May 14, 1885.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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THE KEEL CUTTER DART. 



r PHE little boat, whose lines are given herewith was described in 

 J- Forest and Stream of March 12, in a letter from her owner, Dr. 

 A. H. Buck, for whom she is bmldiug, by Thos. R. Webber, of New 

 Rochelle; and as there stated, she was designed as a safe little cruiser 

 tor Long Island Sound. Her extreme length is 18ft„ on loadline 14f c, 

 oeam, 4ft.: draft. 3ft. 8in.: least freeboard, i3in.; freeboard at bow, 

 *:' n - ^e is fitted as shown, with a small bouse, leaving a cockpit 

 3ft. 9m. long. Her iron keel weighs l,0l81bs.. the remainder of tie 

 ballast being stowed as low as possible inside. The keel is of white 

 oak sided 5m and moulded 7in. The frame is of oak and 

 hackmatack , JW*- sided, l^in. moulded at heels and 1M 

 at heads. She is planked below with ££in. cedar and her 

 wales are of Jim. yellow pine. The cabin and cockpit are of 

 white pine with mahogany fittings, hatches and companion. The 

 deck is of pine Mm", square sprung to sideline. She will be sloop 

 rigged, with pole mast, 18ft. deck to truck, and 13ft. 6in. deck to 

 ^ ounds. The bowsprit is 10ft. over all and 8ft. outboard Boom 13ft 



gaff 8ft. ; hoist of mainsail lift., hoist of jib, lift. 6in.; foot of lib, 

 lift. 6in. ; topsail on luff, 13ft. 9in. 



The Dart is now ready for launching and will soon make a trial 

 trip, when we hope to give a further description. The drawings 

 show the moulded breadths. 



NOTES FROM LAKE ONTARIO. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The season which is now opening promises to be one of the most 

 brilliant ever enjoyed by the yachtsmen on Lake Ontario. The 

 Kingston Yacht Club has decided to join the Lake Yacht Racing 

 Association, and Hamilton, in which the yachting spirit >evived very 

 greatly last season, will probably add another club to the association, 

 with several new competitors for the honors. As to these a Toronto 

 journal supplies the following: 



"The deep-draft cutter Whistle-Wing, built for Mr. ^Emilius Jarvis 

 of Hamilton, from his own designs, will be launched at Hamilton on 

 the 5th. The Whistle-Wing is a 10-tonner, 40ft. over all, and 7ft. 4in. 



beam. She will set with her ordinary sails nearly 2,000 sq. ft. of can- 

 vas, and is expected to be a flyer. Her outside ballast is an iron shoe 

 weighing about eight tons. Her frames and planking are white oak 

 and very stout. Her sticks are pine and spruce from ihe Georgian 

 Bay. The new cutter will be enrolled in the yacht club that is 

 proposed to be formed at Hamilton, and may be looked for as a 

 contestant in the races of the Lake Yacht R -icing Association. Her 

 lines include some novelties in a lake cutter, and as she. is strictly a 

 Ha-nilton production, from the model to the canvas, it wdl be interest- 

 ing to compare her performances with those of other cutters and 

 sloops. 



"Messrs. H. L. Bolstien & Son have built a handsome new center- 

 board sloop from their own designs, which will be launched next 

 week. Geo. Webster has also built a fine sloop, which will be put 

 into the water in a few days. She is called the Cruiser. Altogether 

 the yachting season of 1885 on Burlington Bay promises to be a very 

 lively one " 



The Belleville craft, which swept the board last season, will be in 

 excellent trim to meet all comers, and their owners will spare no 

 expense to keep them to the front. 



The unfortunate Atalanta got a bad wrenching in the ice when it 

 broke up. She was taken from her moorings to a comparatively 

 shallow spot, where she lies, sunk to her deck. As the ways at the 

 local ship yard are at present occupied, the work of repairing must 

 perforce be postponed for several days. Port Tack. 



Belleville, Ont. 



THE VOYAGE OF THE CARMELITA. 



THE schooner yacht Carmelita, Captain W. Y. Snow, which sailed 

 from New York on March 9 for San Francisco, arrived at Rio 

 Janeiro on April 16, after a successful passage of 39 days, as shown 

 by the following extract from her log. Captain Snow writes of her 

 as follows to Mr. A. Carey Smith: 



"According to promise, I send you a few lines and abstract of 

 schooner's log. We arrived here to-day, April 16, all rieht and well, 

 after a good and pleasant passage of 39 days, which is not often 

 beaten I think. I take great pleasure in informing you that the 

 yacht has proved herself in every respect a staunch and able sea 

 boat. I don't think I was ever in a better one. She has not shipped 

 a barrelf ul of water since leaving New York." 



LOG OF THE CARMELITA— NEW YORK TO RIO DE JANEIRO. 



March 11.. 

 March 12. . 

 March 13. , 



March 14. , 

 March 15.. 

 March 16.. 

 March 17. . 

 March 18. . 



March 19. . 



March 20 . 



March 21. . 



March 22. . 



March 23 . 



March 24, . 

 March 25. . 



March 26. . 



March 27. . 

 March 28. . 

 March 29. . 

 March 30. . 

 March 31.. 

 April 1 . . 



April 2... 

 April 3... 



April 4... 



April 5... 



April 6... 



April 7. . . 



April 8... 



April 9... 



April 10. . . 

 April 11... 

 April 12. . . 

 April 13. . . 

 April 14... 



April 15. . . 

 April 16. . . 



35° 14' 

 33° 54' 

 33° 32' 

 33° 22' 

 33° 20' 

 32° 34' 



31° 40' 

 31° 03' 



30" 37' 



23° 09' 



20° 09' 



17° 22' 

 14° 33' 

 12° 13' 



9° 41' 

 12° 13' 



4° 32' 



2° 48' 



4° 04' 

 6° 45' 

 9° 04' 

 11° &3' 



13° 55' 



16° 17' 



18° 47' 

 20° 33' 

 22° 00' 



22° 54' 



Long 



67° 25' 

 67° 03' 

 63° 09' 



59° 15' 



57° 30' 



53° 13' 



54° 39' 

 52° 0.5' 



Wind and Weather. 



42° 56' 

 42° 00' 



40° 47' 



3fi° 30' 

 37° 15' 

 36° 03' 

 37° 51' 

 32° 17' 



30° 25' 



W. 



29° 20' 

 29° 33' 

 30° 02' 

 30° 39' 

 31° 18' 

 32° 20' 



33° 39' 



!5° 07' 

 36° 42 ' 

 38° 12' 

 39° 10' 



41° 45' 



Strong northerly wind, clear and 

 cold. Heavy sea running. 



Fresh W. N. W. wind and clear. 

 Large sea following. 



Mod. north wind and cloudy. 



Light airs and calm. 



Fresh south'ly wind. Fine weather. 



Strong southerly wind, heavy seas. 

 Under short sail. 



Mod. to light and calm, large sea. 



Light airs and calms. Fine 

 weather. 



Light westerly winds. 



Strong breeze and heavy cross sea. 



Strong south breeze, short sail, 

 heavy cross sea; schooner mak- 

 ing good weather. 



Hard southerly wind; cross sea; 

 under short sail. 



Fresh southerly wind and large 

 sea. 



Mod. to light breeze; sea decreas- 

 ing. 



Fresh breeze from S. E. by E. ; be. 

 ginning of trade winds. 



Strong trades and squally ; heavy 

 swell. 



Fresh trades; squally; large sea. 



Strong trades and squally; large 

 sea; spoke the Br. bk Isle of Bath, 

 bound to Queenstown from S. F. 



Fresh trades and squally; winds E. 



Fresh trades tbroi-.ghout. 



Fresh to moderate trades. 



Fresh trades a> d fine weather. 



Fresh to mod trades; fine weather. 



Moderate trades; fine weather. 

 (Mod. and fine; spoke Swed. brig 

 I Astrea. 



j Light winds; made St. Caul's 

 ( Rocks; crossed equator. 



Light airs and calms. 

 J Light airs and calms; latter part 

 | light breeze from E. 



Fine weather ; beginning of trades. 



Light winds; fine weather. 



Moderate trades and squally. 



Moderate trades ; fine weather. 

 J Mod. trades; passed a brig going 

 I to south'ard. 



Pqiiallyand light; latter part fresh. 



moderate trades and fine weather. 



Light trades: occasional squalls. 



^eht easterly airs and calm. 

 I Light winds; 10 A. M. made Cape 

 1 Freo. * 



\ Mod breeze; middle and latter part 

 ■\ calm ; arr. in Rio de Janeiro har- 

 l bor, mak ng passage in 39 days. 



YACHTING NOTES.— Petrel cutter, Mr. E. A. Stevens, is having a 

 new suit of sails of English canvas, by Bergluud of Brooklyn The 

 dome steamer Meteor, which proposed, a year or two since, to revol- 

 utionize ocean travel, has been turned into a tug and is towing on the 

 Kennebec River, Maine. . . .Nebula, cutter, was launched last week by 

 the Lawleys. . . .Oceanic Y. C— The peculiar little sloop mentioned a 

 tew weeks since is almost completed. Her owner, Commodore Lynch 

 has named her Trio ... .Edith, steam yacht. Mr. Wm. Woodward, has 

 been sold to Mr. E. C. Benedict, of New York, for $6,000. She was 

 built by the Herreshoffs in 1880, and is 60ft. long . . .Nourmahal. Mr 

 Wm. Astor, was at Gloucester, Mass., on May 8 ...Norseman 

 schooner, was out this week for painting. She is now afloat again off 

 Twenty -eighth street. . . .Knickerbocker Y. C— The club have engaged 

 the iron steamer Sirius for May 30, to accompany the yachts at their 

 ? pr T. mf? T r T e ^ tta • • • Sphinx. -Mr. Henry Taylor has sold his steam yacht 

 to Mr. H. F. Hendouker for $4,000. .. .Bren da, schooner, lately pur- 

 chased by the government, has arrived at Jacksonville in charge of 

 Col. McFarland and Lieut. Derby. She will be engaged in experi- 

 menting with explosives on the St. John's River . . .Frolic, schooner 

 is still in New York, but has been transferred to her new owner, Mi- 

 Arthur Fuller, of Boston.... Gracie. sloop, is fitting ont at Glen Cove 

 She will have new canvas this season . . . .Rosalie, sloop, Dr. B. F. Daw- 

 son, former owner of the Valkyr, has purchased this sloop from Mr 

 Canfield ..Lucille, Herreshoffs, No. 122, was lately tried on Narra- 

 gansett Bay, and made 17 miles. Her length as already given i- 90ft 

 . . . . Aida, steam yacht, Vice-Corn. Douglas, N. Y. Y. O, has received 

 her new boiler at Bristol and has left there . . .Utowana, steam yacht 

 has had a bridge added over the pilot house, and has been docked, 

 cleaned and painted. She will finish fitting out at Edgartown. Mass! 

 . . . Radha, steam yacht, has also been on the screw dock for cleaning 

 and painting. . . Haze, schooner. Messrs. Hogan, has been onMumm's 

 ways tor repairs after grounding in the Horseshoe in the blow 

 of last month. She is all in shape again and off to the Eastward 

 Larchmont Y. C— The SyUan Dell has been chartered to accompany 

 the yachts on July 4 . . New Schooner.— The centerboard schooner 

 budding for Mr. G. W. Winslow, of Boston, by James & Co., of Essex, 

 was launched on May 4. She is 64ft. over all, 19ft. beam, 6ft. 4in 

 depth of hold, and measures 60 tons. The cabin contains three state- 

 rooms finished in mahogany and oak, and the galley and forecastle 

 in ash. . . .Mohican, schooner, is now refitting in Boston after her win- 

 ter cruise. ...Hull.— A part of the steamboat wharf has been opened 

 to yachtsmen, making a good landing for their boats .. Gitana 

 schooner, has replaced her winter spars with longer ones, and is also 

 scraping and painting ready for the summer work. . ..Wanda.— The 

 engmesand boilers have been placed aboard Mr. Woodward's new 

 steam yacht. . . .Grayling, schooner, has been hauled out for scraping 

 and painting.... Mischief, sloop, is now hauled out for painting at 

 Port Richmond, S.I. & 



AMERICAN YC— A cruise is proposed in June, starting on the 

 25th with a race from Larchmont to New London, on the 23th a run 

 to Newport and New Bedford, and thence back to New York on the 

 2<th, with a steamboat to carry the guests of the club. A meeting 

 was held on Way 12 at their rooms. The Regatta Committee submit- 

 ted a report, and two dates were suggested fcr the regatta, but 

 neither was finally decided on. Several designs for prize cups were 

 submitted to the club. The next meeting will be on May 19 



