of Philadelphia. 
The steam yacht Cherokee has been sold by 
S. H. Vandergrift to John S. Kennedy. 
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