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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[May 31, 1891* 



classiflcatioB ami the other for time allowance. A yacht can only 

 be correctly measured in one way, and on that measurement 

 should be olasisd and sailed. 



It should ba simply a matter of deciding what is the correct rule 

 of measurement. We find that the soecial committees appointed 

 by the N. Y, Y. O. and Seawanhaka C. Y. C. some time since re- 

 ported in favor of classificaMon on sailing length, and that the 

 Corinthian Y. O. of Kew York, the Liax'ohmont Y. O., the Lake Y. 

 fl. A. and many of ttie smaller clnba have adopted rules classify- 

 ing on sailing length, and we strongly recommend that the club 

 ailopt a rule classifying our yachts on this basis. 



Yonr committee hav«3 specifieu class limits in the amendments 

 to sailing roles which accomiwny this report, which we think will 

 be acceptable. We have carefully consiaered the vested interests 

 in the yachts of our own and of other clubs, and think that no 

 ex'stiug boat will suffer by being classified under the limits 

 recommended. Ir. may be considered desirable to subdivide the 

 f j)t. and perhaps the 50ft. classes as proposed, creating a 55it. 

 fipss, which would take in the present 46ft. Lw.l. class, and a 4.5ft. 

 class to take m some of ihe yachts of our own fleet on ihenew 

 system of measurement. We would not, however, recommend 

 the creation of three classes at this time, as there would seem to 

 be an objection to too great a number of classes, or, in fact, any 

 move than are absolutely necessary, and these class limits can be 

 created later as special classe j if it is thought necessary. 



3. Time Allowance.— The table of time allowance in use by the 

 N. Y. Y. 0.. the S. C. Y. C. and the Atlantic Y. C. is based on .50 

 per cent, of the est mated speed figured on the scLuare root of 

 lengih. Some of the other clubs allow a greater percentage, 

 some a Ipss, bat it would seem advisable for the sake of uniform- 

 ity at least to adopt a table on the 50 per cent, basis. 



In the accompanving recommendeo amendments your commit- 

 tee has tried to formulate a set of rules that are as nearly uniform 

 with the leading clubs as is consistent with what we think for 

 this club's best interests. There may be some dissatisfaciton 

 temporarily on the part of some, but we are eonfldent that after 

 a few months' trial the new rules will prove satisfactory to all, 

 and we feel assured that the best interests of our yacht owners 

 will be served by their adoption. Respeelfullv submitted, C. T. 

 Pierce, Fred Beltz, L. A. Uockwood and F. B. Jones. 



Classes recummended: Over 90ft. corrected length, 80 to 90ft.. 

 70 to 80ft., 60 to 70ft., 50 to 60 ft., (50 to 55ft, special, 40 to SOt't. (40 

 to 45ft. special), 35 to 40ft, 80 to 33it., 25 to 30ft., to 35ft., under 

 ^iOft. 



Any yacht in any class launched before the season of 1891 and 

 wnich does not exceed the class limit by more than a fraction of a 

 foot shall be included in the class at the discretion of the regatta 

 committee. 



LAWLE\'S YARD. 



THERE is little in the present yard of the Lawleys, father and 

 son, at South Boston, to suggest the little establishment of a 

 few years ago on the other side of the Point, the change has been 

 as great as mat in yachting wbioci called it forth. The past win- 

 ter has seen a still greater advance from previous years in the 

 establishment of a plant for working steel in addition to wood, a 

 very important maiier in the present stage of yacht construction. 

 The most interesting feature ot the steel plant is the heating oven 

 for bending the angle frames and similar pieces, which, with its 

 accompanying bending floor, is located in the center of tiie large 

 lot nearly midway between the street and the beach. In place of 

 the ordinary fuel furnace this one is arranged to hum oil, which 

 is forced into it at different points in its length and on each side, 

 tbe oil coming from a large sheet iron reservoir some distance 

 away. An intense heat is generated in a very short time, while 

 the fire is entirely under control, being quickly lighted or ex- 

 tinguished. The first work done on the new floor was the frames 

 for the new 46-footers, Mineola and the others, but just now the 

 new frames for Volunteer are being bent. 



Near vfte beach, where much of the high gravel bluff has been 

 dug away, are two new buil tings, the sawmg and planing mill 

 witb joiner shop above, built a year since, and a still newer and 

 larger building of two stories, the lower being the punch shed, 

 well fitted up with rolls, several large drills, plate planer, shears 

 and punches for flat sheets and angles. Everything is conveni- 

 ently arranged, and the building is quite close to the water and 

 ship house. In the second story is a large mould loft, on which 

 are now laid down the lines of Mineola, Beatrice, Oweenee, Say- 

 ouara, Alborak, Fancy, Helvetia and Melissa. The new Volun- 

 teer is aiso on the floor, the fore body being lengthened between 

 S and 4ft.. showing a clean full bow, but without th« slightest in- 

 dication of the fullness in the topsides which was such a feature 

 in Puritan. 



The lead ci sting plant has also been arranged to use oil, so that 

 the large cauldron can be quickly heated up without smoke, the 

 great nuisance of the usual wood fire. The cauldron is located on 

 tbe edge of the hill, so that the melted lead can be run by troughs 

 directly into a mould, saying the labor and waste of ladling, in 

 xhe bottom of tne cauldron are two holes about lin. in diameter, 

 each stopped wiih im iron bar, through which the molten lead is 

 drawn oft. The oid building shed is still used, though affording 

 very inadequate facilities for rapid work. With tbe greater part 

 of the bluif leveled off, giving room for a railway and storage 

 yard in winter, and with a larger and better lighted house, tne 

 yard will be f qnal to any in the country. 



Just now there is a rush ond bustle everywhere; in the basin a 

 number of yachts are fitting out, Wayward, Tnetia, Baboon, Gos- 

 soon, Xara, Troubadour, Alert, Gundred, E.osalind. Olytie and 

 others. One Vanderbilt boai,Ilderim, Is launched and laid up in 

 the basin, while the 30-tooter Gladys is still on the beach. One 

 cause of delay iu the Paine and Fife boats was the great difficulty 

 of securing oak for the keels, several logs which were procured 

 from various localities proved rotten or otherwise defective when 

 put ovf-r the saw, and after trying Maine and Virginia it was 

 after much delay that keels were found in Ohio. 



lit construction the new racers do not differ much from the 

 usual build of the Burgess forties, except that the sawn frames of 

 the latter, with thfir accompanying deck beams, have been re- 

 placed by angle steel 2xaxM n.; these frames, eleven In number, 

 nemg spaced 3ft. 6in. apart. Between ttem are the usual steamed 

 oak frames, two in each space, making the spacing 14in. Tnese 

 steel frames and deck beams, with their floors, gussets and a plate 

 of Wr\. steel aDont 3tt. 6in. square laid on the deck beams at the 

 partners and backed with an angle ring about the mast. Include 

 all ihe steel iu the boat. The wooden portion is somewhat light- 

 ened in tne deadwoods and other bulky parts, but the general 

 dieposltion of the scautlmg is much the same as in the 40ft. fleet. 



All the new boats, however, have channels, withtwo shrouds to 

 a side, the cnannels being of stetl plate 3ft. long and If t. wide. 

 Insid" the boat, wnere the chainplates do not come on a frame, a 

 wide but snort timberhead is used, running down to the upper 

 bilge clamp, to carry the chainplate bolts. In the Paine boat the 

 deck and sides are connectea by two braces of %in. round iron on 

 eacn side, running from the steel deck beams at the partners 

 down to the steel frames. All of the boats are finished with solid 

 bulwarks bolted to the deck. 



In looking from ttie Boston boats to the Fife craft, the con- 

 clusion is unavoidable that someboay is wrong; eitherthe Burgess 

 and Paine bOtits are not sufficiently strong, or Mr. Fife has gone 

 into a construction that is both expensive and unnecessary. Tne 

 difference between the two constructions is most marked about 

 tne main chainplates and the runner?, the Fife boat being pro- 

 yided with a series of steel diagonal straps, 6 on each side, wnich 

 is missing iu tne others. The frames are steel and wood in Hlterna- 

 tion. spaced ISm ; the steel being 2 X 3 X J4"n., and the wood Sin. 

 sided and but 2in. moulded. The side of the Fife boat is 

 strengthened below the channels, wnich are ab ^ut twice as long 

 as in the other boats, by a plate of steel llin. wide and extending 

 over 6 frame spaces, between the frames and planking, the latter 

 being fitted over it. To this plate, through wuich the chainplate 

 bolts pass, are rivetted no less than 4 steel straps, 3^ X 34in., 

 running diagonally across the frames and down to the keel, wnere 

 they are fastened. At the runner plaies is a pair of similar straps 

 on each side, one running forward ond one aft. At the partners 

 is a plate of steel 3 x 2ft., to which are rivetted 4 steel straps, 

 2}^X'i6'n., crossing the deck beams and running from each 

 corner of the plate. The oak shelf is 5 x 5in., the steel gussets 

 being forged witti a lug through which are two lag screws into tie 

 shell. The butts of the planking are between the frames, each 

 having a s eel butt strap, about 3in. wider than the plank, the 

 plank ends being bolted to the strap with two screw bolts. The 

 planksheer and bulwarks are of mahogany, teak not being obtain- 

 able. In the Burgess boats the planksheer is of oak, and in the 

 Paine boat of white pine. The interior of the Fife boat is not un- 

 like the nlan published in the Forest and Strea3I of Dec. 9, 1886, 

 hj Mr. Fife. 



The Oweenee has a very neat housing for the heel of the bow- 

 sprit, hardly to be called bitts, as there is no place to make fast a 

 line or chain; in fact, it is a problem with these boats as to what 

 they are to ride to. The heel of the bowsprit is covered by a piece 

 of J4in. steel plate, ISin. long, bent into a semi-circular form on 

 top, the sides of the plates being rlveited to angles, which in turn 

 are bolted to the deck. The fl.d hole is cut through the oppo.sit6 

 Bides of this tunnel, in which the heel of the bowsprit fits neatly. 

 Below the deck are two oak braces, 85*xgM» bolted np on the under 

 Bide ef tlw ^ibshjm an,* r^nolHS^ from tfte firet steol friwae )t9?w»pd 



to a point beneath the bitts, where thev meet. In the Fife boat 

 the deck beams are of hackmatack, sided 3J4in. and moulded 3in., 

 with steel angles on each steel frame. The wood beams are soaced 

 about 3ft. apart, and between them are oak battens, IJjtxlJ^in., 

 screwed to the deck. All of the boats are planked witn yellow 

 pine, the bottom of the Fife boat, however, being oak. The spars 

 are made in the yard, spruce sawn in two and hollowed, after 

 which the parts are dowelled together and the joint made with 

 cotnmon glue. Nearly all the boats, including the Paine craft, 

 will steer with tillers. 



MUSTERED OUT. 



THE wreck that meets the eye of the visitor to Lawley's yard 

 is about as thorough and complete as can be imaeinpd, and 

 the first impression is that a fire, a cyclone, or some force of 

 nature has been at work, and that it ia not the deliberate and pre- 

 meditated labor of man. What was but a few weeks pince a 

 handsome and graceful vessel, the most famous yacht that has 

 ever spread canvas, is now hardly less a wreck in reality and ap- 

 pearance than the battered old hookers whose bare hones lie 

 bleaching along Cape Cod. The ground beneath the ways is cov- 

 ered with broken joiner work, good only for kindling wood, and 

 with scraps and fragments of plates, angle bars and rivets, while 

 above this sombre foreground projects the long bare keel and 

 garboarde, above which rises the fore portion of the centerboard 

 trunk. Above the keel the midship Section of the yacht stands 

 out in i-elief , where the break has been made, while the gaping in- 

 terior shows broken bulkheads and doors opening nowhere. All 

 of this portion above the sheer strake, including bulwarks, rail 

 and planksheer, is gone, leaving only the frames and plating 

 with the accoropanyicg joiner work, from a point abaft the true 

 midship s ction out to and including the overhang. This latter 

 has been shorn of its peculiar upper part, to be replaced, it is to 

 be hoped, bv something rather more in keeping with a yacht. 



The passing of Volunteer, her mustering out, is something 

 without parallel in y achting; it is no unusual thing for a yacht to 

 he materially changed, in hiill and in nams, nor is it uncommon 

 for one to disnppear fiom the Yacht List through wreck or 

 through being sold into trade; bui it is a new thing for a yacht 

 siill in the height of her fame, a yacht wtiose record is unbroken, 

 to be delioerately obliterated from the fleet. Though two of her 

 classmates have already preceded her to the ranks of thesohooner 

 fleet, the cases were very different. Atlantic was changed 

 merely in rig, the old name being retained, with no alterations in 

 model. Priscilla when converted into a schooner, was materially 

 altered about the keel, her name at the same time being changed 

 to Elma, but the identity of the hull was still retained. In the 

 case of Volunteer, howevpr, there can be nothing in common be- 

 tween the old ship and the new one that is soon to rise on her 

 keel, and it seems as though everything possible had been done 

 to separate the two; to end the reputation of Volunteer, with 

 hardly a defeHt on her record, and to endow the new boat witli a 

 distinct identity of her own. .Should she prove a success or a 

 failure it must be as the Phcenix. or by whatever name she may 

 in the future be known, and not as the famous Volunteer, the 

 nearest approach that has yet been seen, or is soon likely to be, to 

 that nebulous creation, a 90ft. sloop. 



Volunteer, more than any other yacht, has won the hearts of 

 Ihe people of America; her name is a familiar word in localities 

 where white sails and broad waters are mere indefinite concep- 

 tions, and her victories have been hailed with delight by thous- 

 ands who know nothing of yachting and who care even less for 

 sport. Not many, perdaps, have realized it, but she, even more 

 than her sisters before her, was the embodiment of America's 

 supremacy on the high seas, and at a time when there was noth- 

 ing for America to boast of in eitherthe Navy or the commercial 

 marine; ana it is in a measure from this standpoint that she 

 appealed to many who have no interest in yachting. Coming just 

 when 1 hey did, the victories of her and her sisters served a far 

 broader and higher purpose than that of mere sport in wak- 

 ing up the whole country, the Mississippi Valley, the great West, 

 and the Pacific Coast to the vital fact that America must prepare 

 to delend herself on the seas, that the waters which bore out a 

 friendly challenger might snme day serve to flout a hostile fleet. 



The thought that the old Volitnteer has parsed away will bring 

 a pang to many who have never seen her, but who have followed 

 her victorious career with pride and pleasure, and to those who 

 have known her as she sailed up the Bay on that day in 1887. or as 

 she led the fleet up Vineyard Sound, the sight of her dismembered 

 hull is a sad one. From a practical standpoint the coange is per- 

 haps a wise one, as there was little left for her to do in lier old 

 class, while in the event of any possible break in the present 

 deadlock in international racing, and a challenge from Valkyrie 

 or a yacht of similar size, she would have been degraded to the 

 task of beating the smaller boat, a fate that has at least been 

 saved her: her victories thus far have been over only worthy foes. 



PHILADELPHIA Y. C— The regatta committee announces 

 the following very complete programme for the season of 1891, 

 under date of May 15: May 30, opening day; particulars in future 

 orders; June 6, first championship race, for ail classes; second prize 

 in each class if two or more start, .$10; June 15, annual regutta for 

 all classes; June 20, sweepstakes 1 ace. The entrance fee in each 

 class will be $10. and in each class where four or more start the 

 club will add $50. In each class where four or less start the stakes 

 and prizes will be divided— 75 per cent, to the flrst yacht and 25 

 per cent, to the second. Where more than four start they will be 

 divided— 70 per cent, to the first yacht, 20 per cent, to the second 

 and 10 per cent, to the third. Entries, iuelosing cheek to be made 

 to Mr. A. P. Bancroft, before June lU, at 12 M. June 2Y, ladies' 

 day, race and informal hop at club house, for yachts in cruising 

 trim. In order to be entitled to prizes yachts must carry ladies 

 as follows: Schooners, first and second class sloops, three and 

 not over five; third, fourth and fifth classes, two and not over 

 three. Suitable prizes will he awarded to the winners in each 

 class. July 3 to 8, club cruise, particulars to be announced; July 

 18, chpmpionship race, second prize in each class if two or more 

 start $10, July 25, sweepstakes race; Aug. 1, ladies' day; annual 

 cruise, date to be announced; Sept. 12, championship sail off for 

 all classes, open only to winners m one of the previous champion- 

 ship races. Special outside race for flrst and third classes dale 

 and particulars to be announced. Special programmes for each 

 race will be issued in due course. Tne committee will be glad to 

 arrange additional races should prizes be offered. The commit- 

 tee restTves the right to invite visiting yachts to enter any of the 

 races, and with the exception of opening day, annual regatta and 

 club cruises, to change order of races and dates hy giving due 

 notice. In order to encourage Corinthian sailing, a special prize 

 will be awarded to the winning yacht in each class, if sailed 

 under the Corinthian rule. This rule applies only to yachts of 

 40£t. racing length and under. Tue attention of owners intending 

 to enter their yachts for the races is particularlv called to See. 1, 

 Rule VII. of the racing rules as revised, which requires all yachts 

 to be measured before they can he entered for any race. Addison 

 F. Bancroft (chairman), Francis Green, John A, Lehman, Kegalia 

 committee, P. Y. O. 



EASTERN Y. C— The handicap races of the Eastern Y. O. will 

 be sailed on May 30, the start being made at 10 45 A. M. The han- 

 dicap will be fixed by the regatta committee, and will be declared 

 at the clubhouse on the evening of May 29. Entries must he re- 

 ceived by Edward Burgess, Sears Building, before 3 P. M. Thurs- 

 day, May 28, and must spe ify whetner the yacht be in racing or 

 cruising trim. The following prizes are offered: First class 

 schooners $100, second class schooners $75, fifth class sloops $50, 

 sixth class sloops $50, seventh class sloops 850. All classes will 

 sail one of the following courses, to be designated by flag to be 

 hoisted on the committee steamer at 10.30. From starting line, 

 leaving sp-ndle on Tom Moore's, Tinker's island and outer breaker 

 buoy (off Pig rocks) on starboard. Graves whistling buoy and 

 Eastern Y. C. turning buoy on port to finish line. Allowance for 

 24 miles. From starting lino, tiie reverse of course C. leaving all 

 marks on the opposite hand, to finish line. Allowance for 24 miles. 

 From starting, to and around a barrel hearing a red flag, anchored 

 10 miles to windward (or leeward), leaving it on starboard, and 

 return to the finish line. Allowance for 20 miles. The new sea 

 mark for the outer angle of the cluo'i 24 mile course i« a white iron 

 spar buoy with white metal flag, placed 8 miles E N, from the 

 Graves whistling buoy and 8 miles S E % S from Marblehead 

 Rock. The race programmes issued last year and this hy the 

 Eastern Y. C, are ahead of anything yet produced; a good chart 

 of the entire course is given, with colored reproductions of the 

 course and atarting flags. 



XARA, cutter, the Burgess 40, is now in charge of Capt. Mason, 

 formerly mate of Bedouin under Capt. Pittuck, who is fitting her 

 out at Lawley's for the trip to Newhurgh, where her new owner, 

 Mr. Alfred Kayne, resides. Capt. Pittuck has retired from yacht 

 sailing, being in very comfortable circumstances, and is living at 

 Wivenhoa, 



ALBORAK. the Paine 46-footer. is now in Lawley's large shed 

 iust ahead of Oweenee, and will follow that craft into the water, 

 being a little less advanced. She Is planked and the dock is laid, 

 but little progrese han been made lasidei a|;d It wiU » pw&tb 



TONS VS. RATING.— The new term rating has proved a puz- 

 zler to many, and we notice one expert who has evidently not 

 mastered its meaning, as ho hahitu'illy ppeaka of a 60-ton rater, 

 or 10- ton rater. As a unit of yacht measurement, the term rating 

 has no relation to eitber tons on the onehand orfeet on tbe other; 

 it measures neither size nor length, but establishes a new and 

 arbitrary unit. So far as tons go, there is no possible relation bt- 

 tween ayachi's tonnage and her rating, in fact a 10-tonner. such as 

 Queen Man or Clarissa, is a 2fJ-rater. The term "sail tons" was at 

 til St n?ed in tne same way as rating, but when tlie new length and 

 sail area rule was finally adopted by the Y. R. A. the name rating 

 was employed, and has since come into general use in (Ireat 

 Britain. The form of the word is certainly a very^ awkwurd one, 

 but as a definite unit of measurement it is a great improvement 

 over "tons," which meant of itself absolutely nothing, owing to 

 the various modes of measuring tonnage. A yacht's rating is 

 found by multiplying her lengih on waterliae hy her total sail 

 area, and dividing the product by 8,000. 



IRENE.— This yacht of 40 rating was launched from Messrs. A. 

 and ,1. Inglis's shipyard, Pninthonse, on May 3, and proceeded im- 

 mediately to Gou rock Bay to fit out for sea. The yacht will be 

 joined by her owner. Prince Henrv of Germany, brother to the 

 Emperor, on the 10th inst., wnen she will sail for Kiel. The Irene 

 ijas been designed by Mr. G. L. Watson, and is in charge of Capt. 

 Maskell, late nf the racing yawlLorna. She is very much of a 

 Watson type of cutter, witn a little extra gripe forward, and is 

 a particularly hanrlsome cutter in the water. The deck fittings 

 are substantial and plain. The saloon has a highly embossed flock 

 in the panels overhead, and the plainest of French cretonnes round 

 about. The starboard cab'n sofa is in blue velvet, backed by 

 carved walnut. The port sofa is supplanted by a couole of massive 

 easy chairs for the Prince and Princess, a departure in designing 

 which will no doubt be followed. The ladies' cabin ia done up in 

 a pale cretonne, with walnut and yellow pine fittingt. m which 

 good taate and a charming simplicity are equally prominent.— 

 Fi£ld. 



MONTGOMERY SAILING CLUB.— Third regatta. May 17. 

 Course, Nor^lsto^vn to Indian Creek. Distance, 5 miles. Wind, 

 very strong northwesterly: 



<■ Length. Start. Finish. Corrected. 



Playford, tuckup 15.00 1 40 00 3 47 50 1 07 50 



Cocktail, tuckup 15.00 1 40 Oi) 3 05 00 1 35 00 



Gracie, skiff 12.00 1 30 00 Capsized. 



Stranger, sharpie 15.00 1 40.00 Withdrew. 



This was one of the worst winds ever encountered by this club 

 on a race day. The tuckup .1. S. Lever capsized before the start, 

 h?r bow being driven under when running beiore the wind. At 

 the end ol one mile the Stranger quit, and Cocktail and Gracie 

 each turned in a reef. At 1^ miles the Gracie capsized. 



OSWEGO Y". C— We have received the year book of the Oswego 

 Y. C, a neat canvas-bound volume containing the list of mem- 

 bers, club rules, eic, and also the constitution, sailing rules, etc., 

 of the Lake Y. R. A., of which body the Oswego Y. C, is an im- 

 portant member. The frontispleee to tne book is a reproduction 

 of a photo of the Lake fleet leaving Oswego Harbor for the start 

 on the occasion ot last year's regatta. Tbe list includes 24 honor- 

 ary and 170 active members. Maps of the harbor and of the club 

 moorings are also given. The officers are; Com., Allan Ames; 

 Vice-Corn., Swits Condd; Capt., J. P. Phelp?^; Sec'y-Treas., W. E. 

 Lee; Meas., W. P. Judson; Fleet Surgeon, J. sV. Eddy. The open- 

 ing cruise, to Big Sodus Bay, will take place on May 29-80. 



MINEOLA.— Mr. Belmont's new 46 is a handsome white craft 

 with a low freeboard and a big rig, but with rather more life to 

 her sheer aft than her predecessors, and a better looking boat in 

 consequence. She had Uer trial trip on May 13, with Capt. Harry 

 Haff and Mr. Burgess on board, beating down the harbor with a 

 good breeze, and carrying her lower sail very well. She will 

 leave for New York this week, making her moorings at Hemp- 

 stead, and will enter all the races about New York Bay and the 

 Sound. 



YACHT RACING ASSOCIATION.— We have received from 

 the publishers, Messrs. Harrison & Sons, London, the new Y. R. 

 A. book for 1891, contaimng the rules, time allowances, etc. We 

 notice a change in the method of measuring sails wittiaround 

 head or leaon, such as the ordinary lug or a sail extended by 

 battens, as in a canoe. The new provisiou is that the extra por- 

 tion must he measured and included in the area. 



OWEENEE.— Mr. Turner's new cutter now lies in the laige shed 

 at Lawley's, her bottom and decks beicg completed, and sDe will 

 be ready for launching this week. Har interior, which is finished 

 in white pine, is only partly completed, and ttiere is no prospect 

 of her beine ready for tbe May 30 race of the Eastern Y. 0. Cap- 

 tain Cbas. Barr and young Jobn are busy about her and the in- 

 terior has been painted with red lead from keel to deck. H- r 

 spars are nearly ready but it will be several weeks before she can 

 make a trial trip. 



DRAGON.— The new racing 20, Dragon, Mr. Hill, arrived at 

 Kingstown on May 6, from the Clyde (Fairlit) in a strong .S.S.W. 

 breeze. She behaved very well on the passage and proved on the 

 whole a very good boat at sea. Tne crew are quite satisfied with 

 her betiavor and she wiU, no doubt, be faster in a light breeze 

 than the former Dragon, while she is greatly admired by critics. 

 The vessel is daily expected at Southampton.— KeM. 



SAVIN HILL Y. C— The Savin Hill Y. C. has just made a 

 change in its measurement rule, adopting the old Atlantic Y. C. 

 rule, now obsolete, oaving been discarded hy both the Atlantic 

 and Larchmont clubs in favor of the Seawanhaka rule. The 

 Savin Hill Y. C. will have to take longer steps than this if it would 

 keep abreast of the times. 



SAYONAR A.— The new Thayer 46 was out last week on Law- 

 ley's ways, and after painting she will be ready save for a delwy 

 over her blocks, whicb has prevented the bending of her sails. 

 Capt. Nat Watson will probaolv bring her around to New York 

 as soon as she is c jmpleted, as Mr. Thayer proposes to enter the 

 New York races. 



WAIF— PERL— Mr. Gouverneur Knrtright has exchanged his 

 sloop Waif for the sloop Peri, owned by Mr. F. P. Sands. Mr. 

 Sands has lately purchased the cutter UVira, which reached 

 Newport from Halifax on May 14, after a run ot live days fi-om 

 Halifax. 



YACHT DESIGNING.— Tbe last number of Lc Y^acht to hand 

 contains the translation of the interesting articla on designing, 

 which appeared in the Herald last fall from the pen of Mr. A. 

 Gary Smith. The article ts translated by Mr. Smith's permission. 



FANCY, Mr. C. F. Lyman's new 90-footer, is now in the small 

 shed at Lawley's, her outboard worK, being nearly completed. 

 She will have a cockpit and an after cabin, and will be very neatly 

 arraoged below, though the space is somewhat restricted. 



LARCHMONT Y. C— On May 16 the formal opening of the 

 season took place at the Larchmont club house with the usual 

 ceremonies, Cappa's band being in attendance. 



BE ATRIX,— This centerboard 48, for Messrs. Byrant & Prince, 

 has been hurried along by Fidsbie, at Salem, and will be launched 

 on Monday next, hut it is very doubtful whether she w.ll be in 

 any sliupe by May 30. 



GLORI ANA.— The Herreshoft' 46 is nearly ready, and should be 

 in good shape before the flrst of tne Now York races. She is being 

 rigged by BiUman, of Boston, while Wilson & Silshy have made 

 her sails. 



NEW ROCHELLE Y. C— Com. Abbett and a large number of 

 the members of tne New Rochelle Y. C. were on hand on May 16 

 to open The season in due form. 



ILDERIM.— The Vanderbilt 46-footer is now afloat in Lawley's 

 basin, but laid up for an indefinite time, her owner being abroad. 



CHELSEA Y''. C— This club is building a club house 55x35 at 

 Cnelsea, Mass., near the bridge, to be ready next month. 



SIREN, steam yacht, has been sold by W. H. Harrison to Rich 

 art! Pease, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 



ELF, steam yacht, has been sold hy Geo. H.Flint to H. W. 

 Bates, of New York. 



CONSTELLATION, schr., Mr. E. D. Morgan, is fitting out at 

 Port Jefferson. 



SULTANA, steam yacht, T. L. Park, arrived at Malta on 



May 12, 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



C. M. W.— Either of the arms wiU answer well; we should 



choose the .32 



H. D. O.. Newark, N. J.— What is the best bait to use for German 

 carp, also the size hookV They are a Tery wary fish, and only oc- 

 casionally take the ordinary worm. Ana. Carp are spawning now 

 and should not he eaten. The fluttering-fly tias been used with 

 success. (S^rasshoppers have proved killing for surface fishing. 

 Corn bread, wheat bread or dough mixed with cotton are gener- 

 ally used. Grains of wheat and barley, maggots and larvse of the 

 wasp are favorite German baite. Hooks suitable for black base 

 will do lor c«.r(K»slz«8 0 to i ore iued In stilltfl^biai; for b««a. 



