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sheet 'block. A small jaw of brass is lashed to the boom, and the 

 bight of the toppinglift is slipped into it, holding the boom at the 

 proper height. By casting the lift off from this jaw aud allowing 

 it to swing forward the boom will drop on deck, and by leaving it 

 m the jaw and hauling in, belaying on the small cleat or boom, 

 the latter may be topped up as far as desirable. No reefing gear 

 is shown, but any of the well-known varieties may be fitted as in 

 a lug or Mohican sail, two reefs being sufficient. 



The mizen may be rigged precisely as the mainsail, but with 

 the small area now carried alt a sail of the same shape, but not 

 fitted to lower, will answer perfectly. The luff is laced to the 

 mast, one batten is fitted as shown, and a brail, in two parts, one 

 on each side cf the sail, the leading through small bullseyes 

 lashed to the mast, the two parts spliced into one and belaying 

 on the cleat at foot, serves to stow the sail snugly for running 

 free or paddling. Though rather long, the mast and sail weigh 

 but little, and may be readily unstepped and stowed on deck, a 

 smaller m'zen neing substituted. The sprit mizen used on the 

 Pearl will answer well for this latter, the spars being quite short. 

 It is fitted as shown in the dotted lines, with one batten, there 

 being rings on leech and head. A brail is rove through these 

 rings in two parts, one end fast to boom and up the leech, thence 

 through a bullseye on mast; the other end fast to top of batten, 

 through rings on head, and through same bullseye. The sail may 

 be reefed by hauling the latter part until the batten lies close to 

 mast, or by a pull on both parts the sail is brailed up snugly 

 against the mast. The spars may be short euough to allow the 

 rig to be stowed inside the well. 



The spinaker forms a most important feature of this rig, as 

 the mizen is stowed when down wind and the spinaker set, the 

 canoe runniug much steadier than under after sail. The shape is 

 shown in the drawing by the broken lines, the foot being greatly 

 roached in the curve shown. The head and outer angle of sail 

 are fitted with small swivels, in case of a turn in hoisting; the 

 halliard leads through a Mock at masthead, one end leading 



through ablock at deck, the other hooking into the sling of sheet 

 | block when not in use. If on the wrong side, it may be swung 

 ' around in front of the mast before snapping to head of sail. The 

 sheet or after guy is fast to the sail, and a snap hook on the latter 

 ' hooks into an eye on the end of boom. The tack leads through a 

 screweye on deck just forward of the mast, the ends leading aft 

 on each side of mast, so that either may be bent to the sail. The 

 boom, of bamboo, is fitted with an eye at the outer end and a 

 small jaw on the inner, the latter shipping in a brass stud in the 

 deck just abaft the mast. The sail is snapped on to the halliard 

 and hoisted, the tack being first hooked on; the outer angle is 

 then hooked to the boom, the latter shipped against the stud on 

 deck and swung forward, the sheet then being made fast and the 

 tack trimmed. The sail should be of strong light linen that will 

 dry quickly. 



To complete the ordinary outfit for cruising and racing, an in- 

 termediate mainsail of about two-thirds the size of largest sail is 

 used, and sometimes a small spinaker. The rig for a large canoe, 

 such as the Guenn, will include a racing mainsail of 90ft., a cruis- 

 ing mainsail of about 60ft., a racing mizen of 25ft., a cruising 

 mizen of 13ft.. and two spinakers of 60 and 45ft. The dimensions 

 of spars and sails for such a rig are given in the following table, 

 the spars being much lighter than any now in use on canoes, but 

 they are all a little larger than those carried on the Tramp, a 

 heavy Pearl, 14x33, for the past year: and if of good spruce and 

 properly rigged, will be amply strong. The old Guenn carried a 

 mainsail of 105ft. and a mizzen of 35ft., mast 15ft. above deck; but 

 the present canoe, if built lightly and sailed with a moderate 

 amount of ballast, should prove still faster under the rig shown. 

 The weight aloft will be about one-half that of the old rig, con- 

 sequently the boat can be held up with much less ballast, and the 

 crew will have far more control of her. The movement now is in 

 the direction of smaller sails, and all experience goes to show that 

 a boat will be faster under a properly proportioned rig of moder- 

 ate dimensions than under a heavy outfit of spars and canvas, 



that must be upheld by heavy ballast and at times with great 

 difficulty: 



DIMENSIONS Or SPARS AND SAILS -CANOE GUENN. 



Main. Mizen. 



Cruising. 



Racing. 



Cruising 



11* 



12 00 



12 00 



8 09 



9 06 



5 02 



8 04 



5 or 



5 00 



8 04 





08, 5 02, 5 02 

 6 08 



5 03 



500 



1 11 



5 03 



4 08 



5 05 



9 00 



4 10 



8 CO 





2 00 



13 10 



9 04 



4 04 



1=1 05 







8 08 







55 00 



25 '66 



15 66 



48 00 





8 00 







8 01 







10 06 







1 OS 







2 08 







Racing. 



Mast, from stem II 4 



Deck to truck 11 00 



Boom 10 06 



Yard 10 06 



Batons 9 01,7 10, 6 6, 6 06 I 



Spinaker boom 8 06 



Fo->t 10 00 



Luff 6 10 



Head 10 01* 



Leech 17 06 



Tnck to peak 16 11 



Clew to throat 10 11 



Area, square feet €0 CO 



Spinaker area, sq. ft 61 00 



Fort 1<> 00 



Luff 10 03 



Leech 13 04 



Round of foot... 1 06 



Battens apart 2 03. 2 04 4 



The 90ft. sail has three battens. 55ft. sail has two. Battens are 

 spaced IJ^in. further apart on leech than on luff. 



Racing mast Sin. at deck and up to second batten, thence taper- 

 ing to lin. at head. Mizenmast l%in. at deck, tapering to %m. at 

 head. 



Main boom ij-gin. diameter for middle third of length, thence 

 tapering to %in. at ends. 



Yard lin. diameter for about middle third, thence tapering to 

 ^m. at ends. Battens round, y 2 m. at fore and %hi. at after ends, 

 upper battens %m. throughout. Mizenboom %m. at middle, 

 tapering to J^in. forward and %in. aft, batten %in. Spinaker 

 boom, bamboo, about Min. at fore and %in. at after ends. The 

 spars for cruising rig will be a little smaller throughout. The 

 mizenmast will fit forward tube, but will be reduced in size from 

 deck up. 



TORONTO C. C. NOTES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



As I sit musing, with my feet at an open window and the bright 

 sunshine and gentle breezes of spring blowing in upon them it 

 reminds me that spring will soon be he re, and that I have not 

 written the usual annual notes concerning our club; so the hands 

 are lazily taken out of my pockets, and, armed with a quill, I will 

 give you the freshest. The officers for the year are: Com., John 

 L. Kerr; Vice-Corn., D. B. Jacques; Rear-Corn.. W. G. MacKen- 

 drick; Sec.-Treas., A. Shaw: Committeeman, Colin Fraser. Re- 

 gatta Committee— Colin Fraser, D. B. Jacques aud A. Anderson. 

 The club has sixty members on the roll, and the prospects for an 

 addition appear good. There are, I am sorry to say, no new canoes 

 being brought in by the racers, but the regatta committee have 

 arranged things so that the club racing will be very interesting 

 The idea was to put men on as even a footing as possible. This 

 they found could not be done with any length or beam rules. 

 They have made three classes, I., II. and III. The Dottrel, Dawn, 

 Vic, Una and Mac are in the first, Boreas, Isabel, Sapphire and 

 the balance of the decked craft, in the second, and the open canoes 

 in the third. Any member is allowed to go into the higher class, 

 but cannot go to a lower. 



In Class I. the racing is expected to be very close, as the mem- 

 bers composing it are all getting new sails and getting things 

 fixed up in good shape. There are to be three sailing and three 

 combined races in the season, and the person winning two out of 

 the three races takes the trophy. 



A cruise is being arranged for our Queen's Birthday, May 24, to 

 Miruico, and a large turnout is expected. It is likely that, Toronto 

 will send a large contingent of able-bodied paddlers, sailors and 

 porridge eaters up to the division meet at Lake Couchiching, as 

 the camp chosen is one of the prettiest in Canada, both for camp- 

 ing and cruising, while the lake is a clear racecourse, six miles by 

 about three, with not an island or stone in it. The ice is still about 

 two feet thick on the bay, but the edges are breaking and it must 

 go before long. Meanwhile quite a number of the boys are rais- 

 ing blisters on their hands with sandpaper and varnish brushes, 

 and as they scrape you can hear floating out on the breeze the 

 gentle strains of 



Let us gather up the blizzards 

 As they howl around our door, 



Let us pack away the snowdrifts 

 That now dot the landscape o'er; 



Let us bottle up the zero 

 That now cuts us like a blade, 



For we'll need it all next summer, 

 When it's ninety in the shade. Mac. 

 Tokonto, Aprils. 



SPRINGFIELD CUP— A CRUISING MEET. 



COMMODORE JONES, of the Hartford C. C, gave a camp-fire 

 at his residence on Thursday evening, March 29, at which 

 were present, besides a full attendance of home members, a large 

 delegation of invited guests from out of town, among whom were 

 Messrs. Shedd, Rice, Knappe, McKnight, Walker, Foote, Nicker- 

 sou. Patterson, of the Springfield C. C. and Messrs. Gibbs and 

 Holmes, of the Chelsea Boat Ciub, of Norwich. Nearly all of 

 those present are members of the A. C. A., and the plans of the 

 season for Eastern Division were the principal topics of conversa- 

 tion. The Springfield men had brought down the handsome cup 

 given by Mr. Barney for their associates of the Eastern Division 

 to admire, which they did, heartily. The cup is of a noble pat- 

 tern, about 18in. high by 15in. across and bears upon the side in 

 relief a lifelike, picture of the famous Pecowsic, with the inscrip- 

 tion "Springfield Cup, 1888." The conditions of the racing for 

 this cup are as follows: 



The Springfield cup for '88 is offered by E. H. & G. M. Barney 

 to be competed for by any A. C. A. member. Five races are to be 

 sailed during the summer. The winner of any of the 5 prelimin- 

 ary races to be barred from further competition until the final 

 race, when the 5 winners will compete for ownership of the cup. 



The Regatta Committee, Messrs. Gibbs, Holmes and Rice, here- 

 tofore mentioned in these columns, discussed the plans for the 

 races and the value of a cruising meet to the Eastern Division to 

 be held some time this spring or summer. At a suggestion of 

 Vice-Corn. Jones, the company present organized into a meeting, 

 Secretary Parker, of the H. C. C, in the chair; E. B. Daviason, 

 purser. After a full discussion and speeches from Messrs. Jones, 

 Shedd, Parmele, Nickerson, Gibbs and Davidson, it was voted 

 informally to be the sense of the company present that the East- 

 ern Division, with all its canoeing acquaintances who can join 

 them, hold a cruising meet on the 26th, 27th, 28rh, 29th and 30th of 

 May next; the stait to be made from the Hartford canoe house 

 early on Monday morning and Monday night all camping near 

 some hotel to be selected down the Connecticut River, Tuesday 

 night all to rendezvous at the racing grouna, which will probably 

 be at, Deep River, where the races will be held on Decoration Day. 



The facilities on the river are as good as can be found any- 

 where for carrying canoes and luggage by cars or boat; and stop- 

 ping places will be selected where those who do not camp can find 

 comfortable and reasonable hotel accommodations. 



NEWBURGH BOATING ASSOCIATION. -The "Dockrats" 

 will soon leave their old quarters for a new house, 30ft.xS0ft. and 

 two stories high. From the piazza a view of the Hudson for 18 

 miles mav be had. The association now numbers 55 members. 

 Two new cruisers are building by Samuel Avers, in New York, 

 are 18ft.x5ft. for Mr. Van Daltsen, and one 17tt.x4ft. 6in. for Mr. 

 Chas. S. Williams. 



A. C. A. MEMBERSHIP— Central Division: M. N. Rochester, 

 Albany, N. Y. 



Harry Gordon is the most devoted disciple of Izaak Walton 

 in this whole section. Nothing new in the way of tackle 

 escapes his eagle eye. He makes his own flies and can dis- 

 count an expert in this delicate work. Recently he saw an 

 advertisement of a steel rod which he promptly ordered. 

 The device struck him so forcibly that he marvelled that the 

 same had not been discovered before. He whipped a weight 

 around with it a few minutes and then started out for the 

 Little Spokane to give it a test with animated scales. He 

 had hardly made a cast when he had hooked an eight-pounder, 

 an old timer who thought he was too fly to be caught. The 

 trout struggled fiercely but the elasticity of the rod baffled 

 him and he could not break the line and carry the hook off 

 in triumph on his summer excursion down the Columbia. 

 After playing with his victim and testing his rod, Harry 

 hauled in his prey and pronounced the rod a success.— 

 Spokane Falls {W. T.) Chronicle. 



