Feb. 17, 1887.] 



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CENTERBOARD CANOE YAWL "ANNIE. 



A CENTERBOARD CANOE YAWL. 



MOST of our readers are familiar with the Mersey canoe Vawls 

 such as Vital Spark, Tomboy, Viper and others described at 

 times in our columns, all keel boats. The boat shown in the ac- 

 companying plans is a modification of the other boats to the 

 needs of shoal water sailors and also to those who wish to house 

 their boats when not in use. Her leading dimensions are: length 

 18ft., beam Sft. The drawings show a slightly smaller boat, but a 

 scale was used in building which brought the beam up to 5ft. The 

 Annie was built at Oswego, N. Y., for Mr. Geo. N. Burt, by Joseph 

 Henley, who made the model from the owner's instructions. She 

 has been used on Lake Ontario with great success, proving fast as 

 well as safe and comfortable for pleasure sailing. As the hull is 

 light it can readily be hauled in or out of the house by one man, 

 quite a consideration in some localities. The Annie is planked 

 with 7-16in. cedar and white, pine in alternate streaks, the timbers 

 being %X>»£in., spaced 4in. The deck is of cedar, on chestnut 

 carlins iXlMin., spaced 6in. The cockpit is 7ft. 2in. long and 3ft. 

 oin. wide, with a Sin. coaming of butternut. The centerboard 

 trunk is oft. long and the board is of boiler plate, 261bs. The total 

 weight of hull is SOOlbs. The ballast consists of six bricks of 

 lead, 251bs. each, stowed in the space abreast the trunk, besides 

 which two bags of sand, 501bs. each, are carried in the well. The 

 lead bricks are covered with canvas and have rope handles, so 

 they are quickly carried in or out. The spaces in each end are 

 filled with air tanks, one being placed also on each side of the 

 well as shown. No oars are used, a paddle being carried for calm 

 weather, but the boat is expected to sail whenever there is any 

 wind. She is rigged with a boom and gaff mainsail and a sprit 

 mizen. The mainmast is 17ft. heel to head, and 3in. diameter; 

 main boom 12ft., gaff Sft. 4in., mizen mast lift., and 2J4in. diameter 

 boom 5ft. The hoist of mainsail is 12ft. 4in., and of mizen 8ft. 

 The main gaff has peak and throat halliards, the former with 

 double block on mast and single on gaff. Both halliards lead 

 through f airleaders on deck to the after end of trunk, where they 

 belay. The rudder is fitted with long steering lines. There are 

 no fixed thwarts, but movable seats are used. A spinaker is car- 

 ried on the mainmast, the boom being jointed for stowage. She 

 has been through some bad weather on Lake Ontario, proving 

 herself a fine rotigbwater boat, riding lightly and going well to 



windward in rough water. In ordinary sailing she is very fast, 

 and with two or three persons aboard carries her sail easily. 



CANOES VS. SAILING BOATS. —Ed itor Forest and Stream 

 I regret to see that your correspondent, "Perch," greatly misap- 

 prehends a remark of mine, used when discussing a question of 

 measurement, viz.: that the wider boats "have nothing in com- 

 mon with canoes," and uses it as a text from which he Breaches 

 me and, as he supposes, a majority of canoeists into a position of 

 antagonism to the world of jolly cruisers using another type of 

 craft. Now, Mr. Editor, this seems too bad. Your yachting col- 

 umns last week very ably show the necessity of fixed classifica- 

 tion for all large boats, and in my correspondence with Mr. Clap- 

 ham all I have tried to insist on is this very point of the neces- 

 sity of classification for racing and the impossibility of racing 

 boats together on an equal basis when of widely different types. 

 This is all my remark can be made to mean, and from a long and 



lover of nature as she shows herself to those who seek her on the 

 water, whether in birch canoes or steel yachts. I invite your cor- 

 respondent to know us before condemning and believe he would 

 change his opinion.— Guenn. 



BROOKLYN C. C— At the annual meeting of the Brooklyn 

 C. C. officers were elected for 1887 as follows: J. F. Newman, Com- 

 modore; Geo. N. Messiter, Vice-Commodore; Morton V. Brokaw, 

 Purser; John Johnson, Measurer. A regatta is being arranged for 

 Saturday, June 18, and cruises for every month in the season. 



THE EASTERN DIVISION MEET.— A meet of the Eastern 

 Division A. C. A. will be held for three days, May 28, 29 and 30, at 

 East Haddam Island, 33 miles below Hartford, and 12 miles above 

 Saybrook on the Connecticut River. 



ALLEGHENY RIVER.— A correspondent who intends to cruise 

 down the Allegheny River next June wishes to learn something 

 about the stream, camping places, fishing grounds etc. 



fitchting. 



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



FIXTURES. 



March. 



Ocean Race, Start. 



June. 



N. Y., Annual, N. Y. 



July. 



Beverly, Open, Mon. Beach. 18-31. Interlake, Put-in-Bav. 

 Beverly,Cham., Mon. Beach. 23. Beverly, Cham,, Nahaiit. 

 Beverly, Cham., Marblehead. 30. Beverly, Cham., Mon. Beach. 

 Beverly, Sweep, Mon. Beach. 



August. 



Beverly, Cham.,Swampscott. 20. Beverly, Open, Marblehead. 

 Beverly, Cham., Mon. Beach. 27. Beverly. Open, Mon. Beach. 



September. 

 Beverly, Sweep., Mon. Beach. 



MR. FORBES'S STEAM YACHT. 



THE Atlantic Works, of East Boston, have commenced on the 

 steel steamer designed by Mr. Edward Burgess for Mr. John 

 M. Forbes, not for the owner of the Puritan, as generally reported. 

 The dimensions are: Length over all. 120ft.; l.w,l., 108ft.; beam, 

 18ft.; draft, 6ft. 6in.; freeboard, 3ft. Oin. The general specifications 

 are as follows: 



Bar keel of No. 1 rolled iron, in not more than two lengths, scarfs 

 12ft. long, size 534x^. Sternpost and rudderpost of rolled iron 

 5Mx2J.£in., with suitable eye and hub for stern pipe, lug forged on 

 rudder top. Stem of rolled iron, 534xIJ4. to extend Bin, above rails, 

 rabbeted to 2ft. below wX Frames spaced 21in. centers of angle iron, 

 2^x234x5-16; under engine, fyfa2%x%i at bulkheads, double. Floors 

 one piece of steel 13in. deep, J4in. thick, and increased to 5-16in. thick 

 under engine; to have 2|£in. limber holes in each floor. Reverse 

 bars of angle iron, 2x2xj|jm 4) to line of cabin floors and in engine 

 room to stringers; keelson on top floors 7%x%in. plate, with 3x2U 

 xr>-lfiin. angles. Plating run in fair lines, in and out strakes.of 

 mild steal; garboard and sheer strakes 5-Mn., remainder 3 B. W. 

 G. thick; sheer strake to form bulwarks. Butts 7in. wide, lining 

 pieces, spaces between outer plating and frames to have solid fill- 

 ing pieces in one length. Stringers on beams of steel, 3 B. W. G., 

 Kiiu. wide, tapering to 12in. at the ends, connected with sheer 

 strake with .5x5^3 n. channel iron. At break of deck on beams, 

 stringers 16in. wide. At break in continuation of main deck 

 stringers of angle iron, 6x3x%in., rivetted to clips on frames and 

 to attach to bulkheads. 



Deck beams on every frame,of angle iron 4x3x3-lflin., with bracket 

 ends lOin. deep. Beams forward and aft of half length, reduced 

 in size. Thwartship bulkheads of iron 3-16in tb ick, with angle iron 

 at top at fore and after ends of after cabin. Side lights as deter- 

 mined by inspector, eight on each side, lOin. drain. Rail of oak, 

 6x2J^in., hook scarfed and fastened to angle iron on top of sheer 

 strake. At after cabin to be worked so as to show same as rail 

 from outside. Sheer moulding l^jin., half round iron. Tie plates 

 to run fore and aft at each side of hatches, steel, 6xJ4in., riveted 

 to deck beams with countersunk rivets; butts closely fitted and 

 double rivetted; two stringers on each side of 3J^x2J^x5-16in. angle 

 iron, rivetted back to back. Breast hook on the deck stringer and 

 also at loadline of J4in. steel plate, fastened to reverse bars by 

 2x2xJ4m. wrought iron, extending over three frames. A collision 

 bulkhead forward of 3-16in. steel. One water-tight bulkhead aft 

 at foreward end of stern tube of 3-16in. steel, and bulkheads at aft 

 end and after cabin. Engine and boiler room bulkheads 3-16in. 

 steel, stiffeued with angle iron 2^x2xMin., spaced 30in. apart. 

 Coal bunkers of 3-16in. steel, with T or angle irons arranged as per 

 plan. Stem, sternpost and keel double rivetted, butt straps double 

 rivetted, other rivetting single. Size of rivets, %in., spaced on 

 plating from 2]4 to 2%in.; spacing on frames, reverse frames and 

 floors, i%h\.; bulkhead, 1&.U. rivet, 2in. apart; butt covers 6J4in. 

 wide for Min. and 8in. wide for 5-16in. 



Rudder to draw in at head 2%, at heel 1%; wrought iron frame, 

 plated with 3-16in. steel; width of rudder, 36in.; rudder stock to 

 have quadrant fitted to top. A wrought iron pipe of 3-16in. steel 

 to be flanged to counter and plate on deck. Bottom to be covered 

 with good Portland cement carried up on the bilge. Deck to be of 

 white pine, 2^in. thick, in long lengths, fastened with screw bolts 

 having heads let in and plugged, or fastened from below. All iron 

 work of deck where covered with wood to be well painted. Ceil- 

 ing of white pine, ?4in. thick at forward and aft cabin and at fore- 

 castle. Cabins to have double ceiling, inside to be }£m. thick, of 

 white pine. Floors of cabin of white pine tongued and grooved 

 1J4- Beams for cabin and forecastle floors of white pine 3x8)4 on 

 3x3x5-16in. angles. Seams to be run with white lead. 



Cabin finished in white pine above top line of top of sofa. Doors, 

 sideboard, sofa fronts, outside of pilot house, skylights and com- 

 panionways of mahogany. Top of pilot house of white pine and 

 inside of pilot house white pine. Top of pilot house covered with, 

 canvas and painted. Main rail from pilot house aft fitted with 

 brass rails and stanchions. Wheel 48in. in diameter. Mahogany 

 connections to rudder fitted complete. Two pairs of galvanized 

 steel davits, with blocks and falls, stepped just inside of rail. 

 Awning stanchions of galvanized iron about 6ft, apart, 5J^ft. high 

 over break of deck. 



The vessel will be schooner rigged with pole masts. 



The engine is an ordinary compound, 12J4 and 25 x 20, with~a 

 pressure of 1401bs. The main valves will have Stevenson's link 

 motion and a Meyer cut off. The boiler is similar to the Herres- 

 hoff. 



The main saloon will be forward, and the sleeping rooms abaft 

 the engine space. The yacht is to be finished by June 11, 1887. 



A NEW HERRESHOFF STEAMER. 



THE Herreshoff Mfg. Co. have now on the ways in their fine 

 building house at Bristol another steam yacht for Mr. 

 Charles Kellogg, of Athens, Pa., for whom they have already 

 built two smaller boats, both named Lucille. The first of these, a 

 cabin launch, was followed in 1885 by a full decked steam yacht 

 that has cruised for two seasons about the St. Lawrence, and 

 the new boat, named Clara, will be still larger and faster. Her 

 dimensions are : 



Length over all 98ft. 



Length L.W.L 92ft. 



Beam extreme 13ft. 



Draft 5ft. 



The construction will be the same as in the Ladoga, Lucille, 

 Stiletto and others of the class ; oak keel, steamed oak frame 

 with malleable iron knees, steel diagonal straps across the frames, 

 and double skin and decks. The garboards are of 2^in. oak, but 

 the upper planking has an inner skin of %in. white pine and an 

 outer one of Min. yellow pine. The two are fastened to the frames 

 with brass screws, while galvanized screws are used from inside 

 through the inner to the outer skin. The planksheer is supple- 

 mented by an additional thick strake of oak about 2ft. below it. 

 The deck is of white pine in two layers each J^in., the boards 

 being Bin. wide and laid in white lead with brass screws. The rail 

 will be of brass. The pilot house and deck fittings are all of 

 mahogany. 



The hull is divided by four bulkheads of galvanized iron, all 

 uncut and watertight. The main saloon is lift, long and abaft it 

 is the companion and a laboratory. Adjoining the latter is the 

 owner's stateroom, all being finished in mahogany. The fore- 

 castle, galley and officers' quarters are forward. 



The engine space is 17ft., m which is a triple expansion engine 

 and a Herreshoff boiler. The cylinders are 734 12 and 19in. by 10%. 

 The entire frame of the engine is of steel and it weighs complete 

 only 3,1001bs. The working pressure is 2251bs. The propeller, 

 skag and balance rudder are all of composition or bronze, and the 

 shaft is of Sin. steel with a copper casing. The new boat is in- 

 tended for speed. She will be rigged as a schooner with lug-footed 

 sails. 



The firm have also a launch I8x7ft. 4in., a sister to the Henrietta, 

 for a New York owner. 



Messrs. Herreshoff furnished a model of a yacht to Mr. William 

 Zeigler, but it is reported that the negotiations are off. This 

 vessel was to be 82ft. over all, 69ft. l.w.l., 19ft. 2in. beam, with 35 

 tons in her keel. 



DILWORTH.— The New Jersey Y. C. has sustained a serious loss 

 in the death of Com. Wm. H. Dilworth, which occurred at his 

 home in Hoboken on Feb. 10. Mr. Dilworth was well known as an 

 ardent Corinthian yachtsman and a leader in his club. He owned 

 the open boat Dare Devil some years, and for two seasons past 

 has been part owner in the sloop Wayward. A meeting of the 

 club was held at their house on Feb. 12 at which it was resolved 

 to attend the funeral in a body, and that a floral design represent- 

 ing the Commodore's pennant of the club be offered. The funeral 

 ook place on Feb. 14 from Trinity Church, Hoboken, 



