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CRUISING CANOE YAWL TRENT. Designed by W. P. Stephens. 
Cleveland Y. C. 
The annual election of the Cleveland Y. C. was held on Jan. 8 at 
the club house and resulted as follows: Com., Geo. H. Worthington; 
Vice-Corn., Percy W. Rice; Rear-Corr., P. P. Wright; Sec'y- Treas., 
Benton D. Munhall; Treas., F. W. Radcliffe; Ass't Treas., R. Carleton; 
Surveyor, H. Richter; Fleet Surgeon, E. E. Beeman. Regatta Com- 
mittee, P. P. Wright, G. H. Gardner, W. R. Huntington. House Com- 
mittee, J. D. Cox, Jr.; F. G. Overbeke; E. W. Radder. Auditing 
Committee, W. R. Huntington, G. H. Gardner, J. R. Miller. 
The following constitute the Board of Directors for 1896: J. D. Cox, 
Jr., G. H. Gardner, W. R Huntington, E. W Radder, B. D. Munhall, 
L. Allen, G. H. Worthington, F. G. Overbeke, W. P. Francis, H. K. 
Lyman, J. N. Richardson, P. W. Rice, P. P. Wright, E. E. Beeman, 
John Barth. 
The new club house is now fully paid for and the club is in a most 
flourishing condition. 
Com. Geo. H. Worthington and Dr. E. E. Beeman proposed at this 
meeting the establishment of an international challenge cup, valued 
at $1,000, to be known as the Cleveland Cup and to be sailed for by 
any first-class schooner on the Great Lakes. There are about a dozen 
such boats on the lakes, including Priscilla, of Cleveland; Idler, of Chi- 
cago; Oriole, of Toronto; Wave Crest and Wasp, of Buffalo, and 
others. Among the members present $500 was pledged toward this 
cup. The racing for it, together with the Cleveland centennial re- 
gatta, should give yachting quite a boom, not only in Cleveland, but 
over the whole chain of lakes. 
TRENT. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
A meeting of the board of governors of the New Rochelle Y. C. was 
held at the Grand Union Hotel, New York, on Jan. 13. The following 
officers were nominated for the annual meeting on Feb. 3: Com.,* 
Henry Andruss, sip. Sasqua; Vice-Corn., Henry Doscher, sip. Ban- 
shee; Rear-Corn., Wm. H. Simonson, yawl Aura; Sec'y, J. C. Lippin- 
cott; Treas., B. B. Strong; Meas., H. A. Gouge; Trustees, Ph. J. 
Krackehl, John W. Rough, E. T. Smythe, G. W. Fuller and O. W. 
Adams; Regatta Committee, Charles P. Tower, L. Talbot and Wm. N. 
Bavier; Membership Committee, Eugene Lambden, Wm. S. Spencer 
and Wm. E. Moore; Law Committee, John F. Lambden and Chas. W. 
Voltz; Delegates to the Yacht Racing Union, Chas. P. Tower and 
Henry A. Gouge. 
The dispute between the Royal Canadian Y. C, of Toronto, and the 
Hamilton Y. O. over the Queen's cup sailed for on Dominion Day of 
last year, and won by Vedette, who was protested by Echo, of the 
latter club, as measuring over the class, has been referred to the com- 
modore and sailing committee of the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. for a 
decision, on the suggestion of the Governor-General of Canada. The 
decision was unanimous in favor of Vedette. 
The annual dinner of the Philadelphia Y. C. was held on Jan. 11 on 
board the old war ship St. Louis, training ship of the Naval Reserve. 
The following nominations for officers have been posted at the New 
YorkY. O: Com., E. M. Brown, steam yacbt Sylvia; Vice-Com., H. 
C. Ward, schr. Clytie; Rear-Com., L. Cass Ledyard, schr. Montauk; 
Sec'y, J. V. S. Oddie; Treas., F. W. J. Hurst; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Mor- 
ris J. Asch; Regatta Committee, S. Nicholson Kane, Archibald Rogers 
and Gouverneur Kortright; Committee on Admissions, F. T. Robin- 
son, Charles McK. Loeser, L. Cass Ledyard, Daniel F. Worden and 
Joseph Stickney; House Committee, E. E. Chase, Arthur Ingraham, 
H. Edwards Ficken, Robert S. Bourne and Frank M. Cronise; Library 
Committee, Fordham Morris, A. H. Clark, Theodore D. Zerega; Com- 
mittee on Club Stations: No. 1, Bay Ridge, W. H. Thomas; No. 2, New 
York, W. Butler Duncan, Jr.; No. 3, Whitestone, L. I., Clarence Mo- 
Kim; No. 4, New London, Conn., L. Vaughn Clark; No. 5, Shelter 
Island, N. Y., Tarrant Putnam; No. 6, Newport, R. I., E. P. Sands; 
No. 7, Vineyard Haven, Mass., G. S. Payson; No. 8, Atlantic High- 
lands, N. Y., Henry C. Ward. 
On Jan. 17 the Hudson River Ice Y. C. elected the following officers: 
Com., Archibald Rogers, of Hyde Park; Vice-Corn., Norman Wright, 
of Poughkeepsie; Sec'y and Treas., John Hopkins, of Hyde Park; 
Meas., Thomas Newbold, of Hyde Park; Regatta Committee, Archi- 
bald Rogers, Guy C. Bayley, Thomas H. Ransom, C. W. Swift and H. 
Livingston. 
The annual meeting of the Hull Y. C. was held on Jan. 11, the fol- 
lowing officers being elected: Com., Wm. H. Crane; Vice Com., Henry 
W. Lamb; Rear-Com., Albert L. Pope; Sec'y, Wm. A. Cary; Asst. Sec'y, 
Caleb Nichols; Treas., James R. Hooper; Meas., Wm. E. Sheriffs; Ex- 
ecutive Committee (for two years), Wm. Lambert and J. W. Dutton; 
Membership Committee (for two years), L. Stewart Jordan and Geo. 
A. Dill; Regatta Committee (for two years), Clarence V. Souther. 
The annual meeting of the Hudson River Y. O. was held last week, 
the following officers were elected: Com., E. Langerfeld; Vice-Corn., 
J. E. Grover; Sec'y, A. G. Buckholz; Ass't Sec'y, John Kelly; Treas., 
E. Spencer Peets; Meas., C. Walden; Fleet Surgeon, D. B. Spence, 
M.D. ; Steward, J. T. Hufnagel; Regatta Committee: J. E. Grover, A. 
G Buckholz, Wm. Pink and E. Spencer Peets; Finance Committee: 
John Kelly, Wm. May and J. E. Grover; Board of Trustees: John 
Kelly, chairman; Dr. E. J. Ranhofer, Joseph Stilger, E. Spencer 
Peets, John Wallace, O Walden, E. E. Voelmy, Wm. Pink, J. E. 
Grover and R. V. Freeman. R, V. Freeman declined renomination as 
treasurer, after serving almost a quarter of a century in that position. 
The Williamsburgh Y. C. has elected the following officers: Com., 
James Schuessele; Vice-Corn., John Lawes; Rear-Com., John Ese- 
man; Rec. Sec'y, Wm. Martin; Cor. Sec'y, Wm. Schleicher; Treas., 
Joseph Northrup; Meas., Wm. E. Long; Sergeant at Arms, H. Ander- 
son; Steward, J. Clifford; Board of Trustees: Wm. B. Richards, 
Joseph Lange, A. Fredericks, N. C. Roekell and J. White. 
A Handy Canoe Yawl. 
We are glad to say that we still receive many applica- 
tions for designs for small cruising craft such as were in 
vogue a few years since, before the advent of the fin de 
Steele racer with bronze fin and mahogany double skin; 
and it is evident that the use of such slow, but safe and 
comfortable, crafb as Vital Spark and Windward has not 
entirely ceased. This week we have had an inquiry for a 
canoe yawl from two young men who propose to take a 
long cruise, which suggests the publication of the accom- 
panying design. With the full details which we propose 
to give, the little yacht, as she really is, may be built by 
any intelligent amateurs who are familiar with tools and 
in a general way with boat building. The boat described 
was built by a carriage builder, C. L. Scott, of Gagetown, 
N. B. , who made an excellent job of the construction. 
The little keel craft of the Mersey that first gave their 
name to the type had much to recommend them as safe, 
snug and inexpensive for the young amateur or the single- 
hand cruiser, and, apart from racing, they are as good 
to-day as they ever were. 
In this and the following number we shall give the 
complete building plans for such a boat, which is quite 
within the powers of a careful amateur builder. The 
lines of the Vital Spark, built by Bond, of Liverpool, in 
1892, are well known to canoeists through Dixon Kemp's 
"Yacht and Boat Sailing." Some years ago the writer 
was the owner of an 18ft. boat nominally built from 
these lines, but by no means what such a boat should be. 
The various experiences of her good and bad points, the 
latter predominating, suggested the idea of a new design 
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