March 2, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Ticks from the Ship’s Clock. 
The growth of the Ocean City (N. J.) Motor 
Boat Club has been so rapid that extensive alter¬ 
ations are now made to the club house, which 
was finished only last year. The roof has been 
raised and the third floor altered so that there 
are twenty-five dormitories for accommodating 
the club members. 
The club is unique in the fact that it provides 
winter accommodation for week-end parties, and 
is the only South Jersey Club which extends this 
courtesy and hospitality to its members. In addi¬ 
tion to the twenty-five dormitories, six shower 
baths have been added on this floor, and six hot 
water baths. There is also a suite of three rooms 
for the steward and his family who look after 
the comfort of the members so admirably. These 
alterations will make the club house one of the 
finest along the Jersey coast, with its original 
cost of the house representing an outlay of 
$ 35 , 000 . 
It is with great pleasure we print the follow¬ 
ing card: 
“Havin.g been associated for the past twenty 
years with the late Manning’s Yacht Agency, 
we now beg to advise you that we will continue 
the yacht brokerage business in all its branches 
under the name of Jennings Yacht Brokerage 
Company, Whitehall Building, 17 Battery place. 
New York city.” (Signed by Henry H. Jen¬ 
nings and Herman Jagle.) 
Consul James Oliver Laing, at Malta, Maltese 
Islands, reports that the victory of an American 
motor boat in a race recently held at that place 
has caused favorable comment among agents 
there dealing with motors of various kinds. 
The dealers in Malta read American motor 
boat magazines, and already have sold several 
American motors, the custom of motor boat 
builders being to build the boat at home and 
buy the motor abroad. 
The King of Siam is about to order a new 
yacht to replace Maha Chakkri, the present ves¬ 
sel. Representatives of one British and one 
Japanese firm were recently in Bangkok with a 
view to obtaining the contract for the new 
vessel, which, it is understood, is to be of about 
3,000 tons, of light draft, and fitted with either 
turbine or Diesel oil engines. It will probably 
carry seven 6-inch guns. 
The well-known’cutter Galatea. 90 tons, built 
in 1885 by Lieutenant Henn to compete for the 
America’s Cup, and which has been lying at 
Plymouth, has now been sold by Marvins of 
the Cowes Yacht Agency for the executors of 
the late Mr. Henn to Mr. H. J. Beazley, of 
Southampton, and she will be leaving for the 
Solent this week. Galatea is of the plank on 
edge type so much in favor at the time of her 
build, with a beam of 15 feet only against a b. p. 
length of 90 feet, while her opponent, May¬ 
flower, was an entirely different type of boat, 
being a shallow draft centerboard yacht with a 
beam of over 23 feet on a b. p. length of 87 
feet and a measurement (American) of 80 tons 
and a Thames measurement of over 130 tons. 
Galatea will probably be worth more broken up 
than in her present yachting trim, being what 
is known among yachtsmen as a “lead mine.” 
Completely recovered from a severe attack of 
typhoid fever which has kept him at home for 
two months, Hollis Burgess is back in his office. 
He had two pleasant surprises during his illness. 
One was the notification that he had been made 
an honorary member of the Mosquito Fleet 
Y. C. through action taken at its annual meet¬ 
ing, and the other that he had been given sim¬ 
ilar membership in the Inter-Club Yacht Racing 
Association of Massachusetts. His is the first 
election to honorary membership in the Mos¬ 
quito Fleet Club in the last twenty-five years, 
and the club has had only two other honorary 
members. 
British Motor Boat Club’s 21-Footer. 
The new model, here reproduced from Yacht¬ 
ing World, is very pretty on the water and prac¬ 
tically does not change trim from rest to the 
highest speed towed at, which was much in ex¬ 
cess of that corresponding to the actual per¬ 
formance of last year’s boat, the pull being less 
than that of Angela all the time. There was 
only a slight film of spray on each side, the 
stern of the boat passing right over the bow 
waves. Hitherto the absence of bow waves has 
only been achieved by so-called hydroplanes 
meeting the water at speed with a practically 
flat bottom, as wide or nearly as wide as the 
boat’s greatest beam. This results in the bows 
of the boat being forced up in the air, it being 
easier for the water to pass under the boat than 
to one side. The action of a hydroplane is then 
similar to that of a man falling flat into the 
water instead if diving to break the fall, or, in 
other words, she pounds. Messrs. Cox and 
King’s model splits the crest of waves vertically 
as an ordinary well-designed boat and keeps her 
trim without pounding. 
Club Elections. 
KNICKERBOCKER Y. C. 
The Knickerbocker Y. C., organized in 1874, 
held its annual meeting last week, electing the 
following officers: Commodore, Dr. W. S. 
Spencer, auxiliary yawl Yankee IF; Vice-Com¬ 
modore, W. F. Duffield, auxiliary sloop Maiden; 
Rear-Commodore, W. D. Griscom, auxiliary 
sloop Surprise; Secretary, J. O. Sinkinson; 
Treasurer, George H. Cooper; Measurer, 
George Stelz; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. W. H. Peer; 
Directors—Rodman Sands, Harry Stephenson, 
W. B. Dean, Alfred Schoen and Fred L. 
Kraemer. - 
. HUGUENOT Y. C. 
The officers elected on Feb. 17 were: Com¬ 
modore, George W. Kear; Vice-Commodore, T. 
Irving Coe; Rear-Commodore, H. M. Williams; 
Secretary, J. Myrick, and Treasurer, G. P. Allen. 
Others present included Commodore H. A. 
Jackson, of the New York A. C.; W. S. Creevy, 
Vice-Commodore of the New Rochelle Y. C., and 
Dr. Brennan, President of the New Rochelle 
Rowing Club. 
HARLEM Y. C. 
At the annual meeting of the Harlem Y. C. 
BRITISH MOTOR BOAT CLUB’S 21-FOOTER. 
