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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 19, 1910. 
are defined as any boat equipped with a per¬ 
manent cabin house. 
The race course this year is changed. Instead 
of the five-mile rectangle up and down the shore 
on both sides of the river mouth, the committee 
decided to shorten the distance to two and a 
half miles and make the starting line directly 
off the pier, which extends out from the Oak- 
wood allotment, about 200 feet west of the 
river entrance. From here the boats will run 
out into the lake one-quarter mile, thence west¬ 
erly in to Dover Bay one mile, thence inshore 
one-quarter mile and back one mile to the start 
inv buoy on a line parallel and near the shore. 
There will be no prizes for each race except 
the open regatta on July 2. The actual per- 
formance rule with certain modifications and 
improvements will be used and points for places 
won in the club series will be awarded on a 
basis of too for first. 95 for second, 90 for third, 
etc The boat in each class securing the greatest 
number of points in the five club races takes 
the championship of the season. The boats will 
be sent away on their handicap, and special em¬ 
phasis is given to the fact that the first boat 
to finish wins the race regardless of how fast 
she ran. Any attempt to flimflam the commit¬ 
tee will result in disciualification and disgrace. 
What the committee most desires is the co¬ 
operation and supnort of the club members in 
making the races this season a great success. It 
is keen snort when indulged in properly, but 
poor fun if the rules are jockeyed to death. The 
T910 committee is composed of M. H. Moffett, 
B P. Brockway, Otto Nehrenst, E. J. Douhet, 
W. M. Meier and John Washburn . 
Yacht Building at Stamford. 
The Stamford Motor Company is busy turn¬ 
ing out several yachts for the coming season. 
A 50-foot cruiser has recently been finished for 
t g Henderson, Jr., of Washington, which is 
now in Florida waters. She met heavy weather 
between Sandy Hook and Norfolk, but reached 
her destination safely. ... . 
A 40-foot teak speed boat has been built to 
race on Lake Worth. She is 5 feet beam and 
has a 6-cvlinder 60 horsepower motor which 
will drive her twenty-five miles an hour. I his 
yacht is for John H. Tyson, of Riverside. 
A 55-foot raised deck cruiser is being built 
for J. K. L. Ross, of Montreal, which will be 
used on the St. Lawrence. She has the engine 
room forward and will be fitted with two four- 
cylinder 25 horsepower motors which will drive 
her twelve miles an hour. 
Col. William Hester, of Brooklyn, is having 
a 45-foot raised deck cruiser which he will use 
on Long Island Sound. This yacht is to make 
10.5 miles an hour. 
A 50-foot raised deck cruiser is being finished 
for Loren P. Bradley which will be used on 
Long Island Sound. 
David Huyler’s Abide IV. is being overhauled 
and as soon as she is finished she may make a 
short cruise south. A speed boat has been built 
for ATr. Lewis, of New York, which is fitted 
with a Dietrich automobile motor. Several other 
yachts are being overhauled. 
New Trophy for Motor Boats. 
The American Power Boat Association will 
shortly put in competition a new trophy for 
high speed boats not over 32 feet in length. This 
will be a challenge trophy and similar to the 
gold cup now held by the Thousand Islands Y. 
C., and the bronze cup for 22-footers now held 
on the Mississippi. The new cup will be silver. 
This is carrying out the plans of the associa¬ 
tion made some time ago to offer more chal¬ 
lenge trophies for different classes. Morris M. 
Whitaker in making the announcement said: 
“This shows to what extent the association has 
helped to promote racing. Steps are now being 
taken to readjust the association’s long-estab¬ 
lished formula to meet the demands of modern 
* boats and bring the formula up to present re¬ 
quirements. To that end all the clubs enrolled 
in the association—and thev extend from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the 
Gulf—have been asked to give their experiences 
with the present rules. The leading naval archi¬ 
tects have also been asked to lend their aid so 
that when the special meeting is called to con¬ 
sider the matter, the delegates will be able to 
act with a fair knowledge of what is to be done. 
“The association has in view the formation of 
restricted classes, boats of a given length in 
which the maximum power and the minimum 
weight will be fixed. Such rules, if properly 
framed, will develop a good type of boat with 
fair speed and will also do away with the trouble 
of having to figure time allowance in each con¬ 
test. The restrictions will be rigid enough so 
that a boat’s racing career will not be limited to 
one season. Through the co-operation of the 
clubs forming our association it is hoped to 
bring about racing from widely varying sections 
of the country.” 
Sparks. 
One hundred and three motor boats have been 
entered for the Monaco meeting. Of these four 
are from this country, two represent England, 
two Germany and three Italy. The others are 
French. The four American boats are built by 
the Michigan Steel Boat Company and are fitted 
with Detroit engines. One is in the second 
series of racers and will meet there the Duke 
of Westminster’s Ursula and E. Mackay’s 
Maple-Leaf II. The latter is one of the chal¬ 
lengers for the British international cup. The 
other Michigan boats .are entered in the cruiser 
classes. 
An open boat 60 feet long is building at 
Morris Heights for a member of the New York 
Y. C. It will be the fifth he has had built, and 
this one is to make thirty-six miles an hour. 
Vice-Commodore Brigham, of the Ventnor, Y. 
C., of Atlantic City, is having a boat built for 
the Havana race which will be named Calif. 
This yacht is 60 feet long, n feet 6 inches beam, 
3 feet 6 inches draft. She will have a thirty- 
six horsepower motor and is being built by the 
J. H. Mathis Company, of Camden. 
A new motor life boathouse is to be built at 
Long Point, Provincetown. The new structure 
will be 40 feet long and 30 feet wide. The ship¬ 
way will extend to a point where there is four 
feet of water at low tide. A gasolqne motor 
is to be installed in the house which will be used 
to pull the new motor lifeboat Victory into the 
building. 
A. Gardiner Cooper, of the Indian Harbor Y. 
C., is having a cruising power boat built by Sea- 
bury & Co. The yacht is 68 feet long and will 
be equipped with two 32-40 Speedway motors 
of four cylinders each which will give a speed 
of twelve miles an hour. The yacht is of the 
midship raised deck type. There will be a state¬ 
room for the owner in the forward deck house. 
In the after cabin there are to be two folding 
berths at the forward end and two fixed berths 
at the after end. The yacht is to be named 
Manchonac and will be used on Long Island 
Sound. 
W. L. Marshall has sold his motor boat San 
Toy to G. A. Schrader, of Matteawan, N. J. 
San Toy is 50 feet long and can make fourteen 
miles an hour. She has accommodations for six 
persons on board and will be used by her new 
owner cruising along the coast. Mr. Schrader 
has organized a new club called the San Toy 
Y. C. which is made up exclusively of his 
friends. The officers are: Commodore, Stephen 
S. Mapes; Vice-Commodore, John Davenport; 
Rear Commodore, Irving Mapes; Secretary, 
William Armstrong. 
Commodore C. M. Englis, of the Chippewa 
Y. C, has offered a trophy for a race among 
motor boats of one-design to be decided on the 
St. Lawrence River this summer. Mrs. Fred¬ 
erick K. Burnham and George C. Boldt have 
also offered prizes. T. A. Gillespie has offered 
a prize for a 100 mile race for the one-design 
class. 
Stearns & McKay are building at Marblehead 
a 65-foot over-all steam yacht for F. J. Cock- 
burn of Quebec. This yacht will be 60 feet on 
the waterline, 12 feet 9 inches beam and 4 feet 
3 inches draft. She will have a fair sized saloon, 
two staterooms, galley, large engine room and 
forecastle. The machinery is being made at 
Lancaster, England, and will be a 70 horsepower 
engine equipped for the use of liquid fuel. The 
yacht will make twelve nautical miles an hour. 
Experiments with Propellers. 
Consul Horace Lee Washington has sent 
a clipping from the Liverpool Courier which 
has been printed in the Daily Consular Reports 
relative to greater speed possibilities for ves- 
sels through propeller improvements. The 
Courier says: “The remarkable steaming per¬ 
formances of the Cunarders, Lusitania and 
Mauretania, following alterations in their pro¬ 
pellers, have directed attention to the furthei 
experiments carried out on the Tyne with the 
specially constructed electrically driven model 
launch since the two liners entered the Atlantic 
service. The experiments have been of great 
practical value in determining the design of 
screw which has proved so efficient for both 
vessels. Over twenty-four different sets of 
three-bladed and seventeen sets of four-bladed 
propellers were tested, the result of which was 
that with those finally selected a saving of 
about 8 per cent in the horsepower could be 
predicted at maximum speeds, while practically 
all vibration could be eliminated. The Maure¬ 
tania has only two of the best propellers fitted, 
viz., the four-bladed on the wing shafts, and 
therefore it is not unlikely that further speed 
records will be made if similar propellers are 
fitted on the inner shafts.” 
Canoeing . 
Canoe Notes from Pittsburg. 
In spite of the severe winter weather, the 
canoe clubs of Pittsburg are making active 
preparations for the coming season. 
The Algonquin C. C. has ordered a second 20- 
foot racer and expects to train two crews for 
the A. C. A. regatta at Pittsburg on July 9. This 
quad race will be the feature of the regatta. 
Last year it was won by the Sylvan C. C. with 
the Algonquin C. C. coming in second and the 
Tippy C. C. third. Already the men are discuss¬ 
ing the probabilties of the outcome. The clubs 
are going over their membership to see what 
men are available for the crews. 
The question of transportation to Sugar Island 
has been taken up with the Pennsylvania Rail¬ 
road which will give us a special baggage car 
through from Verona to Clayton, N. Y., for a 
party of twenty-five, so we can take our racing 
canoes with us. We hope to send a substantial 
delegation to the national meet. 
On Jan. 21 the Crescent C. C.*' held their an¬ 
nual dinner at the Fort Pitt Hotel, in Pittsburg, 
with twenty-four members present. C. A. 
Rowan, their commodore, acted as toastmaster 
and W. W. Patterson was the chairman of the 
dinner committee. 
The Tippy C. C. held their annual dinner at 
the same place on Jan. 22. John I. Orr made a 
speech on the A. C. A. 
The Sylvan C. C. will hold their annual din¬ 
ner at their own club house in Verona, Pa., on 
March 12. Last spring they completely rebuilt 
their former house, enlarging it considerably. 
The club room is 18 feet by 36 feet with a fire 
place at one end and a dining room of about 
the same size adjoining. Immediately in the 
rear is their two-story tenant house, so they are 
well equipped for dinners, even in the winter 
time. 
The Duquesne C. C. held their annual dinner 
on March 5 at the German Club, Pittsburg. 
The Central Division dinner will be held at 
Pittsburg on April 16, when the committees for 
T910 will be announced and a partial program 
for the vear will be presented. As this is the 
Central Division’s year for conducting the na¬ 
tional meet, our best energies will be expected 
toward making that a great success. 
Henry D. James, 
Vice Com. Central Division A. C. A. 
