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a dry stitch in the ship, of course, so we pas¬ 
sengers, having lit out pipes, went ashore and 
sought an hostelry at the early hour of 4:30 a. m. 
Here we went to bed and slept till our clothes 
were dried, awakening to find every limb stiff 
with the knocking about through which we had 
come. 
When, later in the day, we went aboard and 
the skipper showed us two half-broken rigging 
screws, we realized the risk we had run. Let 
us hope that the silence with which we regarded 
those screws was indicative of a feeling of true 
thankfulness, and that the muttered “By Jove,” 
was intended and accepted as an acknowledg¬ 
ment of our preservation from a danger as 
great as ever threatened mariner.-—-The Yachts¬ 
man. 
Motor 'Boating. 
Sparks. 
Secretary Morris M. Whittaker has issued a 
call for a special general meeting of the Amer¬ 
ican Power Boat Association for Tuesday, Nov. 
29, at the Waldorf Astoria. The business to 
come before the delegates is “to consider the 
report of the special committee appointed to 
consider the matter of the association’s formu¬ 
lating certain special limited classes; to also 
consider certain changing of the wording of the 
by-laws to make these more clear and concise; 
such amendment of the racing rules and con¬ 
ditions of the association’s cup races as to 
bring them up to the requirements of the 
present day; the racing status of the hydro¬ 
plane; the publication of the association’s an¬ 
nual book, and such other matters in connec¬ 
tion with the subjects above as may properly 
come before the meeting.” 
The Portland Power Boat Association have 
secured from ex-Mayor Baxter a twenty-year 
lease of the premises on Holyoke wharf on 
which they are to erect their new club house, 
and in a few days will call for tenders for the 
building of the same. It is proposed to have 
the club house put up as fast as possible, as the 
committee in charge intended to have it ready 
for'occupancy by the middle of January. The 
talk about the formation of a rival club to fol¬ 
low them in the occupancy of the premises to 
be vacated on Merrill’s wharf is not taken, 
seriously bj*the officers of the association. Al¬ 
though quite a percentage of the membership 
was opposed to making a change in the location 
now that the move has been decided on, the 
best of feeling exists, and all hands propose 
to work together for the interests of the asso¬ 
ciation. The new club house will be one of the 
finest in New England and will be an honor to 
the club. The Bennett Contracting Company 
have started in work on the building of a 20x7 
foot slip which will be located on the east side 
of the Holyoke wharf, where members can 
haul up boats. 
Commodore PI. H. Melville, who was re¬ 
elected commodore of the Motor Boat Club of 
America, is going to England shortly, and he is 
empowered by his club to act in the conference 
to be held about the conditions governing the 
British International trophy. As soon as the 
deed of gift has been reframed, challenges will 
come for a race for next summer. 
A motor boat reserve is being organized by 
members of the Seattle Y. C. According to O. 
F. Ehrman, of that club, “the enthusiastic 
members of the club proposed to make this a 
nucleus of a volunteer naval organization for 
the State of Washington. About sixty motor 
boats have been listed by their owners for this 
reserve. On account of the practically unpro¬ 
tected condition of the Pacific Coast you can 
readily see why the people there are deeply 
interested in any project which will add to the 
safety of the coast. Most of us are rather 
discouraged over the outlook of obtaining ade¬ 
quate protection from a possible invasion. 
Whenever an effort is made to increase the 
number of battleships a year, Congress gets up 
on its hind legs and insists that there is not 
the slightest danger. It may be true, but how 
do they know it. If anything did happen we 
would be the ones to suffer most. But about 
this motor boat reserve. The young men of 
the yacht clubs who own these boats take a 
great pride in their seamanship and their knowl¬ 
edge of navigation. In preparation for the 
completion of their present plans many of them 
insist on absolute military discipline on board 
the little vessels. Some of the members of the 
club could qualify as navigators and pilots in 
the waters of Puget Sound, and that is a mighty 
big piece of water let me tell you.” 
ARTHUR BINNEY 
(Formerly Stewart Sc Binvey) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker 
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New Motor Bo&t Club. 
Those motor boat enthusiasts of the Upper 
Hudson who have long taken a keen interest 
in the sport have successfully organized a 
motor boat club which will have headquarters 
at Troy. This project has been considered for 
some time and has at last been successfully 
carried out. It will be not only a club for 
motor boat enthusiasts, but canoeists, too, have 
identified with it. A meeting was held last 
week at Troy, at the home of O. E. Bosca. It 
was the charter meeting of the club and sixty- 
three members affixed their names to the 
charter list, after qualifying by paying their first 
six months’ dues in advance. The sum thus 
secured is to be used for immediate expenses 
in the nature of rental for the lot secured at the 
corner of Twenty-first street and First avenue, 
grading the lot, putting in a runway and pre¬ 
paring for the erection of a building. In order 
that there might be authority for the carrying 
out of the immediate projects of the club it 
was decided to choose a set of officers to serve 
until January, when the constitution adopted 
provides that the annual meeting shall be held. 
In accordance with this plan Orville E. Bosca 
was chosen commodore, and Thomas Ward, 
Charles Rich, Hon. F. C. Filley, Alfred Jud¬ 
kins and Milford Baxter were selected as trus¬ 
tees. The other officers will be chosen at the 
next meeting of the club. Mr. Pine, who is a 
member of the club, offered the club the use of 
a building until such time as its own shall be 
erected and ready for occupancy. 
Few organizations have had a more enthusi¬ 
astic beginning. Many of the charter members 
were present at the gathering and all showed 
a tendency to put their shoulders to the wheel 
to help along the club toward a sound and solid 
foundation. Through the revival of pleasure 
boating on the upper Hudson, brought about 
largely by the perfection of the gasolene motor 
and the rapid growth of interest in the style 
of craft thus propelled, the need of an organi¬ 
zation of this nature has arisen. Troy, up to 
this time, has had no yacht club for a number 
of years and Waterford and Cohoes are in the 
same pqsition, while it is estimated that there 
are more than two hundred motor boat owners 
in the section mentioned, as well as 350 canoe¬ 
ists and a number of owners of steam yachts. 
It is planned to include Troy, Cohoes and 
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are prospective boatmen. 
The matter of greatest interest to boatmen 
at this time of the year is the hauling out of 
their craft for the winter and storage through 
the cold season, and to provide facilities for this 
purpose the officers just chosen will direct their 
first efforts. The lot has already been graded 
in preparation for the putting up of boats and 
the material for a runway, together with cables, 
blocks and drum, has been secured. 
This out of the way, the erection of a build¬ 
ing will be preceeded with. Cost figures have 
already been secured and tentative plans made 
for a building made in two sections, one to be 
of two stories in height, with workshop, locker 
rooms and storage facilities on the first floor 
and club rooms on the second, and the other 
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