f^OREST AND STREAM. 



[Oct. 21, 18S6. 



Ingsea drove up towai'ds the town. The trne. wind was lost suddenly 

 and sharp puffs ahead put the. Coot to heating up with her Kang- 

 ■Way afloat, forcing her to he.fj freauently. The great numhcr of 

 seines and pound nets in the harbor stand tor the chief industry of 

 the place. Tlie town from the ^\'ater is pleasantly located, at- 

 tractive and prosperous in appearance. Several prominent white 

 Taulldings on a grassy knoll, some fine residence with handsome 

 grounds and the terminus of the Norfolk Southern R. R. face the 

 mariner coming up the Jiarhor and make a very favorable im- 

 pression. \ou keep the railroad docks close aboard after IcaviHg 

 the last black beacon to port and then steer \ip the middle of a 

 ci'eek for good protection and six feet of -wa ter. Vessels of more 

 draft anchor below in the roads \vhcre lliei-e is IHft. O. P. K. 



THE COMING SCOTCH CHALLENGER. 



than one of 85ft., and have written to know what size of yacht the 

 New York Y. C. propose to meet tlieiu with. As there is notaboat 

 in the fleet under 80ft. waterlitie tluit could hope to sail for the 

 cup, and as it is extremely improbable that the defenders will eon- 

 Bent to give up those already built and construct one or more of a 

 smaller size, the question is easily answered. 



For a week past Mr. G. L. Watson, of Glasgow, who will design 

 the new boat, has been in New Y^ork and Boston, bis ])urposc being 

 to learn something of the American yactits and ttie conditions 

 which prevail here, before deciding on the new boat. 

 I kTho following account of Mr. Watson and his work appeared 

 lately in the Boston HaxtJd: 



"Of the English yacht designers of the present day, Mr. 

 George L. Watson, of Glasgow, Scotland, stands amoTig the fore- 

 most. He is only 34 years of age, and 'at home' is generally con- 

 sidered the best 'all round' designer of the old country. It was 

 while in the emidoyof Messrs. Inglis that young Watson turned 

 his attention to yacht designing and building. Mr. .John Inglis, 

 Jr., was one of the most scientitic shipbuilders in the UnitedKing- 

 dom, and Mr. Watson served his appreuticeshjp witli a good mas- 

 ter. During the time he was learning bis ti'ade he .spent his eve- 

 nings in the study of naval architecture, and in 1874 started in 

 business for himself as a naval architect and marine surveyor. At 

 that time tlie yacht Pearl was the famous five-tenner. She was 

 "built by Fife, of Fairlie, Scotland, and was at the height of her 

 glory. Some dozen or more fivc-tonners bad been built to beat 

 her,' but none of them succeeded in lowering her colors. The 

 yachting interest at this time was building up in Ireland, and Mr. 

 Watson received an order from an Irish gentleman to build a five- 

 tonner, the conditions being that she sliould beat the foujous Pearl, 

 otherwise the yacht was to bo left on the hands of tiie designer. 

 Young Watson accepted the terms named, and soon after he began 

 work on the plans. It was not long before the design was nuide, 

 and the yacht was completed a few months later. She was named 

 Clothilde by her owner, and he lost no time in accepting the chal- 

 lenge of the owner of the Pearl. In yachting circles the Pearl had 

 such a record that Mr. Watson's boat was the subject of unfavor- 

 able comment, and the now famous designer was laughed at. 

 There was but little interest t aken in the match, as it was consid- 

 ered a foregone conclusion that the Pearl would win. It was a 

 trying time for Mr. Watson, for he had put his money and brains 

 into his >'acht. 



The Clothilde beat the Pearl and did it handsomely, and imme- 

 diately Mr. Watson rose in the opinion of English yachtsmen. 

 Ortlers came in fairly well after tbis, and in 1876 he designed and 

 had built the 5-tonners Vril and Freak. These yachts stood at 

 the head of tiie .5-tonners for some time. Since 18T6 Mr. Watson 

 has advanced wonderfTilly as a naval architect. The famous 

 cutter Madge,tiow owned in New York, was designed by him. 

 Her record is a remarkable one. She is a lO-tonner, and out of 24 

 starts won 'i2 first and two second prize-s. Her performances in 

 New York are ^vell known, as she beat every American yaclit she 

 sailed against, with the exception of tlic Shadow. The latter boat 

 her once, but the Madge beat the Shadow in return. 



Beside desi.gning sailing yachts, j\Ir. Watson has designed some 

 of the best steam yachts in England, both for fishing and pleasure 

 services. His skill in the profession he had chosen received tlie 

 highest awards at the exhibition of shipwrights in London, and he 

 was awarded the gold medal of honor for a design of a 700-ton 

 steam yacht and also for a racing schooner yacht, which was 

 about the dimensions of t]>e American schooner yacht I'ortuna. 

 Beside being a iui.\'al architect, Mr. Watson has also been a con- 

 tributor to scientific publications which are wholly devoted to 

 lla^•al arclutei-ture. About six jears ago he wrote a series of 

 ai'ticles on yacht designing for Lavd ai)d Water. He is at 

 present a member of the Society of Naval Architects of Eng- 

 land, and bis papers, which wore recently read before tbfiL 

 society, received the highest praise. Since being in business 

 he has designed and had built Cor different parties over ISO 

 vessels of all descriptions, inclufiing the little steam launch, 

 the cruising yacht, the fisherman and the racing cutter. All 

 his boats have turned out very well. Of those built in recent 

 years, the cutters Vanduara and Marjorie, thelO-tonner Ulerin and 

 the 5-tonner Doris rank among the best. The Vanduara, 90 tons, 

 in her day held first place, au(i siic was most always a prize win- 

 ner in the ra.ees in Avhich she started. The Marjorie, 68 tons, holds 

 ahigh place in England to-day, and she is consideied the best 

 yacht "Ijv tile wind," the Irex not excepted. She has beaten botii 

 Irex, fial'atea and Genesta on time allowance, and has won over 50 

 prizes. The lO-tonner Ulerin, built two years ago, has also a re- 

 markable record, and she has won over 50 prizes in two years, in- 

 cluding a "Queen's cup," valued at £105. Coming down to last 



carries about 7 tons of lead on her keel. Before the Doris was 

 built the .'5-tonner Shona, now owned in Boston, was considered 

 the best in her class, until the 5-tonner Delvin was built. The 

 latter beat the Shona. The Delvin in 1881 stood at the head of the 

 S-tonnors. A year ago last ^vinter the Doris was built, and last 

 summer was her first season. She beat the Delvin and Shona in 

 every race she started agaiiist them, and at the end of the year the 

 Boris had a record of 26 starts. She came in first 35 times and won 

 24 first prizes. In one race she carried away her rudder. She also 

 lost cue race tlu-ough a protest. The Doris has started ( times this 

 season, and has taken first prizes in c^ ery race of the o-tonners. 

 The .5-tonner Nora, designed for Mr. Allan, of the Allan Lino, was 

 almost as successful as the Doris, and has won over 60 prizes in 



in'stetinTyachts, the largest one that Mr. Watson has built is the 

 Amy 850 tons, for Mr. N. B. Ste\Fart. He has also built the steam 

 vacht Mohican, 700 tons, for Messrs. Johu and William Clark. 

 ' In appearance, Mr. Watson is a typical Scotchman, of slight 

 buQt and an intellectual face. Mr. W atsou has a great advantage 

 in his business, being a practical shipbuilder and sailor. These 



yaoni oi mr. vvaison s ut:-.-iiu,ii m i,au= vjl-jiiiuv ^q, uu,.. ^^^^^^ 

 dere, built last year for Mr. .). Malcolm Forbes. The Bayadere 

 has not been sailed in any races here, so that no comparison can 

 be made of her as compared with American yachts of her class. 

 Her owner hm been so engaged with the Puritan that he has not 

 had time to get her in proper trim. 



MEASUREMENT RULES ABROAD. 



THE season being over and the fleet laid up, the British yacJits- 

 man now seeks sport and excitement in a renewal of tlie im- 

 dving and always novel question of measurement. As usual, most 

 of the discussion is neither instructive nor interesting, but some 



a racing or cruising five would adopt the plan, and, if even five 

 boats were built for St. George's Channel, there would be a cl.ass 

 ready that would give a most interesting race — interesting to the 

 competitors, as it would be oue purely of skill of handling; inter- 

 esting to the public, as it would be bound to be a close contest, and 

 the first boat in would be tlie winner; easy to the committee, as 

 there would be no time allowance or sail area to he worked out. 

 I belie-^-e other men would quickly follow, and that the fleet would 

 be a large one; and I have, to a certain extent, experience on the 

 point, as I am at present working up a like class of open boats, and 

 have already recciv<;d more lu'omises of boats being built on the 

 plan than I anticipated. 



"In addition to the advantages above mentioned, the class would 

 have the folloving: First, the grand oue of the boat being always 

 a racer, as a boat three or six years old would be in witli tlie late"st 

 arrival; as her sails could be renewed, and rlie would otdj be 

 Jiaudicapped by tlie buoyancy of the new boa.t, vvliinh could be 

 neutralized, and against which her time would be better known. 

 Secondly, a useful class that could be used for cruising purposes. 

 Thirdly, one that would .sell well; and fourthly, one that would 

 not be a risk of loss to the builder by being a failure. They would 

 not, of course, have tlic speed of the narrow vessel with the great 

 .spread of canvas. But it should not be forgotten that speed is 

 only found by comparison, and racing more orle.ssdryin a boat 

 doing eight knots would be just as enjoyable as being moist in one 

 doing ten or twelve, provided tlie quicker boat is not in the race 

 to look at. As all the boats of the above class would be close 

 together, they would appear to have a quicker pace than quick 

 boats with a long interval between." 



The beauty and simplicity of this scheme is something admir- 

 able, the only objection to it being that it was not made known 

 sooner. Had it only been adopted fifty or a hundre<l yea rs since 

 how much money would have been saved that has been wasted in 

 building better boats, and what a fleet the world would have had 

 now. 



Here is another excellent remedy for the ills that aflfect yachting. 

 (L-I-B)-XB 



The present Y. R. A. rule is ' 



amend it to read - 



1730 



The proposition is to 



these circumstances if we are beaten we are not disgraced " This 

 makes it all perfectly clear, especially as it comes, not from an 

 amateur but from a yacht designer well-known m has profc^ion, 

 Mr. C. P. Clayton. Without dealing in detail wuh Mr. Clayton s 

 letter to the l.ondon Pidd of Sept. ;i5, we would pomt^ out^ that 

 Americana are noi increasing but steadily decreasing the beam, 

 and long since reached the maximum limit: also that m America, 

 a,t least, it is by no means hopeless to match a keel boat against a 

 centerboard in anv weather when there is ^^•lnd enough to saxl, as 

 instanced by Clara, Bedouin, Ori va, LHidia and 3ladge. 



Another correspondent of the Field ofl'crs a univei'sal panacea of 

 guaranteed olTieiency, whicli he sets forth as follows: 



"For mv part, my idea— which I am ready to support to the best 

 of my ability, and hope to see flouriBh— is for the Y, R. A., or s<^me 

 other body of yachting men, to settle on the plan of a practical 

 fast cruising five (to begin with), with fair beam and draft^and 

 publish it, so that sailing committees could offer a prize for boats 

 built on that plan. Ihelieve, if men knew they would get a race 

 for that boat, many who are about, or thinking of, building either 



=rfon -7f The advantages of this plan are 



apparent, and need no comment or explanation. 

 Land and TT'afcr discourses as follows on the same subject: 

 "With the Royal Portsmouth Corinthian Y. 0. regatta, hold last 

 Saturday, yacht racing may be said to have come to a conclusion. 

 It has been an eventful season, and by no means such a poor one 

 as was prophesied in some quarters at the outset. Further, it has 

 tended to show that the noble pastime cannot exist many years 

 longer if the attempt is made to carry it on under existing condi- 

 tions. The ?-fli*o/i d'etre oi the Yacht Racing Association may be 

 summed up in the words, that it was instituted to "advance yacht 

 racing," and such being the fact, the duty of a singularly practical 

 body, haraig a secretary without peer in yachting knowledge, lies 

 in the direction of devising a totally new formula in regard to 

 yacht measurement. Even those yacht owners who have been 

 most successful this season in whnt is called the inferior class, will 

 admit that things could be put on a fairer footing by a modifica- 

 tion of tinre allowances in mixed matches. 



"But what we aim at is a matter of deeper import, viz., simply 

 to put aside the present measurement rule, and in its place pass a 

 law, not to be repealed for at least ten years, providing that yachts 

 of all sorts and conditions should lie measured and rated for time 

 allowance according to load watcrlength and sail area. We say, 

 without the least hesitation, that such a step would give an im- 

 petus to yacht bTjflding; that it would bring to the fore naval 

 architects of the higlieet talent; that, instead of such a miserable 

 article as the wall-sided, unshapely, ballast-box Galatea, wo should 

 have vessels without a fiat inch in them, and a much smarter cr.aft, 

 able to sail round the Viastard tools, by courtesy called ships, with 

 a centerboard in tJiem, which have of late years defended the 

 America's Cup. 



"It is some years ago that Mr. Lampson, now Sir George, main- 

 tained at one of the Y. R. A. meetings, that the measurement rule 

 should be settled to stand for a certain number of years, but he 

 was either talked down or outvoted, yet, the good sense of his argu- 

 ment is obvious enough to-day. By a sail area and load water- 

 length rule, we not oulj- contend, but are con-sdnced, that vested 

 intci ests would not be Interfered with, and no other way, in our 

 opinion, presents to meet this, the most formidable opposition to 

 the proposed new rule. The secretary of the Yacht Racing Asso- 

 ciation should, without doubt, be left unfettered in deciding on a 

 formula, as the tinkering of amateurs has, in the past, damned 

 every Avell-dcN-ised seheme. It is fgr the good and future wellfare 

 of yachting and yachtsmen we write thus strongly, and trust that 

 our remarks may tend to getting the measurement laws amended 

 ere another raeing season conies round." 



With the major part of the above we can heartUy agree, but we 

 must take exception to the extremely uncomplimentary manner 

 in which the new American yachts are spoken of. The British 

 > achtsman has been accustomed to \dew all American yachting 

 through a pair of spectacles, one lense of which shows the Y. K.A. 

 rule as the epitome of the science of naval design, the one by which 

 all things nautical must be judged; the other showing the center- 

 board as something physically and morally wrong, a contrivance 

 that no honest yachtsman would tolerate; and those who use and 

 defend it as worse than a man wlio shit^ts ballast secretly or uses 

 other unfair means of winning. Of late the former lense has been 

 somewhat dimmed, and many are found who discard itenti]-ely,but 

 they, for the most part, .seek a clear view through a. single glass 

 instead of double, and view the centerboard with still more extreme 



Novvs if there is a real desire for a reform back of all this dis- 

 cussion, we would call the attention of those interested to several 

 facts very clearly seen on this side of the Atlantic. First, there is 

 absolutely no scientific basis for the Y'. R. A. rule, a measure that 

 has lost whatever accuracy it possessed in its early days, and whose 

 reteution until now is due almost entirely to conservatism and the 

 influence of large vested interests. These alone have enabled it to 

 hold its own in the face of science and plain common sense. 

 Secondly, wliatever the merits of many boats built under 

 the Y. R. A. rule, a boat may be as far outside of it as 

 Puritan and Mayflower and yet be an excellent craft in 

 every respect. Thirdly— The two yachts above mentioned have 

 already won a place which entitles them to the careful considera- 

 tion and studv of liberal and intelligent yachtsmen of all shades 

 of opinion, and they cannot be disposed of summarily by a few 

 opprobrious epithets as above quoted; but their merits and defects 

 must be weighed with the utmost scientific accuracy if any im- 

 provement on them is to be made. , „, ^ 



Further, the same remark appbes to the centerboard. We do 

 not favor its use for large yachts, but it is indisputable that safe, 

 aiile and thoroughly seaworthy centerboard yachts and ships have 

 been built and are in constant use. There is a deal for our cousins 

 to learn in yachting, if t hey have t aught us something of late years. 

 The present outlook is that they will be soon beaten hy their o^vn 

 weapons. If they would avoid such a conclusion it is full time to 

 abandon the osl^rich-Iike policy of hicUu? the head rather than 

 facing the enemy; of measuring everything by their little loot 

 rule and condemning on sight all that is too big for its capacity. 

 Two seasons only have made a great change in the yacli tmg world; 

 Americans haA'c' wakened up to new ideas, new methods, and with 

 their successes thus far to back them, the British yachtsrnan who 

 wiU keep ahead of them will have need of every means withmhis 

 reach. 



CATBOATS ON JAJMAICA BAY'.-On Oct. 17 the first race of a 

 series of three was sailed on .Jamaica Bay for prizes otlored by 

 Henry Smith, of Ruflle Bar. The course was from Ruffle Bar to 

 the can buov oH" Point Breeze, thence to stake boat off Block Wall 

 and home, 10 miles. There were 14 entries in the two classes: 

 CLASS i, 19 TO SSjtt, 



St. Nicholas, G. Reed 5f,-0' 



Secret, D. Linton 5^-^ 



Julita, .Joseph Hatch...... ^ f 



tiypsy Baron, Professor Warner •~JJ U4 



Amphion, Dr. De Long — 



Oracle, John Myer 



So-So, A. Brandsley : 



IdaK, C. Meyer 



Am-ora, Warschmg Brothers 



CLASS n., 15 TO lOKT. 



Ethel, J. Calmbach.^j^ 



Florence, Saftord & Wilson 



Rita, John Ives -. :}°-"^ 



Kate, J.Tillotson 



There" was a \vbolosail " breezlj' "fi^^^ during the race. 



Aurora won in 1:441:50 with Arapliion second, 1:4/ :10 In second 

 class the winners were Kate, 1:M:15, ,ind Florence, ];;)8:2.x Ida K. 

 capsized and So-So wont to her aid. The judges were Commodore 

 J. B. Hoake, C. E. Saltord and J. M- Wnson. The second race mil 

 bo sailed on Oct. 24. 



CATBOATS AT NEWPORT.— A second race was aailed on Oct. 

 13 between ^tna, Mr. G. G, King; Princess Ida, ^ooi^'jry J^fi'^*' 

 Alice, W. R. Hunter; Dove, S. W. Warren, Atlanta won easUy. 



20.09 



.a. 04 



.30.01 

 .30.00^ 

 .19 0.5" 



NEW^ ROCHRLLE Y. G. FALL REGATTA.-The race for cat- 

 boats, which Avas abandoned on Oct. 9 for lack of wind, was sailed 

 on Oct. IG in a strong N. W. ^\'ind. The course was iTom the eiji- 

 trauee to the harbor, four miles east-nortliea.Rt round red buoy off 

 Scotch Caps Reef, leaving 'X xo i^ort, 1 hence back to stii'ting line, 

 turning norrherly stakeboat on pen: liaud and out liiree miles 

 soutli-soutlieast round Execution Reef. Ica^-ing all bTioye on star- 

 board hand and back to starting line. Distance, tt miles. There 

 were six entries, but Cruiser and Net tie eould not secure crews, so 

 did not start. The four which went over the line were: 



Length. Allow. 



Olive N i .......... . Charles Noxon " - 00 iUlows 



Punch Everett Rushmore 20.00 



Narrioch Lieut. Pitcher 18.06 4.54 



Graeie L Eugerio Laniliden 18.00 5.36 



At 13 M. the signal was gi-ircn, the vaehts, all but Punch, double 

 reefed, the latter with one reef, r-rossed I hus: 



Olive N 13 03 00 Nai-i'ioidi 12 03 00 



Gracie L VZ 03 45 h unch . ,., 13 03 45 



On the first log the water vraa smooth and wind fairly steady, so 

 Olive and Punch each shook oue reef, all having booms off to star- 

 board. The times at the mark Avere: 



Obve 1 07 87 Gracie L 1 19 13 



Punch 1 07 50 Narrioch 1 14 13 



The next leg was free, the times at the mark not being taken. 

 Olive N. was passed on the last leg, a beat to windward, by Punch, 

 while Narrioch guve up and started for home. The times were: 

 Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Punch 13 03 45 3 08 01 2 03 16 1 59 28 



OUvc N 13 03 00 S 06 49 2 04 49 3 04 4'J 



Gracie L 13 03 4,5 2 LI 15 2 10 30 2 04 54 



Narrioch 13 03 00 Did not finish. 



The prize was a solid sib er goblet presented by Cora. MciVlptu. 

 The Regatta Committee were Messrs. Gouge Jenkins and Miller. 



A NEW CRUISER.-Mr. E. L. Williams, of City Point, has 

 nearly ready a little cruiser, built for sale. She is 31ft. over all 

 and 5ft. 6iu. draft. 



THE BURGESS BOATS AND SKIMMING DISHES.-Bditar 

 'Fnre&l and Stream: "VSHiile thanking you for your lengthy com- 

 ments on my short letter of last week, I have to sa" that the flg- 

 ures you give as corrections of those quoted by me are anything 

 but accurate. The dimensions or Sadie, Shadn^v, Orion, Nepenthe 

 and Julia were furnislied me by Mr. John lIcrreshotT, builder of 

 the four first named. Olse.n's Yacht LisL is therefore not correct in 

 these iiarticulars. It would lie an easy uuil ter to furnish many 

 more examples of old sloop yaelils showing grea ter proportionate 

 displacement than either Mayflower nr Puritan, but even one 

 Avould be all suflicient to A^erify the point 1 make, nauifily, (be un- 

 fairness of the claim that Mr. Burgess has been obliged to borrow 

 the shape of his boats from the unhandy Engii.sh raeing machine. 

 The very great superiority or tlie Maytlower-Shadow type of sloop, 

 is clearly demonstrated to any fair-niinded person by the well- 

 known fact that Galatea is a much larger boat than Maytlower, 

 yet the tAVO raced iiractieally without time allowa.nce. Our in- 

 genious friend Mr. Kunbardt, has often told us that "size should 

 give speed," but it Avould seem that size jiut in cutter shape does 

 not pan out as Avell as he expected Avhen the best cu tter meets the 

 best sloop.— Thos. Ctapham (Roslyu, L. I., Oct, 14.). [ThediiTer- 

 ences between our figures and Mr. Clapham's do not materially 

 affect the question, as we admit that the Herreshotfs have long 

 built deeper boats than were common. In the case of the Julia 

 her depth is probably nearly as we have stated when she sails as a 

 centerboard boat. We have nothing to do with the "iioint" which 

 Mr. Clapham makes, as the Fouest and Stiijjam has never 

 claimed that"Mr. Burgess has been oliligcd to hiirrow tlic sliape of 

 his boats from the unliandy English racing ni;u. lime.' Exactly 

 what we claimed in regard to the tAvo yachts was clearly set forth 

 in our answer to Mr. Clapham last Aveek, but tliis point he has en- 

 tirely ignored, crediting us Anth views which Ave have ncA'er ex- 

 pressed'.] 



WHAT GALATEA REALLY mD.''—Edfh>r Fnrcstand Stream: 

 I was under the iuipres.siouthat wlii' f t-ralatea really cdd most suc- 

 cessfully AVtis to illustrate her ability to "carry the target" for a 

 irooession of American single-stirker'- of her sial^ and to piwe 

 jeyond a doubt that there must needs lie another international 

 race before the America Cup changed liands. 1 see now, thanks 

 to Mr. Kunbardt's able article in the FeiuF.S'r and .-mi-beam o£ Oct. 

 7, entitled "Just Wliat Galatea, Pu.ally Did," that 1 am all \vrong. 

 It appears that, oAving to some sliglil oversight, Galatea did not 

 have .sutficient sail area. No^v, surely we, a luitiou, should be 

 too honorable to take any advantage ■ ■ ' r n . 1 . 1 ; . dinicality as the 

 Avant of sail area on the part of (Tai^- : a is a mere mat- 



ter of detail, and when it comes to i - ing has nothing 



to do with the case. V.^hen I say ree,i 1 1 , . ug, I refer to the 

 races iu Avhich Puritan was ignomiunjusly deieated by Goncsta, 

 These races Avere sailed last fall in tlie deep cliannels of the FOH- 

 E9T Akd STBE.1M uTidcr the flag of "Whose Waterloo?" and no 

 such trifles as sail area or actual result of tlie then recent interna- 

 tional eontest were taken into eons. deration. As I said before, in 

 these Forest Arai Stueavi races tin' 'lenesta won; and Mr. K. did 

 it Avitli his little pen and ink— and wind. Moreover, I venture to 

 predict tliat, in his promised review of this season's raeing, he will 

 comduce us tha,t Stranger really did beat Thetis in thei rraee from 

 Newport to Marbleliead. No, no, Mr. Kunhardt, Ave will grant you 

 Clara, Ulidia and Sliona: but don't try to convince us that the dog 

 really did catch the rabbit.— Yajjkee Doodle (New York, Oct. 11). 



A SUGGESTION FROM "LOyALTY."-Edi'(or Fnrest and 

 Stream: The vachting season just closed was a remarkable one, 

 particularly so for Die number of single-stickers and the absence 

 of the "Am'criean sloop" and the prominence of the "hang-on-load 

 pilc-on-sail theories." Science and rule of thumb rush hand in 

 hand after some objec-t, it is difficult to aseertain what. ^^Hiether 

 it is to see who can force the greatest quantity of lead through 

 the water at the Idghost rate of speed, oi' how much sail can he 

 carried and how much lead Avill be required to carry it; or is it 

 their object to see how large a liuU they can force through the 

 Avater Axuth the largest area of sail and lead to balance it? Is it a 

 race of lead, sail or inodelv This would lie more seienfiflc. A 

 model of a given length with (he le.ast weight, and the smallest 

 area of sairiiiat will develop tbf iiio.-^i sii,vd. WUich cnxi not bo 

 accomplished in a yacht Avhose beam, \\ eight, dra.j l and .-.ail area 

 are the proportions of the Mayflower and Pu. ilan, and the tiruoia 

 not far distant when shoal draft and narrow beam will shoAV to 

 the front as a scientific production. Now is the time for the Eng- 

 lishmen (and they are justly entiiied to the priAdle.ge) to reduce 

 their draft, weight and sail area; a small increase of beam coupled 

 with the eonterboard and they have us at their mercy.— Loyalty. 



-a si- 



vacht 

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 lay 



'lay 



_ _ L^ound 



island Light 



CAPSIZED SLOOPS.— On Oct. 17, the ccnterbo.' 

 Emily, Hudson River Y. C, capsized olf Fort Lee. 

 fortunately rescued bA' the steam yacblCora. c 

 the centerboard sloop Ireue left South Norwalk to 



to Northport. Between Eaton's Neck and SrniiL .. - _ 



she eapsii/.ed, though under double reef, and luu' crewof three held 

 on to the keel for flireo hours until taken off by the coaster Jennie 

 Rogers, 'the eajisized yacht was toAved into Bridgeport hy an oys- 

 ter drrdae. On Saturday, the racing yacht Ida K., of New 

 PiOcbelie, capsized in a race, but her crew Avere rescued. 



RACING ON JAMAICA BAy.-On Oct. 10 a r.ace was sailed on 

 ' ~ - . ^ ... i;,. Ward, of Rock- 



-inile 

 and 



sentedbyMr. Henry Ooger, - ----- -. — 



Avind Avas strong S. t.. The start was made at 3:14, Lark crossing 

 30scc. astern ol' Lyster. The first namd Avas timed: Lajdc 3:o5, 

 Lyster 2:56:55. Lark finally Avon in 1.53.15 with Lystcr at l.o6.31. 



A YACHT ABANDONED.— Tlie sloop Belle Brandon, from 

 Brcmeri, Me., for C,>uinev, Mass., was picdvi-d up off Cape Cod on 

 Sundav last by Pilot lioat No. of Boston. Her eicw .if two, Uhas. 

 L Marion and Alton E. Pratt, Avere i-.ompletely exhausted hy their 

 efforts to work the yacht safely through tin- gale of Saturday. 

 The v were carefuUy cared for on the pilot boat and their yacht 

 was'taken in tow, but she leaked so ba'llv that she Avas .soon aban- 

 doned. The LAA^o sailors left Boston by rail for their home in 

 Maine. 



LAKE ERIE.— On Oct. 14 a race was started off Toledo, but just 



at the start a terrific storm set iu and drove the yachts out into 

 the lake, all making harbors to leeward. The excursion steamer 

 started tor Toledo, but ran aground. On Oct. 18 another attempt 

 was made, four vachts starting iu an castei-ly Avind of reefing 

 sti-ength Avith some sea. Fanchon Avon in 5.03.57, witli Alice En- 

 right 5.33.09, Scud and Sylvia withdrew. The course was & 

 miles. 



ACCIDENT TO THE SACHEM.-On Oct. 16 tlie schooner 

 Sachem was in collision in Newport harbor Avith the coasting 

 schooner John Randolph, Capt, Eldridge. Both boats were badly 

 damaged. 



TEIE SALE OF THE ATLANTIC-Tho late Pride of Bay Ridffs 

 will he sold at auction on Nov. 3, at lOS Wall street, by Mr. R. M, 

 Montgomery. 



