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April 20, 1895. 
blowing great guns for a few minutes, and then all over. We 
soon reach the creek, go up and look over the old castle, pick 
orange blosssoms and amuse ourselves generally. 
All night it blows hard, in the morning a heavy norther makes 
it unwise to start down the river, so we decide. Some stay by the 
boats, while the others go for a ramble. About ten o'clock along 
came two of the Santa's crew, having walked up from below. 
Later come more, and finally they are all back with? pockets full 
of oranges and heads full of legends of the old castle; 
Toward night the wind moderates sufficiently for- us to run to 
Braidentown. where we lay in a new lot of stores. An early start 
across the bay. wind is N. E. and fresh, sea heavy. The Santa 
holds up for Bush Key, while the others run outside of Mullet 
Key and over tne shoals to Blind Pass, which they reach in time 
for a late dinner. After dinner the Florida Dushes on for John's 
Pass, while the crew of the Kingfisher go fishing. About sunset 
along comes the Santa. Comes near enough for a hail, and then 
crowds on for the upper end of the bay. 
The Kingfisher is left alone, but that is not much, the fishing is 
good and the weather is fine. 
We find the Santa at her moorings, while the Florida has gone 
on for Tarpon Springs. ■ 
To-night it rains a little, and in the morning the weather looks 
thick, and makes us think we are fast for the day. However, at 
10 A. M. it brightens enough to warrant a start, and with varying 
fortunes we pick our way over the fiats, and are up to the Anclote 
River. 
The tide is ebb, of course, but with patience and a good pole we 
make out to reach our berth at dark, tired, but, on the whole, sat- 
isfied. 
The sails are furled, and with the last rope coiled down the skip- 
per savs to all: 
Good-night. TARPON. 
The Imperial German Y. C, 1895- 
If the year books of the Imperial Yacht Club of Germany are to 
be taken as evidence, German yachting is in a flourishing and 
prosperous condition, not only does it enjoy the active favor of 
royalty, but popular support .as well, while the many craft of the 
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We monkey about until dark.get supper,smoke,read and turn in. 
In the morning D. starts for shells; he is back at breakfast-time 
with his minnow bucket half full of the little Panama shell, the 
prettiest shell on the coast of Florida. After breakfast we inter- 
view the fishermen, of which there are two camps here, and at ten 
o'clock A. M. ud sail and away. 
D. wants some birds, and so we head off into the narrows, run- 
ning as far as Indian Pass, where we get dinner— cooking the last 
of our oysters. D. eats so many that he has to let out his belt. 
While the oysters are frying, however, D. goes out and gets a 
batch of beach birds, thirty in two shots. The tide is too low to 
go through the narrows so we pull out of the pass and turn up 
along the beach. Little Pass is ten miles away. We make it in 
two hours and twenty minutes, and arrive at Dunechir in time 
for supper. 
smaller sizes which have existed for some years have of late heen 
supplemented with larger and faster vachts, which carry the 
white and black standard into foreign waters. Like its prede- 
cessors, the year book for 1895 is a handsome volume, bound in 
blue, with the club burgee in silver and black on the cover; and 
well printed. The first part contains the list of members, etc., 
and the record of meetings and races with details of club busi- 
ness. The second part contains the programme for the coming 
season, the third part contains accounts of the cruises and races 
of eighteen of the club yachts during 1894; the fourth part is de- 
voted to the German Sailing Union, while the fifth part, as usual, 
contains the lines and description of some of the noted club 
yachts. Thelofftcers of the club are: Commodore, H. I. M. William 
III.; Vice-Commodore, H. R. H. Prince Henry of Prussia, and 
Secretary, Count Hahn. The membership, at the first of the pres 
ent year, was no less than 826. The fixtures for the year are : 
Opening sail, Saturday, May 18; Kiel Week, June 23-39, closing 
sail, Saturday, Sept. 7. A feature of the book that will commend 
itself to all interested in yachting is the final part, containing the 
lines of yachts Those illustrated this year are the Watson 40- 
rater Varuna, which we reproduce this week, a fin-keel. Commo- 
dore, of German design and build, a comfortable, flush-decked 
boat of about 86ft. l.w.l., with good accommodation; and the 
Herreshoff fin-keel, Gudruna, now owned by Prince Henry, but 
known to Americans as Wenonah, the very fast 2 1-2-rater, which 
preceded Dacotah on the Clvde. Among other less noted yachts, 
the fleet of the Imperial Y, C. now includes Meteor, ex-Thistle, 
"Varuna, Lais, Irene, and the new 20-rater now building at. the 
Germania Works for the Emperor, from Mr. Watson's designs, to 
which will soon be added the Herreshoff 20-rater Isolde. 
Atlantic— Larchmont Cruise- 
The following programme for the combined cruise of the At- 
lantic and Larchmont clubs has been arranged by the joint com- 
mittee. Vice-Corn. Adams and John L. Bliss, of the Atlantic Y. 
C, and Augustin Munroe, J. F. Lovejoy and Fleet Captain George 
A. Cormack, of the Larchmont Y. C. The rendezvous will be at 
Larchmont on July 12, the date of the schooner race for the 
Drexel cup. A meeting of captains will be hela in the evening on 
board the Larchmont flagship liamona. On July 14 the fleet will 
run to Black Rock, lying over Sunday and sailing on July 15 for 
New London. July 16 will be spent in New London harbor, run-' 
ning to Shelter Island next day, and lying at anchor on July 
18-19. and disbanding on July 20. 
YACHT NEWS NOTES. 
The new 34ft. class is gradually taking shape, though strange 
to say, all of the boats thus far, with one exception, are center- 
boards. An order has been placed lately with Hanley, the noted 
builder of the Cape cats, for a 34-footer for the Hanan Brothers, 
who have owned and raced so successfully for several seasons the 
Hanley Cat Almira. The new boat will be a powerful craft, of 
the Cape type, with sloop rig. The boat for Mr. Tyson is now well 
along at Mumm's yard. Bay Ridge; Lawlev has one in hand for 
J. E. Rothwell, Webber is building one for F. M. Freeman, owner 
of Madrine, and McGiehan is building one for Commodore James 
D. Smith. Mr. J. F. Ackerman, of the Atlantic Y. C, having 
sold his Sloop Iola. has ordered a keel yawl 45ft. over all. 30ft. l.w.l. 
i,2ft. beam and 5ft. Sin. draft, from a design by Gielow, which 
will be built by Abramson, at South Brooklyn, and will come 
within the limits of the class. 
Duquesne. steam yacht, built for Mr. Theodore Hostetter, of 
Pittsburg, Pa., was launched at the Herreshoff Works on April 6. 
She is 130ft. over all, 110ft. l.w.l., 15ft. beam and 5ft. 6in. draft. 
The annual meeting of the Jamaica Bay Y. C. was held on 
April 6, the following officers being elected: Com., H. F. Hewlett; 
Vice-Com., Louis Bossert; Fleet Capt., Benj. F. Daly; Fin. Sec, 
L. D. Burnham; Rec. Sec, Louis Pflug; Meas.. Jacob Van Alen; 
Fleet Surgeon, J. Frank Valentine, M. D.; Board of Trustees, 
Philip Liebinger, F. A. Myer, Charles Engert. Theodore Engle- 
hardt, C. C. Pearsall, Charles L. Smith, Joseph Rolino, William 
Shear and M. H. Christopher; House Committee, George Becker, 
Charles T. Krauss and John G. Landman. The club has a fleet 
of forty-six yachts, and a membership of one hundred and sixty- 
one. 
The new steel steam yacht building at the Crescent Yard from 
Mr. Cary Smith's design will be fitted with Almy boilers. She is 
expected to show good speed in regular service. 
On Thursday, April 4, the annual meeting of the Yacht Masters' 
and Engineers' Association was held at their rooms, Tebo's Pier, 
South Brooklyn, the following officers being elected: Pres., 
George E. Wicks, master, steam yacht Electra; Vice-Pres., W. H. 
H. Curtis, master, steam yacht Nourmahal: Sec, John Leonard, 
chief engineer, steam yacht Utowana; Treas , J. George Hermes, 
chief engineer, steam yacht Corsair; Trustees, Ervin T. Johnson 
(chairman), chief engineer, steam yacht Sapphire; W. H. H. 
Curtis, master, steam yacht Nourmahal; David A. North, chief 
engineer, steam yacht Electra; A. C. Fickett. master, steam yacht 
Orienta, and Charles E. Bailey, master, steam yacnt Corsair. 
Sylvia, steam yacht, is on the ways at Mather & Wood's yard. 
Port Jefferson, for general overhauling and alterations to her in- 
terior. She will be fitted with electric lights, and the deck-house 
will be enlarged, and other changes made. 
Drusilla, fin-keel sloop, has.been sold by^L. M. Rutherford to A. 
G. Tyler, of New London. 
At Thatcher's yard, New Haven, a centerboard cutter, designed 
by Arthur Binney, is now under way, the owner being Robert M. 
Burwell, of New Haven. The yacht is 44ft. 6in. over all, 27ft. 9in. 
I. w.l., 10ft. 6in. beam, and 5ft. 3in. draft, without board, the lead 
keel weighing l.lOOlbs. 
The Hoboken builder, A. Hansen. hasTon the ways a large cabin 
cat. said to be for use on the Gulf of Mexico, by a New Orleans 
yachtsman. She is 28ft. over all, 24ft. l.w.l., lift. Bin. beam, and 
2ft. 6in. draft. She has 1ft. 8in. freeboard at the lowest point. 
Visitors to the World's Fair, in 1893, who remember the hand- 
some steam yacht Oneida, built in that year by the Marine Iron 
AVorks, wili be interested to learn that the yacht has lately been 
added to the fleet of the Southern Y. C. of New Orleans, having 
been purchsed by Col. Eugene May, of that city. In order to fit 
her for her new use, being originally fitted for service in connec- 
tion with the Fair, many alterations were necessary, and these 
have been carried out very perfectly by Messrs. Lhote & Co., of 
New Orleans, from designs by Mr. James M. Parmelee. The 
open spaces forward and aft have been converted into pilot-house, 
and galley, and into a saloon and toilet-room, the interior being 
conveniently arranged and elegantly finished. 
The Columbia Y. C, of Chicago, has arranged the following pro- 
gramme for the season: First event, club race for fifth-class 
sloops, sarting a.t 2 P. M., Saturday, June 1, over the club course, 
the direction to be governed by the wind, two prizes; second 
event, the annual club race, open to all, to Michigan City, Satur- 
day, June 15, the start to be made at 1 P. M., three prizes: third 
event, the annual Milwaukee regatta, July 4, given under the 
rules of the Lake Michigan Yachting Association, to all boats be- 
longing to the association, by the Milwaukee Yacht Club; fourth 
event, Lake Michigan Yachting Association ; race at Chicago, 
givenlby the Lincoln Park Yacht Club. Friday, Aug. 2; fifth event. 
Lake "Michigan Association regatta at Chicago, given by the Co- 
lumbia Yacht Club, Saturday, Aug. 3: sixth event, Lake Michigan 
Yachting Association regatta at Racine, given by the Racine 
Yacht Club, Wednesday, Aug. 7; seventh event, Lake Michigan 
Yachting Association regatta at Green Bay, given by the Green 
Bay yacht Club, Thursday. Aug. 15: eighth event, the annual club 
race, for all classes, Saturday. Sept. 14. In addition to the re- 
gattas there are the opening squadron review and sail to South 
Chicago. May 30. Ladies' dav in July, with a cruise, and the final 
review at the end of the season in Sept., ending in a clambake. 
Important alterations have heen begun on the town house of the 
New York Y. C. on Madison avenue. The furniture, pictures and 
models have been temporarily stored, and the house will be closed 
for two mouths. During this time the basement will be enlarged 
and refitted, and the entire house will be remodelled and newly 
decorated, The club will probably establish a station at Atlantic 
Highlands. 
Cosette, steam yacht, has been Tsold by F. L. Osgood, of New 
London, to C. A. Tatum, of New York. Mr. Osgood recently 
purchased the steam yacht Fedalma of Com. Brown. 
On April 13 the members of the Seawanhaka Cor. Y. C. filled 
the parlors of the club house to hear what proved to be a very in- 
teresting lecture by Mr. E. B. Dunn, on weather forecasts and 
storms. After the lecture a quarette of colored gentlemen amused 
the club with songs and stories, a supper being served at a late 
hour. 
We have received from the publisher, Horace Cox, London, the 
edition of the "Yacht Racing Calendar and Review for 1894." 
The book is a reprint of the reports of the year's racing, compiled 
from the Field, by Mr. Dixon Kemp. The present volume is 
specially interesting as a record of Vigilant's racing abroad, 
charts of all the courses and full reports of each race being given. 
At a meeting of the Carolina Y. C. on March 6, the following 
officers were elected: Com.. Edw. H. Simons; Vice-Com., Charles 
E. Prioleau; Sec, Wm Lowndes; Treas.. W. D. Middleton: Meas., 
M. de L. Haig; Fleet Surgeon, P. G. De Saussure. M. D.; Solicitor, 
George M. Trenholm; Boat Master, Wm. Jennings; Executive 
Committee, James Armstrong. H. M. Tucker. J. S. Harleston, R. 
B. Lebby, F. Y. Porcher. H. M. Tucker, Jr.. F. Q. O'Neil and D. 
E. H. Mannigaulf. Two new yachts have been added to the fleet, 
and the club is in a flourishing condition. 
Steam Launches. 
Marine Iron Works, Chicago.- have just issued their 1895 cata- 
logue, mailed free.— Adv. 
