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DESIGN FOR SAILING AND PADDLING CANOE, 1.6*39^, 



course with half mile sides. Great difficulty was experienced in 

 getting these races off. Twice the race was started, and on each 

 occasion it was not nearly finished when the time limit was up. 

 Even when the race was actually sailed the wind was so light 

 ( with occasional dead calms) that it seemed as though another 

 attempt would 1 have to he made. Toward the close of the race 

 the wind freshened auci the sailing became ticklish work, for it 

 was almost dark, and the canoes had to be steered by the lights 

 on the shore. Any one who has tried sailing in a canoe race will 

 well understand that no inconsiderable amount of nerve is re- 

 quired for such a performance as this. The race lay between 

 Irene, Iolanthe and Musette for some time, sometimes one and 

 sometimes the other being ahead, but at last Iieno managed to 

 keep her lead, with Musette second, and finished a quarter of a 

 mile ahead. The entries were as fallows; 



Irene, R, W. Baldwin 1 



Musette, Henri Roy 2 



White Wings, Capt. King ., Did not finish. 



Nixie, P. B. Squires Did not finish. 



Dolphin, P. A. Maingy Did not finish. 



Iolanthe, W. M. L. Maingy Did not finish. 



SYe made the mistake this year of having our regatta too late 

 in the season. We propose having it in the coming season before 

 the A. C. A. meet instead of waiting until after the men are back 

 from their holidays, when the weather is too uncertain and the 

 days are too short. Francis H. Gtsbohne, See'v Ottawa C. C. 



RACING FOR CRUISERS. 



A WELL-KNOWN crniser writes us as follows regarding our 

 reports of the A. C. A. meet: "Your articles on the meet 

 have altered my conception of canoeing very materially. One 

 sentence of yours, to the effect that the racer who was not a 

 cruiser, and the crniser who was not a racer, were alike not 

 canoeists; hit me hard, and I have made up my mind to go in and 

 race for all I am worth, as in the past I have cruised as bard as I 

 could. I have neither the skill nor the nerve to make a winner, 

 hut although 1 shall race to try to win, that is to take the most 

 out of my boat and out of myself, I am not going to race only to 

 win. On that basis I want to see the Association make it im- 

 possible for any one but a canoeist in a canoe to win at the meet, 

 or any wbere else, and I do think that tbe rules should be altered 

 in accordance with the alterations in the conditions governing 

 canoe racing." If all who are dissatisfied with the present rules 

 were to look at the matter in this light, the trouble would soon 

 disappear. 



THE IMPROVEMENT OF CANOE SAILS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In your article under the above heading, after expatiating on 

 the number of "standing, non-stowable abominations 1 ' at the late 

 meets, you say T that there can be no doubt of the harm which 

 these sails have and still are doing to legitimate canoeing, and 

 especially to racing, and that the question is how to get rid of 

 them. The method suggested is to let good-natured gentlemen 

 like Com. Burchard, of the New York Club and the Division Re- 

 gatta Committee, offer good prizes for the best lowering rigs, and 

 then let all this good missionary work he knocked on the head bv 

 offering the Association $300 cup and championship of America to 

 men who carrywhat you call standing,noii-sto wable abominations; 

 for canoeists as a rule are an enterprising lot of fellows, and it is 

 that spirit that Has led to the adoption of the standing rigs by so 

 many of our best men. A can beat B by about 50yds. B savs. 

 By gosh, I'm going to get a standing rig which 'il make that much 

 difference, and he gets a standing rig and does up A, who in turn 

 says I'll have to get B's style of rig or I'm busted, and hanged if 

 I'll be busted as long as I've got cash in my trowser pocket to buy 

 a new suit, and C, D, E, F and all the rest of them have to do the 

 same thing to keep up with the crowd. The point I wish to make 

 is that if B is headed off by a rule prohibiting standing rigs, he 

 will immediately set to work to get a better lowering one, and O, 

 D, E, F will follow suit, and there will he no need for private in- 

 dividuals to go down into their dips to oiler prizes for lowering 

 rigs; you will immediately get all the best brains (in that line) of 

 the Association at work on the question of the best lovvering rig, 

 not for Com. Burcbard's prized but for the highest prize they 

 have a chance of securing, as that is what the enterprising canoe- 

 ists look for. 



The point I wish to make is yon will never get the brains of the 

 Association at work on the best lowering rig until they are com- 

 pelled to do so to win our highest races. It would be no hardship 

 to any one to aholisb standing rigs for the. Association races this 

 winter, as there is not a canoeist in the racing lino but gets a 

 new suit of sails every winter, and it is as easy to get a lowering 

 suit as a standing one and probably no more expensive, but, if he 

 is not compelled to, is it likely that he is going to get what he 

 knows to he a slower sail, when his object is to get as well to the 

 front as possible? The second point I wish to make is this, that if 

 the "standing non-stowable abominations" (please observe that 

 I'm not the daddy of that name) are to be done away with any 

 time, now is the time to do it, the first year it should have been 

 done, the second year some of us argued that it be done, but it 

 was pooh-poohed. Now every one in the Association barring prob- 

 ably naif a dozen are ready and anxious to see the evil abolished 

 when it can be done without injury to any one, and if done the 

 canoe that would win with the standing sail would win with 

 a lowering one. If as you say, "It was the duty of the Association 

 to limit or prohibit such sails in the first place," how much more 

 is it their duty to do so now when there are probably only about 

 half a dozen opposed to it in the whole Association. I do not think 

 any one would advise running an association of 800 in the in- 

 terest of 6, 16 or even 26 members of the same, and yet. compara- 

 tively speaking, that is what is being done at the present time. 



The idea to offer special prizes for cruising craft, etc., without 

 hiker seats and standing rigs will never accomplish the desired 

 result of doing away with what is objectionable in our races. As 

 has beeu said before, canoeists are an enterprising lot, and no ca- 

 noeist with any sand in his anatomy will go into what will likely 

 he called the "pot-bellied disgruntled cruiser's race" when there 

 are higher races to enter for. Another feature is that every one 

 admits that the present A. C. A, programme is too large, and this 

 would be lengthening it still more without accomplishing the 

 good that in sought for. The only practicable way of getting at 

 a thing of this kind that requires remedying is not to tinker with 

 the branches or divisions, but go right to headquarters and pull 

 it up by the roots, and when it is done we will all be wondering 

 why the dickens it took us so long to do it. 



Toronto, Dec. 30. Will MAcKENDRiok. 



[We will be glad to hear from all of our readers who agree with 

 Mr. MacKendric'-? that the changes under discussion should be 

 made at once, especially from those who now use the standing rig 

 but would like to see it ruled out.] 



NEW YORK C. C— A party of canoeists spent New Year's Eve 

 at the house of the Mew York C. C, cooking supper there and 

 afterward going out for a paddle on tbe Bay at midnight. Next 

 day Messrs." Vaux, Nad aland Howard sailed over to the Brooklyn 

 C. C. house for a New Year's call. Com. Wilkin was found afloat 

 in his canoe, and others of the club were at the club house. 



A. C. A. MEMBERSHIP— Central Division: C. S. Smith, 

 Rochester, N, Y. Atlantic Division: Gabriel Reevs, Robert O. 

 Kirkwood, Paul B. Rossire, Talbot Simpson, JohnG. Reevs, Yon- 

 kers; J. Henry Sipp, Paterson, N. J.: Alex. Arnois, Clarence 

 Oastello, Philadelphia, Pa, 



A SAILING AND PADDLING CANOE. 



THE design given herewith is by Mr. 0. E. W. Armstrong, of 

 Boston, for whom the canoe is now building. The leading 

 dimensions are 16x2<.«^xllin., and it is proposed to carry 105ft. of 

 sail. The weight of the hull will be inside of 751 bs., the planking 

 being lapped with a nearly flush seam. The centerboard will be 

 of 3 32 in. steel, 35in. long, the after end placed Sin. from midship 

 section. The canoe is intended for cruising as well as raoi rig and 

 should he very easy under paddle as well as fast under canvas 

 for cruisers. 



A NEW STYLE LAPSTRAKE.— Mr. H. M. Sprague, of Parish- 

 ville, N. Y., has received a patent on a new method of making a 

 tight seam in boats. A thin strip of rubber, specially prepared, 

 is laid between the planks, in varnish, seeming to make a very 

 tight joint, especially around all nails and fastenirgs. The weigbt 

 is but ^lh. greater on an ordinary canoe, and the cost about $5. 



FIXTURES. 



June. 



3-5-7. Katrina-Shamrock, N. Y. 22. Beverly. 

 15. Corinthian, Marblehead. 29. Corinthian, Marhlehead. 

 Jul?. 



4. Larchmont, Annual. 13. Corinthian, Marhlehead. 



4. Beverly. 20. Beverly. 



6. Beverly. 27, Corinthian. Marblehead. 

 fi. Sippican, Annual, Marion. 



AUGUST. 



3. Sippican, Club, Marion. 24. Corinthian, Marblehead. 



il. Beverly. 31. Beverly. 



10. Corinthian, Marblehead. 81. Sippican, Club, Marion. 

 17. Beverly. 



September. 



2. Corinthian, Marhlehead. 14. Corinthian, Marblehead. 



7. Beverly. 21. Beverly. 



LONG CRUISES IN STEAM LAUNCHES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In requesting Mr. Lovejoy to give the dimensions of his steam 

 launch Dot, in which he made his interesting trip "Through 

 Okeechobee to the Gulf," it was not because I desired to have 

 one built, but merely to satisfy the curiosity of an old steam 

 launch man; and just here I desire to thank Mr. Lovejoy for his 

 kindness in offering to assist me in the construction of a boat. 



I claim to be a pioneer in adopting the steam launch for pleas- 

 ure cruising, having abandoned a 40ft. sailboat six years ago, 

 and replaced it by a 21ft. launch. In this boat four of us made a 

 very pleasant trip from Pittsburgh to Louisville and return, 

 thence up and down the MonoDgahela and Allegheny rivers, 

 spending three months in fishing, hunting, camping, and having 

 a good time generally. The boat, however, was too small for 

 cruising, and in November of the same year I sold her for $50 

 more than she cost in the spring. Being so thoroughly delighted 

 with our first experiment, we decided to form a co-partnership, 

 "pool our issues," and purchase a launch especially adapted for 

 cruising. Consequently we ordered one 30ft. long, 7ft. beam, with 

 hard wood awning deck, 4 H. P. engine and boiler, cockpit inclosed 

 with canvas curtains, etc. She was delivered in the following 

 spring, 1883, and on May 3 we started on a four months' cruise. 

 Leaving Chicago via the Illinois Canal, we steamed down this 

 waterway to the Illinois River, thence to the Mississippi, and 

 after two months of unalloyed pleasure and jolly times generally 

 we landed at New Orleans, where we intended spending two or 

 three days. We had received no mail since leaving Chicago, 

 when the clerk at the St. Charles glanced at our names on the 

 register, looKed at our blue flannel shirts and slouch hats, and 

 sized us up generally, he slowly murmured, "I guess this mail is 

 for you," and forthwith dumped about a bushel of letters and 

 papers upon the counter. 



Three days, a week, two weeks, three weeks passed, and we 

 were, still unwilling to leave that hospitable city and the many 

 charming friends we had made. In the mean time the launch was 

 not idle. Day after day and night after night, decorated with 

 flags, Chinese lanterns, etc., placed there by fair hands, and laden 

 with New Orleans' handsomest daughters and gallant sons, the 

 little craft made many pleasant excursions to various points of 

 interest. Bur. we started "up river" finally, and after innumera- 

 ble stops of a day or two, now visiting interesting towns or cities, 

 again campiugin beautiful woods on the river bank, fishing and 

 hunting, we arrived at St. Louis on Thanksgiving Day and tied up 

 for the winter, brown as berries and fat as 'possums. Three davs 

 were spent at the Lindell discussing our trip, the route for next 

 year, etc., when with a cordial handshaking we separated for our 

 respective homes— Charley to Chicago, Jack to Pittsburgh, Frank 

 to bis bachelor apartments at the Lindell, and I to Philadelphia, 

 i lArriving home I found that my only living sister was slowly 

 but surely succumbing to that fearful disease Which had already 

 robbed me of two brothers and a sister, and that for her to remain 

 in the city during the winter would certainly mean death. Con- 

 sequently, a f ter repacking my trunk, we started for that bourne 

 from whence hut few consumptives return alive, viz., Florida. 

 The trip was not an enjoyable one to me, my mind constantly 

 reverting to three previous journeys made under similar circum- 

 stances; how my poor brother's eyes sparkled at the thought of 

 being restored to health, and how soon, alas, those hopes were 

 dispelled , tor in three short months I brought back in a casket all 

 that was mortal of him who was most dear: how, in eighteen 

 months after this, I made the same trip with another brother and 

 isster, the former surviving but six weeks, the latter three 

 months. 



Two weeks at the St. James in Jacksonville, sister growing 

 gradually weaker, although site was not confined to bed, the out- 

 look for a pleasant winter was not very promising. Suddenly 

 the thought occurred to me, "if out-door exercise has done so 

 much for me, why will it not benefit sister?" I immediately 

 telegraphed Frank to send the steam launch, and two weeks 

 afterward she arrived all OK, and next day who should drop in 

 but Frank 1 I had written him concerning my sister's health, my 

 sojourn in Florida, etc., and he "came down just to help kill time, 

 you know." We had the launch overhauled, a snug cabin built 

 abaft the engine, and after loading her to the muzzle with provi- 

 sions, fishing tackle, guns, a.mmunitton and what not, we started 

 for a cruise on the St. Johns— my sister, aunt, Frank and myself. 

 It would require more space to describe our seven weeks' wander- 

 ing than is allotted to the average newspaper correspondent, 

 hence i will only state that, we navigated both the St. Johns and 

 the father of all crooked rivers, the Ucklawaha, to our heart's 

 content. The only drawback was sister's occasional complaint of 

 inhaling the smoke and dust from the coal, and we set our wits 

 to work to overcome it. After a week's discussion we decided to 

 replace the entire machinery with an oil-burning outfit, but upon 

 our return to Jacksonville and while relating our experience, and 

 dilating upon the pleasure in general of owning a steam launch, 

 a jolly old colonel from New Orleans was so well pleased with the 



boat that he determined to purchase her. He took her to New 

 Orleans, where i sa w her last summer, and has run her thousands 

 of miles since he bought her. 



During our outdoor life my sister improved wonderfully, 

 especially after Frank one day accidentally (?) dropped overboard 

 a. dozen bottles of cod liver oil. both plain and emulsified, leav- 

 ing her no medicine whatever. The following summer I accom- 

 panied her to Colorado, stopping off a day at St. Louis to visit 

 Frank. Two days after our , arrival at Manitou I observed a 

 familiar form emerge from a 'bus, and to my delight there was 

 Frank, "just run out to help spend a few weeks, you know." We 

 returned East in October; my sister was almost the picture of 

 health, and concluded to settle down for a year or two and he- 

 come acquainted with our friends. The winter passed with 

 occasional letters from the boys, a flying visit or two from Frank 

 and spring came. How I longed to he once more meandering 

 along quiet streams, yanking the festive pickerel from his lair 

 'neath yonder lilypad, or bringing down a squirrel, a pheasant, or 

 a quail, or lying lazily in a bunk in a launch, listening to the 

 plash, plash of the water against her sides until— by thunder! I'll 

 buy another boat. And I did. The dimensions were the same as 

 the last, the only difference being an oil burner instead of coal. 

 She was supplied with large oil tank, fresh water tank, keel con- 

 denser, life compartments, was coppered to waterline— a complete 

 boat. We started from New York^and spent the summer among 

 the Thousand Islands, Lake Ontario, etc., and returned late in 

 October, after spending an unusually pleasant time. Frank could 

 not go on account of business, he said; but as he made five trips 

 from St. Louis to Philadelphia during our absence, always call- 

 ing upon my sister, I began to suspect the nature of his business. 

 I was not left long in doubt, for upon our arrival at Kingston, 

 Canada, I received a long letter from sister and one from Frank, 

 and— well, Frank being "one of the bovs," handsome, accom- 

 plished, well fixed financially, of course I could not object. And 

 I didn't. The wedding took place on the following January, and 

 I gave them the steam launch as a present. They live in St Louis, 

 and when I was there last summer we all enjoved a ride in the 

 boat. 



In a steam launch a coal burner is objectionable for a great 

 many reasons, and I would not have one. An oil-burner is better, 

 but they have their faults, and I do not like them, hence I intend 

 trying something different next spring— a gas engine. 1 have 

 placed an order for a 33ft. launch, one which I think will be com- 

 plete in every particular. This is my favorite mode of traveling, 

 and I intend continuing until I have traversed every river and 

 canal in this country. There is more pleasure, more comfort and 

 less expeuse connected with it than any other, and now that I can 

 utilize gas instead of steam, I think I have "struck it right." 



Pacific. 



THE CORINTHIAN MOSQUITO FLEET. — Editor Forest and 

 Sbri am: Will you please correct a statement made in your is.sue 

 of Dec. 27, in which you say in reference to the Corinthian Mos- 

 quito Fleet that, "The headquarters will he at New Rochelle, 

 N. Y„ the sailing ground being on the west end of Long Island 

 Sound." Let me say that the organization is not a club, but an 

 association, to which gentlemen living between New London and 

 Staten Islaud may join for the purpose of entering their small 

 craft in regattas that may be held at either end of the Sound or 

 even in the Bay.— Theodore Ledtard, Sec'y (New Rochelle, 

 Dec. 31). 



YACHT BUILDING ON THE PACIFIC.-Capt. Turner is now 

 building at his yard at Benicia a keel sloop for a San Francisco 

 yachtsman. She will be 40it. over all, 14ft. extreme beam, about 

 12ft 9in. at l.w.l., 5ft. hold and 5ft. draft, with an iron keel of 

 2,5001bs. She will have a large spread of canvas. The sloop Pil- 

 grim has been sold by Mr. Eckman to Messrs. Gray & Emerson, 

 and he will build a 27ft. c. b. sloop. La Paloma. a sloop recently 

 built at San Pedro, and said to be a miniature Mayflower, will he 

 in San Francisco waters next season. She is owned bv Mr. Ban- 

 ning. 



LYNN Y. C— Editor Forest and". Stream: At the annual meeting 

 of the Lynn Y. C, on Jan. L the following officers were elected: 

 Com., E. C. Neal; Vice-Corn., H. L. Parker; Fleet Captain, Louis 

 Cote, re-elected; Treas., Jos. W Atwill; Sec, Walter Hawkes: 

 Mcas., A. W. Hay. Board of Directors, F, E. Baker, H. K. Wheeler, 

 E. B. Newhall, W. E. Neal, B. W. Rowell. Regatta Committee, 

 R- M. Benner, W. E. Gordon, Allan Mansfield, J. Q. Farwell, G. F. 

 Putman. Membership Committee, J. H. Tufts, F. E. Newhall, W. 

 A. Estes.— Walter Hawkes, Sec. 



DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM PEARCE.— The death is an- 

 nounced of Sir William Pearce, the shipbuilder and yachtsman, 

 and one of the firm of Elder & Co. thegreat Clyde shipbuilders, 

 whose shops he entered as a boy. Sir William Pearce began his 

 yachting about ten years since in the (10 touner Daphne, after- 

 ward going in for steam. He built the Torfrida, 108 tons; Boa- 

 dicea, 185 cons; Lady Torfrida, 623 tons; and lately a second 

 yacht of the same name, of 735 tons. ivir. Hans Sloane Stanley, a 

 well-known English yachtsman, owner of the schooner Star of 

 the West, also died last, month. 



A NEW REGISTERING LOG. -A French inventor, Mr. Jules 

 Michel, has lately perfected a new form of registering log, which 

 records on paper tne speed of tne vessel. The log proper is sus- 

 pended permanently along the side of the vessel about the mid 

 length, and is connected by a flexible tube with a registering ap- 

 paratus placed in any part of the vessel that may be convenient. 



HUDSON RIVER Y. C.-Officers: Com., Joseph Stilger. Vice- 

 Corn., William Lutters; Sec, Edward R. Wilson; Treas.. Richard 

 V. Freeman: Meas., Harry Norton; Steward, John F. Hufnagle- 

 Trustees, John E. Drew, H. F. Allen, J. K. Tucker, E. A. Barnes 

 and John Kelly; Finance Committee, Harry Norton, Albert Has- 

 torf and Christ Walden. 



CHANGES OF;OWNERSHIP.— Vandal, the compromise sloop 

 designed in 1886 by Burgess, has been sold by J. S. Fay to Henry 

 Stanton, owner of the Portia. Vandal was the first Burgess boat 

 with a board below the cabin floor. Gypsy, sloop, has been sold to 

 Florida owners. 



NEW ROCHEhLE Y. C.-Echo Island, on which the house of 

 the New Rochelle Y. C. is located, has been purchased bv Mr. 

 Oliver Iselm, owner of Titania, who proposes to build a residence 

 there. The club will he obliged to seek new quarters. 



ANOTHER NEW SCHOONER.-Mr. A. Cary Smith has an 

 order for a centerboard schooner of 65ft. l.w.l., similar to tlie Har- 

 binger designed by him in 1883 for Mr. Forbes. The new yacht 

 will be built of wood. 



THISTLE.— The latest news from the Clyde confirms our state- 

 ment that no alterations have as yet been made to Thistle; nor 

 are anv likely to be made. She has been prepared for the winter, 

 and will lie afloat. 



SEAWANHAKA C. Y. C— The annual meeting will be held at 

 the club house on Jan. 12, at 8:30 P.M. The annual dinner will 

 cake place on Jan 26, also at the club house. 



A PILOT'S LICENSE FOR STEWARD OLSEN.-Niels Olsen, 

 the popular steward of the New York Y. C, has lately received a 

 license as master and pilot of steam vessels, 



KATRINA AND TITANIA. —The agreement for three matches 

 betweea Katrina and Titania has been concluded. 



