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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 14, 1910. 
conditions very properly insist that the contest¬ 
ants shall be yachts of staunch build and sea¬ 
worthy type, and shall be properly equipped with 
full sets of navigating instruments, life belts or 
buoys, boats or rafts, oil bags, sea anchors, fire 
extinguishers, etc., and the committee has power 
to refuse the entry of any vessel that in the opin¬ 
ion of the committee is not suited to the voyage. 
The six racers are: 
Ilys, owned by Commodore Q. G. Naefie Whit¬ 
aker, Yachtsmen’s Club. Designer, Thomas D. 
Bowes; builder, J. A. Vanderslice, Camden; 
length over all, 50 feet; beam, 10 feet 6 inches; 
draft, 3 feet; engine, 36 horsepower Hall. 
Caliph, owned by Vice-Commodore M. E. 
Brighamy, Ventnor Y. C. Designers, Bowes & 
Watts; builders, J. H. Mathis & Co., Camden; 
length over all, 60 feet; beam, 11 feet; draft, 3 
feet 4 inches; engine, 36 horsepower Hall. 
Georgianna II., owned by W. G. Coxe, New 
York. Designers and builders, Harlan & Hol¬ 
lingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del.; length over 
all, 70 feet; engine, 60 horsepower Clark. 
Loantaka, owned by H. S. Peters. Designer, 
Thomas D. Bowes; builders, Herman Weller’s 
Sons, Trenton; length over all, 75 feet; beam, 
14 feet; draft, 4 feet 6 inches; engine, 70 horse¬ 
power Reeve-Graef. 
Caroline, owned by M. Frank Dennis, New 
York. Designer, Morris M. Whitaker; built in 
New York; length over all, 65 feet; engine, 25 
horsepower Standard. 
Berneyo, owned by S. W. Granbery, Brooklyn 
Y. C. Designer, Edson B. Shock; builder, Mc¬ 
Donald ; length over all, 60 feet; beam, 12 feet; 
draft, 4 feet; engine, 25 horsepower Standard. 
These yachts have been thoroughly tuned up. 
Some have been running now for several weeks. 
Their owners have tried different wheels and 
changed the trim in order to find out how they 
get the best speed, and the result of the race 
will furnish data which will be most valuable to 
designers and builders. 
After a short rest at Havana they are to race 
home again and finish off the Seaside Y. C. 
house at Atlantic City. The Havana Y. C. and 
Seaside Y. C. have offered prizes for this race. 
Novel Motor Boat. 
David C. Scott, of the Rhode Island Y. C., 
has designed and built a new power boat at his 
home in Centredale, which has many new and 
novel features, says the Providence Journal; in 
fact, the craft, which is but a small one, comes 
in the class of “freak” boats, and yachtsmen are 
anxious to see what will come of Mr. Scott’s 
ideas. 
He said recently that he had already tried the 
boat out on the mill pond behind his home and 
that it had worked better than he had expected. 
It is 16 feet over all and is but little less than 
that on the waterline. The boat is 3 feet wide 
and draws 8 inches forward and nothing aft. 
This departure in the arrangement of the stern 
draft is one of the most peculiar features in the 
boat. It is brought about by flaring the boards 
from the bow in a fan-shape arrangement. He 
first laid the keel and then flared the boards 
about it from the bow, giving a perfectly flat 
stern. 
The ribs are iY by Y of an inch, while the 
planking is of ^-inch pattern pine. The boat 
is ribbed lengthwise, instead of up and down, 
and every rib is straight when tried with the 
square, and yet the boat has a curved, rakish 
appearance when viewed from any angle. 
The stern is cut out on an angle to meet the 
keel, and the engine, a 2^2 horsepower Scott, is 
placed forward of amidships. The engine was 
partly designed by Mr. Scott and will drive the 
boat at a speed of more than ten miles an hour. 
The flywheel faces the stern and the whole thing 
can be controlled from a seat in the center of 
the boat. 
The boat looks like a plain speed craft, but 
carries four or five passengers comfortably. It 
is built mostly of native white oak and pattern 
pine and is constructed strongly throughout. A 
chain connects the engine with the shaft, which 
runs along the keel, and a balanced rudder 
swings over the shaft. The whole outfit weight 
but 350 pounds. Mr. Scott took the boat to 
Riverview and will keep her there this summer. 
She has been christened Diana. 
Launch of Miramar. 
The cruising motor boat Miramar, built by the 
Gas Engine & Power Company for Eisenlohr 
Brothers, of Philadelphia, was launched ten days 
ago. This yacht is 115 feet over all, 94 feet on 
the waterline, 17 feet beam and 5 'feet draft. 
She is modeled like a steamer, having a clipper 
bow and being fitted with a smokestack which 
will be used for ventilating purposes. The hull 
is of steel. The dining room is in the forward 
deck house and connects with the galley below. 
The officers’ quarters and the forecastle are for¬ 
ward of the galley, and aft of the engines are 
the quarters of the owner and his guests. The 
after deck house will be used as a social hall 
and music room. The yacht is. rigged as a 
schooner with two pole masts and is to be driven 
by two 100 horsepower 6-cylinder Speedway 
motors which will give her a speed of twelve 
miles an hour. 
Intruder Launched. 
Intruder, the 40-foot speed yacht, built for 
Vice-Commodore Frederick K. Burnham, of the 
Thousand Islands Y. C., was launched from 
Jacob’s Yard, at City Island, last Monday. In¬ 
truder is built from designs by Henry J. Gielow 
and it is expected that she will be very speedy. 
She is equipped with a 275 horsepower Sterling 
motor. In model she is a semi-hydroplane with 
a sharp stem and a stern that shades off into 
almost nothing. Aft she will draw about three 
inches when going at full speed. After some 
trials on the Sound the launch is to be shipped 
to the St. Lawrence River where she will be 
tuned up. She is to be raced at Peoria Lake, 
Cincinnati, in the contests for the gold challenge 
cup, and in the eliminating trials held for the 
purpose of selecting defenders for the British 
International trophy. 
S. W. Granbery’s Racer. 
The cruising motor boat Berneyo, built for 
S. W. Granbery for the Havana and Bermuda 
races was designed by E. B. Shock. She is 60 
feet over all, 9 feet 6 inches beam and 4 feet 
3 inches draft. She is of the raised deck type 
and has comfortable accommodations. The 
owner’s stateroom is aft of the engine space, 
which is placed amidships. Aft of this room on 
the starboard side is a companionway leading to 
the deck, and on the port side a toilet and lava¬ 
tory. The motor is a 25 horsepower Standard 
and in her trials the yacht has pleased her owner 
and designer very much. 
Portland P. B. Association. 
The Portland Power Boat Association held its 
first meeting last week. About one hundred 
were present and many members were elected. 
It was decided to arrange a regatta for motor 
boats on July 4, and the events are to be open 
only to yachts belonging to members of yacht 
and motor boat clubs on Casco Bay. The Mayor, 
two captains of the revenue cutters, surgeon of 
the Marine Hospital, inspector of lighthouse 
service, collector of the port and district com¬ 
mander of fortifications were elected honorary 
members. The new house of this association 
will be formally opened next Saturday. 
Picaroon II. Motor Boat. 
Commodore T. A. Baylies, of the New Bed¬ 
ford Y. C., is having a cruising motor boat built 
by C. A. Anderson, at Wareham. This yacht is 
51 feet 6 inches over all, 48 feet 6 inches on the 
waterline, 11 feet 3 inches beam and 3 feet 8 
inches draft. She is built of heavy oak frames 
and hard pine planking. The finish is in red 
birch. The main cabin is aft. Forward on the 
starboard side is the galley and on the opposite 
side is a toilet and clothes closet. The engine 
room is next with accommodations for the crew 
and forward there is a large stateroom. Pica¬ 
roon I. won the* Marblehead race. The new 
boat is too large for that race this year, but 
Commodore Baylies may enter the Bermuda 
race. The yacht is driven by a 40 horsepower 
motor. 
Sparks. 
The regatta committee of the Dorchester Y. C. 
has arranged six races for motor boats. These 
will be June 11 and 25, July 9 and 30 and Aug. 
13 and 27. 
Richmond Levering has ordered a Gurnet dory 
of the Atlantic Company for his yacht Heather. 
The boat will be i 8 j 4 feet long. 
Louis R. Alberger is having a 15-foot motor 
tender built by Fenton, at Manchester, for his 
yawl Polaris. 
Three yachts are entered for the race to Ber¬ 
muda which will start on June 25. There are 
S. W. Granbery’s Berneyo, Samuel Cochrane’s 
Eronel and F. Page Bacon’s Yo Ho. 
Seven Toppan 17-foot motor dories were re¬ 
cently shipped on a car from Medford. They 
are for railroad men at Sanbornville, N. H. 
The auxiliary 35-foot catboat Myrtle and the 
45-foot speed launch Wee One were sold at auc¬ 
tion at the Marine Basin, Brooklyn, last Mon¬ 
day by order of the receiver for J. M. Fiske & 
Co. These two boats were owned by Josiah M. 
Fiske. They brought $1,000. 
Fenton, at East Gloucester, has just completed 
a handsome motor boat for Ernest H. Blatch- 
ford, of Gloucester. She is 25 feet over all, 5 
feet beam and is fitted with a 12 horsepower 
motor. The boat is planked with cedar, copper 
fastened and is finished in oak and mahogany. 
Twelve miles an hour is what is expected. She 
has been named Doris. 
The Boston Y. C. has just received from the 
Atlantic Company one of their Gurnet dories, 
to be used for rough water service at the 
south side of the South Boston station in Dor¬ 
chester Bay. The boat is equipped with a 5 " 
horsepower Atlantic special motor, sprayhood, 
cushions, and has installed a heavy towing bit 
aft and will be used for towing the yachts and 
general purposes of a tender to facilitate the 
convenience of the club members between # the 
club house and the yachts anchored in the 
harbor. , 
Canoeing, 
An Oz&rk Canoe Trip. 
(Continued from page 746.) 
As we drove back to camp I questioned the 
little lad who was driving us as to the distance 
between the river and the camp and he replied, 
“One mile.” Boots and I were just going to 
jump on his collar, when he added “by road; 
by the railroad it’s most four.” Think of it, we 
had walked four miles when one was sufficient. 
I might explain here that we had no good maps 
with us, for the topographical sheets do not ex¬ 
tend as far as Steeleville, but begin at a point 
about ten miles east. We had a soil map which 
showed the river, but not the roads or villages. 
A hungry quartette sat down to “pounded 
round and French frys” that night under the 
Steeleville Bridge. We were too tired to clean 
up after eating and turned in, leaving the dishes 
for the morning. I watched Boots closely that 
night for indications of a collapse. I noticed 
in the corner of each eye a suspicious moisture 
which gradually increased until there was a re¬ 
spectable steed tear poised on each eyelid. Not 
a word from her, though. At last I ventured, 
“Tired?” With part grunt and part sob she re¬ 
plied in the affirmative and went to sleep. Poor 
girl, she had earned her right to a night of 
sound slumber. It had been a hard day, not 
only for the girls, but for the men as well. I 
wondered at the time how many women would 
