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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Sept. 13, 1888. 



a graceful curve down to about the bobstay plate, when it curves 

 put instead of under as usual, giving her a "hungry" look (as it has 

 been described). 



In her races she has proved herself a snlendid all-round boat: 

 she has met and defeated all types of yachts and in all kinds of 

 weather and conditions of water, and she. lias undoubtedly proved 

 herself not only the fastest Outhbert boat, hut the fastest craft on 

 fresh water under 50ft. l.w.l. On several occasions when she has 

 pet the Atalanta (of America Oup fame) she has saved her time 

 from her, and made a close race even. So also the schooners 

 Oriole, Spcranza and Wasp. Her best point of sailinsr is to wind- 

 ward, which is said to be due to tne peculiar construction of her 

 eenterboard case, which is larger at the fore than at the after 

 end, thus giving the eenterboard considerable plav at its forward 

 end; and as it naturally cleaves to the windward side of the case 

 it thus tends to eat her to windward. Another distinctive feature 

 is her great lack of wave making, for even when driven at a high 

 rate of speed she does not appear to ca rry either a bow or a quarter 

 wave, but only a long, following swell. This peculiarity has been 

 noted and discussed by many. Her record is as follows: 

 im-i Starts— 7 Firsts, 3 Seconds. 



July 28-Torouto Y. C. regatta, L. Y. R. A. cruise. Wind, light to 

 moderate. Starters: While Wings, Cygnet, Ethel, Verve. Fin- 

 ished in following order, corrected time: White Wings, 1. 50.07; 

 Cygnet, 5.22.20; Ethel, 5.39.55; Verve, 5.44.13. In this race she sa ved 

 her time from the entire class above her, which comprised 

 Atalanta, Oriole, Ailecn and Ariadne. Her elapsed time was ],<ss 

 than either of the latter three. 



July 29.— Toronto, Royal Canadian regatta, L. Y. R. A. cruise 

 Wind, fresh to strong: good lump of a sea. Same starters as the 

 previous day. Corrected time: White Wings, 5.01.09; Cvgnet 

 8,13,00; Verve, 0.31.42; Ethel not timed. She agaiu saved her time 

 from Atalanta and Oriole, and defeated the Aileen and Ariadne 

 even. 



Aug. 2. -Charlotte, N. Y., Rochester Y. C, L.Y. R, A. cruise. 



time from Atalanta and Oriole, and beat Aileen and Ariadne 

 even. Her elapsed time for the first round was less than either 

 Atalanta or Oriole. 



Aug. 5.— Oswego, O. Y. C, L. Y. R. A. cruise. Wind strong; lieavv 

 sea. Starters: White Wings, Garfield, Ethel, Verve. In this rae'e 

 she sprung her bowsprit aud was kept, under short sail all dav 

 with the result that the Garfield was inside her time. Finish' 

 corrected time: Garfield, 4.54.52; White Wings, 4.5iUti; Ethel' 

 n.15.09. Verve carried away her gaff and retired. 



Aug. S.— Kingston Y. C, L. Y. R. A. cruise. Wind Mght. Start- 

 ers: VV bite Wings and Garfield. Ethel and Verve both not hav- 

 ing repaired damages sustained at Oswego did not start. White 

 Wings started, however, with a sprung bowsprit, with the result 

 that oefore long it carried away, and she had to lay to for over 

 twenty minutes repairing. She caught Garfield, but was unable 

 to save her time. Finish, corrected time: Garfield, 7.47.22: White 

 Wings, 7.50.00. 



Aug. 6.- Belleville, Bay of Quinte Y. C, L. Y. R. A. Cruise. 

 Wind strong, puffy, smooth sea. Starters, Garfield and White 

 Wings, Finish, White Wings, 4,05.30; Garfield, 4.27.06, corrected 

 time. 



Her other three races during this soason were Toronto Y. O 

 club races, her competitors being Cygnet, Condor, Whistle wing 

 Verve, Cyprus and Escape, over all of which she secured an easv 

 victory on every occasion. 



1S88—9 Starts— 9 Firsts. 



July 4.— Buffalo annual, Buffalo Y. C. Starters, Alarm, Cyprus 

 Vera, Emma, White Wings, Viking, Gannet, Sylvia; Schooners 

 May Belle, W est Wind and Dandy. The wind was fresh and with 

 a good sea running down the lake. In this race she walked away 

 from all in a wonderful way, and would have finished much 

 sooner had she not met with difficulty in picking up the outer 

 buoy, and before this was accomplished the rest of the fleet were 

 upon her. The finish, corrected time, was: White Wings, 2 Id 55- 

 Cyprus, 2.11 35; Emma, 2.13.51; Sylvia, 2.14.37; others not "timed ' 



July 11— Put-in-Bay Island, Obio, inter- Lake Yachting Associa- 

 tion Meet. Open race for all siDgle stickers. Wind half a gale 

 S. W., heavy sea. Starters, Cyclone, Reynolds. Unique, Iris, Eole 

 Alice Enright, Lulu B., Fanchon, Scud, Oberon, White Wings' 

 Cora, Cyprus and Vera. This was the closest race White Wings 

 ever sailed. Her chief competitor was Cora, of Detroit, a much 

 larger vessel, and as the greater part of the course was reaching 

 it kept her busy. It seemed to be a case of who would carry cot- 

 ton the longest, and in this White Wings was best. The 'finish 

 was as follows, times not corrected: White Wings. 2.37 .0U- Cora 

 2.37.54: Alice Enright, 2.45.45; Cyprus, 2.48.32; Lulu B., 2.53; Fan- 

 chon, 2.53.10; Scud, 2.50.02; Vera, 3.4.57; the rest not timed. Over 

 the. same course at the same time she had a private match with 

 Alice Enright, champion of Lake Erie, the finish being: White 

 Wings, 2.37. OS); Enright, 2.45; 45, corrected time. 



July 12.— Match race with Cora of Detroit, to be settled with 

 the schooner race, in which Wasp and Sperauza were competing. 

 The White Wings and Cora lost considerable time (after the 

 schooners had started) maneuvering for weather berth, in which 

 the former was successful. Wasp carried away both topmasts 

 and lost much time thereby. The finish was: White Wings, 2. 12.1H- 

 Cora, 2.47.38. White Wings caught and passed the Sperauza! 

 Wind N.E. strong. The race finished in a heavy gale. 



July 20 —Oswego Y. C, Lake Y. K. A. cruise. Wind strong, sea 

 heavy. Starters: White Wings, Cygnet, Madge. Finish, corrected 

 time: White Wings, 3.04.15; Cygnet, 3.40.20; Madge gave up, sprung 

 her topmast. In the first 5 mile beat to windward Madge was 8m. 

 30s. astern, so it was not likely she could have wou. In this race 

 Atalanta (which was sailing over the course for first prize, first 

 class) and White Wings had a desperate race, first one would lead 

 then the other. On the second round the smaller yacht led, but 



White Wings, 5.00.50: Cygnet, 5.25; Madge retired, having carried 

 away her topmast. She, however, was some 12m. astern at the 

 time. 



July 28.— Hamilton, H. Y. C. L. Y. R. A. cruise. Starters: White 

 Wings, Aggie, Cygnet, Verve, Condor. The wind died away in 

 the afternoon and left all becalmed, so they were towed in and 

 the race postponed. White Wings was 58m. ahead at the outer 

 buoy on the second round, the last point at which they were 

 timed. 



July 30.— Toronto Y. C, L. Y. R. A. cruise. Wind light. Start- 

 ers: White Wings. Cygnet, Verve. Aggie. At the finish of the 

 race White Wings was becalmed, and the rest of the fleet, bring- 



Wind and sea heavy, with rain squalls. Starters: White Wings, 

 Aggie, Verve, Cygnet. Corrected time at finish: 4.48.20, 5.35.1 1 , 

 G.11.17, respectively. Cygnet not timed. 



Aug. 3.— Hamilton, H. Y. C, postponed race. Wind fresh; smooth 

 sea. Only Aggie and White Wings turned up at the starting 

 line, the others having been becalmed on their wav up from To- 

 ronto. Finish, corrected times: White Wings, 2,5(110; Aggie, 

 3.15.39. . 



TORONTO Y. C. HANDICAP. Sept. l.-A handicap race for 

 classes 3, 3, 4 and 5 was sailed on Sept. 1 at Toronto, the wind 

 being light S. W. The times were: 



CLASSES 2 AND 3. 



Elapsed. Corrected. 



Rivet 5 10 30 4 58 00 



Condor 5 09 20 4 59 20 



Cygnet 5 06 30 5 06 30 



Whistlewing Not timed. 



Escape Not timed. 



Condor and Rivet were ruled out for fouling a buoy, so Cygnet 

 wins, with Escape second. 



CLASSES 4 AND 5. 



Caprice 5 02 20 5 02 20 



Mischief ..5 04 40 5 00 40 



Puritan 5 06 45 5 01 45 



Finette 5 07 30 5 01 30 



Alert 5 07 40 5 00 40 



Alvaetfa - 5 10 50 5 10 50 



Tarn O'Shanter 5 11 80 5 05 20 



Mollie - 5 17 30 5 05 30 



Mischief and Alert tied for first place, 



CAPW ANN Y. C.-On Sept. 3 the race for the Tappan Cup was 

 finally sailed off Gloucester. Black Cloud winning for the second 

 time and taking the cup. The times were: 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Black Cloud 23 . 10 1 45 53 1 19 13 



Alpine 16.04 2 08 06 1 32 26 



Climax 18. U6 2 08 33 1 35 52 



Maud S . . . 22.03 2 04 58 1 36 42 



Silver Cloud Withdrew. 



The cup is a very handsome trophy, of silver lined with gold, 

 the outside ornamented with clusters of grapes, 



ST. LAWRENCE CLUB CUP RACES. 



THE sixth and last schedule race of the St. Lawrence Yachting 

 Association for the commodore's and vice-commodore's cups 

 took place over the usual course on Lake St. Louis on the after- 

 noon of Sept. 1. The wind was very light aud variable through- 

 out the race, and it was to a very great extent a drifting match. 

 When the boats went over the line it was from the southwest, 

 making a reach to the lighthouse buoy, and a run to the nortl 

 buoy. The start was as follows: 



Ishkoodah 3 31 00 Lulu 3 31 40 



Madge ..3 31 15 Osprey 3 32 00 



Scud 3 31 35 Wanda 3 32 30 



Tlie Lulu, the big barndoor "cat" from Lake Ohamplaiu had a 

 tremendously big jib set when she crossed t he line, but she had 

 to take it in, a minute or two afterward, and lost time in doing 

 so. The Valois lighthouse was rounded in the following order: 



Madge 3 49 Osprey 3 57 



Ishkoodah 3 51 Wanda 4 01 



Lulu 3 55 Scud 4 05 



The wind dropped on the run, and before the. north buov was 

 rounded the yachts had nothing but little, pull's from the south 

 and southwest to carry them on. The Lulu kept her third place, 

 but was doing badly, comparatively speaking. The north buoy 

 was passed in the following order: 



Madge 5 05 00 Wanda 5 19 00 



Ishkoodah 5 06 30 Osprey 5 24 00 



Lulu 5 14 00 Scud .5 35 00 



The close hauled work to the southern buoy took a long time 

 and was a wearisome piece of business. The Osprey crept up to 

 third place, and the Scud dropped out of i( before the buoy was 

 reached. At the turn the order was: 



Madge 6 20 00 Wanda 6 37 00 



Ishkoodah 6 30 00 Lulu 6 40 U0 



Osprey ...0 34 00 



The Madge had the race well in hand at this point, but she only 

 had an hour and ten minutes to finish before the time limit of 

 four hours expired, and as minute after minute crept by and she 

 made no appreciable progress, it looked as if the race wotUd be » 

 fizzle. A puff of wind came just in time, however, and she came 

 across the line with just three minutes to spare. The time at the 

 finish was: 



Madge 7 27 00 Lulu 7 30 00 



Ishkoodah 7 34 00 Wanda 7 40 00 



Osprey 7 38 00 



The Ishkoodah allows the Osprey 8m. 40s., so that the latter gets 

 second place. This is the third win for the Madge this season, 

 and as the Lulu has also scored three wins these two boats will 

 have to sail off for the cup. 



The canoe yawl race was another procession, the Tara, Wallace's 

 fine craft, leading from the start. The Tara has made an un- 

 broken record during the season, having won the six races for the 

 vice-commodore's cup, and every race she has entered for. She is 

 Sauvti's, of Brockville, latest and greatest production in the shape 

 of a cauoe yawl. 



CORINTHIAN Y. C, MARBLEHEAD, SEPT. 3. 



THE third and last pennant championship race of the Corin- 

 thian Y. C. was sailed on Sept, 3, off Marblehead, iu a light 

 S.E. wind. The courses were: For first class, from judges' line 

 to Half-way Rock, leaving it on starboard, Can Buoy on outer 

 break 

 toil 

 line 



Gooseberry Ledge on starboard, stakeboat anchored 200yds, south- 

 east of Tom Moore's Rocks on starboard, to judges' lino; 6 miles. 



The leading boats in first class were Miguon, designed by her 

 owner, Mr. Horatio Babson, of Gloucester; Saracen, a new Bur- 

 gess cutter, and Elf, also a new boat. Atalanta, the fast center- 

 board boat, also started in the same tlass, but, for a separate prize, 

 the keels and centerboards not being raced together. Mignon 

 beat her rivals easily both to windward and reaching. The times 

 were: 



FIRST CLASS— KEELS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Mignon, H. Babson 28.10 2 32 48 2 04 33 



Saracen, W. P. Fowle 30.10 2 39 41 2 13 09 



Elf, W. H. Wilkinson 29.02 2 45 12 2 17 15 



Agnes, W. E. Cummings 26.00 Withdrew. 



FIRST CLASS — ENTER BO Alt DS. 



Atalanta, I. R. Thomas 28.01 2 57 07 2 27 56 



SECOND CLASS — KEELS. 



Ifish, J. B. Paine 24.04 3 43 32 2 09 43 



.„.h, B. B.& F. B. Crowninshield.33.04 3 51 53 2 17 53 

 Ma rguerite, F. Skinner. Jr 23.11 Withdrew. 



SECOND CLASS— CE.NTiORBOARDS. 



Sprite, H. M. & P. S. Sears 22.07 2 56 32 2 21 31 



THIRD CLASS— KEELS. 



Mosca. C. H. W. Foster 19.11 1 47 35 1 24 24 



Wraith, H. P. Benson 19.02 1 59 52 1 36 0! 



Sachem, R. D. Floyd 20.02 3 02 31 1 39 41 



Kathleen, R. S. Peabody 20.00 2 07 13 1 45 30 



Vaga, H. W. Friend 17.11 2 11 59 1 47 53 



Nixie, A. L. Cochrane 20.04 Withdrew. 



Caprice, F. V. Parker 19.02 Withdrew. 



THTRD CLASS— CENTERBOARDS. 



Corsair, C. H. Millet 18.10 2 04 12 1 40 05 



Josephine, D. H. Follett, Jr 18.08 3 11 05 1 46 49 



Dolphin, R. Robbins 17.03 3 10 33 1 50 44 



Greta, S. G. Allen - 19.06 Withdrew. 



Nerena, B. Saltonstall 20.11 Withdrew. 



Pixy, F. W. Chaudler 20.09 Withdrew. 



The judges were C. S. Eaton, W. H. Clothey, C. H. Tavlor, Jr., 

 aud W. W. Whitcomb. 



The winners were: First class keels— Mignon first, $10; Saracen 

 second, 85. First class centerboards- Atalanta leg for pennant. 

 Second class keels— Swordfisb first, $10; Witch second $5; Sword- 

 fish leg for pennant. Second class centerboards— Sprite leg for 

 pennaut-Tuird class keels— Mosca first, $10, and leg for pennant; 

 Wraith second, $5. Third class centerboards— Corsair first, §10, 

 and leg for pennant; Josephine second, $5. 



Swordfish is the new boat designed by Mr. John B. Paine. It is 

 noticeable that in each class the keels beat the centerboards, sail- 

 ing the same courses. 



Atalanta has won two races, Saracen two, Expert two. Witch, 

 Swordttsh and Carmita have each one leg iu second class and 

 Coyote, Corsair and Myrtle each hold one leg. The sail-off was 

 set for Sept. 12. The 25th regatta will be sailed on Sept, 15, for 

 silver prizes. 



THE VOYAGE OF THE MINERVA. 



IT was considered quite a feat when Clara, 58ft. x9f t. lin., crossed 

 the Atlantic, three years since, but her passage has been far 

 outdone by another Fife cutter of still smaller dimensions, which 

 not onl v came over safely but made a very quick passage, cross- 

 ing from Fairlie, Scotland, to Boston, in 28 days. Minerva, the 

 latest addition to the 40ft. class, was designed by young Will Fife 

 and built at the Fairlie yard. She is just under 40ft. l.w.l., 54ft. 

 over all, with clipper stem of course, lift. 4m. beam, and 9ft. 

 draft, with 12Mj tons of lead on keel. She is built of wood, with 

 planking of elm and yellow pine, and fittings of teak and mahog- 

 any. In general appearance she resembles Thistle, owing to the 



seamen, brought, her safely across under her racing mast but 

 with no topmast, a mainsail of Shona's, with a cloth added, being 

 used, together with two jibs, two staysails and a spinaker, the 

 pole of the latter being 30ft. She carried a small boat lashed on 

 deck. The following is an abstract fiom her log: 



Left Fairlie, Scot,, July 25, at 3 P. M. Wind light from S. W., 

 dead ahead, holding light, and variable all day. 



July 26, at 9:30 A. M., passed Malin Head. At 11 A. M. sighted 

 the channel fleet off Loch S willy. Wind still light, but south- 

 cast, Sauk Tory Island off the north coast of Ireland during the 

 forenoon, and steered our course across the ocean, west one-half 

 north. 



Friday, light but shifting winds. Ran 149 miles by the log. 



Saturday, carried away the gooseneck of spinaker boom at 3 

 P.M. At 4 P.M. rain squall, accompanied by nasty sea. Log 

 showed 144 miles. 



July 30.— Fresher winds; forced to double reef mainsail. Short 

 cross seas made the compass bob about so as to be practically use- 

 less. Held on a course west by south, one-quarter south, and ran 

 179 miles. 



Monday the blow moderated; set light, sails. During the night 

 heavy pain shower, with baffling airs. Log recorded 109 miles 

 as the work of the day. 



Tuesday, dead calm for the greater part of the day. Long roll- 

 ing swell that made things uncomfortable. Ran 75 miles, noon to 

 noon, 



Wednesday, Atig. 1.— Wind freshened, but held dead ahead. 

 Ran 115 miles. 



Aug. 2.— Heavy cross seas prevailed all day, wind hauling to 

 southwest. Covered 105 miles^ 



Aug. 3.— Heavy head winds and head seas all day. Log showed 

 103 miles. 



Aug. 4.— Heavy rain, heavy seas and head winds. Course, west 

 by south three-quarters south. Sailed 100 miles by log. 



Aug. 5.— Wind stronger, veering from northwest to southwest. 

 Under three-reefed mainsail for four hours. Plunged heavily; 86 

 miles. 



Monday, Aug. fi.— Blowing fresh from northwest; 132 miles. 



Aug. 7.— At 2:30 P. M. was passed by the National Line steamer 

 Egypt, bound for New York. Spoke her and received Liverpool 

 pape rs of date Aug. 2. At 4 P. M„ in N. lat. 48° 51', W. long. 38° 

 39', sighted and sailed around derelict schooner W. L. White, of 

 Rockland, Me. She had stumps of main and mizenmasts stand- 

 ing and decks burst out, Log showed 153 miles. 



Aug. 8.— Wind shifting from southeast to northeast, and light 

 all day; 81 miles. 



Aug. 9.— Wind stronger. Weather fair. Ran 166 miles. 



Aug. 10.— On edge of the Banks. Thick and hazy during after- 

 noon. Light rains and fine sailing breeze at night and during the 

 morning; US miles. Hove lead at midnight and found bottom in 

 45 fathoms. 



Aug. 11.— Sailed through French fishing fleet. Winds light 

 ahead. Course S.W. % S. Covered 87 miles. 



Aug. 12.— Light and baffling winds. Foggy at times. Many 

 whales sighted. Log recorded 95 miles. 



Monday, Aug. 13.— Fine N.E, breeze; 154 miles. 



Aug. 14.— Wind light; 8(1 miles. 



Aug. 15.— Thick fog all the morning; 86 miles. 



Aug. 16.— Wind very light; 54 miles. 



Aug. 17.— Foggy, head winds; 98 miles. 



Aug. 18.— At noon sounded in 55 fathoms; 82 miles. 



Aug. 19.- Wind still holding light and ahead. In N. lat. 42° 53', 

 W. long. 04° 53'. passed Gloucester fishing schooner Lorna Doone 

 at anchor, fishing. She gave us nlenty of fresh fish, and we stood 

 on our course; 104 miles. 



Aug. 20.— Light winds; carried spinaker aud all jibs; 63 miles. 



Aug. 21.— About 4 o'clock A. M. a gale sprang up from the south- 

 east and backed around to the north. It blew with hurricane 

 force, accompanied by frightful seas. We kept staysail behind 

 mast, and the boat behaved splendidly. Kept her under the stay- 

 sail for about four hours. At daylight we passed a large schooner 

 hove to under foresail and trysail. At 9:20 A. M. we sighted Cape 

 Cod, bearing W.N.W. The wind took oft at 9:15, and we began to 

 drift down the beach toward Nausett, yvhich at noon bore west by 

 south. At 3 P. M. the wind lessened, and wo stood around the 

 ("ape. At 7 P. M. Cape Cod was abeam, bearing soutb-southwest, 

 and two hours later Race Point was abeam, bearing south-south- 

 west. 



At 3 A. M, Thursday we were abeam of the Gurnet. At 7 A. M. 

 tucked iu fiont of Minot's, passed Boston light at 8:30 and came 

 to anchor at 9:30 A. M. 



Total length of voyage 28 days, land to land 26 days. 



Minerva will probably not race this year, but next season she 

 will be iu the 40ft. class with Baboon, Nymph, Aara, Banshee, 

 Chiquita and Pappoose. Her performance with them cannot, fail 

 of being very instructive, as she, while far from being a narrow 

 cutter, has less beam than any of the others, only lift. tin. com- 

 pared with 13 or 14ft. of Raboon, Banshee and Nymph. She has 

 already made a reputation for herself by her remarkable voyage, 

 and if she does as well in racing her designer will have no reason 

 to be ashamed of her. 



GALATEA'S KEEL. 



A DECISION has lately been rendered in the suit of Lieut. 

 Henn against J. Reid & Co., the builders of Galatea, for 

 .£1,000 damages on account of faulty construction of the lead keel. 

 Lord McLaren, before wiiom the case was tried, has decided 

 against Lieut. Henn, the main points of the case, as reported in 

 the Glasgow Hercdd, being as follows, in addition to which the 

 decision goes at length into the legal and technical features of 

 the case: 



"In November, 1884, defenders agreed to build the steel cutter 

 yacht Galatea for the pursuer at a price of £4,524. The specifica- 

 tion required that 85 tons of lead should be run into the spaces 

 amidships been the floors, and the vessel was to be built accord- 

 ing to the style of a first-class yacht, The Galatea was handed 

 over to the pursuer in April, 1885, and she was raced at various 

 regattas and sailing matches during tne ensuing racing season. 

 1'ursuer, however, discovered that the vessel had neither the 

 stability nor the speed which a first class yacht of her size ought 

 to have had. In consequence of her instability and want of power 

 to carry sail, the pursuer found it necessary to have the vessel's 

 spars cut down and reduced. She thus proved a great failure 

 during the yachting season of 1885. At the end of the season the 

 yacht still becoming deeper in the water, pursuer began to sus- 

 pect that the lead ballast had not been pro perl y run into the spaces 

 and he had some of it cut out, when it was discovered that it 

 had not been run in properly. Instead of being solid and filling 

 up the whole of the spaces into which it was run, the lead, he 

 said, was solid only at the upper part of the spaces. Below, the 

 spaces had been left empty, so that the water getting in after- 

 wards filled up the vacancies under the lead. Some cons of water 

 had thus been collected in the yacht's bilges below the lead, at a 

 place where it could not be reached by the pumps. Pursuer had 

 the lead taken out and run in again at a cost of £580 16s. 7d.. and 

 he was put to other expense. He founded his claim on breach of 

 contract. The defenders maintained that they were in no way to 

 blame, for the yacht's want of success. She was, they said, badly 

 handled, and in any event they had not guaranteed her speed. 

 They believed that the pursuer took out the lead and had other 

 alterations made on the yacht for increasing her speed. The lead, 

 they said, was run into the yacht iu presence of a person appointed 

 by the pursuer to superintend this operation, which was one of a 

 novel and difficult kind. Pursuer was quite avvare that the full 

 quantity of lead had not been run in. 



"Lord McLaren finds (1) that the Galatea was taken over by the 

 pursuer, through his architect, m the knowledge of the exact 

 quantity of lead contained iu her keel, and therefore that the 

 defenders are not responsible as for an ordinary breach of eon- 

 tract; (2) finds it not proved that the deficiency of weight in the 

 keel was injurious to the Galatea as a racing yacht, in that the 

 substitution of the heavier keel has improved the sailing quali- 

 ties of the Galatea as a racing yacht; therefore negatives the 

 ground of action which is founded on alleged insufficiency, 

 and assoilzies the defenders from the conclusions of the action 

 with expenses." 



A HANDY RIVER LAUNCH. 



Editor Forest and St/ream: 



The following description of a very serviceable launch for hunt- 

 ing and general use may be of interest to some of your readers. 



The Lotus was built by her owners, Mr. A. E. Davis and myself, 

 _ast fail. After considerable correspondence we decided upon the 

 Chas. Kane & Co. engine and the Durant patent porcupine kero- 

 sene boiler. The longest oak procurable hero was 34ft., so I made 

 a model 23M»ft. long by 5ft. beam, 32in. high at bow, 32in. deep 

 midships, with a fiat floor, easy bilge, and a tuckup stern; the ribs 

 are of red elm, %X%, spaced 5in. from centers; keelson, oak, \}& 

 by 6in., rabbeted and sprung up at the stern to give the proper 

 sheer; garboard strakes, Min. oak; balance of planking clear 

 white pine, Min. thick; decks of hard maple and walnut; coaming 

 and wash streak, oak; inside clamps on bottom for machinery to 

 rest upon, of oak, lin. thick by Sin. wide; garboards, keelson, ribs 

 and clamps all riveted together with Vjjin. rivets over burrs, 

 making a very strong and light hull. The shaft is run through a 

 skag made of Sin. oak and scooped out and worked down as light 

 as possible; the skag projects 121 o. below the line of the keelson at 

 the after end, which is a great advantage for river use. The boat 

 only draws 4in. at the bow, about 8in. midships and 24in. under 

 the wheel, aud she will plough across 20in. of water, cutting a 

 channel through mud or sand; we have run her over logs sub- 

 merged only about 18iu. The skag is bolted and strap-ironed in 

 the strongest possible, manner to withstand hard knocks. The 

 cylinder is 3J^in. bore by 3in. stroke, propeller wheel two blades, 

 20in. in diameter, with a 20in. pitch; weight of machinery and 

 boiler, 6251bs. We are now using Lima erune oil, consumiug about 

 2ga Is. per hour. There is a 60gal. galvanized iron tank under the 

 fore deck. We are allowed lSOlbs. steam by the U. S. inspectors, 

 and with it the boat will make %&, miles per hour, or about 7 Utiles 

 per hour up stream. She has towed a flatboat 40ft. long and 8ft. 

 wide 5 miles up stream in lb. 20m. We have never been troubled 

 with the boiler priming, no matter how muddy the water might 

 be. We find the crude oil the best for generating steam, although 

 the makers recommend 110° fire test refined oil. The boat is en- 

 rolled as a passenger steamer on the Mississippi river and tribu- 

 taries, with A. E. Davis, master and pilot, and your humble 

 servant as engineer. John J. Ohrt. 



Burlington, Iowa. 



DEATH OF MR. LESTER WALLACK.— On Sept. 6. at his coun- 

 try residence at Stamford, Ctmn., the favorite actor, Mr. Lester 

 Wallack, died suddenly of apoplexy. Mr. Wallack was for some 

 years closely identified with New York yachting, owning the 

 schooner Columbia, and later the steam yacht Skylark. 



