FOREST AND STREAM. 



(Feb. 2, 1888. 



GROWTH OF THE CUTTER FLEET. - Editor Forest mid- 

 Stream: The paragraph in your last issue enumerating the many 

 cutters now building in Boston is of more than passing import- 

 ance. It shows that despite the victories of Puritan, Mayflower 

 and Volunteer, there is to be no retrograde movement toward the 

 centerboard light draft. The sloop appears to he in less favor than 

 ever, the cutter is becoming the ruling type along the Atlantic 

 coast and on the great lakes. Even two of the three new schooners 

 are keel ships, and only one, the Burden schooner, a- centerboard 

 compromise. Even she draws within a few inches as much as a 

 keel. You can well afford to shoulder the soft impeachment that 

 Forest and Stream is a cutter paper, for the community owes 

 the introduction and present popularity of cutters to its intelli- 

 gent foresight and well-directed efforts. It will not be long before 

 other oracles will come in out of the rain, and as usual claim the 

 lioirs share in the reform movement which has transmitted the 

 orthodox sloop into the. wholesome sort of craft now taking her 

 place. Evidently the cutter ia hound to carry the day upon her 

 own merits without further assistance, aud no amount of candy- 

 rattle patriotism can stem the tide setting ia stronger every year. 

 —A. B. 



LAKE ONTARIO.-Bolleville, Out., Jan. 20.-Edif.or Forest and 

 Stream: Yachting matters are very dull here at present, the only 

 new craft now on hand or, so far as 1 can learn, in contemplation 

 for next season, are three steam launches, and a sailing punt 25ft. 

 by 8ft., which Mr. W. P. Clark is building for his own use. It is 

 reported that Cuthbert has two or three small craft in hand at 

 Trenton, as to which I will send you particulars later. The little 

 cutter Cypress has. I observe, been purchased by parties in Ham- 

 ilton. She is a flyer as compared with most boats of her size, but 

 has no chance with ccntcrhoards from 4ft. to 5ft. longer, and of 

 twice her beam, against which she. had to sail last season. A sub- 

 division of the second class, placing the limit at 3Sf t. or there- 

 abouts corrected length is desirable in the interest of such yachts 

 as the Cyprus and Minnie A., which are too small for the second 

 class and too large for the third.— Port Tack. 



MORE BURGESS CUTTERS.— Mr. Burgess has designed a 

 schooner for A. S. Rice, of Rockland, Me.; a keel boat 55ft, over 

 all, 45ft. l.w.l., 14ft. beam, and 8ft. draft. The iorn keel will weigh 

 12 tons. The head room will be 6ft. lin., with a low cabin trunk. 

 Mr. Burgess has also in hand two cutters 19ft. Bin. l.w.l. for the 

 Coiinthian Y. C, third class; one for W. S. Eaton, Jr., to be cut- 

 ter-rigged, and the other, for R. S. Peabody, to be sloop-rigged. 

 Still another cutter is the new boat for Messrs. Dunham, 3$f£ oih. 

 l.w.l., 10ft. Sin. beam and 6ft. 9in. draft, with Wz tons of 

 iron in keel. Another small cutter is for E. W. Codman. to 

 be 22ft. 6in. l.w.l., 9ft. beam, and r.ft. draft. Mr. Burgess has also 

 designed a compromise boat of the Puritan type, 30ft. l.w.l., for 

 Australia, 



ROYAL NOVA SCOTIA Y. S.— At the meeting on Jan. 19 the 

 Yacht Squadron decided to adopt a new class for the benefit of 

 the younger sailors, to be 1}£ rating by the Y. R. A. rule. This will 

 create a class of small yachts which can race together without 

 allowance, while the dimensions and type are left to the designer. 

 Under the rule the latter may select any proportions of length 

 and sail area, provided the product of the two does not exceed 

 9.000; thus an 18ft. boat can carry 500ft. of sail, while a 20ft. craf c is 

 allowed but 450. Under the rule a class of cheap and useful yachts 

 is likely to be built up. 



HULL Y. C. RACES.— The Hull Y. C. announces its fixtures for 

 the coming season as follows: June 23, pennant races; July 7, club 

 cruise: July 14, first championship; July 28, 071 h regatta, cashprizes; 

 Aug. 1, ladies' day; Aug. 4, second championship; Aug 2u, open 

 race. Championship sail off announced later. 



GALATEA. — This sloop, 38x14ft. l.w.l., has been purchased by 

 Mr. N. L. Stebbins, who will use her for his photographic work, 

 ay well as for pleasure purposes. 



MARGUERITE.— This schooner, iron in frame, will have a cen- 

 terboard trunk of plate iron. 



The good sailing qualities of that boat led me to drafting and 

 soon after 1 gave an order to a boat builder who made me a 

 smooth 14^X30 with the midship section very much likeNotus, 

 but with quite hollow lines and a trifle more deadrise. 



In running the Susquehanna with her I struck, a good many 

 rocks and shoals, and in only one instance was 1 obliged to gee 

 out of my canoe to get off; usually she would slide off herself. 

 My companion who used a canoe similar to the Shadow without 

 the tumble home generally waded and floated his canoe before 

 him. This canoe did not quite suit me, and Uie Notua does not, 

 but it comes nearer to it than any I have ever seen, and I have on 

 the stocks now at the Watertown Boat and Canoe Company's 

 shop one on those lines as near as possible, only 15ft. long, and the 

 keel is rockered about ll^in. 



Now I claim that a canoe of that, description will perform a 

 great deal better than Vesper in these points: First, she will 

 draw only a very little more wator than Vesper, if any. Second, 

 she will run rapids with comparatively little danger of sticking on 

 rooks. Third, she will sail steadier and faster and going up stream 

 will paddle a great deal easier, which wit lime is a great big point:. 

 Now, Mr. MacKendrick, give this matter a little thought, and I 

 think you will see that any boat with a reasonable amount of dead- 

 rise will he a great deal better for all purposes than one built per- 

 fectly flat. We have entirely drifted away from your first sub- 

 ject, which I think was a better one than this. We are both for 

 cruising aud I think your letters have done considerable good in 

 all the clubs, and on that ground .we can shake hands if we do 

 quarrel on all others. Gracie L. 



BlNCHAMTON, N. Y. 



SAILING CANOES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Inthe fall of 1885 I offered, through your columns, a few sug- 

 gestions in favor of a somewhat larger, safer and more comfort- 

 able variety of sailing canoe being recognized by the A. C. A., and 

 thereby raised a considerable breeze among the champion paddlers 

 and others of undoubted gymnastic ability. The breeze nearly 

 capsized me. but not quite, for you see by this that lam still 

 alive. 



It would seem also that my heresy was not entirely vanity and 

 delusion. Possibly, like some other doctrines, quite good in them- 

 selves, it may have been a few years in advance of the existing 

 state of civilization. 



Be this as it may, it would appear that the leaven has been 

 working, for I see by your remarks of Jan. 19 that "several new 

 canoes of large size" are next aeason to be navigated by officers of 

 the Association. Also, it is to be remarked that the editor "wel- 

 comes these larger canoes as a most important addition to the 

 fleet." Now, really, were I a boy again I should be inclined to 

 exclaim, bully for the editor! But, being an old chap, will con- 

 tent myself by asking you to go one step further and advise that 

 these new canoes be placed on fair and equal footing with i heir 

 slim sisters, and ottered at least one race, under the Association 

 rules, in such fair and unequivocal fashion that all may under- 

 stand. 



No one has ever yet named any valid reason why tills should 

 not be done, nor why every racing honor under the rules should 

 go to those gentlemen alone who can do the "balance act." 



Let me make your readers understand clearly that 1 do not now 

 propose, nor have I ever proposed, that the little 80in. canoes 

 should sail on even terms with the wider ones, for of course the 

 former would get beaten every time in such a bargain.- 



My proposition once more is as follows: Place, all sailing canoes 

 of any beam exceeding 32in. in a class by themselves. Give them 

 at least one race under the rules at the meets. Tax either their 

 size or their sail area for time allowance. And just so sure as 

 you are a true canoeist, you will have done more for the best in- 

 terests ot honest canoe sailing than has ever yet been done. The 

 rule proposed will draw into the Association very many good 

 members who are now kept out in the cold by a narrow, selfish 

 policy, even more unfair and ungenerous than that pursued by 

 the present holders of the America's Cup. 



Roslyn, L. I.. Jan. 20. Thomas Clapham. 



thoroughfare, North and Vinal Haven. Owl's Head stretched away 

 on the right, aud on a bald headland commanding the sea a white 

 lighthouse stands amid a scrubby growth of dwarf evergreens. 

 At length the light was left far astern, and the resistless swell of 

 the open sea surged under the canoe as she bowled along with a 

 scant quarter-inch of cedar separating dry skin from a soaking— 

 or something more unpleasant. 



The blue haze of the thoroughfare gradually resolved into 

 wooded lulls and dales, and at 11:30 a reach of smooth water was 

 entered and the buoyant waves were lost in dancing ripples. A 

 number of pinkies bore around an island loaded to the scuppers 

 with cordwood aud slabs for the lime kilns at Rockland. One of 

 these nondescripts had great reins in her mainsail patched with 

 a section of a ragged carpet, a much worn out blue shirt, and mud- 

 colored horse blanket. These curious vessels are owned and sailed 

 by along-shore farmers, trips being made during the summer to 

 dispose of the wood cut in winter, and were it not for the excel- 

 lent sea qualities of this type of vessel, I fear there would be many 

 lonely homes along this rock-bound shore. 



Spreading sails to the favoring breeze we skimmed over the 

 sparkling ripples with an occasional dash of spray and now and 

 then a puff that sent all hands to windward. Intending to have 

 plenty of time to leisurely prepare for night, one of the islands 

 was selected for a camp, and running into a beautiful little bandy 

 cove the Chapoquit was' placed on her wheels aud carted into a 

 grove of evergreens. A fire soon sent out its wreaths of smoke, 

 aud in a trice a juicy rockbtiss was broiling over the ashes, just 

 as "Seneca" docs ib*. Supper disposed of, we took a ramble over 

 the island, which was afterward found to be Calderwood's Point, 

 and by the time Olir legs were limp it was bedtime. Rigging up 

 the tent and inflating the mattress was next in order, and quickly 

 accomplished; but. getting asleep was quite, a different matter. 

 Twilight had faded into shadows, a solid gray mist came in from 

 the sea, changing the water to a cold leaden hue where so lately 

 its purple and crimson were reflected from the resplendent 

 heavens. The dull moans of the surf on the outer ledges, Die lap 

 of wavelets along the beach at last ceased their monologue, and 

 we fell asleep. A sleep, perhaps more refreshing, because of the 

 lonely island and its soli tude. 



The sun had wheeled far above the fir tops when life was visible 

 beneath Chapoquit's deck. In the refreshing morning air a hasty 

 breakfast was disposed of, aud under paddle we again proceeded 

 up the coast. A fresh breeze sprang up and its full force was felt 

 for the next few miles, and it was hard work breasting the heavy 

 rollers against the wind, balancing on the crest of one biliow to 

 plunge into the valley beyond it. and when the protecting lee was 

 left astern, matters began to appear serious. The green seas 

 curled into foam as they seethed uuder the light canoe, and if 

 some of them had been miscalculated this log would have gone 

 to the bottom instead of down to posterity. A herring boat had 

 been watching proceedings for some time, and at length ran 

 alongside and proposed taking canoe and crew ashore for five 

 dollars. His offer being declined, the irate skipper turned loose 

 his vials of wrath, eased oft his sheets and ran uown the wind in 

 intense disgust, not deigning to honor Chapoquit with even a side 

 glance till fie was a mile away. 



By 11 o'clock the water became smoother and a course was laid 

 for Swan's Island. With wind abeam and just enough of it to 

 drive the canoe along at a good pace, rare sport was enjoyed in 

 exploring quiet bays and water nooks, running near the barren 

 ledges and pretty islands, dodging swaying bar-poles with their 

 waving pennants of seaweed and kelp that marked the sunken 

 reefs and shoals. The day was glorious, and the memories of hazy 

 mountains on the mainland and Mt. Desert towering as it were 

 from a sea as blue as the sky, dotted here and therewith snowy 

 sails and green islands seem much out of place, as the dreary 

 winds rattle Vlinds and whistle around chimney pots while this 

 is written. Then the hell buoys tolled their funeral warning, and 

 their dreary tones on a night like this are warning vessels away 

 from certain destruction. 



But such a day could not last forever. As the day advanced 

 murky clouds gathered to windward and hung in a thick bank 

 along' the horizon. The vessels in the offing sentdown their light 

 sails, and the outlook for the canoe grew dubious. By dint of 

 hard paddling we at length got under the lee of Swan's Island. 

 What little wind there was died completely as we urged Chapo- 

 quit over the flattened swell. The hatches were hastily drawn 

 and all hands eiept beneath an overhanging rock toawait conclu- 

 sions. A mist had shut out vessels to leeward, and one hy one the 

 islands were lost to view. A line of white foam fringed the black- 

 ness of the wild sky, and a deep roar, each moment growing 

 louder, plainly told the canoe was none too soon in reaching shel- 

 ter. The fierce wind churned the water into foam, which flew 

 bet ore the violent gusts as so much dust. Incessant thunder 

 jarred the island till it fairly trembled. A drop of rain wet the 

 canoe, then another, and wo looked out upon a chaos of angry 

 waves and wild winds that my pen is too feeble to describe. The 

 spruces bent to the earth, tugging at I heir roots as if they would 

 he torn from the ground; zig-zag lightning sprang from sea to 

 zenith in blinding flashes, illuminating for an instant (lie foaming 

 waste of tumbling billows and swaying trees with its ghastly glare. 

 The storm lasted for an hour and settled into a steady, soaking 

 rain, and after a supper of canned goods we turned in. 



When morning dawned we sighted a jigger at, anchor in the 

 cove and went aboard. She was a schooner-rigged craft, with a 

 cargo of dry and wet goods, hardware, tinware, groceries— in fact 

 she was fitted out as a general country store, and the vessel her- 

 self was the delivery wagon. Her captain and owner was a raw- 

 boned Yankee from' Cape Cod, his crew his son. His boat took 

 the place of the itinerant, peddler's cart so often met within 

 sections sparsely settled, and he probably borrowed his way of 

 getting a livelihood from the many hawkers who infest Cape Cod, 

 and make doorbells weary of existence. He visited every island 

 in his circuit of 200 miles, dispensing staples, tobacco and rum to 

 the fishermen who have their shanties there. 



The sea being rather rugged we engaged passage to Southwest 

 Harbor and in an hour the Fannie I'Taiicis was pounding away on 

 the starboard tack for Lopau's Point, under bobbed jib and 

 double-reefed mainsail. The cabin of this curious c raft was a 

 sight, with its rows of clothiug for ladies and gents suspended in 

 mid-air, kegs and boxes of provisions lashed to the floor, and held 

 in place by ropes, while half a dozen pigs squealed and grunted in 

 a packing case nailed to the floor. A gouty compass vibrated in 

 its corroded case, and the skipper admitted he couldn't "depend 

 much on the danged affair anyhow." 



When Swan's Island was well astern, a dory shot out from the 

 lee of a low ledge, and running alongside the jigger, its, solitary 

 occupant clambered aboard, and after receiving a head of tobacco 

 in exchauge for a piece of silver, jumped into his boat, cast off, 

 and, hoisting his sprit sail, put back for the reef and his lobster 

 traps. 



Lobster fishing is one of the principal industries of this section, 

 and the isolated fishermen furnish the canning factories with the 

 greater part of the lobsters used. Each man owns as many traps 

 as his means will admit — some 200 or more, but usually less. A 

 trap is simply a grated box, similar to an orange crate, with a 

 small opening at one end. This box is sunk, after baiting with 

 fisb, in deep water on a rocky bottom, and there anchored, its 

 position being determined by floats. The lobsters get into the 

 traps, and often three or four are taken at one haul, and their 

 weight sometimes exceeds 201bs. ' • . 



At about noon the jigger ran into South West Harbor and 

 dropped anchor off Freeman's beat slip. The tide here has a rise 

 of about 12ft., and small boats are usually moored to what re- 

 sembles a gallows rising from the water; and with t he herring 

 weirs— most unsightly affairs of r- takes and brush— one might 

 ea'ily imagine himself in some far-away country instead of within 

 a few hours of Boston. 



Mt. Desert Island is as large as a good sized county in Massa- 

 chusetts, verv irregular in its coast outline, with gullied ravines 

 and lovelv little reaches in endless variety. Green Mountain 

 towers 1,527ft. above the sea, and on its summit is the most ele- 

 vated government signal station along the coast. There are 25 or 

 30 post-offices on the island, the principal town being Eden, sep- 

 arated from Lp.moine on the mainland by Mt. Desert Narrows. 



Bar Harbor, the modern Newport, is 15 miles from S. W. Harbor, 

 and at dusk Chapoquit glided into its landlocked bay and up the 

 float into Connor's boat bouse, and the weary crow slept that 

 night upon a bed of down at Rodick's. In the morning on going 

 down to the wharf we were greatly amazed at the transformation. 

 Where schooners had sailed the night before with plenty of 

 water a horse was dragging a cart across the rocky hot torn to Bar 

 Island, a quarter of a mile away. And here we will leave you as 

 we board the return steamer, and our pleasant cruise is a memory 

 of the past. Chapoquit. 



PASSAIC RIVER.— A meeting was held in Newark on Jan. 28 

 of the Passaic River canoeists with Mr, L, B. Palmer, Ian the C.C., 

 in the chair, and Mr. C. V. Schuyler, Arlington C.C., as secretary. 

 A meet will be held on Newark Bay on July 1-5. The regatta 

 committee appointed includes Messrs. Palmer, Cox and Kitchell, 

 and the committee on camp Messrs. Mitchell, Peebles and Brad- 

 sley. Secretaries of clubs on the Passaic will please send lists of 

 members to the secretary of the meet, C. V. Schuyler, Arling- 

 ton, N. J. 



Address all communications to the Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 



WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Commodore— James Fanning Latham, Chicago, 111. 



VIec-Commodore — J. R. Bartlett, Fremont, Ohio. 



Rear-Commodore — T. J. Kirkpa trick, Springfield, Ohio, 



Secretin' -Treasurer— Geo. A. w ardor, Springfield, Ohio. 



Executive Committee— H. G. Hodge, Dayton, O.; C. P. Pemiewell, Cleve- 

 land, O.; C. J. Beusnelcl, Bay City, Mich. 



The annual meat foi ISSS will be held at Ballast Island, Lake Erie, July 7 

 to 23. Regatta begins Tuesday, July 10. 



AN AMATEUR'S EXPERIENCE. 



Editor Forest and Stream-: . , . 



Mr. MacKendrick seems to have been a little angry when be 

 wrote his last letter iu answer to "Cruiser," and drops tne 

 original subject to assail all Class A canoes, and Pecowsic in par- 



t-iClllElJ*. 



Can it be possible that Mr. MacKendrick would really like to 

 have all the smaller sizes of canoes thrown out of the Association, 

 regardless of tasles, weights and waters. The Forest and 

 Stream stated quite correctly last week that when veteran 

 canoeists eliange to a 2Sin. canoe they do not do it for the sole 

 purpose of getting a faster canoe, but because they think it is 

 better in several respects. Perhaps Pecowsic is a racer. I am 

 not upholding such a model; I do not like her myself, but 1 be- 

 lieve in giving her credit for the good points she has, and the 

 good she has done the Association. 1 think we have Mr. Barney 

 and his Pecowsic to thank for the many improvements in sails 

 and fittings made in the past two years. Not that he has made 

 all of them, but he has forced all the racing men to use i heir 

 ingenuity to beat him. More than one canoeist will agree with 

 me when I say it is more Mr. Barney than Pecowsic. Take myself 

 for instance 'racing against him; no matter what boat I used I 

 have no doubt but what he would leave me two miles behind iu a 

 three-mile race. Now as regards Vesper and Notus. If Mr. 

 MacKendrick will take the trouble to make a model of each, as I 

 have done, he will plainly sec what a superior boat Notus is. 



My experience with canoes and small boats dates back to 1880. 

 My first was an open boat 15ft. long and 32in. wide, built very flat 

 on the bottom; she was rigged with a 75ft. sprit 'sail, and had a 

 4in keel. The next was a Shadow model built hy a man in Syra- 

 cuse, rigged with two balance lug sails and leeboard. I cruised 

 a good deal in her and sailed whenever I had a chance, but she 

 was far from perfect. There, was the trouble with her that every 

 one who has sailed a very fiat canoe has noticed; she would roll 

 go in going before the wand that it was almost impossible to keep 

 from falling out of her. Then again in paddling down a riff or 

 running a rapid, if she struck a stone anywhere near the keel you 

 could not get her off without putting all the weight up in the 

 bow, and the chances were then you would have to get out and 

 float her off. The next, was a Racine Shadow. Of that I will 

 say little except while I think of it I am going to give away a cer- 

 tain person who a little time ago wrote the. Forest and Stream 

 under the nom de plume of "Deja." I am credibly informed by 

 several people that this gentleman is a resident of this city. 



"Deja's" total experience with canoes was limited to seeing this 

 Racine Shadow. Our crack sailing canoes were condemned as 

 being poor boats on account of comparison with this poorly sailed 

 Racine. This craft came to an untimely end on an eel rack; a 

 sharp stake tore off one of the veneers. A gentleman of Tunk- 

 hanuock thinking she could be repaired offered ten dollars for 

 her, and the owner consented to let her go. 



My next canoe was built in the spring of 1887 by myself. I am 

 telling a different story than most, amateur builders when I say 

 she was the homeliest craft that ever floated. It was my first at- 

 tempt at boat building and I. know it will bz- my last. That is one. 

 point on which "Deja" and myself agree exactly. He says in one 

 of his letters that boat building is beyond the skill of the amateur 

 carpenter and I believe it. 1 started this cano; on the lines of the 

 Jersey Blue. It was built of narrow strips blindnailed. First of 

 all I made a mistake in cutting the rabbet, and when I got on two 

 or three streaks found I had the midship part of the keel curved 

 down about 2in., but which turned out to be a good mistake after 

 all. When she was planked I put in the ribs and pulled out the 

 moulds. The next morning the ribs had straightened out until 

 the sheerline was almost straight from bow to stern. If the nails 

 had given out in the ends I would have had a good raft. Still I 

 finisiied her. I found when I launched her that she was danger- 

 ously cranky, but she could sail, especially beating. I put in 

 some large air tanks and fastened a piece of railroad iron about 

 7ft. long to the bottom boards, There was nothing on the river 

 anywhere near her size that could sail around her; but she was 

 too' crauky for me so I gave her to a poor man, against whom I 

 had a particular grudge; he was not a real good swimmer either, 

 but I never heard of his being drowned. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Appended to a communication from "Cruiser" in the last, issue 

 of the Forest and Stream were some very pertinent remarks 

 from the editor. The following especially will find an echo with 

 many an old boatman, who likes a little more room, and an abler 

 craft than he can find in classes A or B, "There is undoubtedly 

 a wide field for a larger craft than the ordinary A. C. A. canoe, 

 something of tho same model and rig, but of great size. Such 

 boats are useful on waters where a canoe is inferior to the ordi- 

 nary sailboat, and they are at the same time far superior to the 

 latter." It may be interesting to the readers of the canoeing 

 columns to hear that at the recent meeting of the executive and 

 regatta committees of the W. O. A„ held at Dayton, O., on the 7th 

 bast., class C was definitely added to the regatta list, and tho fol- 

 lowing measurements and limits adopted for the new class, viz: 

 "Class C— Length not over 18ft., with a limit of 32in. beam for that 

 length. The beam increased Sin. for every Gin. of length decreased. 

 Limit of beam, lOin." The nucleus for this class already exists in 

 two fine boats owned by Vice-Commodore Bartlett and Mr. 

 Moore, of Fremont, O. Kelpie. 



EASTERN DIVISION MEET. 



LOCATION for the Eastern Division meet has been proposed 

 _ on the Thames River, on a commanding bluff eight miles 

 below Norwich, six above New London, and about u mile from the 

 starting point of the Yale-Harvard races, It is a few hundred yards 

 from Montville, at wbich all New London trains stop, and the 

 Norwich line of New York boats. Two boats run daily down each 

 morning from Norwich and up each afternoon from New London. 

 The Norwich lino leaves New York daily, one boat stops at New 

 London and the other touches there and at Montville and thou 

 goes to Norwich. Montville is by sail four hours' ride from New 

 York, three from Hartford via Norwich or New London, four from 

 Springfield , and four from Boston via New Loudon or Norwich. 

 Canoes could be shipped by daily steamer from New York by Nor- 

 wich line from North River and weekly from East River by pro- 

 peller Delaware; from Springfield by rail, from Hartford by boat 

 daily to Lyme and rail to Now London, or steamer Sunshine tri- 

 weekly to New London, and by steamers Ella or Block Island to 

 Montville, and from Boston by rail. At Yale's Ferry, if the camp 

 were held July 1-4, board could be doubtless obtained, where the 

 Yale and Columbia crews had just been. If any should prefer, 

 fifteen minutes ride by cars will furnish good hotel accommoda- 

 tions at New London or Norwich with frequents trains to and 

 from the camp. The view is fine and commands the full sailing 

 course, which could be triangular. The prevailing wind is south- 

 east and there is a moderate current with the flood and ebb tides, 

 if the water should he rough a course could be used one-quarter 

 of a mile further up the river and with still less current. For 

 paddling races, whichever way the wind might be, a smooth course 

 could be found, finishing off the camp or a short distance away in 

 Haughton's Cove. The canoeists of the Thames will give a cordial 

 welcome to a division meet on our beautiful river. 



Nathan A. Grass. 



THE CHAPOQUIT'S LOG. 



ONE sultry morning in early July the Chapoquit found itself 

 upon the steamboat wharf at Rockland, Me. The frail craft, 

 after getting several hard knocks ai the hands of the hurrying 

 truckmen, was put into a dock filled with slimy mud, tin cans and 

 defunct lobster pots, to await the incoming tide. It had rained 

 during the early morning and a dense fog hung over the harbor, 

 almost shutting the steamer from view and concealing the im- 

 mense piles of baggage disgorged from her capacious hold. Here 

 and there the hare masts of a coaster pierced the mist for an in- 

 stant to bo again hidden by the floating va por. Sight-seeing being 

 out of the question, a committee of one sat beneath an open shed 

 and made his plans for the cruise. 



Mt. Desert lies some sixty miles to the eastward of Rockland. 

 The innumerable islands dotting the intervening water afford an 

 accessible lee, and, if occasion demands, suitable camping grounds 

 for the night. 



About 8 o'clock the fog lifted and the sun burst upon the harbor 

 and hillsides as if it were, even brighter from having been veiled 

 for it time; a cool breeze ruffled the lazily bearing bay until it 

 shimmered like burnished silver. A bustle among the fishermen 

 announced the tide had turned, and in a few minutes we were 

 paddling out into the harbor. Behind us the white dwellings 

 nestled on the uplands like reflections of the white-winged fish- 

 ing smacks iu the offing. G-aunt derricks bristle among the gray 

 quarries, and the yellow, sandy roads twisted away from the 

 wharf like so many prehistoric snakes. 



Deed ahead lay the emerald islands in their silvery setting, 

 with many a rusty lodge showing its wave-worn battlements 

 above the ceaseless foam at its base. The ship channel was 

 entered, and the Chapoquit headed across Penobscot Bay for the 



