May 31, 1891.] 



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SAIL PLAN OF 28-FT. CUTTER -'MARJORIE.'' 



THE CHANGES IN NEW YORK HARBOR. 



THE dredging which has been going on in the Lower Bay for 

 some years has necessitated changes of marks and buoys at 

 times, on two occasions the lighthouse known as the West Bea- 

 con on the point of Sandy Hook having been bodily moved to ad- 

 just it to new ranges. Du ingthe past week, however, still greater 

 changes have been made, the entire svstem of marks and buoys 

 being remodeled. Not only have the two familiar marks long 

 known to yachtsmen, the red buoy and the red perch and ball that 

 marked the turn at the Southwest Spit been discontinued, but the 

 two lightships themselves have been moved. It will be some little 

 time before the changes are all made and charted, but the official 

 notice of the changes, as given in the "Notice to Mariners," is as 

 follows: 



SanbyHook Light Vessel will be moved about 2}4 miles N. E. 

 by N. from its present position, and moored on the prolongation 

 of the axis of Gedney's Channel, the entrance buov bearing W 

 N. W. 34 W., 4^4 miles Approximate latitude, 40° 28' (15"), N. Ap- 

 proximate longitude, 73° 50' (09'), W. Bearings and distance'* of 

 prominent objects are: Highlands of Navesink lights, S. W. bv 

 W. M W., 81^ miles. Centennial Tower, Coney Island, N. W. 5^ 

 N., S% miles. Sandy Hook Light, W. % N.. 7% miles. 



Wreck, of the Scotland Light Vessel will be moved about 

 }^ mile N. E. M E. from its present position, and moored on the 

 prolongation of the axis of the South and Swash channels (Swash 

 Channel Range), and distant 3% miles from the axis of the Main 

 Channel (Main Channel Ryne'e). AnnrnTiTnaiB InritnHo ino '^fi' 



u.oi,a,ii^ <=o uj. uiixiiioxju uujcutB are: xiiguia.ijus oi r\avesmK Jignts, 

 b. W. M W., miles. Centennial Tower, Coney Island, N. % W., 

 8 miles. Sandy Hook Light. W^N.W., 3i3i« miles. The following 

 changes are to be made in the buoyage on the same date: 



Main Channel and up the Bay.— No. B 6, red nun buoy, 

 will be discontinued. No. 6, red nun buoy, will be established 

 just south of 18ft. spot, Plynn's KnoU: HookBpacon Light (Sandy 

 Hook), S. by W. Romer Shoal Light, N. % W. No, 10, red nun 

 buoy, will be established just south of ItJ^ft. spot, Plvnn's KnoU: 

 Hook Beacon Light (Sandy Hook), 8. E. % S. Romer Sboal Light, 

 N. by E. % E. Sandy Hook Light, S. S. E. H E. No, S]4, South- 

 west bpit, With perch and ball, will be discontinued. No. 12, red 

 nun, will be establishsd just south of 23£t. spot. Southwest Spit: 

 Beacon Light (Sandy Hook). S. E. by E. M E. Romer Shoal 

 Light, N. N. E. H E. Sandy Hook Light, S. E. No. 10 (turning 

 buoy), W. of Southwest Spit, will be discontinued, and No. 14 red 

 nun, surmounted by perch and baU, will be established on the 

 29ft. spot just to eastward of the present No. 10. No. 7 (West 



Bank) will be discontinued as a channel buoy and changed to a 

 white spar buoy for demarcation of harbor limits only. No. loV, 

 spar buoy (West Bank. N. E. edge) will be discontinued. West 

 Bank bell-buoy. No. 15J^, will ba known as Fort Tompkins bell- 

 buoy, and the number discontinued. The following numbers on 

 buoys will be changed: No. 13 (East KnoU) to No. 8. No. 9 (West 

 Hank, south) to No. 7. No. 14 (north end ot Romer) to No. 10. No. 

 13 (West Bank, E. end) to No. 9. No. 16 (East Bank, NT. W. end) to 

 No. 12. No. 15, (West Bank, N. E. edge) to No. 11. No. 18 (Gow- 

 anuR Flats, S. W. end) to No. 14. No. 20 (Gowanus Plats, W. side) 

 to No. 16. No. 19 (Oyster Island Flat.'^) to No. 13. 



Swash Channel.— .Junction Buoy, at junction of upper end of 

 Swash Channel with Main Ship Channel, will be an H. S.nun sur- 

 mounted by perch and square. Romer Shoal (N. W. edge) bell- 

 buoy. No. 8, wiU be known as Swash Channel bell-buoy, and the 

 number discontinued. The following numbers on buoys will be 

 changed: No. 4 (Romer, S. edge) to No. 2. No. 6 (Dry Romer 

 Shoal, S.E. end) to No. 4. No. 3 (East Knolls, E. side) to No. 1. 

 No. a (East Knolls, N. E. end) to No. 3. 



.East (Dhannel.— No. 3, red spar buoy, will be established on N. 

 side of channel: Centennial Tower. Coney Island, N. by E. M E. 

 Romer Shoal Light. W. % S. Hook Beacon Light (Sandy Hook), 

 KS. W.M\y. No. 5, black spar buoy, will be established on S. 

 W. side ot channel: Centennial Tower, Coney Island, N. E. U E. 

 Romer bhoal Light, S. by W. 34 W. The following numbers on 

 buoys will be changed: No. 2 (East Bank) to No. 4. No. 4 (East 

 Bank) to No. 8. 



East Riveb.— No. 2, red spar buoy, will be established just to 

 the southward ot Hunt's Point, to mark the end of sunken dock: 

 Hunt's Point. N. M E. College Point. S. E. by E. 34 E. An H. S. 



ernor's Island. South Shoal, Buttermilk Channel) to" No. 1. '(L. h' 



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HELVETIA.— 'The new steam yacht designed by Mr. Burgess 

 and buUt by Lawley for Mr. C. d'O. Iselin, was launched on May 

 13. She Is built for speed, with fine lines and a quadruple expan- 

 sion engine, a good part of the space being devoted to the 

 machinery. 



• I'LOSS.— We call attention to this little steam yacht advertised 

 m anether column, an escelleut boat for cruising inland. 



MEASUREMENT AND CLASSIFICATION. 



TT is gratifying to all who have labored long in the interests of 

 ± length and sail area as opposed to length alone as a basis of 

 measurement to find that yachtsmen are no longer disposed to 

 neglect the question as of little practical importance but that a 

 lively interest is apparent in all localities in the k?ndred subjectt 

 of measurement, classification and time aUowance. The day has 

 gone by when a yachtsman considered it beneath him to under- 

 stand anything more than simple addition, and the men who can- 

 not follow out the operations of measuring a yacht and calculat- 

 ing her corrected length, are no longer boosting over the fact It 

 18 no longer left to the few larger clubs to know aU that is to be 

 ll'^l^f'^ the matter of yacht measurement, but the younglr and 

 smaller clubs throughout the country are thinking and deciding 

 these questions for themselves. The foUowing excellent renm-t 

 of the Riverside Y. C. is interesting H from the concS 

 arrived at, sound and progressive as they are, than t>om the 

 evidence which It gives of a careful and thorough consideration 

 ±^^fw subject. The adoption of the Seawanhaba rule is S 

 step that no cluo need now be afraid to take; and the classificfl 

 tion by corrected length is no less certain to follow in a season or" 

 two. 'The reconamendations of the committee, if adopted will 

 place the Riverside Y. C. on a par with the most process! ve clubs 

 m the matter of rules. The report reads as follows- 



Your committee appointed at the last meeting of the club to 

 ascei-tam what action had been taken or was likely to be taken by 

 «n^^^^?f''''^n''^'°° thequnstions of measurement, classificition 

 and time allowance, and to report what changes they would 

 Kt^gfo^re1o'in°s^o^S^^^^ in the present saili^ng rulers of 



now almost universaUy used by the larger clubs t^r the purposes 

 of measuring cabin yachts for time allowance. It seems to be the 

 opinion ot the majority of the designers that this is thi best rull 

 l^^^^ J^ yet been f ormulated and we can sec no objection to, and 

 ^I'ilf^^^ ''''^^^^'' ^° f>« gamed by its adoption by the club, and we 

 therefore recommend that our rules be so amended that our cabin 

 yachts be measured under the Seawanhaka formula. 

 2. Classiflcation.— Ic is the opinion of your committee that the 

 ?^ V J^'^^VT ^"J?^ towards classStion on slilini 

 instead of l.w J length, and we believe this mode of classi- 

 \° <ie8irahle. Leaving out the que.= tion of the ad. 

 I^H* ^° ^® m allowing greater latitude to the designer 



and the encouragement of the building of moderate vessels it 

 seems mconsistent for a vessel to have two mpa8urement8?one for 



