FOREST AND STREAM. 



pointed as transportation committee Messrs. R. S. Oliver, Albany. 

 W. J. White, Montreal, and J. W. MacKendnck, Gait. 



The following resolution was introduced by Mi -Andrews and 

 seconded bv Purser Fraser: "Resolved, That the executive com- 

 mittee of tte American Canoe. Association deprecate moat 

 strongly the introduction of special racing appliances that are 

 incompatible wich the requirements of cruising, and recom 

 mends to the regatta committee that, the programme of the races 

 Si be so arranged as to encourage as far as possible the legiti- 

 mate Sing caSoe." The resolution was carried unanimously 



The following resolution was introduced by Vice-Coni. Steph- 

 ens being in accordance with the suggestions in ^Com. Gibson's 

 letter It was seconded by Vice-Corn. Tyson and carried unan- 

 imously: Resolved, That in view of the .necessity of preserving 

 order and quiet in camp during the night, the hour of taps ' 

 shall be changed from 10 to 11:30 P. M.i after which hour quiet 

 must be maintained. _ ^ . , , , 



Vice-Corn. Stephens then ottered the following amendment to 

 Article V, Sec. 2, of the Constitutien: To omit all of the. last 

 clause after the word "herein," and substitute as follows: the 

 term of office of all division officers shall begin with the termina- 

 tion of the A. C. A. meet of the following year." The following 

 amendment was suggested by Purser Fraser, and after discussion 

 was accepted by Vice-Co n. Stephens, the new amendment being 

 seconded by Vice-Corn. Huntington: Tbe term of office ot all 

 division officers shall begin with the meeting of the executive 

 committee in October or November, and shall end with the execu-- 

 tive committee meeting of the following year. This amendment 

 was not approved by the eight members present, and the vote ot 

 the other members will be taken by ballot. 



Vice-Corn. Stephens also introduced an amendment to Article 

 VIII., making the date of appointment of division regatta com- 

 mittees not later than Feb. 1, which was carried as above. The 

 following lady honorary members were then elected: Mrs. Clar- 

 ence E. Williams, Miss Anne Huntington, Mrs. John S. Ward - 

 well, Rome, N. Y.; Miss Bessie Woolworth, Albany, N. Y.; Mrs. 

 R. B. Lundy, Miss S. E. Vair, Peterboro; Miss Aggie McDougal, 

 Miss Jennie Owens, Gait; Mrs. Thos. B. Dean, Lindsay, Ontario. 

 The meeting then adjourned. , „ 



In the evening a dinner to the guests was given by the Toronto 

 C. C, at which nearly seventy canoeists were present, including 

 Messrs. E. B. Edwards, of Peterboro; Samuel Britton, Judge 

 Dartnell, Ford Jones, Brockville; Johnson, Hamilton; J. G. Ed- 

 wards, A. D. McGachen, Lindsay, and representatives of the 

 other boating clubs of Toronto. The dinner was followed by 

 songs and toasts, and it was well after the new hour for "taps" 

 before quiet was restored. 



ffachdng. 



Small Yachts. By G. P. Kunliardt. Price $7. Steam Yachts and 

 Launches. By C. P. Kunliardt. Price $3. Yachts, Boats and 

 Canoes. By C. Stansfleld -Hicks. Price $3.58. Steam Machinery. B% 

 Donaldson. Price $1.50. 



Address all communications to the Forest and Stream Puh. Co. 



WONA. 



WHILE the first home of the cutter about New York was in 

 the deeo water along the Staten Island shore of New York 

 Bay, the opposite shore has from the earliest days of yachting 

 been the chosen stronghold of the shoal centerboard sloop. That 

 this was so m the first instance was a matter ot course, as the 

 yachtsmen of the time were compelled to take whatever loca- 

 tions they could get, which were invariably in spots where the 

 shoal water made tbe ground of little value for shipping pur- 

 poses. Such places as Gowanus Bay, however, were not too far 

 distant by the existing means of transit, and at the same time 

 were not needed for docks aud piers, so tney answered very well 

 the purpose of the yachtsmen of a generation ago or less and 

 the yachts were naturally built to suit the waters where they 

 found the best anchorage. Under these circumstances it was 

 hut natural that tae shoal wide boar should flourish, to the ex- 

 clusion of all other typ^ s; and further, that once owning such 

 boats, yachtsmen should champion them, in spite of tneir many 

 obvious failings, as the best possible craft. 



This was all very well as long as tne conditions compelled such 

 a boat or none, but it is now a very long time since tnese condi- 

 tions disappeared entirely; since the ancient theories as to depth 

 and resistance weie proved enfirely false, and since many most 

 important principles were brought clearly before the notice of 

 American yacnt^inen. Tae old anchorage grounds were aban- 

 doned for new ones near Bay Ridge, wuere an ample depth of 

 water could be had; tne pet craft or tne Long Island shore, sailed 

 by picked skippers and crews, were utterly routed by the narrow 

 cutter; and coming uown to a still later day, the keel boat of 

 various models tias scored one success alter another over the 

 old centerboard favorites. Sturdy and bitter as the opposition 

 has been to ad new-fangled notions, to tne keel, the cutter rig 

 and to outside ballad, it h&s somenow happened thai at last the 

 keel craft has fairly invaded Bay Ridge, and is likely in the near 

 future to give even the oest oi the modern compromise center- 

 boards a very hard task to avoid beiug driven out as completely 

 as in Eastern waters. No otner series of boats perhaps oilers a 

 better illustration of the course of improvement tuan that 

 which began in 1888 with the Gleam, a very goud example of the 

 Ellswortli model oi centei board cratt, bunt tor Mr. Newbery I). 

 Lawton, a thorough Corinthian sailor. In rig and ballast the 

 Gleam was better tnan many ot her class, but still she was not 

 widely different from the average centerboard sloop, with inside 

 iron ballast aud si ,gle jib slo >p rig. In describing ner under the 

 date of Feb. 1, 1883, the Forest and Stream m»ue the following 

 prophecy: "The prediction a few y ears ago that the centerboard 

 would disappear m Eastern waters seemed quite as improbable 

 of fulfilment as a similar prognostication made to-day i egardmg 

 yachts in New YorK. Yet we nave lived to see the board practi- 

 cally abandoned around Cape (Jod, and we venture to assert mat 

 it is only a matter of a few seasons more before tne keel will be 

 given a like preference here in New York. All inaications point 

 that way, and we certainly consider the time not tar distant 

 when the centerboard shall be relegated to special contrivances 

 built to meet tne purely local exigencies of certain limited 

 stretches of shoal water; until tnen, we must expect to find 

 yachtsmen pass through preliminary stages of experiment, going 

 from the trap first to deep centerboard boats, then to semi-Keeis 

 and partial outside ballast, and hnally bringing up in safe, credit- 

 able constructions, possessing the advantages incorporated in 

 the cutter." 



The end of one season saw the beginning of the change outlined 

 above in the Gleam, her ii on ballast of 4,!j(j0ios. was supplemented 

 by nearly a ton ot lead added by way of outside keel. Following 

 this the short Ellsworth stern was spun out into as near a sem- 

 blance of a cutter's counter as the lines of the afterbody would 

 admit, while the boat was impioved m minor details. When, 

 after three years, Mr. Lawton was ready to go into a new and 

 larger boat, she was still an Ellswortn model, but a marked 

 departure from the older craft ot the same designer, a boat of 

 great .displacement, deep drait, lead keel and cutter rig. This 

 boat, the Arab, he has also used for three seasons; fast year in 

 audition being largely concerned in the design and construction 

 of another andlarger Ellsworth boat, tne rmrybia, a still greater 

 departure trom tne old type. Tne result of this evolution of six 

 years, during which Mr. Lawton nas practically built three boats, 

 and had perhaps as thorough an experience as any one in sading 

 centerboard cratt of ail mouels, is in every respect a literal ful- 

 fillment of the prophesy of Forest and Stream. The new beat, 

 to succeed Arab as she succeeded Gleam, is a modern keel cutter 

 not indeed a narrow boat, but as much of an extreme in draft' 

 and far more in sail area, than the narrowest of toe type. 



The course of evolution tuas has brought the modern Burgess 

 cutter to anchor at Bay Ridge has been as costly as it was unneces- 

 sary. The money that has been expended m altering not old boats 

 only but new ones, would have built and equipped a racing fleet 

 equal to any in the country. The Gleam is only one very small 

 instance, another is shown in the Athlon, built as late as 1881, 

 to whicn has been added a double head rig, a lead keel, and 

 now an overhang, all of which she might better have had m the 

 first place. It is true that Bay Ridge escaped tne "cutter craze" 

 so tar as extreme narrow beam is concerned, but in the modern 

 Burgess cutter she is likely to nave a boat that is almost as radi- 

 cally differed t from the old sloop whicn once was found m such 

 numbers, as the Madge or Uliuia, certainly so far as principles 

 are concerned. 



The yacnt, whose lines we give herewith is now enrolled in the 

 Atlantic Y. C, though built and first owned m Boston, and is one 

 ot the best examples ot the small keel cutter oi wiue beam that 

 has yet been bunt m this country. Like the new Lawton boat 

 she was designed by Mr. Edward Burgess, being built last year 

 torthe Messrs. Cunningham, of Boston and Gloucester, bv Lawley 

 & Son. Wona was designed at the same time as Pappoose, and is 



«WONA !! CUTTEE — Designed jnr Edward 



