MAY 12, 1894.J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



411 



The Steam Yacht Dungeness, 



I Among the new steam yachts of the year, the steel steam yacht 

 lOungeness possesses a special interest from the facts that she has 

 (been designed and built to the order of a lady, and also that she will 

 Ibe tbe first yacht enrolled in the New York Y. C. under the. name of 

 la lady member, as permitted under a recent amendment of the con- 

 stitution of the New York Y, C. The yacht was designed by Mr. Geo. 

 IB. Mallory, N. A., of New York, and was constructed under his super- 

 vision at the works of the Maryland Steel Co.. at Sparrow Point, Md. 

 I Mrs. Lucy 0. Carnegie, of Pittsburgh, Pa., the owner, has cruised 

 lEor some seasons in the steam yacht Missoe about the coast between 

 |Bar Harbor and Florida, and is the owner of the magnificent estate on 

 [Cumberland Island, off the Georgia coast, from which the yacht takes 

 fiername. The new yacht is intended for cruising about the Atlantic 

 joast, and especially for her owner's summer home. The hull is of 

 steel throughout, the dimensions being: 



Length over rail 120ft. 



l.w.l 104ft. 



Beam, extreme 20ft. 



Least freeboard , 4ft. 



Sheer, stem 5ft. 



transom 1ft. 



Draft, stem , 5ft. 



sternpost 7ft. 6in. 



The deck house and fittings are of mahogany; the house is 31ft. 

 long and from 12ft. to 8ft. wide, with a saloon 22ft. long, the after por- 

 tion containing the captain's room, lavatory, etc. The owner's and 

 guests' quarters are all forward, and .ire conveniently arranged and 

 elegantly fitted up. The heating apparatus consists of radiators 

 under the cabin floors, taking fresh cold air from the top of the house 

 and heating it before it enters the cabins. The electric installation is 

 very complete, including besides a full outfit of lamps, special heating 

 apparatus for plates, coffee urns, etc., in the pantries and on the 

 dining table. 



Abaft the engine space is a large galley, and further aft are conveni- 

 ently arranged quarters for officers and crew. 



The machinery as well as the hull was designed by Mr. Mallory, the 

 engines being compound. 13x24x18, with a 6ft. wheel. The main 

 boiler is 10ft. 6in. in diameter and 10ft. long. The engine room con- 

 tains a complete outfit of donkey boiler and pump, evaporator, dyna- 

 mo, etc. Special attention has been directed to these details, which 

 assure the comfort of the owner and guests, and the elegant and elab- 

 orate furnishings are supplemented by an ample supply of running 

 water, hot and cold, fresh or salt, by the best of heating and ventilat- 

 ion apparatus, and by a liberal use of electricity. 



The yacht was launched on March 10, being christened Dungeness 



Compulsory Yachting. 



From the New York Times. 



People who know nothing of yachting are accustomed to envy the 

 man who owns a yacht and goes on a winter cruise to a sunny climate. 

 Were the horrors of compulsory yachting generally known, envy 

 would not be wasted in this way. Th«re are, of course, men who take 

 pleasure in yachting, but the majority of yachtsmen, who w ; th sink- 

 ing hearts and quavering stomachs fit out their yachts for the regular 

 winter cruise, loathe the sea and hate the very sight of a vessel. 



Whenever a man makes or inherits enough money to render him 

 rich, bis friends expect him to set up a yacht, and if he does not do it 

 at once he loses caste. To the timid man the prospect of becoming 

 rich is sometimes so embittered by the knowledge that with riches will 

 come the avenging yacht, that he actually prefers poverty and dry 

 land. This is the reason why the heirs to British titles and estates 

 have on several occasions mysteriously disappeared. They preferred 

 to be wanderers on the face of the earth and remain on it, rather than 

 to become rich and be compelled to wander on the face of the water. 

 In America especially is the yacht the curse of riches Every 

 American millionaire is inexorably compelled to be a yachtsman. 

 There are at present scores of American millionaires living in exile in 

 Europe, simply because they cannot go home without making at least 

 one annual yachting cruise. Consider for a moment what yachting 

 means to a man who has spent his whole life on dry land. When he 

 goes on a cruise he finds himself horribly seasick. He spends bis 

 days living in a narrow and uncomfortable berth. He is cut off from 

 newspapers and from the friends he was accustomed to meet at his 

 club. Headaches, nausea and ennui are the only gifts that the sea 

 brings him, and yet he knows that he must go on a yachting cruise 

 every winter or lose the respect of his entire'circle of acquaintances. 



Of course, no yachtsman ever admits that he is afraid at sea. The 

 truth is, however, that the nervous yachtsman— and most of the 

 victims of compulsory yachting are nervous — is always afraid at sea. 

 He is afraid of shipwreck, of Are, of the explosion of the boiler, of 

 collision, and, worst of all, he is afraid of showing that he is afraid. 

 If he in a man with conscience, his fears are intensified by his secret 

 knowledge of the fact that he is daily telling lies to his companions. 

 He may be inwardly saying his prayers in terror of a tornado, but if a 

 friend comes within hearing he m ust remark: "Isn't this magnificent ! 

 I would't have missed it for anything!" All the time the poor wretch 

 knows that if he is drowned with these impudent lies on his soul his 

 chances for future bliss will be exceedingly small. The victim of 

 compulsory yachting lives in an atmosphere of falsehood, for he finds 

 it impossible to be both a yachtsman and a man of veracity. 



There are nevertheless yachtsmen who, by the exercise of cunning 

 and duplicity, manage to cruise in comparative comfort. For 



YACHT NEWS NOTES. 



Messrs. Mclntyre & Kirk are very busy at their new shops, Quiney 

 Point, near Boston, and with their present plant and projected im- 

 provements the new yard will offer special conveniences to Eastern i 

 yachtsmen. The location is excellent: there is ample room for shops,, 

 ways and basin, and Mr. Mclntyre in particular has long been known 

 for the excellence of his work and his useful inventions in the way of 

 yacht fittings. The largest work in hand at present is the fin-keel 1 

 steam yacht Pilgrim, which was hauled out, at the point after her fin 

 had been removed at the Boston Navy yard. The firm is building the 

 deck houses and the joiner work, and the engines and boiler are being 

 put in. Of the sailing craft the largest is a 30-footer for W. F. Palmer, 

 of Taunton, 42ft. over all, 12ft. beam and 5ft. draft, which is now in 

 frame. The Lynch fin-keel, designed by Waterhouse & Chesebrough, 

 is well advanced; and a whole fleet of knockabouts.is in course of con- 

 struction. 



The Toronto Sailing Skiff Club is now in a flourishing condition, and 

 preparing for a busy season of racing, the following fixtures being 

 arranged: Extra special class, 21-footers— June 2, July 21 and Sept. 3; 

 first class, 20-footers— June 9, July 14, Aug. 11 and Sept. 8; second 

 class, 18-footers— June 2, Julv 7 and Aug. 4; third cla?s, 16-footers— 

 June 23, July 21 and Aug. 18; Sailing Skiff Association races— Saturday, 

 July 28, at which date skiffs from all the clubs on the lake are expected 

 to compete; club cruise— June 30; open dates— June 16, June 30 and 

 Aug. 25. New boats and members have been added during the winter, 

 and the club smokers have served to keep the members together, a 

 very successful one taking place on April 14. 



The yachtsmen of Chicago are preparing for a lively racing season 

 at Lake Geneva, which now boasts the fastest fleet of open sand-bag 

 yachts in the country. The famous Rival, of Bridgeport was sold last 

 year to Lake Geneva, and this season a new boat will be afloat to 

 beat her if possible. This craft has been designed and built by J. H.. 

 Cornwall, of Port Washington, Long Island, builder of the successful 

 Vanadis, Expert and Tattler, now on Lake Geneva: and of Phyllis,, 

 lately sold to Western owners. The new boat is a 21ft jib and main- 

 sail, lapstrake, and is for R, G- Winslow, of Chicago, who has named 

 her Halleluia. 



Puritan is offered for sale by Com. Forbes, who has owned her since 

 1886. She is still in the same trim and under the same rig as in her 

 first season, no material change having been made in her. She may 

 be offered at auction this month if not disposed of by private sale. A 

 few days after the last Cup race of 1885, Puritan was sold at auction 

 in New York, being purchased by Gen. Paine for $13,500; the bidding 

 being very slow, in spite of her record. When Gen. Paine decided to 



"DUNGENESS" STEAM YACHT Designed by George B. Mallort, Esq., foe Mrs. Lucy C. Carrngie, 1893. 



by Miss Dorothy Wood, daughter of the president of the Maryland 

 Steel Co. The work of the designer has been supplemented by the 

 careful efforts of the builders, and the result is equally creditable to 

 both. 



The trial trip of the yacht was made on April 28, the speed being 

 twelve miles per hour for a run of thirty miles. She will be delivered 

 to Mrs. Carnegie in the latter part of this month. 



Model Yachting at Cape Ann. 



It is a healthy sign of the times that not only boys but experienced 

 yachtsmen are turning to model yachts for amusement and informa- 

 mation, and the present year is likely to mark the general inaugura- 

 tion et model yacht sailing throughout the country. In England the 

 sport has long been popular, and is by no means considered beneath 

 the attention of the owners of large yachts, as well as yscht designers. 

 Messrs. A. E. Paytie and J. M. Soper are both interested in the South- 

 ampton Model Y- C. The following, from the Boston Globe, notes the 

 introduction of the sport into a new locality: 



"The sport of model yachting has taken fast hold of several Annis- 

 quam and Gloucester gentlemen, and the result has been a club at the 

 former place which has been holding races for three or four years 

 past, and whose members are enthusiastic both in racing and in 

 experimenting with a view to producing the fastest type of boat. The 

 club has a membership of about a dozen, and has fully a score of 

 boats, which he ve been sailed more or less. 



"At present the best boats in the fleet are those of 40in. waterline. 

 There are four of these boats, all tin- keels. Each is 60in. over all, but 

 they vary in beam, draft, etc. Two are 17in. beam, one is 14 and one 

 is but 12. Some interesting races between these boats are expected the 

 coming season. 



"The boats of the club race only to windward, for the members 

 doubt the possibility of getting a model yacht to do good work off the 

 wind, and believe that the true test of a boat's ability is windward 

 work. The races are sailed with an allowance of five seconds to the 

 inch, corrected length, for each quarter mile of the course. The cor- 

 rected or racing length is found by adding the waterline length to the 

 square root of the actual sail area and dividing by 2. 



"A prominent member of the club is Mr. C. C. Cunningham, of Annis- 

 quam, and he has made many experiments with both large and small 

 boats. His latest boat is 40in. waterline, 60in, over all, I7in. beam, 

 2Win. draft of hull. Win. depth of fin, and W/ 3 in. total draft. His fin 

 is 221n. long on top and 14in. on the bottom, and carries 15lbs. of lead. 

 The sail area is 2,500 sq in. 



"Mr. F. E. Brown, of the club, has a 40in. boat with greater depth of 

 body and with 221bs. of lead on her fin. Mr. Walter Gardener, the 

 well known Gloucester photographer, also owns a 40in. boat, and least 

 beamy of the four, and is rigging her for the season's racing. She is 

 expected to do her best work in light airs, as she has a displacement 

 of only about 161bs. . „ „ i 



"In view of the prospect of racing against some of the Boston or 

 Marblehead models of 30in. waterline, the club members are fixing up 

 some of their older boats of that length, and would be glad of the 

 chance to compare speeds with the boats of any other club. 



"Something of the line along which the club is experimenting may 

 be judged from the following extract from a letter from Mr, Cunning- 

 ham to the Globe: . 



'• 'The great fault with all. or nearly all, of our hrst boats was a 

 tendency to pay off as the wind increased in force. That fault we 

 now attribute to small beam and long lateral plane, with deep drag 

 aft, for our new boats, with twice the beam of the old and with a nar- 

 row fin, seem to work all right in that respect. 



" 'We have discarded rudders altogether, as we sail only to wind- 

 ward, As it seems to us that the steering must in any event be done 

 with the jib, rudders seem to be needless. .... 



" 'Our 40in. boats are fin-keels of the modern type with full water- 

 jnes forward and long overhangs.' " 



example, the time comes for the British yachtsman to make his 

 annual winter cruise. He sends his yacht to Marseilles, and goes by 

 rail to that place, alleging that he has suddenly been detained by 

 business and cannot spare the time to cross the Bay of Biscay. On 

 his way to Marseilles in company with a young and impressionable 

 friend he discovers that there is cholera in that town, and so, instead 

 of risking his friend's life by boarding the yacht in the evil smelling 

 port of Marseilles, he sends the yacht to Nice, and continues his 

 journey by rail. At Nice he spends a month or two giving dinner 

 parties on board his yacht, and then takes what he calls a little run to 

 Genoa, ordering the yacht to meet him there. At Genoa he changes 

 hi-; mind and resolves to go on to Rome and Naples, sending the yacht 

 to the latter place. It takes him about two more months to reach 

 Naples, whfre he finds a telegram calling him back to England, and 

 firmly but sadly resigns all hope of doiDg any more yachting for that 

 season. When he returns home he is credited with having spent the 

 winter cruising in the Mediterranean, and he naturally does not take 

 the trouble to explain the way in which he has cruised, Men have 

 been known to cruise in this way for many successive winters, and 

 are spoken of as "Devoted Yachtsmen." Indeed, there is one English 

 brewer of eminence who once cruised all the way to Constantinople, 

 touching at all the points of interest on the way, and who never laid 

 his eyes on his yacht from the day she left Southampton until the day 

 when she was laid up at Cowes for the rest of the season. 



There 's a story current among sailing masters which affords a vivid 

 picture of the state of mind to which compulsory yachting may re- 

 duce a man. It is said that an American millionaire, after having 

 suffered from his first cruise, bribed his sailing master to cast away 

 the yacht on the Portuguese coast, the owner having, of course, gone 

 home by land, and having, like an honest man, allowed his policy of 

 insurance to run out. This was an extreme measure, but it was per- 

 fectly successful. The yachtsman steadily declined to build a new 

 yacht, on the ground that the drowning of three sailors at the time his 

 yacht was wrecked, had given him a distaste for yachting. The 

 sailors, it Is only fair to mention, were not of much value, being 

 merely Maltese, but even the drowning of Maltese is looked upon with 

 disfavor by the courts, except, of course, in the case of Judges who 

 have been quarantined at Valetta. The voluntary wrecking of a 

 yacht, cannot therefore be recommended as a remedy for compulsory 

 yachting. Perhaps the suffering yachtsman's best plan is to give 

 away his money to deserving charities until his fortune is reduced 

 below the limit which makes yachting compulsory. He may then find 

 it possible to spend his days on dry land. He may even retain money 

 enough to insure the gout, but so long as he has not money enough 

 to keep a yacht he may live and die in comparative happiness. 



Catamarans and Single-Hulled Yachts. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



What claim, if any, has a catamaran to be classed as a yacht? Can 

 a catamaran claim the right to enter the races of a yacht club that 

 has no mention of catamarans in its rules? I ask because a catamaran 

 is building by a member of the club to which I belong, and the owner 

 expects to be permitted to enter the yacht races. Dorset. 



[The question of the rights of a new type of sailing craft to compete 

 with yachts of ordinary model is not covered by any rules of yacht 

 clubs, but the ruling has commonly been that, in default of specific 

 prohibitions, any sailing craft is allowed to compete, regardless of her 

 type. At the same time it is obvious that every yacht club has the 

 right to divide its fleet into such classes, by size or type, as may insure 

 fair racing, and the catamaran has usually been classed apart from 

 single-hulled yachts, as being fairer and more satisfactory in every 

 way than racing the two together. Some years ago the New York 

 Y. C. has admitted a catamaran, Mr. Stokes's Nereid, to the regular 

 classes. We should say that as long as no specific restrictions exist in 

 the rules, a double-hulled yacht might enter against a single-hulled 

 craft; but that it rests with a club to separate the two types into 

 classes should it seem advisable to do so.] 



build in the following spring, to meet Galatea, Puritan was sold to 

 Com. Forbes, one of the original syndicate. 



The opening race of the Corinthian Mosquito Fleet will take place 

 on May 26 off the club station, New Rochelle, a scrub race for such 

 small craft as may wish to enter. The O. M. F. has extended the 

 ceurtesies of its house and anchorage to the Larchmont, Seawanhaka, 

 Atlantic, Riverside, Indian Harbor, Knickerbocker, Corinthian of New 

 York, New Rochelle, American, New Haven, New York Athletic Club 

 and the Mosquito Fleet Y. C. of South Boston. 



We have received from the secretary of the Yacht Racing Associa- 

 tion a copy of the book for the present year containing the rules, list 

 of members, minutes of meetings, etc. The rules as lately amended re- 

 cognize lady members, compel the marking of the waterline by the 

 owner, with full racing crew aboard and amidships, and also call for a 

 slight alteration of the measurement of the fore triangle, the perpen- 

 dicular being taken from the deck at the mast instead of from the 

 gooseneck. 



The annual regatta of the Southern Y. C. has been postponed from 

 May 12 to the 26th, as the repairs to the club house will not be com- 

 pleted in time. The race for the Sully cup takes place May 19. The 

 course is across Lake Pontchartrain to Mandeville and back, 44 miles. 

 The schooner Folly, R. S. Day, won the race last year. 



Semiramis, steam yacht, has been rechristened Margarita by her 

 new owner, A. J. Drexel, and on April 28 the yacht sailed from Phila- 

 delphia for Bermuda with her owner and a party on board. While in 

 port some changes were made in the interior arrangements. 



Our English mail this week brings us the initial copy of a weekly 

 paper called The Yachting World, published in London. It is neatly 

 gotten up and illustrated with two handsome supplementary plates of 

 the Prince of Wales and his yacht. 



Hiladee, sloop, built last year for S. N. Small of Boston, from his 

 own design, has been renamed Amorita by her new owner, W. F 

 Bache, and has been fitted with a lead keel of l,5C01bs., preparatory to 

 racing this season. 



There is some probability of the much talked of race between the 

 Annie of Mobile, and Nepenthe, of the S. Y, C. taking place this spring. 

 Annie is being fitted with a new suit of sails by Gerdes, of New 

 Orleans. 



Alga, cutter, C. A. Littlefield, from Boston for Norfolk, went ashore 

 on the point of Sandy Hook in entering from the sea on the night of 

 May 3, but came off safely on the next morning's tide. 



Isolene, steam yacht, lately burned and sunk at Northport, has been 

 raised in a badly damaged condition. She was insured for $25,000, 

 and the insurance companies may rebuild her. 



Monomoy, the cruising sloop designed by J. F. Small and built by 

 Drake of South Boston, was launched on May 5. Mr. Small will start 

 soon on a cruise to Nova Scotia. 



Mr. David Clark, the well known yacht painter of New York and 

 Brooklyn, celebrated his 65th birthday a short time since by a dinner 

 to a number of yacht skippers. 



Idler, schr., once so well taown about New York under the owner- 

 ship of the late S. J. Colgate, is now fitting out at Chicago after lying 

 neglected for several years. 



Messrs. Wilson & Silsby. of Boston, have now in hand the sails for no 

 less than seventeen small knockabout boats, both keel and center- 

 board, all new boats. 



The Conqueror case is still in the courts, having been taken before 

 the Supreme Court of the United States by the defendant, ex-collector 

 J. Sloat Fassett. 



Corsair, steam yacht, J. Pierpont Morgan, was damaged by fire on 

 the night of May 1, while lying at Tebo's. The damage amounts to 

 less than $1,000. 



