Jak. % 1892.] 



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Plan of Property ok Skawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. Center Island, Oyster Bay Harbor. 



and boat house, with facilities for the care of small craft keeping 

 no paid crew. 



While the facilities for carrying on races in the larger classes 

 will he vastly better than in the past, what is of still more im- 

 portance to the prosperity and personnel of the club is that the 

 racing of small craft, for which sport the club was founded, and 

 wbich contributed so much to its success at ose time on New 

 York Bay, will be revived on a far larger scale than of old. A 

 move in this direction has already been made by the ordering of 

 tour catboats, designed by Mr. A. Gary Smith and now building 

 by Wallen & Gorman, all of the same model, for the use of mem- 

 bers. There is already a fine fleet of small racing craft at Ouster 

 Bay, in part a remnant of the first fleet of the club, and this is 

 likely to'be largely increased as other owners of such yachts real- 

 ize the facilities for keeping and racing them wbich the club now 

 offers. , . 



Since the publication of the notice of the first race under Corin- 

 thian rules in 1873, many great and important chauges have 

 taken place in yachting, and the different conditions existing to- 

 day are likely to lead to a modification of the strict Corinthian 

 rule in the larger classes of racing boats, but the truth of the 

 principles of Corinthian sailing first laid down in this country by 

 the Seawanhaka Y. C. has been so generally recognized that they 

 have become a part of the policy of the majority of the clubs. 

 With these principles still for its guide, and installed at last in a 

 fitting home, the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht CJub, once more 

 of Oyster Bay, begins its third decade with unequalled possibili- 

 ties before it of benefit to itself and to American yachting. 



RACING IN STANDARD CRAFT.-The Scawauhaka Corin- 

 thian Y. C. is about to inaugurate at its new home a variety of 

 racing which is, with one exception, a novelty to this country 

 though the scheme has worked successfully in several English 

 and Irish clubs. The club has commissioned Mr. A. Gary Smith 

 to prepare the lines, sail plan and specifications for a standard 

 club catboat, and a contract has been made for four boats, to be 

 owned by the club; while it is expected that others will be built by 

 members. Of course all ' he boats will be identical in model and 

 rig, making the winning purely a question of individual skill. 

 Regular weekly races will be held through the season, any mem- 

 ber of the club being at liberty to enter one of the boats; while 

 members may sail special races at any time. A record of all races 

 and winners will be kept, prizes being given at the end of the 

 season for the best records. Besides its novelty, the Fcherue has 

 several valuable features to commend it— while from the equality 

 of all the yachts, and the resulting personal rivalry between the 

 crews, the interest in the racing is likely to be keen and sus- 

 tained; at the same time all considerations of pxpense, together 

 with the discouragement which follows out-building, are entirely 

 removed. The new class is likely to prove a most popular one 

 with non-yacht owners especially; while even those who are 

 happy in the possession of large craft need not hesitate over tak- 

 ing the tiller of one of the club cats against a field of rivals. This 

 system of racing in small craft all of the same model is specially 

 adapted to a large number of yacht clubs where racing is at a low 

 ebb through continued out-building and the increasing work and 

 expense of racing. Of course under it there can be no improve- 

 ment in the boats, but there can be plenty of good racing, with all 

 the resulting benefits wbich racing brings to a ya«ht club. 



AN AMATEUR DESIGNER.— Mr. Henry Bryant, of the East- 

 ern Y. C., the designer of Thetis and Alert, whose lines have 

 appeared in the Forest and Streak, is now in Glasgow, attend- 

 ing the regular course of study in the College of Naval Architec- 

 ture, and also working in one of the Clyde shipyards. Mr. Bryant 

 is fortunately the poscessor of ample means, and consequently 

 able to command such advantages abroad as cannot be had in 

 this country. 



A GENEROUS YACHTSMAN.— Moved by the serious disasters 

 caused by the recent severe gales on the French coast, Baron 

 Arthur de Rothschild, vice-president of the Union of French 

 Yachts, aud owner of the steam yacht Eros, has presented the 

 sum of 20,000 francs to an institution which cares for the orphans 

 of French sailors, of the navy and merchant marine. In addition 

 he has promised the sum of 10,000 francs annually for five years.' 



KEEPING UP WITH THE PROCESSION.-The Hull Y C. is 

 one of the active and pushing clubs which has been content 

 to do a good deal of racing uud«r poor rules; but it has awakened 

 to the needs of the times, and at its next meeting, on Saturday, 

 some important changes will be acted on, the following amend- 

 ments in all probability being adopted: l> In all races of the fifth 

 and sixth classes the wheel or tiller shall be held only by an ama- 

 teur. An amateur for the purposes of this rule shall be ueflned as 

 one whose business is not in or about boats, aud who has never 

 received money or equivalent compensation for sailing or assist* 

 ing to sail a boat since this club was organized." Adding to 

 Article 5 the words, "before the owner of a winning yacht shall 

 receive the prize, he, or, iu his absence, the club member repre- 

 senting him on the yacht, shall sign a declaration that all the 

 racing rules were complied with on such yacht dtmncr the race." 

 The committee on "standard of measurement" will present 

 its report recommending a combined waterline length and sail 

 area rule. 



D. J. L AW LOR.— Mr . Lawlor, a sketch of whose life we recently 

 published, died at Boston, Jau. 1, the 68th anniversary of his 

 birth. 



1LDER1M, the Yanderbilt 46-footer, a new yacht last year, but 

 never fitted out, will have a new sail plan, designed by Stewart & 

 Binuey, 



ISIS, cutter, has beeu sold by G. A. Stevens to C. G, Miller. 



Canvas Canoes and hotv to Build Tfiem. By ParHer B. Field. 

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

 Price £2.00. Canoe Handling. .By C. B. Vaux. Price $1. Canoe 

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

 box. By N. B~. Bishop. Price $1.50. Canoe and Camp Catikerti. 

 Bu "Seneca" Price 



Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest and 

 Stream their addresses, with name, membership, signal, etc., of 

 their clubs, aud also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 

 report of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 

 requested to forward to Forest and Stream their addresses, with 

 logs of cruises, maps, and information concerning their local 

 waters, drawings or descriptions of boats aud fittings, and all 

 terns relating to the sport. 



A FISHERMAN'S CANOE YAWL, 



BEING a constant reader of your valuable paper, and noticing 

 the atlentiou that is being paid to all kinds of canoes, it has 

 occurred to my fellow-sportsmau Mr, W. J. Comerford and to me 

 that you mieht like a description of the combination cauoe Sam 

 Boyd, the best boat, for the purpose used, afloat to-day (our 

 opinion!, and a boat that cannot be duplicated without a great 

 deal of trouble, owing to her being of one solid tree "dug out." 

 The Boyd is n. canoe duar out of a cypress log, 20ft. 4in. long, 4ft. 

 beam, 20in. freeboard, SVain. draft light, bottom nearly flat, has 

 steel centerboard Jgin. thick, 2ft. I0!>§in. long and 2<Sin. hi«h in 









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widest place, weighing 1051bs. You will see from "cut" what 

 splendid bal!a«t arid great resistance the board offers when work- 

 ing to windward. Has housetop well each side of centerboard 

 ease, water-tight, with brass valves through bottom for keeping 

 fish alive, also bait, such as minnows, shrimp and crawfish; well 

 and centerboard placed so as to allow for rowing two pairs of 

 sculls when wind fails, and room at each end for comfortable 

 fishing, for which purpose we use the boat altogether. Tae Boyd 

 is a most remarkable boat in any and all kinds of weather, being 

 very fast under sail and pulling very easy, with two pairs of 8fr. 

 spruce oars Mr. Comerford and myself can row about five miles 

 per hour in slack water. She carries no ballast but water in the 

 wells, aud the crew hardly ever require to sit on windward rail 

 unless blowing very hard. The masts, booms, sprit, etc., all of 

 lightest spruce, and very easily handled, the masts are just the 

 length of cockpit, and when unshipped all fit on each side of 

 housetop well, entirely out of the way when rowing. The center- 

 board is of ^in. steel, and works in the case tiirough a piece of 

 gas pipe the width of the case, and is held in position by an iron 

 bolt running through the gas pipe and screwed up inside well on 

 each side of the case, thereby giving board plenty of play and all 

 the wear coming on gas oipe and bolt and making the centercase 

 perfectly water tieht. The board is raised and lowered by a line 

 running to an iron band riveted loose on the board, thereby keep- 

 ing the rope perpendicular in every position of the board in its 

 pa'sage up and d«wn the ease. The tiller works with double 

 yoke, one on the rudderhead and one under the deck. The sail 

 plan is just the thing for us, as we use the sprit for staking the 

 boat when fishing, and we reef the foresail when blowing too 

 hard, By stowing the jib, which sets flying, and removing the 

 sprit we have two leg-of-mutton sails, which we can carry in half 

 a gale in nearly any kind of sea. I hope that my very poor de- 

 sorintion of a very good boat will be of so'nis interest to you. 

 New Orleans, Dec. 24. Tally Ho. 



CLUB CONSTITUTIONS. 



Fdiitor Forest and Stream: 



A reprint of the N. Y. C. C. constitution which appears (with 

 some slight errors) in your number of Dec. 31 gives the writer too 

 much credit for this compilation, which is really due to a commit- 

 tee of the c'ub and to Mr. Dslavan, the chairman. As matter of 

 fact, the committee to revise the former constitution accepted 

 written suggestions from several members, and its final report 

 was adopted at the annual meeting of the club, 1890. With this 

 and other club constitutions for material, the writer subsequently 

 drafted one intended to be brief, yet comprehensive. The draft 

 endeavors to give full powers to a small, responsible governing 

 committee to be elected annually by the active members of the 

 club to hold office (each member thereof) for a term of one year, 

 and have power to elect its own offleer«, who shall also b 1 ? the 

 officers of the club. This draft for a constitution was dul v urinted 

 and published in the August number of Sail and Paddle. Its 

 merits or defects must be d termined by careful comoarison and 

 by actual service; at all events, new material is added for the 

 compilation of dry and unattractive reading to be f auad in club 

 books. 



The present tendency to incorporate voluntary associations 

 under the laws of the several States, in reality does away with the 

 necessity for any constitu'ion other than the articles of incorpo- 

 ration; the better view seems to regard the charter itself as the 

 constitution proper, uuder which ail necessary by-law* are made 

 and subject to the laws regulating such incorporated associations. 



A. H. Sexton. 



New York, Jan. 3. 



[The typographical errors alluded to are the substitution 

 of the word "the" for : "and" in the second line rf the 5th 

 section of Article V.; the substitution of "expire" for "occur" in 

 the twenty-fourth lin^ of the same section. «ud the omission of 

 the words "due notice" after "club" in Art. VI,, Section 2, line 5. ] 



PURITAN C. C.— The annual meeting of the Puritan C. O. was 

 helo on .Tan. 2, the following heing elected officers for 1893: Com.. 

 Edw. S. Gilmore; Vicf-C'om., J. S. Daan; Rear Cini., Jos. E. Hill; 

 Sec'yi Jas. W. Gartwright, Jr.; Treas-, L ithrop Hedge. Board of 

 Directors: The above officers and F. J. Baxter and Geo. R. Under- 

 wood. Measurer, J. R. Robertson. Membership Com.: Messrs. 

 Hill, Underwood an>i Dean. House Com.: Messrs. Gilmore, 

 Hedge snd Jepson. The year 1891 has been a very successful one 

 for the Puritan C. C.. there being noted a eain in all directions. 

 Total membership 36, total fleet 45 boats, financial condition 

 sound, average daily attendance at club house 7 men. The club 

 fleet has been increased by the purchase of the 20ft. oaddling 

 canoe Goo-aoo-zenia, which accommodates ten men.— James W 

 Cartwright. Jr., Sec'y. 



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No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



W. H. M., Scotch Lake, N. B. — 1. Can you tell me what kind of 

 bird this is, of which I send a rude drawing aud description, and 

 what wouht be the value of a mounted specimen? 9. What; spe- 

 cies of woodpecker is entirely black excepting white marks on 

 wings? It has four toes on each foot. 3. Would the habits of 

 bird*! of this locality be of interest to the readers of Forest and 

 Stream? I have dates of the arrival of quite a number of birds 

 for two or three seasons, and of the departure of some which are 

 very late. Ans. 1. The bird is the American sparrowhawk (Falco 

 sparveri-us). It is quite common, and perhaps a mounted speci- 

 men mav be worth $1.50 to $2, if any one wanted it. 3. Cannot 

 identify bird from this description 3. Should be glad to hear 

 from you, but cannot answer definitely without seeing manu- 

 script. 



Some prospectors, while digging for gold iu an old spring 

 at the head of Trout Creek, last week, unearthed a fairly 

 well-preserved buffalo head. It was some four or five feet 

 underground, and one horn was still on the skull intael- 

 This find is of some interest, as it has been pretty generally 

 believed that there were never anv buffalo on this side of 

 the Rockv Mountains. An old Piute Indian, who was over 

 at Crow Camp last summer, who was doubtless over one 

 hundred years of age, has told of seeing herds of buffalo 

 roaming over this valley in his early boyhood days, and his 

 story, which was considered then a common every-day In- 

 dian lie, is confirmed by the rinding of this unmistakable 

 proof of the animal's having been here.--H"araey (Ore.) 

 News. 



It is said that there are yet a few beavers along the 

 Umatilla River to remind old-timer3 of the days when 

 these little animals frequented Oregon streams in large 

 numbers. An immense beaver dam was discovered several 

 miles below Pendleton the other day by a couple of hunters, 

 who saw a number of the animals and succeeded in shoot- 

 ing one.— Son Francisco Call, 



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