The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-05
A. G. HANAN DESIGNS
LIKELY NEW RACER
Amateur Will Sail Own Boat
in Defence Of the Man.
hasset Cup.

Tie thirty-one ratcr building At
Woods yard at City Island for Addison
G. Hanan from his own designs Is all
planked. Those who have been fortu.
nate enough to zee this yacht. which Is
TO defend the M%anhasset challenge cup.
praise II very highly and think that
under Mr.. Humans skilfui handling II
should easily outsail the others OF this
class. The new yacht will be out early
In the season and he raced agains. the
Joyant and others Of the class In these
waters and It will be In fine fettle by
September when the Eastern fleet comes
| after the big prize.
h Eastern yachtsmen are going 10
make IA strong bid TO capture the cup.
There will be at least seven yachts from
seven different clubs. Charles Francis
Adams. who sailed the Rssoiute and who
the best amateur in Eastern waters.
will sail his new boat. the Ahmeek. and
the battle between Mr.. Adams and Mr..
Hanan will be we'll worth going miles to
witness. Hollis Burgess. another able CO.
rinthian. is to sail the Josephine. now
owned by J. j. Martin. This is the yacht
Nie "oAl NV N"P thsN iihh - 10 -
Hanan designed boat. g. 7. Curtis. who
has been very successful with sonders,
will have his newly purchased Valiant.
the best OF the lake yachts. Commodore
wheclock will send the Britomartc.
Commodore Jones the Nutmeg. formerly
the Corinthian; Vernon r. West the
~Sayonara, and George Lee Is having a
new boat built from Owen designs AT
East Boothbay.
~rl,ar. - Setn tt,,nn fAr nthAr InafS IN
be built to represent Long Island Sound
in the series of races and II is very prob
able that there will he one new one and
that another will be purchased 80 that
the Eastern yachtsmen will not have
everything their own way.
Several yachts are building At the
Mathis Yacht Building Company at
Camden and anon them are some ex-
press cruisers which will develop high
speed. The list includes Il G3 foot eN-
press cruiser designed by Swasey for Col.
James Elyerson OF Philadelphia; a -
foot cruiser for william Sellers: a 30
foot cruiser for Alvah II. Martin OF Nor
folk; "A 80 foot cruiser for W. J. Mathe-
son of New York: a 80 foot thirty mile
Yacht for Craig Fiddle of Philadelphia
and a 100 foot yacht to be driven BY "A
$50 horsepower Diesel engine for a New
York yachtsman.
John T. Cummings Of Chicago and a
member Of the Sandusky Yacht club.
has given a cup for which yachts OF
Glass X are to compete. This IL ~
take the place of the trophy won last
summer by Commodore huntingdon =
Psanmiad. II is said that u syndicate
OF Sandusky yachtsnen VIII builh \
Class Il sloop with which TO try Ia
win the first leg on the prize
The Corinthian Yacht Club of Marble.
head il trying to arrange a series OF
races TO be sailed by yachtsmen of the
West against yach.smen OF the Fast
with Glass X sloops. The plans are now
10 have the races sailed next August.
\ Former Commodore Uenry A., MorsS.
who last year sailed the llderin and II In
have "A new yacht his year. cPn'.rred
viii, the Chicago yachtsin.n recent! :
ogden r. Mcclure. owner OF the MIN
Otto S~choenwerk. owner OF the bahsI''t'
and Sar,ucl Dauchy, owner Of III" Naii,
heartily approved the proposition
Percy C. Jones has been reelected
commodore of the Maumee Yacht 'lup,
and was installed in office al a rat
fest recently at the clubhouse near
Detroit. The other officers are vice COM
modore. l.. A.. Alexander; rear commo-
dorc, Frank ". Butler; fleet captain.
John NJ. Decker secretary Tau
BoSes: assistant secretary. Lawrence
Walbron. and financial secretary. \,
II. Perry,
John T. Pratt. owner OF the Went.
has purchased the 30 foot moror yacht
Crawling. This yacht was built for
G. X. c.. Billings In 1907 from designs
by Tanis Lemolne Il Crane. II is driven
BY standard motors m war owned last
year by John sherman Hoyt.
The sloop yacht Eidolon. built In 1894
by ]. T.. Mumm at Bay Ridge, has been
sold by J. Ross Collins of the Larchmont
Yacht Club to join r. Richards. The
Efdolon was designed by Charles Ohm
sted. and In her day was a very success
full racing sloop.
WINTER RESORTS.