The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-04
LIST OF NEW CRAFT
Is ADDED TO DAILY
Number Of Yachts Being Built
Is Not Far short Of an
Even Hundred.
BIG SEASON Is AHEAD

A list OF eighty-fivc yachts thirty feet
AMI over in length was published in
sAst Sundays sun. which shows that the
yacht building industry is extremely
busy at this season. Since then some
builders have sent In supplementary lists
and the number of vessels of fair size
is fast approaching the hundred mark.
The additions Ire:
A OF foot motor yacht for W. II.
Stuart. designed by Swasey Raymond
4 Page and building at Britt Brothers
yard at Lynn. This IL to be equipped
with 30 horse power Sterling motor.
The Hoop,a. n 80 footer. for a men,
Der OF the New York Yacht Club de-
signed by Swasey and building by Britt
Brothers. which will be driven by a
$50 horsepower Sterling.
a 80 foot cruiser for Peter r. Graham,
designed and building by Holler. which
In to he equipped with a 10 horse
power Sterling.
Twelve 35 footers designed by the
Navy Department and building at the
Portsmouth Navy Yard. to be equipped
with so horse power engines.
4 20 foot cruiser for J. r. HERES
hon, designed and built by Herreshoff
aud equipped with two 30 horse-pou
Van Blerck motors
The Lcisan, a 40 footer, for A. y.
Homer. designed by Alden. building at
Camden and to be driven by a 90
horsepower Sterling.
A 33 footer for Lawrence +. Percival.
designed by Brown and to be equipped
with a 100 horse power Sterling.
A 80 footcr for A. A. Coburn. designed
by Fred Lawley and building by Co
burn, which is to he equipped with a
so horsepower Sterling.
A 5S footer for j. Hughes Manly. de-
signed by Baker and building by Chance,
which will have two Sterling engines OF
100 horse-p power each.
The high speed day boat building by
Akin Wheeler at Halosite, l.. l., for for
NOR Commodore August Heckscher IL
40 feet long. IL feet s inches beam
and is to make thirty miles an hour.
Mr. Heckscher will use II as q ferry
boat to run 10 and from his country
home at Huntington and the city and he
hopes to make the journey in one hour.
This yacht il to lie equipped with two
special engines building by Atkln-
Wheeler. which II is said are to develop
1000 horsepower each. They each will
rave eight cylinders 3 by Is inches,
V type. I cycle. These will be the high
est powered motors vet built and they
will be watched with considerable In
terest
The 100 foot yacht building for l. Y.
Raymond by Jacob at City Island will
have two Sterling motors OF 100 horse
power each. The yacht for Roy 4.
Eainey Is 10 be driven by two Sterlings
OF 300 horsepower each. Sterling mo-
tors are being placed in many Of the
new boats. The - footer for stuart
Davis building at Camden will have two
motors OF IS horsepower the IS footcr
FOR Frederick ". Wells will have mo-
tor OF go horsepower; the 81 footer for
e. y. Burnell will have As horse power
motor the 80 foot auxiliary schooner
for Robert NJ Saltonstall will be
equipped with So horsepower motor I:
the Al foot auxiliary yawi for George
Crompton will, have % horsepower
motor; the 1e foot auxiliary schooner
for George G. Williams will have mo-
tor OF rs orse-power; the SO footer
for A. +. Lasher will have a SIS horse
power: the 35 footer for II. French 55
horsepower; the 80 foot runabout for
A. w. Erickson "A 90 horsepower, and
the 80 footer for NJ c. Wick a IS horse
power.
The 20 foot auxiliary building for J.
H. Cromwell Is TO he fitted with a 7j
horsepower Wolverine motor.
The Gas Engine and Power Company
has opened a branch in the Hudson Ter
minal Building and IS showing one OF
the new speedabouts. the latest boat
built by this company This boat at
tracted much attention at the motor boat
shows here and in Chicago and is
good. serviceable craft built for little
money.
The Gas Engine Company is building
all the boats to be carried on the steam
yacht building for Harry Payne Whit
ney at Cramps. There will be two
launches. a lifeboat and dinghy.
Joseph NJ. Marlborough, who will race
the so footer Spartan this year. has pur-
chased the As foot motor boat Prana,
which was built at Morris Heights and
isequipped with Speedway motor. This
boat VIII act as a tender for the racing
sloop and will be able to tow il from
port to port.
The Alberta, Commodore Frederick q
Bourne's big steam yacht, will this year
carry three launches which have been
built at Morris Heights. The owners
launch is 80 feet long and the others are
% feet each.