THE YACHTING OUTLOOK

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                    THE YACHTING OUTLOOK 
                    By W. P. STEPHENS 
                    The prospects of the season of 1902, as indi- 
                    cated by the placing of orders sufficiently 
                    early to allow time for building a large yacht 
                    during the winter, were in no way promising. 
                    But two early orders wore placed, and those for 
                    one-design boats, the 60-footers Weetamoe and 
                    Neola, owned by Messrs. H. F. Lippitt and G. 
                    M. Pynchon, respectively. Fortunately, how- 
                    ever, the end of the building season was marked 
                    by great activity in the smaller classes, and as 
                    these craft can be turned out in a month or 
                    two, the opening of the sailing season this 
                    month finds a very large number of new racing 
                    yachts ready for their work. This new fleet, 
                    which is scattered over a large territory, from 
                    Portland, Me., to Chicago, is marked by two 
                    characteristics: it is made up of a large num- 
                    ber of small local classes, independent of each 
                    other; and each class is built under special 
                    restrictions, if not to a single standard design. . . .

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