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Jan. 22, 1885.] 
SAIL PLAN OF THE CARMELITA. 
Pa above sail plan is that of the new schooner Carmelita, illus- 
trated last week, In addition to the sails shown, she will carry 
a spinnaker, and also a small squaresail to set when running up the 
Pacific coast. The principal elements, as furnished by her designer, 
Mr. A. Cary Smith, are as follows: 
Wee ob IO Nsd eG, SA 8c tac fat cee Seiehie ate cle Foes 78. (ft. 
Length-on: waterline... -.-..2....... ete eee eee 65ft. 
Beam ... ... Meas ora Gis tee Seta ae fete Ac 16.4 ft. 
LD ierhdimerey-q ngeyt Cy Re AR AR AR SARS WEBS a aca ay Oft. 
UDA STEW i pad ve (252) cA pe AD OAS PIAARS § SSO 1. 8.12ft. 
Displacement, gross tons .............--+--.-00 79.4 
Ballast, total gross toms,...........--..--e+ ees 36.00 
Ballast on keel, gross tons.,...-....-.--..-00+0+ 11.58 
Center of buoyancy aft center of W.L......... 2.7B£t. 
Center of buoyancy below W.L........ .....-- 2.05£6 
Center of lateral resistance aft of center W.L.. 2.9ft. 
Center of effort aft of center of W.L.... ...... 0.9ft. 
ALGAOF Jogdewaterling? so) ops. 0... weesce- aes 716.2 sq. ft. 
PoeM GION Jab osse er eas clase eo eds hss 0.676 
Center of gravity of L.W. plane from center... . 
AOA IMIS NPE SCCHONW. 0. Mlsey eee deat ta eet 38.2 sq. ft. 
GOStHCTOLt Mee mua ceteris 113)4-5 fovea te 0.48 
DIMENSIONS OF SPARS. 
Bowsprit, outboard ,........... seseeececes tenes 12ft. 
Jibboom, heel to gammon strap..............-. 12ft. 4in. 
JIGOOOMNS GULDORTOR ee = eee awe etki: oe wrltuce 13ft. 2in. 
Jibboom, diameter at gammom strap.......... in. 
LOTR yeaa p iol opal ec ee ey OR ew al aT ee 
Foremast, deck to houndS,.............-.-.-.-- 44ft. 
Moremastmasthead oe: io. sect. cstis Foire are se 
Foremast, diameter in partners..............-. 1ft. 
Foremast, diameter at hounds ................- 
Foretopmast, heel to hounds............-...... eatt, 
Foretopmast, heel to truck.........-...--....-- 27ft. 
Foretopmast, diameter at upper cap............ 
Foretopmast, diameter at hounds.............. 
RoOreboGInmicn mutes wars ssc nl ss, we). 1 See 19ft. 
HOTEHGOM, (OIGTELER A Wo ewe ee dee stern atin ee 
WOVE AT WON hile meee Aha eee nee oye nels | 18ft. 
Horecaih, (uaMerere cue eek cny akc oe aes secltes 
Spinnaker boom, length.....................+. 44ft. 
Spinnaker boom, diameter 
Mainmast, deck to hounds.................... 
Mainmast, masthead .....2.. 0... .cc ce ces ee ae eces 5ft. 10in. 
Mainmast, diameter in partners i 
Mainmast, diameter at hounds............ .. .. Ygin. 
Maintopmast, heel to hounds................... 25ft. 10in. 
Maintopmast, heel to truck :: 
Maintopmast, diameter at upper cap.... 
Maintopmast, diameter at hounds..... 
Mainboom, length .., ....¢22-es.e3-4- 
Mainboom, diameter 
Maingaff, length...... 
Mainpatteciameber, so uhscuky . sees «thas nce. 
Maintopsailyard, length. .... 0... cece eevee ee ess 34ft. 8 
Maintopsailyard, diameter....................05 
Mainjackyard, length........ Pra sed ee ts 20Ft. 
Mainjackyard, diameter................-00e0000 
See ee ee er 
Se ry 
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3in. 
Mainsail. 
‘Foot.. ..,.44ft. in. 
-Head.,....23ft. Gin. 
‘Luff....., .87ft. Sin. 
Leach, ....56£6, 
topsail, 
25ft, 8in. 84ft. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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SAIL PLAN OF SCHOONER CARMELITA. 
Jib. Flyingjib, Jibtopsail. 
ONISUR VE ae PRAai sen nite nea here nea 44ft. 6in. 56ft. 71ft. 
LOTS yt Bete Sot a ees ae 86ft. 6in, 36£t. 37£t. 6in. 
Got yh. er Ge Ak Re EN, Sas 27ft, Gin. 26Ft, 6in. 48 ft. 
Spinnaker—Hoist, 68ft.; leach, 80ft.; foot, 48ft, 8in. 
Total area of lower sail, 2,923 sq. ft. 
A SAILOR’S YACHT. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Let me call the attention of all interested in really meritorious 
work to the new schooner Carmelita. She is now lying at Piep- 
grass’s basin, Greenpoint, and is practically completed. This yacht 
will commend herself to sailormen at once upon inspection. She 
comes nearer to an ideal cruising vessel in model, rig, equipment and 
size than anything recent I can call to mind. Asto her “lines” for 
speed I refrain from positive judgment, the question not being per- 
tinent to my present object. But it may be said ina general way 
that the Carmelita’s lines are good, and that no radical exception 
ean be taken. I wish to refer to this vessel in regard to her type. 
She is handsome and smart to the eye; graceful yet bold, with a 
powerful look; sufficiently fine in the ends for ease and weatherliness 
at sea; highsided without a suspicion of being ‘“‘boxy’’ or topheavy; 
she has a deen waist capped with a stylish rail and a Jong, clean-cut 
overhang of the English pattern; just enough sheer to be in harmony 
with the fashioning of the vessel; a set of well-proportioned spars, 
and last, but not least, as fine a flush deck as a sailor cares to walk, 
with a perfect waste of room in every direction. No homely barn 
with its structural weakness. Broad gangways in which a mob can 
tail on to halliards and sheets. Ample passage athwart deck be- 
tween the skylights, and lots of room abaft the wheel to coil away 
mainsheet, with space enough along the quarters to accommodate a 
whole party. The cockpitis of pleasing elliptical round, large enough 
and yet not a bit too large in comparison with the size of the yacht, 
and does not cut into valuable deck area. : 
The finish is plain, but neat and honest, and above all, thoroughly 
shipshape fore and aft, Skylights are small but ample for the pur- 
pose of light and ventilation. Iron work and the rigger’s art are 
seea to perfection in this new vessel. HEyerything is strong and well- 
Sesh ae without being heavy. There is a wholesome, business- 
ike appearance to everything about deck and aloft which a sailor- 
man knows well how to admire. Jibboom and topmast are of course 
fitted to house, and house in fact, not merely as a distant possibility. 
The taffrail is not shut in, but supported by knees with a free water- 
course between, English fashion, so that a sea shipped forward will 
rush down the lee gangway and out over thé stern at the next ’scend, 
insuring a quicker clearing of the deck than by side scuppers only. 
The waist, it should be remarked, has been painted white inboard, 
but as itis of clear oak, it willbe scraped bright upon arrival at her 
destination, This done, there will nut be a brushful of paint in 
sight from on board, and the Carmelita’s deck will becomeéne of 
the handsomest in existence, and that without resort to extravagant 
moulding and meretricious artifice in decoration. 
Equal good sense and good taste is displayed in the cabins below. 
There is no lubber’s humbug about the finish. No loud gilding over 
head, lincrusta or rainbow decorations borrowed from the gin shops 
ashore. No effort to emulate the Hoffman House corridors in heavy, 
misplaced wealth of embellishments. No attempt to compete in 
trashy gaudiness of garnishment to advertise the owner's wealth. But 
in the place of the usual vulgar ostentation, we find neat and attrac- 
tive paneling, suitable to ship purpose, in coucert with the work and 
wear the yessel may expect to encounter. The most noticeable 
feature belowis the excellent planning and the exceedingly liberal 
space of the accommodations. Itis hard to realize that over 6ft. of 
headroom, a large saloon and six staterooms, all light and airy, have 
been bulkheaded off with such great success under the flush deck of 
a vessel only 65ft. on the loadline. Besides there is a galley, pantry, 
foreeastle and sailroom, and other requisites without stint. Her 
cabin will prove an agreeable revelation to those who want plenty of 
privacy on board without resorting to a huge and unwieldy vessel to 
attain such end. The Carmelita is large enough to cruise around the 
world in great comfort. Her depth, easy beam, and a 12-ton talker 
underneath the keel. make her a most desirable schooner for any and 
all purposes to which a yacht can be put. A 
Though she cost no more than the Gracie or Fanny, she is twice the 
boat and far and away ahead of the flat-floored traps hitherto ac- 
cepted as all that could be expected on such moderate length. Gen- 
tlemen from San Francisco who have examined this new yacht are 
loud in their praise, and assure me that the Carmelita will rank as the 
finest in the fleet at home. Her general grace, jaunty overhang, 
great room and workmanlike equipment, are certain to receive unre- 
served indorsement from all. To me sheis doubly attractive, because 
in her I discover the march of improvement of the times, a cutting 
adrift from the baby boats of smooth water, and the ready acquies- 
cence withthe standard a sailor would like to see quite general in our 
fleet. The schooner Ariel, of the old light displacement type, was 
seven months getting around the Horn, and came near passing in her 
checks to Davy Jones his locker. She proved a flat failure on the 
Pacific, for in spite of beam and floor she could not show sail, and now 
has been got rid of, I think for the paltry sum of $1,000, to carry loads 
for pay. I warrant Carmelita will make a fine passage and be worth 
a big fraction of her cost fifteen years hence. She is well built, just 
the right size for all-around sport, and need fear no weather nor sea, 
while as a smooth-water yacht she is equally well adapted. 
Her draft of 10ft. is much to her advantage, and but one or one. 
and a half in excess of the draft we now would give to a centerboard 
vessel of Athlon type of 65ft. on the line. In practice she would navi-. 
gate the same waters exactly as the centerboard could, and that on 
several feet less than the latter showing some board and without 
any danger of twisting the fin, of consequent leaking and the nuis- 
ance of a trunk below and a house on deck to make up for the scant 
height afforded in a boat of high bilge and “peak bottom,” like 
Athlon. Some foolish stuff has been written to San Francisco con- 
cerning the Carmelita. It has been heralded by superficial scribes 
that she would not stand up and that she had no room inside. The 
latter notion is fully gainsaid by the facts, and of that people in San 
Francisco will soon have ocular evidence, Our friends on the Pacific 
may rest assured that Carmelita will prove of extraordinary stiffness, 
and that in the strongest of winds it will be a physical impossibility 
to carry her rail under and a mighty hard thing to force her-eyen 
planksheer-to. Of course it is expected she will heel down some de-- 
grees more than wide, flat-footed scows to find her proper bearings. 
And all the better and more comfortable will she be for that very 
reason. Her weather side will shield from wind and spray, and her 
decks will afford a delightful lee without bringing the cockpit into 
requisition. When the beamy boats of San Francisco, with their 
scoopy sheer and low freeboard, will have gangways awash with the 
sea surging fore and aft in big lumps, Carmelita, though heeling fur- 
ther down, will go along dry and in able fashion, with the agreeable 
knowledge to boot that she may heel as she pleases and in the hardest 
of puffs sheets need not be started nor need the wheel be put down, 
for no capsize is in storefor such as she. Furthermore, those on 
board will not be able to experience the additional heel, and will find 
far more gratification in the easy recline to the body which the heel- 
ing affords than the constraint of a position more nearly upright. 
There may be slight differences of opinion concerning Carmelita’s 
lines for the highest rate of speed gauged by the exacting standard of 
close competition, but itis safe to predict that she will be no slouch 
if put through the pranks of a flyer by a spirited crew and competent 
skipper, who understand this new style of boat. But people in the 
East as well as on the Pacific will join me in my estimate of the type 
which Carmelita represents, and also in the astonishing room and 
cruising fitness of which such vessels are possessed, far in excess o £ 
