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complied with the national law requiring' this 
class of vessels to be equipped with life-pre¬ 
servers fire extinguishers, fog horns, whistles 
and other appliances. There has been some 
confusion in regard to the requirements of the 
law enacted by Congress in 1910, and as a con¬ 
sequence many of the motor boat owners have 
been somewhat slow in complying. The Federal 
authorities here are investigating the subject 
and instructing the owners just what the law 
requires. The officials are not inclined to be 
severe and state they wish all the motor boat 
owners to understand just what is required be¬ 
fore enforcing the statue. It is believed that all 
the motor boat people will gladly comply with 
the law and no trouble is anticipated. 
Twin Screw Yacht Speejacks. 
The twin screw motor yacht Speejacks, de¬ 
signed and built by the Gas Engine & Power 
Company, Morris Heights, for Rear Commodore 
Albert Y. Gowen, of the Cleveland Y. C., rep¬ 
resents the very latest type of the high speed 
power cruiser. This boat is 77 feet long, 10 feet 
6 inches beam and draws 3 feet 6 inches. The 
hull is. double planked copper fastened. Spee¬ 
jacks is a very handsome craft. No expense 
has. been spared in the construction, finish or 
equipment. The motive power consists of two 
6-cylinder 8x8 Speedway gasolene engines 175 
to 200 horsepower each. The yacht is very fast 
and has proven a perfect success. It is lighted 
throughout by electricity and has a 2,500 candle 
power searchlight. This boat left Morris Heights 
last month for Cleveland by way of the Erie 
Canal with Commodore and Mrs. Gowen and a 
party on board. 
Speejacks can jog along at 700 revolutions per 
minute, giving a speed of twenty miles an hour 
which is about two-thirds power capacity. 
The boat was designed and built on a speed 
guarantee of twenty-five miles an hour. In spite 
of this fact she is a commodious craft with a 
12-foot cockpit and a 14-foot owner's stateroom 
with two single beds, wardrobe, bath and lava¬ 
tory; a}' a ft of the engine room. The latter is 
amidships and extends seventeen feet from bulk¬ 
head to bulkhead, containing besides the motors 
and electric generating set a 6oo-gallon fuel tank 
and sleeping accommodations for two engineers 
Above the fuel tank is a six-foot bridge deck 
extending the entire width of the boat, with 
steering wheel, engine controls and navigating 
instruments, also a large divan across the after 
end. 
From the bridge a companionway leads down 
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to a dining salon with cushioned transom berths, 
sideboard and toilet, forward of which is an 
eight-foot galley, with ice box, dish lockers, stove 
and all the culinary necessities. Three people 
can. sleep comfortably in the forward cabin, 
while the cook has a berth in the galley. 
The boat is finished throughout in solid ma¬ 
hogany with polished brass and bronze trim¬ 
mings. . A big stack and brass cowls ventilate 
the engine room. On the cabin house is carried 
a twelve-foot power tender, with davits for 
hoisting over the port side. Above the bridge 
deck and cockpit are khaki tops with storm side 
curtains. A mahogany hatch on the forward 
deck leads into the gallev just ahead of which 
is a stout winch and davit for handling the 
heavy anchors. 
For.all her heaw cruising equinment the Gowen 
craft is a flyer. She can leave Cleveland at mid- 
ma-ht and beat the D. & C. steamer to Detroit, 
being capable of making the run in five hours 
or less in good weather. Her owner is an en¬ 
thusiastic racing man and Soeejaeks will be seen 
at Put-in-Bay, where she wi'l without doubt win 
the cruiser championship, which last vear went 
to Florence, owned by A. H. Marks, of Akron. 
Until the new yacht anchorage off East Firty- 
third street is complete, the boat will make her 
home at Rocky River. 
Busy Times al Luders. 
During the past week the yards of the Luders 
Marine Construction Company at Port Chester 
have been the scene of unusual activity, four 
boats of importance having been put overboard. 
At midnight of Memorial Day the 106-foot yacht 
building for John H. Flagler, took the water 
and was christened Esolanie. The 300 horse¬ 
power Standard engine will be placed aboard at 
once and the boat will be in commission within 
the next month. 
The 6o-footer Kathmar II. was launched with 
appropriate ceremonies, the bottle of wine being 
broken in its bow by Miss Marjorie Fowler, 
daughter of the owner. The boat was immedi¬ 
ately taken out on a trial trip during which a 
speed of thirteen miles was obtained. 
The 32-foot cabin launch for Johnson de 
Forest was launched and delivered last week. 
A speed of g l / 2 miles per hour was maintained 
on the initial run. This boat is to act as a 
tender for Mr. de Forest’s New York 30-footer 
Nepsi. 
El Tovar, the 30-mik 32-footer, has been de¬ 
livered to Albert Chesebrough, of Northport 
This boat will be entered in all possible racing 
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Mason Building, Kilby Street, BOSTON, MASS. 
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Tenth edition. Published 1904. We have a copy in 
fairly good condition, published at $12, which we will 
sell for $9.00. 
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events this season and gives promise of being 
a formidable competitor. 
The 36-foot Marblehead racer Sentinel for 
Commodore Samuel Cochrane is now practically 
ready for trial and will probably have its first 
tryout in the Block Island race. 
The 45-foot cabin launch Rapier, designed by 
this firm, for Schuyler Shieffelin, is having the 
100 horsepower motor removed and a 200 horse¬ 
power air starting machine installed. A speed 
of 29 miles an hour is assured by this alteration. 
Clason Point Y. C. 
The opening regatta of the Clason Point Y. C. 
for motor boats on Decoration Day was a most 
successful one. 
The race was of ten miles over a triangular 
course the length of which was two miles. The 
race was a handicap affair, the handicaps being 
given according to the speed of the motor boats. 
The handicaps ranged from twenty minutes to 
one minute. 
In the morning elimination trials were held, so 
that the handicaps could be arranged. The race 
was closed to pleasure and working craft, and 
of the thirty-seven boats that started in the race 
there was not a racing boat to be seen. Eleven 
boats were lucky enough to survive the dis¬ 
qualifications of the judges, and as there were 
eighteen prizes to be given out, the judges had 
to add seven of the lowest penalized boats to 
the list of prize winners. The prizes consisted 
of silver cups. The race was keen, both in the 
elimination trials that were held in the morn¬ 
ing and the ten-mile final in the afternoon. 
Slick, a fast motor boat, owned by U. H. Doll, 
a member of the Westchester Rowing Club, was 
the first launch to pass the judges’ stand at the 
end of the fifth lap. Doll’s boat did the dis¬ 
tance in 54:45. Jessie Lenhart’s boat, Jodie, was 
second, covering the distance in 48:50. J. D. E. 
Lord sent his boat Daisy home third in 54:32. 
The order of finish and time of the boats are 
as follows: 
First—Slick, V. H. Doll, Westchester Rowing 
Club, 54:45. Second—Jodie, Jess Lonhart and 
Strauss, 48:50. Third—Daisy, J. D. E. Lord, 
54M2. Fourth—Eastern Star, Finch, 54:47. 
Fifth—No. 40, 57:25. Sixth—Anna H., L. Hash- 
agen, Bronx River Y. C., 51 :i6. Seventh—Netty, 
SPEEJACKS—REAR COMMODORE GOWAN’s HIGH SPEED CRUISER. 
