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Salisbury Point Yacht Club.—T he Salisbury Point 
Yacht Chib have elected the following officcro for 
the ensuing year: — Commodore Stephen Lowell. 
Vice-Commodore, A. L. Fowler; Fleet Captain. J. 
F, Johnson; Secretary and Treasurer, A. C. Web¬ 
ster; Measurer, H, G. Leslie; Regatta Committee, 
Geo. H. Morrill, C. A, Boyd, G, L. Femald; Finance 
Committee, Newell Boyd, O. S. Moore, R. S. Williams. 
The club has a large membership, and several new ami 
large yachts are in prooesB of construction, which will 
be added to the squadron. 
New Jersey Yacht Club. — T he following are the 
delegates to the National Yachting Association :—Com¬ 
modore T. H, Rogers, Vice-Commodore W. H. Dilworth 
and ex-Commodore Edward W. Ketcham, 
Salem Yacht Club.—T ins club is in a very prosperous 
condition and bids fair to become one of the most popu¬ 
lar in Boston and vicinity. A plot of land bas been 
bought and a fine club-house will be erected to cost about 
,$1,500. A library and model room will be new features 
which will secure the Bupport of yachtsmen for many 
miles around. The anchorage off the club-house pier is 
unsurpassed and a very desirable one for Boston yachts¬ 
men who wish to do away with the tedious work of get¬ 
ting clear of the narrow waters of the harbor and the 
loss of time entailed in working out to sea. Many hon¬ 
orary members have joined at a nominal subscription in 
order to secure the benefits of the library which will he 
kept open winter and summer. 
Cleveland Yachting Association.—T he fleet of this 
club is rapidly growing. Among them we enumerate as 
follows, giving their “gross measurement,” which is 
their length on w. 1. with beam and depth added: — Steam 
yacht Rosaline, flag-ship; schooners June Anderson, 
02.3 ; Camilla, 44.10; Stranger, 29.8 ; Harry Rettger , 
50,6 ; sloops Harvey Burke, 53.6; Phantom, 63.6 ; Ida, 
38.5; Unique, 28.2'; Silver Spray, 36.10; Belle, 36.5: 
Gipsy, 28.11; Vixen, 33.9; Lady Ida, 26.0; Master 
Harry, 23.8; Kiltie Walsh, 32.7: Nettie, 24.8. The fol¬ 
lowing do not belong to the association :— Dolphin, Hum¬ 
ming Bird, Nadine, T Vhite Cloud, Topsy, Sea. Gull, Pin¬ 
afore, Nomad, Meta, Unknown, Brooklyn. This is cer¬ 
tainly a very creditable showing and indicates the rapid 
strides the sport is making on the Lakes. 
San Francisco Yacht Club.—T he new Governor of 
California is a member of the S. F. Y. C., and an ardent 
yachtsmen. Ex-Com. Ogden, lately in New York, re¬ 
turned to San Francisco, and we reget to announce the 
death of his brother recently. The schooner J. C. Cousins 
is reported sold to Con O’Conner. There is some talk 
about new yachts to be built, of which something may 
come before long. An "outside,”or ocean cruise is con¬ 
templated by the club next summer, and Dr. Merritt will 
go to the Sandwich and South Sea Islands in his schooner 
Casco. 
We hope to see the San Francisco Yacht Club inaug¬ 
urate a series of nautical lectures shortly, those given 
last year having been well attended and appreciated,— 
[S. F, Olympian. 
Sea-going Steam Yachts.—W e are glad to refer to 
the card of Messrs. Ward, Stanton & Co, in our advertis¬ 
ing columns, and can indorse their work from our own 
experience as of the highest class. It has been our good 
fortune to have had charge of a couple of their engines, 
and for simplicity in design, arrangement of material 
and smoothness in running it would be di ffic ult to sur¬ 
pass them. Messrs. Ward, Stanton & Co. have added to 
their building facilities and plant and have a large 
amount of yacht work in hand. They have been so long 
and favorably known as the leading builders in America 
of large steam yachts, that their reputation has spread 
near and far. 
Yachts’ Photos.—B lack & Co., 333 Washington street, 
Boston, have continued in their good work, and have 
added largely to their assortment of photos of American 
yachts. Their work is of the highest order, and a void 
lias been filled through their enterprise. 
Fast Steam Yachts.—M r. Samuel Holmes, of 132 Front 
street. New York, makes a specialty of designing and con¬ 
tracting for high speed launches and yachts, after the 
Thomeycroft style. His success in Continental, Miranda, 
Min cola, etc., have established his reputation. Among 
owners of country residences along the Sound, Staten 
Island and Hudson River these fast launches promise to 
become popular. 
List OF Races.—I n the Boston Y. C. races, June 21st, 
Breeze did not win nor was she entered as printed, The 
prize went to Adrienne, Mr. G. Pfaff. 
List of Winners. — Regina, Mr. W. A. W. Stewart, is 
a sloop, not cat as the list has it. 
Cost of English Yachts.—B uilding prices vary, for 
while a few will contract to construct a vessel of such a 
size at about $150 per ton, or perhaps even less, others will 
require as much as $190 or $200 per ton, both prices being 
estimated for iron ballast. Thus, in one case, an 80-ton 
yawl would cost $12,000, and in the other, $16,000, the 
average being $14,000, or at the rate of $175 per ton. At 
this price builders would undertake to provide the ordi¬ 
nary cruising outfit, comprising cruising sails,-gear, 
boats, chains, anchors, etc., but no extras or luxuries, and, 
above all, no lead. At the present moment pig lead 
is worth $90 per ton, and to mold it will cost more’ by $5 
per ton, but takingit at the market price it is at least $70 
a ton more costly than iron. Now, a yawl of eighty tons 
for cruising purposes would require over forty tons of 
lead for ballast, so tliat if this precious metal were pre¬ 
ferred to iron, it would increase the expenditure by about 
$2,750. It is true that lead does not lose in weight, and 
is dependent on the market only for variations in value, 
so that buying it is not necessarily entailing a loss, as is 
the case with iron ; and for this reason it is perhaps the 
most economical metal to use as ballast. The advantages 
of lead are, besides, many ; it is more cleanly than iron, 
affords greater facilities for obtaining head room, and, 
ton for ton, gives the vessel greater stability, thus allow 
ing a lefser weight to be shipped, and enabling 
the yacht to float lighter. For a fairly good yacht of 
say from two to about five or six years old, which has 
been well taken care of, about $130 to $140 per ton would 
be considered a very moderate price—this, of course, with 
iron ballast only, — Land and Wales'. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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DRIFT. 
Y ACHT building is having a boom....Dr. J. H. Yondy, 
J. C. Y. C., has not purchased his former schooner 
Cornelia, as reported, but uas had a fine model made by 
Phil. Elswortb and may build soon.,,.Beverly Y. G. pro¬ 
poses changing the date of their annual meeting from 
fourth Wednesday in January to the commencement of 
the yachting Beason ....Idler, Mr. A. J. Fisher, Chicago, is 
on the berth for a voyage to Europe this spring. Mr. 
Fisher proposes to do sonie racing over there, and as Idler 
is a deep craft of moderate beam, she will stand some 
chance alongside of English clippers and not, become an 
object of commiseration abroad, as Viking, Faustine, and 
Ennengarde, of the light draft persuasion....Decker, 
Twenty-second street and Second avenue, Brooklyn, is 
building a 70-ft. schooner,...Election ol’ officers N. Y. Y. 
C. Feb. 5th, at club-rooms: also, question of cruising 
steamer for summer’s cruise....Mr. Alex. Taylor has 
purchased s, s. Skylark, and Mr. E. S. Jaffray, her 
former owner, is to have an iron steam-yacht of about 
170 tons built by Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia,...Next 
meeting of A. Y. C. March 8 th....John Mumm, foot of 
Court street, South Brooklyn, has about finished a 48-ft. 
sloop,...Schooner Estelle, Mr. J. D. Smith, is to have a 
now bow to do away with her present excessive flare.... 
Mr. Chas. A. Stevenson has bought the schooner Osprey, 
a fine cruiser....Laid lip in Gowanus Basin ; schooners 
Dauntless, Intrepid, Comet, Triton, Rambler, Vision, 
Agues, Peerless,Wanderer, Palmer, and sloopB Mermaid, 
Fanny, Grade, Winsome, Active, Christine, Imperia, 
Dudley: sloops I/izzic L., Wave, Schemer, Estella, Flying 
Cloud and Orion are hauled out foot of Court street, 
South Brooklyn; sloop America is at Lennox’s Yard, 
foot of Thirty-fourth street, South Brooklyn....Lawley, 
Boston, Mass., is to build a 50-ft. schooner something 
like the keel-cutter Enterprise.... Rumor has it that Gen. 
Butler may soon leave for Cuba in the " Old America" 
and cruise in West India waters....The Magic, of Boston, 
is bound for the Chesapeake early in spring.,,.Commo¬ 
dore Wm. Peet is having his tidy little Sunshine thor¬ 
oughly overhauled by Lennox; new hardwood fittings 
throughout; Mr. Norman Torrence will act as skipper, 
and some extensive cruising will be undertaken....Mr. 
Henry Say offers the s. s. Henriette for sale at Bal¬ 
timore, and is building a large iron screw yacht of 
seagoing dimensions at the yard of Malster & Reany, 
Baltimore. She is to be 250ft. long, 32ft. beam, and 20ft. 
deep. Compound engines, cylinders 46 and 30 inches 
....John Roach & Son, Chester, Pa., have also 
contracted for a large iron screw yacht for Mr. Wm. 
Belden of nearly 700 tons. We are’ glad to see that at 
last the sailing model is being discarded in our steam 
yachts, and that we are to have fine, long, easy-sided and 
deep-draft steamers in place of the pot-bellied imitations 
of the sloop. Ward, Stanton &• Co., of Newburgh, are 
likewise building a Line non screw yacht for Mr. Janies 
Gordon Bennett; the dimensions published concerning 
her were altogether wrong ; full particulars will appear 
in this journal. Tbe new 80ft. schooner Republic, build¬ 
ing at Nyack for Mr. H. J. Steer of Providence, is all in 
frame. His former monster sloop Alice is still for sale. 
Mr. Anson P. Stokes will probably build a larger double- 
hulled schooner to carry out experiments begun with 
Nereid. Mr. Stokes bas tbe best wishes of the yachting 
public, for his persistent and practical enterprise.... 
Schooner Edith has been sold out of the N. Y. Y. C. 
....Schooner Nettie, Mr. F. P. Osborn, is laid up at Bath, 
Me., aud will probably be extensively altered.,.. Restless, 
flagship of the N. Y. Y. C., is laid up at Winthrop’s 
Cove, Conn.Sloop America, Mr. E. Yard, Jr., is to be 
lengthened aft; we hear of plenty of lengthening going on, 
but no one any longer talks of “ hipping.’’....Sloop Psyche, 
N. Y. Y. C., Sir. E. M. Brown, now at New London, is 
also to be spun out aft...,Iron cutter Vindex, formerly 
owned by Mr. Robt. Center, has been sold to Mr. E. D, Mor¬ 
gan, Jr^'and will fly Sewanhakacolors....Mi'. G. G.Haven, 
N. Y. Y. C., lias bought the s. s. Rival.... Alonzo E. Smith 
is building a fine sloop for Philadelphia parties, 41ft. long, 
also a working boat....Kirby, of Rye, has a lot of work 
promised. He is now building two small boats, and ex¬ 
pects to lay the keels of two schooners ; one for Chicago 
parties, and a third one for a Rye gentleman. He lias 
also sent a model to Michigan for a schooner about 56ft, 
long and only 2ft. Gin. indraft for work in shoal water.... 
Schooner Peerless will remain in the A. Y. C. under hernew 
owner, Mr. Hathawayof New Bedford.. ..Enignta , of Bos¬ 
ton, will have a now round stem ; Leslie a new bow, and 
Tempest a new keel withiron ballast, as well aB ageneral 
overhauling.... Dolphin, of Boston, has been altered from 
centre-board to keel; the cat, Herald, bas bad her steel 
centre-board shifted for a wooden one—the steel sprung 
too much....Lawley & Sons have had to increase their ca¬ 
pacity by leasing land from the Boston Iron Co.; Adrienne 
is being spun out by tbe stern ; they have also completed 
a new cat for Dorchester parties. Tbe famous Undine, 
sunk by a collision last summer, is hauled out at Law- 
ley's, but nothing will be done to her till tbe courts de¬ 
cide tbe resposibility for the collision..,.Tbe yacht clubs 
of France are giving lectures on yachting, following the 
excellent example set by the S. Y. C. and S. F. Y. C. 
Steam-yachts from 500 to 700 tons are becoming the rage 
in England; many new ones of this size are underway 
in the shipyards, some being of steel.,..Our little con¬ 
temporaries froth at the mouth because we ousted a 
swindler, oneof their bosom Mends, from tbe N. Y. A.... 
Leo gtl mieasurement is unfortunately being agita ted again 
in En gland ; our cousins bad better beware or they will fall 
into our evil ways and build washtubs instead of yachts, 
as such a rule is sure to produce stumpy, beamy, over- 
sparred machines....France has been building a 65 foot 
centre-hoard sloop for the Nice races....Neafie & Levy, 
Philadelphia, are lengthening the steamship Isabel.... 
Columbia Y„ C. proposes squadron cruises twice a month 
during the coming season.The Unique, Captain Foster, 
of Gloucester, fully described in this journal, has made 
a voyage to Florida and has proven herself a grand sea 
boat aud fast sailer, weathering several gales on the pas¬ 
sage...,Our friend the Bycycling World brought up all 
standing recently <m the speed of ice yachts, They do 
sail faster than the Wind, except when the wind is aft— 
see our hack fileB.,..Mr. Tbos. Lord, late of the Osprey, 
has presented to the New Bedford Y, C. the model of a 
Japanese junk, recently on exhibition at the fair of the 
7tb Regiment....Mr. Ashbury has taken to theyawiand 
is cruising in the Iberia, 80 tons, on the South American 
coast....The Y. R. A. of England has deci.®??‘ip n _ * ia~ 
fero in the matter of wages and racing w ,,] j ,/’ bafqo 
crews....The Nautical- Magazine comments vii 1 
bly upon the excellent paper on Lloyd's Yacht Iltt egj 8j r 
read by Mr. Dixon Kemp before the I. N. A. It L-' a » hep 
printed in pamphlet form, 'Ll 
YACHT BUILDING IN BOSTON. 
Editor Eorest and Stream : — 
Messrs. Hutchings & Pryor are building a deep keel 
boat about 29ft. ohdeck, 9ft. beam. 25ft. on line, with 6 ft. 
draft, to order. They are very well along on their alter¬ 
ations of i Lillie from centre-board to keel, which im¬ 
proves her looks and staunchness wonderfully. Messrs. 
H. & P. have also started on a cat-boat, to replace Wave 
Crest, Bold last fall, The new boat will be inferior to 
none and superior to most when in tbe hands of her skip¬ 
per, Mr. Hutchings. 
Messrs. Lawley & Sons have kept very busy all their 
workmen in alterations and repairing, Mr. Pfaff’s I 
schooner Adrienne is improved very much in looks by the 1 
addition of 21ft. overhang aft. Perhaps it might be wise 
to increase her speed by carrying aft her stern-post, giving 
her greater hold on the water. Messrs, Lawley have also 
a large 40-foot sloop to build, and they will put all their 
practical experience in play to produce the best construc¬ 
tion and shape, This firm are undoubtedly the heaviest 
builders in Boston, and turn out not hing but first-class' 
work. The new vessel will be a reality of strength and 
beauty—a deep keel boat for comfort and sea-going 
qualities, 
Mr. Smith is building some fine tenders, and has quite 
a lot of alterations and repairing jobs on hand; and 
Messrs. Pierce Bros, are working away on their boat for 
tbe Mediterranean — a cat-boat, 26ft. long, very shoal and 
wide. 
Mr. Robert Bibber is putting a cabin into a large cat- 
rig, which will make her very comfortable below decks. 
This boat was built and used back of the Cape. Her mate 
is kept in Fall River, and is considered a fast, able boat. 
The present owner of tbe Gussie will not race her, but 
use her for pastime only. 
Mr. Anderson is putting a keel into tbe schooner Mist , 
and by report is building a cat-rig to beat Smith’s 
Herald. 
Mr, Webber is lengthening Enigma aft, which adds 
very much to her appearance, and as she is a very good 
sea boat, ought to add to her speed, 
Mr. Tyler is having a 50-foot schooner built, under Mr. 
Dolben’a superintendence, off of D, J. Lawlor’s model. 
As she is not very far advanced not much can be said of 
her yet. 
Mr. D. J. Lawlor is to build an English yawl on scien¬ 
tific principles, and she will probably be as much a won¬ 
der here as the catamarans. She will be the first yawl of 
English design in America. She is 40ft. w. L, 10ft. beam, 
and 7 ft. hold; flushdeck, lead on tliekeel, and exceedingly 
roomy both below and on deck. Of course Lawlor will 
“ lay himself out” in her construction, as his incompar¬ 
able work is recognized all over the country. Possibly 
this yawl will be the forer u n n er of many others of her 
kind. 
A new “ cutter,” 25ft. w. 1., is also to be built for Bos¬ 
ton parties, with 1,000 lbs. iron on the keel. Centre¬ 
boards have gone out of fashion, and keels, with low bal¬ 
last, are fast displacing all others. They prove to ha the 
best sea-boats, and Viking last Beason showed them to he 
fast as well. Hedge, 
The Dreadnaught Schooner.— This fine schooner has 
been sold to Chicago. She was unquestionably, next to 
Intrepid, the finest keel schooner in American waters, as 
well as the handsomest, since Sappho hoisted green-white- 
and-red. This is what the World ha* to say about her:— 
‘ ‘ The schooner yacht Dreadnaught, which has just been 
sold by Mr. Charles J. Osborn to a Chicago gentleman, is 
well known here and lias figured prominently in yachting 
contests ever since she was built. Shortly after the 
Cambria-Dauntless race across the ocean Captain Samuel 
Samuels, who had commanded the Dauntless in that 
race, being in the office of a well-known Erie lawyer, said 
to him, the conversation having turned upon yachts and 
yachting, " Mr. Blank, why don’t you let me build you a 
yacht that shallbeat anything afloat?” 
“Go see what it can be done for,” was the prompt re¬ 
ply ; “ a yacht every way first class, in which I can take 
my family to Europe." 
The proposal was accepted by Poillon, of Brooklyn, the 
model was made, and finally approved by Captain Sam¬ 
uels, and the contract was signed by tbe lawyer, the price 
agreed upon having been $35,000 in seven monthly pay¬ 
ments of $5,000 each. The keel was laid on the loth of 
September 1870. and the yacht was to be completed on 
tbe 15th of April 1871. It is not too much to say that 
she was the strongest yacht ever built in this city, her 
timbers being of extra size, tbe floor timbers of oak, nine 
inches by seven, formed of natural knees and bolted 
down through the keel by seven-eighth inch bolts 
through each floor. When some years later she was 
lengthened, Mr. Steers, who did the work, said that there 
was twice as much timber in her as was necessary. Her 
owner altered his mind, and concluded that he didn't., 
want a yacht, and told Samuels to sellher. To sell a new 
and untried yacht, for anything like her cost was impos¬ 
sible. That cost, by the way, had been augmented about' 
$8,000 by cabin embellishments. The lawyer refused to 
advance any more money, and so the expense of run- - 
ning the yacht during the first season was borne by Mr. 
Poillon, the builder, who took lien upon tbe vessel. 
No man ever worked harder, however, than Captain 
Samuels did during that season to prove that the Dread- 
naught was the fastest yacht afloat. In this he failed. 
She was simply a first-class yacht, but inferior in speed 
to several of the schooners of the New York Club. At 
that time she was 95 feet on the keel, 103 on water-lmj 
ISO feet on deck, with 24 feet 6 inches breadth of bet ,us 
and 8 feet 6 inches depth of hold. Her most famous 1 
formance was her race with the Sappho, twenty miler”" 
windward from Sandy Hook lightship, which was finis " 6 
in a hard gale of wind, both yachts being buried to ‘ rne 
hatch combings and dragging their booms in the w> «* ( 
yet neither daring to stop to reef for fear of lqsnf™ u ' 0 / 
race. The Dreadnaught was within four minutes rlv f 
Sappho in that, race nad nearer to that celebrated 
