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F IFTY boat wise people were made 
glad last year with the ownership 
of the marvelous 36=ft. raised^ 
deck Racine Cruiser. Four 
times that number were disappointed—they 
came too late. We can build only a like number 
of these beautiful boats this year—just fifty* 
that’s all. 36 feet over all she measures,—her 
beam is 8 ft. 6 in. She will go anywhere there is. 
two feet six inches of water, and you can take 
your friends on this boat with cruising accom¬ 
modations for eight: toilet room, folding lava¬ 
tory and mirror, owner’s stateroom, and cockpit 
holding ten. The galley is big, fresh water tanlfs 
for salt water cruising, ice box, sink, surplus 
storage and all—a real home on water, inde¬ 
pendent of all.the hotels on earth. 
Save $2,500 
On THis Boat 
And the price—other builders with limited capacity’ 
and old fashioned methods would have to ask $3;500 to 
$5,000 but our price is S2,500 for the whole outfit. Every 
detail of hull and fittings is up to the regular Racing 
standard, nothing scrimped, no pains of labor or' 
material spared just to make the price low.* 
Everything that goes with a boat is included, din- 
ghey and davits, lights, screens,.stn'nding top,, cush¬ 
ions, curtains, flags, signal mast’and fittings, pow££ 
whistle, fog bell, life ’preservers, boat hook, stove, 
removable table, etc. Powerful motor of the latest 
type four cylinder, 4-cycle: self-starting—developing 
25 to 30 H. P.—with double ignition system, including 
gear driven magneto, oil so simple that even a novice 
will have no trouble. Complete electric light plant, 
with dynamo. Sounds like a marine catalogue, doesn’t 
;it? You will find no extras to buy on this boat. 
You can afford to own this boat and run it yourself* 
You will require no crew. It’s a ‘one man* boat* irt 
the sense that you can handle it all by yourself, if you 
:wish, and go anywhere. 
: We will gladly tell you about this sturdy member of 
Ahe Racine family as well as the other boats we make. 
iKend today for the story of “The Cruise of the Bon- 
••ita,” which will help you select the boat you need. 
Racine Boat Mfg. Co, 
Dept. 24 Muskegon, Mich. 
Member—National Boat and Engine Company 
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Salesrooms- v Chicago Philadelphia Boston 
Buffalo Vetroit y eV} York SQQtffc 
Building Motor Boats and Managing 
Gasolene Engines are discussed 
in the book 
HOW TO BUILD A LAUNCH 
FROM PLANS 
A complete, illustrated work on the building of motor 
boats, and the installing, care and running of gas¬ 
olene motors. By Charles G. Davis. With 40 
diagrams, 9 fo'ding drawings and 3 full-page plans. 
Price, postpaid, $1.50. 
The author is a builder and designer of national 
reputation. All the instruction given is defined and 
comprehensive; 40 diagrams, 9 folding drawings and 3 
full-page plans. That portion of the book devoted to 
the use and care of gas engines should be most care¬ 
fully perused by every individual who operates one. 
The book is well worth the price asked for it. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Halifax Race Conditions. 
Chairman Bentley of the regatta committee 
of the Brooklyn Y. C. has made the following 
announcement about the motor boat race from 
Gravesend Bay to Halifax for which Commo¬ 
dore Hearst has offered the prize: 
“The Brooklyn Y. C. contemplates holding a 
gasolene power boat race from its clubhouse, 
Bensonhurst, N. Y., to Halifax, N. S. (distance 
about 6oo miles), on July 22, 1911, provided 
there are sufficient entries. 
“Boats measuring between 45 and 80 feet, 
over all measurement, will be eligible to start. 
If there are sufficient entries the starters will be 
divided into two classes. Boats measuring be¬ 
tween 45 and 60 feet, over all measurement, will 
race in one class and between 60 and 80 feet, 
over all measurement, in another class. If 
there are less than four starters in each division 
all boats will race in one class.. 
“The course will either be direct to Halifax 
(outside) or else through Long Island Sound to 
Provincetown, Mass., where a stop will be made 
of sufficient time for boats to take on gasolene 
and stores and thence proceed to Halifax. 
“Valuable prizes to be donated by Commo¬ 
dore William Randolph Hearst will be offered. 
“There will be offered a first prize, consisting 
of a valuable trophy in each class, and a cash 
prize of $1,000 to the winner. If there are five 
starters which finish there will be a second 
prize and for seven or more starters which 
finish a third prize. Each boat starting and 
finishing will receive a handsome prize for hav¬ 
ing completed the course. 
“The regatta committee will be glad to re¬ 
ceive suggestions on any questions pertaining 
to the race, and will give such suggestions its 
best consideration. 
“As this race will probably be one long to be 
remembered, and the committee already has 
assurances of a large number of entries, it 
urgently requests replies and entries as early 
as possible.” 
Motor Boat and Aeroplane. 
One of the novelties shown at the Motor Boat 
Show was a motor boat and aeroplane combined 
which can make sixty-five miles an hour, so it 
is said. The boat is the invention of Frederick 
E. Wadsworth, of Detroit, and is pronounced by 
students of aviation to be a reduction to a prac¬ 
tical basis of the idea of carrying passengers in 
aeroplanes as a commercial enterprise. Its name 
is the Flying Fish. It has been tested, or rather 
a model has, and has been found practical. 
The plane cannot rise from land; no flights 
over land will be undertaken with it. Instead 
of the customary racing sulky apparatus with 
which aeroplanes ordinarily are built, its lower 
part is an airtight aluminum boat body, five feet 
six inches in width, with a square bow, convex 
on the under side, and adjusted to the plane in 
such a manner that it slants slightly upward 
from the water. This tank has a sustaining 
power in the water of about a ton. 
Extending back of it is a hickory framework, 
a simple oblong with a cross board at the fur¬ 
ther end. The purpose of this is to check the 
speed .of the plane when it is desired to alight. 
It touches the water first and acts as a drag. 
The length over-all of the aluminum boat and 
the framework is only seven feet six inches. 
About six feet is added to the length of the 
entire machine by the horizontal rudder post 
attached to the framework of the aeroplane. 
It is a three-passenger boat. Mr. Wadsworth 
states that he can build them large enough to 
carry eight or ten passengers. 
The aeroplane part of the machine is similar 
to the Curtiss and Wright planes. The engine 
and propeller are forward. The propeller is a 
single piece of hickory. The engine rests on top 
of the airtight boat. Above it is the gasolene 
tank. This tank carries fuel sufficient for one 
hundred miles, hut when the projected flight to 
Cleveland is undertaken, another tank of equal 
size will he installed, giving ample power to go 
to Cleveland. There is room for four or five 
of these tanks, which will make it easily possi¬ 
ble to fly to Buffalo. 
ARTHUR BINNEY 
(Formerly Stewart & Binney) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker 
Mason Building. Kilby Street, BOSTON. MASS. 
Cable Address. "Designer,” Boston 
COX fa STEVENS 
Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects 
15 William Street - New York 
Telephones 1375 and 1376 Broad 
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Plans, Specifications and Estimates furnishedfor Construction 
Alteration and Repairs. Large list of Yachts for Sale, 
Charter or Exchange; also Commercial Vessels. 
52 BROADWAY Telephone 4673Broad NEW YORK. 
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published at $12, which we will sell for $7.50- 
each. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Gas Engines and Launches. 
Their Principles, Types and Management. By Francis 
K. Grain. 
The most practical book for the man or hoy who 
owns or plans to own a small power boat. It is motor 
launch and engine information boiled down and sim¬ 
plified for busy people, and every line of it is valuable. 
Cloth, 122 pages. Postpaid, $1.25. 
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