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fleet reached in with a moderate breeze, the leaders meeting the 

 forties at Buoy 5, where they were timed: 



Nymph 2 04 10 Maraquita 2 08 05 



Grayling 2 05 00 Tomahawk 2 08 22 



Sea Fox 2 013 05 Katrina 2 09 23 



When on the wind inside the Hook Katrina took the lead. Sea 

 Fox making up a little on Grayling. The following times were 

 taken at Buoy 10, but are not absolutely correct, owing to the 

 position of the boats: 



Katrina 2 38 18 Shamrock 2 39 53 



Grayling 2*3 57 Tomahawk 2 4104 



Sea Fox 2 35 26 Maraquita 2 42 14 



Nymph 2 36 35 



On the last leg of six miles there was a very pretty struggle be- 

 tween Katrina, Sea Fox and Grayling. Coming near buoy 9, 

 which was to be left on the weather side. Grayling, the leeward 

 boat, held her lutt', forcing the other two on the buoy. Sea Fox 

 barely succeeded in establishing an overlap on Katrina in time to 

 hail for water, Katrina in turn hailing Grayling. Sea Fox bore 

 away on Katrina, ber headsuils touching the sloop, and the latter 

 had to bear off so far that her boom jibed, swinging aboard of Sea 

 Fox. As Grayling gave them room the pair separated, Sea Fox 

 running to windward of Katrina and theu taking a lead of Gray- 

 ling, which she held to the linish, though losing on corrected 

 time. Tomatiawk and Maraquita wasted a good deal of time in 

 useless luffing matches inside the Hook, while Nymph wisely 

 went on her way, beating them very badly. The official sum- 

 mary is: 



FIRST CLASS KEEL SCHOONERS. 



Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Dauntless 11 27 47 3 33 00 4 05 13 4 05 13 



Palmer 11 29 51 - 3 27 50 3 68 05 3 54 48 



THIBTJ CLASS SCHOONERS. 



Sea Fox 11 24 47 3 16 57 3 52 10 3 52 10 



Grayling 11 24 67 3 17 46 3 52 49 3 49 56 



FOURTH CLASS SCROONER9. 



Marguerite 11 27 30 3 39 26 4 11 56 4 08 03 



FTFTH CLASS SCHOONERS. 



Azalea U 27 15 3 57 06 4 29 51 4 29 51 



Agnes 11 27 46 4 03 60 4 86 05 4 31 57 



THIRD CLASS SLOOPS AND CUTTERS. 



Titania 11 25 22 Disabled. 



Katrina 11 24 57 3 19 15 3 64 18 3 53 59 



Bedouin 11 27 13 Grounded. 



Grade 11 26 09 3 41 25 4 15 16 4 13 39 



Shamrock 11 28 48 3 26 45 3 57 57 3 56 06 



Fanny 11 25 59 3 41 05 4 15 06 4 11 13 



FOURTH CLASS SLOOPS AND CUTTERS. 



Hildegarde 11 27 00 3 44 58 4 17 58 4 17 58 



Whileaway 11 27 18 3 57 03 4 25 45 4 24 04 



IIKTH CLASS SLOOPS AND CUTTERS. 



Clara 11 24 38 3 51 06 4 26 28 4 26 28 



Bertie 11 27 47 4 0i 07 4 40 20 4 37 54 



SEVENTH CLASS SLOOPS AND CUTTERS. 



Nymph 11 31 16 3 30 38 4 05 22 



Gorilla 11 30 55 Lost topmast. 



Tomahawk 11 27 34 3 40 10 4 13 36 



Maraquita 11 26 52 3 41 44 4 14 52 



Litis II 24 09 Dismasted. 



Winners— Schooners, Class 1.: Palmer beats Dauntless 10m. 25s. 



Schooners, Class 111.: Grayling beats Sea Fox 2m. 14s. 



Schooners, Class V.: Agnes. 



Sloops, Class ill.: Kat rina beats Shamrock 3m. 7s. 

 Sloops, Class IV.: Hildegarde beats Whileaway 6m. 6s. 

 Sloops, Class V.: Clara beats Bertie 11m. 26s. 

 Sloops, Class VII.: Nymph wins, Tomahawk second. Tomahawk 

 and Maraquita not measured. 



NOW FOR A SPAR MAKER'S TRUST. 



THE chances are that the present season will prove to all the 

 necessity of a change in the rules which will encourage, or 

 at least permit a reduction of the outrageous sail plans now car- 

 ried on all racing craft; but in the meantime there is a bounteous 

 harvest ahtad for the sparinakers; and now, if ever, is the time 

 for the successful organization of a sparmakers' trust. The 

 winds thus far have not been specially heavy, but the list of 

 casualties is soi ethiug unusual in the ordinary run of the spring 

 racing. Titania has carried away the end of her bowsprit, 

 (iorilla and Banshee have both lost a topmast, while Liris 

 has already spoiled a topmast, lower mast and topsailyard, 

 and Katrina a boom. Kathleen's bowsprit we do not in- 

 clude, as it went in a collision. This is but the beginning, 

 and while we do not wish to prophesy evil we look, for more 

 masts to go before the question cf supremacy is decided in 

 the 70, 40 and 30ft. classes, to say nothing of smaller spars. The 

 iact ii that the whole fleet is and must be, grossly over-rigged, 

 the only hope for better things which we have thus far 

 been able to discover being in the performance of little Minerva 

 on Saturday in which perfection of form, a reasonable amount 

 of power for the length, and a moderate sail plan won from 

 the larger and more heavily rigged boats in both light and 

 sfong winds. If Minerva can repeat her performance through- 

 out the season, or even make a good record in her class, she will 

 do much to prove the practicability of a desirable type of racing 

 yacht under the present rules. If she fails, the other hope is that 

 the two most powerful boats in the class, Liris and Gorilla, may 

 beat the less extreme class, such as Nymph, Verena and Mara- 

 quita. In this event the only way to beat them in turn the fol- 

 lowing season will be to outbuild them, and in the case of Liris at 

 least this cannot safely be done, as she has all the power and sail 

 that is practicable on 40ft. In such a case it is likely that a 

 change of the rule will be welcomed by all, and we shall see the 

 present limits to length thrown down, and a much wider choice 

 of dimensions offered to the designer than he has ever be- 

 fore enjoyed. The spar makers are not the only ones who come 

 in for a prosperous season, the sliipsmiths share it with them, as 

 the gear is strained to an extent that has never before been seen. 

 One curious incidental effect is likely to be noticed this year, the 

 appetites of the spectators ate apt to be whetted to such a degree 

 that they will not be satisfied by the ordinary brushes and inci- 

 dents of the old regattas, with perhaps a broken topmast thrown 

 in by way of a hoinii: htmcTw; but nothing less than a total wreck 

 will prove acceptable. 



GIVE THE LITTLE FELLOWS A CHANCE. 



SOME flagrant instances of the disregard of the moral as well 

 as well as the legal rights of the owners of the smaller craft 

 have occurred during the late races, the worst being the conduct 

 of the big Dauntless. 112ft. l.w.l., in running in among the 40ft. 

 class while the latter had no steerage way, there being very little 

 wind, and that all killed by Dauntless's kites. The fact that she, 

 too, was in the race is no excuse for spoiling the sport and imper- 

 iling the safety of the small boats. In the Atlantic Y. C. race on 

 Tuesday the large schooner Fearless failed to give way when on 

 the port tack and took the bowsprit out of Kathleen, a 30ft. boat, 

 also in the race and then leading her class. The man on the bow- 

 sprit end, Mr. Brown, had a very narrow escape from serious 

 injury. The names of these boats suggest the query whether 

 they would be equally dauntless and fearless were the positions 

 reversed, and they smaller instead of much larger than the other 

 boats. On Wednesday of last week the schooner Social, while be- 

 calmed, was run into by the steamer Long Branch, with an excur- 

 sion barge in tow, in Flushing Bay. We do not know who is to 

 blame in this case, but as the yacht is reported as in stays and 

 becalmed, it was the steamer's duty to keep clear. 



RHODE ISLAND Y. C— June regatta, June 13: 

 class 1. 



Length. Start. Fiuish. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Millie 44,10 12 22 35 2 37 54 2 15 19 2 15 19 



Perl 88.09 12 23 55 2 42 25 2 18 30 2 11 28 



Mabelle Swift 40.09 12 21 04 2 50 08 2 29 04 2 24 42 



CLASS 2. 



Diamond 26.02 12 25 84 8 09 24 2 43 50 2 43 20 



Mascot 20.05 12 26 02 3 15 27 2 49 25 2 49 25 



CLASS 3. 



Rowena 28.11 12 31 42 4 23 00 



Louise 27.00 12 31 40 3 16 44 2 45 04 2 41 24 



Alice A 25.11 12 31 23 . . ' 



Faust 23.03 12 30 37 3 30 15 2 59 38 2 47 48 



CLASS 4. 



Edna 21.09 12 37 20 2 10 54 1 33 34 1 32 42 



Jessie 21.00 12 35 50 2 08 44 1 32 54 1 31 08 



Victor 22.06 12 37 18 2 12 06 1 34 48 1 34 48 



CLASS 5. 



Vision 18.05 12 44 12 2 51 36 2 07 24 2 06 26 



Rarus 19.01 12 42 29 ..... 



Vera 18.05 12 42 10 2 22 24 1 40 14 1 39 16 



Jaunty 17.05 12 41 59 2 28 36 1 46 27 1 43 57 



Winneis of prizes— Class 1: Peri first, Millie second. Class 2: 



Diamond first. Class 3: Louise first, Faust second. Class 4: 

 Edna first. Class 5: Vera first, Jaunty second, Vision third. 



BROOKLYN Y. C. ANNUAL REGATTA, JUNE 15.— The an- 

 nual regatta of the Brooklyn Y. C. was sailed on June 15 on the 

 Lower Bay, the courses being: For Class 1, cabin sloops, 25ft. and 

 under, from the club house in Gravesend Bay around Southwest 

 Spit Buoy and return; Class B, cats from 20 to 25ft., around Buoy 

 7 on the West Bank, and Class C, cats under 20ft., around Buoys 

 11 and 15. The wind was S. W., with a squall from the north late 

 in the day. The times were: 



CLASS B— CATS BETWEEN 30 ANT) 25 FT. 



Start. Finish. Elapsed. 



Siren 12 51 52 Not timed. 



Homing 12 5115 Not timed. 



Manhattan - 12 51 52 5 05 55 4 14 03 



Josephine 12 52 04 5 35 18 4 43 14 



CLASS 1— CABIN SLOOPS 25FT. AND UNER. 



Union 12 53 04 Not timed. 



Rhada 15 53 34 Not timed. 



Vida 12 52 14 5 49 07 4 56 53 



Irene 12 52 43 Not timed. 



Carrie won in Class C. 



THE MERLE - Oswego, June U.— Editor Forest and Stream: To 

 correct wrong impression conveyed by a sensational article going 

 the rounds of the daily press yesterday regarding Merle having 

 been driven ashore during the storm of Sunday last, I would say 

 that while at anchor off Pleasant Point, a resort some ten miles 

 below here, and after the heaviest of the storm was over, by the 

 parting of what has proved to be a very poor chain cable the Merle 

 was forced into shoal water and grounded before sufficient canvas 

 could be made to insure way enough to stay her. She was released 

 without injury and at regular moorings off our club house by 10 

 P. M. Sunday. I trust if any mention is made of the matter in 

 the Forest and Stream you will state the facts as above. The 

 Merle wiU no doubt be delivered to her new owners within a few 

 days.— Allen Ames, Owner of Merle. 



THE WRECK OF THE MA1/VA.— Editor For ext and Stream: 

 The cabin yacht Malta, reported in your issue of June 6 as cap- 

 sized, was an old yawl 22ft. long raised on, purchased by some 

 boys for $28. She did not capsize, but dragged her anchor and 

 went ashore and broke up. Be gentle with the miserable "center- 

 boarders" and let them die a natural death. They have sins 

 enough to answer for without being belied.— R. G. W. [Our infor- 

 mation was taken from a local paper, in which it was stated that 

 the yacht capsized. Our coriespondent being on the ground, is 

 probably better posted.] 



VOLUNTEER.— The New York Sun of Sunday last under the 

 heading "The Volunteer Crippled, she is Warped and Bulged, 

 and will not Race for the Cup," published a sensational story to 

 the effect that Volunteer is in such a condition that it would not 

 be possible to race, and that Gen. Paine will not sell her or allow 

 her to be used in the defense of the Cup. The wbole story is 

 evidently a malicious fabrication, as Volunteer is in be tter condi- 

 tion for racing to-day tban two years since. Capt. Half has 

 worked constantly to perfect her bottom, and it is now in good 

 condition for painting, which it was not when she raced Thistle. 



ATLANTIC Y. C— The annual regatta of the Atlantic Y. C. will 

 be resailed on June 21. 



Secretaries .of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest and 

 Stream their addresses, with name, membership, signal, etc., of 

 their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 

 report of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 

 requested to forward to Forest and Stream their addresses, with 

 logs of cruises, maps, and information concerning their local 

 waters, drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items 

 relating to the sport. 



FIXTURES. 



June. 



22. N. Y. C. C. Annual, Staten 29. Corinthian Mosquito Fleet, 

 Island. Larchmont. 



Jdly. 



4. Puritan, Record Races, No.4. 10-22. Atlantic Division Meet. 

 13-29. W.C.A. Meet, Ballast I'd. 27. Yonkers, Annual, Yonkers. 



August. 

 — . Pequot Meet, Thimble Islands. 



7-23. A. C. A. Meet, Sugar Island, St. Lawrence River. 



SEPTEMBER. 



8. Puritan, Record Races, No. 5. 14. Iantbe, Annual, Newark. 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



OFFICERS, 1887-38. 



Commodore: H. C. Rogers lT»ot.privw.iiii-h can 



Secretary-Treasurer: Geo. W. Hatton j • Fetel bo1 0U S h - 0an - 

 Fiee-Com. Rear-Corn. Purser. 



Central Dlv..W. It. Uuntingtoti.E. W. Masten ....T. H. Stryker, 



Rome, N. Y. 



Atlantic Div.W. P. Stephens L. B. Palmer F. L. Bunnell, 



186 Jerolemon St., Brooklyn 



Eastern Div. .H. E. Klee, M. D Maxton Holmes H. D. Marsh, 



Springfield. Mass. 



N'thern Div. . Robert Tyson S. S. Robinson Colin Eraser, Toronto. 



Applications for mem oersliip must be made to division pursers, accom- 

 panied by the recommendation of aD active member and the sum of $2.00 

 For entrance fee and dues for current year. Every member attending 

 the general A. C. A. camp shall pay $1.00 for oamp expenses. Application 

 sent to the Sec'y-Treas. will be forwarded by him to the proper Division. 



Persons residing in any Division and wishing to become members of 

 the A. C. A., will be furnished with printed forms of applicati on by address- 

 ing the Purser. 



WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Commodore— J. R. Bartlett, Fremont, Ohio. 

 Vice-Commodore— D. H. Crane, Chicago, 111. 

 Rear-Commodore— C. J. Stedman. Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 Secretary-Treasurer— O. H. Root, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Executive Committee— C. J. Bousfleld, Bay City, Mich.; T. P. Gaddis, Day 

 tOB, ©.; T. J. Kirkpatriok, Springfield, O, 



TORONTO C. C. NOTES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In casting about me for the wherewithal to put into the annxiall 

 spring notes, methought some of your readers might appreciate 

 a peep at some sketches which Mr. J. D. Kelly, our club artiijfcil 

 bung on the bulletin board a few weeks ago, to the amusement-jtflj 

 many and the confusion of one or two. The artist has taken for I 

 his first general sketch a short peep into the locker room justafll 

 the time when the spring swapping of canoes, etc., is going oil. 

 Novice No. 1 proudly picks up his new purchase as he hands overl 

 the necessary funds, while the chap who sold her can scarcelyTe- 1 

 press the diabolical grin which gradually illuminates his counte-fj 

 nence as he counts the stamps and pictures to himself the novice 

 out for his first cruise, counting stars through the chinks in tteJ 

 sides of his new purchase which has been warranted sound in' 

 wind, limb and feature. The open canoe paddler, as he slobs (fell 

 the fresh spring coloring is no doubt calculating the cost of a lazy- ! l 

 back, carpet and rep cushions, for lias he not all winter 

 yarning to his numerous lady friends about the pleasures of | 

 canoeing in an open craft with a lady friend, going over to Han-i 

 lan's Island in trie evening to listen to the regimental bands plajfcj 

 ing the sweetest of airs, and then the quiet walk home in the twEi 

 light with his best girl, but anon a cloud passes over his brow 

 he suddenly remembers that the price of McConkey 1 ? ice cr< 

 is now up to twenty cents a dish and he'll have to pass L 

 blessed place every time with his lady friend whose capacity 1 

 never been gauged short of two dishes. We leave him figuri 

 whether he hadn't better take a street car every night, wh 

 they'll be whisked up town before his friend has time to rnqj 

 alluring remarks about the heat, etc. 



No. 3 is a different sort of a chap, who never thinks of the otL 

 sex (unless he wants a button sewed on or a new flag made), but i 

 as he yanks up the sail for the forty -seventh time he reaches the' 

 conclusion that she ought to put his new Orion up into about first 

 place. 



Sketch No. 2 pictures the canoeist as he is "abroad," i. e. wh&il 

 he has his shoes on together with the rest of his clothing. The. 

 sketch of the chap seated in the stern is a very good picure of ouRf 

 genial vice-commodore, D. B. Jacques, who gathers his charming! 

 lady friends around him each Saturday, and by example and pre*! 

 cept tries to make the younger members look after their lady; 

 friends. (The point of the sketch is seen when it is remembered! 

 that Hyla's craft barely holds himself, and he is never found iflj 

 young ladies' company if he could get out of it by running hallM 

 mile or so.) 



No. 3, the racer, sometimes called the skinflint, the skipper 4M 

 which it strikes me would look better with a little more break-" 

 fast under his belt. The thing flapping around at the end of tn{| 

 string is not a baby rattle or a pair of eyeglasses, but a largdl 

 combination tool knife which the skipper is addicted to carrying J 

 d la Baden-Powell. I do not know whether the artist imeiidec! 

 any reflection to be cast on those feet when he placed them out"( 

 side the canoe or not, but there'll be a row if any one intimafiwl 

 that they won't go inside a 30in. craft. Some A. C. A. members I 

 will now" be able to see why Mac is sometimes a vigorous kiek&l 

 but what is a fellow to do when he is endowed with 14 or 15in. oi I 

 feet? Use 'em by kicking occasionally, or hang 'em up to get I 

 rusty? The lines of the canoe are taken directly from tngj 

 original. 



In No. 4 old A. C. A. members will all recognize No. 66, VfoMl 

 Com. Tyson of the Northern Division. As he complacently siS! 

 on the spot where man was intended to sit arid views with much! 

 satisfaction the two bags filled with his never-to-be-feft-behind-j 

 in-a-c.ruise companions, his mind must wander back to the olll 

 times when he was a novice at Crosbyside and knocked around I 

 with a ring and pin lateen; and, by the way, he has knockec I 

 about at tiie general A. C. A. or Divison meet every year since ( 

 and though he has "evoluted" from the ring and pin, lie stil [ 

 sticks to his early love, the good old Isabel. The inquiring novict I 

 alwavs asks the skipper what he carries in those two bags, but tit f 

 never does it a second time, because by the time Isabel has fl&'| 

 ished expatiating on the great advantage of carrying prunes thfl 

 aforesaid novice is wishing he hadn't opened such a curnbersomfj 

 question, and tries to head him off by remarking how nice thi j 

 Isabel looks with her new gear and fresh coat of varnish. 



No. 5 is the photographer of the club, but which one I am mi l 

 able to determine, as he got his head under the rag hefore I hat 

 my eye on him. Messrs. Hugh Neilson, I. L. Kerr, I. E. Browi I 

 and Mr. Matheson may all be seen shooting around with their tri I 

 pods at almost any of the club cruises. 



Immediately above is Johnson trying the standing-up positioi f 

 in the 20in. Maggie. He thinks he can shake more speed out 0-1 

 her in that position; but if there is no rule against that kind o I 

 thing, some of us think there ought to be; it's wusser 'n standing I 

 sails. I 



The chap whom Johnson is heading for is Secretary-Treasure I 

 Weston, he who in a gentle voice, like Neid6 of old. remarks 1 !! 

 "Have 1 got your dollar?" but unlike Neide the beggar is not sat I 

 istied with a dollar, but takes about a whole year's salary frtnyl 

 some of us before we get a receipt in full. 



Mr. Secretary can always be recognized as soon as his head loom L 

 up on the horizon, as he is usually accompanied by his full I 

 grown whiskers and great big pipe, the capacity of the bowl & I 

 which has caused many a smoker of fine cut to grunt as hi I 

 noticed the quantity of Pace's best it took to fill it. 



No. 8 is not a sketch of the village blacksmith, nor of an ma I 

 brella mender either for that matter, but is a good cut of Mr. A I 

 M. Rice who, when not dickering in real estate, is continuall I 

 being imposed upon by his friends, who want little brass fixing f 

 made, etc., etc. Diana is credited with having more ideas of brat I 

 fixings floating around in his upper works than any ten member! 

 around the club. 



No. 9, the skipper of the Ce-ce-be, is the gymnast of the cltii 

 Mr. A. H. Mason, who is alwas called upon to do the antics on rt I 

 gatl a day. One of the best antics done by him last year was keej I 

 ing his canoe right side up with care and winning the Orilla bbu 

 when fourteen of us were swimming around after batches, padd 1 " 

 etc., and like the dove of old, hunting for a dry and steady s 

 whereon to set our feet. 



Mr. Henry Wright, in No. 10, is not addicted to wearing tn 

 airy costume except on very special occasions, St. Patrick's Da 1 

 etc", but though he lays aside the kilts he always carries t' 

 accent of his fathers around with him, and is ready to embrr 

 at any time any chap who can work off about half a do: 

 words of "Ga-a-lic" or says he has lately been to the Ian 

 o' oatmeal and scons. Henry's hobby is single-blade paddli~ 

 and bull pups. 



Last but not least (if you measure him long ways) comes I 

 Com. A. Shaw, who by bis intimate friends is called "The C 



