Cr, 10; 1907; | 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

ARTHUR BINNEY, 
(Formerly Srewart & BINNEY.) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker, 
Mason Building, Kilby Street, BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address, ‘‘Designer,’’ Boston. 
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heir Principles, Types and Management. 
K. Grain. 132 pages. Price, $1.25. 
By Francis 
Here is a pocket manual indispensable to every man 
ho uses a motor-boat. It deals in simple, untechnical 
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he main feature of the book, however, is a clear descrip- 
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Newport catboats have the same characteristics 
as the cape cats, but are not so extreme in their 
proportions. As you come south along the coast 
the boats get flatter and flatter, the winds and 
seas being in the many bays, sounds and rivers 
very much more moderate than off the cape. 
The old Bridgeport, Cow Bay, Penny Bridge, 
Keyport and Shrewsbury River racers of 1870 to 
1880 were examples of the flattest kind of sail- 
boats. A racer of those days would only have 
a freeboard of eight or nine inches or about an 
inch of freeboard for a foot of beam on twenty 
foot length. They carried enormous sails and 
were only kept upright by the husky shifting of 
anywhere from thirty to fifty sand bags by men 
whose ability was measured by the number of sand 
bags they could sling. Such boats were decidedly 
unsafe and absolutely useless except in trained 
hands. 
No novice at sailing could handle such boats 
as these. Each town on the water front had its 
champion helmsman, mainsheet man, jibsheet 
man, bag slinger, etc., even to the small boy who 
wielded the bailer. Eight or ten men on each 
boat shifted the sand bags as the boat jibed or 
tacked. Each man used to bet his week’s pay 
on his own boat, and there was a ferociousness 
about a race in those days that often led to a 
fist fight after a race. 
Many of those sand bag boats would not stand 
up when her sails were hoisted without her crew 
to balance her. Many a 2oft. catboat has bor- 
rowed a 30ft. boat’s sail and spars and gone into 
what looked like a light-wind-day race fearfully 
over-rigged. If the wind held light the boat 
would likely win. If it breezed up she would 
most certainly capsize. 
It was in an old ex-racer of this class that 
my brother and I received our initiation in a 
round bottom boat. She was the old Addie M, 
of Broad Channel, Rockaway, and so wrung and 
strained that she was condemned for further use 
as a racer. We bought her for $75 afloat. It 
took no small amount of pumping at first to 
keep her afloat. But after a day or so she 
swelled up and only required pumping once a 
day to keep her from sinking. “Truly, she was 
a fine yacht,’ (nit). 
To-day there are many better bargains in boats 
that can be purchased for one half the money, 
the old style straight keel cat, having been out- 
built by the modern rocker keel, overhanging 
bow and stern catboat. A little keel catboat 
makes a very fine craft for the beginner to learn 
sailing in, being non-capsizable and not having 
the centerboard as a nuisance in the cockpit, and 
the initial stability they possess gives the novice 
more confidence in himself and his boat. 
A small Cape Cod cat ranks next, having great 
stability, due to their excessive beam. A 2oft. 
boat, having 9 or 1oft. beam, their sails appear 
to be too large for the hulls, but as a fact are 
not. Seldom does a cape cat capsize, yet they 
sail out of Chatham and other ports in all kinds 
of weather, right out on the open sea, over 
treacherous bars where the breakers are fearful 
and beat back home in the teeth of fierce north- 
westers loaded down with a cargo of lobsters 
and lobster pots. 
Familiarity with their boats and a dauntless 
courage have a great deal to do with such deeds, 
but after all the boat must be there to stand 
it all. 
Their high freeboard is one of the main ad- 
vantages, being fully double that of a boat of 
similar size built for use about New York waters. 
C. G. Davis. 
THE Baker Yacht Basin at Quincy, Mass., 
launched recently a new 47ft. by toft. 6in. cabin 
launch fitted with a 125 horsepower motor for 
Mr. F. A. Johnson, of New London, Conn. 
Her interior is trimmed in white and mahogany. 
Rme 
THE idea of starting the 1908 Bermuda ocean 
race from Boston is not favorably taken to by 
the New York yachtsmen, so it will start as 
before from New York. 
rneRmR,R 
Sir THOMAS’ attempt to make a four-leaf clover 
of his Shamrocks failed. 
RRP 
Ir does seem a shame that foreign yachtsmen 
can only get a race for the cup with 7oft. boats. 


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Naval Architect, Engineer, and 
Yacht Broker. 
No. 1 Broadway, (Telephone 2160 Rector), New York 
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