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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Dec. 14, 1895. 



FLATFISH. 

 Five-Rater designed by J. M. Soper, 



Yacht and Boat Sailing. 



EIGHTH EDITION. 



Mr. Dixon Kemp's standard work, "Yacht and Boat Sailing," has 

 been so long before the yachting public that its merits are known to 

 all, and in reviewing the eighth edition, just published, it is necessary 

 only to mention the numerous additions to the collection of designs 

 The general text of the book, though revised and amended in places, 

 is practically the same as in the later of the preceding editions; in 

 fact, the chapters on the selection, examination, building and equip- 

 ment of a yacht, the management of open boats and decked yachts, 

 the rules of racing and the practical work of yacht racing, have long 

 since reached a point where Jittle further improvement was possible. 

 The number of plates (in addition to the numerous illustrations in the 

 text) has been increased from 100 in the last edition to 124; and as 

 many of the older plates have of necessity been omitted, there is a 



DACIA. 



Five-Rater designed by Chas. B. Nicholson, 1893. 



arge and valuable addition of new material. The book is par- 

 ticularly interesting at the present time as showing the latest 

 developments of yacht racing under the rating rule which has 

 just expired (1887 to 1895); large drawings of some of the most 

 noted of the smaller racers being given. Among the many new 

 designs are the Thames l-raters Sorceress, Mirage, Challenge and 

 Holly; Mona, .85-rating; and the p raters Ragamuffin III. and Baby; 

 the Watson boat Vida and the Fife boat Hatasoo; the Clyde and 

 Thames "one-design" boats by Linton Hope; and the Solent 

 yachts Dacia, Flatfish, Papoose, Maharanee, Gaiety Girl and Worry- 

 Worry. The single-hand cruisers are well represented by Scourge, 

 Capt. H. E. Bayly; Dorothy, Linton Hope; and Aere Perennius, 

 designed by John C. Enberg, the winner of the first prize at the model 

 competition of the London Sailing Club competition of 1895. Among 

 the bulb fins is Virginia, 2^-rater, designed by Mr. Kemp last spring. 

 The chapters on steam yachting and canoeing have been extended and 



brought down to date; though as a mat er of fact cano9ing presents 

 little that is at all new. 



We reproduce on a greatly reduced scale three of the more interest- 

 ing of the plates— Ragamuffin III., a successful J^-rater and opponent 

 of the different Spruces; Dacia, Mr. Charles Nicholson's very sucu9ss- 

 ful 5-rater, and Flatfish, the curious craft designed by Mr. Soper for 

 the same class. 



The one criticism that suggests itself is that the book, owing to the 

 large size and great number of the plates, is very unwieldy and diffi- 

 cult to handle, especially in consulting and studying the larger plate3. 



The earlier editions of "Yacht and Boat Sailing," of ten or twelve 

 years since, treated largely of types of yachts little kno .vn or used in 

 this country; the recent changes in design, however, have brought the 

 yachts of the two nations so closely together that nearly all of the 

 examples in the latest edition are of immediate interest to American 

 readers, who will find much to repay tfapm in a study of the book. 



