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sail. The iron casting for the keel is lift. 6in. long and lft. 6in. 

 deep, the sides being about %in., and the total weight TOOlbs. The 

 steel angle frames, nine on each side, are MX^X^in., and are all 

 reverse frames, or with, the rib inside. Each is backed on the 

 outside by light ribs of hackmatack, %xlin., riveted to the angle 

 bar. By this means all beveling of the steel In addition to the 

 bending is avoided, the wooden frames faying against the plank 

 and taking the bevel. Between tbe composite frames are 

 steamed oak ribs, $ix%in. The steel angles are riveted at the 

 heels and steel floor plates, and these in turn are riveted to the 

 sides of the keel, extending 4in. above it to the cabin floor. After 

 the frames and floors are fitted and drilled they are galvanized. 

 The planking of Spanish cedar in full lengths is riveted 

 with copper nails to the frames. The decsk beams are sided p^in., 

 moulded Sin. , with5in. crown, and the planksheer is of mahogany. 

 The deck is of white pine, %X%, blind-fastened. The lead bal- 

 last, l,2001bs. in all, will be run into the trough keel. The frames 

 and floors weigh but 571bs. after galvanizing. The yacht will be 

 fitted below with two sofa lockers, two hammock beds, and pan- 

 tries, etc. The skylight and companion will be designed by Mr. 

 Mclntyre, a combination hatch that can be removed in racing. 

 The, Composite, as she is called, will make her trial trip next 

 month. Mr. Mclntyre is now "busy with skylights for sevei-al 

 Government vessels. The cut shows the framing of a centerboard 

 boat on this system. 



YACHTSMEN OP NEW ENGLAND.— Under this title Mr. 

 W. H. Couillard has published in a very handsome volume a com- 

 plete list of all the New England yacht clubs, with names and 

 signals of the yachts and addresses of members, besides the tide 

 tables of the year and other useful information. The book is very 

 well illustrated with photogravure reproductions of photographs 

 of the leading yachts, and is a very ornamental as well as useful 

 addition to the yachtsman's library. 



ALBANY Y. C.-The fall regatta of the Albany Y. C. will be 

 sailed on Oct. 12. being open to both sailing and steam yachts of 

 all organized >acht clubs between Poughkeepsie and Troy in- 

 clusive. The steam yachts will be divided into first class," 30ft. 

 and under 56ft., and second class, under 30ft. - There will be two 

 prizes in each class, presented by Capt. Sanders. Entries close 

 on Oct. 5. 



THE LOSS OF THE LEO— From all that we can learn of the 

 steam yacht Leo, lately lost on Lake Erie, she was an old and 

 poorly equipped boat, with a steam boiler, usine: kerosene for fuel, 

 purchased at a very low price and ran by incompetent help. She 

 was not a naphtha launch. No further particulars of her loss are 

 known, but it is supposed that her boiler exploded. 



COLUMBIA Y: C— The postponed regatta of Sept. 26 was a 

 failure through a fog and calm, none of the 16 starters complet- 

 ing the course. The race will not be re-sailed. 



GRAYLING.— The report that Grayling has been sold to go to 

 Lake Erie is contradicted, but it is said now that Vice-Corn. Fish 

 will not race her next season. 



ORIENT A, steam yacht, has been sold by J. A. Bostwick to E . 

 R. & J. H. Ladew, of Mew York. 



(Ijsdtutqing. 



FLY. 



r pHE canoe Fly, whose lines are here given, is the best known of 

 Jl the famous Vesper canoes, the handsomest fleet of canoes 

 that has ever been brought together. The boats are all of the 

 same dimensions, 16x30, and of nearly the sama model, all being 

 built in the same way, ribband carvel, of Spanish cedar. Fly 

 was designed by Mr. Paul Butler, of Lowell, Mass.. in 1888, and 

 was built under his direction by Mr. W. E.Stevens, of Portland, 

 Me., the work being done in Lowell. She raced at the meet the 

 same year with rather poor success, having a rather incomplete 

 rig, but later in the season she defeated Eclipse ar, Springfield in 

 the final race for the Springfield cup, and in the special races at 

 New York at the time of the international races she won the two 

 races of the morning and afternoon, beating the time of the 

 Eclipse over the same course in each race, though of course not 

 racing for the same prizes. As the latter canoe was not at the 

 meet this year the two have never met since. Fly is built, to the 



MIDSHIP SECTION CANOE " PLY." 



full limit of 16ft.x30in., but as we explained in connectio-i with 

 the limits of Charm, Oct. 11, 1888, the lines are reduced in length 

 to 15ft. for the sake of uniformity with other desigas. In build- 

 ing from the lines and the table of offsets it will ba necessary, in 

 order tj build to 10ft., to space each station 12 13 i 6 in. apart, in 

 place of 12in. In any case, though the table of offsets is taken as 

 carefully as possible from a drawing y A full size, it will be necessary 

 to lay off the design full size, as described in " Canoe and Boat- 

 building for Amateurs,'" in order to make the moulds, and in 

 doing this the lengthening is an easy matter by spacing each sta- 

 tion as above. Wasp, one of the latest of Mr. Butler's canoes, is 

 very similar to Fly, but her floor has a trifle less round in it. The 

 deck, too, is differeut, there being hardly any coaming, but the 

 deck itself is arched into a sort of turtle-back form about the 

 well, m order to throw off the water, an object which it does not 

 quite accomplish, an apron or higher coaming being needed. The 

 dimensions of Fly are as follows, the fractions being eghths of an 

 inch: 



• Length 16ft. 



Beam, extreme 30in. 



l.w.1. 4in 27in. 



Draft 4in. 



Freeboard 7 3 in. 



Sheer, bow. lft. l 4 in. 



stern , lft. 0 4 in. 



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The fittings and interior will appear next week. 



