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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 13, 1894. 



National Association, for final action. This plan strikes us 

 as the most fea=ible and one that will best meet the views o£ 

 the whole body of foxhound owners and breeders. 



We are in receipt of a letter from the well-known sports- 

 man and fox hunter, Mr. Roger I). Williams, of Lexington, 

 Ky., first vice-president of the N. F. H. A., in which he says: 

 "Your article on American hounds in Dec. 30 issue is, in 

 my opinion, the most sensible I have se'en on the subject. 

 We are ranidly securing all the practical foxhound men in 

 the United States as members, and will shortly be ready for 

 business. We wish to make it in reality as well as name a 

 national club, and not a close corporation with some particu- 

 lar strain or type to foster. Our committees on field trial 

 rules and on a standard for judging will be selected with 

 care and judgment, and will doubtless meet the approval of 

 the entire club." 



■ • • • 



National Greyhound Club Meeting. 



The National Greyhound Club held a special meeting of 

 the Board of Directors on Monday evening last at the Fifth 

 Avenue Hotel. New York city. Those present were Presi- 

 dent. Horatio Nelson. N. Q. Pope, C. D. Lewis, C. F. R. Drake 

 and Secretary H. W. HuntiDgton. It was voted on Mr. 

 Huntington's motion that the club donate six medals each 

 to the W. K. C , the New England Kennel Club and the 

 Mascoutah Kennel Club shows, two for greyhounds, two for 

 wolfhounds and two for deerhounds, for the best dog and 

 bitch in each breed. The club also donates three silver cups 

 to the W. K. C. show for the best dog or bitch in each of 

 the three breeds, greyhounds, wolfnounds and deerhounds. 

 The Polhemus cup and the Tubby Hook cup will be given 

 under the same conditions as at the N. G. C. show at Brook- 

 lyn. The Polhemus cup is for the best English setter dog 

 owned by exhibitor six months previous to closing of entries, 

 and to become the property of exhibitor must be. won three 

 times at shows designated by the N. G-. C. The Tubby Hook 

 cup is given for bull-terriers under the same conditions. 



The following members were elected: S. W. Vidler, Colo- 

 rado Springs, Col, and E. V. Payne, Verona, Pa. Those in 

 arrears of dues were instructed "to pay up by Feb, 15 or be 

 suspended. 



The case of Mr. C. H. Mason was then considered, and 

 after some discussion, and on motion of Mr. Pope, it was 

 voted that Mr. C. H. Mason's name be dropped from the list 

 of N. G-. C. members for cause, and his name to be also re- 

 moved from the list of judges. The secretary of the N. G. C. 

 was instructed to advise the secretary of the A. K. C. of said 

 action. Meeting then adjourned. 



The Napa (Cal.) Coursing Club held a pleasant meeting 

 Dec. 24 at Suisan. Out of twenty-three courses only two 

 "jacks" escaped. The club, according to the Call, is trying 

 to negotiate a meeting between some of their dogs and those 

 of San Francisco. 



Shifting and Fixed Ballast. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Th» problem of tbe effects of shifting weights, under discussion in 

 the Forest and Stream and the. Field, is an interesting one to the de- 

 signer, apart from its practical application, and since writing you I 

 have been tempted to look into it more thoroughly, and have found 

 ample proof that the Field's figures, correctly compared with each 

 other, showed more difference in the relative effectiveness of weight 

 placed on deck to windward or below the keel than there really would 

 be. 



There are. for the purpose undertaken (to show the relative values 

 of ballast placed on deck to windward or near to the keel at a heel- 

 ing angle of 15°) practically two errors in the Field's presentment of 

 tbe case. 



The first is in considering the ballast as having been moved 12ft. out- 

 ward horizontally from th°> common C. G. less the sine length multi- 

 plied by the vertical distance (8ft.). The first figure should have been 

 left X cost ne=l 1.59ft. The next error is in the mode of comparison 

 used. This does not exhibit directly tbe relative righting power of the 

 two ways of using ballast. The only thing that can be got out of the 

 figures is an approximation of the relative value which ballast moved 

 in stated ways may have in changing the situation of the center of 

 gravity. 



But the precise relation in value of the different positions treated of 

 cannot be readily seen from this, and nothing but a direct comparison 

 of them horizontally with the center of buoyancy can show it. Of 

 course tbe extent of any change in the position of the common C. (J. 

 to be effected ' y tbe placing of ballast will depend upon the propor- 

 tion of this ballast to displacement, and any relation between two or 



§ac1(Httg. 



While American yachtsmen will appreciate the spirit of Admiral 

 Montague's challenge, we have no idea that it will meet with any 

 response from them. The class nominated in the challenge, the 

 40-rating, is absolutely unknown here, the question of what consti- 

 tutes 40-rating and what the general dimensions are, being often asked 

 by well informed yachtsmen since Queen Mab has been mentioned as 

 a "40-rater." Besides being thus unknown and unfamiliar, the British 

 40-rater, though a fine size of yacht, is of a type in which American 

 designers have had no experience, the sail plan being very small com- 

 pared with the nearest American yachts of the same length, the now 

 moribund 61ft. class. All things considered, there is little probability 

 of a renewal of international racing in this way. 



Speaking of the dimensions of the 40-raters, Deerhound, Mimosa, 

 Creole, Castanet, Thalia, Varuna, Lois, Corsair and Vendetta, they are 

 from 59 to 60fb. l.w.l., about 14ft. beam and 12ft. draft, with 4,000sq. ft. 

 of sail, by Y. R. A. rule. Queen Mab is about 1ft. wider and shoaler 

 than the keel forties. 



A Challenge to American Yachtsmen. 



From Tlie Yachtsman. 



It cannot be denied that the. cost of 85ft. cup defenders, or chall- 

 engers, distinctly militates against the frequency of international 

 contests, and if we can settle the question of supremacy with equal 

 "certainty at a less cost there is every reason for doing so. There will 

 be no America's Cup race next year, that is certain, and the prospects 

 of a good season, so far as new boats are concerned, are gloomy, both 

 here and in America. Therefore, it behooves us to cast about for 

 some means of keeping the ball rolling. 



Admiral Montagu has. as we have said in a former issue, decided to 

 build a new 40-rater for next season, provided he can find someone 

 else to do the same. He has now authorized us to state that he will 

 race any 40-rater designed by an American designer for £100 a side. 

 To this we have promised to add £50 and we hope to find among out- 

 many sporting clubs one that will give an additional £100. This will 

 bring the prize fund up to £250 and the following are the proposed 

 arrangements— conditions, we should have called them, but that the 

 word has acquired a somewhat unenviable meaning. 



1. The best out of three matches under Y. R. A. rules. 



2. Both yachts to be 40-raters— British Y. R. A. rating. 



3. The American yacht to be designed by an American designer, 

 but if thought advisable she may be built in this or any other country. 



4. The owner of the unsuccessful yacht shall pay £100 to the sec- 

 retary of the club which conducts the races within 24 bours after the 

 final match. 



5 If any protest be lodged it shall be decided by the sailing com- 

 mittee of the club, but an appeal to the council of tbe yacht racing 

 association from the decision of such sailing committee shall not be 

 refused by the club conducting the matches. 



6. The sum of £250 forming the prize fund shall become the abso- 

 lute property of the owner of the winning yacht, and shall, by mutual 

 agreement prior to the races, be either paid in cash or invested in a 



CU The bait which is offered above may not be sufficient to induce any 

 American yachtsman to build for the one and only purpose of winning 

 the prize offered. But, as we have often pointed out, the long British 

 yachting season offers ten times the sport that can be enjoyed in the 

 best of American summers. If any yachtsman cares to accept this 

 challenge he should have his boat ready for the opening races on the 

 Thames, He will thus be assured of a good season's sport, and he will 

 be well repaid by that, even if he fails to beat Admiral Montagu. 



We regard this as the most straightforward challenge that could be 

 issued There may be modifications with regard to the prize- fund 

 but we have Admiral Montagu's authority for saying that, should 

 such a remote contingency arise as that no British club can be found 

 willing to add £100 to the stake offered by him and the additional £50 

 proml ed by us, the £100 will be forthcoming, not by way of a wager, 

 but in £50 out of Admiral Montaeu's own purse and £50 out of ours. 

 In that case, of course. Admiral Montagn and we reserve to ourselves 

 the right of selecting the club under whose auspices the matches will 

 be sailed. 



Theannual meeting of the Manchester Y. C was held on Jan. 5, the 

 following officers being elected; Com., Edwin P. Boggs, sleamer Nash- 

 awena: Vice-Corn., Wm. O. Gay. cutter Thelma; Rear-Corn.. Herbert 

 H.White, sloop Ethel; Sec'y, "Wm. B. McClellan; Treas., Robert C. 

 Quillen; Mers . Wm. E. Waterhouse; Ass't Meas., Chas. H. Dodd; Race 

 Committee, S. P. Perrin, Percy Hodges, L. M. Clark, Edward P. Sharp, 

 W. S. Crosby; Committee on Admissions, John Dearborn,W. A Under- 

 wood. E. M. Dennie. Gilmer Clanp, J. McK. Ferriday, A. W. Randall, 

 E R. Wise; House Committee, Francis Gray, P. T. Lowell, A. J. Clark, 

 E. H R. Revere, J. A. Barbey, Jr. ; Directors, commodore, vice-com- 

 modore, rear-commodore, ex-officiis^ and Henry W. Savage, Erastus 

 Willard, L. S. Jordan, C. H. Nute. 



Coronet, schr,, has been sold by J, D. Wing to A. C- James and will 

 soon fit out for a cruise to the West Indies. 



C.B. 



more, such changed positions, with tbe original center, will not be the 

 same as with the C. B., unless that unfortunately coincided with the 

 C. G. in the first instance. 

 I send you herewith the results obtained in three ways: 



1. Graphically on a large scale, lin. with a decimal rule. 



2. By the Field's method with corrections. 



3. By another plan. 



1. GRAPHICALLY. 



Horizontal Arm to O. 



Weight on deck to v, indward A 9.52 ft. 



Weight on keel, lift, under C. G..B 2.817ft. 

 Bis to A as 1 is to 3.344 



2. By the "field's" method. 

 Shift of C G. by 2 tons to windward 12ft. X cosine, 15°=11.59ft. 

 2X11. 59ft. 



Hor izontal Arm to C. B. 



No. 1 11.313ft. 



No. 2 4.66 ft 



No. 2 is to 1 as 1 to 2.43 



= .1545ft. 



150 tons 



1.785ft. -f .1545 = 1.9395—1.813 = .1265 gain in lever length. 

 Shift of C. G. by 2 tons put below keel: 



1.851—1.813 = .038 4^ = as 1 to 3.33 



.038 



3. PROOF OF GRAPHIC (DIAGRAM) DISTANCES. 



Twelve feet x cosine, 15° = 11.59— 8ft x sine, 15° = 2 07 = 9.52 

 9.52 -f- 1 813 = 11.313 length of lever (weight on deck to windward) to 

 center of buovancy. 



Sine, 15° X lift. = 2 817ft. + 1.813 = 4.660. Horizontal distance for 

 weight under keel. 



If the moved weight had not been outward from the center line of 

 the vessel, it might have been put at any height without the cosine 

 being considered, but if placed 7ft. lower thau proposed, and still 12fc. 

 off at right angles with the mast, the cosine would be a more im- 

 portant consideration than the sine of the height. 



The foregoing shows that the Field's representation, neither in the 

 figures given, nor the conclusion presented of values being as 1 to 1 4 

 was correct. Your diagram showing them as in the published figure 

 or as 1 to 3 was correct, and in tbe Field of Dec. 9, their illustrated 

 diagram shows a value with ballast put under keel of 1 to 2 43 in rela- 

 tive effectiveness. Bobstay. 



New York., Dec. 30. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The efforts of the Field to depreciate the value of live ballast on the 

 windward rail may be edifying to the naval architect, but are, as you 

 intimate, amusing to the man who has used it in small craft. But, if 

 I understand its conclusions, it admits that windward ballast on deck 

 is somewhat superior to lead on the keel until the yacht has heeled 40 

 degrees. As a yacht like Vigilant would not be nermitted- by her 

 sailing master to heel so far as that, because at that angle of heel 

 she would not sail fast and would make a great deal of leeway (I speak 

 from my own experience with j achts heeled to about that angle), the 

 Field closes its attack on your calculations by admitting part of the 

 claim you made. 



But the most important advantage Vigilant gained by her live 

 ballast is entirely overlooked by the Field. This ballast was not 

 taxed. Tbe increase of the loadhne it caused was not considered in 

 tbe time allowances. When Valkyrie added a ton of lead she surrend- 

 ered several seconds of her allowance. Vigilant added a ton tind a 

 half of extra men and was not asked to allow a second more. It will 

 require a much better boat to beat another that is pe' mitted to take 

 on board, after measurement, an unlimited number of men. Take 

 two of the same model— two Valkyries or two Vigilants— with the 

 same fixed ballast, and allow one to carry two tons of live ballast, and 

 add sail accordingly, and the latter will win every time, 



Chatham, N. B., Jan. 5. J. L. Stewart. 



The Fall River Y. C. has elected the following officers: Pres., John 

 T. Burrell; Sec'y. Wm. E. Blossom; Treas., Wm. B. Edgar; Com., A. 

 P, Almy, sloop Lapwing; Vice-Corn., Jefferson Borden, Jr., sloop 

 Uarda; Rear-Com., A. H. Skinner, sloop Nerika; Meas,, Pel eg E. Bor- 

 den; Regatta Committee. A. Y. Nickerson, Hale Remington, Fred C. 

 Borden, Stanley A. Aldrich, John R. Durfee, 



A Summer Cruise to Mackinac. 



On a certain morning in July some three years ago, the sloop Alert 

 took her departure from a small port on the north shore or Lake 

 Huron, bound for Mackinac Island, that 'fairy isle" with its arched 

 rock, its sugar loaf, its fort, and last, but certainly not least among its 

 attractions— its "Grand ' hotel. 



And now, before going any further, let me introduce to you our 

 tight little ship and her crew— first the boat. Alert is a compromise 

 sloop 28ft. l.w.l., 36ft. over all, 9ft. beam and 4ft. draft. Her iron keel 

 weighs something over a ton, and she carries a couple of tons of pig 

 and scrap iron under her floor. Her cabin has nearly 5ft head room 

 under a low trunk, and her small cockpit is self-bailing, so she was 

 quite able to take care of herself in a blow, and had ample room for 

 the four of us who made up her crew, while a hammock slung in the 

 little forecastle afforded a chance for repose to the one paid hand we 

 carried, viz., the cabin boy. 



Of ourselves I will merely designate L., H. and the Doctor by those 

 appellations. They were friends who had come long distances espe- 

 cially for this cruise. r>f sailing the first two had not the slightest 

 idea, and the difference between the peak and throat halliards is still 

 to them, I fancy, an unsolved mystery. The Doctor, on the contrary, 

 was a fairly good sailor, and had it not been for his assistance, a great 

 deal more of the work would have fallen on me than eventually did. 

 You see. I had invited them during the previous winter, and they were 

 so eager to go that I imagined in a few days, at the most, they would 

 easily have mastered the not very intricate rigging of a 30-footer 

 while I depended on the Doctor to relieve me at the tiller, for the 

 writer, as the reader has probably surmised— was the "Skipper" of the 

 craft. 



H was an Englishman, and the efforts he made to distinguish be- 

 tween the jib, staysail, topsail and mainsail, were truly worthy of a 

 better cause. In fancy I can still see him, as, stretched full length on 

 the cabin house, a cushion under his bead and novel in hand, he would 

 gaze dreamily up at the white cloths of the topsail: then, the idea 

 suddenly seizing him, he would lift himself up languidly on his elbow, 

 and looking aft to where the Skipper sat at the tiller, the following 

 conversation would ensue: "Say. old man ! What do you call that 

 sail up there again, you know?" "That! why, that's the topsail." 

 "Hm, by Jove! topsail, topsail (repeating it over as if to impress it on 

 his memory); and this large sail is the staysail? Oh, yes, of course; 

 by Jove, how funny!" "Confound it, H. !" from the Skipper, "will 

 you never learn ? That's not the staysail— that's the mainsail. The 

 sail right in front of the mast, sliding up and down on that stay, is the 

 staysail and thet one out there at the end of the bowsprit, is called the 

 jib." "H'm, by Jove! I think I have 'em all now, don't you know?" 

 and, happy in that belief, tha cushion and book would be resumed. 

 Needless to say, he didn't "have 'em all now, don't you know," and 

 not much time would elapse ere the same subject would be gone over 

 again. 



L. was a man who had a constitutional antipathy to water; he had 

 not imagined that our course would be so far from shore. In an evil 

 moment the Skipper informed him, in answer to his question, that 

 squalls could usually be distinguished by the darkness of the sky in 

 the direction they were to come from, and from that time forth the 

 slightest appearance of a smut-colored cloud was sure to bring forth 

 predictions from him as to an approaching squall, followed by an 

 appeal to all hands, whether the wisest plan were not to run imme- 

 diately for the shore. Well, he saw some squalls before he reached 

 Mackinac, and the sight was far from reassuring him that squalls 

 were harmless things. 



The Doctor was the Skipper's right hand man; of an accommodat- 

 ing nature, he was ready to sail when the others were, ready to put 

 into port when the others were, and perfeclly willing to remain there 

 until the others proposed leaviug, besides which he superintended tbe 

 commissariat, department. His beautiful black beard was a badge 

 of respectability we could ill have dispensed with, proving instanta- 

 neously to one and all, by the most conclusive evidence that can be 

 brought forward— that of their own eyes— that a crew witb such a 

 member in its composition must necessarily be a most well-behaved 

 one. " 

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variance with all rules or customs. 



This latter individual rejoiced in the name of Archie and his worst 

 faults consisted in his cooking (for he combined that accomplish- 

 ment, with many others), his fondness for cigars, a lamentable habit 

 he contracted of trailing articles astern at the end of a line under the 

 pleasing delusion that he had discovered a new plan of washing and 

 thereby invariably losing the aforementioned articles; the reckless 

 way in which he smashed the crockery, his loss of a lemon squeezer 

 overboard, a tipple he secretly concocted and drank of vinegar 

 sugar and water, whereby the Doctor had to journey ashore at every 

 port to replenish; and the singing of a nigger song he picked up at 

 Mackinac and which informed us from morning till night that "Kimmi 

 kimmio, kimmeod,"' or something to that effect. In all else he was 

 perfection personified. 



And now for the Skipper. You must not suppose from his des- 

 cription of the rest of the crew that he regarded himself as the only 

 one knowing anything on board. Far from it ! His nautical experi- 

 ence consisted in having knocked around a river for six or eight years- 

 first in a punt with a leg-o'-mutton sail and then in a skiff rigged with 

 two lateens. Then the scene changed and he used a small sloop 

 belonging to other parties, until he owned a 27ft. open sloop himself 

 and finally had Alert built. His love of sailing, however, was, and is 

 genuine, and many a time have his hands ached from hauling on hal- 

 liards, sheets and outhaul, and his back been sore and stiff from 

 straining on anchor chain aud cable. 



So much for personalities; the wind was slightly to the south of 

 west, as with sheets hauled close aboard we stood over for the False 

 Detour Chanrei, distant some twenty miles. Light as the breeze was 

 at starting, the appearance of the sky promised that w e would have 

 all we wanted ere in the passage; and so it proved. Gradually it 

 freshened, hauling at the same time more to the southward, until a 

 nasty spiteful little sea was kicked up, which showered the spray all 

 over us every time she jumped into it. At the same time the puffs 

 came so hard and strong off the land, and as she heeled rail under L 

 became more and more uneasy. Finally he suggested that as we were 

 in no particular hurry to get anyw r here, we should turn in a reef. 



The suggestion was acted on, and now. while they were getting the 

 halliards in inextricable confusion, it struck me for the first time how 

 unutterably foolish it bad been on my part to start cn this cruise 

 without a sailornian. At last they managed to get things out of the 

 tangle, and with tiller lashed the Skipper managed to haul out the ear- 

 ring and get a reef properly put in. 



Filling away again, the water quickly smoothed as we got under the 

 lee of the land, and at 5 o'clock we entered the channel or passage. 

 Once in calm water, we ran rapidly along the west shore of Cockburn 

 Island, keeping a good lookout for an anchorage. A little bay appear- 

 ing to be just what we were looking for, we entered it; but soon the 

 cry of "shoal water" from the bows caused the tiller to be put hard 

 down, and wmen she rounded into the wind (which had almost died 

 away) H. jumped into the dinghy and pulling in a short distance 

 sounded with his oar and reported a bottom of flat rock This was 

 not encouraging as from the appeararce of the shore it was very 

 pr,;, liable the rock extended all along. In fact the foundation of the 

 Vlanitoulin, Cockburn and Drummond Islands is a limestone rock, and 

 in almost every harbor the bottom is composed of the same; and as 

 can be easily imagined, this does not make the best anchorage in the 

 world. 



As we stood along, however, we came in sight of what looked in the 

 gathering darkness to be some sort of a dock, and at the end of this 

 was a man waving his hands. He was shouting something to us, and 

 when w r e were near enough to make out what he was saying, we found 

 he was extending an invitation to tie up there for the" night. "How 

 much water is there there?" "Oh! 'bout five feet! How" much are 

 you drawing?" "Four." "Well I guess there's enough for you." 

 "Down mainsail! Now the jib and stays'l." As the hanks of the latter 

 rattled down the stay we glided alongside the dock. Lines were got 

 out and the yacht swung round, then fenders were hung along the 

 side and everything made fast and snugged down. Our friend proved 

 to be the clerk of a lumher camp owned by Hitchcock <fc Foster, a 

 firm who had been engaged in getting out ties and cedar posts the 

 previous winter on Cockburn Island. At the close of the work in the 

 spring he had been left to guard the provisions, etc., stored in camp 

 for the next year's operations, and also to tally the number of ties and 

 posts loaded by the schooners which came every couple of weeks for 

 a cargo. 



The camp was situated just back of the dock, and accepting the 

 proffered use of the stove, Archie was sent up with a baBket of eata- 

 bles to cook supper. Whether the broad expanse of iron appealed to 

 his culinary instincts more than the oil stove on the yacht, or whether 

 our appetites were uncommonly sharp, certain it is that we did full 

 justice to the meal Of course we invited our host to do the honors 

 of the table, a position he was too modest to assume, but he manfully 

 did his duty on the canned goods. 



Supper over, we drew the Jong ben. h near the stove, for the nights 

 are always cool in the glorious climate of the North Shore, and chatted 

 and smoked until a late hour, when, amid yawns, we said good night 

 and made our way down to the yacht. 



Just before daylight next morning I was awakened by the keel 

 thumping on the bottom, and on jumping up and into my trousers 

 and going on deck, I found a fresh breeze olowing from the westward 

 and enough of a chop of a sea on to lift her bow and thus let her keei 

 strike, slacking the bow and hauling on the stern line caused her-to 

 forge ahead sufficiently to clear, go jumping aboard again and diving 

 down the companion I soon had the others awake. 



"Who will go in with me, off the dock for a swim?" I asked, as \ 



