The “Sandals” of Karkenah Islands. 
Le Yacht, the French yachting paper, pub- 
shes an interesting description of a type of 
raft widely^ used on the coast of Tunis, the 
andal, of Karkenah Islands. 
The type of boats, plans of which we repro- 
ice, is found only on the submarine plateaux, 
hich adjoins the Karkenah Islands and Sfax, 
r in the inland sea of Jerba. It is the smallest 
imple of the “carebes - ’ family, with which its 
instruction and rigging have great analogy. 
The step of this boat’s mast is forward of 
midships; the mast is supported by a single 
ay, which allows it to take three different 
isitions of inclinations, according to whether 
e boat is sailing close-hauled, with wind on 
e quarter, or running before the wind, and 
ith full or reefed sail. , 
.When the weather is fine, the boat carries in 
e bow a little supplementary sail, which bears 
certain analogy to the sail of a sharpie; it is 
triangle of sail cloth fastened by marline on 
e mast itself, a sort of light, thin, flexible pole. 
The lines of the bow and stern of the hull are 
ry fine; the flat bottom of the boat is arched 
its central portion and bears two small false 
els fore and aft. 
Here is an interesting detail of construction, 
• gunwale without any sheer goes from the top 
the stem to the bottom of the transom, which 
;ves to the craft a look of being composed of 
'0 distinct sections diagonally separated. 
These boats are very good sailers, close to 
;e wind, when the sea is not too rough, and in 
;1 kind-s of weather on the quarter and before 
ie wind. As, since time immemorial these craft 
tve always been built by rule of thumb and 
'thout moulds and without moistening or heat- 
g the timber, one is naturally led to believe 
at the concave form of the bottom is due origi- 
rlly to th&spontaneous deformation of a board, 
•>th ends of which have been beveled off, so as 
be fastened to the lower wale. It will be 
:>ticed, by working the experiment, that this 
formation takes place in any piece of board 
uere the ends have been thinned on the edge, 
nen it is left to float on the water. 
In his very complete and interesting book on 
• e coasters and fishing smacks of the Tunis 
coast, Commander Ilennique has described this 
form of boat, to which he gives the name of 
•‘loude.” 
A New Speed Launch. 
The new challenger for the Harmsworth cup, 
the international trophy, won by Dixie last year 
in England, will have a rival worthy of her 
steel, in a new high speed motor boat building 
at the yard of B. Frank Wood, City Island, 
from designs by Tams, Lemoine & Crane, 
naval architects, of New York, when the two 
meet at Palm Beach, Florida. The American 
boat will be about 39ft. long, 5ft. 3m. wide, and 
will draw about 2ft. of water with a 200-horse- 
power engine to drive her, it is calculated, over 
30 miles an hour. 
Capl. Benjamin Parker Dies. 
England has lost one of her best known 
yacht racing skippers in the death, on Jan. 21, 
of Capt. Benjamin Parker, well known to 
Americans as the skipper of Sir Thomas 
Lipton’s Shamrock I. and II. in the America 
Cup races off Sandy Hook. Capt. Parker was 
for several years sailing master on the German 
Emperor’s yacht Meteor. 
SAIL PLAN OF A SANDAL. 
SANDALS RACING. 
A Shallow Bilgeboard Schooner. 
Mr. Geo. S. Gandy, of Philadelphia, is having 
built a unique kind of a craft for use on Bar- 
negat Bay, where he spends the summer, in the 
shape of a Shallow draft schooner fitted with 
bilge boards. She was designed by Mr. C. D. 
Mower, of New York, who has won consider¬ 
able of a reputation in those waters by such 
bilge board cats as Another Old Maid, Old Maid, 
etc. 
As the plans show she is a very beamy power¬ 
ful craft of light draft, with no ballast at all on 
her keel, her own initial stability being suffi¬ 
cient. She will be fitted with a set of Pigeon 
hollow, spars and up to date fittings throughout. 
Her dimensions are: 
Length— 
Over all . 
Load waterline . 
Forward, overhang . 
Aft . 
.36ft 
. 8ft. 
Beam . 
Load waterline, beam . 
.12ft. 
Draft . 
Freeboard— 
Forward . 
' Aft . 
2 ft 
Least . 
3 >n. 
oin. 
4 in. 
oin. 
oin. 
oin. 
oin. 
oin. 
loin. 
6 in. 
