May 22, 1909-] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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VARNISH 
FACTS 
Why do the leading boat builders 
and owners buy Smith’s Spar Coat¬ 
ing when it costs more than any 
other? Simply because men with 
reputations buy goods with reputa¬ 
tions. For them the BEST is good 
enough, but not too good. Besides 
the difference in cost to you is not 
much, the difference in wearing qual¬ 
ity and appearance make it “worth 
while.” 
There are policies in all trades. 
The policy of “that’s good enough” 
is one. The policy of doing better 
than necessary is another. This lat¬ 
ter is reputation building. 
Edward Smith & Co. have been 
manufacturing “reputation making” 
varnishes for 82 years. If you want 
the best varnish or coating obtain¬ 
able, even if it costs a trifle more, 
ask for 
Edward Smiths Co.’s 
SpaLf Coating 
This was used on the Cup Defend¬ 
ers. In European shipyards, <>when 
they want the best Spar Coating, they 
order SMITH’S. 
‘Winners”—1908 
If you have not received a copy of 
our book giving names of Winners 
of last season’s races, club officers, 
etc., write us. Free on request. 
Edward Smith & Co. 
Varnish Makers for 82 Years 
CHICAGO NEW YORK 
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Dory Racing. 
The dory men are to have a busy season, and 
three match races are to be sailed in eastern 
waters. The Massachusetts dory men have 
been so successful in former matches that they 
now have to defend two trophies and the third 
is a new one offered for a series of races with 
Gravesend Bay dories. The two trophies to 
be defended are the Wagner-Lovitt cup, which 
was won two years ago in races with Nova 
Scotia sailed off Shelburne, and the Knight cup 
won from the Portland Y. C. The match with 
the Portland Y. C. will be sailed off Marblehead 
on Aug. 10, II and 12. The dates for the races 
for the Wagner-Lovitt cup have not yet been 
settled. 
The race with the Gravesend Bay dory men 
was the outcome of a visit made by Louis S. 
Tiemann, of the New York Canoe Club, to 
Boston, when an inter-bay match was sug¬ 
gested. B. S. Parmer, Chairman of the Regatta 
Committee of the Boston Y. C., at once offered 
a challenge cup, and later a challenge was sent 
to the Gravesend Bay men and at once ac¬ 
cepted, providing arrangements can easily be 
made for the transportation of the Gravesend 
Bay boat to either Hull or Marblehead. If 
this match is sailed the Gravesend Bay men 
will send four boats to Marblehead, two suit¬ 
able for light weather and two for heavy 
weather. 
The Gravesend Bay boats differ somewhat 
from the Massachusetts dories and resemble 
the Dorchester dories and gunning boats used 
around Marblehead. They are fully decked 
over and have a small cockpit, carry weighted 
centerboards and are sailed by two men only. 
The Massachusetts Bay dories have a leg-o’- 
mutton sail and jib, and the Gravesend Bay 
boats spread the regulation jib and mainsail. 
Dories are now very popular all along the 
coast. They cost from $60 to $250 each and 
their owners have lots of fun with them, and 
those who handle dories soon become expert 
sailors. 
Schooner Azalea Fitting Out. 
W. A. Power, of Hartford, Conn., has pur¬ 
chased the old schooner yacht Azalea from W. 
A. Lloyd, of Boston, and is having her put in 
commission at Nock’s East Greenwich yards, 
where she has been laid up for some time. 
Azalea is a very old craft and only the old- 
time yachtsmen will remember when she was 
launched, but none the less she is a very well- 
known boat on account of her remarkable rac¬ 
ing career. 
She was built in 1857, by J. D. Lawlor, of 
Chelsea, Mass., for the late J. M, Forbes, and 
to-day stands as a wonderful specimen of the 
naval architect of that period when such types 
were in vogue. Her rigging, spars, clipper 
bow and rounded stern bespeak her age, and on 
her binnacle is inscribed “First prize in first 
class.” 
She has won no end of prizes and has had 
the longest and most successful career of any 
yacht in the country, America not being ex¬ 
cepted, as Azalea has been in continuous ser¬ 
vice ever since her launching, while America 
was for a time in Government service. 
Her registry number is 1911, which is prob¬ 
ably the lowest on record, America’s being 
105,270. In 1903 she was entered in four runs 
of the Corinthian Y. C. of Philadelphia, was 
first in every one, and also won the commo¬ 
dore’s cup for the best average on yacht club 
runs. It is rather remarkable that at that time 
this old craft should make a run of 36 miles in 
a strong northwest wind and be only one 
minute behind a 50-foot waterline Herreshoff 
cutter of the latest type. 
She is built almost entirely of oak and with 
the exception of a few planks in the stern is in 
practically as good condition to-day as when 
built. Her over all length is about 80 feet, 
waterline 61 feet, extreme breadth 18 feet and 
draft 5 feet. She has considerable cabin ac¬ 
commodations, three good-sized staterooms, 
galley and a 15 -x 15 saloon. 
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