Nov. 5, 1891. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



Classes.. 



70. 61 and 53ft. Classes, 1891. 



Date. 



Juue 16. 

 Jane IT. 

 JjinelS. 



June 30. 

 July r... 

 Aug.4.. 

 Aug 8.. 

 Ams, 7. . 

 Aug. 8.. 

 Aag. 10. 

 Ang. n 

 Aug. 18 

 Aug. 18 

 Aug. gS. 

 Aug 25. 

 Aug. 26. 

 Ang, 20. 

 Sept,. 7.. 



MeaF. 

 ami 

 , Class. 



Atlantic, annual ! . S -W. 



Marine .iT)d Field, annual , (^.-W. 



New York, annual j S.-W. 



Seawanhaka. annual I S.-W. 



New Roclielle, annual. M.- W. 



i fist run to New London S.-\V. 



3d run to Newport fi.-W. 



G oletCup, , S. 



3d run to Vineyard Haven ....j S.-W. 



Special race S.-W. 



4th run to New Bedford S.-W. 



■^^h run to Newport , S.- W. 



Newport, m | 



Ist run I S. 



lO I 3d run., I S.' 



J I 3d ruu I S- 



I 1 4l1i run 



Larchinont. nt.. 



70Ft. Cla'- 



L.W.L i 



.'iS Ft. Clase. 



63. & 61 61 ! PI 



Number 

 of 



Starter^'. 



O ! O 



I 



|ls.o 



1 3 



1 |. .. 



...| 1 



Is 0 1 



s o 

 1 



1 2 



3 I 3 

 2 

 1 



.... 



1 I... 



J, Clear 



h Clear 



/. Stornay, rougb. 



(, Clear. . — 



I, Clf ar 



8, Rain, mod 



U Clear 



m, Clear 



J, Clear 



,f, Clear 



?„ Clear 



8, Rough 



TO, Clear , . 



/„ Foggy 



/, Clear, mod 



I, Clear 



s, Clear, mod..... 

 8, Rain, rough.. . . 



Ventura, -Wft., started, but withdrew. 



Clara disabled at start. Whileaway w. 

 Whitby 3, 



Fiye starters from 46rt. class. Gracie in collision 



with mark and Volunteer. 

 Thetis beaten in private maich with Huron. 



61 and .53ft. clasFcs sail together. 



Marguerite, schooner, fiT'st. 



Marblehead to Eastern Point. Sayonara 1, Thelma 3, 



Gossnon (1. u\ 

 Isle of Shoals to Boothbay. Sayonara 3, Gossoon 3. 



Ram Island !o Whitehead. Gossoon 1, Sayonara 3. 



Canaden to Bass Harbor, Sayonara 3, Gossoon 3. 



Viator, schooner, 1, no allowance. 



Starts 



First Places 



Second Placef. 



Sail Overs 



Total Placi .s... . 

 Total Frzef. ,.. 



1 1... 

 1 1 

 1 1 



3 I IT 16 ' 34 I 73 



1 I'" 



S. Seawanhaka rule. 0, Classi'd by corrected length. TF, Classed by waterline length, s. o. Sail over. (/, Grounded, d, Disabled, w. Withdrew. ?i.t. Not timed, n, Disqualifled, with or 

 wltta ut prottst. m, Private macch. I, Light wind, m. Moderate. /, Fresh breeze. 8. Strong wind. 



YACHT RACING IN 1891. 



in.— THE TOft., 61 m\ and .53pt. ciiAsSES. 



''pHE smallest and least important part of the season's racing is 

 X that covered by our table this week, the single-sticker yachts 

 «t the largsr clnsses, over 46ft. l.w.i. The ''big sloop" class, so- 

 called, that was to have developed into a tine tieet of 90-footers, 

 has dwindled away until only the smallest of the class, Puritan, 

 islr-ft. There is now no indication of its rehabilitation, save in the 

 two remote contingencies of a challenge for the America Cup; 

 and that from a 90-foocer, a size of yacht that is as rare in Eng- 

 land as on this side. The racing of large yachts in Great Britain 

 is in no hotter condition than in Ameru a, in fact but two vachls 

 of over e.'ift. l.w.l. ai-e If ft in the regular racing class. One nf 

 these, Valkyrie, is of hut 70ft. l.w.l., the other, Iverna, being 83ft. 

 Bin. The other yachts over 60-rating, about (i.5ft. l.w.l., sail only 

 in cruiser and handicap races. 



Thus far there are no indications of new yachts over 40 or 60- 

 rating, and it is very doubtful whether either Iverna or Valkyrie 

 will tit out next season. With such a state of affairs in the home 

 racing everythiner tending toward small tonnage, and with a tol- 

 erably clear, though tardy understanding of the new deed of gift, 

 British yachtsmen are little likely to hurry in a challenge and 

 build a 90ft. cutter, Even if such a thing should happen, the most 

 that could be expected on this side would be the building of two 

 or three new yachts, and possibly the change of Volunteer to her 

 criginai rip; so far as any permanent establishment of a class of 

 1.0ft. sloops or cutters, it is as tar distant as before the Puritan- 

 Genesta races. This year even the 70ft. class has been little bet- 

 ter than moribund, one or two yachts have followed the racing 

 in a half-hearted way. but there has been no real life nor excite- 

 ment in the class. 



Tne sad death of Mrs. Iselin last fall, and the withdrawal of 

 Titania's owner from racing, left the yacsit laid up this season: 

 and the rumors of her sale that were flying about at one time all 

 jiroved false; she has been at City Island all summer in idleness. 

 Sramrock's owner tot k up wi'h the fashionable fad and did his 

 r .cing in a new 46-foofer, so she did nothing all the season, mak- 

 'ug but two starts. K itrina has only looked in at a few races, 

 Redouin and Huron attempted nothing more than to keep up 

 with the fleet on the New Vork cruise, and Gracie, though mak- 

 ing the most starts, did not begin her racing until the cruise, and, 

 then lost several runs through her unfortunate mishap in the 

 Gnelet cup race. 



The opening race of the class, the Atlantic Y. C. regatta, fonnd 

 only Shamrock, who sailed over. Two days later Katrina ap- 

 peared ana gave Shamrock a handsome beating in the New York 

 Y. C. regatta, in a brei-ze and rough watef, but it must be said for 

 the latter that her owner and part of her crew were on Nautilus, 

 leaving Shamrock with a small crew. These two events com- 

 prised the sum total of the spring racing, and the class was not 

 beard of again until the rendezvous of the fleet at Glen Cove. 

 Shamrock never makes the cruise, but the others were on hand, 

 Gracie. Bedouin, Katrina and Huron, and all started on the first 

 run. Katrina did some notable work on the long passage, leading 

 the fleet, and easily distancing her class. Bedouin heating Gracie 

 by over an hour. Only Katrina and Gracie took part in the 

 second run. the former leading into Newport by 2.5m. 



When the Goelet cup for sloot>=i and cutters was first given, in 

 1882, it was practically for the WtK clas>, but with the advent of 

 Pa I Iran and Priscilla in 1885 rhe orieinal heneficiaries were 

 obliged to take a very unimportant place in the procession 

 around Hen and Chickenf : and only once in sis years has a 70- 

 tnorer won the annual cup, Titania taking ir, in 1889, neither 

 Volunteer nor Puritan starting. With the large class off the 

 c .urse tor an indefinite time, it was to be expected that this 

 year the 70-footers would have the racing all their own way, 

 there being but one class for each rig. It is three years, how- 

 ever, since a new yacht has been added to the class, and while it 

 has stood still, other classes have come forward, and the best of 

 the 48-fonters, new this year, have proved themselves able to sail 

 w iih tne 70-footers at any time with a fair chance of success, and 

 to beat them handily when the conditions are favorable. The 

 j'esnit was that on the morning of Aug. 7, with a fair bright dav, 

 a smoo'h sea and a moderate breeze, no less than five of the 46 

 foolers, headed by Gloriana. were at the starting line wiih one 

 solitary 70- footer, Gracie. Katrina was entered and a long wait 

 was made while she beat out from Newport to the start off Bren- 

 ton's Reef lightshin, but when finally there she announced tbat 

 she had no intention to start. As events proved, this was a wise 

 move on her part, as she could hardly have saved her time from 

 Gloriana; In tact, she had little to gain and muctt to lose In such 

 a race. 



As for the lone starter, &raoie she was never in the race with 

 the smaller boats from the gun, being at least 7 minutes astern of 

 Gloriana at the windward mark, 13J^ miles from the start; where 

 ( he notable foul with Volunteer toon place, the two on the same, 

 starboard, tack, pinching up to weather the markboat, Voluateer 

 to windward. The detaUe of this raueh dlsButed eoee, wltaespcd 



by several hundred persons, have been published at length be- 

 fore, and need not be no w recounted. Volunteer, though b.idly 

 damaged, was able to continue the rac°, and finally won the 

 schooner cup. Gracie was obliged to withdraw, losing her spread- 

 ers and some gear. 



So far as any elucidation of a knotty point in yacht racing, or 

 the establishing of a most important precedent is concerned, it 

 must be confessed that the collision was a failure. The ques- 

 tion of facts and positions was hardly considered, and little o£ the 

 larere amount of evidence at hand? incluiing a number of instan- 

 taneous photos of various phases of the collision, was called for. 

 The final decision of the regatta committee was mainly technical, 

 the protest of Grade's owner being thrown out on account of the 

 obviously faulty nature of two of the most imnortant claims. 

 Without attempting to determine the probable result of a thor- 

 ough inquiry and welshing of evidence, it is safe to say at least 

 that Grade's own friends were her worst enemies; and that if 

 they had confined themselves solely to Article 14 of the rule, and 

 to the pi'oduction of evidence that Gracie was in a position to 

 have weathered the mark without tacking had Volunteer been 

 out of the way, they would have presented a very strong case in- 

 stead of a very weak one. As it is, no ofBcial decision has been 

 made as to the rights of a yacht in the position claimed by Gracie; 

 and the question is as far from an authoritative settlement as 

 when first discussed in our columns a year ago. 



This race kept Gracie at Newport for a couple of days, and she 

 missed the Vineyard Haven race. Katrina went no further east 

 than Newport, but Bedouin and Huron held with the fleet, Huron 

 and Thetis sailing a private match for $230 per side on the run to 

 Vineyard Haven, Huron winning. The special race at Vineyard 

 Haven was a very dull affair for the 70ft. class. Bedouin and 

 Huron being far astern of the 46-footers all day. Next day 

 Gracie sailed alone on the run to New London, and the following 

 day on the last run to Newport, A few days later Huron 

 sailed a private match with tne schooner Marguerite and was 

 beaten, which ended the class for the year. 



Tne sum of its performances and prizes is a small one, but as 

 yet there is no indication that the class will do better next year. 

 The present boats are clearly not up to the standard of the 43ft. 

 class, and while they may still find some sport among themselves 

 on the cruises and in special races, the class can-not be a popular 

 one as long as its members sail only even with or astern of a much 

 smaller size. No new lioats are yet talked of, but some are needed 

 before the 70ft. class can hope to be what it might, the principal 

 single-stick racing class. 



The 61ft. class this year has consisted of but one boat, the old 

 sloop Hildegarde, built in 1876 as the Niantic and rechristened 

 Hildegarde by Mr. Herman Oelrichs when he purchased her from 

 her oriElnal owner. 



In 1888 she was altered to the Americanized cutter rig by Mr. 

 Burgess, and this past winter she had a lead keel added, thus plac- 

 ing her in the ranks of the "compromises.'' Gracie went through 

 a similar process in 1886 and '89, and Fanny was also remodeled 

 last wintre, so that the once representative American centerboard 

 sloop has entirely disappeared. So far as can be judged from the 

 rather solitary performances of Hildegarde this season, with no 

 close competition in her class, she nas been improved by both al- 

 terations. She sailed alone in the early regattas, finally meeting 

 Mischief on the cruise and beating tne latter four ont of tne five 

 times they met, her best performance during the season being on 

 the ruo to New Bedford. Mischief's superiority over the old 

 Hildegarde was proved ten years ago. and cannot be considered 

 as disproved by the recent racinar, as Mischief merely ente'ed the 

 runs of tr^e cruise, with no pretensions to being in racing form. 

 The new keel Wayward made a couple of starts but scored no 

 wins. 



The o3ft. class is much as it has been for the past four .seasons, 

 with but three boats, Clara, Cinderella and Anaconda. Tha only 

 change in the clats is the transfer ot Captain John Barr from the 

 tiller of Clara to the wheel oi: Cinderella. Tne latter yacht was 

 not in commission until late, and only Clara and Anaconda 

 started in the first races. Clara was sailed by a Corinthian, w'th 

 a scratch crew, and in fact has been kept at work cruising through 

 tne entire season, but she managed lo beat Anaconda in two 

 races, the Atlantic and Marine and Field regattas. After her ex- 

 perience of the previous year in the regatta of the New Rochelie 

 Y. C. she did not enter this season, Anaeonda sailing over alone 

 and then giving no all racing. 



Cmdereila and Clara came together at the opening of the cruise, 

 but just after the preparatory gun Clara broke a chainplate, and 

 did not attempt to start in the long race. After some temporary 

 repairs she jogg-d on, finally catching and passing Cinderella 

 when the latter s'ruck the rough water, and making literally a 

 most brilliant finish by sailing into New London harbor a long 

 way ahead of Cinderella with her whole after cabin, ablaze. As 

 she had not been timed at the start her performance counted her 

 nothing, but to all intents and purposes the credit for the first 

 run is hers. After repairing the damage from fire and getting a 

 pew chainplate on the "lay day" at New London, she started in 

 the eeoond ?un and wob oaslly, while Im the drif tlig match which 



made up the third run, to Vineyard Haven, she was still ahead, 

 tnough but a few seconds. 



In the special race at the A'"ineyard. Cinderella not only beat 

 Clara by some 16m., but won from the larger Hildegitrde, the two 

 classes sailing as one, the strong wind and smooth water giving 

 her a fair chance. Next day on the run to New Bedford, Cinder- 

 ella again won by so large a margin, 30m., as to indicate a fluke 

 somewhere, the wind being light with a very strong head tide, 

 and the whole fleet being scattered over the breadth of Vineyard 

 Sound. On the last run, back to Newport, Cinderella started in 

 good shape with topmast housed, a very wise move as events 

 proved, the wind being strong and the sea fairlv heavy, but she 

 was unable to beat Clara, there being over 7m. between them at 

 Brenton's Reef Lightship.. This ended the racing for the year, 

 though Cinderella raced with Sayonara and Gossoon in the 

 Eastern cruise, and Clara started once in September in a private 

 match with the schooner Viator, breaking down before the finish. 



As far as Cinderella and Clara ar^ concerned, the strong inter- 

 est which attended their races in 1886 has to a great extent dis- 

 appeared, Cinderella made the cruise this year with old sails and 

 by no means in flrsr-class racing form, while Clara through the 

 season has been used more for cruising than for racing, though 

 starting in most of the regular races. Neither has made even a 

 fair showing besides the 46ft. class, being badly outbuilt. 



Just now the usual rumors of new hoats for the class are flying 

 about in indefinite shape, and the phantom 63 from Fife's yard 

 for Admiral Tweed is likely to be manned very soon by a picked 

 crew from the daily papf^rs and se^t on a winter cruise, but the 

 only order yet placed is that of Mr. Bullock for a keel boat, the 

 designs for which have already been completed by Mr. Gardner, 

 though no contract has been made for the bmlding. If built she 

 will De hardly a full powered racer, the comfort of her owner and 

 general cruisina: qualities being the first to be coi^sidered; at the 

 same time, with good composite construction, she should be well 

 ahead of the existing boats of t he class. A 53ft. boat of moderate 

 power will prooably give more for the money in the way of com- 

 fortable accommodation, r-ruising qualifies and utility for racing 

 than can be combined on any other length. We are Informed that 

 in tne runs of the New Y'ork Y. C. cruise a prize will be given for 

 each run, and not for the average, as was done last j ear This 

 will make a change in the prizes in our list of last week, but not 

 in the places. The table this week is made up on the basis of a 

 first prize for each run in which two or more started. Next week 

 we shall take up the 46ft. class. 



"SMALL YACHTS," by C. P. Kunhardt, was a handsome and 

 most useful manual when first putilishe d by Foh,est and Stbeam, 

 but the new edition as enlarged is a library of knowledge for those 

 who sail canoes, cafboats or sloops. With its eighty-seven plates 

 and numerous cuts in the text, its advice how to build, launch, 

 rig and sail various sorts of small sailing craft, and its careful de- 

 scriptions of certain types of yachts, the folio is a yachtsman's 

 friend indeed.— iVett' YorTc Times. 



lO— NEEDLR:.— We are informed that the prize won by lo in her- 

 race wi'h Needle was given by Mr. W. E. Iselin, of New Rochelie. 

 lo is 23ft. l.w.l., 8ft. neam and 5ff. 10 n. draft. We un lerstand 

 that lo was huilr, frr-m the designs of the cuiter Witch, published 

 In the Forest and Stream of March 17, 1887, m which case her 

 sail area is probably anout 1,100ft., and corrected length about 

 28ft., compared with 618ft. sail area and 25ft. corrected length of 

 Needle. 



CLARISSA.— The 20-ratpr Clarissa, designed by her owner, Mr. 

 H. D. MfGildownev. and built in 1890, paried her cable during a 

 gale on Oct. 14. in Baliycastle Harbor, Ireland, and was totally 

 wrecked agains'" the nf>wpier. 



YACHT SKIPPERS.-The New l^ork Herald has recently begun 

 a series of articles on the leading yacht wailing masters, having 

 published thus far poriraits and biographies ot Capt. Hansen, of 

 the Quickstep; Capt. Banks, of the Water Witch, and Capt. Dand, 

 of the Stranger. 



NORN A, schr., C-»m. E. R. Coleman, Philadelphia Y. C, was run 

 into by a brick sloop while at anchor in Gowanns Bav, on Oct. 26, 

 and sustained some damage. 



THISTLE- VENTURA.-H. D. Tiffany has sold the Ventura, 

 of Bronx River origin, to Col. Austen, and has purchased the 

 sloop Thistle- 



NAVARCH, steam yacht, built this year, has been sold by Vice- 

 Corn. Morrill, Boston Y. C, to Henry Whitman, and will bu re- 

 plaf-ed by a larger yacht. 



SAY WHEN, steam yacht, now owned by W. C. White, of 

 Cleveland, has just receivnd a Roberts safety watertuhe boiler. 



VETO, steam yacht, Mr. George Law, will be cut in half and 

 lengthened 13ft. 



Camas Canoes and hoio to Build Them. By Parker B. Field. 

 Price 50 cenU. Canoe and Boat Building. Bu W. P. Stephens. 

 Price ^S.OO. Canoe Handling. By C. B. Vaux. PHce $1. Canoe 

 and Camera. By T. S. Steele. Price 1.60. Four Months in aSnean- 



