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Vice-Oom., J. H. Skinner; Capt., O. L. Taylor; Sec'y, A. A. McKechhie; 

 Treas., J. W. Taylor. Regatta Committee, J. P. Elmer, S. C. Stickney, 

 J. H. Skinner. The first race takes place on Memorial Day and the 

 second on June 2. 



Gadabout, auxiliary steam yacht, designed by J. Beavor Webb and 

 built in 1892 for E. M. Fulton, Jr., has been sold to James S. Watson, 

 of Rochester, N. Y., who has re-named her Algonquin. She sailed 

 recently from New York for Lake Ontario by way of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence. 



The Audubon Y. C, of 153d street, North River, New York, has 

 just erected a fine club house The membership of the club is 200. 



At a meeting: of the Great South Bay Y. C. on May 18 the following 

 officers were elected: Com., Herbert S. Jewell; Vice-Corn., Fred G. 

 Bourne, Jr.: Rear-Corn., Samuel T. Peters; Treas., Miles H. Bergen; 

 Sec'y, Fred C. Bliss. 



Mr. George Gould, owner of Vigilant, has been elected a member of 

 the Tower Ridge Y. C. at his request. 



Barracouta, steam yacht, J. R. Fell, arrived at Philadelphia on May 

 15 from Nassau after an extended cruise in the West Indies. 



The revival of the 21-foot class in Eastern yachting has brought 

 into prominence the wonderful success of the Minnetonka-built sloop 

 Onawa, built by Arthur Dyer last year to beat the Herreshoff boats 

 Kite and Alpha. Dyer's fame as a designer has penetrated the East 

 pretty deeply and the fact is evidenced in his having received within 

 the last week orders for two 21-foot sloops from Long Island yachts- 

 men whose names are known all over this country. The Journal 

 representative this morning saw a letter from one of these gentlemen 

 relating to his order from Dyer. The new boats will be of the Onawa 

 type, but of somewhat heavier material, as they are for work on salt 

 water. There is no doubt at all that Minnetonka is now the head- 

 quarters for the 21-footers in America. The fastest boats Herreshoff 

 ever built of this class were the Alpha and Kite, and Onawa walked 

 away from both of theee last season as though they were anchored; 

 Ward Burton has received half a dozen offers to purchase the Onawa 

 from New York and Boston parties, and others, still more numerous, 

 to take the boat East and sail her this year. He nays, however, that 

 he has positively decided, as per notice to the Minnetonka Y. C. last 

 year, to retire her from racing and use her for further experi- 

 mental work in the same line on the new Larchmont Club rules, with 

 crews limited to two or three men. One of the new boats ordered 

 from Dyer is destined for Buzzard's Bay. The latter is to be very 

 similar in design to the new Watson boat now ready for launching at 

 the Dyer yard. As the Onawa will not go East, the other fast Dyer 

 boat, Apukwa, will be shipped at once to take part in the Eastern 

 events. Apukwa will be remembered as the boat that sailed off a 

 tie race with Alpha last autumn and defeated her handsomely. As 

 Alpha was never defeated in Eastern waters, Apukwa should show a 

 good record at the end of the season if she is properly handled. She 

 will make her appearance at Marblehead some time in June.— Minne- 

 apolis Journal. 



Soso, steam launch, has been sold by the estate of the late N. L 

 Munroe to J. W. Stuart of New York. 



Ventura, 40ft. cutter, has been sold through Stewart & Binney by 

 T. W. King to Wm.Williams, of New York. Mr. King will build a 21ft. 

 knockabout from a design by Stewart & Binney, to be 29ft. over alL 

 7ft. 6in. beam and 4ft. draft. 



The Miramichi Y. C. held its eighth annual meeting at Newcastle 

 N. B., on May 10, the following officers being re-elected: Com J c' 

 Miller; Vice-Corn., J. L. Stewart; Rear-Corn., John McKane- Sec - 

 Treas., J. R. Lawlor; Meas., Thos. Grimmer. Several new members 

 were elected, a programme of events adopted and other business 

 transacted. The fixtures for 1894 are: May 24, cruise to Shelldrake 

 Island; June 2, Newcastle to Chatham; July 2, cruise to Wheelbarrow 

 Point; July 19, triangular at Chatham; Aug. 16, Stewart pennant, Oak 

 Point; Sept. 13, triangular. Newcastle; Sept. 29, Chatham to Newcastle. 



The Mobile Y. C. held its annual meeting on May 16. and the old club 

 was merged into a stock company and a charter granted with a capi- 

 tal of $2,500, divided into 100 shares of $25 each. There were 75 shares 

 taken at this first meeting and much eathusiasm shown. Capt W A 

 Hutchinson presided and W. A. Hopper acted as secretary. A board 

 of directors consisting of H. Pillans, W. B. Curran, J. S Woodhull 

 W. M. Marshall and E. D. Ledyard were elected to draft by-laws, etc' 



The season's raees of the Plymouth Y. O, will include the fol- 

 lowing events: May 30, low tide, 1 P. M , outside course. June 18 

 high tide, 11:45 A. M., inside course. July 4, high tide, noon, inside 

 course. July 21, high tide, 1:15 P. M., outside course; ladies' day 

 Aug. U, low tide, 1:45 P M., outside course. Sept. 3, high tide 1-30 

 P. M., inside course. Sept. 20, high tide, 2:15 P. M., inside course. The 

 races will be open to all boats of the following classes: First class 

 catboats 20ft. and under 26ft., measured waterline. Second class' 

 catboats under 20ft. measured waterline. Third class, boats with sprit 

 foresail and mainsail. Fourth olass, boats with gaff foresail and sprit 

 mainsail. For the Fourth of July race^there will be a fifth class for 

 all rigs, and without time allowance. The starting time will be about 

 1J4 hours before high or low tide, as given above. General prizes will 

 be offered amounting to about $250. A club pennant prize will also be 

 offered to each of the four classes of boats; to be awarded to the boat 

 of this club making the shortest corrected time in any three of the 

 first five races. The races are to be sailed under such conditions as 

 may be prescribed in regatta notices of each race, subject to the rules 

 of this club. Regatta committee: A. O. Fay, Albert T. Harlow and 

 Walter H. Sears. 



Mr. J. F. Small and Mr. C. W. A. Bartlett had a very pleasant trip 

 around the Cape to New York on the 21-footer Exile. They started 

 from Dorchester on Tuesday, May 8, and made a good run across the 

 Bay and down the Cape, but were becalmed on the Shoals for several 

 hours. They put into Hyannis Wednesday night. Thursday they 

 ran from Hyannis to Newport under short sail, for it blew hard from 

 the northeast. Friday morning they left Newport and had a light 

 breeze nearly all the rest of the run, which they made with but one 

 stop, anchoring for the tide to turn at Hell Gate. Throughout the 

 trip the Exile behaved beautifully, and beat everything in the line of 

 a sailing craft that tackled her. It was a first-class object lesson to 

 those yachtsmen who have condemned her as a smooth water racing 

 machine. There was not a moment of the whole trip when her crew 

 of two amateurs were not able to handle her easily, and she proved 

 fast and dry in the rough weather which they encountered on the run 

 to Newport. — Boston Herald. 



The Sewaren Improvement Company have dredged a channel 

 through the bar at the entrance to Sewaren Harbor from Staten 

 Island Sound, and boats drawing not more than 5ft. of water can 

 enter at any tide. 



The Indian Harbor Y. C. has announced the following events for the 

 season: May 30, opening of club house, Greenwich, Conn.; July 21 

 special race for 21-footers and open cats, Waller and Osborn eups : 

 July 26-29, club cruise, Long Island Sound; Aug. 4, annual regatta : 

 Aug. 18, Ladies' Day Race. The date of the annual regatta, as above' 

 has been changed from July 28, as first announced. ' 



The sale of Puritan at auction on May 21 was not successful the 

 bidding being started by Mr. Geo. Lawley at $3,000, and going very 

 slowly until the yacht was knocked down to Mr. Chas. A. Welch for 

 the small sum of $4,700. After the auction Commodore Forbes stated 

 that there had been no sale, as the price was not satisfactory, and 

 that the boat would be held until some future date, when something 

 nearer her true value might be realized. 



Marguerite, steam yacht, Col. A. J Drexel, arrived at the Corinthian 

 Y. C. station on the Delaware River on May 19 from the West Indies 

 She will at once refit for a cruise to British ports, and after attending 

 some of the races she will continue to Norway. 



Speranza, schr., A. A. Wilkinson, was damaged by fire on May 21 at 

 Ferris & Matthews' ship yard, Camden, the steamboat New York be- 

 ing totally destroyed in a neighboring berth, and the flames extending 

 to the yacht. & 

 At Hartford, Conn., on May 22, Charles E. Gross and John Hall, ap- 

 praisers, filed in the Probate Court the inventory of the estate of 

 Commodore Caldwell H. Colt. It amounts to $785,496, $500,000 of 

 which is the value of 4.794 shares of the Colt's Patent Firearms Manu- 

 facturing Company. Real estate is valued at $33,500; railroad bonds, 

 """",685; the yacht Dauntless at $5,000, Oriole at $3,000 and Atala at 

 . . D. The remainder of the estate is in insurance, bank, and railroad 

 stocks in some of the leading companies in the country. 



The annual regatta of the Eastern Y. C. will be sailed on Monday, 

 June 25, over the club courses off Marblehead. The club will open its 

 house at Marblehead at noon on May 29. Commencing July 5 and 

 continuing until September, there will be the usual band concert every 

 Thursday evening. On the days of the annual regatta and on Wednes- 

 days and Thursdays throughout the season the house will be open to 

 ladies. The increased demand for accommodation for bicycles has 

 led to the provision of a clean, dry room for their reception, where 

 space will be found ample and free for all members. A competent 

 mechanic will be in attendance to clean and adjust machines. 



Huron, cutter, has been sold by W. Butler Duncan, Jr., to Albert J 

 Myer, of Buffalo. 



Although the Herreshoff and Gardner boats will all be of the fin 

 type, there will be at least two centerboards in the Larchmont 21ft 

 class, one by the designer and builder of the successful Onawa, Arthur 

 Dyer of Lake Minnetonka. This boat is for Vice-Corn. George Work 

 of the Larchmont Y. C. and will be named Minnetonka, and from the 

 reports, she is an improved Onawa. Another boat for the class has 

 been designed by Waterhouse & Chesebrough for J. H. Adams.owner 

 of Clara, cutter; also a shoal centerboard craft. 



