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had gone back to Charlotte Saturday night. It was certainly a 

 "cutter night." 



A number of yachts of the Toronto, Royal Canadian and Hamil- 

 ton yacht clubs were there before us to helj> Niagara celebrate 

 Canada's Fourth of July, the second, Dominion Day. Anions 

 tbem was the Verve, a twin sister to our Madge, both being built 

 by Watson, of Thistle fame. 



Having paid our respects to all the visiting yachts in the harbor, 

 and tested their hospitality, seeing nothing more worth staying 

 for, and having replenished our stores, the vice-commodore as- 

 sumed command of a detachment of the club, and about 2:30 the 

 Velnette, Armida and Amelia started for Toronto under working 

 canvas, being led (about half the way) by the Mollie, R. C. Y. C. 

 The wind dying gradually, the crew had some practice in setting 

 light canvas, and trying the different sails in the different posi- 

 tions. The best result was obtained by an old device. The spin- 

 aker pole was swung around and lashed down as an addition to 

 the bowsprit, and the enormous new spinaker set as a balloon jib, 

 a device which saved a race last fall and which always worked 

 well with a beam wind. We arrived off Toronto Light about 10 

 o'clock, after a long search for a lost oar, and anchored at 1:15 A. M. 



The plan for the next day was to^do the city of Toronto, which 

 we proceeded to carry out in our best fashion. We took dinner at 

 The Hub, enjoying the result of a bet that we could not pass the 

 Mollie the day before. It was eminently proper that a man 

 should pay the penalty for betting against his own yacht. 



Right here we must put in our word of appreciation fer the two 

 clubs of Toronto, and especially for the Toronto Y. C. and the 

 crew of the cutter Verve, who met us first and sent one of their 

 men, Mr. Thompson, to pilot us into one of the club moorings, 

 when we were rather doubtful concerning soundings and courses. 

 Before we were up and sufficiently awake to recognize him, a 

 member, whom we afterward found to be Mr. Davenport, of the 

 Vivid, came on board and tendered us the hospitality of the club, 

 of which we were glad to avail ourselves, together with the use of 

 the mooring and their steward and telephone. In the afternoon 

 Mr. Percival, of the R. C. Y. C, came with his little yacht and 

 took a part of our crew across the beautiful bay to their club 

 house on the island, probably the finest house on the lakes. Among 

 others we met there Mr. Geo. E. Evans, the enthusiastic socvctavv 

 of the club and association, who is mourning over the fact that 

 family affairs will this year, for the first time, keep him from 

 making the circuit with the Toronto yachts. They all did every- 

 thing possible to make our visit at Toronto the one that will be 

 longest remembered of any trip the yacht has yet made. We can 

 promise them that if they are ever in Rochester only the seerecv 

 of their arrival will prevent payment of instalments of our debt 

 to both clubs. 



On the return from the island we found the rest of the crew 

 impatient to leave, so after finishing up some official business 

 with Mr. Evans we slipped our mooring, and after a parting sa- 

 lute, leaving the Armida and Amelia to follow a few days later, 

 the Velnette started on what proved to be a remarkably quick 

 run home. Avery light breeze was blowing from S.E.," which 

 lasted just long enough to drop us out of the harbor, where under 

 shadow of the island, near the outer light, we waited until about 

 11:30 P. M., when a stiff whole-sail breeze from S.W. struck the 

 yacht, sending her across the lake under started sheet, rail under 

 part of the time. It was just the wind for the Velnette, and earlv 

 in the morning we made Olcott, having struck a little further 

 west than at first intended. Keeping well off shore to catch the 

 force of the wind, we soon made 30-mile Point, from which we 

 made an even 9 miles an hour until we rounded Charlotte Light at 

 l;30in the afternoon of "The Glorious," having made the run 

 from Toronto, nearly 110 miles, in about 13 hours, or an average 

 of nearly 8 miles an hour. We have no knowledge of this time hav- 

 ing been bettered by any yacht of less than 25ft., corrected length, 

 and we therefore claim it as a record for the Velnette until we 

 hear to the contrary. 



Before closing we wish to call the attention of whoever may see 

 this to something which furnished as much amusement as* an y 

 one thing on the trip. It was a little detective carnera.the "Kcdak," 

 sold by the Eastman Company of this city. All one has to do is to 

 point the thing, press a button, and the picture is taken. Turn a 

 thumb-screw and pull a string, and another negative is ready. In 

 this way one can expose 100 negatives, which are on a roll, and 

 then send them to the manufacturers and have them developed 

 and a new roll put in. Through this handy contrivance, smaller 

 than a cigar box, we have a panorama of all the interesting scenes 

 of our trip,besides several pictures of the crew caught in some pecu- 

 liar and embarrassing situations. The pictures are round, three 

 inches in diameter, but may easily be enlarged. The camera is 

 not yet in the market, but soon will be; we had the first one sold. 



We found from this trip that some of the 1,500 pounds of extra 

 lead put this spring on the keel of the Velnette would have to 

 come off, and that in handling light canvas in the prevalent light 

 winds the advantages of a topmast would more than counteract 

 the disad vantaeres in a blow. So before the association regatta 

 the Velnette will appear as a full-blooded cutter, readv to make 

 the heart of Mr. Williams, her builder, glad, by another;un broken 

 series of victories this year, and a clear title to another R. Y. C. 

 prize cup, unless the competition aroused bv her success last year 

 prove too much for her this. 



A NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BOARD. 



MR. WALTER E. A.DAMS, of San Francisco, has lately applied 

 for a patent on the device shown in the accompanying illus- 

 trations; a movable "horizontal keel" such as has lately been 

 under discussion in our columns. A slot is cast in the iron or 

 lead keel in which a triangular plate of metal is fitted so as to 

 move freely from side to side, being pivoted on a vertical bolt 

 I B fore end. The after side is circular and is cut into teeth, in 

 which a small pinion gears, as in Fig. II. This pinion is fast on 

 a vertical shaft, B, which runs through a stuffing box inside the 

 keel, and up to the deck, having two handwheela, AA, one on deck 

 and one in the cabin. When before the wind the plate is in the 

 position, aa, Fig. II. When on the port tack it is thrown over to b 

 and when on the starboard tack to c, so that the area exposed is 

 always at right angles to the lee side of the keel. The mechani- 

 cal features of the design are very simple, it can be made at a 

 small cost, there is no weakening of the structure, and it should 

 add very materially to the lateral resistance. 



THE NAVY DEPARTMENT AND THE NORTON 

 SYSTEM. 



A LETTER was sent by the Forest and Stream to Secretary 

 Whitney, calling his attention to the claims of the Norton 

 Naval Constiuction and Ship Building Co., and suggesting that 

 the merits of the system be fully investigated by competent men. 

 The following reply disposes effectually of the statement of its 

 promoters that the Norton Syst-sm is in any wav indorsed by the 

 Navy Department of the United States: 



^ , Navy Department, Washington, July 26. 



• Gentlemen: 



I have your letter of the 25th instant,and also the copies of Forest 

 and Stream which contain articles concerning the Norton Sys- 

 tem of Ballasting. In reply I have to state that this Djpaitinent 

 has tried the Norton Life Boat for naval purposes and it has been 

 reported against. I cannot order any general investigation, there 

 is nothing before the Department to which it is material. With 

 many thanksfor your kindly suggestion, I am Very Respectfully. 



m , ^ Wm. C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy." 



The Forest and Stream Publishing Company. 



BEVERLY Y. C— 132d Regatta.— Second for Buzzards Bay 

 championship. Monument Beach, July 28. Courses, first and sec- 

 ond classes: Leaving Pine's Buoy on starboard, Bird Island 

 Buoy and Scraggy Neck Buoy on port and return, 11 miles. Third 

 class— Twice around Pines Buoy and return, 6)4 miles. Fourth 

 class— Twice around Buoy 12 and return, 4 3-5 miles. Weather 

 cloudy any rainy. Wind a strong N.E. gale. Tide ebb. 



FIRST CLASS. 



T „ , Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Surprise, Jas. M. Codmam 26.00 1 52 34 1 40 39 



Mattie, Vice-Com. Stockton 26.10 1 52 36 1 41 36 



Whisper, S. M. Weld 16.02 2 10 07 1 58 23 



SECOND CLASS. 



Mist, Geo. H. Lyman, Jr 26.02)4, 1 54 47 1 43 03 



Tantrum, Wm. Amory 22.10 1 59 46 1 43 54 



Beatrice, E. C. Curey 22.03 2 04 05 1 47 49 



Lestris, Joshua Crane 23.05 Withdrew. 



THIRD CLASS. 



Eleanor, John Parkinson 22.02 1 08 20 58 25 



Dolly, A. S. Hardy 21.05 1 10 22 59 48 



Daisy, Vice-Com, Stockton 20.06 1 12 16 1 00 53 



Petrel, Geo. H. Richards 20. U6 1 27 40 1 16 17 



FOURTH CLASS. 



Wink, M. Williams, Jr 18.09 1 20 35 1 29 36 



Polly, Richard Codman 16.02 2 22 16 1 31 35 



Nymph, C. W. Amory 16.11 Withdrew. 



Winners of prizes — Class 1, Surprise first Mattie second; Class 2, 

 Mist first, Tantrum second; Class 3, Eleanor first, Dolly second, 



Fio.HI. 



A NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BOARD. 



Class 4. Wink first, Polly second. Surprise and Eleanor win legs 

 for pennant, tjeing Mattie and Dolly. Mist wins and holds pen- 

 nant. Beatrice broke tiller and jumped centerboard off the pin. 



SIPPICAN Y. C.-Open Regatta, July 25. Courses, first and second 

 [asses, From judges' yacht off wharf, leaving Black Buoy, No. 5, 



on starboard. "Red Buoy, No. 2, on 'port, Black Buoy, No."3"'oii 

 Ledge Buoy, No. 13, on starboard, Nye's 



starboard, Sousheast 



wharf. Fifteen miles. Third Class, From judges' vacbt, leaving 

 Black Buoy, No. 2, on starboard, Red Buoy, No. 2. on port, Black 

 Buoy, No. 3, on starnoard. Southeast Ledge Buoy, No. 13, on star- 

 board, Bow Bells Buoy, No. 11. on starboard, Seal Rock Buoy, No. 

 1, on port, Black Buoy, No. 3, on port, Red Buoy. No. 2, oh star- 

 board, Black Buoy, No. 5, on port, and finish between judges' 

 yacht and wharf. Nine miles. Fourth Class, From judges' yacht 

 leaving Black Buoy, No. 5, on starboard, Red Buoy, No. 2, on port, 

 Black Buoy, No. 3, on starboard, Stake Boat off Plantin Island, 

 on starboard, Seal Rock Buoy, No. 1, on starboard, Black Buoy 

 No. 3, on port, Red Buoy, No. 1, on starboard, Black Buoy, No. 5, 

 on port, rounding judges' yacht, leaving it on port, and repeat the 

 course once, finisning between judges' yacht and wharf. Nine 

 miles. Weather clear. Wind light southwest. Tide flood. 



FIRST CLASS— SLOOPS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Allie, R Ryder 26.02)4 2 57 42 2 56 27 



Verona, F Chaps 24.06)4. Did not finish. 



Zingara, E V Bird 27.00 2 39 06 2 39 06 



SECOND CLASS— CATBOATS. 



A. P. E., D Crosby 24.06 2 31 28 2 28 48 



Surprise, J M Cadman 23.02 2 29 10 2 25 47 



Mucilage, C C Hanley 26.02)4 2 24 18 1 24 18 



Mabel, S H Perry 24.03 Withdrawn. 



Climax, E C Stetson 26.02)4 2 27 30 2 27 30 



THIRD CLASS— CATBOATS. 



Bouncer, C. Crosby 23.11 Withdrawn. 



Molly, J Hill 23.11)4 Withdrawn. 



Mist, G H Lyman 23.00)1 2 40 11 2 38 00 



Superior, W Phinney 23 10 2 42 03 2 41 46 



Crawl, R Hilles 23.00 2 41 09 2 40 32 



FOURTH CLASS— CATBOATS. 



Edith, I Chapman 17.02)4 1 50 25 1 47 25 



Elide, FAKnudsen 17.04)4 Withdrawn. 



Hesper, F Haggerty 19.03 1 45 21 Ruled Out. 



Laura, J E de Kay 19.02 1 50 16 1 50 10 



Hebe, J M Clark 16.01)4 1 59 37 1 54 38 



Sylvia, H C Ladd 17.01 2 05 21 2 02 05 



Red Wing, Eben Holmes 16.02)4 1 50 58 1 44 17 



Trump, Jasper Whiting 19.02 1 47 28 ] 47 22 



Daisy, H Stockton 19.02 1 43 54 1 43 48 



FIFTH CLASS— CATBOATS. 



Mattie, F R Wing 15.07 1 43 35 Ruled Out. 



Psyche, C S Wing 14.10 1 52 28 1 51 02 



Wide Awake, J Pegram 14.09)6 1 50 30 1 49 04 



Skip Jack, C H Clark 12.04 1 54 28 1 47 28 



Rena, A Hi Her 13.04 1 48 33 1 43 54 



Reba, W Perrv 13.01 Withdrawn. 



Nymph, W Amery 14.10)4 1 47 13 1 45 57 



Cora, H Dexter 13.04)4. Withdrawn. 



Lady May K 



Winners in first class: Zingara, first; Allie, second. Second 

 class, Mucilage, first; Surprise.second. Third class, Mist, first; 

 Crawl, second. Fourth class, Daisy, first; Red Wing, second. 



Fifth class, Nymph, first; fekip Jack, second. Wind at start verv 

 light, freshened toward end of race. Regatta Committee. James 

 Austin, Jasper Whitmg and Eben Holmes. Judges, Mr Lvon 

 and James W. Austin. ' 



r MONATIQUOT Y C FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP REGATTA, 

 JULY 13.— Course, Port Point, Weymouth, Mass. First class <$ 

 miles, second class, , miles. Weather "fair, heavy N.W wind 

 tide three-quarters flood: ' 



FIRST CLASS. 



. „ r TT „, Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Moondyne. W. H. Shaw 25.00 1 23 49 54 57 



Folly, J. F. Sheppard 20.08 1 37 06 59 48 



Posy, R. G. Hunt 22.03 1 32 37 1 00 49 



' , T „ „ , SECOND CLASS-CATS. 



Tartar, J. B. Forsyth 19.06 1 23 20 55 55 



Rocket, H. M l axon 16.02 1 28 09 56 42 



Hester, P. R. Blackmur 19.11 1 24 48 57 50 



Guenn, Perry Lawton 17.00 1 35 55 1 05 35 



SECOND CLASS — JIB AND MAINSAIL. 



Diadem, L. A. Hayward 18.02 1 23 a 54 26 



Winners of first: First class, Moondyne; second class, Tartar 

 third class,Diadem. Second: First class,Folly; second class,Rocke* 



F 1 Coiby r T P Willey*' A ' K Jud g es -Hen'ry Gardner, C. 



Second Pennant Regatta, July 17.— Inside courses. First Class 

 distance 8 miles; second class, distance 6 miles. Weather fair' 

 Wind light and steady E.S.E. Tide 4:50. Start 3:30. 



FIRST CLASS. 



mttw -t n. '<». * Length. Elapsed. Corrected 



Folly J F. Sheppard 26.08 1 30 13 1 05 57 



Secret, E. F. Linton « 22.06 1 49 39 1 21 88 



„ _ SECOND CLASS CATBIGS. 



Rocket, H. F. Faxon 16.02 1 25 08 58 11 



Guenn, Perry Lawton 17 00 1 3? 21 1 06 21 



Hester, P. R. Blackmur 19.11 1 31 53 1 08 46 



Maud, H. A. Nash, Jr 19.02 Disahled. 



_. , SECOND CLASS JIB AND MAINSAIL. 



Diadem L. Hayward .18.02 1 20 45 55 58 



Wasp, T. P. Willey. 16 .01 1 35 05 1 08 02 



Snarleyow, G. E. Maybury 17.10 1 35 19 1 11 13 



Spray, C. T. White 18 . 08 Disabled. 



Winners of first prizes-Class 1, Folly: Class 2, Rocket; Class 3. 

 Diadem. Second prizes— Class 2, Guenn: Class 3, Wasp. Third 

 prizes— Class 2, Hester, Snarleyow. Second class was started 

 before the nrst. Diadem wins pennant in her class. Folly and 

 Rocket each win a leg and sail off for pennant July 31 with Posy 

 and Hester, which each won in first pennant race Snarleyow 

 was handicapped 8m., but sailed a splendid race. Sprav parted 

 bowsprit stay. Judges— H. Gardner, N. F. Hunt, Dana Smith. 



WEST LYNN Y. C— The second championship race was sailed 

 on July 28 m a very strong N.E. breeze. The times were- 



FIRST CLASS. 



T , „ > q * Length. Elapsed. Corrected 



Lark Sprout & Olin 22.03 50 30 33 00 



Blanche, James Bessom 23.03 51 00 33 59 



Nordeck, Howe & Rich 22.07 55 00 37 35 



. ^ THIRD CLASS. 



Isabel, Davis & Hodgkins 16.00 25 00 14 20 



Wild Cat Charles Alley 16 03 ™ um 



Florence, John Welch 16.05 28 45 15 27 



M°,? E M B n A T, S '~ A / a r ce was sa11ed on Jul y 28 between the cats 

 Mollie McCarthy and Jean, over the course of the Harlem Y. C. 

 the wind being light S. E. Mollie McCarthy won in 2.19.30, Jean' 

 giving up. ' 



