March 30, 1907-] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
503 
Boston Letter. 
Hydroplaniacs are met with in every yacht 
yard while little knots of enthusiasts are seen 
on every other street corner discussing the sub- 
• ject and reminding one another that they them¬ 
selves had evolved the hydroplane theory years 
ago, but the then undeveloped condition of the 
gas engine had prevented a practical application, 
etc. 
Following the announcement last week of a 
hydroplane launch ordered of the Bath Marine 
Construction Co. comes now the news that Mr. 
Arthur Binney, of this city, has orders for two 
such craft, 20ft. long and 5ft. in breadth, each 
to be driven by a 34 horsepower automobile en¬ 
gine and they are expected to produce a speed 
of thirty miles per hour for at least “one con¬ 
secutive hour,” as the unsophisticated enthusiast 
expressed it. The Lawley Cornoration is also 
building a launch of this type, one 14ft. by 4ft. 
to be equipped with a 7 horsepower Lollypop 
engine, the euphonistic name of the gasolene en¬ 
gine which that concern is perfecting. This 
smaller launch will be used on Silver Lake near 
Plymouth, Mass., while the two Binney creations 
will disport themselves at Marblehead. 
What measures the public health boards and 
conservative selectmen will take to prevent the 
spread of hydroplania is not yet known. But 
sure it is that some drastic remedy must be 
adopted to safeguard innocent little rowboats 
and small sailing craft if it is going to be pos¬ 
sible for 14ft. and 20ft. boats to skip through a 
crowded anchorage at the modest rate of thirty 
miles per hour. 
Spring is with us once again and even though 
the thermometer may not demonstrate that fact 
beyond dispute there are other symptoms that 
establish the season’s birth most conclusively. 
For the yards are re-awakening to the rasp of 
the scraper, the gritty shriek of sand paper, the 
soft slap, slap, of the well-filled paint brush, and 
the joyous exclamations of, “Gee! but this feels 
great” as the owner of the voice stretches him¬ 
self and drinks deep of the sun-filled salt air 
of the water front. As I write the first yacht 
in commission is bowling down the harbor and 
life seems again worth while to Channing Wil¬ 
liams and his crew on the able little Aimee. 
The spring meeting of the Y. R. A. passed off 
i smoothly on the evening of the twenty-first and 
a splendid schedule of races was adopted which, 
with the usual club regattas and countless con¬ 
tests for the different one-design and local 
classes, will provide almost never-ceasing racing 
1 from one end of the bay to the other. The Y. 
R. A. schedule is as follows, but it must be 
observed that the club events and the races of 
the Eastern and Corinthian yacht clubs do not 
count for Y. R. A. percentage: 
May 30, South Boston Y. C., open race; June 
1, Boston Y. C., club race. South Boston; June 
8, Corinthian Y. C, Marblehead; June 15, Bos¬ 
ton, open race at Ffull for classes Q and X; 
Wollaston, open race for classes D and X; June 
17, Boston, open race at Hull; June 22, Corin¬ 
thian Y. C. race and ocean race to Isles of Shoals; 
, June 29, Mosquito Fleet, open race, City Point; 
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The Model of Endymion in the N. Y. Y. C. 
The handsome model of Atlantic, winner of the last trans-Atlantic Ocean Race, in the N. Y. Y. C. Model Room. 
July 4. City of Boston regatta; A. M., Eastern, 
open, at Marblehead; P. M., Corinthian, open, 
Marblehead; July 6, Boston, club race, Marble¬ 
head; July 13, Columbia, open, City Point; July 
20, Corinthian, club race, Marblehead; July 27, 
Quincy, open, Quincy; July 29, Hingham, open, 
at Hingham; July 30, 31 and Aug. 1, Boston, 
midsummer series at Hull: Aug. 3, Corinthian, 
club race; Aug. 5, Eastern, open; Aug. 6, Bos¬ 
ton, club race, Marblehead; Aug. 7, 8, 9 and 
10, Corinthian Y. C., midsummer series, Marble¬ 
head; Aug. 14, race for Crowhurst cup, Man¬ 
chester; Aug. 15, East Gloucester, open; Aug. 
17, Annisquam, open; Aug. 19, American of 
Newburyport, open; Aug. 23 and 24, Duxbury, 
open; Aug. 24. Corinthian, club race; Aug. 26 
and 27, Cape Cod Y. C., Provincetown; Aug. 31, 
Squantum, classes D and X; Boston, classes Q 
and I; Sept. 2, Lynn, open, off Nahant; Sept. 3, 
Corinthian, handicap; Sept. 7, Corinthian, club 
race; Sept. 8, annual rendezvous and marine 
parade of M. Y. R. A., Hull to City Pointy 
This provides five races in “Hull week” and 
a race every day in the midsummer. series at 
Marblehead. The North Shore circuit is once 
again, after a lapse of some years, carried to a 
logical conclusion with a race at Annisquam and 
another at Newburyport, while Provincetown, 
which last year abandoned its dates, has secured 
races for two consecutive days just after the two 
dates assigned to the Duxbury Y. C. It is not 
improbable that a sweepstakes race may be ar¬ 
ranged for the run from Duxbury to Province- 
town. 
Mr. H. Stanley Bloomfield, of the Winthrop 
Y. C., has sold his 18ft. knockabout Gertrude II. 
through the agency of L. D. Sampsell Esq., of 
New "Orleans, to Mr. Wm. P. Burke, of that 
city. She will be fitted with a cabin house to 
conform with the South Gulf Coast Y. R. rules. 
Built by Shiverick, at Kingston, in 1904, and 
not very successful her first season, she was 
greatly improved by Mr. Bloomfield’s handling 
so that in 1906 she made a very creditable show¬ 
ing. She is one of the best all around conter- 
board boats of that meritorious class and should 
render a good account of herself in southern 
waters. 
At Lawley’s boats are being hustled out of 
the shops to make room for others ready to be 
set up. The 80ft.' launch for Marshall & Spader, 
New York, is finished. She is named Ganzetta. 
The yawl Mischief, for Hamilton Busk, New 
York Y. C., is ready for launching. The 50ft. 
launch for W. C. Atwater, New York, is re¬ 
ceiving her cabin finish, as are also the twin Soft, 
launches for Gorham C. Peters, of Boston, and 
Dr. J. C. Ayer, of New York. The 56ft. launch 
for Dudley L. Pickman is well advanced. H. P. 
King’s 53ft. schooner Ranger was launched from 
the boat shop March 18. The engine is ready 
for H. W. Putnam, Jr.’s 140ft. waterline auxiliary 
schooner. It will be lifted by a derrick and 
lowered through an opening in the roof of the 
shed in which the yacht stands nearly completed. 
The steel steam yacht for Raymond Hoagland 
is plated. Bancroft C. Davis’ 55ft. launch is in 
frame. The hydroplane building for George 
Lawley will be named Lemon. The keels have 
been cast for the Tower and Agassiz sonder 
boats and they will be begun at once. The latter, 
designed by Mr. Gardner, is very like Vim with 
more fullness in the ends, while the Tower boat, 
designed by Mr. F. D. Lawley, is a cross be¬ 
tween such scows as Auk and Bonidrei on one 
hand, and the moderate Vim on the other. She 
will be named “Corinthian.” 
Mr. M. J. Kiley, the veteran yacht broker, re¬ 
ports the following sales which were made 
through his agency: The 40ft. keel cutter Win- 
nifred, to F. 'P. Valentine, of Boston; the 52ft. 
cabin launch Don, to C. L. Munroe, of New 
York, and the auxiliary knockabout Prudence, to 
James L. Forrest, Esq., of Newport. 
The April number, just out, of one of our 
monthly contemporaries, has a facetious bio¬ 
graphy of the yachting editor of the Boston 
Globe illustrated with an amusing caricature 
portrait. Those who know that the picture is 
owned and cherished by the said editor may sus¬ 
pect that the article is really autobiographical, 
and only a promise of secrecy prevents me from 
betraying the author in so many words. 
William Lambert Barnard. 
Two new and exceptionally fine models re¬ 
ceived at the New York Y. C. are the Atlantic 
and Endymion, whose photographs have been 
kindly loaned us by the club for publication. 
The Atlantic model was made by Mr. Grahn, 
the Endymion by Mr. Boucher. 
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Joseph F. Appleton, Eastern Y. C., will enter 
his 48ft. waterline schooner Takitesy in the race 
to Bermuda. A new sail and spar plan has been 
made for the schooner by Isaac B. Mills. 
