Yachting: Volume 38, Issue 1 – July 1925

YACHTING July, 1925 MOOEL VACHTS POLKA DOT & PHIL. PILE’S BOAT SUPERIMPOSED on 6 METER YACHT PRISCILLA PRISCILLA – 3$2’* 2I'” 6-9 %5 Dearr POLKA DOT – 72°= 45)« 48’s 16% oeart NEw Boat – 66°= 48’s 135″= 162″ onary SCALE t= pba bake All Set for the International Model Yacht Trial Races T is small wonder that when the laurels went to New York last fall in the model yacht races for the Brooklyn Eagle Cup, the members of the Boston Model Yacht Club went to work with a will to uphold. Boston’s prestige as a leading yachting center, by building 14 Class B boats with the sole idea of going to New York this fall and bringing the Cup to Boston. When the Model Yacht Racing Association of America decided to challenge England for the Yachting Monthly Cup, the Boston Model Yacht Club invited the Association to hold the elimination races in Boston and this invitation was accepted. A grand series of races have been arranged for July 9th, 1oth and 11th to be held on the Charles River Basin, both for the ‘Sixes’ or English Challenger class and B Class boats. Four of the six-metre boats are being built by members of the Boston Model Yacht Club and enthusiasm is running high. The first of the fourteen Class B boats to be completed was launched and tried out by her builder and owner, Fred L. Pigeon, of East Boston. The little craft got under way with so much speed and smoothness that two men in a dory had a hard pull to catch her within a quarter of a = Much is looked for from the Circe in the coming = ———EE ae trials. chest, with complete set of tools, has been donated by Chandler Farquhar Company as first prize in Class B. A Model Race for School Boys The first regatta for model yachts and speed boats byilt and sailed by boys of the Manual Training Department of the New Rochelle, N. Y., schools, was held at the entrance to Echo Bay, on Saturday, June 13, by the Hudson Park Yacht Club, af New Rochelle. The novel event brought out a big fleet of 64 starters. A smart southerly breeze provided an exciting afternoon’s sport. The unusual interest aroused has resulted in the decision to establish the event as an annual feature. The course provided a leg close-hauled, one to wind- ward and a broad reach home, total distance }¥% mile. The Regatta Committee provided row boats manned by members of the Hudson Park Yacht Club to transport the model boat sailors over the course. The row boat assigned to each racing model followed behind so as to be on hand to change the trim of sails, etc. The entries were divided into six classes and the winners were, Powerboats under 30 inches. Won by R. Oktavee, Mayflower School. Powerboats under 50 inches. Won by I. Dessauer, Mayflower School. Cat Boats. Won by G. F. Pressman, hy yflower School. Sloops under 40 inches. Won by E. Harris, Stephenson School. Sloops under 50 inches. Won by W. Bell, Mayflower. The first model yacht club in this part of the country was organized on March 10, 1924. Model yacht racing has always been one of the hobbies of the Boston Model Yacht Club’s Commodore, John W. Black. When a boy in the Grammar School, he built a boat which won the In the class for sloops under 40 inches so many boats Boston Post Cup as well as all the cups in races between were on the starting line that two trial heats were held. East Boston and Lynn model yachts. New York and other The winners were J. O’Dell, of Trinity School and E. large cities have for years derived a great deal of pleasure Harris, of Stephenson School. The remarkable windward from model yachts and when Mr. Black proposed a work of the Harris sloop made her the victor in the final. Model Yacht Club for Boston, the idea was heartily approved by model yachtsmen not only from Boston, but from all parts of the State. Scale Models vs. Rule Models For the first time model yachting has been recognized by a yacht club of the standing of the Eastern Yacht It is with pleasure that I note in YACHTING that my former racing antagonist, Francis L. Herreshoff, has taken Club. This recognition is deeply appreciated by the members of the Boston Model Yacht Club, as well as by up the gauge of argument and writes that I am not corall other model yacht enthusiasts. Great interest is shown rect in my statement that a modern racing yacht scaled in the race which the Eastern Yacht Club is giving for down to model yacht size will not run steady before the model yachts on July 12th, at Marblehead, for which wind and for that reason would have no chance against they have donated, through Commodore Nathaniel F. the fastest model yachts of Class B (46 Rating Assn. Rule). Ayer, two beautiful silver trophies for the winners in each I have not seen Mr. Herreshoff’s 42” water line model, of the classes. but I will say that if she is similar in sheer plan to the The City of Boston, through His Honor, Mayor James . modern six-meters, my contention is still the same. The M. Curley, has donated a beautiful bronze trophy for excessive draft (water line length x .32×1.64) limit of first prize in the Six-metre Class. A Wall cabinet tool (Continued on page 83) July, 1925 , YACHTING 83 Scale Models vs. Rule Models (Continued from page 66) the B Class models in question does not cause them to hold a steadier course, as with less draft they would sail still better off the wind. Under the American Model Yacht Racing Association rule the draft is limited by the penalty for any excess, which was not the case with the models of excessive draft mentioned by Mr. Herreshoff. The new models that the Editor saw, that were built as contenders for the International Race in England this season, were produced to race as model yachts, and to a different rule than the International. meter rule. I will put my model C Class sloop Tish (which was built in 1923 to the rules of the American Model Yacht Racing Association) in commission, and give Mr. Herreshoff a chance to demonstrate his double six-meter scaled down model against my boat. F. T. Woop. Some Sales and Charters Activity in yacht selling and chartering is still most active, as reported by the office of Henry J. Gielow, Inc., naval architects and yacht brokers, as is shown by the following recent transactions effected by them: Bar Harbor 31-ft. water line sloop Flight, sold for William F. Jennison of Bay City, Michigan, to Clarence W. Shaw, to be used on the Great Lakes. Charter of 90-ft. twin screw motor yacht Sachem for the summer months for Harry S. Leyman, of Cincinnati, Ohio, toa New York yachtsman who will use her in cruising between New York and Bar Harbor, Me. The 143-ft. steam yacht Rowena, owned by Morrill Goddard, sold to Commander Donald B. MacMillan of Boston, whose expedition will leave about the middle of July for Greenland for scientific exploration in Arctic waters. This yacht was originally built at the end of the war as a mine sweeper and converted into a yacht for cruising in Atlantic coast waters. The 94-ft. steel motor yacht Dixie sold by F. D. M. Strachan, Brunswick, Ga., to P. A. Rose, New York yachtsman, for use in local waters. The 112-ft. yacht twin screw motor Janiwha, sold for Morrill Goddard to Commander Charles E. Fox of Chicago, Ill. The yacht is now being outfitted, preparatory to making the trip to the Great Lakes. Two new 34-ft. 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