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ARTHUR BINNEY. 
(Formerly Stewart & Binney.) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker. 
Mason Building. Kilby Street. BOSTON. MASS. 
Cable Address, '"Designer.” Boston. 
C. Sherman Hoyt. Montgomery H. Clark. 
HOYT <& CLARK. 
NAVAL ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS. 
TAOHT BROKERAGE. High Speed Work a Specialty. 
17 Bat tery Plaoe, New York. _ 
COX STEVENS. 
Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects, 
15 William Street, - New York. 
Telephone# 13TS and 13T6 Broad. 
Marine Models 
Of ALL KINDS 
THE H. E. BOUCHER MFG. CO 
91 Maiden Lane, New York 
C. D. CALLAHAN. Naval Architect. 
Designer of Yachts and Motor Boats. Construction supervised. 
San Pedro, CALIFORNIA 
C%.noe Handling and Sailing. 
The Canoe: History, Uses, Limitations and Varieties, 
Practical Management and Care, and Relative Facts. 
By C. Bowyer Vaux (“Dot). Illustrated. Cloth, 
168 pages. Price, $1.00. New and revised edition, 
with additional matter. 
A complete manual for the management ol the canoe. 
Everything is made intelligible to the veriest novice, and 
Mr. Vaux proves himself one of those successful in¬ 
structors who communicate their own enthusiasm to 
their pupils. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Gas Engines and Launches. 
Their principles, Types and Management. By Francis 
K. Grain, 132 pages. Price, $1.25. 
Here is a pocket manual indispensable to every man 
who uses a motor-boat. It deals in simple, untechnical 
fashion with the running of the marine gas engine, and 
with the difficulties that the marine gas engineer is likely 
to meet with. These engines are described, some pages 
are devoted to launches in general, with practical advice 
to the man who contemplates purchasing a power boat. 
The main feature of the book, however, is a clear descrip¬ 
tion of the difficulties met with in running a gas engine, 
their uses and how to remedy them. In this discussion 
all technicalities are avoided, and the author has boiled 
down a vgst amount of practical knowledge into small 
space and into every-day language. The amateur power 
boat man needs this book, for it will save him much 
time and trouble, and probably not a little money. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Uncle Lisha's Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. Robin¬ 
son. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sportsman’s 
exchange, where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, 
the hunters and fishermen of the widely scattered neigh¬ 
borhood used to meet of evenings and dull outdoor days 
‘‘to swap lies.” 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Men I Have Fished With. 
Sketches of character and incident with rod and gun from 
childhood to manhood; from the killing of little fishes 
and birds to a buffalo hunt. By Fred Mather. Il¬ 
lustrated. Price, $2.00. 
It was a happy thought that prompted Mr. Fred Mather 
to write of his fishing companions. The chapters were 
received with a warm welcome at the beginning, and 
have been of sustained interest. The “Men I Have 
Fished With” was among the most popular series of 
papers ever presented to Forest and Stream readers. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Handicap Racing. 
The life and popularity of yacht racing de¬ 
pends upon one thing principally, and that is 
the fairness of the system of measurement or 
classification used in giving each boat an equal 
opportunity to show what it can do in compari¬ 
son with other boats. 
Rules innumerable have been tried under all 
manner of formula, from a classification by 
cubic contents to an arbitrary length or an aver¬ 
age of over all and waterline length. Rules 
that considered the amount of sail carried, rules 
that considered freeboard, rules that calculated 
the weight, headroom and various other hard- 
to-find proportions, all, as the years roll by and 
we look hack at them more or less foolish, have 
been tried. 
We have in the 1907 season several striking 
instances of the trouble that complicated rules 
can make, as illustrated in the Lipton class on 
Gravesend Bay and the Q class at Hampton 
Roads. 
On Long Island Sound, the mecca of all rac¬ 
ing yachtsmen south of Cape Cod, the effect of 
past rules is apparent by the lean entry lists in 
the various regular classes sailing under the 
rules, and the* willingness of old boats to race 
when a fair proposition is put before them. 
In 1906 the handicap yacht racing class was 
formed by Mr. George P. Granberry, Harry 
Jackson and several others with Mr. Theo. Gran¬ 
berry as official handicapper, and a system of 
handicaps was arranged based on a boat’s 
actual speed found by averaging her time over 
five or more courses, very similar to getting a 
horse’s time around a race track. 
It worked out exceedingly well during the 
season of 1906 and nearly doubled in popularity 
during 1907, although many in favor of the old 
rules predicted the failure of it. In 1906 there 
were 178 starters during the season and 79 prizes 
won by boats in the handicap class, while in the 
season of 1907 there were 330 starters during 
the season and 142 prizes won by handicap boats. 
In every one of the thirty-one regattas of 1907, 
where handicap boats sailed, they outclassed in 
numbers any other one regular class. At Larch- 
mont, July 25, for instance, there were twenty 
starters in the handicap class, seven in the Bug, 
seven dories, five Class Q's, six 18-footers, and 
so o ndown through all the classes, each repre¬ 
sented by only two or three boats. 
This was but a natural state of affairs. Under 
the old rules, permitting freak construction, etc., 
the class had been outbuilt until but one or two 
in each class remained. The rest of the boats 
of that class, realizing they were hopelessly out¬ 
built with no earthly chance of winning, gave 
up racing. The only classes respectfully repre¬ 
sented were one-design classes such as the New 
York 30ft. class. Bug class and the dories here 
each had a chance, as all the boats were alike. 
But the handicap proposition appealed to many. 
Old boats, new boats, fast boats and slow boats 
all had a chance as the record shows. Only four 
boats out of the whole class of thirty-five failed 
to win some kind of a prize. 
Every time a yacht won a first prize she be¬ 
came more heavily taxed and the losers received 
the benefit until they gradually arrived at an 
average in which it was anyone’s race. All op¬ 
portunities came to all, keeping up the excite¬ 
ment and good sport by giving each a chance 
to win a prize instead of as under the old system 
one mahogany built bandbox costing thousands, 
winning every race and giving no one else a 
chance. 
The New York Y. C. has seen the advisability 
of encouraging this style of racing, a style by 
the way that was used when the New York Y. 
C. was organized years ago, and therefore noth 
ing new in principle, the difference comes in in 
the system of figuring the handicaps. Actual 
performances will be the basis of handicapping, 
as is used by the present class, but the percent¬ 
ages will he figured by comparing speed per mile 
instead of elapsed time. The condition for the 
New York Y. C.’s class will be as follows; 
I. A yacht shall not be eligible to enter a 
handicap race until the third season after the 
date of launching. 
WILLIAM GARDNER. 
Naval Architect, Engineer, and 
Yacht Broker. 
No. 1 Broadway, (Telephone 2160 Rector' 1 Now York 
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Are Without An Equal. 
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Naval Architects ^ Engineers 
YACHT BUILDERS 
Brokerage and Insurance 
Office: Boston. Works: Marblehead,Mass. 
Canoe Cruising and Camping. 
By Perry D. Frazer. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, $1.00. 
Full of practical information for outdoor people, 
whether they travel in canoes, with pack animals or 
carry their outfits on their own backs. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Building Motor Boa.ts and 
Managing Gasolene Engines 
are discussed in the book 
“HOW TO BUILD A LAUNCH FROM PLANS" 
A complete, illustrated work on the building of motor 
boats and the installing, care and running of gasolene 
motors. By Charles G. Davis. With 40 diagrams, 9 
folding drawings and 8 full-page plans. Price, post¬ 
paid, $1.50. 
The author is a builder and designer of national repu¬ 
tation. All the instruction given is defined and com¬ 
prehensive, 40 diagrams, 9 folding drawings and 8 full- 
page plans. That portion of the book devoted to the 
use and care of gas engines should be most carefully 
perused by every individual who operates one. The book 
is well worth the price asked for it. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Small Yacht Construction 
and Rigging. 
A Complete Manual of Practical Boat and Small Yacht 
Building. With two complete designs and numerous 
diagrams and details. By Linton Hope. 177 pages. 
Cloth. Price, $3.00. 
The author has taken two designs for practical demon¬ 
stration, one of a centerboard boat 19ft. waterline, and 
the other a cruising cutter of 22ft. waterline. Both de¬ 
signs show fine little boats which are fully adapted to 
American requirements. Full instructions, even to the 
minutest detail, are given for the building of both these 
boats. The information is not confined to these vachts 
alone; they are merely taken as examples; but what is 
said applies to all wooden yacht building according to 
the best and most approved methods. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
C&noe amd Boat Building. 
A Complete Manual for Amateurs. Containing plain 
and comprehensive directions for the construction of 
Canoes, Rowing and Sailing Boats, and Hunting Craft. 
By W. P. Stephens. Cloth. Seventh and enlarged 
edition. 264 pages. Numerous illustrations, and fifty 
plates in envelope. Price, $2.00. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
A Big-Game and Fish Map of New 
Brunswick, 
We have had prepared by the official draughtsman of 
New Brunswick a map of that Province, giving the local¬ 
ities where big game—moose and caribou—are most 
abundant, and also the streams in which salmon are 
found, and the rivers and lakes which abound in trout. 
Price, $1.00. 
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