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somewliat. All fastenings are copper, cedar-’ 
planked, oak frames, and scantings same as 
those in average iS^foot knockabout. Sails will 
be made by Cousens & Pratt, Boston, of 5- 
oimce duck. The price complete will be $500, 
and they are a bargain at one-third more than 
that figure. 
Death of Commodore Towen. 
William Charles Towen, vice-commodore 
of the National Y. C., died on March 19 at the 
Hotel Knickerbocker, New York, after a long 
illness. 
Mr. Towen, who was born in Detroit, Mich., 
fifty-four years ago, came to New York when 
he was a boy. He served in the United States 
navy from 1875 to 1879, on the Vermont and 
later on the Tennessee. He spent a year travel¬ 
ing around the world for the United States 
Naval Service in 1894. 
Mr. Towen was vice-president and a director 
of the Frazer Hollow Boat Company and a di¬ 
rector of the United States Title Guarantee and 
Indemnity Company, a member of the ’United 
States Army and Navy Veterans, the Knights 
of_ Columbus, the Tammany Society and the 
Michigan Society. His clubs were the Demo¬ 
cratic, Atlantic Yacht, Brooklyn Yacht. Colum¬ 
bia Yacht, Bayside Yacht, Shelter Island Yacht, 
Country and Catholic. 
He leaves a widow, and one daughter, Mrs. 
Vincent S. Lippe, of this city. 
Another Challenge for International. 
The Sussex Motor Y. C.. of Brighton. Eng¬ 
land. of which the Duke of Westminster is com¬ 
modore, has issued a challenge for the British 
International trophy,' and it has been accepted 
by the Motor Boat Club of America. As the 
Royal Motor Y. C. has full charge of all chal¬ 
lenges in England, elimination trials will be held 
abroad before selection for membership in team 
of three that will come from Great Britain to 
try for the trophy. Erom present indications 
there will be two entries from France and pos¬ 
sibly three, while every day brings rumors of 
another possible defender, the latest rumble 
coming from the Great Lakes in the neighbor¬ 
hood of Michigan avenue. 
Almost every city on the Atlantic Coast has 
BUILD STEEL BOAT 
From paper patterns and printed instructions. Work easy 
and delightful. Material furnished. Also completed boats. 
Send today for catalogue and prices. 
F. H. DARROW - 515 Perry Street, Albion, Mich. 
ARCTIC HUNTING 
• For charter, ship fully equipped, specially built 
for ice work, for one or more months’ cruise in 
Greenland or Spitzbergen and Franz Josef’s Land 
waters, will accommodate party of 5 to 15. Polar 
bear, reindeer, fox, seal, walrus, Arctic birds, 
fishing. 
ARCTIC, 1004 Oliver Bldg., Boston, Mass. 
ARTHUR BINNEY 
(Formerly Stewakt & Binnev) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker 
Mason Building. Kilby St.. BOSTON. MASS. 
Cable Address, “Designer,” Boston 
COX (SL STEVENS 
Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects 
15 William Street - New York 
Telephones 13?5 and 1376 Broad 
NEW ONE-DESIGN CLASS FOR MARBLEHEAD CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB. 
Larchmont Racing Dates. 
The season of the Larchmont Y. C. will open 
June 15 with the spring regatta for all classes. 
It will be the first big regatta of the year on 
Long Island Sound waters. On July 4 the club 
regatta will be sailed. Race week will be from 
July 20 to 27. The fall regatta will be held on 
Labor Day. Races also will be held June 22 
and Aug. 31 for its interclub class of boats. 
At a special meeting Section 3 of Chapter 13 
of the by-laws was changed as follows; 
Chapter XIII., Sec. 3.—Change the word 
“second” at the end of the first line to “third,” 
and the word “third” at the end of the second 
line to “fourth,” so that the section now reads: 
"A race week commencing on the third Satur¬ 
day after the Fourth of July and ending on the 
fourth Saturday after the Fourth of July in 
each year.” 
The amendment was made necessary in order 
that there would be no conflicting dates among 
the Eastern, the Larchmont and the New York 
yacht clubs. The change permits the larger 
boats to sail in the annual race week of the 
Larchmont Y. C. this year. 
Ex-Commodore Wilson Marshall has offered 
a handsome prize for one of the more important 
divisions. As Commodore Richards and the 
other flag officers have offered trophies for the 
various schooner classes, the Marshall cup will 
go to the winner of the 65-foot division of 
sloops. 
Istalena was the only 65-footers in commis¬ 
sion last year. In addition to the sloop of 
ViceCommodore Pynchon, it is known that 
former Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt in¬ 
tends to race Aurora and that Winsome will be 
sailed by her new owner, E. Trowbridge Hall. 
New One-Design Class. 
Erom plans by John G. Alden, of Boston, 
Stearns & McKay Co., of Marblehead, are 
building a number of one-design boats for 
members of Marblehead Corinthian Y. C. The 
boats are 24 feet over all, 15 feet waterline, 6 
feet beam, 4 feet draft. They will carry 1,000 
pounds outside and 200 pounds inside lead. 
They were built well and strongly, which fact, 
Mr, Alden says, will probably retard speed 
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