FOREST AND STREAM 
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Eastern Yachting News. 
Boston, Nov. 30. —The offer of Sir Thomas 
Lipton. to give a cup for 27-footers to race for, 
and which shall be emblematic of the class 
championship, has created much interest in the 
class, and it is possible that when the Atlantic 
Coast Conference has finally settled the rating 
rule, that some orders will be placed for yachts 
in this class. At the close of last season several 
yachtsmen favored the 27-footers for next sea¬ 
son’s sport, and it needed only the stimulus 
given by the Tipton cup to give the class a 
boom. Onda IT., built for John Greenough, 
raced last year and did well, although she had 
little to beat in her class. When racing against 
larger yachts, though, she showed that she was 
a remarkably fast craft. 
The conditions are practically the same as 
for the Lipton cup for the 22-raters, with the 
exception that races of the Corinthian and 
Eastern yacht clubs, as well as those of the 
Y. R. A. of M., will count for championship 
percentage. The stipulation is also made that 
amateurs must sail the boats. This clause was 
evidently put in to prevent professional skippers 
being engaged to sail the boats, as in the case 
of Eleanor, which captured the Lipton cup for 
22-footers, and the fact that this clause is in 
the deed of gift will probably prevent at least 
Mr. Fabyan from building to the class. 
The cup comes in a good time, for there is 
nothing in sight for Massachusetts Bay, in the 
shape of new interest, that amounts to much 
except the coming international Sonder boat 
races. The cup is to be won by the boat which 
captures the championship of the class for three 
years. 
While it is known that several yachtsmen look 
with favor on the 27-rating class, the interest in 
the international Sonder boat races may deter 
them from building this season. 
Word has been received from Vice-Commo¬ 
dore F. Lewis Clark, of the Eastern Y. C., that 
he will have a boat for the Sonder class next 
year. This boat will take part in the trials to 
be sailed off Marblehead next August. Com¬ 
modore Clark says that out in Seattle, where 
he has large interests, the coming international 
contests are attracting attention, and that it is 
possible that a boat may be built to represent 
Seattle in the races. 
Spokane I. was owned by Vice-Commodore 
Clark in the first races in which the Germans 
took part. She made a fairly good showing in 
the trials, but was not quite good enough to 
be selected last year. Spokane II., owned by 
Mr. Clark, captured two specially designed cups 
from King Alphonso and the queen of Spain in 
Spanish waters, also taking several trophies in 
Germany, where he and his party were enter¬ 
tained by Emperor William. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has sold 
the 40-foot waterline sloop yacht Petrel, owned 
bv Rear-Commodore Walter C. Lewis, of the 
Boston Y. C.. to a Boston yachtsman. Petrel is 
57 feet over all, 40 feet waterline, T5 feet 5 inches 
beam and 9 feet draft. She carries 2,200 feet of 
sail and has two large staterooms and a com¬ 
fortable cabin. She is a flush-decked yacht of 
modern construction. 
Petrel will be used by her new owner for 
cruising and racing and will be seen in both 
Boston and New York waters. 
President Albert W. Finlay, of the T8-foot 
knockabout association, is to have an 18-footer. 
Onlv one new boat, Reina, owned by J. H. 
McKie, has been built in this class in four 
years. A new yacht was wanted to meet Hay¬ 
seed and Bonitwo on Lake Erie next summer 
in the match for the Sumner H. Foster trophy. 
None of the existing 18-footers are fast enough 
to beat these two craft, and as no member of 
the association seemed inclined to build, Mr. 
Finlay ordered a boat. This craft is to be from 
designs by JqTiii F. Small, designer of Hayseed, 
which won two championships in the class be¬ 
fore she went to the lakes. The new boat will 
be an improved Hayseed. 
Lawley has a number of orders ahead for 
1 'rge cruising power craft. Burgess and 
Stearns & McKay at Marblehead are busy on 
[Dec. 5, 1908. 
SCHOONER JEAN—DESIGNED BY D. B. CROWNTN SHIELD. 
new work, while the Baker Yacht Basin has 
three big power cruisers for local yachtsmen. 
Swasey, Raymond & Page have a lot of big 
steel work in sight and are working on the plans 
of a 200-foot steel steam yacht which promises 
to be a departure from anything turned out in 
recent years. The yacht is for a prominent 
New York Y. C. member. These designers 
have also designed a 55-foot gasolene cruiser 
for F. R. Hayward, of Boston, which will be 
built at a local yard. The boat will have a 40- 
horsepower engine. The same firm has also de¬ 
signed a 40-foot cruiser for a Boston yachtsman. 
There will be a class of Sonder boats in 
Buzzard’s Bay next season, and among those 
interested in the scheme are such well known 
skippers as J. Lewis Stackpole, who sailed Spo¬ 
kane I. at Kiel; “Bob” Emmons, owner of 
Avenger; W. O. Gay, owner of the 70-footer 
Athene; Mark Hopkins and Elmer Smith. With 
five such clever amateurs interested at the start, 
the nucleus of a splendid class of racing boats 
in Buzzard’s Bay is assured. 
J. Lewis Stackpole is a firm believer in the 
conditions in Buzzard's Bay to try out this 
class of boats if the right type is to be found 
to send abroad, for the conditions at Kiel are 
more like those on the south side of the Cape 
than at Marblehead. The boats will be raced 
all the coming season and a good idea will be 
had as to the best type of boat that should be 
sent across to Kiel in the following year, when 
the American boats race abroad. Then boats 
which were tried out at Marblehead, Spokane I., 
Chewink VII. and Marblehead, were unsuited 
to the conditions at Kiel and were easily de¬ 
feated bv the German craft. 
Mr. Stackpole believes that Buzzard’s Bay 
would be a good place to try out the boats when 
trial races are held to select the challengers to 
be sent abroad, or at least this is the opinion 
which he expressed when lie-arrived home from 
Kiel after the racing abroad. 
In Buzzard’s Bay there is generally a short 
choppy sea and strong breezes, and the con¬ 
ditions are almost identical with those abroad, 
and which were so unsuited to the American 
boats that they made a poor showing. With 
the Buzzard’s Bay yachtsmen interested in the 
Sonder type of boat, there is sure to be de- 
velooed a craft which will give the Germans a 
hard battle in their own conditions in the races 
in 1910 at Kiel and in Spanish waters. 
It is not thought likely that for this year any); 
new boats will be built for Buzzard’s Bay, but 
some of the old ones will be used in the first; 
races of this class, after which new boats will 
in all probability be built. 
With the trial races this season at Marble¬ 
head to select defenders to meet the Germans, 
and the international Sonder boats later, there 
is sure to be a lively season at this great yacht¬ 
ing center. 
The Little Schooner Jean. 
Last June Forest and Stream published 
plans of the little schooner Jean, built for B. B. 
Crowninshield, from his own designs. This 
craft has been used by Mr. Crowninshield, and 
he writes: 
“I got her the first day of August, and she j 
has proved all that I expected. 
“In comparison with racers of equal sail area, j 
she is decidedly smart with sheets started, al-1 
though a little dull to windward, especially j 
when it is moderate. 
“With main sheet hauled flat she will lie at her 
moorings with all three sails up (the fore and 
jib sheets of course being slacked) and the 
clew of the foresail topped up. 
“There are ‘more strings to pull’ than in a 
jib and mainsail boat, but everything is com¬ 
paratively light, and she is a ‘cinch’ for one to 
take care of and handle. 
“.The big mast is in the widest part of the | 
boat and is easily stayed, and both masts stand J 
like trees in any breeze. I use the runners (on 
the foremast) only when running in a breeze 
and sea. 
“She works nicely with foresail alone or with | 
mainsail and jib.” 
Surf Boat at Popham, Maine. 
The members of the Kennebec Y. C. last 
summer petitioned the Life Saving Department 
to place a power launch at the station at Pop- 
ham, where it could be ready for instant use in 
case of an emergency. During the summer 
months the crew, with the exception of the 
captain, is off duty, and in case of an accident 
to a small boat at the mouth of the Kennebec 
River, Captain Spinney, who is in charge, would 
have to secure a volunteer crew to man a life 
boat. This might take some time, but with a 
