Evening star., 1940-01-07

Cruisers, Sail Craft
Gadgets on Display.
Entrance Throng
StreomIines, Color Mark
Exhibits, Many Tagged
At Low Prices

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At Low Prices
BY MALCOLM d. EAMBORNE, jr,
Star Stan Correspondent.
NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. 6-Sports
enthusiasts who get their pleasure
from the sea laid aside the worries
and discomforts of winter and spent
carefree hours viewing what 1910
has to offer yachtsmen of America
in the 35th Annual National Motor
boat Show which opened here last
night in the coolest weather of the
season.
In a typical first night, $1,000
New Workers and visitors crowded
the gayly decorated Grand Central
Palace, where for the next seven
days winter weary yachtsmen will
roam through three floors of the
exposition, crammed with shining
cruisers, sailboats and assorted gad-
gets to warm the hearts of all.
The show closes for tomorrow, but
will reopen Monday to continue
each day from II am. to II pm.
through next Saturday.
War or no war, election year or
not, the year 1910, if this exposi-
ton is any criterion, promises to be
the biggest in history for water
men. A note of prosperity rings
from every corner of the palace,
crowded to the doors with the prod
ucts of more than 200 manufactur-
ers. Here will be found recrea-
tional fleet of more than $50 pleas
ure craft, ranging from tiny din
ghies to 57-foot motor yacht.
Many Craft inexpensive.
Even more pronounced than the
usual changes in design, increased
streamlining and the trend to vivid
colors among craft, this years show
is marked by the greatest number
Of inexpensive outboard motors and
small dinghies, prams and tenders
since the first marine show opened
here in 1905.
Boating has at last recognized
the forgotten man. the little fellow
who has the salt in his blood, but
lacks the wherewithal to get down
to the sea.
Manufacturers are displaying out
board motors priced as low as s25.
One model, featured by the Elto
company, is no larger than q fair
sized coffee percolator. and 1t can
push small tender along at four
miles an hour. With an equivalent
amount of money, the newcomer
can become the owner of an 8-foot
boat. Put the two together and you
have the beginnings of another
yachtsman. The rest is simple: the
next year he will graduate to some
thing larger. And so on, until one
day he'll be behind the wheel of
comfortable cruiser.
57-Footer Queen Of Show.
Flagship of this years show is the
b7-foot Elco, a stock cruiser equipped
with twin Diesels, twin propellers
and double rudders. With rakish
clipper bow and flying bridge, she's
easily the queen of the show. Ac-
commodations are for seven, includ-
ing q double stateroom with bath.
Elco is showing six models in all,
starting with the Elcoette, 30
footer equipped for deep-sea fishing.
That 57-footer, in case Junior is
looking for new toy next summer,
is priced at $4,000.
They call it the National Motor
boat Show. but judging from the sea
of canvas that spreads over the first
floor it might safely be named the
national yacht show. A total of 35
fully rugged sailing craft are vying
for honors with the many cruisers.
Sailormen are claiming their flag
ship in the 37-foot auxiliary sloop
built by Lawley of Neponset, Mass,
with accommodations for four.
This boat, incidentally, marks the
return of the narrow fin keel job.
She's an out-and-out racer with just
the minimum in cruising facilities.
There also are smart little auxiliaries
exhibited by the Cape Cod Ship
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Luders, Marine Construction and
New England Marine Co.
More Room in Cockpits.
Increased room in cockpits is fea-
tured by virtually all of the stock
cruiser manufacturers. That old
problem of what to do with all
those guests the wife invited for
days cruise now is solved. Let them
loose in that after cockpit. The
Matthews, the Wheeler, the Rich
ardson, the Elco and Chris-Cr
cruisers all are pointing this out to
the throngs that roam through their
models.
Second choice for the queen of
the show should go to Chris Crafts
42-foot double cabin, inclosed bridge
cruiser. Painted all white, she shows
streamlining family resembling the
famed express cruiser, @. E. D., Of
the late Anthony Fokker, airplane
designer.
Streamlining is not confined to
this model, however. Both Chris
Craft and Gar Wood, which has
one of the largest range of speed
boats in the show, reach the ulti-
mate In this design with the new
torpedo styling. The torpedo-shaped
bow, slip streamlines and vee-type
windshield all make for the boat
OF tomorrow"
Interiors Are Brighter.
The Matthews Co., celebrating its
5oth anniversary, features brighter
interiors in all their models. In
creased use of gay paints create an
illusion OF more space as well as
tighten up interiors. Insulation Of
cabins. providing cooler interiors in
summer heat and warmth for late
fail cruising, practically is univer-
sal in the stock cruisers.
Forecasting the time when yachts
Of America will be powered exclu-
sively with Diesels, engine manufac-
turers are showing their newest