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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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much as the ordinary flat-topped, duck and ticking affair, it is 

 quite roomy when set up over the canoe and it has turned the big 

 gest thunderstorm of a rainy season. I intended when I designed 

 fhistent to hook it along the gunwale of the canoe, hut as a result 

 of my last year's work f have come to the conclusion that it is a 

 much more satisfactory plan to pin it to the ground about the ca- 

 noe. It takes less time to do this than to button it down, because 

 if you cannot drive the pins, a stone laid on top of them secures 

 them equally well, it carries the tent away from the canoe, and 

 moreover it secures ventilation without drafts. Besides all these 

 good tilings the tent is always ready to be set up ashore, and a 

 very comfortable and complete little shore tent it makes for a 

 lZnlhs. oanoeist. I have improved it vastly as a shore tent hy 

 adding to it a floor of oiled cotton, with sides a foot high, which 

 can he hooked on to the tent proper. Although the tent of ro- 

 mance is alwayB white, there are a good many solid advantages 

 ahout a colored tent, and I Intend, if possible, to have mine not 

 dyea but tanned for next season. 



My mattress is composed of two cushions, filled with shaved 

 cork, with painted canvas bottoms and rep tops, and a very com- 

 fortable bed it is. The painted canvas is too heavy, the rep has 

 not worn well, and fcha cushions are. alJ too big as cushions, so that 

 next year 1 intend to replace the two three-foot cushions by three 

 two-foot ones, with oiled cotton bottoms and strong felt tops. 



My blanket has nothing particular about it, excepting that it's as 

 blue as I was when the time killers— hut I'm not going to tell on 

 myself —hut its complement, a sheet-awning, is I think, unique. 

 This sheet-awning is simply a piece of drilling ahout seven feet 

 square, with a cringle in each corner. It is worth another blanket 

 on a cold night, serves admirably as a wrap for the blanket, and 

 can he setup as an awning in front of the tent in a few minutes. 

 For a pillow I use a canvas bag, which holds my spare clothing, 

 and it is a comfortable enough head rest, as well as a hundv ward- 

 robe. 



Instead of a mess chest 1 use a canvas bag, water-proofed by a 

 I hin coat of paint, and in which all the eatables, likewise packed 

 iu cotton hags, are stowed. This is supplemented hy a canoe 

 closet, a round tin box with a telescopic cover, which is divided 

 into seven compartments. In the central one go knives, electro 

 plated steel knives, ground sharp, with their useless round points 

 broken off, electro-plated four-pronged forks— the traditional 

 three-pronged fork is a nuisance— and spoons. The. other com- 

 partments hold tea, coffee, sugar, matches— in a tin box— salt and 

 pepper— in another— chocolate, and the last holds sliced bacon, 

 packed in its rind. This box will hold enough of these articles 

 to last a lone campaigner Lor a week, and there is room besides 

 for half a dozen eggs and a couple of small cans of preserved 

 meat. As the cover is lined with rubber and (its down tightly on 

 the compartments, it is not only water-tight, but the different, 

 articles run no risk of becoming mixed, that is if some care is 

 taken in putting that cover on. The strap that keeps on the 

 cover also secures three plates to the lid, and I live in hopes of 

 attaching a frying-pan to the bottom of it at some future day. 



I began the season with three cooking utensils, a frying pan, a 

 billy, and — all orthodox canoeists are requested to read no further 

 —a brown stone teapot of the smallest size. The frying pan still 

 exists, in a more or less demoralized state, but it is probabl v equal 

 to cooking anything from porridge to a plum cake again; the billy, 

 with a. strong taint of coal oil about it, is at the bottom of Lake 

 George, andthe teapot is the only bit of bric-a-brac I possess. I can 

 make coffee in a can and punch in a bailing tin, but tea I can't 

 make except in that blessed brown clay affair, and as long as I 

 can carry it safely in the bosom of my spare shirt I intend to do 

 it, in spite of orthodoxy. Next season, however, I intend to have 

 a nest, of two or three strong tin or granite ware affairs, which 

 are to be equal to all the boiling and steaming I am ever likely to 

 do, but I am not going to forsake my teapot. 



Some years ago 1 tried a. species of camp range consisting of 

 two bars of half-inch iron connected by stout wires, and with 

 folding legs. I kicked the whole affair into the lake one day, 

 what for 1 hardly remember, and have done my cooking since 

 then on a Nessmuk range or two flat stones. I am now thinking 

 of something of the description of the thing I kicked overboard, 

 to be made to fold back on itself like, a zig zag rile, and to be 

 wi thout legs at all, but whether I can work out the idea I hardly 

 know. If 1 cannot, then I will have a frame of light wire made," 

 If t. wide by 18in. long, crossed by lighter wire bars at interva Lb of 

 Tin. or IVgin., and carry it flat on the canoe's bottom. 



Alcohol stove, anchor, double-edged hatchet and sich like 

 affairs i have not, nor do I want them. A candle lantern with 

 cleai- glass sides, a big knife with a hook on it that will open a 

 can, and a corkscrew concealed in its interior, and a ditty bag 

 tilled with three parts rubbish and one part tools, are all the 

 sundries I own, and I want no more, that is at present. I have 

 discovered, however, that in canoeing your wants increase in 

 inverse ratio to your meant of supplying them, and I mav find 

 before very long that 1 want a host of things L now know nothing 

 about. RtTAw. 



THE WHITE SQUALL'S 1887 CRUISE. 



[Omclmlcri from pane M.7.1 

 K stayed at this camp a couple of hours. I do not know that 

 1 intended to mention about our first lard pail of tea being 

 hoisted sxyward by a stone that burst in the fire; but how else 

 can I make the name, "Camp Dynamite," seem in any way rele- 

 vant? Our next stop was at Cole's Island, three miles above.* Here 

 we expected to replenish the substantial in our grub sack, for the 

 havoc we had wrought was alarming, la the first store we tried 

 the. proprietor was busily engaged in a conversation in the office, 

 and, perhaps, mistaking us for tramps, only noticed our presence 

 by keeping a sharp eye on us. Mr. Parker, the proprietor of the 

 other, was away, and we heard with regret that the supply of 

 crackers, ship buiscuit, etc., was exhausted and would not be re- 

 plenished till next day. Then we asked Mrs. Parker to sell ns 

 some bread. She told us she only had one loaf baked, but had 



i"ust put another loaf in the oven. A minute or two before she 

 tad given some orders In an undertone to a girl who was in the 

 store, and now the girl reappeared with the larger part of a loaf 

 of bread. Mrs. P. had told her to cut off what sue thought would 

 dolor supper, and to give— give, mind you— the rest to us. As 

 there is a wide-spread belief, and not without some reason, that 

 it is only the simple-minded countryfolk that will divide their 

 last loaf with the stranger, I want this act placed to the credit of 

 a city-bred lady— one whose maiden name was very frequently 

 heard in educational circles of this province six years ago, and of 

 whose innate goodness of heart I can show no better appreciation 

 than by mentioning it here. I should also sav that she did not 

 know me from any of the other thousands of canoeists, and little 

 imagined that I lived within fifteen miles of her. Notwithstand- 

 ing my liberal use of the pronoun "we" in the last few sentences, 

 1 now recall that Horace staid to watch t he canoe instead of going 

 with me to the Parker store, and when 1 returned I found him 

 and another young fellow, a native, guying an old man who was 

 lingering half lovingly and half regretfully around the canoe in 

 the hope, (which was now trembling on the verge of despair) that 

 a bottle would somehow materialize, detach itself from the outfit 

 and make him wish for the neck of a flamingo that he might get 

 the full benefit of tbe rare and much coveted dose of sp'ts fru- 

 menti. My appearance raised his hopes a little— he hinted his 

 wishes in no uncertain words. 1 was compelled to shatter his last 

 hOpe by inviting him to go through the only bottle we had, and 

 which contained molasses. He left, evidentlv doubtful concern- 

 ing the moral status, perhaps even the Rani tv of two men who 

 would venture so far from home without a supplv of artificial 

 life: "It was not so when he was young." The voung native knew 

 me at sight, bu t 1 could not, recall his name, bid I '-beg pardon 

 you have the advantage of me," etc? Hardly; I talked rigbi 

 along, asked questions, inquired after the welfare of some of the 

 families I thought he Tesembled, and in return picked some points 

 about the river above the island, for this being at the head of 

 steamboat navigation I never had been any further up. 



We started again under sail, and made our way through the 

 booms, frequently exchanging friendly greetings with the lum- 

 bermen who were considerably interested iu our craft. We ar- 

 rived at the rapids, 27 miles from the river St. John, a little be- 

 fore sundown and made camp on a lovely wooded bank. And 

 now in as few words as possible, I will try to describe that part 

 of this, the second in size Of St. John's affluents, over which we 

 oruieed. From the rapids to Cole's Island 5 miles it runs through 

 a wooded country, with here and there a farm— the banks being 

 in some instances low and at other points high and quite.abro.pr, 

 A mile or so above the island is a curious perpendicular bluff of 

 conglomerate 30ft . high. The average breadth of the river here is 

 150yds. From Coles Island to Narrow Piece,, miles, there is the same 

 width of channel among winding marshes and lagoons with here 

 and there a bar of good solid interval to give better effect to 

 the scene and more hay to the settlers. Here commences the 

 lake, and from this to the junction with the St. John (15 miles) 

 there arc no interval, the shores are fringed with trees and are 

 hard, gravelly and stony, with here and there a sand beach: and 

 abound in coves and nooks. The average width is over, a half 

 mile. At the Narrows ten miles from the outlet it contracts to 

 300yds, and at a point a mile from the St. John it expands to 

 nearly two miles. It enters the St. John through narrow chan- 

 nels on either side of Little Musquash Island. 

 But to return to our camp; among the things destroyed at the 



meal we prepared, was a quart of fresh strawberries, and "sour 



S3SSSfSS?«*$l2!^ wind wbistled rath'ersha^ 



around the rear of the tent we drove a row of stakes and inter- 

 wove branches of trees in them, thus getting un an effective 

 fire d ; n nTi k ' F\ then gath , re £ V p51e ? £ ™*t™7, built a hug! 

 SSfeJ^^JS?^ ° B m r lnliUXo ro1,e in the bright light, and 

 talked until the Lime to turn iu came. We then rolled together 

 some huge logs that kept un our fire all night 



Morning brok 

 would lis 

 ton 



and warm with signs 'of rain. We fain 



cede me many hours/ So we reluctantly "decided w 

 faces homeward; but, m the face of the threatening rain we 

 hesitated to strike camp. H. fished some in the earl V morning 

 With in different success, and after breakfast wandered off to the 

 woods, from which he was driven by a light shower. I lav in I he 



rrr — . ■ , , »<■ "ui* was so not, u 



hated to start the ash breeze again, and we lav in the bottom of 

 the canoe and allowed her to drift. At the booms we had a 

 friendly chat with some lumbermen, who jocularly offered to 

 trade boats with us, and passing down the cbaunelon the western 

 side ot the island, made camp about 13 o'clock on the. lower end 

 We cooked and ate dinner vorv leisurely, and as eggs were a 

 prominent item in our bill of fare, and we decoral ed a dead bush 

 with the shells we afterward spoke of the place as Camp Hen tree 

 The feminine and ; juvenile portions of one of the neighboring 

 families were on the mainland shore just opposite us washing 

 clothes. We could hear every word they said, and some of their 

 conjectures concerning us and the vigorous exhortations of the 

 seniors to the juniors afforded us plenty of amusement. A little 

 before 2 o'clock they packed up a nd left, and we bethought our- 

 selves that it was high time we were following their example. 



And here 1 performed an act of vandalism over which I would 

 fain draw a veil; only this will be very liable to reach H., wav 

 down in the City of Brotherly Love, and I am quite certain that 

 if I omitted it he would send up for publication his own version. 

 So, upon the whole, I think I will suffer least bv confession. I 

 did not. know that there were any firearms in the party, but as 



boy drop on an old sturgeon boat that lav 150yds. awav, side on 

 the opposite shore, holding about the same as I would a good 

 pistol and fired. 1 fully expected to see the bullet strike the 

 water between us and the boat, but instead came the dull sound 

 of a .30-cal. slug on boards. Now, a sturgeon boat is an article 

 the value of which is merely problematical, consisting as it does 

 of about five boards and a few mills, alternately coaxed and 

 bullied iuto the shape of a flat-iron. Its advent was coeval with 

 the beginning of the sturgeon fishery on the St. John, and the 

 man who attempts to row one instantly recognizes his natural 

 enemy; indeed, he will find that, like a hog, it moves easiest stern 

 first. But any man who desires to own a rival one has a perfect 

 right to have his property respected. Now, 1 respected this man's 

 rights, but, not the property. I would no sooner fire in the direc- 

 tion of a decent boat than toward a man, but I knew if a stur- 

 geon boat was a good object, by which to align a bullet, it was the 

 first excuse that 1 ever found for irs existence, and in this thought 

 lost sight of all else. But maybe Horace did not make himself 

 facetious at my expense. He accused me of suddenly developing 

 a fear of my fellow men; of looking frightened every time a man 

 was heading in our direction, and a dozen other things too 

 numerous to give in detail. It turned oat that the pistol had 

 been won as a prize at a quoit-pitching tournament, and 50 cents 

 was the entrance fee. 



We met a southerly wind about a half mile below our noon 

 camp, and m came the paddles aud up went the sail. For the first 

 mile the wind was rather light, then if came about as hard as we 

 wanted. I think neither ot us will ever forget that afternoon. 

 The Squall never did and never will do any better windward work 

 that she turned off then. Horace profited by his discovery of two 

 days before and kept his sheets well in. indeed, eur principal 

 objection to the Mohican sail is that as the luff projects forward 

 of the mast the sail has to be trimmed nearly dead aft in order to 

 run close to the wind, and our experience has proved conclusively 

 that we get better work out of the canoe in this way. As we 

 passed the residence of the "Champions of England" Horace said: 

 "Don't 1 wish that they would venture out here to-day: wouldn't 

 we make a show of them?" But they showed no sign of a desire 

 to reneyv our acquaintance. Tne boat, swung idly at her moor- 

 ings and the boys formed themselves in line and gazed. Around 

 the bend of the Narrow Piece we caught the wind full for a mile, 

 and we had to help her with the paddles for about a quarter of a 

 mile to get her from behind the lee of Perry's Bluff. In the broad 

 pa rt of the lake a heavy sea was running, but we kept all sail on 

 and jammed her into it. Fifteen minutes were lost in talking to 

 a man who recognized the craft and hailed us from the shore 

 We reached the Narrows by sundown, and a stiff head tide gave 

 US a hard tussle to get through. 



Fog clouds now began to appear in the south, and a very opaque 

 darkness soon settled over the waters. The wind came 'in spite- 

 ful squalls, to some of which we had to luff, and as we could not 

 see how they were going to strike us we reefed. The clouds grew 

 blacker and the wind shifted to the southwest, then: 

 "The wind he bLow r like a hurricane, 

 Bmieby he blow some more." 

 H. said, "I hate to give in when we are within a mile of home, but 

 I don't believe she will stand much more of this; let's get ashore 

 while we can." We tried to run in behind a sandv point that 

 would afford us shelter, but fell to leeward. Then it was down 

 sail and out with paddles. The rnizen sheet fouled the tiller 

 wires, and while I was extricating it a squall lifted the boat out 

 of water and threw her in the trough of tbe sea, head off shore. 

 We could no more move her from the position with the paddles 

 alone than we could stir Mount Washington with tooth-picks. 

 But as a Hibernian friend of mine used to render the proverb: 

 "There is more ways o' killin' a cat nor wan way." We both ap- 

 plied the paddles to the windward side til L we got steerage wav 

 on, and then throwing her stem to the wind with rudder, we gave 

 her a half dozen more strokes that sent her flving off the wind, 

 and again using the rudder stuck her nose into it, and once there 

 we held her till the keel grated on the sand. We hauled out and 

 walkedhome, arriving just seven hours after leaving Cole's Island. 



The next morning dawned bright and clear with a young hurri- 

 cane from the N.W., a fair beam wind on the lake, aud we went 

 up to get the canoe. With mainsail reefed, sheets well off, and 

 both of us "hiked" to windward, we. often had to luff, and once, to 

 avoid beaching her on a point (from making too much weather by 

 enforced luffing), we lowered the mainsail and drifted offshore*. 

 When we made the mouth of the cove opposite home and saw the 

 visitors ranged along the shore watching us, and with them a man 

 who had often sailed with me in the Squall during the old "jill- 

 poke" period, a spirit of recklessness seized our crew and he asked 

 abruptly, "Can you swim?" "Yes," "So can 1, so in case of 

 trouble 1 guess we can float till they get a boat off to us," And as 

 he got his sheets in for the quarter mile beat to windward, he 

 added; "We must not let that crowd see that the wind is too 

 much for us; keep her into it if she goes under, Don'tluff." The 

 sails filled, the batten in the mainsail bending like a whip, the lee 

 gunwale went under in spite of several hundred pounds on the 

 weather side, and then we fairly flew along the long port tack. 

 Another short leg of a hundred yards and we threw her nose into 

 the wind within ten feet of the shore, and as we lay there for a 

 moment, the sails slatting as if they would jump their bolt ropes, 

 H. said in an undertone: "We need not have luffed at all. We 

 only wanted a little more courage— or enough spectators to stimu- 

 late what we have/j L. 1. F. 



NEW" RULES ABROAD— A meeting of the Royal C. C. was 

 held on Nov. 21, at which the old board of officers was re-elected. 

 The most important work of the meeting was the adoption of 

 new rules for classification, there being a very animated discus- 

 sion; but those of our English exchanges which nominally are 

 devoted to the publication of canoe news, very carefully refrain 

 from any intimation of the nature ot the new rules, save for the 

 following in the Model Yachtsman anO Canoeist: "The spirit of the 

 wirole thing, apart, altogether from i he letter, was this: To bar 

 any of the Yankee flying machines that might come over; to 

 discourage the building in England of apparatus of a fight char- 

 acter, and to retain the practical and useful." As to the first 

 proviso the R. O. C. is taking time by the forelock in legislating 

 against an invasion of American canoes while all the cups are 

 held on this side. In view of the flimsy specimens of cauoe build- 

 ing that have come here from England within the past thiee sea- 

 sons, and the many breakdowns that have befallen every English 

 canoe that has raced on this side, no one will say that any undue 

 haste has been shown in the adoption of the second proviso. All 

 the rules, whatever they may be, were passed with the under- 

 standing that they should remain unchanged for a period of three 

 years, 



THE IMPROVEMENT OF CANOE SAILS. 



THERE are very few who would not welcome any substantial 

 improvement in lowering and reefing sails for canoes, and 

 yet the larger number of racing canoeists are content to shirk all 

 efforts toward this end, and to avoid a. little trouble by adopting 

 the standing, non-stowable abominations which were seen in such 

 numbers at the meet this year. The probabilities are that within 

 certain limits of wind, and under such conditions as maintain in 

 many races, the standing sail is faster than anv lowering and 

 reefing sail can be; but this is absolutely all that can be said in 

 Its favor. On the other hand, there can be no doubt of the harm 

 Which these sails have done and are still doing to legitimate 

 canoeing, especially to racing. As originally titter) to Peeowsie 

 (several small sails, the largest 40ft., and rigged with a neatness 

 aud simplicity that attracted every one who saw them), the evil 

 was not so apparent, but in only two years the size has doubled, 

 while the latest form is so extended by battens that it cannot 

 even be folded up when not in use. 



It is easy to see now that, it was a great mistake even to permit 

 the use pi large sails of this kind, and it is all very well to call 

 for a change of the racing rules which shall summaiilv debar 

 them, but this docs not help the matter. It is no use now to dis- 

 cuss how or why they came into existence; they are here, and the 

 question is how to get rid of them. This, however, cannot be done 

 by any sudden change of the rules, even though such a change 

 would be for the good of the great majority of canoeists. While 

 wo contend that it would have been within the power, and was 

 in tact the duty of the Association to limit or prohibit such 

 BtUlg In the first place as soon as they promised to he other than 

 beneficial, now that their use has been permit led for several sea- 

 sons, and many have adopted them, it would be very unfair, with- 

 out the consent of a large majority of the standing-rig men, to 

 rule them out, summarily for the coming season. This applies 

 also to several other abuses that have grown up of late, things 

 that are undoubtedly bad, but which nevertheless cannot be 

 ruled out at once. 



There are, however, two ways of dealing with the sail evil, one 

 ot which is also applicable to the huge boards and sliding deck 

 seats. It is fully within tbe power of the A. C. A. and division 

 regatta committees to offer prizes for canoes which shall be in all 

 respects eruisable craft, however they may be temporarily fitted 

 with larger sails for racing. In laying down new rules for cruis- 

 ing cratt to be built up to, the limits mav be drawn as closely as 

 may seem desirable, and no objection can fairly be made; those 

 who do not like them have still plenty of races under the present 

 loose limits. It will, however, be a somewhat difficult matter to 

 settle on the definition of a raceable cruiser (title copvrighted), 

 and we will gladly give space to a thorough discussion of the 

 matter. When once this definition is decided on, the A. C. A. as 

 well as the clubs can devote a part of the racing programme to 

 races under the new limits, leaving certain races, as at present, 

 to the racing machines. The owners of the latter certainly can- 

 not complain of such a course, and many would be glad to come 

 within the new limits, the others going on as now, from bad to 

 worse until some machine is evolved so extreme as to drive out 

 all others, as was the case in yacht racing abroad under the old 

 Thames tonnage rule. 



A second way of dealing with the sail question is to offer some 

 stimulus to the inventive canoeists, of whom there are plenty, to 

 improve the best of the present rigs; and the New York C. C. has 

 already taken the first step in this direction. Com. Burchard 

 has offered a prize for the best hoisting and reefing sail that may be 

 produced by the opening of the racing season, and his example is 

 worthy of tne emulation of the other clubs. It is curious how 

 some, clubs have become known largely through certain sails; the 

 Cincinnati C. C. owes a large part of its wide-spread reputation 

 to the lateen sail first put into general use in the States by its 

 members; the New York C. C. was famous a few years since for 

 its huge balance lugs: the Mohicans are known everywhere by 

 the settee that bears their name; while the Peeowsie sails are 

 familiar to canoeists who do not know whether Springfield is in 

 Florida or Canada, as the production of the Springfield C. C. All 

 are aware of the benefit which accrues to a canoe club from a 

 well-established reputation in the world of canoeing, what effect 

 it has on the membership and general prosperity of the club, and 

 from this point of view the benefits to the club which shall give 

 to canoeing a new and really good reefing sail are well worth 

 working for. We hope that by May the generous offer of Com. 

 Burchard will have borne good fruit, and that others will be 

 tempted to emulate him. 



jachting. 



FIXTURES. 



Junk. 



3-5-7. Katriua-Shamroek, N. Y. 



THE CORINTHIAN MOSQUITO FLEET. 



ANEW club under the above name was organized in New York 

 * „ on ^ U ' ^ ob J° ct b emg to unite the owners of small craft 

 ot all models and rigs and not over soft, l.w.l.. for the purpose of 

 encouraging racing and cruising among amateur sailors the 

 headquarters will be at New Boehelle, N. Y., the Sailine ground 

 being on the west end of Long Island Sound. It is strange that 

 with the large number of boating men, can. .*i°rs and' vVftt'mpn 

 of limited means about New York and her suburbs and with 

 water on every hand, there has never been any strong or perman- 

 ent organization devoted to the interests of small craft save the 

 small yacht clubs which still adhere to the old sandbag cathoat 

 or jib and mainsail . In Philadelphia there a re hundreds of ami- 

 tear sailors with a very large fleet of craft under IfJft ; in Boston" 

 there are many more, while in Toronto there is a very large and 

 powerful boat sailing contingent, at the head of which is the 

 Argonaut Club, with its fleet of 19ft, skiffs. It is almost 20 year- 



by either sh3l • rowing or 3afcboat sailing, the only existing formi 

 of boating at the time; but it, has since graduated a very large 

 number of good sailormeu who have outgrown the canoe" but 

 who are still good all-around Corinthian sailors, as every canoeist 

 must, be. While some of these, old canoeists now own their lame 

 yachts, the larger number are unable to afford the time or money 

 which yachting in large ctaft requires, and at the same time 

 their love of racing and cruising is as keen as when they first 

 grasped a paddle. For them and for many new recruits who 

 wish a larger boat than a canoe there are plenty of good "craft 

 but up to this time no serious effort has been made to encourage ■! 

 boattoo large tocome under the care of the canoe clubs and vet so 

 small as to be considered beneath the notice of the leading and 

 most influential Corinthian yacht clubs. The new club will fill a 

 place between the yacht and canoe clubs, and if well managed it 

 should have a very large, membership. Within the limns of 15 to 

 20ft. l.w.l, aud within a maximum cost of $500 it is possible to 

 build a very fine little ship for cruising or racing, a single-hander 

 that will accommodate two or three men. A vast amount, of good 

 racing may be had out of a class of 15ft. open boats, such as the 

 Thames gigs, the Clyde luggers, and the Toronto skiffs, and if 

 desirable the cost may be made as low- as $100 for hna' ri , , 

 plete. From this limit both size and cost can be increased to 

 meet the different condition of water and the local surroundm" 

 as well as the means of the club members. With suitable classes' 

 and racing rules the sport, may be just as keen as in any of tne 

 large classes, and far more attractive to a great manyrnen of 

 moderate means, who would rather sail small craft of their own 

 than watch other men race in large vessels. It will doubtless take 

 some time at first for the new club to classify the many different 

 boats which are likely to be found in its fleet, and to lay down 

 suitable rules for racing and building, but a season of trial racing 

 should give sufficient experience to enable the club to take some 

 active steps toward the development of several sizes of small 

 boats and yachts, say 15, 18 and 20ft. l.w.l. which shall bs esoeci 

 all suited for racing, cruising and general sailing about the 

 Sound 



NEW STEAM YACHT —Mr. Kunhardt has sent design No ET 

 to members of the Rochester Y. O. The plans call for a cniiaina- 

 seagoing steam yacht, 58tt. long on deck, 10ft. water-line Tft Sin 

 beam, 4ft, tin. draft, The midship section has great derdrise" 

 with slight hollow in the garboards, an easy bilge unc 1 a slieht 

 round to the topsides. The overhang aft is of the cutter fashion 

 8ft, long, and the bow is of graceful clipper form, with aflKure' 

 head and no trail boards. Least freeboard to ton of planksheer i=. 

 28in. Schooner rig, with strong rake to soars, and a 20in hatch 

 house, with a pilot house forward, the floor of which is sunk "ft 

 below deck. She will probably receive a Wells balance enain* 

 and 40in, wheel. This is the eighth design sent by Mr. K to the 

 Lakes this year, 1 



