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JULY -6. 
1907. | 
ARTHUR BINNEY, 
(Formerly Stewart & Binney.) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker, 
Mason Building, Kilby Street, BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address, ‘‘ Designer,”” Boston. 
BURGESS @ PACKARD 
Naval Architects and Engineers 
131 State Street, BOSTON, MASS. 
Tel. 4870 Main. Cable, ‘‘Burgess,’’ Boston. 

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Chandlery and Machine Shops. 
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“Pellegrina.’’—40-rater. 
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25% miles. 
“Pineland.’’—103-foot Gasolene Passenger Boat, 19 miles. 
“Elizabeth Silsbee.’’—135-ft. Auxiliary Fishing Schooner. 
Fastest and most powerful on the Atlantic Coast. 
Boston Hospital Ship.—Steel, 600 tons. 
“Gleaner,’’—Auxiliary Wrecking Schooner of Chatham. 
““Corinthian.’’—Champion of the Pacific Coast, 1905-06. 
““Cricket.’’—40-footer. Champion of Gulf Coast. 
“Orestes."’"—Winner of Lipton Cup for 1906 and Champion 
22-rater. 


HOLLIS BURGESS, - 
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kinds. Agent for the purchase and sale of Gasoline Engines. 
Main Office, 10 Tremont St. Tel. 1905-1 Main. 
Branch Office, 131 State St. Tel. 4870 Main. BOSTON, Mass, 
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NAVAL ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS, 
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17 Battery Place, New York. 
CHARLES D. MOWER, Naval 
29 Broadway, New York. Architect 
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The Race Rambler Almost Won. : 
I HAD no intentions whatever of racing our 
18it. catboat Rambler when I went up to 
Cameron, as it was then called; now it is the 
Cobweb Club, at 152d street and Hudson River, 
where we kept her at a mooring. But* when | 
found there was a yacht race and saw the flags 
Hying on shore flag poles, saw the fleet of cats 
and sloops maneuvering about in the choppy 
short sea, common with a west wind and ebb 
tide, but little was needed to coax me into par- 
ticipating. So, when Cameron spied me and 
sung out to hurry up and get my boat ready, 
there was only one thing to prevent my complete 
surrender to and joining in the popular en 
thusiasm: I had no crew. 
“Get your boat in here to the float; I'll get you 
a crew,” shouted John from the midst of a crowd 
of enthusiastic up river and down river racing 
men. 
Great excitement was thick in the very atmos 
phere about that dock, the best evidence of it 
being the sight of those unkillable, undriveaway- 
ible, constant fishermen who day in and day out 
sit on the string piece of docks with a bell on a 
wire to announce a fish hooked, neglecting their 
fishing to rubber at the yachtsmen preparing their 
catboats and jib and mainsails for the race. 
Up against the weather side of the dock, where 
the tide pinned them fast, were several cats, while 
it the float were more boats than could get 
their noses near it. Thirty-foot cats, with masts 
about forty feet high that would not stand up 
when the sail was hoisted but for the constant 
balance preserved by her crew of fifteen to 
twenty husky mechanics in whose grip a_ fifty 
pound sandbag was -as nothing at all, about 
a hundred to a hundred and fifty of these bags 
being carried on each boat. 
Cameron came running down the gangway with 
three men at his heels 
“Here they are,” he shouted; “hurry up now 
or you'll be late. The starting gun goes in about 
two.minutes,”’ and he being the judge and starter 
disappeared to get ready to fire the gun from the 
end of the pier. 
If it was ballast I wanted, John had certainly 
picked me out a good crew. All were big husky 
working men, two of them weighing not under 
180 pounds, and the third about 250. Not a sand 
bag was to be had that morning, so as I hoisted 
sail each man went up on the dock and returned 
with a rock as big as he could carry. And with 
this novel ballast Rambler beat out the end 
of the deck. 
The race was started and finished between the 
end of the dock and a skiff with a red flag an- 
chored a hundred yards or so off it. From there 
the course lay up the river against a strong ebb 
tide to a mark under the high Palisades opposite 
a stone quarry; then ‘down the river two miles 
to another mark on the west shore and home. 
I had been too busy all this time to notice any- 
thing, but as we cleared the float and stood out 
into the tide a feeling of misgiving came over 
me, for the whole western sky up to clear over 
our heads’ was turning black as ink with hurry- 
to 
ing, curling wreaths of black smoky clouds. 
Oh! what a squall was coming. I knew it was 
to be a hard one. I had learned that mitch 
already in my two years’ experience on the water. 
Others liked it no more than I, and as several 
of the racers passed me at steamboat speed | 
could see a scared expression on more than one 
face older than. mine, for I was but a kid at 
that time. 
Just before gun-fire the squall broke and the 
gun’s report was almost: drowned in the’ roar of 
the wind, but’ Rambler was on the line, which 
was more than most of them, and shouting to 
my crew to “Lay out, lay out to windward,’ and 
with her sail broad off and bellying up round 
as a balloon, pulling nearly to splitting, the little 
cat bounded ahead, throwing blinding showers of 
spray that the wind sent hissing and splashing 
over us and into the sail till it was running wet 
half way up the hoist. 
Standing to leeward of the tiller with my 
shoulder against it and both feet braced against 
the lee coaming, I hung on to the main sheet 
with both hands and “babied’”’ the boat along, 
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