PERIWINKLE—CLOSE HAULED. 
and smooth under her transom, rising in a long 
flat roller that docs not regain the normal water 
level for yards astern of the boat. The tre¬ 
mendous impetus given by her propeller is well 
illustrated by the distance behind her at which 
the boiling column of water, after reacting on 
the solid water, breaks through the surface. 
Cut No. i shows the position in which the 
boat floats when at rest. 
Cut No. 2 shows how she slides up bodily out 
of water when the inclined planes formed by 
her bottom are driven hard against the unyield¬ 
ing water. It will be seen that the water shoots 
aft from under her first transom and strikes the 
second plane with an increased tendency to lift 
her upward. Though the wetted surface is les¬ 
sened by about half the pressure upon that area 
it is naturally many times greater. In the cavity 
behind the first transom one would expect great 
cavitation; but though this is present at low 
speeds, yet when traveling 18 to 21 miles it 
almost wholly disappears, nothing bu a slight 
foam being seen. 
The boats of this type, contrary to first im¬ 
pressions, are excellent sea boats; especially when 
fitted with spray or turtle decks forward. The 
inventor in an 11ft. boat has navigated the Seine 
River, successfully riding the “bore,” a tidal 
wave that sweeps up the river three feet in 
height. In that country with better, lighter two 
and three cylinder engines he has realized speeds 
of 25 and in some cases 30 miles an hour. 
What speeds we may expect to see in future 
when boats 16ft. long, equipped with a light 
French motor of 100 horsepower, the total outfit 
not weighing over 985 pounds, can better be 
imagined than described. But better than either 
the camera will be recording such performances 
in the 1 near future. 
The Hydroplane Co., whose offices are at No. 
527 Fifth avenue, are working on facts, not 
theories. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
made a very comfortable floating home. 
As tO' safety Mr. Kilbourne never had to 
worry. Her sail plan was small, containing less 
than a thousand square feet of canvas and it was 
never necessary to reef. Once in trying to see 
how far a heavy squall would lay her over, the 
foremast carried' away. In light airs she had so 
little sail that she was slow, so her owner had 
an immense staysail made to hoist clear up to 
both mast heads and fill all the space between the 
masts. 
The foremast head being the highest it looked 
like a fisherman’s staysail set backwards and 
was nicknamed the Irish staysail by her owner. 
The man who built her is long since dead, but 
Periwinkle still survives. 
Some Interesting Models. 
^ The exhibit of Messrs. Williams-Whittelsey 
Co. at the recent Motor Boat Show was made 
exceptionally attractive by the assortment of 
PERIWINKLE-A MODIFIED BLOCK ISLAND BOAT. 
handsomely finished models set out for inspec¬ 
tion in glass cases. 
Our illustration shows them in one group at 
the Boucher model shop, where they were made 
before they were sent to Madison Square 
Garden. Each illustrates a different deck 
arrangement. 
This firm’s skill as designers is shown by the 
masterly way in which all the various decks 
and houses are made to present a harmonious 
appearance. 
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HOW SKATE SAILS ARE REALLY MANAGED. 
From Wassersport. 
The Baltimore Y. C. has contracted with a 
New York builder for a racing yacht. It is in¬ 
tended to enter the yacht in the Q race at the 
Jamestown Exposition to contest for the King 
Edward $1,000 cup. William Gardiner, of New 
York, designed the boat. The yachtsmen decline 
to furnish a description of their racing machine 
until later. Commodore Henry B. Gilpin, of the 
Baltimore Y. C., was tendered a • banquet by 
friends, Feb. 23, at the Hotel Rennett. The spirit 
of yachting and goodfellowship reigned supreme. 
The tables were placed in a position to form 
an oval in order that the members would be 
face to face. A model of the £awl yacht Huron, 
Commodore Gilpin’s flagship, was in the center 
and flowers surrounded it to represent waves. 
Electric fans concealed among the flow r ers put 
them in motion and kept the Commodore’s flag 
waving from the mast. 
The club was incorporated in 1891 with thirty- 
one members. The present membership is near 
the 400 mark.' Plans will shortly be made for 
the new club house. 
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One of the New York Y. C. 57-raters, build¬ 
ing at Herreshoff’s, has been launched. She is 
described as short-ended, with the keel carried 
well aft. There are three boats in the class, the 
owners being H. F. Lippitt, George M. Pynchon 
and Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. 
Periwinkle. 
Periwinkle, a modified Block Island boat, 
was built by Mr. Richard Youmans, at Newport, 
R. I., in 1879 for Mr. Louis L. Lorillard. 
She changed hands many times after he sold 
her. A Mr. Kane once owned her, then a Mr. 
Hoffman, then James Francis and finally in 1897, 
Mr. PI. W. Kilbourne, of Brooklyn, purchased 
her. 
He and his* family, all enthusiastic yachtsmen 
and yachtswomen, lived winter and summer on 
Periwinkle. She was a familiar craft in Man¬ 
ning’s old yacht basin, then at Fifty-fifth street, 
South Brooklyn, wdiere she was kept moored in 
the line with other yachts, but was the only one 
on which the family lived aboard all winter. 
Though only 38ft. Sin. long on deck, 36ft. 6in. 
on the waterline, 14ft. 3m beam, and 6ft. draft, 
she had over 6ft. head room in the cabin and 
