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actual size, and by them at J east, as well as the casual spectators, 

 the promised revival will be welcomed eagerly. There are two 

 sides to the question, one a very large and important one, but we 

 will not stop now to discuss whether the class is apt to become 

 peimanent and popular, whether it will enlist a sufficient number 

 of men who are both able and willing to pay for a rather expensive 

 sort of sport, whether the boats whl be tuned up to the winning 

 pitch that all of Gen. Paine's boats have been kept at, not to men- 

 tion Sachem, Clara and the other craft that win. It is sufficient 

 that the experiment of reviving schooner racing is to be fairly 

 tiied, and in good hands. 



During the half dozen years immediately preceding' the Puritan- 

 Genesta, races the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. had by hard 

 work afloat and a strict adherence to Corinthian principles put 

 itself at the head as a racing club, its yachts and its sailors were 

 famous abroad as well as at home; and it should be a matter of 

 gratification to every New York yachtsman to know that local 

 interests will be so well represented in the racing of the year, 

 and m such old and tried bands, for of the new craft now prepar- 

 ing three will fly the burgee cf tne Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C, 

 and with every prospect of bringing fresh laurels tolMewYork. 

 The smallest of the three is the new steel yacht Katrina, designed 

 by Mr. A. Cary Smith, for Messrs. Auchincloss, now building at 

 City Island to race in Bedouin's and Grade's class. The next in 

 size is Priscilla, nowowiied by Mr. Robert Lenox Belknap, an 

 old member of the S. C. Y. C, and though built in 1885 and raced 

 for three seasons she is now undergoing such alterations at Mr. 

 Pipegrass's hands and under the direction of Mr. A. Cary Smith, 

 her designer, that she comes out this year a new beat. The rig 

 has been changed ircm sleep to schooner, the hull has been 

 changed by the addition cf a large ktel, the draft has been in- 

 creased by 18in. and the tallatt loweicdin the proportion. 



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field, of the Seawanhaka C. Y. C. Commodore Canfield made his 

 first essay as a designer in 1884, in the 50ft. cutter Isis, a boat that 

 in spite of a handicap in the shape of heavy construction, has 

 turned out quite a success; but still it is a long step from ber to 

 the handsome schooner which will this year carry the commo- 

 dore's pennant of the Seawanhaka fleet, the Sea Fox, as her 

 designer and owner has named her. Sea Fox is built of mild steel 

 by the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, of Wilmington. Del., 

 the builders of Mischief, Priscilla, Alva, Susquehanna, Iroquois, 

 Nourmahal and Yampa. Her leading dimensions are given in the 

 following table and are accurate; the dimensions of the other 

 yachts are carefully compiled fiout the most trustworthy sources 

 and are nearly all correct up to the present season. Of the mid- 

 ship sections shown, Halcyon, Montauk and Grayling are not 

 from actual measurements, the same not being accessible, but 

 they are correct in proportion and sufficiently so in detail to 

 represent each type fairly; the others are from drawings believed 

 in all cases to be accurate. 



Sea Fox is a keel-centerboard yacht of the new compromise 

 type, and is, with the exception of Marguerite, Mr. Burgess' new 

 schooner, the most extreme yet built, her draft being lift., with a 

 distinctly marked keel of over 3ft. From its old position as chief 

 tenant of the boat and sole reliance to windward, the centerboard 

 has in the Sea Fox retired to the comparatively unimportant 

 place of an auxiliary whose exacting demands for the best space 

 in the boat are only in a measure complied with. Whether these 

 demands are to be still further curtailed in the future by rele- 

 gating the trunk to a place below the cabin floor is yet to be 

 proved this season, but the Sea Fox bears evidence that the days 

 of a huge centerboard trunk and a capacious galley stove as the 

 main factors in designing and sparring have given way to a better 

 order of things. The steel trough keel will contain 54 tons of lead 

 melted in, with some 4 tons of loose pigs stowed on top, prac- 

 tically all "outside ballast." Her plating is of 5-16in. steel, 

 frames of 25^X3^ steel angles, spaced i2]^ra., with reverse frames 

 of the same size on each alternate frame, extending in 

 one piece around the bottom of keel and well up each side. 

 The deck beams will be of the same size, and spaced as the 

 frames, with a deck of 2J^in. square white pine. The plating will 

 of course extend up to the rail, with tubular stanchions of steel. 

 All the deck work including the rail, will be of teak. The bow« 



