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FOREST AND STREAM 



afterward. Among tbe smaller ones Nimbus made the start 

 under lower sail only, Pilot with a reef down in both main- 

 sail and jib. They made more sail when boom3 were squared 

 away to port oil the forts, The Wind ran down between the 

 marks, jib over and made a second cross, (hereby handicap- 

 ping het*elf with nearly 5m. Fortunately her competitor, 

 Alcyone, was worse off by 2m. Down the wind the big ones 

 drew out ahead, the Commodore's schooner doing remark- 

 ably well, and Undine at her old tricks ahead of the sloops. 

 Barring an occasional blanketing and a sharp luff, endanger- 

 ing booming out poles, nothing noteworthy occurred till the 

 Spit Buoy was jibed around, as follows i 



h. m. s. b. M. s. 



Amies 12 28 at) Kegraa. 12 35 38 



paries* « 21 40 Sadie 18 30 10 



Won.. V2 29 25 Wlusome 12 so « 



VpA - M , 12 29 «) Pirate , . H S « 



IitezleL - 12 31 12 Genu \'i 40 Si 



DtAffMn 2 34 49 Kaiser 12 M 20 



Schemer, 12 35 00 Nirobna 12 44 80 



The rest were not timed. The schooners and large sloops 

 ran up along the Hook with a beam wind, bound out for 

 the KghtsMp, while clasB D trimmed in for the Qedney 

 Channel stake-boat, and classes E, F and G commenced the 

 real work of the tedious beat home against a strong ebb. 

 Lizzie L. made a neat round of the Geduey stake at lh. 6m. 

 14«.. followed by Schemer at lh. 9m. 46s. The former 

 doused topsail, and with boom hard in made a long board to 

 the W.S.W., und a few short ones along the Hook, till she 

 could look up inside, and after crossing the ebb coming out 

 the main ship channel, stood far in to the W. and kept 

 cheating the tide by short boards as much as possible. Then 

 recrossing the channel, "the Doctor's boat" worked the 

 Coney Island beach and Graveaeud Bay to the best advan- 

 tage. She was followed by Scheme)' and Winsome; these 

 two, however, getting the wind sufficiently from the N. to 

 hug buoys 11, 14 and 15, and then lay their course up the 

 Harrows for home. By this little slant in their favor they 

 gained much on Pirate, Kaiser and the Lizzie, as Pirolc 

 until near the close had a long lead in her class, having 

 ■worked the north shore with effect all the way from the 

 Komer. Gcnia seemed to do poorly on the wind, for she 

 was left to leeward pretty roundly. The finish of this and 

 the smaller classes will be found below, Winsome"* size tell- 

 ing in her favor over Sr.Iir.mcr on tbe long turn to windward 

 and landing her ahead of all allowances, and winning two 

 prizes handsomely for her owner off as fine a fleet of sloops 

 as ever sailed together. 



In the meantime tbe big ones had been having a fair run of 

 Of it out to "the ship." The latter was luffed around as 

 under, Undine doing the right thing cutting in between the 

 mark, and Triton hardening in for home on the schooner's 

 weather a few seconds ahead : 



a. m. s. m, m. s, 



Amine 1 31 09 DOlpMnO 1 61 20 



p«eri e 5aV.v.:.'.v.;v.v.... i as a £*&* 1 « w 



Uiitliue 1 42 4S Saute 1 63 47 



IVUoa, •• 1 « 08 



The wind having backed more to the W. all hands stood in 

 for the shore well to the southward. It was now that wind- 

 jamming was at a premium. Peerless showed the most Of 

 this among the schooners, and under workmgtopsails chiseled 

 out a big lot during the short work up the coast. Off the 

 Hook she found a favorable slant which served to give her 

 even more to spare. Triton went away to tbe northward in 

 search of luck, but found only the ebb of the main channel 

 snd no more wind than inshore. It was, however the oruy 

 move she could make under tbe circumstances with any hope 

 Of bettering herself. AgW lacked the tonnage and so Peer- 

 less had things her own way doing the slack water in Raritan 

 Bay and at times apparently lee-bowing the last of the ebb 

 finishing in trrand style after a well-sailed race, her owner 

 still at tie wheel, with a lead of 18m. of Agnes, and the more 

 remarkable amount of nearly 45m. of Triton No wonder 

 Mr. Maxwell hoisted a pennant at the mam about as long as 

 the far-famed sea serpent of mythical seas The sloops took 

 a lesson from the schooners and went in for be shore after 

 hauling around the outer mark. Here i was that Regina as- 

 tonished her company, Undine in the lead with Orion and 

 Dolphin under her lee, and Sadie a Bhort distance astern. 

 Mr. Stuart's craft looked right up in the wiud and p anted her- 

 self fairly to the northward of all tbe rest more and more, so 

 much so that she made up for Undines lead, as when the 

 two crossed tacks near shore-Undine with the right of way, 

 but Reai-na with no sea room to go about- the former poked 

 her bowsprit over the white sloop's quarter fouled her top- 

 pipe lift, and wore Segim/am round on her heel, finally 

 ratling clear with trifling damage to either. It was not long, 

 however before Regina had made good the amount lost, and 

 in fair work screwed out to windward of the Boston pet once 

 again. From that time on it was Regina s day, and she grad- 

 ually put more water between herself and rival, chiefly 

 through outpointing her. Undine may not have been quite 

 herself in her new suit of sails, nor did she staud up quite as 

 well We believe she has received more hoist, and if that is 

 the case it has been overdone— for brisk winds, at all events. 

 Butth-n Un&iw certainly did not do poorly, judging by the 

 manner she held Sadie, and we cannot ascribe Begin*, * vic- 

 tory to anything else than her new omm cut er rig ; for with 

 it she can lay higher than under the baggy Jib of the Bourbon 

 fancy. No doubt, this day's match will cause a precipe o 

 shedding of the clumsy jibs and the adoption of flWW 

 have all along counselled with as much force _ as the want of 

 just such victories as Regina s to point to in support of a 

 sailor's rig would allow. Nimbus, a deep, powerful sloop 

 had made a splendid race, coming home in such fast tunc that 

 the judges at first thought she had failed to make the course, 

 a false report to that effect having got abroad. 



Trtfoo* 1100 00 



Ageen i-..n 09 00 



TJndine n CO 00 



Hpnin;! 11 09 00 



s-L.tH.".'. ii-oooo 



jKrfjjitn U09 00 



Pirate " \* ™ 



1 zz p L 11 14 12 



Winsome ,11 14 30 



QMUa i ""J 



Pll n t 11 20 30 



Serlnue . » «» » 



CLASS Q. 







4 3T 45 



5 17 15 



5 17 15 



6 03 40 



6 48 10 



5 43 45 



Wind n :■■■ ." 



Atojone 11 20 3'J 



The prize for schooners goes to Peerless, Regina wins in 

 her class, and Winsome takes club prize with time allowance, 

 as well as the Livingston Memorial for first sloop in her 

 clasp, irrespective of allowances. Nimbus takes prize in 

 Class E, having beaten Alma by the long lift of lh. 5m. 25s. 

 over a 25-mile course I Pilot wins from Covin ne in open 

 sloops, and Wind from Alcyone in the cats, 



Hudson Rivbr Yacht Clot.— The eighth annual regatta 

 of this club was sailed Monday, June 9, over a course from 

 the club house, foot of 70th St., North River, to Spuyten 

 Duyvil Creek and return for fourth class yachts, and to 

 Yonkers and return for the rest. Time allowance 2m. to the 

 foot. Length measured over all. Wind moderate from S. S. 

 W., tide, last of the flood. The races brought out a fine list 

 of entries and were attended by a big fleet of "outsiders" 

 and a large concourse of spectators. It was a run up with 

 jibs boomed out to pert, the wind being at times lost under 

 the lee of the Palisades, and one stretch home with everything 

 nipped in hard. Tides and eddies, flaws and slants, were 

 worked in a most creditable manner by some of the craft 

 whose skippers have been born and bred about the lower 

 reaches of the Hudson. The start was effected a little after 

 meridian. The mark at Yonkers was rounded in the follow- 

 ing order. 



h. m. s. H. m. s. 



AnnieG 1 50 43 Irene 1 63 35 



Mechanic 1 54 35 Deane 1 60 02 



AnnleL 2 01 4S Warm 2 04 29 



Prospect 2 05 27 StiSlBlO S 10 23 



Willie 2 10 35 RoseH 3 10 4S 



Toward the close it breezed up a little livelier and an ex- 

 cellent race was finished as under : 



F1BST CLASS. 



Name. Owner. Length. 



FT. IK. 



Annie G Tteld & Getsael 27 8>; 



Mechanic J Godwin ids 4 



BEOONU OLABS. 



Irene EE Wilson *4 ooh 



THIBD CLASS. 



Geo B Deane.. GSchwank 21 70X 



AnnleL KV Freeman 23 id 



FotntTn CLA8S. 



JoeEagan....M Miokolas 17 lit 



Gasale A Marshall IS 04 



SupliuT AWTrlnke 16 07 



Nellie Shaw.. .N Van Wageaer 16 05 



Maggie M JMaioney is 07 



Fire Bug JCarolin 13 02 



Fll'l'fl CLASS, CAT BOATS. 



Maria JMolloy 20 il 



LveittT W J tlroaccn 22 07 



Prospect John Drew 22 03 



MEIino JT Lynch 36 01 



Willie CHoiti 20 08 



Kose;H Geo Getsael 21 US 



Annie O. w'tm from first class, beating Meeh; 

 allowance applied. Irene had a walkover 

 wins from third-class, beating Annie L. 11m, 34 



Start. 





finish. 





fl. 



II. 



SI. S. 



12 11 



67 



4 



B( 3D 



lli 11 



60 



6 



OS 47 



12 11 



15 



5 



08 27 



12 20 



35 



4 



45 3S 



12 21 



6B 



4 



58 35 



12 Si 



40 



3 



39 15 



12 24 



07 



Ei 



4ii 05 



12 20 



49 



3 



40 05 



12 25 



10 



3 



fi-i SO 



12 22 



45 



05 



•1 



(19 04 



9. 

 12 22 



f> 



05 19 



12 22 



85 



!S 



41 19 



12 24 



61 



5 



35 47 



12 21 



9.5 



5 



3S 33 



12 31 



20 



5 



39 (5 



tit 



.d Ma, 



■ 12m. 39s. 

 i. B. item 

 Joe Bgm 



UliABB B. 



Elapsed 



Corrected 



finish. 



Time. 



Time. 







n. H, 8, 



5 38 80 



6 29 30 



f, v'li 30 





7 13 10 



7 OS 04 



6 56 60 



6 47 60 



6 35 48 



CLASB O. 







6 24 00 



7 15 00 



7 15 0(1 



C 1)3 BO 



6 54 30 



G 54 4 1 



6 24 40 



7 15 40 



7 11 39 



SO 80 



J 21 3) 



7 17 27 



GLASS D. 







5 03 40 



6 49 10 



5 J9 10 





a 02 18 



6 00 49 





6 41 40 



B SO ST 





6 10 41) 



r, IE 12 





5 21 00 



14 68 



G Ofi B0 



S3 40 



is as n 



CLASS K. 







S 30 45 



■1 4:i DO 



tu 



4 10 15 



r, 21 JO 



CLASS If. 







4 34 30 



5 14 00 



6 14 CO 



4 52 00 



D 11 30 



5 28 07 



wins from fourth clas3, beating &uisifi 12s., 

 among a the cats, beating Prospect 32m. 2s. 



Newport Yacht Club.— The following are tbe officers for 

 the year : Commodore, S. F. Pratt, of Boston ; Vice-Com- 

 modore, «T. V Mott, of Now York; Treasurer, Lieutenant 

 Commander E. M. Bteadman, U.S. Navy; Secretary, W.V. 

 Olytihant, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Measurer, Richard lou- 

 mans, of Newport. The club was organized June 15, Iy7t5 ; 

 their club-house is located at the head of Long Wharf. The 

 fleet is composed of three schooners, twelve sloops, twenty- 

 eight cats and three steamers. The commodore has brought 

 out a new invention in the shape of a flexible rudder, and 

 bowsprit hinged to the boom instead of being fastened to the 

 deck. When hoisted the jib requires no sheets, the foot 

 being laced to the bowsprit and the head being hoisted as 

 usual. This makes it virtually one sail with the mainsail, 

 and it is claimed tbe boat can lie closer than with the usual 

 jib, besides being handier. By unlocking the hinge the 

 bowsprit can be swung aft alongside of the boom, the jib 

 furled to it, and the rig reduced to that of a cat-boat. The 

 club rules call very sensibly for fixed ballast, and Herreshoff's 

 time-tables are in use. Club burgee red pointed, with white 

 perpendicular stripe ; Commodore's pennant, red swallow- 

 tail, with three white stripes, and Vice-Commodore with 

 two white stripes. 



West Bbighton Yaoht Cmjb— Organized this season- 

 Officers for the year: Commodore, J. H. Diiks; Vice-Oom- 

 modore, P. Stoddard ; Secretary, L. Sykes : Treasurer, T, 

 White. Location, West Brighton, North Shore, SLatcn 

 Island. Annual regatta fixed for June 28. 



SorniYLKii,i, Yaoht Club.— Organized this year in Phila- 

 delphia. Officers : Commodore, J. Gibbons ; Vice-Oommo- 

 dore, R. Sutton ; Measurer, A. King ; Secretary, T. J. Gal- 

 lagher ; Treasurer, E. Harley. 



Bat of Quinte Yaoht Clttb.— The Mayor of Belleville 

 gives a silver pitcher and Mr. A G. Colo, of Ottawa, a large 

 club ensign for the summer regatta on June 13, while the 

 Commodore will give a silver cup, and the Treasurer a com- 

 pass for the first and second yachts in the fall regatta. Katie 

 Gray, last year's champion, will sail under precisely the same 

 r>g which last season proved so successful. Kathleen has a 

 new cedar spar, which has been set forward 9in., and the un- 

 wieldy jib reduced, as she had too much canvas before. She 

 seems to work well under the new rig. Grade will have an 

 entire new outfit. Sylvia's hull has been planed as smooth as 

 a bottle, and a stouter topmast has replaced that which carried 

 away in the last fall regatta. She is the only keel in the fleet, 

 and her speed will be tried against that of the ceutreboarders 

 in all kinds of weather. Surprise, of Trenton, has received 

 a new deck and cabin, and a new cedar spar, while her quar- 

 ters have been raised. Cuthbert has now on the ways a new 

 10-tonner for a gentleman in Kingston. Tbe same builder 

 lately turned out a small steamer for parties in New Bruns- 

 wick. She was christened Maggie Mohle, and is, like all 

 Cuthberl's craft, of beautiful model. Mr. Atkins, of Picton, 

 has built a 10-tou yacht, which he calls Judge Jelleli, and 

 which will sail in the June rcgattB. The third-class fleet is 

 in a mixed condition. Wideawake, a very smart little craft, 

 which was built in Trenton by Cuthbert last year, and sailed 

 under a cat rig, was purchased by parties here, and has been 

 overhauled arid rigged as a sloop, with cedar spar and a good 

 spread of light canvas. Sho sails very fast, and promises to 

 show a clean pair of heels to all in her class. Mabel has also 

 been fitted cut, and so has Amorette, but Minnie A., a smart 

 little boat, is under seizure, and Ailsa Craig has not yet had 



has been added to the club fleet. The first class of the fleet 

 has suffered a severe loss in the sale of Madcap, of 16 tons, to 

 Mr. A. R. Boswell, Commodore of the Hoyal Canadian Yacht 

 Club, Toronto, for which city she has made sail. The de- 

 parture leaveB Dauntless the only representative of the first 

 class at this port. She will he hauled out and put into trim 

 at an early date. 



Tho Bay of Quinte Rowing Club is full of life and energy, 

 and will inaugurate its season very early by holding a 

 series of races over a two-mile course for the club prizes, em- 

 blematical of the championship in singles and pairs. 



Poet Taoic. 



Quaker Citt Yacht Cltjb — Fixtures for the year i An- 

 nual spring regatta, June 12 ; Chester regatta, June 16; review 

 and harbor cruise, June 29; Corinthian regatta, July i; re- 

 view and harbor cruise, July 13 ; same, Aug. 3 ; annual 

 cruise, Aug. 16 to 30 ; fall regatta. Sept; 22 ; closing cruise 

 and review, Sept. 28. The opening review and harbor cruise 

 was held May 30, from Philadelphia to Cheater aurt return. 

 Olub rules will be strictly enforced on all occasions. 



O. S. S. 



The squadron cruising on the fixtures of this club is a grati 

 tying evidence of the progress of that sort of yachting which 

 will gradually give to yacht design a new aspect and develop 

 a healthy model. 



Sweep3takes on thk Dei-aware — Philadelphia, June 4. — 

 Editor Forest and Stream: Last Monday (June 3) there was 

 a sweepstakes regatta between tuckups of the Philadelphia 

 and Southwark yacht clubs, from the Kensington Water 

 'Works pier up river to Delaware Buoy (12 miles) and return. 

 This is the favorite course of the Philadelphia club, as they 

 know every bar and eddy in the river. The boats of tho 

 Philadelphia club participating were i Mc.Uully, Schuyler, 

 Crawford, Flick, HUdebrandt, Moore, Duston, Jones, Allen, 

 RicMey and Martin. Those of the Smith wark club were : 

 Campbell, Douglas, Boyle, Powell and Mitolielt ( double-ender). 

 Breeze blowing from the northwest, which hauled around 

 about southwest, and the boats got away in good style at 

 10;15, Craieford on the lead, which position she maintained 

 to the upper buoy. On the Teturn Mitchell gradually drew up 

 and passed her, but owing to some " outsiders" that bothered 

 tbe latter somewhat, Crawford resumed her old position, and 

 passed the home stakeboat'a short distance ahead, closely fol- 

 lowed by Boyle, second ; Mitchell third. Time— 3:80, &S5, 

 2:36. Each boat had contributed five dollars as entrance fee, 

 which was divided as follows : Crawford, $50 ; Boyle, $20 ; 

 Mitchell, $10. O. C. 



Bobtoh Municipal Regatta.— The city authorities of 

 Boston have appropriated $800 for prizes at the forthcoming 

 regatta, July 4, and our friends in Boston are complaining of 

 the niggardly amount. Just come to iMew York and try to 

 get fifty cents out of our Aldermen for any such purpose, and 

 you will ever after think your city very liberal, after all. 



Gone South. — The steamer El&nore A. Kent, of New 

 York, has been sold to parties in Charleston, S. O, through 

 Mr. Samuel Holmes, steamship broker, of this city. The 

 Kent will go South immediately. 



Nekeus Tacut Club,— This club held its spring regatta 

 on May 30. Course, from Capt. Decker's, 1151b street. East 

 River, to buoy off City Island and return. Wind, S.E. and 



strong; tide,"first of " flood. ISsteUe, 16ft. lin., owned and 



sailed by C. P. Rosemon, went over the course in 3b. 2'Jm. 

 30s., winning two prizes, and beating /•'. ■tries*, lfift. 8in., 

 sailed by T. I. Miller, 7m. 25s. Queen Xal> 15ft> 3in., came 

 in third, and only 10s. behind .Fenrh-ss. ,Y< reus, a pew skip- 

 jack, 14(t. 8io., carried away gaff panell, and put into Fort 

 Schuyler. L. P. Decker acted as judge. Capt. Tom. 



SiiAltPiES.— Mr. Thos. Olapham's new sharpie, with his 

 innovations in the way of fore-foot and bilge-keels in place o£ 

 centreboard, ib said to be doing very well, working fully up 

 to expectations. 



The Canob Regatta.— Tbe large number of entries made 

 for the canoe regatta, sailed Saturday, June 7, in accord 

 with rules already published in these columns, over a course 

 off Staten Island, leads us to believe that there is a bright 

 future for the sport within the next few years. All the in- 

 terest needs is thorough organization, with enterprising and 

 capable officers, and a little sacrifice of individual prefer- 

 ences for the common good. There was a strong wind 

 blowing during the race, and quite a sea on for such little 

 fellows as the Lift. Heralds, Shndovs, Rt,b Roys and Nauti- 

 lus. The paddling race was started at 8 P. m. by the judges 

 on board the steam yacht Nine. Course, three-quarters of a 

 mile to a stake and return. Entries— Star, Tuckermau ; 



A'-'iV. Fred. Hussey, Passaic Club; Argo, Wm. T. Fitch, 

 Jersey Club; Bubble, Chas. E. Cbase, Jersey Club; Rona- 

 Und, W. M. Cooke ; Lena, Sutherland D. Smith, New fork 

 Club; Dnlli/ Varden, J. Habberlou, New York Club. 

 Double-bladed paddles were in favor. The Star took the 

 lead and won by 100'yards in 19 minutes, Fits, second and 

 Argo third. The sailing race was started at 3:30 e. m,, in 

 heats of three. Entries : 



•i not CBowyer Vnux (Resolute Cluh). 



o rpbb' ' ,' UBNorli'.iH'-'.;m[u >■ "■'■ N K Ulub), 



|; iMip Dr E B Prorntra (N T Club), 



4 1 oulse ..........Ac Couatantine. 



5' EHIe .'..'.'■ F™ 3 Hu"sey (I'ussrue Olnb). 



6 1'itania. . .?.... Joflga ranVn (S x ciub). 



8 smr r, F Il'Oreuilealx. 



a blochVlVe"" W Wliltlort; (N Y Cub). 



lo! llolly Varaen. J Habberttn (N Y Oitlu). 



Psi/che, Dr. H. G. Piffard, capsized and withdrew, owing 

 to wet sails. Wind, N.W. Course, from club house of the 

 Staten Island Rowing Club to and around Robbins Reef 

 buov sail over twice ; distance, G miles. Dot. and fflfin led 

 off, followed by Bess, in the first heat, with Louise- close after 

 them. The buoy was rounded as follows: Elfin, Dot, Louise, 

 TU-ania, Star and Gl-chetic. Ehie. J,:r,,>/ Blue and Bell 

 failed to turn as required, and were ruled out; and Dotty 

 Varden. drifted away to leeward, and the others finally gave 

 up tbe attempt to beat to windward. This left the race to 

 Fln'n Louise and C'loehette, who completed the final round in 

 59m. 80a.. lh. 9m., and lh. 30m, 80s. respectively. Suitable 

 nrizes were awarded to the winners, and a dinner finished up 

 the day. Judges : Messrs. Wm. Krebs. M. Roosevelt Schuy- 

 ler and Major Henry Gaines. 



Charleston (S. O.) Rowing.— The annual rowing races 

 came I b Mny ft. under the auspices of the three rowing clubs 

 of this city— 'be Palmettos, Carolina Independents and Elec- 

 trics The Kegatta Association is either broken up or the 

 members are all' last asleep, and the boating men very wisely 

 took matters into their own hands. The day and water were 



hTerasto" allTha-tcouldb; wished. A few minutes after 8 o'clock Mr. 



