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FOREST AND STREAM, 



[Feb. 5, 1891c 



PEQUOT CANOE ASSOCIATION, 



THE Pequot 0. A., of New Haveu, has in hand a scheme for a 

 novel clu\) houae at Morris Covo, as follows; 

 The scheme, an entirely new and original one, both in style of 

 architecture of the buildings and pnrposes of the club, contem- 

 plates a main building witli a ground floor room of abnut 80 x 40ft„ 

 off from which at the left is a raised platform for music, speak- 

 ing, etc., and opposite this an old-fashioned fireplace, sufficiently 

 spacious to admit six foot logs. This main hall would have a 

 fine floor and be tastily finished in natural wood, after the style of 

 the new southern inns. Opposite the roadside entrance to the 

 main hall will be folding doors opening on to the broad piazzas, 

 which run along tbe front of the dormitories. These dormitories, 

 two in number, diverge from the main hiiilding on the right and 

 left, the ground plan appearing like the letter V. They are each 

 T2ft. long, two stories higti and face the water. They contain 

 eighteen rooms each and open upon the piazzas which front the 

 court or lawn leading to the beach. They are to be not less than 

 8Xl3ft. and 9ft. clear and hare a sash or panel door, also a rear 

 window. The galleries along the second story of the dormitory 

 wings are reached by stairways at both ends of each wing. Tbe 

 wing at their outward extremities are separated TOft.. which 

 makes an open wedge-shape court or la wn, iipon which all the 

 rooms front. 



From the main hall stairways reach a gallery, which runs 

 across iis two sides, oxiening from wbich are to be two rooms on 

 each side, leaving the main hall clear to the roof in the center and 

 front. These side rooms may be utilized as smoking and billiard 

 rooms, etc. It is expected that each room holder will flt up his or 

 her room to suit convenience or purpr.se. 



The scheme involves the outlay of something like $5i000, about 

 $3,000 on buildings and $3,003 for laud . 



Forty subscribers to two or more shares of f35 each in the pro- 

 posed building company will be entitled to hold without charge, 

 so long as they remain members of the association, one of the 

 forty private rooms in the buildings, location to be decided by lot; 

 and excepting certain restrictions -which the house committee 

 might formulate, could do with their rooms as t hey saw flt, either 

 occupy them or rent to any non-room hnlding member, or to any 

 outside party not objectionable to the house committee. It is 

 believed that such rental alone would be a profltablq investment 

 for those members not desiring to personally occupy their rooms 

 during the summer season. 



The building company, composed wholly or in part of members 

 of the associatiOD, would simply purchase the site, erect the build- 

 ing and then lease the whole property for a term of years to the 

 club, the latter paying an annual rental sufliclent to pay interest 

 on the investment, taxes and insurance, the club also agreeing to 

 keep the property in repair. Therefore fixed annual charges 

 would be say 5 per cent, on S5,O03, S350. Taxes and insurance $50; 

 total ®300. The club as lessee would agree to pay $300 annually ns 

 rent and keep the premises in repair; jilOO of this rent would 

 return to the room-holding members in the shape of dividend on 

 their stock in the building company. 



WAR CANOE RACING. 



THE following letter has been seut by Mr. E. H. Barney to Vice- 

 Corn. Cartwright. Both of Mr. Barney's suggestions are 

 timely and practical, and, as usual, he is willing to give some- 

 thing more than advice. We believe that the war canoe race will 

 in a very few years become a feature of the annual meets, but at 

 the same time it is an experiment, and before a considerable sum 

 is spent in building canoes it might be well to try for one season 

 with existing boats provided by the clubs owning them, after 

 which some limits to size, etc., can be permanently fixert. 



J. W. Cartwright, Jr., Vice-Corn. E. D., A. C. A.. Boston, Mass. 

 — Dear Sir: After this .year the competitions between the Divi- 

 sions In racing their war canoes will he very exci' ing, so much so 

 that in my opinion the present A. C. A. regatta committee should 

 decide the size, weight and number of paddles to be used on a 

 canoe. When the above dimensions are decided call on me for 

 SIO to be used toward building a canoe for the Eastern Division. 

 Above everything else the canoe must be made to take apart at 

 midships, as no canoe is safe on a platform car. Most every club 

 now rents a box car to send their canoes in to the Meet and war 

 canoes if made to take apart could go in with our boats. — 

 Pbcowsic. 



TATASSIT C. C— The annual dinner of the Tatassit 0. 0. was 

 held at Kessell'ff, in Worcester, on Jan. 34, the following oiflcei's 

 being elected at the same time: Com., F. P. Dean (re-elected); 

 Ylce-Com., F. A. Sear?; Purser, F. W. Johnson. The limit ot 

 membership, 35, being reached it was decided to remove it and 

 admit a number of candidates. It was also decided to make 

 membership in the A. C. A. a condition of membership in the 

 club. A regatta will be held next season. The club owns a war 

 canoe, the Waohawewak. 



A CATSrOE RACE TO SANDY HOOK.— The New York C. C. 

 will hold a Sandy Hook race on Saturday, June 20. open to all 

 canoeists. The race will start at the club house at 9 o'clock. The 

 course will be to Sandy Hook and return. A suitable prize will 

 be offered. More particulars will be given later in the season. 



Yachtsmen who do not see what they want under this heading 

 will please look under the hatches of The Canoe, peep into the 

 Kennel, squint down the barrel of the Btfle, open the Fish Car and 

 Game jBa^f, inquire of the Spoitsman Tourist, and if their yearn- 

 ings are still unsatisfied, push their explorations into the Editorial 

 and Advertising Dupmimentii, 



FIXTURES. 



FEBRTJABY. 



22. Biscayne Bay, Annual, Biscayne Bay. 



MAY. 



30. Rochester, Open, Sodus Bay. 



JUNE. 



11. Rochester, Rev)ew,Oharlotle 35. Rochester, Club, Charlotte. 

 IT. Hull, Under 31ft. 27. Hull, All Classes. 



18. Roch., Ladies' Day.Charlotte 27. Dorchester, Club, Dorchester 

 33. Pavonia, Annual, New York. 



jtriiY. 



3. Rochester, Cruise, Oak Orch. 17. Lake Y. R. A., Queen City, 



4, American. Naphtha,Milton's Toronto. 



Neck. 18. American, Steam, Milton's 



6. American, Sailing, Milton's Neck. 



Neck. 18. HuU, First cham., 1st and 2d 



11. Dorche8ter,Club, Dorchester classes. 

 11, Hull, First Cham., 3d, 4th, 20. Lake Y. R. A., Rochester, 



5th and 6th classes. Rochester. 

 14. Lake Y. R. A., Hamilton, 20. Rochester, L.Y.R.A., Char!. 



Hamilton. 23. Lake Y.R. A.,Oswego,Oswego 



16. Lake Y.R.A., R. C.Y.C., Tor. 35. Dorchestor,Open,Dorche8ter 



AUGUST. 



1. Hull. Second Cham., 1st and 15. Hull, Ladies' Race. 



3d classes. 1!<. Hull, Ladies' Day. 



6. Rochester, Club, Charlotte. 20. Rochester, Club, Charlotte. 



8. Hull, Second Cham., 3d, 4th5 26. Dorehester,Club, Dorchester 



5th and 6th classes. 37. Rochester, Club, Charlotte. 



13. Rochester, Club, Charlotte. 39. Hull, All Classes. 



KNOTS AND MILES. 



THERE is, unfortunately, a growing practice of making an im- 

 proper use of the vi'ord knot, not only with landsmen, 

 engineers and shipbuilders, but also with sailors, who ought to 



The prevailing idea at present appears to be that the knot is the 

 same thing as the geographical, nautical, or sea mile; and the 

 word knot is used to prevent any possible confusion with the 

 8 tatute land mile. 



But this usage is quite wrong. The knot is the cosmopolitan 

 unit of speed employed at sea by sailors of all civilized nations; 

 knots in English is noeuds in French, nudos in Spanish, nodi in 

 Italian, knoomn in Dutch, kmten in German, and probably the 

 equivalent word would be Tiuout in Russian, and Imut in Scan- 

 dinavian. 



One knot is a speed of one nautical mile anhoui', the nautical 

 mile (French mille, Spanish milla, etc.)ibeing the mean sexagesimal 

 minute of latitude on the earth's surface; so that it is 90x60=5,400 

 miles from the equator to the pole; and this is the only mile the 

 sailor knows and uses. 



The natitical mile is alittle over 6,080ft., the Admiralty measured 

 mSie fwe do not say the Admiralty kiuitU bo that one knot is a 

 ■imiS afaimieinoM! thiwIOQtt. a nuntite, more nearly IQtL m£t. 



a minute; thus on a log-line, with a half --minute glass or interval 

 of time, the distance between the knots should be 50ft., or a little 

 over, say 61ft. 



The word knot is derived from the knots on the log-line: the 

 number of knots which pass over tbe ship's taffrail during the 

 half-minute or other interval of time giving the speed of the ship 

 in knots. 



The only occasion, then, in which it is permissible to use the 

 work knot as the equivalent of a length, is in spacing the knots on 

 the log-line; and tuen, by a familiar tendency in language, the 

 "distance between tp'o knots" is abbreviated in speech to the 

 "length of a knot."' All this is explained very carefully and 

 clearly by Sir W. Thomson's Lecture on Navigation (Q-lasgow; 

 CoUins. 1876), an excellent little book, novv. unfortunately, out of 

 print. 



But by a curious perversity and straining after precision, the in- 

 correct expression ''knots au hour" to express the speed of a ship, 

 is creeping into gfiueral use, with the effect of displacing the word 

 mile by knot; so that now it is quite common to read a steamer's 

 daily run as given in knots (e.g , Teutonic's daily runs 473 knots, 

 496 knots, etc., total distance 3.808 knots), and the coal endurance 

 of a man-of-war given as say 36,000 knots at 10 knots speed ; thus 

 using the word knot where mile should be used. No real sailor 

 would say that a rock or the .land was half a knot, one knot, etc., 

 away. 



It is often urged that the expression "knots an hour" is so much 

 clearer and more definite; but wc might .iust as well measure pres- 

 sure in "atmospheres per square inch." 



Besides, in strict dynamical langtiagc, "knots an hour" would 

 mean an acceleration; a steamer, goi ng at 20 knots an hour, starting 

 from Liverpool would reach New York, .3,000 miles off, by the for- 

 mula t- V(2s-!-/), in V (6.000-v20)= V800=17 hours, about. 



When we read of the Russian yacht. Polar Star, that "on second 

 trial an average speed of 18.85 knots was got over a four knots' 

 course, and the last of four knots gave 19 knots per hour," we do 

 not know whether the four knots' couree means a course on a tide 

 running four knots, and whether the last of four knots meant 

 that the speed increased from 15 to 19 knots; in fact, the whole 

 sense is obscure. 



lo the .discussion on Mr. Ravenhill's paper, "Twenty Minutes 

 with our Commercial Marine Steam Fleet," in the Transactions 

 of the Institution of Naval Architects, Vol. XVIII., Mr. C. Lam- 

 port is quoted as saying: "May I ask Mr. Ravenhill if he has not 

 made a mistake in putting down 18.459 statute miles per hour as 

 being the mean speed. I have always been under the impression 

 that the term knot had been done away with; that when n.HUtical 

 men use the term knots they mean miles; and that the 15 knots 

 mentioned should not be mirle into IB odd miles." 



A member: "Not in all case"," etc. 



There is a very typical instance of the confusion prevalent in 

 the minds of landsmen, engineers, and shipbuilders; who never 

 heave tbe log and who always require speed to be translated into 

 statute land miles au hour, to make a mental comparison with 

 their own rate of walkine, or the speed of a train. 



Gtiief Engineer Ishervvood, of the United States Navy, in his 

 reports on speed-trials of vessels, is so anxious that there should be 

 no mistake, that he always uses the long expression" geographical 

 miles an hour," to express speed, when he has the clear simple 

 word knots to hand all the time; however, he does, at least, avoid 

 the abomination "knots an hour," snd the worse still conversion 



existence of 



. , . , m evil of not 



inconsiderable moment to the British nation; and that he never 

 intends to use the unqualified word mile to mean anything else 

 than the geographical nautical mile. , 



The land mile varies in the most extraordinary manner in 

 different countries, and even for England, Scotland and Ireland. 

 We inherit our statute mile of 1,760yds. from the Romans; it is 

 their military mile, rniHe pamis, a thousand (double) paces, the 

 military pace being 5ft. and a little over, say aft. 3in.; perhaps the 

 foot rule has shrunk in the course of ages, due to a continued ten- 

 dency in commerce (very observable in the so-called pint bottles of 

 wine or beer.) 



It was well known to our early Elizabethan writers on navi- 

 gation, such as Norwood, Wright and others, that 69 to 70 statute 

 miles went to the degree of CO nautical miles; but writers on 

 geography ignored this fact (perhaps from a temptation to make 

 rotmd numbers), and for a long time afterwards taught that 60 

 land miles went to the degree. 



It is a matter of historY that Newton's Thpory of Gravitation 

 was retarded for 19 years, in consequence of this error. 



Newton, sitting in his garden in 1665, so tradition records, and 

 feeAing an apple fall, looked up and caught sight of the moon. As 

 a mathematician heimmealiately proceeded to generalize from the 

 apple to the moon; and knowing from the moon's parallax, 57', that 

 the distance was roughly 10 times the earth's radius, he argued 

 that if the apple fails 16ft. in the first second, the moon, or apple, 

 if carried up so far, would fall 16ft. in the first minute towards the 

 earth, gravity decreasing: on Borelli's hypothesis, inversely as the 

 squire of the distance. But, taking the mmute of latitude as the 

 land mile of 5,380tt., Newton found that the moon would fall only 

 14ft. in the first minute, with the periodic time of the moon as 28 

 dava; tbe discrepancy was sufficiently large to make him lay aside 

 the theory; and it was not tUl 19 years afterwards, in 1684, that he 

 perceived where bis errorlay, and resumed his calculations, this 

 time with complete success. 



When the Metric System was brought out. about 179.5, it was in- 

 tended that all sub-divisions should be decimal and centesimal, 

 and the sexagesimal sub-divisions were to be completely thrown 

 over. 



To begin with, the day was to be divided into 40 centesimal 

 hours, each hour into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 

 seconds. 



To correspond in longitude and latitude, circumference of the 

 earth was divided into 40 degrees, and the quadrant into 100 

 degrees or grades, each grade into 100 minutes, and each minute 

 into 100 seconds, so that the number 10 (instead of 15) should turn 

 time into longitude, and vico versd. 



A centesimal minute of latitude was made into the kilometre, 

 intended to serve as the centesimal sea mile; and now the cen- 

 tesimal knot would be a speed of one kilometre per centesimal 

 hour. 



Thus, 5.400 miles=10,000 kilometres, or lkilometre=0.54mile; and 

 the centesimal knot would have been 0.9 of our usual knot. 



But, unfortunately for the completeness of this system, so beau- 

 tiful on paper, the world refused to have anything to do with 

 centesimal time; and sexigesimal time, and, thoreforejSexigesimal 

 angular measurement being retained, the kilometre is useless for 

 purposes of navigation; and even the French retain and print on 

 their ordnance maps the mille, alongside of the kilometre. 



It is very easy to see, geometrically, how superior is the sexage- 

 simal division of the angle, first by making six complete steps 

 round the circumference, with the compasses opened out to the 

 radius; and afterwards by drawing the inscribed equilateral 

 triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, and quindecagon; 

 when" sub-divisions of the circumference, down to as small as 3 

 degrees, will be made. 



Why this smallest division should have been trisected into 

 de.grees. and the degrees into 60 minutes, etc., is not very clf^ar 

 now; except that the number 60 w.as a sacred number with the 

 Chaldean astronomers, and the 360 degrees corresponded with 

 what thev thought ought to have been the number of days in the 

 year; so that the sun's daily motion in longitude would be one 

 dearee. 



The minute of latitude and the mile being thus convertible in 

 navigation, a habit is springing up among navigating oifleers of 

 giving their latitude and longitude as so many degrees or miles 

 (not minut es.) With latitude this does not matter, but with longi- 

 tude it must lead to confusion and danger; as the word mile is then 

 used to denote a quantity varying in length as the cosine of the 

 latitude. 



The dictionaries are much to blame for confusion in language. 

 The makers rarely know the meaning of scientific terms, and in 

 their anxiety to make the dictionary complete, the compilers give 

 all usages of a word, incorrect and even improper, without care- 

 fully pointing out the only true meaning. 



Again, the same tendencies, which made the Chaldean astron- 

 omers maintain that if the year did not have ;36U days, it ought to 

 have; and which made writers on geography even in Newton's 

 day maintain that 60 statute miles went to the degree, are still at 

 work with the framei-s of our tables of weights and measures. 

 Already in America the "short" ton of 3,000lbs., and the short 

 cwt. of 2001bs. is in usp, the gradual tendency of commerce being 

 to shorten the standards. 



In the tables of weights and measures, all the units are adjusted 

 so as to become aliquot parts of each other. Thus: 12in.=lft., 

 3ft.=^lyd., 6ft.=l fathom, and so on. But If 1 fathom=6ft. exactly, 

 there is no need for the fathom as an independent unit, and it 

 wotild drop out of use as redundant. 



But the fathom is the sailor's and fisherman's favorite unit for 

 measuring the length of a rope, and is used all the world over. 



If the sailor is to be allowed to make his own tables, he should 

 take the nautical mile as his unit and divide it into 10 cables, and 

 each cable into 100 fathoms: and with a nautical mile of 6,083ft., 

 this would make the sailor's fathom just about 6£t. lin., as above. 



Not aaly tn UKvieaktion, hut also in astKonanity. the nautical ntUe 



should be the unit of length and the knot the unit of velocity; the 

 distance of the sun with a parallax 8 .8, being 90X60 co-sec. 8".8h- 

 }^pi=81 million miles, while the velocity ot the earth round 

 the sun is 360X60X co-sec. 8'.8-^-(365x24)=58,060 knots, while the 

 speed of a point at the equator due to the earth's rotation is 900 

 knots. 



The sun, in going round the earth once in 34 solar hours, travels 

 at the rate of 900 knots past the equator from east to west, and at 

 flOO eo-seo. I knots in latitude (; thus in latitude 60° the sun over- 

 takes a steamer, going west at 20 knots, at a speed of 450—30=430 

 knots, and the time between successive noons on board will be 

 24x450-^480 =25 hours, while returning on the eastward voyage the 

 time will he 34 x 450-4-470=23 hours. 



From noon to noon tbe steamer will go 40 miles more in tbe 

 westward than in the eastward voyage; and nowadays, when 

 voyages are timed to the minute, the slight apparent increase of 

 the speed on the westward voyage is taken advantage of in the 

 records. 



To summarize, distance at sea is measured in miles and speed 

 in knots; and the expressions knots au hour for speed and knots 

 for distance in miles are nautical barbarisms.— (?, in NautteM 

 Mauazinc 



BISCAVNE BAY YACHTING. 



COCOANUT GROVE, Biscayne Bay, Fla., Jan. 35.— We are so 

 far from news centers m this remote corner of the world, that 

 only yesterday did I receive my Forest and Stream of Jan. 8. 

 While reading with interest of the arrival in this country of Lieut. 

 Henn and his wife, and of their intended movements, I looked up 

 8nd, far across the bay, ,iust coming into Bear Cut, saw a strange 

 sloop. She headed directly for this port, attracted, as we after- 

 ward learned, by the fluttering yacht flags at tbe club anchorage, 

 and it was not long before we made out the signal of the Royal 

 Yacht Squadron at her mast hfad. Then we knew that Lieut. 

 Henn had followed the news of his coming so closely that the 

 arrival of it and himself were almost simultaneous. 



He was of course warmly welcomed, and has been extravagant 

 in his praise of Biscayne Bay as a cruising water ever since hia 

 arrival. The present supplanter of Galatea is a wall- sided skip- 

 .iack 28Cb, over all bylSfi. beam, drawing but 2ft. and spreading 

 an immense area of canvas. She rejoices in the name of Minne- 

 haha, and hailsf rom Titusville on the Indian River. Within an 

 hour after his arrival the genial Lieutenant was off on a trip up 

 to the head of the bay as a guest on board the AUapatta. To- 

 morrow he is to .loin the same yacht for an outside cruise and a 

 day's kingfisfaing, while Minnehaha undergoes some repairs. On 

 Tuesday he proposes to sail for Charlotte Harbor on the west 

 coast, the objective point and terminus of his first cruise. He ex- 

 pects to return here in time for the annual regatta of the Bis- 

 cayne Bay Club, after which he will probably spend some weeks 

 hunting and fishing in this vicinity. 



The weather here is glorious, there having been but one rainy 

 day in tbe past six weeks; and though we have cool nights, the 

 days are invariably warm and bright. Unless all .signs faU, how- 

 ever, there must be some very cold weather somewhere, for never 

 have ducks and other water fowl been more abundant. At the 

 upper end of the bay, where lie the best feeding grounds, ducks 

 and coots are to be seen in flocks of thousands. The ducks are 

 principally mallards, blue-winged teal, wood ducks, redheads and 

 canvasbaoks. The coots— known elsewhere as poide d^eauj: and 

 "Blue Peters"— are as fat as butter, and furnish capital eating 

 when properly prepared, namely, skinned and parboiled before 

 being roasted, fried or stewed. 



The kingfishing season is now at its height, the fish being in 

 capital condition and voraciously hungry, and swarming about 

 their chosen feedmg grounds in incredulous numbers. 



In the yachting line our prospects aregnod for a very lively sea- 

 son, Although the Minnehaha is the first stranger to arrive, 

 barring Et (5e1era, which was in here a few weeks ago, we are 

 daily expecting Atala, Awixa and Gipsy, with the promise of 

 many more to follow. 



Commodore Munroe has sold the Presto to two recently elected 

 members of the Biscayne Y. C, Messrs. J. Herbert Johnson and 

 Dr. Geo. Trowbridge, of New York, and she leaves here to-morrow 

 for Key West, where she will meet her new owners. Mpantime 

 Brown', of Tottenville, is building a new 50ft. schooner for the 

 commodore, who will sail her down the coast next summer. 



At tbe annual meeting of the club, held on the first Saturday of 

 this month, the officers elected for 1891 were: Com., R. M. Mun- 

 roe; Vice-Corn., Thos. A. Hine; Seo'y, Kirk Munroe; Treas., Walter 

 H. Browne; Meas., Jean de Hedouville. At the same meeting six 

 new members were admitted to the elub. 



A proposed feature of our forthcoming regatta is a Seminole 

 Indian canoe race. . . 



Peacock has built a large addition to his hotel, and is now pre- 

 pared to accommodate any number of yachtsmen arid fishermen 

 who may find their way to this most charming of winter resorts. 



O. K. Chobee. 



P. S. Mrs. Henn's late lamented coon "Seminole Sam" has 

 already been replaced by another, which, as it is a lady coon, has 

 received from her sponsors the euphonious name of "Cherokee 

 Kate," and is called "Cherry" for short. 



NEW 4-6-FOOTERS. 



WHILE New York is doing notJiing at all in yachting, Boston 

 is busy building up a fine fleet of racers in a new class, with 

 the probable result, so far as can now be foretold, that the bulk of 

 the racing next season will be on the wi-ong aide of Cape Cod. For 

 some time past, four new yachts, all of 46ft., have been under way 

 in Boston, and within the past week two more have been com- 

 menced. The first four are all Buigess craft, but the two new 

 ones are by other designers, so that what promised to be but a 

 family party has now developed into a very different and far more 

 important class. 



Of the two new additions one is by Mr. Will Fife, Jr., designer 

 of Clara, Minerva, Dragon and Yama; while the other is by Mr. 

 John B. Paine, son of Gen. Paine, an amateur, who has already 

 designed and raced two very successful boats, the Silt. Swordfish 

 and the 20ft. Hornet. 



The new Fife cutter, Barbara by name, is for Mr. C, H. W. 

 Foster, owner of the. Burgess 40, Ventura last year. She will be 

 built by Lawley & Son, from full-size lines furnished by Mr. Fife, 

 the construction being similar to Clara; steel frames in altematioa 

 with bent wood. Her dimensions are given as 4Sft. l.w.l , 13ft. 

 lOin. beam and lift. Sin. draft. This beam, if correct, is greater 

 than Mr. Fife has yet taken, being about lOin. more in proportion 

 to the added length than in Minerva, but after his visit here last 

 year he exprebsed a belief in rather more beam for American 

 rules and conditions. This breadth brings the Barbara in between 

 the new Mineola, Mr. Belmont's boat, of 13ft. 6in., the Turner boat 

 of 13ft., and the Vanderbilt boat of 13ft. 6in., and the Thayer of 

 I2ft. The sail plan is large, very similar to that of Mineola. The 

 general form of the boat is similar to Minerva and Yama, with the 

 exception of the wider beam; the rake of post and the rise of the 

 keel being very similar, with the same sheer and ends. The mid- 

 ship section is simply a widening of the familiar Fife section. 



The new Paine boat, for whose success General Paine is likely 

 to be credited, justly or unjustly, with a large share of the res- 

 ponsibility, will be the most powerful of the lot, her beam being 

 li and draft between 10 ajd life, with a strong bilge and the lar- 

 gest sail plan. Like the Hornet, her mast wOl be well forward. 



As there is no prospect of any more sport this year than last in 

 the schooner classes the 90f t., 70ft. and 53ft. singlestickers, and as 

 the iOft. class is in a very doubtful state, the 46ft. class is likely 

 to monopolize all the racing, and as but two yachts, Jessica and 

 Minerva, are owned outside of Boston, those who wish to see any 

 racing will probably have to go to Marblehead for it. 



The close matching of the boats, making little dift'erence in 

 their allowances, and the close competition between three de- 

 signers, will make the racing of special interest. Thus far Mi-. 

 Burgess is ahead in the matter of skippers, haWng Capt. Nafc 

 Watson for the Thayer boat and Capt. Chas. Barr for the Turner 

 boat, while young Capt. Haffi will sail Mineola. Mr. John B. 

 Paine is a very clever skipper, as he has proved in Swordfish and 

 Hornet, though his experience has been in smaller boats; how- 

 ever, he may have Capt. Hank Haff at his elbow. Mr. Foster will 

 sail the Baboon himself, with his boatkeeper, Sam Dolliver, to 

 help him, as in Ventura.. 



ATLAt-fTIC Y. C— The nominating committee of the Atlantic 

 Y. C. have presented these names for election as ofHcers for 1891: 

 For Commodore, Newbury E. Lawton; Vice-Commodore, Thomas 

 L. Arnold; Rear-Commodore, James Weir, Jr.; Treasurer, H. C. 

 Wintringham; Measurer, Henry J. Gielow; Recording and Corre- . 

 ppondlng Secretary, Geo. H. Church; for Trustees, Stepen Loines. 

 Edward N. Norton, J. Rogers Maxwell, J. P. Howell. Thomas P. , 

 Fiske, W. W. Kenyon; for Committee on Membership, Henry A, 

 Gouge, Henry W. Bank.s, Jr.. J. C. Seely; for Regatta Committee, 

 Hem'y J. Gielow, Henry A. Gouge, Henry B. Howell. The annual 

 meeting a£ the club will be held at the Clarendon Hotel, cor ner 

 of Wasnington and Johnson streete. Brooklyn, on Monday even* 

 ins, Feb. a. 



