April 20, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Ticks from the Ship’s Clock. 
The directors of the Lakewood Y. C., of 
Cleveland, accepted the resignation of Carl 
Hershing, chairman of the regatta committee, 
and appointed in his place Oscar Peterson, last 
year skipper of the syndicate R. boat Lake- 
wood. He has selected four active racing men 
to serve on committee with him. George Mon¬ 
ahan, of the cruisers; Dick Herig, of the 18- 
footers; Henry Wood, of class R, and Howard 
Smith, of the catboat division. 
Two official association measurers of racing 
yachts have been elected by the Narragansett 
Bay Yacht Racing Association. Ernest L. 
Arnold is the newly chosen association meas¬ 
urer of sail yachts, and Herbert M. C. Skinner 
is the new association measurer of power boats. 
The schooner Karina, owned by Robert E. 
Todd, which captured the Brenton’s Reef cup 
from the Atlantic, Wilson Marshall, owner, last 
summer at Newport, is to try against time 
across the Atlantic this spring and with new 
sails and good spars and an excellent overhaul¬ 
ing it is probable that she will bore holes in 
the records of the Atlantic, Westward and other 
craft that ranged across the Atlantic in times 
past. 
Uniform Racing Numbers. 
At the last meeting of the Yacht Racing As¬ 
sociation of Long Island Sound an amendment 
to the existing rule was adopted, more clearly 
defining how numbers and distinguishing marks 
on racing yachts shall be carried. The present 
rule, which is that put in force at the Atlantic 
Coast, conference and ratified by all the clubs 
in that conference, allows an owner to carry 
his number almost anywhere but on the keel. 
The amendment to this rule was suggested by 
Horace E. Boucher, of the Larchmont Y. C., 
supported by members of regatta committees 
who have experienced difficulty in distinguish¬ 
ing the yachts. The rule amends paragraph 7 
of rule_ 5, as follows: 
“Racing numbers with class letter or class 
distinction mark directly above them must be 
displayed on both sides of the mainsail. They 
must be painted in dark color and clean cut 
block type on rectangular pieces of canvas and 
securely attached to the sail, so that the bottom 
of the number will be on a horizontal line with 
the throat of the sail and midway between luff 
and leach and parallel to the waterline. 
“The size of the numbers, letters or distinc¬ 
tion marks shall be not less than 15 inches each 
in-height for yachts of 30 feet and under water¬ 
line, and not less than 18 inches in height for 
yachts over 30 feet waterline.” 
Eight clubs were represented, among those 
present being President Stuyvesant Wainwright, 
Secretary James W. Alker, Frank Bowne Jones 
and Horace E. Boucher. 
Narragansett Bay Y. R. A. Schedule. 
There will be seventeen regattas open to 
power and sail yachts of all classes. The sea¬ 
son opens with the usual Memorial Day race 
given by the Fall River Y. C. 
The first race Saturday, Aug. 17, at the East 
Greenwich Y. C. The following Monday the 
yachts will race at the Rhode Island Y. C., 
Tuesday they will compete at the Edgewood Y. 
C, Wednesday at the Bristol Y. C., Thursday 
at the Fall River C., Friday at the Conanicut 
Y. C. and Saturday at the Newport Y. C. 
The season’s schedule follows, the races 
counting for championships: 
May 30—Memorial Day, open regatta off Fall 
River, Mass., Fall River Y. C. 
June I —Open regatta in East Greenwich Bay, 
East Greenwich Y. C. 
June 8—Ladies’ day. open regatta, off Edge- 
wood, Edgewood Y. C. 
June 15—Ladies’ day, open regatta, off Paw- 
tuxet, Rhode Island Y. C. 
June 22—Open regatta, off Fall River, Mass., 
King Philip Boat Club. 
June 29—Open regatta, off Bristol, Bristol Y. C. 
July 13—Open regatta, off Edgewood, Edge- 
wood Y. C. 
July 20—Open regatta, off Washington Park, 
Washington Park Y. C. 
Aug. 3—Open regatta, off Jamestown, Conan¬ 
icut T. C. 
Race week: 
Aug. 17—Open ^ regatta in East Greenwich 
Bay, East Greenwich Y. C. 
Aug. 19—Open regatta, off Pawtuxet, Rhode 
Island Y. C. 
Aug. 20—Open regatta, off Edgewood, Edge- 
wood Y. C. 
Aug. 21—Open regatta, off Bristol, Bristol 
Y. C. 
Aug. 22—Open regatta, off Fall River, Mass., 
Fall River Y. C. 
Aug. 23—Open regatta, off Jamestown, Co¬ 
nanicut Y. C. 
Aug. 24—Open regatta, off Newport, New¬ 
port Y. C. 
Sept. 7—Open regatta, off Edgewood, Edge- 
wood Y. C. 
A Rubber Non-Sinkable Boat. 
The cuts printed herewith show skeleton hull 
of two models of a non-sinkable boat. The 
unusual feature of this craft is that it is built 
of rubber, hard rubber being used for frames. 
This is covered with sheets of rubber cloth in 
such a way as to form independent air com¬ 
partments, which can be inflated or deflated, ac¬ 
cording to buoyancy required. 
The inventor, Mr. J. Pastorel, of Asbury Park, 
N. J., claims that the rubber construction will 
withstand rough usage better than metal or 
wood because it will act like a hard rubber ball 
under pressure or shock, instead of splintering 
or denting. It also is claimed that the boat will 
be lighter than a craft the same size constructed 
of other material. 
The deck of the boat is indicated at 6, and it 
is shown as having an opening or cockpit 8 
surrounded by a coaming 7. The rudder is 
shown at 9 at the stern, and it is controlled 
by means of a tiller 10. A motor ii having a 
propellor shaft 12, is used to supply the power 
to run the boat, but it is obvious that I may 
use sails or oars if desired. 
The framework of the hull is covered inside 
with sections of rubber cloth 13, which are se¬ 
cured to the keel, the gunwale and the ribs. 
These sections are made waterproof and air¬ 
tight; and the adjacent edges of the sections 
are cemented together to avoid the possibility 
of leakage. The outside of the boat, on the 
other hand, from the lower edge of the gun¬ 
wales down to the keel i, is covered with sheets 
of rubber or other elastic material, shown at 
14, and these sheets 14 must be both waterproof 
and airtight and capable of stretching to a cer¬ 
tain extent when the boat is in use. These 
sheets 13 and 14 form a number of longitudinal 
air compartments between the ribs 5; and when 
these air compartrrients are filled with air, the 
rubber sheets 14 are forced outward, as shown 
in Fig. 2, thus greatly increasing the buoyancy 
of the boat. 
Along the gunwales 4 are arranged compart- 
mental tubes 15, also made of sheet rubber or 
some other material having the same proper¬ 
ties; and 16 are valves which are employed to 
admit air to inflate the compartments formed by 
the sheets 13 and 14, and the compartments of 
the tubes 15 as well. 
The seats are shown at 17, arranged along 
the sides of the cockpit 8; and 18 is a floor. 
The_ seats 17 may also be in the form of pneu¬ 
matic cushions inflated by air the same as the 
air chambers at the sides of the hull. 
Fgs. 4 and 6 illustrate a boat having a hull 
made of a somewhat dififerent shape. In this 
form a keel 19 is connected by means of ribs 
21 to longitudinal brace 22 on each side, into 
which the keel merges at its opposite ends. 
These longitudinal braces 22 are connected by 
an upper series of longitudinal ribs 20 to the 
gunwales 4. The inside of the framework or 
hull is covered by means of sheets of rubber 
cloth 23, the same as the sheets of rubber cloth 
13 on the other views. These sheets extend 
from the gunwale down to the keel; and the 
outside of the boat is covered with sheets of 
rubber cloth 25, which extend from the keel up 
to the longitudinal braces 22 on each side. 
From these braces 22 up to the gunwales 4 ex¬ 
tend pieces of sheet rubber or other elastic 
material 24, the inside and outside sheets form¬ 
ing two series of longitudinal air chambers, one 
series being arranged above the other on each 
side of the boat, as plainly appears from Figs. 
4 and 6. The sections of sheet rubber 24 and 
the sections of rubber cloth 23 and 24, are, of 
course, cemented together along adjacent edges 
to make the air compartments perfectly air- 
. tight; and whenever it is desired to increase 
the buoyancy of the boat the air is pumped 
into the upper series of compartments on each 
side of the boat through valves 25. This will 
stretch the sections of sheet rubber shown at 
24, forcing them out into the dotted-line posi¬ 
tion shown in Fig. 6, and thus greatly 
increasing the amount of water displaced and 
the buoyancy of the boat. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has sold 
the 40-foot motor boat Hessian, owned by Com¬ 
modore James A. Boyd, of the Savin Hill Y. C., 
to George B. Morrill, of Portland, Me. 
The fast Sonder boat Eel, owned by Com- 
