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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[April 14, 1804. 



struck the yacht, and she jibed, the boom striking Capt. Furgueson 

 and knocking him overboard. He sank and did not rise, and the body 

 has not yet been found. He hailed from Bath, Me., and was unmar- 

 ried. 



The steam yacht race for the Bennett prize of 5,0"0 francs, begun 

 on March 29, was finished by a second race over the 52 mile course on 

 April 4, Roxana winning-, with Eros second, Foros third, while Mar- 

 chesa withdrew. Mr. Bennett has offered three prizes of $1,000 for 

 1895. 



Thetis, sloop, has been sold by P. V. Stevenson to Edwin P. Baugh, 

 Jr., of Philadelphia, through Waterhouse & Chesebrough. Capt. 

 Perry, who has sailed her for some years, will retain command. 



The new Allan 10 rater has been tried under sail at Bristol and will 

 soon be shipped to Glasgow. There is little doing at the Herreshoff 

 shops and most of the men have been laid off. 



Helen, 40ft. cutter, has been sold to P. C. Smith of Harvard. 



Sultana, steam yacht, has been chartered by T. L. Park to John R. 

 Drexel. 



The frame of the 30ft. racing cutter for George Gooderham has ar- 

 rived at Toronto aud the yacht will be completed by a local builder. 

 Mr. A\ atson made the design and had the frame got. out and set up 

 under his direction. 



On Tuesday last Valkyrie was launched from Tebo's new floating 

 dock, where she has laid during the winter. Her copper has been re- 

 moved entirely except from the lead keel, and the bottom has been 

 painted a dark lead color. On her arrival in the Clyde she will be 

 newly coppered and the cabins will be upholstered. The dock gates 

 were opened at about 9:30, the dock settling slowly for the first twenty 

 minutes. When the floor was once under water the dock sank more 

 rapidly and the keel soon disappeared, and after the water was some 

 Sffr. deep over the floor a very few minutes served to set the yacht 

 afloat. Capt. Cranfield and his crew were expected on Wednesnay. 



Cruising in the Cy-Pres-1893. 



{Continued from Page 8020 

 Saturday, July 15. — As it was low water at half past six, and we 

 could not get out of the harbor till nine, or ten. we did not huny 

 things any, but wa.shed and stowed away all our breakfast dishes 

 and made' a trip ashore for water and bread. Just as we returned to 

 the boat we met the "mossers" coming back from their morning 

 work, and as the wind was fresh from the southwest we asked one of 

 them if there was much wind outside. He said, "Yes, it blows hard 

 and it is going to blow harder." We thought it would too, so tied 

 down two reefs in our mainsail before hoisting it. We intended to 

 cast her head to starboard, as the deepest water was on that side, 

 and we could jibe round as we followed the channel out; but the tide 

 was running swiftly, setting us well ahead of our anchor, and while 

 I was taking the stops off the foresail a puff struck us and we paid 

 off on port tack, dragging our anchor out. We let the main sheet 

 run clear out and set the foresail, sheeting it flat, hoping she would 

 swing off in deeper water, but the anchor dragging over her bow pre- 

 vented this and before I could get it up on deck we grounded in the 

 mud. We lowered all sail at once and waited for a little further rise 

 of tide. 



In about half an hour we had enough water under us to float us, and 

 hoisted the foresail, which was sufficient to drive her along slowly and 

 carry us over into the channel, when fairly under way. we got the 

 mainsail up and sailed ont of the little harbor under double-reefed 

 mainsail and foresail. We ^found the wind very fresh from S. W. and 

 puffy, and were very glad that we had reduced our canvas betore 

 starting as the wind increased to half a gale by noon and the sea rose 

 very fast. We could not point as close as usual owing to our reefed 

 mainsail and found that the best course that we could make would 

 carry us five miles out from the Gurnet Lights. As this would take us 

 clear of the Bartlett Rocks and Howlaud Ledge, it just suited us. and 

 keeping a good full on her we plowed along till we could make out the 

 Gurnet Lights, to the westward of Monomer, Point; and Standish Monu- 

 ment bore west by north. We were out about two aud one-half miles 

 from the nearest Shore and the wind had a sweep of fully eight miles, 

 blowing right out of Plymouth, or, more strictly speaking, out of War- 

 ren's Cove. 



Standish Monument is the most conspicuous landmark on the coast 

 after leaving Scituate. It is a tall, black looking shaft, and for along 

 time we took it for a church steeple. As the sea was getting heavier 

 every minute and the wind increasing, we thought we would find 

 smoother water nearer shore, so went about on port tack and stood 

 in, pointing our bowsprit right for the monument, and held on this 

 course till we could fetch the Gurnet Lights easily, then we went 

 about on starboard tack. We wereflying through the water, pointing 

 straight for the lighthouse, when we caught sight of a buoy on our 

 port bow, a hastyglance at the chart convinced us that we were 

 inside of High Pine Ledge. This is a large shallow spot almost due 

 north of the Gurnet, and part of it has but 2ft. of water at low tide. 

 We concluded that we had better keep outside of it, so slacked off 

 our sheets and bore away, passing the buoy on our starboard hand. 

 We hauled sharp round the buoy, and flattened down our sheets hard, 

 as we bad lost time by this unexpected change of course. By pinch- 

 ing a little we could just make the whistle off the Gurnet and passed 

 it on port hand, but so close that our boom barely cleared it. As the 

 wind had increased to a gale and had a long sweep here, we found a 

 very sharp jump of a sea running past the Whistler, and watched 



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her around quickly and started up the channel on port tack. This 

 was the roughest piece of water we had ever been in, out the Cy-pres 

 behaved so nobly that we enjoyed the excitement hugely. 



We had been told that the channel up to Plymouth was a "yeasty 

 place.''' and we fouud it all we expected and more. The wind howled 

 through the rigging and carried the spray over us in sheets, so that we 

 had to wear waterproofs. Everything was wet the minute it was 

 brought on deck. Our glasses, a new pair, were so sticky from the 

 salt water that we could not focus them, and we had to get along with- 

 out them for the rest of the day. We were able, by sailing close, to 

 just clear the small lighthouse on Duxbury Pier, and as we passed it 

 we eased off sheets and ran up the Cow Yard, dropping our anchor ia 

 4J4 fathoms, midway between the black and red buoys that mark this 

 channel. Wo had made the run from Scituate, a distance of 19 miles, 

 but by our course over 24 miles, thrashing dead to windward inagood 

 sea and half a gale of wind, in a little over three hours; and we felt 

 proud of the little Oy-pres' seagoing qualities. She went dancing 

 over the waves, and the bigger they grew the better she liked n . 

 LTntil we reached the chop in Plymouth Channel we had not taken a 

 drop of water on board, and we drove her all the time as hard as we 

 could, as our quick passage shows. 



Soon after leaving Scituate we saw a fishing sloop outside of us, 

 with two men on board. They stood in for the smooth water near 

 shore, passing near us, but astern, luffing to every puff and evidently 

 carrying more sail than they could stand Soon after passing them 

 we saw them heave-to and take a reef in their mainsail. They followed 

 after us, but we left them very fast, running out ot sight of them by 

 the time we reached the Gurnet Light. 



We were well pleased with the Oy-pres 1 performance under sail, but 

 not at all pleased with her performance at anchor. We lay right in 

 the middle of the channel and the tide was running out at a terrible 

 rate directly in the teeth of the gale, which had a. long sweep of over 

 two miles. The, seas were short and deep, their tops white with foam, 

 and they Hew past us with a hissing, rushing sound. The powerful 

 tide caught our deep keel and swung us round irresistibly, stern to 

 the wind. The gale drove us ahead so that our anchor was under us, 

 aud we horsed about, first one side and then the other. The seas at 

 times striking us broadside on and rolling us down rail under, would 

 break clear over us, then they would hit us under the counter with a 

 hammer-like shock that made her tremble from truck to keelson. 

 When she would take one of her savage sheers we could, if in the 

 cabin, hear distinctly the chain dragging over the pebbly bottom, and 

 when we hauled it up next morning it was for several feet polished as 

 bright and smooth as though done with file and emery paper. 



During all this time the dinghy was a constant source of care and 

 even danger, the wind would drive it down upon us every few seconds 

 and each shift of the yacht's position would bring it up on us in a 

 new place, so that one of us had to watch continually and be prepared 

 to fend off every instant. Once or twice a sea caught it broadside on, 

 and we thought surely it would turn over,but fortunately it did not. 

 Fearing that this might happen we got ft alongside and removed the 

 oars, bailer, sponge and oarlocks. Later in the day we bent on to the 

 painter about 75ft. of good, stout line and paid it all out, so that the 

 boat rode 50ft. ahead of us. and we had no more trouble from that 

 score; the long rope dragging in the water acted as a spring on her, 

 and she was less violent in her motions. 



At the turn of the tide the waves quickly subsided, and as both cur- 

 rent and wind were from the same direction we lay quietly at our 

 anchor, though straining the cable very hard. We took advantage of 

 this change in the situation to get our supper and a little sleep, lying 

 down with our clothes on, prepared to jump up at a moment's notice 

 should our anchor drag or chain part. J ust before sunset a cutter 

 about 40 or 46ft. long came in under reefed mainsail and jib and 

 anchored about a quarter of a mile to the westward of us, near a 

 coasting schooner that lay there when we came in. We saw the 

 schooner at anchor as we rounded the Duxbury Beacon but thought 

 she was over in the channel that runs up Kingston Bay, or we should 

 have followed her example and anchored near her. The party on the 

 nutter seemed to know just were they wanted to go, steering in with- 

 out any apparent hesitation, as if they had been there before. 



As t&ey went over what we supposed was shallow water, we got out 



our chart to see why these two vessels should anchor outside the 

 channel. We found they were inside a kind of basin or pocket, where 

 they had from 13 to 24ft. under them, and with shallow water all 

 around, and were not affected by the tide so much as we were. We 

 considered the advisability of following them, but finally concluded 

 that as our anchor had held us so well we would not break it out until 

 we were obliged to, and hoped the gale would let up before another 

 change in the tide. 



Everything remained comparatively quiet until about 1 o'clock at 

 night, when we were aroused by the violent pitching of the boat. On 

 getting on deck we saw that- the tide, had turned and the wind if any- 

 thing was blowing harder than before. The yacht was at her old 

 tricks again, shooting across the channel, first one side, then the 

 other, sometimes riding up over the anchor till the chain was slack, 

 and then suddenly turning and shooting off at a tangent until she 

 brought up with a jerk. We knew nothing short of a miracle could 

 keep us from having a foul anchor, yet as near as we eould tell, it 

 seemed to be holding us securely. The night was dark as pitch, and 

 we could not see a thing except the lights on the vessels near us, a 

 light on Clark's Island about two miles north of us and of course the 

 light on Duxbury Beacon. We thought the last two were in about 

 the same relative positions as when we last looked at them and con- 

 cluded that our anchor was still hanging on nobly. As our anchor 

 light had gone out we relighted it. and as an additional precaution set 

 another lantern on the cockpit seat, then went below again to get out 

 of the chilly wind and flying spray. 



Sleep was wholly out of the question, for we were tossing and pitch- 

 ing about in n v*ry uncomfortable manner, and every little while 

 woald kok out to see it our light was burning, or if we'had changed 



SCITUATE— LANDING PIEH. 



our position relatively to the beacon. After several hours of watch- 

 ful anxiety we became hardened to our surroundings and would doze 

 off into little cat naps, only to wake up with a start as a bigger wave 

 than usual would give us a heavy roll, or some loose rope would slat 

 against the mast with a crack like the report of a rifle. 



At last, after what seemed to us the longest night we had ever 

 known, the dawn began to appear and we strained our eyes to make 

 out the two buoys between which we had anchored on the previous 

 afternoon. I first discovered what I took to be the black buoy on the 

 west side of the channel, but much to my surprise I could not find 

 the red one which should be close by and to the eastward of us. I 

 immediately began to think that our worst fears had been realized, 

 that in the darkness and storm we had dragged our anchor, no one 

 knew how far or whither, but the Duxbury Beacon was not far off 

 and it still bore about the same position from Clark Island, so we 

 could not be very far from our old berth. I called F.'s-attention to 

 these points and he suggested half jocosely and half in earnest that 

 the red buoy must have been carried away during the height of the 

 gale, aud that we would find that we were all right as soon as the day 

 was fairly begun. 



I volunteered to stay on deck and keep a lookout while he went 

 below and lighted the stove and put on dry underclothes. It was not 

 long before 1 made out the exact situation in which we were, the buoy 

 that I took for the black was actually the red, and we had dragged our 

 anchor about an eighth of a mile or a little more, nearly due east, and 

 were then in very shallow water, and just over the sand bar that 

 extends from Clark's Island to the Duxbury Beacon, which is on its 

 southernmost extremity. I called to F. to come on deck immediately, 

 that I knew where we were, and that we must get under way at once. 

 After getting our anchor we hoisted our double-reefed mainsail and 



CY-PRES — AFTER THE STORM. 



foresail and stood over by the two vessels, which were still at anchor 

 where we had seen them the evening before. When our anchor came 

 up we were not at all surprised to find the chain wound twice around 

 one of the flukes. We were pleased to see how much more quietly we 

 lay in our new berth than we did in the channel; the tide did not affect 

 us very much, and the yacht lay head to wind as she should. We had 

 learned a lesson that we would not soon forget, and determined in 

 future not to anchor in narrow, deep channels when there was any 

 other place available. 



Soon after breakfast the white cutter went out of the harbor under 

 double-reefed mainsail and jib, carrying two boats on her davits. We 

 laid at our anchorage until about half-past 10, when, it' being about 

 half flood tide, we weighed anchor and sailed up to the town The 

 harbor is full of shallow places and we touched bottom twice before 

 getting up to the docks, but, as the tide was rising, we were not de- 

 layed more than a few minutes each time. The channel l>es very close 

 to Long Beach for about a mile, and then turns at right angles toward 

 the docks, meeting midway between the docks and the beach a narrow 

 dredged channel. The proper place to turn is directly in front of a 

 frame hotel, called the Columbian Pavilion, which is on Long Beach 

 facing the harbor. In front of this hotel is a pier used by a ferryboat 

 which plies back and forth carrying excursionists and pienic parties 

 over to the beach, which is a famous place for clams. When going in 

 keep close to Long Beach, following the curve of the shore till you are 

 just past the pier in front of the Pavilion Hotel, and then turn sharp 

 to the right, running straight for the docks at Plymouth, as the 

 dredged channel is in" a straight line with them. 



We were under double reefed mainsail and foresail as the wind still 

 held fresh, and were delighted to find how easily the Cy pres worked 

 in the short tacks which we were obliged to take white beating across 

 from Long Beach to Plymouth. We ran under the lee of the laud as 

 we approached the town, and found the water very still. Dropping 

 our anchor in a pool as quiet as a mill pond, we could scarcely believe 

 that we had for the past twenty four hours been battling with such a 

 vexatious sea out in the Cow Yard. The sun was shining bright and 

 we got our blankets, cushions, etc , out on deck to dry, the whole boat 

 being covered with them. As it was Sunday we did not go on shore 

 but lay quietly at anchor and basked in the quiet, warm sun all the 

 rest of the day. 



Late in the afternoon the 30ft. centerboard sloop Zingara came in 

 and anchored near us. She had on board a professional sailine master 

 and a crew of four young Corinthians. The captain told us that they 

 started from Marblehead on Saturday for Plymouth and got as far as 

 Cohasset when they were forced by the fierce wind and heavy seas to 

 turn back and put into Hull, where they lay till Sunday morning. He 

 said they were very anxious to make Plymouth, but their boat would 

 dive into the heavy seas, stopping stock still nearly every time she 

 struck a sea, and they made no headway for hours, but kept sagging 

 off to leeward all the time. We felt quite proud when we heard this, 

 for two of us had come along easily in the little 22-footer Cy-pres, 

 under the same conditions that had forced the well-manned 30-footer 

 back. 



We lay side by side in a small basin at the end of the docks. Right 

 in front of us, at the head of the slip, was Plymouth Rock, covered by 

 a stone arch and surrounded by a high iron fence to protect it from 

 curiosity seekers, who would soon carry it all away if lef: to them- 

 selves. The harbor is full of catboats ranging from 15 to 18 or 20ft. 

 long. They are of the wide shallow type and well suited to the shal- 

 low water. The favorite sail is a lug and they seem to be too large 

 for the boats, as the mastB are very high, but they were out all day 

 Sunday in the strong wind and are evidently able to carry them. One 

 thing that struck us as peculiar was the fact that the barometer did 

 not tall any during Friday or Friday night nor on Sunday till about 

 3 P. M. When we left Scituate it registered 30.04, just about the same 

 as it had been all the previous day. The sky was clear and bright and 

 there was no indication of the strong wind that we had on Saturday, 

 or the gale of the afternoon and evening. On Sunday as the wind be- 

 gan to moderate the barometer began to go down and reached the 

 lowest point, 29.68, at 2:80 P. M., at which time it was quite calm. This 

 is the first time in our experience when the drop of the barometer fol- 

 lowed the high wind instead of preceding it. 



Monday, July 17, was a beautiful day, and we lay at anchor resting 

 our tired bodies and thoroughly drying everything on board. We 

 made a short excursion into the town, visiting old Burial Hill, Pilgrim 

 Hall and other places of interest, buying among other provisions on 

 our way back to the boat a huge watermelon. We found that water 

 could be had at a fish house on the dock close to the landing float. In 

 the afternoon about high tide we were hailed by some one on the dock 

 to "get out of there," as a tug was coming in with a coal barge. There 

 seemed to as plenty of room for anything to get by, but not. wishing 

 to have any row about it we took the kedge out about 100ft. further 

 from the wharf, and paying out chain on our anchor, warped our- 

 selves o'H of the way. When the barge (the Cohocton) was past, we 

 hauled the kedge up and drifted back into our old position The 

 ereater part of Plymouth Harbor is dry at low t'de, and all the boats 

 lie on the mud several hours each day, but we lay in a pool. Monday 

 evening just at sunset we were somewhat startled by the honk, honk, 

 honk! of a flock of geese that were flying low, just skimming along 

 the surface of the water. We supposed they were wild birds at first, 

 but after circling around the harbor once or twice, they settled down 

 at the rear of one of the little houses on the shore, where we saw 

 another lot just like them. They were not the ordinary white variety, 

 but resembled very closely the wild fowl. 



[to bk concluded.] 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Officers, 1893-94. 

 Commodore: Irving V. Dorlanp, Arlington, N. J. 



Secretary-Treasurer: G. A- Douglass, Newark, N. J. (136 Liberty St., N.Y.! 

 Librarian: W. P. Stephens, Bayonne, N. J. 



ATLANTIC DIVISION. 



Officers: 



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

 Rear-Com : B. Fredrteks, Newark. 

 Purser: F. L. Dunnell, B'kjyn, N. Y. 

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

 J. E. Hand. 



EASTERN DIVISION. 

 Officers: 



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

 Rear-Com.: C.F.Sehuster.Jr., Holyoke 

 Purser: E. C. Euappe, Springfield. 

 Ex. Com. G. L. Parniele,Paul Butler, 

 R. Apollonio. 



CENTRAL DIVISION. 

 Officers: 



Vice-Com.: W.C.Witherbee.Pt.Henry 

 Rear-Ooh_: O.tJ.Belman.Auisterdara 

 Purser: C. E. Craw. Port Henry. 

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

 ington. 



NORTHERN DIVISION. 



Officers: 



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

 Rear-Com.; Geo. Schofield.Peterboro 

 Pokseb: H. R. Tilly, Toronto. 

 Ex. Com.: W. H. Maenee. C. B. Arch- 

 bald, W. L. Scott. 



Applications for membership must be made to division pursers, accom- 

 panied by the recommendation of an active member and the sum of $2.00 

 for entrance fee and dues lor cm-rent year. Every member attending 

 the general A. C. A. camp shall pay $1.00 for camp expenses. Applications 

 sent to the Soe'v-Treas. 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 be furnishen with printed forms of application by address 

 ing the Purser. 



WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Commodore— O. A. Woodruff, Dayton, 0, 

 Vice-Commodore— E. B. Huntington, Milwaukee, Wis. 

 Rear-Commodore— L. K. Liggitt, Detroit-, Mich. 

 Secretary-Treasurer— Janice iardner, Cleveland, O. 



Executive Committee— T. J. Klrkpa trick, Springfield, O.; O. B. Ellard, 

 Cincinnati, O ; S B llettler, Jackson, Mich. 



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

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

 initiation fee and dues for the current year. 



FIXTURES. 



8EPTKMBKa. 



3. Holyoke, Ann., Holyoke, Mass. 



Whether as a matter of merit or merely because they are new and 

 fashionable, ttte two designs, "La Gloria" and "Scarecrow," published 

 in the Fohest and Stream, have proved wonderfully popular, and a 

 very large number of boats have been built from them. This year a 

 number of new ones are under way in various places, and it is likely 

 that the class will be well represented at the coming meet at Croton 

 Point. An excellent opportunity will be presented for a test of these 

 larger boats against the 16x30 canoes, and also for exciting and inter- 

 esting races among themselves. 



The accessibility of the camp by water alone should result in a large 

 attendance of canoe yawls, Scarecrows, and all types of smn 11 craft 

 and the racing of these boats may be made one of the attractive fea- 

 tures of the meet. Of course, the canoe racing proper must claim 

 first place, but no one will be better pleased than the canoeraen at a 

 chance io test the speed of the larger boats. Much has been said at 

 times about the superior speed of the St. Lawrence skiffs and similar 

 craft over the 16x30 canoe, but thus far the canoe has come out ahead 

 in all trials that have been made at the meets. None of these, how- 

 ever, in the past have been thoroughly satisfactory; and the question 

 of the speed of the canoe compared with skiffs and other wider craft 

 is yet unsettled; hut the meet of this year should place the matter 

 beyond doubt. 



Red Dragon C. C. 



On Saturday evening. March 31, the Red Dragon C. C. gave a smoker 

 to its members and their friends, and after a pleasant evening all 

 voted it one of the successes of the club. 



One of the interesting features of the evening was a lantern slide ex- 

 hibit, the slides appertaining principally to the club. Among the num- 

 ber were some taken from photographs of the club's meet at Delanco 

 in 1889. Com. McCormick's explanatory description of the views was 

 highly commendable. The music — and there was lots of it — was fur- 

 nished by the R. D. C. C. Mandolin and Banjo Club. 



The original poem by Dr. McFetridge upon the R. D. C. C. foot ball 

 team, of which our Wilt was captain, was received with deafening 

 applause. The "Hoodoo Song," by H Fleischman, in the chorus of 

 which all present joined, added greatly to the merriment. 



Although disappointed in the non-appearance of our. wrestlers and 

 some of the sparring talent, we fortunately had a few "clever ones" 

 among our members to produce interesting events. 



Amid the fumes of tobacco and the aroma of food for the inner 

 man, impromptu speeches were made and songs sang until close to 

 the advent of the first day, when the majority returned to the city with 

 pleasant remembrances of another successful smoker. F. O. G. 



A. C. A. Membership. 



Atlantic Division: Dr. W. C. McFetridge, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Rein- 

 bold Kniep, Newark, X. J.; Horatio S. Byrne, Inwood, New York city; 

 B. C. Pressprich, New York city; Louis W, Wiese. Bordentown, N J 



