Dec. 39, 1892. J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



869 



SAIL PLAN OF SINGLEHANDER "MYRA." 



naval design and construction, both in hulls and engfines ; and in 

 naval, mercantile and pleasure vessels. One of the chief means to 

 this end will be the periodic meetings of members for the reading 

 and discussion of papers, and the general interchange of ideas; 

 together with the publication of the papers and discussions. 



The society will include members, associates, juniors, honorary 

 members and fellows. The first class of members is open only to 

 naval architects and marine engineers, including professors of naval 

 achitecture or mechanical engineering in colleges of established repu- 

 tation; the requirements being that the candidate shall be at least 25 

 years of asre and have been engaged in the practice of one or the 

 other profession for at least three years. 



The class of associates is open to all who, by profession, occupation 

 or scientific attainments, are qualified to discuss the qualities of a 

 ship or her propelling machinery; or the construction, manufacture 

 or arrangement of some part or parts of the hull or its equipment. 



The class of jimiors shall consist of persons not less than eighteen 

 years of age, graduates of technical schools of established reputa- 

 tion, or who have had not less than two years practical experience 

 In marine engine works or shipyards. 



The class of honorary members, limited to 25, will include only 

 persons of special eminence in their professions, 



Tbe class of fellows will include persons in sympathy with the 

 development of naval architecture and marine engineering who shall 

 cotitribute not less than $200 to a permanent fund for the advance- 

 ment of the interests of the society. 



A meeting of the council will probably be held in January for the 

 completion of all details of organization and the adoption of a con- 

 stitution and by-laws! and following this it is proposed to hold the 

 first general meeting in New Yort, at the time of the naval review 

 next May. In view of the list of officers given above, it is hardly 

 necessary to predict that the undertaking will prove a success from 

 the start or that its mfluence in the improvement ot all classes of 

 vessels will be felt at a very early day. 



Boston and the Cup. 



Now that New York yachtsmen are in the field of cup defence with 

 a boat from .the HerreshofE's hands, the one question among Boston 

 yachtsmen appears to be as to whether or not they shall also be 

 represented. Trial races without a Boston boat, after the splendid 

 showing made in 1885, 1886 and 1887, would be something to which 

 Eastern yachtsmen would not look forward complacently, and yet 

 there is at Jthe present time little else in view. Gen. Paine will not 

 build, and Henry Bryant daily grows more doubtful as to taking the 

 general's place. Possible syndicates have vanished, into air when 

 closely followed, and there is really no Boston boat in sight. 



But if there is no boat actually in sight, it is true nevertheless that 

 there is a strong undercurrent of feeling that Boston should be repre- 

 sented, and by a Boston designed and Boston built boat. This feeling 

 may or may not come to the surface in tangible form, but it is 

 certainly growing stronger rather than weaker, and in itself is a 

 most healthful sign that the need of a choice of boats for a cup 

 defender is being appreciated. 



With Gen. Paine out of the fight "the Adams boys" are naturally 

 looked to by the older heads in Boston yachting as best fitted to take 

 up the work. They have gone step by step from small to large 

 boats, and have shown themselves equal to everything in the yaeht- 

 iDg line which they have undertaken. No racuig craft was ever 

 better sailed or handled than was the Harpoon last year, and a very 

 small score would be required for errors of judgment which oc- 

 curred. 



Why, tben, do not the Adams brothers build a boat themselves or 

 head a syndicate? is the question which most naturally arises. 



In answer, it may be said that both George and Charles Adams 

 frankly admit that an 85-footer represents an outlay of more money 

 than they e*n see their way clear to devote to such a purpose. A 

 70-footer might have been built by them had Dunraven come with a 

 boat of that size, but an 85-footer put them "out of it" at once on the 

 ground of expense alone. 



As to why they do not head a syndicate, nothing could better show 

 their feeling in the matter than the thoroughl.y characteristic reply 

 of Mr. George Adams to the writer when asked that very question. 



"What," he said, "go around and ask my friends to ruild me a 

 boat? Wouldn't I look fine running around and saying 'please build 

 me a boat or the cup is lost,' to men who know more about it than 



Which is, of course, a somewhat exaggerated Idea of the way the 

 yachtsm en who would be willing to back.the brothers in a syndicate 

 would look at it, ard yet contains the pith cf the whole matter — tba 

 the brot hers would not 60 far magLily their {ibilities as to act tbei 



friends to place them at the head of a syndicate, however much 

 they might like to take a hand in cup defence. 



"The Adams brothers would be just the ones to head a syndicstte," 

 said a yachtsman who has been deeply interested in cup matters, and 

 who was one of the Puritan syndicate, "but I can fully appreciate 

 their position of not careing to go begging for such a privilege." 



And so the matter rests at present. A syndicate with the brothers 

 at the head of it would undoubtedly be a first-class thing, but no way 

 appears to bring it about, for even if the head of a syndicate were 

 offered them, it is not known that they would accept. 



As to thn chances of a boat from Mr. Bryanfs hands, that gentle- 

 man is himself the authority for the statement as to the growing 

 doubts that he will build. 



"Aside from the question of expense," he said recently in speaking 

 of the matter, "the type of boat now being produced is in many re- 

 spects so undesirable as to make one hesitate before building. 



"The long overhangs which the Herresboffs have introduced, while 

 undoubtedly conducive to speed, I consider as a detriment to a boat's 

 sea wortniness, while the shallow hulls give little room below In 

 short, a man who builds a cup defender is not likely to find her of 

 use for anything else. 



"Here is what I hoped to build for cup defense when I came home 

 from abroad," he said, as be showed photographs of aesigns for a 

 steel boat of about 85ft. waterline, "but I find that this would not be 

 in it with the boat Herreshoffs are likely to turn out." 



The photographs showed a centreboard boat of clean lines, easy 

 midship section and good displacement; a boat in which speed would 

 evidently be attained, but not at the expense of future cruising 

 qualities. The design was one of much originality in several ways, 

 and the boat built from it would certainly have been favorably 

 heard from. 



But Mr, Bryant feels that something else is required, and so he is 

 still in doubt. 



In view then of the present situation in cup defense matters in 

 Boston, there seems nothing left but to express the hope the Adams 

 brothers may be persuaded to take the head of a syndicate, or that 

 Mr. Bryant may build. 



To hope for both would, indeed, be too much. — Boston Globe. 



"The Yachtsman's" Christmas Wumbex-. 



The English paper. The Yachtsman, has issued a special Christmas 

 number which is altogether a very creditable production, in spite of 

 the marked deficiency of the literary portion of its contents. The 

 most notable feature is the design of the handsome 20-rater Chiquita, 

 by Arthur E. Payne; a yacht built as Jate as 1890, but showing none 

 of the freak features that have lately invaded even the middle-sized 

 classes. She is a most wholesome cutter, of the general type of 

 Minervi, her dimensions being: Ijength, stem head to taffrail, 64ft., 

 Iw.l. 45ft. 6in., beam lift, draft lift. 9in. The best of several full- 

 page reproductions is entitled "Gertrude, Prince Batthyany-Stratt- 

 man," and is from a painting by Admiral Beechy, R. N. 



No mention whatever is made of the interesting facts in connec- 

 tion with this picture. It represents the yawl, then owned by Lieut. 

 Henn. in the noted ocean race of Oct., 1880, from Lisbon to Gibraltar, 

 300 miles, for a priz-^ of £200. On board of Gertrude were Lieut, and 

 Mrs. Henn, with Capt. Bradford. At the start the weather was so 

 bad that the Portugese committee cautioned the yachts against 

 crossing Lisbon Bar, advising that they should anchor when over the 

 starting line and wait for the sea to moderate. Gertrude went away 

 at once without a pUot, crossing safely. She was sold by Lieut. Henn 

 when he built Galatea in 1886. 



The other large plates show a group of Clyde raters, a close fin- 

 ish between Yvonne and Dora on the Clyde, the steam yacht Lady 

 Ina, and two reproductions of paintings. There are several readable 

 cruises, but the fiction is poor, the yachting novelettes being particu- 

 larly so; whUe a description of a yacht race at Chicago is likely to be 

 none the less offensive from a strong flavor of fact to its satirical de- 

 scriptions. The article on Australian yachting, with its accompany- 

 ing photos, is quite interesting. As we said at the start, however, 

 the number as a whole makes a very good appearance, and the pub- 

 lishers at least deserve due credit for their effort to provide for yachts- 

 men the same amusement and entertainment which the illustra'ed 

 newspapers offer so liberally to the general reader at the holiday 

 season. ' 



The ice yacht season on the Shrewsbury opened with the cold 

 weather of last w eek, and a good race- was sailed on Dec. 2b. Tne 

 Hudson River is just closing, but it is probable that the yachts will 

 be out this week. 



YACHT NEWS NOTES. 



The officers of the Harlem Y. C. for 1893 are: Com., T. H, McDon- 

 nell; Vice Com., W. J. Cooper; Rear-Com., W. J. Kennedy; Fleet 

 Capt , W. A, Borst; Fleet Surgeon, H. M. Cox. M. D.; Meas., W. D. 

 8. Hyer; Treas., F. H. Davis; Financial Sec, H. B. McAllister; Re- 

 cording Sec, Sidney Macey; Corresponding Sec , F. W. Creegan: 

 Steward. M L. Goetz; Board of Directors, P. I. Fitch, R. K. Wylie, 

 E. M Griffiths. T. W. Jackson, William Grophert, A. N. Bacon and 

 W. A. Towner; House Committee, A. H. Van Every, R. Tate, W. T. 

 Hyde, C. Hutchinson and G. A. Ryer; Membership Committee, Geo, 

 Bergen, J. Conklin and W. A. Scardefleld. 



Capt. Howard Patterson has just completed the designs for a 90ft. 

 l.w.l. schooner, which will probably be built this winter under his 

 supervision. The yacht will be 112ft. over all. 90ft. l.w.l., 21ft. beam, 

 10ft. draft of hull, 20ft. draft with board down. She is intended for 

 racing and will carry a large rig, with the mainmast well forward. 



The records of the past season in British waters show Queen Mab 

 at the head with a total sum of £1,187; 46 starts. 31 firsts. 11 seconds 

 and one other prize. Iverna started 29 tiroes, won 13 firsts, 2 seconds 

 and one other, with £955. and Meteor (Thistle) made 31 starts, with 10 

 firsts, 10 seconds, one other and £645. 



Miranda, schooner, has been examined by Mr. John Harvey, who 

 built her in 1876, and has been found sound throughout. She will be 

 re-coppered and fitted with new steel wire rigging under the direc- 

 tion of Captain Dudley Brand, and when ready for sea she will sail 

 for San Francisco, probably under command of Capt, J. W. Buddiog- 

 ton, an old whaler. 



An exhibition of models, apparatus and everything pertaining to 

 yachting, will be held at the Aquarium In London from Feb. 1 to 

 March 15, and is likely to be most interesting to yachtsmen. 



On Dec. 20 the members of the Seawanhaka C. Y. C. listened to a 

 very entertaining talk by Prof. Charles Sprasue Smith on the subject 

 of "The Life of the Vikings," illustrated by lantern views. 



The officers of the Audubon Y. C. are Com., R. Van Riper; Vice- " 

 Com., C. Wagner; Fleet Captain, R. Rowley ; Treas., Robert B. Saul; 

 Sec, E. O. Kramer; Meas., F. Schoffer. 



The Corinthian Y. C , of New York, has extended the courtesies of 

 its club house and anchorage to Lord Dunraven. 



Jacob Buckbout, of Poughkeepsie, the noted builder of the Hudson 

 River ice yachts, died on Dec. 24, at the age of 60 years. 



W. C. A. Executive Meeting. 



Chicago, 111., Dec. 24.— The executive meeting of the Western 

 Canoe Association is called for Saturday, Jan. 7, at the Wellington 

 Hotel, Chicago. In the evening the visiting canoeists will be ten- 

 dered by the Chicago Canoe Club a dinner at the Wellington, which, 

 will be the occasion of a pleasant reunion and a general canoeing 

 good time. 



Where is the W, C. A meet for '93 to be held? The leaning is 

 toward Ballast Island. Several favor the Madison Lakes, of Wiscon- 

 sin. Policeman Casey is said not to favor Winnebago. E. H, 



A. C. A. Membership. 



The following gentleman, residing in the Atlantic Division, has 

 applied for membership: Theo. Porst, Hoboken, N. J. 



CANOE NEWS NOTES. 



We have received an invitation to the annual meeting of the 

 Western Canoe Association, which will be held at the Hotel WelliDgr 

 ten, Chicago, on Jau< 7, at 2 P. M., a dinner foUlowlng in the evening 



A three mile canoe race was sailed on Thanksgiving Day by the" 

 Oaklaud {Cal.)C. C. wi h frur sterifrs, W. W. Blow winning in 

 Jack, and Geo. A. Warder being 5s. astern in Gnat. 



