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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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mass deviate from her direct line. Gracefully she swerved to star- 

 board a d passed us without comment at a safe distance. 



I see I must reel this yarn in a little faster, or its length will bear 

 no just proportion to that of the cruise of tbe Tame Goose. 



Our further cruise eastward was of that nature which Is extremely 

 enjoyable to those in terested, but nothing occurred worth description, 

 We \vt re favored with fair laud breezes, smooth water, bright clay , 

 could easily make landings for midday meals, and found comfortable 

 camps for the nights. It was a rare bit of out-door life. 



But our road had to be retraced. Our boat was too large to be 

 shipped by rail with convenience, and it was loo small to venture 

 across the lake to sail up the opposite shore. Besides we liked the 

 mixture of tent and boat life, we were not travelers in search of the 

 new and marvelous but leisurely strollers enjoying the commonplace 

 by the way as we met it;. One way was as good as another for us, 

 and whoever looked nature steadily in the face but saw a, new ex- 

 pression there. Bo wc turned and failed for home, but we speedily 

 met a new r experience. The westerly winds were no longer fan- for 

 us bur, the most obstinate head wind's. Tliev seemed to spite us, too, 

 for they hauled square to the west and tumbled up a little sea. We 

 tried beating, wo sailed and sailed and sailed, stretched out into the 

 lake and lacked down to the land. The Tame Goose went through 

 water enough to have, made half the circuit of the lake, yet the 

 identical blulTs we looked on in the morning won! 1 disgust ds with 

 their sight at noon, and at night, as the Luminary remarked, they 

 Still put in an appearance. The Tame Goose wouldn't go to wind- 

 ward, her grip on the water was too light, the Choppy waves beat her 

 to leeward. 



Once wo ran several miles out in the lake, thinking we could make 

 by long stretches. We intended to ruu in aud make a landing for 

 dinner, but got becalmed and lay there, caking (he tierce blaze of the 

 July sun. The crew became tired gazing at the waste of water and 

 the distant shore glaring in the hot, bright sunshine, and took a bap, 

 I nodded and dozed, too. but with not quite the childlike confidence 

 which the others displayed, I opened a weather eye now and then, 

 and in one of these glances 1 caught a view to the westward which 

 brought me to my feet, wide awake in an instant. "Tumble up. men, 

 tumble up lively and make things snug; there's a roaring lion coming 

 down on us froth the windward," I shouted to the. sleepers. It was a 

 July squall, short but fierce, sweeping down from the west, blacken- 

 ing the water as if tbe shadow of night hod fallen on it, and rolling in 

 front alis-ht line of foam that indicated at once its power and sneed. 

 A deep, powerful boat might not have humored it with more than a 

 reef or two; but the small, corklike craft we were in needed careful 

 handling. The sails were lowered and snugly stowed, the main boom 

 lashed firmly amidships, and the drag dropped overboard. Tbe first 

 movement of the wind swung the boat head to the storm and fust to 

 the drag, and she, rode out the squall, which lasted about half an 

 hour, without shipping a pint of water or turning a single hair of the 

 crew white. We took advantage of a light wind which lingered be- 

 hind the squall and ran down to the shore and camped. 



These persistent headwinds were annoying. Besides, they took 

 time which we could ill afford. We observed that a laud breeze 

 usually set in at night, which would be for us a favoring beam wind, 

 and at last we concluded to take advantage of this and sail by night! 

 It was rather pleasant. The temperature was about right for com- 

 fort. The sky was mostly clear and the moon fairly bi ight. We 

 jogged along at the. rate of four or five miles an hour, without start- 

 ing the sheet, though we kept drawing off from land. I thought after 

 atime I would make a short leg and stand down to the shore. My 

 crew were inveterate, sleepers and by midnight they w T ere snoring. 

 Soon after the moon set I could hardly trace the bluffy shore in the 

 dim light. The wind drew more ahead, broke into baffling putt's and 

 died away. It was still and gloomy. The canvas hung at rest. Now 

 and then a fish broke the surf aeo of the water. My pipe went out 

 and I nodded and dreamed, and the boat was without a watch. 



Something awoke me. Perhaps it was the boom, for it swung idly 

 over my head. May be it was the pitching of the boat, for though 

 tkere was no wind, there was a long, smooth swell on the lake, 



H. awoke and haded with, "Well, Captain, how are we getting 

 alongf Got wind enough, 1 guess, by the way we're pitching."' 

 "Get up." I answered, "and see what you think a bout it." 

 "By the life," said he after a brief pause, "this looks nasty. There 

 ain't a breath of air stirring yet. If my eyes don't deceive "me she's 

 pokingthe end of the jibboom into the wet pretty often." 



"It looks dark to the westward," said I, "though there's so much 

 fog on the lake that I can't distinguish a cloud. Look 1" 



A flash gleamed in the west as I spoke, and revealed for an instant 

 a mass of black clouds, and we heard the low, prolonged roll of dis- 

 tant thunder. 



"Captain," said R., "this is the worst scrape we've got into yet. I'd 

 g»v« something handsome to be set down ou the shore yonder he'fore 

 this storm breaks on us; I would be willing to pay for the boat if we 

 couldn't sate it." 



"We couldn'trow to the shore in two hours with this swell on," I 

 replied. We've got to fight it out on the lake." 



It was very dark and the air so still and dense with fog as to be op- 

 pressive. Thunder and lightning rolled and gleamed over a wide 

 stretch of the western horizon, aud indicated that the storm would be 

 one of broad sweep. It was decidedly an unpleasant outlook for us 

 The treacherous lake had lured us three landsmen to its bosom only 

 to pour out its fiercest wrath on our heads. It would toss and fill our 

 cork-like boat like a feather. If our boat weie only 10ft. longer, hush 

 decked, deep, and weighted low down, we might even laugh at this 

 had as it looks. I made an inward vow if ever I sailed the great lake 

 again, it would be in a lighter boat and close along shore, or in one 

 built to brave its worst fury with safety, and make a comfortable 

 home in besides. 



Tbe Luminary held the lantern, and R. and I put things in shape. I 

 rejected the plan of holding to the di ag, for I judged the storm might 

 not be a brief one and that it might set us shoreward, aud I had no 

 taste for a plunge in the breakers on that rocky, bluffy coast. Once 

 to the drag and we could not cut loose and run. We furled the main- 

 sail and lashed the boom over the quarter out of the way of the tiller. 

 The jibboom was short and the jib was set up on its luff, not running 

 ou a. stay. I went out and cut the lashing at the tack, and the sail 

 swung inboard to the mast. We then close-reefed the jib and passed 

 a laeliin* through the clew and around the mast, untied the jib 

 Sheets and fastened them to the tack. Thus wehad rigged in a short 

 time a snug storm sail to scud under. Lines were coiled down and 

 all made snug on board. 



We had not long to wait in suspense. A heavy peal of thunder was 

 followed by a down pour of rain. For twenty minutes it was a fall- 

 ing sheet of water and not a puff of air with it. The storm sail hung 

 dripping from the mast. But I noticed that the dead swell did not 

 subside; somewhere there, was a force that kept it heaving. It was 

 getting near time for day to break, and had the skv been clear we 

 might then have seen the first flush of morning in the east. The 

 ram slackened and it seemed to brighten to the westward. 



"Ihope," said R., "this is the worst of it. The storm slackens and 

 there's no wind yet." 



While he spoke another sound came over the water. It was like 

 the rain beating on the leaves of a forest or on a thousand roofs. A 

 puff struck us and tbe storm sail filled, and the boat gathered way 

 and turned her prow to the eastward, 'the roar of the oncoming wind 

 deepened and up to tbe westward I saw a patch of clear Sky with a 

 star set in it, and beneath a waste of water white with foam. 



The first blow of the tempest was tremendous. It seemed to press 

 the boat into the water as though it would force it under. Foam 

 seethed around us and over us. The boat quivered and strained, but at 

 length she felt the tug of the little storm sail and rose en the surges 

 and fled away before the wind light and buoyant. Lucky it was for 

 us, then, that we had no main boom swinging over the waves. It 

 would surely have brought disaster to ou<- low craft, The sea rose fast. 

 The gale came f i om a little north of west, and was one of those sum- 

 mer storms that last but for a few hours, but are very strong, Dav- 

 break was at hand and we welcomed the light. It showed a 

 wild scene to us: the shore, five or six miles distant, white with 

 breakers, and the lake a waste of foam-capped waves rapidly increas- 

 ing in height. The wisdom of scudding instead of hanging to tne 

 drag was apparent. With the wind as it was, we should have been 

 in the breakers off a dangerous headland in two hours if we had 

 drifted, but with steerage way we could keep off enough to run the 

 whole shore down if we could live, 



About a dozen miles away was a harbor, two piers running from 

 the outlet of a bay into the lake. We steered for that and directly 

 Sighted the lighthouse. Coming down from the windward I thought 

 we could make it. If we missed the channel we would run on the 

 sandbar under the lee cf the piers. But we rounded the lighthouse 

 in fine style, stood up the bay and got a good camp, and if ever three 

 men enjoyed a day of rest in a snug camp we did. 



After the storm we had a fair wind home, and though a good sailor 

 wdl find plenty of hav seed in my hair yet, a good deal was blown out 

 in that cruise in the Tame Goose. Red Top. 



SILVIE.— Corn. Chas. V. Whitten. Hull Y. C, has just bought the 

 old Silvie, from Mr. Jerome Cartey. The Silvie was originally built 

 as a sloop in 18M, by Geo. Steers, of New York. In 1857 she was 

 altered to a centerboard schooner and again rebuilt in 1868. In 1883 

 she was thoroughly overhauled and rebuilt at Provincetown, b^ing 

 made keel at that time. Her dimensions are 82ft. Din. over all. T-ii'n. 

 '7in. waterline, 21ft, 3in. beam, 6ft. Bin. depth, and 8ft. draft Old 

 tonnage 106.2 tons, and new 52.19. In 1853 the Silvie. then fitted with 

 two centerboards. crossed to England and back. Com. Whitten will 

 probably refit her inside and inci ease her hoist. 



EARLY VOYAGES AROUND THE HORN. 



OUR list of yachts that have gone to San Francisco, in the Forest 

 and Streak of Feb. 19, has brought to light anotte r one, as Will 

 be seen by the following letter, One of her crew, we believe, was the 

 late Capt. L. F. Zimmerman. Perhaps some of our older readers can 

 supplement Mr. Stevens's letter with further details of the Bettie 

 Bliss, or other vessels Unit have made the passage. Mr. Stevens 

 writes: "In your article on American yachts that have rounded the 

 Horn you have not mentioned the. one. which I believe claims to be the 

 first to have attained that houor, I refer to 1 he schooner Bettie BIFs. 

 She was owned by Mr. Ceo. B. Rollins, the first corresponding secre- 

 tary of the N. Y. Y. 0. I mi. lei-stand that Mr. Rollins was ordered to 

 the Pacific for bis Health, Whether Bettie Bliss was built for tic,. •• ot 

 age I cannot say. She was a. narrow, deep keel vessel, wed suited to 

 I he pui pose. J do not know the dale of her leaving New York. She 

 was at Kan Francisco at the time of a great fire. I do not know the 

 date of this event, but merely that if happened early in the history of 

 California. After a long, exciting cruise in the Pacific, Bettie Bliss 

 was lost in Valparaiso in a nori her. Can any of your readers remem- 

 ber any of the incidents Of her career? T have' heard some of her 

 adventures told, and I hey made a most excising and interesting tale. 

 1 wish I could recall them with sufficient clearness to give. you an 

 outline of them, but I fear I cannot. Cannot some one give the. read- 

 ers of the Forest asd Stream an account of this vessel, which de- 

 serves a more illustrious place than has been given her? 

 Fur. 2i, 1881. K A. Stevens." 



LECTURES ON YACHTING. 



I AST winter the Knickerbocker Y. C, held several meetings at which 

 J Mr. John Hyslop lectured on yacht designing, and not only mem- 

 bers of the club, hut a fair number of outsiders attended them. This 

 winter the Harlem Y C. have undertaken a similar series of lectures, 

 two of which have been delivered hv Mr. Chas. J. Fagan, an honorary 

 member of the club. In his first, lecture, delivered on Feb. 1H, Mr. 

 Fagan spoke to a goodly assemblage of yachtsmen, on "Cutler and 

 Sloop," explaining the radical differences in the types, with diagrams 

 showing a comparison of their stability, and the positions of centers 

 in the different types. He also mentioned the various systems of 

 measurement and their effect on both types, and com pared the sloop 

 and cutter rig to the advantage of the latter. Mr Pagan's conclusions 

 were in favor of a bulk rule in preference to length. 



On Heh. 20 llr. Fagan delivered a second lecture on yacht designing. 

 Mr. Fagan in speaking of the difference between modelers and de- 

 signers of yachts gave great credit to the very few successful mem 

 bers of tbe model school who, unfortunately, when they die, take 

 with them to the grave whatever knowledge they possessed on the 

 subject, if, indeed, that knowledge has not sought a resting place 

 before them; while on the other hand the designer after thoroughly 

 investigating the laws of gravity and buoyancy proceeds to examine 

 and compare the successful and unsuccessful yachts aud talcing 

 notes of the location of the various centers he is at once in a position 

 to pohit out the cause of success or failure, while the modeler, still in 

 darkness, is only able to "guess" the reason why. After explaining 

 Simpson's rule for measuring irregular areas and solids, the speaker 

 applied it to the measurement of areas of a plan for a 30ft. yacht. 

 He also explained the various curves of areas in use quoting such em- 

 inent authorities as Chapman. Scott Russell, Nystrom, Colin Archer, 

 Griffiths and others. 



A NEW CUTTER ON LAKE ERIE, 



Editor For&it and Stream: 



By looking over the map you will sec we have a fine bay one and 

 one-halt miles wide by about seven long, of variable depth. Vessels 

 can enter drawing fifteen to sixteen feet of water, yet I can safely say 

 we have scarcely a safe cruising yacht in the bay. There are some 

 very good open catboats (as such craft go), but I can and do cross 

 the bay in all weather in my 12ft. sneak or auck boat, as quickly and 

 as safely as they do. At last, however, we are to have a veritable 

 modern yacht in our harbor, the first, I hope, of a fleet of staunch 

 little ships, as you will see by the following from the Erie Event no 

 Herald of the23dinst.: 



• Erie is to have another sailing yacht, and perhaps in time there 

 may be enough persons interested in the sport to organize a yacht 

 club. With our pleasant harbor and facilities for sailing, a yacht 

 club would be an appropriate addition to the organizations here. The 

 new yacht will be a novelty in Erie, and is Dehig built by John Fair- 

 bairn, Jr., of this city. She will be constructed after an English 

 model, aud wdl be Soft, over all, 7}^ft, beam, and will draw 8ft. of 

 water. She will be copper fastened and fitted with an iron keel of 

 4 tons weight, with flush deck and cabin below." 



We already have cats, sloops, ketch yawl, gafl'topsail sharpies, any 

 and everything but the cutter, and I never saw but one in the 

 bay, her name was Verve, and she came from Scotland last sea- 

 son, ou her way up the lakes. But it is safe to say Mr. Fairbairn will 

 have the full rig, as he never does things by halves. He already 

 owns and sails a Hue catamaran of about H5fi. in length, very wide, 

 but not wide enough to venture outside the harbor in. and a good 

 sneakbox would drown her; and as all wide S'ems not to be good in 

 our short jumpy water, Mr. F. is going to try depth with outside 

 ballast. I sincerely hope that more of our wealthy young men may 

 tollow in his wake, and that we may see the day when our beautiful 

 waters may be covered with good, sensible pleasure yachts as plen- 

 tifully as they now are with sturdy fishing craft. ' Headlic; ht. 



SEAWANHAKA C. Y. C. MEETING. 



A MEETING of the S. C. Y. C. was held at Delmonico's on March 3, 

 at which Com. Rogers presided. Mr. 1_>. B. Fearing, Jr., was 

 elected a member. The annual report of the sailing committee was 

 read and accepted. The question of rig allowance, introduced at the 

 previous meeting, was brought up by Mr. Lee, in the absence of Mr. 

 A, Gary Smith, who made the calculations. Moulauk had been taken 

 as the standard, and her times over various courses had been com- 

 pared with those of the sloop, under the usual allowance for size. In 

 England, where mixed rig races have long been known, the allowance 

 that a schooner receives from a cutter of the same tonnage, is two- 

 fifths of her tonnage, or the schooner is rated at tkree-fif tfis of her 

 tonnage, and time allowed on that rating. The measurement of the 

 S. C. Y. C. being lineir and not cubical.it was necessary to change 

 thefoiin of the expression, and as similar bodks vary as the cubes 

 of their similar dimensions, the sailing length is first cubed, three- 

 fifths of the result is taken, and the cubo root is extracted, or ex- 

 pressed algebraically, the formula is 3 Vg.5L3, *' or yawls the allow- 

 ance would be four-fifths in place of three-fifths. Mr. Hyslop spoke 

 of the present method of measuring the sail area of schooners, point- 

 ing out that a laige portion of the sail area was not measured at 

 present, which amount was hi itself an allowance, when competing 

 with single stick yachts. Mr. Eaton called attention to the measure- 

 ment of yawls, wlii h is not provided for in the rules. 



The motion was carried to appoint a committee to consider the 

 measurement of schooners and yawds, which, with committee on rig 

 allowance, will teporc at the nexL meeting. The date of the June re- 

 gatta was discussed, and June 13 suggested, Some discussion oc- 

 curred over the question of a time limit for races, following a, motion 

 of Mr. Tarns to strike out Rule 32, removing the time limit from all 

 races, but no action was taken. Mr. Tarns also presented a motion to 

 add to the rules the clause, "In all races yachts are amenable to rules 

 from the time tne preparatory signal is given. The motion to change 

 the classification to a basis of actual length on waterline, instead of 

 sailing length, will come up for action at the next meeting. The sec- 

 retaiy read the report of the trustees, in which they recommend that 

 the club keep in commission a yacht of 50ft, length for the use of non- 

 owners, which was referred to the trustees with power to act, Mr. 

 Tarns introduced the subject of a squadron cruise, moving that adace 

 be set in advance, but no action was taken, 



YACHTBUIDING AT BAY RIDGE. 



IN spite of dull times Mr. Mumm has been busy this winter at his yard 

 at Bay Ridge withnew workaud repairs. Last fallhe commenced 

 a sloop yacht which is now nearly completed and has lately been 

 sold to Mr. Thos. Howe, of New York. This yacht measures 46ft. on 

 deck. 41ft. waterline, 15ft. (tin. beam, 6ft. Gin. depth, 5ft. draft, with a 

 good rise to her floor, and shows in many points a marked improve- 

 ment on the centerboard sloops of a few years since. She will be 

 rigged with jib and staysail, but fixed bowsprit. Her frame is of o »k 

 and haekmatack, sided 2i4ln., moulded 5 and -SVgin., spaced 18m., with 

 planking of IJ^in. yellow pine. She is well fastened throughout, and 

 .eel lent, workmanship. The deck is of 2in. square white pine 

 laid with sideline. The cockpit is finished in mahogany and is of good 

 size. The cabin house gives standing height below' over a roomy 

 cabin, out of which opens on starboard side of the trunk, the owner's 

 stateroom, while to port is the pantry and galley. This arrangement 

 leaves the forecastle, which is necessarily very small in this type of 

 boat, entirely to the men. while it gives ample room for cooking in 

 com! ort, the ventilation being provided for by a hatch over the galley. 

 All below is finished in pine, varnished. The top of the house is 

 constructed in the manner described last week, of three thicknesses 

 of wood, a method followed by Mr. Mumm in a number of his boats, 

 the upper and lower layers run fore and aft and the middle one 

 thwartships, there being no carlins. Tne three are well screwed 

 together, with canvas between the two upper layers while the seams 

 of the top are caulked. The absence of carlins Is very noticeable in- 



side, adding to the headroom materially, and also to the apparent 

 height. 



The. frame is now ready for a similar but larger boat, for Mr. J. R. 

 Maxwell, owner of the. schooner Crusader, to be called Daphire. This 

 yacht is 51 ft, on deck. 46ft. waterline. Oft. Sin. deep, and 5ft. Bin, draft. 

 Her stem and stern post are sided Gin. Keel 13xl3in., frames sided 

 3in., moulded 5 and 8J$n., spaced 18in., with 1% planking of yellow 

 pine, and deck of white pine 2,<2In. She will be sloop j igged. 



Thesjoop Ilderan has also been altered, being raised Sin. in bow, 

 12in. midships, and Gin. aft, withnew deck and topsides, cabin and 

 interior fittings, the latter of mahogany and ash. 



The alterations on the schooner Republic ore nearly completed. 

 She has been cut in two and lengthened amidships, her hoard re- 

 moved and a keel 2ft. Gin. deep substituted, and refitted inside, mak- 

 ing really a new keel boat. Side by side with her lies the little cutter 

 Daisy, as well as a number of the Atlantic Y, C. boats. 



Mr. Mumm has begun work on a new set of ways just north of the 

 Basin, ou the .property he has purchased, and will move his yard 

 tit ere shortly. He will have a basin with a good depth of water 

 which will bea great convenience to New York yachtsmen. 



THE STEAM YACHT CORA. 



IN the steam yacht now building at Poillon's vard in Brooklyn i J or 

 Mr. -John A. Morris, her model r, Mr. Phillip Elsworth, starts out 

 in a new direction, as his former yachts have all been sailing vessels. 

 The requirements of this boat are hardly compntible with the best 

 all-around qualities, her draft being limited, while it was desired to 

 secure large accommodations. Bit r. Ellsworth has turned out a boat re- 

 sembling very much his yachts, with the straight stem and long 

 Wedge-shaped bow; but aft is anotable exception, as being hampered 

 by no rule of measurement, the sto-n is not sawed off, but finishes in 

 a long and graceful counter. The midship section is well aft. making 

 a short after body. The sheer is quite straight, and the effect is in- 

 creased by the absence of a bowsprit, there being; nothing outside of 

 the plumb stem. Dimensions are: Length over ad, 1.37ft. Gin ; length 

 on wateiline. 122ft.; beam, 2,3ft.; depth, lift, 2in.; draft, 7ft. : dis- 

 placement, 220 tons. The keel is of white oak, lSxlSin., with bilge 

 keels and engine keelsons of yellow pine. The frames are double 

 sawn, sided 4in.. moulded Sin. at heels and Sin. at head, and spaced 

 16in. They are of oak. chestnut and hackmatack, with floor ku^es of 

 the latter wood. The planking is of yellow pine, 2\4 and 3in. thick, 

 with ceiling of the same, aud treenails are used throughout, with 

 Muntz metal below the wate'line. Two pieces of yellow pine, each 

 4x6in. are worked to form a shelf 4;<12io., being bent in and through 

 fastened. The deck beams, also of yellow pine, are 6x0in., with a 

 white pine deck 8x3. The stanchions are of Long Island locust, with 

 rail of oak, the bulwarks at bow and stern being solid, with netting 

 amidships. 



On the deck, which is flush, will be a pilot house and smoking 

 room, all of mahogany to match the companions and skylights. 

 Below there wdll be a collision bulkhead in the bow, and two others, 

 forward and aft of the engine room, making four compartments. 

 The cabins will include a ladies' saloon 13xi6£t., quarters for owner 

 and gue.-ts, with lavatory, etc., officers' cabins, and forward a fore- 

 castle for crew. The headroom below will be 7ft. Gin. 



Her engines are double compound, similar to those put in the Sen- 

 tinel by the same builders, Messrs. L. Wright aud Son, of Newark, 

 N. J. There will be two high and two low pressure cylinders, 15 and 

 28 by IGin. mounted on 8 tapering wrought-iron columns. These oof 

 umns are nearer at their tops than at the bases, thus acting as 

 braces, while they allow free access to all parts. The crank shaft 

 and screw shaft are of hammered steel, and all working pares are 

 also of steel. The propeller will be 7ft. in diame'er, A Gannon's 

 patent surface condenser and a Knowles's pump will be used, the 

 feed and air pumps being attached to the engines. The two upright 

 tubular boilers will be of J^m. steel, tested to 125 pounds to the inch. 

 They will be placed side to side athwartships, an 1 so arranged that 

 one or both ot them may be used. Her bunkers will carry sixty tons 

 of coal. 



The Cora will be rigged as a schooner, with pole masts, and will be 

 enrolled in the. Southern Y. O. She will be launched in a short time 

 and will go to Newark for her engines. She will carry a steam launch 

 and three boats. 



CRUISES OF SMALL CUTTERS.— Mr. Rose, who has command of 

 the Whydah, 26 tons, which left England on Jan. 12 and arrived at 

 Gibraltar on Jan. 28. was the skipper of the famous Utile 5-tonner 

 Alowette, on her voyage from England to Oran, Africa, and also took 

 out the Zingara yawl, 18 tons, to Marseilles; the Fatima, 5 tons, to 

 Bordeaux; the Sandfly, 14 tons, to Cadiz He sailed one of the five 

 torpedo boats sent from England to Brazil. The Whvdah is a cutter 

 45ft, long and lift, Oin. beam. Her mastermakesthefollowing report 

 of the run from Dartmouth to Gibraltar: "Left Dartmouth at 4 P M. 

 on Jan. 12, with a fine breeze N. E., got past Ushant the next night, 

 wind freshening from N. E. until it blew a gale with very heavy sea. 

 On the night or the third day out, I hove to. there being too'mueh 

 sea to run, having shipped a sea over the bows when hove to, which 

 made a rush aft washing the grating overboard. The weather mod- 

 erated the next morning so that I filled on again, and sighted land 

 near Coruna, which was a very fair passage, four days. From the 

 time of getting in with the land I have had nothing but headwinds, 

 and frequent gales from the south, ou the Portuguese coast, where we 

 usually get the winds from the opposite direction.'' The Whydah is 

 bound for Cette. 



AN ANCHOR FOR SMALL YACHTS.— The folding anchor de- 

 scribed in the Forest and Stream of Jan. 1, is now for sale by H. 

 U. Squires, No. 178 Broadway, New York. We have inspected ttiese 

 anchors, of w'hich several siz. j s, from a small canoe anchor up to one 

 of 16 pounds weight are kept in stock, while they can be furnished 

 up to 25 pounds, and can recommend them to the attention of canoe- 

 ists, fishermen and yachtsmen. Their compact, form when closed 

 allows them to be laid anywhere out of the way, without danger of 

 fouling hues or being knocked overboard. It is claimed that they 

 will hold much more than an ordinary anchor of greater "weight. Its 

 holding powers have been tested by a board of naval officers, and 

 has been adopted by the Navy Department and Fish Commission. 



IRON BOLTS IN LEAD KEELS.— The danger incurred by fasten 

 ing lead keels with iron bolts is well shown by the state of the iron 

 bolts lately taken from a small yacht in this vicinity, After three or 

 four years' use the iron, where it passed through the wood keel, was 

 so corroded that it could almost be cut away with a knife, its texture 

 being entirely destroyed. The corrosion seemed worse in the wood 

 keel than in the lead itself. This state of affairs was only discovered 

 in taking out the bolts to add more lead. How mauy more keels. 

 through ignorance or bad workmanship of the builder, are in the 

 same condition. Hnder no circumstances should iron be used in con- 

 tact with lead, but copper or Muntz; metal can be always relied on. 



A FINE LITTLE CRUISER. -Mirimichi, N. B.-Edttor Forest and 



Stream: 1 have read with great interest the articles in your paper 

 about cutter vs. sloop as well as many other things in it that are to 

 my taste very much. I have always owned a yacht of the sloop or 

 centerboard pattern, which are in vogue about here, but am now 

 going in for a regular cutter for cruising, small size, 32ft. L. W T . L. 

 6ft. 8m. beam. 4}^ft. draft, with lead, two tons all on keel. As out- 

 local boatbuilriers know nothing abont the cutter, I have designed my 

 lines and made the model myself, I will not venture to say anything 

 more about it, till I see how she works.— M\ 



FROM LARGE TO SMALL CRAFT.— The schooner Crusader is ad- 

 vertised for sale, and her owner, Mr. J. R. Max well, ;is building a sloop 

 of moderate size to take her place. Although boats of targe tonnage 

 are decreasing in popularity to a great extent there is no reason to 

 mourn over the decline of yachting, as their places are taken by half 

 a dozen small craft for each big one laid up. 



BOSTON.— Straurare is the name of Mr. Geo. C. Broome's new cut- 

 ter yacht now being fitted out at Cliarlestown. Mass. She is to be 

 24ft. long, 8ft. wide and 4}gft. deep. McManus & Sou are to furnish 

 her sails. Capt. Fred Clayton, of Chelsea, Mass.. is to give his sloop 

 yacht Mabel a complete new outfit this season. New mast and spars, 

 and a new suit of sails also by McManus & Son. 



CARMELITA,— In spite of mud and snow there was a goodly num- 

 ber of visitors present on last Friday at the screw dock to inspect the 

 Carmehta. Her bottom has been scraped and painted, and she is 

 now ready to start. She is commanded by Captain W. G. Snow, 

 an experienced sailor, and will probaoly reach San Francisco about 

 the end of June. 



FALL RIVER Y. C— Fall River, Feb. 86.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream: The Fall River Y. C. will hold their regatta for cat- rigged 

 boats and sloops under 50ft. waterline, on May 80, 1885. It is to be an 

 open race, the course from 18 to 20 miles over the club course on 

 Blount Hope Bay. Will send sailing rules and particulars later.— S. 



BEVERLY Y. C— At the annual meeting held on Feb. 28, officers 

 for 1885 were elected as follows: Commodore, Gordon Dexter; v*iee- 

 Uommodore, Howard Stockton; Secretary, w.'L. Jeffr es; Measurer, 

 F. Elliot Cabot; Regatta Committee, G. H. Richards. W. L. Jeffries, 

 John Dane, Walter Abbot and C. F. Adams. 



A VISITOR NEXT SEASON.— Mr. Barlow Moore, the English 

 maiiae artist, whose yachting sketches are so well known, will visit 

 this country next summer to witness the Cup race. 



