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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 13, 1909. 
New Yacht for Com. Mollenhauer. 
Commodore J. Adolph Mollenhauer. of the 
Penataquit Corinthian Y. C., of Bayshore, is 
having a new yacht built at tlie works of the 
Gas Engine & Power Company, which has been 
designed by Plenry J. Gielow. This yacht, when 
finished, will be one of the most complete and 
up-to-date yachts of her size afloat, and an im¬ 
portant addition to the fast growing fleet of 
cruising motor boats. The general dimensions 
of this yacht are, 85 feet length over all, 79 feet 
3 inches load waterline length, 14 feet 4 inches 
beam moulded, and 3 feet 6 inches draft. The 
lines are fair and easy, running in an unbroken 
sweep from stem to stern and the model shows 
power and seagoing qualities throughout. 
The hull is to be built of mild steel. The 
yacht will have a signal mast and a stack to 
give good ventilation in the galley and engine 
room. The deck is practically flush, extending 
for 55 feet froni the stem and then dropping 16 
inches on each side of a central trunk and run¬ 
ning for another 17 feet. Forward there is a 
deck house 16 feet long, and having an average 
width of 9 feet 6 inches, measured on the inside. 
This house is depressed 24 inches below the 
main deck, and is to be constructed of teak 
wood paneled both inside and out, and fitted 
with plate glass windows. This will be the 
dining room. Chairs are to be used instead of 
stationary seats. 
Aft of this on the starboard side are to be 
two steps which will lead to the main deck, and 
on the port side will be a small ice-box and re¬ 
frigerator. A dumbwaiter will connect the din¬ 
ing room with the galley below. Aft of the 
deck house will be a steering bridge 18 inches 
above the main deck, which will extend 5 feet 
fore and aft, and 6 feet athwartship. The sky¬ 
lights and all deck fittings are to be of teak, 
finished bright. 
The captain’s stateroom will be aft of the 
collision bulkhead. Then there will be the fore¬ 
castle which will be 13 feet long and on the 
starboard side, but extending 12 inches across 
the center line. On the port side will be the 
engineer’s stateroom and a toilet. The engine 
space, 10 feet 9 inches, and the full width of 
the vessel is next aft, and it is enclosed in 
watertight steel bulkheads. Aft of the engine 
space will be the galley, 6 feet 6 inches fore and 
aft and the full width of the vessel. In this 
compartment will be installed a smaller boiler 
for generating steam to heat the yacht in cool 
weather. The gasolene tank will be amidships 
and inclosed in a watertight compartment. The 
tank is to be of steel galvanized, with all 
rivets and seams soldered. It will hold 935 
gallons which will give the yacht a cruising 
radius of 600 miles at full speed or i.ioo miles 
at 10 miles an hour. 
A steel bulkhead will be aft of the gasolene 
tank, and then will come the owner’s stateroom, 
which will be 8 feet long and the full width of 
the yacht. It will have a berth on each side 
and the usual fittings. Aft of this will be the 
steerage, and then a passage, which will lead 
to a double stateroom. On the port side of this 
passage will be a large single stateroom, and on 
the starboard side a bathroom. 
The yacht will be driven by two 80-horse¬ 
power Speedway motors, which will drive the 
yacht 14 miles an hour. The new yacht will be 
equipped with two boats, an electric light plant 
and steam heat, and will be the most perfectly 
equipped vessel of her size. The contract calls 
for delivery by July i. 
Work at Herreshoffs. 
The steel frames for the composite J7-foot 
rating sloop, building at Herreshofls, for 
Chester C. Rumrill, of Springfield, are set up, 
and now the planking will be finished soon and 
the yacht ready for trials as soon as the sea¬ 
son opens; 
The sloop Irolita recently sold to L. R. Al- 
berger is at the HerreshofI shops, and is to 
be rigged as a yawl. 
A 40-foot power boat is being built here, and 
it is said that it is for Richard Croker, Jr., who 
will enter it in the trials which are to be held 
for the purpose of selecting defenders for the 
British International cup. 
The Bennett steam yacht, which is nearly 
finished, is to be sent to New Haven the first 
of next month. Things are looking up at the 
HerreshofI shops, and the work of overhauling 
and fitting out several of the yachts that have 
been in winter quarters there has started. 
Valhalla Coming Here. 
The auxiliary bark-rigged yacht Valhalla, 
which has been in this harbor several times, it 
is said, has been purchased by an American 
yachtsman, and rumor says that this yachtsman 
is W. Gould Brokaw. Valhalla came here in 
1895, when Lord Dunraven’s Valkyrie raced for 
the America’s Cup, and was again here to start 
in the race across the ocean for the Kaiser’s 
cup. Referring to this, the London Field says: 
“Fully-rigged yachts are very scarce, and the 
sale of the famous Valhalla, which for about 
eight years has belonged to Lord Crawfurd. 
will remove a most magnificent vessel from the 
British fleet, for the yacht is going to America. 
Valhalla was built by Ramage and Ferguson, 
of Leith, in 1892, and designed by Mr. \V. C. 
Storey, who has been the architect of many fine 
steam yachts, including the White Ladye, 693 
tons; North Star, formerly the Sybarite, be¬ 
longing to Mr. Whitaker Wright, 924 tons; St. 
George, 871 tons; Bacchante, 973 tons; and also 
the sailing schooners Adela and Evelyn; but 
Valhalla was by far the largest of all, for she 
is 1490 tons yacht measurement, 240 feet length, 
and 37 feet beam. Her first owner was Mr. J. 
F. Laycock. She carried a crew of about 
ninety, all told. Lord Crawfurd made many 
ocean voyages in her. and sailed about 240.000 
miles in the vessel. During these voyages his 
lordship was enabled to devote his time to 
much valuable history research, and secure 
many rare specimens for the Zoological 
Gardens and South Kensington and the British 
museunis. Among her recent voyages, Valhalla 
has visited South Trinidad, Tristan d’Cunha, 
and Borneo. Few owners of palatial steam 
yachts have made such good use of their vessels 
as Lord Crawfurd with Valhalla and Lord 
Brassey with the old but eminently seaworthy 
Sunbeam; indeed, the cruises of these craft ex¬ 
emplify the scientific service of great and last¬ 
ing benefit to this country and to the civilized 
world, to which such ships, when owned by 
distinguished men, may be devoted. Too fre¬ 
quently are large steam yachts merely employed 
as floating palaces serving no useful' purpose 
whatever. It is obvious, however, that a 
powerful and well equipped yacht such as 
Valhalla—steaming ten or eleven knots and 
sailing- well in the open sea at about the same 
speed in a good breeze—is an ideal vessel for 
scientific research in the most remote parts ot 
the world. Time is of little moment, for the 
coal need only be sparingly used when the ship 
is fully rigged. The great tonnage enables a. 
large supply of provisions to be carried and’ 
afifords room for specimens. Similarly one 
may do many things with a large ship’s com¬ 
pany that cannot be done with a smaller crew, 
aljhough the owner of a yacht with nearly 
ninety souls on board must not be a man to 
treat his responsibility lightly. Then, of course, 
in a big vessel every convenience in the way of 
launches, motor boats, sailing and life boats, 
electric lights and appliances, guns, fishing and 
sounding tackle can be carried. Lord Crawfurd 
and Lord Brassey have shown what good work 
can be done by yacht owners in the furthermost 
corners of the earth, and if they will forgive 
u.s for the reference to their cruising in rougher 
climes as though it were a circumstance in his¬ 
tory. we may express a hope that among the 
younger generation of yachtsmen there will be 
found wealthy owners, ready to forego the 
claims of fashion for the sake of science and 
follow in the wake of those men of mettle who 
have carried the White Ensign over the paths 
of the trackless ocean, not only where, to quote 
the words of Lieutenant English, the author of 
Navigation for Yachtsmen, ‘the deep blue sea 
sparkles and foams under the influence of the 
life-giving wind and the beams of a cloudless 
sun,’ but where the ‘Law of Storms’ puts a 
practical test upon the nerve and ability of the 
sailor.” 
Schooner for W. E. Forbes. 
Waldo E. Forbes has placed an order for a 
schooner yacht with B. B. Crowninshield. The 
new boat is to be a pole-masted schooner 01 
moderate sail plan; a yacht fast and comfort¬ 
able enough for club cruising, yet not an ex¬ 
treme boat for racing. The new yacht is to be 
66 feet over all, 46 feet on the waterline, 15 feet 
6 inches beam, and draft with board up 6 feet 
and with board down 12 feet 9 inches. She will 
spread 2,271 square feet of sail, with 1,276 feet 
in the mainsail. She will also carry a main 
topsail. This yacht is to be built by Rice 
Brothers at East Boothbay, Me., and is to be 
ready for delivery on May 15. 
Canoeing, 
A Canoe Cruise on Ches&peake Bay. 
Over twenty years ago C. P. Kunhardt took 
a notable voyage down the inland waters of the 
Atlantic Coast in the catboat Coot. The ac¬ 
count of his experiences was published in 
Forest and Stream, Vols. 25-27; and it is no 
exaggeration to say that to lovers of single- 
handed sailing “The Cruise of the Coot” is and 
will remain a classic. No doubt many of the 
subsequent voyages over the same waters have 
been inspired by a reading of the account of 
the cruise. 
During the summer of 1908 my gasolene 
launch. Bunny, in' which I had already cruised 
from Lake George to Washington (thus cover¬ 
ing a portion of Coot’s route) was out of the 
water for painting; and not wishing to waste 
any of my vacation, it seemed like a good time 
to take a canoe cruise from the mouth of the 
Potomac down Chesapeake Bay to Old Point, 
thus covering another section of Coot’s trip. 
Bunny’s tender is a little canoe of the same 
name as the launch; and she was the craft 
chosen for the trip. She is about as small a 
canoe as is practicable for cruising (especially 
for a six-footer like myself), being ii^ feet 
long, 26 inches wide, is decked over with the 
exception of a cockpit 18 inches wide and 514 
feet long, having copper air-tanks in each end, 
so that she can’t sink, and weighing sixty 
pounds. She was constructed of quarter-inch 
cedar by a famous builder in northern New 
York, for the excellence of whose work too 
much cannot be said. A back-rest enables the 
canoeist to sit in perfect comfort while he 
propels the dainty craft with a light double- 
bladed paddle; and as he faces forward and not 
back, he can see everything there is to be seen. 
Owing to her small size, and the proportion¬ 
ately greater strength of the paddler as com¬ 
pared with a larger boat. Bunny is under per¬ 
fect control in any kind of wind or sea that it 
is safe for a small boat to be out in; and she 
takes the weather as it comes, not having to 
confine her voyaging to smooth water and 
light breezes. 
So much for the canoe; but how about the 
outfit, and where is it to be stowed? The cap¬ 
tain of Bunny is six feet tall, and weighs 170 
pounds; and by the time his “tiny tootsies” are 
inside the little canoe there is not much room 
left for anj'thing else. But careful inspection 
reveals a space two feet long behind the back¬ 
rest and partly under the deck, and a similar 
space between the captain’s feet and the for¬ 
ward air-tank; while the space alongside him 
is amnle for tent-poles, etc. So the blankets, 
extra clothes, provisions, and so on, are stowed 
in waterproof bags that just fit the spaces re¬ 
ferred to; a tiny alcohol stove, fitting inside an 
aluminum pail, will do our cooking; an air- 
cushion serves as pillow, life-preserver, and as¬ 
sistant back-rest; a 5-pound silk tent is stowed 
alongside one of the duffle-bags; a little tin 
box contains enough for a couple of days’ use; 
