May 8, 1890.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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dition to the class is an 86ft. cruiser, a wooden craft designed by 

 Mr. Burgess, and intended for off-shore cruising. Her name, 

 Fleur de Lis, revives old memories of the schooner fleet of twenty 

 years ago, of Tarolinta, Tidal Wave, Idler, Meta, Columbia and 

 others now .half forgotten. The owner of the new craft, Mr. 

 George Trotter, proposes to try her on some long cruises, with no 

 thoughts of racing. The 81ft. class has taken no more definite 

 form than it has had for some time, aud numbers no additions, 

 with little promise of racing among its present members. Mar- 

 guerite is for sale, leav'ng only Oenone, Iroquois and Halcyon, It 

 is somewhat suprising that no one has been tempted to copy the 

 handsome little G5ft. Quickstep which showed so well in the racing 

 last year, as she is of a verv convenient and economical size and 

 combines racing and cruising qualities in a very tor degree. No 

 one has thought it worth while, however, to build to beat her. 



In the single-stick fleet the COft. class is still among the was-t,o- 

 have-beens, apparently further off this year than it was two sea- 

 sons ago. It still boasts of a middle and a tail, Volunteer and 

 Puritan, but no one has shown the least inclination to endow it 

 with a head in the shape of a real steel racer of 90ft. waterline. 

 Even in England, where single stick craft of large size were once 

 common, hut one large yacht has been built in three years, aud 

 she is 6ft. short of the 90ft. class. 



The 70ft. class, although one of the most active in the racing, 

 also shows no additions this year, the sum total of progress being 

 the hipping and pulling out of Shamrock and the minor altcr- 

 tlot'S in Kairina. Thesp, with tne absence of Captain Haff from 

 Titania, will serve to infuse a little new life into the races of the 

 class, but yachtsmen will regret that Mr. Maxwell is not in it 

 with a new flyer, rather than in the old craft, and that some new 

 men have not gone in to help in lowering Titania's colors. It is 

 specially to be regretted that the only large racer of the year, 

 and she is a Burgess keel of light built, should come just between 

 the two classes where she might find worthy competitors. 

 Titania's success last year should have brought two or three new 

 mm and boats in to beat her, there can be no question of the pre- 

 manency of the 70ft. class, the most firmly fixed of any, and it is 

 likely that in addition of plenty of sport at home it will before long- 

 be enlivened by some international racing. The new yacht, Way- 

 ward, lately described in the Forest and Stream, is too small 

 for the class, being but 61ft., though sue will probably be thrown 

 in with it at times to make a race. 



The continued and unbroken success of Clara is a challenge 

 that American yachtsmen can no longer afford to disregard, as 

 she has headed her class since 1885. Not only should it be an easy 

 task to beat her under the present rules and with the latest ad- 

 vances, but the class itself is an excellent one; a steel racer of 

 53ft. waterliue and of modern type giving excellent accomoda- 

 tions for the usual summer work and at, the same time affording 

 plenty of sport on the regatta courses. Clara is now nparlv ready, 

 and with new sails and copper will be in the early races, but with 

 nothing to meet her. The sole addition to the clas=, the Ventura, 

 or the Broncho of the Bronx, ishardly to be considered, as neither 

 model nor build will make h*r a dangerous adversary. 



The 46ft. class is just now coming to the front about Boston, 

 and new and old together will furnish some good racing. Of the 

 two new additions, the centerboard Millicente was included in 

 our list of last vear, being started for Mr. C. D. Owens, but not 

 finished in time. She was sold last fall to Mr. A. B. Turner, of 

 Boston, and was lately launched at Lawley's. She is similar in a 

 general way to the forties Nymph and Verena. The new boat of 

 the cla^s, the Thelma, is a keel craft for a Boston yachtsman, 

 Mr. F. B. McQuesten, a similar craft to Alga and of wooden build. 

 The fleet now includes Alga, Milicente, Bayadere, Fanita and 

 Vixen, the latler two well known to yachtsmen. There should be 

 some very fair racing for this year at least, all of the boats being 

 of moderate proportions, but sooner or la'er some one will jump 

 into the class with an enlarged forty, leaving the moderate craft 

 far astern aid setting a pace that they cannot follow. 



As it now stands the class has Tteen compared verv favorably 

 with the 40ft. as being less expensive and at the same time giving 

 greater accommodations, but these merits are not due to any in- 

 trinsic virtues in the length, 46ft., but merely to the fact that reaJ 

 racing in the class has not yet begun. It may be that the crew of 

 a 40 is also sufficient for a 46-footer, but the main point is that the 

 extreme of the smaller class has not yet been reached in the 

 larger; when it does, and we see a 46ft. Liris carrying a rig as 

 large as Hildegarde, Weuonah or Thetis, there will be less heard 

 about the advantages of the class. The fact is that as long as they 

 are kept within moderate limits both the 40 and 46-footers are 

 excellent craft, well suited to a very large number of yachtsmen. 

 If both classes can be maintained with plenty of entries in each 

 so much the better, but unless this proves to be the case itisfollv 

 to pit one against the other with the result that racing suffers in 

 both. This year the 46ft. class will have a good trial about Boston 

 but in New York it is practically dead. The forties wil. monopo- 

 lize all of the racing west of Cape Cod, besides some further east. 

 The fall regatta of the Eastern Y. C. will be confined to these two 

 classes only. 



The adoitions to the 40ft. class are fewer than was expected; 

 but, on the other hand, the dire lamentations that were heard at 

 the end of last season over the dissolution of the class have proved 

 to be groundless: it still has plenty of vitality, and is now the 

 backbone of yacht racing in America, as the 20-rating class, its 

 parallel, is in England. The three American forties are all from 

 the board of Mr. Burgess, but varying from each otner and also 

 from all of his previous boats. The principal one is naturally the 

 Gossoon, her owners, the Adams brothers, having already owned 

 two of the notable boats of the class, and standing in a measure 

 as godfathers to it. After their experience with Pappoose in 1887 

 and Baboon in 1888. they spent last season in English waters sail- 

 ing on the crack 20-rater Dragon. On their return last fall the 

 new Gossoon was planned, her chief mission being to beat Min- 

 erva. 



Lite her predecessors, she is a keel boat of the same draft as 

 Minerva and also the Burgess boats of last year, Marauuita and 

 Chispa— about 9ft. 3in. The beam, 12ft , is rnidwav between last 

 year's boats. 13ft. 6m., and Minerva, 10ft. 6in. The midship section 

 shows the influence of Minerva, the bilge being eased away and 

 the strong hollow near the garboards being filled out proportion- 

 ately. The same tendency is seen in the sheer plan, a strong rake 

 to the sternpost, a cutting away of the keel below the mast, while 

 the lead keel is greatly increased in width. The ends above water, 

 with the sheer, remain much the same. Like her two sisters 

 Gossoon is flush decked, but the construction is quite different 

 the scantling being reduced and steel frames substituted at each 

 third space, with steel floors. Tne planking is single-skinned 

 and deck of one thickness also, the example of Liris not bein«- 

 followed in these respects. The mast will be a solid stick, but 

 the boom and gaff will be hollow. Blocks and fittings will be 

 lightened as much as practicable. The lightening process is seen 

 in many places, as m the head of the sternpost, which is cut away- 

 above the horn timbers, leaving just enough wood to form the 

 foreside of the rudder trunk. This reduction, however, does not 

 extend clear aft, the transom and quarter timbers being large and 

 heavy, of white oak. 



The next forty is of a different type, the Morgan boat lately 

 described in the Forest and Stream, a centerboard craft about 

 a foot narrower and 6m. deeper than the Nymph tvpe, but with 

 the same easier section and reduced bilge that marks the Gossoon 

 The construction is the same, steel frames and flush deck, but in 

 this case the tail is lightened by the use of yellow pine for the 

 transom in place of oak. A still more extreme step m the same 

 direction is the new Foster Ventura, the responsibilitv for which 

 is shared, we bplieve, by both owner and designer. Sh« is a verv 

 deep centerboard craft, drawing about the same as Chimiita, but 

 with 12ft. beam, nearly lj^ft. less than the older boat. Of course 

 the bilge is very light and the whole sweep from keel to plank- 

 sheer is easy, no marked hollow or round. She is of the same 

 construction as the other two, and like them with flush deck 

 Gossoon and t he Morgan boat will carry moderate rigs, consider- 

 ably larger than Minerva, but not like some of last year's c-eations 



The 30ft. fleet is just now experiencing a decided boom in the" 

 East, no less than a dozen newcralt being on the lisr. Some of 

 these are onlv in the second flight, being intended for local racing 

 but a number are for the vicinity of Marblehead, the nursery 

 of the class. Of course the successor to the two Saracens claims 

 first attention, as she is likely to be the best the owner and de- 

 signer can concoct, and to be as well manned and sailed as any. 

 Saladin is an improved Saracen, the diminsions beiug ahnut the 

 same, 30X10x7. She shows a fair and easy form, with more rake 

 to post and less forefoot than the older boat, also an easier sweep 

 to her section. She will be flush decked with a very long openiu" 

 down the center, 9ft, 6in.x3i't., covered by a combination slide 

 and skylight, and by a light hatch in racing. While this plan ^s 

 convenient, it has the disadvantage of a loss of strength, so many 

 main beams being cut. Below she has one long cabin and a fore- 

 castle, the roam not being equal to Kathleen's. The frame is 

 similar to Kathleen's, two steamed timbers between each pair of 

 sawn traines, the latter being double, but the scantling is consid- 

 erably heavier. The cockpit is quite small and there is a good 

 deck tor working, but litrle obstructed by it or the long companion. 

 The boat will carry a large rig, though still smaller than Kath- 

 leen's. The other keel thirties are similar to Saladin in dimensions 

 and model. 



Besides the keels there are several centerboard racers of the 

 Shark type, the latter being a flush-decked 30-footer, built last 



YACHTS BUILT OR BUILDING SINCE OCTOBER, 1889, 



SAIL. 



Yachts marked with an asterisk (*) have metal keels mth centerhoards. All dimensions in feet and inches. 



Fleur de Lis, 

 Wayward... , 



Thelma 



Ventura.. .. 

 Gossoon 



Saladin . . 

 Hawk.... 

 Camilla. . 

 Picua 



Gracie E. I 

 Freeman ) 



Ventura No 2 



George Trotter. . 

 David Sears 



F. B. McQuesten. 

 C. H.W.Foster. 



Adams Bros 



E. D. Morgan 



W. P. Fowle 



Gordon Dexter.. 



Wm. Amory 



J. D. Fowler 



C. Vanderbilt,... 

 M. R. Mickel . .. 

 S.R.Thayer. ... 



G. M. Freeman . . 

 S H. Freeman . . 

 Wm. McLain ... 



P. H. Adee 



Country Club.. .. 

 Country Club . . . 

 Jos. McDonough 

 W. S. Freeman . . 



H. D. Tiffany. . . . 



Sale 



J. G. Beecher.... 



Allan Ames 



J. M. Cate 



Owen Farguson . 



J. B. King 



E. M. Phillips... 



Designer. 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess. ... 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess. ... 

 E. Burgess., , , . 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess..... 

 E. Burgess . . . 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess... . 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess 



E. Burgess 



Builder 



J. McDonald 

 Lawley & Son , . 

 Lawley & Son 

 Lawley & Son . . 

 Lawley & Son . . 

 H. Piepgrass — 

 Lawley & Son . . 

 Lawley & Son.. 

 Lawley & Son.. , 



A. Martin 



Lawley & Son... 



Chaos L. H. Phillips.. . . 



E. B. Rogers 



Ripple 



M. Jarvis 



E. S. Clouston. .. 

 George Webster, 



F. S.Mallock .... 



J. Weir 



L. Thompson 



G. H. Newell.... 



Olivette.. 

 Rahnee .. 



Sale 



Sale 



J. Potter 



Frank Towle... 



F. L. Work 



J. B. Paine 



Mr, Saunders... 

 Aaron Brown.. . 

 Geo. J. Marsh . . 

 Melvin Haskins 

 John Gannon. . . 



J. Bertram 



E. W. Dixon 



Fahey Bros 



Read Bros 



P. M. Bond 



C. J. Hanley 



Wallace Lowell. 

 L. M. Sargent.. . : 



Mr. Otis 



C. Jefferson 



Mr. Dabney 



Owner 



Builder 



Wm. Fife, Jr.. 

 Wm. Fife, Jr.. 



R. Steuler 



Ph. Ellsworth. 



R. Steuler 



Wm. Gardner. 

 Wm. Gardner. 



Owner 



J. Borden . . 

 J. Borden . . 

 J. Borden.. 



Owner 



M. Jarvis . . . 



Owner 



Builder 



Owuer 



Owner 



Owner 



N. Compton 

 N. Compton 



Builder 



Builder 



Builder 



Builder's 



Builders 



Owner 



D. J. Lavvlor 



Owner . 



Builder 



Aaron Brown.. 



Builder 



Owner 



Owner 



F. T. Wood. . 



Owners 



NG Herreshoff 



Builder 



Owner 



Builder 



Builder 



Builder 



Builder 



Builder 



Builder 



Lawley & Son. 



Thos. Webber 



Thos. Webber 



Matthew Turner. . . 



Big. 



C.B. 



or 

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Material. 



J. M. Gillespie... 

 Alex, Cuthbeit., 



H. C. Wintringham. 



J. H. Dyer 



Lawley & Son 



J. P. Smith 



J. Hartung 



W. B. Smith.. 

 Wood Bros . . . 



Robertson & Son 



Robertson & Son 



Owner 



Thos. Dalton 



Owner 



Owner 



H. C. Wintringham. 

 H. C. Wintringham. 

 H. O. Wintringham. 

 Wallin & Gorman. . . 

 •Wall in & Gorman.. . 

 W. B. Smith 



Geo. Wheeler 



Thos. Irving 



Higgins & Gifford.. 



W. B. Dinsmore 



Owner 



Thomas Green 



Owner 



Herreshoff Mfg. Co 



Harry Hutchins 



Owner ., 



C. J. Hanley 



F. J. Dunn 



F. J. Dunn, 



F. J. Dunn 



F. J. Dunn 



E. L. Williams 



H. W. Bumpus 



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S'th Boston 

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 S'th Boston 

 S'th Boston 

 City Island.. 

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 S'th Boston 

 S'th Boston 

 E. Boston. 

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N. Rochelle 

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Bronx Riv- 

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Bay Ridge. 

 Portland. 

 Nyack. 

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 Newark. 



City Point. 

 E. Boston. 



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 Bay Ridge. 

 Bay Ridge. 

 City Point. 

 Lynn. 

 Gloucester. 

 Gloucester. 

 Gloucester. 

 City Point. 

 City Point. 

 Boston. 

 Fall River. 

 Fall River. 

 Bristol. 

 City Point. 

 Mon, Beach 

 Mon. Beach 

 Mon. Beach 

 Mon. Beach 

 Mon. Beach 

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STEAM. 



Fred'k Gallatin, 

 H.M Flagler..., 



J. Lorillard 



R. V. Pierce 



C. H. Booth 



E, N. Fulton 



J. F. Satt a w . . . . . 

 Wm.Rockefeller 

 Chas. Merrill... 

 A. H. Davenport 



D. A Loring 



W. M. Singerly. 

 C. W. Bray...,. 

 Edwin Morey, . . 



Builders 



Builders ... 



Owner 



H. J. Gielow... 



J.Beavor Webb 

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Builders 



J. Borden 



J. Borden 



Builder 



Builder 



J. H. Dyer 



Builders 



Harlan & Holl'worth 

 Harlan & Holl'worth 



Samuel Pine 



H. C. Wintringham. 



G. T. Polk 



J. P. Smith 



Herreshoff M. Co.... 



T. Canevin 



Gas En. & Power Co 



Wm. Pryor 



Wood Bros 



D. J. Lawlor 



Seaburv & Co 



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O. C, Harrington 



Lawley & Son 



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Wilmingt'n 

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 Chicago. 

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 Chelsea. 

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