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FOREST AND STEEAM. 



— R. J. Gatling writes that recent improvements in his 

 gnu have brought it to such a stage of perfection that it can 

 lire 1,000 shots pel minute, and ore man can feed and fire 

 GOO shots per minute. In an official trial 64,000 rounds 

 were fired from a single gun iu rapid succession, and witii- 

 out stopping to clean the battels. 



—Nearly three years ago a team from the Emmet Guard 

 of Virginia City visited San Francisco to engage in a rifle 

 match with the Sumner Guard there. The Sumners now 

 send a team of eleven men to Virginia City shoot a return 



— Victshurg, Miss., has in its Schutzen Verein an en- 

 thusiastic tody of Creedmoor shooters. The members have 

 resolved themselves into three teams, commanded as fol- 

 lows: Capt. B. Kalmbach, firtt team; Lieut. J. P. Doll, 

 second ham ; Lieut. Abe, Baor, third team. The officers of 

 the. c)nl» are : Win. Muller, Pres. ; I. Hirsch, Vice-Pres. ; 

 Sam Fischcl, Sec; Herman Lippich, Treas. 



—Mi. Ira Paine, the shootist, is contemplating a trip to 

 Havana, Cuba. 



—The superintendent of the Royal foundry at Woolwich, 

 England, has made a report on the experiments with the big 

 suns of the Italian ironclads Duilio and Daudolo, stating that 

 the heaviest English ordnance would fail to pierce their armor, 

 while the 100-ton Italian pieces could successfully damage any 



Vi'SSel. 



§<tchting mid Routing. 



HIGH WATER FOR THE WEEK. 



Date. 



Boston. 



New York. 



Charleston. 



Sept. 28 



Sept.89 



fciept.3u 



Oct. 1 



H. M. 



2 49 



3 37 



4 35 



5 42 



6 50 



7 53 



8 4t 



H. M. 

 11 67 



22 



1 19 



2 23 



3 31 



4 05 



5 45 



a. m. 



11 11 



7 09 



44 



1 55 



rji i. a 



3 06 





4 13 



Oct.. 4 



5 12 



BOATS AND YACHT-BUILDING. 

 6th Paper. 



A Skip-Jack Yacht, Twenty-one Feet Long, Eight Feet 

 Beam. 



THE skip-jack is a goodmodel for a cheap sailing yacht, and 

 if well proportioned and properly ballasted will give many 

 a full modeled boat a "dusty turn." The side-boards should be 

 three- fourths of an inch thick and eighteen inches wide and 

 curved, as shown on diagram number thirteen. The mould- 

 board is beveled four inches to the foot, and stern-board one 

 and one-balf inches thick, of oak. The bevel of stern-board 

 m iy he more or less than the one shown on diagram. Keel, 

 oak, one and one-half or two inches thick, two and one-quarter 

 inches wide at the ends, and ten inches wide at the middle, 

 as shown in diagram number fourteen. Stem and stern-post, 



two and one-quarter inches thick at the "rabhit" or "groove." 

 The ribs or cross-timbers, one and one-half inches thick. When 

 finished, the different parts of boat are joined together as 



before directed. The opening in keel for centre-board is made 

 one and one-half inches wi^e, and six and one-half feet long. 

 The forward end of the opening is seven feet five inches back 

 of the groove in stem. The ribs or cross-timbers are placed 

 teu or twelve inches apart on the keel. 



No. 14. 



Two oak strips, two and one quarter inches thick and four 

 inches wide, are bolted on the keel, one on each side of the 

 opening for the centre-board. Into these pieces the ends of 

 "bottoms" are morticed. The trunk is built up on the oak 

 pieces and fastened together, as previously described. Boards 

 f ir trunk, one and one-half thicks; and pieces, one and one- 

 half by two inches. Centre-board one inch thick, of oak. The 

 B ntre-board is fitted, as previously described.and in addition two 

 pieces of strap iron (one on each side of board) arc placed fifteen 

 i iches from back end of board, extending from top to bottom, 

 and are riveted -through and through;" or, in other words, 

 are riveted to one another through the board. The trunk is 

 built as high as the gunwale of the boat, and its forward end 

 is fastened to a deck beam. Floor timbers, one by three 

 inches. Along the trunk the ends of the floor timbers rest on 

 the oak pieces forming the base of the trunk. The floor boards 

 may be three-fourths of an inch thick, with the exception of 

 one plank on each side of the trunk one and one quarter inch 

 thick and eight inches wide. A pine plank is nailed on the knees 

 around the sides of the boat, two and one-quarter inches below 

 the gunwale or upper edges of sideboards. On this plank the 

 deck timbers rest and are fastened. The deck beams are curved 

 one half an inch to a foot. This gives a "rise" to deck of four 

 .Deck, beams are cut out of 



one inch pine; those near mast double, or two inches thick. 

 Deck planks, three-fourths of an inch thick, and two to two 

 and a half inches wide. The middle deck plank, in which the 

 mast is "stepped," should be ten inches wide and one and one 

 quarter inch thick, strongly fastened to the deck beams by 

 bolts. Middle deck plank, oak, the rest pine. The middle 

 plank will fit better if it is steamed. The cockpit may be 

 shaped to the fancy of the builder. The "combing" is formed 

 of narrow boards, five-eighths or three-quarters of an inch 

 thick, either pine or alternate strips of ash and black walnut, 

 tongued and grooved. Combing projects above deck four to 



No. 15. 



six inches. Openings should be left to give access to the 

 space3 under deck at bow and stern. Seats placed as desired. 

 Sail, four hundred square feet ; mast four and a half inches in 

 diameter at deck, three and one-quarter inches at top ; boom, 

 four inches diameter at middle, and two and one-half inches 

 at the ends ; gaff boom, two and one-half inches diameter ; 

 jib sprit, or boom, two and one half inches diameter at middle, 

 and two inches at end ; standing rigging (shrouds, jib stay, 

 bob stay, and side stays of bowsprit), galvanized wire rope, 

 seven-sixteenths of an inch diameter, fastened to the various 

 staples or eyes by "turnbuckles," or looped with hemp cord- 

 age. Inboard end of bowsprit four inches square, outboard 

 end two and one-half inches diameter. For one-half the distance 

 from the stem to the outboard end, the bowsprit is champered 

 on the corners, the remaining distance to the outboard end is 

 rounded. The rudder is constructed, as shown in diagram, 

 of one and one-half inch oak plank. It is twenty-seven inches 

 long, and fastened together with iron rons. The head is 

 formed by bending a piece of strap iron over the top of rudder- 

 post, and riveting it "through and through." This forms a 

 mortice for the insertion of the tiller. The lower rod in rudder 

 has an eye formed on one end to serve as one of the rudder 

 hanging. The rudder hangings, as shown on diagram, con- 

 sists of two eyes on the rudder and four eyes on the stern-post 

 of boat, an iron rod five-eighths of an inch in diameter run 

 through all the eyes, completes the hangings. The rudder 

 rod is prevented from dropping down by a " stop," below the 

 lower eye on stern-post. A piece of oak one and one-half inch 

 thick and two inches wide is fastened on the outside of the 

 stern-post, and runs up to near the top edge of stern-board. 



Through this piece the eyes in stern are fastened. Anchor, 

 about thirty or thirty-five pounds. Ballast, sufficient to bring 

 the "bilges" (or shoulders on the sides of boat) well under 

 water. The draught of water will be about twelve inches. 

 The mast "rakes" twelve inches on its whole length. The 

 next paper will be upon the art of drawing and modeling boats 

 of curved sections. 



Providence Yacht Clttb— Warragcmsett Bay, Sept. 20.— 

 The annual regatta was sailed over a course, of twenty-two 

 milt s for sloops, and seventeen miles for cat-rigged yachts. 

 The entries were : 



First Class .Sloops— Alice, Commodore Henry J. Steers; Haswell, C. 



line, H. C.Allen ; Genevieve, A. TI. White. 

 Peck and Dixon, C. H. Peck; Evelyn, P. P. Sands, Kelpie, W. Preston; 

 Third dan Moojos^Starugtot, R. W.Jencks; Sonora, W C. Taplin 

 Hope, E. J. Anderson. 



First Class Cat-Rigged— Gleam, V. A. Gower ; Wanderer, B. Davi$ ; 

 Lizzie, S. Cameron ; Magic, B. Davis. 



loats croased the line as follow? . 



Actual 

 time. 



Name. it. m. s. 



Haswell 3 36 35 



Genevieve 4 OS 29 



Undine 4 22 11 



Evelyn 4 26 43 



Starlight 4 33 21 



Gleam 2 42 08 



Lizzie 3 1)8 41 



SLOOPS, 



Corrected 



time. time. 



H. M. S. H. M. S. 



3 04 41 Alice 3 51 05 



S 17 51 Peek & Dixon.. 4 08 34 



3 27 38 Kelpie 4 17 58 



3 29 34 Sonora 4 30 36 



3 19 42 Hope 4 42 49 



CAT-TtlOGED. 



146 55 Wanderer 2 47 33 



2 11 16 Maglft. 3 22 12 



Actual Corrected 



tine. 



II. M. S. 

 3 30 27 

 3 07 14 

 3 IS 59 

 3 18 49 

 3 26 49 



New York— Shrcwdn/ry Yacht Association.— The fourth 

 annual regatta of this Association, which comprises the Nep- 

 tune and Jackson Clubs, New York City, was held off the 

 Neptune Club House, Sept. 20. The course was a distance 

 of ten miles ; the prizes were gold medals. The summary is 

 as follows: 



FIRST CLASS. 



Name. Cor. time. Name. Cor. time. 



H. Jf. s. h. H. s. 



Maud 2 39 so Long Branch 2 51 17 



SECOND CLASS. 



The Wanderer 2 35 65 EllaLee » „ m 



Vixen 3 10 19 ' 



THIRD CLASS. 



Neptnne 2 5t 05 Sapphire 3 ig 00 



FOURTH CLASS. 



TheNavesink 3 0115 AliceM 3 12 od 



Katie 3 09 17 Water Witch '.'..'3 is 4* 



FIFTH CLASS. 



RedJacket 140 15 Josephine 159 16 



Highland Lass 1 48 06 Rob Roy "2 05 07 



New Yoke— Amekicus Sailing Club Regatta, Sept. 22.— 

 This regatta sailed over a course from off Hamilton Ferry to 

 and around the can buoy off Robbin's Reef Light and return, 

 was open to all nineteen-feet Whitehall boats, limited to twen- 

 ty yards sprit sais. Race for a handsome silver medal. The 

 yachts went over the course in the following time :— 

 Name. Captain. H m r 



GWB .7 Gorman i f 7 ' „,') 



Mary Ellen John Mnrphv " 1 4S 50 



Maggie James Murphy \ 49 15 



Battery Pet E Gimerty 1 49 in 



J a Shard Byrnes 1 50 « 



Nancy J Gaynor 1 51 17 



Alert Club Championship. — The annual regatta of this 

 club was sailed Sept, 24. The race was for the single scull 

 championship prize medal. The contestants were Messrs. A 

 W. Smith, G-. Droste, F. Lohr, A. Netzel, F. Neppcrt, Jr., 

 and A. Lohr. Netzel won in 17m., with Neppert second. 



Newark Bat Regatta.— A regatta was sailed Sept. 20tli. 

 for prizes presented by Mr. D. E. Bonnell. The course was over 

 a distance of ten miles. The corrected time was-. Excelsior 

 1:40:11; Wave, 1:37:38 ; Lizzie Van Name, 1:49:31 •, Little 

 Katie, 2-00:00 ; HiPi, 2:07:20; Jane A., 2:15:28. 



New Row ins Association. —At a regular meeting of the 

 Farragut Boat Club, held last evening, the following gentle- 

 men were elected as delegates to the rowing convention to be 

 held in Chicago, Oct. 1G, for the purpose of forming the "Mis- 

 sissippi Valley Rowing Association," which is to be composed 

 of clubs resident in the Mississippi Valley. Annual regattas 

 are proposed, and from the character of the various clubs in- 

 terested in the movement, it is safe to say that the western 

 country will ere long be treated to as fine exhibitions of skill 

 as have ever been seen elsewhere. A handsome set of colors 

 were presented by Miss H. Morton for whom the new barge 

 purchased by the club was named. The coming convention 

 promises to be well represented by the various western clubs. 

 Delegates— A. M. Douns, A. S. Porter, T. R. Jenkins, (>. W. 

 Morison, Frank Booth, C. D. Richards and H. S. Peufield. 



Rover. 



LonsiAXA Amateur Rowing Association.— The first an- 

 nual regatta of this association was sailed at the Lake End. 

 New Orleans, Sept. 24. The race for single sculls, one mile 

 and return, was won by O'Donnel, of the Hope Club, in 17m. 

 49s. The race for double sculls, same distance, was won by 

 Graham and Keenan, of the Perseverance Club, in 15m. 22s. 



Florida— Tilusville, Indian River, Sept. 8.— The following 

 yachts were entered: Blonde, Freddie, Wave, Comet, and 

 New Year. The course was a triangular one, nine miles 

 around, race twice around the course. The Freddie won, 

 beating the New Year by one minute and thirty-four seconds. 

 Prize, a silver cup. There was also a race for flat-bottomed 

 boats. 



Canada— Champion Flag of Lake Ontabio.— The yacht 

 race for this flag was sailed at Toronto, Sept. 23. The com- 

 peting boats were the Annie Cuthbert and the Oriole. The 

 race was awarded to the Oriole. The Annie Cuthbert came in 

 17m. ahead, but did not round the buoy properly. 



Seven Hundred Mixes in a Wherry.— Mr. William 

 Tryon, of Brooklyn, N. Y., arrived at Bar Harbor last Satur- 

 day in a lap streak wherry, which he had rowed over a course 

 of 700 miles. The voyage commenced at Vonkers, on the 

 Hudson, Monday, July 30, and safely ended at Bar Harbor at 

 half-past four o'clock Saturday afternoon. The above dis- 

 tance was accomplished in a round-bottomed boat only t wenty- 

 seven inches wide, and drawing but three Inches of water. 

 The craft weighs 100 pounds when not loaded, and something 

 under 300 with the owner and all his effects on board. The 

 Flash has an addition unusual to rowing boats in the shape of 

 centre board, which, while it does not perceptibly better the 

 equilibrium, has proved of great value by providing a straight 

 course against the wind. This boat carries a light, a couple 

 of poles fore and aft for its colors, and has a miniature marine 

 clock, compass, charts, marine glass, water tight locker for 

 clothes and other necessaries. When all these things are 

 stowed away there is but little room to spare, and the solitary 

 rower just fits into his place and no more.-- Portland (Me.) 

 Argus, Sept. 14. 



—A party were enjoying the evening breeze on board a 

 yacht. "The wind has made my moustache taste quite 

 salt," remarked a young man who had been for some time oc- 

 cupied in biting the hair that fell over his upper lip. "I know 

 it .' " innocently said a pretty girl. And she wondered why 

 all her friends laughed, "People are so childish," she re- 

 marked. 



—An Arctic expedition will probably be sent out by Holland, 

 under command of a lieutenant who has made three Arctic 

 voyages under the British flag. Its object is not the discovery 

 of the Pole, but the erection of granite monuments to some of 

 the early Dutch vov 



