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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 9, 1896 
SAIL PLAN OF KOKO— Designed by W. P. Stephens. 
Hiawatha. 
The first of the yachts to go overboard at the yard ofC L. Seabury 
& Co , at Nyack, was the one designed and built by the firm for 
Charles Fleischmann, of Cincinnati, named Hiawatha. The launch, 
after the custom of the yard, took place at night, just before 12 o'clock 
on April 29, the yard and vessels being decorated with electric lights 
and Chinese lanterns. A number of friends of the owner were present 
to represent him in his absence. The Hiawatha is 135ft. over all, 110ft. 
l.w.l., 16ft. 2in. beam and 7ft. draft, with a Seabury triple compound 
and watertube boiler. The hull is single planked below the bilge and 
double planked above, with steel frames. The internal arrangement 
is very good and the saloon and staterooms are handsomely finished. 
The yacht is flush decked and schooner rigged. Capt. B F. Smith 
will be in command. The steam yachts Kanawha and Mayita are 
nearly ready for launching at the same yard. 
Ingomar. 
Ever since the smart schooner Quickstep, of 65ft. l.w.l. was built in 
1889 yachtsmen have praised the ciass as a most useful and convenient 
one, and every fall several new boats have been confidently predicted 
for it. After a great deal of idle talk it has taken seven years to build 
a second boat for the class, the steel schooner Ingomar, launched at 
Lawley's yard on April 25. The new yacht, which "is for Mr. John D. 
Barrett, of New York, former owner of the sloops Madcap and Swan- 
nanoa, was designed by H. C. Wintringham, and is intended for gen- 
eral yachting about the Sound and coast,. She is 85ft. over all, 63ft. 
l.w.l., 18ft. beam and 8ft. 2in. draft. As in Quickstep, the steel con- 
struction gives a strong and roomy craft, with trunk cabin and cen- 
terboard well out of the way. The yacht is not intended for racing, 
but will doubtless turn out quite fast. She is plated in lapstrake 
fashion. 
Model Yachting. 
The model yacht Star, owned by G. W. Townley and Q. F. Pigott, 
has been chosen to defend the American Model Y. C. perpetual chal- 
lenge trophy against Ripple, owned by Wm. Wallen, wave Crest M. 
Y. C, the race to take place on July 4 off the American Model Y. C. 
station, foot Thirty-fourth street, South Brooklyn, N. V. 
Mr. G. D. Casey, owner of Henrietta, A. M. Y. C, has withdrawn 
his challenge for the Outing cup in favor of Messrs. Cogswell and 
Thompson, owners of the Wave, Wave Crest M. Y. C, l.w.l. 43in.; 
beam 14in , the race to be sailed on May 17 over the course of the 
W. C. M. Y. C, foot Fifty-sixth street, South Brooklyn, N. Y. The 
present holder of the cup is John Smith's Dolphin. 
The Payne Bill. 
On May 4 the Payne yacht bill was passed unanimously by the 
House of Representatives under a suspansion of the rules. In defer- 
ence to pressure from yachtsmen, and contrary to the wishes of its 
introducer, the bill was previously amended to read as follows: 
"Section 4,216.— Yachts belonging to a regularly organized yacht 
club of any foreign nation which shall extend like privileges to the 
yachts of the United States shall have the privilege of entering or 
leaving any port of the United States without entering or clearing at 
the Custom House thereof or paying tonnage tax, provided that the 
privileges of this section shall not extend to any yacht built outside 
of the United States, and owned, chartered or used by a citizen of the 
United States, unless such ownership or charter was acquired prior 
to the passage of this act. 
"Section 2.— That section 11 of an act entitled 'An Act to Abolish 
Certain Fees for Official Services to American Vessels, and to Amend 
the Laws Relating to Shipping Commissioners, Seamen and Owners 
of Vessels and Other Purposes,' approved June 19. 1886, so far as the 
same exempts any yacht built outside of the United States, and 
owned, chartered or used by a citizen of the United States, from the 
payment of tonnage taxes, is hereby repealed." 
As amended, the new law will not apply to foreign built yachts now 
in this country or at present building for American citizens. 
SAIL PLAN AND SCALE OP 
NAUTILUS. 
EOYAL CANOE CLUB OROJSCNIJ AND IUC1N<> 
CLASS. 
Free Yachts. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Your article on "American and Foreign Steam Yachts," in the For- 
est and Stream of April 25, commend3 itself entirely to my approval. 
I have for many years advocated free ship 3 for the merchant service, 
and have adduced the same argument you employ; among many 
others that do not apply to yachts, that the free importation of ves- 
sels of all kinds from abroad, whether for the purposes of business or 
of pleasure, would be an incentive to our domestic shipbuilders to 
equal them, not only in speed and other desirable qualities, but in 
cost of construction. Some progress has already been made in this 
direction by the introduction of foreign built yachts, and its effect 
would by this time have been so complete, had our restrictive naviga- 
tion laws been absolutely repealed, that we would have no occasion to 
go abroad for vessels of any description, whether propelled by sail or 
by steam. We observe that "The introduction of one little English 
boat, through the payment of a good round sum to the treasury of 
the United States by way of penalty, has brought work to the value 
of thousands of dollars to American bui'ders this year, and will be 
the means of setting afloat probably 200 boats of home design and 
construction." So true it is that competition is the life of business. 
The monopoly possessed by our shipbuilders is a sedative, whereas 
competition would be a tonic. They stand in their own light and are 
entirely responsible for the almost total annihilation of our foreign 
carrying trade as well as for the impediments of which you so justly 
complain. Their influence over Congress in preventing any discus- 
sion of measures of relief from their dictation has been for many 
years unbounded, and until the true inwardness of it has been ascer- 
tained yachtsmen as well as merchant ship owners will continue to 
be powerless against therm. John Codman. 
St. Denis Hotel, New York, May 3. 
SCALE or FEET 
NAUTILUS — CANOE YAWL — SAIL PLAN. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
Mr. and Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin returned to New York from Europe 
on April 29. 
The mess dinner of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. at the Arena 
on April 30 passed off very pleasantly, about forty members being 
present. The next dinner will be on May 21. 
May, steam yacht, E. D. Morgan, arrived at Port Jefferson on May 4, 
after a voyage of 10J^ days from Southampton. 
The Payne bill will probably come before Congress early this week 
in a somewhat different form from that originally proposed; yachu 
now owned by Americans, and new yachts actually under construc- 
tion, being exempted from its provisions. 
The Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. has issued a very neat programme for 
the racing season. 
Com. Brown has appointed Chester C. Griswold, for some years a 
member of the regatta committee, as Fleet Captain of the New York 
Y. C. 
H. Maitland Kersey has tendered his resignation as a member of the 
New York Y. C. 
Lewis Nixon, of the Crescent Shipyard, formerly naval constructor 
in the U. S. Navy, will deliver a lecture before the Corinthian fleet on 
Saturday, May 9, at 8 P.M., at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York. 
The subject, one with which Mr. Nixon is perfectly conversant, will be 
the building of ttte new navy. 
