Jclt 20, 1882, j 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



496 



fachfing m\A §fs<mfieing. 



July 31 — Qui r 



FIXTURES. 

 y Y C„ Third OlUD Hatch, 

 pd V. C, Ctuise Eastward, 

 i . C Annual Club Matches. 

 3e Y. C. Annual Cruise. 



V 0. Club Match. 



r Cruise. 



, Cad 



nihil. 



■ Day. 



July 

 July 

 My 



Ang. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 



Aug, 

 Aug, 

 A.ug, 

 iug 



>yal>L._ 

 29— Royal Nova Scotia Y. B 3d Oil 



29-E yal Nova .Scr.tia V. S. Ill CI. 



York Y (_'., Annual Cruis 



■ rd v. C,, Seconder 



3- Jea'iies Y. C. Club Match. 

 5— Hull V. O . Swee intakes torn-. 

 C-19-yunlrer Ojty Y. C, Annual C 



'Daj 



dOpen Boats and Canoes. 



ipionship Match, Swampscott. 

 Class, Vice-Commodore'S Cup 

 'kiss. Rear-Comrubi lore's Cup. 

 - leeretaryu Oup. 



..$30 i riueipa] Clubs. 



.C. Set 



- y. 



. LaflM 



i ltegattu. Lake George 



Aug. 

 Aug. 



Allg. 



Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Sept, 

 Sept. 

 Sept, 

 Sept. 

 Sept, 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 

 Oct. 

 Oct. 



0— £ mfchern Y. C, Annual Sweeps tak 



1-3-tIullY. C. Second Club Matcnes. 



12-MerrimaekY. C Club Match. 



14— Royal Nora Scotia Y. S., Ocean Match to Chester, 1 prize. 



16— Royal Nova Scotia Y. S., Chester Town Cup, 3d prize. All 



Comers, 

 18 -Roval Nova Scotia Y. S., Ocean Match to Halifax, 1 prize. 

 10— Hull V. C. Open Races. 



'.. Club "'latch. 

 32— Jersey City l.C. Ladies' Day. 

 BS-Qumcy Y. O. Fourth Club Match. 



Southern Y. C, Inter-State Regatta. 



33— Hull Y. C Club Championship Match, 



: -i- •-■''}''' kieJtord Y C, !M Class Schooners, 1st Class Sloops, 



-.■:■!'. ,' Principal Clubs. 

 26-Bevorly Y. C. Open Regatta, Marblehead. 

 '30 — Salem Bay Y. (,'., Championship Sail-off. 

 SU-Hull Y. C, Club Champion ship Match. 



2-Beverly Y. C. Third Cnampionship Match. Marblehead. 



2-Jeffrias Y. O. Club Match. 



3— Royal Nova Scotia Y. S., Mayor's Cup and third prize. 



4— East River Y. C, Fall Matches. 

 Hull Y. C, (.'lull Cnampionship Sail-off. 



4— Q'uinoy Y. C, Fifth Club Match. 



>y cit. 



9— Merrimack Y. C 



10-Quaker Oily Y. 

 16— Royal Nova, Sec 



'— -Royal Nova Sec 



19-Jcrscy City Y 



rCicy Y. C 



l -Qua'kerCity Y.'G, _. 

 8— Jersey City T. C, Ladies 1 Day 



. Ladies' Ha' 



i Opeu to All Match. 



, , Harbor Cruise. 



ia Y. S., Three Classes, one prize each. 



a Y. S., "i aehts dinghies, sailing race. 



ia Y. S., Charlottetown, P. E. I. 



Ladies' Day. 



Harbor Cruise. 



Closing Cruise. 



CUTTERS. 



THE demand for cutters is unprecedented. Cutter building pr< 

 to be kept up all the year round without intermission, 

 snort time ago Drtseoll launched au & -ionner for Mr. Watren e 

 York. Poillons have nearly finished aaotherfbr Mr Kortri jhl 

 grass has two of about 50 tons progressing rapidly toward eomp! 

 Driseoli has one of about 15 tons for Mr Fox ot Pbijadi rohia ! 

 Gary Smith is busy with a new 50 for 



id A. 



.. these latitudes : Rear Com. C. A. 

 Welsh, boston \ . C, has just given an order for a line little ship, to 

 be a cutter ot lair beam, and Lawley ,y .sou, of City Point, are to get 

 her out at one - She is 33ft. (iin on deck. Soft, load line, 10ft. extreme 

 beam, about 0ft, deep, and 7ft. draft. Flush deck, full cutter rig, 

 ballast on keel, of course. Cm the lakes, too, cutters are it, full swing. 

 The Eileen, built at Kingston, Ont., from a design by G. L. Watt 

 of Glasgow, is alreadv in commission. She is a bea 

 55ft, load liit', lift, bin beam. 8ft. depth, and 8ft. 3 



Verv 

 boar 

 line. 



fleet toi 

 racing: 



elippei 



vessel t 

 other u 

 cutters 

 but for 



whol 



£2 



ty, 05ft, on deck. 

 ..draft. Hoist of 

 Flush deck, lead 

 rted the famous 

 he same drawing 

 Hid is 3'Jft. load 



145ft., bowsprit outboard 25ft, 



Toronto gentlemen have jiapi 



,i iL-n-touner not unlike the Madge and from 



She. was built in 1881 at Goran by Watson, 



. Bin. beam, and about 7ft, Oin. draft. 



?s all these we near of at least a dozen cutters in eontempla- 



d the signal achievements of the Maggie iu the East will give 



•run i o tue cause of honest ships that will be seen in a large 



• next season. One tuing the Maggie has developed in her 



Whatever she may be at rough and tumble work, she, is a 



, of first water iu light winds and smooth sea. Under those 



. ioi lions t.iere is nothing in Boston that can cope with Southampton's 



graduation. In light winds, trying on the Maggie is little less than 

 ppeless. As iignt winds are continually thrown up to us as "our 

 weather," it follows tnat for summer racing the cutter is ihe racing 

 excellence for us in America quite as much as for any 

 on. By the way, here is another fallacy exploded. "Your 

 said tue old school, "may do for stormy British waters, 

 r li,»ht :. weather tne sloop is much -uperior in speed." But 

 : even in light wiuds the cutter has now been proven faster 

 est sloops we can muster. 



; is wet aud uncomfortable," is the quick retort of those 

 next to nothing about them. Granted, for the sake of ar- 

 latsueis. Wbatofit? Do we ask that Parole, Foehall, 

 Iroquois aud Wallenstein should hitch up to a dray after a scamper 

 on tne turf, and make themselves useful as well as ornamental in 

 dragging a load of hogsheads to market? Do we cease aiming at 2:10 

 cecals,- St. Julien and Haras would wit hauling hay by the ton); 

 Is breeding to be dropped because it leads mainly to speed", just what 

 we seek? if cutters ale faster than other types of vaunts, and useless 

 for any other purpose, are we to build washtubs to race, because, 

 perhaps, cutters cannot carry freights or afford the same "comfort"? 

 The American people are a high-pressure racing nation, and the 

 li fe esl tuey adore and the fastest lue-y will have, if she drives along 

 a fathom under water, keel out and the mud ploughed up by the 

 truck, That we take as a foregone conclusion. 



Granted, then, that the cutter is unlit for cruising, once let her 

 superior speed be conceded, aud cutters are certain to flourish iu cut- 

 waters in whole squadrons. That the cutter is a light-weather flyer 

 of extraordinary merit wo have held all along, aud late 

 borue us out ' 



in America as clei 

 quai tors of tne globe, where 1 

 i tne Atlantic seabo; 

 agreeing to tue oat-of-hand n 

 cruisers ' 



eather 



iin, thar 



conti 



great 

 uot li 

 of cu 



oinUf 

 oapai 



race too tii 



against cutters w 

 Tueh' supposed g 



that the 



we disco i. . i . .. 

 sloop is iu ex< ess 

 and the plea of 

 draft admissible 

 tue cutter. 



In a not climate 

 cool hold, and. in 

 bility. iu _ 

 lar, refreshing au 

 si gaiTet-i 

 "titer ,.,•■ 



i!i 



great faiih. Depth wa 

 I "lugging lead" could s 

 loukl not grip like the I 

 ouble jibs and loose foot 



j be false prophe 



: destiny 

 in other 

 ich less the rule than 

 ever, very far from 

 i are not suitable as 

 lg impression to the 

 will wear away with 

 itent was the opinion 

 slower than yachts 

 by impractical men 

 vere 

 absolute 



life 



eling 



with a short allowance of weight on the keel. A good cruising 

 yacht should leave no doubt upon this vital question "Your cutter 

 is a wet boat," says the theorist once more. We beg to deny this 

 in fofa, and maintain just the contrary. The M; ' 



mpr 



Aboard tin 



r all hands v 



3d. Bu 



id whe 



xposed 



vas 



nee. 



anatni tHsinti «sted testimony of others, a "dryer" boat than her 

 beamy sister. She throws no spray, and if, on account of greater 

 heel,, more water should pour in to leeward, it does not reach the 

 crew on the weather side. The sloop might at the same time he 

 taking in not a drop, but the "spank" under the bluff-cheek of the 

 upturned bilge sends the spray flying aft in heavy showers, soaking 

 all hands in disgusting Uisniori, and interfering with a proper conn in." 

 We submit that the boat '•dryesf on her crew is the 

 f our purpose, as no one cares a particle how wet the. 



of the sL 

 'dryest" for ou 

 bout's deck may 

 from a washing 

 an easy jog our 

 the sloop. We ; 

 supposed, and o 

 respect th 



;ight in the great battle 



isly the draft of the 



ability on 



■ei sloop c 



r of latest design, 

 core falls to the ground. The 

 srtainlyform no objection in 



TB.the first essential to a good cruising ship is a 

 ually weather the next is absolute uneapsiza- 

 -..■luture the hold of a cutterismueh like a eel- 

 ai the sunniest of days, and the twe. in ..leeks of 

 ts stifling heat. While the happy owner of a 

 _„ _'efugp in his snug cabin below , i llose aboard 

 the sloop are. oriveu out irom their sweltering quarters in search of a 

 brouui, for the sloop's cabin is oppressively warm with old Sol's rays 

 BOOl'Cniag the wide decks unit the light superstructure in the way of 

 a house, supplied for providing the bead room for a short half length 

 of the boat, lacking for ivitnt of sutlicient depth of hold proper. The 

 cutler has ample venti.flfioii in her cabin aim lakes no slack from the 

 s-loop in this iv.-pect. Sue has hatches and skylights ubove aud, if 

 i "bulise\es" to open in ihe toamiigs. 

 Many of the deep draft keel sloops of Boston may be considered 

 uncapt.zalle cs much as the cutttr, but the same cannot be said of 

 cetiHiihoujL'd Yo«bvl6, nor yet of shoal bodied keel boats, or of boats 



The 



while th 



tackle 



regis 



, J the _. 

 ifo driven is this the case, for when sailed 

 Bis that the cutter ships less water than 

 .'utter a much drier vessel than geneinlly 

 le far more to the cruiser's liking iu this 



: cutter call for a "blind" cockpit at most, 

 a of the sloop demand a deep one for com 

 and Brew, Hence the Length of the cutter's 



1 greatly in excess of those of the sloop, 

 oeain, broader gangways on deck. 





r first cost n 



Bdi 



c the 



It is certainly true thai 

 floor athwart ships and s 

 than makes up for this 

 Wide floor is. of little or n 

 the impression of ample r 

 existence in fact, Tl 

 that is waste to 

 cabin aft 



i wear and tear, and. quality for quality, 



iv greater than that of the opposite type. 



ery beamy keel sloops show more e'anin 



newhat wider berths, but the cutter more 



n additional length of accommodations. 



no practical value except to deceive and give 



room where scant length of cabin forbids its 



e cutter has floor enough. Anything beyond 



good. and. we take it. that a private ladies' 



for the difference betw 



On one and all the above 

 • the sloop as a cruiser, and 

 ■tand in tne way to availing 



and 7ft, across the floor or even 

 counts we deem the cutter preferable 

 think that only prejudice and custom 

 ourselves of siien manifest advantages 



To one defect in the cutter as a cruiser we cannot shut our eves. 

 The. very narrow specimens heel to a much greater angle than the 

 beamy sloop, a consideration of no moment to the hardy, tarry top 

 yachtsman of seagoing predilections, but still a serious drawback to 

 "family comfort," whien cannot be overlooked in a vessel intended 

 to knock about for pleasure and relaxation. Fortunately there are 

 two ways out of this difficulty. A cruiser, cu i- ,u- . : ; ; , s i 

 racer, would not need the big rig of the crack with a reputation to 

 preserve. Cut. down the rig to rhoderation, and the difference in heel 

 will be so much reduced as to offer little or no practical hindrance to 

 a thorough enjoyment of every-day shipboard life. The yacht would 

 lose somewhat m light winds, and possibly be the gainer when it 

 blows, but what cruising yachtsman would not prefer a trifling sac- 

 rifice in light winds to secure the immunity from heat, the longer ac- 

 commodations, the safety, the handier rig', better seagoing qualities 

 and economy of the cutter, as compared to the orthodoxsloop 1 ' 



There is a second method of overcoming the excessive heel of the 

 racing cutter. A moderate increase in beam leaves you all the ad- 

 vantages enumerated above untouched; gives more floor and more 

 deck and ample stiffness into the bargain. The beamy cutter might 

 not quite cope with her very narrow sister in racing events, but as a 

 cruiser she would be preferable on the score of "comfort," and 

 v."nld ;ii'-"i !'•'" in ce sides of the knock-about yachtsman aud party 

 in a much more satisfactory manner than anything in the way of a 

 sloop. " J 



We consider the cutter of moderate beam pre-eminently adapted 

 to cruising about our coasts, and believe that she will be received 

 with greac favor when natural prejudice and pardonable national 

 pride, are brought into fair competition with the truth concerning 

 such vessels. As to rig, that is another question into which we need 

 not enter further in this article. 



CHICAGO Y. C. 



rpHE new life infused into this organization, which has .suddenly 

 J- sprung from provincial to metropolitan importance, was shown 

 by the large list of entries for the annual matches sailed Julv 4 and 

 the numerous spectators attracted, as well as the prominence given 

 the racing by the Chicago press. The wind was light and paltry all 

 day, aud for several hours a heavy fog shut all out of sight, in 'first 

 class for schooners, $700 cup, fifteen mile course, Idler had a sail 

 over, as Countess could not, be got ready in time. She failed to finish 

 within the stipulated seven hours, and the cup returns to the club 

 First and second class sloops sailed for Si 25 and 8100, besides the 

 Fisher Challenge Cup. value $800. Third class sailed for §75 and §35 

 and fourth class for *:>e. Course about fifteen miles for first three 

 tlasses, for the rest eleven miles. The steamer Sheboygan took the 

 e course, and the following gentlemen as 

 :-ar Krause, Samuel Baker, George H. Lally 

 ......-,, . Regatta Committee: Martin Engert \ A 



irtin, W. Blanchard, M. D., and 0. E. Kremer. A 

 sion steamers had to be brought into requisition to 

 e attending crowds. Protests on account of fog 

 led out, likewise the Sea Gull for spilling ballast. 

 jt what might have been wished, the Chicago Y. C. 

 ■ed by its big list of entries the solid material it pos- 

 ouraging all sizes by most liberal prizes, bids fair 

 nate sailing spirit a great city by tne fresh-water 

 iwn among its many thousands seeking recreation 

 lly sport. Summary as under: 

 Length 

 Ft. In. 

 872 



tross schooner, while larger sloops and cutters were nearly an hour 

 in coming too. No one pretends that the Feti el is a match for the 

 twelve-ton Muriel or the thu-ty-ton Oriva, nor yet that she can beat 



good working wh 

 tagement, though 



loops several times her i 

 of luck and possibly good 

 fasteSl bonis of her length 

 the sailing of the Wave, and thoi 

 or Muriel fast cutters, we can sue no logic in drat 

 sions for or against any type from such a mixed 

 thirteen terns, then ninety-five tons, then live ton 

 ,1 few minutes of cacti other after a lone dai 's ii 

 admits of no inteif ' 



Tht 



nee 



111 



schooner Clytis,_.. 

 in-day a short run acres 

 was spent at anchor. 

 Island and Newport. 



Mo 



'Co 



tter 



•el is one of the 

 .ante applies to 

 ler either oriva 

 positive conclu- 

 i ffair in which 

 bring i p within 

 Sucn sailing 



bud 



at, Greenpnrt, 

 in P. Stokes, joined the squaer, 

 was made to New London, where the Sunday 

 The fleet then continued the cruise to Block 



. ready 

 did not fill. 

 >n tared— the 



ur of start- 



ROYAL NOVA SCOTIA YACHT SQUADRON. 



SATURDAY, 2-lth June, was fixed for the opening rates of the 



(3 season, but as few of the yachts on the station were ready 



(owing to the backwardness of the season) the f 



The second class was postponed at the request 



appearance of the weather not being favorable 



iug— and in the third class Mai iquila had a sail over. The race on 



1st July, however, brought no less than seven entries, and though the 



wintl was paltry to a degree, and shifted from north to south iu the 



course of the afternoon, there 



Psyche and Oi-Kaze, and betwt 



With her racing mainsail aud jib. 



could turn out, performed superb 



her himself, took it out of her tc 



windward on the first tack from t 



the success of any other craft, C 



owner, did cutter's work, cut Ps\ 



and nearly repeated the perform' 



luff enabled tne Rear Cotumodori 



ing round beautifully. The tw 



mtest between 

 1 Marie. Psyche, 

 as even Lapthom 

 . who always sails 

 irking her up to 

 that boded iii for 

 i by her 



'fv Buov 

 .it an nuluekV 

 mud first, jib- 

 — -o themselves. 

 Iropping eveiy other craft far behind. Daphne gave up, when well 

 astern of Phantom on the beat to the seaward mark, and Mat ie sailed 

 a game race against the little yawl, but all in vain. The two small 

 n for bad luck, the breeze dropping and keeping them 



i out at Darti 

 ? at Mar's Roi 

 shoot hisslo 



s had a ract 

 Daphne § 



nth Ft 



our till very 

 The race t 

 sented to th' 

 Archibald. 

 Mr. West, ai 



late. 



as tor the Lieutenant-Governor's Challenge Cup, pre- 

 squadron in 1880, by His Honor Lieutenant-Governor 

 t was won in that year by the Psyche, then owned by 

 i last year by the Kestrel, Mr. S. A. White. There was 

 a prize tor each class besides the Cup, and the prize not sailed for on 

 the 24th of June was also up for competition between Daphne and 

 Phantom. The course was from H. M. Lumber Yard to Dartmouth 

 Ferry Buoy; thence to flag boat off Fort Clarence; thence to Mars' 

 Rock Buoy, leaving all marks on starboard hand, and tinish off H. 

 M. Lumber Yard: 11 miles, 8 cables. 



Mr. J. Eraser was Officer of the day in the room of Mr. W. H. 

 Troop, and started the yachts punctually at two oclock, a one gun 

 start, of course. A preparatory flag is flown half an hour before the 

 start, hauled down five minutes before the hour, when the first gun 

 is fired and the Blue Peter hoisted. Sharp on time the Blue Peter 

 comes down, and the starting gun gives the signal "Go!" uhen the 

 best man takes his yacht past the line. No allowance to laggards or 

 " The entries were: 



Rig. Tons. Owner. 



sloop, 4, A.E.Jones 



4, F. Stairs, 



10, W. A. Ohauncey.. 



2. W. Wallace 



4, O. H. T. Mathesot 

 4. Captain Trott.... 



2, W. H. Troop 



mast not having beei 



lubbers. 

 Yacht. 

 Daphne.. 

 Phantom 

 Oi-Kaze. . 

 Mariquita 



Isabel 



Psyche .. 

 Marie 



. .sloop, 

 . . cutter, 

 ..yawl. 

 ..sloop, 

 sloop, 

 . .sloop, 



_ :ests of the club 

 Judges: L. T. Stat 

 andF. W. S. Bra 

 Munger, R. B. Mai 

 number of exeurs 

 accommodate th. 

 were properly ruh 



o develop the fa 



eas uiusi needs 

 nd health in me 



Wasp 



Cora 



Nameless 



Harry Burke. . 



Ariel 



Peri 



Zephyr 



Ned 



Goodenough .. 



Wonder 



Mary Jane 



Enterprise 



Laura,! 



Refuge 



Mignon 



Verda 



Franklin 



Igo 



Sea Gull 



Sea Bird 



Fleetwing 



Alice . 



Actual. Corrected. 

 h. a. s. h. m. s 



5 00 47 5 00 47 

 4 4a 58 4 32 4fl 



6 06 15 

 distanced 

 4 43 40 

 6 00 05 

 4 86 IS 

 distanced 

 distanced 

 3 14 39 

 distanced 

 3 03 12 



2 55 31 



3 09 43 

 3 10 31 



2 42 51 



3 19 15 

 3 27 01 



2 57 11 



3 19 15 

 3 is 61 

 3 06 48 



5 06 15 



4 -12 40 

 4 57 50 

 4 33 12 



2 51 46 

 •A 06 30 



3 06 17 



3 18 00 



3 40 22 

 S 57 41 



- 402 



„ 31 4 



-- 28 1 



Cora takes first money aud the Fisher Cup; Nameless wins in 

 second class: Zephyr and Ariel in third class; Wonder wins in fourth 

 class, and the Refuge in the fifth. 



* Did not round boat, t Threw out ballast, 



THE club i 

 Larchm 

 flagship Oriv 



SEAWANHAKA Y. C. 



ruise has brought together the folio wu 

 .nt rendezvous, under orders of Com. L 

 i: Schooners. Albatross. nin.-tv-tive tons V 

 Nokomis. 110 tons, W. A. W. Steiwirt. 

 Commodore C. S. Lee; Yoiante, Qftei 

 'iel, twelve tons, Paul Tuckerman; Petri 



Builder. 

 Butler. 

 H. luoselev. 

 Butler. 

 Strum. 

 King. 

 Buiier. 



E. Moseley. 



Isabel did not start, her new mast not having been stepped. Mai ie 

 was sailed by Mr. G. Hart, all the others by their owners. Phantom 

 and Psyche were first across the line, ihe former to windward: Mario 

 and Daphne next, then Mariquita und Oi-Kaze. Psyche screwed right 

 ont, the wind north and very fight, and weathered' the Island easily. 

 Marie, Oi-Kaze and Daphne had to go round to starboard tack, tue 

 cutter, when she went about again, clearing her wind and drawing 

 ahead: Psyche tacked off the Eastern snore; Oi-Kaze, standing 

 further in, cut her out at first mark, when spinakers were dropped to 

 starboard, but the wind drawing off the. Eastern shore, the leaders 

 had to jibe. Psyche led at Fort Clarence, Oi-Kaze on top of her, and 

 behind them, already well dropped, came Phantom and Marie, 

 Daphne and the yawl, uff York Redoubt a southerly wind was seen 

 by Psyche and Oi-Kaze. and spinakers came iu shai p on both, Psyche 

 hauling up on starboard and tne cutter on port tacit. 



la the turn to windward the cutter gained considerably. Daphne 

 was dropped by Phantom, which Bail inc inn ilv well this season, 

 and Marie was hunting Mariquita.. Psyche cut Oi-Kaze out at Mal's's 

 Rock, jibed smartly and set balloon topsail, spinaker and water -ail 

 The cutter set her big spinaker to starooard and water sails ou each 

 side, picked up Psyche fast, aud finished twenty-five seconds astern 

 in a very light wind. Capt. Trott had the cup safe all day. Daphne 

 had given up, and Phantom won both seoonn-ciass prizes, aim Mari- 

 quita secured her second prize this season, Oi-Kaze taking the first- 

 class prize, which she deserved for her good sailing. Tne liming at 

 the finish was: 



n. M. 8. in. ar. a. 



Psyche 5 41 35 Mariquita 8 56 00 



Oi-Kaze 5 42 00 Marie 3 oj ft) 



Phantom 6 23 50 



P-yche is most carefully looked after by her owner, who has had 

 700 los. lead bolted on her keel, and the remainder of ballast, all 

 lead, inside and low down. Oi-Kaze was not sailing in her old form, 

 as over the same course, when in the hands of her torraer owner, tor 

 whom she was built, she gave Psyche a tweuty-minutes' beating 

 without difficulty. Tne next race is on the 16tli of July, for the Conv 

 modore'sCup, at present held by Esuie, sloop, I. IL. .butler. 



SHARPIES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



About a year ago I wrote a letter to Forest axd Steam to inaulro 

 about the true qualitiesof thesharpie, a boatabout wnich I had heard 

 much from my youtn up, and wh.cn nad beeu equally praised and 

 dispraised witn unstinted enthusiasm. The replies tnen furnished 

 were a continuation of my previous experience, one writer contend- 

 ing that perfection aloue was to be found where anotntr could ais- 

 cover nothing but faults and shortcomings. Interspersed wan lids 

 information was a mass of valuable a .vice aoncoi-uiiig Barnegat 

 "neak boxes, Newport pleasure, boats, Long island gunning anSts, 

 '" regulation eatboats, till I felt at tne end c 



and the 



fori 



up... 



lelf waa 



sryto 



31a 



uticat way — except jusc 

 intention "of findrng out 

 emed to oe able to a^ree 

 will lay btioro 



; tabic 



Hodges; Ml 



Hyslop; Yolande, five tons, M. R. Schuyler. Sloop 

 tons, Rear Com. J. C. Harron. Peri, thirteen tons. F. 

 Vivien, five tons, Stanley Greacen 



The Beet made sail July 13, A M. , for Morris Cove to a good south- 

 westerly breeze, the smaller yachts being sent off an hour and a half 

 ahead. Il was a run all day . at which tne Albatross, recently altered 

 aud overhauled , proved herself a good one. likewise tue sloop Wave, 

 ■ho was Jucky enough to get away from big and little, cutters, sloops 

 ily overhauled late iu the day by me 

 She beat her class competitor the 

 ninutes. Un the other h;.nu i. 

 lande. turned the tables on tin- sloop 

 utes. These scrub sails, how 



and schooners alik . 



Kear Commodore's schooner. 



cutter Muriel by nearly fifty n 

 little cutlers, Petrel und \'ul 

 16 aud 6 



hardly a criterion to go bv and no great i 



to such informal sailing. Where one makes it a race, 



things k-Lsurety. and ihe leader Is sure to have a differ 



the boat bringing up the rear some ..-ight or ten unless 



morning. J my 14. anchors were gct"for Greenport. 



tedious drift working zephji-s all the forenoon < 



breeze sprang up from southwest. While beating up Gardner's Bay 



for haiDor, Wave again outran the fleet, but how little stress 



is to be laid upon tne day is shown by the fact that the little 



five-ton Petrel fcotm third boat close on tfie heels of the big Alba- 



rn. Sett 



Alter a 

 sailing 



and this 1 have f: 

 ■eiders. 



I wanted a roomy, comfortable, safe boat for shoal waters, some- 

 thing with a cabin of which the carlius would not be at ptrp.ttml 

 war with my skull, a private hotel, with spring beds, and a cuance to 

 sleep witnout getting jammed between tne timbers, a 

 • visitors and unlimited lockers for stores, a good lore- 

 castle and a coal stove, and all tnis adapted for the Great coutn nay 

 of Long Island, where the bottom for tne most fs only two or three 

 feet below the top of the water. In other words, I wanted a vacat- 

 ing canal-boat with a sail in it. I did not ask for speed inienuW- to 

 taive Mr. fseth Green along with me. and devote the entire summer to 

 studying the piscatorial capacities of our salt-water inlets and bays. 

 I engagel Mr. Clapuam to ouilJ me a ".Nonpareil" sharpie, daft, long 

 over an and 15ft. extreme beam, with Off. nead room ia tue cabin 

 and bout 4ft. Oin under the deck. As my correspondence had, as I 

 have explained, failed to produce a very clear comprehension of 

 Is, 1 worried the unilder somewhat with numerous sugges- 

 tions, but iu the end we produced tbe boat which 1 am about io uo 

 scribe. 



Tne first item to consider was, naturally, the cost, for I take il that 

 a greac deal depends upon how much bout you get tor your ttoney. 

 Twenty dive hundred dollars covered that, including anchors, talis, 

 patent blocks, and everything of the beat, the calm, ai.u btaieiooma 

 oeing tastefuily hnishea insiue will. bar., woods, on the south :ldo 

 vi 1/ mg Island we Have a beautiful insect, or small bird, as it uugct 

 almost be called from the delicacy of its soil- ante, lnis comet, to 

 usiu great abundance at times, and makes tue air fairly rejoice ~t1th 

 its bum. It is called, popularly, the mosquito, ana io pie^eut lie 

 ■s/ fang lost In the imrlcacies or the cabin, tue windows, niiich .; \ te 

 large, were made double, bail' glass aud hall ut mosqi-ilu uclllrg, 

 « bile tut iv- uvrc a pan ot swinging mosquito net aoul's in tne tun- 

 panionway. 'there are live bei ms in tho main cabin, each oc ( pring 

 slats and all under the deck, so that they cannot be sal upon during 

 the day and reduced io ihe consistency of tdnt. Slteptefe on tttumj 

 a luxury , and instead of turning out at B a. jl as we i.ase always 

 done her. totore, we sleep tdi 10. L'ui'lalns on rods iu front ot Uifcm 

 shut them out of sight uuriutr the day. 



but if uieseure luxuries what ^id'le thought of those in the two 

 Staterooms, where they are ttiU wider ana Lteper and toliu t cd v. ill 

 at a pmch almost accommodate two. In one ct thtte tiaiirtcn.b is a 

 w. c, without which no yacht, large or small, UguiteUe tor tne use 



