July 11, 1896i 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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sail, the owner has changed the entire rip^ giving her a boom and gaff 
mainsail and a jib cut low on the foot and laced to a club. Under a 
sail plan unsuited to the hull the boat has shown exceptional speed 
down wind in light weather, and finished fourth on the first day, 
though a long way astern of the leaders. In the second race she out- 
ran the fleet, but threw away all of her advantage by bucking the ebb 
tide out in the Sound and m'ssing the slack water and light land 
breeze. She was well handled in the starts and at the turns, and evi- 
dently might have made a high place on the list with a good rig. She 
was not seen af telr the second day. Ideal has already been fully de- 
scribed both directly aiid throvigh Ebhelwynn, She carried the pecu- 
liar Stevens sail plan, the Scarecrow ne, with wire halyards and all 
its special flttings. Owing to late completion she went into the races 
with a rough bottom and in a poor state of preparation; no opportu- 
nity could be had to measure her and readjust her sail to the waterline, 
and as a consequence she sailed with SOCt. less than allowed, measur- 
ing but 14 46 instead of 15ft. Her helmsman, Mr. Duryea, never saw 
her until a short time before the start on Monday, and under the 
circumstances he did all that was possible with her. On the first 
d'»y he took, her over tbe line ahead of the fleet, but on the 
BIVEKSIDB. 
Designed by Chas. Olmstead. Copyrlgbt, 189B, by J. S. Johnston, N. Yi 
two other days he calculated too finely and was caught by the tide and 
the falling of the wind, once being over before the gun and once being 
swept on the wrong side of the bows of the committee boat just before 
the gun. All of these three boats have strong watertight bulkheads 
at each end of the cockpit and comparatively large open wells, 6ft, 
long and 3ft. wide, leaving 18 to 19in. of aide deck. This arrangement, 
so widely different from Question and other boats in which the crews 
are compelled to squat or lie flat on deck, has much to commend it in 
Sound racing, the races being nearly all in light to moderate weather. 
The safety of the boat from all final danger is secured by the water- 
tight bulkheads, and the large well gives every opportunity to work 
quietly and quickly in handling light sails, a very important consider- 
ation in sailing two and three rounds ot short courses. The crew have 
space to move about, to change their positions and to eat in comfort, 
if they have been thoughtful enough to carry grub and water, some- 
thinii that not a few have neglected. These races mean sometimes 
seven to eight hours aboard the boat, and a mane's physical comfort, 
as mffected by a large cockpit and low floor compared with a small 
cockpit or a perfectly flush deck, may be a material factor in winning, 
apart from other considerations. 
Die Heze is somewhat after the type of Ethel wynn, but over 8in. 
wider and with no freeboard and a very strong sheer, giving her a 
most peculiar appearance. She whs designed and built by Mr. 
Wyckoff, of Clinton, Conn., who sailed as crew, hi« brother steering. 
The rig was similar to that of Ethelwynn, the leg-o'-mutton mainsail, 
with slide on ntast, but with long battens in the mainsail. The boat 
EL HKialE, 
Defender of Seawanhaka C. Y. C. Hup, 1896. 
Designed by C. H. Crane. Copyilght, 1896, by J. S. Johnston, N. Y. 
had a smooth bottom, coated with a preparation made by her builder, 
bur was hastily built and with no attempt at a fine finish. 
The only Herreshoff boat in the race was Mr. F. M. Hoyfs Gnome, 
to the eye an improved Olita, with a long fore overhang and a very 
sho. c after overhang, the tuck of the broad square transom being im- 
mersed. She was painted white, with bright oak planksbeer and pine 
deck. Her original ri^ was a Qunter sail with battens, the ordinary 
canoe sail, but in the first race she tried a boom and gaff mainsail. 
While Olita was all open, with a very large cockpit and practically no 
compartments, Gnome had a self-bailing cockpit above the waterline 
and emptying into the trunk. She was fast off the wind, but when 
sheets were blocked down she slid to leeward like Olita. 
One of the mo«t interesting of the fleet was the Butler boat Vesper, 
designed by Butler Amea and sailed by his uncle, Paul Butler, with 
Mr. Ames as crew. The fitting and rig was, of the same sort that has 
so long won the admiration of canoeists on Mr. But'er'a numerous 
craft. The boat was of the Sorceress type, about 6ft. Sin. wide, with 
a midship section that was a flat segment of a circle, with no bilge, 
the keel contour being a similar circular segment. The deck line aft 
was very different from Sorceress, being carried out to a tracsom 
somewhat similar to Eihelwynn's, the overhang being quite as long or 
longer. The fore overhang ended in astern with a quick turn up- 
ward. The sheer was moderate, with a low freeboard. The whole 
form of the hull was suggestive of a big teaspopn, and all the lines, 
both fore and aft and thwartshipa, were fair and easy sweeps. The 
boat relied on her beam alone for power, there being nothing that 
could be called a bilge. The workmaaship was quite up :to tiae usual 
BtftDdurd ot SievenB, the Lowell canoe builder, a sio^ie a'Wo of ^tn. 
mahogany in full length planks, with the ribband carvel construction 
of the Butler canoes. Owing to the new varnish the bottom was very 
far off the form in which the Butler canoes are raced (the work of 
care, elbow grease, pumice stone and vaseline); but it was by far the 
best bottom on any boat in the races. The well was long and shoal, 
above the trunk, which was also very longr and fitted with a center- 
board made of two sheets of brass riveted at the edces and filled with 
lead, its dimensions being 5ft. long, 18in. wide and J'^in. thick, and its 
weight 125lb8. It was fitted with an arm of SJ^xjiio- stf el and 2rt. 
long, fitted at the upper end and at right angles if- one long side, by 
which it could be mov^ fore and aft in the long trunk or shifted into 
almost any position. The rudder was of the spade type, almost a 
square, and fitted to ship from the deck in an opt-n true k. The mast 
was stepped in two bronze brackets secured to the fore bulkhead 
across the fore end of the well, its heel being' just over thecenterhoard 
slot. The spars were all of spii ally wound veneer, five layers being 
used for the mast. They were of large diameter, but beautiful sticks, 
strong, stiff and light. The rig was made up of a "Butler" msinsail, 
in shape much like a boom and gaff sail, but with a sprit batten in 
place of a gaff to support the peak. The material was a real silk, 
specially woven in a Lowell mill for the purpose. The sails were not 
cut out until the Friday night preceding the races, and were hurried 
together in the quickest manner possible. The cloths ran with the 
boom from luff to leach. The jib had a club on its foot. They set 
very poorly indeed, and bo doubt Ihe boat suffered much in conse- 
quence. She was shipped to South Norwalk and launched for the flrtt 
time nn the day before the first race, being hastily rigged and sailed 
across to Oyster Bay. She sailed all the five racea of the week, but 
much of the time of both her crew when ashore was given to work 
that should have been done weeks before. The model, and in fact thv 
whole experiment, is an interesting one, and we hope that the boat 
will be worked up and raced later on, 
Ulmec, already described, was chiefly notable for the ambitious 
name of Defender II., bestowed on her by her recent purchaser, and 
for her very brief career, she withdrawing early in the first race. 
The Clapbam boat, Yola, is a new craft and by no means as good 
looking aa the previous l.'S-footer Imp. The model is very far from 
handsome, its most striking point being a peculiar downward turn of 
the coimter toward the transom. She is a rather wide boat, of shoal 
body and apparently with a large sail plan. The rig was an awkward 
one, a boom and gaff mainsail with b revolving jib, the club of the jib 
forward of the stemheed and having a stay from the masthead at- 
tached to its out end. The centerboard was of a type affected by 
several boats of the class, and which might profitably be dealt with 
by timely legislation before it has gone too far. The board is a long, 
narrow plate of metal, not pivoted, but sliding up and down in the 
trunk, being shiftable fore and aft. When raised, as in running, it 
stands so high that the boom must be lifted over it in jibing. O" one 
occasion when working about the harbor we saw this done on Yola, 
the crew lifting the fore end of the boom well up the mast as it swung 
over. Such a dangerous expedient as this, and it was probably worse 
in some other boats than in this instance, cannot be prohibited too 
soon. Most of the evils ol modern canoeing are traceable to the fail- 
ure of the American Canoe Association to take timely action in the 
case of devices of this extreme nature. 
Nit was designed by her owner, W. N. Murray, of Jamestown, B. I , 
and built under his direcfcion. She was a very trim-looking craft, but 
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VESPEF. 
Designed by Btttier Ames. Copyright, 1896, by. J. S. Johnston, N. Y. 
with a fmall rig and showed no speed in the races Maudeen was a 
lapstrake craft of the pram order, so far aa her bow was concerned; 
she had two centerboards, a small one forward of the mast, af er the 
fashion of Spruce last year. Terrapin, designed by her owner, an 
amateur, was a well-shaped craft, but not fast enough for the com- 
pany she found, being intended only for cruising and general sailing. 
scow TYPE. 
The wonderful stories told last year of Question, recounting her 
phenomenal speed obtained at a total cost of $Z5, and compared with 
$1,000 for a Herreshoff 15-footer, have produced less results than 
might have been looked for from their wide circulation, and outside 
of Question and her blood relations but one of the scow type w as 
present. This one, however, was not only interesting in her design 
and the personality of her designer, but proved to be the boat, the 
choice of the committee after a week's deliberation. In form and 
finish she is so far superior to the other boats of the type aa hardly to 
be classed with them, but she has the distinoUve features of a large 
boat on a short measured waterlitie, a small beam when heeled to an 
effective angle, a long and easy list line, and a weather bilge in the 
air to act as ballast to windward. The general idea of the design was 
taken from the descriptions of Question, but Mr. Crane has worked 
out the details in a wey of his own, producing a well formed and w ell 
balanced boat; evidently of high power, but still fast in light winds. 
Closely in line with El Heirie as an advance on the crude model of 
Question is Paprika, designed and built by L. D. Hunliogton, of New 
Vtochede, who last year designed and built the original Question. 
Paprisa has the same flat floor and rounded bilge as El Heirie, but the 
form is less fair and symmetrical. With a large sail plan, which she 
carried very ably in a blow, she is fast in extremely light airs, and in 
a strong breeze at once goes to the front; but in the ordinary weather 
ot the Bound races she cannot hold the ordinary type or fin-keel or 
centerboard on any point of sailing. The same is true ot her older 
sister, Hope, to all appearances a duplicate of Question, but more 
carefully designed and built, and of another oi the same mode), 
Willada. Hope has proved quite fast in a breeze, but in light weather 
none of these boats, Includmg the original Question, did anything 
remarkable; in fact their reputation in the whc le series of races rests 
solely on the manner in which Paprika went to windward in a moder- 
ately fresh breeze on Tuesday, with Hope following, but at quite a 
respectable distance. All were rigged alike, with twom and gaff 
mainj-ails. Question still clung to her small jib of last year, set tack 
up. 
It must be said for these four boats that they had special advan- 
tages in the way of skilled handling and local knowledge. In order to 
give every chance to Paprika, Com. Bouse very kindly gave up the 
idea of starting Ohta after he had done everything possible to make 
her fit for the trial races, leaving L. B. Huntington, Jr., to steer Pap- 
rika, with her owner, C. Sherman Hoy t, as crew. In the absence at 
college of Mr. Iselin, owner of Hope, she was steered by Philip How- 
ard, who we believe was with L H. Huntington, Jr., on Question last 
year in the trial races, L. D. Htmtington being crew, lue other two 
boats were also well handled. 
Paprika had a rather large cockpit, Hope and Willada had small cock- 
pits and Question none at all, all the work being done from the deck. 
The only wonder is that the boats were so well sailed considering the 
discomiort, fatigue and exptsure when lying flat on a narrow convex 
surface of hot canvas or perhaps wet and slippery. Two of the boats, 
Hope and Question, met with a curious experience on the day preced- 
ing, the first beiog caught in a squall inside Oyster Bay and capsizing, 
the latter losing her board. Mr. Huntington went over to New Ro- 
chelle and brought back the old board in time for the race, the one 
lost being of the sliding variety. Both Hope and Paprika were fitted 
with these vertical sliding centerboards, the latter of aluminum. 
Columbia is not really of the scow type, but more of the ekiff or 
Bkipjaob model, with straight sides and pointed bow. She waa moat 
patrioUoally paioted in re4< l^bite and blue, Bbowlog on one side ^ 
white deck, red top to her centerboard and blue side, the colors being 
reversed oil the other. She showed nothing notable in the way oC 
speed. 
ONE-DESiaN OIjASSKS, 
_ ot the one-design boats, three were from the Tappan Zee Y, C, de" 
si? led by 0- E Oavls and built b.y Samuel A^ers, ana two were from 
the Now York O. C, designed and built by Henry Eigbv, of Canarsie. 
The Nyack boats were much wider and more powerful, but by no 
means as shapely as the Canarsie craft; the latter made a very good 
appearance both at ancho"- and under way. the skipjask sides being 
carried out into loner ends of very good proporti'ms. The Nyaclt 
boats not only have more baara, but carry iC aft. being very brOAd 
across the counter and coj reapondingly heavy in appearance. 
FRICAKS. 
The two freak boats, Kittie IIIII. and Knot In It, have already been 
described, together with their performances in the races. 
MANONTASQUOK. 
This yacht certainly deserves a class by herself; we do not know 
PAPRIKA. 
Designed and bull* by L. D. Huntington. Copyright, 1S96, by J. Johnston, 
where to class her among the others, and the owners might object if 
we did. She certainly deserves a description, as she is unlike anything 
ever seen or likely to be seen again in the class. She is an oblong box 
with straight, vertical sides, a straight sheer, the deck corresponding 
to the top of the box; and the two ends beveled upward. Sh« is 
rather neatly rigged with boom and gnff mainsail. Her centerboard 
is about the size and shape of a New York theater billboard, and ex- 
tends high In air when the boat is at anchor. Her owner had engaged 
the services of a well-known Corinthian to act as crew, but the gentle- 
man did not appear at Oyster Bay on the morning of the race— in fact, 
his friends are still unaware of his whereabouts. The owner in the first 
race boldly started out single-handed and sailed probably a mile of 
the first leg before withdrawing. 
Taking the fleet as a whole, while it was marked by much merit 
and originality as well as care and skill in designing, the most strik- 
ing point was the lack of trial and preparation, from which some of 
the best boats, such as Vesper, suffered In common with the less 
elaborate and costly attempts. In one way there was no good reason 
for this, as a full year's notice was given of the trial and cup races, 
and the varied fortunes of Ethelwynn last fall in her contests with 
Spruce were heralded far and wide; so that the class had become a 
national rather than a purely local affair. Should the racing continue 
next year in the same line, of another defense of the cup in the 15ft. 
class, there will be quite a number of this year's boats still available: 
the chances of added speed being much greater through the complete 
J DEAL. 
Designed by W. P. Stephens. From a photo hy J. S. Johnston, N. Y. 
working up of existing boats than through the outbuilding of them 
by new ones. Thus far there is nothing to show just what progress 
has been maf^e in a year, but we are of ttie opinion chat the winner of 
last year, if put ii> the best poH^ible condition, would easily be among 
the first three of the present fleet. 
Seawanhaka International Cup. 
Messrs. G. H. DuoGA^f and F. P Shearwood, the representatives of 
the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C, of Montreal, arrived iu New York on 
July 5 and will spend the week at Oyster B iy In preparation for the 
international races beginning on J ily 13. They bring with them the 
15-footer Glencairn, designed by Mr. Dugg.<»n and owned by James 
Ross, of Montreal, commodore of the club Bud also a member of the 
Seawanhaka C. Y. C. 'this yacht was selected a." the best available 
after many trials of the new fleet tuJt this year for the selection of a 
challenger; Sothis, owned by Messrs. Duggan and Shearwood, though 
fast in average weather, having too little freeboard and too large a 
cockpit for a strong breeze and short sea. These defects were reme- 
died in the new boat, which is 2.3't over all, 6Ct. Sin. beam, 5J-gin. 
draft and with a waterline of but l5!ft. 6in., giving her nearly 300sq,"'ft. 
of sail. The Royal St. Lawrence Y. U. has gone into th»'matter of 
design in this class very thoroughly this year, building a number of 
boats and racing them all through the spring. Starting with the gen- 
eral idea of Ethelwynn as a basis, the club has found a decided advan- 
tage in speed by adapting something of the scow type, with flat bot- 
tom and round bilge, witli the resulting power in proportion to meas- 
ured waterline, and at the same time a very abort waterline baa been 
taken, aa In Qlenoairn, 
