Nov. 9, 1895.J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



41S 

















































■'/' / 











H*-2 

















/ / / / 



' / ••/ / 



' / / / 



























1 at. 





I i 



/ 





















i I •-• • 

 *%j us — 









8 



7 



ft 1 



5 















'A 



in 









1 A r 



7 



15-F00TER GOBLIN. Designed by W. P. Stephens, 1893 



GOBLIN — TABLE OF OFFSETS. . 



Stations spaced lft. 3in. Waterline spaced 3in. The fractions in 

 table are eighths of an inch. 



- I 







1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7. 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



14 



Transom, 



Heights. 



Keel. 



Deck. 



2 5 2 



2 52 



1 1* 



9 



2 34 

 2 2' 



6 



2 0" 



4i 



1 114 



25 



1 103 



15 

 1 

 06 



o« 



1 94 



1 8' 



1 83 

 1 8i 



13 



1 8 



. 25 



1. 8 



42 



9 



1 8i 

 1 8» 

 1 8 5 



1 0i 



1 92 



1 42 

 1 42 



'rioi 



1 104 



1 11 



Half-Breadths. 



Deck. C B A LWL No. 1. No. 2 



11 



1 4 



1 9 



2 

 2 26 

 2 4 

 2 5 2 

 2 53 

 2 4 

 2 3 

 2 2i 

 1 11 



1 8 



1 5 7 



1 02 



1 2' 

 1 V 



1 11 



2 24 

 2 43 

 2 51 

 2 53 

 2 4« 

 2 3» 

 2 2i 

 1 ll 6 

 l' 85 

 1 43 



9' 



1 13 



1 64 



l'lO 6 



2 V 

 2 4 

 2 47 

 2 51 

 2 44 

 2 33 

 2 1 



r iv 



1 .7 



1 1 



5 



10' 



1 43 



1 91 



2 04 



2 2» 



2 4 



2 42 



2 3« 



2 23 



2 03 



1 9 



1 36 



1 0? 

 1 5? 



1 10 



2 05 

 2 22 

 2 2« 

 2 2i 

 2 03 

 1 93 

 1 , 4 



1 03 

 1 V 

 1 84 

 1 105 

 1 11 

 1 103 



1 7 

 1 1 



2 

 66 

 11 



1 14 

 1 22 

 1 1 



The New Y. R. A. Rule. 



In connection with the comments on the class limits under the new 

 Y. R. A. rule which we quoted from the Field of Oct. 19, Lieut.-Col. 

 Buckwill takes up the question in his vigorous and straightforward 

 manner in the following issue of the Field. The method and figures 

 suggested by him are obviously correct. Other letters in the same 

 issue of the Field echo the complaint over the increased sizes of the 

 two smaller classes: 

 Editor of the Field: 



I am glad to find from your paragraphs on the new 1-raters, pub- 

 lished in the Field, that you are commencing to point out some of the 

 unfavorable results which will be produced by the new rule, classifica- 

 tion, etc. I will not weary your readers by any further fault-finding 

 concerning the rule itself, which I regard as anathema, but a few re- 

 marks on the new classification maybe of service. Our yacht de- 

 signers, who say they took such care before drawing up their pro- 

 posals, most certainly came to grief over the classification. They 

 endeavored to arrange the new classes so as to include most of the 

 existing yachts in each class, apparently being under the impression 

 (very erroneously) that the old boats might then race with some 

 chance of success against boats specially designed for the new rule. 

 This, no doubt, was a good intention, and. like most others, is utterly 

 worthless, except to assist in forming that celebrated pavement in 



another place. Had they really given careful consideration to the 

 matter they might perhaps have discovered that, the new rating being 

 linear and the old rating cubic, the only way to arrive at classes sim- 

 ilar to the old classes is to make them vary as the cube roots of the 

 old ratings. 



Had this been done the new classification would accord with 

 column 4 in the following table, and the difficulties which have been 

 invited by the adoption of the classes (see column 2) would have 

 been avoided. 







Proportionals to 





Old Classes 



New Classes 



the Cube Roots of Nearest Numbers 



Y. R. A. 



Y. R. A. 



Old Ratings. 



for Classes. 



0.5 



18 



14.85 



15 h 



1 



24 



18.71 



19 



2.5 



30 



25.40 



25.5 



5 



36 



32.00 



32 



10 



42 



40.32 



40 



20 



52 



50.80 



51 



40 



65 



64.00 



.64 



60 



73 



73.26 



73 . - 



80 



78 



80.12 



80 . 



100 



84 



86.86 



87 



160 



100 | 



101.59 



102 



Moreover, if it be desired to adhere as far as possible to the old 

 time scale, a classification like the one in column 3 would lend itself , 

 best to such treatment. But this is a matter still under consideration, 

 and it would appear more correct and reasonable to employ the square 

 roots of rating lengths as a time scale (like the American) than to 

 perpetuate a cubic time scale by an attempt to bring it in line with a 

 linear rating and classification. 



If columns 2 and 4 be compared, it will be seen that all the small 

 classes up to 5-rating have far too large an equivalent in the new Y. 

 R. A. classification, and the good intentions of our yacht designers 

 have thus put a finishing touch to the slaughter of the innocents, not 

 that any further bullet was necessary. The new rule alone was amply 

 sufficient for their total destruction as racing vessels in our waters. 



Thalassa. l 



Spruce and Ethelwynn. 



Within the past week the two racing 15-footers Spruce and Ethel- 

 wynn have changed hands, the former being sold by J. Arthur Brand 

 to Charles H. Allen, of Lowell, Mass., president of the Country Club 

 and a member of the Vesper B. C. Spruce has been lying at Abrams's 

 yard, Cold Spring, but she will be shipped by steamer to Norwalkand 

 thence by rail to Lowell. Mr. Field has sold Ethel wyhn to Crosby and 

 E. F. Leonard and Alex. Thompson, young yachtsmen, who will race 

 her next season. 



Mr. Brand has made since the races a trip to Niagara, Toronto, Mon-- 

 tres 1 and Philadelphia, meeting the yachtsmen of both the Canadian 

 cities. In Philadelphia he attempted to ride a bicycle for the first 

 time, and injured his right hand in a fall. Last week was 'spent in 

 New York, and on Nov. 2 he sailed, with Tom Wade, his "crew," on 

 theUmbria. The steamship company which brought out SorueelV. 

 proposed to charge a much higher freight for the return trip, and as 

 the boat would be of little value in England, being completely outr 

 classed under the new rule, Mr. Brand parted with her at a very low 

 figure- $300— rather than pay a high freight to take her home. He 

 has already challenged for next year, but expects to have two or three 

 other members of the Minima Y. C. associated with him. 



YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 



Hermione, steam yacht, under charter through the season by Robert 

 Goelet, has been purchased by Henry L. Pierce, of Milton, Mass. 



A regular meeting of the New York Y. R. A. was held on Nov. 1 at 

 O'Neill's, Com. Prime presiding. The sum of $115 was appropriated 

 for prizes for the annual regatta. 



Mary, racing oatboat, has been rigged as a yawl, with jib and ' 

 mizen, and on Oct. 31 sailed from Bayonne on a cruise to.Florida, On 



board were her owner, Wm. Elsworth, his cousin, Philip Elsworth, 

 and Philip von Buskirk. The yacht will follow the inside route. 

 . Davis & Sons, yacht builders, of Kingston, Ont., have in hand a70ft. 

 Steam yacht for A. E. Knopt, of New York. The yacht will cost $6,000, 

 with a guaranteed speed of 12 miles; and will be named Miltonier, 

 after Milton Island. Mr. Knopt is also building a very commodious 

 houseboat, from plans made in New York. 



The yard at Marblehead, formerly run by H. V. Partelow, has been 

 purchased, by Wm. B. Stearns, ot Boston, who has improved the 

 property, erecting a building shed. Mr. Stearns graduated from 

 Harvard in 1892 and has since been at Glasgow, studying at the Naval 

 College and working in the Scotch shipyards. 



Steam Yachts and Launches 



Built by Marine Iron Works, Clybourn and Southport avenues, 

 Chicago, 111. Free illustrated catalogue. Write for it.— Adv. 



u&twqmg. 



The Regatta Committee Report. 



In addition to the full official record cf the races and donors of 

 prizes, the report of the 1895 regatta committee is as follows:— Owing 

 to the absence of two of the regularly appointed regatta committee 

 Mr. E M. Fulton was appointed a substitute. Mr. Fulton very kindly 

 placed his yacht Gadabout at the disposal of the committtee for the 

 entire meet, of which we take this opportunity to express onr appre- 

 ciation. Wealso desire to thank Messrs. James A. Smith and- Percy F. 

 H igan for their services as clerk of the course and starter respectively ; 

 and Mr Carpenter for the use of his yacht and assistance in logging 

 courses, placing buoys.etc., and the Rochester Canoe Ciub for the us° of 

 their cannon for starting races. Several letters are herewith sub- 

 mitted, from members who have been good enough to favor us with 

 their opinions concerning a modification of the sailing rules. In con- 

 sideration of these expressions, and of the general sentiment of our 

 members, so far as we have been able to learn, we beg to suggest the 

 following changes:— 



First In rule 1, lines 7 and 8, strike out words "except the unclas- ■ 

 sifled boats, to which class the limits of length and breadth only shall 

 apply." • 



Second. In rulel, lines 24, 25, 26 and 27. defining the dimensions of 

 cruising canoes, make such changes in size of well and restrictions to 

 centerboard as shall meet the requirements of the improved modern 

 cruising canoe. 



Third. Provide a rule that shall limit the length of the sliding seat, 

 for all races, to not exceeding the beam of the canoe 



Fourth, Provide a rule tbat shall make the limit of length and beam 

 of canoes for club fours sufficiently larger than the dimensions of the 

 regular limits to meet the requirements for such races. 



And we would further suggest tbat tha executive committtee 

 recommend to the incoming regatta committee that they provide races 

 similar to event 9 (limited sailing) and event 21 (swimming) on the 

 programme of this year; and that they consider the advisability of 

 continuing the classification as used in events 7 and 8. 



(Signed) Morton V. Brokaw, Chairman, 



Fred. A. Nickerson, 



H. K. TlLLEY, 



E. M. Fulton, 



Regatta Committee, 



The Forest and Stream is put- to press each week on Tuesda 

 Correspondence intended for publication should reach us af 

 latest by Monday, and as much earlier as practicable, 



