June 19, 1890.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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BUFFALO Y. C. PENNANT RACE. JUNE 7. 



THE first pennant race of the Buffalo Y. C. was sailed on the 

 afternoon of June 7. The original course was to be five miles 

 1o windward and return, but as the first leg would be down wind, 

 and the yachts would outrun the launch in the heavv sea, it was 

 decided to make the course from the club house to the Govern- 

 ment breakwall, going twice around the breakwall and back, 

 making about a six-mile race. Tbe wind was blowing fresh from 

 the northwest, with a heavy sea. 



The Buffalo Y. C. classifies tbe yachts by their sailing length, 

 and the sailing length of a yacht is the square root of the sail 

 area alone. The sail area is measured according to the rule 

 adopted by the Lake Y. R. A. Time allowance is computed on 

 the. sailing length according to Herresboff's table of allowances, 

 this rule is found to work admirably in the fleet, comprising as it 

 does so many different types of boate, canoe yawls, sharpies, cut- 

 ters and skimming dishes, which no svstemof waterlino measure- 

 ment can harmonize. 



The starters were Alcyone, Charles Forbush; Louise, F. \V. 

 ow?™ 1 ?^ Eanny, F.,Jaines Thompson. The start was made at 

 3:30 P. M. The times were: 



.. Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 



-Alcyone 3 31 00 5 10 15 1 39 15 1 24 48 



Louise... 3 31 30 5 14 10 1 43 45 1 25 57 



* a uny * 3 30 30 5 14 45 1 43 40 1 27 39 



Louise showed very marked improvement in her sailing over 

 last year. Considerable change was made in her during the win- 

 ter; her ballast was lowered Sin. on the keel and shortened fore 

 and aft. The center of effort of her rig was also carried aft, and 

 her eail plan cut down. 



A 



BAD CONSTRUCTION. 



VERY striking example of how not to build yachts has lately 

 £7* c ™l e , uncier our notice, the case being aggravated by the 

 tact that tbe yacht m question is a modern craft; in fact, only 

 launched m 18SS-. The yacht is a cruiser of moderate size, and has 

 considerable rj isplacement and a very heavy lead keel. 6wfng to 

 some leakage she was lately docked, when it was found that the 

 lead keel had dropped some distance from the wood. To remedy 

 this a number of dovetail plates of iron were let into the wood 

 Keel and garooards on the one hand and the lead keel on the other 

 each pair of plates being through-bolted with iron. When the 

 yacht was set afloat the result was to pull the garboards and sides 

 ot mam keel down, making her worse than before. She was again 

 hauled up and thoroughly examined, when it was discovered that 

 in the brat place her ke*>l bolts, of IMin. copper, were few in num- 

 ber and with very small heads, in addition to which the whole 

 keel construction was weak and insufficient. The main keel is 

 very -wide, but of little depth, beside which it is built up of three 

 pieces, a centerpiece and two sides. The frames have but little 

 hold on the keel, while the iron floors are entirely too light there 

 being but little to tie the heavy lead keel to the hull proper The 

 tore chock, at the fore end of the lead, was built up of small nieces 

 of all sorts, shims, wedges and thin boards being used to make up 

 the required shape. It was found necessary to put, in Sin haek- 

 matac knees, two on each frame, with a 'heavy oak keelson, 

 through which the new keel bolts will run. The new knees -ire 

 fastened with screw bolts to the futtocks and are well bolted to 

 the main keel, thus stiffening the latter and at the same "lime 

 uniting it strongly to the frames; while the keelson distributes 

 the weight of the lead evenly. The fore and after chocks will be 

 replaced witn solid timber, and much additional work will be 

 necessary before the yacht is fit for use. In order to bore for the 

 bolts it has been necessary to remove the mast and to take out 

 noors, cut out water tanks and tear the whole interior of the 

 yacht to pieces. 



There may be some excuse for light construction in the case of 

 racing craft winch are not intended for cruising, but there can be 

 no justification tor such flimsy work as this, and especially in a 

 T^%V2 w 1 16 aslarge as many that go safely to Florida 



w a J n ?> eSt ' XS S i' , a,)d °! a ty ? e that should be suitable for 

 just such work; but it would be embarrassing, to say the least, to 

 have the keeldrop out when off Hatteras. With the weights of 

 lead now carried, the nature of the floor construction and the size 

 and quality of the keel bolts may he matters of life and death. It 

 might not be a bad idea for some of the owners of yachts with 

 heavy lead keels, that have been built for eight or nine years to 

 have one or two bolts backed out and tested in order to ascertain 

 whether the metal has in any way deteriorated. 



a good distribution of parts and plenty of fastenings there is no 

 question of her strength. The fastenings are of copper and yellow 

 metal throughout, iron being used only in the fastenings of the 

 steel doors to the keel and frames. The deck fittings and details 

 are very convenient and complete. Mr. Wintringham has taken 

 especial pains with all parts of the work, and the result is one of 

 the best constructed yachts that has yet been set afloat about 

 New York or Boston. The metal work of the deck and spars, 

 which is all of steel, is particularly good. 



As the vacht in racing trim will draw over 2ft. more than the 

 depth of the canals, and it is impossible to lighten her owing to 

 the great weight on her keel, a pair of pontoons, calculated to 

 displace about eight tons, have been built on each side of her 

 being connected by heavy beams beneath the keel. Each pon- 

 toon is provided with a separate rudder, in addition to the yacht's. 

 She was launched with these pontoons in place, and when com- 

 pleted her spars will be lashed on deck and she will be placed in 

 one of the large tows for Albany. She will be fitted out as rapidly 

 as possible on her arrival at Oswego, in order to be in trim by the 

 time of the Lake round in August. 



ATLANTIC Y. C. ANNUAL, JUNE 17. 



THE annual regatta of the Atlantic Y. C. was sailed on Tues- 

 day in a moderate southeast wind, making a beat out to the 

 lightship and a run in. The full times were as follows: 

 CLASS 2. 



„ Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Katrlna. 10 39 23 3 57 31 5 18 08 Notm. 



bhamrock 10 39 43 3 57 24 5 17 41 Notm. 



CLASS 4. 



Anaconda 10 42 33 3 40 32 



Clara 10 42 02 3 42 00 



CLASS 5. 



Nepenthe 10 41 05 4 IS 00 



Stella 10 45 00 Not timed. 



CLAS9 6. 



Minerva 10 1 3 30 3 18 03 



Choctaw 10 44 35 3 22 35 



Chispa 10 +1 42 3 15 11 



4 57 59 

 4 59 58 



i 30 27 

 4 38 00 

 4 33 29 



YAMA. 



THE new cutter Yama, building for Mr. Allan Ames, of Oswego 

 N. Y , was launched on June IS at Wintringham's yard. Bay 

 Ridge, and will leave this week on her long voyage by the Hudson 

 Elver and the Brie and Oswego canals for Lake Ontario. Yama 

 was designed by Mr Will Fife, Jr.. and is one of the first boats 

 built for the .classification by corrected length now used by the 

 Lake Yacht Racing Association. This classification is really no 

 new thing on the lake, having been in use since 18S4, but it is only 

 since the active discussion of the measurement question within 

 the past year that yachtsmen have awakened to the fact that 

 length might be taken at the expense of sail, and also that this 

 could be done with good results. There has been but little build- 

 ing on Lake Ontario, the addition to the fleet being mainly impor- 

 tations from the Atlantic coast or from England, and when new 

 yaelHs have been built for its races, as in the case of Merle in 

 188 1, the designer followed the conventional model that has been 



Eurybia 10 40 41 



Polly 10 43 23 



Hypatia 10 42 28 



Tolusia 10 44 24 



Aglaia 10 45 00 



Shona 10 44 42 



CLASS 7. 



Not timed. 

 3 37 14 4 53 51 



3 35 48 

 3 42 10 

 3 57 34 

 3 36 43 



„ CLASS 8. 



Kathleen 10 43 30 2 23 10 



Pelican 10 45 00 



4 53 20 



4 57 46 



5 12 34 

 4 52 00 



3 39 40 



Did not finish. 



_ CLASS 9. 



Frolic 10 45 00 2 50 50 



Monette 10 45 00 3 10 50 



4 05 50 

 4 25 50 



i 57 £ 

 4 54 ; 



4 28 41 

 4 37 40 

 4 33 29 



4 53 51 

 4 5 2 53 



4 53 46 



5 10 27 

 Not m. 



3 39 40 



4 0i5 50 

 4 18 07 



_ CLASS 10. 



I/Jou 10 1 41 53 2 35 05 3 53 12 Not meas. 



Sirene... 10 43 00 2 44 10 4 01 10 Not meas. 



The winners were Shamrock, Clara, Nepenthe. Chispa. Shona, 

 Kathleen, fcrolic and Bijou. Minerva finished well ahead of her 

 class, beating ChiHpa by nearly 5 minutes, but passed on the wrong 

 side of a channel buoy, and was consequently disqualified. A full 

 report of this race, together with several others, is postponed 

 until next week. The regatta of the Corinthian Y. C. of New 

 York was sailed on Wednesday. 



with a little difference in the detail of measuring. 



Yama is to all intents and purposes a reduced Minerva, differ- 

 ing from the latter only in being a trifle narrower, in showing 

 somewhat less bilge and in a little less forefoot, at least these are 

 the points of difference which strike the observer who sees them 

 practically side by side, as when Minerva was hauled out latelv 

 at Wintringham's The sheer, the freeboard and the peculiar 

 contour of tbe keel are the same as Minerva, and when afloat the 

 only difference in the appearance of the two will he in color 

 Minerva being black and 1 ama white. The rake of the stern post 

 is the same, about 40°, the lead running aft to the heel of post 

 The shape of the lead keel is such as to get every pound as low as 

 the contour of the sheer plan will admit, wasting nothing in a 

 thin fin. The lead is fastened to the hull by ltoin yellow met^ 

 tervals oTlft 1S ' n *' ^ alS ° ^ diagonal bolts 0( waller size at in- 

 The Btem, keel and sternpost are of oak, the frames are. double- 

 sawn, spaced bft. apart, with two steamed oak frames between 

 On each sawn frame is a strong angle iron knee, with a strau 

 knee on each bent frame. The clamps and bilge eiamps are vet- 

 low pine, the deck beams of oak and hackmatack, the plankton 

 of oak on the bottom and yellow pine on the topsides, with mt- 

 hogany plaiiKshee.r and bulwarks. The deck fittings are all of 

 mahogany, the rail of oak. The transom is very neatly worked 

 &.HJ^JS2%^& Thedecksare of white 



SOUTHERN Y C. ANNUAL, June 3.-The annual regatta of 

 the Southern Y. C. of New Orleans was sailed on June 3 in a 

 strong S.E. breeze, three rounds of the regular 5 mile triangle 

 The entries were: ** 



CRUISING SLOOPS— WORKING RIO, 



Sailing Length. Sailing Master. 



Minnie 27.00 Louis Martin. 



Zoe 31.00 W. A. Gordon. 



WORKING SCHOONERS. 



Elmer 36.00 J. Christian. 



Oracie Cermo 40.00 Jos. Cerino. 



Chasseur 51.00 Frank Maloche. 



Gerdes Bros 34.00 Martin Green. 



Dr. Franklin .56.00 j os . Laporte. 



CATBOATS. 



Minnie S 19.06 c. Speller 



C. E. Sarrazin 20.00 Fred Kopp. 



John 26.00 W. P. Coulon, 



Juanita 27.00 W.Gage. 



OPEN BOATS— WORKING RTGS. 



I^oel 19.11 Dan Burr. 



Gltana 19.11 Morrison Ray. 



The club prizes were a handsome trophv for the open boats S50 

 in cash for the working schooners, and $15 for the catboats. in 

 addition to which Mr. Lawrence Wirt presented a handsome 

 silver pitcher as a prize for the cruising sloops. The start was 

 timed; 



Juanita 2 06 53 Zoe 2 m % 



Minnie S 2 06 53 Minnie affi-S 



Elmer. 2 07 13 Agnes J U § 



Gerdes Bros 2 07 17 Dr. Franklin •> 13 ir, 



Oracle Cerino 2 07 33 Hope 3 16 35 



^ t. John 2 07 04 Isabel '.' ' 1 16 40 



C. E. Sarrizin 2 08 15 Chasseur 1 16 40 



Gitana 2 08 04 



The summary of the race is as follows: 



CRUISING SLOOPS— WORKING RIG, 



„. Elapsed. 



Zoe... 3 37 24 



Minnie 4 03 47 



le deck, with a geared head for chain, operated by a crank. The 

 of course steers with a tiller, there being a cockpit 5ft, long 

 y 2ft. 6>n wide tor the helmsman. The fore part of this cockpit 



the deck, will 

 yacht 



th^Zl \°\ z , ae neimsman. The fore part of this cockpit 

 forms the hatch to the sail locker. 



Below the yacht is very roomy and convenient; the main cabin 

 is amidships a room Bft long with 6ft. headroom under the lon° 

 skylight. At the forward end of the sofas are the usual sideboards 

 With lockers above, while at the after ends are long wardrobes for 

 clothing The floor space between lockers is 3ft., the lockers each 

 make a berth by night, and above them the shies are flni«ho,i „Tii. 



„, OPEN BOATS— WORKING RIG. 



Gitana 4 06 54 



■ a . _ . CATBOATS. 



St John 3 49 15 



Minnie S 4 07 15 



„ , „ WORKING SCHOONERS. 



Gerdes Bros 3 49 49 



Chasseur 3 44 gg 



Oracle Cerino . 4 02 50 



E lm er. V..'..8 57 40 



Dr. Franklin 4 08 i 



Corrected. 

 3 37 24 

 3 59 39 



BROOKLYN Y C, ANNUAL REGATTA, JUNE U.-The an- 

 nual regatta of the Brooklyn Y, C, on Saturday, was partly 

 spoiled by rain and fog, but with the aid of a southeast breeze a 

 very good race was finally sailed, the times being- 



Mabel 



Grimalkin 



Alma 



Gertrude 



Grace., 



Start. 

 .. .,12 50 10 

 ....12 51 00 

 . ...12 48 25 

 ....12 51 00 

 ! 50 20 



Carrie 12 48 50 



Finish. 

 3 29 25 

 3 07 30 

 3 09 20 

 3 08 10 

 3 31 50 

 3 02 10 



_ , CLASS C. 



Homing 12 47 45 3 09 25 



Manhattan 12 49 05 3 06 30 



Panchito 12 51 00 4. 25 10 



Siren 12 49 20 3 59 01 



Bijou 



Elapsed. 

 2 39 15 

 2 16 30 

 2 20 55 

 2 17 10 

 2 41 30 

 2 11 20 



2 31 40 



2 15 25 



3 Si 10 

 3 09 11 



3 03 05 



Emmie. . 

 Isolde.... 



CLASS IS. 



12 35 00 3 24 45 



12 50 50 



Did not finish. 



_ CLASS F. 



Faustina 12 51 00 3 09 30 



Alice 12 51 00 3 24 10 



CLASS L 

 13 39 00 3 13 30 



Iroquois 



Vida 13 41 00 



Irene 13 38 50 



Ninon 13 41 00 



Seminole 12 39 40 



2 18 3) 



3 33 10 



2 33 30 

 2 47 15 



Did not finish. 

 Did not, finish . 

 Did not finish. 



Corrected, 

 2 35 20 

 2 .14 40 

 2 20 12 

 2 15 50 

 2 37 45 

 2 09 53 



2 19 10 



2 14 45 



3 33 20 

 3 06 41 



3 03 05 



2 19 24 

 2 32 17 



2 37 3fi 

 2 46 45 



4 10 25 

 4 24 00 



3 55 50 



CLASS 2. 



Killdeo 13 41 00 5 04 10 4 23 10 



Mull 13 40 00 5 04 00 4 24 00 



CLASS 4. 



White Wings 12 41 00 4 36 50 3 55 50 



Mabel belonged in class A, but being the only starter in that 

 class, she sailed in class B. Mull having no competitor in her 

 class, went up into class 2. White Wings had a saiiover The 

 judges were, Fleet Captain Willis Holly, W. A. Taylor and A 8 

 Richshoffer. The steamer Crystal .stream carried the members 

 and guests. 



MONTGOMERY SAILING CLUB.-Fourth regatta, June I 

 Course, Mornstown to Indian Creek and return, distance 5 miles 

 wind strong westerly; 



Length. Start. Finish. Corrected. 



Stranger, sharpie 15.00 1 40 00 3 02 00 1 23 00 



Iola t ducker 15.00 1 30 00 3 05 30 1 25 30 



Igidious, tuckup 15.00 1 40 00 3 05 83 1 25 33 



Nellie, tuckup 15.00 1 40 00 3 05 36 1 25 36 



Lever, tuckup 15.00 1 40 00 3 07 45 1 27 45 



Vesuvius, tuckup 15.00 1 40 00 3 11 50 1 31 50 



Sadie, canoe 16.00 1 31 40 3 13 40 1 33 40 



Grade, skiff 13.00 1 30 00 Withdrew 



Lizzie B., tuckup 15.00 1 40 00 Withdrew 



J. S. Frith, tuckup 15.00 1 0 00 Withdrew 



Pennsylvania, hiker. .. .16.00 1 46 20 Withdrew. 



It was a beat dead to windward two and one half miles in short 

 tacks, and a home run. The wind was very heavy at time= mak- 

 ing lively work for the tuckup crews. The sharpie, wit A com- 

 paratively flat bottom and almost square bilge, stood up like a 

 house, and aa the water was not very rough, she walked right' 

 away from her class.— E. A. Leopold, Sec'y. 



MINERVA AND GOSSOON.-The Boston Herald compares the 

 two yachts as follows: "The details of the design of the hulls of 

 the 40-tootera Minerva and Gossoon have been published in the 

 Herald, and a comparison of the sail and spar plans will be found 

 interesting. The Gossoon will be equipped with Scotch wire rig- 

 ging imported expressly for her, having been made by the same 

 T irm Which furnished the rigging for the Minerva, 'Alice' and 

 Helen. The running wire rigging is fete,, while, the standing rig- 

 ging is %m., being an Mm. all over less than the Minerva, and con- 

 seqnently weighs less. Like Minerva, the Gossoon will have wire 

 halliards. The Gossoon, from deck to hounds, is nearly 5ft lon- 

 ger than the Minerva, the topmasts of each boat measuring the 



3 49 15 

 3 57 46 



3 34 58 

 3 42 14 

 3 54 27 

 3 46 02 

 4 



Zoe, the winner, is an old racer, being over 21 vears of age The 

 regatta was a great success, the short course affording an excel- 

 lent view of the race to the many spectators. 



NEW JERSEY Y. C. ANNUAL REGATTA.-The annual re- 

 gatta of the New Jersey Y. O. was sailed on June 12 over the regu- 

 lar courses, the wind being fresh S E. But ten yachts entered, 



Corrected. 

 2 15 11 

 2 18 41 

 2 12 48J6 



2 23 03 

 2 32 SOU 



2 29 m$ 



2 22 46 



Sft-7,=TT "rrur °y. CU8b -ions and solas of rich dark green 



plush. The companion gives access to the cabin direct, and on 

 tneuort side of the ladder is the entrance to a very good ladle* 

 cabin, 6tt.3in long and with full headroom under the skylight 

 .This room is finished m white pine, painted white, there bein« •the 

 conventional arrangement of a bed on each side, withlocklr in 

 front, the wash basin being at the after end. A door here gives 

 convenient access to the sail locker in racing. 

 At tne forward end of the main cabin a door to siarboard opens 



JS&^ifnf ??° my w le l room ' w i th w - c> and wasl1 basin ' occu- 

 pying half of the yacht, the port Mde being taken up by a na«- 



Sf£if t0 t + ore ? aa i le al1 /} °y (he Pantry and icebox. The. forecastle 

 i^ f f2 rt H? a8 tr °™ t u e ?3 a8L forward, and will have hammock 

 cots for three men, besides the galley. It opens on deck bv a 

 ^« a n^ b !, nff , ed ^ at 5 h n r| > sal| s were made by Lapthorne & Rat- 

 ,*ey. and include a full racing outfit. The rigging and blocks wore 

 also sent out from the other side. The scantling of the ylcbt is 

 amte light, hut only the best materials have been u B ed, and with 



the full times being: 



CLASS B— SLOOPS 26 TO 31 FT. 



„. Start. Finish. Elapsed. 



Charm 11 20 31 1 35 43 2 15 11 



Eagle Wing 11 19 28 1 39 09 2 19 41 



Growler 11 18 55 1 34 21 2 15 26 



m , CLASS C-OPEN SLOOPS 26FT. AND UNDER. 



ThD1-n 11 19 32 1 42 35 2 33 03 



Anonymous 11 21 25 1 56 23 2 34 5H 



Minnie 11 21 49 1 53 19 3 31 80 



_ n CLASS D — CATBOATS 21PT. AND OVER. 



Henry Gray 11 20 14 1 43 00 2 22 46 



Vivid 11 19 24 Did not finish. 



r , , CLASS E — CAT BOATS ISPT. AND UNDER, 



.Sunbeam n 27 00 Did not finish. 



Eddie 11 19 40 1 49 31 2 29 51 2 29 51 



The winners are: Class B Growler, Class C Thorn, Class D 

 Henry Gray, and Class E Eddie. The judges were Com. A. J. 

 Prime, of the Yonkers C Y. C, and Theophilus Butts and Geo. E. 

 Gartland, of the New Jersey Y. C. The regatta, committee in- 

 cluded V ice-Corn. John Ortlieb, Richard C. Creten and Gilbert S 

 .Brown. 



MONATIQUOT Y C, JUNE 10,-The first regatta of the season, 

 on Wednesday of last week, was but a drift, there being no wind 

 all the afternoon. The starters were: Moondyne, cat, 24ft 10 in. 

 A. J. tehaw; White Fawn, sloop, 25ft. lin., J. P. Holbrook; Monte- 

 zuma, sloop, 22ft. 4in., A. P. Worthen; Posy, sloop, 22ft. 3m., R. S 

 Hunt &bou; Erin sloop, 26ft. llin., John Cavanagh; Diadem, jib 

 and mainsail, 18ft. 21 n., L. A. Hay ward; Breeze, cat, lbft,, E. Whit- 

 marsh, ihe course was down the river, round Quincy brush buov 

 and return, 4J4 miles, to be covered within 3 hours. The onlv 

 boats that finished were White Fawn, lh. 30s.; Posy, lb. 2m. 30s> 

 Diadem ih. 20m. 20s. The judges were E. T. Jordan. N. F. Hunt, 

 if" Oardiner and D. Smith. A chowder was served after the race, 

 tne rest of the evening being spent at the club house. 



■ v •-• l-'i-"'",^ " woo *u«u ouo vukiuuu », uuu me latier's- oemg 

 hollow ij much lighter- a great advantage. To offset this, the 

 lackyard and topsail poles of the Minerva are shorter and weigh 

 less. Tbe height of 'he perpendicular for raeinglength is cln« e on 

 to 4ft. more on the Oosson. By the above it will be seen that the 

 latest Burgess 40 has comparatively a short topmast and long 

 mainmast, the length of the Minerva's topmast aod mainmast 

 being more equal. The most noticeable thing about both boats is 

 the stepping of their masts. The distance of Minerva's mast 

 from the foreside of the stem to the foreside of the mast at the 

 load line, is just 13ft.. and the Gossoon's is precisely the same, 

 On deck, from the toreside of the mast to the gammon iron ihe 

 distance on the (iossoon is 4in. longer, so that, practically the 

 masts are 111 the same position on both vachts, aud the foot of the 

 foresails are quite the same. From the gammon iron to the shoul- 

 der of the bowsprit of the Gossoon measures 2ft, more which 

 means more head sail. The boom of the Gossoon is hollo'w 48ft 

 long. 8m. in the slings, and is over 4ft. longer than the Minerva's' 

 Ibis would give the Gossoon nearly Oft. more on the base line 

 and a larger mainsail, as to the gaff, the Gossoon's is over "'ft' 

 longer than the Minerva's. Ry the above it will be seen that but 

 little advantage can be gained in the stepping of the masts The 

 Gossoon has a larger sail plan and also a larger spinnaker- tho 

 excess of the latter over the Minerva's she does not pay for as the 

 rule only taxes on each boat the excess of the spinnaker boom 

 over the length from the foreside of the mast to the point of con- 

 tract of the jibstay on the bowsprit. In down the wind work the 

 Oossoon has a great advantage m having a bigger spinnaker R&- 

 garding the diameter of the mast, the Gossoon's measures Min 

 more at partners than the Minerva's. With the advantage of 

 having a larger sail spread, the Gossoon will have more power 

 than any of the other Burgess forties. She has nearly 18 short 

 tons of lead on her keel now, and, judged by the way she floats 

 it will take at least three short tons more to settle her down 

 to her designed lines. All this, of course, is greatly in her favor 

 over the old forties, and it will tell in races and strong breeze' 

 The Gossoon has not so big a sail plan as the Mariquita, or Tom- 

 ahawk, but she has enough. She has what the Burgess forties of 

 last year lack-power to carry sail; and, added to this, better 

 lines, easier at the harpins, slacker bilge and easier form all over. 

 Be tore the season closes, and especially in moderate weather, the 

 Gossoon will lower Minerva's colors." 



ST. LAWRENCE Y C. SKIFF RACES.— The first of the St. 

 Lawrence Y. C.'s skift series races was sailed over the regular 

 club course, on the St. Lawrence, off Montreal, on June 7 in some- 

 thing approaching a northwest gale. There were five starters in 

 the first, and three in the second class match, and the boats went 

 across in the following order: First class, Freyja. W. J. Wallace: 

 Allie, R. M. Linton; Gallagher, C. Saunderson; Tara, A. G. Fry 

 and Vagabond, A. Reford. Second class, Zeta, A. R Holt; and 

 Dixie, B. B. Kenrick. All the boats but Freyja, which crossed the 

 Line a minute after the gun, were badly handicapped at the start 

 All the boats but Allie, which was under cruising canvas, were 

 reefed down. On the run out, Allie, an ISft. Gin. boat, did sur- 

 prisingly well, more than holding: Freyja. Her rudder broke after 

 rounding the south buoy, and she had to fall out of the race Vaga- 

 bond worked up through the fleet and took second place on the 

 windward work; but Freyja increased her lead on the run and 

 finished at oh. im„ 6m. 13s. before the second boat. Dixie finished 

 third and wins the first prize in the second class. Black Fly 

 which in spite of a bad start, sailed a very plucky race, was 

 second. Freyja is the very finest specimen of a 21ft.'canoe-vawl 

 that bail ve has yet turned out. She is 3ft. ll^in. wide, is fully 

 decked, having only a 7ft. cockpit with a pointed combing, and is 

 rigged ;as a yawl, with double halliard batswings sails. She has 

 a great deal of deadrise, her lines throughout being very easy, but, 

 is astonishingly stiff, as with he board up a man can stand on her 

 gunwale, and by holding on to her board he can onlv bring it ■ 

 down to the waterlme. The only trouble is that this year there is 

 nothing on her home waters to sail with her. 



A YACHT ADRIFT.— On June 8, near Wind Mill Point, on 

 Chesapeake Bay, the sloop Cygnet was found adrift by the work- 

 ing schooner Engefe, Capt. J. M. Meekins. From the log, she had 

 evidently been used by four students of Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, but how and why she was abandoned is stiU a mystery. 



JESSIE.— On June 11 the new steam yacht Jessie was launched 

 at the yard of J. M. Boyles & Sons, Port Jefferson, where she was 

 built tor C, . H. Murray, LarchmoutY. C. The Jessie is of wood, 

 78ft. over all, 66ft. l.w.l., 13ft. 4in. beam and 5ft. draft. 



WATERWITCH, schr., has been sold by James T. Blandford to 

 David Banks, of the New York Y. O. 



