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"West India Hurricanes and the Great March Blizzard. 11 ' By 

 Everett Hayden, U. S. Hydrographic Office. Large quarto, with 28 

 lithographic plates. Price $1. Contains full history of the great 

 storm of March, 1888, with practical information how to handle a 

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



THE "CAT-SLOOP" RAHNEE. 



THE yacht whose lines are here given is of special interest Just 

 now in connection with the gradual evolution of the sloop 

 from the cat rig about Cape Cod, as shown last year in Harbinger 

 and some other craft. 



The present boat is a step nearer to the sloop, but at the same 

 time has some of the distinguishing features of the catboat. She 

 was designed and built last winter by Messrs. Read, of Fall River, 

 builders of the sloop Mabel F. Swift and other yachts, being in- 

 tended for a somewhat similar purpose as the Newport catboats, 

 for day sailing and taking out pleasure parties. The dimensions 

 and elements are: 



Length, over all 34ft. 



L.W.L 27ft. 9%in. 



Beam extreme lift. 6J4in. 



Draft without board 3ft. 9in. 



Least freeboard 2ft. 



Displacement, long tons 7.85 



Ballast, iron, keel, long tons 80 



inside 2.00 



total 2.80 



Ratio of ballast to displacement 35 



Mainsail, luff 23ft. 6in. 



head 23ft. 



foot 36ft. 



area 873. 5sq. ft. 



Jib, luff 27ft. 



leech 26ft. Bin. 



foot 13ft. 



area 161sq. ft. 



Total area. l,034sq. ft. 



The frames are of steamed oak, 2xlMin., and the yellow pine 

 planking is 15#n. thick. The companion and cockpit are finished 

 m mahogany. The lOin. mast is stayed to steel channel plates, 

 lft. wide. The head room in cabin is 5ft. llin. The name Rahnee 

 signifies an Eastern queen, being the feminine form of Rajah. A 

 step has been provided for a mizen mast, so that the yawl rig 

 may be tried. The yacht is enrolled in the new Fall River Y. C. 

 "We are indebted for the drawings to Mr. Frank T. Wood, of Fall 

 River. 



COLUMBIA Y, C. FALL REGATTA, SEPT, 18. 



THE Columbia Y. C. finished the season with a stirring race on 

 Thursday last, in a squally N.W. wind, the course being to 

 Yonkers and back for all but Class K, these boats turning a mark 

 off Spuyten Duyvil. The times were: 



CLASS B— CABIN SLOOPS OVER 30FT. 



Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Mergus 11 19 08 2 53 10 2 05 52 2 05 52 



Emma and Alice 11 17 03 2 17 58 3 00 55 2 10 47 



Hazel 11 13 00 2 19 20 3 06 20 2 18 10 



GracieT 11 11 30 Did not finish. 



CLASS C— CABIN SLOOPS OVER 26 AND UNDER 30FT. 



Vixen 11 13 40 2 22 40 3 09 00 2 08 06 



Bertha 11 14 00 2 23 59 3 09 59 2 08 11 



Forsythe 11 14 13 2 22 30 3 08 17 2 13 23 



Brunhild e 11 14 47 2 33 53 3 19 06 2 22 18 



Sou tter Johnnie... ..11 14 11 2 36 58 3 22 47 2 22 27 



Annie R 11 15 40 2 39 49 3 24 05 2 25 01 



CLASS D— CABIN SLOOPS UNDER 26FT. 



Lurline 11 16 33 2 33 18 3 16 46 2 13 10 



ChriBtine 11 15 05 Did not finish. 



CLASS E -CABIN CATBOATS. 



Nina 11 16 30 2 19 45 3 03 11 2 09 33 



Guile , 11 11 25 3 00 06 3 48 41 2 43 54 



CLASS F— OPEN SLOOPS. 



Thorn 11 22 15 2 19 25 2 57 10 1 52 18 



J.A.Cameron 11 21 41 2 22 20 3 00.39 1 59 05 



CLASS I. 



Pauline B.... 11 23 25 2 22 21 2 58 56 1 49 04 



CLASS K— OPEN CATBOATS UNDER 21PT. 



Sisters H 21 50 1 25 45 2 03 55 1 15 31 



Dolphin .11 23 00 1 26 35 2 03 35 1 16 35 



C. T. Wills U 25 05 1 28 39 2 05 34 1 18 16 



Gauntlet ..11 23 35 Did not finish. 



In Class B Mergus wins, with Emma and Alice second. In Class 

 C Vixen wins, with Bertha second. In Class D Lurline wins. In 

 Glass E Nina wins, with Guile second. In Class F Thorn wins, 

 with John A. Cameron second. In Class I Pauline B. has a walk- 

 over and a prize. In Class K Sisters wins, with Dolphin second. 



BEVERLY Y. C, 169TH REGATTA, Third Buzzards Bay Cham- 

 pionship, Monument Beach.— Courses, first and second classes, 

 No 2, 11 miles; third class, No. 7, 8 miles; fourth class, No. 9, 5 

 miles. Strong S. W. double reef breeze. Summary: 



FIRST CLASS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 

 Mattie, Howard Stockton. 28.10 2 01 40 1 52 36 



SECOND CLASS. 



Mist, G. W. Lyman, Jr 26. 8 1 55 54 1 44 43 



Widgeon, M. Williams, Jr. ......... .26.10 1 56 18 1 45 18 



Anonyma, F. L. Dubney 26.10 I 58 05 1 47 05 



THIRD CLASS. 



Puzzle, Wm. Anory, Jr , ..22.09 1 46 39 1 35 01 



Parole W. H. Davis. 22.08 1 43 20 1 36 38 



Caysue, F. W. Sargent 22.09 1 48 37 1 36 59 



Eina, John Parkinson 22.10 1 49 40 1 38 08 



FOURTH CLASS. 



Rip, C. B. Jefferson 19.01 1 16 17 1 06 28 



Kitten, G. H. Richards .20.00 Disabled. 



Edith, Irving Chapman 19.04 Withdrew. 



First class, Mattie won; second class, Mist; third class, Puzzle 

 and Parole: fourth class, Rip. Mist and Rip win and hold pen- 

 nants. Judge, F. Elliot Cabot. 



DORCHESTER Y. C, SEPT. 20.— The third championship race 

 was sailed on Saturday in a reeflng breeze from northwest, the 

 times being: 



FIRST CLASS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Mudiekeewis, W. P. Whitmarsh ... .25.07 1 32 52 1 03 00 



Montezuma. G. E. Curry « 22.01 1 46 07 1 12 22 



Rival, W. S. Nickerson .... .26.05 1 44 56 1 15 53 



' Gilt Edge, D. L. Whittemore 1 44 31 . .i .. 



SECOND CLASS. 



Viento, C. B. Pear. 15 . 07 1 39 35 1 07 19 



Jackdaw, George Lewis 18.02 Withdrawn. 



SPECIAL CLASS. 



Scamp, Jr.. H. N. Nute 1 51 53 



Beatrice, J. F. Preston. 1 53 11 



Cowslip, J. W. Longstreet 1 53 2o 



Rose, F. W. Porter Disabled. 



Mudjekeewis lost her bowsprit, but won. Rose carried away 

 her mast. Viento takes second prize in the second class, Rocket 

 having previously won the cup. Beatrice, Rose and Scamp, Jr., 

 having each won a leg in the special cass, will sail-off for the cup. 

 The iudges were Hartfort Davenport, H. W. Smith, Walter S. 

 Fox. ' Regatta Committee: C. Edwin Bockus, Chairman; H. W 

 Burr, Sec'y; H. W. Smith, F. C. Blanchard, D. H. Mason. 



ATLANTIC Y. C— The Atlantic Y. C. is the first club to begin 

 the fall work of improving the racing rules, the following steps 

 being taken at a meeting on Sept. 15: To provide for establishing 

 a 25ft. racing class of cabin yachts; to appoint a committee to 

 submit desirable amendments to the constitution, by-laws and 

 racing rules; to take action with respect to extension of time for 

 filing lines of winners of prises in the annual regatta; to consider 

 matter of arranging the present classification, and racing rules 

 and regulations, so as to divide cruising and racing yachts, or to 

 reduce the number of classes; and to consider the matter of pro- 

 viding for actual measurements of sails, instead of the present 

 method for measuring sail area, for calculation of time allowance. 

 All of these are in the line of work begun by the club this spring, 

 and which it evidently intends to carry out most fully. The crea- 

 tion of the new racing class of 25ft. corrected length is one of the 

 most important steps that has been taken for some years by any 

 American club. 



SAVIN HILL Y. C— Only Florrie and Elsie started in the 

 third class championship, race on Saturday, Elsie parting her 

 alliard and giving up. Ona mora race will be sailed. 



