Flagship Aloha Launched. 
Aloha, the new flagship of Commodore Arthur 
Curtiss James, was launched at the Fore River 
Ship Building Company’s yards at Quincy on 
March 23. The yacht was christened by Mrs. 
James. 
Aloha is an auxiliary steel steam vessel con¬ 
structed under the special supervision and to the 
highest class.in Lloyds’ Yacht Register. She is 
rigged as a three-masted bark and will spread 
about 19,000 square feet of canvas. 
The yacht is of the following dimensions: 
Length on deck, 202 feet; length on load water¬ 
line, 165 feet 10 inches; extreme beam, 3^ feet 
6 inches; depth molded, 22 feet 4 inches; ex¬ 
treme draft, 16 feet. 
Aloha has a clipper stem with a graceful trail 
board carving terminating in a full size figure¬ 
head. The stern is of the usual arch board type 
customary in American yachts. The main deck 
is flush amidships, terminating forward and aft 
in a monkey forecastle and raised quarter deck, 
respectively. The machinery is arranged amid¬ 
ships, having engine room staff quarters suit¬ 
ably located around machinery spaces, the crew 
being berthed in a commodious forecastle, and 
the owners’ and guest staterooms occupy the 
after part of the yacht. Composite deck houses 
of steel and teak are built on the main deck, en¬ 
closing entrance stairways and deck saloons. 
The owners’, guest and the various saloons have 
been finished in a highly artistic manner and 
tastefully furnished. 
The machinery consists .of a set of triple ex¬ 
pansion direct acting engines furnished with 
steam by water tube boilers, the whole installa¬ 
tion providing power of about 500 horsepower, 
operating a manganese bronze feathering pro¬ 
peller. The smokestack is telescopic, to provide 
for being housed out of the way when the yacht 
is under canvas. 
Altogether the yacht Aloha is one of the 
largest and handsomest auxiliary steam yachts 
afloat, and will prove to be a valuable addition 
to the cruising fleet of the New York squadron 
whose flagship she will be. 
Westward Nearly Ready. 
The schooner yacht Westward, which has been 
building at Herreshoffs for A. S. Cochran, of 
the New York Y. C., was launched April 30, 
and it is expected that she will start on her 
voyage across the Atlantic about April 20. This 
yacht has been built in the South shop and is 
the most important vessel turned out at Bristol 
since Reliance was built in 1903, and she has 
grown under the same shed that screened Re¬ 
liance from public view. Westward has been 
built to the conditions of the International Yacht 
Racing Union in force in Europe and will be 
classed by Lloyds. She is the first vessel built 
in this country to conform to such conditions 
and an agent of Lloyds has already inspected the 
vessel. Mr. Cochran wanted the yacht built of 
bronze, but Lloyds’ requirements do not cover 
bronze vessels, and so Westward has been built 
of steel and in the regulation way. She is a 
staunch and able craft and appears unusually 
bulky. Her hull is fully plated, the deck is laid, 
bulkheads are in position and most of the in¬ 
terior work completed. The spars and rigging 
are ready and the sails have been made. The 
yacht’s dimensions are: 13=; feet over all, 96 feet 
on the waterline, 27 feet 6 inches beam and 17 
feet draft. Queen is the only other large 
schooner turned out by Herreshoff and her 
dimensions are 126 feet over all, 91.5 feet on 
the waterline, 24 feet beam and 14 feet 10 inches 
draft. She was built to conform to the Ameri¬ 
can rule and has a centerboard. With her board 
down she draws about 26 feet. Centerboards 
are not allowed in Europe, and if used are taxed. 
The board gives a great advantage which under 
American rules is not taxed. Without the board 
Westward proportionately draws more than 
Queen without the board, but in other respects 
Westward is not as extreme as Queen. Her 
overhang is proportionately shorter than that of 
Queen and her beam is proportionately less. 
Captain Barr, who has been abroad all the 
winter, has visited the yacht and is now getting 
his crew and preparing for the voyage across 
the ocean. The yacht will have a jury rig using 
her fore and main masts, but not her racing top¬ 
masts or bowsprit. The topmasts, main boom, 
gaffs and bowsprit will be sent abroad on a 
steamer for Southampton, and there the yacht 
will fit out as quickly as possible and then tuned 
up for racing. The masts of the yacht are of 
Oregon pine and the racing main boom is of 
steel. 
The first race will be sailed at Cuxhaven at 
the mouth of the Elbe. This will be the regatta 
of the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein on June 
18. There she will probably meet the German 
Emperor’s Meteor IV., Herr Krupp von Bohlen’s 
Germania, the Fife designed schooner Cicely, 
owned by Cecil Whitaker, and other big yachts. 
From Cuxhaven Westward is to go to Kiel 
where she will sail in races for her class. Then 
she will take part in the race from Kiel to 
Eckernforde, fifty-one miles, and then back again 
over the same course. The next race for West¬ 
ward will be from Kiel around the island of 
Fehmarn to Travemunde, a distance of seventy- 
eight miles. There may be some races at Trave¬ 
munde and then the yacht will prepare for her 
British campaign. At Cowes the supreme test 
will be made, and it is possible that in some 
race there Westward may have to sail against 
the 23-meter cutters Shamrock, owned by Sir 
Thomas Lipton; White Heather, owned by 
Myles B. Kennedy, and Brynhilde, owned by Sir 
James Pender. These three yachts have been 
changed during the winter, and among other 
things have had their sail spreads increased. 
Westward will have a crew of about thirty 
men and Harry Cliff, formerly of Queen, is to 
be mate. 
Pacific Coast Yachting. 
San Francisco, Cal., March 4. —Editor Forest 
and Stream: The yachting season on the coast 
promises to be a very active one this season, and 
while the opening date is still quite a ways in 
the future, plans are already being made for 
some of the more important events of the sum¬ 
mer. The ocean race from a California port 
to Honolulu has attracted considerable attention 
in past years when it was held, and this season’s 
race is expected to be a more talked of event 
than ever before. The third biennial race will 
be held this year and the start will be made off 
San Pedro, ending at Diamond Head. San 
Francisco yachtsmen have been active of late in 
trying to induce the Hawaiian sportsmen to have 
the race begin here, and T. W. Flobron, formerly 
an active member of the Hawaii Y. C. and com¬ 
modore at one time, is acting as an ally in bring¬ 
ing about this result. When the first event of 
this character was planned in 1906, the start was 
to have been made from here, but the fire upset 
all of the plans and the South Coast Y. C. car¬ 
ried out the arrangements that had been made 
by the local sportsmen. This race and the one 
in 1908 was so successfully carried out and such 
a feeling of friendship has been brought about 
between the Southern California and the Island 
Club that the Honolulu club does not feel that 
it should make the first move for a change. It 
is believed that the South Coast Y. C. will come 
to see that if the race is held from different ports 
the interest in it will become much more wide¬ 
spread. San Francisco yachtsmen feel that inas¬ 
much as they are the ones who made the initial 
arrangements for the race, the southern sports¬ 
men should be willing that a race be held from 
here. The cup to be awarded for the race this 
year is to be presented by the Hawaiian Y. C. r 
and in addition to this a number of other cups 
and prizes will be given to bring out as large a 
fleet as possible. Captain Frank Hay, of Los 
Angeles, has offered a cup for the yacht under 
sixty feet making the trip in the best time, and 
other prizes will be offered for the purpose of 
getting out even smaller boats. Plans are being 
made by T. W. Hobron to have the smaller ves¬ 
sels brought back on some of the big freighters 
plying between the islands and San Francisco, 
and this would obviate the necessity of the long 
beat to windward on the home trip which is 
keeping some from entering the race. A num¬ 
ber of yachts have already made entries for the 
ocean race that is to commence on July 4, and 
among these is the new yawl-rigged vessel built 
for Frank Hay, of Los Angeles, last year at Ter¬ 
minal Island from designs by C. D. Callahan. 
This boat has been named Winsome ,and has 
shown considerable speed in the trials that have 
been held. Lurline, H. H. Sinclair owner, which 
has won both of the previous races, will prob¬ 
ably be entered again, and is counted upon to 
make a great struggle for the cup. Gwendolen 
II., a Seattle boat, is also likely to be entered, 
for she made a splendid showing in the 1908 race. 
W. F. Stone, of the Corinthian Club of San 
Francisco, is considering the advisability of en¬ 
tering Marian in the race. The following cir¬ 
cular has just been issued by the committee in 
charge of the race: 
CONDITIONS OF THE RACE. 
Conditions.—The race is open to cruising craft 
belonging to any organized yacht club whose 
waterline is not less than 30 feet. Boats to enter 
this must be bona fide fcruising craft of sub¬ 
stantial construction and rig, having full decks 
and watertight cockpit. Yachts having fin or 
bulb keels or balanced rudders are barred. 
Measurements.—The measurements for com¬ 
puting allowance is the length of the craft over¬ 
all. The length on deck from the fore side of 
the after side of the sternboard or transom, 
fiddle heads and ornamental pieces and boards 
are not included in this measurement. Boat will 
rate for allowance from the closest full foot. ' 
Crew.—There will be no restriction as to the 
number or character of the crew, but the person 
in charge of the sailing of the yacht must be a 
bona fide member of an organized yacht club. 
Sails.—Lower sails to be those usually car¬ 
ried by the yachts when cruising. No restric¬ 
tions as to light sails. 
Boats.—Yachts must carry such small boats or 
tenders as they carry when cruising. 
Stores and Water. — Stores and water suffi¬ 
cient for thirty days must be carried on board. 
Water to be fixed in tanks or breakers. 
Equipment.—Anchors, chains or hawsers, side 
lights, two compasses, sextant, chronometer and 
life belts or jackets for each member of the 
crew. 
Ballast.—Weight may be shifted fore and. aft 
for the purpose of trimming, but no weight 
either in the form of stores or ballast must be 
jettisoned except as a measure of safety. 
Time Allowance.—The time allowance will be 
sixty minutes to the foot for the full course of 
2,086 miles. No allowance for rig. 
Time of Start.—The race will start at 12 
o’clock on Monday, July 4, 1910, from San 
Pedro, Cal. 
Finish of Race.—The finish of the race will be 
abreast of Diamond Headlight. Honolulu, T. H., 
not over a mile to the leeward. 
Entries.—Entries must be received by the sec¬ 
retary of the Hawaii Y. C., Ltd., not later than 
