Aug. 34, 1895.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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The Steam Yacht Eleanor. 



The accompanying photo shows the new steel steam yacht Eleanor, 

 owned by Wm. A. Slater, of Norwich, Conn,, now in Alaska waters on 

 her way around the world. The yacht was designed by Chas. R. Hans- 

 com and built by the Bath Iron works in 1894; her dimensions being: 

 Over all 231ft., l.w.l. 208ft., beam 82ft., draft. 18ft. 4in. A full descrip- 

 tion of the yacht appeared in the Forest and Stream of April 14, 1894. 



The Seawanhaka International Cup. 



This week will be devoted to the trial races for the selection of a de- 

 fender of the America's Cup, the contestants being upward of 90ft. 

 waterline; next week the principal event in yachting will be the 

 trial races of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. 0. for the selection of a 

 defender to represent the club in its coming matches with Mr. J. Ar- 

 thur Brand in his new Spruce IV. for the possession of the handsome 

 perpetual challenge trophy lately given by the club. While the larger 

 trial races are discounted by the previous demonstrations of the 

 superior speed of the new Defender to the older Vigilant, and serve 

 really but to further perfect the former boat, the little fellows are so 

 numerous, so different and so little known that the contests can 

 hardly fail to be exciting to all lovers of small boat sailing. 



Those not fully posted have no doubt been puzzled to know whether 

 the boats should be called 15-footers or praters, the latter term 

 being generally used even by American writers. The class originated 

 in England, and under the Y. R, A rule its limit was J^- rating or say 

 200sq. ft. of sail to a waterline of 15ft. ; the boats as a rule, however, 

 running upward of 16ft. waterline, with a proportionately smaller sail 

 plan. In arranging conditions with Mr. Brand last spring, the com- 

 mittee of the S. C. Y. C. suggested that the limit of the class should 

 be 15ft. racing length by the Seawanhaka rule, with a special provision 

 for the correct measurement of all styles of rig; which condition was 

 agreed to. The class then should be properly designated as the 15ft. 

 class, though the challenging boat, Spruce IV., is by birth a genuine 

 Vg-rater. The Y. R. A. measurement of Spruce IV., under which she 

 has raced for some weeks, is l.w.l. 15.78, sail area 189.8. It is possible 

 that these figures may be slightly changed in rigging and trimming 

 her for the races on this side, but within the limit of 16ft. racing 

 length. Mr. Brand will sail for New York about Sept. 1, and the races 

 will take place as soon after his arrival as possible, allowing him the 

 necessary time for preparation. 



The trial races for the selection of a defending boat promise to be 

 very interesting, as there is a probability of about a dozen contest- 



Buoy and the committee steamer anchored S. E. of the same, E. by 

 N. }4 N.— 2 miles around a mark bearing a red flag or ball, leaving it 

 on port hand; N. W.— 2 miles around a mark bearing a red flag or ball, 

 leaving it on port hand; S. by W. % W.— 2 miles to the finish line be- 

 tween Center Island Buoy and the committee steamer anchored N.W. 

 of the same. Course to be sailed over twice; total distance, 12 nauti- 

 cal miles. On the second round yachts will leave Center Island Buoy 

 on the port band. 



Note. — The race comrr ittee may, in their discretion, direct the course 

 to be sailed in the reverse direction, leaving buoy and marks on the 

 starboard hand, and the signal for such reversal of course will be the 

 anchoring of the committee steamer at the start to the N.W. of Center 

 Island Buoy. In this case the committee steamer will be anchored 

 S.E. of Center Island Buoy at the finish. 



(2.) The course for the second trial race shall be a course to windward 

 or leeward and return. 



From a line between Center Island Buoy and the committee steamer 

 around a mark bearing a red flag or ball, leaving it on starboard hand; 

 distance 3 miles and return; course to be sailed over twice; total 

 distance twelve nautical miles. The direction will be signaled by the 

 general yacht signal code from the committee steamer at least fifteen 

 minutes before the preparatory signal. 



The start will be a one-gun flying start with a preparatory signal, 

 and will be made at 12 o'clock noon across a line between Center 

 Island Buoy and the committee steamer. 



First signal, preparatory, whistle (fifteen seconds long). The club 

 burgee on the committee stea mer will be lowered and a blue peter 

 hoisted. 



There will be an interval of five minutes between the first and second 

 signals. 



Second signal, start, whistle (fifteen seconds long). The blue peter 

 will be lowered and a red ball hoisted. 



Special Conditions.— (1.) The yacht selected to defend the cup shall 

 be the one which, in the judgment of the race committee, shall be the 

 best adapted therefor, and not necessarily the winner of a majority of 

 the trial races. 



(2.) On Saturday morning, Aug. 24, all yachts entering for the trial 

 races will be measured in racing trim at the club anchorage, Oyster 

 Bay. 



(8.) Each yacht must carry a racing number (which may be ob- 

 tained at the club house on the morning of the first race) fastened 

 securely on both sides of the mainsail. 



(4.) In the event of a race being postponed or ordered resailed, it 

 will be sailed at as early a date as may be practicable. 



Entries.— EDtries must be in writing and filed with the secretary of 



W Excepting in case of conflict with the foregoing conditions and regu 

 lations, the racing rules of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. shal 

 govern the trial races. 



Note.— Attention is called to the fact that it is expected to arrange a 

 series of open races with Spruce IV. after the challenge cup races.- 

 Oliver E. Cromwell, Chairman,"! 



Port Chester, N. Y. «J 

 Charles W. Wetmorb, 



35 Wall street. 



Walter C. Kerr 



26 Cortlandt street. 



Valentine Mott, 



62 Madison avenue. 1 



Charles A. Sherman, Secretary, 

 64 Leonard street. 



Race 

 Committee. 



Winthrop Y. C. 



WINTHROP— BOSTON HARBOR. 



Saturday, Aug. 10. 

 The Winthrop Y. C. sailed its open regatta on Aug. 10 with remark- 

 able success, there being 83 starters out of 120 entries; with a fresh 



westerly breeze that made a good race in all classes. The times 

 were: 



FIRST CLASS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Harbinger, C. F. Bates 28.03 1 47 00 1 21 05 



Beatrice, J. Cavanagh 25.06 1 56 21 1 27 58 



Emma O, Peter A. Coupal 28.06 1 51 32 1 30 49 



Ida J , F. A. Beckman 28.09 1 57 03 1 31 33 



Heroine, C. A. J. Smith 28.00 1 58 59 1 32 51 



Eclipse, Eulalie, Whyser, White Fawn, Oweene and Quinset with- 

 drew. 



SPECIAL CLASS. 



Gleaner, F. O. Wellington 23.10 1 41 13 1 14 31 



Rex, J. B. Farrell 24.00 1 42 09 1 15 35 



Romance, Loring Sears 24.06 1 41 50 1 15'44 



Raccoon, T. J. Lowell 22.06 1 46 19 1 17|l6 



Satanic, W. Daly, Jr 23.06 1 47 46 1 20 35 



SECOND CLASS Z — ! ■ * 



Swirl. H. M. Faxon 21.07 1 41 39 in2'4l 



Sea Bird, C. L. Joy 22.06 1 41 51 lil3?50 



SavKar, H. G. Otis, et al 24.09 1 43 55 1"18'02 



STEAM YACHT ELEANOR Owned by Wm. A. Slates, Esq. 



ants. The dates set are Aug. 26, 27, 28, the place being Oyster Bay. 

 If possible, arrangements will be made to measure all the boats at 

 that place on Saturday, Aug. £4 



Mr. Herreshoffwill be represented in the races by three boats, the 

 oldest being Trust Me, built last year for the late Walter Langdon 

 and now owned by Charles M. Clark. She is a duplicate of the very 

 successful Wee Winn, sent to England in 1892, a fin-keel with sloop 

 rig. Another fin-keel is the new W. K. Vanderbilt boat Osprey, a 

 very handsome little mahogany craft of about 4ft. 6in. beam, also 

 sloop rigged, with cross-cut sails. She is built without bulkheads. 

 The third Herreshoff boat is the center board built for Vice-Corn. 

 Rouse, S. C. Y. O, and named Olinda, also of mahogany, with two 

 bulkheads and sloop rigged with the new sails. She will be raced by 

 two old canoe sailors, U. B. Vaux and R. B. Burchard, and will pre- 

 sumably have the benefit of skillful handling, though she was deliv- 

 ered so late that but little time is left for working up. 



The 15-footer Question is already well known about the Sound, 

 where she has raced all the season, having earned the appellation of 

 "Barndoor" from her peculiar model. She is almost flat below and 

 on deck, with no hold, the crew lying flat on the deck. She has been 

 quite successful and is very fast under certain conditions. She has a 

 large mainsail and very small jib and a plate-iron centerboard. 



Another of the new boats in the class is a fin-keel named Trilby, a 

 distinction she shares with some thousand other yachts throughout 

 the world, designed by Charles Olmstead and built by Wood & Son 

 for Com. Q. H. Tyson, Riverside Y. C. She is wide for a fin-keel, 

 about 6ft., with a strong bilge. Mr. Olmstead is sailing her. Indienne 

 is the name of a boat designed and built by Newell & McAlleece, of 

 Passaic, N. J., two young builders, for a syndicate of the Indian Har- 

 bor Y. C, a centerboard boat and of lapstrake build. 



Another centerboard boat is Echelwynn, built for C. J. Field by the 

 St. Lawrence River Co., from the design of W. P. Stevens. She is 23- 

 ft. 4in. over all, about 14ft. 6in. Lw.l., 6ft. beam and 7in. draft, the 

 beam at waterline being but 4ft. 9in., with a light bilge and easy mid- 

 ship section. The hull is quite light, the keel being of spruce, in one 

 piece from stemhead to transom, the timbers of rock elm, steamed 

 and bent, and the planking double with Union silk between, the inner 

 skin of white cedar and the outer of mahogany, all copper riveted 

 over burrs. There is a watertight bulkhead of the same double con- 

 struction at each end of the cockpit, with hatches in the deck inside of 

 the coaming. The floor is laid on the timbers, making as deep a cock- 

 pit as possible. The centerboard is of 8 i 6 in. manganese bronze, 

 weighing 551bs. and dropping to a depth of Bit. below the waterline 

 when vertical. The sail plan was made by Mr. C. J. Stevens and is the 

 same as in his Scarecrow, a leg of mutton mainsail and one jib, the 

 mainsail hoisting on a pole mast. The spars are hollow, made by L. 

 K. Young, of Bridgeport, the details and fittings being the same as in 

 Scarecrow. She will be sailed by Mr. Albert Ball and her owner. The 

 class is likely to muster four or five other boats, among them one by 

 Arthur Dyer, owned by Messrs. Burton, who will sail her. 



The full conditions of the races are as follows: 



A prize is offered by a member of the club in memory of the late 

 Robert Center, to be known as the Center helmsman's prize. Under 

 the terms of gift it will be awarded to the "amateur helmsman who, 

 in the judgment of the race committee, handles his boat in the most 

 seamanlike manner from the preparatory signal of the first to the 

 finish of the last trial race." 



Courses.— 00 The course for the first and third trial races shall be 

 triangular and shall bo as follows! From a line between Center Islanp 



the race committee, Charles A. Sherman, 64 Leonard street, New York, 

 by 12 o'clock noon, on Aug. 23, or at the club house at Oyster Bay by 

 10 o'clock on the morning of Aug. 26. 



General Conditions and Regulations. — As previously announced in 

 a circular issued by the race committee on May 1 last, the Seawanhaka 

 international challenge cup Is this year offered for competition be- 

 tween yachts of not exceeding 15ft. racing length (S. C. Y. C. meas- 

 urement). Entries in the trial races will therefore be confined to 

 yachts of this class. 



The defense of the cup is open to yachts owned by members of the 

 yacht clubs of the United States in good standing. 



The general conditions governing the cup and the general regula- 

 tions for the control both of the international and trial races as 

 amended are as follows: 



I. The cup shall be a perpetual international challenge cup. The 

 Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. O. shall have the custody of the cup in the 

 first instance, and every challenge shall be through some recognized 

 yacht club of a foreign country, and the cup when won shall be deliv- 

 ered to and held by the club through which the challenge was made. 



H. A challenging yacht shall be met by only one competitor. 



IH. The races shall not be less than three nor more than five in 

 number, the cup to be taken by the winner of the majority. 



IV. The American courses, while the cup remains in the custody 

 of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., shall be on the waters of Long 

 Island Sound in the vicinity of Oyster Bay, or in the bay itself. They 

 shall consist of a triangular course and a course to windward or lee- 

 ward and return. For the 15ft. class each leg of the triangular course 

 shall be two nautical miles in length and shall be sailed over twice, 

 making a total of twelve miles. The course to windward or leeward 

 and return shall be three nautical miles in each leg and shall be sailed 

 over twice, making a total of twelve miles. 



V. The start shall be a one-gun flying start. 



VI. The races shall be sailed without time allowance. 



VII. The challenge cup is offered this year for yachts of not ex- 

 ceeding 15ft. racing length (S. C. Y. C. measurement). 



The formula for determining racing length under the S. C. Y. C. 

 rules is as follows: 



L.W.L.+ V Sail Area 



2 



= Racing Length. 



VIH. In the 15ft. class yachts shall be measured without crew on 

 board, but instead thereof a weight of 3001bs. shall be carried amid- 

 ships during measurement to represent the crew. 



IX All ballast shall be fixed. (Weighted centerboards shall be con- 

 sidered fixed ballast.) 



X. No outrigger or other mechanical device, for carrying live bal- 

 last to windward, shall be allowed. 



XI. In determining sail area a system of measurement shall be em- 

 ployed which will give, as nearly as possible, the actual number of 

 square feet thereof. Sails shall be limited to mainsail, jibs and spin- 

 aker. The combined area of mainsail and of the jib used in windward 

 work shall constitute the factor of sail area in determining racing 

 length. The area of spinaker and balloon jib shall each be limited to 

 four-tenths of the iotal area of the mainsail and jib used in windward 

 work. 



XH. The helmsman Bhall be an amateur, and the total number of 

 persons on board shall be limited to two. 



XHL Future competitions for the cup shall be limited to yachts of 

 classes from 15ft. to 35ft. racing length, both inclusive, 



Susie, J. F. Cole 24.00 



Clara, W. Burgess 24.10 



Gismonde, C. F. Colby 23.03 



Alma, C. A. Henry 23.09 



Eliose, Cartright 22.00 



Moondyne, Little Rogue, Odd Fellow, Block 

 withdrew. 



third class. 



Onaway, W. E. Geyer. , 



1 45 00 

 1 52 38 

 1 58 40 



1 57 52 



2 15 00 

 Island 



1 18 26 

 1 26 50 

 1 30 24 

 1 31 05 

 1 46 29 

 and Harold e 



Zoe, Joker and Goat withdrew. 



KNOCKABOUTS. 



La Chica, C. B. Souther 



Spinster, L. M. Clark 



Sally, D. C. Percival, Jr 



Nabob, H. W. Friend 



Nike, T. E. Jacobs 



Hobo, T. W. King 



FOURTH class. 



Alpine, A. J. Blethen 17.07 



Sphinx, A. Keith 17.06 



Etta, A. E. Jones 16.05 



Fantasie, W. Allerton 16.04 



Sunbeam, H. B. Faxon 16.05 



Mirage, C. Schindler 17.09 



Imp, L. A. Horton 16.01 



Pointer, C. P. Curtis 17.01 



Edelweiss, Grace and.Wren withdrew. 



FIFTH CLASS. 



Tantrum, F. H. Perkins 14.11 



Scurry, Geo. Walsh 14.08 



Katy Did, S. Baer 14.00 



Unknown, A. G. Martin 14.11 



Midget, E. G. Tuckerman 12.09 



Penguin, J. E. Robinson 14.06 



Cutty Sark, W. M. Torrence 14.05 



Marion, E. H. Hinkley 14.07 



Vivian, Geo. Carson. 14.11 



Lois and Dot withdrew. 



19.10 



1 35 47 



1 08 44 



18.11 



1 41 10 



1 13 07 



20.11 



1 41 40 



1 15 42 



18.01 



1 46 25 



1 17 25 



20.08 



1 44 21 



1 18 08 



18.11 



1 46 58 



1 18 55 



18.03 



1 48 43 



1 19 54 



*0.07 



1 48 03 



1 21 45 



19.16 



1 52 12 



1 25 09 



19.09 



1 54 16 



1 27 07 



18.05 



2 02 02 



1 33 25 



20.01 



2 00 16 



1 33 28 



18.06 



2 02 12 



1 33 40 



20.08 



2 00 32 



1 34 19 



1 43 44 

 1 46 35 

 1 48 55 

 1 49 48 



1 34 53 



2 00 54 

 2 05 03 

 2 07 54 



1 44 31 

 1 47 38 

 1 48 03 

 1 48 05 

 1 48 52 

 1 49 48 



1 14 08 

 1 16 52 

 1 17 49 

 1 18 35 

 1 23 47 

 1 31 30 

 1 33 29 

 1 37 40 



14.11 



1 19 42 



55 57 



14.08 



1 25 38 



1 01 37 



14.00 



1 27 12 



1 02 25 



14.11 



1 27 32 



1 03 47 



12.09 



1 31 27 



1 05 05 



14.06 



1 29 46 



1 05 34 



14.05 



1 31 25 



1 07 07 



14.07 



1 34 28 



1 10 21 



14.11 



1 41 07 



1 17 22 



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