FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Sept. 16, 1886. 



THE RACES AT NEWPORT. 



A MEETING of the regatta committee of the New York Y. C. 

 was held on Monday night, Com. Gerrv being present, and 

 the following telegram was sent to Ne\vp(n-t: 

 Ptmilt G. Han-is, tSecretary, Neivport, R. I. : 



Kace to be sailed Saturday, 18 iust.; iO miles or more, no time 

 limit. Course to be announced morning of race. Four cups— one 

 for schooners, one for sloops 71ft. and over, one for sloops 55ft. and 

 under rift., one for sloops .Wft. and under. Details by mail. 



, Elbbridge T. Gerbt, Commodore. 



The entries thus far are: Schooners— Montauk, Miranda and 

 Sachem. First class sloops— Mayflo%vor and Galatea. Second class 

 sloops— Bedouin, Stranger and Thetis. Tliird class sloops— Clara, 

 Cinderella and Bertie. Entries will be received up to 8 o'clock 

 Saturday morning on board tJie flagship Electra, which is to be 

 used as a committee boat, and from which all signals will bo given, 

 the start will be made at 10 o'clock. 



Mayflower left on Monday for Newport in charge of Captain 

 Stone. Messrs. Paine, Richards, Bryant and Burgess returned to 

 Boston on Sunday night. Gen. Paine was to sail for Europe on 

 Saturday last, but has changed his plans and it is probable that he 

 wlU remain for another match with the Galatea. Priscilla has 

 not entei-ed for the Newport race but it is probable that she will 

 do so. i^uritan has been at New Bedford where a netting has been 

 added to her rail and some other changes made that look like a 

 pi-eparation for rough Avater. She wiU probably enter at Ne\vport. 



SLOOP VS. CUTTER.-SOME PLAIN FACTS. 



SO much nonsense has been published in regard to the present 

 status of the "American sloop" that it is refreshing to find a 

 sensible view of the matter in a daily paper, and to see the real 

 facts presented without any patriotic prejudice. The following 

 from the Brooklyn Eagle is a corroboration of the views we have 

 so often expressed: 



There are a good many worthy people even in Brookl>Ti who 

 take a lively and patriotic interest in the forthcoming races be- 

 tween the Mayflower and Galatea for the America Cup, and who 

 are -nailing to back the sloop against the cutter, yet who would be 

 somewhat puzzled if tiiey were required to stand off-hand a Civil 

 SerAdce examination in regard to the differences between the 

 two vessels. It is true that some of the newspapers are telling 

 them every day that this is a contest for the purpose of deciding 

 which is the better, the English or American model, but Mdthout 

 some further information as to what the American model really 

 is, the unfortunate landsman will be apt to he as much in the dark 

 as before. Under such circumstances it may not be out of place 

 to describe the differences between the yaclits that are to contend 

 against each other a few days hence. Tlie follo^ang comi)arative 

 statement will show at a glance the principal dimensions of the 

 English and American champions. Tliose of the Galatea are 

 oflaeial and diifer from those heretofore published: 



Mayflower. Galatea. 



L-ength over all 100ft. 102.7 



Length on Avaterline 85ft. 8Tft. 



Extreme beam 33.6 loft. 



Depth of hold 8.10 13.3 



Draft 9.6 13.6 



Mast, deck to hotmds 6of t. 53ft. 



Topmast 46ft. 45.6 



Bowsprit, outboard 38ft, 36.0 



Boom 80ft. 73ft. 



Gaff 50ft. 44.6 



Tons of ballast inside 11 tons. nil. 



Tons of outside ballast 87 tons. 813^ tons 



Here the reader will observe that as regards length there is but 

 little difference between the Galatea and the JIayflower; nor is 

 there any practical difference in regard to the proportion of 

 length over all to length on the waterline. The Galatea has an 

 overhang at the stern of IS^^ft., the Mayflower one of loft. When 

 the Galatea arrived at Marblehead. a Boston yaciitsman remarked 

 that she had the Mayflower's stem, but as the cutter was built 

 first it is just possible that be ought to have said the Mayflower 

 had the Galatea's stern. Such extreme overhanging sterns are 

 certainly a novelty in this country and have been copied from 

 cutter models. Their object is to give greater stability in a reefing 

 hreeze and more deck room to handle tlie immense mainsail. 



When we come to look at the next two dimensions, beam and 

 depth of hold, we see the first sign of the radical difference be- 

 tween the English cutter and the American sloop. The extreme 

 heam of the former is not much more than one-seventh of her 

 length over all, wliile that of the sloop is not much less than one- 

 fourth. The cutter's depth of hold is not much short of her ex- 

 treme breadth of beam, Avhile that of the Mayflower is not much 

 less than one-haK her beam. So also -^vith the draft of water, that 

 of the Galatea being just 4ft. more than that of the Mayflower. 

 The two styles of yachts which are supposed to be represented by 

 the Mayflo%ver and Galatea have been developed out of the char- 

 acter of the pleasure boats most suitable to the water of the re- 

 spective countries. In the British Islands, where the harbors are 

 deep and the seas frequently stormy, the deep keel boats have 

 always been in favor and centerboards have been discouraged. 

 Here^ with our shallower harbors and smooth inland waters, we 

 have adopted the centerboard boat, broad and shallow, or as some 

 ii-reverently call it, a skimming dish. Such a yacht was the 

 Mohawk, which capsized when at anchor some years ago. 

 'Wlien it is remembered that tliis yaclit, which was as 

 long as the Mayflower, drew but 5ft. of water, our readers 

 will see that 'the designer of the latter has made a 

 wide departure from the typical American sloop. The 

 Mayflower is much narrower and also much deeper than a typical 

 American sloop would be, these changes being in the direction of 

 the deep and narrow cutter type. With her long overhanging 

 stern, decreased width and increased depth, she is, in fact, a com- 

 promise vessel, about half way between the pure British type and 

 the American, and, if anything, rather more British than Ameri- 

 can. This is a point which it is well to keep in mind, for, as .lack 

 Bujisby observed, "the bearings of this observation lays in the 

 application on it." If the wide, shallow sloop had been all that 

 was claimed for it, the model would not have been departed from 

 80 greatly as it has been in the Mayflower. Those who desire to 

 see an American sloop of the old type, and one of the best, should 

 look at the Gracie, and they will see how wide a departure has 

 heen made from that type in the Puritan and Mayflower. The ex- 

 perience of Mr. Burgess, the designer of both these vessels, seems 

 to have led him in "the direction of greater depth, for the May- 

 flower draws 13in. more water than the Puritan, although less 

 than 4ft. larger on the waterline. The Mayflower, with her 93^ft. 

 draft of water and her lead keel, is very far from being a skim- 

 ming dish. 



The lead keel is another cutter de-sdce which has been adopted 

 by the designers of the Mayflower. Such things as lead keels 

 were utterly unknown in the old skimming-dish days which some 

 innocent-minded people fancy still exist. They were looked upon 

 as a British device, and a great many powerful arguments were 

 published for the purpose of proving their absurdity. But Mr. 



Burgess put a lead keel on the Puritan last year which weighed 27 

 tons. This year lie gave the Mayflower a lead keel weighing 37 

 tons, and only 11 tons of inside ballast. If he builds another big 

 sloop he will probably have no inside ballast, but put all the weight 

 In the deep lead keel. The Galatea has no inside ballast, but a 

 lead keel that weighs 813^ tons. She, therefore, carries much more 

 ballast than the Mayflower, but that is because she derives all her 

 stability from it, while that of the Mayflower is partly derived 

 trom her superior width and partly from her centerboard, which 

 extends 16ft. below the keel. It is hardly necessary to e.xplain to 

 the readers that the Galatea has no centerboard. The novelty in 

 the cases of the Puritan and Mayflower consists in the fact that 

 tliey have both a keel and a centerboard. 



With regard to the dift'erenee of rig there is practieallv none 

 between the Galatea and Mayflower, at least none that a lands- 

 man would appreciate. Nearly all the features of the cutter rig 

 are to be found in the Mayflower, including tlie long bowsprit. 

 Many a good yachtsman would be puzzled to tell the two vessels 

 apart, judging by tiieir .sails alone. The Mavflower carries more 

 sail than the Galatea; her masts are loftier, and her bowsprit, 

 gaff and boom longer, but the differences of detail are slight so 

 far as the shape and arrangement of the sails are concerned. The 

 Mayflower's mainsail is laced to the boom, while that of the Gal- 

 atea is not, aud that is the principal contrast between them in 

 respect to rig. 



The reader will be able from a perusal of the foregoing to form 

 a fair idea of the essential differences between the Mayflower and 

 Galatea. He will find them less than he perhaps imagined, and 

 he will see, also, what a change has come over American ideas of 

 what a fast yacht .should be by contrasting such sloops as the 

 Fanny and Gracie -ssath the Puritan and Mayflower. The modern 

 American yacht is, in fact, a compromise between two extreme 

 types, and probably, as compromises sometimes are, better than 

 either. But it would be folly to pretend that the type of yacht we 

 rely on is the same as it was ten, or even two years ago. 



CORINTHIAN Y. C. 



ON Sept. 3 the postponed regatta of the previous Saturday was 

 sailed over the club's regular courses Nos. 1 and 4 in a "fresh 

 S. E. wind. The times were: 



riBST CLASS CENTERBOARDS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Atlanta, Thomas 28.01 2 ^ 53 1 55 46 



Eugenia, J. S. Palmer 26.00 2 36 12 2 05 12 



Ralph, Geo. Osborne 29.0D 2 35 15 2 07 Oi 



BTBST CLASS KEELS. 



Bessie, C. P. Curtis, Jr 28.00 2 26 12 1 55 12 



SEOOIO) CLASS CEXTERBOABDS. 



Sprite, C. P. Wilson 23.08 2 20 48 1 40 00 



Petrel, 31.09 2 33 40 2 02 41 



SECOND CLASS KEELS. 



Witch , Crowninshi eld 23 . 01 2 36 .52 2 02 35 



Fad, G. A. Goddard 2i.ll 2 39 58 2 07 40 



THIRD CLASS CENTEKBOAHDS. 



Peri, H. Parkman 19.00 1 17 40 43 42 



Imogeue, B. F. Wendall 17.09 1 20 04 .58 48 



Pixey, F. AV. Chandler 1 28 04 1 02 52 



Myrtle, R, C. Poor 19.01 1 19 23 55 30 



Psyche, H. M. Sears 17.07 1 28 42 1 03 20 



Spark, 17.06 1 26 08 1 OO 38 



Corsair, H. S. Blake 18.10 1 25 53 1 01 46 



Comus, 19.01 1 28 30 59 37 



THIRD CLASS KEELS. 



Verve, Paiue 19.09 1 24 08 1 00 43 



Alert, 17.08 1 25 38 1 00 21 



Nixey, A. S. Cochran 20.09 1 24 .55 1 01 25 



MOSQDITO FLEET. 



.luno, Roads 15.00 44 00 



Bismark, Oloutman 15.06 44 12 



Bessie takes the championship pennant for 1886. The other win- 

 ners were Atlanta and Eugenia of first class centerboards, Bessie 

 of first class keels. Sprite and Petrel of second class centerboards. 

 Witch and Fad of second class keels. Peri and Myrtle of third 

 class centerboards, and the Alert and V era of third class keels. 

 The judges were A. S. Brown, 0. A. Benjamin, C. H. Richardson 

 and H. S. Hodgkins. 



On Sept. 11 the ninth regatta of the Corinthian Y. C. was sailed 

 ofl' Marblehead, the course for first and second classes being ten 

 miles, and for third class six miles. There was a good N.W. wind 

 all through the race. The times were as follows: 



rmST CLASS CENTERBO.ABDS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Atalanta, J. R. Tliomas 38.01 1 S) 17 1 21 20 



Eugenia, J. S. Palmer 26.00 1 56 15 1 25 45 



Ralph, G. S. Osborn 29.00 2 13 53 1 47 47 



EIBST CLASS KEELS. 



Bessie, C. P. Burtis 28.03 1 53 10 1 24 18 



Carmen, B. L. M. Tower 30.00 1 52 37 1 25 23 



Fad, G. A. Goddard 26.01 1 52 37 1 27 33 



SECOND CLASS CENTERBOARDS. 



Sprite, C. P. Wilson 22.08 2 04 53 1 30 Ki 



Louette, L. M. Haskins 21.08 Withdrew. 



Petrel, H. H. Paul 21.09 2 09 45 1 33 45 



SECOND CLASS KEELS. 



Witch, B. B. Crowninshield 23.01 1 69 51 1 25 34 



Beth, .lameson Withdrew. 



Carmita, C. H. W. Foster 21.02 2 17 W 1 40 20 



THIBD CLASS CENTERBOARDS. 



Tartar, O. L. Duane. 19.11 111 40 48 33 



Myrtle, C. R. Poor 21.06 1 04 53 50 55 



Pixie, F. W. Chandler 19.10 1 17 06 53 55 



Josephine, Dexter FoUet, Jr 18.08 1 20 32 1 03 15 



THIRD CLASS KEELS. 



Vera, Paine & RandaU 19.09 1 15 01 51 54 



Nixie, A. L. Cochran 20.03 1 17 44 .54 50 



Mona, Herman Parker 19.06 1 18 24 .54 .53 



Alert, R. Saltonstall 18.10 1 19 40 53 03 



The winners were Atlanta, Bessie, Sprite, Witch, Tartar aud 

 Vera. Carmen lost her topmast but sailed the course without It. 

 The little crtuser Fad made a very good race, beating the crack 

 centerboard Eugenia again. In second class the keel boat Witoh 

 beats aU the centerboards easily. The judges were Messrs. Semons, 

 Doolittle and Whitcomb. 



CATBOATS AT NEW LONDON.-On Sept. 8 a match for $100 

 a side between the Gem and Aileen was sailed over a course from 

 Mvstic Island wharf to the Spindle, ofl Flat Hummock, thence 

 around White Rock, twice around; distance about 20 miles. Aileen 

 won by over 10m. 



QUI NO Y Y. C— The last championship race of the Q. Y. C. was 

 sailed in a strong E. wind on Sept. 3. The times were: 



EIBST CLASS. 



^ , „ _ Length. Elapsed. Corrected" 



Echo, E. L. Burwell 25.05 1 52 30 1 24 03 



Posy, R. G. Hunt 22.01 2 02 20 1 30 32 



Erin, John Oavanagh ..27.03 2 03 20 1 35 219 



SECOND CLASS. 



Tomcat, C. G. Weld 19.02 1 40 30 1 10 « 



Wildfire, H. A. Keith 18.02 1 45 40 1 14 42 



Pet, J. W. McFarland 20.01 1 50 23 1 21 45 



Nereid, C. F. Colby 30.07 1 50 20 1 22 10 



EU', W. P. Barker 20.03 1 51 40 1 23 10 



„. THIRD CLASS. 



Victor, S. A. Freeman 17.07 1 25 30 1 00 08 



Rocket, H.A.Faxon 16.07 1 26 65 1 00 28 



Mirage, G. E. Jordan 17.10 1 26 20 1 01 14 



Nitro, E. L. Linton 17.05 1 33 55 1 08 22 



The judges were Peter B. Turner, H. H. Sheen and John Oav- 

 anagh. 



. HULL Y. C. SAIL OFF, SEPT. 11.— The sail off for the winners 

 m the previous championshin races of the Hull Y. C, took place 

 on Sept. 11, in a moderate N. W. wind, there being 9 starters. The 

 course for second class was 11 miles, and for third and fourth 

 (.lasses six miles. The times were: 



SECOND CLASS CENTERBOARDS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Rambler, J. J. Henry 27.00 1 57 31 1 24 31 



Folly, J. F. Sheppard 26.09 2 02 17 1 29 00 



FIRST CLASS KEELS. 



Lizzie F. Daly, Wm. Dalv, Jr 26.08 1 56 37 1 22 37 



Echo, BurweU & Litchfield 23.03 1 59 13 1 24 13 



_ THIRD CLASS CENTERBOARDS. 



Posy, R. C. Hunt 22.06 1 24 20 1 03 14 



Nora, Boynton & McManus 22.00 1 29 11 1 07 48 



THIRD CL,iSS KEELS. 



Kitty, E. H. Tarbell 1 26 52 



POXTRTH CLASS KEELS. 



Victor, S. A. Freman 17.07 1 42 21 1 16 59 



Wildfire, H. A. Keith 18.11 Withdrew. 



Nora lost her bowsprit but rigged a .spar out and reset her jib, 

 and made good time over the course. The old Transit, now the L. 

 F. Daly, made a good race and beat the two centerboards In her 

 class. 



"THE PILGRIM CHALLENGED,"-Mr. W. L. Bragg, in the 

 Sept. 2 number of Forest And Stream, calls in question the cor- 

 rectness of my statements about the race of the Pilgrim with the 

 Lilliau, published July 1. The only errors in my paper were in re- 

 gard to the distance run and the draft, which I judged roughly. 

 Of these I stand corrected, wliich makes it much worse for the 

 Lillian, for I can prove she liad no tender, and in the windward 

 race she started upon my weather quarter and finished upon the 

 lee quarter far astern of us. I have not raced with any other boat 

 in Penobscot Bay; 1 do not know Mr, Holt or his boat, and have 

 never been passed by any boat of the P.'s length or less in those 

 waters. The statements of Mr. B. are "conspicuously inexact," 

 not to use a harsher term, and the slur of his wind up is amusing. 

 Now I am not a sporting man after shekels, but an honest yachts- 

 man interested in the development of all kinds of small, safe, fast 

 yachts, and I think I have proved the Pilgrim to be of this class. 

 Slie is now at Belfast, Me., and is ready to meet all challengers in 

 fair races this month. If the Rockland Club will get up one or 

 two, we can soon determine the relative places of sloops and cut- 

 ters, using Herreshoff's tables of allowances for the differences in 

 size. I suggest a race from Rockland around Matinic Island and 

 back, from Camden around Vinalhaven and back, and from North- 

 port around Isleaboro and back, as fair races for small yachts. 

 Furthermore, I challenge the Lillian and Capt. Bragg for this 

 latter race any day this month. Address, Dr. W. H. Winslow, 

 Belfast, Me. 



AN AJVIERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER ABROAD.-Mr. N. G. 

 Stebbins, the weU-known Boston photographer, has lately re- 

 turned from a hurried trip to England, in which he witnessed 

 some of the principal matches of last month and secured a lar^e 

 number of views of English yachts. Mr. Stebbins was home m 

 time for the Cup races, and was present wth a special tug, from 

 which he made a number of photos. 



SANDBAGGERSCAPSIZED.-Snnday afternoon a violent storm 

 swept over the vicinity of New York and did more or less damage. 

 The open racing boat Martha Jluiam, of the Columbia Y. C, cap- 

 sized, and her crew of 15 were thrown overboai'd but rescued by 

 the Police boat Patrol. A catboat from South Brooklyn was cap- 

 sized off Robbins Reef, but her crew of five were rescued by the 

 steamer Wyanoke. Several other capsizes are reported. 



CATBOATS AT CITY POINT.— On Sept. 11 a race for catboats 

 under 21ft. was sailed over a 6-mile course oft' City Point -ndth four 

 starters: Zoe, Capt. Martin; Crusader, tJeorge Hutchius; Tike, M. 

 Handy, and Thrasher. Crusader won first prize, 820, and Zoe sec- 

 ond prize, $10. The judges were Messrs, J. Golden and J. Berham. 



YACHTS CHANGED HANDS.— The Boston sloop Gem has 

 been sold by Com. Savage to Mr. C. S. Dinsmore, and the former 

 has purchased the schooner Arethusa from Prof. Hyatt, who has 

 used her for some time In cruises about Newfoundland and Lab- 

 rador. 



SANDY BAY Y. C— It has been decided to postpone the regatta 

 set for Sept. H to Sept. 18. The rule as to sails has been changed 

 to read, "No restrictions as to sails." 



NEWARK Y. C— The fall regatta of this club has been post- 

 poned to Sept. 20. 



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