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wOttEST AND STREAM. 



at Beverly Saturday, September 7. Champion pennants will 

 be awarded to first yachts in, irrespective of size. They be- 

 come, the property of the boats winning them the oftenest dur- 

 ing the season. Other prizes will be awarded, with time al- 

 lowance. Start, flying. Regalia Committee: Messrs. G. P. 

 Gardner, J. G. Minot. J. T. Coolidgc, G. P. Upbam, Jr., and 

 W. Lloyd Jeffries. The champion pennants have been won 

 by Fanchon and Ariel in the first class, and by Ptyciie and 

 Mirage in the third claBS, so far. 



Baltimoee Yaoht Club.— This club, with its headquarters 

 at Baltimore, Md., has elected the following officers for the 

 ensuing year: Pres., J. Blackley; Vice-Pres., W. Colvin; 

 Treas., P.. Enled; Sec. F. Hoffman. The annual regatta 

 takes place September 13. Course, Perry Bar to Seven- foot 

 Knoll and return. 



Ska CRUisnw vs Caxitobnia. — Casco, schooner, Dr. Merritt 

 owner, has returned from her cruise to the southward, along 

 the California coast. She visited San Diego. Wilmington, 

 Santa Barbara and other places. There is some life amonir the 

 S. F. Y. C. It is from just such little cruises out in the open 

 that we expect to see yachtsmen derive much benefit and ex- 

 perience. For such cruises it is not necessary that one's 

 yacht should bo a big fellow, like Dreadnauglit, nor, for that 

 matter, even as large as Casco. The little ten or twenty ton 

 craft, if properly modeled, will make a safe and comfortable 

 cruiser, and could make the passage to Bermuda or to the 

 South without fear and without having to crawl along the 

 coast on the look-out for a soft spot or a harbor under her lee. 

 Nor need able little clippers like Volatile and Muriel pick 

 their weather, lying at their moorings for days waiting for a 

 fair spell and a smooth sea to flit to the next haven of refuge. 



Greenbacks and Yaoht Design.— General Butler is, in the 

 belief of some, a great light on rags for money. But he dis- 

 poses of the question of yacht design a little too summarily, 

 rather too much after his fashion of dealing with irate indi- 

 viduals engaged in forcible opposition to the government, 

 yclept rebels. When he says " he keeps the America to show 

 that naval architecture has "not advanced in the last twenty- 

 five years," he overlooks the fact that he has failed to furnish 

 the proofs of the correctness of his assertions. Now, will not 

 the sailor-general trot out his schooner and let her show 

 her racing pennant at the start during the fall matches? 

 We have tooled famous America ourselves, and know about 

 what is in her. At sea she can knock the starch out of 

 any centre-board in our fleet, but in smooth water she is hardly 

 n match for Clio, Madeleine, Cly tie, et. al. In model, America 

 comes near to what we desire to see more extensively in- 

 dulged in among smaller craft. She is not spread out on the 

 surface, but has a good, deep body; in short, she has some- 

 thing under water as well as above. She is wonderfully easy 

 in a sea-way which would jerk the sticks out of a Sound skim- 

 mer, and if'General Butler will be kind enough to instruct our 

 young yachtsmen practically in yacht design, as well as the 

 public at, large in the greenback issue, he need only bring her 

 to the line for the Bennett cups this fall, or boldly issue a 

 challenge to all comers. His duties as Governor-of-Massa- 

 chusettsin-prospect need not interfere, his Bailing-master 

 knows what tack he is on without Upton's Tactics standing 

 on the quarter-deck taking sights at the sun over the fore- 

 yard. The General says he paid for his schooner in cash. So 

 he did ; $5,000 down at the steamboat wharf, O. S. Naval 

 Academy, Annapolis, "Md., when she was auctioned off by 

 the Government in I860. Now she is worth three times that. 

 She has raced only twice since the alterations to her spars. 

 Madeleine beat her in a turn to windward up the Sound, but 

 America beat Rambler, we believe, in a match off the Isle of 

 Shoals. She must put in more work to substantiate her 

 owner's claim about naval architecture. 



B unt's"Yaobting Magazine. — Yachtsmen have been de- 

 ploring the absence in America of a regular magazine devoted 

 to yachting, but since the Pobest and Stream fills the void 

 we hear no more complaint. Need we add that amateur 

 sailors have none but themselves to blame, if at any time 

 their interests Bhould appear neglected ? Of all sportsmen 

 they are the slowest to give support to any enterprise in their 

 behalf. Too many seem disinclined to exert themselves to the 

 extent required to read anything of a higher grade than 

 gossip ; others are, unfortunately for themselves, too deeply 

 immersed in the pursuit of the almighty dollar. Luckily, 

 however, the skies seem to brighten, and a radical departure 

 from the everlasting dyspeptic and consumptive desk- 

 work in the counting-house has set in if we may 

 judge from the very liberal support and many well- 

 wishes bestowed upon us by the yachting public. It is 

 a pleasant surprise, even to us, to note the increasing number 

 of yachtsmen, especially among the younger ones oT the 

 brotherhood, who understand not only " the three plans," but 

 who are conversant as well with the higher walks in naval 

 science. To them, centres, couples and balances, even 

 curves representing figures geometrically, have lost that mys- 

 tery so perplexing and dumbfounding to the novice. Such 

 adepts in naval design will at a glance detect the errors of the 

 plans in Hunt's Magazine for August. Mr. E. Jackson, of 

 Manila, offers to his readers an open boat, the Test, in com- 

 petition with the Jabberwock, a craft peculiar to the neighbor- 

 hood of Brighton, England. Mr. Jackson is led astray by the 

 enticements of a high meta-centre. His design may be gen- 

 erally characterized as one similar to that of an inferior " jib- 

 and-mainsail " model— broad, flat, and of very light draft, 

 not even supplied with a centreboard. He thinks such a boat 

 would be safe and fast at sea ; but we need hardly point out to 

 him American experience in this respect in maintenance of 

 our decidedly adverse opinion of Ins design. The Test would 

 be about as palpable a failure as a sea boat as could well be 

 imagined, and cannot compare in this respect with the Jab- 

 berwock. She would not stay in a seaway, and, though as 

 pointed out, very stable up to 25 (legs., her stability is of a 

 treacherous kind, for her "vanishing point" would hardly 

 exceed 40 degs., or at most. 50 degs., where she would inevi- 

 tably spill her crew. If Mr. Jackson could glance over a file 

 of American papers and see the large number of persons an- 

 nually victims of the sea, in consequence of such faulty de- 

 sign, he would hardly have ventured to bring out the Test as 

 a sample of speed and safety in open water. As a smooth- 

 water racer she mightdo, though even then her lines are much 

 inferior to those of a Busie 8., W. T. Lee. or a If. B. Broum. 

 An exceedingly light displacement and light draft, boat con- 

 stitutes about, the worst imaginable craft to go to sea in, 

 whatever other virtues she may possess. Mr. Jackson, origi- 

 nally from America, we think, has evidently been a student 

 of Mr. Griffith's spread-on-top-of-the-water theories, but we 

 doubt even if the author of the "Progressive Shipbuilder" 

 would countenance the extremity to which his theories have 

 been carried in the Tat. This design is 32ft. load line, 7ft. 

 Sin. beam, and about 1ft. 6in. average draft I She would 



slide to leeward a good deal faster than she could be driven 

 ahead in lumpy water. 



Psion Regatta off Stkawberny Hn.n. — The Union Re- 

 gatta Off Strawberry Hill, Nantasket Beach, was sailed Satur- 

 day, August 31. Wind moderate from S. S. W. Classifica- 

 tion, etc., as previously noticed. Allie, Vision, Glance and 

 Oenone carried away topmasts, and Folly smashed her boom. 

 In first-class centreboards Napoleon carue in first 

 second. In first-class keels Gael won ; if wit second. Second- 

 class centreboards, Posy first, Alice second. Second-class 

 keels, Sunbeam first, Clyde second. Tliird-claas centreboards, 

 Water Witch first, Topsy second. Tlnrd-class keels, Ruby 

 first, but disqualified for fouUng Chiguita. Actress takes first 

 prize, Oldquita second. 



Doxbury Yaoht Club.— The last regatta of the season of 

 the Dnxbury, Mass., Yacht Club was sailed August 31. 

 Wind steady from E. In first class Peerless wins, Flora 

 second J in second class Unique wins : in third class LitUe 

 Clwtrlie first, and Sadie C. second. 



Haybbhtll Yacht Club. — The twentieth regatta of the 

 Haverhill, Mass.. Yacht Club, came oil August 81. Winners 

 in first class Lizzie Warner and Empress ; second class, Oapl. 

 Doane. Course was from the bridge to C rovcland Bridge and 

 return. Judges, Com. Brown, Capt. Dresser and Mr. T. H. 

 Lovejoy. 



Sale op the Pirate.— Dr. Vondy, of Jersey City, has 

 sold his sloop Pirate. She was originally built for Mr. 

 Winans, in 1873, and has a good record. We have not yet 

 heard whether the Doctor intends to build a new ship or not. 



Rookaway Yacht Club.— The seventh annual regatta of 

 this club was held in Rockaway Bay, Aug 86. Corinthian 

 rules were in force, their owners being required to stand at 

 the helm. The race was won by Gaviotta (Mr. Lord), Mig- 

 non (Commodore Cheever) being second, and Caprice (Mr. 

 Henry Mann) third. 



Bound Abboad.— Schooner Nettie, Mr. Frank Osborne, 

 will go to the West Indies this fall. She will leave in Octo- 

 ber some time. 



OAR AND PADDLE. 



The METRoroiJTAN Regatta.— The second annual regatta 

 of the Metropolitan Association of Amateur Oarsman mjs 

 rowed Wednesday, August 28, near Pleasant Valley on the 

 Hudson. The arrangements were poor, the course unsuited, 

 and the entries comprised but very few well-known oarsmen. 

 Like the first regatta of the association, tlio second one cannot 

 be considered a success or of much credit to the purtiesin charge. 

 An entire disregard of system and a lack of the most ordinary 

 measures of preparation which an experienced committee 

 should have adopted, will not conduce to the popularity of the 

 association, and the same may be said concerning the opposi- 

 tion manifested by some of its members to the rules of the 

 National Association, winch have received the sanction of the 

 rowing public in general and which cannot longer be set at 

 naught by any one local body of oarsmen with impunity. 

 Steamers, tugs and sailing craft, cruising about the const 

 promiscuously did not help to keep the water smooth 

 and various capsizes were the result. Programmes 

 were of no use, as corresponding colors were not furnished 

 the crews, and a good deal of delay took place in starting die 

 races. An hour later than the time announced, Mr. Blaikie 

 succeeded in getting the senior singles away after first making 

 an attempt to send oil the fours first. Course, mile ami a hull' 

 straight away, start from upper end al stakeboats and pull 

 down to Taylor's Dock al Pleasant valley. 



First Race— Senior Single Sculls.— E. L. Philips, Triton, 

 Newark, andG. Maginn, Waverley r New York. Geo. W. Lee, 

 the champion sculler of America and the fastest man in a boat 

 among the amateurs of any country, failed to put in an ap- 

 pearance. Tide was ebb and water moderately smooth. 

 Philips pulled 35 to Maginn's 32. They held fogetbj 

 well for a half mile, but Philips then began tu draw ahead 

 with the tide in hU favor. He had to sheer in to clear a 

 schooner, and Maginn was all the while taking the wash of a 

 tug which insolently kept ahead of him. This is sufficient 

 comment upon the kind of a course the Metropolitans selected. 

 No one seemed to know where the finish was and the referee 

 had to inform the leader where to stop. Philips won in 11m. 

 8te.; Maginn's time, 11m. 33is. 



"Second Race — Four-Oared Junior Gigs. — Entries: Carman 

 Rowing Association, Oarmnnsvillu, N. Y., J. Gushing, bow, 

 A. J. Keegnn, R. Saul, J. R. Wemple, stroke, II. A. S. Mar- 

 tin, coxswain; Argonauta Rowing Association, Bergen Point, 

 N. J., A. Gallup, bow, W. E. Cauldwell, W. Glynue, C. IS. 

 Green, stroke, E. Smith, coxswain ; Nereid Boat Club, Brook- 

 lyn, L. I., H. C. Brown, bow, J. T. Nichols, It. S. Bussing, 

 J. P. Earie, stroke, J. O. Egerton, coxswain: Nonpareil Boat 

 Club, Harlem, New York City, D. Munro, bow, J, 8. O'Sul- 

 livun, G. W. Johnson, W. R. Kent, stroke, O, E Gatter, 

 coxswain; Bayonne Rowing Association, Bayonne, N. J,, P. 

 E. Mettam, bow, J. H. Romaine, E. Macrae, J. H. Allaire, 

 stroke, B. Van Buskirk, coxswain. 



Nereids caught the water first, and at the half mile led by 

 two lengths, Carmuns Becond, and Argonaulas thud- The 

 steam yacht Runaway and a, couple of tugs then came up, and, 

 nearly swamping the Nonpareils, made a dash for the leaders. 

 A steamer carrying the flag of the Eureka Club took the 

 Nereids' water and gave them her wash, completely using up 

 the crew in their vain efforts to get out of the swell This 

 piece of business calls for the loudesl condemnation on our 

 part, as there were undoubtedly many rowing men on board 

 the steamer well aware of the injury they were inflicting upon 

 the leading crew. It is a duty which the Eureka I lub, of 

 Newark, owes its reputation to have the rascals who so will- 

 fully interfered with the race severally reprimanded or ex- 

 pelled from the crew. No punishment they nave the power 

 to decree can be too severe for the men who were in that boat. 

 Her captain should never be engaged again by any rowing men. 

 The police boat, of course, did nothing j they seemed to im- 

 bibe the same incapacity which characterized those in charge 

 of the whole affair. Of course Nereids lout all chance through 

 this, and Carman went to the front, with the Argonaulas 

 hanging close to them. Carman won in 10m, -lis., Ar- 

 uonautas second in 10m. 33s., and Nerieds third in 10m. £8g- 

 NonpareilB fourth. 



Third Race— Pair-Oared Shells.— Argonauta Rowing Asso- 

 ciation, Bergen Point, N. J., E. Smith, bow, \V. Mann, 

 stroke. The Bayonne pair refused to row against Ed. Smith, 

 disqualified by the N. A. A. O., and the other cruw had a 

 walk over. 



Fourth Race— Four-oarod Shells— Entries : Saueerlies Boat 

 Club, Saugerties, N. Y., F. Phillips, bow, E. Young, J. 

 Young, A. O. Austin, stroke , Atlantic Boat Club, Hoboken, 

 N, J., D. McQueen, bow, J- A. Hagcmeyer, J. A. Rosen- 

 baum, J. D. Miller, stroke ; Carman Rowing Association, V 



G. Audubon, bow, D. DeLong, 8. F. Knapp, Jr., A. B. WiP 

 son, stroke, Carman led off with a rapid stroke of 10. steer- 

 ing wild all the tune, and soon gained a lead of three lengths. 

 At i he half mile Saugerties was even with Liu-m, and gradu- 

 ally went ahead, Carmaus being in bad wad I 

 over i he course. They then ran iuto ft cat-boat, which did 

 not know enough, or did not have common courtesy enough, 

 to keep clear of the course. Saugerties won in 10m. 50s.; 

 Atlantic's lime, 11m. 28s. 



Fifth Race— Junior Single Shells.— Entries: W Childs. 

 Nautilus Boat Club, Harlem, New York City ; J. P. Earle, 

 Nereid Boat Club; D. Lynch, Waveily Boat Club-, J. Fra- 

 zier, Palisade Boat Club, Yonkers, N. Y.: A. Dunne, Argo- 

 nauta Rowing Association. The tide bad turned flood, and, 

 with a fresh wind, made the water lumpy. Childs, on the 

 outside, got into rough water, but nevertheless went ahead 

 through sheer hard work, after Earle had led awhile in the 

 smooth water inside. Childs was badly washed by fl tug, put 

 took the lead upon sheering in shore a little more Lyuch 

 closed up on Frazior and passed him. Earl: 

 along. Childs won by many lengths in 17m. 4s. ; Earle sec- 

 ond, 17m. 14s.; Lynch third, 18m. (is.; and Frazier fourth. 

 Duane did not finish. 



Sixth Race — Six-oared Gigs. — Entries. Carman Rowing 

 Association, D. De Long, bow, R. Saul, A. J. Keegan, S. F 

 Knapp, Jr., V. G Audubon, A. B. Wilson, stroke, G. M. 

 Gushing, coxswain; Dauntless Boat Club, Harlem, Now 

 York City, W. E. Pearl, bow, J. A. Lyon. S. B. Pomeroy, 

 D. Pearl, H. W. Walter, D. Roach, stroke, J. J. Duff, cox- 

 swain. The Carmans had ail pulled in previous races, and 

 their victory is therefore, all the more to their* Credit, though 



sir to add that the Dauntless crew contai 

 men w T li"o had never before pulled a race, and that the rough 

 ffai against their light weight. Carmans had the in- 

 side, and took the lead at once. At the half-mile they ted by 

 three lengths, but began pulling wild. Then 

 belter, though, than in the four-oared pace Dauntl Began 

 lo creep up and finally lapped- It became a qttesti 

 durance. First one would pull away, then the other. Car- 

 man's, however, put on a burst of speed, and finally went by 

 for good and won the best race of the day by tbM 

 in 13m. 22fs.; Dauntless, lorn, lii.ls. 



Seventh Race — Bight-dared Barges. — Entries : ResOlUtQ 

 Rowing Club, Carmansville, N. Y, J. Poison I J Puti HE 



H % Morse, C. Badgeley, G. Foster, C. Knapp, F. • 

 Whitman, awake, 8. Weir, coxswain ; Colum; ■ h 

 Club, New York City, 11. K. Muller, bow, II. Hend 

 Weed, B. Lawrence, J. Montgomery, 11. Brown, G. P. Er- 

 hard, P. T. Tiinpson, stroke, E. J. Nathans, ooxsw .1 i 

 lumbia had the worst water and a poor man to steer. They 

 were overmatched by the Resolute from the very start, anil 

 though the race was pluckily pulled to the end, Resolute won 

 with" a long lead in llm.'fs.; Columbias, 14m -15s Both 

 crews were bothered by the wash of steamers. 



Suixitak-Faui.]vN1£b Race;. — These two oarsmen, of Bos 

 ton, pulled on the Charles River, August 27, two miles with 

 a turn. Faulkner made the best start, but Sullivan caught 

 up anil passed him, winning in lira. 431;S. 



FAULiiNKK-RKAOAN and THE Wabds. — These two profes- 

 sional pairs will pull a race, three miles and turn, on Silver 

 Lake, Mass., Sept- 10, for '$2,000 and the championship of 

 America. 



FiciiiNDstiir Boat Club.— The seventh annual r 

 the Friendship Boat Club, of New York, look place at Glen 

 Wood, L. I., Aug. 20. Bouts and a large party were sent up 

 on a barge. Course, two miles wilh a turn. Water lumpy, 



Senior singles— W. E. Cody, Adolph Pave, M. Robins* I i 



P. S. Bigliu. Won by Robinson in 14m. ISs., taking the 

 championship of the club. Junior singles, rowed in" nil. 

 working boats— Robert Evans, James J. BHtasimmo] 



itn. Tney kepi, together until the turn 

 finally won in.19m.SQa. Four-oared shells— W Hui 

 Robinson, B Monger and R. Evans ; A. Rave, A. A. Adams, 

 S. Smith and A. Schneider. The third crew entered did not 

 show up. Won easily by the Hurley crew in the boat Dennis 

 Leary. Time, 13m. 21s. 



A New Ci.l-b.— The Atlanta Boat Club, of West Troy, has 

 been organized as follows: Wni. Cholow, PttSa.; Tugs F. 

 Tierney, Vice-Pres.; L. W. Smith, Treas.; A. L. Williams, 

 Sec; Isaac LeRoy, Captain. They have bought a lour and 

 double of the Beaverwicks, and have besides Several singles. 

 Their new boat-house is now being erected, and a crew will 

 he entered for the Upper Hudson Regatta, 



Moxtahk" Club. — A double scull race between 

 Monroe, Jr., of Ne'v York, and Chas. E. Ueid, o 

 City, in one boat, and Chas. J. Lewis and Wm. A. Winter, 

 of Brooklyn, in another, came off in South Cove, Jersey ( lily, 

 Aug. 21. Lewis and Winter led from the stair, but were, 

 passed at the mile and a half stake. Monroe and Keul won 

 in 15m, :.'!s. Course, two miles. 



Ci.atto>,-Siei-;kkt Semi, Race.— The single scull Tsca be- 

 tween Ed. Clayton, of Wheeling, W. Va., aud Siebert, of 

 Pittsburg, for $5QD, came off at Beach Bottom, Aug. 24. 

 Clayton won in 22m. 10a., by lour Ii 



Rilki-Smith Match.— This match has been declari ' ..n 

 Riley refused to go on to Halifax; N. S., for reasons not 

 given. 



ROwErtt IN Dixie Land.— A race came off at Galveston, 

 Texas, Aug. 24, between a four-oared crew, wild I 

 on Rowing Club, as stroke, aud the barf 

 MoKernon and Jennie. Course, two miles with u turn. Won 

 S crew iu loin. Is. The Galveston crew also won 



Banquet to Biggins.— John Higgine, the Engd 

 piou, was tendered a complimentary ban 

 which he was presented with the ;\; 



Tbiton Clces OF Newakk. — The annual regatta oi tbj lub 

 takes place at Newark, on the PasEaic, Sspt. 21 . 



Lo-pek Hldson RsoaTTa. — The regatta of the Upper lind 



- I- Ri ring Association takes place at Albany, N. ST., Supi. 



25 and 20. 



The Shoe-wae-cae-mettes.— ('apt, Nadearj, ol thi 

 wae-cae-niettes, replies to the challenge Of the Eurckas, no- 

 ticed in our columns, that, their boat is in a bad ■ 

 aud the crew has given tip practice for I be year. 

 I he re lore, is out of the question. 



New Boats. — Frenchy Johnson is having a new | 

 built by Waters & Sons, of Troy, and Bai 

 his Jewett boat, having sold her to Plateted. 

 of Williamsburg, ga new ehip for i 



Joined the Excelsiors. — Mr. .1. N. ■- 

 known stroke oar, has joked the Excelsior Club of Detroit 

 and will take part in the races on hand. 



