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All yachting magazines, both foreign and American, and such 

 yachting publications as may be desirable, could there be found. 



A bulletin for newS, exchanges, sales of yachts, etc., could be es- 

 tablished. It w ould afford a repository for all new inventions con- 

 nected with yacht building and fitting, and numerous other advan- 

 tages would inevitably arise from the establishment of such an 

 organization, which, it is believed, could be started and maintained 

 at a moderate yearly due. 



It should be distinctly understood that while the yachting congress 

 before mentioned, though being under the same head of the Now 

 England Yachting Association, is entirely separate and distinct in its 

 workings. It would be entitled, of course, to the free enjoyment of 

 all the privilejyss of the headquarters. 



In order to approximate the support this enterprise wi'l receive at 

 its inauguration, the committee appointed to select rooms for the 

 headquarters and to ascertain the probable expense of the project 

 have concluded to send with this circular to each member of the 

 different yacht- clubs of New England a, postal, with a request that 

 all who will aid in the start and support of the association will return 

 the same with favorable answer. The next general meeting of dele- 

 gates, committee and club members interested in this enterprise will 

 be held at the Parker House, Boston, Thursday, Feb. 7. at 7:80 P. M. 



Committee. -0. A. Perkins, Chairman; Fred. Pope, W. L. Jeffries, 

 L. M. Clark, Henry Bryant, 



SMALL BOATS. 



THE cause of small cruising yachts is looking up. Inquiries for 

 models, cost of building, etc., pour in upen us, and builders, nota- 

 bly from towns along the Chesapeake Bay and on the lakes, and 

 many exhibit a preference for the yawl rig. One inquirer wishes to 

 know how to steer with a tiller in a square stern yawl, the inizzen- 

 mast interfering. The tiller should be made of iron, with an elbow 

 or bend in wake of the mizzen , so that it can be put hard over with- 

 out striking the mast. Or the tiller may be split open, the mast pass- 

 ing down through the hole, which should be elliptical with the major 

 axis athwartships, and long enough to permit the required play to 

 the tiller from side to side. Such a tiller could not be unshipped. Ap- 

 plication of a bttle mechanical genius could easily overcome this 

 drawback. A number of single-hand yachts are already under way 

 for owners in this city and in Boston, of which particulars have been 

 given. No form of yachting becomes more intensely absorbing than 

 single-hand sailing when rightly pursued. The fact of being captain, 

 crew and cook, with no divided responsibility, completely unfettered, 

 at liberty to commit all the blunders you like, unanswerable to any- 

 one but yourself for the consequences* with the sense of perfect free- 

 dom, and the consciousness that all depends upon action and judg- 

 ment of your own. contribute to surround single-hand sailing with ah 

 amount of irresistible fascination and a fullness of realization which 

 never pall upon the taste but incite the appetite for more, which no 

 end of cruising nor advancing age can appease. To the youngster, to 

 the man, and to the veteran at the helm, sailing single-handed is sport 

 unequaled. And this is within the reach of the millions, as soon as 

 they learn of what a good boat consists. The San Francisco Breeder 

 and 8ports)iian has the following on the subject: 



"Learning to sail in small vessels makes a sailor of a man, for the 

 reason that everything that is necessary to be done must be clone by 

 himself or one of his companions, not by paid seamen. When a 

 gentleman without any previous experience builds a large yacht 

 and attempts to sail her himself, it is about a parallel case of teach- 

 ing an apprenree of any trade by putting him at once on the most 

 difficult work to be found. After a long time he may succeed in 

 doing the difficult work, after a fashion; but how much better does 

 the apprentice who has worked his way up to this same work. Again, 

 when the gentleman finds that sailing a yacht is not such a simple 

 thing as he fondly imagines, he becomes disgusted and also sells out, 

 almost always at a terrible sacrifice, and not only retires himself, 

 but deters others from his experience from interesting themselves in 

 yachting. We can recollect when the Lively, yawl Ariel, and other 

 boats of that build and size, had special prizes offered for their build 

 and class, and they used to go over the course in the heaviest kind of 

 weather, and have as much interest taken in their movements as in 

 those of the large yachts. This was as it should be, and this built up 

 a hardy race of yachtsmen, many of whom are still with us. En- 

 courage the small yacht owners, give them place in your discussions, 

 endeavor to get more people to build small yachts, and then, after a 

 season or two of such a system, you will see and admit the truth of 

 the foregoing remarks." 



Additions have lately been made to the fleet of small yachts incon- 

 siderable number. There was not long ago an impression that small 

 but deep keel boats could not be made to sail or show speed and that 

 in spite of their solid advantages in respect to room, safety, and gen- 

 eral cruising adaptability, they would not become popular because 

 lacking in speed. This was the theory of the old skimming dish 

 school, and was clung to tenaciously by many who have since learnt 

 otherwise. For example, sundry members of tne Larchruont Y. 0. 

 had been indulging in the usual idle gossip and fantastical exaggera- 

 tions about the speed of the centerboard sloop Gleam, belonging to 

 Mr. Lawton, the little unpretending keel cruiser Aneto being at the 

 same time cited as a style of boat unable "to get out of her own 

 way," etc., etc. This kind of silly gossip reached its height on a cer- 

 tain day last fall. Next morning there was a nice sailing breeze blow- 

 ing, which brought the extravagantly sparred machine Gleam down 

 to a couple of reefs. The Aneto, with a snug yawl rig, which every 

 one knows to be less effective than sloop or cutter, happened to get 

 under way at the same time, and an impromptu match was arranged 

 with the result that the despised "old hulk" gave the Gleam such an 

 out and out tanning on all points, that the clay has since become 

 memorable for the conversions effected. 



The conclusion fell like a bombshell in the camp and blew to atoms 

 many cherished theories and groundless prejudices. Needless to 

 say, that Aneto and her class are spoken of since then with profound 

 respect instead of derision. It is not always safe to judge of a yacht 

 by ruling customs or standards of beauty. A high side and short 

 counter may not be attributes of beauty in the eyes of those educated 

 to a sandbagger's proportions, but freeboard and low weight with 

 good lines below in the Aneto were discovered to clothe qualities of 

 greater intrinsic value than the assumed beauty of outline with 

 which Gleam's friends invested the sloop, and upon which they too 

 hastily decided beforehand the relative speed of the two yachts. 

 We believe Aneto is to have her overhang spun out this spriug, and 

 that she will also receive a racing rig. In that event, she may sur- 

 prise her detractors in light weather as completely as'she already 

 has done in a blow. Meanwhile, the building of small cutters has 

 taken a fresh start, and accessions to the fleet of small yacnts are 

 promised for the coming season. The time is not far distant when. a 

 club will be formed in New York especially devoted to the interests 

 of yachts under 30ft. loadline. If this move be started by the proper 

 persons animated with the right spirit, a future is certain which will 

 eclipse in point of membership and activity any organization in these 

 waters. There is field enough to draw upon for a thousand members 

 and five hundred yachts, with club house and anchorage second to 

 nohe of the existing institutions. 



We publish herewith the lines of a new cutter, now planked up in 

 the shops of W. P. Stephens, of Staten Island. She is a very taking 

 boat, out of which the maximum of service can be got at merely 

 nominal expenditure for keep. For cruising and fishing- and tor gen- 

 eral yachting life afloat, as well as for racing, boats of this class 

 appeal to the masses who wish to indulge in i ational sport upon a 

 small outlay of money. Such boats are not mere outlines of regular 

 yachts like the sandbaggers and open boats, nor mere harbor-drift- 

 ers, like other makeshifts, but fit for all the work and service to 

 which a large and costly vessel can be put, differing from their big 

 sisters only in tonnage and the distances they can cover in a given 

 period of time. This new boat is building for Mr. Willoughby, who 

 has "tired of keeping sailors' boarding-houses." and now proposes 

 to do some sailing himself. The rig will be either yaw! or cutter. 

 Small cockpit and sail hatch aft and hatch over cabin. 



Length over all 22ft. 



Length on loadline 18ft. 



Beam extreme 6ft. 



Depth of hold 4ft. 9in. 



Draft extreme 4ft. 



Draft mean 3ft. 4in. 



Least freeboard 1ft. 9in. 



Displacement 116.6cu.ft. 



Displacement in tons, S.OOOlbs 3.75 tons. 



Coefficient of fineness 0.824 



Iron on keel l,5001bs. 



Ir6n inside 2,0001bs. 



Ratio of ballast to displacement 0.5 



Area loadline plane 69 sq. ft. 



Area midship section 1 1.2sq. ft. 



Area longitudinal section, no rudder C5.6sq. ft. 



Area wet surface, no rudder 173 sq. ft. 



Area of rudder, both sides 11.6sq. ft. 



M. S. abaft center of L. W.L CL.5ft. 



Center of buoyancy ditto u.73ft. 



Center of lateral resistance ditto, with rudder. . . 1.43ft. 



Center of buoyancy below L.W.L 1.16ft. 



Meta center above center buoyancy 1.32ft. 



Center buoyancy forward of M.S 0.78ft. 



Center lateral resistance ditto 0.07ft. 



Area lower cruising sails 450.09sq. ft. 



Sail per square foot wet surface 2.06sq. ft. 



Total wet surface per ton displacement 49.2 sq. ft. 



