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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 23, 1907. 
SAIL FLAN OF STEARNS & McKAY- RACEABOUT. 
A Centerboard Raceabout. 
The accompanying lines, construction and sail 
plans are from the board of Messrs. Stearns & 
McKay, Marblehead, Mass., and show a boat 
similar and evidently to meet requirements very 
similar to the Penataquit Y. C. one-design class 
designed by Mr. C. D. Mower, of New York, 
whose plans we recently published. The fore 
and aft overhangs are a little lower and fuller 
and the sail plan narrower and higher. 
The sections show an S shape in the heels of 
the timbers on the present boat, while Mower’s 
boat ended flat. 
Either of the two would make excellent day 
sailing boats for shoal waters, but we doubt if 
either of them would beat the old style of locally 
developed bay craft so familiar on such waters 
as the Great South Bay. 
There seems to be something more needed 
BODY VLAN OF RACEABOUT. 
than a mere ability to turn out a fair symmetri¬ 
cal shaped hull when designing for very shallow 
waters. 
The native boats seem to glide along without 
sucking the bottom. All the disturbance seems 
to be in a bow and quartering wave, and that 
heavy transverse wave, so disastrous and the 
speed of “outsiders,” is hardly noticeable. So' 
the result *bf these boat trials in very shallow 
water would be of interest to those who study 
such problems. 
The dimensions of this design are as follows: 
Length—- 
Over all . 25ft. 3m. 
Waterline . 16ft. oin. 
Beam . 6ft. gin. 
Draft . 2ft. sin. 
Least freeboard .ift. 4$^in. 
Freeboard, forward . 2ft. 3111. 
Freeboard, aft . ift. 6 n. 
Area of mainsail .465 sq. ft. 
Area of fib .134 sq. ft. 
Total sail area .599 sq. ft. 
Length of mast above deck . 31ft. 6in. 
.Length of boom . 24ft. oin. 
Length of gaff . 15ft. gin. 
A New Sewell Cup Candidate. 
Desiger C. D. Mower, of this city, has an 
order from Major Weaver, of Philadelphia, for 
a boat to beat the former champions of Barnegat 
Bay, Empress and Another Old Maid. 
The latter boat, built in 1905, was of the ex¬ 
treme scow type with two centerboards of steel 
and two rudders and beat the former champion 
Empress until Mr. Mower transformed her from 
a rational boat into a freak by putting two 
boards and rudders in her. 
Then, although Another Old Maid beat her 
boat for boat, being larger she had to allow 
Empress time and Empress beat her out in the 
season’s championship. 
So the new boat has plenty to do to beat these 
two rivals. She will be about the same size as 
the others which is 18ft. on the waterline and 
anywhere from 30 to 34ft. over all with about 
9ft. beam, and hull alone drawing a foot or less 
of water. 
The famous Sewell cup down in those waters 
is the blue ribbon of the Bay, and there will 
LINES OF RACEABOUT DESIGNED BY STEARNS & McKAY. 
