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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. s, 1910. 
Bermuda Power Boat] Race. 
The power boats to take part in the annual 
race to Bermuda will be started this year on 
Saturday, June 25. This is about three weeks 
later in the season than former races have been 
started and the change was made first to en¬ 
able those boats that take part in the Havana 
race to get back and have time to overhaul, and 
then because it has always been difficult to get 
crews for the racers so early in the season. 
Business men find it hard to get away early in 
June, and then many of the younger amateurs 
have not finished their college work. 
The race will be started as usual from the 
lower bay, and it will be managed jointly by 
the Motor Boat Club of America and the Royal 
Bermuda Y. C. The challenge trophy for which 
these yachts race is now held by Richmond 
Levering’s Heather, having been won by that 
yacht last year. 
There have been three power boat races to 
Bermuda and one race back. In 1907 the race 
had two starters and Ailsa Craig defeated Idaho. 
In 1908 Ailsa Craig defeated Irene and last year 
Heather won from Nereides, Ilys and Insep. 
The race home last year was won by Ilys. 
The conditions for this year’s race will be 
the same as those of last year. 
It is very probable that the_ start of the Mar¬ 
blehead race will be made this year from Mar¬ 
blehead on'Saturday, July 16, and the finish will 
be off the Crescent Athletic Club house at Bay 
Ridge. Several boats are being built specially 
for this contest. 
New Boat for Joseph Brakeley. 
Joseph Brakeley, of Freehold, N. J., is hav¬ 
ing a cruising power boat built at Morton 
Johnston’s yard at Bay Head, N. J. The prin¬ 
cipal dimensions of the vessel are: Length 
over all, 45 feet; length on load waterline, 41 
feet 2 inches; beam, 10 feet, and draft, 2 feet 
6 inches. 
The boat is of the raised deck type. In fact, 
she is flush deck from the bow to within eight 
feet of the stern. This form of construction 
makes an exceedingly stanch and seaworthy 
craft and gives good headroom and liberal ac¬ 
commodations below. The craft will be built 
in a thoroughly substantial manner, having oak 
keel, stem and stern post, oak frames planed, 
steamed and bent to form, yellow pine clamps 
and stringers and her planking will be of yel¬ 
low pine. 
In the extreme forward end of the boat will 
be the galley, next the engine room, then a 
(double stateroom with two large wardrobes on 
one side and toilet room on the opposite side, 
and aft of this the main cabin, 10 feet 6 inches 
long, with transom and extension berth on each 
side. The cockpit will be 8 feet in length. 
The propelling machinery will consist of a 6- 
cylinder Sterling engine, which will give the 
boat a speed of twelve miles an hour. 
The plans and specifications for this boat were 
prepared by Henry J. Gielow, of this city, and 
the various details have been thoroughly and 
carefully worked out by him. 
The Motor Scooter. 
The new schooter of Nat Roe which has been 
making wonderful time on the Great South Bay 
has attracted much attention, and there will 
probably be several of these boats next winter 
with motors of different power. Mr. Roe who 
is hopeful that the new sport will become popu¬ 
lar, says of his boat, a picture of which has 
been printed in Forest and Stream : 
“I have already made ninety miles an hour 
and am sure I will soon make 120. I have shot 
across open water 100 feet wide and hope to 
jump a great deal wider space with perfect 
safety, which in itself is one of the most thrill¬ 
ing sensations that could be asked for. There 
is so little resistance on the ice that after shut¬ 
ting off the power completely I have coasted 
over a mile. This shows that most all friction 
has been eliminated. 
“My boat is of a scooter type, 20 feet long 
and 4 feet wide, and built very flat so that the 
wind (which is my main resistance) has very 
little chance to stop it. It is fitted with a 35 
horsepower Fiat automobile engine, with a 3 
speed ahead and 1 reverse sliding gear trans¬ 
mission which drives a spiked driving wheel 
that runs through a centerboard trunk in the 
center of the boat. The engine, transmission 
and driving wheel are all mounted on one frame 
which sets on two stub bolts and five inches of 
rubber. The mechanism is really not fastened 
to the boat at all, but sets on the two stub 
bolts and the rubber a little ahead of the center 
of the whole mechanism. The rear, or driving 
wheel end, is fitted with a lever which raises or 
lowers the driving wheel so that it engages in 
the ice just enough to take hold.” 
Inter-Lake Association. 
Commodore C. G. Jennings, of the Inter-Lake 
Yachting Association, has issued a call for the 
spring meeting of the association to be held in 
Detroit on Feb. 19, and plans have been made 
to entertain the delegates while they are in that 
city. 
The delegates have lots of business to settle. 
The dates for the important races have to be 
decided on and the place for the annual regatta 
will have to be selected. This will cause a hot 
discussion, as several clubs on the lakes are 
making strong bids to secure this regatta. 
It is said that yachtsmen on the lakes are dis¬ 
satisfied with the conditions that govern the 
racing for the President Taft cup for catboats. 
According to those conditions the races can only 
be sailed off Toledo and members of other club,s 
think that these should be changed so that the 
races for that trophy might form a part of the 
program for the annual regatta wherever that 
is sailed. The trophy is held by the Toledo Y. 
C. and it is not at all likely that the members 
will agree to any such change as suggested,. no 
matter what members of other clubs may think. 
According to present arrangements the race for 
the Taft cup will be sailed on July 4 on the 
Maumee Bay course. It is probable that Detroit 
and Monroe yachtsmen will send boats to try 
to capture this prize which was won last year 
by Arthur Davis’ ’Possum. 
Commodore C. G. Jennings is strongly opposed 
to the organization of a Great Lakes Power 
Boat Association, as proposed by the Buffalo 
Launch Club. Commodore Jennings states his 
position in a letter addressed to the Maumee 
River Y. C. He says in effect that there is no 
excuse for such an organization and that he 
will endeavor to induce the Buffalo club to 
abandon the project, or at least postpone it for 
one year. He believes that by the end of an¬ 
other year it will have been demonstrated that 
the Inter-Lake is doing everything possible for 
the interests of the power boats. “The Inter- 
Lake has appointed a power boat regatta com¬ 
mittee and a special committee on power boat 
rules, and that end of the sport will be man¬ 
aged without any interference on the part of 
the sailors,” says the commodore. At a recent 
conference of representatives of the half dozen 
clubs of Detroit a vigorous protest was made 
against the announced purpose of the Buffalo 
Launch Club to call a meeting in March to 
organize a new inter-lake body. Other inter¬ 
lake yachting association clubs, it is expected, 
will file a similar protest. 
Pacific Coast Yachting. 
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 20.—In spite of the 
fact that there is no winter racing season in 
San Francisco Bay, the local yacht clubs man¬ 
age to keep well together during the winter 
months, and some very enjoyable times are be¬ 
ing had by the members of the local organiza¬ 
tions. In December the San Francisco Y. C. 
arranged an overland cruise that brought to¬ 
gether many of its members, and recently the 
annual New Year’s dinner was held at the club 
house. A week ago the members of the club 
enjoyed a cruise to the Muir Redwoods. On 
Jan. 29 the first of a series of dances will be 
given, and during the month of February these 
will be continued and a number of illustrated 
lectures have also been arranged for. 
The Golden Gate Y. C. anticipates a lively 
spring season, and meetings will probably be 
called earlier than usual from the reason that 
this club now faces the necessity of providing 
new Quarters. 4 he old club house at Sausalito 
collapsed a short time ago and a new one will 
have to be built before the active yachting sea¬ 
son commences. 
There will be a number of important meetings 
of the various clubs about the end of the pres¬ 
ent month or early in February, and at these 
the annual election of officers will take place. 
The nominating committees have been busy, and 
in many cases it can be seen now who will be 
the new officials. The California Y. C. and the 
yEolian Y. C. have both named their tickets and 
the names handed in by the nominating commit¬ 
tee are the ones usually chosen, though opposi¬ 
tion tickets are sometimes named. The San 
Francisco Y. C. has for a nominating committee 
F. G. Phillips, H. A. Treat and Philip J. Fay. 
They have until Jan. 23 to place the regular 
ticket in the field. The annual meeting of this 
club will be held on Feb 9. It has been prac¬ 
tically settled that the new commodore of the 
Corinthian Club will be William Hogg, as has 
been named by the committee, and this is the 
same as being elected in this club. . The ^olian 
Club promises about the liveliest contest in the 
line of an election of officers and two or three 
tickets are now in the field. 
Boston Y. C. 
Alfred Douglass, owner of the schooner 
Shiyessa IV., has been re-elected commodore of 
the Boston Y. C. The annual meeting was held 
last week. It was voted that division member¬ 
ship in this club should end with the present 
list. Until now a yachtsman has joined one of 
the divisions of the club, but the change will 
make the club stronger and will give the mem¬ 
bers more conveniences. The Boston Y. C. is 
one of the most prosperous on Massachusetts 
Bay. The other officers elected were: Vice- 
Commodore, Fred Brown, schooner Mariette; 
Rear Commodore, Arthur Merritt, schooner 
Delna; Secretary-Treasurer, Walter Burgess; 
Executive Committee, Benjamin P. Cheney, 
Arthur W. Chesterton, Herbert S. Potter, El¬ 
mer F. Smith; Membership Committee, L. B. 
Goodspeed, Lawrence F. Percival, Charles B. 
Devereaux, Arthur Willis; Regatta Committee, 
Bryan S. Permar, John B. Killeen, Edward B. 
Merriman, T. Walcott Pioneer. 
Commodore Douglass has sold his schooner 
Shiyessa to Demarest Lloyd, of the Corinthian 
and Boston yacht clubs. This yacht was the 
first schooner owned by Commodore Douglass 
and was built from designs by Fred Lawley in 
1906. Her dimensions are 75 feet over-all, 50 
feet on the water line, 16 feet beam and 9 inches 
draft. Mr. Lloyd intends to race her whenever 
possible. 
Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 
The annual meeting of the Seawanhaka 
Corinthian Y. C. was held at the New York 
Club last Tuesday evening. These officers and 
committees were elected: Commodore, Frank 
S. Hantings, ketch Peggy; Vice-Commodore, 
Edward F. Whitney, steamer Arrow; Rear- 
Commodore, Johnston de Forest, sloop Nepsi; 
Secretary, Everett Dominick; Treasurer, Col¬ 
gate Hoyte, Jr.; Measurer, Montgomery H. 
Clark; Trustees, Class of 1913, Charles A. Sher¬ 
man, John D. Barrett, George Bullock. 
Regatta Committee—C. Sherman Hoyt, Chair¬ 
man; George E. Roosevelt, Beverly R. Robin¬ 
son, Victor I. Cumnock, Franklin Remington. 
Committee on Lines and Models—John Hy- 
slop, Walter S. Gurnee, Jr., Robert L. Cuthbert. 
Law Committee—W. A. W. Stewart, George 
L. Shearer, Eliot Tuckerman. 
Committee on Navigation and Seamanship— 
Arthur C. James, Francis G. Stewart, Daniel 
Bacon, Rear Admiral W. C. Cowles. 
