
Dec. 28, 1907.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

ARTHUR BINNEY, 
(Formerly Stewart & BINNEY.) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker, 
Mason Building, Kilby Street, BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address, “‘Designer,’’ Boston. 
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INSURANCE of all kinds YACHTS For Sale and 
Charter. Yacht Broker and General Marine Agent 
10 TREMONT ST., BOSTON, MASS. 
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Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects, 
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Marine Models 
OF ALL KINDS 
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Canoe Handling and Sailing. 
The Canoe: History, Uses, Limitations and Varieties, 
Practical Management and Care, and Relative Facts. 
By C. Bowyer Vaux (‘Dot’). Illustrated. Cloth, 
168 pages. Price, $1.00. New and revised edition, 
with additional matter. 
A complete manual for the management of the canoe. 
Everything is made intelligible to the veriest novice, and 
Mr. Vaux proves himself one of those successful in- 
structors who communicate their own enthusiasm to 
their pupils. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 

Gas Engines and Launches. 
Their Principles, Types and Management. 
K. Grain, 132 pages. Price, $1.25. 
Here is a pocket manual indispensable to every man 
who uses a motor-boat. It deals in simple, untechnical 
fashion with the running of the marine gas engine, and 
with the difficulties that the marine gas engineer is likely 
to meet with. These engines are described, some pages 
are devoted to launches in general, with practical advice 
to the man who contemplates purchasing a power boat. 
The main feature of the book, however, is a clear descrip- 
tion of the difficulties met with in running a gas engine, 
their uses and how to remedy them. In this discussion 
all technicalities are avoided, and the author has boiled 
down a vast amount of practical knowledge into small 
space and into every-day language. The amateur power 
boat man needs this book, for it will save him much time 
and trouble, and probably not a little money. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
By Francis 

Uncle Lisha’s Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. Robin- 
son. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sportsman’s 
exchange, where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, 
the hunters and fishermen of the widely scattered neigh- 
borhood used to meet of evenings and dull outdoor days, 
“to swap lies.” 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 

Men I Have Fished With. 
Sketches of character and incident with rod and gun from 
childhood to manhood; from the killing of little fishes 
and birds to a buffalo hunt. By Fred Mather. II- 
lustrated. Price, $2.00. 
It was a happy thought that prompted Mr. Fred Mather 
to write of his fishing companions. The chapters were 
received with a warm welcome at the beginning and 
have been of sustained interest. The ‘Men I Have 
Fished With’ was among the most popular series of 
papers ever presented to Forest anp STREAM readers. 
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Small French One Design Class. 
Mr. Wm. H. Hann, Jr. naval architect, of 
New Bedford, Mass., sends us plans of a very 
interesting little class of one-design boats built 
and sailed in France on the Seine and sea coast. 
Seven boats were built from Mr. Hand’s 
plans, and Monsieur Eugene Laverne, of Paris, 
writes very enthusiastically concerning the gen- 
eral qualities of the boats and states that they 
are particularly good in fairly strong breezes 
and rough water. They carry their sail very well 
and the rather unusual rig has proven to be a 
The hull design is wholesome in 
every way, the construction is strong and the 
resulting class is one of sturdy little boats. In 
France they are considered fast for little 
cruisers. 
The principal dimensions are: 
Length over all Se 2OLte in. 
Length waterline T7ite 7 itl: 
Drait eee ses aret aie aft. 11%in. 
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Displacement . 4143lbs. 

Puritan at Auction. 
Tur old cup defender Puritan will be sold at 
auction at Providence. The famous” sloop 1s 
owned by the O’Connor Brothers, of Boston, 
and has been on the market for some time, but 
in spite of the sentiment surrounding her there 
have been no purchasers for her, and O’Connor 
Brothers have decided to dispose of her at 
auction. This means, in all probability, her pur- 
chase for the scrap heap, her breaking up and 
the melting of her metal, while her hull will 
rot away. K 
The Puritan carried the Stars and Stripes to 
victory in the sixth race for the America’s Cup. 
Against her was pitted the Scotch boat Genesta, 
and she won both races. The second was very 
close and won by a margin of a little over a 
minute, but the first was comfortably won by 
a twelve-minute margin. The second race was 
triangular, but the first sailed to windward and 
return, where the superior weather qualities of 
the American boat told. 
She was designed by Edward Burgess and 
built at Lawley’s yard in South Boston in 1885, 
and was a pronounced improvement on the 
Mischief, which had won the previous race for 
the cup. She established in the first race a new 
record for the cup races over a 40-mile course, 
covering the distance in the excellent time of 
5:03:14. After her victory she passed through 
the hands of a number of prominent yachtsmen, 
but eventually was bought by O’Connor 
Brothers, and has since been their property. 
Her days of usefulness in trade have passed, 
and she is to meet the fate of her predecessors 
at last. 

Rent, Sundered and Keel Seams Sprung. 
WHEN the society editor gets busy with the 
shipping news there is always good reading in 
store for the nautical sharps. In a recent ac- 
count of a collision, the following startling news 
appeared in print as a description of the acci- 
dent: 
“The big sailing ship was practically rent to 
pieces, with her starboard quarter torn away 
above the waterline, her mast sundered and al- 
most every keel seam sprung, she did not go 
down, nor were any of her crew lost.” 
Think of how the masts must have “sun- 
dered,” and though she was “rent to pieces” 
with “almost every keel seam sprung”’ still she 
did not sink, she must have been a good ship; 
but the fun of it is, she was not a ship at all, but 
a schooner. 
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Tuat the New York Y. C. had a busy season 
this past season (1907) is shown by the annual 
report. which shows that’ on eleven different 
days its committee started races the number of 
yachts started was 251, which does not include 
a duplicate entry of a yacht starting in two 
events on the same day, and that there were 
eighty-four races sailed and no postponements 
were necessary. 


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Naval Architect, Engineer, and 
Yacht Broker. 
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Canoe Cruising and Camping. 
Cloth. Illustrated. 
Full of practical information for outdoor people, 
whether they travel in canoes, with pack animals or 
carry their outfits on their own backs. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Building Motor Boats and 
Managing Gasolene Engines 
are discussed in the book 
“HOW TO BUILD A LAUNCH FROM PLANS” 
A complete illustrated work on the building of motor 
boats and the installing, care and running of gasolene 
motors. By Charles G. Davis. With 40 diagrams, 9 
folding drawings and 8 full-page plans. Price, post- 
paid, $1.50. 
The author is a builder and designer of national reputa- 
tion. All the instruction given is defined and com- 
prehensive, 40 diagrams, 9 folding drawings and 8 full- 
page plans. That portion of the book devoted to the 
use and care of gas engines should be most carefully 
perused by every individual who operates one. The book 
is well worth the price asked for it. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
By Perry D. Frazer. Price, $1.06. 


Small Yacht Construction 
and Rigging. 
A Complete Manual of Practical Boat and Small Yacht 
Building. With two complete designs and numerous 
diagrams and details. By Linton Hope. 177 pages. 
Cloth. Price, $3.00. 
The author has taken two designs for practical demon- 
stration, one of a centerboard boat 19ft. waterline, and 
the other a cruising cutter of 22ft. waterline. Both de 
signs show fine little boats which are fully adapted to 
American requirements. Full instructions, even to the 
minutest detail, are given for the building of both these 
boats. The information is not confined to these yachts 
alone; they are merely taken as examples; but what is 
said applies to all wooden yacht building according to 
the best and most approved methods. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 

Canoe and Boat Building. 
A Complete Manual for Amateurs. Containing plain 
and comprehensive directions for the construction of 
Canoes, Rowing and Sailing Boats, and Hunting Craft. 
By W. P. Stephens. Cloth. Seventh and enlarged 
edition. 264 pages. _Numerous illustrations, and fifty 
plates in envelope. Price, $2.00. 
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