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able that the pleasure boats are now being 
fitted with automatic steering wheels, formerly 
characteristic of the racers alone. A neat com¬ 
bination has the speed and throttle controls 
within finger reach of the steering wheel. 1 his 
adoption of the steering wheel idea to pleasure 
craft struck the popular fancy at once. One in¬ 
teresting feature was an 18-foot canoe which 
drew 17 inches. It can carry four persons, has 
a 3-horsepower motor, which, it is said, will 
drive it at the rate of 10 miles an hour. For 
men of moderate means the power dory was an 
attraction, and these boats that have been so 
popular off the New England Coast will grow 
in popularity on the lakes. 
Many eastern builders exhibited their boats 
and engines, and among these were the Electric 
Launch Company, the Gas Engine & Power 
Company, the Buffalo Gasolene Motor Com¬ 
pany, the Sterling Engine Company, Standard 
Motor Construction Company and the Pierce 
Motor Company. 
Cleveland Power Boat Races. 
The Cleveland Power Boat Club has 
arranged its schedule of racing. T he Cowell & 
Hubbard consistent performance race has been 
set for July 3. The course is 39P4 miles to 
Vermilion. All club boats are eligible and their 
ratings will be taken from performances in the 
early season’s races. The club will hold the 
Ohio speed boat championship race on Aug. 21. 
Numerous requests for the date of this event 
have been received by Louis Johnson, club sec¬ 
retary, from speed boaters along the lake. The 
list of entries is expected to be a large one. 
The long-distance cruiser run will be to 
Kelley’s Island, around Ballast Island, to Middle 
Island and back to Gordon Park. A number of 
new boats will compete in the event this year. 
The race is to be started at midnight on Aug. 6, 
in order to give the cruisers time to complete 
the course by Sunday noon. The cruisers will 
return in time for races to be held at the park 
on Aug. 7. 
The club plans to use the old 3-mile triangu¬ 
lar course off Gordon Park. All boats with the 
exception of speed boats and dingheys will 
cover the course twice. 
The 1910 racing schedule follows: 
May 29—All classes. 
June 12—All classes. 
July 3—Cowell & Hubbard cup race to Ver¬ 
milion. Ladies’ day. 
Aug. 6—Long-distance cruiser run to Kelley’s 
Island, around Ballast Island to Middle Island 
and back to Gordon Park. 
Aug. 7—Class A, Class B-C, Class E. 
Aug. 21—Ohio. State speed-boat champion¬ 
ship race. 
Aug. 28—Club run to Rocky River and return. 
Motor Boats at Peoria. 
The annual regatta of the Mississippi Valley 
Power Boat Association will be held at Peoria 
Lake on July 4, 5 and 6. The races will be 
under the auspices of the Illinois Valley Y. C., 
and in addition to many valuable cups, there 
will be $4,000 in cash prizes. The Illinois River 
at Peoria forms a lake five miles long and two 
miles wide, and the course will be triangular, 
12,600 feet long on the base and 6,250 feet on 
each side, or five miles in all. 
The chief event on the program is the Class 
C race of twenty miles for vessels 40 feet and 
under. The first prize will be a $1,000 cup s and 
$1,000 in cash. Until this year this regatta has 
been open only to members of affiliated clubs, 
but the executive committee has decided to 
make the races open to members of any regu¬ 
larly organized yacht or power boat club in 
the United States. Frederick K. Burnham has 
promised to enter Dixie II. and his new In¬ 
truder in the Class C race. These two fast 
launches are to reach Peoria about July 1 in 
order that they may be tried out first on the 
course. 
The other races will be a 15-mile race for 
32-footers, 10-mile race for 26-footers, 10-mile 
race for 20-footers, 20-mile race for full cabin 
cruisers, 20-mile race for part cabin cruisers, 
5-mile race for open launches under 30 feet, 30- 
mile handicap race open to all except the open 
launches and a 15-mile handicap race open to 
boats making more than twelve miles an hour. 
All measurements are over all length, and there 
are no restrictions on beam or horsepower. 
Sparks. 
The power boat Hopalong, formerly owned 
by Richard Hutchison, has been sold by C. E. 
Downes to William King, Jr. 
Henry F. Grinnell, of Fall River, has had a 
cruising motor boat built by the M. J. Casey 
Company at New Bedford, which in type re¬ 
sembles very much a whale boat. It is fitted 
with a 17-horsepower motor and will make 8 
to 10 miles an hour. It has a cabin 17 feet 
long, a cockpit 9 feet and an after deck 4 feet. 
In the cabin is a space for the engine with a 
galley on one side. Aft is a cabin having four 
transom berths. The boat is handsomely fin¬ 
ished in mahogany and cypress, and the interior 
decorations are in white enamel. 
Robert Saltonstall, of the Eastern Y. C., has 
ordered a seagoing power boat from designs by 
Swazey, Raymond & Page. This boat will be 
57 feet long. 48 feet 6 inches on the waterline, 
11 feet beam and 3 feet 4 inches draft. It will 
be fitted with a 6-cylinder 40-horsepower motor, 
which will drive it about 10 miles an hour. 
C. H. Tyler’s new motor boat Sea Duck, built 
by Lawley from designs by Fred D. Lawley, is 
ready for trial. Sea Duck is 83 feet long and 
a powerful looking craft. 
The 6o-foot motor boat built at Lawley’s for 
Vice-Commodore Samuel Cochrane, of the 
Bensonhurst Y. C., is finished and will soon be 
tried. This craft was designed by Tams, Le- 
moine & Crane, and may take part in the 
Bermuda race. 
The races at Monaco began last Monday, and 
an opportunity will be had to find out how fast 
the British challenger for the International cup 
is, as she is to race there. 
The Hydroplane. 
It is not at all improbable that one of the 
British clubs will send a hydroplane here as one 
of its representatives in the race for the British 
international trophy. It is possible, too, that a 
vessel of similar type will be built here to repre¬ 
sent the defending club. Plans for such a vessel 
have already been drawn and some experiments 
have been made with models. * W. H. Fauber, 
of Nanterre, who is the inventor of the Fauber 
hydroplane, has written a very interesting article 
for the Yachting World. It follows: 
Inasmuch as the hydroplane subject is rapidly 
increasing in importance, and the hydroplane will 
undoubtedly develop and become a substantial 
branch of the boat industry, creating new in¬ 
terest, which naturally must benefit business and 
those concerned in the sport, and further bear¬ 
ing in mind that for the past year or two the 
world has gone “wild,” so to speak, on aeroplan- 
ing, with the eventual consequences that water 
sports must suffer, it behooves those concerned 
to seize the opportunities that the hydroplane 
presents and force the general public to realize 
that the advantages and pleasures of “planing” 
are not confined to the air. 
The Bosun’s article in the Motor Boat of Feb. 
19 offers several points for comment, to which 
I would like to reply, not for the purpose of 
criticism, but with the intention of advancing 
the progress of the hydroplane. 
The Bosun says: “Consequently some allow¬ 
ance for decrease in the lifting power of the 
planes must be made as the vessel increases in 
size.” 
If this statement were true it would mean that 
there is a limit to the size of the boat to which 
the hydroplane principle may be applied. 
It is well known that with'the ordinary type 
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