Aug. 5, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



107 



Owasco V. C, Second Race. 



ATIBURN, V. v.— OWASCO LAKE. 



Friday, July S8. 



The course was from Dolphin Club house to Edgewater, to Long 

 Point and finish at Dolphin club house; distance 91.4 mUes, weather 

 dear, wind strong from north. 



Length. Start. 



Bee, N. B. Burr 17.4 1 10 43 



Idlewavs, F. J. Allen. . . .31 .3 1 10 15 



Mystery. H. B. Lewis. . . 22.00 1 11 27 



Asp, D. Beardsley 21.101.^ 1 14 15 



La Fiancee, J. Brainard 16.9 1 12 28 



Elapsed. 

 3 06 07 

 3 22 53 

 3 34 52 

 3 42 04 



Did not finish. 



Corrected. 



1 55 24 



2 12 38 

 2 23 25 



27 49 



The winners were: First prize, Bee; second, Idleways; third, Mystery. 

 Out of fourteen boats in the club only five started. Part of the 

 boats sailed with one reef, and the balance with two. _ _ ^ 

 Regatta committee; C. E. Thorn, F. J. Allen, W. R. Hopkms, N. B. 

 Burr, C. U. ChedeU. 

 Judge: W. P. Allen. Timekeeper: H. .1. Case. 



International Racing. 



Thjl rollowiug letters settle the dates for the Cup races, and also the 

 time when Valkyrie and her owner may be expected here. The tune 

 of crossing is co'nsiderably later than in the cases of previous chal- 

 lengers, but Lord Dunraven is naturally un- 

 willing to throw away the very good chances 

 of wiuning in the many important races of 

 the Cowes week: 



New Yohk. July 27, 1893. 



Dear Mr. Smith: I have a letter to-day 

 from Lord Dunraven, in which he says that, 

 as he has heard nothing from the Cup com- 

 mittee with regard to the date for theracps, 

 he is now assuming that they are definitely 

 settled for Oct. 5, and that he intends to 

 race the Valkyrie over there until Aug. 13, 

 sailing her thence about Aug. 20 or 22, and 

 leaving himself about the middle of Septem- 

 ber. I understood the desire of everybody 

 to be that the date should be Sept. 23 or 25. 

 I merely mention this, as it is absolutely 

 necessary to let Lord Dunraven know at 

 once when you are determined to have 

 them, as otherwise the Valkyrie will not be 

 here in time to race by the 23d or 25th. It is 

 most essential that he should be advised 

 immediately as he has a good many arrange- 

 ments to make. Yours very sincerely, 



H. Maitlakd Kebsey. 



To James D, Smith. 



Ex-Commodore Smith's reply was as fol- 

 lows: 



New York, July 27, 1893. 



Dear Mh. Kersey: I have yours of even 

 date. It has l)eeu the desire of the America 

 Cup committee to make the date earUer than 

 Oct. 5 in compliance with the suggestion of 

 Lord Dunraven, but they have been unable 

 to make the arrangements to change the 

 date. Your intimation that he desires to 

 know at once the decision of the committee, 

 and if the date is not changed it will per- 

 mit him to race the Valkyrie in England 

 gives me the opportunity to say, in con- 

 firmation of oiu' previous correspondence 

 and to make the date positive, that the date 

 for the races is definitely settled for Oct. 5 

 next, as per our agreement, unless changed 

 by mutual consent, and I infer from your 

 letter you will advise Lord Dunraven by 

 cable. Yours sincerely, James D. Smith. 



To H. Maitland Kersey. 



Navahoe has been docked at Southampton 

 and her bottom has been coated with Cra- 

 mond's composition, the topsides being 

 painted. The size of her spars and the 

 lightness of her rigging have excited con- 

 siderable comment among yachtsmen, and 

 she has been compared to Satanita in ap- 

 pearance, while her bow is likened to Ven- 

 detta. Fay & Co. have done the painting 

 and other work on the vessel, and her racing 

 spars being shipped and everything put in 

 complete order. 



The Yachtsman describes Navahoe as fol- 

 lows: 



"The chief yachting event of the week 

 here has been the arrival of the American 

 yacht Navahoe, which came up from Cowes 

 on Wednesday afternoon, and dropped 

 anchor at the Itchen buoys off Crosshouse. 

 Here she at once commenced divesting her- 

 self of her jury rig, which consisted of a 

 stump bowsjirit and topmast and short 

 boom, preparatory to shipping her huge 

 racing spars, which have been waiting here 

 for about three weeks, having been brought 

 over by the Inman liner Berlin. The pass- 

 age from Boston to Cowes is reckoned to 

 have been made in 18 days 19 hours. The 

 Navahoe, which is built of steel, has of 

 course been an object of great curiosity to 

 Itchen-siders. Her huge mast is a marvel 

 in the way of sticks. Standing on deck one 

 cannot but be struck with her enormous 

 beam, yet elegance oE form, and a glance 

 up her enormous mast to hounds is some- 

 thing to take one's breath away, and to lead 

 to a feeling of wonder as to what the ship 

 will look like when fully rigged. The saloon 

 and cabins, [access to which is gained by 

 a mahogany brass-railed staircase— not an 

 ordinai-y companion ladder— are elegantly, 

 but not ejcpensively, fitted, white being the 

 prevailing color, with delicate cretonne up- 

 holstery and electro-plated fittings. She has 

 a bathroom which would do credit to a small 

 ocean liner. Her main cabin is a noble 

 apartment, and has ample headroom for 

 even a tall man. The ladies' cabin, which is 

 on the starboard side, is also a fine room. 

 She has staterooms right aft, and these 

 were cram-fuU of canvas in the voyage 



across the Atlantic. Her forecastle makes up sixteen berth.s, and 

 looked at from a short distance, Navahoe appears above the waterline 

 perhaps more Uke Satanita than any other of the English quartette. 

 On her arrival at Cowes, Navahoe was at once joined by Captain T. 

 Diaper, who will be her pUot in English waters." 



Mr. Carroll has taken a house at Cowes, the "Rosetfca," for f our 

 months. 



The first race of the Cowes meeting was sailed on Monday, the 

 regatta of the Royal London Y. C. the course being from off Cowes, 

 eastward along the north shore of the Isle of Wight past Ryde, and 

 around the Warner Lightship, then back past Cowes and to the west- 

 ward around Iht^ Lepe buoy, and back to the starting line, two rounds, 

 50 milea, naut. The course is a crescent of moderate curvature, and 

 with the wind N.W., the first leg to the Warner was free, the second 

 to Lepe buoy was to windwai-d for about 8 miles, with a reach of 4 

 miles, then nearly before the wind back to the Warner. The starters 

 were Valkyrie, Britannia, Navahoe, Iverna, Satanita and Calluna. 



The wind was fresh and puffy from the N.W., all carrying club top- 

 sails. The start was made at fo A. 3[. The order over the line was 

 Valkyrie, Iverna, Britannia. Satauitn, Navahoe and Calluna. Britannia 

 raw ahead, but a little later sj 

 Valkyrie passed her. Valk_\- 



though she did not enter. On Tuesday the race of the Royal Yachi 

 Squadron, for the Queen's Cup, was sailed, Navahoe not being allowec 

 to start, as she is not enrolled in the souadron. 



YACHT NEWS NOTES. 



Iroquois, schr., has been chartered again by Mr. Ellis, and has fitted 

 out at Wintrmgham's yard. 



Nu-vana, steam yacht, designed and built by Dr. C. D. MiUer for 

 W R. Sands, of New Hamburg, was successfully launched at Pough- 

 keepsie on July 22. She is lOfift. over all, 80ft. l.w.l.. 16ft. be.am and 

 5ft. 6in. draft. 



The regidar meeting of the New York Y. C. on July 20 was held in 

 ihe large haU of the Equitable Bufiduig, Vice-Corn. W. Butler Duncan 

 presiding in the absence of Com. Morgan. The most important busi- 

 ness transacted was the election of the following members: James R. 

 Whitmg, W. E. Duryea, G. B. French, Thos. Perry, U. S. N.; George 

 H Mairs, Casper F. Goodrich, U. S. N. ; M. Ogden Jones, J. Hay ward 

 Ford. John H. Hall, John L. Purcell. TJ. S. N- ; Henry W. Lamb, Otis 

 C. Tiffany, U. S. N.; John Hubbard, U. S. N.; Arthur B. Speyers, V. 

 S N ; N. James De Blois. Adam W. C. Cochrane, Bradford B. Mc- 

 Gregor, P. M. Smith, J. Andrew Swan, AVilliam H. Everett, U. S. N.; 

 Leonard J. Busby, Charles Gould, Francis G. Landon, Whham Hester, 

 T Bailev Myers Mason, U. S. N. ; WUliam Trenholm. James Laughlin, 

 Jr Harrison B. Moore. Thomas (W. PearsaU, Jr. Edward H. Harri- 



" CALLUNA," CUTTER. Designed by Wm. Fife, Jr., 1893. 



From a photo by West & Son. 



man, John Nichols Brown, Marcus L. Miller, U. S. N.; F. F. Fletcher, 

 U. S. N., and Edward S. CaldweU. Treasurer F. W. J. Hurst reported 

 that the club's assets were $40,477.10 in cash and registered bonds. 

 Mr. Frank T. Robinson reported that the silver cup for the cruiser 

 New York, purchased by the club at a cost of £1,000, was ready for 

 presentation. A letter from Lord Dtmi'aven was not read, as the 

 America's Cup committee was not present. 



We are indebted to the Lake Champlain Y. C. for a copy of the new 

 club book for 1893. 



Although St. John, N. B., has no yacht club, it boasts quite a fleet of 

 yachts, and the aldermen of the city have presented a very handsome 

 cup to be sailed for on Aug. 8, at which tune the cruiser Blake is ex- 

 pected in port. The racing fleet includes some fifteen yachts from 

 19 to 31ft. l.w.l., mostly of local build, though two, Piqua and Irex, 

 were designed by Mr. Burgess. Messrs. Temple and others have just 

 completed a very handsome steam yacht, 56ft. long and 9ft. beam. 

 She is fitted with a Roberts boUer and a triple expansion engine of 160 

 horse power, and on her trip made some very fast miles. Messrs. 



Fairweathei- and others have also launched their new steam launch, 

 v^ve set and both NaN ahoe and , long 7ft. 6m. beam. She is also fitted with Roberts hoUer and 

 was lij st around the AVarner, but with compound engmes. 

 the other "two very close. Navahoe, tbougrh not standing as straight ' On Saturday afternoon, durmg a thimder storm, the yacht Goose- 

 as the others, made a good showing: in ibt- windward work, taking berry, containing a party of Utica and Syracuse young people from 

 the lead and gaining a little in the reai;h which followed, the time at Thousand Island Park, was struck by lightning and its occupants pros- 

 Lepe buoy being Navahoe 12:34:4:i, Valkyrie 12:35:12. Britannia trated by the shock. The boat is rowed and siUed by Edward P. Lyon, 



12:35:22. With spinakers set the fleet ran past Cowes, the tu-st round 

 being timed: 



Navahoe 12 48 34 Satanita 12 55 35 



Valkyrie 12 48 42 Calluna 12 59 50 



Britannia 12 49 36 Iverua , 1 00 58 



Navahoe held first place to the Warner, where the times were: 

 Navahoe 2.04.30. Valkj rie 2.04.:K, Britannia 2.04.48, and Satanita 2.09.45. 



In the windward work Valkyi'ie soon passed Navahoe, and then 

 Britannia worked by the two, making a lead of about im. before the 

 reachins began, and holding it to the finish, where the times were: 



Britannia 3 46 16 Navahoe 3 47 12 



Valkyrie 3 47 19 



Iverna gave up and the times of Satanita and Calluna were not re- 



son of Captain Lyon, of Ogdensburg, and in the boat were also Miss 

 Grace Butterworth, of Utica, and Miss Lina Atwell and Frank An- 

 drews of Syracuse. Mr. Andrews was rendered unconscious by the 

 shock and so remained untU energetic measures were taken for his 



some the other. On this account the officials in charge of the race 

 reserved their decision until to-day. but it is altogether probable that 

 they will decide that it shall be sa:iled over again.— Toronto Empire, 

 July SU. 



The new book of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C, is decidedly the 

 finest book of the kind yet published, the work of the De Vinne Press.. 

 It is very handsomely printed on a thin paper, the cover being of 

 Union sUk. such as is used for fight sails, with the club emblem in gold. 

 The club has a membership of 413, and a fleet of 190 yachts; 51 

 steamers, 31 schooners, 66 cutters, sloops and yawls, and 42 open 

 yachts. 



We have received a very neat programme of the season from the 

 Tacoma Y. 0., of Tacoma, Wash. This young club is now well estab- 

 lished and in a flourishing condition. 



The challenge of Zelma for the Fisher cup, held by Onward, of 

 Rochester, was accepted some time ago, and Saturday was fixed as 

 the date of the race. Mr. N. B. Dick of Zelma is now informed by 

 Onward's owners that the sloop will he away cruising and he is in- 

 vited to cross the lake and sail over the course for the cup, Mr. Dick 

 wants the trophy.but he wants to win it in a race, and he has offered to 

 alter the date to suit the convenience of Onward's owners.— rorowto 

 Globe, July %e. 



Columbia, schr., has been chartered by J. T. Perkins to Mr. Sloane, 

 of New York. 



The Watertown (N. Y.) Times is responsible for the statement that 

 a flash of Ughtning struck the "sail pole" of 

 a yacht. 



Akny, steam yacht, Frederic Gallatin, sails 

 - . this week from New York on a cruise to 



Greenland, caUing first at Quebec and Mon- 

 treal. 



The rumor of a new steel yacht for Wm. 

 A. Slater, former owner of the steam yacht 

 Sagamore, has taken definite form, and the 

 Bath Iron Works is credited with an order 

 for a steam yacht 227ft. over all and fitted 

 for ocean cruising. 



Mr. Sears's 21-footer (?) Romance was 

 measured last evening by the official meas- 

 urer of the Dorchester Y. C. and was found 

 to be 22ft. Sin. on the waterline. She there- 

 fore had a right to sail in the class Cor boats 

 over 22ft. in the regatta last Saturday. Per- 

 haps there are some other pretty long 21- 

 footers in this harbor.— -Bosto?i Herald. 



The cruise of the New York Y. R. A. has 

 failed to come up to expectations, only 

 about twenty yachts taking part. The fleet 

 sailed from New Rochelle to the Thimble 

 Islands, where the cruise ended. 



Carmita, fin-keel, has been put in shape at 

 Lawley's, and is now complete, with all her 

 new sails. Harpoon has been laid up, Glor- 

 iana is still tied up at Beverly Bridges, and 

 her yawl has been decked and rigged for 

 Mr. Hopkins's use about Newport, so that 

 only Wasp is left in the 46ft. class, and 

 neither she nor Carmita will start in the 

 Goelet cup race. 



The regatta committee of the Seawanhaka 

 Corinthian Y. C, is actively at work over 

 the race for the $1,000 cup offered for the 

 four cup defenders. The question of a date 

 is somewhat difficult, there being so many 

 events already scheduled, while more or less 

 wfll be required for docking and preparation 

 for the trial races Two very good courses 

 have been laid out on the Sound between 

 Lloyds Neck, Penfield Reef and Crane Neck, 

 each buoy a minimum depth of nearly 10 

 fathoms. 



From the latest reports, the Herreshoff 

 21^-rater Meneen, is doing better than at 

 first, taking a number of fii'st prizes. The 

 Yachtsman reports that her boom and gaff 

 mainsail has been replaced by an English 

 lugsail with good results. Momena is doing 

 very well. 



One of the features of Cowes week is the 

 yachting exhibition on board the schooner 

 yacht Daphne, under the management of 

 SVest & Son, the yacht photographers. The 

 yacht will cruise from port to port during 

 August and September, with an exhibit of 

 yachting goods, models, photos, hooks and 

 all kinds of boats, instruments, etc. 



Emperor WUliam is at Cowes this week 

 with the imperial yacht Hohenzollern and 

 Meteor (Thistle). The latter wUl enter 

 against Navahoe and the British cutters. 



The report is current that the Eastern Y. 

 C. proposes to establish a club station sim- 

 ilar to those of the New York Y. C, the 

 location being on Long Neck, Great Harbor, 

 Vineyard Sound. 



Vashti, cutter, built by Lawley in 1888 for 

 Chas. A. Welch, Jr., has just been repur- 

 chased by that gentleman from John A. 

 Stetson, who has owned her for some time. 



Fleur de Lys schr., G. A. Trotter, arrived 

 at Plymouth, Eng., on .July 22, having sailed 

 from New York on July 2. 



The catboat Gypsy, of the Audubon Y. 

 C, when on her way to Sandy Hook on a 

 fishing trip late on July 22, was struck by 

 a heavy squall off Bay Ridge, and John 

 Drexler was knocked overboard by the boom 

 in jibing. In spite of every effort his com- 

 panions were unable to pick him up. The 

 young man was a carpenter, living in 

 Harlem, and a member of the club. 



Indria, cutter, was reported ashore on the 

 morning of July 23 at the mouth of Edgar- 

 town Harbor, Martha's Vineyard, but was 

 hauled off with little damage. There is no 

 yacht of the name iu the American Yacht 

 List, and the yacht is probably the Indra, 

 formerly Melusina. 



Palmer, schr., is fitting out, her owner, 

 Mr. Rutherford Stuy vesant. having returned 

 from Europe last week. Drusilla, owned by Mr. Louis Rutherford, is 

 stiU laid up at Wintringham's yard. 



The regatta of the Indian Harbor Y. C. was sailed on July 29 in a 

 strong wind and rain. Loyal, schr., ran on the reef off Little Captain's 

 Island before the start, and laid there untU hauled off by the Chap- 

 man Wrecking Co. She very luckily sustained little damage. 



Ballymena, steam yacht, built in 1888 by the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. 

 for the late George S. Brown, of Baltimore, has been sold by Alexander 

 Brown to J. N. Brown, of Providence, R. I,, for $55,000. She was the 

 first steel yacht built by the firm. 



Aida, steam yacht, Messrs. F. A. and George Homer, of New Bedford, 

 went aground in a fog on Cedar Tree Neck, Vineyard Sound, on July 

 19, and was holed and sunk. She was raised and taken to Vineyard 

 Haven on July 24. She is not the well known Aida, formerly the 

 Permelia, owned by W. P. Douglas. 



Embla, steam yacht, designed and built by Seabury & Co., for J. H. 

 Hanan, made a very successful trial trip on July 21 ; making, as re- 

 ported, 18-M miles in one hour's run and 36 miles in two hours. Her 

 contract speed was 17 miles. 



Marguerite, schr., will be eligible to saU again in the New York Y. C. 

 fleet, her new owner, Henry w. Lamb, having been elected a member 

 of the club at the last meeting. 



The sailing committee of the Royal HamUton Y. C, has decided that 

 the race for the 21-footers, in connection with the L. Y. R. A. regatta, 

 on July 8, wUl have to be re-saUed early in August, over a course in 

 the bay. 



The capsize of the Eastern Shore canoe in Lake Michigan, by which 

 four fives were lost, has created a prejudice in some quarters against 



relief. AU the occupants of the boat were pai'tiaUy paralyzed by the | ,-,ne of tt,e fleetest and most seaworthy of crafts. This canoe, known 

 lightning and were unable to manage theu- vessel. A fishing skiff near , the Chesapeake, was built for the World's Fair at St. Michael's, 



afhand went to their reUef. All have now recovered.— iio?ne (A'. Y.) ' - " — ^- "---^ ' =- *v--t„i j „ „^„.-„ 



Sentinel, Jxily fi. 



In the 21ft. race of the R. C. Y. C. on Saturday the Thistledown, 

 with a good breeze, again demonstrated her ability to walkaway from 

 the others of her clafes. Mr. ^Emfllus Jarvis's fin-keel was in the lead 

 right from the start. The starting buoy was unfortunately displaced 

 ihortly after the start and another was put in its position. The two 



Talbot county. The boat was out in the Lake and a storm arose. _ _ 

 it approached, the navigator furled the safl around the mast. The 

 violent wind loosened and filled the sail and upset the boat. If the 

 boat had been managed by an Eastern Shoreman, as one of our East- 

 em Shore contemporaries points out, the disaster would not have 

 happened, because he would have taken the mast down, or "unstep- 



iverna save up auu vue uuje« i.i oammiu «uu v.a.uuu.. v. o ..... xo- ....... .^^,.^.c.^^^^ — ..^ . , ped" it, as it is ttrmed. The Chesapeake canoe or "kunner as it is 



ported, puring the race the German Emperor was vul u« Meteor, buoys, however, confused the yachts, some of tbera roynding one and ' popularly known on the Eastern Shore, is, as we have already ra'-", a 



