Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17


may not have been ballasted in such a
| manner as to raise her bow when running
at full speed
J. E. Battenfeld. owner Of the Grey
ucts, is a stanch advocate of the tunnel
bottom displacement boat such as the
sand Burr and his own craft. The Grey
Bat is not racing boat. but was design
ed runa bout with speed of at least
seventeen miles an hour.
When first tried cut. it was found that
her four-cycle thirty horsepower motor
drove her five miles in excess of this
speed under good conditions.
The object of the tunnel bottom Is
merely to give a hull continual feed of
new water on which to run, by draw
ing the particles disturbed by the en-
trance of the bow under the entire length
of the boat through the trough-like bot
tom instead of throwing them out on
either side in a cloud of spray, as the or
binary boat Will do. Mr.. Battenfleld says
that his boat will plane. or at least will
raise half her length out of water as
soon as sufficient weight is thrown aft.
The newly coined word, hydroplane. is
misleading in a sense. Boats equipped
with steps do not plane as goes the
definition of the word; they simply de-
crease their displacement by lifting. such
as even soap box viii do when dragged
through the water at certain speed.
They are now being brought to more
radical point of development by being de-
leaves the water and is SO much dead
weight to be carried. J. Stuart Blackton :
Mosquito is the newest example. The
Mosquito is a fourteenfoot boat equipped
with a 14.IS-hOrsepower Pierce-Budd mo-
tor, which drove her in competition at the
rate of twenty-six miles an hour. Mr..
Blackton has been elected commodore OF
the Atlantic Yacht Club.
The members of the Island Boat Club
49, 1,-1l,-. Foot nf
2Sth street northwest, in which TO store
their boats for the winter.
The club was organized November %
with a membership of twenty and a fleet
of four boats. They hope to increase the
size of Their fleet by about six additional
power craft before the first of the season.
and by that time the club hopes to erect
a clubhouse large enough for all pur-
poses. The officers of the club are as fol-
lows: Commodore Joseph w. Heating;
vice commodore. Harvey Imley; rear
commodore. William Jayne; treasurer,
Francis Heating; fleet engineer and Sec
rotary. William T. King; trustees, Messrs.
Buckley. Lyles. Beach and King.
Commodore Joseph Heating is remodel
ing his dead-rise power boat Martina, add
ing three feet to her length, making her
thirty-six-foot boat.
w T. King will make numerous i'm
provements in his launch. the Harriet
several changes in his hydroplane
The following committees We're appoint
ed by Commodore Clarence f. Engling of
the Corinthian Yacht Club. as announced
by him at the last meeting: Entertain
ment. G.. W. Treadwell. Frank Meyer, l..
F. Caswell, II. Barker and Frank Rupp:
oyster roast, C. W. Bartlett. cook, and j.
NJ. Murphy; land. ]. 2. Welcker. l.. e.
Strider and W. j. Ingram; excursion, w.
IL To-
racing, ]. P. Welcker, F. E. Symanoskfe
and V. l.. Emerson; finance, n. r. Young
and III. L. Franc.
The following interesting communication
has been addressed to the Capital Yacht
Club:
1.-The South Coast Yacht Club of Los
Angeles. Cal, oilers two valuable cups
for an ocean yacht race from San Pedro,
Cal, to Honolulu, Hawaii, starting June
IL, 1912. conducted under the. joint aus
p,ces of the South Coast Yacht Club and
the Hawaiian Yacht Club.
This race is open to all yachts of not
less than forty feet water-line length, be-
longing to any regularly organized yacht
club of any country. without restrictions
as to rig. number of crew professional
or amateur), or sails, but no motive power
other than sails shall be used. Time al
lowances will be given, based on one-half
foot per hour of racing length for the en-
tire distance, racing length to be the load
water-line length plus one-half the
length of the overhang. All the condi-
tons surrounding such d race as the one
proposed are ideal, strong, steady fair
winds without gales or fog being the al
most invariable climatic condition at that
season of the year. Entries or requests
for information should be addressed to
the secretary of the South Coast Yacht
Club"
Capt. Harry Davis sloop has been
hauled out at Cumberlands for the WIN
ter While on the railway the craft was
painted and put in thorough order to
Withstand the weather while out Of COM
mission.
Charles f. Knorleine is building 27x11-
foot deadrise sloop in bOatyard near the
Naval Battalion building. The craft will
be ready for service next spring, and it
Is expected that she will prove to be a
fast sailer. Very little ballast will be
carried other than an iron centerboard.
weighing $50 pounds, as the boat will be
rather beamy for her length.
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The power cruiser Louise X. belonging
to E. j. Kubel of the Capital Yacht Club.
was hauled out at Benefits boat yard
last Monday, and Wednesday the cruis-
ing launch ROsamOnd, owned by DR..
Schafhirt. went out of commission at the
same yard
y X x x
Commodore Lyman F. Hewins expects
to take the Nenemoosha to her winter
quarters in the Eastern branch today
The yawl will be berthed above the new
bridge with the sloop Grace.
x X :: ::
The steam yacht Cloelia. owned by
Capt. Gus Forsberg. is berthed for the
winter in a slip near the clubhouse. Far
Their down the harbor, the steam yachts
Gaivota and Gretchen are covered with
shroudlike canvases as they lie at their
docks awaiting the end of winter.
II tell you l must have some money,
roared the King of Mauritania, who was In
sore financial straits. Somebody must
cough up some"
'Alasr' sighed the guardian OF the