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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[March 17, 1884. 



Biscayne Bay Y. C. Annual Regatta. 



Biscayne Bay, Fla.— The event of the year so far a8 this place and 

 the Biscayne Bay Y. C. is concerned, has come and gone, and Feb. 22, 

 1894, which means to us regatta day, is a. thing of the past. We had a 

 pretty good time, but not quite as good as usual, for we lacked boats, 

 wind, cups and music for a hop. We had some boats but not many, 

 and some wind but not much, and some music but . very little and 

 very poor what there was of it. We had no cups because, although 

 they were ordered early in January, we live too far away for them to 

 have reached us vet. So the boats not having the glittering prizes 

 dangling before their noses, like a. bag of oats in front of a lazy horse, 

 did hot go so fast as they might. Still some very pretty work was 

 shown, and we might ha ve had a worse day as well as poorer sport. 



The new Lawlev boat. Flying Cloud, for instance, sailed like a witch, 

 outpointing the wind itself, and leaving the ex cup winner Netbla so 

 far behind that the latter was not in it. Com. Munroe, who has sold 

 Wabun, and is consequently without a boat for the present, sailed 

 Nethla, and thus experienced the novel sensation of being on a losing 

 boat. As there were no other entries in the first class, the race was 

 between these two. 



In the second class there were so few entries that the committee 

 found it necessary to bunch several boats of diverse rig and model, 

 such as a big Cape Cod cat, a small sloop, a sharpie and two American 

 yawls, with a result that no one was satisfied. The race in this class 

 was won on time by Mr. Alfred Peacock's wonderful sloop Widow, 

 but she was disqualified by an unfortunate misunderstanding of rules 

 by Mr. Richard Carney who sailed her, and the cup went to Mr. 

 Haigh's Crosby cat, Reine. - 



The third class being composed of small open boats, found the light 

 wind and smooth sea so great to their liking that they not only made 

 a pretty race among themselves, but the winner, William BrickelTs 

 handsome cat-boat Dalphne. more than made up the five minutes 

 handicap of starting, and finished among the big boats of the classes 

 above hers. „ „ • 



The course was the usual triangular club course, from off Cocoauut 

 Grove to a stakeboatin the channel off Bear Cut, thence to a boat off 

 the inner buoy of the Cape Florida Channel, and back to point of 

 departure, ten miles in all, sailed over twice try the larger boats, and 

 once by the little fellows. The wind was light from southeast. There 

 were fourteen starters in the races, and as many more yachts, naphtha 

 launches, etc.. lRden with spectators gathered to see the fun. The 

 judges and time keepers were Messrs. Alfred Munroe, Wui. Albury, 

 Walter Eroune and Fred. Morse. The regatta was devoid of incident, 

 and the following tabulated summary will announce its results: 



Start. 



Finish. 



Elapsed. 



Corrected. 



10 52 41 



2 51 11 



3 58 30 



3 58 30 



.10 52 17 



3 08 25 



4 16 08 



4 11 24 



CLASS C. 







.10 51 50 



3 23 08 



4 31 18 



4 31 18 



10 52 27 



3 59 16 



5 06 49 



4 54 54 



10 52 30 



3 55 34 



5 03 04 



4 51 09 



10 52 42 



3 35 58 



4 43 16 



4 26 10 



10 55 00 



withdrew. 







CLASS D. 







11 06 35 



1 33 13 



2 26 38 



2 26 38 



11 06 50 



2 20 50 



3 14 00 



3 12 16 



11 06 45 



1 57 18 



2 50 33 



2 44 02 



11 09 45 



1 52 24 



2 42 39 



2 34 49 



11 06 10 



2 24 35 



3 18 25 



3 08 55 



11 07 59 



2 08 34 



3 00 35 



2 49 30 



11 09 11 



1 57 43 



2 48 32 



2 34 46 



i particularly successful regatta 



as compared 



Daphne,. 



two largest yachts on Feb. 16. The contestants were Whim, Mr. 

 Bradford McGregor, and Flying Cloud, Mr. S. F. Moore. Whim is 8 

 years old, and was designed by A. Cary Smith for cruising purposes 

 only. She is schooner-rigged and very heavily built. Flying Cloud is 

 a modern racer of the Gloriana type, designed by her owner, and 

 turned out by Lawley last summer. This was her first race. Afier 

 considerable" good-natured banter between the owners, a match was 

 arranged to be sailed, 10 miles to windward and return, over the Bis- 

 cayne Y. C.'s ocean course, out in the Gulf Stream, on the first day 

 that the wind was either due N. or S., the prize to be a handsome sil- 

 ver cup furnished by the loser. 



Two days later the conditions were favorable. The breeze was 

 a howling norther, the stiffest we have had this season, and blowing 

 against the current of the stream it kicked up the liveliest kind of a 

 sea. To race in the open ocean under these conditions, without an- 

 other sail in sight, nor even a tug to render succor in case of accident, 

 required pluck and showed real sporting blood. 



The two racers, accompanied by the big cat Reine, which was to act 

 as stakeboat. and moved with all necessary speed under a five-reefed 

 mainsail, and Nethla carrying a party of spectators, several of whom 

 were ladies, started from the bay about 11 o'clock for outside buoy 

 No. 1 of the Hawk Channel. Reine, by going through Bear Cut got 

 there first, and anchored 200yds. outside the buoy. Nethla turned 

 back after going a mile or so outside of Cape Florida, and finding the 

 work too heavy for her passengers. Whim was sailed by her owner, 

 and Flying Cloud by Com. Munroe. As they passed the stakeboat, 

 Whim first at 12:34. and Cloud two minutes later, the sight was one 

 to warm the cockles of a yachtsman's heart, and the little group on 

 the wildly tumbling Reine were well repaid for the discomforts of 

 their position by the privileges of witnessing it. Whim stood up like 

 a church and her crew, perched on the weather coaming of her cock- 

 pit were as dry and comfortable as though on shore. Her stability 

 and fitness for the work for which she was designed, were shown 

 when at the usual hour her cook served a hot dinner to both cabin 

 and forecastle as though the yacht was lying in port. As she dashed 

 over the line with a handsome lead, her men raised a cheer that be- 

 tokened their hope for the final result It was, however, their first 

 and last.ij for when two minutes later Flying Cloud drove by the same 

 point buried in a smother of spray that swept her from stem to stern, 

 lee rail out of sight, water nearly up the top of her cabin trunk, and 

 crew hanging on by their eyelids, she was seen to be doing all of two 

 points better than her competitor. Not only did she seem to be div- 

 ing straight into the eyes of the wind, but one of the judges declared 

 that she was working a trifle to windward of it. However uncom- 

 fortable it was on board, it was glorious to see her plunge through 

 those waves, smashing them into snow drifts of spray that flew a 

 quarter of a mile to leeward, her white decks and yellow brass work 

 gleaming in the hot sunlight, water streaming from every point like 

 showers of diamonds, as she leaped from sea to sea, like the grey- 

 hound she looked. .. ... Mll.», 



A long leg to seaward carried the two out mto the Gulf Stream 

 where a big north bound Mallory steamer was shoving her nose under 

 with every plunge. When they came about, Whim was half a mile to 

 leeward and her chances of winning had vanished. At the mark, 

 which was the big red Biscayne Buoy off the house of refuge, Flying 

 Cloud was a good three miles ahead, and the race was ended, for 

 Whim pulled out without turning, and the two came back together. 

 It was a pretty race and a plucky race, and both men have good 

 reason to be proud of their boats. 



Whim has proved herself so stanch and weatherly as to be the. 

 beau-ideal of a cruiser, while the Biscayne Bay Y. C. is willing to bet 

 a cookie that in Flying Cloud they bave the fastest bit of wood in 

 Southern waters. The water is still there, a brisk norther can be 

 whistled up at any time, and if any Northern yachtsmen desirous of a 

 bit of winter sport want to try conclusions in a sea that will test their 

 boats to the utmost, let them take a run down to latitude 25 N. and 

 borrow the Biscayne Bay Y. C. ocean course for a day. 



O. K. Chobee. 



YACHT NEWS NOTES, 



At the annual meeting of the Shackamaxon Y. C. the following 

 officers were elected: Com., Richard L. Binder; Vice Com., Wm. T. 

 Craven; Recording Sec'y, B. S. Anderson; Financial Sec'y, R. B. 

 Murphy; Treas., w. H. Shermer. Trustees: J. McCormaek, W. C. 

 Jones F. Anderson. Fleet Capt.. J. B. Brewer; Measurers, W. T. 

 Craven, C. Stanford. L. M. Beck. Regatta Committee: R. L. Binder, 

 J. Eschner, H. A. Scheuerle. The reports of the various officers for 

 the last year were received and showed a very prosperous season. 

 The club house has been rebuilt and four new yachts entered in the 

 club An important departure was made in amending tho constitu- 

 tion," removing the clause which confined membership to those having 

 yachts on Shackamaxon slip, and opening the club to any one of good 

 character interested in yachting. This move, it is hoped, will make 

 this the most prominent: yacht club in this section of the country. 



The annual regatta of tha Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. will take 

 place off Oyster Bay on Saturday, June 23; and on July 3 there will be 

 a special race to Larchmont. 



The Columbia Y. C. of New York held its annual meeting on March 

 6 the following officers were elected: Com., J. F. Hitchcock; Vice- 

 Corn , J. L. Hiller; Rear-Corn , W. D. Ellis; Sec'y, G. Park hill; Treas., 

 J A. Weaver; Fleet Surgeon. D D. Stevens; Meas., J. J. Murphy; 

 Steward, C. M. Armstrong, Board of Trustees: T. S. Coole, A. P. 

 Scripture and C. N. Ironside. The club fleet includes one schooner, 20 

 cabin sloops, 8 steamers, 5 naphtha launches, 8 cabin boats and 8 open 

 cats. 



The annual meeting of the Corinthian Y. 0. of New York was held 

 on March 8 at the residence of Mr. M. Roosevelt Schuyler, the follow- 

 officers being elected: Admiral, C. H. Tweed, cutter Shona; Flee Cap 

 tain, M. R. Schuyler; Meas., John Hyslop; Trustees: C. H. Tweed, M. 

 R Schuyler, E. M. Padelford, August Belmont and S. M. Roosevelt. 



On March 6 the annual meeting of the New Bedford Y. C was held, 

 the following officers being elected: Com., F. C. Haskell; Vice-Corn., 



E. M. Whitney; Rear-Corn., O. C. Stevens; Sec'y, A. S. James; Treas., 



F. A. Booth. Directors: B. H. Anthony. F. B. Hammond, C. R. Allen, 

 J. K. Nye, A. W. Forbes, J. B. Rhodes," N Hatbawaj , H. K. Snow, A. 

 W. Holmes, R. A. Terry, H. Wood. The club has 156 member and a 

 fleet of 50 yachts. 



The yacht sailors of Bridgeport, South Norwalk and Saugatuck are 

 beginning to take an interest in model yachting, some boats are build- 

 ing and races will be sailed this year. 



The Yale Corinthian Y. C. held its annual meeting on March 6, the 

 following officers being electee: Om.. G.B.Miller, of New Rochelle, 

 N. Y., scbr. Christine; Vice-Corn., H. W. Harris, of East Orange, N.J., 

 sip Nymph; Rear-Coin., W. A. Delano, of Philadelphia, sip Veto; Sec'y 

 and Treas., H. W. Buck, of New York, cutter Yolande. Governing 

 Board: G. T. Adee, '95; C. McL. Clark, '94 S.;C Fincke, '97; G. Z. 

 Gray, '96; A. B. Hughes, '95; G. A. Phelps, '95, and B. G. Wells, '95 S. 



Arthur G. Earle, owner of the yachts Zingara and Choctaw, died in 

 New York on Nov. 5 of appendicitis, at the age of thirty. 



Sparkle, steam yachi, W. M. Singerly, was sunk on March 2 at Elk- 

 ton, Md., through the bursting of a pipe below water. She was raised 

 at once, the damage being slight. 



At the annual meeting of the Portland Y. C. on March 7, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected: Com., Chas. W. Bray: Vice-Corn., Wm. 

 Willis Goold. Sec, Chas. F. Flagg. Treas , Carl'F. A. Weber; Fleet 

 Capt., John F.A.Merrill; Meas., Abie! M.Smith; Trustees, Com (e<e 

 officio') Wm. Senter. B. W, Jones, Chas. E. Somerby; Regatta Com- 

 mittee, Abiel M. Smith, Willis E. Carter, R. Samuel Rand, Wendel 

 Kirsch; Membership Committee, 0. J. Farrington, Frank H. Little, 

 Edw. H. York. House Committee, W. W. Goold, Chas. D. Smith. 



The Kingdon Co., of London, builders of fast launches, has issued a 

 challenge to the pteam yacht Yankee Doodle on behalf of the yacht 

 Hibernia. to race any distance on the Thames for a stake of $5,000 per 

 side, which challenge has been accepted by the owners of Yankee 

 Doodle. 



On March 5 a new yachtclub was organized in Hamilton, Ont., under 

 the name of the Victoria Y. C. 



Mr. Gustave Caillebotte," an enthusiastic yachtsman and successful 

 amateur designer, died in Paris on Feb. 21, at the age of 46 years. Mr. 

 Caillebotte, one of whose designs we published last year, was a strong 

 supporter of yachting in France, and has done much good work in 

 writing, designing and sailing. 



The Yacht Masters 1 Association, whose headquarters are at Tebo's, 

 South Brooklyn, have elected officers as follows: Pres., Capt. Geo. E. 

 Wicks, steam yacht Electra; Vice-Pres., Capt. Sam'l Lowburg, steam 

 yacht Oneida; Sec'y, Chief Engineer John Leonard, steam yacht Uto- 

 wana. 



Alicia, steam yacht, H. M. Flagler, has sailed from New York for St. 

 Augustine, Fla. 



A very interesting lecture on "Explorations of the Arctic Regions," 

 was delivered before the Philadelphia Y. C. by Com. W. S. Schley, II. 

 S. N., on Feb. 21. 



We have received the club book of the Biscayne Bay Y. C, which 

 lively little club has now a membership of 25 and a fleet of 23 yachts. 



Ambassadress, schr., that huge and cumbrous failure more appro- 

 priately known as the "Actor House." has at last found her vocation, 

 having recently brought to Boston from Newfoundlandland the largest 

 and finest, cargo of frozen hearing ever known at that port. She is 

 now owned by Dixon Bros., who have put her into trade, the fish 

 trade. It has taken nearly twenty years to find out just what she was 

 good for. 



Mr. Henry J. Gielow, the designer, has been seriously ill through the 

 winter, but is now nearly well. 



\mtoting. 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Officerb, 1893-94. 

 CoirMOPORE: Irving V. Dofxand, Arlington, M. J. 



Secretary-Treasobei;: G- A. Douglass, Newark, N. J. (136 Liberty St., N.Y.) 

 Librarian: W. P. Stephfns, Bayoime, X. J. 



ATLANTIC DIVISION. 



Officers: 



Vice-Com.: C.V. Schuyler, New York. 

 Bbab-Com : B. Fredrick*, Newark. 

 PURSER: F. Tj. Dunne]], Ii'klyn, N. Y. 

 Ex. Com-- J. R. Lake, F. W. foyes, 

 J. K. Hand. 



EASTERN DIVISION. 

 Officers: 



Vice-Com.: E. H. Barnev, Springfield. 

 ReAr-Com. : « '. F.Si • 1 in s I e r, .1 r. ,H< i I yoke 

 Purser: E.C. Knappe. Springfield. 

 Ex. Com. 8, L. Parmele, Paul Sutler, 

 R. Apbllonio. 



CENTRAL DIVISION. 

 Officers: 



Vice-Com. : W.c. Witherbee.Pt.Henr y 

 ReAr-Com. : C.G . Belni.'i n , Amsterdam 

 Purser: 0. R CYagvj. Port Henry. 

 Ex. Com.: C "V. Winne, W. R. Hunt- 

 ington. 



NORTHER NT DIVISION. 



Officers: 



Vice-Com.: H. M. Molson, Montreal. 

 Rear Com.: On. Schotteid.Peterboro 

 Purser: H. R Tillr, Toronto. 

 Ex. Com.: W. H. Jl'acnee, C. E. Areh- 

 balcl, W. L. Scott. 



Applications for membership inuai be made to division pursers, aeeoni- 

 panied by the recommendation of an active member and the sum of 32.ut< 

 for entrance fee and dues for current year. Every member attending 

 the general A. Q. A. eauip shall pay .-61.011 for camp expense." Applications 

 sent to the Sec'v-Treae. will be. forwarded by him to the proper Division. 



Persons residing in any Division and wishing to become members of 

 the a.. C- A., will he. furnished with printed forms ot application by address 

 ing the Purser. 



WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Commodore— O. *. Woodruff, Dayton, O, 



Vice-Commodore— L. K. Liggilt, Detroit, Mich. 



Rear-Commodore— Janie"; -ardner, Cleveland, O. 



Secretary-Treasurer- P. E. Huntmcton, Milwaukee, vVis. 



Executive Committee— T, J. Kirkpatrick, Springfield, 0.; G. B. Ellard, 

 Cincinnati, C; S. B. Mettler, Jackson. Mich. 



Applications for membership should be made to the See.-Treas., on blank? 

 which may be obtained from him, and should be accompanied by $2.00 

 initiation fee ami dues for the current year. 



The description of the canoe exhibit at the exhibition in London is a 

 good index of the present condition of British canoeing. The decked 

 sailing canoe of standard dimensions is conspicuous by its absence, 

 the canoe-yawl, open canoe and various nondescript, craft making up 

 the bulk of the collection. The future of the 16x30 sailing canoe is 

 somewhat doubtful, in view of the many types of small craft that have 

 been produced within recent years. It is however the parent of all 

 these types, and the influence of canoeing as practiced between 18S0 

 and 1890 in England and America will be visible for many years to 

 come. 



Modern British Canoes. 



From the Meld. 



Go to the yachting exhibition at tbe Royal Aquarium, Westminster, 

 is the advice we. would give to canoemen who are in London during 

 this month of February. Canoeing, especially the canoe-yawl branch, 

 is very much to the fore; and many of the trade exhibits, chiefly in- 

 tended for yachting, also include articles and novelties useful and 

 adaptable to canoe fitting. The almost entire absence of small raters 

 —there being only one of racing breed— is peculiar: the chief nestiog- 

 places of \» and l-raters— Cowes and Southampton— do not exhibit a 

 single craft. The solitary prater yacht, as distinguished from canoe- 

 yawls, is the Spruce II., built by Smith, of Oxford; and close by her 

 in the exhibition (at the east end thereof, on the ground floor) are 

 berthed some canoe-yawls and boats of extremely different types, 

 offering a neat opportunity for comparison. 



In the loan exhibition in the gallery at the west end will be found 

 many exhibits of undoubted interest to canoemen, in addition to the 

 interesting show of tbe kindred sport, of yachting. A rigged cruising 

 canoe, the Shannon, is exhibited by Mr. Holding; she is fitted with the 

 usual deck steering gear, drop plate rudder, and most of the fittings 

 common to sailing canoes, including a sliding desk seat; her mast 

 steps in a tabernacle, with slide lever action instead of forestay for 

 lowering or lifting; she is also fitted with crutches for sculling— a 

 mode of propulsion unnecessary, indeed detrimental, in a canoe. In 

 the large types of canoe-yawls, of some 5ft. beam, sculling or sweep- 

 ing is almost a necessary mode of propelling them in a calm for a long 

 distance; but for any canoe of or under Sit. in beam thedouble-bladed 

 paddle and the Canadian single blade will prove amply effective, and 

 be found far more easy to stow away and get ready for instantaneous 

 use. 



In the loan collection will be found a half model, on Sin. to the foot, 

 of the Nautilus raciug canoe of 1891; and large photographs of the 

 celebrated yawl yacht the Pearl, 175 tons, and tb» eanoe-j awl Nauti- 

 lus under sloop rig, both owned by Mr. W. Baden Powell. The Pearl, 

 as mentioned on page 10 of the official catalogue, was built for the 

 Marquis of Anglesey in 1820, to the. fines of Sainty a noted smuggler 

 — "at the time when the Marquis of Anglesea wished to build the 



Pearl to beat one of Mr. Weld's yachts, he got Sainty released from 

 Colchester gaol, where he had been immured for an infringement of 1 

 the excise acts." The old Pearl was, however, entirely rebuilt by 

 Nicholson, at Gosport, in 1872; the amateur photograph was taken , 

 from the dinghy in a calm on the Solent. On one of the side tables 

 there are photographs of the Spruce, canoe-yawl, and Spruce II. under 

 sail. 



The wonderfully light life-belt and life-buoy cushions stuffed with 

 reindeer hair, which were so much used in canoes laet season, are 

 shown by Messrs. Bewers on Stand 39. So far as we have used these 

 reindeer hair cushions, we prefer them infinitely to those stuffed with 

 cork or formed of inflated rubber. The folding cushion, useable in a 

 moment as a life buoy, is a most handy and useful piece of furniture 

 in a canoe-yawl, where the ordinary circular life buoy is utterly out of 

 place. One point we found by experience was the necessity of hav- 

 ing cushion covers perforated with a suitable number of eyelet holes, 

 so as to always dry the hair after a wetting, otherwise the scent is 

 rather high. 



A number of Canadian model canoes are shown. They are, how- 

 ever, mostly fitted as girling canoes, with fine carpets and cushions 

 and tiny red lug sails— nice enough for summer evening Thames 

 lounging; and, indeed, most are fitted with sculls and silver-plated 

 crutches. There are no points of novelty in construction or fitment 

 worthy of notice. A central, dry-storage, watertight compartment 

 might well be added, both for safety and comfort, in these compara- 

 tively open craft; and, for those who wish to do real canoeing in tbe 

 Canadian type, we recommend the addition of a small light centerplate, 

 not for mere sailing, but for use when paddling with a fresh breeze 

 ahead or on either side. 



Turning now to the canoe-yawls, the real interest of the exhibition, 

 from a canoeing point of view, is before ns. It is a curious thing to 

 note that not a single sailing canoe or first-class sailing racing canoe is 

 in the show. The only new craft of this class which we hear of in the 

 constructing stage are being built to order; whereas, in the larger class 

 of canoe-yawls, in addition to those on order, builders are producing 

 several "on spec," and are selling them. Turk, of Kingston-on-Thames, 

 is exhibiting one of 18ft 6iu. by 4ft. 6in., on the lines we published in 

 the. Field of Feb. 25, March 4 and April 15. 1893, fully rigged and fitted. 

 She is for river and estuary sailing; and can easily be stripped of her 

 weights and gear for housing or transport on land or by steamer. She 

 is not intended for long passages on open Coasts, being f ully small for 

 such work; but with expert handling, and some caution as to the 

 approach of bad weather, she would be capable of doing a lot of open 

 salt-waiter sailing. She is fitted with rod-ahd-yoke deck steering gear, 

 a form we do not recommend for rough water, but which is cheaper in 

 produclion than the horizontal head-and-deck wheels with chain gear 

 (as fitted on the Nautilus). Her rig is of the balance lug battened 

 type, main and mizen ketch; 



Near by is a new form of collapsing boat (James's patent), which, 

 if made quite small, say 10X3f t., would prove a great blessing to the 

 larger canoe-yawls when using coast ports where landing is bad and 

 watermen are few. Though the yawl can be taken in to land her 

 crew, she IS apt to suffer very roughly on the shore or against a 

 quay while the owner is marketing in the town. A little folding boat 

 can be carried flat on deck while sailing, or might even be made to fit 

 in the well, and form a bucket well. James's boats have one excel- 

 lent point in their structure— they have only one 8kin of canvas— so 

 the skin can be painted from time to time, or mended if damaged. 



The Nautilus, canoe-yawl, which was built last spring, and sailed 

 on the Solent and south coast for some two and a half months last 

 autumn, is loaned by Mr. Badell Powell and is under the care of Mr. 

 Turk. She is of the sea-going type, a very powerful and able sea 

 boat, so fitted with watertight bulkheads as to be practically unsink- 

 able and so ballasted by a loaded center plate as to be uucapsizable. 

 She is shown with her cruising rig of main and mizen standing lugs 

 (her racing sloop rig, we have mentioned above, may be seen in the 

 photograph iu the gallery loan collection). The mode of rigging the 

 lug with maia heel and yard halliard allows the sail to be spilled or 

 scandalized Uke a gaff sail, yet it can be taken off the mast in a few 

 seconds for stowing ashore or on a yacht, or for shifting to the 

 larger rig. 



In size and weight the Nautilus is just about as large as can be 

 slung to and hoisted on a yacht's steam launch davits, or lifted in on 

 deck for passage; thus she was stowed on several occasions last 

 season. The absence of a counter and the peculiar form of her bow, 

 go a long way toward easy storage on such occasions; and on rail- 

 way trucks with rope slings she was often lifted, with centerboard 

 and all ballast, in position, and bermast lowered in its tabernacle trunk, 

 immediately from sailing or ready to sail. 



The center plate is of two sheets of steel plate, kept expanded by a 

 wooden frame, riveted in and forming a pocket at the lower corner for 

 lead ballast blocks, w'hieh can be lifted in or out by hand; and the 

 exposed plate edges are bent together and riveted, forming a, fine edge 

 for cutting the water. From a light weather racing point of view, the 

 boat is rather too strong in substance of materials of build; but for 

 rough water and for long life this is an advantage, and she has taken 

 prizes. Her sails are by Jackson, of Norwich, and it will be noticed 

 on the main lug there are no lacings to yard and boom; the sail is 

 clipped with brass wire grips to a brass plate traveler on the spar, so 

 that in damp weather the sail can immediately be eased in a long 

 boom and yard, and then hauled out again on dry days, thus prevent- 

 ing that bad stretching, which one commonly sees on Mr. Jobny 

 Haultaut's boats. Tbe peculiarity of the rudder is that it can be used 

 as a balance rudder when the plate is fully dropped, or tbe center of 

 the effort thereof can be shifted aft as much as 12in. by hauling on 

 the plate tackle. Side hatches have been fitted to the well, but 

 have as yet not been needed; nor has the pump ever been used for 

 pumping a sea out, for the simple reason that she has never shipped a 

 sea in the well. 



The next boat worthy of note by the canoeman is the Midge pneu- 

 matic folding boat. The boat exhibited is a very small craft of the 

 Kajak type, or Arctic- canoe; she is about 12ft. by 3ft. 6in. Lieut, 

 Sayce, the inventor, in the Field of Jan. 30 last, "hopes there may be 

 some cruising canoes at Dover on June 18 next with whom he mav 

 compare notes, or make a match across Channel to Boulogne if wind 

 N.E.; Calais if 8.W." Tbe boat shown has no rigging or other sailing 

 fittings, so we are unable to judge of the possibilities of this t> pe rr 

 boat; but the inventor claims she will prove as fast, or faster, than 

 wooden boats. If the length is to b* restricted to 12ft. the mutch had 

 better be kept within Dover Bay, unless the day be dead calm, and 

 then a sailing match for 24 miles would be "no go." 



Another aspirant to fame lies within a yard of the Midge— the Por- 

 poise. We published a letter last week from her owner, claiming 

 that in the Porpoise he introduced a new type of eanoe-ya« 1. He 

 says: "My object has been to produce the smallest canoe-yawl, which 

 although 'fit for sea work, will stow in an ordinary railway truck, trill 

 row as well, if not better, than any open sea boat of- similar displace- 

 ment, will be able to tackle weather which much larger boats of tho 

 inlaid and French polish schools dare not look at. will launch and 

 beach easily and safely." In the catalogue she is described as of U- 

 rating, 17ft. 2in. length, by 4ft 4in. beam over all, sail area 100sq.it. 

 At the present time the hull only is in view; her rigging has not been 

 furnished, nor has her reefing rudder, her steering gear or her center- 

 plate gear been set up in working order. As to mode), there is noth- 

 ing out of the common line of a boat, sharp at each end, such as the 

 St. Lawrence skiff, partly decked in. The ends perhaps show fuller 

 sections, and the waterlines are convex at the bow and stern. The 

 measurements given in the catalogue do not say whether 17ft. 2in. is 

 her 1 w.l. length or whether that is over all, but as 17ft. 2in. by 100ft. 

 of sail gives the rating of 0.28, we may take it 17ft. Bin, is her water- 

 line. The "inlaid, French-polished" Nautilus near her is 17ft. 5in. in 

 1 w 1. length, and it would take a severe twist to turn one into the be- 

 lief that Nautilus "would not look at the weather which Porpoise 

 would tackle." However. Channel matches and tackling seas may be 

 well left to paper for the present. There may be much to learn when 

 tha novelties are fully fitted: at present we only see the shell. 



A novelty in regard to weighted center plates is exhibited by Mr. 

 Brewster at stand 59. which, taken shortly, may be described as a 

 hollow bent bulb keel laden with leaden discs for half its length; the 

 half of length of bulb occupies the whole of the fore edge of a center 

 plate, dropped at an angle of 45", aud then the other half of length 

 of bulb, bent in a gentle curve, becomes horizontal, when the plate 

 is down the discs inside the bulb run down by gravity into and fill 

 the horizontal, or lower part of the bulb. When the plate is hauled 

 up tbe elbow or after end of bulb houses up in the case, and the discs 

 of lead run back into the fore part of the bulb, which is then along 

 the bottom of the boat's keel, the slot only being open for housing the 

 bulb at its after end. Large scale drawings explain the working of 

 the plate and the discs 



We now come to the J-^-rater Spruce II. In the catalogue she ap- 

 pears as "a new departure from the Oxford canoe-yawl, in that she 

 has a bulb keel." But she has a counter and a transom, and her 

 rudder is not. hung abaft the stern, therefore she is not a canoe-vawl 

 under the definition of the Royal Canoe Club, but may be under some 

 other definition. That she is a clipper at match sailing we do not 

 doubt, provided the sailing be in confined waters or moderate weather, 

 otherwise her model is not sueh as goes dry iu lumpy breaking water; 

 but where flag winning is the only consideration, wet jackets matter 

 little, and with bucket well and bulb keel little harm can come so long 

 as the hull holds together and the gar boards do not open, andin Spruce 

 they seem to hold on well. 



Late in time, but peihaps not too late, a canoe of the first class, or 

 11. C. C. racing type, has been added. Of course, to experts this goes 

 for nothing much, but to those who are less iu the know this addition 

 is of considerable interest, as it fills the missing link in the chain of 

 sequence of types. The exhibition now contains the sea- going canoe- 

 yawl Nautilus; then the river-going canoe-yawls of medium size; 



