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liJie miles Heavy grales from the noi'theast marked the next day. It 

 shoolr us up so that the ship's compass turned upside down in the 

 box, 180 milfs. On tlie n)f?ht of the 24th we had a north by east wind 

 and a tremendous s* a. The mate hurt bis foot while jibing the main- 

 sail, but not sei iuusly . IHstance run 191 miles. The 25th broufrlit 

 strooi? uortb by east g:a)en, followed by spits of rain during the night. 

 Our run w;is 2t)(i miles. We had thick weather during part of the Sfinb. 

 We took sonndings and found 80 fathoms. That day we reeled out 

 171 miles. On the 37th wo had north iioithwest winds, blowing hard 

 and increasing to a sale. We .saw the Lizzard liprhts bearing north 

 by east at 10 A. M. We 9a.i)cd 188 miles that day. Octobor 28 was 

 the last of the voyage. It blew a parting gale from the northeaflt, 

 but we ran our usual nine or ten knots an hour. At 4:^0 A. >l, we saw 

 the Needles and at 9:25 came to anchor in Gosport, Portsmouth, amid 

 cheering from all the yachts and men-of-warsmen in the harbor, 

 having made 161 miles" that day." 



"M.'S " LETTER. TO THE -FlKljOr'— Editor Forest and Streuiii: 

 Can you explain to me why your yachting correspondents cannot 

 answer a letter, with the conclusions of whose writer they may 

 chance to differ, without becoming personally offensive to a degree 

 that would insure a row if the argument were made face to face? 1 

 allude 1,0 the criticism (sic) on a letter of mine published in a recent 

 JTreW, which appears in your curi-ent issue signed "Vindex." I do 

 not propose to answer V. because he offers no argument, but simply 

 confines himself to assertion; but 1 will say that his statement as to 

 the newness of deep sloops and outside weight in this country is 

 absolutely false, as he will find our, if he examines the records, con- 

 sults Henry Steers or any of the old-time builders, or examines any 

 collection of models. In writing what! did in the Fieldl was gov- 

 erned more by a consensus of the opinions of men who really know 

 something at)Out yachting than by any belief in my own authority. 

 I have, it is true, been present, either as actor or spectator, at some 

 1.50 races in the last thirty years, and in addition I have owned and 

 sailed a number of boats, and have been at sea a good deal: but I 

 count all that as of no avail, and am guided by the opinions of such 

 men as A. C. Smith, Capi. Coffin, Mr. Tams, Mr. Stebbins, Mr, Center, 

 Mr. Steers, et id genvs omne. Of course, in the opinion of the "cut- 

 tah" crowd, such opinion is worthless; but it suffices for me. On my 

 own account I will say that I never saw worse weather made than by 

 Genesta. whenever the wind blew hard. 



As to Clara. I consider her a better boat than Genesta, aed we have 

 no 50ft. sloop to beat her. Athlon, I know cannot do it in a sea, as 1 

 was on board Athlon and saw her try. As to Daphne, Fanita, and so 

 forth, with 4.5ft. waterline, Clara outchasses them hopelessly. I also 

 repeat my assertion that if Clara had challenged we would have had 

 to have built in her class, for no man in his senwes would race a 55ft. 

 ■waterline against an 80, no matter what were the types. I would 

 not have written all this, but "Vindex'" wi'ites like a man who is 

 angry and .young, and to such a little explanation is charitable.— M. 



THE K.4LVFISH COLLISION, —The master and mate of the Brit- 

 ish steamer Albicore were lately tried in Edinburgh onachaige of 

 culpable homicide. It will be remembered that on Aug. 32 the Albi- 

 core ran down a schooner yacht, the Kalafish, while the latter was at 

 anchor in tlie Sound of Mull, sinking her, and drowning the owner 

 and his wife and three of the crew, only two being saved. The mas- 

 ter was first tried, pleading not guilty. It was proved that though 

 the weather was clear overhead there was a mist on the water and 

 that the schooner had no lights out, on which evidence the master 

 was pronounced not guilty, and the case against the mate was 

 dropped. 



TRIAL TRIP OF TOT STEAM YACHT EROS.— Baron Roth- 

 schild's new steam yacht Eros made her trial trip on Oct. 29, running 

 around the Isle of Wight. The Eros is 280ft. between perpendicidars, 

 grft. beam, 18ft. depth keel to deck. Her engines are 33 and 60 bv 

 86in. The two boilers, 14ft Oin.long and 10ft. in diameter, have each 

 three corrugated flues 3ft. 9in. in diameter. The working pressure is 

 120 pounds. The run of 60 knots was made in 4J^ hours, or about 13 

 knots, the tide being against her for three hours of the run. The Eros 

 will leave soon for Havre. 



t LEAD KEELS AT BAY RIDGE.— New York, Nov. Q.—Editor For 

 eM and Stream; When I read your article headed '"What Next?" 

 you might have knocked me down with a feather. To think that 

 lead keels had traveled to Bay Ridge : I had heard about the defec- 

 tion of Gleam, but the Crocodfie ! Great Scott: Why, I always heard 

 that lead keels were "logy," and that Forest and Stream did not 

 know what it was talking about. When Bay Ridge yields I succumb. 

 Pray, now, be gentle with your converts.— White Elephant. 



THE BARN ORr^TSER,— We have recfiived a number of in- 



quiries in regard to this new boat. "Seneca" will have another and 

 slightly different boat this week, and we shall secure the drawings of 

 it, and publlsli them in a couple of weeks. A fleet of twelve of these 

 boats proposes to start from New York soon on a cruise to Florida. 



ANOTHER CRUISER FOR FLORIDA ,— A correspondent in New 

 .Jersey writes as follows of a new crinser he has built. We hope to 

 have a log from hiiu afl-er his cruise is completed, as there should be 

 plenty of niatoiial t6v au Interesting narrative; "I a.m building a 

 centerl>oard boaf ;tfter the model of an easiei'n ■■atboat, in 'Small 

 Yachts,' Plate IV,, I thbik. Am imilding it to the sfaic of IRrt. to the 

 waterline in place of 15ft. as there given, which gives it aijoiil (Jft. Hin. 

 beam. Am alsn making about ISin. overhang and iiiu. .^ro.vier free- 

 board than .. ..ve «<•!«•• ■:i!'lgive. Have it planked up. and in 

 two or th re I ve. it completed. Am making tlie 



centerboard iid boxed in on top, with a piece of 



2in. galvani:^^' aft end leading up to the deck, 



through whii to the centerboard. This latter I 



shall make h> in. wide by (ift. long, and folding up 



side by side V, , . 1 so arranged that oue may drop 



below the other w ben do\. ! 1 1 is is an experiment on the principle 

 of the folding centerboards used in canoes, and I think will work all 

 right. I shall put a small hnum 4ft..xrft. on deck and about Win. 

 high, and l)y having a low centerboard well, wll be enabled to make 

 a bed across the top of it. Would not go to this trouble hut my wife 

 expects to accompanv me to Florida, and I wish to make things as 

 comfortable as possible. Snail ship the boat lo Fernandina by 

 steamer, and from there to Cedar Keys by rail. I spent a winter 

 some tea years ago in Florida camping and cruising on its western 

 coast. We found great trouble in getting a craft suited to our wants 

 and I thought iu thi.s case I would so arrange as to be independent of 

 the natives. I started out with no experience in boat building, but 

 ■with a knack at handling tools and the aid of 'Canoe and Boat Build- 

 ing' and 'Small Yachts, ' 1 have come through aU right, and think I 

 have a strong and well built boat. Now that I have it nearly finished 

 I am not sure but it is larger t han necessary, still, to take a three 

 months' supply of provisions will requii-e plenty of room.— J. R. " 



STILL ON THE SAME TACK.— Roslyn,L. I., Nov. l-Z.-Editor Forest 

 and Stream.: I, for one, am sick of this "sloop-cutter" childishness, 

 and did not intend to further trouble either you or your readers in 

 that direction: but your correspondent "XIX." has so beautifully, in 

 one sentence, settled the whole wearisome business, that I must have 

 the pleasure of congratulating him. That man is a genius who just 

 snuffs out such tallow dips as "Blue Ensign," etc., in a style worthy 

 the etnulation of the talented and never-to-be-conquered author of 

 "Whose Waterloo?" "XIX." is correct. Drive a stout bolt down 

 through Genesta's bowsprit into her stem, and lol she becomes a 

 sloop. Cast off the fl.xirujs about Puritan's big horn : presto! she's a 

 cutter. Could anything bo more simple? Now, lay dear Mr. Editor, 

 can't we take a recess? Yv' hen I was a bo.v the sloop smacks nearly 

 all carried loose-footed mainsails and— But exeu.se me; •■XIX." has 

 squashed all that, and for the rest, we Yankees should be satisfied 

 with the fact that a genuine Down East, light-draft, beamy sloop 

 beat the best deep and narrow boat thai) could be moulded on the 

 other side of the water after many years experimenting on a racing 

 machine called a yacht. Genesta was a thing ol beauty viewed any 

 way but endways, and she was thrashed, thrashed soundly, easily, by 

 bilge beam and centerboard embodied in a sloop far smaller than her- 

 self .—Thomas Clapham. 



A NEW RACING SLOOP.— The reign of lead is now fairly inaugu- 

 rated at Bay Ridge, the sharpie Vidette has gone on her way rejoic- 

 ing with ] tons added to the very respectable lead keel she formerly 

 carried; the Crocodile has completed her process of "Puritanizing," 

 aud now comes the latest, a "racing sloop,'" from a model by Mr. 

 Phillip jCIlsworth, just commenced for Messrs, Lawton, formerly 

 owners of the Gleam, and Mr. Arnold. She will be 32ft. over all, 29ft. 

 waterline, lOft. Wn. beam, .'vit. 2in. depth of hold, 3ft. Sin. draft, and 

 will have 5ft. 9in. under a cabin trunk. The board, 9ft. long, drops 

 through a heavy oak keel, tmder which will be 3^ tons of lead, all 

 taking the shape of the hull, being fair from bottom of keel to plank- 

 sheer. The frame will be of hackmatack, as hght as practicable, as 

 the boat is intended for ra,cing, and with the big rig she will have she 

 should sweep the class next season. Let the good work go on: she is 

 not a cutter and we will not claim her as such, but she is a marked 

 advance on the Gleam of three years since, and every point in which 

 she differs from the Gleam makes her more hke the cutter. Outside 

 lead, Gleam's was all inside; a real outside keel shaped to the hull. 

 Gleam had no keel at all; less beam, rocker keel, all these features 

 betray their origin. 



HARLEM Y. O.— A meeting of the Harlem Y.C. was held on Nov. 7, 

 the following officers for 1886 were elected: Commodore, .1. A. Hutch- 

 ingson; Vice Commodore, Henry Tarbush; Secretaries, C. T. Vander 

 hoof, W. .1. Parker; Treasurer. H. M. .Jones; Directors, Messrs. An- 

 drus, Fitzgerald, Metzer, Marco and Cregan, 



OHIO X. 0. This club was lately organized at Toledo, O., with 

 the followmg officers: Commodore. S. C. Reynolds; Vice-Commodore 

 George W. Bills; Rear Commodore, .Tames Doritz; Secretary, J. E. 

 Gunckel ; Treasm-er, George H. Ketcham. 



YACHTING NOTES.— The regular meeting of the Knickerbocker 



Y. C. was held on Nov. 10 Atalanta, .steam yacht, is overhauling 



for a southern cruise. . 1 .The British steamer Waibna that arrived in 

 New York on Nov. 11), is a new vessel, launched on Sept. 10 by Messrs. 

 R, Tliompson & Sons, Sundr-.i-laiKl, Eng. She is 104ft. on waterline. 

 ,23ft. luiiim, ami 8ft. (iin. depth. She will soon leave on a cruise to the 

 West Indies,.- Norseman, Noo.ya and Datirjcless are now at Poillon's 

 .vard for j'cpairs — Victor, ,'^team y.icht, 55.^13ft., has been sold by 

 Mr. Manning to Mr. .lames ttenwick. Mr. Manning has also sold the 

 Decoy, sharpie, to Mr. Henry S.Wood, Atlantic Y. C. .. .Coronet. 



schooner, is now nearly completed at Poillon's San Francisco— 



Nearly all of the yachts are now laid up for the season. The old 

 steani yacht Amelia, once (nvned by Tom. Piatt, has been rebuilt as a 

 schooiu'r with Bermudtan sails, and will be used on the Mexican 

 coast. The Startled Fawn has been repainted and will be in commis- 

 sion all winter. The only yacbt buildins: in San Francisco is a 30ft. 

 boat of 18ft. beam, at Oakland . , tjitaiia. schooner, has had her 

 bows opened and will be lengthened forward 5tt. with 15 tons of lead 



added to keel. Smith is making the -c^lterations Orienta, steam 



yacht, will come out next season with .an overhang forward and a 



bowsprit Wltim, schooner, was lately anchored off Baltimore, on 



her way to Florida. The steam yacht Lelia. of Calais, Me. . is also 



bound for the same destination A new sloop, Walllu & Gorman, 



of Bay Ridge, are building a centerboard sloop 26ft, fiin. over all, 24ft. 



waterline, lift, beam. Sit. depth, and 2ft. liin. draft .James Lennox, 



South Brooklyn, is building a steam launch 2'7ft. by 6ft. Sin. and 2ft. 

 Tin. deep, for Messrs. Price & White. .. .Cora, steam yacht, is now 

 fitting out for a winter trip to New Orleans .. .Wizard, sloop, has laid 



up at South Brookivn this week VVavecrest, schooner, is at Nyack, 



where J. E. Smith is lengthening her 10ft. at the bow, She will have 

 a new outfit of canvas from Sawyer's loft. 



OBITUARY.— Another of the members of the New York Yacht 

 Club has lately passed away, Mr. Charles .1. Osborn, who died on 

 Nov. 11 at the age of 48 years. Mr. Osborn was widely known and 

 generall.y esteemed, both on Wall street, where he was engaged ia 

 business for many years, and in the New York and American yacht 

 clubs. He at one time owned the schooner Dreadnaught, and later, 

 in 1880, had the Corsair built. Mr. Osborn was noted in business as a 

 bold and shrewd operator and was successful in all his ventures. As 

 a yachtsman he was always devoted to the sport and was a general 

 favorite with all who knew him. Mr. Foster Conner, owner of the 

 63 ton cutter Marguerite, died lately in England of typhoid fever, so 

 that the new 90, just designed for him by Watson, and which he pro- 

 I>osed to bring to America, will not be ouilt. Mr. Conner was long 

 and favorably known as a thorough yachtsman and racing man, 

 and for the last two seasons has owned Marguerite. 



OSWEGO Y. C— A meeting of the Oswego Y. C. was held on Nov, 

 2 at the Hamilton House, at which the following officers were elected 

 for 1886: Commodore, W. B. Phelps, Jr. ; Vice-Commodore. Allen 

 .Imes; Captain. J. B. McMurrich; Secretary, A. N. Radcliffe; Treasu- 

 rer, Geo. D. Hart; Measurer, W. P. Judson; Surgeon, .J. W. Eddy; 

 Directors, J. T. Mott. Swits Cjnde, J. B. Donnelly. Commodore Mott, 

 who has held the office for so long, declined to* fill it another year, 

 and Mr. Phelps was elected ia his stead. The club is in an excellent 

 condition, with W new members added. They have spent $2,000 

 during the year on improvements in their property, a new boat house 

 having been built besitie the club house, fv^r the rowing boats of the 

 members. The club is now one of the first in membership and in its 

 fleet, on the chain of lakes, and it has every outlook for a prosperous 

 future. 



A FINE LITTLE STEAMER.- Payne & Sob, of Southampton 

 have lately launched a handy little steam yacht of 33 tons, named 

 Chimera, She is 54ft, on load line, lift. 4in. beam, and draws 4ft. 6in, 

 Her topsides are of polished teak and her interior is finished in teak 

 and oak. Below she has a saloon, owner's berth and sleeping cabin, 

 two berths forward, w. c, bathroom and pantry, and captain's and 

 crew's quarters aft. 



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O. L. Armor, Lynn.— A good size for a punt wotdd be 10ft. by 3ft. 

 6in. See designs of boats in "Canoe and Boat Building" and "Small 

 Yachts'" published by the Forest and Stream Publishing Company ' 



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