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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[April 31, 1898, 



GLYCERA, FIVE-RATER. 



THE gradual removal of all restrictions on overhanging ends has 

 led to the almost universal adoption of the clipper stem and 

 long counterstern, and so eeneral have these features become in 

 America, and to such an extent have they been carried, that it will 

 be a matter of surprise to many American yachtsmen to learn that 

 there is still one prominent designer who is voluntarily designing 

 yachts with little or no overhang, these same yachts being most suc- 

 cessful alongside of the more fashionable type. The 5rater Glycera, 

 whose lines we reproduce from the new Italian yachting journal, the 

 Bevista Nautica. is an excellent illustration of type, being one of the 

 many successful yachts of 5 and 2% rating desiened and built by 

 Mr. Arthur E. Payne, of Southampton, Eneland. Mr. Payne's trade- 

 mark, the short pilot-boat stem, is found in nearly all these boats, as 

 well as in his very successful 10-rater Decima, and even on the 70ft. 

 Ashing cutter L'Espprance built last season for Lord Dunraven. 



Glycera was built in 1890 for Mr. Philip Perceval, starting in 43 races 

 ana winninar 19 first and 12 other prizes. In 1891 she was owned by 

 Mr" J. H. Gubbins, of Cork. Ireland, starting 17 times and winning 18 

 first and 2 other, prizes. The success of the numerous Payne boats 

 of this type, Glycera, Awilda, Babe, Humming Bird, Windfall, Fiera. 

 Savourna and Janetta against the conventional type of modern 

 clipper-stemmed craft turned outby Watson, Fife and other designers, 

 offers strong proof tbat American yachtsmen have of late placed 

 entirely too high a value upon overhanging ends as factors of speed. 

 While several good reasons may be advanced for overhangs at least 

 as long as those of Minerva, Lids, Gossoon and Katrina, it is more 

 than probable that their speed is almost entirely independent of the 

 amount of overhang, the same being largely true of Gloriana and 

 the other Herreshoff yachts. At the end of last season Glycera was 

 sold to Messrs Garacc'io, of Nice, and she has recently made a suc- 

 cessful debut in the Mediterranean under the name of Va Partoul. 

 Her dimensions are as follows: 



L.W L 30ft. lOin. 



Fore overhang 1ft. 4in. 



After overhang 1ft. 5in . 



Length over all on deck 33ft. 7in. 



Beam extreme 8ft. lOin. 



L.W.L 8ft. 4in. 



Draft extreme 7ft. 2in. 



Rake of sternpost 52deg. 



Least freeboard .....lft. lOin. 



bheer i stern - 3in. 



Mast from stem at l.w.l 8ft. — 



deck to hounds 35ft. — 



deck to truck 32ft. Sin. 



Bowsprit bevond l.w.l 13ft. — 



Boom 30ft. Sin. 



Gaff 19ft. 3in. 



Sail area, Y. R, A. rule 9t>6sq. ft. 



ON FLORIDA REEFS. 



I HAVE just returned from a trip down on the Gulf coast in com- 

 pany with two other fellows, and of all the experiences that J 

 ever passed through that undoubtedly takes the lead. From Homo 

 sassa, a small place on the river by tbat name, we planned a camping 

 tour via sail boat to the mouth of another river about twenty miles 

 distant, and one-half of it we had to make on the open Gulf. 



We bought provisions, cooking outSt, etc., hired a boat and a skip- 

 per who claimed to be well posted on the course that we had to go, 

 and left the town about noon on Thursday. Everything seemed to 

 be in our favor, and after we got on the open water we fairly fl^w, 

 and no one had any doubt but that we would be in camp that night. 

 After we had made quite a distance the pilot turned in at one of the 

 numerous channels that make out from the saw grass marshes, 

 assuring us that we had struck the right one. We followed it up, 

 running on rocks and oyster reefs until after dark, and finally came 

 to a very narrow place where the inlet ended. We then concluded to 

 find an island and make ourselves comfortable for the night. We 

 found a small one covered with cedar and palm trees, and after eat- 

 ing our supper rolled up in blankets and went to sleep. Some time 

 in the middle of the night one of our parly who was too nervous to 

 sleep, punched us in the ribs and told us that if we did not want to 

 take an involuntary bath we had better get out of that. The 

 water was then within a few inches of us and coming up fast. We 

 moved our calamities and selves to the highest point that could be 

 found and line a prisoner awaiting his doom waited for the water to 

 require us taking to trees. However, it rose but little afterward and 

 we were snared the inconveniences of a roost in the treetops. 



The next morning the wind was blowing a eale and we tarried for 

 awhile, hoping it would subside. Instead of doing that it seemed to 

 grow worse, and in our anxiety to reach a fishing ground we started 

 out any way. In order to lighten the large boat I took the skiff and 

 pulled out ahead and then waited to see the other party beat up 

 against wind and tide. I had not been watching them long when a 

 squall struck the mainsail, and over they went, dipping two-thirds 

 full and leaving all our bedding, provisions, ammunition, tackle, 

 etc., floating around. We gathered them in and put for an island as 

 soon as possible, where we spread out everything that was not spoiled 

 and let the sun work up the moisture until night. During that time 

 we built a shelter out of palmetto leaves and logs and prepared to 

 spend another miserable night without any covering, as our bedding 

 was soaked. All of this time you are assured that our fool guide was 

 "catching it." First one would engasre in roasting him for awhile, to 

 be followed by another of us. If be had been up to his work and of 

 any account whatever we would not have been in such a pickle. 



That afternoon we sent a man and boat over to a settler's, about two 

 miles distance, after an addition to our larder, and when he returned 

 we sat down to a genuine "cracker" meal— biscuit with Florida 

 syrup and sweet potato pie. 



The next morning we held a consultation and decided before blun - 

 dering around any longer that we would get some reliable informa- 

 tion as to our route. So we put back to the house where we got the 

 provisions and there found a German who had lived on the river we 

 were in search ©f for six years. We soon had him engaged as pilot. 

 We left his hotise about noon, and after pulling, polling and sailing 

 until midnight, we landed on John's Island at the head of the ri^er, 

 and were lucky enough to find a deserted palmetto camp with fire 

 still burning. Best of all a large cavalia fish was found cooking just 

 a« though the previous occupants had anticipated our coming. We 

 camped on the river for nearly a week and during that time the fish 

 we did not catch and the game we did not shoot would not be worth 

 mentioning. The fish that give the anglers down here the most de- 

 light is the cavalia. It does not have its equal for gameness. I 

 landed the largest caught on my nine ounce rod, and with 600 feet of 

 line out it took me over a half hour to kill him. On returning home 

 we were not afflicted with as many trials as was our journey there. 

 We ran amuck once, however. Three of us decided to make a cut in 

 the rowboat to save a sail of fifteen miles around, whereas we would 

 have to row but five. We could not get through till the tide came up 

 to a certain height, which the guide told us would happen in a short 

 time. We passed the hours away by stopping on the oyster reefs 

 and feasting on the bivalves. About 8 o'clock we thought that by 

 going to an islandand building a fire we could make ourselves;com- 

 fortable for several hours, when the tide would surely be up suf- 

 ficiently to make the crossing. We did this but it still lacked six 

 inches of water. It was then one of two things to be done; one to go 

 back to land and stay all night, or the Cher, which we adopted, was 

 to pull the boat over a mud flat nearly three quarters of a mile. On 

 arriving at our guide's house we were about as hungry, dirty and 

 tired a trio as one would wish to see. Alittle "hot moonshine" and a 

 good supper prepared by his estimable wife soon straightened us out. 

 Tangerine, Fla. C. J. H. 



RESTRICTIONS ON RACING, 



AMONG the small fry which are vexing British yachtsmen of late 

 is the double-hulled boat, for which a great future is promised 

 by some of its enthusiastic admirers, while other conservative 

 yachtsmen are filled with dire dismay at the prospect of the extinc- 

 tion of the prevailing single-hull types by the new invader. One 

 club, the Royal Portsmouth Corinthian, has already taken action in 

 the matter, and has resolved to accept no entries from double hulled 

 craft. 



Such a policy can only hurt racing and hurt the club; it is clear to 

 observant yachtsmen that the present is no time for other than the 

 most necessary rules of measurement and classification. If racing is 

 to be kept alive, it must be by increased competition and renewed 

 interest, and though harm may come through the present tendency 

 to abnormal machines, it will be less in the end than will follow from 

 arbitrary restrictions on design. 



The prevailing fashion of light weight has naturally extended from 

 the hull to the fittings, and the makers of stoves, waterclosets, etc., 

 have begun to cut down superfluous weight. Messrs. Sands & Son, 

 the yacht plumbers, have within the last two years reduced the 

 weight of their No. 2 closet, the size used in a 40-f'ooter, from a total 

 of 135 lbs. to 75 lbs., including all connections, They now have an 

 order from a well-known designer for a closet not to exceed 40 lbs. 

 total weight, which limit they hope to reach by the use of new and 

 lighter castings, and drawn brass piping in place of lead pipe. 



SAIL, PLAN OF "GLYCERA.' 



" GLYCERA" FIVE RATER. 



"GLYCERA," FIVE-RATER, Desicwed BY ARTHUR E. PAV^E, 1800, 



