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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[July 21, 1887. 



LAKE ST. LOUIS C. C. 



JULY 1 being the day in Canada nn which the people celebrate 

 what is called "Dominion Day." the Lake St. Louis C. C. de- 

 cided to have a cruise that would occupy the eutire day. So at 

 half past eight the following members left on the steamer Prince 

 of Wales, their destination being St Ann's, some 18 miles above 

 Lachine on the Ottawa River: 



8 P. Howard, ..... t Art _ E. B. Busteed (. Mavflower 



|. White j ' W. J. Whi te I Mayflower. 



T. Stewart [ w .,<. pl . Tjilv Dr. Rattan j 4 t i antip 



O. S. Shaw f W,ltei JjIiy - Dr. Johnson f A "antic. 



F. Fairbank I r ..„ ni . T. Doran (.T? n »iH 



T. Moffat f Gl aco - T. B. Shearwood. . | Kapid • 



A. E. Nash ' ArrHp P - H Levin I Nntta 



T. K. Thomson . . . f Arflle - T. Hilditeh j- Notta. 



w.lfe:::::: f Bade Pow e u. I^CfE:::::: 



StSn:::: ^• S B ^.; :;; [Stephens. 



Fred. Stewart. ... I Vs ,„„ Harry Stewart. . . (. no<mf»tte 



W. Woods f Vaux * B. Thesserault. . . . f ^ 0( f llette - 



W. Robertson.... I 



Geo. Auldjo f Maud. 



We managed after setting away from the wharf to monopolize 

 the hurricane deck, and to the enjoyment, I fancy, of the numer- 

 ous passengers, the boys started some songs with good choruses. 

 Se1 ling a little weary and feeling the heat of the sun we. all came 

 down to the cabin, and taking possession of the piano proceeded 

 to give the passengers an imitation of a canoe club afloat. One of 

 the best singers in the club, Mr. Phil Levin, favored us with two 

 songs. "" *-./" 



On our arrival at St. Ann's and having portaged the lock we 

 found a photographer ready to take us, and having accommodated 

 this gentleman, we started our actual cruise, which was to Vau- 

 drueuil, then across Lake St. Louis to Beauharnois, and from 

 there down the lake to LaohiDe, about thirty miles in all. 



At Beauharnois we met a party from Lachine in a stearn launch, 

 which had come up for the day, and having spread our wet clothes 

 out to dry we all, to the number of 43, repaired to Kelly's Hotel 

 for dinner. Any other day would probably have been better to 

 strike this hotel, as on this particular occasion a Sunday school 

 was holding its annual picnic, and most of the people had patro- 

 nized Kelly's for dinner, and we had to come in for a scanty 

 repast. 



From here down we got a fair wind, and taking advantage of 

 this those who had sails dispensed with paddling and sailed home. 

 We greatly missed car commodore, W. H. Rintoul, especially 

 when starting out from St. Ann's, one of our members taking it 

 upon himself to lead the party, and not knowing the route, took 

 the boys two or three miles out of their course, our commodore, 

 who knows every inch of the river, is a very welcome leader. I 

 would suggest to members of other clubs that when starting out 

 on a cruise they look to see who are going with them, and not 

 take out greenhorns on an all day cruise, as it is not only un- 

 pleasant for the older members to be kept waiting, but it is too 

 much to ask them to "hold up" every few miles to wait for strag- 

 glers. 



The Lake Saint Louis annual regatta takes place at Lachine on 

 Aug. 13, the programme of which will appear next week. 



Marion L. 



NORTHERN DIVISION, A. C. A.-The races at the Stony Lake 

 meet will be on Aug. 6 to 9. W. G. McKendrick will sail for Eng- 

 land on July 20, so has resigned from the regatta committee, and 

 Vice-Corn. Rogers has appointed J. N. McKendrick, Ubique C. C, 

 of Gait, in his place. A large meet is expected. 



PASSAIC MEET.— Two canoeists from New York were present 

 at. the late Passaic meet, Messrs. O. F. Coe and C. J. Parkman, of 

 the Hudson River Boat Club, who paddled and sailed from 135th 

 street to Dundee Lake and back. Mr. Coe did not upset in the 

 consolation race, a? incorrectly reported last week. 



NEW YORK C. C. FALL REGATTA.— The New York C. C. 

 will offer a $25 cup for a sailing race, open to all members of canoe 

 clubs, to be sailed on Sept. 24 off Staten Island. Thore will proba- 

 bly be a paddling race for 30in. and one for 28in, decked canoes, 

 also open to all. 



A. C. A. MEMBERSHIP— Trenton, NT. J., July 18. -Editor Forest 

 and Stream: Chas. C. Kritzer, Newaygo, Mich.; J. A. MacMillian, 

 Liudsay, Can.: G. Lyle Kingsley, Rome, N. Y.; Chas. Cooke, Pat- 

 erson, N. J.; P. W. Stuckland and Giles Store, Lakefield, Conn., 

 have applied for membership in the A. C. A.— Wm. M. Carter, 

 Sec. 



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FIXTURES. 



JULV. 



23. Beverly, Cham,, Nahant. 37. Great Head, 2d Cham. 



23. Mouaticmot.Open.Weyraoufh 27. Pleon, 2d Cham., Marble- 



24. Quaker City, Cruise, Del. head. 



River. 30. Beverly, Cham., Mon. Beach. 



26. Q.uincy, 2d Championship. 30. Hull, Cham., Hull. 



26-28. L. Y. R. A., Cruise and 30. Cor. Open, Marblehead. 



Races, Toronto. HO. South Boston Club. 



"COMPROMISE SLOOPS'* (SO-CALLED). 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Possibly the fact that you deem it necessary to comment so 

 freely, not to say facetiously, on my brief remarks printed in your 

 issue' of last week should be by me considered a compliment. Be 

 this as it may, will you permit me to add that what you are 

 pleased to term "Mr. Clapham's theories," as to the non-"hanging 

 on" qualities of cutters without keels— namely, Genesta and Gal- 

 atea. — are uot t heories at all. 



Any intelligent man who used his eyes while watching the 

 Puritau-Genesta and Mayflower-Galatea races must have plainly 

 seen that on several occasions when the cutters were sailing in 

 the wake of the sloops the former pointed nearer the wind thai) 

 the latter, yet at the end of the tack the sloop would "fetch" to 

 windward of the cutter. If this did not show that the cutter was 

 making leeway perhaps you can inform us what was the matter, 

 and no theories about it. 



-For seven years we have been persistently told that such narrow 

 and deep boats as the Genesta and Galatea must beat beamy boats 

 of comparatively light displacement and carrying a centerboard 

 when turning to windward in a breeze and a sea. That apple cart 

 has now been effectively upset by Shadow, Puritan, Mayflower 

 and Titania, all of them being sloops of practically the same type. 

 The Forest and Stream has recently admitted this to he the 

 fact, but at the same time "theorized" to the extent of saying that 

 some almost impossible combination of depth, narrowness and 

 dead weight would, if produced, beat the "Burgess boats." 



During this seven-year sloop-cutter controversy I have pinned 

 my faith to the Shadow type of boat. 



The success of Puritan and Mayflower is due. primarily, to John 

 B. Herreshoff, who, sixteen or seventeen years ago, designed and 

 built little Shadow; for all that is best in the two large sloops 

 comes through introducing and fining down the lines of the small 

 one. 



It is a pretty time now to tell us that the two white sloops rep- 

 resent a new- and compromise model of great depth and displace- 

 ment, when for sixteen years we have had a deep sloop, relatively 

 to her size, winning races each successive season. 



Call the Scotch Thistle a compromise keel sloop and you will hit 

 the mark, but please in any event do simple justice to the Shadow 

 type of sloop. It is quite true that Puritan and Mayflower carry 

 lead tinder them; but in view of the fact that some of us, t hinking 

 ourselves the wisest, have made great mistakes, may it not. he quite 

 possible that a carefully enlarged Shadow, carrying all her weight 

 mside, where it belougs, would beat both of her big sisters? 



Now, Mr. Editor, here's a chance for another lecture on theories, 

 hut please cast no sarcastic reflections on that good invention, the 

 weather grip. Thomas Clapham. 



Roslyn, L. L, J»ly L 



[We have not denied that in light weather neither Genesta nor 

 Gala/tea has held to windward with the Burgess boats, the two 

 former being decidedly la eking to windward at low speeds, though 

 as the speed increased this disadvantage disappeared in propor- 

 tion. The performance of two boats, however, in the face of much 

 evidence on the other side, is no grouud on which to base a gen- 

 eral condemnation of all cutters. Lu all the others, from Madge 

 to Bedouin, no such lack of weather! y power is seen ; thev can go 

 to windward with the ceutcrboards of their class, and it is oiily 

 reasonable to suppose that the difference in the two large ones is 

 due to some 1 efect in them, rather than that it proves the entire 

 type to be wrong. Clara, Oriva, Bedouin and Madge represent no 

 "impossible combination," and it is certain that in the case of all 

 but Clara, a boat of the same class and type built to-d a v would 



have many advantages in build and ballast over these, the newest 

 of which is five years old, during which time many changes have 

 been made. There are many others now besides our correspond- 

 ent who are willing to swear by Shadow, but before they can do 

 this they must explain why, if they have believed so strongly in 

 her, they have so persistently denied the value of depth. If the 

 writings of Mr. Clapham are to be taken as evidence, it would 

 seem that he has pinned his faith less on the "Shadow" than on the 

 "shallow" type for many years. We have been over this same 

 ground before with him, and have shown that Shadow is a deeper 

 boat by far than her contemporaries, and also that she was far in 

 advance of the boats of her day, so much so that she cannot be 

 said to represent the ideas generally accepted and acted upon in 

 1871. In the Forest and Stream of Oct. 14, 1886, appeared a let- 

 ter from Mr. Clapham making the same claim, that Mayflower 

 and Puritan were closely related to t he old sloops, and giving 

 some figures. We went into the question thoroughly at the 

 time, and showed by many instances the incorrect nature 

 of the claim ; and it would profit little to repeat what 

 we then said, to which Mr. Clapham made no reply at the 

 time. No one disputes now the skill of the Herreshoff s, but 

 for many years after Shadow was built no one cared to follow 

 them in the matter of depth. No doubt but that Shadow of late 

 years has exercised an influence on design in the East, but for one 

 feature in which the new Burgess boats resemble her there are a 

 dozen in which they differ radically. We have already compared 

 her with the new Burgess cutter, Pappoose, and unfortunately 

 there is nothing else in her class of modern build with which to 

 compare her. Going to the Puritan class, the latest exponent of 

 the new type, Voluuteer, an improved Mayflower as Mayflower 

 was an improved Puritan, lias a ratio of length to beam of 3.7, 

 Shadow's ratio being 2.3(5. The ratio of draft to beam is 43 per 

 cent, in Volunteer compared with 37 per cent, in Shadow, but this 

 does not show the full difference, as Shadow's draft is largely at 

 hoel of keel, while Volunteer's represents actual depth of body 

 amidships. One has all ballast high up, the other at the lowest 

 possible point; Shadow ha« the sheer, counter and entire outline 

 of the old sloops, while in these particulars the new boats are 

 copies of the cutters; Shadow is and has always been a sloop In 

 rig, while the others are cutter in all but a laced mainsail. A 

 Shadow properly enlarged to the length of Volunteer would make 

 a fast boat beyond doubt, but no one to-day w r ould put anything 

 but a cutter rig over such a hull, and it is reasonably certain that 

 with the same baUast plan she could win but occasional races 

 from the leaden-keeled compromises. The subordinate place that 

 New York holds to-day is mainly due to the position she has taken 

 against low ballast; and some day, when they are even more hope- 

 lessly astern of Boston than at present, her yachtsmen will realize 

 the truth of this "theory" that the Forest and Stream has so 

 long upheld. We do not wish to cast reflections on Mr. Clapham's 

 latest invention, as far as we can judge it is an admirable device 

 for sailing boats and canoes, but if he will persistently tread on 

 our pet keel, he had better rig out another guy or two, or we may 

 be tempted to run it down.] 



THE JUBILEE RACE-GENESTA'S LOG. 



THE following are abstracts from the log of Genesta in her late 

 race around the British Isles. The weather was light through- 

 out the trip and there were no special incidents: 



June 14— Weather fine and hot; light breezes east by south: 

 started at noon and passed Sunk light vessel at 7:10 P. M. At 

 11 P. M. the wind died out and fog came up. Weather cleared 

 next morning and at noon the log showed 80 miles from Sunk 

 light vessel; distance covered in 24 hours, 118 knots. 



June 15— Weather fine and clear; Genesta running with spinakor 

 set; glass began to fall at 7 o'clock P. M. On following morning 

 wind shifted to south by east; jibed and set spinaker on starboard 

 side; distance, 24 hours, 100 knots. 



June 16— Vessel still running with spinaker. Moderate breezes, 

 which dropped away at night; distance, 24 hours, 130 miles. 



June 17— Wind north, light and variable from east by south, 

 south by west. Sighted Bttchan Ness light on the. port bow at 

 10:45 P. M., four miles away. Next morning at 9 o'clock passed 

 Caithness. Wind light during most of day; 24 hours' run, 118 

 knots. 



June 18— Weather tine and hot. At 12:30 took nice breeze from 

 northeast and sighted Noss Head at 2 P. M. At C o'clock A. M. 

 next day Cape Wrath bore seven miles away. Spinaker was set 

 on port side and vessel run eight knots an hour; 24 hours' run, 140 

 knots. 



Juno 19 — Weather fine and clear; wind strong northeast. Run 

 down to North and Little Minch. Wind freshened at 4 o'clock 

 P. M.. when spinaker and topsail were taken in, and set baUoon 

 foresail on the spinaker boom. At 6 o'clock P. M., off Mt. Hecla, 

 wind and sea increasing so much that we hauled down one reef 

 and stowed our balloon foresail. At 10:45 P. M., abreast of Barra 

 lighthouse. The wind moderated early next morning, shook out 

 reef and set jib-headed topsail. The wind backed to east by north 

 at noon, when the spinaker was set; 24 hours' run, 204 knots. 



June 20— Weather fine and clear. Wind moderating; swell set- 

 ting in from north. Nearly ran over a dead whale. At 9 o'clock 

 P. M., having logged 170 miles from Barra, we hauled up to south- 

 west by south. At 11:30 P. M., abreast of Black Rock light, dis- 

 tance four miles. At 4 o'clock A. M. off Slyne Head, Galway. 

 The wind was squally, but it veered to southeast and dropped 

 away. Twenty T -four hours' run, 125 knots. 



June 21 — Weather very fine and hot; wind dropped away to a 

 calm, with a swell from the southwest. By 9 o'clock P. M. drifted 

 down off Teraght lighthouse. Light air during most of the 24 

 hours. Distance run. 48 knots. 



June 22 — Weather fine and hot. Swell from southwest, light 

 airs from northwest, which dropped away to a flat calm At 5 

 o'clock P. M. were between Call Rock and Dursey Head, Bantry 

 Bav. We altered our course a little from Mizzen Head, where we 

 took a light easterly breeze. Twenty-four hours' run, 14fi knots. 



June 23— Weather fine and clear, fresh breeze. At 9:30 P. M. 

 took nice breeze from east-southeast, and saw Bishop's Rock, 

 Soillv, at midnight. Wind freshening; beat up Seven Stories 

 lightship and Scilly. Wind still freshening, stood into Mount's 

 Bay, Penzance, and under close-reefed main and foresail beat up 

 around the Lizard in a moderate gale. Wind east, heavy sea. 

 Twentv-four hours' run, 103 knots. 



June 24— Rounded the Lizard at 12:30. Signaled eur name to 

 Lloyds and received back answer "First." Off the Marrack's 

 buoy the wind fell light and wo shook out a reef. At 9 o'clock 

 P. M. we were under a whole mainsail and No. 2 jib. Beat all 

 night under the shore, and next morning were off Dartmouth. 

 At noonyvere off Exmouth, with wind dropping. Twenty-four 

 hours' run, 100 knots. 



June 25— Weather misty and wind dropping. At 9:45 P. M. saw 

 Portland Bill lightship. Drifted around Bill lightship; took a 

 breeze from the southeast and stood up to Anvil Point and crossed 

 toward the Shingles; stood out on the port tack and then to St. 

 Catherine's Point, and were abreast of it at 9 o'clock A. M. Sig- 

 naled "all well" to Lloyd's. From here we worked up to Owers 

 light vessel, which was reached atnoon. Twenty-four hours' run, 

 110 knots. , , „ 



June 26— Fresh breeze and hazy weather. Beat up under the 

 shore and were off Beachy Head at 7:30 P. M., which we signaled. 

 At 2:30 A. M., off Dungeness Point and crossed the line, between 

 Dover pier and the North Foreland high lightship at 5:15:30 A. M. 

 Twenty-four hours' run, 86 knots. Following is the official score 

 of the running: 



Time. Place. Knots. 



June 15, noon Off Cromer lis 



June 16, noon Off Scarborough 100 



June 17, noon Off Frith of Forth 130 



June 18, noon Off Frith of Moray 118 



June 19, noon Off Stornoway 140 



June 20, noon Off Foreland 202 



June 31, noon Shannon 195 



June 22, noon Skelligs 48 



June 23, noon Between Scilly and Fastnet 140 



June 24, noon Kynance (by Lizard) 103 



June 25, noon Exmouth 100 



June 26, noon Owers HQ 



June 27, noon Dover 86 



Total 1590 



A NEW YACHT FOR DETROIT.— The yacht built by the 

 Detroit Dry dock Co. for the City of the Straits Y. C, of Detroit, 

 from designs by Mr. E. B. Wendell, was launched on .July 2, and 

 will be ready for the Interlake Y. R. A. regatta at Put-in-Bay. 

 She is a compromise boat, 18ft. 9in. over all, 34ft. llin. l.w.l., 13ft. 

 2in. beam, 5ft. draft, with 5 tons of lead in keel. She is cutter 

 rigged, mast, deck to hounds, 40ft.; topmast, fid to sheave, 28ft.; 

 bowsprit 24ft„ boom 41ft., gaff 26ft. Area of mainsail l,278sq.ft„ 

 jib 406ft., staysail 254ft.; total, l,038sq.ft. She is uufortunately 

 handicapped by the very awkward and inappropriate name of 

 City of the Straits. 



EASTERN Y. C. CRUISE.-On July 13 the fleet arrived at Bar 

 Harbor. The accident to Gitana's mainsail was caused by a cigar 

 thrown into it carelessly, burning a large holej 



HALIFAX JUBILEE REGATTA. 



THE yachtsmen of Passamaqtioddy Bay have agreed to give up 

 their proposed regatta, the R. N. S. Y. S. promising to assist 

 them next year in return, in organizing a regatta at Passama- 

 quoddy Bay. The following correspondence has passed between 

 Sir. Sumiehrast and some New York and Boston gentlemen: 



New York, July 4, 1887. 

 F. C. Sumiehrast, Esq., Representing the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht 

 Squadron, Sturtrvant Housn, New York: 

 Dear Sir— On behalf of citizens of Boston and New York who 

 desire to mark their appreciation of the courtesy of the citizens 

 of Halifax toward American yachtsmen, we offer a cup by Ti tfany 

 & Co., to be sailed for by yachts belonging to the Royal Nova 

 Scotia Yacht Squadron during the. regatta at Halifax in connec- 

 tion with the jubilee celebration. The names of the subscribers 

 will be forwarded to you with the cup. We are yours sincerely, 

 George Wm. Curtis, Wm. Astor, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Allen 

 Thorndike Rice, Erastus Wiman, Chatincey M. Denew, Chas. F. 

 Chickering, Norman L. Monro, James Russell Lowell, Wm. Butler 

 Duncan. R. B. Forbes, Roderick W T . Cameron, Wm. P. Douglas, 

 Daniel Appleton, John P. Kennedy, H. M. Flagler, Committee. 



Sturtevant House, New York, July 7, 1887. 

 George Wm. Curtis, Esq., and others: 



Dear Sirs— I have the pleasure to acknowledge receipt of your 

 letter of July 4 informing me, as the representative of the Royal 

 Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, that you offer a cup to be sailed for 

 at Halifax by the yachts of our squadron on the occasion of the 

 Jubilee Regatta there next mouth. 'It gives me sincere gratifica- 

 tion to accept on behalf of the squadron this very handsome gift, 

 which will, I need not assure, be highly prized by the citizens of 

 Halifax in general as well as by the members of our squadron, as 

 more especially interested. The competition for this cup will be 

 not the least attractive feature, of the forthcoming regatta. Your 

 valued gift will, I hope, be sailed for in the presence of a large 

 fleet of American yachts. 



I beg you will convey to the subscribers to the cup the cordial 

 thanks of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron for the honor 

 you have done them. I remain, yours sincerely. 



F. C. Sumichrast, 

 Representing R. N. S. Y. S. 

 The course for this cup will be 21 miles, that for the leading 

 races being 41 miles, from off Green Bank, Point Pleasant Park, 

 to inner automatic buoy, thence around a triangle of 9-mile sides, 

 and back to start. The R. N. S. Y. S. at its last meeting passed a 

 vote of thanks to the yachtsmen of New York and Boston who 

 had aided Mr. Sumiehrast on his mission. 



The following notice has been sent out on behalf of the Royal 

 Nova Scotia. Y. C: 



The Jubilee regatta at Halifax, N. B„ will take place August 

 16 and 17 next. The dates have been settled after consulta- 

 tion with the leading yacht clubs in New York and Boston, and 

 appear most suitabl e to the majority of yacht owners. The races 

 are open to all American yachts, and entries, for which there will 

 he no fee, may be made by mail or telegraph, with the Secretary 

 R. N. S. Y. S., Halifax, Nova Scotia. Name of yacht, rig, length 

 on load waterline, name of owner and of club, if any, shouldbe 

 given. The Eastern Y. C. having kindly agreed to sail their re- 

 gatta at Marblehead immediately after the Goelet Cup races at 

 Newport, yachts will bo able to proceed to Halifax in ample time 

 for the regatta and festivities there. On behalf of the R. N. S. Y. 

 S. I express the hope that American yachts will visit our waters 

 on this occasion, when they may depend on receiving a very warm 

 welcome.— F. C. Sumichrast (Rep. R. N. S. Y. S.). 



CAPSIZED CENTERBOARDS. 



ON Saturday last a very severe squall broke over New York, a 

 gale from northwest, with ram and hail, lasting about an 

 hour. Again on Sunday, at noon, there was a second storm of 

 almost equal violence, with a third and lighter one at 10 P. M. In 

 these three many yachts and boats were capsized and a number of 

 persons thrown overboard, but no correct estima te can he had. The 

 proportions of drownings to capsizes are smaller than usual, as 

 the weather was so warm that persons were lightly dressed and 

 could well stand a few hours' exposure in warm water, while 

 there were many boats out to the rescue as soon as the height of 

 the storm was over. The conditions were very different from the 

 early spring and the fall, ■ when persons heavily dressed are 

 thrown into ice-cold water that soon chills and numbs them. The 

 squaU of Saturday struck the fleet of the K. Y. C, nearly capsiz- 

 ing the Truant, but she sailed through it, though partly filled 

 with water. 



Among other capsizes on Sunday was that of a yacht with five 

 men near Staten Island, the sloop Angler, with thirteen onboard, 

 all saved, one catboat near Robbing Reef, a yacht off Manhattan 

 Beach, and a catboat near Barren Island. The crew of the latter, 

 two men and a boj% were rescued by Mr. Hatch, of the Windward 

 Club. Off Norton's Point the open boat Marion capsized, her 

 crew of three being picked up by a rowboat. The catboat 

 Ethel was capsized off Rockaway Inlet, her crew of four, with 

 a dog, hanging to the bottom until rescued. Another 

 party of six, three of them women, which started from Jersey 

 City in a catboat, was rescued after the boat capsized by a 

 young girl and a man who royved out from shore. A pilot who 

 came up the Bay reported three capsized yachts outside the 

 Narrows. In Jamaica Bay a boy was drowned from a capsized 

 catboat, two men who were with him being rescued, while near 

 Neptune station another capsize threw two men and two ladies 

 into the water, but they were rescued. The steam yacht Reva 

 blew ashore at Bay Ridge but came off safely. A seaman from 

 the sloop Fanny was in the gig stowing an awning when the boat 

 broke loose and was driven a long distance before help arrived 

 and towed her back. On Saturday, at Rockland, Me., Frank Pol- 

 lard was drowned by the capsizing of a centerboard boat, his com- 

 panion saving himself by swimming. 



A NEW HERRESHOFF STEAMER. 



rpHE shoal draft steam yacht. Now Then, built by the Herreshoff 

 J- Mfg. Co. for N-L. Munro, former owner of the Norma and 

 the Henrietta, arrived in New Y ork on July 12 from Bristol, making 

 the remarkable run of 130 nautical miles in 7h. 4m. The yacht is 

 entirely new and this run was a trial trip. The course of the 

 American Y. C, between New London and Larchmont, was run in 

 4h. 9m. The full times of the run are: 



Newport 11:22 A, M. Stratford Shoal .... 4:02 P. M. 



Point Judith 11:55 A.M. Eaton's Neck 4:47 P.M. 



Watch Hill 12:56 A.M. Larchmont 5:86J$ P.M. 



New London 1:27*$ P. M. New York, 24 th St.. 6:26 P.M. 



New Haven 3:24 P. M. 



On July 13 the new boat made her first trip to the Shrewsbury 

 River, where her owner resides in summer, beating Hie steamer 

 St. Johns by several miles. 



The Now Then is built with steamed oak frames l^in. square, 

 spaced 14in. and double skin of wood, the inner being of %in. 

 white pine and the outer of *$in. selected yellow pine, with gal- 

 vanized steel fastenings. The planking in each layer runs fore 

 and aft, the two skins breaking joints, while the deck, of mahog- 

 any, is laid in a similar manner. The hull is 85ft. over all, 81tt. 

 l.wl., 10ft.. beam and draws 30m. at lowest point of keel, with an 

 extreme draft of 38iu. under shoe. The least, freeboard is oft. 6in. 

 She has a long, clean bow, but aft the hull widens above water 

 into a flat oval overhang, the object being to prevent squatting. 

 The buttock lines are very easy, giving a good delivery of water 

 to the screw, which is placed beneath the overhang. The triple 

 expansion engine has cylinders 7*6, 12 and 19in.>.10*6in., and toe 

 coil boiler has 25ft. of grate surface. The screw has four blades 

 36in. diameter and the shaft is of 3*4in. steel. Mr. Munro offers to 

 race any steam yacht in America with a record, over the A.Y.C. 

 course, giving the competing yacht a start of ten miles. 



VOLUNTEER. 



OWING to delay in the iron work for boom and gaff the Volun- 

 teer will not be ready for sea before to-day. The joiner 

 work, all white pine, is about completed below, and skylight and 

 hatches are finished. The mainsail will have an extra cloth 

 added, as time is too short to stretch it fully before the N. Y. 

 cruise. The balloon jib topsail is of linen and the spinaker of 

 cotton. The blocks are of special design, the peak halliard blocks 

 on the gaff being pear-shaped, with a roller in place of the usual 

 hook and shackle on the span. Each of the three gaff blocks 

 weigh 151bs. less than Puritan's and 121bs. less than Mayflower's. 

 The peak halliards reeve through one double and one single on 

 masthead, while the throat halliards have a four-sheave block on 

 masthead and throe-sheave on gaff. All will be ef white ash, 

 kiludried. The bowsprit can be run in about 8ft. The report is 

 current that the width across the stern is less than in the original 

 plans and also that the rail height is different. 



PLEON Y. C— The second regatta of the Pleon Y. C, of Mar- 

 blehead, was sailed on July 13 in a light south wind. Lady May 

 won in first class and Monarch in second* 



