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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 8, 1911. 
the intention is to make it for motor boats 
what the Grand Prize race is to automobile 
racing. 
By limiting the over all length to 40 feet the 
boats that will race for the British International 
trophy will be eligible to enter the long distance 
high speed trophy contest. Five starters are 
expected for the elimination trials, and the two 
eliminated will have an opportunity to come 
back in the endurance event. 1 here will be no 
limit as to horsepower and the event probably 
will be held during the national motor boat 
carnival at Huntington beginning on Labor 
Day, Sep't. 4. The rules and regulations have 
not been agreed upon, but each boat taking pait 
will be allowed to take on a fresh supply of 
gasolene if required. 
Yacht Yards Busy Places. 
Just now every yacht yard presents a very 
busy scene. Work is being rushed on the new 
boats and old ones are being overhauled get¬ 
ting in readiness for the season. The continued 
cold retarded things very much, but every one 
hopes that when it does settle in fine it will 
stay fine and get warmer without any setbacks. 
There have been many yachts built during the 
winter, and the motor boats have been the 
most popular type. Motor boating is growing 
more each season, but while the fleet of motor 
boats grows the fleet of sailing craft does not 
get any smaller, and this winter there are more 
new ones on the stocks than there have been 
for several seasons. 
One of the busiest spots in this vicinity is at 
Morris Heights, where the Gas Engine and 
PovVer Company is finishing boats of all sorts 
and sizes each week. 
The largest yacht building and one that will 
attract much attention is the 165-foot twin 
screw, steel and tobin bronze steam yacht, de¬ 
signed by Charles L. Seabury for M. C. D. 
Borden. This vessel is rapidly nearing com¬ 
pletion and will be launched very shortly; 35 
miles per hour has been guaranteed for the 
Sovereign, which is the name of the new yacht. 
Capt. Charles Conk will be in charge. 
The new twin screw, 138-foot steel motor 
yacht building from Charles L. Seabury’s de¬ 
signs for Morton F. Plant at the same yard is 
also progressing very rapidly. This boat will 
be fitted with two air starting and reversing 
Speedway motors, and will be delivered on 
June 1, according to contract. The name of 
the new boat will be Thelma and it will be in 
charge of Capt. Wickes. 
Carl G. Fisher’s new 90-foot motor yacht 
Raven is almost completed. This boat has two 
air starting and reversing Speedway motors. 
Albert Y. Gowen’s new 77-foot twin screw 
motor boat Speejacks is completed and will be 
launched at an early date. This boat has two 
six-cylinder Speedway motors installed of 200 
horsepower each. Both Mr. Fisher’s and Mr. 
Gowen’s yachts will be used on the Great Lakes. 
The 65-foot single screw cruising motor boat 
for Henry B. Joy, of Detroit, is well along. 
This boat will be equipped with a six-cylinder 
ioo-horse-power engine and will be named 
Spray II. Mr. Joy will use the new boat at 
his summer home at Watch Hill, R. I. 
A. B. Waring’s new 65-foot motor boat for 
service on Moosehead Lake is growing. Two 
six-cylinder—6o-horsepower each—engines will 
be installed. The 50-foot cabin motor boat 
Kalolah, for Albert H. Schmidt, of Detroit, is 
about completed and will be launched upon the 
owner’s arrival from Europe. A six-cylinder 
6o-horsepower engine is installed. 
The 42-foot raised deck cruiser Tsana III., 
built for Herbert W. Warden, was shipped re¬ 
cently to Havre, France. The boat will be used 
in that vicinity for a short time by the owner 
and then shipped to Lake Geneva in Switzer¬ 
land. 
The 39-foot mahogany speed boat Eph, also 
for C. G. Fisher, will be tried out very soon. 
A speed of 34 miles an hour is guaranteed for 
this boat. She has a six-cylinder 200-horse¬ 
power Speedway engine. W. V. Kelley, of 
Chicago, is having a 32-foot Speedway runabout 
built which is to make 15 miles an hour. A six- 
cylinder 35-horsepower motor will be installed. 
The boat will be used in the vicinity of East 
Hampton, L. I., where the owner has a sum¬ 
mer home. John C. Eaton, of Toronto, Can¬ 
ada, is having a duplicate of the Kelley boat 
built for service on Muskoka Lakes in Canada. 
Walter P. Bliss, owner of the steam yacht 
May, is having a new 28-foot mahogany motor 
boat built. The steam yacht Hiawatha, J. B. 
Ford, owner; the steam yacht Carmina, F. S. 
Smithers; the steam yacht Zara, A. L. Stephens; 
the steam yacht Winchester, P. W. Rouss and 
Alfred I. du Pont’s steam yacht will all be pro¬ 
vided with new Speedway yacht tenders built 
of teakwood. 
E. S. Woodward, of New York and James 
R. Sheffield, of New York, also Mrs. E. V. Z. 
Lane, have placed orders for 30-foot Speed¬ 
way runabouts. Arnold Wood, of New York, 
has placed an order for a 37-foot open gasolene 
launch with six-cylinder engines for service in 
Maine waters. S. W. Bonsall has purchased the 
47-foot twin screw motor boat Nawquisi. H. 
J. Rock, Lake Charles, La., has purchased the 
motor boat Brownie II. and changed the name 
to Onward. C. B. Baldwin has purchased 
George McMinn’s 37-foot hunting cabin cruiser 
Niobe for use on the Chesapeake Bay. 
The steam yacht Kanawha, owned by A. 
Baudouine, is having new boilers installed as 
well as other improvements. The steam yacht 
Vixen, John D. Archbold, is having a new 
boiler installed. John F. O’Rourke’s rnotor 
boat Lady Jane is having two new engines in¬ 
stalled, four-cylinder type, 50 to 60 horsepower 
each. The Rober Machinery Company, of Port¬ 
land, Ore., is having four Speedway engines 
shipped to it, two six-cylinder 135-horsepower 
twin screw, one 175-horsepower air starting and 
reversing, and one six-cylinder 6o-horsepower. 
George McKessen Brown is having a 28-foot 
mahogany speed hull built, in which a ioo-horse- 
power foreign make of engine will be installed. 
A four-cylinder /\ l / 2 by 5 Speedway engine 
has been shipped to J. White, East Cowes, Isle 
of Wight, England. A four-cylinder 40-horse¬ 
power engine has been ordered by M. A. 
Healey for a new launch he is having built in 
Wisconsin. A new power yacht tender has just 
been completed for T. M. Russell, of Middle- 
town, Conn. A 16-foot power boat for use 
principally for fishing has been built for Al¬ 
bert H. Schmidt, of Detroit, Mich. A four- 
cylinder 40-horsepower engine was shipped to 
the Huasteca Petroleum Company, Tampico, 
Mexico. A new six-cylinder Speedway engine 
was installed in the 35-foot semi-speed boat 
Daisy Adele, owned by D. P. Duffle, West New 
Brighton, Staten Island. A new 125-horsepower 
six-cylinder engine has been installed in the 
43-foot motor boat Winninish, owned by Le- 
Grand C. Cramer, of Lake George. 
The new 25-foot motor boat for F. C. Fowler, 
for service on Rangeley Lakes, is completed 
and ready for shipment. A four-cylinder, 40- 
horsepower engine was installed in a 40-foot 
open launch owned by St. John Wood. A four- 
cylinder 20-horsepower engine will be installed 
in the owner’s tender belonging to the yacht 
Enchantress, now building by Lawley for W. E. 
Iselin. The new 20-foot mahogany motor boat 
which was exhibited at the Hotel Breslin dur¬ 
ing the motor boat show was tried out a few 
days ago and made 19 miles an hour. H. An¬ 
derson, of Philadelphoia, Pa., has bought Major 
C. Ewin’s hunting cabin launch Bessie. A new 
six-cylinder 6o-horsepower engine has been sold 
to E. W. McCready, to be installed in his 60- 
foot hunting cabin launch Mary Ann, which he 
uses on Chesapeake Bay. 
Scripps’ Cruise for Motor Boats. 
The committee having in charge the arrange¬ 
ments for the Scripps’ cruise for motor boats 
has framed the rules and arranged the details. 
The rules were made similar to those governing 
the Glidden tour for automobiles. 
The members of the rules committee were D. 
H. Lewis, Buffalo, chairman; W. E. Scripps, 
Detroit, donor of the trophy; Robert E. Power, 
Cleveland; Frank M. Martin, Buffalo; Dr. A. 
E. Hubbard, Commodore of the Great Lakes 
Power Boat League, and H. H. Boggs, Detroit. 
The cruise will start from Detroit, Aug. 7 and 
will wind up at Buffalo Monday, Aug. 14. The 
first day’s cruise will cover 82 miles and the 
checking in point will be the Rushmere Club. 
The first leg of the cruise will be by way of 
Chatham. A trifle over 77 miles will be covered' 
on the second day of the cruise. The start will 
be made from the Rushmere Club bright and 
early and the windup will be at Mount Clemens. 
Stag Island will be passed on this leg. Put-in- 
Bay will be the point at which the cruisers will 
put in at the end of the third day’s run. This 
will cover 84^ miles. From Put-in-Bay the 
cruisers will make for Toledo by way of Point 
Pelee. 
The distance to be covered on this leg will 
be 75 miles. About 90 miles will be covered 
on the sixth day of the cruise. From Toledo 
the cruisers will ship for Rocky River, just west 
of Cleveland. Saturday’s run will be the 
lightest of the cruise. Only 54 miles will have 
to be negotiated by the cruisers. The control¬ 
ling station will be at Rondeau. Sunday’s 
cruise will be a long one, 95 miles. Erie will 
be the destination point. The final leg will be 
from Erie to Buffalo. 
The cruise will be open to boats of the cruiser 
type of not less than 30 feet in length. Each 
cruiser must carry at least one man for every 
10 feet of length. Entrants must be members 
of clubs affiliated with the Great Lakes Power 
Boat League, the Western Power Boat Asso¬ 
ciation or the American Power Boat Associa¬ 
tion The cruise will be a severe test of the 
cruisers. There will be only one control, this 
at tfie end of each day’s run. Every entrant 
will be penalized for every minute that his en¬ 
gine stops during any leg of the cruise. The 
engines will have to move continuously from 
the time that boats start out in the morning 
until they have checked in at night. Entries 
must be filed with H. H. Boggs at Detroit not 
later than July 15. 
Flag for Gasoline Boats. 
Morris M. Whitaker, secretary of the 
American Power Boat Association, writes: 
“At a recent meeting of the American Power 
Boat Association, the matter of a distinguishing 
flag to be used in connection with gasolene sup¬ 
ply stations was brought up, and as secretary, I 
was asked to get in communication with the 
different papers interested in and fostering 
motor boating, and with the principal oil com¬ 
panies, with a view of recommending the use 
of a distinguishing flag, flown above each sta¬ 
tion, so that it can be readily seen by boats 
passing by, as under present conditions these 
supply stations are often located at the head 
of slips or at points not readily discernible from 
passing craft. 
“It was suggested that a rectangular white 
flag with a black cross, the arms running verti¬ 
cally and horizontally, would be readily dis¬ 
tinguished against most any background, and I 
trust that you will give this matter of a dis¬ 
tinguishing flag publicity, which will be instru¬ 
mental in leading to its adoption. 
“If clubs and individuals will impress upon 
the fuel dealers the value of such a distinguish¬ 
ing flag in bringing them business, I think its 
universal adoption would be a matter of only 
a short time.” 
Engine Builders Elect Officers. 
At a meeting of the executive committee of 
the National Association of Engine and Boat 
Manufacturers, held at the Engineers’ Club, 
New York city, the following officers were 
unanimously elected to serve for the ensuing 
year: President, John J. Amory, First Vice- 
President, Henry R. Sutphen; Second Vice- 
President, W. J. Reynolds; Third Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, W. H. Mullins; Treasurer, James Craig. 
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