166 



FOREST AiND STREAM. 



First-class ceulrebcard8— First prize, marine glass, (Enone, 

 no second prize; consolation prize, Fmiehoa, lili frig-horn. 



First-class keels— First prize, marine glass, ! : 

 second ; consolation, fog-horn, Lydia Adams. 



Second-class centreboards— First prize, marine glass, Fancy; 

 no second : consolation, fog-horn, Natlie. 



Third-class centreboards'— First prize, marine glass, Psyche: 

 second, compass charm. Scamp; third, marine clock, Curlew; 

 consolation, fog-horn, Bubble. 



Special class— First prize, opera-glasses, tiadie; second, 

 compass charm, Lena ; third class, galvanized anohor, Char- 

 /Me or Roslyn (yet to be decided) j consolation, book, Little 

 Greta. 



It is probable another regatta will be announced before long. 



Dohohestek Yaoet Club. — The annual cruising trim sub- 

 scription regatta of this club will take place early in October. 

 The prizes are the result of an annual subscription, brought 

 into life some years ago by Mr. F. W. Weston, an active 

 member of the club. It is expected that many large craft 

 will enter this season as the regatta has become quite popular. 



Ttlu Intbktid in Boston. — The Boston Htrald remarks, 

 concerning the recent visit of the schooner Intrepid in Eastern 

 waters, that " she does not appear to be very stiff, judging by 

 the way she was reefed coming up the harbor." But the 

 Herald overlooks the fact that Intrepid is modelled on princi- 

 ples differing from those in force in the broader and shallower 

 type of schooners which predominate, and that a greater 

 angle of " heel" is expected in vessels of her design. They 

 do not depend upon great statical stability, but rely rather 

 upon a low centre of gravity, which comes into play at small 

 auglea only to a moderate extent, but mattrially increases the 

 righting lever when it begins to blow and the craft gets down 

 to her bearings. Such vessels are eminently safe in all kinds 

 of weather, even though they heel more at the outset, while 

 yachts of the opposite extreme are always liable to be Mo- 

 hawked if they carry on beyond a certain point. 



Ctjtteb Enteiu'ejbk. — This Boston cutter is having her 

 head booms lengthened to cary a little more head sail. 



Bad SEMAHsniP.— Says the Boston Herald: " A great many 

 of the topmasts were carried away through ca relessness in not 

 having backstays or not working their stays in time to prevent 

 the topmast from reesiving all the strain." That is about the 

 length and breath of the thing. There is a great deal of room 

 for improvement in even the most elementary sailorizing, and 

 it iB high time a little more study and zeal were displayed in 

 the direction of more proficient yachtsmanship. 



South Boston Yaoht Club. — For the closing reeatta of 

 this club, Sept. 18, open to all yachts, there were seventy-two 

 entries, thirty-three boats actually going over the course, which 

 was the judges' boat to Cow Pasture Bar buoy, Dorchester (No. 

 6). leaving it on the port, to bnoy No. 7, off Fort Independ- 

 endence, leaving it on the starboard, to Sculpin Ledge buoy, 

 leaving it on the port, to buoy No. 6, lower middle, leaving 

 it on the port, passing between the judges' boat and flag boat. 

 Napoleon took the lead, but upon carrying away her topmast, 

 dropped to fourth place. Posy suffered a like loss, as did 

 Sunbeam. Grade carried away her boomingout pole. Un- 

 known, was fouled by Eureka. It seems that Unknown was 

 iunning free for the winning line and Eureka was on the 

 wind. As the latter had the right of way, no matter how 

 near Unknown was to taking the prize, it was, according to 

 the rule of the road, the latter's business to haul her wind and 

 give way to Eureka. But, as Eureka could not expect to 

 take the prize for centreboards, common courtesy should have 

 induced her to go about and cross the line in time, and not 

 willfully foul the keel-boat. As there was, moreover, no rea- 

 son whatever for Eureka'* standing across Unknown's bow, 

 the fouling looks very much like a wilful trick on the part of 

 Capt. Fuller, and he will have only himself to blame should 

 lie and his boat be debarred from again sailing under the South 

 Boston's auspices. We trust that prompt action will be taken 

 in the matter, as such tricks cannot be loo summarily dealt 

 with. We have no desire to see professionals bringing the 

 sport to the low level they already have done in some other 

 pastimes. Winners in first class : Mamie, Floyd & Atwood, 

 lh. 20m. lis.; Function, A. Burgess, ill. 21rn. 00s,; Folly, J. 

 F Bheppard, lh. 22m. 24s. Second class : Allie, Mr. Chap- 

 man, Hi. 21m. 21s.; Natlie, Mr. Nickerson, lh. 23m. 53s.; 

 Veronica, Mr. Chamberlain, lh. 26m. 03a.; Eugenia, Mr. 

 "West lh. 27m. 53s. Third class: Waterwilch, Mr. Hutch- 

 ings, ih. 25m. 40s., P ttyche, Mr. Clark, lh. 35m. 51s.; Fancy, 

 F. Grant, Jr., lh. 27m. 39s. 



The Dory Nautilus.— The following we take from Hunt's 

 Yachting Magazine for September : " The dory is a first-rate 

 idea for towing easily through rough water, as she would 

 offer almost no resistance whatever * * * We would pub- 

 lish her lines if any useful lesson were to be learned from 

 them. They might mislead novices, but the experienced man 

 would only regard them as something to bo avoided, lite a 

 palpable rock at sea." We entirely agree with our contem- 

 porary, and think the dory a most unfit boat to trust one's-sclf 

 in at sea, especially under canvas and when not decked over. 

 They are built for towing, as Hunt's surmises, and are in ex- 

 tensive use among our Down-East fishermen. In the ordinary 

 long swell of the Atlantic they are found handy by the fisher- 

 men in tending the seines, but in bad weather they are poor 

 things to get adrift in. Their chief recommendations are 

 low first cost and the ready manner in which they can be 

 towed and dumped on deck. 



8. 8. Vedette. -The S. S. Vedette, N. T. Y. C, Mr. Phil- 

 lips' Phcenix, returned to this port from her cruise eastward, 

 along the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia coasts, Sunday, 

 Sept. 22. 



Fidget vs. Bkown. — The race for the Corinthian Challenge 

 Pennant of the Central Hudson Yacht Club was sailed over 

 the regular New Hamburgh course, on the HudBOn, Sept. 21. 

 The pennant was presented by Mr. Philip Schuyler, and has 

 been won by Fidget first, then by Mary Emma, of New Ro- 

 chelle, then by Victoria, and next, for the second time, by 

 Fidget, and again by the latter, beating Dare Devil The 

 match with the Flyaway came to nothing, owing to lack of 

 ■wind, and Fidget was Anally challenged by TV. Ji. Br&xcn, of 

 Newburgb. The race was sailed in a good breeze of wind 

 from the W., enabling the yachts to make the marks all over 

 the course without any turning, though they were sometimes 

 trimmed in about as flat as it was possible to haul sheets. Co- 

 rinthian rules vere in force ; each owner sailed his own craft ; 

 crew limited to seven, and ballast fixed. Fidget, with Com- 

 modore Irving Grinnell at the helm, went across the line at 

 lOll. 53m. 15s., and Brmcn, tooled by Mr„ C. F. Brown, ul 

 luh. 59m. lbs. The lower stake was turned by Fidget, with 

 a lead of lm. 7s. On the run up Brown, got a slant and went 

 ahead showing the way around the mark. Fidget luffed out 

 on Brown's weather on the second run up, and after some r 

 trying lulling matches, came out the bettor of the two. The i 



New Hamburgh crack set spinnaker, and Utuwh followed 

 suit with a big one a little later, but could not close OH her 

 rival, and Fidget went across the line a winner after an ex- 

 ceedingly smart and well sailed race. The absence of sand- 

 bags and a professional mob in cockpit did much to render the 

 race interesting and instructive, and should carry a lesson to 

 those who slili insist upon over-ballasting and over-sparriug. 

 A summary of the race is appended: 



New Hamburgh course, twenty miles ; Corinthian race for 

 Challenge Pennant, Central Hudson Yacht Club, September 

 21, 1878. Tide, ebb; wind, W. S. W. 



Name. Lcnjrth. 



FT. IH. 



Brown a: 03 



PWget Wli 



Start. 



B. it, 



10 45 

 10 15 



Time ot corrected 



Return Race. Time. 



B. u. s. u. u. u. a. it. s. 



3 23 83 3 3S 23 3 3S 23 



3 !M OS 3 3T OS :) 38 IIS 



Match on the Tapis.— It is no small play to handle a 

 toy of a boom 85ft. long, but if report speaks true there is a 

 likelihood of big Ambassadress, Mr. William Astor, turning 

 up this fall iu a racing mood. Her owner has all along averred 

 that he proposed to put her speed to test sooner or later, and 

 has stowed away for ovsr a year as full a suit of racing dudB 

 as ever was cut and sewed for any cruft afloat. They need 

 airing badly, and it ia to be hoped that Mr. Astor, upon his 

 return from Europe, will try on Intrepid, Rambler, or, better 

 still, D) eudnaught. If there is anything in our waters that 

 can cope with the huge City Islander it is Drmdnaught. In 

 lighter weather, Intrepid, Idler and others could readily get 

 away with her, but when it comes to bucking into a heavy 

 swell and a snorter outside there is nothing that can at all 

 compare with Dreadnought, unless itbeioine of the big cracks 

 which Nicholson has turned out the last few years in British 

 waters ; big ones, like Ambassadress, that run on to 500 tons 

 and require some 15ft. to float in. Mr. Astor's schooner is al- 

 together too large, however, for efficient racing property, and 

 it would not surprise us one bit to find him change his mind 

 and quietly head for Southern climes without pulling hia craft 

 to pieces before. As to speed. Ambassadress will very much 

 belie her looks, should she display any. As a wholesome 

 family coach she is all very well, but she lacks the lines of a 

 goer. In a seaway, though, her tremendous power would tell 

 heavily in her favor, as under such circumstances time allow- 

 ance to the smaller craft would not make up the deficiency, 

 and so, possibly, Sam Pine's big one might land a cup for her 

 owner after all ; but we question it. The schooner measures 

 148ft. over all, 28ft. beam, and lift, water with board up. 



Buffalo Yaout Clcb. — This organization is in its first 

 year of existence. It has long been a matter of astonishment 

 to us that yachting should not long ago have been developed 

 to * greater extent in a port so favorably situated, and in 

 which ample wealth has accumulated to warrant a successful 

 following for the sport. At last it seems to have arrived at 

 that stage of advancement where the formation of a club adds 

 dignity and method to its prosecution. The club inaugurated 

 its existence with a regatta on Lake Erie, Sept 10. Entries — 

 schooners, Fleetwing, Mystic, Corsair and sloop Arrow in the 

 first-class, and iu the second-class, schoouers Anna Argo,Adella 

 and sloop Telephone. Fleetwing and Anna Argo took the 

 prizes. 



Emhihe Yaoht Club. —The match for the Dowling cup, 

 postponed from a previous day to Sept. 13, on account of 

 lack of wind, resulted in a victory for the Brothers. The 

 course was from foot of E. 104th street to and around a stake- 

 boat off the Manhattan Club-house, repeat four times. Wind 

 blowing iqually all day. Only three put in an appearance, 

 and after numerous knock downs, capsizes and a general going 

 to pieces, Brothers mauaged to cross the line 5s. ahead of 

 Emma D. The latter had won the cup twice and camo near 

 getting possession of it by a third victory, as required by the 

 deed of gift. 



Nahassbt Yacht Club— The Bpecial regatta held by this club 

 off Nahant, Sept. 10, for the champion silk pennant presented 

 for competition by Mr. P. Little, was open to cat-rigged boats 

 only. Wind fresh from N. E. Won by the famous i"a/i<?y, 

 Mr. P. Grant, Jr., in 55m. 57s.; Psyclie, L. M. Clark, second, 

 50m. 2s.; Avis, W. O. Haskell, third, lh. 41s.; Awn, R. D. 

 Sears, fourth, lb. lm. 59s.; Ida, F. F. Emery, Jr., fifth, lh. 

 3m. 28s. 



Baltimobe Yacht Club. — The regatta of this club was 

 sailed Sept. 12, over the regular course, Ferry Bar to White 

 Kocks and return, iu Baltimore harbor. Won by F. C. La- 

 Probe in first-class, D. Collier in second and Emma in third. 



Yachting re China. — From Pacific Life, we learn that the 

 Hong Kong Yacht Club is again looking up. Some time ago 

 it was in quite a flourishing condition, but latterly many of 

 the craft had outgrown their time, some were sold, others 

 were wrecked, and it looked for all the world as though the 

 club might founder too. But there is always a leading spirit 

 in all clubs, and so the Hong Kong has been once more revivi- 

 fied. Most of the yachts are of the cutter type, but the Loi- 

 terer, schooner, is the handiwork of the famous Geo. Steers. 

 She is no match for her more powerful sifiters, being too beamy 

 for racing work at sea. Naomi, a native cutter, built 

 upon lines sent out from England, seems to be the crack and, 

 with her crew of Chinamen, can liaudle her canvas in a style 

 that would make some of our civilized tars stare with ad mi ra- 

 lion. In the rigging John Chinaman is said to be like a cat, 

 strong, wiry and agile, and he enters into the spirit of a race 

 with great zeal. The Hong Kong club was founded in 1809, 

 and at one time contained twelve sea-going yachts. Their 

 ranks have since been decimated, but in time will no doubt be 

 tilled by now comers. 



Nobfolk, Va., Yaoht Race.— For the open regatta field 

 at Norfolk, Va., Sept. 23, there were entered. Vision, E. 

 W. Face ; Index, Hitchings Brothers ; Haidee, Thomas 

 Bain j Aphrodite, John M. Askins ; Cora, Frederick Hardy ; 

 Lelia. Hitchings Brothers ; Wanderer, Ernest Graves ; Aline, 

 W. A. Graves; Mist, A. H. Kirby : Little Fraud, W- P. 

 Tilley ; Campbell Groner, General V. D. Groncr. Won by 

 Index in 2h. 50m. Course, from the Naval Hospital to Old 

 Point and return ; distance, 25 miles. Judges : Capt. Thos. 

 Orellin, Captain .lames H. Robinson. Referee, Capt. O. E 

 Edwards ; and F. Pfeiffer, timekeeper. 



Oat-Boat Regatta at Norfolk, Va., Sept.. 23.— There 

 never was better weather for a trial than to-day ; the wind 

 east-north-east, a leading breeze throughout the entire course, 

 with all that the yachts could stand up to. Never was better 

 time made by craft of this class and inches, taken collectively, 

 as the summary will show, the distance of twenty-five miles 

 being run in three hours. The course was from Hospital 

 Point to and around a buoy near old Point Comfort and re- 

 turn, and the harbor was not only alive with sailing craft and 

 excursion steamers to witness the race, but a hundred or more 

 vessels lay in Hampton Roads, wind-bound. Sewell's Point, 



Ol.l Pom!, Hospital Point, and the wharves in Norfolk and 



iy- were covered with interested spectators Includ- 



ing matty sailors from the Navy Sard and Hospital Time 



wns called fur 10:30, and so prompt were Hie yachts that the 

 whole fleet were off and away within thirteen minutes after- 

 wards, an example which it were well worth while to imitate 

 elsewhere. The following is the summary : 



F1HST CLASS. 



Length 

 it in 



Name Owner 



visiou E W Face 



Into Hatelilui; Uroti 



Hidden T A Haiti 



Aphrodite J Gaaklnu 25 



aicuND class. 



Cora P Haraj uu 9 



Lt-ita HitOhtQgtBrOB 2-1 3 



Mist W H KirDy ■>.> ■> 



OampbctHirover Urorur 19 4 



Little Fraud WP Tilley lit n 



■i SH 30 



3 11 ]j 



:: in B 



:: i r . ;<n 



3 13 30 



.-. 13 3D 



3 21 30 



HI ■: fiot tiuroumt 



W anderer E Graves 20 2 Uot aground 



The Index won the first prize iu the fir.-t class, beating the 

 Haidee 2m. 30s., and the Lelia beat the Cora by 07}s. in the 

 second class. 



OAR AND PADDLE. 



OODRTHBY AHD HaNLAJL 



In view of the rapidly-nearing day, when the two best oars- 

 men in America will meet for a trial of skill and endurance 

 to settle the claim of either to the championship of the Con- 

 tinent, a glance at the records of both will be of interest, and 

 may aid in forming an opinion concerning the probable issue 

 of the coming match over the 5 mile Lachine course, Montreal, 

 Canada. 



Ed. Banian first took Iht shell in 1873, when he was but 

 eighteen years of age. He was then living with hia family ou 

 an island in the harbor opposite the city of Toronto, Ontario. 

 In that year he won the championship of the harbor, defeat- 

 ing Williams and McKa3 r . The next year he easily beat. Lou- 

 don, of Toronto, thereby securing the championship of Burling- 

 ton Bay. In 1875 he repeated the performance, and pocketed 

 $200. Iu the same year, over a two-mile course, he mads 

 away with Loudon and Douglass iu a race for the GoVefUOi 

 General's Medal. In 1870 he defeated McOaun ami I 

 and later iu the year won the champion belt of Ontario. 

 During the Centennial races ho showed to the front in a 

 prominent way, beating Harry Coult.r, Thomas, of London, 

 and next day Pat. Luther and Fred. Plaistead, winning easily 

 in 'Jim. 54J«. Finally, he defoated Alex. Braylcy, of Bt. John, 

 N. B., for the championship, iu 21m. 9s. Next wa find him 

 at Silver Lake, Boston, where, June 13, 1877, he was defeated 

 by Plaistead, through the breaking or his outrigger. June 85, 

 he beat Frenchy Johnson and Driscoll, over a three mile 

 course, clearing $150. He fouled his old antagonist, Plaistead, 

 in the Boston City Regatta, July i, and was disqualified. In 

 October, 1877, he defeated Wallace Ross in a five-milo race 

 near Toronto for $1,000 a side. Iu May, 1878, he again beat 

 Plaistead in a three-mile race at Toronto ; in June he got tlie 

 best of Evan Morris at Pittsburg, tluishi»g a five-mile course 

 in 37m. 58s. Later on, he beat the whole lot, including 

 Plaiated, Riley, Luther, and a host ot minor lights, in the re- 

 gattas of Brockville and Cape St. Vincent, Canada. In July 

 he defeated Wallace Rosa a second time in n five-mile race on 

 the Kennebecasis, and added $3,000 to his purse. 



Charles E. Courtney was born and brought up at Union 

 Springs, N. Y. He is twenty-nine years of age. He early 

 took to the water and engaged in many local contests, and 

 when he branched out on a larger scale aud appeared at the 

 regular regattas of amateurs, he invariably led them ovoi the 

 course. go unfailing were his victories, that whenever 

 " Courtney from L'niou Springs" came to the line it was a 

 foregone conclusion. At Saratoga, September 11- and 13, 

 187-1, he defeated Yates, Keator, and others of lesser noto. 

 In August, 1875, he took the diamond medal and the cham. 

 pionslup of the State of New York, by defeating such old 

 hands as W. B. Curtis, David Roche, Ed Blake aud Yates. 

 The prize for double seulls went to him and R. A. Robinson, 

 at Troy, September, 1875. With Frank Yates in his boat, at 

 Saratoga, Aug. 8, 1870, he won the double-scull race without 

 hard work, and at Philadelphia he beat all comers at the Cen- 

 tennial races. At Greenwood Lake, N. Y., in August, 1877, 

 he met Riley, beiughis first race as a professional, and after 

 that he quit the ranks of amateurs and rapidly disposed of all 

 professionals of a lesser sort. He beat Riley' and PJ 

 Saratoga, August 28, 1877, three miles with turn, in 20m. 

 47Js. In September he won the championship of the United 

 States at Owasco Lake, beating Riley, Frenchy Johnson, Ten 

 Eyck and Laberger, three miles and turn," in 21m. 20 L s. 

 Then followed an"attempt to get on a match with Trickett, 

 which failed, owing to the same bad management which has 

 characterized his recent match with Hanlan. Jn June, 1876, 

 he tackled such extremely light material as Dempsy, on Sene- 

 ca Lake, but was capsized near the turn, as reported, by hid- 

 den obstructions, though, upon investigation, none could bo 

 found. The farce of pulling Dempsy, whom he eonK beat 

 with one hand, was repeated at Skaneatelea, when the 

 countryman was dropped out of Bight readily enough. Aug. 

 15, Courtney took part in the Silver Luke regatta, Boston, but 

 was defeated by Frenchy Johnson, on account of being taken 

 ill. It was supposed that the ducking he received whilu 

 pulling Dempsy had affected him permanently, but recent re- 

 ports affirm him to be in perfect health, aud we trust that he 

 may have no recurrence of the Ul spells in the coming match. 



Hanlan is 5ft. Din. in height and weighs 1521bs. in fighting 

 trim ; Courtney is 6ft. hia. high in stocking feet, and weighs 

 lG8bs. Wc have described their boats iu our last issue. 



Rowing at Elizabethpokt, — The first annual Citlzi 

 Regatta was held at Elizabethport, N. J., Sept. 21, 

 in every way a success, though the course might it. 

 kept clearer. Double-sculls, won by Dury and Moore iu iOm. 

 15s.; Lother and Conlin second in 16m. 80s. Single-sculls, 

 one and one-half mile with turn. Mohr took l he lead, but 

 collided with a strange boat, and the race went to John Hat- 

 field in 14m. 3s. Senior doubles, won by Decker and Hough- 

 wout, two miles, 16m. 55s. Ladies' double-scull race, hall 

 mile with the tide. Maiden crew, Misses Emma Lamond and 

 Tillie Bonlgen, beat the matron crew 2m, 20s., pulling a 

 stroke of 40. Senior singles, won by J. W. Dederick, two 

 miles, in 18m. 15s. Juuior doubles, the Tate brothers won in 

 17m. 10s., Dederick and Baxter second, Dixon and Streke 

 third. Juvenile amateur doubles, Clarke and Hatfield, 8m. 

 37s.; Hughes and Rogers second. Singles, open to all, won 

 by David Clarke in 17m. 55s., J. Lowther second, J. K. 

 Moore third. Tub races finished the day. Prizes were all 

 useful as well as ornamental 



JOBKBON-Hoaaise.— At Burlington Beach, Out., Sept. 21 



