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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 2, 1907. 
Vitesse. 
The accompanying plans and photo of the 
twin screw steam yacht Vitesse show the de¬ 
velopment of the fast ferry yachts that carry 
their owners to and from business between New 
York and suburban homes either out Long Island 
Sound or up the Hudson. 
This boat is owned by General Brayton Ives, 
a member of the New York Y. C., and makes 
regular trips up and down the Hudson, varied 
w hen business permits by a pleasure trip out the 
Sound and even well to the eastward, as she is 
a fine sea boat. Speed being the first requisite, 
a great part of her interior is given up to the 
machinery necessary when such a speed as 27.3 
miles is attained. Her engines are of the triple 
expansion type, 10 inch stroke, developing 450 
horsepower each. Her boilers are the Seabury 
double ended type. Her model shows a water¬ 
line a little rounded forward, ending in a peculiar 
wide circle at the chine log aft. The bow sec¬ 
tions show a little flare, the stern being finished 
with a short overhang moulded into a flat tor¬ 
pedo shape at the water. 
As to construction, her planking is made up 
of two thicknesses of fys'm. yellow pine. Her 
frames are oak with steel floors connecting them 
at keel. The cabins are finished in butternut 
and dark mahogany. 
All told she carries nine men. Captain, two 
engineers, two firemen, cook, steward and two 
deck hands. She steers from a bridge abaft the 
forward house with raised awning over it. The 
small signal mast is hinged at the top of the 
awning. Two boats are carried stowed on top 
of the cabin house. 
Vitesse was designed and built by the Gas 
Engine and Power Co. and Chas. L. Seabury & 
Co., in 1 qo.Y 
Her dimensions are: 
Length— 
Over, all .120ft. oin. 
Waterline .1 xSft. 6in. 
Beam . 12ft. 6in. 
Draft . 4ft. oin. 
Freeboard— 
At bow . 6ft. 1 oin. 
Least . 4ft. oin. 
At stern . 4ft. 4m. 
Speed . 27.3 miles. 
Coal capacity . Q tons. 
Water capacity . 800 gal. 
Displacement . 75 tons. 
The light house board gives notice that March 
20 a first class spar buoy will be placed 600 feet 
southeasterly of Mary Ann Rocks, near Manomet 
Point, off Plymouth Harbor. 
Yachtsmen last season were interested in the 
performance of a launch named Going Some, Mr. 
J. Imsley Blair owner, who with Capt. McKay 
w T ere experimenting on a new theory of yacht 
design. This year the same principles have been 
incorporated in a 30ft. mahogany planked launch 
equipped with a 7 horsepower Moyd engine 
which is expected to develop 15 knots an hour. 
The idea is that the bottom of the boat in a 
fore and aft way forms an arch. The bow being 
the deepest point and the buttock lines, instead 
of sweeping down and up again in a long, easy 
curve, arch up, being shallower in the middle 
than at the ends. 
This particular boat, an excellent piece of 
work, by the way, was built by the firm of Purdy 
& Collison, of City Island, and is named Winkler. 
I11 model she resembles the old Dolphin, of 
the inverted wedge type. Take that boat and 
let her hog about six or eight inches so the 
ends are lower than the middle and you have a 
good impression of Winkler. 
Her arrangement as regards cockpit includes 
a torpedo deck forward, then a flaring cockpit 
with engine in the forward end of it. A low 
bulkhead aft of it to carry operating gear, steer¬ 
ing wheel, etc., with a seat for helmsman and a 
passenger cockpit aft of this. The backboard, 
with name carved on it, forms a back to the 
lounging seat in the stern. The after deck is 
of fair length. 
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The South Coast Y. C.. of Los Angeles, Cal., 
have sent out beautifully engraved invitations, 
with flags embossed in colors, to all prominent 
clubs and yachtsmen of the country, inviting them 
to participate in the ocean race arranged between 
that club and the Hawaii Y. C., of Hawaii. The 
start will be made on June n from San Pedro, 
Cal., the finish at Honolulu. 
This race is open to all yachts of not less 
than 40ft waterline, to be confined to any regu¬ 
larly organized yach club of any country, with¬ 
out restrictions as to rigging, crew (professional 
or amateur), or sails, but no motive power other 
than sails shall be used. The time allowance 
will be given, based on one-half hour per foot 
for racing length; the entire distance of racing- 
length to be the load-water line length, plus one- 
half the length of the overhang. 
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Mr. L. D. Huntington, Jr., of New Rochelle, 
has built himself a new knockabout, 23ft. long 
by 8ft, beam drawing about 4ft. of water and to 
be rigged as a knockabout with no bowsprit. 
Her fore and aft profile is most odd. The 
stem is quite high and the center line of her 
deck is a straight line to the stern which, of 
course, is somewhat lower than the bow. A 
small, round cockpit with low oak coaming is the 
only break in this deck. 
A heavy oak half round outlines where the 
sheer line is supposed to be, emphasized by paint¬ 
ing the side above it, which continues on up to 
the deck line with considerable tumble home, a 
different color. 
The shape of the hull resembles more than 
anything else we can think of, a double ended 
motor boat hull with keel added. 
Lhider sail she may look less odd. 
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H. Holton Wood, of Brookline, has bought the 
Herreshoff sloop Hope, of Mrs. S. P. Colt, 
through the agency of Hollis Burgess. Francis 
A. Houston, of Concord, has bought the cruis¬ 
ing knockabout Aspenent of Frank Barr, of Win¬ 
chester, through the same agency, which also 
negotiated the sale of the 21-footer Little Haste 
and the 22-footer Setsu. 
VITESSE-A SEABURY SPEED LAUNCH. 
