Feb, 85, 1892.] 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



The Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. has in preparation a lecture 

 which promises to be specially interesting, the subject being "Yacht 

 Designers and Yacht Designing." In addition to a very full descrip- 

 tion of the technical side, which will be illustrated by a number of 

 special models, drawings and diagrams, the lecture will include a re- 

 view of the history and progress of designing. The whole subject 

 will be treated from a somewhat novel point of view; which, it is 

 hoped, will make the lecture interesting to the casual hearer, as well 

 as to those familiar with the subject. The date will be Tuesday, 

 March 8, at 8:30 P.M. 



A meeting of the Seawanhaka Cor. Y. C. was held on Feb. 33, with 

 Vice.-Com. Stanton presiding. The race committee announced that 

 the date of July 3 had been selected for the annual regatta, and that 

 on June 11 a special competition between Corinthian crews would 

 be held off the new club house. Two or more yachts will be anchored 

 and the crews will set, reef and stow sails and perform various other 

 maneuvers, appropriate prizes being given to the members of the 

 winning crew. Races for various classes will be held during the 

 season. An amendment to alter the sailing rules so as to prohibit 

 luffing after an overlap has been established, was laid on the table in 

 the absence of the proposer. 



LE LEZARD— FRENCH RACING YACHT. 



WE are indebted, through the kindness of our contemporary Le 

 xacht, to the courtesy of the designer, Mr. Gustave Caille- 

 botte, for the accompanying design of one of the smaller class of 

 French racing yachts which has proved verv successful during the 

 past season. Although the French yachtsmen were in the beginning 

 indebted to America and England for both designs and vessels, the 

 wide and shoal New York centerboard being even more numerous 

 than the extreme narrow cutter, a point has at last been reached 

 where French designers and builders are turning out craft of orig- 

 inal design, and in many cases with the most gratifying results. The 

 class to which Le Lezard belongs is one of the smallest, the limit 

 being a total sail area of 30 square metres or 333sq.ft.; this class being 

 a, favorite one at Argenteuil, the racing ground of the Cercle de la, 

 Voile de Paris. Le Lezard is one of a number of yachts designed for 

 this class by Mr. Caillebotte, and in which he has devoted special at- 

 tention to the construction. One of her most interesting features is 



BODY PLAN. 



the anticipation of the fin-keel shown in the wideniug of the lead, by 

 which the weight is disposed at the lowest point. This indicates the 

 method of construction which would be adopted should any rule be 

 made prohibiting the new fin- keel. The dimensions of Le Lezard are 

 17ft. 8m. l.w.l., 5ft. 5in. beam and 4ft. 4in. draft; the original scale of 

 feet on the drawing being supplemented by a second scale for 21ft. 

 l.w.l., the complete dimensions for both scales being as follows: 



DIMENSIONS AND ELEMENTS. 



Length over all *36ft. llin. 30ft. 5in. 



l.w.l 17ft. 8in. 31ft. 



Overhang forward 3ft. 7^in. 4ft. 4in. 



aft. . 4ft. 3J^in. oft. lin. 



Beam, extreme 5ft. 5in. 6ft. 5in. 



1.W.L 5ft. 5ft. llin. 



Freeboard, bow 1ft. llj^in. 2ft. Hiin. 



ieast U^in. 1ft. ikin. 



stern 1ft. 6in. 1ft. 9Uin. 



Draft.... 4ft. 4in. 5£t. l#n. 



Displacement, long tons 1.60 



Ballast. 1.00 



Ratio of ballast to displacement 62^ 



Mast from fore end, l.w.l ... 41t. Sin. 



deck to truck 19ft. 6in. 



Bowsprit beyond fore end, l.w.l 9ft. 6in. 



Boom 19ft. 4in. 



Yard 18ft. 8in. 



Mainsail, sq. ft 241 



Jib 82 



Total area 323 



Sailing length, S. C. Y. C. rules 18ft. 



Rake of sternpost, degrees 58 



Spacing of stations 1ft. 9%in. 



waterlines 8in. 



The above displacement includes a crew of two men. 

 The yacht was built by Luce, at Petit-Genneviliiers, in the spring 

 of last year. Since then Mr. Caillebotte has designed another lor the 

 same class, but slightly shorter and with a trifle less displacement, 

 the lateral plane being still closer to a triangle. 



NYSSA. 



THE keel sloop Nyssa, well known about New York and Boston, has 

 lately come to an untimely end. having been abandoned on Jan. 

 23, near Onancock, Va., on Chesapeake Bay. The owner, Charles E. 

 Welborn, and the crew, Herman Solsburg and Edward Landblock, 

 the latter acting as engineer, reached shore safely after the yacht 

 grounded, and nothing further is known of her fate, but it is sup- 

 posed that she floated off the beach and sunk. 



The story came to light through the arrest of Welborn at Norfolk 

 Va.. for robbing the offices of the Florida Central & Peninsular R. r! 

 of $3,000 worth of tickets. It appears that Welborn bought the 

 yacht of A. M. Stanton, of Bridgeport, Conn., giving worthless notes 

 to the amount of $2,500. Nyssa is known to the readers of the Forest 

 and Stkeam, her lines having been published on May 1, 1889, and later 

 in "Small Yachts." She was one of the early keel sloops built in 

 Boston about the beginning of the cutter-sloop controversy, boats 

 both wide and deep. She was built by Wood Bros, in 1882, and was 

 30ft. 4in. over all, 26ft. 9in. l.w.l., 10ft. beam, and 5ft. 7in. draft. 



She was originally named Gleam, but her name was changed in 

 1883 by Mr. J. L. Wall, who bought her and brought her to New York, 

 where she has since remained under various owners. Last spring 

 she was fitted with an Ofeldt naphtha engine, a small screw being 

 fitted in the deadwoods, and she was using this auxiliary power in 

 the course of her last crnise. 



AMERICAN MODEL Y. C. 



TN the years 1873-8-4 a boat house for model yachts at Prospect 

 X Park Lake, Brooklyn, L. I., was under consideration. The Pros- 

 pect Park Club, which was the parent organization, the Long Island 

 and the American— all three clamored for recognition by the Park 

 Commissioners, but their claims for special favors caused the Park 

 Commissioners to become disgusted with the whole affair, and the 

 matter fell through ; the clubs being left to shift for themselves as 

 best they could. 



After an interval of 20 years the officers of the American Model 

 Y. C, partly from necessity and want of accommodations for thi 

 growing accumulation of models, signed a petition to the prese»; 



