March 30, 1895. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Ferry or Falmouth Quay punts. This design showed a displace- 
ment of 10 tons and a sail area of 488 sq. ft.; so her speed would 
scarcely have satisfied the. single-handed cruising man. " e 
have not space to enumerate all the models, but we may saj -ex- 
cellent styles of craft were shown by Mr. J. P. Payne, Belvedei e 
l Road. Southampton (No. 9); by Mr. Harry Stow, Shoreharu; Mr. 
Alfred Mvlne. 116 Woodlands Road. Glasgow (No. 0- and bj Mi. 
J. E. Odgers, 8 Bryant Wood Road, Highbury, N. 
A table of the dimensions of the prize winners and the certm- 
ca ted designs is appended: 
No. 1, 1st.. 
No. 13, 3d .. 
No. 20,3d.. 
No. 1. cm . 
No. 3, cm.. 
No. 3, cm. 
No. 6. c. m. 
No. 10, cm. 
No H, cm 
No. 16, cm 
No.34A.cm 
Sloop 
Yawl 
Yawl 
Yawl 
Yawl 
Sloop 
Yawl 
Cutter 
Cutter 
Yawl 
Yawl 
sq.ft 
530 
466 
409 
415 
450 
456 
553 
U 
D 
> 
o 
A 
Sn 
a 
s 
_A 
Ft. In 
29 11 
88 
30 
28 
39 
30 
29 
30 ;o 
2S 6 
30 0 
29 0 
fl 
a> 
Ft In 
23 6 
21 5 
23 0 
21 3 
20 o 
20 0 
21 0 
20 9 
23 0 
23 0 
20 0 
a 
bn 
q 
Ft.In 
Ft. In 
6 7 
4 3 
6 11 
3 0 
6 9 
4 0 
6 11 
4 8 
7 6 
3 9 
7 3 
3 3 
6 9 
3 9 
6 9 
4 0 
6 G 
3 11 
7 0 
3 6 
6 4 
3 9 
-t>CQ 
P 
Ft.In t'us 
4.2 
3.5 
4 3 
5 9 
5 8 
6 6 
3 0 
3.7 
3.5 
3.6 
4- 
4.0 
2.5 
b3 
W _ 
tons 
32 
1.7 
2.5 
1.3 
2.0 
1.6 
2.3 
1.9 
A Summer Afloat. 
PART II. 
(Continued from Page. 338.) 
It wns a quiet, dreamy kind of a day. The gentle wind scarcely 
rippled the surface of the water, and as we crept along close to 
th* shore, round Andrews and Halibut, points, we were so con- 
tented and happy that we did not care whether any progress was 
ln ThIpi?ulikr feature of this shore is the forest of derricks that 
mark the stone quarries, and we were startled by tlie booming or 
the blasts, which were exploded in all directions at frequent 
1D wrpfcked up the red and black spar buoys that mark the pass- 
age over the bar into Annisquam, and drifted lazily along with the 
very last of the flood tide up to our anchorage off the second 
There are usually a number of sail boats and one or two good- 
sized schooners lying at moorings just off *e Point, and a yacht 
going in should pass these boats keeping a little outside of them, 
and anchor in from two to three fathoms The tide runs very 
strong both on the fio< d and ebb, but the holding ground is good, 
and there is plenty of room for a large fleet to congregate here 
We were charmed with the place and sat on deck all the after- 
noon and evening drinking in the beauty of our surroundings 
To the northwest rose the sharply cut sand dunes of Coffin s 
Beach, glistening white as snow in the bright sun and looking 
like glaciers seeking a way out to the sea. To the left vveie the 
pine-clad hills of Essex, thrown out in strong relief by the blue 
haze that enveloped them. Those nearest us were clear cut and 
well defined, those a little further off softer .both in color ami 
outline, each succeeding one growing more indistinct till the* 
were lost in the blue distance. ■ ^ . 
To the south of ua stretched away the beautiful Squam River 
winding in and out among the hills and spreading over the bot- 
toms with here and there an island meadow, dotted with yellow 
hay-cocks basking in the sun. In the distance we could see the 
spires of Gloucester and hear the bells tolling the passing hours: 
while high on the bluff the electric car went flashing and whirr- 
ing along the broad highroad. East of us and close at hand lay 
the picturesque village of Annisquam with its quaint little cot- 
tages climbing one over the other, each bent on getting a better 
view than it* more lowly neighbor of the lovely panorama spread 
°Looki°ng north the eye was charmed with the. beautiful coast 
line huge granite rocks, bathing their red sides in the deep blue 
water, stretching on and on to the white tower of Annisquam 
Light standing like a sentinel with its feet in the sea; while the 
gentle swell rolling in from the great Atlantic, rippled and laughed 
Ss it broke on the long bar on the further side of the channel. 
After the sun went down and dai kness crept over the little har- 
bor the lights in the village windows gleamed and danced over 
the smooth water and added a new charm to what had already 
been a perfect day. „ • . .. 
A quartette of young men in a sloop yacht near us, unable to 
resist the spirit of the place, broke out into song, accompanied by 
oue or two string instruments, and we were treated to a number 
°Th1i?voVces n w^e e sweet and strong, and they filled the valley 
with such melodv as I am sure it had ne ver heard belore. 
When we "doused the glim" that night, we felt that we had 
never been in a lovelier spot, nor ever spent a more charming day; 
and we determined, Providence permitting, that we would again, 
and that rteht soon, return to this quiet little harbor among the 
* wf got under w^ext morning at 4 A. M., .without .waiting -for 
breakfast, as we wanted to run on the last of the ebb tide. I lie 
breeze was so light that we could scarcely tell which way it came 
from, and at times we lost all steerage wav. ... ,. 
After drifting lazily along till we were abreast of the lighthouse, 
we grounded on the bar, having been swept by the current too far 
to the westward. We towed awhile with the dinghy only to ground 
a second time, when we gave it up, anchored, dropped our head 
sails, and went below for breakfast. 
While we were eating, a niqe little breeze sprang up from the 
eastward We left our half-eaten meal to take advantage of this 
favorable change, as it would he impossible to beat out against 
the flood tide after it once got to running, with as light an air as 
^^took'u^two hours to work out a mile and a half from our an- 
chorage but we considered it was time well spent, for if we had 
delayed" starting an hour or two, we could not have gotten out at 
^As we passed between the buoys on the bar, the breeze freshened 
a little and we bowled along merrily across Ipswich Bay, headed 
N. N. W.. for the whistler, on the Newburyport bar, thirteen miles 
^This we picked up at nine o'clock. We could see the spires of the 
town and the masts of the shipping over the low sand-hills ot 
Plumb Island long before we could make out the entrance to the 
k Affile came out with two schooners in tow while we were yet a 
long way off. With the glass we. followed their course down the 
river and noted where they first appeared from behind the land, 
and were pleased to find that we had steered a correct course. 
There are two buoys to mark the channel, painted with black 
and white stripes, and near them there are from two to three fath- 
oms on the bar at low tide, but these buoys must be kept close 
aboard when goingin or coming out. . . 
The Government has been making some extensive improvements 
in this harbor during the past two or three years. It has removed 
the verv dangerous rocky obstruction that was almost m mid- 
channel, between the old jetty and Plumb Island Light. 
A large stone jetty has been carried out on the nortn side of the 
river mouth, and one started on the south side. These jetties 
approach each other at right angles and very greatly contract the 
width of the channel at this point. The consequent rush of the 
uent-up waters has cut out the bottom of the river, entirely remov- 
ing the old bar, so that now there is from fifteen to twenty-five 
feet of water where formerly there was but six or eight feet. 
The breeze freshened as we drew near the whistler, and we tore 
along through the rushing tide that went s wirling and bmling past 
the end of the north jetty. We kept well over to the Salisbury 
Beach Hotel und followed the chart from there up to the town. 
The channel is well marked with black and red spar buoys, and 
if there is any breeze at all. there is no trouble in Bailing up or 
down the river from the town to Salisbury Beach. • , 
There is a very conspicuous beacon on Black Rocks oust above 
the hotel, which is called the Toothpick, probably because ot its 
tall slender, pyramidal form; this is left on the right going up. 
Ju4 below the town are two immense beacons budt up of heavy 
timbers and planked over, one painted red and the other blaca. 
Great care must be taken to pass between these, as there are 
mud flats to the right of the red one. and a rocky islet, which is 
under water at high tide, to the left of the black one. 
We had no trouble at all in making this port, and dropped our 
anchor just in front of the Yacht Club House, at a little before ten 
o'clock. Almost Immediately a man came out to us and kindly 
pointed out a good mooring which we could pick up and invited us 
to make ourselves perfectly at home at the club house. 
The wind which had been freshening all the morning was begin- 
ning to blow half a gale, and as Cy-Pres is very'.uneasy when an- 
chored in a tide- way, we thought it best to stick to our little ship 
till we were sure the aaichor would stick Co tne bottom. 
After the tide began to ebb, the S. E. wind kicked up quite a 
nasty little chop, which continued to annoy us till Half Tide Rock 
began to show itself out of water, when it cut off the seas very 
much, and we rode to our anchor more comfortably. 
Newburyport is a quaint old town, and the streets of line resi- 
dences hear evidence that it is a prosperous one. The streets along 
the river front are crooked and narrow, but we found much to 
amuse and interest us in them. 
Nearly every town along the coast has its own peculiar style of 
fishing b^at; and those of Newburyport were, if possible, the most 
interesting and picturesque we had vet seen. 
The fishing is most all done on Joppa and Salisbury flats, the 
fishermen going down the river at about half ebb, and coming back 
with the Hood. 
As the current of the river is very swift, they find that they can- 
not depend on sail power, so are obliged to row. 
The boat most in use is a huge, high-sided dory manned by eight 
lusty oarsmen aud a coxswain who stands up in the stern aud 
sculls, with a long swinging motion. 
Some of the dories are quite gay in their coloring and have broad 
red and white stripes running fore and aft. Others are one color 
in the body of the boat, with ends of a different hue, with perhaps 
a huge eye or circle on each side of the bow. They are fitted up 
to carry one rather small sprit lug sail, and that i» tanned a very 
dark brown, almost a. red, and is only used when there is a good 
fair breeze. 
Numbers of these large dories passed us, and we never grew 
tired watching them. 
We lay at anchor just off the Yacht Club House, and the club 
members were exceedingly kind and polite. They gave us the 
freedom of the whole place, Including a pass-key to the gate at 
the shore end of the dock. They were annoyed so much by all 
sorts of people lnaling and fishing around the club house, that 
they were forced to fence off the dock in order to get any enjoy- 
ment out of it themselves. 
Just inside of us lay the yacht fleet twenty or twenty-five as 
another drop of water on hoard. Had we swung around at the 
last moment, broadside to the^e great curling white-capped seas, 
the consequences might have been very disastrous. 
After we became conscious of the fact that we were drifting 
helplessly along, and must go through between the jetties, 
whether we wanted to or not, where we could see the water boil- 
ing and whirling in its mad rush to the sea; we began to experi- 
ence that feeling of which Mo-Mullen speaks, when he says, He 
was not afraid, but very anxious." 
Just before the wind left us to the mercies of the tide, our sym- 
pathies wore aroused for two poor fellows hard agiound on the 
point of Plumb Island. 
One was a good -sized coasting schooner that was lying in two 
or three feet of water. The crew had rigered up gangplanks, and 
we could see them walking from the vessel to the shore and back 
again, evidently carrying out her cargo and ballast, in order to 
lighten her, so that she would float on the next flood tide. 
The other boat was a sloop about thirty feet long, and she lay 
on her side, the mast pointing out over the water. She was nearly 
buried in the sand, and three men were shoveling as hard as they 
could to get her clear, so that the rising water would lift her out. 
We found several schooners outside of the bar, standing off and 
on, waiting for the tide to turn, before attempting to go up the 
river, and the experience we had just gone through convinced us 
that the last hour of the ebb tide was not a good time to enter or 
leave the Merrimac 
When we went in it was nearly high tide, and there was no 
difficulty at all in handling the boat, even though the current was 
swift; but on coming out we failed to consider that the river had 
its own individual current, that would keep running strongly in 
thevery face of the young flood tide, and would produce just the 
boiling, whirling water that we ran through in the last few hun- 
dred yards of our descent. 
W« had heard a great deal said about Newburyport being a 
dangerous harbor to enter, and several fishermen on the coast 
had advised us to let it go without a visit, " hich only whetted our 
curiosity the more; and now that we had been there and were 
safely out again, on the bosom of the broad Atlantic, we both 
agreed that we were glad we had done it, for it was pleasant to 
think that we had visited a new port, and overcome the real and 
imaginary dangers of its navigation. 
The town itself is well worth visiting, and if yachtsmen will 
wait till the flood tide has verv nearly stopped running, both 
when going in and coming out, they will not have the slightest 
SQUAM EIVER. 
smart-looking boats as one will see anywhere; all centerboards, 
of course, as they must cut across the flats occasionally, and a 
deep keel would be in the way for such sailing. 
Among them I remember the Live Yankee, with a stem so nearly 
parallel to the surface of the water, that the weight of a man on 
her forward deck would lengthen her 1. w. 1. several inches. 
The Raccoon was there, and later in the afternoon went out for 
a spin. She was sailed by-a man devoid of fear, and got knocked 
down repeatedly, so that they had to let fly jib sheet and shake 
her up in the wind. 
We watched her some time, and once or twice thought Jshe 
would surely turn over, but she came up smiling every time. * 
The Myra, too, we. noticed, the pretty little boat illustrated in 
the Forest and Stream of Nov. 3, and we thought she was the most 
graceful boat in the whole fleet. 
During the afternoon, while the wind was blowing the hardest, 
a bold little youngster put out from one of the docks in a 'iny little 
skiff, apparently made of three boards. He had a home-made 
leg-of-mutton sail and a jib, and was evidently as proud of his 
little tub as the owner of a forty-foot flyer would be. 
He sat balancing on the gunwale, and it made us laugh to see 
how quick he had to jump from one side to the other when going 
about; but he never failed to get over in time, and seemed as 
much at ease in his little home-made trap as any sailor on the 
big three-master unloading coal at the dock. 
Late in the afternoon a fog came drifting in; one of the chillv, 
uncomfortable kind, that drove us below. 
We kept the oil-stove burning after supper, and this warmed 
and cheered us till we turned in. 
The wind died out with the sun, and we had a very quiet, rest- 
ful night, some rain falling at intervals. 
We were up at 4:30 the next morning, and got breakfast as 
quickly as possible, for we wanted to start on our return trip be- 
fore the flood tide should set in. 
The sky was overcast, but the fog had blown "away, and the 
barometer was rising; we concluded, therefore, to start, and got 
underway at six o'clock, which left us about an hour in which to 
reach the mouth of the river before the tide turned. The wind, 
what little there was of it, was from the west, and we ran before 
it quite rapidly, the ehbing tide helping us along. 
The river is very like a l«ke at high water, from Salisbury 
Beach Hotel to Half Tide Rock; as the greater part of Joppa 
Flats are entirely covered, opposite Salisbury Beach. 
Plumb Island stretches along parallel with the r-oast line, and 
reduces the width of the channel at that point very much, and the 
large volume, of water passing through causes a very rapid cur- 
rent. 
We glided smoothly and quietly along, enjoying hugely the 
gray effects of the early morning light, till we approached the 
narrow part in the river, when the wind died nut completely, the 
flag near Plumb Island Light falling down, limp and lifeless. 
We were carried onward and caught in the boiling, whirling 
vortex before we realized how perfectly helpless we were; and it 
was only bv vigorous sculling with the rudder that we prevented 
the yacht from going down stream stern first. Uuiding her was 
entirely out of the question, all we could do was to sit still and see 
what would come of it. 
As the deepest water is on the leftside coming down, we had 
kept well over on that side till we reached this point, which 
brought us dangerously near the north jetty. With :bated breath 
and nerves strung to the highest pitch we shot past it, and plunged 
up to the bitt into the breakers outside. 
Two or three tremendous combers came tumbling toward us, but 
we managed, fortunately, to meet them bow on, and did not got 
trouble. It is necessary to have the best of ground tackle here, 
as the ebb tide is exceedingly swift, and if there is any wind blow- 
ing the boat will be very restless, and try to wander all over the 
harbor. 
We fouud our little thirty-six pound Babbitt anchor, an excel- 
lent thing for such work; for. although we lay there a day and a 
half, there was not the slightest tendency to foul it. Soon after 
getting outside a light breeze sprang up from the westward, ac- 
companied by a gentle rain, but this we did not mind, as we were 
well protected by rubber coats, hats and boots. 
As the weather was very thick and we could not see objects 
that were over two miles away, we got our compass in place and 
took our bearings, steering by the card fo" Rockport. 
About a mile out from the Jetties we saw what we supposed 
was a sloop at anchor, but as we drew nearer we found that it 
was the main topmast of a schooner, her foremast head and 
triatic stay appearing and vanishing as the waves rolled over her, 
We altered our course and ran close to it so as to be sure that no 
one was needing assistance, ahd as we square away again we won- 
dered what accident. could have wrecked a schooner so near a port 
and no one apparently the wiser for it. 
About eight o'clock the weather showed signs of clearing and 
the breeze increased a little, coming more from the south'ard. 
We could dimly descry Halibut Point, and began to approach it 
rapidly. With brightening skies and freshening breeze we ran 
merrily along, reaching Rockport at a little before noon. 
We kept well up the harbor and anchored near the coal dock on 
the east side. 
(To be continued.) 
Milwaukee Notes. 
Mr. F. W. Dikens, secretary of the W. C. A., writes from Mil- 
waukee, Wis , about the doings of Mahu-a-wank CO., of that city. 
L 'Our annual meeting and election of officers was held on March 5, 
at the boat-house, and F. B. Huntington was elected Com.; W. a] 
Dawson, Vice-Co ru ; G. F. Gregg, re-elected Sec. and Treas. We 
had Mr. N. H. Cook and AY. H. Crawford, of Dayton, Ohio, as 
visitors. 
"A pleasant, social session was held afterward at the expense of 
the newly elected officers. A novel scheme for awakening the 
interest of the members, and to get a lareer attendance at the 
boat-house, was introduced by Mr. Friese. This is an organization 
of what he termed l The Grub Club,' composed of members of the 
canoe club, the idea being to cook and serve lunches, etc., at the 
boat-house. Ibis met with hearty co-operation, and subscriptions 
were taken up for a kitchen outfit, which has already been pur- 
chased, and the first spread will be given on March 17. The only 
rule so far adopted for the government of this club is, that a per- 
son to be entitled to membership, shall first nav his pro-rata of the 
expense and cook a meal. Any person making a kick on the 
articles laid before him shall pay the penalty by washing the 
dishes. We anticipate much enjoyment from this source during 
theleoming season. 
"Matters in the Western Canoe Association are rather quiet; 
the coming summer meet is heard of occasionally, and the attend- 
ance bids fair to be large from the territory directly adjacent to 
Ballast, but will perhaps he light from out this way, although the 
