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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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THE CRUISING YAWL "BONITA." 



THE CRUISING YAWL BONITA. 

 ^pHE little yacht whose lines and sail plan we publish this week 

 -A will be tamihar to many yachtsman, as she hails from New 

 London and has been frequently seen there during the past summer 

 She was designed by her owner, Lieut. C. T>. Parkhursfc, U. S A. who 

 has used her steadily for cruising and harbor sailing about New Lon- 

 don and the Sound. She is a veritable smgle-hander, as her owner 

 uses her alone in all weather, the division of sail making the labor 

 light. vVhile the design shows many points capable of improvement 

 It has the essential features of a good cruising craft, sifety and accom- 

 modation, the arrangement described below making the boat a refuse 

 m bad weather and at night, while she has the large cockpit needed 

 for sailing parties. 



The Bonita, is a keel boat, 21ft. 6in. in length overall. 18ft. wattrline 

 and 7ft. beam, with 3fc. draft of water; carvel built, of cedar wiih o .,k 

 timbers and heavy oak keel and keelson. Her outside keel is llin 

 deep, and has 560 pounds of lead cast therein. 



She is fitted with open cockpit 9ft. long and 5ft. wide at the widest 

 part, with seats and room enough for a party of six or eight for a 

 day s sail. There is a storm cloth provided for closing up all the 

 front part of cockpit— leaving simply standing room for her helms- 

 man— in case of heavy or rainy weather, or for use when cruising 

 for sleeping purposes. She has also an awning 12ft.x7ft for ii«e 

 when lying at anchor ia harbor, when fishing, etc., or for ii<e at ni<^ht 

 to sleep under. She also has a deck tent that rises 4i4ft above her 

 deck, givmg .ft. standing room from floor of cockpit for use in cruis- 

 ing for turning her cockpit into a good roomy cabin. Ihistentis 

 made to pitch over a jointed frame for each end, with ridge and eave 

 rods, and is very rigid and steady even in the hardest winds The 

 root being a hip roof gives standing room at the eaves as well as the 

 center. 



To pitch the tent the main boom is unshackled from its goose neck 

 after turlmg the sail, and the whole affair is thus swung up out of 

 the way by the halliards. The frames then are set up, the foot of 

 each frame fastening to small brass screw-eyes in the deck The 

 ^olfo v!"!^?*""®*?,*^!^ ^^^""^ ^^7? ^^■'^ ta'^en t'o the main and mizzen 

 masts, holding all firm and sohd. The doors are on the side, opposite 

 to each other, and can be rolled up and fastened, givmg plentv of 

 ventilation when needed. The walls can also be rolled up and fast- 

 ened, leaving the top for a canopy during the day. 



The floor of the cockpit is fitted with a grating and this latter cau 

 be raised and laid upon movable rods fitting with sockets under th" 

 edges of the seats so as to make a platform level with the sea's and 

 the whole width of the cockpit. Here a long wide bed can be made 

 and from one to three can sleep as comfortably as at home or in 

 camp on land, though rather close stowing for three. Under the 

 deck.two can also sleep on a pinch, and one has done so frequently 

 From floor to deck is nearly high enough for one to sit upright, and 

 there is plenty of room for either sleeping or stowing duffle Up in 

 the peakas a locker for spars, sails, etc, and under this is a large air 

 tank. The whole of her overhang is filled with an air tank mide to 

 fit, and behind her staving she is filled with air tanks also, and everv 

 o ther space otherwise not used is fitted with the same 



Her ballast is lead, weighing exactly 2,045 pounds, cast part in the 

 keel, and part m blocks to fit under her floor and close to her skm so 

 as to place the weight as low down as possible. With this ballast "it 

 IS hard work to get her rail awash, and every inch she goes down 

 under press of her sail makes it so much the harder to get her down 

 the next inch. She has never taken in water over her lee washboard 

 and very seldom has had ber rail awash for any length of time even 

 though she has been out in heavy winds and seas. Her deck is as drv 

 as .a bone also; she, in fact, hardly keeps her deck tight from anv 

 wetting sQe gives it by shipping water. 



The lead in her keel is securely fastened by Muntz metal bolts 

 coming up through heavy oak keelson with nuts run down close 

 bbe has extra floors of heavy natural grown oak to support her keel 

 so that she can carry much more ballast outside-or inside for that 

 matter— witnout straining or starting her ga' board streaks 

 oi.1^fL!^*^'^^P'"Jt' ^^^^^ ^^'^ ^P^f's ^■'"6 all of spruce. The bowsprit is 

 thlT,%t stem and does not reef. It has heavy bobstay and 



f,7,Kof„ ^ galvanized iron wire rope, setting up with turnbuckle for 

 bobstay and lanyards for shrouds. 



hi?®fi^''ff^^f?°'''^^2'^'''°-,''l^'^P "^"^oi^ her bowsprit 2ft. from 

 A 1 '° ® larger foresail than stay coming to stem would give 

 and her outer stays come to iron band near bowlpritend, all being of 

 galvanized iron wire rope, as are also the shrouds to maiA and mizzen 

 Th^t/^l^^^^I •""'^fi^^P '''^^ .Janyard, outer stay with turnbuckle. 

 wWh 1? -^""^^ ^f'^^^ °* ^^'^ sails, including balloon jib, 

 wprH ^?r*!.r''?,^"^f ^""^I ^^'^y and fills Up all space for- 



,T«Prt 1- -f ^^ be used as a spmnaker, the same uaUiards being 



used to hoist It and a boom , not shown, used to boom it out 

 liardt ^^hl'l^f-**"^''^"^*''^'' hoists from deck with double hal- 

 ncTthp.JS'l" ® stows alongside the main shrouds by lash- 



ing thereto, bemg too long to lash to main boom or stow on deck 

 I'he mamsail is fitted with double reef points, the mizzen and 



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SAIL PLAN OF THE "BONITA.' 



