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FOHEST AND STREAM. 



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"GANNETV'-SINGLE HAND YAWL. 



liesigned by Mr. H. W. Eaton' for Mr. Oliver Adams. Larchmont Y. C. 



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CRUISING RIG OF "GANNF.T" VbWi-. 



THE YAWL GANNET. 



SINGLE hand sailing and the pause of small yachts generally, ha: 

 IJ started on an incipient '•.mora." which is hailed with pleasure b; 

 all 11 -i-uns mi me 1 ivi.ii a ivnl v.uh'iug spirit, and wnich is oertaii 

 to iilossora into a herdihv lasbiou. as ;he advantages of regula: 

 ! fully ud<I< rstood. ' " 



of the 



rt which are pra 

 has lent its aid in 

 acht as dlst 

 ? other cont 



the 



smaller beam of a deeper boat. It is very dlfflca 

 successful combination of the two types, as 

 attempted that kind of work know full well. At 

 a eenterboard ert.fi. and plaster lead underneath 

 binaiion noat, but todevi'jeaeross which shall po; 

 ti \s of eitaer extreme, and a minimum of their ur 

 different, matter, i 



ndeed to make u 



e the o 



ived prefei 



e for c 



of 





Dd low ballni 



e undei 



claii 



rould be narrow 



spoiled by being 

 id being substit 



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of t 



i f type 



n pla. 



The (iannet differs from the ol 

 tion of the keel and eenterboard 

 interesting to many who objei 



i therefore espejially 



which really ought 

 _, ) of shape visible to the eye almost alw-ys 

 nave escaped proper attention. 



In the Gannet, however, tae work of an experienced hand is plainly 

 visible. In this yawl it is evident, that the best perf< 



the draft of a keel and the | round work in connection with certain definite stipulations, such l 



safety, room, sdffne 

 oughlj studied a 

 to go ahead. In 

 may not be fully 

 Dot blind us to tl: 

 blending of the t 

 ii.t 'iids to put he 

 the usual style o 

 factory than the 

 that tee wonder 



nit • 



i du 



and handy rig, has been thor- 

 giving instructions to the builder 

 ar? especial respects the Gannet 

 o.vn predilection?, but that does 

 3 never seen a more successful 

 n mind the service her owner 

 such a vast improvement upon 

 ist be found so much more satis- 

 he cat or sand bag caricature, 

 lot been built in large numbers 

 .nd Stream to give them 



mg of a very l.trge fleet of similar boats in the near future. 



For family sailing, cruisinr in the Sound, and for the rational en- 

 joyment of life aflo .t tie Gannet cannot fail to appeal forcibly to 

 t ie great mass of expectant yacht owners who hold aloof for want, 

 of the means or inclination to build large craft, under the impres- 

 sion that small boats can never be anything rise but nasty, wet, 

 treacherous and generally useless open machines of the. catboat 

 order, costly I or their size and wortu, requiring large and imprac- 

 ticable crews to sail with any success a,i sand-bag shifters, and ex- 

 tiemely dangerous and unsatisfactory when sailed by one person. 

 Of all ideas ever evolved in the nautical line, the catboat is notori- 

 ously the "wettest'' ever floated. She is also next to worthless in 

 rough water, and totally unfit for family purposes. She is at best 

 but a racing tool which, even in skillful hand's, is mom ntarily liable 

 to fill or turn petticoat up, and even while on her proper legs requires 

 incessant watching as the price of life, and always exasperatingly 

 cavorts on her helm in all but mild to moderate vlnds. Sue has no 

 stowage or accommodations, and a day's craise in the thing resolves it- 

 self in a soaking jacket and nothing "made good, "or else a toast in the 

 broiling sun and late hours to m ike home moorings for want of over- 

 night a commodations. To induce family sailing in such traps is 

 braving risks and tae crime of manslaugnter. No person of sense at 

 all conversant with the charac er of such boat wil, venture out with- 

 out serious misgivings, which spoil what enj >ynient there might 

 otherwise be in tae sail. With their canvas reduced to something 

 what they can carry with tolerable exemption from a capsize in un- 

 toward circumstances, sue i bolts lose all tneir speed and weatherly 

 qualities and Oreo no ivrete led failures in every respect. 



That a solution to the question "low to build a small boat which 

 shall possess the attributes of a large yacht in all re-pects, limited 

 oi ly as to power oyher small tonnage." nas not before this met 

 with a favorable response can only be attributed to tin- prevailing 

 creed t.iat it was useless tl expeet anything more from 15, 18, ad or 

 2oft. than already achieved in the typical catboat trap j which are the 

 cause of annual loss of lifi and n'arro.v escapes, keeping hundreds 

 away from ownership on account of tne dread for the danger sup- 

 posed to be a ueees arv accompaniment to sailing in small boats. 

 Many a one has told us how. in ins younger days, he longed to get 

 atloat, hut was prevented by older headj oa the plea of the inordi- 

 nate ri-k not eouinie isurate wit i the gain in heait.i and instructive 

 experience. At this dav there are great numbers of people in whom 

 the ambition to yacht has been smothered and driven out of their 

 constitutions for the reason that tneir inclinations to intelligent 

 tnuscul r exertion have been steered into other channels in days of 

 yore when tin y were not yet thei. own masters. 



How many thousands of Americans, young likely hands at sheet 

 and halliards, are there not, who, though living with all the entice- 

 ments to yacht almost beneath their bedroom windows, c add not, to 

 save t teir souls, tool a mudscow under tow, to whom all the absorb- 

 ing dtli hts. the free exerci-e of brawn and spirit in a manly bout 

 with the (dements on salt water are a sealed book and much more- 

 even a positive scare. Thev are trained in ignorance of tneir loss 

 until apathy and a long nurtured flight of the water renders them 

 sterile ground to even the nios: insiduous pages of yachting Forest 

 and Stream spreads before them every week Not for them, not if 

 they know it. They care not to parboil nose and cheek, nor do they 

 hanker afier the gymnastics dusty weather affords, much less do 

 they ti- gle with joy at the prospects of tne ashen breeze which the 

 stern necessity of reaching home &■ A mamma exact; of the woebe- 

 gone catboat athlete who must get home by night lest he be left no- 

 where in next, to nothing to stay there. 



fiat with tne introduction of tiie cutter and the diffusion of "cutter 

 principles." a new era is now fortunately dawning, and tuat (be par- 

 adise on earth which yachting in small boats hold-, forth, shall be 

 partaktnof by t..,e great masses, hv the thousands who now would 

 as soon think of light rop.-d ineing as of , ruismg in a ?at or sand-bag 

 delusion, all thai lies within the ubwer of Forest and Stream shad 

 ' 'hat, jndcing hy I he siaus of the times, will not he alto- 



Bth i 



n f-e eve of general 

 debar them from the 

 annuel a compromise 



allvaeht. not the machine, 

 lion. Those who are so situai 

 •egnlar keel cutter will find 

 f detailed attention. 



we have safety, absolute safety with a moderate rig. and 

 ihlyeyen with rating sticks showing far greater »r-. 



- elected. The Gannet combines the great stiff- 

 sloop with much of the safety of the cutter, 

 n n load line, of 'a', which is quite as mucn as 

 :l she has besides depth enough to 

 a couple of hands. Her cockpit'" 



. Adams has 

 of the America 

 tasSfeet beam 

 l to tae beamiest of trap 

 e large accommodations 



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