The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-25

and a yacht. as Professor Cecil H. Pea body. the head of the naval architecture department of the Institute, puts It, IS that you hire one for 25 cents an hour ana buy> the other for $2500 or $26,0OO The chief difference between goou, seryiceable boat intended for pleasure cruising and a fisherman, or nieI chantman, is in workmanship ana hnis As living accommodations in the place ol cargo room. and seaworthiness compin. cd with some speed instead Of mer@ ahilitv to take a heavy load and stand hard buf9eting. None of the qualities of the less ornate craft are to be despis- ed in the yacht, however, ana the SKI full designer of pleasure boats IS ne who makes the most successInl cohlpi. nation of all the elements that count for speed, comfort and safety,
 Different kinds of vessels have tneir own neculiar requirements. The Glou- cester fisherman for example, combines speed and carrying capacity wltn special sort of stability that enables her to lie to and "stay put" in any klno of weather. When she Is on the Graho Ranks. and her dozen or fifteen boats are scattered about her at the travis she must come as near to stanoins' where she stops as the restless ocean will allow anything on its surface to do When her boats come back at the end of the days work they must nIlu her where they left her and they must be able to approach and board her wlth ease: that Is her shape must De such that she wil not edge away or swing about with every variation of wind ana waves. , ,.a
 When she turns homeward. deep lad en with the catch, speed Is the tisher- mans most commendable quality TOT her burden is perishable and the race to market often means the dinerehce between a richly profitable fare ana an only middlin one It IS lhteI estine that Edward Burgess, designer of the Puritan and the Mayflower among the America's cup defenders or fifteen or twenty years ago, should when he finished his work on the rac- CTS. have turned his attention to the Gloucester fishermen to their great benefit.
 The young naval architect at Tech nology begins by drawing out, to very accurate scale, the lines or a yes sel from dimensions given him. by hts instructor. This is to give him facility in fair drawing" wnlcn Is in no small measure a natural knack also. Later he learns to draw the lines full size on the mould loft floor and to locate the framing and plating of the ship. Having thus mastered the practical working out of plan, he IS set Vo designing a vessel of his owh-seh- orally a steamship of given tonnage; His completed design must be proved by various measures and tests to snow that it Is workable, and finally mod el Is made-one of the half-models Ia miliar to every visitor to places where old sea-cap'ns congregate, The mo9- el room at the Institute Is veritapie curiosity shop to anyone interested m matters marine, for 1t contains the counterfeit presentments or all sorts s and kinds of floating things, rom steam, cargo-sh.ps to steel, saii-pear- ing colliers and the innumerable va riety of ''frealx" racers.
 If vou 20 to a naval architect with an order for a yacht. he can show you roughly what she will look like. ana can tell you approximately what sne Idea of the kind of a boat you have m mind. just as the landluboer architect can sketch out your new house ano give you estimates on the investment 1t will require. The naval architect