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of the Rochester Y. C. fleet; George P. Culp, 
who has been a consistent and hard worker as 
commodore and private member of the club, 
and a host of others. Mr. Culp has been the 
man behind the present activity and through 
him plans have been secured from C. D. 
Mower of New York, whose designs are well 
known. 
Before the plans were secured at least half 
a dozen men had pledged themselves to the 
scheme; and since then the list has grown to 
about thirty, so that plenty of contestants in 
next summer’s races are assured. The idea is 
not wholly confined to local sailors, for men up 
the lake at Olcott Beach and elsewhere, have 
asked to be allowed to come into the plan and 
get their boats in the one-design class. After 
the plans are approved, bids will be asked from 
several prominent boat building firms to ensure 
proper following of the designer’s ideas and the 
best material in hull and rigging at the mini¬ 
mum cost. At present it is believed that the 
whole cost will be one hundred dollars at the 
outside. No anchorage will be necessary and a 
place for storage will probably be secured by 
the new organization. ' 
In making the plans, Mr. Mower has com¬ 
plied, as has been said, with all the Lake Skiff 
Sailing Association requirements and has pro¬ 
duced what the local men believe to be the 
fastest and most sporting type of dinghy yet 
designed. The little skiffs will be fourteen feet 
in length over all at the maximum, between 5 
feet and 5 feet 7 inches in beam with a mini¬ 
mum depth of 16 inches. The sail area will be 
restricted to 140 square feet and all the con¬ 
struction will be subject to close restriction, to 
avoid freak types. 
To Race to Havana. 
The next step that the owners of power 
boats will take in the way of a long distance 
race will be a race from Philadelphia to Havana. 
The long distance races such as those to Ber¬ 
muda, to Marblehead, and some of the long ones 
of the Lakes have done much to develop vessels 
of good type, and those yachtsmen who favor 
the power boat are pleased to be able to build 
craft that are good cruisers, and at the same 
time have chances to take part in races Short 
distance races for power boats are good for the 
lacing machine such as Dixie and others of 
her type, but except for the development of the 
motor, these boats do little or no good. The 
cruiser that takes part in long distance racing 
gives plenty of opportunities for the designer 
and builder to work out their theories, and it 
has been chiefly through the long distance races 
that the cruising power boat has been de¬ 
veloped and by developing the cruising boat, the 
possibilities of the gasolene motor in trade is 
shown. 
This race, which is being arranged by Thomas 
Fleming Day, will start from off Market street, 
Philadelphia. It will be managed by the Yachts¬ 
men’s Club, and already two Philadelphia 
yachtsmen have signified their intention of 
taking part in the contest. The finishing line 
is to be between the Morro Light and La Punta 
Fort at the entrance to Havana Harbor, and the 
total distance is 1,400 miles. Boats to take part 
in this race must be between 50 and 100 feet in 
length and the conditions will require that they 
be. staunchly constructed and of sane form. The 
conditions for this race will be similar to those 
governing the race to Bermuda, but worked 
out for the longer distance to be traveled, and 
the course over which the yachts will go. They 
will have to pass outside Cape Hatteras and 
will cross the Gulf Stream three times. 
J. G. Naefie Whitaker, who won the Crescent 
A. C. cup for the race back from Bermuda last 
summer with his yacht Ilys, has entered that 
vessel, and another Philadelphia yachtsman, 
who is building a 65-footer, has said that he will 
race. The prizes are to be given by the 
Havana Y. C. 
It is probable that some club will offer prizes 
for the yachts taking part in this contest to race 
home, and one club has this plan now under 
consideration. 
To Boom Catboat Racing. 
The Cape Catboat Association is making 
efforts to boom the sport in that type of boat 
next season. At a meeting held recently it was 
decided to send delegates to a convention to 
be held at Providence. This was in response to 
an invitation from the Narragansett Bay Yacht 
Racing Association, which has asked that asso¬ 
ciations and clubs co-operate in booming the 
sport. Delegates are to attend this convention 
from Buzzard’s Bay, the Great South Bay, 
Massachusetts Bay, Barnegat Bay and other 
places where catboat racing is popular. 
There has been a revival in the interest in 
racing this type of boat all over the country, 
and one of the features of the sport in this 
section was the inter-bay races at Barnegat 
and the races for the President Taft cup at 
Toledo. 
At the meeting of the Cape Cat Boat Asso¬ 
ciation in Boston it was decided, that as the 
competing boats in the proposed match have 
to sail without jibs, the rule adopted by the 
association barring the use of jibs be continued 
for next season. 
An amendment to the restriction on cabin 
house was passed which will tend to lessen the 
extreme height of the house and the expessive 
crown to the top of the house, both of which 
features have caused unfavorable comment upon 
the appearance of some of the boats. The new 
rule is as follows: 
The minimum headroom in the clear under 
the cabin trunk beams over the cabin floor for 
a space including the centerboard casing, not 
less than 3 feet wide and 6 feet for boat 24 
feet and over, and 4 feet wide and 5 feet long 
for boats 24 feet waterline, shall be 2% inches 
for every foot of load waterline length. 
These officers were elected for the year: 
President, Frank Fessenden Crane; vice-presi¬ 
dent, F. F. Carpenter; Secretary, Dr. F. E. 
Dawes; Measurer, Ralph E. Winslow; Dele¬ 
gate to Y. R. A. of Massachusetts Bay, Ira M. 
Whittemore; Directors—F. F. Crane, W. W. 
Arnold, W. J. Coombs, H. W. Robbins and I. 
M. Whittemore. 
Baltimore Y. C. Troubles. 
There is trouble in the Baltimore Y. C. 
brought about by the action of the directors of 
that club selling unissued stock to themselves. 
Charles Wilbur Miller has applied for an in¬ 
junction, and Judge Lehmayer in the Circuit 
Court has granted the injunction restraining 
the Baltimore Y. C. and Walter Ancker, Robert 
Ramsay and Arthur D. Foster, directors, from 
carrying out an alleged agreement to sell to the 
directors certain unissued stock of the club. 
The Baltimore Y. C. was incorporated Oct. 9, 
1891, and Mr. Miller, an old member, owns 350 
shares of its stock of the par value of $25 each. 
On Oct. 25 it is alleged the directors made an 
agreement to sell to themselves 501 shares of 
the stock which had not been issued. This 
agreement, which the court is asked to set aside, 
is alleged to be void, because no opportunity 
was given Mr. Miller and other stockholders to 
buy stock. 
British Builders to Come Here. 
It is reported that the Scott Engineering 
Company, of Edinburgh, Scotland, one of the 
largest firms of yacht and ship builders in 
Great Britain, have leased for a long term the 
plant of the Eastern Shipbuilding Company at 
Groton, which is just across the Thames River 
from New London. This plant was operated 
some years ago, and the large steamers now 
operating on the Pacific were built there. The 
property is owned by the New York, New 
Haven and Hartford Railroad Company. 
R. L. Scott, of the Scott Company, gave a 
dinner last week at the St. Regis, at which were 
several shipping and yachting men. Commo¬ 
dore Roy L. Rainey, of the Indian Harbor Y. 
C., and owner of the steamer Cassandra, and 
A. S. Chesbrough, designer of that yacht, were 
among those present. Commodore Rainey said 
that the new tariff on foreign-built yachts prac¬ 
tically prohibited Americans from having their 
vessels built abroad. He also spoke of the 
relation between Sir Thomas Lipton and the 
New York Y. C., and said that all good yachts¬ 
men were desirous of seeing Sir Thomas get 
a “square deal,” and that a sportsmanlike race 
might be arranged. 
It is the operation of the new tariff law that 
imposes a tax of $7 a year on the gross tonnage 
of foreign-built yachts that has induced foreign 
builders to open yards in this country. 
Boston Y. C. Meeting. 
The fall meeting of the Boston Y. C. was 
held at the Rowe’s Wharf House on Wednes¬ 
day, Oct. 27. This nominating committee was 
appointed by the executive committee to select 
officers and committemen for next year: Herbert 
S. Potter, Charles E. Lauriat, Jr., George B. 
Doane, Frank R. Kimball, H. Lundberg, 
Henry Hutchinson and Charles B. Devereaux. 
It was decided that the chairman of the re¬ 
gatta committee should take the same dates for' 
next year’s racing as the club had this year and 
three previous years. The club entertained Sir 
Thomas Lipton when he visited this country 
three years ago, and it sent him an invitation to 
dine with the members again should he make a 
visit to Boston. 
Yacht Transfers. 
The following sales are reported through the 
Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency: 
25-foot cruising sloop Carina II., sold by C. 
B. Wheelock, of Boston, to Leland T. Powers, 
of Brookline, Mass. 
25-foot sloop Nike, sold by Victor I. Cum¬ 
nock, of New York, to John F. Durnell, of 
Worcester, Mass. 
Rhyme of the Modern Mariner. 
It was a modern mariner 
That stopped to talk with me, 
“By thy oily clothes and grimy face, 
What’s up?” says I to he. 
The mariner is bent and bowed; 
His feet he drags like lead, 
With a weary sigh he makes reply; 
“I had a boat,” he said. 
“Full twenty feet it was in length; 
She had a three-blade screw, 
Her engine had ten horses’ strength; 
She was half-cabined, too. 
“ ’Twas yesterday we sped away 
With baggage loaded down, 
We left the dock at six o’clock; 
At seven she broke down. 
“We tried the spark; we cleaned the plugs, 
The carburetor, too; 
We fumed and toiled and cleaned and oiled; 
Eftsoons the air was blue. 
“We took the cylinder apart; 
We searched with eager touch 
The pump, the shaft, the wheel abaft, 
The timber and the clutch. 
“Then back each part we put with care 
And bathed the whole in grease; 
And cranked and cranked and cranked and cranked 
Nine hundred times apiece. 
“Till in the tank I looked at last, 
That fed the motor’s might, 
Then rose a cry that rent the sky, 
That tank was empty quite. 
“With lips unslaked, with skies sunbaked, 
We sat the livelong day. 
And fed our thirst the while we cursed 
As wore the hours away, 
Till in the gloam we crept in home, 
Towed by a fisher gray.” 
The mariner hath told his tale, 
“Now fare thee well,” says he, 
“And, say, if you should chance to note 
A chump who wants a motor bbat, 
'Pray, send him quick to me.” 
—Sunday Magazine. 
