The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-24

of San Pedro is heard from with re-
gard to the new transpacifc racer that
IS being built to his design. Francis
Hay, the owner Of the new boat, is
one of the keenest of the younger set
of yachtsmen in the South Coast Yacht
Club. 1t is to be hoped that he ar
ranges to make trip here with 'tCom
modore Day, of the Rudder. as sug-
gested in Mr.. Callahan s letter. The
latter is as follows:
FThe South Coast is under a full
head of sail now and is on true
course for. prosperity. We are out of
debt and have big plans for the future
Old Stinson Jarvis is assistant secre
tary and does all the clerical work and
also is steward at the club house. We
expect very good year and expect to
bring home the San Diego Upton Cup
and the .Corinthian Cup.
"Joe Pugh has just built Gardner
boat that is an extreme rule boat,
similar to Seneca and Dorello, and she
looks good. Is sixty feet on deck and
appears to sail some. Beat Mischief
Ii. about thirty-fve minutes from Ava
lon to breakwater and sailed circles
around Detroit. You can judge for
yourself. She will leave in few days
for Frisco to sail for Corinthian Cup.
"The boat that | am building is
for Frank Hay and, while not large,
will be some class. She is fifty feet
on deck, thirty-eight on water line,
| thirteen feet beam and eight feet draft.
Yawl rugged and will carry about 1900
feet sail. Will be rugged with housing
topmast and carry topsails and jib top
sails. She is an extreme cruiser and
is being built in the best possible man
ner after most efficient methods to be
as strong as possible. Hay wants some
thing that will stand the hardest graft
that he can expect on the Pacific
Ocean, and wants a splendid finish
Also She will be flush decked and
will, to a certain extent, resemble the
Hawaii The Hawaii is as much like
her in general as any boat that | know.
Come to think about it, she will be
very much like the Hawaii both above
water and in her cabin arrangements
and in her transverse section of the
hull, but her keel shows no hollow.
"She has conventional saloon,
amidships about ten feet long and a
lobby opening to the deck aft of this
and an after private stateroom still
further aft. The galley is large and
frward is roomy forecastle. We have
not decided on the wood for the interior
joiner work, which will be plain and
serviceable, but very finely done re-
gardless of expense, but / think that
we will use bird 's-eye maple in the pri-
vate stateroom and finish the lobby
and saloon in selected teak. This will
resemble Circasian Walnut and will be
very serviceable and will match the de-
sign of the paneling. She will be
lighted with acetylene gas, with plated
fixtures. Her stoves will be Shipmate
and an alcohol three burner and a fire
less cooker Sands will furnish the
plumbing and it will be the best. Her
upholstering will be the finest we can
secure here and will match the joiner
work We will install Nicholson Log
and in fact intend to make her as
splendid as we can and an example to
the other people who are content to
sail around here in crates.
"All the homework and all bright
work on deck will be teak and the
deck will be white pine. She will have
a bronze Providence windlass and Ed
son screw steerer.g Wilson and Silsby
will furnish the best sails that they
know how to make and she will carry
Merriman ignum-vitae blocks. Will
be painted white with black boottop
and with gilt cove and scrolls designed
by the best ship carver on the Pacific
Coast
.'Morse of Boston furnishes her
hardware and working gear, which is
complete. She will carry special de-
signed tender which will have six
horsepower engine and will weigh COM
plete about six hundred pounds. Plans
of tender in May Rudder.
81 expect the publication of the com
plete plans at any time in the Rudder.
They have been at the Rudder office
for some time. Owing to the light in
the shop being so bad, | cannot get
satisfactory picture.
"She is being built by the Fulton Ma
rine Construction Company under my
supervision and / am always on the job,
LAYING out the most important work
myself. The class of this boat is I'M
usual around here and I have to edu-
cate people.
Crank may sail down to Hawaii this
winter and get little wise on the con
ditions. He has invited sold Man
Dav of the Rudder to cruise with him
along the Mexican Coast and if Mr..
Day is able to do so, you may see him
down your way Frank sends you his
regards. as do all the boys.
~ am pretty confident that I will fix
up some larger 'class' for this next
race and am now preparing tentative
drawings of something about 100 feet
long that will be something on the
order of the big English schooners.
Something to hit high places with. -