April 27, 1907.] 
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WILLIAM GARDNER. 
Naval Architect. Engineer, and 
Yacht Broker. 
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SWASEY. RAYMOND (SL PAGE 
- OF BOSTON 
DESIGNERS OF - 
MOTOR AND STEAM YACHTS 
THE PIGEON HOLLOW 
SPAR CO. 
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Shipbuilding & Repair Co. 
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Houseboats and Houseboatin^ 
BY ALBERT BRADLEE HUNT. 
A V i?l U m, e rn d fc V0 ^ d ^ ?- ne , W outdoor field, which has for 
its purpose three objects: 
First-To make known the opportunities American waters 
artord for enjoyment of houseboating life. 
Second-To properly present the development which 
nouseboating has attained in this country. 
Third—To set forth the advantages and pleasures of 
houseboating in so truthful a manner that others 
may become interested in the pastime. 
b °°j e° n . tains for ty specially prepared articles by 
l™,' and designers of well-known houseboats, and is 
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eproductions of plans and exteriors and interiors. A 
England 16 ^ 54 " 18 chapter is devo ‘ed to houseboating in 
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City Island News. 
We reached City Island by means of the same 
old single decked, abbreviated edition of a horse 
car. 1 he same horse, the same driver, same 
lace curtains to the windows, the same trees 
scratched the nailed up windows on the starboard 
side, and the same highwayman robbed us of 
ten cents each for the bone shaking trip from 
steam cars to the water. 
At the yard of Robert Jacob there was con¬ 
siderable activity. The steel auxiliary yawl for 
Mr. Goetchius was all plated and the spring 
deck was being put on, each plank being bent 
around to the curve of the side of the boat and 
fastened through the steel deck beams from be¬ 
low. She shows a handsomely shaped hull now 
the plating is all on. The two large steel launch 
hulls for Messrs. Proctor & Billings, are all 
plated and getting their interior fittings and 
machinery in. About a dozen boats have been 
launched and from now on they will be going 
over nearly every day. 
High up on four or five different masts men 
in boson’s chairs were hard at work scraping the 
white lead and tallow off the masts, and sand¬ 
paper scratching is heard all around the yard as 
the hulls are smoothed off preparatory to paint¬ 
ing. 
Hanging by tackles at the end of the pier 
almost under the stern of the big cup defender 
Reliance, was a novel looking craft that demanded 
closer investigating. It was an experimental hull 
on the glide boat principle. Mr. Peter Cooper 
Hewitt was responsible for it. The main hull 
was a lightly built 30ft. mahogany double-ended, 
bluff-bowed craft, about 4ft. wide. A frame 
work of nickle steel tubing about 3m. diameter, 
consisting of two fore and aft tubes one each 
side along the gunwale, crossed by shorter tubes 
of the same diameter at each end and the middle, 
supported a series of flat, thin wooden planes, 
two forward and two aft, on which the hull was 
supposed to glide, raising the hull bodily clear 
of the surface of the water. Each of the gliding 
planes consisted of a large upper board' about 
i8in. wide fore and aftways by 30m. long out 
from the sides. Below this was another similar 
but small board, and below that still another. 
The idea was that the harder the hull is driven 
ahead on these planes the higher she will lift, 
as each plane has a tip up of about an inch on 
its leading edge, and the higher she lifts the 
harder the pressure becomes so the smaller the 
area of the planes also becomes. It is to demon¬ 
strate the correctness of this theory Mr. Hewitt 
has built and is trying this odd looking craft. 
The power is furnished by an eight cylinder 
gasolene engine of his own design that develops 
about 125 horsepower. The propeller, contrary 
to the usual custom, is under the forward part 
of the hull, pulling as it were instead of push¬ 
ing; the power being transmitted through bevel 
gears forward of the reversing gear, which also 
is just forward of the engine. Two gasolene 
tanks on the after deck add to the peculiar out¬ 
line of this craft. That she actually will lift 
was demonstarted last fall when a trial was made, 
but there was so much commotion kicked up by 
the planes, braces etc., that water was shipped 
aboard, getting into the carburetter and stopping 
the machinery. To prevent a repetition of this 
a spray hood has been fitted to cover the engine 
and forward part of the cockpit. 
At Wood’s yard, next door, the large steel 
hull of the Foster launch is all plated and riveted, 
while inside stands the Crane designed sonder 
class boat, for Mr. Lewis F. Clark, and behind 
her the handsomely modeled new Gardner design 
Class Q boat, for the Baltimore Club syndicate, 
just receiving the last of her Washington cedar 
deck over which canvas is to be tacked. 
It seems a pity that such beautifully modeled 
craft should have no more than a foot well and 
companion slide on the deck, but for extreme 
racing it is all any of them carry. The model 
and workmanship of this boat is about perfection. 
The sonder boat. No. 2788, is just planked with 
Ya inch cedar. Her frames show a deep one every 
three battens bent on the flat between, screwed 
fast to keep the seams tight of about y 2 in. by 
Y m - oak. She has the peculiar square look on 
fourth timber, about %'m. by 2iu. riveted, with 
ARTHUR BINNEY, 
(Formerly Stbwart & Binnby.) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker, 
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Naval Architects and Engineers 
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