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How to Build a Racing Sloop Class _\11133 \ Book. ! ~~q3 ()QpyrtghtN~.__ ()OPmIGHT DEPOsrn HOW TO BUILD A RACING S LO OP BY C. D. MOWER REP R I N TED FRO M "T HER U D D E R J, Price $1.00 .-. : -(01 ·0 .­ ...J ...J•• - Q.• C. L- • • .: "' .... .-. , •• • e ••e • . e •• e •• NEW YORK AND LONDON THE RUDDER PUBLISHING COMPANY 9 Murray Street and 143 Strand, W. C. 1902 THE LUU'tAftY 9F eONGftESS, Two CoPUla REO£IVEe FEB. n 1902 ~amlY J~. -l.,., IqOY PLASS CX../ XXo. Me. '-[;"1-f/~ oepy B. _ COPYRIGHT 1901 BY THE RUDDER PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK (All Rigbts Reserved) (JOOQQOOO v v 1.»(,,) U o u 0 Q 0(,) 0 <[;0 0 UVIolC) ""v~ o U Q 0 "v u ovo u 0 0 V ~ U U u .. PRBSS OF j~,,-­ 9 MURRAY STREBT, NBW YORK U. S. A. Introduction WALLOW is the third and most successful them. Swallow has been built and successfully S of THE RUDDER boats. She was designed raced In America, Europe, Asia and Australia. by Mr. Mower, who has had an extensive She has repeatedly defeated the best boats of experience with this type of racing machine, her size that H erreshoff could turn out, boats having with Vitesse and Heiress, boats of some­ costing five times what she did. In European what similar shape, captured the Massachusetts waters she has beaten the best designs from the Yacht Racing Association pennant more than boards of the crack English designers. With once. In outlining his work I restricted him to this record it is unnecessary for Ine to say any­ a boat the materials for which should not cost thing further about her claims to speed. more than $ 100 in the vicinity of New York, But to those who are about to build let me where boat stock is In comparison with Inany say this: Swallow is a racing machine, not a parts of the country very dear. Consequently sailboat. She was designed and is intended for the Swallow ought to be built much cheaper in sailing in races, and is not a cruiser, a party boat, other parts where lumber is less expensive. Be­ or boat for use in rough and exposed waters. fore giving the plans to the public I had built a If you want a cruiser we advice you to build a Sea boat from the design, in the construction of Bird; if you want a party boat, take a Skip; but which neither time or expense was spared, so if you want a racer, something that will win if as to be sure that the craft would prove satisfac­ properly handled two out of three races against tory, and that it could be built for the price anything her length, try your hand at construct­ mentioned. Being satisfied after a trial that the ing a Swallow. If you build, I will be glad to boat was what we intended it should be we gave receive photographs of your boat for publication the plans to the world, and the world accepted in THE RUDDER.- The Editor. How to Build a Racer for One Hundred Dollars SWALLOW H E success of Lark was so great, and Then, of course, some people will say: "Why, T as there is such a cry for a larger boat of she hasn't any seats in her cockpit," or that "She the same idea, I have worked up this wouldn't be any good in which to take the whole new design, which has been christened "Swal­ family of ladies and children out for a sail-that low," for THE RUDDER readers. The idea I she will pound and throw water in a seaway." have worked on is similar to that on which we Therefore, I will say right now that it is not got up Lark-that is, first, to get a boat that possible to combine the racer and the boat for would be cheap to build, and of such construction general knocking about without sacrificing either as to be easily built by anyone accustomed to the one or the other, and usually the result is that use of tools, and having a taste for and perhaps you get neithp.r. The Swallow is a racer intended a little knowledge of boatbuilding. Then, as we to be handled by a crew of three or four, who have called her from the first a racer, she must are content to sit on a deck that is sometimes a have speed and power to carry a good-size rig. little wet an"d think it part of the fun. Then, As most of the small-boat racing throughout too, she will pound; but it seems to be an estab­ the country is done in comparatively smooth lished fact that the more they pound the faster water, I have planned a boat that will be at her they go. best in a hard wind in fairly smooth water. At I am giving you all this at the start, so that the same time she will have great speed in very you will be able to see whether she is or not the rough water and heavy winds, if carefully han­ sort of boat you want, and that you won't expect dled, and I have confidence in her ability to whip a great deal more than it is possible to get in a almost anything of her water line afloat, except, small, cheap boat. The great trouble with Lark perhaps, some racing machines of extremely light was that people expected too much, and then construction expensively fitted, for the old saying, condemned the boat for not doing what anyone "money makes the mare go." applies to the boat with common sense should have seen before as well. building she was not capable of. Then, too, there are some localities, which On the other hand therewere hundreds of peo­ have for years been developing a boat exactly ple who used them, and were greatly pleased find­ suited to their own peculiar conditions, and it ing them just what they were represented to be; must not be expected that this boat, designed for and so I believe that this new boat will take hold ordinary conditions, will always be able to leave and please a large majority of our readers. Of them, as though they were anchored. course, I expect some growls; but to them I say, HOW TO BUILD A RACER .r~OR ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS go to a designer and commission hiln to get up and fastening to secure a good and strong result. the boat you want, for this is not intended for Still the whole thing is so simple that any ~una­ you but for the people who are satisfied with teur should have no trouble with it, and I will it. N ow for the boat herself: You will see that be glad to explain any points which I fail to she is quite a bit larger than Lark, and is rigged make clear either in the drawings or description. jib and mainsail. Then, too, she has enough I t will be well first for you to look over and freeboard and a fair amount of sheer, and her study the drawings carefully, so as to thoroughly overhangs are such that she will sit and sad on understand what you are about before going her designed lines with no danger of sticking ahead at all. I n general the construction is as fol­ her bow under water and turning head over lows: First, there is the double backbone fonning heels. Then, in the shape and construction of the centerboard and rudder wells, and giving the the bow, I have departed from Lark by cutting boat longitudinal stiffness. At the forward end I her off square and putting in a flat transom with have bolted a piece of oak between them to fonn enough rake, so that she will lift and slide over the mast step and stem piece. The transoms at a sea instead of plunging into it and stopping, either end are flat oak boards, and on stations 2 as I have seen somp. square-bowed boats do. and 6 are permanent moulds of spruce, which This makes a much easier boat to build and gives form bulkhf>ads and stiffen the boat greatly. The her the up-to-date racey look that is found in sides are of §.i-inch pine or cedar with a chime smne of the fastest boats of to-day. The stern screwed each inside lower edge to take the ends has a good overhang, but is not spun out unnec­ of the frame. After the backbone is gotten out essarily long, and is perhaps the great improve­ and the transoms and moulds in place, then the ment over the Lark model. Of course, I could sides can be fastened on and you are ready, after not hang the rudder on the outside of the tran­ being sure that it is perfectly true and not twisted som as on Lark, and as this type of boat requires or sprung in any way, to fit in the frames, and a very deep rudder to be effective, which is a then the deck beams. The stations, numbered source of great trouble in beaching or hauling from 0 to 8, which are shown on all the drawings, out, or where the boat grounds at low water, I are spaced 3 feet, and should be plainly marked have adopted the scheme of shipping it through on both backbone and sides to act as a guide in a case, so that it can be easily taken out at any setting the boat up and in spacing the frames time without taking off the rudder head and tiller.
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