Feb. 25, 1886] 



FOREST AND STREAM; 



SA' 1 - PLAN OF STEAM YACHT CARMEN, DESIGNED BY MR. J. BEAVOR WEBB. 



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nearly a year and a half have held rifle and glass-ball shoots monthly . 

 The membership of the club steadily increased, and a headquarters 

 was secured at 45 Bloomfleld avenue, Newark; N. J., consisting of a 

 large room (18x40), which has been appropriately furnished for a club 

 room. A well-built rifle range, 70ft. long, has been put up, which is 

 in constant use by the members of the club. It is intended very 

 shortly to improve this range by various additions. The club has 

 recent y purchased two Balllard rifles, one for gallery and one for out 

 door shooting. Our monthly dues are very small, and the initiation 

 is only $2. W e believe that a club of this character is of great bene- 

 fit to young men, as it affords them a place in which to spend their 

 leisure time, as well as various kinds of amusements, thus doing away 

 -with all desire to resort to places of a compromising character in 

 order to seek amusement. Believing that this organization will be 

 for the best interest of all, we would therefore invite the aid and co- 

 operation of all gentlemen interested in this movement to imite with 

 us in making it a success. Any further information can be had of 

 the secretary, Mr. Frederick Klein, 39 Warren place, or of any mem- 

 ber of the club. 



FOUNTAIN GUN CLUB, Feb. 17.-The regular shooting under 

 Hurhngham rules of the Fountain Gun Club, of the Long Island 

 Spo rtsmen s Association, took place this afternoon at the Prospect 

 Park Fair Grounds, and was remarkable for the fine showing made 

 by the members. Out of 84 pigeons shot at only 21 got away, and 

 some of those were hard hit. In Class A, L. T. Duryea killed 6 out of 

 - from the 28-yard mark. In Class B, from the 24-yard mark, C. 

 Chappell killed 7 straight, and in Class C, from the 21-yard mark T 

 Stewart killed 6 out of 7, and -won the club prizes 



Join the National Gun Association.— Send 10 cents, for handbook 

 giving all information, to the Secretary Matt R. Freeman, General 

 Manager. F. C. Ethebidge, Secretary and Treasurer, Macon, Ga. 

 Board of Directors: Dr. L. E. Russell, Springfield, O. ; C.M.Stark 

 Winchester, Mass.; J. Von Lengerke, New York city; Washington A' 

 Coster, Flatbush, L. I. ; Wm. G. Cooper, Savannah, Ga. ; E. A. Crawl 

 ford, Tallahassee, Fla.; M. R Freeman, W. W.Parker and F. C- 

 Etheridge, Macon, Ga.— Adv. 



THE NEW STEAM YACHTS. 



THE present activity in building extends to steam as well as sailing 

 craft, and a number of new boats will be added this season to 

 the steam fleet, besides some like the Polynia and Nooya, that will be 

 practically new. The largest of the new yachts will be built on the 

 Delaware, for Mr. Wm. K. Vanderbilt, from designs by Mr. St. Clare 

 J. Byrne, of Liverppol, designer of the Namouna, Amy,*Sunbeam, Ino, 

 Mantana, Lancashire Witch, Jason, Gitana, Cuhona, Garland, Far- 

 nese, Gaviota. Dobhran and other steam yachts. Mr. Byrne arrived 

 in New York lately, and has since visited the larger shipbuilding es- 

 tablishments on the Ftalfl.wa.t-e TTo hno Vii-mio-nt- n-;tii i,; m ~.i„„„ 



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FIXTURES. 



17-N. Y. Y. C. Regatta, 



17— Dorchester Y. C, Nahant, Open. 



19— Hull Y. C, Pennant race. 



23- Boston Y. C. 



26— Corinthian Y. C. Race. 



3- Hull Y. C. Race. 



4 -Boston Y. C, Regatta. 

 10-Hull Y. C, Novelty Race. 



10— Corinthian Y. C. Race. 



13— Beverley Y. C, Marblehead, First Championship. 



17- Hull Y. C, Champion Race: 



21 - Hull Y, C, Ladies' Day. 



22- Boston Y. C. 



24— Dorchester Y. C. 



24— Corinthian Y. C, Ladies' Race. 



31— Beverley Y. C, Swaoapscott, Second Championship. 

 31— Hull Y. C, Cruise. 

 7— Corinthian Y. C, Open Regatta. 



14— Hull Y. C. Open Regatta. 



14— Beverley Y. C , Nahant, Third Championship. 

 21— Beverley Y. C, Marblehead, Open Matches. 



25— Hull Y. C, Ladies' Race. 

 28 — Corinthian Y. C. Race. 

 28— Hull Y. C, Champion Race. 



2— Boston Y. C. 



4— Dorchester Y. C, Fali Race. 



4— Corinthian Y. C, Champion Race. 



11— Hull Y. C, Champion Sail-off. 



11— Corinthian Y. C, Sweepstakes Regatta. 



18— Beverley Y. C, Nahant, Fall Matches. 



"THE YACHTSMAN'S GUIDE." — The New York Navigation School 

 is so widely and favorably known among yachtsmen that they will be 



{ileased to hear that its manager, Captain Howard Patterson, has 

 ately prepared a new book for yachtsmen, covering the same sub- 

 jects that are included in the course of study of the school. The book 

 is what its title proclaims, a yachtsman's guide, treating clearly all 

 principles of navigation, as well as the details of every day work 

 with which both owners and masters should be familiar. The first 

 portion of the book deals with the principles of navigation, and the 

 second portion with their application in practice. The third portion 

 on yacht dicipline. contains much valuable information on signals 

 rules of the road, boat service and similar matters, and will prove of 

 great value to amateurs and novices. A compendious dictionary of 

 nautical terms is added. The boolr, a very neatly bound octavo 

 volume, is published by the New York Navigation School. No. 26 

 .purling Slip, N. Y. 



tablishments on the Delaware. He has brought with him the plans 

 of a steam yacht 260ft, long, about 30ft. beam, and 17ft. draft. The 

 motive power will be a triple expansion engine, and she will be 

 square rigged on the foremast like the Sunbeam. The details of con- 

 struction and arrangement and the builders to whom the work will be 

 intrusted, have not yet been fully decided on. The engines will be 

 built here from English designs. 



Another new steam yacht is now building at the foot of East 

 Twelfth street. New York, by Theodore Durand, for Mr.E. M. Brown, 

 N Y - i • p., late owner of the old sloop Julia, now the schooner Nir- 

 vana. She will be of wood, 106ft. over all, 20ft. beam, and 7ft. draft 

 with engines 24 and 14x20in. and a tubular boiler. The working pres- 

 sure will be 125 pounds, and the engines will make about 200 turns 

 The screw will be four-bladed, 6ft. 6m. diameter and 10ft. pitch Ac- 

 commodation is the main object in view, as the boat will be used for 

 summer cruising. The cabins will be aft of the engine space, a main 

 saloon 11x12ft,, and two staterooms 9xilft. The stem, sternpost 

 and rudderpost and keel, of white oak, are sided 7in. , the latter mould- 

 ing 12in. The frames, of hackmatack, are sided 4in., moulded 7 and 

 4ui., and spaced 20in. double. The keelson is of yellow pine sided 

 8m. and moulded 10m., the bilge streaks 6x3in., shelf 8x4in., and 

 clamps 10x2m. are of the same material. The oak planksheer is 14x 

 2J4in., sprung on in long lengths, the white pine deck beams are sided 

 6m. and moulded 4J^in., and the deck plank is 2iu. square. Garboards 

 and topsides will be of oak, and the rest of the bottom of yellow pine 

 ~in. thick. All the fastenings below water are of copper. The yacht 

 will be schooner -rigged^ with only a pilot house on deck. 



Still another steam yacht will be built by Marvel & Co., successors 

 to Wood & Stanton, at Newburgh, N. Y. This yacht, for Mr C D 

 Miller, will be of steel, 110ft. overall. 98ft. waterline, 16ft. beam 8ft' 

 draft, and 93J4 tons displacement. The angle frames will be 3x2Uin' 

 and the plating J4in. steel from Pennsylvania. There will be four 

 transverse bulkheads and five compartments. The engine will be 18 

 and 10% xl Sin , with a tubular boiler, working pressure 120 pounds 

 200 turns of screw. The latter will be four-bladed, 6ft. 6in. diameter' 

 10ft. pitch. The owner's quarters will be aft and the crew's forward' 

 The yacht will be schooner rigged, and will have only a chartroom 

 and steering bridge above her flush deck. 



* T1 if c u. rious yacht building by Mr, Samuel H. Pine, at Greenpoint 

 for Mr. Pierre Lorillard, former owner of the Radha, and launched 

 this week, will soon depart for Florida, where her owner will join her 

 The boat has been designed with two ends in view, a fight draft and 

 the greatest possible room below, and to these all other considera- 

 tions are subordinate. Looked at from forward as she lies on the 

 ways, no peculiarity is noticeable except a full bluff bow above which 

 gives plenty of deck space; hut from midship aft she differs greatly 

 from the usual form, though the idea is by no means a new one The 

 extreme length is lllft., beam 20ft. and draft 4ft. At a point about 

 4uft. from the bow the bottom is quite flat, with a 7in. keel and a 

 round bilge. From this point aft the keel rises quite rapidly, and the 

 whole bottom forms an arch, the span of which is equal to about one- 

 half the beam. A streak of plank on each side is worked of a gradu- 

 ally increasing thickness until it grows into a bilge keel 7in square 

 running horizontally fore and aft. The after body of the vessel is 

 formed of two hulls below water, built on these two keels, and united 

 by the central arch before mentioned, the hull above water being of 

 the usual form with a rather ugly counter. The two screws are fitted 

 one to each of the hulls. 



The engines are each compound, 8 and 14 by 12in. and are expected 

 to work up to 350 turns. The steel shaft is 3in. diameter, the four- 

 bladed wheels have oft, 8in. pitch with a diameter of 4ft. The boiler 

 is a vertical tubular, with a %in. iron shell and will carry 1501bs 

 YS^ g Pressure The grate surface is 42ft. and the heating surface 

 ! '?„ , ■ ccFP e bunk6r s «arry 20 tons of coal and the displacement 

 will be 88 tons. The engines and boiler were designed by Mr W W 

 Scott, M E of New York. The three keels and three keelsons are 

 each of yellow pme, 7in. square, the frames are of hackmatack 

 double sided 3% and 4in. and moulded 5 and 3^in. The bottom is 

 planked with 2%in. yellow pine and the topsides with 2Min. oak The 

 four bilge streaks are of 3x6 yellow pine, and the shelf 3X14 and 

 clamp, 10X2%, are of the same material. The oak planksheer is 

 4X9m the deck beams 5x4in. and the deck of 2J4x2M white pine 

 blind fastened. On deck there will be a pilot house only. A lifeline 

 run through brass stanchions with netting below, will take the place 

 of a bulwark. Below there are three transverse bulkheads of 3-ltiin 

 plate iron, each bolted fast to frames of oak with tarred cloth in the 

 joint. One bulkhead cuts off the fore peak, another is just forward 

 and the third just abaft the engine space. She will be schooner rigged 

 with topmasts, foremast 55ft. 6in., deck to upper cap; mainmast 57ft 

 with gaffs 20 and 21ft. 6in. long. Both sails will be cut as lugs on the 

 root with no booms. The total cost, exclusive of cabin furniture will 

 be about $40,000. ' 



A smaller yaehtis now building by Samuel Avers, of Corlears Hook 

 and Peck Slip, at the former place, for Mr. Jacob Lorillard. She will 

 be 9(tt. overall, 15ft. beam, 3ft. draft, with a wooden hull, a frame of 

 4m. hackmatack, moulding 5 and 3%in., with'a double skin of cedar 

 the inner one %m. thick and the outer l%in. with canvas bet ween. 



The inner skin runs diagonally and the outer fore and aft. All wil 

 be well fastened with copper. Both hull and engines will be as light- 

 as practicable. 



CRUISE OF THE COOT. 



XIV. 



AFTER being hung up on the mud for twenty-four hours, the 

 morning's tide permitted us to haul off to au anchor previously 

 taken out astern. The wind was stiff from the northwest and the 

 river pretty clear of ice. Under whole sail we got away and at 9 A 

 M. were abreast the southern point of Newbolds Island. On the 

 chart this is marked as mud, but I found it well covered with bushes 

 This flat stretches clear across the river, forming a bar with 7ft. at 

 low water. Beyond it deepens suddenly to 17ft , with the exception 

 of an 8ft. spot just outside the locks at Bordentown. You can carry 

 12ft. at low water to the bar at Newbolds Island ; the river then takes 

 a bend to the W. N. W. and navigation becomes intricate to a 

 stranger. From the point on Newbolds, steer for a brick yard some 

 distance ahead on the southern bank, at the foot of some high bluffs 

 give the yard a berth and gradually turn up under the bluffs, which 

 bank may be hugged quite close, the northern shore being a wide flat 

 with some dry spots covered with light growth and grasses. Keep 

 the Jersey shore past Florence Hotel, and nearly up to the pipe 

 works on the point ahead. Neariug these you may take mid-river 

 again and at the point, cross over to the northern or Pennsylvania . 

 bank. The next bend down to Burlington Island trends nearly south. 

 The channel is two thirds the width away from the Jersey shore 

 When the island is approached, keep the' Pennsylvania side close 

 aboard, then mid channel past ihe island, which will bring you out 

 with the city of Burlington over the port bow. From there the 

 general course of the river is W. S. W. to Petty's Island off the upper 

 limits of Philadelphia. *^ 



From Burlington to Ferry Point, a prominent point which is easily 

 made out, the channel is wide and deep, averaging four fathoms At 

 Ferry Point it chokes up to a narrow gut. Clear the landing and 

 slowly edge over to the northern bank which is quite bold and can be 

 kept down to the first buoy met with since leaving Bordentown It is 

 a black spar, No. 37. Leaving it to starboard you will pass through a 

 i to lOrt. channel. But if you hug the Jersey shore you can find 15ft 

 although a risky venture, because that channel runs along the White 

 Sheet Blats at the mouth of Rancocas Creek, and not being buoyed 

 you are liable to fetch up suddenly if not familiar with the place as 

 the channel has an elbow half way through it. You next steer for 

 buoys 35 and 33, giving them a good berth. Graduallv haul in to the 

 Pennsylvania shore and pass close to Ten Mile Point, following the 

 shore round to Bridesbiu-g. Nearing the bend below the town, 'there 

 are some flats which require keeping out more in the river. At the 

 bend, called Point No Point, a bar makes across, with 10ft. at low 

 water, after which you suddenly get into 4fms. Along Port Rich- 

 mond the channel is regularly buoyed with red and black spars 

 pretty well bunched, but they are taken in the usual manner. Then 

 ~eep the city side for deep water, or else pass over to Camden givin» 

 the lower point of Petty's Island a berth, and anchor on the fiats" 

 keeping outside the pier line, as there is only 5 to 6ft., although 10ft' 

 can be found opposite Windmill Island, which is also below all the 

 ferries. From Bordentown to Burlington, the distance bv channel is 

 11 miles. From Burlington to Bridesburg 13 miles. Thence to Wind- 

 miles Sland ' abreast of Chestnut street, Philadelphia, 6 miles, total 30 

 The full sweep of the wind was not felt by the Coot till she hauled 

 up for Florence. In this bend the northwester came out in violent 

 puffs, which required sharp watching. After several knockdowns 

 the boat encountered a blast more severe than the rest. This forced' 

 the boat clear over till the water poured into the cockpit, and a cap- 

 size was threatened. Luffing in time barely saved the Coot from 

 playing the favorite prank of all shoal boats. There being no room 

 to allow for drifting, the anchor was hove over while two reefs were 

 hauled down. Before reaching Florence the wind moderated and 

 nearly died away. Reefs were shaken out, and with the ebb we got 

 oyer the ground fast enough, the wind backing to the westward and 

 picking up by degrees. Around Burlington Island it drew out ahead, 

 so that the boat had to beat through past the town of Bristol. Seen 

 from the car -windows of the railroad train, Bristol had always im- 

 pressed me as a wretched collection of hovels. From the river front 

 the town presented a very different appearance. The bank rises 

 boldly to a height of thirty feet. Along its crown a short distance 

 back, a Ime of handsome villas bears evidence of wealth and fashion 

 Welt kept lawns and gardens reach to the foot of the rolling bank 

 which is neatly faced with stone and cribbing. Boat houses and little 

 pavlllions in bright and tasty colors dot the grounds about. Several 

 new dwellings were being erected. The city looked like a youn" 

 cousin to Newport. J b 



The banks ot the Delaware from here to Philadelphia are in many 

 places devoted entirely to dwelling purposes. Notably so in the long- 

 cove from Burlington to Ferry Point. Here the residences were even 

 grand m theu- conception and massive in execution, rivaling anything 

 to be found at Newport in beauty and pretension, while the surround- 

 ing grounds were park-like and noble. In summer the neighborhood 

 must be delightf ul, shady aud cool with the pure waters of a wide 

 river coursing almost by the door. Sailing, shooting and fishing are 

 sports with which all are familiar about Beverly, the opportunities 

 for indulgence being of the best. s 

 The Coot just managed to squeeze high enough to clear Ferry 

 Point, after which it was a good full down to Bridesburg with stiffen- 

 ing wind. Off Rancocas Creek on the flats, one of the canal steamers 

 and a barge m tow had grounded and been left dry bv the tide. The 

 Upper Delaware is probably the worst buoyed among the principal 

 rivers. It has m fact received no attention at all, though quite re- 

 eently surveyed The stranger must trust to his interpretation of 

 the chart altogether, and where he is in doubt, it is best to hitch on 

 to the tows leaving Bordentown. A fair wind is required to descend 

 the river, otherwise the risk of grounding is great in the k upper 



