The Republican journal., 1898-04-28
North Haven Yacht Builders

hoSckLAND, Me-, April le. Yacht
0ullding has taken quite boom 49, =.
/ ienooscot bay, and everything points to
an interesting season. c. F. Brown ot
ruiplt harbor, North Haven. has +a,,e ~
orders tor II boats of varions kinds ~
last OF which must be furnished Nv I Wv ,,ao
LIST. ny Aug.
Inc largest of this fleet is the smack
arena, built for j. M. Withersnonn "a
North Haven. The dimensions arc Nc
follows: Over. all "A feet. water line 81
ieet, beam IL feet I inches. draft = feet
Hhe carries 1000 pounds of iron IN The
Keel ana spreads about 800 feet of can.
vas. 1t is believed she will prove fast
salier tor boat of the class.
announcer boat just completed is for
heV. Leighton Parks of Emmanuel
cnurcn, Boston, who has a summer home
at lslesooro. This boat was designed bv
nenry bryant OF Boston. Her dimep
slons are over all % feet, water line 10
!ee,' oeam y teet inches, draft a feet 6
,ncnes' one VII! have 1000 pounds of
lead on the keel and a sail area of 400
square feet. AS will be surmised from
these figures, she is designed more for
comfort than for speed
Mr. Brown is at present working on
two knockabouts and will commence an
other OF the same general plan after their
completion. These knockabouts were de-
signed by B. B. Crowninshield of Boston.
Ihese boats are regulation knockabouts
Ihey are ~ feet over all, 81 feet water
line, feet inches beam and feet draft
Iney have not less than 3, 500 pounds out
Slde oaIlast, either iron or lead, and not
more than 800 square feet of sail area
Ihey are built for Boston parties. Fred
erlck T. Bowden, W. A. Dupee and Ed
ward B. Lambert
Mr.. Bowden will take his boat to Mar
blehead some time in May, and plans to
enter her IN the races there this summer.
MI Dupee is having a summer residence
built at lslesboro and his knockabout will
play prominent part in the Penobscot
bay races.
Mr. Brown has also built a Is foot cen
treboard sailboat for j. Murray Howe.
a l3-foot very light, bright finished cy-
press sail boat for H. S. Francis, and
i4-feet roWboat for George W. Wheel
wright, all of Boston, a rowboat for Rev.
George Alexander Strong of Brockton.
Mass, pinkey for r. S. Peabody Of
Boston, aud launch for E. p Lamb of
Portland. The pinkey is the smallest
boat OF the fleet. She is an exact copy of
an old timer, such as was familiar to our
grandfathers, but very seldom seen at the
present day.
The launch built for Mr.. Lamb is II
feet over all, and the motive power will
be gasoline engine, made by the firm of
which MI. Lamb is at the head She is
finished throughout with mahogany and
polished brass trimmings.
At North Haven j. O. Brown is build
ing a II foot boat for Nh. Harding of
Boston, and a 19-foot boat for Dr. c. G.
Weld of Boston. He is also making some
changes in Dr. Yields Scorpion, built
two years ago
Z. +. Brown, who has been an enthus-
iastic yachtsman for many years, ex-
presses deep regret that the Penobscot
yacht club has become such a dead letter
the past year, and assigns as one reason
that the judges were not wholly impartial
in their decisions, nor the Rockland local
reporters wholly impartial in their race
reports. This, MI. Brown says, has had
a tendency to keep other than Rockland
boats out of the races, and repeatedly
thereafter the classes failed to fill, until
finally races had to be postponed alto
gether
The races for native boats only at the
Thoroughfare and North Haven proved
very successful. The idea originated
with d. NJ. Little of Salem, Mass, who
offered prizes. SO much interest attend
ed the first regatta that two others were
held in the season, and prizes were raised
by popular subscription. The last was
held at Pulpit Harbor, the prize, an ee-
giant silver cup, being won by the sloop
Ramona. Capt. Witherspoon will put up
this prize again this season.