Way II, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
601 
Ticks from the Ship’s Clock. 
The recently organized Twin City Power Boat 
Club, composed of motor boat owners along 
the Illinois River and Illinois-Michigan Canal, 
has voted to construct a boat house at a con¬ 
venient point near La Salle. F. B. Gerard and 
E. C. Stafford, members of the club, have two 
hydroplanes which will probably be the fastest 
craft of the Illinois Valley, capable of develop¬ 
ing a speed of 30 miles an hour. At the last 
meeting of the recently organized Joliet Motor 
Boat Club, twenty new members were admitted 
and various amusement features for the summer 
discussed. A series of races on the canal will 
be arranged. Buoys will be placed at dangerous 
points along the canal and unsightly rubbish 
along banks will be removed. 
The 18-footers on the bay will be designated 
with their class letter, I, during the coming 
summer, instead of with an Indian head, as dur¬ 
ing the past two or three years. This was de¬ 
cided upon at a meeting of the Narragansett 
Bay Eighteen-Foot Knockabout Association 
held last week. The reason given for the 
change is the fact that the sails will fit better, 
if there is no large red Indian head painted near 
the peak of the mainsail. The paint makes the 
canvas stiff and is objectionable, especially on 
very light sails. During the past few years the 
knockabouts have been the only boats sailing 
in the regattas on the bay which have not been 
designated by a class letter. 
A new racing cat-boat built by Wardwell & 
Goddard at Bristol for R. G. Meyer, of Provi¬ 
dence, is to have a trial this week. This boat 
is for the 22-foot class and is named Venture. 
She is 22 feet over all, 21 feet 7 inches waterline, 
10 feet 3 inches beam and is fitted with a center- 
board. 
The Rhode Island Y. C. opened its house last 
Saturday with a mess dinner at which were 
many members and visiting yachtsmen. 
The regatta committee of the Barrington Y. 
C. elected last week is: Thomas Delano, W. 
H. J. Watson. Samuel F. Bowden, Jonathan M. 
Barney and J. Reginald Morse. 
Not a single sailing yacht has been built at 
Herreshoffs this winter. A few motor boats 
have been turned out, and as they embody some 
new ideas in models, their work will be watched. 
It is the first time in twenty-one years that no 
sailing yachts have been built at Bristol. 
Henry C. Ward. 
Henry C. Ward, a yachtsman well known 
about New York, died May 2 at his home, 718 
Fifth avenue. He was at one time vice-commo¬ 
dore of the New York Y. C. The sloop Sagitta 
and the schooner yacht Clytie were among the 
yachts which he owned. Mr. Ward was born 
in New York in 1845, the son of the late Syl- 
vanus C. Ward. He was a member of the New 
York Chamber of Commerce and a director in 
the Ger.nan-American Insurance Company. His 
clubs were the Union, Union League, Raquet 
and Tennis, Turf and Field, Country, New York 
Yacht, Church, Huguenot Society, Ardsley and 
the Metropolitan of Washington. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has sold 
the 35-foot waterline Lawley-built sloop yacht 
Jane, owned by Robert A. Boit, of Boston, to 
Hon. William Caleb Loring, of Boston, who 
will use her on the Maine coast; the 40-foot 
motor boat Scamp, formerly owned by John D. 
Crosby, of Boston, for use on the Maine coast; 
the Hull one-design class 15-foot knockabout 
Arab, owned by John Griffin, of the Mosquito 
Fleet Y. C., to Grosvenor Calkins, of Boston, 
for use at Gloucester, Mass.; and the 30-foot 
motor boat Puffing Pig, owned by H. P. Ben¬ 
son, of Salem, Mass., to a prominent member 
of the Boston Y. C. 
Delaware River Yachting. 
The nineteen clubs comprising the D. R. Y. 
R. A. are enthusiastically making preparations 
for the week’s cruise in Chesapeake Bay to 
start May 22. The very attractive schedule of 
this cruise was announced in Forest and 
Stream several weeks ago. 
Among the clubs in the association are: 
Anchor Y. C., of Bristol; Alpha B. C.. of 
Chester; Bridesburg Y. C., of Bridesburg; Cam¬ 
den Motor Boat Club, of Camden; Columbia 
Y. C., of Bridesburg; Delaware River Club, of 
Torresdale; Farragut Sportsmen’s Association, 
of Camden; Keystone Y. C., of Tacony; Norris¬ 
town Motor Boat Club, of Tacony; Morristown 
Motor Boat Club, Morristown; Philadelphia Y. 
C., of Essington; Riverton Y. C., of Riverton; 
Trenton Y. C., of Westville, N. J.; Wilmington 
Y. C., of Trenton; Westville Power Boat As¬ 
sociation, of Wilmington; Wissinoming Y. C., 
of Wissinoming; Woodbury Y. C., of Wood¬ 
bury; West End Boat Club, of Chester, and the 
Yachtsman’s Club, of Philadelphia. 
A 50'Foot Fast Cruiser. 
A FINE type of the modern fast cruiser is 
shown in the accompanying plans by Carlton 
Wilby, of Detroit, for a gentleman well known 
in Detroit automobile circles. Although only 50 
feet in length, this boat has the appearance of 
a much larger craft, as the design has been 
worked out to avoid as far as possible that top- 
heavy and “bunty” appearance, so often notice¬ 
able in the small cruiser. 
The engines and gasolene tank are located be¬ 
low the bridge deck, which makes it a simple 
matter to arrange all engine controls convenient 
to the man at the wheel. As this compartment 
will have only a little over 5 feet headroom, this 
location for the engines might be open to criti¬ 
cism were it not for the fact that the forward 
end of the engine room comes under the raised 
deck and has ample headroom. At this end are 
located the work bench and lighting set. 
A large double stateroom with clothes lock¬ 
ers and toilet room adjoining are shown for¬ 
ward of the engine room. The after cabin is 
entered from the bridge with steps on the star¬ 
board side. Toilet room and galley are situated 
at the forward end, and the main cabin with 
transom berths each side is shown aft. 
A roomy cockpit is provided at the after end. 
with entrance to main cabin. Cockpit and 
bridge are sheltered with removable canopies, 
supported on pipe stanchions, and the bridge 
deck is further protected by a spray cloth. 
The power plant will consist of two of the 
new 50-horsepower Reynolds rotary valve en¬ 
gines, and with this power, a speed of about 17 
miles an hour is expected. 
The boat is 50 feet in length, 8 feet 6 inches 
beam and 2 feet 6 inches draft. 
A 5 O-FOOT FAST CRUISER. 
