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SMALL CRUISING BOATS. 
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W* give this week the lines of two cruising craft, one but little 
larger than a canoe, and one large enough for two or three to 
cruise m. The former is a canoe yawl, the Cassy, used on the Hum- 
ber River, aud was designed for cruising and racing, in both of which 
she hag proved a success, She is fitted with the tabernacle and 
eenterboaed devised by Mr. Tredwen, the latter of 70lbs. being all the 
ballast used with cruising rig, but sandbags are carried in racing, 
about 100!bs. being used. The forward thwart can be placed 2in. 
below the gunwale for rowing, or about 6in. above the bottom for 
peiee The rig includes two balance lugs as in a canoe, with a deck 
tiller. 
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BEAU AStarGe: eet de rs et nese ee eels 2 5in. 
Bow to after side of tabernacle................. aft. 
Bow to fore end of trumk............... Ty ee th ts 4ft. 
Bow to after end of trunk,...................... (ft. 
Bow to after end of well.......-..0. 26. -.2000.. lift. 6in, 
IBOWeLOMO WAOCK Bas seen rete alselaing re einen wieee's 9ft. 6in 
Ares, maingail—racing........-6..-.2esee-e oe 120 sq. ft. 
“Area, mainsail—cruising.......-..-.s0. ss. 60-7 sq ft, 
Aréa,) MiZZenm . 1... * thy) Seiinttechdhe dines ears 15 sq. ft 
Length of tabernacle....... Rees cage least 18in 
Length of oars............ DO ie tee ott ee .. 8ft. 
Width of rudder....... Bert e as fon tee ae ift. Gin, 
The larger boat, Vital Spark, is a Mersey <anoe, 18x5ft. She is 
smooth built, of 34in. plank, with oak timbers $4in. square and spaced 
éin , and topstreak and deck of teak, the latter 3gin. thick, The 
coaming is of }4in. elm, with bulkheads of teak, 5ft. from either end. 
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The stem and stern are sided 114in., keel sided 3!4in., with 444cwt. | 
of lead under it. 44cwt. being also cast to fitinside. The d aft is 2ft. 
Qin. The yawl rig has two standing lugs and a jib. making 178 sq. ft. 
THE SEASON COILED AWAY. 
Editor Forest and Stream: — 
My mind has been made up for some time that cutters could take 
care of their own ease readily enough; hence 1 baye refrained from 
addressing you concerning the splendid average of their perform- 
ance this season, and would not now break in upon my resolution 
but for the astonishing and joyful news which has only just reached 
me here in this ancient Spanish pueblo. True sailor instinct had long 
ago driven me to regard our shoal centerboard vessels with that 
technical contempt which every mechanic feels for a tool improperly 
constructed and unsuitable to the ends in view. But, muchas I de- 
spised our sloops. and little credit asI gave them for redeeming traits, 
I confess the broad farce, the wholesale slaughter, the crushing blow 
dealt their off and loudly proclaimed pretensions in the fine sailing 
breeze and moderate sea met in thelast fall match of the Seawan- 
haka Corinthians, was more, far more than even I had hoped to see 
accomplished in such thorough style, and thatso soon. The news 
was hard to believe. ‘Trnth is stranger than fiction. else would it 
have been too good to have been true. Vo those acquainted with the 
laws of chance, the windup of the season must appear miraculous in- 
deed. That in four different classes, ranging from the big and stately 
cruiser down to the spry little five-ton bang about, a cutter should 
haye won in each and every class and two in the fourth- that in each 
and every class all the sloops should bave been driven to shelter, tail 
between legs—that this should have happened in nothing worse than 
a double reef breeze and fine sailing weather, and above all, that 
while the little model ships Yolande and Daisy got around in good 
shape and jolly fashion against a.sea quite heavy for their modest 
dimensions, the big sloops Athlon, Annieand Penguin, twice the length 
of the little cutters and eight times their size, could not face the mod- 
erate sea to any advantage, and failed for want of stamina and stay 
jn boat and crew to equalthe performance of the tiny cutters—all 
this is nothing short of the miraculous, and such an exhibit of the 
cutter’s vast SE PELL as an efficit nt tool for sailing purposes, that 
the so-called fight between the two types has verily degenerated into 
the wildest kind of one-sided faree, in which the sloop plays the part 
of the clown and richly earns the derisive laughter bestowed upon 
this her latest and flattest collapse. _ 
The odds against such a uniform triumph for the cutters, the odds 
against such a complete failure on the part of the sloops which out- 
numbered the cutters two to one, were at least a thousand against 
one. These oddsthe cutters shouldered, and weighted with what 
was almost impossible to accomplish, they nevertheless came out of 
the fray victorious along the whole hne without an exception, and 
succeeded in wiping the sloops off the sea, driving them home 
wrecked for shelter, after thrashing them soundly in the item of 
speed! “Skunked” isnot an over elegant word, but “skunked” is 
the appropriate expression to apply to this the most conspicuous 
nae in re “Sloop vs. Cutter” which the annals of yachting have yet 
aid bare. 
A string of unequaled triumphs for the cutters, in light and heavy 
breeze, in smooth and rough water, now sees the year fast drawing 
toa close. With grand bedouin’s record this summer unmatched by 
any of her sisters; with her memorable defcat of big Montauk, twenty 
odd feet longer, in the close-haul dash fron: Brenton’s to the Vineyard 
in asmoking scupper blow; with the triple victory outside Point Judith, 
when the same noble Bedouin, the keen een and graceful Weno- 
nah Jed to finish the whole crowd of big and little, sloops and schoon- 
ers: best, indifferent and decidedly bad; with the terrible tanning in- 
flicted upon her class by the elegant clipper Oriva of most exquisite 
‘taille,’’ and the fashion in which she screwei out to weather of big 
Gracie in a jump of a sea during the spring matches; with the prom- 
inent Eastern meets likewise scored to the cutters; with the perform- 
ance of the two Verves and Aileen on the fresh-water lakes, and the 
many informal brushes in which the 
cutters have figured to adyan- 
tage in point of speed and adaptability 
to the objects of cruising; 
