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NEW HAVEN Y, 0.-- Has been on a squadron cruise to Newport 

 and Easttrn water?. Left New Harej Aug. 4, readied Thimble Isl- 

 ands same day. Put into New London. Greeuport, Newport, and 

 readied New Bedford Aug. 8, winding up the cruise at Vineyard 

 Haven. 



POPULARITY OF CUTTERS.— There were in Marblehead harbor, 

 on the morning of August 10, seventeen sloops belonging to the New 

 York and Eastern Y. C. and also seven cutters, or about one-third of 

 the lot. Five years ago cutters were practically unknown. 



VIKING.— Mr. Geo. S. Scott's new steam yacht is 138ft. over all, 

 21ft. beam, lift. 8in. hold and draws 9ft. Sin. water. Engines com- 

 pound. Carries 83 tons in the bunkers, enough for ten days slow 

 steaming. Saloon 31x17ft. Owuer's stateroom 18x8ft. 



LLOYD'S REGISTER.— We have received the. first supplement to 

 the edition for 1K83, containing further details and classification of 

 many new British yachts, alterations and new subscriptions, among 

 them that of Wm.'P. Curran, of New York. 



LIGHTS IN BOATS.-The. law obliges all rowboats to show a 

 white light after sundown. Steamboat captains complain that the 

 i . i, l> d ami in ,.n»i- ports measures will bu taken to see it 

 enforced. The penalty is quite a heavy flue. 



HERA— LILLJE.— As will be seen by our fixtures, three matches 

 between these two Boston Keel sloops have been arranged for Aug. 

 21, 22 and 23, off Marblehead. Best two in three for a purse of Si, 500. 



ARGENTINE Y. C— A yacht club has been formed by the foreign 



residents of Buenos Avres. Argentine Republic, and the Government 

 has decreed that the first ten yachts may be imported free of duty. 



GRAYLING.— We learn that during the recent cruise of the Atlan- 

 tic Y. C. this schooner came so near capsizing a second time Unit 

 participation in the cruise of the N. Y. Y. C. was given up. 



RAR1TAN Y. C— Second open race of the club was sailed off Perth 

 Amboy, Aug. 11, in light southeast wind. Won bv Falcon in first 

 class, in 1:51:17; and Pantaisie hi second class, in 1:68:20. 



AMERICAN Y. C— The steam yacht club has appoiuted a commit- 

 tee on coaling stations, with a view to selecting certain points and 

 making special contracts for fuel for yachts of the elub. 



BEVERLY OPEN RACES.-For the races this Saturday 173 entries 

 have been made, including many crack sloops and cutlers for class 

 A. With a good wind a slashing race may be expected. 



SOLD.— The Herreshoffs have sild their fast steamer 101) to Mark 

 Hopkins, and sin- will proceed to St. Clair. Mich,, going through the 

 Erie Canal. She is the fastest steam yacht in America. 



CUIUS I NG.— Cutter Medusa, E, Y. C, Mr. $ 

 ter Mavis, Beverly Y. C. Mr. W. T. Whittle,, . 

 w est. They were off Whitestone, L. I., last Monday. 



CAPSIZES THIS WEEK.-Sloop Minnie R., of Boston, tumbled 

 over iu a puff off Long Island Head in Boston harbor. Police* at 

 rescued the crew, and the yacht was beached. 



TAROLINTA.— This former New York schootier, 105ft. long, has 

 been sold to Capt. John C. Cummiugs, by Win. Bliss, of Boston. She 

 will he converted into pilot boat No. 9. 



ONE MILLION.— The value of the yachts lying off City Point, South 

 Boston, is estimated to reach one million dollars. 



Goelet, entered the port 



jenneting. 



To insure prompt attention, communications should bead- 

 dressed to the. Forest and Stream Publishing Go., and not to 

 individuals, in whose absence from the office matters of im- 

 portance are liable to detail. 



FIXTURES. 



Aug. Iti, 17, 18— Iowa Canoe Club Regatta, Spirit Lake, Iowa. 

 Aug. 20— American C ig at Stoney Lake. 



Aug. 21, 22, 23— American Canoe Association Regatta at Stoney 



Lake. 

 Aug. 24— American Canoe Association Meeting at Stoney Lake. 



THE LUG SAIL. 



rTMIE first attempt to utilize the power of the wind for the propul- 

 JL sion of a boat reached no higher than running before the wind, 

 the sail being simply a square of matting suspended across the boat, 

 and controlled by lines at'.acbed to the lower corners. On the dis- 

 covery of the art of sailing to windward it became evident that a 

 fore and aft sail was superior to the suuaresail, and the latter was 

 hauled around, one corner was lashed fast forward, and a single 

 sheet attached to the other corner. To improve the set of the rail 

 the rectangular shape was changed, the yard being raised on the 

 after end, giving a "peak" to the sail, the result being Ihe sail 

 known as the lug, or more exactly, the 'dipping lug." This sail 

 is still iu common use, notably on the French and English fishing 

 boats, one of the best types being the famous "Penzance luggers." 

 The sail is hoisted by a' halyard, a single part only in a small boat, 

 but in the larger ones a single part called a tye, frequently of chain, 

 is attached to the mast traveler and leads over a sheave at the mast- 

 head, a guntackle purchase hooking into the end. the tack being 

 hauled down to the stem head or to a short bumpkin and lashed. 

 No boom is used, and in tacking the sheets are unhooked, the halyard 

 slacked away and the yard hauled down and passed around forward 

 of the mast, the fore part of the sail serving to pay the head off. 

 When the sail is all to leeward of the mast it, is hoisted" again. 



The mizzen is a standing lug and is not shifted. As the ^villd fresh- 

 ens the mainsail is taken a >he mizzen set in-its place and a smaller 

 mizzen set aft, this being repeated until a small watch mizzen is set 

 when riding to the nets. This sail answers excellently in the fishing 

 boats, which are well manned, and being in open water, make but 

 few short tacks, but the work is too heavy for a small crew, or for 

 more confined waters where tacks are more frequent. 



Another form of sail is called the "split" lug, the general shape 



being similar to the dipping lug, but it is divided from head to fool 

 just forward of the mast, making fore and mainsail in one. One 

 tack is lashed to the stemhead and one to the mast. This sail is but 

 little used, as the foresail can never be lowered alone. 



The "settee" is a lug with a very long yard and a short luff, being 

 a lateen with enough of the lower epi oer cut off to allow one reef. 



Perhaps the most convenient of all sails for small boats is the 

 "standing lug," as used in ship's boats, naval cutters and gigs, and 

 similar craft. The spars being shorter, it is much less clumsy than 

 the sprit sail: it has no hoops to jam in hoisting and lowering, like 

 the boom and gaffsail so Common in .America, but being detachable 

 from the mast may be quickly removed and stowed hi a small space 

 Unlike the common lug the yard is not shifted in tacking, but is 

 always on the same side of the mast. The sail is hoisted as described 

 above with a single halyard or a. purchase, the traveler consisting of 

 an iron ring to one side of which a hook with an eye above is welded. 

 The halyard is spliced into the eye, while on the'yard is a gromniet 

 strap and thimble for the hook. The tack is lashed or hauled with a 

 purchase to the foot of the mast, near the deck. The position of the 

 strap on the yai (Spend on the cut of the sail, ami is best found by 

 experiment. If economy of stowage space is not an object, the yard 

 should have a handsome round to it. the bead of the sail being curved 

 to suit, insuring a better set and handsomer appearance. This form 

 of sail is ec uonly used for a mizzen in yawl-rigged boats. 



Mr. Mc Mullen has devised an excellent method ot n-lit.r,,; -ail. 

 and has used it successfully on bis lugger I'roeyr u. The sa.t 1-. to, >e- 

 footed, not being laced to the boom, but battled dew,, b, a tack 

 tackle. Another small tackle, used also for rcilug. ■ -.<■ he hoofed 

 Into a cringle on the luff just below- the heel of the yard \ small 

 block is seized to the yard near its middle, aud a line run through h 

 and made fast, to the tack. The reef tackle being set taut, the tack is 

 cast off, and by means of the line, the tack is triced up. leaving a 

 triangular opening, giving room to work forward in getting up an- 

 chor, etc. 



The lug rig, with main and mizzen. both "sta 

 mer placed well forward, is one of the best tors 

 small size. The bowsprit, jib, and all headget 

 avoiding considerable weight and complication, w bile ilio rig is safer 

 aud more easily handled than the ordinary cat if d^ii ed. the main 

 lug may be stowed, the mizzen set forward, and a small mizzen aft 

 for heavy weather. The mast being well forward, the morn below is 

 less cut up. 



In rigging a stau, ling lug tor a canoe, the halyard and dowuhaul 

 are iu one piece, leading through two pulleys on deck and a screw- 

 eye near the well, so that o pint either way will hoist or lower, while 

 there are no lines to get adrift. '1 he tack, which cannot be reached 

 from the well, is hauled out by au endless line to the front of the 

 mast. 



We are indebted, however, to the ingenutf, of the Chinese tor the 

 most servicable sail for canoes, the "balance" lug. The Chinese 

 sails are usually of fine matting, the shape varying in different locali- 

 ties, many being very high and narrow, as they are used on the 

 canals and must catch the air above the banks, They all nave three 

 peculiar features, the forward part oi the sail projects a the 



mast a distance of about one-seventh its hreadtn.'while the siil is 

 kept flat by a series of bamboo battens lace i to it, running ac o-s 

 ' -adiating. like the r" ~ 



after end of each batten 

 the sail may be trimmed pe 

 termed a parrel, is made 1 

 mast, and distributing the st 

 or topping-lift is rove, one el 

 side of the sail, through a th 

 other side and through a bio 

 line is on the fore end of the 

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