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Yachting News Notes. 
The keel of the 60ft. schooner for Alfred 
Douglas has been laid at Lawleys. 
Walter S. Hughes, of Boston, is to have a 
■5ft. keel knockabout designed by B. B. Crown- 
nshield, which is building at Phinney’s, Monu- 
nent Beach. This craft will have 10ft. 9m. 
)eam. 
Quincy yachtsmen will have a one-design 
| dass of 15ft. sloops. Designs have been drawn 
jy J. F. Small. 
Charles W. Lee, New York Y. C., has pur- 
j ffiased the power boat Gansetta from James G. 
Marshall and Willard B. Spader. This yacht 
s 79ft. 3in. over all, 72ft. 4m. waterline, 11ft. 2in. 
beam and 3ft. 6in. draft. She was built in 
South Boston in 1907. 
f Paul Defrere has purchased the auxiliary Wild 
Duck, which is now fitting out for* a southern 
.cruise. 
Sir Thomas Lipton has been elected a mem¬ 
ber of the British Yacht Racing Association. 
John F. Small reports the following orders 
received: A 45ft. over all keel auxiliary 
schooner for W. H. Bailey, Jr., Fullerton, Cal.; 
a 57ft. auxiliary fishing schooner for G. L. 
Allen, of Baltimore; a 28ft. open launch for 
Leonard Tufts of Meredith, N. H.; a 33ft. open 
launch for James W. Hutchings, of Boston, and 
a 25ft. speed launch for G. A. Mason of Glas¬ 
gow, N. S. The last two are to use on Lake 
Winnipesaukee. 
Irving Cox Does Not Like Rules. 
Irving Cox, of the designing firm of Cox & 
D Stevens, returned from Europe a few days ago 
and declared that he believed that rules are 
serious obstacles to yacht racing. While abroad 
he had opportunities to look over the newest 
British yachts. When asked what he thought 
of the yachts built under the international rule, 
Mr. Cox said “I have nothing to say, but I 
do think that rules are no good in yacht racing. 
To my mind a better race results if several 
j owners meet together and agree upon time 
allowance. After all, the only really satis¬ 
factory yacht race would be between two boats 
built to the same measurement. 
“Rules have flourished to the detriment of 
! yacht racing. A condition exists to-day where 
the English have their international rule and 
we have our own slightly different. Neither 
will give in to the other in an effort to make a 
uniform rule. The result is that if Sir Thomas 
Lipton were to build a challenger for the 
America’s Cup under the American rule and 
Commodore Morton F. Plant, for instance, 
were to build a 23-metre boat to race under the 
English rule, neither yacht would be able to 
race in its owner’s own country. Moreover, a 
boat built under the so-called America’s Cup 
rule would be of no good in either country or 
in any waters.” 
Steam Yacht for George F. Baker. 
George F. Baker, of the New York Y. C., 
owner of the speed launch Vim, the winner of 
the New York-Poughkeepsie race and who last 
season chartered the steamer Issaquenna, has 
placed an order for a steamer with Theodore 
i D. Wells. The plans and specifications have 
been drawn, and it is said that the yacht will 
be built by the Pusey Jones Company at Wil¬ 
mington, Del. The new yacht will be similar to 
Celt owned by J. Rogers Maxwell, which was 
built at Wilmington. The dimensions are 170ft. 
over all, 138ft. 6in. on the waterline, 23ft. 7in. 
beam, 13ft. 3m. depth and 11ft. 6in. draft. The 
yacht will be driven by triple expansion engines. 
Naval Architects to Meet. 
The sixteenth annual meeting of the Society 
of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers will 
be held on Nov. 19 and 20 in the Engineering 
Societies Building. As usual the meeting will 
close with a banquet at Delmonicos. 
Yachts Laid Up. 
Those in winter quarters in Manning’s Basin, 
South Brooklyn, are: Steam yachts—Edithia, 
John A. Hanan; Norman, Frank Tilford; Semi¬ 
nole, John N. Robins; Carola, Commodore 
Leonard Richards; Aphrodite, Col. Oliver H. 
Payne; Allegheny, William A. Jamieson; Belle- 
mere, Mrs. M. H. Slater; Courier, B. F. Keith; 
Illini, Edward Field Goltra; Alice, Frederick D. 
Underwood; Margaret, Isaac E. Emerson; 
Charavi, Walter Hauxhurst; Atreus, John Hays 
Hammond; Conqueror, F. W. Vanderbilt; 
Mayita, Charles B. Mason; Lagonda, L. G. 
Fisher, Emrose, Andrew W. Rose; Nomad, 
Ernestus Gulick; Surf, C. K. G. Bill¬ 
ings; Gunilda, W. L. Harkness; Thetis, 
Hiram W. Sibley; Inga, C. H. Matthiessen; 
Calypso, R. C. Veit; Reverie, E. B. Corey; 
Nylked, B. E. Kelly; Claymore, Franklin 
Haines; Halcyon, Caswell, Patricia, Columbine, 
Scamp and Peerless. Auxiliaries and others— 
Marjorie, Comanche, Ariadne, Queen Mab, 
Fleetwing, Antietum, Apache, Natomah, Senta, 
Montauk; and the steamboats Martha, Osprey 
and Seawanhaka. 
International Motor Association. 
The International Association of Motor 
Yachting, which was recently organized in 
Europe is composed of the following clubs: 
Belgium—The Royal Belgian Y. C. 
France—Automobile Club de France, Yacht 
Club de France, Helice Club de France. 
Germany—German Motor Yacht Association, 
which is composed of the Kaiserlicher Auto¬ 
mobile Club, Kaiserlicher Y. C., German Motor 
Boat Club, Rheinischer Motor Y. C., North 
German Automobile Club and the Motor Y. 
C. of Germany. 
Great Britain—Motor Y. C., Sussex; Motor 
Y. C., Scottish Marine Motor Club, Motor 
Y. C. of Ireland. 
Italy—Royal Italian Y. C. 
Monaco—The International Sporting Club. 
The British clubs will be officially represented 
on the executive committee of the International 
Sporting Club during the Monaco race. 
18-Footers for New Haven Club. 
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measurement of the clubs racing on the At- 
antic Coast. Some slight changes were made in 
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the same as those in force here. 
The scantling of the Yacht Racing Association 
of Massachusetts, which was recently adopted 
at the Atlantic Coast Conference, was also 
adopted by the Great Lakes Union. 
The changes in the rules will affect fourteen 
clubs racing on lakes Huron, Erie and St. Clair 
enrolled in the Inter-lake Yachting Association; 
nine clubs on Lake Michigan forming the Lake 
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