The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-03

shown considerable originality in this
part of the construction. The mast will
be split for a distance Of eighteen inches
or more from the bottom, and be made
to fit over the backbone. He has also
riveted blocks onto the mast and then
run bridge from beam to beam, with
mast hole in the center. The blocks
pieced to the mast will rest on the bridge
the purpose being to divide the strain of
the mast to as many parts of the boat as
possible. Many of the older boats have
given much trouble from bad leaks by
reason of the strain caused by the mast
opening the seams of the pIanking di-
rectly underneath
johnson gives the dimensions Of these
boats as thirty feet over all, seven
feet beam and eighteen feet water line.
They are constructed of red cedar and
are built to conform to the scantling rules
of the Inland Lake Yachting association
The other two B boats are of the same
length, but with less freeboard. Their
model is also somewhat different All Of
these boats will be equipped with bilge
boards and double rudderS
VI the fourteen new boats six have
been built for White Bear yachtsmen,
While eight will go to other lakes.
The big boat which Johnson is build
ing for the Seawanhaka trials is from
an original Crowinshield design of the
MassaSOit, with some changes which Capt
Z. M. Griggs has planned. The boat will
be thirty mine feet six inches in length
and have an eight-foot beam. She will
be twenty-siX feet on the waterIine and
have sixteen inches of freeboard The
Keel was laid about two weeks ago. and
it is expected to have her finished by
the middle of April
Gus Amundson has also kept a large
force of men employed during the winter
months in turning out boats, and he is
averaging completed boat each week.
He has already finished twenty
three new boats and is at work
on several more. One of the first orders
he received was for ten boats for the
Bald Eagle Yacht club, which are twenty
three feet in length, and which have
heretofore been fully described by T h e
q b e. Another batch of ten boats
were built for Oconomowoc Lake club
THESE boats are all of the same general
design as the boats built for Bald Eagle
put are only twenty feet in length and
will be cat-rigged instead of sIoop-rigged.
They will carry 200 feet of san and are
expected to stand up well in rough
weather. They will be shipped away as
soon as the season opens
Amundson built three Class B boats,
one for DIR. f. NJ Owens, who sailed the
w. II. Lyford, of the Fox Lake Yacht
club. The third boat is for sale, having
been built on speculation.
Build Boats for Fasteners.
The three boats are of one design, the
dimensions being 81 feet over ALL feet
Deam and II feet water line. The plank
Ing is haIf-inch material. They are all
equipped with double boards and rud-
derS. The new B boats resemble the GEN
eral outline of the Venture which Amund-
son built last season for a Chicago
yachtsman and which won the Class B
cup at the annual regatta of the Inland
son claims to have made some improve
ments in this years boats which he ex-
poets will Increase their speed consider
ably. Another boat which Amundson is
just completing is a big fellow for Long
Island and which will be sailed on Lake
Champlain. This boat is for George H
Townsend, Of New York, and is by all
odds the heaviest scow every built at
White Bear. She measures 80 feet over
all and 20 feet on the water Her beam
is feet, with plenty of freeboard The
material is rs Inch for planking and deck.
Her ribs and deck spans are practically
twice as heavy as used for the White
Bear boats, and she will have an extra
bilge brace the entire length Of the boat
She will be roomy and deep and capable
of carrying considerable sail. She is
screw fastened throughout
The Seawanhaka boat which Amundson
is building is just being started. The de-
Mower, of the Rudder, and calls for a