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the result, the name of a famous New England 
belle having been appropriated. She was a well- 
turned boat and a wholesome type with easy, 
graceful lines and lots of power, perhaps the 
most daintily-modeled craft ever turned out by 
the internationally famous Herreshoffs. Dorothy 
Q. is a small boat as craft in the class go, being 
37 feet over all, 24 feet waterline, 8 feet beam 
and 5.10 feet draft and fitted with a comfort¬ 
able cabin. On her maiden trip to Marblehead 
from Bristol, R. I., the boat made the distance 
of 165 miles at the rate of ten miles an hour, 
the first of a series of open-ocean jaunts later 
recorded to her credit* This trip was made in 
hard weather, the finish across Massachusetts 
Bay being a drive against a westerly gale and 
rugged sea, and the men who made the passage 
do not seek an encore. 
Dorothy Q. went fast all that season and 
quickly established herself as a favorite with 
yachting sharps. In August her skipper won the 
cup offered by the Corinthian Y. C. with but 
one second to the good over Eleanor after one 
of the most exciting battles ever witnessed be¬ 
tween yachts off Marblehead. It was the sail¬ 
ing brains of Mr. Burgess that won the victory 
over A. C. Jones in that memorable event. 
Late in August Dorothy Q. was taken to the 
Jamestown Exposition by her intrepid skipper, 
stopping long enough at New York to beat the 
Class Q boats on Gravesend Bay. At Norfolk, 
Va., she won the Roosevelt series and came in 
second to Eleanor in a contest for the Lipton 
cup, scoring eleven points to Eleanor’s twelve. 
After the races were finished, Dorothy Q. made 
an outside run home, covering the distance be¬ 
tween Hampton Roads and New York, 268 miles 
in sixty-eight consecutive hours. “A Thousand 
Miles with Dorothy Q.,” written by her owner, 
attracted much attention as a description of ad¬ 
ventures while racing and cruising. 
Having disposed of Dorothy Q., Mr. Burgess 
bought the sloop May Bee, practically the same 
size as the former boat and raced'her the rest 
of the season. In 1909 he appeared in Scape¬ 
goat, a 21-footer, which was in turn replaced 
by the 22-foot sloop Chief. This latter craft 
Mr. Burgess renamed Marie for Miss Marie 
Edythe Cox, of Providence, R. I., now his wife. 
Mrs. Burgess, by the way, is an experienced 
yachtswoman and is never more happy than when 
participating in a hard fought battle on one of 
her husband’s flyers. Chief was designed and 
built by Lawley, combining weight with speed. 
She made a good showing against new' boats and 
won the Boston Y. C. championship in the first 
rating class. 
Last year Mr. Burgess purchased the cruis¬ 
ing sloop Hydriad, one of the last yachts de¬ 
signed by Edward Burgess, and lived aboard 
part of the season. He now owns the 25-foot 
racing sloop Virginia, a Herreshoff creation, 
which he brought around from New York just 
in time to enter Class A of the Interclub in the 
Memorial Day regatta of the South Boston Y. 
C. The yacht won first place, giving promise 
of proving one of the fastest craft of her length 
in local waters. Mr. and Mrs. Burgess plan 
several cruises for this season in Virginia, and 
the boat may be taken into Narragansett Bay to 
try conclusions with some of the cracks about 
Providence. 
Away back in 1901 Mr. Burgess was “doing” 
things in Eaglet, which was entered in thirty- 
five races, winning among other trophies the 
rear commodore’s cup in Narragansett Bay. In 
1902 he was in Monsoon with T. K. Lothrop, 
Jr., for the Seawanhaka trial races at Bridge¬ 
port, Conn., and in 1903 he skippered the 22- 
foot sloop Tayac, owned by W. H. Joyce, of 
Philadelphia, capturing many prizes. Next year 
he had several different yachts, and in 1905 raced 
the 30-footer Pontiac, winning eight races in 
which the yacht started. One interesting event 
was a match race between Pontiac, Sally VII. 
and Meemer off Marblehead in a strong breeze, 
Pontiac capturing first place. 
Mr. Burgess is a member of the Boston. East¬ 
ern, Corinthian, Manchester, Rhode Island, 
Beverly and Quincy yacht clubs. His home is 
m Boston and he has a summer residence at 
Marblehead. 
Motor 'Boating . 
Motor Boat Fixtures. 
AUGUST. 
11. Fall River Y. C. 
13. Boston Y. C., Isle of Shoals and return. 
13. Dorchester Y. C. 
18. Fall River Y. C. 
20. British International Trophy race. 
20. New England Engine and Boat Assn., races on 
Charles River. 
21. Cleveland P. B. C., Ohio State Championships. 
25. Fall River Y. C. 
27. Dorchester Y. C. 
28. New York Motor B. C. 
SEPTEMBER. 
3. Atlantic Y. C. 
3, 4, 5. Taunton Y. C. 
4, 5. Larchmont Y. C. long distance race. 
5. Hudson River Y. R. A., Ossining. 
17. Taunton Y C. at Dighton 
British Motor Boat Challengers. 
The British challengers for the coming Inter¬ 
national motor boat race for the Harmsworth 
cup, on Aug. 20, have been selected without 
the formality of an elimination race, as only 
three entries were made by the British motor 
boat owners. 
The boats entered are Maple Leaf, owned by 
Mackay Edgar; Zigorella, owned by Daniel 
Hanbury, and a new hydroplane owned by the 
Duke of Westminster. Zigorella is also a 
hydroplane, and as one of the American de¬ 
fenders, selected as a result of the coming elimi¬ 
nation races under the auspices of the Motor 
Boat Club of America, at Huntington Harbor, 
on Aug. 15, 16, 17, will in all liklihood be a 
hydroplane, it will create a new feature in 
motor boat racing. 
The Duke of Westminster's hydroplane turned 
turtle when on a trial trip through trying to 
make too short a turn. She was raised success¬ 
fully and was not damaged at all. When she 
was tried she was making 37 nautical miles an 
hour. Zigorella is a boat of the hydroplane 
type and she raced successfully at Kiel. Maple 
Leaf is a very fast craft of the regulation type, 
and she • is credited with being able to make 
more than 35 nautical miles an hour. 
For the defense of the cup a hydroplane has 
been builr from designs by M. Whitaker which 
has a very high powered motor and which is 
expected to be a world beater as far as speed 
is concerned. Several other owners of fast 
craft are ambitious to have their boats selected 
to represent this country, and to decide which 
shall be selected, eliminating trials are to be 
held at Huntington Harbor on Aug. 15, 16 
and 17. 
The committee in charge of the race has had 
charts of the course printed. The start will be 
made off Larchmont and the first leg will be to 
a boat anchored off Huckleberry Island. There 
the turn will be made in accordance with the 
requirements of the deed of gift, three boats 
being placed a quarter of a mile apart so as to 
make the turning angle as wide as possible. 
Then the course will be 4 9/32 miles to three 
mark boats off Parsonage Point, and then the 
racers will go to the starting point. The length 
of this course is 10 nautical miles and the motor 
boats will go around three times. 
Under the auspices of the Motor Boat Club 
of America a special race for the Beaux Arts 
cups, offered by the Bustonoby brothers, will be 
run over a 20-mile triangular course at Hunt¬ 
ington Harbor on Aug. 13. The race will be 
for motor boat tenders carried on the davits of 
larger yachts, the boats entered to be 25 feet 
or under with a minimum speed of 20 miles an 
hour. 
Beginning Aug. 3, the Motor Boat Club of 
America will have a houseboat for the benefit 
of their members. The boat will be anchored 
at Huntington Harbor, directly opposite the 
Chateau des Beaux Arts and near the starting 
point of the coming elimination races for the 
Harmsworth cup defenders. Later it will be 
towed to Larchmont for the International 
motor boat race, thence back to its original 
anchorage at Huntington, where it will remain 
until the national water carnival on the Hud- 
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