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DUTCH BAILING YACHT (BOEIER) ELIZABETH. Designed BY L. VAN BREEN, Esq., 1886. 



The annual meeting of the Portland Y. C. was held on March 3. 

 The following officers and committees being elected: Com., C. W. 

 Bray; Vice-Corn., Walter Woodman: Sec'y, Chas. F. Flags:; Treas., 

 C. T. A. Weber; Meas., J. H. Dyer. Trustees— Com.j-ear-Oj^cio: J. H. 

 Boyd, Wm. Senter, B. W. Jones. Membership Committee— C. J. Far- 

 rington, E. H. York, J. H. Boyd, Sec'y ex-offlcio. Regatta Commit- 

 tee—Com., ex-oyicio; A. M. 'Smith, R. S. Rand. W. E. Carter, W. 

 Kirsch, House Committee— W. W. Gould, C. D. Smith. 



On March 19 the side-wheel steam yacht ClermoDt was launched 

 from H. Lawrence's yard, Greenpoint, where she was built for Mr. 

 Alfred Van Santvoord, of the New York Y. C. She is of wood, 160ft. 

 over all, 42ft: beam, and 10ft. 6in. hold. She will hare beam engines, 

 by Wm. Fletcher. 



Mr. J. Beavor Webb is at work on a design for an auxiliary steam 

 yacht for Mr. Lloyd Phoenix, owner of the schooner Intrepid. The 

 new yacht will be 164ft. over all. 132ft. l.w 1.. 27ft. 2m. beam, 16ft. 3in. 

 depth, and 13ft. 6in. draft. She will be rigged as a three-masted 

 schooner, and her engines will be triple-compound, 9, 14^£ and 23J^ui. 

 by 19in. She will be built of steel by Neafie & Levy, of Philadelphia. 



The opening cruise of the Rochester Y. C. has been announced for 

 Saturday, May 28. the objective point being Sodus Bay. The fleet of 

 this popular club has been augmented by the purchase of the Burgess 

 sloop Choctaw and by the building of a Fife cutter by members of 

 the club. The coming season promises to be. if possible, more suc- 

 cessful than any former one. 



The usual Fast Day races of the Savin Hill Y. C. will be sailed on 

 April 7 off the club house, there being two classes, 13 to 15ft. and 

 under 13ft. The club's fixtures for the season are: June 18, first 

 championship; June 30," open race; July 2, first cup race ; July 16, race 

 for cash prizes: July 30, second championship; Aug. 13, second cup ; 

 Aug. 27, sail off. 



The Herreshoffs have received an order for a second 30ft. fin-keel 

 for an anonymous owner, and also for a racer for Buzzard's Bay, a 

 fin-keel 25ft. over all, 16ft. 6in. l.w.l. 



Canvas Canoes and how to Build Tliem. By Parker B. Field, 

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

 Price £2.00. Canoe Handling. By C. B. Yaux. 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. Caiwe and Camp Cookery. 

 By "Seneca." Price $1 



FIXTURES. 



MAY. 



7. Springfield, Cup. Springfield. 28 30. Springfield, Meet, Calla 

 21. Brooklyn, War, Bay Ridge. Shasta. 

 30. Jersey City, Greenville, N. J. 



JUNE. 



4. Springfield, Cup, Springfield. 18. Marine & Field, Ann., Qraves- 

 11. New York, Ann., Bensonhurst end Bay. 



25. Brooklyn, Ann., Bay Ridge. 



JULY. 



3. Springfield, Cup, Springfield. 9-23. W. C. A. Meet, Oshkosh,Wis. 



AUGUST. 



4-25. A.C.A.Meet.WillsboroiighPt 15-20. A.. C. A. Meet, race week, 

 6. Springfield, Cup, Springfield. Willsborough Point. 



SEPTEMBER. 



3. Springfield, Cup, Springfield. 



OCTOBER. 



1. Springfield, Cup, Springfield. 



WAR CANOES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In response to the request contained in your is'ue of the 24th inst. 

 for information as to war canoes built, we beg to inform you that up 

 to the present we have built five, as follows: 35ft x50in , Ko ko-ko ho, 

 for Yonkers C. C. , 35ft.x50in. for Brown University C. C. ; 30ft. x 

 EOin. for Orange C. C; 25fr.x50in. for Red Dragon C. C, 25ft.x50in. 

 for Chicago C. C. The 35-footers had nine and ten, the 30 footer ten 

 and the 25-footers six and eight thwarts. There is plenty of space in 

 the 35-focter for eleven thwarts. 



Since we learned last December of Mr. Barcey's suggestion to build 

 these craft in sections we have been figuring on the plan. Doubtless 

 the question of transportation has been a serious drawback to clubs 

 contemplating purchasing war canoes, but the difficulty can be over- 

 come by building them as Mr. Barney suggests, viz., in three sec- 

 tions; or a 25ft., 30ft , or even 35ft. canoe can be built m two sections 

 and easily load in an ordinary box car. Probably the two sections 

 only would be preferable as far as convenience in loading, shipping, 

 and joining together is concerned. With the necessarily high thwarts, 

 the dow and stern sections would not stow snugly in the middle 

 piece unless thwarts were made removable, and that is scarcely de- 

 sirable in a boat of this kind, which sometimes has to undergo hard 

 usage, and with a crew of, say, twelve to fourteen, accompanied by 

 two or three passengers, representing together probably from 

 2,3001bs. to 2,5C01bs., has to be very strongly constructed to make a 

 long lived boat, and the thwarts should be fixtures. But with the 

 latter there would be good room, in shipping, for small canoes, car- 

 rying outfits, etc. The objection, however, against the two-section 

 canoe, is that the division would have to be about midships, where 

 she should be specially strong. To make the planking, etc.. fit clean 

 in place, and the whole tning watertight and perfect, these divisions 

 will make the first outlay on the canoe considerably higher than for 

 the regular style, hut the difference between box and flat car rail- 

 road rates would soon more than counterbalance tbe thing, i. e., if 

 canoe is lo be transported over tbe railroad to meets, races, etc., 

 often. From correspondence received on the subject of war canoes 

 tbe 30ft. x43in. to 50in. appears to be the proper size at preseut. This 

 can be made with nine or ten thwarts, two paddlers to each. In the 

 spring of 1890 you published in your columns our design of the 35ft. x 

 50in. war canoe Ko-ko-ko-ho, we believe the first built of its kind in 

 this country. J. G. Frazer, 



Manager St. Lawrence River S., C. & S. L. Ce. 



Clayton, March 26. 



NEWS NOTES. 



From all accounts as to building and rigging, the racing of the 

 coming season in tbe South will produce a considerable amount of 

 interest in the trial of novelties. Short hulls will be tried against 

 long ones, the short hulls having some Sin more beam than the long 

 ones. Sharpie models, or rather models with more or less ''sharpie" 

 foim in them, will be run with the roimd and sharp-rising floored 

 crafi ; and the semicircular, cigar shaped "Nautilus" canoe, which 

 came into existence last season, and which barely reached the end 

 of the "trial period,'' is to be again put into the racing list should 

 she remain unsold at Easter. The run upon "single sail"' plans is 

 undoubted, but we venture to think that the gam will be on the 

 sailmakeis' side. A short trial will probably convince many of the 

 men that, to carry the total area allowed, 112sq. ft., in one sail, 

 on a canoe 16ft by 30in., is not conducive to all-round efficiency, 

 though, in a few isolated cases, such as days of light airs, it may turn 

 up trumps in racing against the practical rig of main and mizen.— 

 Field. 



Judging from the report of the Oxford Sailing Club's race in last 

 week's Field, the new sharpie-modeled canoe Battledore is by no 

 means a slow craft, seeing that she beat the canoe-yawls in two 

 races. She was fitted with a sliding deck seat, and to this fact the 

 reporter attributes a considerable portion of her success. Probably 

 such is in fact the case, for from a practical point of view there can 

 be little doubt that the sliding seat produces as great advantage in 

 sail carrying over mere side deck sitting, as such position gains over 

 the in board and below sitting of the crew. The claim that this is the 

 first use of the sliding seat in England is not well founded. The north- 

 ern men, we are told, have been using sliding seats some time past; 

 and we now find that the rules of the Northern C. C. permit "deck 

 seats to extend beyond the sides of the canoe, not exceeding the 

 canoe's width." If we are not mistaken, also, the sliding deck seat 

 v.ns used in some of the races on the Norfolk Broads last summer.— 

 Field. 



The new catalogue of the Grand Rapids Camp Furniture and Boat 

 Co. contains a very full list of all varieties of small craft, rowboais, 

 canoes, hunting boats, canoe-yawls, steam launches, sneak-boxes, 

 together with sails and outfits. The book is well illustrated, showing 

 a number of handtome models. The company manufactures a 

 special line of camp furniture, including several varieties of a handy 

 and compact tent and bed. 



In a race on March 10 at Oxford the canoe Battledore started 

 against three canoe-yawls, finally saving her time through a hard 

 squall, in which she carried her sail better than her rivals. On 

 March 17 another race was sailed, the canoe again winning. 



A correspondent asks for infor-malion concerning Sebago Lake, 

 Me,, as a place for canoe cruising. 



