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FOREST AND STREAM 



fDEC. 15, 1892 



Driftwood from the East. 



What an elepant showing Commodore Winne and Treasurer Wack- 

 prhagen have made with the A.. C. A. finances during the past yeai". 

 SomethiDer unique isn't it, this financial management of the funds so 

 as to show that an economical administration can run the A. C. A. to 

 a profit of 1500 a year? Heavens, what a prospect! Why we'll own 

 Willsboro in a few years at that rate. A permanent camp has, by 

 the way, always been a hobby of mine. I don't believe that the men 

 would get wearied of a permanent camp. Put it where yon please, 

 so long as it is permanent. One could then bargain on his vacation 

 expenses to a aollar, and in my opinion more men would frequent 

 the meets. Say what you will, the percentage of attendance at the 

 A. C. A. meets is rather small— less than a quarter, as a rule. 



The Massasoit C. C. held a very successful ball recently at Bethesda 

 Hall, South Boston. Several new boats of home construction will be 

 added to the club fleet next season. It is rumored that a fast paddler 

 or two are being developed from the membership of this club. 



A local meet will be held in Boston Harbor next season under the 

 auspices of the Puritan C. C. Date to be decided later. Hereafter 

 this meet will be an annual fixture. Useful prizes only will be raced 

 for. with the exception of sailing and paddling trophies, open to all 

 clubs within twelve miles of Boston. 



The club fleet of the Puritan 0. O. is degenerating In character, 

 from a canoe standpoint. As the members grow older and stouter 

 the canoes are' running to embonpoint also. That is to say the 

 canoe, as far as the strict definition goes, is disappearing. There 

 are three 16i^ft.x36in., three ltift.x42ia., two 19ft.x43in., and one 

 17fl.x4Sin. canoe j'awls. Secretary Cartwrigbt is the latest aspirant 

 for "pot-bellied" nonor^, with a 15ft X48in. Gloriana bowed craft. 

 She will be provided with bilge boards and be used as a cruiser along 

 the shores of Massachusetts Bay. The P. 0. O. will give their usual 

 entertainment. Look out for somechlng unique, so the committee 

 says. Winter sailing has increased in proportion to the beam ot the 

 canoes m this club this season, and every pleasant Sunday finds 

 some one on the water. 



The new officers of the Eastern Division have taken the arduous 

 duties of their respective oflfices upon their shoulders, and now let 

 us all bear a hand to keep all our old members and gather in plenty 

 of new material, in order that the Eastern Division, as usual, 

 may do her duty. The Puritan C. C. now numbers forty members 

 and we'll all be in it during the next year. 



But three clubs having responded to the call for contributions for 

 the Eastern Division sailing and paddling trophies, the idea has been 

 given up and the money refunded. The Shuh-shuh-gah C. C, of 

 Winchester; the Wamesit C. C, of Lowell; and the Puritan 0. C, of 

 Boston, were the three clubs responding. I am afraid "barnacles" 

 -were as fatal to this scheme as "Rum, Komanisn and Rebellion" was 

 to the Republican party in '84. 



I went up to the Vesper Boat Club phonograph concert recently 

 expressly to bear myself sing. I found myself seated in next to the 

 front row of chairs and immediately in front of several fascinatingly 

 beautiful young ladies of my acquaintance. At last it was my num- 

 ber. I pulled down my waistcoat and looked pleasant. The "juice'" 

 was turned on and the cylinder revolved slowly. At last a stentorian 

 whisper emanated from the big tin trumpet, ending in a suppressed 

 guigle from the instrument and giggle from the audience. I turned 

 up my coat collar to keep people from noticing the rosy red color of 

 my neck in back. The operator excused himself and said there 

 wasn't power enough on the Instrument, so he put more on. My 

 neck and ears having resumed their usual peach-blossom tint I 

 turned down my collar. The next verse sounded like one of those 

 two-doUar-and-a-half dolls that say "mmama" and "papa" when 

 squeezed. Some one squeezed me from the seats behind as if trying 

 to get more sound. The operator got nervous, and getting despbrate 

 turned on all the power, wnen the last words came out of that trum- 

 pet, accumulator, I think they call it, in such a volume of sound that 

 It made the windows rattle. I faintei, and it was not until several 

 internal applications of "Vesper water" had been made that I re- 

 covered my equanimity. The diminuendos and crescendos of the 

 phonograph are too marked, I think. But the Vesper men are a 

 hospitable lot just the same. Ilex. 



Two FACTS appear on the face of the committee's report; in the first 

 place the absurd offer of Lord Dun raven in his first letter to "sail a 

 series of matches under the rules of the nev) deed of gift" has been 

 put forward most emphatically as the basis of all subsequent negoti- 

 ations and agreements. In the second place, the final acceptance of 

 the challenge by the New York Y. C. is based on a series of brief and 

 loosely-worded cable messages between the committee and Lord 

 Dunraven, the Royal Yacht Squadron not being represented in any 

 way in this vital part of the negotiations. The result is that Lord 

 Dunraven has committed the Squadron to a race under the new deed 

 of gift, a position as humiliating to British pride as it is gratifying to 

 Com. Gerry and his able staff. 



The past week brings the news of two more large cutters in addi- 

 tion to the Dunraven and Carroll yachts, and promises a certain re- 

 vival of racing in the largest class. Mr. Watson has received an 

 order from the Prince of Wales for a very large racing cutter, pre- 

 sumably BOft. l.w.l., and another order from the Emperor of Ger- 

 many for a large cutter. Undoubtedly the patronage of royalty will 

 give a certain boom to the large class, however fictitious and ephem- 

 eral it may be, and even some good Americans may be persuaded 

 that a 90ft. cutter is the proper thmg now that H. R. H. will own one. 

 At the same time if one yacht is much larger than the others, there 

 will be little real sport, as she is likely to take aU prizes by virtue of 

 size. 



The New York Y. C. having voted to accept Lord Dunraven's 

 challenge, it is taken for granted on this side that the matter is 

 finally settled, and that no further obstacles to the race can inter- 

 pose. Unless we are greatly mistaken, however, some interesting 

 explanations must follow between Lord Dunraven and the Royal 

 Yacht Squadron in regard to the manner in which his lordship 

 has committed the R. Y. S. to an indorsement of the deed of gift 

 which it once condem.ned. 



A Canadian Ice Yacht. 



Toronto Bay, a clear expanse of fresh water frozen for .several 

 months of the year, offers excellent faciUties for ice yachting and 

 though the boats ai-e much smaller than those of the Hudson and 

 Shrewsbury, and racing is not such a feature, ice yachting is verv 

 popular and much sailiag is done. Many of the yachts arekect on 

 nu'e and also used regularly to carry passengers between the city 

 and the island, a mile away. They are of simple construction and 

 SlOO expensive than the Hudson River craft, costing only about 



The yacht here Ulustrated, through the kindness of Mr J Ack 

 royd, one of the principal builders, is a good representative of the 

 class. The consiruction is so clearly shown in the drawing that but 

 bttle explanation is needed. The runner planlr is of white pine 2in 



!?^f^,*o'*.Ko°.-.^'^^^®'rp'u®"PP**''™*'™''«^^^°f the truss being two oak 

 strips, each 2x4in. These are sprung over two pieces of 3in oak 

 one on each side of the center of the runner plank. The truss i<! faal 

 tened together with ^in. bolts, as shown, the ends of the oak strios 

 butting agamst pieces of IJ^in. oak Doited to each end of the runner 

 p ank, the same bolts, or lay screws, running down into the runner 



wiZ ""^^^ "^^^^ ^ <^"t ^ I'^^-er side, 



Jtin. wide and 2]4m. deep to receive the runner. ' 



The ma»t rests on tne runner plank, in a ^in. oak step bolted to 

 plank, and the space at the top between the two oak strips is filled 

 in with a similar partner piece through which the mast paSses The 



8^ ^^""a^ T'^^?^ ^^"^ Pl^'^'^^' ea-ih l^in whit^ pine 



8m. wide, united at the after ends by two stern pieces of 2m oak 

 through wliich the rudder stock works. The side planks are spriSis 

 to a curve and the forward ends ai-e bolted into the truss of the r^^ 

 ner plank. The floor extends the whole length of the body and is of 

 %m. white pme, battenea in sections and removable. It rests on 

 sinps screwed to the inside of each side plank on lo*er edge The?2 

 rlt ''•ansvei-se planks or bulkheads between the side |lanks the 

 Jorward one rakmg forward at an angle. These bulSheads arl 



A CANADIAN lOE YACHT. 



