The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-05


they not then shaping into tangible form
and graceful curve the very best racing
craft that ever rested on the bosom of
old White Bear? All winter long have
they toiled and planned and hammered
and sawed made changes and alterations,
highered and lowered, backed and filled,
| until now there are on the ways some
already completed and others receiving
their finishing touches eight of the
handsomest sailing yachts that ever
faced the starting gun
OF the eight boats, three will be twenty
five-footers, four viii be half raters OF
the seventeen-foot type, and one, which
has been designed as a family boat, will
be between the two.
q reporter made the rounds Of
the various shops and inspected the
boats. A visit to the shop of John John
son found that worthy young gentleman
hard at work. Johnson is hardly more
than a boy, and very modest one at
that. He has little to say and believes
In letting his work do the talking for
him. He has, in past seasons, built some
OF the representative boats on the lake,
and when the G o b e made call on
MIN he was making some adjustments in
the boat he was building for the Griggs
syndicate
While built on we'll established lines,
the boat, nevertheless, shows originality
in many respects, and Johnson has
| spared no pains in It's construction. 1t
| Is nearly completed, the finishing
| touches now being put on It Is of
{, scow shape, built of cedar, has a square
bow and stern, and measures So feet
| over all, feet 8 Inches beam, and
| stands 20 feet on the water line The
bottom is fiat. showing slightly reversed
| curves, and is built of half-inch plank
/ me- nv
and there is Is inches of freeboaTd and
| 5-inch draught The boat in it's present
| shape weighs about 975 pounds. The
| deck Is of half-inch material, supported
| by oak ribs and cross bars. Johnson
has painted the deck a bright green,
! but the bottom will be of natural wood,
well vanished and shellacked One of
the features of the boat is the air
tight compartments which Johnson has
! constructed around the cockpit 1t Is
| intended that the boat should heel over
/ slightly to be on her best sailing level,
which probably means that she will be
at her best in a blow There is no
doubt but that she can stand a heavy
pressure, as the bracing afforded by the
construction of the alright compart-
ments operate to make her es-
pecially stiff. The boat will be ready
for the water on May 1.
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Johnson has also built for sale sew
enteen-footer. In a general way,
| though not so large. it resembles the
| Griggs boat. 1t measures % feet over
! all, Is feet on the water line, 6 feet 8
| inches beam, 8-foot cockpit, with width
Of a feet, 20-inch freeboard and finch
draught The planking and deck are of
| 5-16-inch CEDAR and the ribs are SIG by
IL inches. The deck Is green and the
bottom mahogany stained 1t weighs
| less than 800 pounds and two men
could easily carry it.
There are three boats in Gene RAJ
maley's shop, one Is and two T-footers.
Ramaley has built a number Of boats,
among them the Yankee. which was
sent to Montreal last summer to sail
against the Dominion. The big boat
which Ramaley has just about COM
pleted was built for the Ordway syndi-
| cate. and Gene seems confident that she
will be winner in the trial races.
Unlike the Griggs boat, she is built
considerably narrower and with a
pointed bow, thereby relieving her of
the scow design. although she has a
fat bottom. She was designed to sail
on an even keel. Her bottom shows
no reversed curves. The boat is built
cherry stained. She is 80 feet over all.
and Is longer than the Griggs boat on
the water line by feet. In its present
condition the boat will weigh between
800 and 900 pounds, and when completed
will carry a 35O-pound steel center
| board
Then there is the 17-footer built for
Warren w. Owens by Ramaley, which Is
about ready for the water with the ex-
ception of the rigging. This boat is
ZIG feet long, IA feet on the water line,
and of scow design with round bow.
built of cedar and weighs about 425
pounds.
1t stands side by side with the boat of
the same type built for L. P. Ordway.
Ordway's boat is of the same water line,
and has a square bow, instead of a
round one, and is also slightly narrower.
with fiat lines and straight sides. The
cockpits in both boats are small and
they each have pitch decks
A visit was then made to Gus Amund-
| sons shop. Amundson does not intend
1 to have everybody run in on him at will.
and he works with locked doors, and 1t
was with considerable reluctance that he
admitted the Glob representative.
Amundson is just completing the twenty
five-footer for the Douglass syndicate.
The boat Is a perfect picture, anal 1t IS
said the cost runs into four figures. 1t
is built of Michigan cedar, which was got
| ten specially from Iron Mountain.
Amundson would not give out the exact
measurements, but the length Is about
SO feet, .22-foot water line, 7-foot beam,
12-inch free board, 6-inch draught. The
deck is of three-e3ghtbs-inch cedar COW
cred with canvas, and will be fitted with
brass throughout. Not an ounce of paint
will be used on the bottom or deck, as
| it will be left itsvnatural color with a
| heavy coating of yarnish. The gunwale
streak is OF mahogany and the plug
ging is also of mahogany.
l The cOcIxnit ia a lonEg and narrow one