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sprit, a hollow stick, will have one reef of 6ft. The fore shrouds 

 will be fitted wilh outside channels of steel plate. The Sin. 

 rudder stock will be fitted with a wheel. Below, the after cabin, 

 a good sized room, will be used by the owner ; forward of it will 

 be the companion and chart room: then the main cabin, extending 

 to the mainmast. This latter will straddle the after end of the 

 trunk, the whole being; boxed in to form a portion of the furni- 

 ture of the cabin. On the port side will be a short passage, with 

 a stateroom opening on it. the passage turning a little to port, so 

 as to shut off the view and then leading onto the toilet room, 

 steward's pantry and galliy. On the starboard side of the trunk 

 are two staterooms for gaests. Forward, the space is very well 

 arranged, giving a good forecastle, a separate raess room, a galley 

 the full width of the ship, 8>nd rooms for the offlcersaud steward. 

 A special feature is a chart room adjoining the owner's cabin, 

 with ample space for using and stowing charts. The sail plan 

 will be of modern proportions, with short foremast, the position of 

 the masts beingshown in the plans. The racingoutrit will of course 

 he very complete. The yacht is now nearly ready for launching. 



The accompanying midship sections are of value as showing 

 plainly the modern progress m design, the fi/st, America, being 

 built of wood, with a keel sided but Gin., by Mr. Geo. Steers, in 

 1850, a typical keel craft of that era. Of the centerboard boats 

 Halcyon, 1806, aiso a wooden craft aud with all ballast inside like 

 America, is a very good example, while Moutauk, 1882, and 

 Grayling, 1883. both wooden yachts with inside lead, modeled by 

 Mr." Phillip Ellsworth, show the latest and most successful 

 development of the peculiarly American type of yacht. During 

 this period, from 1864 to 1883, the fastest American yachts were all 

 centerboard craft of shoal or moderate draft, the keel being the 

 exception, but the progress abroad during the same time is well 

 sho.vn by Miranda, built of wood on their improved system by 

 Harvey & Pryor, at Wivenhoe, England, in 1876. Miranda had 

 but 18 tons of ballast outside, but as shown was a deep keel craft 

 of moderate beam. Intrepid, designed by Mr. A. Cary Smith in 

 1878, a wooden keel boat with no outside ballast, a cruising boat 

 that has since won a world-wide reputation, marked the gradual 

 improvement of the keel in America, being followed by Fortuna, 

 by the same designer, in 1883. Fortuna, built of wood, had a keel 

 large for those days, of 18 tons. She has made a, success as a r;»cer 

 and cruiser, bavrrig crossed the Atlantic and vis-ted the West 

 Indies. Designed tor speed, she has made a gc d record on the 

 side of the keels, thouga now out-built and out-ballasted by the 

 newer boats. 



Still another step in the change is very distinctly marked in 

 Sachem, built in 1886 from Mr. Burgess's designs, a keel vessel 

 with 45 tons outside, and in addition a large centerboard. Less 

 pronounced than her were Priscilla, sloop, 1885, and Iroquois, 

 schooner, 1886, the latter designed by Mr. Smith for cruising only, 

 though now ra the racing ranks, but she has heen succeeded by 

 Yampa, a keel boat of 1.0ft. l.w.1., 27ft. beam and 13ft. draft, with 

 95 tons in her keel, while Priscilla is now of the form shown, with 

 a positive keel in which is all her ballast. The latest develop- 

 ment of the keel is shown in Yampa and the new cruiser Alert, 

 designed by Mr. Henry Bryant, a wooden vessel with heavy keel 

 of lead, while the compromise craft which was represented but 

 two years since by Sachem with 8ft. 6in. draft, now finds its latest 

 embodiment in such craft as Sea Fox, with lift, draft and the 

 board reduced in size. With such a fleet afloat as Sea Fox, Pris- 

 cilla, Sachem. Grayling. Marguerite, Montauk, Fortuna, Mohi- 

 can, Gitana, Iroquois, Kesolute, Palmer, and Troubadour, there 

 will be no lack of the finest marine spectacles, and better yet of 

 keen and exciting racing through the entire season. 



EURYBIA— Sloop, built.by John Mumm for Mr. N. D. Lawton, 

 was launched at Bay Ridge on March 31. 



HORIZONTAL KEELS— Exmouth, Eng., March 20.— Editor For- 

 est and Stream: Could your correspondent "X" be induced to pub- 

 lish in your columns a diagram with full details of the flat plate he 

 proposed for Thistle's keel. I am rather interested in the idea as 

 I remember something of the sort was tried in 1853 by Mansfield 

 of Teignmouth, Devon (Eng.), on the 35-ton cutler Lady Bird, 

 built by him for R. Cary Esq., of Torre Abbey. In her case the 

 plates were two in number, and as far as my recollection serves 

 me were of Muntz metal and fixed close to thegarboards, one on 

 each side, but the experiment was not a success and they were 

 taken off, but the vessel herself was not distingaished for speed, 

 and her name was rather an unhappy one, as she was familiarly 

 known as the Lazy bird. If I interpret "X" correctly the plate 

 he proposes is to be at the bottom of keel and 

 its cross section would be like an inverted T. 

 I can understand this answering well enough when the keel 

 is parallel to the waterliue, but in cases of great rocker or great 

 drag I should fancy the head resistance would he very large, the 

 flat of the plate being at such a coarse angle to water plane. 

 —Henry E. Bayly. 



SEA WANHAKA C. Y. C.-The next lecture will be delivered 

 on April 7 by Mr Gilbert H. Wilson, of Wilson & Griffin; the sub- 

 ject being "Sails; How to Mike Tiiem and How to Treat Them." 

 The latest additions to the club models are one of Yampa, pre- 

 sented by Mr. Chapin; a handsome model of Gracie, presen-ed 

 by Mr. Earie, and a model of Madge, presented by Mr. Wat- 

 son. The latter is as fine a specimen or model-making as has 

 ever been seen here, the finish being simply perfect. Vice-Corn. 

 Center has now at the club house a model of Medusa, by Mr. 

 Grahn, the bottom beiug very neatly sheathed with thin copper 

 in sheets, laid with fine copper nails. 



CRUISING.- Wanderer, schr.,Mr. G. W.Weld, sailed on March 

 15 from Barbados for Port Spain, Trinidad ...Montauk, schr., 



Mr. J. R. Br joks, arrived at New York on March 24 Yampa, 



schr , Mr. C. W. Chapin, is now at the Erie B ism, South Brook- 

 lyn, where she wjll lie until she sails for England Intrep.d, 



schr., Mr. Lloyd Phoenix, arrived at New York on March 30, 

 having left Gibraltar on Feb. a9 and the Canary Islands on March 

 7. She left New York on Juue 8 of last year, aud has cruised 

 about European ports ever since. 



NEW JERSEYY. C— Officers, 1888: Com., Edwin A.Stevens, 



\mwtvn to (^orrezg(tndent$. 



Trustees— Edward W. Ketcham, Theophi'us Butts, Henry F. 

 Ogden. James R. Scott and James Bell. Kcgatta Committee- 

 John Curtin, Wm, E. Kinzey aud Richard Outwattr. 



CYTHERA— Nothing has been heard of Cythera since she left 

 New York. The City of Berlin reports a yawl-rigged vessel bouud 

 east on March 25, 900 miles west of Fastnet Light, but had it by 

 any possibility been the missing yacht she should have been re- 

 ported before this. 



ECLIPSE Y. C.-Ofiicers, 1888: Com., Peter Krumeich; Vice- 

 Corn., D. Shea; Rear-Corn., T. J. Hume; See'y, Wm. C. Mulker; 

 Treas., Ed w. Hammer; Meas., Henry Hofe. Regatta Committee- 

 Jos. Stroebel, Chairman; Jas. Gorton, Geo. Chase, H. M. Hume. 



NONA.— This little cutter, designed and owned by Mr. E. Brady 

 Wendell, of Detroit, was hauled upon Nov. 25 and launched on 

 March 20, the first yacht in commission on the Lakes this season. 



THE FISHERMAN'S RACE. — The starters in the fisherman's 

 race at Boston to-day will be the McManus, Phillips, Roulette, 

 Babson and Merritt. 



No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



C. K., Columbus, Neb.— We know of no dreibhunds in this 

 country. There are smooth and rough collies, and either will do 

 the work you want with a little training. 



C. W., Flatbush, L. I.— You do not give breed of dog s and it is 

 impossible for us to determine whether he is a pointer, setter, 

 spaniel or terrier, as each of these breed has a representative of 

 that name. 



A. B. K., Troy, N. Y.— We have no record of Flora except that 

 she won hist at Syracuse in 1879. She was exhibited by O. C. 

 Potter of that city, the entry stating that '"pedigree would be 

 given if requested." 



J. N. D., Halifax, N. S.— W'll you kindly inform me where I 

 can purchase the Beaverkill trout fly mentioned by C. F. Orvis 

 in yours of tJte 15th iust. and oblige? Ans.— You can get it from 

 Mr. Orvis, Manchester, Yt., or otherfly makers. 



H. B., Flatbush, N. Y.— Will you please inform me through 

 Forest and Strsam whether wild ducks can be killed on the 

 Hudson River after April 1. Ans. fixceptin Chautauqua county 

 ducks may be killed in New York State up to May i. 



J. W., Detroit, Mich.— Will you please inform me if "Fur, Fin 

 and Feather," which is advertised in your list of publications for 

 sale, embraces the latest game laws of the various States which 

 have been enacted and now in foreey Ans. Yes; it purports to 

 and we believe does. 



S. H. B., Saratoga, N. Y.— It, is not at all likely that you could 

 go to the AdiroB<:ackS and trap enough fur to pay expenses. You 

 would do much better probably in Maine. You woul i very likely 

 do still bett r in Canada somewnere near the line between Maine 

 and the Province of Quebec. 



W. R. D.. Burlington, N. J.— Have been obliged to give up busi- 

 ness on account of Health, and waut to tind a pleasant town where 

 there is some trout fishing near. Do not want extra fine sport, 

 but want brook fishing where there is some walking. Don't want 

 to go into the wilderness. Can you suggest such a place? Ans. 

 Try Newton, Sussex county, N. J.; Scranton, Mauch Chunk, or 

 Lack a waxen, Pa. 



Ftve Boys.— A party of boys between the ages of fifteen and 

 eighteen desire to know a ft w places they can go to fish, not very 

 far from the city, during the spring ana summer seasou. Will you 

 kindly let us know, through your valuable paper, also what kind 

 of bait is used for the fish in the places wh'ch you name? Ans. 

 It the boys will write again and tell us whether they wai.t fresh 

 or salt-water fishing, trout, codfish, perch, eels or porgies, we will 

 try to put them in the right place aud tell them about the baits. 



Every person who is sufficiently interested in the National 

 Park to do his share toward securing protection for it, is in- 

 vited to send for one of the Forest and Stream's petition 

 blanks. They are sent free. 



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