April 22 , 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
625 
Southern Y.' C. 
New Orleans, La.. April 14. —Editor Forest 
and Stream: The Southern Y. C. regatta com¬ 
mittee is preparing for the races during the 
coming summer, and it is expected the official 
program will be announced shortly. The con¬ 
tests will be participated in by both sail and gaso¬ 
lene boats. Regattas will be held at Waveland 
and Bay St. Louis, Mobile, West End in this 
city, and probably Gulfport. While the regattas 
are attended by fairly large crowds, still the 
interest in them is not so great as it was a few 
years ago. 
In an exciting race Sunday the gasolene yacht 
Mahone and the cabin cruiser Loiterer, from 
the Northeastern Bridge to West End, a dis¬ 
tance of 10 miles, the Loiterer won by about 
150 feet. The Loiterer is owned by Captain 
Ben Walle, while the Mahone is the property 
of Captain Thomas Cape. The Mahone has 
challenged Loiterer for another race. Both 
boats are very fast and another race will be 
watched with considerable interest. By winning 
the Sunday race, Loiterer was given a $100 cup 
by the owner of Mahone. . F. G. G. 
The Flying Cloud. 
A 4S-FOOT waterline sloop, built on a cruising 
model, but with indications of speed, for Irving 
and Russell Grinnell, of New York, was launched 
this forenoon at the Herreshoff shops, and will 
be fitted in a regular class in the New York Y. 
C. this season. Flying Cloud, of steel frames 
and wooden planking in construction, is able 
looking, with high bows and freeboard, and it 
is expected will make a favorable showing when 
up. The rig is short, comparatively speaking, 
and there is plenty of deck room. Her princi¬ 
pal dimensions are 65 feet over all, 48 feet on 
the waterline, 10 feet of beam, and a draft of 
9 feet 10 inches. The craft will be rigged by 
next Wednesday, when she will have a trial 
under sail. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The following transfers of yachts are reported 
through the agency of Frank Bowne Jones: 
Yawl Polaris sold by the estate of Louis R. 
Alberger to James O. Heyworth, of Chicago. 
Polaris is a Herreshoff-built yacht 50 feet on 
the waterline. 
The 82-foot power yacht Milwin sold by Ed¬ 
win G. Burns to Mrs. George W. Quintard 3d, 
for use on Long Island Sound. 
The 52-foot Herreshoff sloop Butterfly sold 
by William E. Iselin to John A. Crowley. 
The 40-foot power boat Irene II. sold by 
Stuart Hamilton, of Bermuda, to Edward King, 
of Newcastle, Pa. Irene II. is now in Bermuda 
and will be brought here. 
Motor Boating. 
Work on Cup Defenders. 
Two fast motor boats intended as defenders 
for the British International trophy are building 
at Bayonne, and they are gradually taking- 
shape. As the challenger for the trophy has set 
a high speed mark, those interested in the de¬ 
fense of the trophy are doing everything pos¬ 
sible to make the defenders reliable in every 
way. Maple Leaf, according to meagre cable 
reports, was unfortunate at Monaco. She lost 
her rudder in an early race and was not able 
to get going again. The Duke of Westminster 
is to have a challenger, but what it is to be is 
kept very secret. It may be an improved 
Pioneer with two high-powered motors, or it 
may be a hydroplane. 
The work on Albert E. Smith’s Elco-Plane is 
progressing satisfactorily at the works of the 
designers and builders, the Electric Launch 
Company at Bayonne. Work has progressed 
so far that one can get a good idea of how she 
will appear when completed and her lines de¬ 
note the best of seaworthy qualities and un¬ 
usual stability, which is so important in boats 
of this class that will develop a speed of better 
than forty miles an hour. The highest grade 
Elco construction is being employed in the 
building of the hull. The keel, sheerstrake, 
planking and engine beds are in one length 
wherever possible, thus avoiding all unnecessary 
joints. The hull will be of light but substantial 
construction to withstand the strains that will 
be put upon it when running at full speed. 
The power equipment, consisting of 600- 
horsepower, is made up of two 300-horsepower 
six-cylinder Standard engines of special design. 
These motors are 75 per cent, completed and 
Mr. Rioote, of the Standard Motor Construc¬ 
tion Company, is pleased with the engines as 
far as they have progressed and believes that 
they will easily develop the power they have 
been designed for. Henry R. Sutphen, vice- 
president of the Electric Launch Company, is 
giving his personal attention to the completion 
of the hull and expects, if no unusual delays 
occur, that the boat will be in operation very 
shortly, enabling Mr. Smith, who will drive the 
boat himself, to become thoroughly accustomed 
to the handling of it before he takes part in 
the important races in which he has entered 
the boat. Mr. Smith will name the boat 
Yankee. 
J. Stuart Blackton, Rear-Commodore of the 
Motor Boat Club of America, has placed an 
order with the Electric Launch Company for a 
36-foot Fauber hydroplane racing hull, the con¬ 
struction of which is rapidly progressing at 
Bayonne. Mr. Fauber has furnished the designs 
for this boat and the power plant is being 
looked after by Morris M. Whitaker. The hull 
will be of the multiple step variety as was used 
in the Duke of Westminster’s Pioneer, one of 
the most successful boats designed by Mr. 
Fauber. Twin screws will be employed and a 
large amount of power will be installed, the 
total weight of the boat being unusually light, 
which should enable her to develop very high 
speed. 
Rear-Commodore Blackton also is the owner 
of the Vita, an Elco express tender, which he 
carries on the davits of his motor yacht Paula, 
and in a recent letter from St. Augustine Mr. 
Blackton refers to his experience in winning the 
Southern championship trophy for high speed 
motor boats with his express tender Vita. On 
account of a tie in the first race it was neces¬ 
sary to run a second one for the trophy, which 
was over a course of 50 miles. The second race 
was won by the Vita, her actual running time 
being only 27 seconds faster than the previous 
day’s racing, which is a most remarkable show¬ 
ing for consistent running and in seamanship, 
in covering the course and making the turns in 
the most direct manner. 
The Motor Boat Club of America will offer 
valuable prizes for races next year at St. 
Augustine, which location, on account of the 
depth of the water, is ideal for motor boat 
racing. 
Long Trip in Motor Canoe. 
Emerson Pinkham, a mechanician residing at 
67 West 69th street, New York, with a com¬ 
panion, contemplates making a trip from New 
York to the Pacific Coast in a power canoe. 
They propose starting next summer from the 
Hudson river for the mouth of the Columbia 
River, via the Erie Canal, Great Lakes, Illinois, 
Mississippi and Missouri rivers and tributary 
branches, through the rockies and to the 
Columbia River, thence to the Pacific Ocean. 
Wreck of Brer Fox Ilf. 
While the fast motor boat Brer Fox III. 
was running from Cincinnati to Louisville last 
Saturday she ran into some driftwood when 
three miles north of Warsaw, Ky., and was 
wrecked. Dr. Harry P. Butler and Engineer 
Ross, of Newport, Ky., were rescued. The boat 
was trying for a record and was said to be 
making 32 miles an hour at the time. 
ARTHUR BINNEY 
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