April 7, 1887.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



THISTLE. 



TN addition to the dimensions raado known last week the Ftehl 

 JL of Maivb 'M publishes the following particulars: 



"The most prominent fact obtained is the absence of a center- 

 board, which appliance it was believed would be essenti.il to a 

 successful contest, with the American cutters, with whom the 

 centerhoard has been a necessary adjunct. The cutter building at 

 Glasgow is strictly a keel boat, and does noi display any consider- 

 able variation from the design Mr, Watson would have adopted 

 in buildiug a first-class cutter for British waters under the re- 

 c«mtJy-a1tercd rule of measurement, of the Yacht Racing Associ- 

 ation! The ThMle v. ill of course have ccine more beam for length 

 than the British type of cutter has had, and less depth of body. 

 With forefoot cut away, as in Mr. Watson's yachts Vauduara, 

 Marjorie and Wendur. the bow of Thistle will neither show so 



fine nor so lon^, 

 in the keel, the cut ter will show eas; 

 a very long counter, will loce her 

 quarters. The bow show s no flare c 

 pated from Mr. Watson's earlier 

 above water, will be a very handsou 

 eies toward the model in fashion a < 



side dailasttng laid not been adopted t 

 hulls had not been narrowed and broad.' 

 years. Taunt and weighty spara wilt 

 speed than the look of the hull to tho 

 models of the British type. The This 

 steel, the. Seimens-Marthi brand being 

 is fjyn. thick, and the upper plates an 

 hull is strengthened with sto 

 plat 



cinsfdemble camber 

 lies fore find aft, and, with 

 und side in iinely-turued 

 as might have been autici- 

 •h»>. Indeed, the cutter; 

 ,'ossol, having some "t enden- 

 izen years since, when out- 



and 

 riggii 

 fored 



rile 



the 1 



the 

 J plat 



troduc 



. fullest extent, and 

 ies flattened as iu recent 

 noro certainly indicate 

 accustomed to t lie L titer 

 e is altogether luiiit of 

 med. Tiie plating below 

 i-IOin. in thickness. The 

 diagonals, keelsons, etc., 

 i'A in the wake of the 

 ing boards, and the 

 g to prevent the 'pant- 

 hull is, in fact, as strong 

 nlkhends support the cabin floor, 

 bulkhead in ease of accident. The 

 (s arc of teak, while the cabins are 

 walnut, and are to be upholstered 

 s complete the woodwork of the 

 yacht. The bowsprit gammon-iron, of steel, is amidship, and the 

 bowsprit, like the masi, boom aiui topmast, is of Oregon pine. 

 The spars are taunt and oeavy, and tho topmast, unlike that, of the 

 Mayflower, is very long. The ennvaa is being inade by Ratsey & 

 Lapthoro, of Cowes, and of course will be lifted and stretched 

 on the. Clvde before Thistle i 



as st- 

 and forward there is 

 cot ering boards and 

 to be lifted up with 

 iu cretonne; yellow pine 



sailed across the 

 sail and large mi 

 capstan, mod t tied 

 and is being made 

 "Although the c 

 fixed for launchii 

 deal of expeetafcio 

 completely hid m 



tils for New York. Ttiertrtor is tube 

 Atlantic under her racing mast, "out with try- 

 ??.en. The cutter is to be fitted with Cautelo 

 b\ tiie designer 10 iit the foredeck of tho Thistle, 

 by Messrs. T. Reed & Son, Paisley, 

 u iter's bull is about finished, no date has been 

 g, over which event there is of course a good 

 i and curiosity excited. The hull is at present 

 icr ashed, and no visiters are admitted Unless 

 immediately interested in the cutter. 



"It is intended to paint the Thistle black, with copper-cole red 

 bottom, but the hot American sun may call for some modification 

 of the black color. John Ban*, of Gouroek, whose successful sail- 

 ing of the fO-ton cutter May obtained for him a reputation in the 

 English Channel, will s«il the 'thistle across the Atlantic, and 

 take charge of her in the American matches. John Barr's success 

 in sailing the 20-ton Clara, bu.lt by Fife, in American waters dur- 

 ing flic last two seasons so far has given him experience of the 

 American style of yacht Bailing, as well as some knowledge of 

 American weather and waters. He will have a Clyde crew with 

 him, and will, it is expected, sail the cutter at her best. At any 

 rate, the conviction in Clj de is that a better man could not be ob- 

 tained." 



Though ten days have ela used since the arrival of the challenge 

 in behalf of tiie Tlustle, nothing has yet been done toward utiliz- 

 ing the limited time at the disposal of the defender. The date 

 set in the challenge for the first race is just s.x months from last 

 Monday, giving the defender one. week more notice than the deed 

 of gilt called for. Of course a good deal has already been said 

 about the ease of building a boat in New York that will defeatthe 

 Thistle to a certainty, but all that has been done is to write as 

 follows to General Paine for the loan of the Mayflower, 



N fw YORK, March 29, 1887, 

 Orucral CUarlcsJ. Paine, Bimtou, Mans.: 



DEAR SIR— Having been officially informed that you desire the 

 dimensions of the Thistle, 1 a Tail myself of the earliest oppor- 

 tunity to submit the same. They are as follows: 



Length from fore part of stem, under the bowsprit 



to the after side of the head of the sternpos.t 98ft. 



Length of wateiline Soft. 



Main breadth to outside of sloop (?) 20.311. 



Depth of hold from tonnage deck to ceiling at 



midshio section 14.1ft. 



Which is a transcript of the register from the English Custom 

 House. 



The committee to arrange detail of races is the same as that of 

 last year. 



' isk you whether, if the races for the America's 

 y in October, the Mayflower is. likely to lie in 

 vh ether, if here, she will be a competitor iu 

 eet a . es»< 1 to defend the cup v 

 ...-•t success in all the undertakings of the May- 

 flower, which both she and you so ri ridy deserve, I am yours truly. 



J ames I). Smith. 



(ieueral Paine's reply is as follows: 



No. 22 Congress Street 

 Boston, Mass, March 30, 1887. 



Dear CnmmaihTc Smith: 



I have your? of yesterday, and am much obliged for the infor- 

 mation you give me. 



As to the Mayflower, she must go to England, unless unreason- 

 able conditions are made about Arrow's cup. 



In tho letter to Mr. Chamberlayne (Arrow's owner), Mr. Burgess 

 said that We wished the races to be early in August, so as to give 

 homo for the autumn contest here, 

 sr, probably now on the way, is in 

 di did not refer to time, 

 if the Mayflower was at home that 

 l some way made .available for "cup" 

 With many thanks for your kiud wishes. I 

 Charles J. Paine. 



ett u 

 io test her 



md two 

 chting 



May I personally i 

 Cup take place ear 

 America: and also 

 the trial races to se' 



Wishing you gre 



t j»b Mayflower time to be 

 but Mr. Chamberlayue's lo 

 response to a cablegram, wi 

 I need not assui e you th 

 she would, if 1 owned he. 

 purposes if wante " 

 am very truly youi 



If New York is to take the only honorable course open to her. 

 to stand or fall squarely on her own responsibility and without 

 outside assistance, which latter, as the above letters show, is ex- 

 tremely precarious, then every day lost is so much thrown away 

 from chances that at best are, very doubtful. In spite of bluster 

 and buncombe most, yachtsmen realize that Mr. Watson's boat 

 with Captain Barr in her is a most formidable, antagonist, and 

 she has much in her favor in that she is almost i eady for a trial 

 trip, while if a boat be built to beat her, a thousand and one 

 preliminaries are to lie settled, and at best a month must elapse 

 before the work of construction is begun. Of course in great 

 emergencies special exertions arc often successfully made to meet 

 them, as in Eokford's great feat in the war if 1812, when be built 

 a fleet on Lake Erie iu sixty daje, or titty years later, when 

 Captain Ends performed a no less \\ oudenui feat in constructing 

 a fleet of gunboats for the Western rfeers. These facts aie good 

 to refer to, and read well in history , but they do not alter tiie other 

 indisputable fact, that six months is a very short time in which 

 to design, build and lick into racing shaje a yacht that will have 

 a fair prospect of winning. 



The time for talking has passed, if the coming fortnight does 

 not see one sul siantiui step taken to .vard building a yacht of 85ft. 

 wateiline, then New York must accept for an indefinite time a 

 subordinate place iu the yachting world of America, at which 

 Boston will be the head; and further, she must depend almost en- 

 tirely on Boston as to Whether she is able to retain the Cup. 



It has been suggested that if a boat be built it shall be of such a 

 size as to completely overpower the Thistle, iu tact to outbuild 

 her, but the unfairness of such a course is apparent, and now such 

 a victory would generally be considered a hollow one. After the 

 New York Y. C. declined to notice the request, of the Royal Civde 

 Y. C, that it should select, tho length of ttte yacht it would prefer 

 to race, the matter ol size was open to the challengers, and they 

 rgest and best American craft, making 

 :m. Thistle might well have been tKJ or 

 it would have oeeu necessary to have 

 hetber or no it was desirable; but, now 

 a vailed himself of any such advantage, 

 S, is to build to the same length as May- 

 and This! ie. 



tions of many, in which we shared, Mr. 

 f considerable beam, and this departure 

 h has naturally excited some com incut 

 many who are reads- to proclaim k a 

 ideas, and to dub the new boat a keel 

 sloop, which pleeses them and hurts nobody. It is evident how- 

 ever, that the Sc otch are taking an eminently practical course to 

 capture the Cup, and are not going to let any matter of sentiment 

 stand in the way of success, it would have been gratifying to all 

 friends of the cutter to see the experiment in which Genesta and 



have chosen that of t 

 no attempt to outbuild th< 

 l J5ft. long, in which case 

 built to the same rize, w 

 that her designer has not ( 

 the only course, iu falrnos 

 flower, Priscilla, Allan tie 

 Contrary to the expocta 

 Watson has built a boat o 

 from the long truddei; pat 

 here. Of course there are 

 conversion to American 



Galatea failed tried again in other hands and In the weather 

 which October racing is likely to find, but the races 

 are. to be sailed under certain conditions in certain waters, 

 and under certain fixed rules, and Mr. Watson has evi- 

 dently studied all these and endeavored to make the most of them, 

 for which wo one can blame him. No doubt he, with the rest, 

 would have preferred to win with a Marjorie or a Yanduora rather 

 than with a. wider boat, bur, be is keen enough to realize that, the 

 conditions of the past two seasons do not favor such a craft, and 

 ho has sacrificed sentiment to hard sense. It has been repeatedly 

 claimed that the Now V ork rule favored tho narrow cutter, and on 

 the, other hand the friends of the cutter have claimed that the tax 

 on sail was merely nominal, and that the wide boat did not pay 

 fully for her large area. Mr. Watson is evidently of this latter opin- 

 ion, and as practically lengthis taxed and sail is not.he has built a 

 wider and consequently shorter boat, with bigger wings, to tit t he 

 rule she will race under. To say that this special instrument for a 

 peculiar purpose is a proof that British yachtsmen have abau- 

 doned their national type and adopted American ideas is utterly 

 absurd until we see what the uext two or three years will bring 

 forth. Whether or no Thistle wins here will have litt le influence 

 on building for use iu British waters, and while the experiment 

 will throw some valuable light on the question of beam, it is far 

 more likely tliat it will lead the American yachtsman to build a 

 still narrower boat than tho British yachtsman to build a wider 

 one, or even as wide as Thistle. The Eon est and Stream has 

 pointed out for soma time the wide and hitherto unexplored held 

 between the narrow cutter and the latest American boats, between 

 or (J beams and 3Vfl beams, in the hope that Americans would 

 be I he tirst to take advantage of the opportunities it promised! 

 but it looks now as if Mr. Watson had beaded them off, and that 

 if the happy medium should perchance lie bet ween the extremes 

 hitherto adhered to by the two nations, he is about to reap the 

 benefits. 



THE SECOND CRUISE OF THE PILGRIM. 



PART IV. 



WE spent several days ashore, then hauled the Pilgrim along- 

 side a wharf to clean and paint ship. She had been coated 

 with pot lead, which bad been smeared above the waterliuc, and 

 panel of it below had been washed off by the rough wu tors we had 

 met upon the voyage. It was very difficult to scrub and wash off, 

 and 1 was so disgusted with its greasy hastiness that 1 resolved 

 thereafter to use only copper paint. It is astonishing how soon a 

 boa) 's bottom will roughen. The last year's paint had received a 

 coat without much previous smoothing down, and the bottom was 

 cracked, caked, blistered and peeled to such a state that it must 

 have impeded our speed in a marked degree. We set to work with 

 scrapers and sandpaper and made the planking, keel, dead wood 

 and iron smooth as possible, that is, of the feel of priuted wall 

 paper, and then put on the pretty colored copper bronze and saw 

 it dry be ore the tide ca .ne up to it. Tiie manufacturers direct its 

 application just before putting the craft into the wafer, but I am 

 sure it is better to let it harden a little in the air beforehand, as 

 we have tried it both ways several times. 



The black ft pwork was smoothed and given a thin coat, the bead 

 was el, aned and covered again with gold paint and shellac, the 

 oak rail was sandpapered and oiled, and lastly, t he house was 

 painted, and gangway and deck had oil and dryer rubbed in with 

 much expense of elbow grease. Then the letters of her name were 

 scoured and shellaced, the triced up ropes laid down, the fenders 

 taken in, the masthead tackle that had heeled her against the 

 wharf was let go, and the incoming tide took the Pilgrim to its 

 bosom like a bride and floated her off to her mooring. She was 

 3 a picture and ready for the pretty girls who were soon 

 hospitality upon sundry excursions in the bay. Visits 

 with friends and relations to many places of interest, 

 *eeks were consumed before much beyond the usual 

 a .xperiences In .sheltered waters occurred. At last we 

 had a trip that is worthy Of record. Jack had gone back to school. 

 Charlie and 1 were officers and crew. The former had been an 

 apt learner from his captain, and I felt that f could depend upon 

 him for a nimble and systematic worker. Three ladies and one 

 gentleman With wraps, parasols, bundles and baskets, were set on 

 board one morning at 9 o'clock, and we got under way for a day's 

 sail and picnic down the western bay. It was a fine sunny day, 

 with P lent J of breeze from tiie northwest, nud the passengers of 

 the Boston and Bangor steamer and the friends ashore gave us 

 many good-bye salutes as we tilled away. We ran rapidly over 

 toward Turtle Head, then back to the main shore, and down past 

 North port. Duck Trap and Lim olnville, with the intention of call- 

 ing at Camden aud spreading the tablecloth upon an opposite 

 point. The wind kept hauhug more and more southward, and, 

 when we got around Great Spruce Head, it came out directly 

 a 'lead, the sea began to make, and we began to tack ship. It docs 

 n ot tfejfce long to kick up a sea anywhere in Penobscot Bay, and 

 soon we wore pitching the nose pole under and throwing spray 

 over the delighted passengers. One of them in particular had 

 asked me during a sail in a light breeze the previous year to "put 

 the rail under," and had expressly stipulated as a condition of uer 

 going, that I must do it this cruise for her especial benefit. I kept 

 all sail on in the sharp puffs from the mountains that whispered 

 caution, and did get the rail under .slightly, but the lady in ques- 

 tion was not easily satisfied, and kept sa ving, "Do it some more, 

 Doctor, de it. some more." it soon became evident the sea breeze 

 was making us hungry, time was passing in the struggle, to wind- 

 ward, aud we should not reach Camden till -o late in the after- 

 noon that we could not get home by daylight: and l eased off sheets 

 and abandoned my original intentions with a prospect of a better 

 place for anchorage, t looked up the islands upon the chart and 

 headed around Ensign Island for Job's Island in order to enter 

 Gilkev's Harbor from the southwest. 



Iu looking out the islands.' I perceived a peculiar similarity of 

 names not noticed probably by modern mariuers. Southwest of 

 islesboro will be seen Lime, next to it Lesell's, and then Saddle 

 islands. The French named many of the islands along the Maine 

 '•oast, and corrupted and uncorrtiptcd Fra.nc.aia is recognized by 

 the scholar in the mouths of the ignorant and upon the charts of 

 the scientific. For example. Grand Menan, Mt. Desert, Isle au 

 haut, etc., the latter often pronounced Mt. Dessert and Isle of 

 Holt. I think Lesell's is corrupted La Sclle, which is French for 

 the saddle, and the other island has been called Saddle by some- 

 one who translated the name of the original and applied it to the 

 wrong piece of land. These islands appear as one in entering the 

 eastern bay from the southward, and I cau imagine two mariners 

 discussing the question of ic entity and deciding that one island 

 was the Saddle and the other La Seile, as the course of their ves- 

 sels opened clearwater between the two, and they thus made 

 geography. 



This was new wafer to me, and I took as much pleasure as my 

 guests in opening out i he pretty shores of the several islands that 

 form Gilkev's safe haven. We dropped anchor near the shore of 

 Spieee Island, in sight of the lighthouse, and tied up the sails 

 i losejy, s"l the ladies ashore, made a pot of 'coffee, put some of 

 our comestibles and the contributions of the ladies" in the boat 

 and abandoned ship for awhile for the sandy beaches and forest 

 crowned hills of the island. What we did ashore is done many 

 times u year everywhere. We enjoyed a feast of good things, 

 made merry tr-er little speeches, played with tho sand and peb- 

 bles, strolled through the woods, and dug a chew of gum all 

 round. The last had to be done, for much as. Puritanical pride 

 may be humbled by the confession, it is a fact that a largo pro- 

 portion of Yankee girls— and men, too— like to chew gum. When 

 we returned to the landing, Charles was missing. Suddenly a 

 deep and natural caw— caw-caw, attracted our attention to a tall 



• spruce that leaned over the shore, and there was mv seaman, with 

 . legs and arms spread out like a bird about to fly, coolly smoking a 

 ] cigar. His appearance was so comical that it made us roar. Then 

 I he climbed down and we went aboard the cutter and got under- 

 j way. The wind had hauled back to the nor'-nor' west and was 

 j dead ahead for Belfast, and we had a lively run along the Isleboro 



shore till wo opened out Belfast Bay. Then it was more than 

 lively. The wind was puffy and strong, the tide ebb, the sea 

 heavy, and the Pilgrim plunged her bow under and had her lee 

 : rail buried very often. 



| When we had arrived abreast of Turtle Head matters looked 

 . serious. It was nearly sunset; the sky to windward had streaks 

 i of lead color in dark gray clouds that portended mischief; the 

 i wind and cea had become very heavy; the cutter was plunging 

 and working to windward, but nearly every sea swept over the 

 i bow, rolled along the lee rail and buried it afoot, often coming up 



• to the top of the house and upon the cockpit scat; the ladies were 

 ' huddled in the cockpit and oompa.uion.way considerably fright- 

 ened, though the one who t\ ished the roil put under preserved her 



[ sdMxroM, and in answer to my inquiry if she was satisfied the 

 rail had been under enough, said: "If it is necessary to put it un- 

 der a few linns more in order to get home, I have no particular 

 oojestious; but you need not do it any more just for my personal 

 pleasure, as I am abundantly satisfied.'' The trouble was I could 

 not, help putting it under now, and taking in the prospect of 

 reefing with a precious load and two green hands iu that trouble- 

 some sea, which made it impossible for me to leave the helm, the 

 increasing gale, the approach of night, the long beat to windward 

 before a lee shore could be reached, the prospect of sea, tide and 

 ^eeway sending us into the long lee bight upon the left side of Pe- 



nobscot Elver; the probability of a dark, wild night out, with 

 everybody wet, cold and hungry, and the possibility that accident 

 or exposure might hurt those dear to us, all these passed before 

 my mind rapidly in my anxiety to do the best, thing for comfort 

 and safety. Mr. Knowiton was for keeping on toward Searsport, 

 already a point in the weather bow, and said he could gel a car- 

 riage there and take the ladies home. 



While discussing the possibility of reaching six miles to wind- 

 ward in such a sea and blow and tide, with staysail and reefed 

 mainsail, and Charles was tying up the sta ysail, a sea knocked the 

 bow around three points, a strong blast, of vindictive wind struck 

 the mainsail, bending the boom upward like a ftshpolo, a sea swept 

 along the lee side, and the cutter careened till a bucket of water 

 poured into the cockpit. The gravity of t his event may be under- 

 stood by remembering there was ">.0001b?. of keel and low-stowed 

 lead: the cockpit was only 4ft. wide, aud its staging was din. high 

 with a Bin. seat upon it. It was a foretaste, of what the nigtit 

 promised, and 1 knew we were in. for a life and death struggle if 

 we remained in that storm s went bay that night in late September, 

 f had made a mistake in standing across the bay. 3 should have 

 bugged the left shore of the bay, where one inlet would have given 

 us a little shelter, or we might have worked in smoother water 

 into Belfast. It was too late now. The shore was se en miles 

 away and no easier reached than Searsport. and, if we had reached 

 it, I doubt if our anchors would have held, as tho night turned out 

 its wrath upon everything afloat. What to d:? Reef, get out a 

 droeuc, or riin to leewa.dfor a harbor: Reefing might be dene, 

 but then the long night of exposure and danger. A drogue would 

 break the. sen, but we should drift either upon a lee shore or out 

 to sea. A haven to leeward could be found before dark at Castino 

 aud Sabbath Day Harbor. The latter was too tar. The outer 

 buoy must be sighted before dark to run into Castine safely. The 

 bucket of water decided the matter, I drew the helm toward me 

 and slacked off the main sheet, which was taut as steel. The jib 

 sent hei around rapally and she sprang from sea to sea, rolling, 

 roaring, hissing, cutting, sheering, diving, soaring and darting 

 hither and thither, every motion full of grace and ease, but ever 

 fiercely onward as if a great task was before her. The iadier. re- 

 covered their gayety and poked their heads out to look at, the wild 

 scene and the wave-lashed rocks of Turtle Head as we flew past . 



A wave lifted the craft around and threw her quartering to the 

 sea; the wind tilled the mainsail with a savage blast, the cutter car- 

 eened to the top of the house, the water poured into the cockpit, 

 and the main boom dipped half its length beneath the waves. 

 The pressure of wind was so great tba it shot the craft round an 

 arc and up into the wind in a moment, though 1 helped the Litter 

 part of the movement by shoving the helm hard down. The 

 change came so unexpectedly, so mysteriously, so furiously, that 

 1 was alarmed. I never saw a boat cut such a caper; it seemed as 

 if Boreas had come out of his northern cave, picked up Pilgrim 

 by the truck and twirled her around by the mast. I was ca frying 

 too much sail even for running, eager to mase the buoy inside 

 Dyee's Head before dark, as tne sun had set la gloom. Something, 

 had to be done quickly. 1 ordered the peak of the mainsail 

 dropped and the end of the gaff fastened to the mast, and kept 

 off again. This did not diminish her speed much, but she went 

 along much easier and steered better. White caps and tumbling 

 seas were all around us; the flags and sundry running gear were 

 trailing iu the water; the staysails lay in a bunch like clothes for 

 the laundry; the j ib slatted from side to side restlessly aud fretfully; 

 the boa t crept up to the stern and shot by ou a comber till the 

 painter checked and jerked her back; the cutter rolled and sped 

 onward before the gale; the ladies recognized the easier move- 

 ments and absence of shower baths and looked pleased and smil- 

 ing. Frank stood upon the house, holding by a back stay, taking 

 in the scene and wishing for an artist who could paint sued a 

 picture; Charlie sat by the mast awaiting orders, aud I watched 

 and steered with all my might until my good right arm was 

 strained and painful. (Four months have passed since then and 

 it nas not ceased to feel rheumatic twinges aud dull actings in 

 damp or stormy weather.) It was a race against time and we won 

 it. We sighted the outer buoy just at dark, swept iu past Nautilus 

 Island and the beacon upon the river into quiet water, and suc- 

 ceeded in getting hold of a mooring and lowered sail by the 

 lights of the stars and fishermen's huts. Then, thankful and 

 tiled, we began the pleasant task of cooking supper, and the 

 ladies and Charlie soon had a spread that all will loug remember 

 and Lucullus would have eujoyed, had he prepared for it by cutter 

 sailing in a northwester. Frank and the ladies went ashoie to the 

 Castine House, and the crew remained by the ship. The gale was 

 strong all night and, sheltered as we were by the high bills upon 

 ■which Castine is built, the wind played a mournful tune in the 

 cordage all night. 



The passengers spent the forenoon riding around the town and 

 visiling places of interest. Castine is located upon the side of a 

 very high ridge, which is surmounted by the well preserved eai th- 

 works of the old English for*'. There is a niagnillcent view from 

 the. parapet of upper Penobscot Bay and some reaches of the Pe- 

 nobscot and Bagaduce rivers. The ridge terminates in Dyee's 

 Head, which is crowned by Castine Ligut and quite n number of 

 very pretty summer villas. Nautilus Island lies upon the southern 

 side of the harbor and has a line house, boat house, steam launch 

 and some boats, a,s accessories for the pleasure of Mr. Williams, 

 of N« w York. The ridge runs up along the right: bank of the river 

 and is finally lost in the fertile farms of Penobscot township. A 

 long, heavy, rusty cannon lies upon the esplanade toward the 

 town where French and English and Americans and English 

 fought for possession. The location of this fort is mos ^advantage- 

 ous for defense and offense. If modern astillery were property 

 mounted in it, ft would command the eastern bay aud defend the 

 eastern approach to' Penobscot Bay. 



Castine is dead to commerce. It has no manufactures aud is 

 only connected with the outside world by pun.\ steamers and 

 packets. It bas a fine hotel aud all the facilities for summer 

 pleasure seekers, who are beginning to appreciate it and to come 

 in greater numbers every year. Impressed by the early bed time 

 of its inhabitants and the great quietness of the settlement after 

 9 P. M., I asked a citizen what supported the place. lie answered 

 prompt iv, "Fishing, pensions, normal schools and summer - isit- 

 ors." -We made sail at 11 A. M„ when the tide served, and had a 

 pleasant run back to Belfast, with three lower sails set, and till 

 hands were glad that the excursion bad been increased a day by 

 the tempestuous weather. Carkswei.i,. ' 



A SAILING DORY.— Perhaps some of our readers who have 

 used similar boats can answer the questions in the following let- 

 ter: Editor Forest and Stream: I nave been much edified by toe 

 recent letters from Mr. Clapham and "C. W. L." ou "I lanoes 

 Sailboat." I wish to get up a small boat mainly for fishing in the 

 waters of Peconic. Southold and Gardiner's hays, L. I. First of 

 all I seek safety, then comfort, speed last. My main idea is that 

 if I venture hi my little craft down to the sea bass banks, off the 

 "green hill" on Gardiner's Island, and a blow should happen to 

 come up, I will stand some chance for my life while running for a 

 harbor. It would be desirable, too, if tite sail could be arranged 

 to ship to pass under a eoupte of bridges, for then 1 could unci 

 anchorage in the creek which makes up into the farm to which I 

 move in April, but this is not. absolutely necessary it it would be un- 

 handy. 1 have in view a dory, lift. iiu. over all, 34m. beam and about 

 20in. deep. How would it uo to take that dory, deck it over fore, 

 and aft, about 3ft. each way, run a iin. deck around the sides whh 

 a 2in. coaming, like the "thicker" illustrated by "C. W. L., 1 ' put in 

 a centerboard— one of Atwood's gals anized, sav —then sti na mast, 

 portable, if convenient, carrying a leg of mutton sail, after the 

 style of those used by the New Haveu's sharpies? The th ry is V- 

 sterncd, and 1 should imagine would be a pretty safe craft. There 

 woul be space tor lockers fore and aft, and the boat would be 

 provided with rowing gear, of course. Is there any object ion to 

 such a boat, and can ft be improved upon without much expense ? 

 Woidd ballast be required'/ Crew, man and t\\ o bo> s, say fciiOl os., 

 with tackle, etc. Will the "beat sharps" kindly ghe me their 

 ideas, by which, no doubt, many besides myself will bo benefited. 

 —Albatross. 



THE RECORD OF THE WITCH.— The full record of the prises 

 won by the little cutter Witch, illustrated in r.ho Forest asv 

 Stream of March 17, is as follows. Last sea .on she ea tried nearly 

 LOGOlbs. more ballast, making the increased draft, over the draw- 

 ing: Races, 1884— 3 ch.amptom.hip, B, Y. C 2 firsts; 1 sail off. It. v. 

 C„ first: 1 Hull, open. H. Y. C; 1 B. Y. C, open, second, total, 

 starts— 3 firsts and 1 second. 1885—3 championship. B. Y. C, 2 lirsts 

 (ruled out for fouling Peri ': 3 championship, C. ''•. . C, 3 lirsts; 1 

 Lynn, open, L. Y. C: 1 Hull, open, H, Y, C, tuird; 1 match race, 

 first; 1 fall match. B. Y. C; 1 Salem match, S. B. Y. C, second; 

 total, 11 starts— 5 firsts, 1 second, 1 third. 18811—8 championship, 



1883. 



Total. 



13 starts— ft first prizes. 



SUMMARY. 

 1884. 



Starts 6 



First prizes 3 



Second prizes 1 



Third prizes 



RAJAH.— Mr. Jas. Beecherhas sold his cutter Rajah to Mr. H, 

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