The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27
MANY new YACHTS
AT BALD EAGLE LAKE
Racing Will Be Made a Feature
by the New Bald Eagle
Club.

There will be more yachting at Bald
Eagle lake this season than ever be-
fore in the history Of that pretty sheet
of water. The sport has been revived,
and many new boats will sail on the
been organized and active prepara-
tons are already being made for the
seasons sailing.
Yachting at Bald Eagle, which start
ed with a few old craft, picked up at
random and which furnished many
hard fought contest to say nothing
about innumerable capsizes, has de-
veloped to such large proportions that
the lake will be entirely covered with
white wings the coming season.
There are ten new yachts, all Of one
design, now ready for the water and
the rigging. The contract for building
these boats was given to Gus Amund-
son, who drew the designs and plans.
and he has turned out fleet of good,
comfortable and seaworthy boats. The
dimensions are % feet over all, 6 feet
beam, II feet water line and about Is
inches freeboard. The ribs are> 7sx7s,
placed six inches from center to CEN
ter. The planling is of half-inch ma
terial, with as-inch deck, covered with
canvas. Red cedar is used in the con-
struction. The boats, owing to their
size, will be equipped with but one
centerboard, and single rudder. In
designing these boats it was Amund-
sons idea to combine speed and COM
fort as far as possible, as it was not
only intended to use them fer racing
boats, but as pleasure craft as well.
| It'll, ir1co
total of $50 square feet of sail. Spin
makers will not be used, at least for
this season.
Will Draw Lots for Boats.
When the matter of building these
new boats was first discussed a sep
arate organization was formed of the
prospective boat owners, and build
ing committee appointed. 1t was
agreed that the ownership Of the
boats will each be numbered and a
drawing take place at an early day.
In this manner no individual interest
will operate to alter the construction
of the boats from the original plans
nor to make any changes in rigging or
cut Of sails. Therefore, the winning
of races will resolve itself down to the
skill of the yachtsmen and the rigging
and tuning of the boats. There is al
WAYS a keen interest in one-design
! classes, although, all other things be-
| ing equal, the shreWd and skillful sail
or aided by a competent crew, has a
shade the best of it.
The Bald Eagle Yacht club was
| originally organized in 1890, with TWEEN
| ty-three members. Capt. S. w. Rau-
| denbush was elected commodore, DR..
| Siavelund vice commodore, Luke Man
ship fleet captain, c.. A. Hart secre-
tary and J. A. Null treasurer. half
| dozen catboats, mostly gotten from
| White Bear, constituted the racing
| fleet Of the club. Great speed was not
expected, but lot. of lively contests
| were had, nevertheless
At meeting held in the Commercial
| club rooms a few days ago the old
] club was dissolved and the new club
| do this for the purpose of better es-
tablishing a new set of rules and elm
| mating any Objectionable features
| which could not be overcome by the
retention of the old club. The officers
| elected for the ensuing year were: n
H. Thomas, commodore; Charles A.
Hart, vice commodore; Alfred Teis-
berg, secretary; J. A. Null. treasurer,
/ and Albert Holterhoff, captain. The
regatta and executive committees will
| be named at special meeting to be
! held before the opening of the season
Yachts Divided Into Glasses.
The boats will be divided into three
classes, A, 3 and Open. The ten new
boats vii go into class A, and the larks
! will be put into the B class, while the
other boats, of various designs ane
construction, will enter the open class
It may possibly be decided to gram
arbitrary time allowances for oper
class boats.
The total number Of boats as far al
now known will number twenty-four
4 divided ten in the A class, eight In tn!
i B class and six in the open class.
q will be quickly seen that the Bali
Eagle club has risen to the ranks Q
i many Of the minor yacht clubs Ia tnl
i part of the country, and splendid fu