FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 14, 13*2. 



l iff Scale. 



RACING CANOE YAWL "SHADOW. 



Tournament at Willim antic. 



The Willimantic Rod and Gun Club will hold a touruament on 

 their club grounds, at Willimantic, Conn., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 

 and the following programme has been announced: No. 1, 10 

 singles. 75 cents. No. 3, 10 siDgles, 75 cents. No. 3. 15 singles, $1. 

 No. 4, 30 singles, team shoot, 3 men from any club of State, $10. 

 No. 5, 15 singles $1. No. 6, 10 straight away, 24yds., 75 cents. No. 

 7, 10 singles. 2-man team, $2. No. 8, 6 pair doubles, 75 cents. No. 

 9, 15 pair doubles, $1. No. 10, 10 pair doubles, 75 cents. Keystone 

 system. Four moneys in all events, except team shoot, if four 

 or more teams, 2 moneys. Shooting to commence at 9:30 A. M. 

 Light refreshments on grounds, also loaded shells. Birds in- 

 cluded in entrance. If stormy on the above date the tournament 

 will be held on Jan.38. 



Chicago Teams. 



Chicago, Jan. 9.— Among the highly important matches of the 

 day is a team race concluded between Messrs. R. S. Cos and Doc 

 Malcolm of the first nart, and "One Lung" and Antoine of the 

 second part, twenty-five birds and $25 a corner. 



Harry McMurchy is in town as expected to-day, and is looking 

 for the galaxy of noted Western trap shots who have heen threat- 

 ening to come here. He is of the opinion that the other noted 

 shots have heard of his coming and so have staid away. 



E. Hoxjgh. 



Pittsburgh Gun Club. 



At a n-eeting held Jan. 7, the following officers were elected to 

 serve during 1892. President, G. E. Painter; Vice-President, 

 James Crow; Secretary-Treasurer, Elmer E. Shaner; Directors, 

 C. A. Painter, C. M. Hostetter, Samuel Shaner and Joseph A. 

 Glesenkamp.— Elmer E. Shaneb, Sec'y P. G. C. 



Missouri Tournament. 



Kansas City, Jan. 9.— Editor Forest and Stream: The fifteenth 

 annual tournament of the Missouri State Fish ana Game Protec- 

 tive Association will be held in Kansas City, Mo., from May 2 to 

 May 7. . W. V. Riegeb, Sec'y. 



Canvas Canoes and how to Build Them. By Parker B. Field. 

 Price 50 cents. Canoe and Boat Building. By W. P. Stephens. 

 Price $9.00. Canoe Handling. By C. B. Vaux. Price $1. Canoe 

 and Camera. By T. S. Steele. Price 1.50. Four Months in a Sneak- 

 box. By N. H. Bishov. Price $1.50. Canoe and Camp Cookery. 

 By "■Seneca." Price $1^. 



ARLINGTON C. C— The totem of the Arlington C. C. has been 

 changed from a five-pointed star to a starfish, The club house 

 will be enlarged before next season to meet the growing needs of 

 o!ub, 



RACING CANOE-YAWLS. 



THE acrompanving drawings, to which we are indebted to the 

 Model Yachtsman and Canoeist, show a peculiar type of racing 

 boat that has recently come into use in England under the title 

 "canoe-yawl," though very different from the boats commonly 

 classed under that elastic and comprehensive title. While their 

 birthplace was on the Thames, they are obviously American in 

 type, and unlike any of the native small cratt. We quote the 

 following description by the builder: 



The Shadow is not, as some may suppose, the result of a 

 "happy hit" in the way of design, but is rather the result of care- 

 ful original thought, based upon close observation of the perform- 

 ance of various types of boats of light displacement that have ap- 

 peared on the river at Oxford. Although the first of the Oxford 

 canoe-yawls she was preceded by several boats of the sharpie tvpe, 

 which were purely experimental, the first of these being tne Yan- 

 kee, followed by the catamaran Domino, the sloops Merlin and 

 Skipjack, and the canoe Iris, boats which have in turn ; under 

 favorable circumstances shown a remarkable pace. For instance, 

 the Domino might have been seen careering over Port Meadows 

 with about 12in. of water under her at a pace that could not be 

 short of 10 to 15 miles an hour. This occurred three years ago, 

 during a strong S. W. wind; and instances have been noted when 

 the sharpies have gODe apparently three times the pace of other 

 boats in competition. By a peculiar adjustment of the surplus 

 buoyancy and the displacement the Oxford yawls have the faculty 

 to a greater or less degree of "skidding" over the water, and not 

 "wallowing" in it as moat boats do. The same faculty has been 

 attained even in round-bodied boats, such as Wisp and Torpedo. 



The Shadow has made some remarkable records. Two years ago 

 she was sailed single-handed, with all camping gear aboard, from 

 above Teddington to Queenborough, on the West Swale, in one 

 day's run, the distance being about 75 miles. Another remarkable 

 run was from Rochester to Port Yictoria in one and one-half hours, 

 timed, distance about 14 miles. In her first year, at Medley, 

 Bourne Eod and Dartmouth, she secured over 20 first and second 

 prizes, and this term at Oxford she secured two first prizes from 

 boats built expressly to beat her. 



The Shadow is no "racing machine," as will be seen by a glance 

 at her design. She is of peculiar construction and very strong. 

 The bottom and deck are %in. pine, the floors lin. oak, the sides 

 J^in. cedar with a top strake of %\n. cedar. The seams of the 

 bottom are covered inside with copper strips about lin. wide, the 

 deck is covered with canvas, painted white. The shaded parts 

 shown in deck plan are of mahogany varnished. She is the heavieet 

 of the Oxford yawls. 



The design published is taken from the original drawings, with 

 a few modifications. Some recent alterations are not shown. The 

 well has been lengthened aft as far as the bulkhead, and a long 

 tiller fitted to rudder heal, and the inizzen discarded. 



Much of the success of this boat is due to the excellent handling 

 of her owner. "May his 'Shadow' never grow less." 



-■ Theo. Smith. 



A. C. A. MEMBE RSHIP.— Easter n Division: Reginald Birney, 

 Daniel S. Morrell, Hartford, Conn. 



SMALL CRUISERS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



As one of your correspondents remarks, the small boat men 

 appear to "have the floor" in your columns of late, and before we 

 relinquish it will you allow me to comment upon "Cayuga's" let- 

 ter in last issue. 



First, as to model, he can not see the use of the long overhang 

 at stern, as in the design you published on Dec 17, except as a mat- 

 ter of beauty, and thinks it difficult to get a "fair" sweep for the 

 counter. Cut off the last two feet or less of the design and put 

 in a flat transom with a scag underneath and you will have pre- 

 cisely the type of stern he has in his sneakbox. The planking is 

 merely carried out to intersection with the deck, giving a stronger 

 and handsomer finish and a stern less liable to be "pooped" by a 

 following sea. As compared with a sharp-sterned model of equal 

 length over all the model is lighter and gives more deck room 

 and an opportunity to fit a traveler for the mizen sheet— some- 

 thing which has bothered the canoe men for some time back; in 

 fact this is the main reason for the extreme length shown in the 

 design; viz., to do away with a bumpkin, or outrigger, one of 

 the principal arguments against the } awl rig. I deny the extra 

 difficulty iu building as compared with the sharp ender and have 

 found it in my own experience just as easy to sweep the planking 

 out to a horizontal edge as to twist it into a vertical one. I doubt 

 the greatly superior ability and power of the double ender of 

 same over all length; the area of load water line plane would 

 show but little difference and the stability would be but little 

 more, while there is a very much larger amount of skin surface 

 shown, and of dead weight, which in the counter-sterned boat is 

 replaced by larger centerboard and rudder, giving greater lateral 

 resistance and more ballast where it will be of most service. 

 Over all length should I think include the length of rudder, in 

 which case the comparison should be still more in favor of the 

 overhang. 



The bow in the design is a compromise between the ordinary 

 canoe bow with a sharp knuckle and that of his "spoonbill." It 

 is stronger structurally than the latter, has much of the same 

 virtue in beaching, without being so difficult to drive against a 

 head sea and wind, or, which is much the sa me thing, she will ride 

 easier to an anchor in a blow. "Cayuga" makes a point about 

 weeds getting entangled in the rudder, which is a good one; and 

 for some localities a small scag or guard might be advantageously 

 added to tbe design. But I have found that the worst entangle- 

 ments are where the weeds work in between the sternpost and 

 rudder, when they can only be removed with an oar or by hand, 

 whereas with a rudder of the type shown in the design it is only 

 necessary to lull the boat into the wind. On reaching open water 

 let her gather stern way and all accumulations float off to wind- 

 ward as she falls off again. Tbe overhang does not preclude the 

 use of a drop rudder with tripping line. My intention is to use 

 tbe device with the line leading up through the rudder stock, 

 which is of gas pipe or brass tubing. 



Coming now to the question of rig, the advantages of the yawl 

 rig on a working boat have been so often gone over in your col- 

 umns and elsewhere, that it seems unnecessary to repeat; but in- 

 dependent of aandiness, it is possible, by lowering the center of 



