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FOREST AND STREAM. 



filAY 20, 186C.1 



clubs mentioned in your notice of the Association sent only an 

 unofficial representative to the committee meeting hold Inst 

 week, who complained bitterly about the way things were car- 

 ried on, and rules made by one or two clubs, without any con- 

 sideration whatever being made for their opinion. 



In agitating the question of something besides a length 

 measurement, I am surprised that the tonnage measurement 

 should meet with so much opposition. I think that the main 

 trouble is Lhat it is so little understood, and I do not doubt in tho 

 least that some of those who have so much to say in opposition to 

 it do so because they do not understand it, and because it is some- 

 thing different from what they have been accustomed to. M. 



Salt in, Mac/ Uh. 



Cooper's Point Tacht Club.— Our regatta came off to-day, 

 May 17th, and was a grand success. Wind very heavy from south, 

 southwest. Started from a Ice shore. Ton boats entered, but 

 only eight lived through it. a he Cohill started fifth, and after 

 ft ten-nifle run, when off the Hock House, she took the lead, fol- 

 lowed by Schuck and Springer. Hounded Chester buoy at 12.59 

 (two hours from time of starting) followed by Schuck, 1.03; 

 Springer, I. U3i; Filch, 1.04. Cohill still led coming home, and 

 crossed the lino at Cooper's Point at 3.33; iVorc. loss, 3.37: Schuck, 

 3371; Fiteft,3.37i; Kramr.r, 3.38; Gnaim,3.m. The distance run 

 was about forty miles. This is the fourth time the CohUl has won 

 the champion flag of the Cooper's Point Y. fj.j also three other 

 champion flags In other regattas. Sho was sailed by Capt. 

 " Swallow " Martin. COM. C. C. 



Quincy YlciiT Club.— The opening race was sailed May 15th 

 off Quincy Point. Course for second class nine mites, for third 

 class six miles. First and second prize in each class. Wind 

 moderate from East. Judges: J as. T. Penniman, .Nap. B. Fur- 

 naldand Samuel liass. Suuimaryas under:— 



SECOND CLASS. 



Actual Corrected 



Length. iPiinc. 'lime. 



Name and Owner. Ft. In. H.M.S. H. M. S. 



Glance, Murray Knight 18 10 2 33 13 1 5ti 36 



Sopay, Charles E. Kent H I 3 30 59 1 56 u 



Wildfire, H. A. Keith 18 3 Time not taken. 



THIRD CLASS. 



Dandelion, J Q.Adams 17 5 1 34 40 1 09 07 



Elmer, P. Chub ouek 17 5 1 38 07 1 13 34 



Dolly Varaeu. A. B. Cleverly 16 8 1 43 03 1 16 43 



Zip, ii. W. Morton 10 9 1 43 00 1 16 40 



Imp, G-. C. Adums IB 10 Time not taken. 



Empire Yacht Club.— The race for the Dowling Challenge 

 Cup was sailed on the Harlein, May 17th. Course, Eighty-ninth 

 street to One Hundred and Sixteenth street; start and finish off 

 the club-house at One Hundred and Fourth street. Sail over 

 five times. Entries limited to twenty-three feet length. Only 

 two started, Sophia-Emma, Jacob Variau, twenty-one feet nine 

 inches long, and Comet, Win. Decker, eighteen feet three inches 

 long. The latter was overmatched, and Sophia-Ennna won 

 easily. The cup must be won three times to become property. 



Osdkosu Yacht Club— Annual cruise of our club will com- 

 mence Wednesday, May 26th, and a large turnout of the fleet is 

 expected. The Commouore will have command. The rendez- 

 vous will be at Morley's Poiot, where we expect to meet tho Fond 

 du Lac fieet, and sail in company to Island Park, and there tail 

 In with the Neenah squadron. After this a daily programme will 

 DB lived up to. Tho iladaXine has been recently launched. A 

 party ot fresh water mariners got a cold bath, as they capsized 

 their yacht in true lubbers' fashion during a run across from the 

 eastern shore, but all hands were fished out. Yachting here is 

 very lively. C. C. M. 



New Bedford Yacht Club.— A new sloop has been built by- 

 Mr. F. C. Smith for his own use. Length, 32ft.; beam, 121ft.; hold 

 1ft.; dratt, Ht,, Sin. of which is due to keel, besides which she is to 

 have a 12ft. center-board. Two state-rooms and loft, house. 

 Mast, Sift., deck to cap ; topmast, 20ft., including 4ft. doublings . 

 boom, 30ft.; gaff, 201ft,; bowsprit outboard, 17ft.; jib on foot, 22ft; 



New Jersey Yacht Cum was organized 1871, and incorpo- 

 rated 1878. Club signal, a swallow tall, red field and white dia- 

 mond in couter; Commodore and Vice-Commodore, a blue and 

 red anchor in the diamond. We are .in receipt of the club book 

 for 1880, a neat little pamphlet replete with information. 



The Undine Yachting Club, of San Francisco, Cal., recently 

 elected the following officers: President, Fred C. Farmer; Vice- 

 President, Walter R, Eastman; Secretary, William Mitchell ; 

 Treasurer, Hubert. J. Coates; Captain, Thomas Robinson ; Lieu- 

 tenant, Charles Fuller ; Board of Directors, W. R. Eastman, 

 Harry Carlton and Horace Serle. 



Warwick Yacbt Club— The following officers have been 

 elected; Andrew Robeson, of Fall River, Commodore; F. P. 

 Sands, of Newport, Vice-Commodore; Messrs. T. Parsons, Jr., 

 Wm. E. Ballard, Albert F. Dow and Wm. B. Lovell were elected 

 members. Rooms will be occupied In Fall River, overlooking 

 Mount Hope Bay. 



Haverhill Yaobt Club.— We are informed that the H. Y. C. 



is not responsible for the challenge cup race which haspreviously 

 figured in our fixtures. It is a private enterprise. 



Buffalo Yacht Club.— Official permission to build our club- 

 house inside the Government breakwater has Just boon received. 

 Tho Flcetwlng has been off on a two-days' cruise, and the rest of 

 the fleet are all fitting out. Pennant. 



New Sloops.— For good substantial work commend us to the 



new sloop just finished by Samuel Ayers, of 744 Water street, for 

 Mr. K. K. McMurray and others of Staten Island. Her model 

 was furnished by Mr. Steulor, aud she will prove an able craft, for 

 she is of good draft, full 4)ft , without drag. Had she been cut 

 up a little more forward, and received tho fashionable drag, the 

 draft would have exceeded 5ft. In body she is a trifle full for- 

 ward, but her run is long aud clear on tho section lines. The 

 work on her is all of the most substantial kind, and a pleasing con- 

 trast to the gingerbread constructions which have given our 

 yachts the reputation for flimsy build. Length on keel, 36ft.- on 

 w.l. ,38ft. tin.; on dock, 45ft.; beam 15ft.; hold, 5ft. She has a 

 raking atom and a "fan tail" of handsome mould aft. Hull 

 without spats, weighs 13 tons, and she will take some 7 tons in- 

 iuslde iron and loud cast to fit ; keel, white oak, oxlSin.; keelsons, 

 pitch pine, running clear fore and aft, fayed against the trunk logs 

 of theeenter-bourd box, each 5x5in. Frames, double, white oak 

 and hackmatack, each 3x5in. heel and 3x3) at phtnksheer, spaced 

 15in. between centers. Duck beams, ixft, pitch pine. Mast 

 beams 6x7; in wake of bouse every other one Is 6in. sided, the 

 houBe bolted down to them with iin. galvanized iron. House 

 beauis,2x21lu. Coiling, lin., yellow pine. Floorhead and bilge 

 streaks, three of the latter each side, 2xtiin.; clamps 7x2 in., and 

 an ouk shelf 2ia. thick, worked on top. All tho beams forward of 

 house havo lodge knees and hanging knees at cither end of the 

 house. Plank from sheer to turn of bilse of 2in. oak, as well as 

 the garboards, the rest llin, cedar, most of it in one length. 

 Deok Uln. Bqunro, white pine.; bulwarks, ljlu., tongued and 



grooved. Planksbeer, white oak, Sx8in. Center-board, 16ft. long, 

 trunk 2iin. thick, aud 4ft. above frames. Post of same are 6x31in. 

 ouk. Tho inside is sheathed with ISoz. composition. The board 

 is2!in. thick and 14jft. long, bolted with Jin. galvanized Iron. 

 House, 19ft. 9in. long, 2ft. 4in. high, of 21in. white pine, the top 

 of Ix3in. tongued aud grooved pine, and covered with canvas. 

 Rudder, 3ft. face, Well's steering gear. All fittings of mahogony. 

 Skylight square, so that it can be turned either way and the 

 sashes opened at warthships so as to catch the breeze when at an- 

 chor. Cabin has 7 to 8ft. floor^ieft. long ; stateroom on star- 

 board side with double berth, 7x8ft. On port side is the ice box, 

 w.c. and pantry, the water tank being placed over the forward 

 half ol the center-board trunk. Forecastle has two berths and 

 galley. There is 6ft. 31n. head room under tho house. Spars, 

 mast, 47ft. long with 41ft. doublings; diameter at .partners 12in. 

 Bowsprit, 25ft long, lOiu. diameter at stem. Boom, i51t. Sin. di- 

 ameter; gaff, 25 ft., 44in. diameter. Topmast 31it. Now 31ft. is 

 something of a stick, but the owners take the right view of things, 

 " when we want a topmast we have got one that amounts to some- 

 thing, when we don't want, it, we house it or strike it altogether." 

 The days of the scaly looking broomsticks aloft, copied from the 

 oyster digger, are numbered, and it is gradually being understood 

 that a yacht should be rigged differently from thosmaok. Mr. 

 Ayera has turned out a strong, healthy job in the new JEulun, and 

 it other craft may surpass her in trimmings and trappings, none 

 can beat her on sound, stanch work, aud we would like to see 

 moreof the kind afloat. Blocks arc supplied by the Providence 

 Too) Co , who seem to be capturing the whole of the yachting 

 trade with their patent anti-friction bearings. They are much 

 to be preferred to the roller bouchiug arrangements, which giye 

 out when least expected. 



Launched.— Saturday last, from the yard of E. Young, Green- 

 point, a new sloop, built for Govuerneur Kortwright, N. Y. Y. C. 

 from model by Philip Elsworth. Length on deck, 48ft. ; length 

 on w. !., 43ft. ; boam, 17ft.; depth, 6Jft. She resembles tho Ele- 

 phant in general type, and will be a flyer. Her internal accom- 

 modations are very roomy. A fine main cabin, 13ft. long, with 

 7ft. floor, 1a finished in mahogany and handsomely decorated. 

 Stateroom on starboard side; pantry, closets, lockers on port 

 side. Two berths in forecastle and a Pacific No. for galley. 

 Round f rames fore and aft, a good deal of drag, fore foot cut up, 

 overhanging stern, and ; 13ft. board with about 54ft. drop. Will take 

 in the neighborhood of 11 tons inside iron ballast. Cubic contents 

 according to official measurement, 3,033ft. Hoist, 40ft, : Jib, 19ft 

 foot. She has been named TFfaard, Also, the same day, from 

 foot of Kent street, G reeupolut, a fine steam yacht for Mr. D. S. 

 Hines, Brooklyn Y. C, built by Sam'l Pine, before noticed. She 

 is called Emu, -will carry no rig and Is 84x18x6, with 771 ft. w. 1. 

 Draft, 41ft. ; cylinders, 10x13 ; 200 turns with 125 lbs. working pres- 

 sure. Screw, 5ft. diam., 8ft. pitch. A smaller craft is also ready 

 for launching. She is built for Mr. A. C. Wilson, of Greenpoint, 

 and is 46ft. over all, 35ft. w. 1., 8ft. 4in. beam and 8ft. Ii i.dei i 

 cylinder, Bin. diam. and -9in. stroke. Steol boiler 5}ft. long, 44in. 

 diam., locomotive type. Screw 3ft. diam. and 5ft. pilch. Engines 

 by Quintardlron Works. 



A Cruise to the South Seas.— Dr. Samuel Merritt, of Oak- 

 land, Cal., will carry the San Francisco Yacht Club flag among 

 the islands in the South Pacific this summer at the masthead of 

 his line schooner Casco, He expects to be gone some six monihs, 

 and will take a small party of friends, among them some ladles' 

 The Doctor's sister is of the party. The yacht is two years old. 

 and last summer cruised south on the California coast some 500 

 miles as far south as San Diego, and then north to Puget Sound. 

 Washington Territory. She is a coppered keel schooner 9ffi't. long, 

 with lead keel, and lead east to lit between timbers low down in- 

 side. Sho is fitted to carry two topsails, staysail, square-sail, flying 

 jib and jib topsail or balloon jib. Has a gaff and leg-of-mutton 

 mainsail both, the latter for use on the windy California coaBt, 

 where it has done good service. She will carry the gaff in run- 

 ning in the northeast trades. The Doctor modeled his own yacht 

 and supervised her construction. It is Interesting to note that 

 she was sparred and canvassed in accordance with the results of 

 experiments made with a small model, built on a half-Inch 

 scale from the working model. This little model was tested 

 with the spars in different positions. After thorough ex- 

 periment, the large yacht was built and spars put on accordingly, 

 rake, length, position, etc., agreeing with model. The Casco has 

 proven a first-class sea boat, fast and handy. She steers as easily 

 as possible, being well-balanced in every respect. She Is very 

 neatly fitted with all modern conveniences Tho Doctor had 

 the lumber selected and worked up at his own mills up the coaM, 

 and brought down in one of his vessels. Everything was of the 

 best material. The yacht cost upwards of $30,000. She will leave 

 San Franeisoo about the 10th of May, and will proceed first to tho 

 Sandwich Islands, afterwards visiting the other groups. 



Y. 



A Sad Relapse.— Only a week ago we were congratulating 

 ourselves upon having convinced our only contemporary that 

 deep yachts can sail quite as fast as the light draft fraternity, ami 

 now our good friend perpetrates the following about Mr. Prague's 

 new sloop Fanita : " She is a deep center- board sloop, aud there- 

 fore will not sail fast." Too bad; butletitgo on record, and our 

 estimate of the same vessel as well, aud the future will decide. 

 We unhesitatingly affirm that the Fanita can outsail anything Of 

 her length in America, because she is more than a slab ; she is a 

 boat with draft, weight, power, sail and very easy lines, any way 

 you look at her. Last year's Elephant ought to have opened our 

 esteemed contemporary's eyes to the truth of the assertions made 

 in these columns— that a big-bodied boat,if properly modeled, will 

 outsail the skimming dish any day, any weather, besides being in- 

 finitely preferable as a cruiser. The I'dnita is practically un- 

 capsizable, which is a virtue fow American yach ts can boast of, 

 and though we should for rough water cruising prefer less beam 

 more depth and lower ballast, our preferences do not blind us to 

 the good points of other people's yachts. Tho Fanita has the 

 room in her of most sloops twice her tonuage, and she will show 

 the fiat-irons what a deep boat can do. A 42ft. sloop that can swing 

 a 60ft. spar to her good is so near perfection in the sloop line that 

 little more can be expected. And by this we are willing to stand 

 or fall. At the end of the season our contemporary will be thor- 

 oughly cured of flat-iron proclivities, and Elsworth wiU have 

 gained laurels by the cargo for not fightingshy of depth, in defer- 

 ence to the slipshod reasoning and accidental fashions of the un- 

 professional masses. 



New Steam Yacht.— Tho flush-deck iron steamer, which the 

 Pioneer Iron Works of Marcus Hook, Pa,, are building for Mr. C. 

 Taylor Dickson, of Philadelphia, will be a handsome craft. Shu 

 is being built from the plans of Mr. Sam'l Holmes, 123 Front 

 street, New Tork, who will also superinti ud the work. She is to 

 bo full schooner-riggtd, with fair spread of canvas, compo 

 tandem engines, with four cylinders, in pairs, ajttgj 

 Star pattern, and will have large power. The bunkers carry 40 

 tons, or enough for eight days' fair steaming. She wiU have four 



bulkheads, atnplo quarters for crew forward, and aft there will 

 be a main saloon 14xl3ft^ two staterooms and captain's roouu 

 bath-room, etc., on each side of the companion. There will be 36 

 lights ft side. Length, 12ttft. ; beam, 15ft. : hold, lift. 



CKUIBUfG Abroad.— It is becoming more and more the fashion, 

 Ctylle and Reglna went foreign this spring. Mr. James Stillman 

 leaves in the schooner Wanderer tor the Chesapeake shortly. The 

 schooner Resolute, chartered by Mr. Charles G. Fraueklyn, will 

 iseinthe Gulf of St. Lawrence; the Caseo, of Sail Francisco, 

 sails for the South Seas ; the Vim t OT the North Pacific: and we 

 hear of others on the berth for distant climes. Philadelphia 

 parties have also ordered a genuine flush deck seagoing steam 

 yacht, 120x15x0, to be built at Marcus Hook. This, besides the 

 other big steamers building, will form the nucleus of a seagoing 

 fleet whose ambition lies beyond the muddy witters of the Sound. 



The Latest Enoltsh Cutter.- They make them awfully nar- 

 row. The rule of the Y. It. A. does It and nothing else. Heie 

 arc the dimensions of the new 20-ton Freda, taken from Bell's 

 Life: Length for tonnage, on w. 1., 19ft.; beam, 9ft. 9Jin.; draught 

 of water, fl ft.: weight of lead keel, 17 tons 15 cwt.; tonnage, 20 

 tons. Spars, mast, deck to hounds, 34ft.; topmast, jib to sheave- 

 hole, 30ft.; gaff, extreme length, 29ft.; boom, 43ft,: bowsprit, out- 



>ard. Sift. Sin.; gall topsail yards, fflft. and 2lif t.; spinnaker boom 

 491't. Area of canvas in square feet: Mainsail l,360ft.( foresail 

 390ft., first, jib 395 ft., second jib 330ft., big topsail 530 ft., second 

 topsail 450ft. 



How Intrepid Sails.— From tho tCnld: "The schooner- 

 yacht intrepid, N. Y. Y. C, Mr. Lloyd Phcenix, having completed 

 her fitting at the foot of Twenty-sixth street, went down the bay 

 Saturday preparatory to sailing for Europe. All of her raeitig 

 spars and canvas has been shipped per steamer, her owner's In- 

 tention being to race her in all the regattas to which she is eligi- 

 ble, and to ace pi an; 1 .11 matches which may be Offered him. 



Unless It be the -interim, Ben Butler's yacht, the lntr< pid is the 

 fastest keel-schooner to windward that has yet been built in this 

 country, and her career on the other side will be watched with in- 

 terest." 



The Fittyr Victim.— Light-draft sends hundreds to an untimely 

 grave every year in America. Hero is the first deluded suM ei of 

 the season: By the capsizing of a "pleasure yacht" at City Is- 

 land, N. .1., May 7th, Oliver J. Halsey was drowned, and four 

 ithers narrowly escaped the same fate. Query, how much water 

 did that mantrap draw t 



New Yacht— The new sloop building for Frank H. Ordner 

 Buffalo Y. C, 13 now receiving her rig. She Is 37ft, 3in. on deck, 

 12Et. 4in. beam, 4ft. 2iu. deep, draws 3ft. aft and 20in. forward: 

 stie has 2ft. Oin. dcadrise to 61 1. floor ; mast steps lift, from bow. 

 She is to receive a racing tig aud will be in all the hunts on Lake 

 Erie. 



Another Compromise Cutter.— We have seen the sail plan 

 for Mr. Cassatt'a new yacht, built by Alonzo Smith at Isllp, and 

 before noticed. She is to have 34ft. hoist ; boom, Sfirt. gaff, Tuft.; 

 forestaysail, 16ft. on foot, and jib same; topmast, 24ft., fitted to 

 house. 



Engishl Sails.— The Muriel is to have a genuine Lapthorn 

 suit, imported expressly. Tho foot of her mainsail will not be 

 laced to the boom, mid tho tack can be triced up by a line after 

 the English fashion. 



California, too I— Tho yaw! Sappho has received a double 

 head rig and a lofty housing topmast in San Francisco, and the ' 

 0,'1/ni plan remarks that more will follow 



Block Island Cable.— Yachtsmen in tnese waters will be glad 

 to know that the Block Island cable is in working order. 



The Muriel— This cutter has had her fore-foot and keel 

 rounded up morc,an8in. inustsubstitutcd tor the heavier one 

 and stepped further aft. Some small portion of the lead on the 

 keel aft has been shifted inside, and new joiner work in, . , i . , 

 owner, in order to give his cutter a fair trial this year, has en- 

 gaged au English skipper and crew of two. The captain, Har- 

 low, was at one time timoneer of the famous British schooner 

 ligerta, and was sent over by Mr. Harvey at the request of Mr, 

 Stillman to put tho Muriel through In Euglisb fashion. She now 

 has a race on with Mr. Hitchcock's Volantc— a match which will 

 be watched with keen interest. 



The Frolic— Alonzo Smith has been overhauling thissohooncr 

 for some time past at Philadelphia. She has received "all lead' 

 ballast and a larger rig. Foremast, 46ft.; mainmast, 48rt.; main 

 boom, 38ft,; gaff, 20ft,; fore boom, 15ft, and gaff, lift.; bow- 

 sprit outboard, 15ft.; flying Jibboom, 12ft,; main topmast, 21ft., 

 fore topmast, 23ft. This rig is none too large for her, and Frolic 

 wiR show more speed. The trouble with her on that score is that 

 she is too big a boat tor her length. 



The Wave.— This smart sloop (Dr. Barron) is coming out wit 

 a stylish rig, in w hlflh are several commendable features. A very 

 taunt topmast, of about 24ft. above tho cap, fitted to house, of 

 course. This is a big stick for a sloop 40ft. w. 1., nn.i 

 ought to be drilled into sending it up and down as easily as the 

 burgee at the masthead. Hoist of mainsail, only 30ft.; boom, 

 lift., and a long gall, 27ft. This is a much better cut than the 

 narrow-headed, lofty abortions eopied from the countrified rig of 

 the smacks built up mud creeks. The jib is 30ft. on foot. 



The Rosalie.— Albertson Brothers, of Kensington, Philadel. 

 phia, well known as having built, While Cap, Vixen, Madcap and 

 the steamer Elfin, have recently launched a sloop 53ft. long, 17ft. 

 beam, 6ft. hold, similar in model to Bob Fish's famous Vixen, for 

 Messrs. George and Henry Corson, of Philadelphia. She will re- 

 ceive eight hundred yards of canvas. 



Gwendolen-Hector.— Commodore Stone, East Boston Yacht 

 Club, is very anxious to try on the Gwendolen with his smart 

 sloop. As tho latter has hardly bent sails, and Is not in racing 

 trim, the match Is not likely to come to anything unless Sir. 

 Lovejuy proposes taking a liberal risk. 



The Ida.— This little iron cutter, only lHtt, w. 1., belonging to 

 Mr. C. J. Fagan, has received a new cabin and outfit at Roberta' 

 shop, in Harlem. Her rig is to be full cutter, lUt. hoist to main- 

 sail, 15ft. boom, lOtft, head, fore staysail and jib, 8ft. on foot 

 each. 



The JItstic— Vice-Corn. Norton, Atlantic Y. C, has boughttbe 

 schooner Aft/otic from Mr. Hall. ~he will receive an overhaul at 

 Piepgras' yard, Greenpoint, and possibly a larger rig. Capt. 

 Baker, last year in the Aelicc, will do the skippering. 



The Lu.lie.-T1i is well-known sloop, lately of Lynn, Mass., has 

 followed the fashion, uud comes out with a keel. Hutching & 

 Pryor did the work. She is to have th e tonso] la I last and a snug 

 rig for cruising. 



Tut Intrepid.— This schooner (Mr. Lloyd Phcenir) will shortly 

 leave for foreign parts, and while In English waters may take on 

 a match or two with some of our cousins' big ones. 



