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18 to 22ft. Smaller j'BCbts may enter larger classes by assum- 

 ing minimum measurement of such class, only working sails 

 allowed. The club is in a very prosperous condition. 



East Boston Yaoht Crtru. — This club was organized May 

 5, 1874, with thirty members; chartered July 13, 1877, and 

 now has on its books over eighty members. Officers for the 

 year: Commodore, 8. 8. Goodwin ; Vice-Commodore, John 

 P. Morrison ; Flag Officer, F. T. Clayton ; Treasurer, Thos. 

 H. Stone ; Financial Secretary, E. Burnham; Recording 

 Secretary, P. W. Golliff ; Directors, Charles West, James 

 Marr, Richard Hinehelilf ; Measurers, George F. McCaus- 

 land, Thomas H. Stone ; Steward, William H. Misencr ; Re- 

 gatta Committee, 8. S. Goodwin, F. T. Clayton, E. Burn- 

 ham. Club house located on Border street. The fleet con- 

 sists of three schoouers and seventeen sloops, among the latter 

 the famous little Sunbeam, owned by Mr. W. S. Nickcrson. 

 Five new yachts have been added this season. Club signal, 

 horizontal blue and red bars, with white star in centre. The 

 club will hold a union regatta in mid-summer, besides the 

 regular club events. As a specimen of the craft, most fancied 

 at "present, we may mention the new sloop Alice, 38£ft. over 

 all, 13ft. beam, Cft. hold, and 7ft. water. She was built by 

 Mr. Thomas H. Stone and Daniel J. Green. 



JuFFKtRS (Boston) Yaoht Cltjb.— Organized Muy, 1877, 

 and chartered December, 1878. This club is composed of 

 some of the most progressive Eastern yachtsmen, having 

 many strong names on its roll and a rapidly increasing fleet. 

 Members now number about, seventy-five, owning two steam- 

 ers, ten sloops, and four cats. Mr. McUoimtck's Gael, a smart 

 little craft of large displacement, and a fast one in the hands 

 of her skipper, Mr. Lovejoy; Mr. F. H. Pcabody'snew screw 

 steamer, 50ft. long, the 2G Ion Vision, and other well-known 

 yachts, belong to tbis club. Burgee, a blue swallow-tail with 

 white Maltese cross. Corinthian Rules in force. The first 

 review of the fleet takes place May 30. Club-house located at 

 Jeffries' Point. 



Bdnkkk Hilt. YACtiT Ci.ub.— This club has its house at 

 Keys' Wharf, Medford street, Cbarlestown, Mass., and now 

 numbers sixty members, with a lltict of eight schooners, ten 

 sloops, and seven cats. Club burgee, red ground, with white- 

 Maltese cross in centre. Officers for the year have appeared 

 in a previous number. 



Chbekins News. — It is more than probable that a crack 

 100-ton cutter will be built in this neighborhood for a promi- 

 nent yachtsman of New York. And still they come ! 



A Sample.— The sloop Pacer, of Boston, has been changed 

 from a centre-board to a keel. She is a sample of what is 

 being done with most Eastern craft. 



Eabtkkn Items. — The famous cat Josfe is coming out with 

 a hollow mast and will be raced with spirit. A rival for her 

 is supposed to be the new craft built this winter by Mr. 

 Smith, of City Point, Boston. The latter is 20ft. on water- 

 line and 9ft, 8in. beam, and is said to be more powerful than 



Jotie- The True Blue, built by Cleaveland Trott, of Ken- 



ncbutikport, Me., for R. B.Walker, of Boston, is 20ft, 6ia. 

 water-line, 8ft. beam and 4ft. hold ; oak frame, cedar pk-mk, 

 walnut and ash rail. She has an iron keel, like any sensible 

 craft ought to have. Cabin handsomely finished in hard 

 wood and upholstered. Refrigerators, lockers and modern 

 conveniences. She will be used for cruising about the coast. 

 Such a boat with 4ft. hold and no centre-board box is mani- 

 festly so much superior as an " all round " vessel to the open 

 Tacing machines or centre-board sloops in New York waters 

 that this class of yacht is certain to make its appearance 



among the Corinthians " this side of the Cape" Caldwell 



& Keen, of Washington, near Boston, have also built a keel 

 sloop for Mr. F. A. "Daniels. Length over all, 20ft.; water- 

 line, 22ft.; beam, 10ft. Sin.; draught, 3ft. 10in.: oak frame 

 and cedar planking. She has an iron keel of 1,000 lbs. as a 

 steadier. House, 12ft. long, bard wood finish. Model by P. 



McDonald We have selected these samples of Eastern 



construction to show the tendency of the times in and about 

 Boston, and we may add that there have been built during 

 the winter a dozen cabin yachts at least for every on e thai 

 has been laid down in New York and neighborhood. We 

 cannot but think that this prosperity in the East is owing to 

 the wise course pursued by the yacht clubs and builders in 

 tabooing shifting ballast altogether, and in encouraging sea- 

 going qualities and outside cruising. There is quite au emu- 

 lation in the East to secure the best seagoing yacht, while in 

 New York the very idea of such a thing as a small seaworthy 

 craft is ridiculed, and we go on turning out the merest sand- 

 bag racing machines, build a mansard over them, fit them 

 with a " hand-me-down " rig, drift up and down the rivers, 

 and by a stretch of courtesy dignify them by the name of 

 yachts. No wonder yacht building here is almost at a stand 

 still and some of the most prominent clubs threatened with 

 dissolution for the want of sailing members. The sailing 

 machines have disgusted a large class of men who might 

 with a better boat at their command have become yachts- 

 men of ability and followed up the sport with animation, 



Nahasbbt Yacht Club.— This club is a sailing club; there 

 is no superfluous dead weight about it, for it shows an aver- 

 age of one yacht to each member. At their recent meeting 

 the following officers were elected : Commodore, P. Grant, 

 Jr.; Vice-Commodore, O. G. Weld; Secretary and Treasurer, 

 J P. Hawes, Jr.; Measurer, D. M. Little; Regatta Com- 

 mittee, J. P. Hawes, Jr., T. Daland, P. Grant, Jr., 8. W. 

 Burgess aud Henry G. Hall ; Committee on Membership, J. 

 P. Hawes, Jr., L. C. Fenno and Phillip Little. This board 

 of officers is exceedingly strong and well qualified to fulfill the 

 duties assigned it. The consequence of placing leading 

 yachtsmen at the head of the club instead of " claw-hammer- 

 heroes " will be to draw to the Nahassets much of the Corin- 

 thian element that is to be found among the small fry of 

 Boston waters. Mr. l'hillip Little presented the club with a 

 silk pennant for cat rigs, to be sailed for off Swampscott dur- 

 ing July. No classification, no shifting ballast and only 

 members allowed on board. The club decided to allow a 

 change in ballast previous to a race, but no trimming by dead 

 weight after the starting eun. 



Nkwbubtport Yacht Club. — Headquarters on Market 



Peirce ; Treasurer, Henry Moody ; Secretary, Tristram Tal 

 hot j Treasurer, Thomas MacKinney j Finance Committee, 

 A. W. Greeuleaf, Lawrence W. Piper, Edward A. WUllams; 

 Regatta Committee, William A. Davis, O W. Cook, C 

 Moody. The fleet comprises five sloops, six cats, and a num- 

 ber of new yachts now building, with a variety of irregular 

 craft. 

 Lynn Yacht Club.— Organizsd .1870. Officers for the 



year have appeared in a previous number. Club-house, 

 foot of Beach street, Lynn. Fleet, two schooners and 

 twenty-three sloops and cats. West Lynn talks of forming a 

 club, hut we hope the prospective members will join the regu- 

 lar Lynu organization, as it is not so much multiplicity of 

 clubs that wc need as sound strength in those already existing. 



Boston MosgrjiTo Fleet.— The postponed opening match 

 is set down for May 3. Entries close day before. 



Blackmailer About.— Beware of a shyster who claims to 

 have a patent on all "sliding rigs," and is now making a cir- 

 cuit of the yachting yards and attempting to bleed owner;. 

 His patent is for a slide on the gaff and a leech-rope diago- 

 nally across mainsail, so as to reef by brailing up the head. 



Sale of toe Annie. — The sloop Annie, once a well-known 

 flyer, aud, built by "Bob" Fish in 1861 for Mr. Livingston, 

 of the N Y. Y. O, has been sold to Mr. Jabez Howes, of San 

 Francisco, Cal. She will be sent out on the deck of the ship 

 Three Brother*. The Annie is 50ft. on deck, 45ft. 6in. water 

 line, 17ft. Gin. beam, and 4ft. hold, with 3ft. 9in. draft. 



Drift.— The schooner Idler has been sold to Mr. Archie 

 Fisher and others through Capt. John Prindiville, of Chicago 



Schooner Alarm, N. Y. Y. O, will not fit out, the same 



can be said of Ambassadress, Columbia, Dauntless, Dread- 

 naught, JSm, Meatless, Yesta, and of the sloops Active, Vindex. 

 As all these vtssels belong to the New York Yacht Club, their 

 laying up will interfere with the entries for club matches 



among the big ones Palmer, Mr. Rutherford Sluyvesant, 



will cruise to the lakes; Edith, of Boston, is for sale ;' Ennen.- 

 oarde and Faustine are both laid up at Cowes, England. 

 Neither of them showed any speed alongside the English ves- 

 sels, and it is said that while the American schooners carried 

 two reefs and no foresail, the British cutters went, along under 



whole sail Intrepid is still cruising in West India waters, 



also the Pesolute, chartered by Dr. Hare, of Philadelphia 



It is rumored that Sappho may run acro.?s from Italy and enter 



some of the races here Tidal Wave will come to the lioe 



this year. She does well enough in light winds, but owing to 

 ber long bow, gripes dangerously when laid over, and carries 



too much helm to get the speed out of her iu a breeze The 



schooner Viking, formerly belonging to Mahlon Sands, has 

 been sold to Mr. F. H. Stott, of Greenport. She is one of the 

 late Van Dusen's "improved scow" models, and has done 



nothing while abroad iu English waters Famous Magic is 



cruising in the Chesapeake with Mr. Francis M. Weld on 



board. She will hoist racing colors this season Hetais 



fitting out for a Southern cruise Grade will cruise and do 



some mild raciDg only Vision will pursue her racing career, 



but as there is hardly anything of her class agoing, it will be 



pretty one-sided sport Clio has received a flush deck, such 



as every yacht ought to have. These improvements toward 



seaworthieness we note with much satisfaction Clytie, Mr. 



Wm. M. Brooks, of Stamford, will fit out for racing, aud it 



will take something smarter than we know of to beat her 



Comet has had some 7in. canvas made especially for her. 

 This will increase the weight of her sails somewhat. She 

 will probably not race. Racing seems to be going out of 



fashion Kstelle is having her stern spun out at Greenport, 



L.I The nondescript Nereid will race and lose as usual 



S. S. Mystic has been sold to Mr. W. Scott, of Erie, Pa., 



another important addition to the Lake fleet Mr. Oswald 



Jackson is building a 40ft. sloop at Mystic, Conn The 



famous sloop Undine, Mr. H. Bryant, is being rebuilt by Len- 

 nox, So. Brooklyn ; flush dock and more hoist will be given 

 her.. ....Lennox has also laid the keel of an 80ft. S. S. yacht 



for Rev. Mr. Aspinwall, of Bay Ridge, L. I., likewise a small 



boat for export Sloop Winsome, Bear Com. Norton, A. 



Y. 0., will race this season. She is probably the hand- 

 somest sloop in America, having more grace about her than 



most yachts of the dumpy model now in vogue Orion, 



another wind jammer, is receiving a new stern and more 



muslin Dr. Johnson's new sloop, built by Mumm, has 



been;afloat some time. She looks over sparred Thos. Arm- 

 strong has nearly finished a schooner 40ft. long, at East Bos- 

 ton. D. J. Lawlor, of Chelsea, has in hand a steam yacht 



53ft. long, with 42in. screw and a pair of 7in. cylinders, for 

 Mr. F. H. Peabody, Boston Y. C, also a steamer for the City 



of Haverhill Cutter Enterprise is to have a sloop jib for 



racing; we do not believe there is any advantage in a single 

 jib for a craft of her size, but on the contrary would prefer 

 her present rig for speed There is a large amount of build- 

 ing in the way of small boats going on in and about Boston 



Pierce Bros., of East Boston, have finished two boats, 



one keel and the other with a board, for Mr. Burgess, of 



Boston W. B. Smith will build a schooner for Mr. John 



Ward, of the Boston Theatre Housing topmasts are com- 

 ing into vogue in the East. Good Seven new boats will 



be added to the Haverhill Y. C, Mass Almost everything 



Down East is keel, the board has fortunately become the ex- 

 ception Sloop Wayward, of Boston, is for sale; particu- 

 lars at this office The two "round the world boats," built 



by Smith and by Hutcbins & Pryor, are about finished, and 

 their venturesome skippers are arranging for a match before 

 starting on their lonely voyages 



KEEL, YACHTS. 



" We sail, we sail the ocean blue."— IT. M. S. Pinafore.. 

 (Centreboard man, loq. : " If it don't blew too mnoh, '') 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



The chief cause of the prejudice against keel boats in this 

 country ia the fact thatalmost all oar Bmall lieel yachts are unsuc- 

 cessful centreboard boats which have had spars cut down and a stick 

 of limber Bpiked under them in the hope that, perndventure, they 

 might do better in the keel class, aud, of course, they are rauch 

 inferior to the centreboarders. Another source of trouble 

 ia the timidity of the few men who build what thoy call 

 " cut tere," who, being convinced of the superiority of the type, 

 are yet afraid to build up to da requirement*, and bo produoe 

 ' ' water bruisers " having the depth of the cutter and the beam of 

 the sloop. What wonder ia it that with such samples as these 

 before them, our yachtsmen fight shy of keel boats ? It is only 

 natural that we should judge by what is ralher than reason out 

 what might be. Let us look into this matter of Keel vs. Centie- 

 board in an unprejudiced manner, and carefully weigh the merits 

 of each. It will be conceded by the most inveterate even of 

 centreboard men that if two boats are precisely similar in all other 

 respects — that ia to say, having the same initial stabdity, im- 

 mersed surface, sail area and displacement — Ihe one having the 

 greater beam will meet with more resistance, and nenoe be a 

 slower boat than the other. The same gentleman will prubably 

 also admit that even the most perfect centreboard boat will have 

 her stability greatly increased if her ballast, instead of being above 



the garboords, were placed at the bottom of a keel, as the centre 

 of gravity of the entire vessel would be lowered thereby ; aud no 

 one who has Bpent any time at the exhilarating and healthful ex- 

 ercise of figuring out stability curves will deny the potenoy of an 

 inch or so in that directum. Now, supposo wo put this keel under 

 a oentreboard yacht, and alt her ballast at the bottom of it. It ia 

 evident that she would have either too much stability for har rig, 

 or too amah a rig for her stability. But if the boat is a good, 

 honest type of sloop, it is probable that she was stiff enough 

 before the addition of a keel, and henoe the Burplus stability is 

 unnecessary. Now, if we chop off her beam — replacing the dia~ 

 placement lost near the water-line by filling out her garboards, 

 mating an easy curve at the keel — until her stability is Teduoed 

 to its former amount, the boat will have much finer lines, owing 

 to the decrease in beam, the earns stability aud displacement, and 

 as Bhe will still bo able to carry the same sails, she will, on account 

 of her sharper lines, be capable of higher speed. I think this ib 

 a fair deduction, for when I say "higher speed" I mean the actual 

 maximum and not relative speed ; for it is probable that as the 

 addition of a keel will increase the immersed surface, the boat as 

 altered will be slower in light winds than formerly. On the other 

 hand she will be a much easier sea boat, and with the Bame free- 

 board oan heel to a greater aDgle without immersing her deck -, 

 moreover, her curve of stability will havo a much longer " back." 

 And now after these alterations what have we but a cutter, for it 

 is only a question of how much beam to cut off, and how deep 

 a keel to employ, and further investigation will only tend 

 toward a still greater decrease in beam. Methinka I hear the 

 ohorns of centreboard men shouting with one accord, "New 

 Haven harbor, mud flats and distraction." Gentlemen, I can only 

 say that I am sorry that you, as yachtsmen, should be in any way 

 restricted as to the extent of your beloved element. However, we 

 must of course conform to the environment ; if we reside on the 

 banks of a canal let ns by all means have a canal-boat. 



Martin Gale. 

 Until a more equitable as well as reasonable rule of meas- 

 urement is adopted than the length measurements now gene- 

 rally in use, we do not look for any improvement in model 

 excepting in vessels devoted purely to cruising, as with them 

 there is no cause to stultify their length. In racing vessels 

 under present systems of measuring, the only choice left the 

 designer is to produce as large and powerful a vessel as he 

 can within a given length. This compels him to resort to ex- 

 cessive beam with the concurrent heavy spars and great spread 

 of canvas, unhandiness, unseaworthiness, wear and tear. As 

 long as such a primitive and one-sided rule as length meas- 

 urement remains in force, it will be an up-hill fight to intro- 

 duce a type of boat differing from the dumpy sloop. But 

 why was length ever adopted as the standard ? Why not 

 beam, or height of cabin house, or length of swab, one and 

 all of which will serve with equal logio as that of length of 

 hull? 



jff* m& §ivei[ fishing. 



FISH IN SEASON IN APRIL. 



BpecKled Trout— -Satmo fentinalie, Land-locked Salmon— Salmo glovrnp 

 White Perch. 



TROUT FLIES FOR APRIL. 



The following are Imitations of natural insects whloh first appear on 

 head springs, and later In the season are found on ponds and rivers : 



Black Gnat or Midgs.— Body and feel, black ; wings, sob-hyaline. 



Dahk: claret Ghat.— Body, dark claret; feet, black; wings, sub- 

 hyaline. 



Bright Clabkt Gnat.— Body, bright claret, mixed with yellowish 

 gray ; feet, ginger ; wings of one sex, hyaline, of the other, ocherouB. 



Olive Gnat.— Body, darkollve; feet, ginger; wings, hyaline. 



Gbay Gnat.— Body, dark fox fur, mixed with dark claret; feet, 

 gray ; wtngB, hyaline. 



Dakk Fox.— Body and feet, dark fox far, mixed with lemon-colored 

 mohulr ; wings, sub-hyaline ; tall, three Ubresof dark gray hackle, 



Bldk Blow.— Same as dark fox, bnt of blue Bhade. 



Poua Man's Flt.— Body and feet, hare's ear and yellow mixed; 

 wings, slightly mottled gray. 



Bright Fox.— Body and feet, brightest part of fox for, mixed with 

 yellow ; wings, brightest hyaline ; tail, pale yellow. 



Fish in Market— Uet ail Pricks.— BaBs, 25 cents ; smelts, 15; 

 blue fish , 12>^ : salmoo, 35 ; mackerel, 18 ; shad, per pound, 18 

 cents ; white perct, 15 cents ; green turtle, 15 centa ; frostfish, 

 cents ; haibut, 18 cents ; haddock, 6 cents ; codfish, 6 oenta ; 

 herring, 6 centa ; floundera, 10 cents ; eels, 18 centa; lobsters, 10 

 centa ; scallops, per quart, 35 cents ; eoft clams ; 30 to 75 cents ; 

 pickerel, per pound, 15 cents ; eunfish, 10 cents ; perch, yellow, 

 10 cents ; brook trout, Canada, 35 ceuts ; brook trout, Long 

 Island, $1 ; pompano, CO cents , prawuB, per quart, 25 cents ; 

 BhrimpB, 35 cents. 



— Fresh mackerel arrived Tuesday, caught off Cape Henry. 

 Five schooners all arrived within one hour, each one Btriviug 

 to get to market first, in order to get the highest price. These 

 fish were exceptional for their brilliant sheeD, which it is the de 

 spair of artists to catch. No one ever yet perfectly succeeded 

 in transferring to the caDvas the irridescence of these salt sea 

 denizens. The largest shad this season so far ib one weigh- 

 ing 7} pounds, caught in Delaware River, off Bay Shore, 

 Cumberland County, New Jersey. 



As early as April 1 the gulls and gannets appeared at 



Gaspe, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; the weather was mild, 

 fogs frequent, snow fast disappearing, a large extent of bare 

 ground in the fields, very little ice to be seen, and everything 

 indicating an early spring. This will be good news for the 

 fishermen. 



—We have received from the Pensacola Ice Company, 

 through Eugene Blackford, of Fulton Market, two elegant 



