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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 3, 1911. 
The Standard motors have won many races 
and are regarded as one of the most reliable 
built. The Standard, a 50-foot boat, was 
equipped with engines of this make and made 
a wonderful record. 
Thomas F. Chesbrough, who last year had 
Restless, which was rather unfortunate in her 
races, is having a modified hydroplane built 
under the supervision of a well known naval 
architect. Little is known of this boat yet, as 
Mr. Chesbrough does not care to give details 
out until he is sure of his boat. The length is 
something under the 40 feet, and the motors 
will be built by Herreshoff, not the Bristol firm. 
Commodore H. H. Melville and August 
Heckscher last year had a boat named Restless, 
which was also unfortunate. They have ordered 
a Restless II., which is being built by the Atkin- 
Wheeler Company at Halesite, L. I. This boat 
will be equipped with Herreshoff motors, and 
it is hoped will be more fortunate than last 
year’s boat. 
W. E. Hughey, of Belleview, Iowa, is having 
a Fauber hydroplane built that is guaranteed a 
speed of 45 miles an hour. It will probably be 
named Red Top and is 36 feet long. 6 feet 3 
inches beam. She is fitted with two engines 
driving a single screw. The builders are con¬ 
fident that Red Top will develop 50 miles an 
hour. Mr. Hughey will try the boat in home 
waters, and then send her east in time for the 
trials at Huntington, which will begin Aug. 16. 
W. H. Fauber has told Mr. Hughey that the 
winning boat will have to make 50 miles an hour 
for the course of 30 nautical miles, and he 
thinks Red Top will have a good chance of be¬ 
ing selected to defend the trophy. 
t Commodore James A. Pugh, of the Pistakee 
Y. C., Chicago, is having a Fauber hydroplane 
built by the Inland Lakes Boat Company, of 
Lake Geneva, Wis. This boat is 31 feet 10 
inches long and 6 feet 4 inches beam. She is 
equipped with two Sterling motors which will 
develop about 300 horsepower. This boat has 
six planes and is to be ready for delivery on 
June 1. Commodore Pugh will use the boat in 
home waters, and after it has been thoroughly 
tuned, up it will come east for the trials. This 
boat is to be named Disturber II. 
H. J. Leighton, of Syracuse, who has turned 
out several very fast racing boats, has an order 
for a Fauber hydroplane for a yachtsman who 
at present wishes to be unknown. This boat is 
intended for racing on the St. Lawrence, and 
the owner probably has his eyes on the Gold 
challenge cup. . A speed of 45 miles an hour 
nas been promised, and if she does as is ex¬ 
pected. she will be sent on for the trials. This 
boat will be 32 feet long and 6 feet 2 inches 
beam. She will be driven by two motors of 120 
horsepower each. 
Commodore H. H. Melville, of the Motor 
Boat Club of America, has been unofficially in¬ 
formed that Gen. Du Pont, of Wilmington, is 
also having a high speed motor boat built at 
Atlantic City. No details of this boat have 
been announced, except that the contract calls 
for a speed in excess of 40 miles. She may be 
sent on for. the trials, as Gen. Du Pont is much 
interested in speed boats, and thinks that his 
new craft will be one of the fastest in the 
country. 
1 here are other boats building. Some are ex¬ 
pected to make high speed, and if they do as 
their owners anticipate, they will be entered 
in the trials and may be selected to defend the 
trophy. There are three defenders to be chosen 
and these three will race against three which are 
to be sent here from England. Just what the 
Englishmen are doing is a secret, but it is said 
that the Duke of Westminster is having a 
hydroplane built which is to be much faster 
than his Pioneer of last year. He has Pioneer 
and Urusla now, so that the new boat can be 
thoroughly tried out before being shipped 
across the Atlantic. 
One pleasing feature of the races in which 
these boats will take part is that nearly all will 
be handled by amateurs. Vice-Commodore 
Burnham steered Dixie last year and will handle 
the new Dixie. Rear-Commodore J. Stuart 
Blackton, Albert E. Smith and Thomas F. 
Chesbrough will each handle their own boats, 
and it is very probable that other owners will 
handle their boats. 
To Frame Conditions for New Trophy. 
A meeting of the Council of the American 
Power Boat Association has been called to take 
place at the Waldorf Astoria, New York, on 
the evening of June 15, to draw up deed of gift 
and consider conditions for a silver cup offered 
under the auspices of the association by the 
Buffalo section for a perpetual challenge trophy 
for cruising motor boats. The first race for 
this cup is to be run off under the auspices of 
the Buffalo section at Buffalo, at a date to be 
settled at the meeting of the council. This 
trophy will represent on the Great Lakes the 
championship and supremacy among cruising 
motor boats and will occupy a position similar 
to that of the Marblehead race or other long 
distance events held on the coast. 
At the meeting of the council the matter of 
choosing the third judge for the match held for 
the association’s gold challenge cup on the 
Great Lakes, will also be acted upon. Under 
the deed of gift of the gold challenge cup, the 
SAIL FOR A MOTOR BOAT. 
challenged and challenging clubs each select one 
judge, the third being selected by the council of 
the association. The gold cup of the association 
has been raced for for a number of years and has 
come to represent the National championship 
for boats of unlimited power under 40 feet over 
all length. This year’s race is expected to bring 
out some of the new boats built to defend the 
British International trophy, and it is hoped 
also that the English challengers may be in¬ 
duced to compete. 
Sparks. 
In the development of this country’s export 
trade, the motor boat has come to play an im¬ 
portant part. A considerable number of our 
prominent boat and engine builders have been 
paying close attention to this end of their busi¬ 
ness, and as the trade secured in this way is 
substantial, the outlook is brighter than ever be¬ 
fore. 
W. R. Grace & Company recently accepted 
delivery from Welin Davit & Lane & DeGroot 
Company of a 30-foot whale boat, with an 11- 
horsepower motor, and have shipped the boat 
to the west coast of South America. This boat 
is similar in all respects to the regular New 
Bedford whale boats and is equipped with a full 
whaling outfit, but the installation of power 
marked a new departure in boats used in this 
industry. 
The same builders have also delivered to Carr 
Brothers a 36-foot shallow draft, tunnel stern, 
steel launch equipped with a 25-horsepower en¬ 
gine. After being- completed and tried out, the 
boat was taken apart and shipped in three sec¬ 
tions to Venezuela, where she will be used in 
the development of river trade. 
The Vancouver, B. C., Police Department 
have let a contract for a runabout, 40 feet long 
by 7 feet beam, to be used by the police for pro¬ 
tection along the water front, and in this respect 
leads a great many of the American cities. This 
boat will be powdred with a 45- to 65-horse¬ 
power Sterling engine which will drive it at a 
speed of 15 miles or better. 
The Canadian Government, Department of 
the Naval Service, has also awarded a contract 
for a 40-horsepower Sterling engine to be in¬ 
stalled in a schooner which is to be sent to 
Hudson Bay this coming summer for survey 
purposes. The country in which this boat will 
do service is extremely isolated, and on this ac¬ 
count it was necessary that a most reliable en¬ 
gine be selected. 
A 54-foot shallow draft, twin screw, tunnel 
stern boat is now being built by Welin Davit & 
Lane & DeGroot Company for fast passenger 
service on one of the rivers in Columbia, South 
America. This boat will be equipped with two 
30-horsepower Sterling motors and will be 
shipped shortly on the deck of a South American 
steamer. 
John Larkin, of Buffalo, has ordered a run¬ 
about from the Matthews Boat Company, of 
Port Clinton, Ohio. This boat will be 30 feet 
long with a beam of 5 feet, and will have in¬ 
stalled a 30-45-horsepower Sterling engine. 
Cruising parties to the West Indies on board 
the American Line steamer New York, are now 
taken on inspection trips to the many points of 
interest among the islands in a 25-foot ship’s 
yawl driven by a 20-horsepower engine. The 
boat was built for this service by Welin Davit 
& Lane & DeGroot Company, and has given 
great satisfaction to owners and sight-seers 
alike. 
The many delights of motor boat cruising in 
Florida waters during the winter season are at¬ 
tracting many western men. Mr. Seymour 
Dane, of Malta, Montana, is having a 6o-foot 
cruiser built for use in this way during next 
winter. The boat will be powered by two 40- 
horsepower Sterling engines, using twin screws, 
and when completed will be one of the finest 
power boats in Southern waters next season. 
Sail for a Motor Boat. 
Often a. motor boat owner may have trouble 
because his engine refuses to work. An en¬ 
thusiast has suggested a rig which can be car¬ 
ried on all motor boats which would not only 
be of service on such an occasion, but which 
would steady the boat in a beam sea. The 
sketch shows the rig. A leg-o’-mutton sail is 
made of light canvas with a snap hook attached 
to the foot loop formed with the bolt at the 
head and double sheets lashed to fly. To raise 
the sail snap the foot to a screw-eye in the 
deck, attach the halliard and the whole outfit 
is soon drawing without the necessity of rig¬ 
ging a forestay and having a lot of bothersome 
rigging. Such a sail may be taken in and stored 
very easily, leaving no trace of wind jamming 
gear above the deck. 
Canoeing . 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division.—Paul J. N. Kuhn, 1322 
Amsterdam avenue, New York, N. Y. by 
Morris F. Barth. 
Eastern Division.—Edward F. Aubin, 44 
Lander street, Providence, R. I., by S. B. Burn¬ 
ham. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—6224, James M. Castle, 
8820 Germantown avenue, Chestnut Hill, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa.; 6225, Lewis Rushton, 324 West 
Duval street, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Central Division.—6223, Raymond A. Duke, 
1118 Wallace street, Wilkinsburg, Pa. 
