Oct. 31, 1908.] 
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is the toilet room 4ft. long and extending the 
full width of the yacht and fitted with a closet, 
wash basin, and linen locker. Aft again is the 
cabin 13ft. 6in. in length fitted with a wardrobe 
on each side at the forward end, a sideboard on 
the port side and an ice box on the starboard 
side. The motor and steering gear are in tne 
cockpit which will also be fitted with rattan 
chairs. The yacht is to be built in a most sub¬ 
stantial manner and handsomely finished. 
It will be equipped with two 20-horsepower 
motors arranged to be operated by the helms¬ 
man, thus making the craft a one-man boat. 
The speed will be 12 miles an hour. The gaso¬ 
lene tank is to be forward of the collision bulk¬ 
head, and will have a capacity for a cruising 
' radius of 300 miles under full power or 500 miles 
at ten miles an hour. 
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New Cups for Power Boats. 
There was a meeting of the American Power 
Boat Association last week at the Waldorf- 
Astoria, and the delegates ratified the action 
of the executive committee in offering two 
more challenge trophies to be raced for under 
conditions similar to those governing the Gold 
challenge cup. The races for that trophy have 
for some time been the best of the year, and it 
was thought wise to offer cups for power boats 
of smaller classes. The Gold challenge cup is 
for vessels not exceeding 40ft. over all length. 
The next class is for vesels not exceeding 32ft. 
over all length, class Y, and the third for vessels 
not exceeding 20ft. over all length. In each of 
these classes there is no limit to power, but all 
must be able to go astern at the rate of four 
miles an hour. 
The conditions governing the Gold challenge 
cup were amended to read as follows: 
“Any recognized yacht club in North Amer¬ 
ica, a member of the American Power Boat As- 
i sociation, and any recognized yacht club of good 
I standing in any other continent, shall always 
have the right to challenge for a match, provided 
such challenge shall be made and such match 
sailed in accordance with the terms and con¬ 
ditions of this agreement.” 
The American Power Boat Association is not 
! going to passively submit to the Automobile 
Club of America. It will continue to act for 
the clubs enrolled in the Association, and it will 
be interesting to watch the efforts of the Auto¬ 
mobile Club to wrest control of the sport from 
I this association. 
After the delegates had got through with their 
deliberations they listened to remarks made by 
Surveyor of the Port James S. Clarkson and 
Deputy Surveyor Smythe. Mr. Clarkson said 
j that the laws of the country relating to navi- 
I gation had scarcely been revised since 1878, and, 
! as that date was somewhat before the introduc- 
1 tion of motor boats and other power boats, the 
: laws took small cognizance of anything in their 
line. He said that the government would soon 
, have to take action to provide uniform regu¬ 
lations for power boats as to lights, whistles, 
! life preservers and other things which are re¬ 
quired on all larger boats. 
Deputy Surveyor Smythe told the associa- 
! tion that numerous complaints had been re¬ 
ceived in the Surveyor’s office within the last 
; few months as to the noises of power boats on 
! the Pludson River, particularly from the River- 
j side Drive section, the residents of which, he 
said, had been bothered in the early morning 
and late at night by the explosions of the gaso¬ 
lene engines of the power boats. 
Owners of yachts and small motor boats, he 
said, seemed to have an idea that the govern- 
1 ment should not interfere or try to provide reg¬ 
ulations as to life preservers, lights, whistles 
and other safety appliances because they did not 
come under the head of public utilities, but were 
used only for the transportation of the owner’s 
guests. This, the Deputy Surveyor said, was a 
wrong view for the boat owners to take, because 
with government regulation not only would 
the safety of other boats in the river be in- 
■ creased, but also the regulation would work for 
their own safety. 
Mr. Smythe declared the government should 
i order that all boats, whether privately owned 
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or used for public transportation, should have 
licensed engineers and pilots while in the waters 
about the city. He said there were between 
ten and twelve thousand such small boats, 
privately owned, plying in the waters about 
New York, and the absence of a regular pilot 
many times militated against the safety of other 
craft in the river as well as against their own 
safety and comfort. 
Gertrude IV. Finished. 
Gertrude IV., a cruising power boat built at 
City Island for Com. George VV. Butts, of the 
Huntington Y. C., from designs by Henry J. 
Gielow, has been completed and launched. This 
yacht is a very handsome one and should be a 
good comfortable cruising craft. The dimen¬ 
sions are: 95ft. over all, 89ft. on the waterline, 
14ft. beam and 4ft. iiin. draft. The hull is of 
mild steel of from 60,000 to 68,000 pounds tensile 
strength, and is practically equal to marine 
boiler material. She has a military mast for dis¬ 
playing colors and signals and a stack for ven¬ 
tilating the galley and engine room, the latter 
and the gasolene department occupying a space 
of 15ft. fore and aft and 10ft. athwartships. This 
space is inclosed by steel watertight bulkheads, 
which are lined with asbestos. 
The motive power consists of two standard 
engines, each of 50 horsepower, which will give 
a speed of about 13 miles an hour. 
The owners’ and guests’ quarters consist of 
a cabin of liberal dimensions and two state¬ 
rooms, with bath and toilets. There is locker 
room enough for a boat of twice her size, while 
the plan of heating and electric lighting is up 
to date in every respect and has been most care¬ 
fully thought out. 
The joinerwork and woodwork generally is of 
polished mahogany, while the plumbing is of 
the open type, with nickle plated mountings ana 
fittings complete. The bath room floor is tiled, 
as are also the sides and bulkheads of this com¬ 
partment. 
The fresh water tanks are under the cabin 
floor. The gasolene tanks are amidships and 
have a capacity of 800 gallons. They are in¬ 
closed in steel watertight bulkheads, with a steel 
floor above the load waterline, arranged with 
scuppers to drain overboard. 
Gertrude IV. was designed by Henry J. 
Gielow, and she has been built under the super¬ 
intendence of Pierce O. Davis, of City Island, 
the hull work, in fact, the entire work of the 
vessel, merits commendation. Commodore 
Butts has given it much personal attention, 
which has materially counted in the general 
arrangement of the tidy craft, and so it is be¬ 
lieved that Gertrude IV. will attract attention 
at all times. 
Gertrude IV. has been given the signal letters 
K, W, R, J, and her official number is 205,684. 
Sloop Virginia now a Housebout. 
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., recently sold the 70ft. 
sloop yacht Virginia to Henry M. Smedley, 
who, after removing the lead on the hull, sold 
the hull to Robert Barrie, a member of the 
Corinthian Y. C. of Philadelphia. The yacht 
is now at the yard of Robert Jacob, at City 
Island. She is to have inside ballast put in. 
altered to a house boat, have her rig cut down 
and then sent to the Delaware. 
Virginia was one of the four yachts built by 
Herreshoff in 1900. Four members of the New 
York Y. C, agreed to build 70-footers of one 
design. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt had 
Rainbow, which has since been altered to a 
schooner, August Belmont had Mineola, H. P. 
Whitney and Herman Duryea had Yankee and 
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., Virginia. These boats 
raced hard through their first season, and al¬ 
though some changed owners, they raced more 
or less until two years ago, when Yankee, then 
owned by Harry L. Maxwell, and Rainbow met 
in many contests. 
Yankee was the first to change hands. She 
was purchased by J. Rogers Maxwell, who later 
gave her to his son, and she is now laid up at 
Tebo’s South Brooklyn Basin. Mineola was 
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