Dec. io, 1910.] 
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Motor 'Boating. 
Challenger for Motor Trophy. 
Mackay Edgar, who was last summer one 
of the challengers for the British International 
trophy, is to challenge again for a race for that 
prize, and the challenge will be made through 
the British Motor Y. C. as soon as the present 
deed of gift has been reframed. Mr. Edgar 
last year brought over the Maple Leaf, a fast 
craft fitted with a 400-horsepower motor. Un¬ 
fortunately, while being tried on the Sound, 
Maple Leaf was so severely strained that she 
was unable to start in the match ra'ce, and 
Pioneer and Dixie II. were the chief com¬ 
petitors. Mr. Edgar is now having a new craft 
built by Dixon Brothers and Hutchinson, at 
Southampton, about which the foreign papers 
devoted to the sport are saying great things. 
These papers may have overestimated the speed 
of that boat, but it would be foolish to belittle 
her now, and the news that the British are to 
make a more determined effort to recapture the 
trophy should spur the defenders on to build 
for the defense of the prize. 
The new craft is a hydroplane, which will 
have two motors of 400 horsepower each, which 
will driv.e twin screws. Each motor will have 
twelve cylinders. One motor is that used in 
Maple Leaf, and the second is a replica of that. 
A British writer in describing the new craft 
and its capabilities says: 
‘‘The new craft will be similar to, but far 
more powerful and larger, than Sir John 
Thorneycroft’s .wonderful hydroplane Miranda 
IV., and will be 40 feet long by 9 feet beam, 
with a displacement of nine tons. She will be a 
twin-screw boat fitted with two 12-cylinder 
motors, each of 400 horsepower. Miranda IV.’s 
weight was 2,400 pounds, length 26 feet, horse¬ 
power 120, and her best average official speed 
was 41 miles per hour; so, reckoning on a basis 
of horsepower per ton, the speed of the new 
boat should be no less than 62 miles per hour 
in, of course, calm water. This will be some 
speed, and as there is nothing at present in 
America to equal it. it will be necessary for the 
people at home to meet the challenger with a 
new boat of higher power." 
The unlucky Pioneer had another narrow es¬ 
cape from total destruction, the third in its 
vicissitudinous career. Last summer it cap¬ 
sized at Cowes, almost drowning the Duke of 
Westminster, its owner; and caught fire in 
America during the racing. The day before 
yesterday, at East Cowes, the watchman saw 
flames emerging from near the petrol tank. 
With- the aid of sand and water, the flames 
were speedily extinguished. Had another 
minute elapsed before the fire had been dis¬ 
covered. total destruction was inevitable, as there 
were about 40 gallons of the inflammable juice 
in its tank. 
American Power Boat Meeting. 
At a special meeting of the American Power 
Boat Association held last week at the Waldorf- 
Astoria, a number of important changes were 
made in the rules that govern racing and cruis¬ 
ing boats. 
By unanimous vote of the club representa¬ 
tives present it was decided that hereafter all 
boats shall be weighed upon scales to be pro¬ 
vided at various coastwise and inland ports in¬ 
stead of being measured, as has been the cus¬ 
tom. Three limited classes were established. 
They are for boats 21 feet over all that must 
weigh 1,600 pounds; 26 feet over all, weighing 
2,100 pounds, and 32 feet over all, weighing 
2,900 pounds. There is also to be a restricted 
volume to the cylinders. 
AA racing boats hereafter are to be weighed 
without the crew and 300 pounds added for the 
crew. All other boats are to be measured with 
the crew on board. It was recommended that 
in the future all classes of racing boats shall be 
started according to handicap, so that the spec¬ 
tators may know that the first boat at the finish 
line is the winner in her class. The rule relat¬ 
ing to equipment is amended to read: “One 
serviceable anchor and cable and such equip¬ 
ment of lights, whistles, bells, and fog horns 
as are required by law.” 
The racing status of the hydroplane was not 
taken up at the meeting, but it was the gen¬ 
eral feeling that there should be no restriction 
placed upon the high-speed boats used for in¬ 
ternational racing. According to the last re¬ 
port the association now has a membership of 
25,000, representing 106 clubs, and new clubs 
are coming in at the rate of one a week. 
Sparks. 
Many new yachts and yawls are having in¬ 
cluded in their specifications gasolene motors, 
both for auxiliary work and generating elec¬ 
tricity. A new schooner, now building by a 
prominent firm in South Boston, Mass., will be 
equipped with a 4-cylinder, 16-horsepower en¬ 
gine for use in driving the boat, and will also 
have a 32-horsepower motor to operate the 
generator for lighting the yacht by electricity. 
C. G. Washburn, of Worcester, Mass., who has 
a summer residence at Naryagansett Pier, is 
having built a 26-foot waterline auxiliary yawl, 
similar in lines to the 25-foot yawl Inde¬ 
pendence, which was built in 1907, the only 
difference being that the new boat will be 
equipped with a gasolene motor, thus making 
the craft serviceable at all times and in all 
weathers. 
As an instance of the radical changes that 
may be made in the motor yachts of to-day, 
Miles L. Carter’s Yankee II., built last spring, 
will represent an entirely different type of boat 
when her alterations are completed. The motor 
will be placed forward instead of amidship. 
and the crew's quarters will also be arranged 
at the forward end. Aft of the bridge deck will 
be built a trunk cabin, and this part of the 
boat will be devoted entirely to the owner. 
The length of the boat has been increased 4 
feet, and in these improvements upon the origi¬ 
nal lines of Yankee II., Mr. Carter looks for¬ 
ward to many long and comfortable cruises 
next season. 
W. C. Rhodes, of Warwick, Conn., is having 
built a small power boat to be used as a tender 
to Warwick Neck's one-design class. This 
class has been racing every Saturday and holi¬ 
day during the past season, and the motor boat 
which has been ordered is of considerable 
breadth with plenty of freeboard, and is very 
heavily constructed throughout in order to 
withstand the stormy weather which often sets 
in around that point. 
Danish fishermen are gradually becoming 
converted to the virtues of the gasolene motor 
as against relying solely upon sails for their 
fishing boats. A letter, from Isafjord. Iceland, 
gives an account of three fishermen who re¬ 
cently made a trip of over 320 miles on the 
Atlantic Ocean, passing through a continuous 
storm of 50 hours’ duration. The motor used 
was of American make and never failed for one 
moment during the entire trip. 
When about six miles from Ruik Harbor, the 
propeller blade broke without any apparent 
cause but the action of the high sea. The en¬ 
gine, however, made the distance into Ruik 
Harbor with one propeller blade working, dur¬ 
ing a hurricane. After transacting his business, 
the Danish captain had the propeller repaired 
and slipped out to sea for the journey home 
despite the warnings of friends that the little 
boat could not possibly live in the storm that 
was running. The return trip, however, was 
made in the marvelous time of 27 hours, without 
any accident. It is stated in Reykjavik that 
this record can only be duplicated by a few of 
the largest steamers, and that no motor boat up 
to this time has ever approached this perform¬ 
ance. 
At a recent meeting of the executive com¬ 
mittee of the National Association of Engine 
and Boat Manufacturers, a resolution was 
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