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15-Rating Sloop. 
Our design this week is from the board of one 
of Boston’s young designers. We have during 
the past winter published a design from the same 
author and commented favorably upon it. In this 
case we note the same good draughtsmanship of 
a type that is both fast and seaworthy and well 
adapted to day use. With the addition of lockers 
the boat could be made habitable for a couple of 
men for a few days at a time. 
The lines show a good form, but the keel for 
such a craft is rather short and deep, though to- 
day long legged boats are so common in Eastern 
waters they have ceased to be a consideration. We 
would call attention to the body plan, very sweet 
and fair, and shows a boat that by reason of a 
high ratio of ballast to displacement would go 
well to windward in heavy weather and would 
perform equally well in light airs on account of 
her small wetted surface. 
The construction is neat and strong and lends 
itself well to the form. The arrangement of the 
cockpit is good, and with a companionway to the 
hold the deck is left clear—a tendency we are 
glad to note that has come to stay. 
The sail plan is simple and well carried out 
and would be within the powers of one man to 
handle in all but hard weather. Altogether our 
little 15-rater is an able looking little vessel, and 
one that should find favor with men who sail for 
pleasure and sport and occasionally race in boats 
whose usefulness are not limited to a few sea- 
sons use. The dimensions are as follows: 
Length— 
Over allie: hana eo ern eee 26ft. in. 
LeWi Lee sok seeamnee ee eee edi bal. 
Overhang— 
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Breadth— 
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Draft— 
TO" rabbet-scho one: ae woe 2ft. 5%in. 
Extreme aces mon asthe eee 4ft. 1oin. 
Freeboard— 
Forwand+ "3.5 ea lone ater 2Tt eins 
Teaste 3) 0248 ceevic Sa One thee 1ft. 4%4in. 
TA TERS Gs als aie et erayciss ee ee 1ft. 6'%4in. 
Sail Area— 
Jib nak Rea ee eee 106 sq. ft. 
Midin wk esi ihiasic ase he incre 317, sg. it 
Dotal)¢ cies te ee eee ee ee 423 sq. ft 
Displacements’: 28.240 cae eee 4,950 lbs 
Ballast:3..55 Geib aati eee ea eee 2,700 lbs 
Ibength smeasirements en ea ae 16ft. 8%4in 
British Letter. 
Marine Morors.—In the London. Yachting 
World of March 8 is a very eulogistic leader on 
marine motors and auxiliaries, in which the 
writer stoutly supports the view that “the coming 
of the motor must be recognized as the most 
novel and most important feature which has en- 
tered into the sport during that time.’’ He does 
not say what this sport is. He goes on to say that 
“in one way it might indeed be reckoned as the 
most important development which ever affected 
the sport of yachting.” The writer goes on to 
compare the opposition offered to the advent of 
the marine motor boat to that offered to steam 
yachts where they first came out, but he fails al- 
together to state a parallel case, as, in fact, the 
iwo cases cannot be compared. 
From the sentiments expressed in the leader 
I disagree almost entirely. In the first place 
marine motoring can never be a sport any more 
than motoring in cars. In sport there must be 
not only competition but the element of skill en- 
ters largely also. Now, motor boat racing is like 

steam yacht racing—which was tried some years 
ago but soon abandoned—it is a purely me- 
chanical affair and the fastest boat, bar acci- 
dents, must win. This has led to the building of 
a lot of gimcrack boats which cannot even cross 
the Channel on a fine summer day without put- 
ting out their engines, owing to the way they 
ship water, and rather less than two years ago in 
a race across the Mediterranean a number of 
them came to grief. The worst feature, perhaps, 
has been that many of the boats are run as trade 
advertisements by their makers. This is not con- 
sidered sport in England. Then, again, the entire 
fleet of what are called racers are absolutely use- 
less to the ordinary individual, on account of 
their flimsy construction, enormous cost and un- 
seaworthiness. The fact is the marine motor boat 
has been developed on wrong lines. What is 
wanted is good sound, substantial, seaworthy 
boats of moderate speed—the encouragement of 
the useful and practical type, before which there 
is undoubtedly and deservedly a great future, and 
there are signs that the makers are waking up to 
that fact. Two clubs have been recently formed 
with the idea of encouraging motor boating and 
yachting and both have many influential members 
and are flourishing. The marine motor can never 
affect the sport of yachting, which I take to be 
yacht racing, but it can and will be a most useful 
adjunct for auxiliary purposes in cruisers, as it 
takes up so little room, and liquid fuel is so much 
cleaner than coal. To make the marine motor 
popular rests with the manufacturers. When 
they devote more time to the development of the 
useful types and less to racers, better times will 
follow both for them and the general public. 
DEARTH OF YACHTING NEws.—Everything is 
very quiet in the yachting world just now, ex- 
cepting that, of course, most boats are fitting out. 
Kariad has been launched and has probably been 
towed from the Clyde to Gosport by now to fit 


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out. The projected new 24ft. restricted class for 
the Clyde has fallen through, as only two owners 
were ready to build, and the minimum was to be 
four boats. Ei. AH Seer. 
Challenge for Manhasset Cup. 
THIs trophy was offered some years ago by the 
Manhasset Bay Y..C. for boats of the 3o0ft. class, 
or such as the Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound 
might provide for. The Manhasset Bay Y. C. 
twice successfully defended the trophy till two 
years ago, when Commodore Parks’ Mimosa L., 
after an unpleasant series of races, won by a 
point, the trophy going to the American Y. C. 
The circumstances were peculiar. Bobtail, Alert, 
Mimosa I. and others had sailed two races. In 
the third Bobtail .withdrew. Had she started, it 
is thought, Alert, owned by Commodore Alker, 
would have tied Mimosa I., and would have won 
in the sail-off, being the better all-around boat. 
Owing to the changes in the rules last year, 
the Yacht Racing Association declined to name 
the class for the competition for the trophy, but 
a race was arranged to keep up the interest, and 
Mimosa III. defeated Alert. 
Last week at the Y. R. A. meeting Mr. E. M. 
MacLellan stated that, as one of the donors, it 
had been intended that the smaller class, next 
below the 3oft. class, named in the deed of gift 
and not the 33ft. class should be adopted, as the 
boats of the larger class precluded the racing by 
amateurs, which it had been the object of the cup 
to foster. Mr. MacLellan, further showed that 
the dimensions of the old 30ft. and the new 27ft. 
class were practically the same, 
Mr.. 'S;.. Edward. Vernon, 5 Adlantvenssy ee 
owner of Vivian II., has made preparations to 
have his boat put into shape to meet Mimosa IL., 
and it was reported within a few days that Com- 
modore Parks’ Mimosa III. would not be in com- 
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15-RATER——SAIL PLAN——DESIGNED BY JOHN G. ALDEN. 
