868 



POR£:ST ANG STREAM. 



[Oct. 2t, 189g. 



SAIL PLAN "LA GLORIA 



CRUISING AND SAILING BOAT. 



La, Gloria was designed for Mr. M. T. Bennett,, of the New York 

 C. V. and was biiilt by the St. Lawrence River S., C. & S. L. Co.. of 

 ciayton, N. Y. The centerboard shown is of plate iron, weighing; 

 30ibs., and little or no ballast is carried in sailing single-handed, save 

 a cruising outfit of stores, cooking utensils and tent. She is very 

 stiff with her crew of one on the gunwale; in ordinary sails about 

 New York Bay in the vicinity of the club house she carries four men 

 very comfortably. The rig was originally made for but never used 

 on another boat, and differs from the sail plan here shown in that 

 the mainsail is a leg of mutton, set with a yard, the boom being some 

 3fr,. shorter than in the drawing; the Jib, mlzen and total area are 

 about the same. 



Any one of the numerous rigs illustrated from time to time in the 

 Forest and Stream, the jib and mainsail, yawl or cat yawl (the 

 f.anoe rig), may he adapted to the boat, but the yawl rig, with either 

 a lug or a boom and gaff mizen, is probably as good as any. The 

 boat handles well imder her rig, though the center of effort is well 

 aft. A boomkin is needed for the mlzen, and the main sheet works 

 best on a traveler placed well aft over the nidderhead. In case the 

 strain on the boom end is too great when on the wind, a snatch 

 block may be used, at about a third of the length in from the end, 

 through which the sheet is led from the traveler block to the hand or 

 cleat. 



The boat, even in the smaller size, contains a good deal of room, 

 which may be arranged to suit the taste of the owner. In La Gloria 

 there are tsvo bulkheads, placed as shown, at the fore end of trunk, 

 and just abaft the cockpit. A square hatch in the deck just forward 

 of the mast opens into the forward compartment, while a door Id the 

 after bulkhead gives access to the after space. Permanent seits may 

 he arranged as shown, or more space may be had by keeping the 

 cockpit clear and using CKshions or movable boxes for seats. The 

 tiller is quite short, so as to clear the body when the helmsman is 

 seated well aft; in single hand sailing the weight of crew should be 

 further forward, and a longer tiller is consequently necessary. 



The scantling and method of construction described in connection 

 with the Delta will answer for the present boat. If a more elaborate 

 finish is required, the upper strake, transom and planksheer, with 

 the forward and after partner pieces, may be of mahogany, the deck 

 being of white pine. The boat is fitted with oars and rowlocks. 



"Podgers" on a Cutter. 



San Francisco, Oct. lH.— Editor Forest and Stream: Vent, vkli, 

 but I did not TOcr, which I suppose I must translate for you to save 

 you the trouble of taking down your big books, and which means— I 

 nave had a sail in a blasted English cutter, you know. I came, I saw. 

 and was not conquered. All these years I have contented myself by 

 looking on and witnessing the sufferings of those who sailed cutters 

 and balled in them, and extended my heartfelt spmpathies. 



They say all things come to those who wait. I have had almost 

 every thing come to me that was disagreeable, but have been spared 

 a cutter until recently, which fills the bill of "all things." and I have 

 little now to fear that can ruffle the serenity of my declining years. 



A friend in his kindness of heart who meant well invited me to go 

 out for a sail in his cutter, the only one, I am pleased to say, on this 

 coast. He said, "I know your predjudice against that manner of 

 craft, but come along and let me convince you of yom- error." I said 

 to myself it is strange that people there are, intelligem, respectable 

 human beings, who actually believe in cutters. It occurred to me 

 that it would be interesting to witness this form of insanity in actual 

 practice, and also being averse to decline an invitation from the 

 source, an old and valued friend, I decided to accept. 



It was a beautiful sunny afternoon, such charming weather as is 

 kept on tap here — a pleasant five- knot breeze when we went on 

 hoard. The craft was built here from a regular English cutter design 

 by Burgess— about 30 odd feet over all. There were three of us, a boy 

 ^nd the crew of one. Being a guest, I did not volunteer to help get 

 up sail, and for a good reason, there was not room on deck for more 

 ihan two to work.' .She had a cockpit, and when the owner and the 

 small boy effected a lodgment and the long tiller was shipped, such a 

 notice should have been hung out as we see on the French omni busses 

 when full, '•Conipkiit.'" for there was no room for any one else. 

 Tairly under way, this fact was demonstrated by the coming aft of 

 the helmsman, who took a position on the windward oooabing with 



the most weighty portion of his body outside of it and legs hanging 

 down inside the cockpit. The other two were required to work the 

 two jibs, or staysail and jib, the crew lying on deck and crawhng on 

 his belly forward and aft, as occasion reqviired, while your corre- 

 spondent submerged himself in the companionway, standing on a 

 lower stair, with head just above the opening, keeping close watch 

 of the boom, which, according to cutter methods, hung low and 

 nicely calculated to just clear the top of the head of a short man— but 

 not his hat which custom required should go overboard the first tack: 

 hence all cutter men wear knit caps. 



By standing on the stair and barely showing a nose above, and 

 ducking expertly every time she tacked, the few remaining hairs of a 

 head that bad been too often hit by booms of small boats to leave 

 much sense in it (vidf being found aboard a cutter) were preserved 

 with scalp intact. 



At the first filling of her sails she went over on her side until the 

 lee deck was under water. I looked around to see where the squall 

 came from, but no squall was evident. My friend noticing my sui'- 

 prise said, "She goes down easy until she gets to her bearings, as you 

 see, but she won't go any further." I mentally hoped not, as I saw 

 notning loose on deck for a life preserver. She may not go any 

 further. I thought, but she goes to that point on a slighter provoca- 

 tion than any boat I ever set my foot on before, and that far she 

 continued to "go and to stay until the cabin windows were awash and 

 the Reel must have dried oft' in the sunlight. Standing in the com- 

 panionway and leaning against the lee side gave me the position of 

 the leaning tower or a half blown over tree, and was exceedingly 

 tiresome. For relief I went below to find the cabin floor stand- 

 ing up edgewise, and as she gave a lurch at the moment I brought 

 up against her side, nearly standing on my head. 



There were a good many boats out sailing and one, a sloop, one of 

 those despised light rlraft centerboard craft, had the temerity to 

 walk to windward of us— just think of that; to windward of a cutter; 

 oh, ye disconsolate, and standing up, passed us, blanketed us, and 

 was soon half a mile ahead. To think that it should ever be said and 

 that I should see it; that a so-called skimming dish should have the 

 cheek (and the legs) to outwind, outsail and out-Herod a cutter. The 

 boat of all boats, the chosen of our English brothers, who knows it 

 all, and when we fall down and worship and humbly repeat our form 

 of prater: "Oh thou who knowest all things and can build better 

 and faster boats than we, allow us humbly to copy thee in this and 

 be English in all things, yea, even to turning up the bottom of our 

 trousers and ejacidating by Jove, you know." 



My stay below was short, for to my shame be it said I had to rise 

 to the sm-face. It reminded me of on one occasion being on board 

 an English steamer when a young chap in the cabin began to show 

 positive signs of intense sickness, which the stewardess observing, 

 called out as she made a dash for him: "You cawn't be sick 'ere, 

 you know. You cawn't be sick 'ere; sir," to which he as the crisis 

 came, gasped: "Cawn't I? Cawn't I, though? Just see me.'" Sol 

 must confess that after the record of a hundred trips by sea and 

 years of yachting with never a qualm, I had to climb to the surface 

 for air to save myself from emulating the Englishman. 



We returned to anchorage and when all sail was oft' the craft re- 

 sumed her not normal but semi-occasional position, i. e., when at 

 anchor. 



My friend, glowing with enthusiasm, remarked: "Well, you can't 

 say she is not a dry boat, anyhow. We never took a drop aboard." 

 I said: "Dry, I grant you, at least one side of her, the one that was 

 in the air, arid as water is averse to flying to windward, then follow- 

 ing curved lines over an object and backward into a cavity, It could 

 not well reach the cockpit." My friend was evidently disappointed 

 at my want of appreciation of cutters. I do confess I am likely 

 to remain in my present benighted condition. The cutter education 

 in one lesson was a failure. I could not comprehend the beauties of 

 the system in such a brief time; French without a master would be 

 easier. 



I am sorry to hold opinions so adverse to the theories and teach- 

 ings of the FoBTiiST AND Stream, but I am still a subject of a call to 

 the imeon verted. 



1 shall build no cutter this year, neither .shall I purchase the 

 Bodouin or any one of the many for sale. And why for sale? (Do 

 you know of one that is not?) 



I know I am lost forever in the estimation of the editor, and doubt- 

 less he laments seemg such evidences of my benighted condition- 

 but doubtless will set it down more in sorrow than anger— and print 

 under protest my opinions ot cutters, Podoebs. 



YACHT NEWS NOTES. 



Mr. Wm. A. Slater, of Norwich, Coun., owner of the steam yacht 

 Sagamore, will build this winter a larger steel yacht, to be 227ff. 

 over all, -Sgft. beam and I4ft. 6in. draft, with ample coal capacity for 

 long cruises. She will be bark rigged and will carry water ballast- 

 The name of the designer is not yet made public, but it is stated that 

 he is a young man as yet unknown. 



A new yacht club by the name of the Pastime has been organized 

 at Newark, N. .T.. the officers being: Com., FredWeslow: Vice-Corn,, 

 Henry Duerr; Sec'y, .fohn Leen; Treas., .Toseph Berch; Meas., Henry 

 Render; Fleet Sui'geon, Dr. McCaft'ary. The club has a fleet of 12 

 boats ranging from 20 to 40 ft. 



Among the steam yachts which will winter at the basin of the Gas 

 Engine & Power Co., on the Harlem Tliver, are Ti'lie, Viking. Seneca, 

 Ladoga, Puzzle, Trophy, Osprey, Fl.ving Dutchman, Oriole, Cler- 

 mont, Reva, Oneida and Satellite. 



The Philadelphia Inquirer is responsible for the statement that in 

 the event of a match being tnade. Lord Dunraven's yacht will be an 

 enlarged Valkyrie, but with "a greater curve to her buttock and 

 fetlock lines."" 



The report of the loss of the Catei-ina was unfortunately true, the 

 yacht grounding on Oct. .'5 at 4 A. M , only one of her crew of six, 

 Henry Diaper, the mate, reaching shore. 



We call attention to the advertisement of Messrs. Cox & King on 

 another page. The steam yacht mentioned is one of the finest of 

 modern boats. 



The Canarsie Y. C. closed its season on Oct. 33 with an entertain- 

 ment at the club house in which a fine chowder played a prominent 

 part. 



The Corinthian Y. C. of California closed the season with a dance 

 on Oct. 15 and a squadron sail on the following day. 



The sweepstakes race of the Michigan Y. C. was started on Oct, 

 15, Alice Enright beating Princess by 4m. 



The Pavonia Y. C. closed the season on Oct. Hi with a clambake at 

 its .Tersey City house. 



Military Kifles in Newark. 



NewAbk. N. J., Oot. 23.— The weekly shoot of the First Brigade 

 Rifle Association was held on the 200yd. ranges at the Shooting 

 Park to-day under rather unfavorablfl weather conditions, the 

 light being fitful aTid thf( wind swinging in a tantalizing fashion 

 from "11" to "2 o'clock." All the members used Springfleld mili- 

 tary rifles with RafliDgtoa sights aod front-sight covers, the 

 shooting being done off-hand. Below are the detailed scores: 

 Priv C H Townsend i i 4 3 4 a i 6 4 4—41 



4 43443335 4—41 . 

 44454. 5 454 ,5—44 



5 44 3 44544 4-4.3 ' 

 54544 5 5 44 4—44 , 



MajDL Wallace 4 4 5 3 3 4 4 4 5 4—40 . 



444443343 4-37 



44433 4 444 3-37 I 



3 44433454 4—38 : 

 Capt H B Schureman 44 3 444434 4—38 



543333344 3—35 



4 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 5 3 - 39, 



Capt G ■W Churcb 5 4 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 4-39 



Capt WH Howard .4 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 3 3—37' 



433335434 4-36 ' 

 Townaend used U. M. C. .45-60-400 carbine ammunition, all the 

 others using Frankford arsenal ,45-5.5-405 carbine. 



