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PAHIS schooner, whose lines are reproduced on this page, is now 
nearly ready for her long voyage from New York to San Fran- 
cisco. She was designed by Mr. A. Cary Smith for Mr. James V. Cole- 
man, of the Pacific Y. C. of the latter city. This little craft is a fine 
specimen of a seagoing cruiser, being intended for use on San Fran- 
cisco Bay, and along the Pacific coast. Mr. Smith has endeavored to 
combine the good seagoing features of a cruiser with the greatest 
possible accommodation, in which he has been very successful, as a 
look below will testify. The new boat differs from her future com- 
petitors, being of moderate beam and deep draft, while they are 
mostly wide and shoal with centerboards and inside ballast, the few 
keel yachts in San Francisco also being wider and shoaler than she. 
The deck is broken by a low house over the main cabin, and a 
large cockpit aft. Below is a handsome cabin, forward of which 
is the owner’s stateroom. FHorward of these on each side are two 
of more staterooms, thesmaller, to port, being the captain’s. Forward 
these is the galley. very conveniently fitted up, and in the bows a good 
forecastle. Oneachside of the companion is also a stateroom opening 
into the cabin. The latter is roomy and cemfortable and very 
neatly finished. On deck forward is one of Thayer’s patent wind- 
lasses, for chain and rope. The yacht will be steered with a wheel, 
but a strong iron tiller also forms part of her equipment. . 
Mr. Driscoll, her builder, has turned out a strong, substantial and 
finely finished craft in every particular. Her wood keel of white oak 
is 10i4in. deep and 20in. wide, to admit of as great a weight as possi- 
ble outside. The lead keel of 11.5 gross tons, is bolted up with compo- 
sition bolts, The floors, which are sided 414in., are of hackmatack 
knees, doubled and bolted to the wood keel with galvanized iron bolts 
in addition to the metal keel bolts. Theframes are of double sawn 
white oak spaced 20in., except at the bow, where they are single and 
of hackmatack. They are sided 334in., and moulded 6in. at heels and 
3in, at heads. The keelsonis of yellow pine, 8X9in., in one length, 
and the shelf, also of yellow pine, is 5X5, tapering to 3x3. The 
clamps are 26in., the deck beams 55, and partner beams 5>6in., 
with 4in, hanging knees at each beam. The yachtis planked with 
white oak, 2 to 214in., with deck of white pine 244x214. Her sail plan 
will appear next week. 
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POCAHONTAS. 
ee question of Pocahontas’s failure was thoroughly discussed 
long ago, and we cannot give space for any renewal of the con- 
troversy; but as she has been mentioned as an available champion of 
the Cup, we publish the following letter from her builder. Hven ad- 
mitting that she was equal to or a little better than the other sloops, 
she would be no match for a boat 13ft. longer, and superior to her in 
rig and equipment: 
Hiditor Forest and Stream: 
In Forrest AND STREAM Of Dec. 18, 1884,T notice you give a list of 
yachts, available or otherwise, for the defense of the America Cup, 
in which you say, ‘‘Pocahontas began and ended her career in the 
same week,” which is entirely too true. After but two trial trips 
within the week, and under the most adverse circumstances and con- 
ditions, she was cut down and abandoned, after shivering around & 
little, with but little, if any more than a reefed sail. The cutting down 
was done without consulting her designer and builder, and without 
his knowing of it until an account was seen in the public prints. Now 
I ask you and all who understand this business, how long it takes to 
get everything about a large sloop yacht in trim and in fit condition 
to sail in races with other boats that ithas taken years to perfect? 
Let us see how long it has taken to get some of them to do the best 
they have done. It took about four years to get the Hildegarde to go 
right, Mischief two, Gracie six or eight, Fanny six or eight, Orivatwo, 
Arrow one, and so one may go through a long list, and not find one 
that was made perfect short of one year’s training, yet Pocahentas 
was pitted against the fastest of these sloops in these two trial trips, 
and was expected to beat them. 
Now, before[I say anything about Pocahontas’s condition and per- 
formances in those two trial trips, I appeal to all fair-minded yachts- 
men to know if, in their judgment, such treatment was fair, either to 
Pocahontas or her designer and builder, and if they think there was 
given her a fair chance and time to show what she could do with two 
trial trips, both in one week? But what were the circumstances 
under which these trial trips were made? What her condition and 
performances in them? After being completed she was allowed 
to liein the creek for two months and grow a fine crop of young oys- 
ters, barnacles and grass on her bottom, which she effectually did. 
Then a lot of lead was pitched into her, no one knows how much or 
how little; her sails bent on, when a week or more of along, drizzling 
rain setin. Butshe was put on trial on one of theserainy days. She 
had all of that two months of marine crop on her bottem, her sails 
were soaking wet, so they could not be stretched out, and her center- 
board was found to be so light that it could not be kept down. In 
this condition she was pitted against two of the fastest sloops, Hilde- 
garde and Mischief. It rained all day, wind light, with occasional 
fresh squalls from the southwest. It was claimed that Hildegarde’s 
bottom was not very clean, but Mischief had just come off the ways, 
after the others had started, with her bottom potleaded. The trial 
was made, up and down the upper New York Bay a number of times, 
to windward and back. When the wind was light there seemed to be 
little or no difference between the three, either on or off the wind; 
but when the fresh squalls came it was found that neither of the 
other sloops were any match for Pocahontas to windward. 
A few days later came the second trial trip, when she was pitted 
against Gracie, also with the ether two sloops. In the meantime 
Pocahontas was hauled out, scraped and some potlead put ou her 
bottom, and some more lead putin her, but as the wet weather con- 
tinued, nothing could be done to her sails. The other three sloops 
were also potleaded. This time it was decided that they should go 
around the lightship and back. The morning they were to start was 
still cloudy and damp, but cleared off after the start, and the sun ~ 
came out bright. The four started with the wind southwest. In afew 
minutes after the start a fresh flaw struck Gracie and carried away 
her topmast. Pocahontas being to leeward of Gracie was struck a 
few seconds later by the same flaw and had her topmast taken out. 
Of course they were then out of the race with the other two sloops, 
but had a tussel between themselves. By the time they had got down 
to the fort the wreck had been cleared away, and as Gracie’s top- 
mast was broken about half way up, she commenced torig up a pole 
so as to set her topsail again. But Pocahontas’s topmast was broken 
close down to the cap, and so no topsail could be set. As soon as 
they cleared the high bluffs of Staten Island the wind struck them so 
much’ahead that they had to close haul, Pocahontas was then on 
Gracie’s leeward. quarter, and close to her, Inafew minutes she 
luffed up across Gracie’s stern, and quickly passed her to windward, 
outfooting her and running several points closer to the wind. About 
half way to the Spit buoy Gracie got her topsail up. The wind then 
shifted free, and both boats had to start sheet, Pocahontas thus loos- 
ing all she had made to windward of Gracie, having left only what 
she had outfooted her. Gracie then, as soon as she had her topsail 
up and the wind free, began to gain on Pocahontas, yet Pocahontas 
got to the Spit buoy 744 minutes ahead of her antagonist. All this 
and more was gained while on the wind and footing only, and in 
going about half way to the Spit buoy. Pocahontas’s sail did not bag 
much when it was wet, but was full of wrinkles, having never been 
used when dry. But now the sun had been shining bright for some 
time, her sail had began to get get dry, and bag accordingly. ‘ 
The wind was directly astern, and Gracie still gaining. She passed 
Pocahontas in rounding the lightship. By this time the canvas in 
Pocahontas’s sail having dried out much morethan the rope, became 
nothing but agreat bag. Yet with that and without a topsail she 
held her own with Gracie as farin as Sandy Hook, when Gracie got 
away from her, beating her in about seven minutes. In this trial 
Pocahontas seemed to have entirely too much weight in her, as she 
was very low in the water, but no one knows how much she had 
in. Now, Mischief and Hildegarde beat the other two sloops in, over 
an hour, which was of course due solely to their topsails. Then it 
follows, as Gracie “had her topsail seven-eighths of the distance 
sailed while Pocahontas had none, she would, if as fast as Pocahon- 
tas, have beaten her more than forty minutes, or more than five times 
as much as she did. All this time Pocahontas’s centerboard could 
not be kept down where it belonged, as if had not weight enough in 
it to sink it. Now 1 insist upon if that these two trial trips proved 
that neither of the other sloops, Gracie, Mischief or Hildegarde was 
any match for Pocahontas to windward, notwithstanding the bad 
condition she wasin, They may, perhaps, have been as fast witha 
free wind, but thatis uncertain. What then could they have done 
with Pocahontas had she been trained long enough to get everything 
