822 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 25, 1907. 
Boston Letter. 
Dorothy Q arrived at Marblehead as the town 
hall clock was striking the twelve strokes that 
divided Sunday night from Monday morning. 
May 13. Her trip from Bristol was a trying one, 
but has on that very account done more to estab¬ 
lish Class Q upon a high plane than a faster 
passage in moderate weather ever could have 
done. For it has demonstrated the able, weatherly 
qualities of the type in a fashion much needed. 
The scow-mad yachtsmen, ever hostile to sensi¬ 
ble models, have long maintained that nothing 
was to be gained by the adoption of the universal 
rule and have given it indifferent support if any. 
For these men a concrete example should be a 
good dose of physic. And while, from sheer 
obstinacy they may yet acclaim the superiority 
of the scow, they can no longer deny that that 
which has been claimed for the new rule is true. 
The Dorothy Q beat down Narragansett Bay 
against a very stiff southwest breeze, then ran 
over to the Vineyard Lightship in a big sea and 
fading breeze, finally reaching Tarpaulin Cove 
with the last of the wind. The next morning 
produced a rip-roaring easterly in which, under 
three-reefed mainsail alone, Dorothy beat up to 
Lake Anthony Harbor at Oak Bluffs (ex Cottage 
City). Anyone who has traversed Vineyard 
Sound in such a breeze, with tide against the 
wind—as it was then—will appreciate the pecu¬ 
liarly nasty conditions encountered by the Gay- 
Burgess boat. They will likewise appreciate that 
while such a boat as Tyro or Marie L. might 
have made the trip there could be no compari¬ 
son between the feelings of the crew of a boat 
which battered a way to weather and one, like 
the 22-rater, whose moderate, sharp bow sliced 
a passage through the breaking seas, rising and 
falling with no tremendous jar to mark each 
lunge and actually edging to weather with each 
dive instead of slowing up and trying to twist 
away from the furious blows of the short, ham¬ 
mering seas. 
On the third day Dorothy ran to the shoals 
with a northwest wind, beat over them in light 
“sea turn” breeze, carried her kites up the beach 
to Peaked Hill bar and then, caught in a scream¬ 
ing westerly squall, fought her way, triple-reef 
in one long port tack, from Race Point to Mar¬ 
blehead, covering 112 miles in eighteen hours, or 
a shade better than six knots per hour under 
varying conditions for a long period. 
It was not a pleasure jaunt, that trip, nor do 
the men who made it seek an encore; but can 
any man of experience think of and do aught 
but acknowledge that for such an experience he 
would at once prefer the product of the new rule 
lo those ungainly boxes of the very recent past? 
At Marblehead, in commission with Dorothy 
Q are Orestes, Sally IX. and Little Rhody. The 
Crowninshield-Alden boat Essex is due any day 
now and then Fabyan craft Eleanor is tuning 
up at Bristol. Thus, with the exception of the 
Slade boat, all are now preparing for the first 
clash on May 30. 
The catboats (Class D) are having a thorough 
trying out preparatory to the season’s openin'?-, 
and from what little one can judge from in¬ 
formal brushes Emeline, brought here this spring 
by Mr. H. H. Robbins, from Narragansett Bay, 
is not likely to measure up to expectations in 
moderate to light weather. Cutting off her stem 
may have slowed her down by deepening the 
under water portion of her transom and thus in¬ 
creasing the drag. 
The continued poor weather has delayed the 
fitting out of the new Hull O. D. C. 15-footers 
so that none of them have yet been delivered at 
Hull, although long ago expected. 
The work of surveying Hingham Harbor has 
been completed by the U. S. engineers, and as 
soon as Major Burr, U. S. A., receives his final 
instructions from Washington the $10,000 ap¬ 
propriated for dredging will be spent to improve 
the narrow ribbon that passes for a channel in 
that little harbor. 
The members of the Cottage Park Y. C. 
(Winthrop) are receiving many congratulations 
upon the handsome plans of their proposed new 
club house. This is soon to be erected and will 
be one of the best of its kind in local waters, 
having been designed with scrupulous thought as 
to the particular needs of a yacht club, a thing 
that many architects and building committees 
overlook until too late. 
Like an echo to the report of the recent agree¬ 
ment among the more prominent yacht yards to 
raise and maintain at a uniform rate the charges 
for yacht storage, comes the announcement that 
many of the smaller yards, not included in the 
first combine, have agreed to raise their rates, 
for similar accommodations, about 50 per cent. 
“What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the 
gander,” and no one can blame the little fellows 
for making the most of their opportunities. 
Lumber, metals, sails, cordage, wages and 
whiskey having gone up it is perhaps natural 
that storage charges should soar likewise. Soon 
we will not only be unable to build, buy and run 
yachts, but also' unable to pay for their storage. 
It is to weep! A horrid lot is ours! And only 
one ray of hope is left us—to adopt the philosophy 
of Gen. Taylor, of the Boston Globe, and charge 
all these expenses up against our heirs. As 
they will probably all be power boat men they 
will expect to be “roasted” on all sides and will 
never know the difference. And so, boatbuilders 
one and all, I do hereby assign, transfer and set 
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-4^,. 
THE DOROTHY Q. 
