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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Apr*, 11, 1806. 
BODY PLAN. 
Myth. 
Few Eastern yachtsmen realize the extent to which yachting and 
yacht racing is now popular on the Northwest Coast, or the rate at 
which they are growing, but the noble waters from Puget Sound 
northward have of l»te years been the scene of many races. Not a 
few of these have gained added interest from the fact that they are 
to a certain extent international, the border of British Columbia being 
close at hand and many yachts hailing from the north of the boundary 
line. The yacht Sayth, for whose lines we are indebted to her owner, 
E. B. Learning, of New Whatcom, Wash., commodore of the Belling- 
ham Bay T. C, now holds the championship of Puget Sound after 
three years of very successful racing. 
Myth was designed by Thomas Clapham, of Roslyn, L. I., and built 
by George E. Simpson, of New Whatcom. She is of the "Bouncer" 
type, and when launched, in 1893, carried the usual long centerboard 
and balance rudder. In the spring of 1895 Com. Learning made some 
important changes in the yacht, replacing the centerboard with a deep 
wooden keel loaded with 7001bs. of iron and l,6001bs. of lead, and add- 
ing a large and permanent cabin house, giving good room, making of 
the yacht a keel cruiser. The dimensions are: 
Length over all 38ft. lOin. 
l.w.1 28ft. 
Beam, extreme , , lift. 
l.w.l ,, 10ft. 5in. 
Freeboard 1ft. 3in. 
Draft, hull 1ft. 3in. 
extreme 5ft. 31n. 
Mast, from fora end l.w.l 5ft. lin. 
deck to hounds 32ft. 3in. 
upper band . , . . , 38ft. 3in. 
diam. at deck 8J^in. 
Bowsprit, beyond end l.w.l 18ft Sin. 
Boom 35ft. 
Gaff , 25ft. 
Topmast 20ft. 
Topsail yards 16 and 23ft. 
Spinaker boom 30ft. 
Area of mainsail 973sq. ft. 
jib 306sq. ft. 
clubtopsail 289sq. ft. 
lower sails l,279sq. ft. 
Y, R. A. rule l.851sq. ft. 
Rating, Y. R. A rule 8.7 
A large balloon jib is also carried, set on the upper jibstay. 
Myth was launched in the spring of 1893, and during that season 
sailed in four open regattas, winning first prize in her class in each 
race. The first of these races was at Victoria, B. C, where, uDder the 
Victoria rules, she was placed in class A and sailed the course in one- 
half hour less time than any yacht in any class. The next race was 
for the Northwestern International Championship, and, under the 
rules of the Association, Myth was placed in class B. In this race she 
not only won the class B international trophy, but again sailed the 
course in shorter time than any yacht in any class. Her third race 
was at Victoria, where again she sailed in class B and easily won first 
prize. The fourth race of the season of 1893 was at Port Townsend, 
Wash., where Myth again sailed in class B, starting fifteen minutes 
after the class A yachts, and again not only distanced all her com- 
petitors in class B, but passed through the entire class A fleet and 
completed the course ten minutes ahead of any other yacht, and in 
twenty-five minutes shorter time than any yacht in her class. 
In the season of 1894 Myth competed in but two open regattas— the 
first at Victoria, May 24, in which she sailed in class A and lost 
through a disabling accident when about two miles in the lead of the 
entire fleet. This is the only race ever lost by her, and at the time of 
the accident she was placed a sure winner. The other race was the 
annual Northwestern International regatta, sailed at New Whatcom, 
Wash., in which she sailed in class B, and again not only won in her 
class, but beat all yachts of all classes, making the course in over fif- 
teen minutes shorter time than Zora, winner of class A. This race 
made her the permanent owner of the class B trophy of the North- 
western International Yachting Association, by reason of her success- 
ful defense of it for two seasons. 
Last spring the Myth underwent radical changes— her owner having 
converted her into a comfortable keel cruiser by the addition of a com- 
modious, permanent cabin and the removal of her centerboard, and 
putting iii its place a keel— giving her at this time a draft of 5ft. 3in. 
Last season, under her new rig, she entered the regatta at Victoria, 
May 24, in Class A. The race was not completed within the time limit, 
owing to a falling wind; but at its conclusion Myth was about 30min. 
ahead of the next yacht in the fleet. The same race was resailed May 
27 in a stiff blow, and Myth won first prize, again sailing the course in 
a shorter time than any yacht i" any class. On July 24 she sailed in 
Class A in the annual regatta of the Northwestern International Y. 
A., and won the championship trophy. 
The foregoing includes only open regattas; she has won first {prize 
in her class in all the regattas of her home club. 
Myth is to-day generally acknowledged as the fastest yacht on Puget 
Sound in any weather or under any conditions. 
Navahoe's Cruise. 
We are indebted to Capt. G. L. Norton, of the Marine Journal, for 
the following interesting letter from Oapt. F. F. Norton, of Mr. Car- 
roll's yawl Navahoe, written at Jamaica on March 23: 
We sailed out by Sandy Hook on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 5 P. M ; on 
Tuesday. Jan 28, took pilot at 4:30 P. M., took pilot off Gibbs's Light, 
Island of Bermuda, making the run in about three days. Sailing 
thence on Feb. 5, we arrived at Port Castries, Island of St. Lucia, in 
nine days, including one night at anchor under Montserrat. After 
three days at St. Lucia, we went to St. Pierre, Martinique; from there 
to Port Rosseau, Dominica; then out to the windward island of all, 
Barbadoes. 
After five days at Bridgdtown we got under way for St. Vincent, 
where we lay in the harbor of Kingstown one day and night. From 
there we sailed south aloag the Granadines and by Granada, bft.wa-n 
the Island of Triuidad and the mainland of Venezuela, into tnt- v J 
of Paria, and came to anchor off the city of Port Spain, Trinidau, .al- 
most southern port being about in lat. 10° N. 
After visiting all points of interest set sail for La Guayra, the sea- 
port of the city of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. After three 
daA s there we set sail for the Dutch Island of Curacoa, where we ar- 
rived next day and remained four days, sailing on last Friday, March 
20, and arriving here yesterday, March 22. From here we shall work 
along toward home, where we expect to arrive about the end of April. 
Although it upsets all my old ideas in regard to a sea-going vessel, 
as to position of ballast, etc., I must admit that Navahoe is a very 
good sea boat indeed, especially In running in a high sea. I think 
well also of the yawl rig; we have reefed the mainsail but once since 
leaving New York, although we have experienced some pretty stiff 
breezes. It is amusing to listen to the comments and exclamations of 
the crowds of natives that surround us at most of the places we visit; 
such a vessel as Navahoe never having been seen before in these 
waters. They seem to take the greatest interest in the shape of the 
bows and the length of the mast, but seem not at all surprised that 
we go from place to place at almost steamboat spaed, but rather 
think it curious if I tell them that the yacht will not make more than 
ten or twelve knots under ordinary circumstances; they think that 
she ought to go at least twenty. 
So far we have had a very fine cruise, flitting from place to place 
under cloudless skies, and all the time with fine, warm weather. With 
awnings from stem to stern when in port, a naphtha launch, a good 
crew, two first-class cooks and two stewards, no one could spend the 
winter more pleasantly than Mr. Carroll is doing. The party of three 
includes Mrs. Carroll and her sister. All have their bicycles and have 
found fine roads on some of the islands." We shall probably remain 
here four or five days, and then go to Key West or Fernandina via 
Cape Antonio; then to Charleston and Chesapeake Bay. 
A New Racing Yacht. 
An interesting boat among the new productions of the season is the 
racer for W. E. C. Eustis of Boston, now approaching completion in one 
of the buildings of the old iron foundry at Pocasset, the temporary 
quarters of boat builder Buzzell since the burning of his shops at 
Monument Beach, in December last, The boat is to replace the 83 - 
footer Salmon, which was burned beside the shop, and is about the 
same length on the waterline, but is longer over all, has considerable 
greater beam and will carry a much larger sail plan.. 
MYTH, 
la Salmon was tried the experiment of a narrow boat of Grilse type 
While Salmon was fast with eased sheets, she could not lug canvas to 
windward with her beamier competitors, and it was pretty conclu- 
sively shown that the live ballast which kept the narrow 17-footer on 
her feet could not be relied upon in a 30-f ooter. Beam was what was 
needed. So at the time of the fire, Salmon was being rebuilt wider 
than originally designed. Her destruction gave opportunity for a 
new boat, and the one under consideration is the result. 
The new boat has Salmon's light draft, long and easy lines, absence 
of all hollows and light displacement, but is a more beamy and conse- 
quently more bulky boat all around. She is built specially for racing, 
and is of very light construction. Buzzell is credited with her design, 
but suggestions have been made by the owner and his constant sailing 
companion, George H. Richards. 
The new racer is 48ft. over all, 32ft. 6in. l.w.1., 13ft. beam and 1ft. 
draft. Her forward and after overhangs are about equal. The tran- 
som at the stern is about 8ft. 6in. across and 2ft. in depth. No attempt 
is made to gain length on the forward overhang, but the after over- 
hang will be utilized to its entire length when the boat is heeled, giv- 
ing her a very long side to sail on. The lines are long, sweeping and 
easy, and the slack bilge allows of a very easy boat all over. 
The midship section shows a floor with quite a little dead rise, an 
easy bilge and a flaring topside. The easy sweep of the keel makes a 
very long floor, and the boat is booked for fast work off the wind 
beyond all question. She has an easy form to drive and not much of 
it, so that she should also be good in windward work if properly bal- 
anced in board and sail plan. Her beam and weighted board should 
keep her on her feet, even with a good-sized sail plan. 
She will have a hollow bronze centerboard weighted with shot to a 
total of about 2,500lb3. The board will be made of 3-16in. plates on 
trussed frames to a total thickness of l%\n., and will be raised with a 
winch. About l.OOOlbs. of inside ballaat will be carried for trim- 
ming. 
The keel is of oak, and is in one piece from stem to stern, a splendid 
stick. 4x8in. The oak frames are lxlj^in. amidships, and tapering to 
%Xll&in. at stem and stern. They are spaced 9in. on centers amid- 
ships and 12in. at the ends. The planking is double, the inside skin 
being i^in. Oregon cedar and the outside i^in. Michigan white pine, 
the whole finishing to in thickness. The deck is two thicknesses 
of 5-16in. Oregon cedar, laid diagonally and covered with canvas. 
The centerboard box comes to the deck, and gives opportunity for 
bracing the boat by truss rods from its top to the bilge at about the 
waterline. 
The watertight cockpit is 5ft.x7ft. 6In. and 16in. deep. It has no 
coaming around it. A slide at either end gives access to the interior 
of the boat. Considerable accommodation is found amidships, there 
being room to sit upright on a low transom. A post and rod rail of 
aluminum will be set in on the deck a foot from the gunwale. The 
boat has little sheer, and as the deck crowns somewhat she looks quite 
straight from stem to stern. 
She will steer with a tiller on a metal rudder, forward of which will 
be a small metal skeg, to prevent fouling by seaweed, etc. 
Her sail plan has not been quite decided upon, but a 45ft. pole mast, 
a 45ft. boom, a 22ft. gaff and a bowsprit 10ft. outboard have been 
made. With a hoist of 22ft. in the mainsail and with a small topsail 
above it, a sail area of about l,400sq. ft. is given. Nickel steel rigging 
will be used, and Wilson & Silsbee will make the sails. 
The boat will be ready for the water in about three weeks. She will 
be raced in the Buzzard's Bay races, and may also be seen in Boston 
waters. She will fit the Eastern Y. C. 35ft. class.— Boston Globe, 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The annual meeting of the Toledo Y. C. resulted in the re-election 
of Com. E. D. Potter, Jr., for a third term; Vice-Corn., R. P. Mathias; 
Rear-Com., Wm. Gates; Sec'y-Treas., G. P. Brayley (re-elected); 
Treas., J. Hepburn; Fleet Capt., Walter Coakley; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. 
F. A. Todd; Directors: F. Frey, S. O. Richardson, R. G. Nelson, Her- 
bert Bissell, Will Sapp, A. P. Crane and Hugh Hone, commodore and 
secretary; Regatta Committee: R. G. Nelson, Will Shumacher and 
Hugh Hone; House Committee: L. Cunningham, W. Sapp and Mr. 
Richardson. The club has been very prosperous during the year, 
both in its general affairs and in racing. The old station at Gard 
Island has been sold, and a new one, with a fine club house, wiU be 
established at Riverside Park. The usual club regattas on Decoration 
Day, July 4 and Labor Day will be held, and the club will take part in 
the races of the Interlake meet and other events on the Lakes. 
Within the past week the Spalding-St. Lawrence Boat Co. has taken 
orders for four racing 15-footers. One of these, for H. O, Have- 
meyer, Jr., will be similar to Ethelwynn in construction, but from a 
new design by W. P. Stephens. Another, for W. B. Hayden, owner of 
the steam yacht W. B , will be from the original Ethelwynn design, 
and will take part in the races for the 15ft. class at Ogdensburgh. 
The oth«r two are for T. F. Day, of New York, both from the design 
by C. E. Davis, which was shown at the Sportsmen's Exhibition. One 
of these will be raced by Mr. Day about the Sound. The company is 
now building an addition 40x80ft. to the new shops at Ogdensburgh, 
on the water's edge, with provision for convenient launching and haul- 
ing out of boats. 
At the annual meeting of the Yapewi Aquatic Club, of Bordentown, 
N. J., on the Delaware River, the following officers were elected: 
Pres., S. W. Beldon; Vice-Pres., R. S. Woodward; Sec'y, J. B. Rey- 
nolds; Purser, Chas. E. Burr; Capt,, Louis W. Wiese; Mate, Walter R. 
Robbins; Directors, P. F. H. Brakeley, R. S. Murphy, Rev. E. S. Tay- 
or, C. E. Force, Dr. B. W. Macfarland. 
Steam Yachts and Marine Machinery. 
Complete machinery "outfits" for boat builders, made by Marine 
Iron.Works, Chicago. Light draft work a specialty. Catalogue free. 
Mahn-a-Wauks of Milwaukee. 
Milwaukee, Wis., March 29.— At the annual meeting of the Mahn-a- 
Wauk C. C. the efficiency of Com. F. B. Huntington during his term 
of office was recognized by his unanimous re-election. 
Last year the members did not attend the annual meet of the West- 
ern Canoe Association at Ballast Island, but several went into camp 
at Madison on Lake Mendota for about two weeks. This year, how- 
ever, a large delegation of the local canoeists will go to Mullet Lake, 
Mich., near Cheboygan. The present membership of the club includes 
only active canoeists, and last night the roster was increased by the 
election of J. D. McWhorter, of this city, and N. H. Cook, of Chicago. 
Mr. McWhorter is a member of the Milwaukee B. C, which owns 
the house occupied by the Mahn-a-Wauks, and has sailed with the 
canoeists for several years. Mr. Cook is one of the best known canoe- 
ists in the country, and at Mullet Lake next summer he wfll race under 
the colors of the Mahn-a-Wauks. 
Treasurer Gregg's annual report indicated that the club was in a 
flourishing financial condition and on a better footing than ever be- 
fore. A fuUy equipped kitchen has been added to the club house dur- 
ing the past year and dinners are given frequently. In addition to 
this Mr. Gregg stated that a number of canoeists throughout the 
West who visit MUwaukee frequently desired to join the club, and at 
the next meeting of the board of directors non-resident memberships 
will be created. The officers elected for the ensuing year were as fol- 
lows: Com.. F. B. Huntington; Vice-Corn., Guy F. Gregg; Sec'y- 
Treas., F. W. Dickens; Board of Directors, A. W. Friese, J. D. 
McWhorter, E. H. Holmes, H. A. Vtets. 
It is proposed to hold a series of races, and aU the canoes will be 
properly handicapped to make each event interesting. It is prob- 
able that the first regatta will be held Decoration Day. 
lifle §$mtge mid %nlforg. 
Walnut Hill Range. 
March 28.— To-day's scores at the Walnut HU1 range were: 
AU-comers's off-hand match: J. T. Humphrey 83, J. H. Keough 
(military) 81, E. H. Bonney 79, C. C. Adams 77, J. Cooney, Jr., 70, M. 
A. Hill 69, S. D. Martin 67. 
All-comers' military match: J. H. Keough 46 and 45, M. C. Cooke 42, 
A. W. Hill 40, C. W. Gilmore 38. 
Military medal match: A. J. Litchfield 45 and 43, S. C. Sydney 44, 
A. Cummings 41, H. G. Smith 38. 
Military badge match: A. J. Litchfield 43 and 42, S. D. Martin 41, A 
W. Hill 37. _~ 
All-comers' pistol match: H. S. Harris 93, W. A. Stevens 86, M. T. 
Day 83. 
Military revolver medal match, 50yds., 6 shots in one minute: J. H. 
Keough, 29, 29, 27, 26. 
April A.— The gale of wind that swept over the Walnut HU1 range 
to-aay kept many shooters from entering the contests, and also made 
good scores very hard to get. The results of the shoots were: 
Military medal match: 
G Cbesley 4554444555-45 5453453444—41 
J W Blake 5444545535-44 5455444444—43 
F B Blake 5444445454—43 4445444445—42 
A W HU1 41 L Y Hunting 38 
S D Martin 40 AW Hill 35 
Military revolver match, 50yds.— 6 shots in one minute: 
J H Keough 545555-29 554555—29 555554- 29 
EPIgnotS 554554—28 555544—28 
A W Hill 455445—27 444445—25 
All-comers' pistol match, 50yds.: 
J H Keough 7 10 9 7 7 8 10 
H Blood 9878876 10 
M T Day 74 
S D Martin 73 
8 10—84 
5 8—76 
AWHul 71 
Americans are Invited. 
Monsieur Paul Mokouky, a member of the Societes de tire de 
France, has written Mr. James S. Conhn, of the new Manhattan 
Revolver Club, that there will be a grand national shooting tourna- 
ment this year from July 17-Aug. 3. Americans are invited to com- 
pete and will be cordially welcomed. Mr. Conlin informs us that 
special prizes will be offered for revolver shooting, and that in all 
probability some of the bpat shots in the new Manhattan Revolver 
Club will cross the water for the purpose of trying to bring back 
some of the trophies offered for competition. 
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