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CAPE COD "CATBOAT" MAGIC. Built by Crosby Bros. 



§iacffting. . 



"I^est India Hurricanes and the Great March Blizzard.'' By 

 Everett Hayden. U. S. Hydrographic Office. Large quarto, with ts 

 lithographic -plates. Price #1. Contains full history of the great 

 storm of March, 1888, with pr-ictieal information how to handle a 

 vessel in a, cyclone; use of oil at sea, etc. 



THE CAPE "CATBOAT" MAGIC. 



THE Magic, though in reality a "jib and mainsail" boat by vir- 

 tue of her rig, is one of the family of Gape Cod catboats, 

 made famous by such racers as Harbinger, Surprise, Mucilage 

 and Kiowa. Though all were originally catrigged, and many still 

 carry but a mainsail, there are some which use a jib at times, 

 and others, like Harbinger, which carry it habitually, and are 

 thus no longer catboats, but sloops. Magic was built in 1887 for 

 Mr. Thos. P. Lewis, of Barnstable, Mass., by Crosby Bros., of Os- 

 terville, a firm well-known in connection with these craft. Her 

 dimensions are: 



Length over all .20ft. 



L.W.L.. ... . 17ft. iO^in. 



Beam, extreme . ...8ft. 8in. 



L.W.L., 8ft. Sin. 



Draft without board 2ft. lin. 



Freeboard lowest 1ft. 3i n , 



Centerboard, length 5£t. 8in. 



breadth 3ft. 4in. 



pin from fore end of l.w.l .... 7ft. Bin. 



Mast, length . 30ft. 



diameter at deck Via. 



Bowsprit outline 9ft. 



Boom 28ft. 



Gaff 17ft. Sin. 



Hoist of mainsail 18ft. 6in. 



M jib ..20ft. Sin. 



Area of mainsail 512 sq ft. 



jib 73 sq.ft. 



Magic held the championship of the Cape Cod Y. C, in the 18ft. 

 class in 1887 and 1888. 



C. 



SEA WAN H AKA CORINTHIAN Y. 



THE annual meeting of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. was 

 held at the club house on Jan. 11, with Vice-Corn. Center in 

 the chair. The following officers and committees were elected: 



Trustees, Wm. B. Simouds and Chas. A. Post; Com., Robert 

 Center, cutter Medusa; Vice-Corn., Geo. H. B. Hill, schooner 

 Miranda; Rear-Corn., Ralph N. Ellis, schooner Iroquois; Sec'y, 

 Leon P. d'Oremieulx; Treas., Walter O. Hubbard; Meas., John 

 Hyslop; Fleet Surgeon, J. West Roosevelt, M.D.; Fleet Chaplain, 

 Geo. R. Vandewater, D.D.; Race Committee, Wm. A. Haines, 

 Morris M. Howland, Walter C. Kerr, J. Langdon Ward, Wm. B. 

 Simonds; House Committee, Herbert L. Satterlee, Wm. A. Haines, 

 Ashton Lemoine, Alfred Ely, Wm. B. Ogden; Committee on lec- 

 tures and entertainment, J. Frederic Tarns, Leonard Chenery, 

 Lieut.-Comd'r U. S. N., Chas. A. Post; Committee on lines and 

 models, John Hyslop. A. Gary Smith, Wm. P. Stephens; Library 

 Committee, Henry W. Tyler, Henry W. Hayden, W. C. Brown. 

 CommiTte on Exhibits, John F. Lovejoy, R. Alexander Rather- 

 furd, Geo. P. Blow, ensign, U. S. N.; Law Committee, Chas. W. 

 Wt-tmore, Sidney Chubb, Henry P. Rogers. 



The measurement committee made a recommendation to 

 the effect that thp proposed amendment regarding waterline 

 length should be laid on the table, in order that the rules of the 

 club should be in unformity with those of the New York and East- 

 ern Y. C, which was done, the same committees being continued 

 to confer with the committees of the other clubs in regard to uni- 

 form rules. The proposed changes in the details of measurement 

 were all adopted. Tne clause relating to the spinaker boom was 

 objected to on the ground that it was liable to be evaded, hut was 

 finally passed as proposed in order not to conflict with the same 

 rule as adopted by the New York Y. O.; the committee being in- 

 structed to bring the matter before the other committees when 

 they meet in order that the wording of the rule may be revised. 

 The trustees' report showed the club to be in a prosperous condi- 

 tion; it suggested also that the club should endeavor during the 

 coming seaeon to hold some races under conditions that should 

 test as far as possible the merits of various rules of measure- 

 ment. The other reports showed a membership of 318, or 11 more 

 than last year; a fleet of 137 yachts, a gain of 20. and a net sur- 

 plus of $1,000. The retiring treasurer, Mr. Simonds, has held the 

 office for 11 years, while Mr. Foulke, the retiring trust.ee, has 

 held the same office since the formation of the club. The first 

 of the lectures on design and construction by Mr. A. Carey Smith 

 was given on Jan. 7, and the second on Jan. H. The annual din- 

 ner will be given at Delmonico's on Feb. 1. 



DEATH OF OAPT. CUTHBERT.— Captain Alexander Cnth- 

 bert, of BeUevalle, Ontario, builder of the yachts Countess of 

 Dufferm and Atalanta, died at his home on Jan. 14. 



CORRECTED LENGTH AND "CANOE TYPE.' 



THE Field comments as follows on the recent report of the 

 Eastern Y. C. committee: 

 ' The Eastern Y. G., of Boston, U. S. A., appointed a committee, 

 consisting of General Paine, M*. Edward Burgess, and three others 

 to consider the advisability of adopting a rating rule like that of 

 the Seawanhaka Y. C. (as recently adopted by the New York 

 Y. C). The committee have reported that they are afraid to 

 adopt a rule which is so easy on length and hard on sail— in these 

 respects it is not so easy or hard as the Y. R. A. rule— because it 

 might produce "an undesirable craft of the canoe type," to the 

 extinction of the centerboard yacht. 



"We certainly think these are groundless fears, even if the rule 

 referred to be taken in conjunction with the new classification of 

 sailing length instead of actual length of loadline. There cer- 

 tainly are no indications at present in this country (so far as 

 yachts are concerned) that anything approaching a canoe type of 

 yacht would succeed. Certainly the objection made to a simple 

 sail area rule three years ago was that it might produce a canoe 

 type of yacht in the smaller classes, and probably there were 

 grounds for that apprehension, although it was not put to the 



test; but, at any rate, we do not see how the canoe type of yacht 

 could exist without the centerboard even in small craft. If there 

 is a deep fixed keel or 'dorsal fin,' such as the Humming Bird 

 and others have, coupled with great beam, there is nothing 

 'canoe' about the type; if there is, then we might call the Julla- 

 nar of the canoe type, and she is usually spoken of as anvthing 

 hut an undesirable craft. The fact is, however, that both we in 

 this country, and the best informed Americans, have now seen 

 enough of the length and sail area rule to be convinced that a 

 'canoe type' of yacht is not possible under it. It may possibly 

 yet come to that in the small classes of 5-rating and tinder, but 

 the superiority of the type for match sailing would have to be 

 very clearly proved before it became of universal adoption. And 

 after all, if the type proved to be a bad one, it could easily be 

 checked in its development." 



WRECK OF A FOREIGN" YACHT. — A very meagre report has 

 come by cable from Cadiz to the effect that an English schooner, 

 Inva by name, has been wrecked of the coast of Spain and 6 men 

 drowned. The only yacht of this name is a schooner-rigged steam 

 yacht, formerly the Argo, now owned by Count Straganoff and 

 hailing from St. Petersburg, 



SAIL PLAN OF MAGIC, 



