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later than Monday in each week. 
HIGH WATER, FOR THE WEEK. 
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—The yacht Addie Y., which Mr. Langley paid $7,000, 
for when he purchased it, and which cost him some $3,000 
for improvements about two years ago, was sold to Messrs. 
Roosevelt for $2,500, the greatest bargain in yacht selling 
of the season. 
—The Harlem Rowing Association will manage the re¬ 
gattas, which will take place as usual in June on the Harlem 
River, but as yet nothing has been settled as to crews. 
—Mr. F. Burritt is having a center board schooner yacht 
built in South Norwalk, Conn., at Mr. Richard’s yard. She 
will be' 85 feet over all, 76 feet keel, 22 feet beam, 6£ 
feet deep. She is to be called the Estelle, and will probably 
be launched about the first of June. 
—Mr. Ward, of New York, is having a yacht built from 
a model of Messrs. J. Fish & Town. She will be about 
forty-five feet long, a keel boat, and will measure in the 
neighborhood of tw T enty-five tons. Mr. Ward expects to go 
to England in her as soon as she is finished, and has very 
wisely adopted the English cutter rig. 
—Messrs. J. Fish & Town are building a small sloop 
about twenty-eight feet in length, which, we believe, is to 
be the property of a member of the Eastern Yacht Club. 
—The owners of fast vessels, belonging to the New York 
Yacht Club, will have an excellent opportunity to add to 
the contents of their plate locker this season, for besides the 
. prizes for the regular annual regatta, Commodore Bennett 
.offers five season cups, four of them valued at $500 each, 
and the other at $1,000. Of the smaller cups, one for 
schooners and one for sloops, will Jae sailed for during the 
1 summer cruise, and the two remaining of this size, one of 
which is intended for schooners, one for sloops, will be the 
prizes for the October regatta. The $1,000 cup is destined 
for the successful schooner in race from Sandy Hook to 
Cape May and return. 
As the Madgie, the last possessor of the “Club Course 
-Challenge Cup,” has been sold out of the club, this cup 
■ comes back again to be sailed for by the fleet and may pos¬ 
sibly be an additional inducement for entries for the regular 
: annual regatta on June 11th. This cup has to be held 
.through three consecutive races before it is absolutely won, 
^however. 
J When the Rambler was sold and went east the cup 
('which she had twice won in contest with the Madeline, was 
I given to the club. It is known as the “Brenton’s Reef 
Jhallenge Cup” and the course to be sailed is from Sandy 
: 3pok to Brenton’s Reef Light, off Newport, and return; or, 
'Starting from Brenton’s Reef to Sandy Hook and back— 
keeping to the South of Long Island each way. 
', —News comes from the other side that the Enchantress, 
Mr. Loubat, which is at Cowes, has been hauled off the 
:mud and has had her spars taken out prior to having exten¬ 
sive alterations made in her by Mr. John White, under the 
(•'personal superintendence of Mr. Robert Fish. 
;, s —The schooner yacht Faustine, built last season for Mr. 
(t Peabody Russell by Herreshoff, is also at Cowes. During 
; the winter she has had her keel deepened considerably and 
is now being put in thorough racing trim. It is believed 
• that she intends to test the speed of the schooners Egeria 
' and Pantomine, which are not far from her in point of 
size. 
: The schooner yacht Madgie, formerly the property of 
Ex-Commodore Loper, is now in the West Indies, and is 
ti iued by her present owners as a freight and passenger 
( Vessel running between some of the islands. 
f! —The yacht “Vindex,” Capt. Robert Center, of the New 
I (York Yacht Club, from Savannah to New York, arrived at 
Norfolk, Va., on the 27th inst. 
fc Boston, April 25, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Preparations for the coming season are now being made 
An the Dorchester yacht club. Some of the boats are al¬ 
ready afloat and others are being overhauled. The “Fear- 
dess,” Capt. Woodward, is being fitted with lead ballast and 
"Undergoing °ther improvements, which it is hoped w r ill 
jnah.e her outsail her previous record, good as it is. 
\ The “Ruby,” Capt. Preston, is to have her stick length- 
I! ened, or rather a new one is to be put in and the new sail is 
|;to travel on a railroad. The “ Fearless” and “Ruby” are 
[(Competitors, and the improvements in each would seem to 
[ttupty that each captain intends to make his boat the faster, 
a ^cuodore Bangs has disposed of his sloop yacht “Jen- 
nie >” an d purchased an interest in the “ Wivern.” 
1 Ca P fc - Halsall has sold his sloop yacht “Owl,” and will 
uot piobably own a boat this year as he contemplates a trip 
to Europe. 
The “Firefly,” Captain Balch, is in the hands of Pierce 
‘Bros., and will go into commission early in May. 
^ le Borchester Club have invited the Boston Yacht Club 
do join in a union regatta to take place May 22d at South 
' oston, and the invitation has been accepted. 
“Clytie,” Capt. Meredith, has been withdrawn from 
Ahe club. 
1 
The annual cruise of the club will probably take place 
the latter part of July or the first of August, but no formal 
announcement has yet been made. 
This year the small boats of the fourth and third class 
centre boards are to be restricted to the use of working 
sails only, in regattas. A strong effort has been made to 
allow shifting ballast in these classes, but thus far without 
success, the idea being to encourage the production of good 
sea boats and not mere racing machines. Binnacle. 
South BosTon Yacht Club.—T he regatta committee of 
this club have the past week decided to hold the regattas 
mentioned in our last issue on the following days : 
Opening regatta to be Thursday, June 4th, for which the 
flying start has been adopted, the prizes to be silver ware. 
The championship regattas are to be held June 18th, July 
17th and August 1st. 
The Union Regatta, open to all clubs, will be held Sep¬ 
tember 2d. 
The courses adopted by the committee are as follows : 
First Class— Course No. 1.—From Judges’ Boat to Buoy 
No. 6, Dorchester Bay (Cow Pasture Bar), leaving it on the 
port, to Buoy No. 7, off Fort Independence, leaving it on 
the starboard, Spectacle Island and Sculpin Lodge Buoy on 
the port, to Buoy No. 6, Lower Middle, leaving it on the 
port, passing between the Judges’ Boat and.Flag Boat. 
Course No. 2.—From Judges’ Boat to Buoy No. 6, Dor¬ 
chester Bay, leaving it on the port, to Buoy No. 6, Lower 
Middle, leaving it on the port, thence to Buoy No. 9, and 
leaving it on the port, passing between Fort Independence 
and City Point, and Judges’ Boat and Flag Boat. 
Course No. 3.—From Judges’ Boat to Buoy No. 6, Lower 
Middle, leaving it on the starboard, to Buoy 6, Dorchester 
Bay, leaving it on the starboard,- to Red Spar Buoy, off 
K street, leaving it on the starboard passing between Judges’ 
Boat and Flag Boat. 
Second Class— Course No. 1.—From Judges’ Boat, up 
Old Harbor Bay, leaving Red Spar Buoy, off K street, on 
the port, to Buoy No. 1, off Thompson’s Island, leaving it 
on the port, to Buoy No. 7, off Fort Independence, leaving 
it on the port, passing between Judges’ Boat and Flag Boat, 
and repeat the same course. 
Course No. 2. —From Judges’ Boat, leaving Buoy No. 6, 
Dorchester Bay, Thompson’s Island and Sculpin Ledge 
Buoy on the port, Spectacle Island on the starboard, to 
Judges’ Boat, passing oetween it and Flag Boat. 
Course No. 3.—Once around Course No. 1. 
The Judges appointed for the year are Messrs. Thomas 
Christian, J. G-. Chambers, P. P. McDonald, E. W. W 
Hawes and A. K. Roberts. 
—Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather last 
week the following yachts were added to tlie nucleus of a 
fleet already afloat at City Point, South Boston : Commo¬ 
dore J. N. Roberts’ schooner yacht “Mercury,” R. D. 
Tucker’s sloop yacht “Coming,” which Capt. .Bent will 
command as in former seasons, W. J. Orcutt’s schooner 
yacht “ Banshee,” S. J. Capens sloop yacht “ Kelpie,” also 
the yacht “Ella,” the sloop yacht. “ Spark” and a number 
of smaller boats. 
The schooner yacht “Surprise,” Capt. John Quinn, has 
established a mooring outside the fleet. She is about 50 
tons capacity, and is unsurpassed as a party boat, for which 
she is used. 
—In the last issue of this journal, under our yachting 
news, we stated that the length of yacht requisite to entitle 
the owner to membership in Eastern Club (Mass.) is 19 ft. 
6 in. It should have read 26 ft. 6 in, 
—-It is reported that Capt. James Read, a Boston pilot 
will command General Butler’s yacht, the famous “ Ameri¬ 
ca,” the coming season. 
—The Philadelphia yacht club held their annual meeting 
at the house of Albert Ebener, where the following gentle¬ 
men were elected to serve as officers for the ensuing year : 
President, Charles Bates ; Secretary, Charles Sheppard. 
The regatta will take place May 18th, and ninety boats have 
entered. 
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THE CORINTHIAN CUP. 
New York, April 18, 1874. 
Editor Porest and Stream:— 
The Seawanhaka Yacht Club proposes to offer a silver prize ofthe val - 
ue of $500, to be sailed for at Newport in the latter part of August next, 
by such schooner yachts of the recognized yacht clubs in the United 
States as may desire to compete. The race will be conducted according 
to the Corinthian system. In other words, each yacht must be sailed 
and, as far as possible, steered by her owner and manned exclusively by 
amateur members of the club under whose flag she is entered for the 
race. This system of yacht racing has been for some years successfully 
practiced in England, and has been found by English.clubs to conduce 
materially to the development of practical seamanship among yacht own¬ 
ers, while it has enhanced the pleasure of their non-yacht owning mem¬ 
bers, and awakened in them a warmer feeling for their respective clubs. 
The Seawanhaka Yacht Club was, we believe, the first to introduce the 
system in American waters by a successful regatta lor sloops, sailed last 
fall at Oyster Bay, Long Island. 
The present action of the club is taken with a view to bring the Cor¬ 
inthian system before the owners of schooner yachts in the various 
clubs, theie being no reason to doubt that the owners of larger vessels 
are possessed of sufficient knowledge and ability to sail them with a 
skill and judgment equal to that displayed by the owners of sloop yachts 
in the handling of their smaller craft. It is also the opinion of the club 
that to obtain amateur crews capable of executing intelligently the or¬ 
ders of their captains would be much less difficult than is generally sup¬ 
posed. 
Newport has been selected as a pleasant and easily accessible rendez¬ 
vous, and the latter part of August as a time when a large number of 
yachts are cruising in that vicinity. The race will be sailed according to 
the sailing regulations of the Seawanhaka Yacht Club,which are substan¬ 
tially the same as those of the principal clubs. 
The time allowance will be calculated upon the basis of mean length 
and greatest breadth. The sails to be carried will be restricted to the 
mainsail, foresail, jib and flying-jib (or fore-staysail, jib and flying-jib), 
and working fore and main gaff top-sails. Each yacht may carry a local 
pilot or its regular sailing master, to act solely as pilot, but if in case of 
an emergency the owner should surrender the control of his vessel to 
either of these persons he shall be deemed, by so doing, to have aband¬ 
oned the race. 
The owner of each competing yacht will be required, upon the day 
previous to the race, to submit a list of his proposed racing crew to the 
Regatta Committee, who shall have the absolute right to exclude from 
such crew any person who may be considered to be “a professional.” 
Each yacht will be allowed to carry (exclusive of the owner, and sail¬ 
ing master or pilot) one man for every five feet in length on deck and 
fractional part thereof. 
Unless the definite entry of at least five yachts is received prior to 
July 1, the whole project will be abandoned. 
Commodore Bennett, of the New York Yacht Club; Commodore 
Forbes, ofthe Eastern Yacht Club, and Commodore Swan, of the Sea 
wanhaka Yacht Club, have consented to act as judges. 
The above are the principal features of the proposed race, but full in¬ 
formation in regard to details will be furnished by the secretary, Mr. 
Frederic Foster, No. 65 Wall street, N. Y., to all owners of yachts de 
siring it. Prominent yachtsmen have expressed themselves as heartily 
in sympathy with the scheme. We hope that it will enlist your support 
and co-operation, and that you will enter your yacht for the race. An 
early answer is requested. Yours respectfully, 
William L. Swan,. I 
J. Wm. Beekman, Jr., 
Samuel J. Colo ate, [ 
William Foulke, Jr., (Committee. 
M. Roosevelt Schuyler | 
Frederic deP. Foster, J 
To -, 
of Yacht -. 
Boston, April 28,1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
I enclose a short item of yachting intelligence for your next issue, if 
agreeable to you: 
The Regatta Committee of the South Boston Club held a meeting last 
night (April 24), and it was arranged that regattas would take place as 
follows: Opening regatta with a flying start, June 4; championship re¬ 
gattas will come off on June 18, July 14 and August 1; Union regatta, 
open to all clubs, Sept. 2. The yachts are divided into first and second 
class keel, and first and second class centre-boards. Two prizes will be 
offered for each class, and silver ware has been chosen for the opening 
race. 
A special meeting of Dorchester Yacht Club was held at Commercial 
Point last evening (April 24), Commodore W. H. Bangs, Jr., in the chair. 
J. J. Baker, J. V. Mills, Jr., A. J. Lewis, F. T. Morton, W. D. Hodges 
and J. N. Roberts were elected members. An invitation has been ex¬ 
tended to the Boston Yacht Club by Commodore Bangs to join them in 
the opening regatta at City Point, on May 21, and has been accepted. 
The Boston Club appointed a committee to confer with the Dorchester 
Club committee on the arrangements, and it was decided to offer a prize 
for schooners over 40 feet long, in addition to the other prizes. A mo¬ 
tion was made by Mr Walter Burgess to restrict all centre-board, cat- 
rigged yachts of the fourth class to mainsail only in races, and sloops to 
mainsail and jib, which was carried, but a motion to restrict all yachts to 
working sails was lost. Messrs. Lewis, Sayward and Barnard were ap¬ 
pointed a committee to consider the subject of a change of uniform for 
the club. A motion was made to appoint a committee to confer with 
other clubs as to the advisability of preparing a yachtsmens’ chart of 
Boston Harbor, but was lost, as was a resolution to annul the fifth rule, 
prohibiting the shifting of ballast on the day of ordering a race. After 
some small change in the constitution of the club the meeting adjourned. 
D. H. Eaton. 
—The fall regatta of the Saratoga Rowing Association 
will take place as usual, notwithstanding the fact that the 
college oarsmen will enjoy the hospitality of the association 
in July. It will occur during the last week of August, 
however, instead of the first week in September as 
formerly. 
Mr. Frank Leslie has offered a challenge cup, valued at 
$1,000, to be known as the Interlaken Cup, named in honor 
of his country seat on Saratoga Lake, which has been ac¬ 
cepted by the association and will probably be the prize for 
the pair-oared-race. In addition to this will be a prize for 
single scull oarsmen belonging to this State, which is to be 
considered as a State Championship Badge, and the regular 
Challenge Cup, both offered by the Saratoga Rowing Asso¬ 
ciation. The programme will be divided into three days. 
The first day will be given to the single scull race for the 
State championship and the double scull race; the second 
day will include the general single scull race and the pair- 
oared race; the third day will be devoted to the Junior 
single scull and the great four-oared races. Yale College 
will send four-oared and pair-oared crews. It is already 
certain that the following clubs will be represented in one 
or more of these races:—Beaverwick Rowing club and 
Mutual Boat club, Albany, N. Y.; Columbia Boat club, 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Buffalo Rowing club, Buffalo, N. Y.; 
Sawanhaka Boat club, Greenpoint’ Long Island; Atalanta, 
Dauntless, Friendship, Gramercy and Nassau Boat clubs. 
New York, and New York Athletic club; Riverside Row¬ 
ing club, of Rochester, N. Y.; Saratoga Rowing Associa¬ 
tion, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Union Springs Rowing club, 
Union Springs, N. Y.; Yesper Rowing Association, Yonk¬ 
ers, N. Y.; Argonauta Rowing Association, Bergen Point, 
N. J.; Atlantic Boat club, Hoboken, N. J.; Oneida Boat 
club, Jersey City, N. J.; Woodside Rowing club, Wood- 
side, N. J.; Potomac Rowing club, of Georgetown, D. C.; 
Analostan Boat club, of Washington, D. C.; Yale Univer¬ 
sity, New Haven—a pair and a four-oared; Couper Boat 
club, Savannah, Ga.; Pelican Boat club,* of New Orleans, 
La.; Gleam Boat club, of Bath, Me; Grand Haven Boat 
club, of Grand Haven, Mich.; Wah-Wah-Sum Boat ciub, of 
Saginaw, Mich.; Excelsior Boat club, of Detroit, Mich. 
Pape Barge club, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Undine Boat club 
of Toledo,Ohio, four-oared race,with a coxswain; Duquesne 
Boat club, of Allegheny, Pa.; Yesper Boat club, of Phila¬ 
delphia; Argonaut Rowing club, of Toronto. 
Williams College, ) 
Williamstown, Mass., April 24, 1874. j 
Editor Forest and Streami- 
Out college fleet is but a small one, comprising at present 1 barge, 47 
ft. long and 19 inches wide, 1 cedar shell, 51 ft. long and 22 inches wide, 
and one pair oar. There is a prospect of one more shell being added. 
During last summer vacation the town rowdies utterly destroyed one 
boat for us, and injured another, so tnat we were obliged to cut her in 
two; the parts we use in various ways. Our practice course is a mile 
distant from town. It is one mile in length, with two acute angles and 
one lesser angle, and not wide enough for boats to pass each other con¬ 
veniently. Yours truly, Will. 
—C. M. D.’s (Halifax) canoe article, No. 2, in our next 
with illustrations. 
