NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 15 
‘The Fenton Boat Yard at Manchester 
Turns Out Speedy Racing Boats and All Types of Pleasure Water Craft 
ONE of the reasons why the North Shore is so pop- 
ular with vacationists is the excellent opportunities 
for enjoying water sports. ‘The sport in all its phases 
is participated in from Nahant to Rockport by hundreds 
of yachting and boating enthusiasts. Races of all kinds 
from the little cat-boat and yawl to the sonder events 
comprise one of the features of a summer on the shore. 
And many of these boats are built on the North Shore. 
The boat yard.of the David Fenton Co. at Manchester, 
is one of the busiest places in this vicinity each spring, 
fitting up and getting ready the scores of boats for the 
busy season, and in winter building new boats. 
The Fenton plant is one of the largest on the coast 
and is equipped to turn out almost everything in the boat 
line up to a 100-foot craft. Speedy sonders which have 
captured prizes in the international races at Marblehead 
in seasons past have been turned out at this well known 
boat yard. 
There are ample facilities at the plant for the stor- 
ing of boats during the winter. During the past win- 
ter there have been about 120 boats of varying sizes 
stored under the four large sheds at the Fenton yard. 
The yard itself is ideally located for the building, 
launching and fitting up of pleasure sailing craft. It 1s 
absolutely level, which means much to the boat builder ; 
the land-locked Manchester harbor makes conditions 
almost always ideal for getting boats off and on the 
ways.. [here are three marine railways which are kept 
busy several months in the year. Most of the keels used 
on Fenton-built: boats are cast at the Manchester yard. 
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boats of John Hays Hammond, Jr., of Gloucester. 
Two interesting boats now at the yard being fitted 
up are the “Pioneer rand thie. Rady,” ches: wireless: 
These 
boats have aroused a great deal of interest by reason of 
their mystifying appearance when navigating Gloucester 
harbor without a visible pilot. The motive power in all 
cases has been electricity, and Mr. Hammond has experi- 
mented for some time on operating the boats by wire- 
less from his home on the Gloucester waterfront. 
Two sonders built at the Fenton yards in the past 
two years will be» entered in the elimination races at 
Marblehead in August to attempt to qualify ive the in- 
ternational races ‘at Kieve, Germany. They are the 
“Sprig,” owned by, John Saltonstall and the “Dorina,’ 
owned by G. L. Batchelder and F. C. Fletcher of Boston. 
The “Dorina”’ was entered in the elimination races at 
Marblehead last ye ner, but failed to qualify under ad- 
verse conditions. ‘he Bilen [,-owned by Gy, P. Curtis: 
who summers at meets a sonder built at the Fen- 
ton yards in 1910, won the Governor’s cup in the Ger- 
man races that season, is still one of the fastest rac- 
ing craft on the coast and is winning its share of prizes. 
Another famous boat built by the Fenton company 
is the yawl Manchester which won the Seawanhaka cup 
at Canada in 1910. The Massachusetts, which defended 
the cup at the same.time, was a fast boat and also design- 
ed and constructed at Manchester. 
Walter B. Calderwood, of the Fenton yard, is said to 
have built more sonder boats than any other builder on 
the coast, twelve in, number. 
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