Tekla II. Nearly Ready. 
The 90-foot cruising motor boat Tekla II., 
designed by Cox & Stevens, for Mr. Alessandro 
Fabbri, and now under construction at the yard 
of George Lawley & Son Corporation, South 
Boston, Mass., is to be ready for delivery in' 
New York on Nov. 15, in condition for a 
southern cruise. 
In having this new Tekla built, Mr. Fabbri 
had in mind using her in the canals and in 
southern waters, and also in the summer time 
along the coast between here and Bar Harbor, 
so that all these conditions had to be given at¬ 
tention. 
The dimensions of Tekla are: Length over 
all, 90 feet; waterline, 82 feet 3 inches; beam, 17 
feet; draft, 3 feet 6 inches. Her power consists 
of two. 75-horsepower Craig engines, situated 
amidships, and a speed of 12 miles an hour is 
anticipated. 
The accommodation plan shows that a most 
roomy and comfortable craft has been secured, 
and one that is not at all unattractive in appear¬ 
ance; also that due attention has been given 
to producing a seaworthy vessel and one that 
would be livable both in hot and cold weather. 
The type is one known as the raised deck 
cruiser, giving full headroom below forward, 
and sufficient height of deck to insure sea¬ 
worthiness, while a trunk is run aft where the 
freeboard would otherwise be excessive; and 
the needed ventilation of engine room is secured 
in this manner and also through a large stack 
used as an exhaust for the engines and ventilat¬ 
ing the engine room and the galley. 
The owner desired his own quarters forward, 
and this arrangement has been followed; the 
owner’s stateroom is well forward and unusu¬ 
ally large, being 10 feet long of the full width 
of the vessel. It is furnished with a bed, ward¬ 
robe, sofa and desk, and forward of it is a large 
dressing room and lavatory, with bureau, 
clothes presses, toilet and lavatory. Just abaft 
the_ owner’s stateroom comes the lobby, into 
which the stairs from the dining room ’ lead. 
This lobby has a full length transom on the 
starboard side, making a comfortable bed and 
desk, with gun rack and ample locker space 
for storage of fishing and hunting material. 
A passage way opens from this lobby on the 
center line, and runs aft to the galley. On each 
side of this passage is a large guest stateroom 
with bureau, wardrobe, folding wash basin and 
sofa. On the port side, entering into one of 
these staterooms is a large bath room, with 
tub, toilet and wash basin; the floor of this 
room having rubber tiling. Opposite this bath 
room, on the starboard side is another single 
stateroom that can be used as a guest room or 
for the owner’s man. The dumb waiter from 
the galley is recessed into this room, and the 
food is carried in this manner directly into the 
pantry, which is overhead in the aft end of the 
deck house. The galley runs all the way across 
the ship and is fitted with large coal range, and 
ice-box of unusual capacity, sink, dresser and 
dish racks. 
After the galley comes the engine room, sepa¬ 
rated from it and from the crew space by steel 
bulkheads; on each side of the engine room are 
heavy copper gasolene tanks having a total ca¬ 
pacity.of 1,100 gallons. In the engine room is 
also situated an electric light plant, which not 
only lights the entire vessel, but supplies elec¬ 
tricity for a powerful searchlight and also 
charges the storage batteries which are cap¬ 
able of lighting the vessel for ten hours’ time. 
After the engine room comes the space for 
the crew and a separate toilet, and berths for 
four men, with necessary lockers, and after this 
again is the stateroom for the captain on the 
port side and a large store room on the star¬ 
board side, access to these quarters being by a 
companionway at the aft end of the cabin trunk. 
The finish below is to be handsome, yet plain, 
and will be Colonial in style. The bulkheads 
will be paneled in white enamel; the doors 
will be mahogany, as will also all the furniture. 
There will be hot and cold running water in 
all the lavatories, and the boat will be fully 
found and equipped in every respect. 
.Mr. Fabbri has owned several other vessels, 
his last one being the auxiliary schooner yacht 
Tekla, which he recently sold. 
The present vessel is the result of his long 
experience, and he has every reason to believe 
that he is now having built a craft that will be 
entirely suited to his requirements. 
The arrangement on deck is very convenient, 
and a great deal of room is provided for the 
owner, as the plans show; the deck house and 
cabin trunk are of mahogany, handsomely 
paneled, and the deck house contains an un¬ 
usually large dining room, after which is a 
pantry connecting with the galley by dumb 
waiter. In order to take care of the ventilation 
below, large ventilation trunks are carried up 
through the deck house, opening out on each 
side, and arranged to look like articles of 
furniture inside, so that they are not at all un¬ 
sightly and at the same time provide the neces¬ 
sary ventilation for the two guests staterooms. 
The lobby in the owner’s stateroom has indi¬ 
vidual skylights, in addition to a large number 
of air ports, and as the toilet and valet’s room 
each have overhead ventilation, and the galley 
is ventilated by the stack, it would seem that 
the quarters should be comfortable, even in the 
hottest kind of weather. To take care of the 
cold weather experienced *in Maine waters in 
the fall, a hot water heating device is being in¬ 
stalled. 
The top of the cabin trunk is kept flush with 
no obstructions, and is available for the owner 
its entire length, so that he has deck space from 
the extreme bow practically the whole length 
of the vessel. There is a large steering bridge 
just abaft the house, under which are running 
water, tanks and skylight to the galley. 
It is proposed to have the engine control 
arranged at the steering stand, so that the 
vessel can be controlled from on deck. 
This is the second vessel of this size that 
Messrs. Cox & Stevens have already started at 
Hawley’s yard for delivery this fall, and they 
have plans under way for a number of others. 
This is an indication of the direction in which 
interest in yachting is now tending, practically 
all the orders of any magnitude being for good- 
sized able cruising motor boats. 
New Schooner to Race Abroad. 
Alexander S. Cochran, who is having a 90- 
foot schooner built at Herreshoff’s, has gone 
abroad. He expects to return early next year 
and will devote his attention to his new yacht. 
His plans for a season are to take the new 
yacht abroad for the early part of the season 
and then return in time for the cruise of the 
New York Y. C. 
The new schooner will probably be completed 
by the end of March or early in April, and this 
accomplished she will at once have necessary 
trials in home waters, and then made ready for 
a trip across the Atlantic. Kiel will be her 
destination, as Mr. Cochran desires that she 
shall take part in the races of the week of 
yachting there under the direction of the 
Kaiserlicher Y. C. 
With her races in German waters over, Mr. 
Cochran hopes to be able to have his schooner 
brought back to America in time for her to join 
the N. Y. Y. C. squadron on its annual cruise. 
If this plan is adhered to by Mr. Cochran it 
will result in rather a busy season for those in 
charge of the yacht. It is somewhat prob¬ 
lematical, however, if the time intervening be¬ 
tween the close of “Kiel week” and the be¬ 
ginning of the N. Y. Y. C. cruise will allow the 
sea rig of the schooner to be replaced abroad, 
the trip back to America made and her racing 
rig restored here. It may all depend upon the 
weather had in returning home, but Captain 
Charles Barr, who will be the sailing master of 
the new yacht, is a very wideawake and active 
skipper, and may be depended upon to carry 
out his owner’s wishes to the fullest, if at all 
practicable. 
And yet there are the chances of Mr. 
Cochran being attracted with the Royal Yacht 
Squadron’s races at Cowes in the month of 
August, and he may remain for them and other 
races of the British yacht clubs. 
The news that Mr. Cochran is to race his new 
schooner in British and German waters has 
stirred up some yachtsmen on the other side 
of the Atlantic, and at the same time cleared 
the mystery about the building of the 15-rater 
for an American last year. A letter to the Field 
reads as follows: 
“About this time last year I gave Fife an 
order for a 15-metre boat (Vanity) for my 
friend Mr. A. S. Cochran, of New York, but 
owing to his own ill health and his mother’s 
death, he determined not to race in the season 
just ended, and so I sold her to Messrs. Watson. 
Benn & Payne. Mr. Cochran has now given 
Herreshofif an order for a 90-foot waterline 
schooner to be ready for next season’s racing, 
has engaged Barr as skipper (who has been with 
him in Avenger since July) and means to bring 
her over for Kiel and Cowes. If this news 
should induce any one there to build a schooner 
of somewhat similar size to race against her. 
Cicely and the German schooners (of which I 
understand there will be three next season), all 
the better, and. I send you this information in 
the hope that it may have that result.—F. R. 
Hughes.” 
The editor of the Field in his reply to this 
gives some information that it will be well for 
Mr. Cochran and Herreshofif to ponder over. 
He says “our correspondent is doubtless aware 
that the new yacht must be ‘classed’ either by 
Lloyds’ Register of British Shipping, the Ger- 
manischer Lloyd, or Bureau Veritas; otherwise 
she will.not be allowed to race in class A under 
international rules against Meteor, Germania 
and Cicely. The point is, of course, well known; 
nevertheless, it may possibly have been over¬ 
looked.” 
This means that in order to race in foreign 
waters against the crack yachts there the new 
90-footers will have to conform to the scantling 
restrictions agreed on by the European con¬ 
ference, and will also be measured according 
to the rule in force there. To conform to that 
rule may penalize the yacht when racing in 
home waters, and this is one illustration of the 
action of the New York Y. C. in not taking 
part in the conference when rules were made 
uniform on the other side of the Atlantic. 
Cadillac Won. 
New Orleans, Oct. 11 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Cadillac defeated Calypso yesterday 
by almost 13m. over a 12-mile course, under the 
direction of the Southern Y. C. Cadillac fin¬ 
ished in 2.55.54, and Calypso 3.09.14. The win¬ 
ner was awarded a silver cup. Cadillac is 
owned by E. H. W. Davies and sailed by Cap¬ 
tain Lawrence Heaslip. Calypso is owned and 
was sailed by Vice-Commodore A. M. Cooke. 
The race was a very tame affair. It was wit¬ 
nessed by a rather large crowd at West End. 
Toward the latter part of the contest the wind 
was blown almost a gale, but at the start the 
breeze was quite slack. F. G. G. 
