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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 29, 1885. 



June 20. -Hull Y. fl„ 



July ll.-Ihill Y. V., 



July 18. -Hull Y. 0., 



July ^.-HnllY.C. 



Aug. l.-HullY. C 



Aug. 16.— Hull Y. C. 



Sept. S.-HullY. C, 



Sept, 19. -Hull Y. C, 



fnchting. 



FIXTURES. 



Pennant Matches. 

 Cruise. 

 Club Race. 

 Ladies' Day. 

 Club Race. 

 Open Race 

 Champion Race. 

 CLuim won Race. 



RACE FIXTURES FOR THE YEAR. 



LIKE the first crqcas from under the snow, very welcome, but not 

 quite .justified by the thermometer, comes the announcement of 

 tlie fixtures of the Hull Y. 0. for 1885, which heads our columns this 

 week. Whatever excuse there may lie in tne season and the demands 

 oe other duties and amusemenis, all of our yacht clubs slmuld, for 

 th«lr own sake, speedily follow the example of the Hull Y. C. and 

 settle on the dates for" the mam events of the season, We have 

 spoken to the same effect each year: but most of them are content to 

 leave the matter until the last possible moment, by which time they 

 are sure to Interfere with wine other event. About New York, the 

 priueipal event of the season is the regatta week of the three largest 

 clubs m June, and an early -election of dates by them will allow the 

 smaller clubs to arrange their races HO that they will not conflict. 

 After June, the races at the Si mnd portsmigbtbe arranged with some 

 reference to each other, as a sepin the direction, of the custom of 

 making the rounds each season. Most of our yachts cruise East every 

 summer, and with a little system and co-operation, races Ought easily 

 be arranged at Parchment, New Haven. New London, Greenport and 

 "ther points, ending -with the week m Angus! at Newport, where the 

 Eastern fleet, after a similar round, would join the New York yachts. 

 Such a system would be much better than the club cruises now made 

 each year, as the race day in each port would he the occasion for a 

 general turn out of the local yachts, some of which would participate 

 and accompany the fleet further. 



Canoeists, bicyclers, aud the patrons of other less prominent sports 

 have realized the many advantages to he gained by union and co- 

 operation, and have each formed a national association . with one 

 system of rules for all clubs. The first in particular, a sport n >w but 

 fifteen years old iu America, lias within five years formed a national 

 aseoeiution with an admirable pystem of government, has enlisted 

 nearly a thousand members and has adopted a thorough and system- 

 atic classification for its boats, which, with its sailing rules, is ac- 

 cepted as a standard by every canoeist Lu the country, and the 

 qanoeiSts are to-day further advanced in the matters of measurement 

 and government, after five years, than our yacht clubs promise to be 

 in the next decade, Yachtsmen may some day see a similar move- 

 ment in yachting, a uniform system of measurement for all clubs, a 

 general government to decide disputed questions, and several series 

 ot races, each open to and entered by all yachts within a reasonable 

 distance. It will probably be some time before such an end is 

 reached, but in the meantime it is within the power of every club to 

 hasten that time by an early arrangement of dates each year, settled 

 as far as possible so as to permit of entries from other clubs, aud we 

 hope soon to haye a long list to add to that of the Hull Y. C. 



A SCHEME FOR CLUB QUARTERS. 



IT is with great oleasure that 1 notice the formation of a new club 

 devoted to a field not yet occupied in New York waters. The 

 proposal to call into life an association depcudent upon canoes, 

 sneakboxes and small cruisers in general is an undertaking which 

 deserves the heartiest support from your paper and co-operation 

 rrom all boat owners. The time has arrived when small boats should 

 assert their dignity through the wide-reaching influence of united 

 action for the common benefit. In the hands of the right men. ani- 

 mated by the right spirit, there is a bright aud beneficial career of 

 prosperity ahead for a well-devised scheme upon which to combine 

 small boats of any and all character. They can be numbered by the 

 hundred in these latitudes, and as yet Their light shines but under a 

 bushel for lack of headquarters and the propagation of their kind 

 through common action, I have no sympathy with open ballast 

 shifters, for they are a. bane to yachting in small boats, increasing 

 the cost of construction and surrounding their sailing with all man- 

 ner ot hindrances, as well as fostering mistaken methods and ideals. 

 Let such imitation yachting shift for itself. The sooner it comes 

 to a natural end the better for the real sport which will survive. 

 Yachting about Neyv York has no need more urgent than a col- 

 lective life, under which small craft may pool their issues and 

 pull together for that recognition which is at present denied 

 them for the very want of a habitation and a name, an ex- 

 istence as a powerful body instead of acting with desultory 

 effect in individual capacity. Those whose heart is with the sport, 

 in the sport, need not to be told of the absorbing interest which the 

 designing and personal management of a small boat is certain to fos- 

 ter in every one the least addicted to muscular exercise, and corres- 

 ponding ambition to learn aud excel in the studious side the vast 

 realm of nautical art and science offers to the earnest, devotee. The 

 manly aspect of yachting as well as the appreciation of the basic lore 

 upon Which the pastime is built, has made wonderful strides in Amer- 

 ica during five or more years past. Adepts, specialists, experts, have 

 risen in swarms, and their influence has already given to yachting on 

 a large scale a discriminating standard widely accepted as the law in 

 such matters. But in the fleet of small yachts we nave lagged. We 

 have not yet laid out a course to be pursued with an eye to system- 

 atic advancement. Example is an all-powerful teacher in every walk 

 of life, and example, intelligent example, by the leaders for the 

 majority to accept, is Stilt wanting in that chapter of sailorizingof 

 which the small boat is the exponent. The small boat of the day is a 

 despised article of furniture, with neither rank nor dignity conceded. 

 She flourishes in a haphazard sort of way by permission, but fails to 

 command the respect and attention her special adaptability to the 

 end entitles her to claim. 



t assume the objects of yachting are to be summed up in the devel- 

 opment of health'and strength to the body and the senses brought 

 into play; and, second, in directing thought upon a path of investiga- 

 tion and experiment in all the branches relating to the build and 

 the subsequent mastery of a. tool of our own creation. There, are 

 those who .endeavor to froyvn down or ridicule such a declaration, 

 claiming in turn that yachting should bo approached from the stand- 

 point of a lounger attempting to while away time, profiting at. most 

 from the f resii sea air inciden tal to dawdling about afloat ; a reputable 

 substitute merely for the more disreputable occupation of hanging 

 round the street corners, or perhaps an agreeable variation upon 

 billiards and tippling. But I have never found those advancing such 

 notions to be yachtsmen themselves or imbued v, ah the masculine 

 Olympian spirit wklsh rejoices m athle.;r_- aerie.-/:. xx.ts, 31 iprjiss 

 itself upon physical prowess In competition. In countries where 

 yachting has more fully ripened in its greater age than with us, that 

 high measure has long been accepted which interprets the sport as an 

 occupation for hardy men, ambitious to meet and conquer nature m 

 all her wiles, unruly and turbulent the same as when wreathed in 

 smiles Of sunshine, with nplcts musicalU lapping the bilge. And here 

 in America time is certain to pilot us up i i .he same goal which in- 

 sists upon recognizing a standard of bodily vigor and mental thor- 

 oughness as essential to the full realization of a diversion we should 

 gladly hail as a. chance to acquire and display drastic courage and 

 intellectual pre-eminence. 



The best, evidence to hand which proves these views to be m ... 

 with those of the thinking half of the yachting world is the success 

 attained by Forest and Stream. In spite of its policy of siding with 

 a style of boat unpopular in earlier days, your paper has won the sup- 

 port of the masses, including even those whose views it most opposed. 

 Espousing the cause of yachting as a dignified pursuit for manly 

 men, you have distanced rivals who sought to climb into the public's 

 affection by pandering to the effeminate, t be purely social or picnic 

 aspect, and whose labors have tended to degrade the sport from the 

 plane of brawn and brain to the lower level of physical indolence 

 aud languid mental vacuity. We, in America, are not one w hit behind 

 other nations in muscle or mind, and we have the', same, aspirations 

 in common with all possessed of strength m body and force, of. char- 

 acter. Emulation is our second nature. Those who proclaim A meri- 

 cau yachtsmen a crew of old hens incapable of worthier aim than to 

 loll about forever under an awning, or drift from port to port in trifl- 

 ing weather, shirking that which involves a bold contest and a spice 

 of hazardous adventure, know little how to estimate at full 

 the stamina and pluck of our race. Persons who write all 

 our yachtsmen down as sickly, puny kids, frightened at a salty 

 dusting, ready to dive foi the cabin or come to for the day 

 the instant the plug is out overhead, are libellers of 

 a people whose, nerve ana aggressive lmpuis.e have brought a conti- 

 nent underswav. There may be, some who yacht as old women, who 

 don men's togs by an oversight of nature iu bringing them forth. 

 There are others,' however, more than an offset, who are npt.onjy 

 men in their outline structure, but in their tissue as well. Great 

 Scott! They to vacht. in the same way Dawdle, dawdle, all time 

 long, up the Sound and down the Sound, up and down again - Never! 

 Not much. But the enemy is active in the camp. He is doing his 

 best to befog the public mind, to bold up a counterfeit presentment; 



of what the sport is or ought to be. He is piping the same old 

 chicken-hearted tune. It is from the cowards who flinch at the mere 

 mention of the work and s'.lf-demal. which ought to constitute the 

 prime delights of yachting, that prosperity in the future has most to 

 fear. Against these Bourbons and their womanish interpretation it 

 behooves the small-boat men to combine, so that in unity they may 

 show their strength, and proffer to the publican example of what 

 true yachting really is, and how it can be pursued upon a tithe of the 

 outlay for large vessels, with gratification in full even to overflowing. 

 Hence an honest effort, to create a new club in which small boats 

 shall be the biggest, and not merely a rag, tag and bobtail to vessels 

 overawiug them iu pretensions, should find a quick and hearty re- 

 sponse from all who have yachted in little craft, and from those who 

 hang their affections by preference upon nominal tonnage, or expect 

 some day to bend sail and twiddle the stick aboard a small thing 

 which shall be thoroughly good, wdiat there is of her. 



Three things are necessary to the success of a club -headquarters, 

 a safe anchorage and a policy. 



Headquarters.— For this purpose nothing can equal an old hulk, a 

 brig or a schooner, with lower masts standing, reasonably sound iu 

 her timbers and coppered if possible, with some of her ground tackle 

 and old gear still on hoard. At auction or special occasion a suitable 

 vessel, whose career in trade has been brought to a close through old 

 age, can be bought for a song. As she stands, after cleaning and 

 painting the hold she will serve the purpose. The cabins would 

 constitute the room for general meeting. A port would be cut in the 

 side, and a staging with an easy ascent moored alongside. This, 

 with a companion ladder leading up to the deck, would do duty as a 

 landing for yawls and punts pulling off to the yachts, and also as a 

 convenience to canoeists ami others, as they could lift, their portable 

 property out. upon the staging and walk it up the incline, through the 

 port in the vessel's side, lauding the canoes in the hold as a boat 

 house. The expenditure of a small sum would provide large and 

 roomy "tops" at the masthead. These tops to be say 8x10ft., braced 

 below from the mast and encircled by a light rail of stanchions and 

 lifelines or bj a combination of gas pipe. The tops would afford a 

 magnificent, view of the waters surrounding and the race course for 

 the boats. Exercise and proficiency in "going aloft" would be ac- 

 quired in climbing the shrouds, which should be rattled down ship 

 fashion. Stump topmasts or poles could he tidded in the caps, from 

 which burgee and signals may be displayed. The deck itself suffices 

 for a promenade and the collection of guests, for dancing, music, 

 Shuffle hoard or other games, especially if an awning be provided. 

 The hold has space for lockers and boats. Spars, sails, etc.. 

 can be conveniently stowed therein during winter. If addi- 

 tional funds can be expended, a forecastle should be added for 

 smoking room, bachelors' quarters, or if the club be ambitious, a 

 drawing room for the designing of yachts and a nautical library. The 

 quarters can at anytime be enlarged by flush decking with light 

 scantling and plank, giving a second story to the st ructure, or a. man- 

 sard roof can be thrown across from rail to rail. If a small beginning 

 is contemplated, the first headquarters call for nothing larger than 

 an old smack or a North River sloop. The chief advantages of this 

 plan are self-evident. First, the cost of purchase would be consider- 

 ably less than erecting a regular house on shore. No title or lease to 

 real estate is required. No local taxation. And above all, the mobil- 

 ity of the whole concern, The floating quarters may be lowed and 

 moored to any spot desired, and shifted as occasion requires. The 

 shores about New York Bay are so rapidly being turned to commer- 

 cial use that a permanent structure would soon have to be abandoned 

 or transported at great risk and expense. The hulk may be simply 

 anchored and shifted about from place to place as an experiment, 

 until a satisfactory location has been met. When, for example, one 

 line of ferry-boats raises the fare aud another offers lower rates, all 

 hands clap on the windlass, hail the nearest tug, and in an hour you 

 have escaped the grip of monopoly to more congenial climes. The 

 prevailing winds of the season might also induce a change for con- 

 venience. Furthermore, the quarters wotdd be nautical in aspectand 

 in harmony with Corinthian sentiments. The hulk would also bring 

 her purchase price any time if sold for old iron and copper. The one 

 thing to be remembered is that she should be tight in the bottom to 

 avoid the expense of reeaulking below waterline. The topsides will 

 take care of themselves, with a periodical coat of paint, on which, by 

 the way, the title of the club should appear in bold letters. As a con- 

 necting link with the shore, a light staging of plank can easily be 

 erected, both plank and the ••bents" for its support, being portable in 

 character. Or perhaps the hulk could be tied up to a wharf. 



Anchoraqe. — Following out the plan of haviug the whole rig shift- 

 ing in nature, the anchorage should be made to suit. Where no 

 sheltered water is to be found, not even a cove, which can be suffi- 

 ciently closed by mooring the hulk across the mouth, an artificial 

 basin must be constructed. To this end invest in some old canal 

 boats and moore to best advantage, 'two spaced out ahead of the 

 bulk, with the intervening breaks closed by floating booms fast to the 

 boats will go a long way toward accomplishing the end, especially if 

 some wharf or dock can be worked in to help out the scheme. If not 

 too much exposed, a line of "booms" will suffice. A red light should 

 indicate the entrance at. night. By mooring the boat's bead and 

 stern with lines from ringbolts or stakes, a large fleet could find 

 shelter in very small harbor. The. boats could be cast loose 

 and carefully sculled through the outlet, and should come to 

 outside, lower away and warp or scull in, to avoid rushing headlong 

 into the crowd. A lifeline rove outside the canal boats would be of 

 assistance to lay hold of alter rounding up, and also for hauling in. 

 This artificial breakwater presents further opportunities for stowage, 

 promenade, etc., a plank and manrope connecting the various links 

 in the chain. 



Policy.— Few clubs have any policy at all. They exist along in a 

 haphazard sort of way, just as likely to die in a day as to continue 

 for a century. A little bickering or feud splits up the whole concern, 

 or upon the "withdrawal of a few leaders the rest wither away. All 

 because clubs are not built upon a foundation more solid than that of 

 ordinary friendship and sympathy for the time being. With few 

 notable' exceptions, the clubs in New- York do nothing to deserve 

 recognition, and they have no clear title to existence. Hence the pre- 

 carious life they lead, and the paucity of yachts and members. About 

 the chief attraction they present lies in the social or yachting status 

 supposed to be represented by the club burgee. To pay $25 or so a 

 year for that little piece of vanity may be well enough for the nou- 

 venu.r riches asking to gain recognition in the world of society to 

 which the club members belong, but it is notapt to draw many yachts- 

 men of the real sort. Beyond this, one or two tame races, and the 

 club's account with its members is finished. The New York Y. C. 

 supplies some inducement in the possession of agreeable city rooms 

 for winter use. So it has at least an acceptable habitation on shore. 

 But then it offers nothing for the summer, and nothing handy on the 

 beach. The American Y. C. has done better, with a rendezvous on 

 Charles Island and town rooms for the inclement season. This same 

 concern has lately taken the lead in enterprise and live action with 

 lectures and otherhxnovations of a practical kind to keep things going 

 ah the year round. The Atlantic is quite practical, thanks to a few 

 of its leaders. That club has at its service as fine a harbor as any in 

 the world, besides summer grounds aud a snug house on the property. 

 A harbor is not to be sneezed at in summer, and in winter it becomes 

 a safe place to lay up. The club holds forth more than abstract in- 

 ducements, and therefore has prospered. But the quarters are dis- 

 tant, and difficult of access in winter, and so six months in the year 

 constitute, a big gap during which club life is extinct except in name, 

 This ought not to be. In the shifting hulk I have described that 

 desolate period is bridged by simply towing her to some convenient 

 pier and club life goes along all the year round without break, need- 

 less to say, immensely to the advantage of the club in every respect. 

 Other organizations have sought to return an equivalent for the fees 

 paid in, but so far not with alarming success. Now the very first 

 object of a club should be to make itself a necessity and not merely 

 an apocryphical adjunct to yachting life. It should off er at tractions, 

 the need of which all yachtsmen sorely feel. A new club especially 

 should outline a course which would bring all hands into its net, aud 

 not do more to repulse than to attract. Not levy contributions for a 

 more or less nebulous existence, but start out with a well-defined 

 programme and live up to it as far as funds will allow. The first and 

 most, important step in the way of quarters I have described. Head- 

 quarters accessible tw-elve months in the year, with as few horse-car 

 and ferryboat circumlocutions as possible. Next in order these 

 quarters should be made tempting, captivating. Once its sweets 

 have been tasted, the novice ought never to find himself able to re- 

 linquish. Every man is curious and inquisitive, and does not. liketo be 

 distanced by others. Judicious play upon this failing is the key to 

 building up a big and popular club, and doing the community great 

 good in winning from frivolity and probable vice, many a man who 

 might otherwise have gone wrong. The policy should partake of a 

 paternal interest in the welfare of Corinthians. The routine should 

 lure them on, and the facilities and appliances of the concern should 

 make them willing victims, until numbers alone invest the club with 

 a dignity and power widespread and beneficial, and which will lift 

 the ownership of small boats to the same level in public opinion now 

 granted to the possessors of large yachts only. The library calls for 

 attention from the outset. Not only the cm-rent yachting publications 

 of this and other countries, but also the daily and evening papers 

 should be found on the cabin table, A. collection of nautical works and 

 allied material should be accumulated, giving to the student a selection 

 from the elementary up to the higher realms of art and science. 

 ■Photos litbos. and prints of yachts of all nations, as well as designs 

 and models within reach ought to he supplied for the general good. 

 In this respect, the New York Y. C. and the American "i . C, have set an 

 example worth copying, "Even home aud foreign journals of maehan,. 



ics and naval engineering, as well as illustrated and art publications, 

 would contribute much to enhance the attractions. Reading and 

 writing materials without stint would draw members to the club many 

 an evening for the conveniences afforded, and in this manner ac- 

 quaintance, a comparison of notes and observation, and wholesome 

 discussion ensues, calling into being an esprit de corps to cement the 

 union on a firm basis. Gaming and liquors should be eschewed, as the 

 club is not instituted to serve as a private still where gin can be had at 

 cost, or chips for a stake on tick, though possibly billiards ami cheek- 

 ers might be permitted. To give further point to the routine, lectures 

 on nautical mutters could easily be arranged, as some one is always 

 to be round who can discourse on topics with which the rest are not 

 as familiar, Specialists could be impressed to dilate upon astronomy, 

 navigation, construction and design, upon war aud mercantile ship- 

 ping, practical seamanship, boat service, treatment of drowned etc 

 without end. Popular topics, such as a rehearsal of a long cruise; 

 a voyage abroad, personal reminiscences and the like, would furnish 

 variety to the proceedings which should be announced for every 

 week. A large blackboard, the magic lantern, or the products of the 

 amateur lens would aid in elucidation. Directions in photography 

 alone afford a rich and interesting aeld to an. audience of Corinthi- 

 ans. The display of ail sorts of inventions and their collection could 

 torni the basis for a. museum of yachting and boating appliances and 

 fittings. Something of this sort should be Underway every week and 

 twice a week would be. still better to keep up the continuity of yacht- 

 ing thought at little expense beyond the cabin lamp and oil stove for 

 heating. Instruction in plain drawing by one of the members who is 

 an adept would soon enable zealous members to draft, boats 

 to their heart's content, and to understand similar work by others 

 It would make accurate, critics where we now meee with wild guess- 

 ing. The cost to the club need be but nominal. A pair of trestles, a 

 long pine drawing board, some paper and schoolboy instruments are 

 enough for the purpose, and many a disciple, would spend a -.ore 

 rational evening generating cycloids, wave areas, or balancing rigs, 

 than if left alone, to spend his cash yawing wide about tbecity streets: 

 Then, again, a portion of the hold or the forecastle, supplied with 

 a capenter's bench and a kit of tools, might see models cut out of the 

 block with Jexteiity for trial in spring, and open another ohasein the 

 routine of which banker, merchant, lawyer or clerk could avail him- 

 self for recreation m the pursuit of some hobbv as to hues and type 

 of hull. For a triflmg sum an old tar eotdd be 'on hand two or three 

 times a week to give a course of instructions in practical knotting and 

 splicing, in bending sail, furling, reefing and repairing, upon some 

 dummy spars rigged up between decks, to which gentlemen of any 

 age or calling could become parties. Visitors might be admitted to 

 these gatherings to carry to their friends the new dispensation of 

 yachting Corinthian as a most commendable occupation for any and 

 all. Who will say that such a scheme would not redound to the 

 club's growth in numbers and resources to an extent not yet dreamed! 

 A thousand enrolled on its books would not be an estimate beyond 

 the probabilities, and that can be attained by a few who chose to put 

 their heads together and follow the line I have indicated. Surely 

 there is a policy worth exploiting. There are many men to-day with 

 time hanging heavily on their hands and with money to boot. A few 

 hundred advanced from their pockets would set the ball in motion 

 and accomplish more good for this generation, gathering in converts 

 right and left from a wayward life to a fresh and honorable field. 

 than all the impracticable schemes m which piety and humbug are 

 the chief ingredients. But it is needless to consider this propos- 

 ition from the standpoint of a benefactor to his race. A 

 club upon the lines I have described, called into being solely 

 from the interest the owners of smalt boats have, in them- 

 selves and their property, would spread like wildfire, grow 

 rich and potent beyond expectation, while at the same time 

 supplying those accessories to yachting which, as individuals, boat 

 owners can never hope to possess. A few words should be added m 

 reference to the summer season. Besides a, spring and fall match, 

 open to all comers, club races should be held every fortnight, boats 

 winning the majority in the season to receive some token or purse in 

 appreciation. Cruising in squadron should form quite a feature. 

 Start to be made Saturday, P. AJ. and return by Sunday, P. M. or by- 

 Monday morning, iu time for businese in the city. When funds have 

 accumulated, they may be invested in an able craft of small rig, a 

 sort Of public hack, in which beginners can be taught or left to shift 

 for themselves. Thus casual \ isitors wotdd be induced to take to the 

 water, and add fresh blood to the great band of Corinthians. Encour- 

 age everybody, encourage everything which loads to an appreciation 

 of a life afloat in any and all of its reputable phases. Promote the 

 manly and brainy side of the sport, and scout all that would fain con- 

 sign an ennobling pastime to contemptible trifling, to a trashy counter- 

 feit upon the. genuine article, or to a mere gamble among the crews 

 as in the sandbag races. 



Upon tnis topic roanit mtfvl.t kjo written, but if the foregoing helps 

 to shed light in dark places, it will not. have been produced in vai», 



&. f. IvCJ.HARDT. 



THE SAIL PLAN OF THE CRUISER. 



THE accompanying sail plan shows the rig of the open boat 

 Cruiser, whose lines were given in the Forest and Stream of 

 Bee. 25. The larger sail shown is carried only with 20 to :. r i bags to 

 windward in ordinary weather, but the mainsail alone is sometimes 

 used as a cat rig, the mast being then stepped 20in. from the bow. 

 With this cat rig five men, hut no ballast, are carried; but with a good 

 breeze some ballast is ueeded, unless a reef is taken in, the latter usu- 

 ally being preferable. 



The smaller mainsail is the one usually carried with sloop rig, being 

 ule. ,::, L ,.e ..o": : ., i L i t I for her. With it she carries stationary- bal- 



last and a limited crew, or if the weather is \ cry light, a crew of five 

 only, the boat being lightened as much a:- poesibl ■ e ,i,e bottom 

 boards being removed. This same mainsail is also used in cat races, 

 but is too small for ordinary weather. All her sloop races but one in 

 1884. were sailed with this mainsail. The dimensions of sails and 

 spars foT this rig are: boom, 25ft.; gaff, 15ft.; mast, truck to heel, 

 2§ft. 8in.; deck to bounds, 24ft. Sin.; bowsprit, outboard, 14ft. Bin. ; 

 iibboom, Sift.; hoist of mainsail, II) ft. Gin.; luff Of jib, 33ft. ; hoist, 

 231 1. 



The dimensions of the large rig are: Boom, SGft.; gaff, 14ft. 6in.; 

 mast, heel to truck, 31ft.; deck to hounds, 86ft, ; bowsprit outboard, 

 lGft ; jibboom. 21ft. : hoist of mainsail, 22ft. Gin.: luft of jib, 33ft. ; 

 hoist of jib, 24ft. With this rig, the total area of which is 799.5ft. 

 (mainsail 52V and jib yi'2.5), the center of effort is Iflin. forward of 

 the center of lateial resistance, and with the cat rig it is Tin. forward. 

 'Ihe 6heet, for smaller sails and cut rig. leads from boom to a double 

 block on the traveler, thence through a single block on the boom 

 down through second sheave of traveler block, and is belayed on a 

 cleat carried on a second traveler spanning the. tiller. When on the 

 wind the sheet is led through a snatch block on the boom, near its 

 middle. In the larger rig an outrigger is used, as shown. 



Cruiser has proved herself one of the fastest boats of her type in 

 all w-eathers, having won races in her every -day rig. when her com- 

 petitors were compelled to carry smaller sails and more ballast. She 

 works well with two- reefed mainsail and full jib, two-reefed mainsail 

 and no jib, or with full mainsail and reefed jib. Besides her races, 

 she has sailed to New London aud back twice, to Newport aud back 

 once and to Fire island and back- twice, and has never been capsized, 

 a most enviable record for a boat of her class. 







CUTTER PRINCIPLES "WAY DOWN EAST." 



,TJR correspondence from all quarters shows a steady growth in 

 ' public favor of those principles for which we have so long con- 

 tended. We note elsewhere in a letter from Cleveland, a change in 

 iii; direction of iron keel and double head rig, in one of their sioops; 

 and the following extract, tells the result of a similar change made 

 st ■ear in ayabht at Portland, Maine: 



"It may be .satisfactory to you to know- that, the ' t acht Doctrine' 



Breached by Forest aud Stream is having a good influence in this 



I pear a great deal Of talk about increased depth and bal 



Ml down. Last spring I altered my sloop to cutter ri=r, less 



hoist double headsait, etc.. and I wouldn't think for a moment of 



going back to the old rig. 31 y boat is 34.8 in all and draws 5.10, and 



with her present rig can be handled almost like a rovvboat, The 



and practical working of the cutter rig, as compared with the 



sloop was w-ell demonstrated on the night of July 5, 1884. We ran 



12 or 14 miles off this coast and from about 9 P. M. till 4 next morning 



experienced one of the worst summer gales known m this vicinity 



for years. Three reefs in mainsail, staysail reefed, topmast housed, 



everything inboard (how different from die old sloop) and notwith 



standing one of the party prayed ami then swore we. never would see 



da-ligh\ we arrived in Bccthbay, that noon, July 6, in good ordei. 



iat was liked so well last season m her new rig, that from the 



inquiries made I think others will make the change this season. B.' 



THE COST OF SNEAKBOXES. -Mr. M. H. Bishop, the traveler 

 and cruiser, to whoso exertions the A. 0. A. ow-es its iuceptiou aud 

 organization, has found a new field of missionary labor among the 

 sneakboxes of Barnegat. Mr, Bishop has gone to work with his 

 usual energy to stir up the local builders and induce them to im- 

 prove tlie sneakbox as a cruising boat, fie writes in regard to 

 prices: "t have not seen a w-ell built 12ft. box on these bays that 

 can be bougut for less than $15 to 850, and I should add in improve- 

 ments at least §20 to lit them for cruising. Socond-hand boats, 12ft. 

 long, can be bought for £35, aud even less. We have cheap boxes 

 which would run under a head sea, yet the best box is a true climber, 

 always sliding upward. A 16ft. box, of bes, construction, will cost, 

 ■yyben completely fitted, about ?jil25," 



