Nov. 6, 1890.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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BODY TO OUTSIDE OF PLANKING, . 



A CHEAP TENDER. 



A CHEAP TENDER. 



SKIFF building is an art that has received too little attention. 

 Anything is considered good enough for a skiff, yet for small 

 yachts the skiff is better adapted than a round bottom yawl. Stiff- 

 ness, buoyancy, lightness, roominess and low cost are all in favor 

 of the skiff. A simple and commendable method of construction 

 is shown in the illustration. The shape of the boat will be under- 

 stood from the body plan, which is to outside of plank. The 

 frame can be got bv deducting the thickness of sides and bottom 

 from the sections of the body plan, or they can be got by taking 

 the >i»««e width across bottom and top on the half breadth plan. 



The txample in question measures 8ft. 6in. over all, 3ft beam 

 across the top, and 2ft. 4in. across the bottom. The depth amid- 

 ships is llin., at stem 15in. The stern board or transom is 2ft. 6in 

 across top, 2ft. across bottom, and llin. wide, including the crown 

 She will carry two hands on a draft of Sin. To put up the boat 

 proceed as folio ,vs: Get from the mill one 3£ln. board of white 

 pine, 18ft. long. Have it run through a planer to %in. A similar 

 board 14 to 16m. wide for the siding, and some Min. oak for stern, 

 cleats, and frames. Also a piece of 3j^in. oak or hackmatack for 

 the stem. Saw the bottom board across in half. Lav the two 

 pieces on the floor alongside one another, and with chalk sketch 

 out the shape of the bottom and trim off to the line. Lay the two 

 pieces on the building stocks. Hold them there by a strut from 

 the shop beam above and block up the ends of the boat's bottom 

 to the required camber. Get out the stem with rabbet and screw 

 it in place. Cut out the cross floors of lx3in. stuff and slot their 

 ends to receive the heel tennon of the timbers. Cat the latter out 

 of straight grain stuff to the shape of a stout, knee as shown in 

 the diagrams, leaving a tenon projecting. Drive the tenous 

 into the slots of tiie cross floors and piu them with a round na'l. 

 Also screw the heels down to the floors. When the four sets of 

 frames have thus been put together, with the proper flare, place 

 them m position on the bottom boards and screw them fast from 

 underneath. Bevel off the frames with a spokeshave to receive 

 the side plank. Put the latter in place temporarily, holding it to 

 the frames and stem by clamps. Mark off proper shape of the 

 sheer and the rocker of the bottom and trim off to those lines 

 Remember that the sides overlap the bottom as shown in the 

 ctoss section of the boat. The bottom boards must therefore be 

 beveled around the edges with a plane to suit. Screw the side 

 boards in place to the stem, the frames and »long the bottom 

 spacing the small brass screws about 2J4in. apart so as to make a 

 watertight job. Cut out the stern board, and screw it in aft be- 

 tween the sides and on top of the bottom boards, and also knee it 

 to the sides at the sheer. Fit an oak breasthook in the, eyes for- 

 ward. The boat is now ready for the fittings. Run a light in wale 

 around the heads of the frames to stiffen the gunwale and nail a 

 chafing batten round outside at sheer height. Screw cleats to the 

 frames and side to receive the thwarts, which, when screwed 

 down, serve to tie the boat together. Fit a center knee to the 

 transom and lay some foot boards across the floors. Also screw 

 down a suitable oak block bored for the swivel rowlocks. Now 

 turn the whole boat over and screw a strip of oak, 3xi£iu., fore 

 and aft over the center seam of the bottom, and nail on what skag 

 you. wish aft over that. Bore the stem head for a painter and 

 putty where needed. Then varnish or paint, depicting the vacht's 

 burgee on each bow. The material, oars and rowlocks, will cost 

 and three days and a half labor $9 more. 



A NEW IDEA IN BOILERS.-We copy the following verbatim 

 from the Marine Journal; the Belleville boiler has been reco^- 



itr . 13 u " uul "B a smmuu auxiliary yacnt l^ott. long 



on the wateriine. She will have two Belleville tubular boilers with 

 steel centerboards, schooner rigged, and will develop a new idea 

 m her cockpit being constructed so as to form a lifeboat in case 

 of disaster to the ship. She is intended for cruising in West In- 

 dian waters." 



ANOTHER "MAGIC'-We learn that Mr. Gabriel Deneher, of 

 Gagetown, N. B., last spring built from the lines of the Magic, in 

 the Fohbst and Stream of Jan. 16, 1890, rigging the boat as a 

 sloop. She has proved fast, and very well adapted for the waters 

 she is used on. 



THE CORINTHIAN SWEEPSTAKES OF1891.-The Corinthian 

 i. C., of New \ork, has issued the following programme of its 

 yearly sweepstake race for next year: 1. Open to boats exceeding 

 40 and not exceeding 60ft. sailing length, to be divided into two 

 classes. Class A including all boats over 50 and not over 60ft. 

 sailing length, and class B including all boats over 40 and not over 

 oOft. sailing length. Measurement and time allowance as per by- 

 laws of the club, copies of which will be furnished to boats mak- 

 ing entries. 2. Owners must furnish certificates of their sailing 

 length (under Corinthian Y. C. rule) by their respective club meas- 

 urers to the secretary of the club at least five days before the race, 

 teame will be accepted as final unless a remeasurement (bv the 

 measurer of the Corinthian Y. C.) be demanded by a competitor 

 in writing within twenty-four hours after the race. No boat not 

 furnishing such certificate will be timed. 3. Seventy per cent, of 

 the entry moneys m each class will be given in silver plate to the 

 winner in that class, and 20 per cent, of the entry moneys in each 

 class will be given in silver plate to the second in that class. The 

 re 3 1 ? a i nmK 10 per cent - of the entr y moneys of both classes will be 

 added to the prize given to the boat, of whichever class, which 

 makes the shortest corrected time over the course. 4. The race 

 will be sailed off Newport Harbor, R. I., as soon after the termin- 

 ation of the New York Y. C. cruise as can be conveniently arranged. 

 5. The course will be a triangle of twenty-five nautical miles, one 

 leg (if practicable the first) to be laid off dead to windward. 6. 

 Start and finish at Brenton's Reef Lightship. 7. The start will be 

 tlying— both clssses together and from the same signal. 8. No 

 time limit for race. 9. The sailing regulations of the Corinthian 

 \. C. of New- York m relation to management of races, etc., will 

 apply to and govern the race (except as modified by the special 

 conditions ot the sweestakes.) Enteries will close May 15, 1891, and 

 may be addressed to Sailing Committee, Corinthian Y. C. of New 

 York, care M. Roosevelt Schuyler, Secretary, 55 Beaver St. 



ST. LAWRENCE Y. C.-At a special meeting, on Oct. 24. all 

 the changes m the sailing regulations of this club, proposed in the 

 report ot its committee on classification, which was published in 

 our issue of Oct. 23, were carried, almost without dissent. The 

 only amendments to the proposed changes made by the meeting 

 was in regard to the class limits, the classes as adopted being: 

 Class A, 29ft. corrected length and over; 29ft. class, over 24ft. and 

 not over 29ft. corrected length; 24ft. class, over 21ft. and not over 

 24ft. corrected length; 21ft. class, over 18ft. and not over 21ft. cor- 

 rect ed length; 18ft. claes, under 18ft. corrected length. The ar- 

 rangement of toe boats iu the club fleet will be such as to make 

 good racing between existing boats in the three large classes, and 

 already the prospects are that a number of new boats will be 

 built for the two small classes, particularly for the 18ft. class. 

 1 he club has now secured comfortable winter quarters in Mon- 

 treal, it will hold monthly meetings during the winter, and the 

 interest in the cluo and in the sport is increasing so fast as to 

 promise well for its future. The club's new address is 236T St. 

 Catherine street, Montreal. 



CATARINA— The wrecking company succeeded in raising the 

 steam yacht Catanna, wrecked on Matinnicock Point; she was 

 towed to this city by the tugboat Rescue. A report was current 

 last week to the effect that the steam yacht Corsair. Mr. J. Pier- 

 pont Morgan, was also ashore on Shinnicook Point, but it was 

 entirely false, the yacht being safely laid up at Tebo's. 



LADY EVELYN, schr.. Sir Roderick Cameron, has been in 

 iSritish and Mediterranean waters for some months. On Oct 1" 

 she left Cowes for New York, calling at Plymouth the following 

 day, but sailing immediately. 



rVERNA.— Like all of tbe Jameson racers, Iverna has been 

 hauled up and her copper stripped for the winter. She will be 

 planed off and newly coppered under Capt. O'Neill's care in the 

 spring. 



SEAWANHAKA C. Y. C.-The fifth regular meeting of the 

 Seawanhaka Corinthiau Y. C. will be held at the club house 

 on Saturday evening, Nov. 8, at 8:30 o'clock, punctually. 



NYMPH.-Mr. F. W. Flint's 40-footer has been sold to go to 

 Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic. Mr. Flint will build a 65ft. 

 Burgess schooner, similar to Quickstep. 



YACHT DESIGNING.— The New York Herald of Nov. 2 pub- 

 lishes a long and very interesting article on this subject by Mr. 

 A. Gary Smith. ' 



THE WRECK OF THE NYANZA.— The cruise of the schooner 

 yacht Nyanza around the world, whose progress we have before 

 noted, has been brought to an abrupt termination, as told in the 

 following extract from the Meld. The yacht was about 100ft. 1. w.l., 

 21ft. bin. beam, and lift. 8in. hold. "A telegram was received in 

 London last week, stating that Capt. Dewar's cruise on board the 

 Nyanza had been brought to an abrupt termination bv the wreck 

 of the yacht at Ponapi, a small island of the Caroline group. The 

 crew and passengers appear to have heen transferred to Manilla, 

 about 1800 miles distant, and where ther6 is a telegraph cable via 

 Hong Kong to London. Capt. Dewar stayed by the wreck some time 

 longer to look after the interests of the underwriters, and event- 

 ually disposed of her for £140, and went on to Manilla himself, 

 wbere he arrived on Thursday. This fine schooner was one of the 

 composite vessels built by Steele and Co., for Greenock, and must 

 have had a rare hammering to have become a total wreck. She 

 was built in 186 ( , for the late Earl of Wilton, Commodore of the 

 ^Slf t acht Squadron, and sailed a match in 1868 round the Isle 

 °t ^% ht ' ^der the fla g of that club, in half a gale of wind; but 

 she did not distinguish herself against the racing fleet, which on 

 that particular occasion was represented by the Cambria, Aliue 

 L,u ii a ' Egeria ane Pantomine. They all got a rare doing beating 

 up the back of the Isle of Wight between Dunnose and St. Cath- 

 erine s, and the Cambria would probably have been the winner 

 had she not carried away the jaws of her main-gaff, and subse- 

 quently her bobstay. As it was, the Lufra, belonging to Lord 

 Strafford, finished first, but lost the prize by time to Sir Richard 

 Sutton's Aline. The Nyanza was beaten nearly half an hour by 

 the Lufra, but for a 'cruiser' this was anything but a bad per- 

 formance, although it rather staggered those yachtsmen who had 

 contended— as they had many times before, and since— that, given 

 half a gale of wind and an open sea for a trial to windward, the 

 cruiser would beat the over-sparred and lead- ballasted racer into 

 the proverbial cocked hat." 



THE PEQUOTS— New York, Nov. 3.-The annual business 

 meeting and banquet of the Pequot Yacht and Canoe Association 

 was held at Heublem's cafe. New Haven, Nov. 1. Officers for the 

 ensuing year were elected as follows: Com., F. P. Lewis, New 

 Haven; Vice-Corn., W. M. Chase. New Haven: Rear-Corn.. Dr. W 

 S. Putney, Milford, Conn.; Sec'y-Treas., W. W. Cornwall, New 

 Haven; Fleet Capt., Neil R. Mitchell, Westport; Fleet Surg., Dr 

 &A Fo . rd ' Ne , w York; Chaplain, Rev. A.N. Lewis, New Haven. 

 The business done besides the election of officers was reports of 

 committees, discussion of location of 1891 meet and cruise, etc. 

 The report of secretary shows a healthy growth and good pros- 

 pects for the coming year. 



AN ACCIDENT IN HELL GATE.— On Nov. 2 as the sloop yacht 

 Tyrant, of New York, was coming west through Hell Gate on her 

 return from a gunning trip on the Sound, she grounded in trying 

 to avoid a passing vessel. Her crew of six, Capt. Brown, Fred 

 Spencer, H. H. Bowen, Sidney Smith, F. J. Staub and August 

 Martin, at once jumped into the yawl, which was carried by the 

 tide against the yacht's side and capsized. Bowen was picked 

 up by a rowboat and Spencf r, Martin and Brown by another vacht, 

 but Strauband Smith were drowned. The yacht was hardly in- 

 jured, being towed off later in the day, and had all hands remained 

 by her they would have been dry and safe. 



A BASE SLANDER.— T. W. H.-An owner who commands his 

 own yacht does not wear bright brass buttons and a gold band on 

 his cap; but some wear the club button and club badge. In Amer- 

 ica the owner of a yacht is styled "Captain,'' and most of them 

 wear bright buttons bearing the club device, also gilt badges on 

 the cap.— Answers to Correspondents, in the Field. 



CORONET, schr., with Com. A. E. Bateman and family on 

 board, arrived at St. Augustine, Fla., on Nov. 3. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



EDrroHiALS and Otheb WArj?s.-By L. Fidelia Wooley Gil- 

 lette. New v 0 rk: Fowler Wells Co. 



Human Magnetism. By H. S. Drayton, M, D. New York: 

 Fowler Wells Co. 



Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor, State of 

 New York, l'or 1889. Transmitted to the Legislature March 3. 1890. 



