March 9, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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YAWL KWASIND. SAIL PLAN. 



YACHT NEWS NOTES. 



Marguerite, steam yacht, has been sold by Wm. M. Harriman to S. 

 R. James, Schenectady, N. Y. 



Messrs. Waterhouse and Chesebrough have just designed a 85ft. 

 cruising cutter for James R. Hopkins, of Philadelphia, brother of the 

 owner of Gloriana. She will be 44ft. over all, 30ft. l.w.l., 9ft. 6in. beam, 

 rft. draft, with a polemasted rig similar to Drusilla and Handsel, 

 mainsail, staysail and jib only. The interior will be quite roomy and 

 well arranged. The yacht will be built by George H. Saunders, at 

 Bristol. 



At a special meeting of the Boston Y. C. on March 2 memorials on 

 the deaths of Gen. B. F. Butler and Thomas Manmng were adopted. 

 Mr. Paul Butler, the present owner of the schooner America, was 

 elected a member of the club. 



Lancer, schr., has been thoroughly overhauled this winter atWin- 

 tringham's yard, and will be fitted with new masts. Her new owner, 

 George E. Chisholm, will change her name to Enigma. 



Murray & Tregurtha, South Boston, Mass., report business as very 

 good, in spite of the inclement weather. They have orders for several 

 complete launches, one of which, designed for high speed, is being 

 built for a New Hampshire gentleman and is intended to be used on 

 Lake Winnipiseogee. This launch is 35ft. Tin. over all by 5ft. 6in. 

 beam, and will be fitted with a Tregurtha water tube boiler and a com- 

 pound engine capable of developing 35 h.p. They are building a 28ft. 

 launch and a steam tender for Boston parties. The demand for the 

 Tregurtha water tube boiler, built by this firm, increases with every 

 season, and they have now in hand, besides local orders, boilers for 

 parties in Maine, New Hampshire and Texas. These boilers are now 

 in use in the British Provinces and in various parts of the United 

 States from Maine to Florida, on the Great Lakes and on the Pacific 

 coast, where they are being built under license. The firm has just 

 {■^sued a very attractive illustrated catalogue of engines, boilers and 

 fittings. 



The Essex Y. C, of Newark, N. J., has elected the following offlcers: 

 Com., Ed win Goldsmith; Vice-Corn., Walter Wicklehaus; Bear-Com., 

 Joseph Sonnenberg; Treas., Fred Hartung; Sec, W. O. Rothe; Fleet 

 Oapt., B. MuUaney; Trustees, Charles Dutaont, Emil Kiehle and John 

 Hahii. 



The Baltimore Y. C. has purchased a part of the Walkers Pavaion 

 property on the Patapsco River and will establish a station and club 

 house there. The club, organized in 1891, has a membership of 54. 



Arthur AVelland Blake, a member of the Eastern Y. C. and former 

 owner of the cutter Vindex, died on Feb. 28 at his home, Brookline, 

 Mass., at the age of 50. 



A special meeting of the Savin Hill Y. C. was held on Feb. 23 to hear 

 the report of the committee on changing the measurement rules. 

 The committee consisted of Messrs. Sears, Swallow, W. B. Bird and 

 A. L. Kidd. Communications on the subject were read from N. G. 

 Herreshoff, H. H. Sears, of the Cape Cod Club; W. F. Eaton, of the 

 Eastern and Corinthian clubs, and from the Plymouth Club. The 

 committee recommended that the sailing length be the load waterline, 

 substantially as laid down by the Massachusetts Club rules of 1892 

 The adoption of the rules will come up for action at the next meeting. 



At a meeting of the Atlantic Y. C, on Feb. 27, Lord Dunraven was 

 elected an honorary member and the privileges of the club house 

 were extended to the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron. 



Messrs. Seabury & Co. have about a dozen electric launches under 

 w.iy in their shops at Nyack. They are from 16ft. to 40ft. length. 



The monthly meeting of the South Boston Y. C, on March 1, was 

 well attended, and a general intention was expressed to make the 

 quarterly-centennial season of the club a notable one. The usual 

 appropriations for prizes have been increased one-half and the follow- 

 ing events have been announced: Open regatta, May 30, open to all 

 boats, no restrictions as to enrollments or occupation; first champion- 

 ship race, July 8; second championship race, Aug. 5; third champion- 

 ship race, Aug. 19. Other fixtures will be published as soon as 

 arrangements are completed. 



Wm. Skinner & Sons, of Baltimore, are at work on a house boat 84ft. 

 Jong, 18ft-, beam and 3ft. 6iu. dr^t, 



Mystery, keel sloop, has been sold by H. W. Lamb to A. L. Pope 

 through Waterhouse & Chesebrough. 



Mr. S. W. Small, of Boston, owner of Ustane, has sold her and will 

 replace her with a new boat of his own design for the 25ft. class. The 

 yacht will be 32ft. over all, 22ft. Gin. l.w.l., 10ft. beam, 7ft. llin.. draft, 

 with a metal center plate of about 6001bs. weight, and mamsail and 

 jib. Drake, in WiUiams's old shop at City Point, will build her. 



Clara, cutter, has been sold by R. S. Osborn to J. H. Adams. 



We call attention to the advertisement on another page of Mr. 

 Alfred H. Brown, designer of steam yachts for all services. Mr. Brown 

 is prepared to superintend the construction of yachts abroad, or to 

 furnish designs for building in this country, and he has a large hst of 

 cruising steam yachts for sale and charter. 



The engines of the steam yacht Neaira are illustrated in the Ameri. 

 can Shipbuilder of March 2. 



The fixtures of the Larchmont Y. 0. for the season of 1893 are as 

 follows: Spring regatta. June 10; annual regatta, July 4; annual 

 oyster boat race, Aug. 26. The date for the fall regatta and the 

 Larchmont cups of 1893 for schooners and first class sloops will be 

 fixed hereafter, so as not to conflict with the trial races. 



A musical entertainment will be given by the Seawanhaka C. Y. C. 

 at the club house on March 16 at 9 P. M. 



The steam yacht designed and built by Ambrose Martin at East Bos- 

 ton for Wm. Amory has been launched and towed to the Fore River 

 Engine Company's Works for her engines. She was christened Sylvia. 



Messrs. Stewart & Binney have designed a steam launch for the use 

 of the Harvard crew, which is building at Wood Bros. shop. East Bos- 

 ton. She is 48ft. over all, 43ft. l.w.l., 6ft. beam and 3ft. draft. 



The Portland Y. C. has elected the following offlcers: Com., Chas. 

 W. Bray; Vice-Corn., Walter Woodman; Fleet Capt., William Wilhs 

 Goold; Sec. Charles F. Flagg; Treas., C. F. A. Weber; Meas., Abial 

 M. Smith; Fleet Surgeon, Charles D. Smith, M. D. 



The new driveway along the Dorchester Bay shore of South Boston 

 will interfere with some of the clubs, the Boston and South Boston be- 

 ing compelled to move their houses back. 



Changes of Racing Rules. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The excellent report of the New York Y. C. committee published m 

 the Field of Feb. 11, concludes with a proposal somewhat similar both 

 in its tendency and in its method of procedure with one which I re- 

 cently suggested and which was published in the Field of Jan. 21, viz., 

 to use the area of immersed mid-section as a divisor in a cubic rule, 

 thereby producing linear ratings like those used in America for time 

 allowance and for classification. 



The Y. R. A. rule, or the French rule, or the Danish rule, all of 

 which give a cubic rating, or the American rule cubed, can each be 

 used in this way. It matters not whether the internal or the external 

 MS be applied; and I submit that the former is preferable because it 

 can be more easily measured without encroaching so much on the 

 legitimate secrets of design, and when the j'acht is afloat. ^ 



The proposal in its most generaUzed form is: American R = ^^^ -..L 



where F is the rating formula (cubic) to be modified. 



M is the area of immersed mid-section, internal, and C a constant par- 

 ticular to any special F. Thus if I. be applied to the Y. R. A. rule it 

 will be found that the conditions are satisfied when C = 72, and if I. be 

 applied to the Seawanhaka formula cubed, C must be about 600, hence 



American rating 



LXS 

 73 M •• 



n. 



0,^ (L+VS)^ HL 



600 M 



The following is a simple and effective way to measure M. Bore two 

 minute pin holes through the yacht's sides at M. S. and 1ft. above the 

 waterline. Thread a wire through these holes and draw it tight. Find the 

 height of tliis wire above yacht's floor at half beam, deduct 1ft., and call 

 remainder H. Find height of wire above planking at quarter beam, 

 using a plumb line, deduct 1ft. and caU the remainder h. Measure in- 



side beam of yacht 1ft. below the wire, call this B, the beam at W L. 

 Then, by Simpson's first rule, the internal area of inamersed M S is 



= ^ (H -f 4 h), and substituting we get: 



American ratmg = H. 



or= in. 



100 B (H -f 4 h) 



n. being Y. R. A. modified, and HI. Seawanhaka. The individuality or 

 distinctive characteristic of each rule in its bearing on L. and S. is re- 

 tained and this should be remembered when the following table is ex- 

 amined, the long boats having a better handicap (irrespective of divi- 

 sor) in the Y. R. A. rule than they have in the Seawanhaka: 



TABLE SHOWING THE ACTION OF THE RULES. 



Name of Yacht. 



L 



S 



B 



H 



h 



(L+ VS)' 



L S 







lOOB (H-Hb 



12 B (H-+4b) 





81.0 



7643 



14.8 



.9 





87.33 



94.21 





85.9 



10270 



25.0 



8.5 



5]2 



89.38 



100.24 





45.5 



2636 



10.1 



5.8 



3.2 



48.38 



53.20 





46.5 



2577 



9.7 



6.2 



3.8 



44.24 



48.10 





40.0 



2700 



9.5 



6.0 



3.2 



43.60 



50.39 





36.0 



1658 



8.6 



4.8 



2.7 



33.63 



36.33 





36.0 



1666 



10.0 



4.6 



2.0 



39.73 



39.67 





28.2 



1102 



6.2 



3.7 



2.3 



28.87 



33.38 





33.0 



900 



8.0 



3.7 



1.6 



30.94 



30.63 





29.8 



996 



7.0 



4.0 



2.1 



26.61 



28.50 





30,0 



1000 



9.6 



3.5 



1.7 



26.31 



28,00 





21.0 



714 



6.5 



3.6 



1.4 



18.14 



20,89 



23.0 



653 



7.0 



3.6 





83.03 



34.16 





35.7 



581 



6.8 



2.5 



l!2 



24.88 



25.07 



These examples are only approximately correct, because H is not 

 shown on drawings, the floors seldom being indicated. Moreover, it 

 often occurs that the actual position of W. L, diilers from the design- 

 er's plan. But the results are probably of sufficient accuracy to 

 demonstrate the effect of my proposals, and to indicate that boats 

 having M S like Ghost, Dis and Valentine, would rate low,'and that this 

 is not confined to deep-bodied craft, as can be seen by comparing Val- 

 entine and Bedouin, the reason being that Bedouin's immersed M S 

 area internal, is 15,18 and;Valentine's 14,47sq. ft. 

 I venture to assert that it is better in every way to bring all yachts 

 F 



under one formula, such as R=qj^ see I., and to get the best results 



possible out of the rule adopted than to bolster up a rule which is ac- 

 knowledged to be defective, by the application of an arbitrary limit of 

 any nature. 



For instance, the N, Y, committee deems 40 per cent, better than 30 

 for excellent reasons well given hi its report. The same argument 

 shows that 50 is better than 40, and states that Magic has 53, "and 

 other cup defenders nearly 50 per cent." Then why fix the limit at 

 40? Surely it is better to fix no limit whatever, but to endeavor, with 

 a little patience and ingenuity, to discover a rule which will have a 

 similar tendency and apply to all yachts that race und%r it without 

 "favor and affection" for any special limit, however well and carefully 

 it may be selected . 



Again, the proposal of the New York committee aims at increasing 

 M S by encouraging yachts possessing the desired percentage of area 

 as compared with the circumscribing parallelogram, but it should be 

 rememlsered that a ratio can be increased in two ways (1) by increas- 

 ing one member, (2) by decreasing the other, and the suggestion of 

 the committee would be almost certain to produce a form of keel with 

 a minimum of draft at M S. A bad form of keel, very deep at the 

 rudder post and triangulai- in form. 



The committee has invited yachtsmen to consider the suggestions 

 made in the report, and this must serve as my excuse for sending you 

 uch a long letter on the subject. Thala.ssa, 



