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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 20, 1909. 
“Toledo is catboat mad and so is Detroit. 
In fact, a writer describing the Inter-Lake 
Y achting Association regatta at Toledo, in 
August, said that the mam event of the week 
was the catboat contest for the President Taft 
cup. The boats measure 15-feet waterline and 
may carry 260 feet of sail. Some years ago 
these diminutive representatives of our royal 
sport would scarcely have been noticed. 
“As to cruising on the lakes in sailing yachts 
there is none. The power boat has claimed the 
patronage of those who used to go by the 
slower means. Some auxiliaries still seek out 
the lonely spots in Georgian Bay and along the 
wild north shore of Lake Superior, but they 
are rare birds. The most notable new one is 
Agawa, Commodore Jenning’s schooner, hail¬ 
ing from Detroit. Even she put-puts through 
rivers and narrow channels. 
“On the inland lakes of Wisconsin and 
Minnesota yachting really flourishes. On White 
Bear, Winnebago, Butte des Morts, Fox and 
scores of other spring-fed lakes there are many 
sailboats. Except on Lake Winnebago heavy 
seas are unknown. If a boat capsizes or fills, as 
so often happens, there is no ballast in the hull 
to sink her. 
“Racing is keen and spirited in these waters. 
The boats there are marvels of intelligent 
design and workmanship, and the best eastern 
sailmakers supply the cloth to drive them. 
Every summer the clubs of the Inland Lakes 
Yachting Association ship the pick of their 
fleet by rail to Oshkosh on Lake Winnebago, 
and there they battle for supremacy. In tests 
of skill, seamanship and downright pluck these 
contests are not excelled anywhere in this 
country. Men of muscle are needed to handle 
the slippery sleds used in those waters, and they 
grow them out in that country.’ 
The Long Distance Races. 
Plans are being made for several long dis¬ 
tance races for next season, both for power and 
sailing craft, and the conditions to govern these 
events will be announced shortly. The first 
race of the new season will be from Philadel¬ 
phia to Havana, a distance of 1,400 miles. This 
race, which is being promoted by the Yachts¬ 
men’s Club of Philadelphia, will be started about 
the first week of May, and is for vessels between 
60 and 100 feet. Three yachtsmen have already 
notified the committee that they will enter their 
yachts, and others who are building, will in all 
probability take part if they can get their 
yachts in time. In order to make the race 
more attractive, prizes have been offered 
for a race home, so that the yachtsmen will 
have entertainment both going down and com¬ 
ing back. 
The races to Bermuda will be started toward 
the end of June. There will be the usual race 
for motor boats, which will be started in New 
York Harbor by the Motor Boat Club of 
America and the sailing craft will be started by 
the Atlantic Y. C. These races have grown in 
popularity since they were first arranged, and 
next year’s events are likely to have more 
starters than ever before. 
For smaller power boats there will be the 
Marblehead race, which next season will start 
from Marblehead and finish off the Crescent 
Athletic Club house at Bay Ridge. The race 
last summer was the most successful of those 
over this course. It is thought that there will 
be more than twenty starters in this event, and 
if they get away from Marblehead early in the 
morning, they should finish off the Crescent 
Club house the next afternoon. . 
There will be a renewal of the races around 
Long Island for power boats and sailing craft. 
The New York Athletic Club will have its 
races through the Sound to Block Island, and 
there will be a race to Albany and back, as 
well as shorter races on the Hudson River. 
These long distance races have grown very 
much in popularity, and those owners of staunch 
yachts that may be out of date as far as being 
racers are concerned are pleased to be able to 
take part in races where skill in handling, 
knowledge of tides and experience as navigators 
counts. 
There is also some talk of a race for power 
boats to Norfolk, and another one for power 
boats and for sailing craft from New York 
Harbor to Newport. 
The race to Norfolk should be an attractive 
one. There are many harbors between New 
York and Norfolk, where those who may get 
tired of the race or who meet with some mis¬ 
hap can put in. There is Barnegat, then further 
down the Delaware River, and those who 
enter there can return through the canals. 
Then for those who complete the race, there is 
the charming variety of being able to come 
home by way of Chesapeake Bay, the canals 
and Delaware River. This cruise to Norfolk 
on the ocean and return by the inland route is 
one of the most pleasant trips the owner of a 
small motor boat can make. 
Brig-Rigged Auxiliary. 
A 6o-foot auxiliary brig-rigged yacht has 
been designed by Norman L. Skene for Harry 
L. Friend, of the Marblehead division of the 
Boston Y. C., which is to be built this winter. 
This rig is very much a novelty, and the whole 
make up of the yacht is something out of the 
ordinary. ~ £ 
The yacht will be 60 feet on deck, 12 feet o 
inches beam and 4 feet 6 inches draft. She 
will have a six-cylinder engine of 7 ° horsepower, 
which will give her a speed of about 12 miles 
under power alone. She has a torpedo-boat 
stern and a ram bow, and in general outline 
will have the appearance of a miniature war 
vessel. There is a trunk cabin forward, which 
is raised at its after end to form a conning 
tower. The bridge is just abaft this, and the 
yacht may also be steered from inside the ob¬ 
servatory room. I here is another trunk cabin 
abaft the engine room space, over the owner’s 
stateroom. 
On fore and main there are the lower courses, 
topsails and top-gallant-sails. The staysails 
are of sufficient size to keep the yacht steady in 
a seaway, while the whole sail plan is large 
enough to send her along fairly well in a fair 
breeze. Instead of being brailed up in the usual 
manner the sails are sent out on the yards with 
outhauls. The braces do not trim to the deck, 
but lead from the deck to the yards, the 
hauling parts being made fast at the masts. 
Below decks the layout is particularly good ; 
In the forward part of the boat is a guests 
stateroom. Abaft this is the main saloon, of 
good size. Off the main saloon is the observa¬ 
tion room, which is reached by a short com¬ 
panionway. A piano is installed in the observa¬ 
tion room. On the port side of this room is 
the gallery, and on the starboard side a large 
clothes closet. Next aft comes the engine room 
space, which is shut off from the rest of the 
boat by a watertight bulkhead at either end. 
The crew’s quarters are in the engine room. 
Abaft the engine room and reached by a sepa¬ 
rate companionway from the deck is the 
owner’s stateroom. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The following transfers of yachts are reported 
through the Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency: 
40-foot sloop Sabine, sold by ex-Commodore 
Edward P. Boynton to Manuel J. DeSilva, of 
Boston. 
25-foot auxiliary sloop Jingo, sold by 
Augustus P. Loring to Sumner C. Andrews, of 
Gloucester. 
21-foot knockabout Kanaka, sold by William 
J. Aylward, Jr., to William M. McHugh, Jr., of 
South Norwalk, Conn. 
Aloha Nearly Ready. 
The steel auxiliary, bark-rigged yacht, build¬ 
ing at the Fore River Ship Yard, at Quincy, 
for Commodore Arthur Curtiss James, of the 
New York Y. C., is almost ready for launching. 
She will be named Aloha. This yacht is 201 
feet over all, 165 feet on the waterline, 35 feet 
beam and 16 feet draft. The new yacht will be 
ready for commission next spring. 
Naval Architects’ Meeting. 
The seventeenth general meeting of the So¬ 
ciety of Naval Architects was held in Assembly 
Room No. 1, Engineering Societies Building, 
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 18 and 19, 1909. 
There was a banquet in Delmonico’s large hall 
at 7 p. m. Friday, Nov. 19. 
The council met at 3 p. m. Wednesday, Nov. 
17, in the council room No. 7t6, seventh floor, 
Engineering Societies Building. 
The list of papers read at the meeting is as 
follows: 
1. “Evolution of Screw Propulsion in the 
United States,” by Charles H. Cramp, vice- 
president. 
2. “The Effect of Parallel Middle Body Upon 
Resistance,” by Naval Constructor D. W. 
Taylor, U. S. N., vice-president. 
3. “The Influence of the Position of the Mid¬ 
ship Section on the Resistance of Some Types 
of Vessels,” by Professor H. C. Sadler, mem¬ 
ber of council. 
4. “Some Ship-shaped Stream Forms,” by 
Asst. Nav. Constructor Wm. McEntee, U. S. 
N., member. 
5. “Applications of Electricity to the Pro¬ 
pulsion of Naval Vessels,” by W. L. R. Emmet. 
6. “The Producer Gas Boat Marenging,” by 
H. L. Aldrich, member of council. 
7. “Building and Equipping Non-Magnetic 
Auxiliary Yacht ‘Carnegie’ with Producer Gas 
Propelling Equipment,” by Wallace Downey, 
associate member. 
8. “The Design of Submarines,” by Marley F. 
Hay, member. 
9. “The Foreign Trade Merchant Marine of 
the United States. Can It be Revived?” by 
George W. Dickie, member of council. 
10. "Material Handling Arrangements for 
Vessels on the Great Lakes,” by Alexander E. 
Brown, member. 
11. “Structural Rules for Ships,” by James 
Donald, member. 
12. “Rivets in Tension,” by Robert Curr, 
member. 
13. “The Strength of Watertight Bulkheads, 
by Professor William Hovgaard, member. 
14. “Cruising Motor Boats,” by E. T. Keyser. 
New York Y. C. Nominations. 
This is the season of the year when com¬ 
mittees of the many yacht clubs are trying to 
pick out officers for the coming season, and 
their task is by no means an easy one. 
Committees of the Larchmont, Atlantic, 
Eastern and other big clubs are expected to 
report shortly, and then when the flag officers 
have been elected, plans will be made for next 
season’s sport. 
The ticket submitted to members of the New 
York Y. C. is: 
Commodore—Arthur Curtiss James. 
Vice-Commodore—C. Ledyard Blair. 
Rear-Commodore—Dallas B. Pratt. 
Secretary—G. A. Cormack. 
Treasurer—Tarrant Putnam. 
Regatta Committee—H. De Berkeley Par¬ 
sons, Walter C. Kerr and Ernest E. Lorillard. 
Measurer—William Hallock. 
House Committee—Thomas A. Bronson, 
Hunter Wykes and George A. Freeman. 
Committee on Admissions—Henry C. Ward 
Albert V. De Goicouria, Henry T. Sloane, 
Cornelius Vanderbit and J. D. Jerrold Kelley. 
Library Committee—Grenville Kane, James 
A. Metcalf and Charles W. Lee. 
Model Committee—James D. Sparkman, Al¬ 
bert Bradlee Hunt and Paul Eve Stephenson, 
Members in charge of club stations ami 
anchorages—No. 1, Stapleton, S. I., Robert E. 
Tod; No. 2, foot of East Twenty-third street, 
N. Y., J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr.; No. 4, New 
London, Conn., Vernon C. Brown; No. 5 - 
Shelter Island, N. Y., Charles Lane Poor; No. 
6, Newport, R. I., Maximilian Agassiz; No. 7 , 
Vineyard Haven, Mass., Arthur Curtiss James; 
No. 9, Ardsley-on-Hudson, Franklin Q. Brown 
and No. 10, Glen Cove. N. Y., J. Harvey Ladew, 
With the exception of a member of the Com¬ 
mittee on Admissions and the member in charge 
