AQUATICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 965, 3 September 1908, Page 11

AQUATICS.

Logan Bros, are to build a 26ft centre board yacht for Mr T. Percy, of St. George’s Bay. * * * ♦ Mr Ed. Thornton’s new barque rigged yacht Modwena, is the first English ocean cruiser to be fitted with internal combustion engines. She has a 200 h.p. Gardner motor. * * • • Bailey and Lowe have recently finished a 30ft tuck stern launch for Mr A. T. Coleman. The motive power is a 12 h.p. Westman engine. * * * e The 28ft torpedo stern launch which Bailey and Lowe have built for Mr R. Limbrick, of Napier, has been shipped south. * * ♦ » Logan Bros, have commenced work on the new yacht for Mr Alf. Gifford. She will be somewhere near a 9-metre boat, but will not conform to the new measurement rules, being more of a wholesome cruiser.

Chas. Bailey launched a very handsome steamer on Saturday morning. She is named the Tui Rangi and is intended for the Northern River trade. This latest addition to the Sellars-Allen line is 92ft long, with a beam of 18ft and a draught of 6ft and has a 150h.p. triple expansion engine. **♦ ' ♦ . It transpires that in the great race between the champion crews of the Louisiana and Illinois, which took place when the battleships were in Port Jackson, the Louisiana’s boat only weighed 1000 lbs., to the Illinois 140 P which accounts for the easy win. * G. Reid is building a 30ft launch to be driven by a 6 h.p. Buffalo engine. „ . . , Dick Arnst returned to New Zealand by the s.s. Ulimaroa on that boat’s last trip.