speed, 60 miles an hour is talked of as freely 
as the owner of a cruising boat talks of twelve 
or fifteen miles. Every boat building is high 
powered, and it is very probable that most of 
them will show wonderful bursts of speed, but 
to have the motors so tuned that they will keep 
running at their high rate for 30 miles will re¬ 
quire some skill in tuning up, and after all the 
boat making a comparatively low speed may be 
the successful boat in the race because of her 
reliability. 
The only limitations placed on these racers is 
that they must not exceed 40 feet, and so the 
largest measure 39 feet 11 inches over all. The 
power is unlimited, so that they are racing 
machines pure and simple. All now are 
modelled on the hydroplane type, some have 
several planes and some only one, but the 
hydroplane is now regarded by navel engineers 
as the fastest model. It skims over the top of 
the water and some rise so far out of the water 
that when driven at full speed only the after 
part is really in the water. One boat has been 
built which the owner says is for the trials which 
will be driven by an aeroplane propeller. This 
builder will be disappointed to learn that lus 
boat is not eligible as the rules bar out any¬ 
thing in the way of a hybrid craft, half hydro¬ 
plane and half aeroplane. The propelling 
mechanism must be wholly in and against the 
water. 
One of the most interesting of the new boats 
will be named Dixie IV. This name has been 
so prominent in the American history of the 
trophy that Commodore H. H. Melville, Vice- 
Commodore F. K. Burnham and August Heck- 
sher have had a boat built which is to be named 
after Mr. Burnham’s famous old racer, the boat 
that successfully defended the trophy twice. 
This boat has been built by the Staten Island 
Shipbuilding Company from designs by Clinton 
H. Crane, who designed the older boat. Mr. 
Crane has made an extensive study of speed 
models. He had several made which he tested 
in the tank at Washington, and after many ex¬ 
periments, selected a model which he thinks will 
do all that is asked of it. This boat is to have 
twin screws and be driven by two motors of about 
200 horsepower each. One of these motors was 
used in the old Dixie. It was built by H. M. 
Crane, and an exact duplicate is being built by 
Mr. Crane for the new boat. These engines 
each have eight cylinders. The old engine 
proved a wonder, not only for power, but for 
reliability. It drove the boat to victory in more 
than one hundred races and never once gave 
the owners of the craft any worry. 
Rear-Commodore M. Stuart Blackton, of the 
Motor Boat Club of America, and owner of the 
fast racer Vita, is having two boats built. One 
is a hydroplane 33 feet long designed by W. H. 
Fauber, who is responsible for that type of 
boat. The model has been somewhat modified, 
however, by a New York designer, but only 
above the waterline. This hull is being built at 
the Electric Launch Company's works at Bay¬ 
onne. and will be very strong and very light. 
It will be driven by two motors built by Pierce 
Budd Company, of Bay City, Michigan. These 
motors are of 250-horsepower each and the 
builders have contracted that the boat shall 
make a certain high speed, or Mr. Blackton 
need not accept the motors. This boat will be 
named Vita II. The second string of Rear- 
Commodore Blackton is a boat to be named 
Viva. In model it is a semi-displacement boat 
32 feet over all, and 5 feet 6 inches beam. It is 
being built by the Emerson Company at Alex¬ 
andria. The engines which will develop 400 
horsepower will drive triple screws. This boat, 
too, is guaranteed a high speed. An Emerson 
boat has been having trials on the Patomac 
and is said to have developed a speed of 45 
miles an hour. 
Albert E. Smith, a member of the Board of 
Governors of the Motor Boat Club of America, 
and owner of the fast racing craft Edith II.. is 
having a boat built by the Electric Launch 
Company which is to be named Edith III. The 
builders are designers of the, craft, and the boat 
will be driven by two specially designed Stand¬ 
ard engines of 300 horsepower each. This boat 
will be the limit of length and 7 feet beam. 
Diego, and the host. Commodore F. C. Spald¬ 
ing, San Diego Y. C. 
Sir Thomas Lipton’s proposal, made to J. W. 
Sefton, Jr., of this city, at Colombo, Ceylon, 
was taken up in detail. The commodores were 
formed into an executive committee of the clubs 
named and an invitation to Santa Barbara Y. 
C. and to South Coast Y. C. to participate was 
decided upon. The committee will communicate 
with Sir Thomas at once, will extend to him the 
proper invitation through the San Diego Y. C., 
of which he is an honorary member, and will 
get busy at once on the details. 
At the same meeting the arrangements for the 
races, held annually here for the Lipton cup 
for 30-footers, were made. Regattas are 
planned for the months of June, July and 
August, to be held between the ports of Santa 
Barbara and San Diego, a series of races that 
will engage the attention of every yachtsman 
on the Pacific Coast. 
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The most important event in the motor boat 
world this season is the series of races for the 
British International trophy for motor boats. 
This trophy, which was originally called the 
Harmsworth cup, after the name of its donor, 
was successfully defended twice by the Dixie. 
In the last race that boat had perhaps more 
than her share of good luck. Pioneer was run¬ 
ning at a phenomenal rate when she sucked 
some seaweed into her circulating pump and the 
engine becoming overheated, set fire to the 
gasolene, so that it took twenty minutes to put 
the fire out, disconnect three cylinders and pro¬ 
ceed. In that time Dixie had taken so big a 
lead that Pioneer could not catch her. 
Then only one race was necessary to decide 
which country should keep the cup. This was 
manifestly unfair to the boats entered, and the 
Motor Boat Club of America, holders of the 
trophy, suggested to the British Motor Yacht 
Club that the deed of gift should be changed. 
This has been done and now the trophy will go 
to the country first winning three races. Should 
one boat meet with trouble in the first race, if 
she is faster than the others, she will still have 
a chance of finally winning out. 
Just what the British challengers are doing 
very little is known. One boat, Maple Leaf 
III., has been tried and went at the rate of 57 
statute miles an hour, but at Monaco, while 
racing, she broke a strut of one of her pro¬ 
pellers, lost her propeller and rudders and had 
a big hole torn in her hull. All this damage is 
now being repaired. The races for this trophy 
will begin off Huntington on Aug. 24. About 
ten days prior to the first international race 
eliminating trials will be held for the purpose of 
selecting the three fastest and most reliable 
American boats, and judging by the way fast 
boats are being talked of now, the committee, 
H. F. Sutphen, Victor I. Cumnock and James 
A. Blair, Jr., will have their hands full manag¬ 
ing the races. 
According to the best information, there are 
nine speed boats now building for these trial 
races. Some of these are already in the water, 
some are nearly ready for launching and others 
will be out later. 
After Pioneer had shown that she could make 
more than 40 miles an hour, it was conceded 
that this year the racers would have to make 
at least 45 miles an hour to be successful. Now 
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