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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Oct. 25, 1888. 



Canvas Cannes and how to Build Tficm. By Pari(w B. Field. 

 Price 50 cents. Canoe and Boat Building. By l» . P. Stephens. 

 Price $1.50. The Canoe Aurora. By C. A. Neidc. Price $1. Canoe 

 Handling. Bu 0. B. Yam: Price $1. Canoe and Camera, By 1. 

 S. Steele,. Price i.50. Four Months in a Sncalibm: By H. Bishop. 

 Price $1.50. Canoe and Camp CooKery. By "Seneca." Price $1. 



Secretaries of cauoo clubs are requested to send to Forest and 

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

 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. 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Officers, 1887-88. 



Commodore: R. AY. Orosox ) iiv. nnv w v 



Secretary-Treasurer: V. L. Mix. J AU>an > >"'* 

 Vice-Corn. Rear-Corn. Purser. 

 Central Div..W. H. Huutfugton.E. W. Hasten T. It. Stryker, 



xv 31114?) Jit Jt. 



Atlautic Dlv.W. F. Stephens L. B. Palmer F. L. Bunnell, 



1S6 Jeroleinon St., Brooklyn. 



Eastern Dlv. .H. E. Rico, M.D... .Maxton Holmes H. It. Marsh, 



Springfield. Mass. 



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



Applications l'or menu.sership must be made to division pursers, accom- 

 panied hv file recoiiimemlnf.ion of an active member and tile sum of $2.00 

 for entrance fee au.l dues for current year, Every member attending 

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

 seat to the Sec'v-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 pi applieati on by address- 

 ing the Purser. 



WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



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

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

 Rear-Commodore— C. .1. Stedman. Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 Seeretarv-Treasurcr-O. H. Root. Cleveland, Ohio. 



Executive Conimittee-C. .1. Bousrield, Bay City, Mich.; T. V. Gaddis, Day- 

 ton, O.; T. .1. Kirkpatrlek, Springfield, O. 



MY THUNDER STORM CRUISE. 



ALTHOUGH i look upon Friday as being a particularly hteky 

 day, because r.pon it I receive my copy of the Forest And 

 Stream', and although I have no more objection to sitting down 

 with twelve others to a good dinner than with any other number, 

 I must confess that I am the victim of at least one superstition. 

 I believe if brings hard luck to bid too many "good-bys" before 

 starting on a cruise. The proper way to start is to sneak down to 

 the canoe and the pile of duffle when every one else is looking at 

 a dog fight, or some other equally engrossing spectacle, stow the 

 stores quickly, and shove oft" without, saying anything to anybody, 

 thai is unless the canoe is a somebody, i am convinced that on 

 such an occasion it is always well to look upon the canoe as a 

 very coquettish somebody of the feminine sex. and to endeavor 

 to mollify her by some of those little attentions whicli the feminine 

 sex, whether built of cedar or animated clay, are not entirely 

 averse to. It is, m fact, decidedly a forerunner of luck to devote 

 a little time during the preliminary operations to smoothing the 

 canoe down, calling tier sweet names, making audible remarks as 

 to her beauty, and disparaging allusions to other fellows' canoes. 

 If it is not unlucky to reverse this order of doing the thing, and 

 to start off, after saying half a hundred good-bys, each one more 

 difficult thau the forerunner, with the feeling somewhere about 

 the pit of your stomach that your canoe is a failure, why is it that 

 on my cruise northward from the meet in August last I fared so 

 badly. Two thunder storms and three gales would make up a 

 fair assortment of weather for a two weeks 1 cruise, in August, yet 

 in four davs the elements arranged a programme with that 

 number of events therein, and as 1 was sightseeing and steam- 

 boating on the dav when there was no performance, I had to 

 enter for all the exciting displays. Unless the clerk of the weather 

 was viMting upon me my sin of leaving the meet, a day mid a half 

 too' soon, whv was it that i was so badly treated if it was not 

 because 1 had started with a blast of trumpets and a flourish of 

 bonis so to speakV Answer me that ye soothsayers. 



It was not until after the Springfield cup race had been lost and 

 won that the Lucille and the Inez finally broke away from the 

 entangling environment of Long Island and that cruise of the 

 thuhdersfcrms began. As we had intended to get away before 

 the dew was dry, our ill luck began from the start. Of that first 

 half day's work I want to say as little as possible. There are some 

 thing that are at times done on a cruise, such as going ashore at 

 a hotel for dinner within sight of your starting point and goingto 

 6leep on the lawn afterward, taking a tow, funking a paddle 

 against a head sea or a run before a squally breeze, that should 

 never find a place in a carefully edited logbook. Let it suffice 

 that in the evening, while it was yet day, we were running before 

 a light and I lor Lake (ieoraei steady breeze through the Narrows, 

 keeping a sharp lookout for a camping place. 



"There'll be a flat beach under the lee of that rounded island to 

 starboard," shouted Lucille, "or else my experience on Stony 

 Lake doesn't count." •• , , , , „ , . ' 



I M took a squint at that round-headed island, and, although it did 

 not look promising, I swung the head of the Inez round, ducked 

 under the swinging boom, and found around a .tutting point of 

 bush-covered rock the long-sought-for ideal camping ground. A 

 long shelf of rock, as smooth as a plain, rose up from the placid 

 waters of a sheltered cove. Above a ledge the ground was thickly 

 carpeted with grass and a springy shrub, and a few stunted pines 

 gave shelter and shade. In five minutes the canoes were berthed 

 on the natural skidway of rocks, and while 1 built a fire in a 

 natural fireplace, the Lucille, which carried more dunnage in her 

 open hold thau would have freighted a bumboat.was being un- 



A level place well protected from the wind, which promised to 

 grow chilly, was found for the tent, and as it had been folded up 

 m the right way, it was set in a few minutes. Then while Lucille 

 got the dutiie into it, lit the lanterns and got things ready for the 

 night I dug the frying-pan, billy and grub box out, of the Inez and 

 went to work lo get up a meal of bacon, potted tongue, beans and 

 coffee. The scrub on the little point furnished dry fuel in plenty, 

 the coffee, boiled in no time, and before Lucille had the bread out 

 I had replaced the coffee billy with a water pail and had carried 

 the grub up to the camp. What a meal that was; piping hot 

 bacon, baked beans and coffee, with condensed milk, followed by 

 honey, marmalade and biscuits, and the best part of a loaf of 

 bread, all vanished as if a Dakota blizzard had descendod upon 

 one small islet in Lake George, and devoted itself to absorb, ng 

 provisions. As our camp was a well ordered one, the cook was 

 relieved from the task of dish-washing, so I contentedly devoted 

 myself to fumigation, after carefully laying down on that portion 

 of my anatomy which since that dinner appeared to want rest the 

 most, and bent a critical eye upon Lucille's ooings. 



Lucille is an open Canadian canoe, and her captain is oue of 

 those Canadian canoeists who are prepared to go anywhere or do 

 anything within the limit of the canoeahle, with an open canoe, a 

 big lateeu sail, a frying-pan, a couple of tin pails and a bundle of 

 blankets. His first proceeding was to scrape plates, cups and fry- 

 ing-pan clean. Then he stuck a piece of rag, a strip cut from one 

 end of the dish towel, in a split stick, soaped it well, and yvith this 

 implement applied plenty of warm water to everything but the 

 frying-pan. The knives were cleaned by rubbing them in the 

 ground and washing them afterward, and the whole outfit was 

 washed clean and dried in five minutes. Then he made the frying- 

 pan as hot as he dared without burning it, soused it into the cold 

 water and took it out clean and sweet. 



It was a long time after we went to bed before we went to 

 sleep that night, for Lucille was in a story telling mood, and I 

 was tired with laughing before we finally said "good night." 



The sun had not climbed the western mountains, when I got 

 up, but he was high enough to tinge the light vapor that clung 

 about their tops with iridescent hues, and the tender light of 

 the morning was in the sky. A plunge into the clear waters of 

 the lake began our active day, and the tire was kindled before 

 we dressed. Coffee, bacon and eggs, formed tile staples of the 

 meal Lucille got up in no time, but we did not make an early 

 start for all that. As we were in a region of hotels and expected 

 to be in a civilized community before night, we had to shave, and 

 the Lucille had to be restowed. As her cargo consisted in part of 

 a big A tent, a camera, and a large supply of dry plates, a big 

 duffle bag, a bigger bundle of blankets, and odds and ends of all 

 descriptions, this latter operation was a big one. However, when 

 we did get off there was a fine breeze blowing down the Narrows. 



By putting a reef in the mainsail of the Inez, keeping the jigger 

 fiat aft, and putting down my Radix board, the speed of the two 

 canoes was equalized, and we merrily sped along together. A 

 most charming sail we had that morning. Now threading our 

 Way among fairy-like islands, now running through a long clear 

 reach with the quiet mountain walls of the lake close upon us, 

 and now and then hauling in sheets to examine some particularly 

 interesting object on either hand. We met very few craft, of 

 any kind that morning, but our lawful wrath was excited by 

 one canoe which we encountered a few miles to the south of Sab- 

 bath Day Point. She was sailing across the lake under a jigger 

 with a fair passenger onboard. We forgot all about our name- 

 less conduct on the previous day, and noted such a selfish action 

 unworthy of the canoe. 



At Sabbath Day Point we landed and fraternized with those 

 assembled ou the pier in general, and with a splendid collie dog 

 in particular. Here we found a party of menin canvas canoes, on 

 their way around the lake, and as one of them had capsized the 

 day before, the Sabbath Day Pointers were much exercised about 

 going out in one of those tippy lit tie things. When we got under 

 way again, one stately old lady came to the edge of the pier and 

 said to me: "Good-by, and I ho'pe you'll have a good time: but my 

 dear boy, do be careful." 1 thanked her then, and I thank her 

 again now, and taking it as a whole I think I followed her advice. 



We landed for lunch on a beautiful little point, about two miles 

 to the north of Sabbath Day Point, and while 1 was getting the 

 cooking utensils out of the Inez, I made a most important and 

 unpleasant discovery. I had been presented at the meet with a 

 very pretty nickel-plated coal oil lantern, with all the latest 

 improvements incorporated in it. Before wo left camp that morn- 

 ing Lucille had squandered upon me his last cruse of oil, and with- 

 out knowing or remembering that the lantern was full, 1 had 

 stowed it away with the kettles and the pans, aft of the mizen- 

 mast. Of course every drop of oil leaked out of it uutil the 

 interior of the canoe smelt like a coal oil well, and both the fry- 

 ing-pan and billy were well greased with the confounded stuff. 

 I had promised to take that lantern home with me, or I would, 

 have flung it into the lake, and as it was I put it to soak, and threw 

 away the faithful billy which had stood by me for two years. We 

 were content with coffee boiled in a big tin pail and potted meats 

 for lunch that day. Coal oil maybe discovered to be desirable 

 flavoring at some time in the far distant future, but we had no 

 desire to anticipate the march of time. 



The noonday halt was not a long one, but it was sufficiently 

 long to give Lake George an opportunity of changing its mind as 

 to the sort of weather it was going to say good-bye to us with. 

 The comparatively steady and rather light breeze that had been 

 good tQ us all the morning died away, and in its stead, gusts that 

 appeared to have their origin in a one hundred and one ton gun, 

 began to (ire themselves across the reach in front of us. As the 

 Lucille's lateen rig could not be reefed, there was nothing for it 

 but to go on under paddle or separate, something neither of us 

 thought of. The Inez crossed the first, reach under her jigger, 

 but even that fragment of sail— there is only 15ft. init— prevented 

 ber from keeping in touch with Lucille, and it was dropped. As 

 the afternoon wore on, the gusts grew more violent, and as they 

 came from all directions, we made hut slow progress. We 

 rem lied Baldwiu, after a halt at a hotel, about 6 o'clock, and 

 at once pushed on down the creek, so as to get our carry made 

 that night. So anxious were we to make all necessary arrange- 

 ments for this unpleasant feature of our trip, that Ave did not 

 stop for dinner but went straight on to a wharf, where we man- 

 aged to get a berth for the canoes on a half-sunken skidway at 

 the foot of a road leading to the village. 



While Lucille went off to make arrangements for transport, I 

 got together a collection of chips and pieces of bark in the lee of 

 a pile of graphite and started to cook our dinner in the middle of 

 one of the suburban streets of the village of Fort Ti. No sooner 

 was the tire kindled than all the small boys, a good many of the 

 good wives and a fair sprinkling of the house fathers of the dis- 

 trict gathered about me. The small boys were intensely inter- 

 ested, and lent their "kind assistance to help the thing along" in 

 a variety of ways, the good wives were mildly incredulous as to 

 my ability "tew cook any thin' fit ter eat," and the house fathers 

 were anxious that I should "look after that fire, and keep it from 

 dueing any harm." I am not accustomed to exhibit my culinary 

 capabilities in the presence of an admiring multitude, and I de- 

 cided to do as little cooking as possible. I broke four eggs into a 

 well-greased frying pan, emptied a can of tomatoes on top of 

 them, and stirred the whole mass vigorously. 



The Lucille's captain did not appear until long after I had given 

 up all hopes of being able to save that dinner from spoiling, and 

 with him came another captain— not of a canoe however— who 

 entertained us while Ave ate with ghost stories and contradictory 

 directions as to where Ave should go and what we should do, at 

 the same time keeping the small boys at a distance. The means 

 of conveyance across the carry, which Lucille had procured, 

 turned out to bo a ricketty wagon, drawn by a ricketty horse, the 

 whole manipulated by a couple of rickerty boys, who at once 

 demonstrated the fact that their sense of commercial morality 

 was of a ricketty order by demanding t wice the contract price for 

 their services. We soon discovered that these two boys repre- 

 sented the boat transporting industry at Fort Ti, that they had 

 formed a pool, organized a trust, and effected a combination, that 

 they intended to charge all the traffic could bear. We succeeded 

 in splitting the difference between us, got the canoes into the 

 wagon, and had the serene pleasure of walking "about eleven 

 miles" along a rough and dusty road to Addison Junction. Here 

 the split came, Lucille and her captain were going to continue their 

 Journey by rail, while the Inez Avent on by the lake. Rbtaw. 

 Lto be concluded/] 



T. C. C FINAL RACE.— A full sail breeze was blowing as the 

 Dawn, Hyla and Mac maneuvered to secure a good position for 

 the final gun. Just as it went off the Mac shot across the line, 

 followed in about 10 seconds by Dawn and later by Hyla. With 

 eased sheets the v bowled merrily along without changing posi- 

 tions till after the first buoy was reached, when in the beat to 

 windward Dawn eaptured first place and Hyla second, which 

 position was maintained throughout the race, twice around the 

 3W-niile course, Dawn finally winning by a quarter of a mile. 

 Hyla led Mac by about 100yds. Mr. Jacques, skipper of the Hyla, 

 wins the club "championship, having the best record, namely, 1 

 first, 3 seconds, with Mao 1 first, 1 second, 1 third, and Dawn 1 

 first. The Hyla is 16ft. 0iii.x31^in., 401b. board, lapstreak build, 

 Avith high-peaked balance lug sails of 85 and 35sq. ft. The Dawn 

 is a smooth-skin Ruggles boat 16ft. XoOin., light board, standing 

 sails of about HOsq. ft., which, not being reefable, have seA'eral 

 times prevented her owner racing her, there being too much wind. 

 The Mac, smooth-skin, 16ft.x30in., Gib. board, was rather handi- 

 capped by having to borrow sails of 78su. ft. The race for second 

 class canoes did not come off, as business engagments prevented 

 their skippers from being present.— Mac (Toronto, Sept. 15). 

 P S. The partridge mentioned in last cruise was spelt without a 

 t.'and is usually disposed of with a long-handled spoon. 



I ANTHE C. C— The regular record race of the Ianthe C. C. was 

 sailed on Oct. 20. only two canoes starting, Essex, G. W. Cox, and 

 Atalanta, L. B. Palmer. Essex won by a few feet, Atalanta lap- 

 ping her at the finish. Two more races will be sailed on Oct. 27 

 and Nov. 3; and on Nov. 6, Election Day, the final race of the sea- 

 son will take place and the record prize will be presented. 



MONTREAL.— An effort is being made to unite all the canoeists 

 about Montreal in one club, in connection with the Amateur 

 Athletic Association of Montreal. 



A. C. A. EXECUTIVE COM. MEETING— The annual meeting 

 of the Executive Committee of the American Canoe Association 

 will he held in Toronto, Canada, ou Nov. 17, at the house of the 

 Toronto 0. C. 



Small Yachts. By C. P. Kunhardt. Price $7. Steam Yachts and 

 Launches. By C. P. Kunhardt. Price $8. Yachts, Boats and 

 Canoes. By C. Stansjleld-meks. Price $3.50. Steetm Machinery. B% 

 D<maldson. Prim $1.50. 



\nxtvm to j$amisp0ndettt$* 



^"No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



A. W., Centerbrook, Ct.— 1. I have a lemon and white setter dog 

 said to bo two years old. He has never been trained. Is he too 

 old to train how? ~- Is there; any way that I can tell about his 

 real age? Ans.— 1. No. 2. No. 



Oheedmoob, Slatington.— At a rifle target match, six persons 

 engaged, the first prize was 620, second prize $10, and third prize 

 $5. The scores were as follows: 101, 101, 83, 77, 75, 73. A dispute 

 arose about the divison of the money, the two having the score of 

 101 claiming to be entitled to first and second prize, and that they 

 should shoot off to determine which would get first prize and 

 which second prize; while the party with the 82 score claims the 

 second, and the one with the 77 the third, and that the two with 

 the highest are entitled to one prize. Who is right? Ans. No 

 one can decide who is right unless there was something bearing 

 on it in the rules under whicli yon shot. If it was class-shooting, 

 the tyvo who scored 101 shoot off for first prize, second goes to the 

 83 score and third to the 77 score. But this matter might have 

 been agreed upon before the shoot. 



CLARA. 



[Owing to an error in photoengraving, the lines prepared to go with this 

 description were reproduced to a. wrong seafe, Tliey will be given 

 next week.] 



WHILE the success of the American champions in the races 

 for the America's Cup has served to draw attention from 

 the smaller yachts, and to concentrate it almost entirely on the 

 few large ones, there, is no other racing yacht afloat to-day on 

 either side of the Atlantic, which can show such a remarkable 

 record in every Avay as the cutter Clara, whose lines are here 

 given, by the permission of her owner, Mr. Chas. Sweet, and her 

 designer, Mr. Will Fife, Jr. Not only is her record in British 

 waters a remarkable one, but in American waters, amid a differ- 

 ent fleet of yachts, and under different conditions, she has made 

 even a better showing. Added to this, she is the smallest yacht 

 save one, the neyy Minerva, by the same designer, which has 

 crossed the Atlantic, a fact which, in connection with the amount 

 of cruising which she did here, fully sets at rest any talk about 

 her being a mere racing machine. Rack and forth around Cape 

 Cod, from Beverly to New York, then back to Marblehead, and at 

 once off tQ Larchmont again; returning after one race to Marble- 

 head, she went wherever there was any racing, rolling up a total 

 of miles cruised that is far in excess of American yachts of her 

 class. Without agreeing in the least with the popular verdict 

 based ou a hasty generalisation from the results in the large 

 classes, that the* present type of wide boats is the best possible, Ave 

 recognize the disadvantages of the six beam type, represented by 

 Ualatea, Clara, Ulidia and Delvyn, in so far as lack of initial 

 stability and of space for working long spars, etc., in racing, and 

 are willing to admit the ad vantages claimed for a moderate in- 

 crease of beam; but in as far as the speed of racing yachts is con- 

 cerned, it would be an easy task to prove, from Clara's record 

 alone, that the extreme type is the equal of the very wide boat, 

 whether shoal or deep. 



The most important question of the day, though few yachtsmen 

 seem to recognize it, is thi3 very one of beam; whether, as is 

 generally assumed, in the new boats the best proportions have, 

 been reached, or whether a reduction of beam, not of necessity 

 to Clara's extreme, but to something nearer Bedouin's propor- 

 tions, would not bring corresponding advantages. Unfortunately 

 under the present rules there is but little room for the experiment 

 to be tried, sail area is worth so much more than it pays under 

 the rules that it is taken, at the cost of an unwieldy and expen- 

 sive rig; the successful designer being oue who can load on the 

 most lead and pile the largest practicable sail plan above it, rather 

 than the one who can turn out the most perfect model. 



In the races in American waters between the extreme of each 

 type, the wide sloops on the one hand and the narrow cutters on 

 the other, it has so happened in most cases that the terms Avere 

 anything but equal, through the great difference in the rules of 

 the two nations, under which the yachts were built. A five ton- 

 ner, as it happens, is a little over 30ft., thus coming in the 35 or 

 Sift, class here, against, boats not only longer by se veral feet but 

 of double the beam, as with Shadow, 34x14.1X5.4, and Pappoose. 

 36 X 12.6x7.6, against, the Scotch five tonner Shona, 33x5.9x6; 

 or in the larger sizes, a ten tonner like Ulidia will be just over 

 the 40ft. class, thus being matched with yachts like Fanita and 

 Vixen, of 45ft. l.w.I. and double her beam. In some cases too. the 

 narrow boats had to pay heavily for a long OA'erhang, while in 

 none did they receive any credit for a small sail area. These 

 things of course were not premeditated, but were mere matters 

 of chance; and had an American yacht crossed to the other side 

 she would also have been hopelessly handicapped by the rule un- 

 til lately in vogue there, by which beam was taxed even more 

 heavily than length is here. This difference in the elementary 

 conditions of yacht racing made it very difficult to match the 

 boats with any degree of fairness, or to draw any accurate con- 

 clusions from such races as have taken- place, and at the same 

 time they serve to shOAV more fully the wonderfully good record 

 of a boat such as Clara, which, built to take every advantage of a 

 peculiar rule, not only wins under it, but, under totally different 

 rules and surroundings; AVhile at the same time proving her 

 su periority in those points not necessarily associated with speed 



'^Oltua'was designed for Mr. J. George Clark, a nephew of Messrs. 

 William and Stewart Clark, the well-known Clyde yachtsmen, by 

 Mr. Will Fife. Jr., and was built by him at the Cuizean yard, os- 

 l:i Wished by the Marquis of Ailsa, the amateur designer and 

 builder. In 1883 the Cuizean Ship Building and Engineering Co, 

 was formed with Mr. Fife as manager, to take charge of the 

 works at Cuizean, and in the fall Clara was commenced, being 

 launched in the spring of 1881. She was intended for the 20 ton 

 class, the leaders in it being Freda, 49. 64ft. 1.W.1.X9. 79ft. beam, 

 19.98 tons; and Lenore, 50. 61ft. x9. 43ft., 19.78 tons. In the new 

 boat the designer chose extreme proportions, making the length 

 58ft, Sin. the beam but, 9.02ft., witb a proportionate increase of 

 depth, the tonnage under the rule then current being the same as 

 the others, 19.99 tons. Her dimensions are as follows, being taken 

 from the design. Her l.w.I. length in 1886 was 53 7-100ft., making 

 a draft of 10ft„ about the trim that she was raced in, and Avhile 

 tins differs a little from the design, it is worthy of note that her 

 designer boldly put every pound of ballast in her lead keel, and 

 that it has never been altered. 



Length, over all 63ft. 4in. 



L.W.L 52ft. 9in. 



Beam Mfe Ha, 



Draft extreme 9ft. Sin. 



Displacement, long tons 37ft. 5in. 



Ballast, all on keel 31 tons. 



Mast, deck to hounds ... 37ft. 



from fore side of stem at l.w.I 21ft. 



Topmast, fid to sheave 31ft. 



Bowsprit, beyond fore end l.wl 2466. 



3in. 

 8in. 

 2in. 

 9 in. 



Boom 4'ft- 



Gaff 33ft. 



Spinaker boom 48ft. 



Topsail yards -jjg*; 



Mainsail l,525sq. ft. 



Jib 477aq.ft. 



Staysail 377sq. ft. 



Total lower sails 2,339sq. ft. 



Sail area, New York Y. C. rule 3,231sq. ft. 



The hull is of composite build, every third frame being a steel 

 angle 3x2xMin., with two steamed oak frames, 2-x2J4in. between, 

 the spacing being lOin. Diagonal straps of <%in. steel are run 

 across all the frames, The planking being scored over them and 

 bolted to the frames. The planking is of elm and pitch pine, Avith 

 mahogany plank sheer, Spanish cedar bulwarks, teak hatches 

 and elm rail. The finish of the wood and metal work is very fine 

 throughout. The model speaks for itself and needs no praise, 

 being by all odds the most perfect specimen of the extreme 

 narrow cutter ever seen in American waters. It is not possible 

 to put the finger on an angle or a sharp curve in the whole boat; 

 while in spite of the narrow and vise-like grip of the old tonnage, 

 rule, there is not a flat spot visible in the side. The sheer is easy 

 and fair, the overhang is graceful, while the lateral plane is 

 ample ill area and admirably proportioned. 



Clara, made her first appearance in public in the latter part of 

 Mav, 1884, with Sam Randall at the stick taking part in the open 

 cruise of the Royal Clyde Y. C. on May 29, but not starting in the 

 race, though under way with the fleet, and being generally com- 

 plimented on her good looks. The serious business of her racing 

 career began on June 14, when she won trie first prize in her class 

 in the regatta of the Royal Clyde Y. C with Mr. Fife at the stick, 

 beating Irene and Amathea, and winning fifteen sovereigns. 

 Amathea lost her bowsprit, but not until she had been safely 

 beaten. Lenore did not venture to tackle the new rival, nor did 

 she turn up at the Royal Mersey regatta of June 19-20, where 

 Clara had a sail over on the first day, also beating V»spa 4S.85X9.C8, 

 and pocketing .£40 for the two days' work. Back again to the 

 Clyde, she raced in the Royal Clyde regattas of July 5 and 6, once 

 heating Amathea. 51.23x9.50, and once finding no antagonist to 

 meet her. On July 7 she beat Vespa again very easily in the 

 Ramsay Bay regatta, and on each of the two following days she 

 found no one ready to meet her in the regattas of the Royal 

 Northern Y. C. On July 16 and 17 she sailed in the regattas of the 

 Royal Ulster Y. C. at Belfast Lough, beating Vespa on each day. 



On Jnlv 31 she met her first defeat in the regatta of the Royal 

 Alfred Y~. C., at Kingston. Ireland, where she sailed against Tara, 

 40 tons; Annasona, 40; Neptune 40, and Yespa. Tara won the 

 prize. Two davs later she had a sail-over in the first regatta of 

 the Royal George Y. C, also at Kingston, and on the following 

 day, under the same club, she again beat Vespa. Lenore was 



