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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[AVQ. 16, 1896 
Duxbury Y. C. 
DBXBXIRT, mSS. 
Saturday, Aug. 8. 
The third i-egatta of the Duxbury Y. C. was sailed on Aug. 8 in a 
very light breeze. The race for the Davenport cup, two legs for which 
are held by Cleopatra, was not flnished on account; of the light 
weather, Nancy Hanks was entered for it against Fanny D. The 
times tor the smaller classes were: 
KOtTRTH CLASS, A -CATS, 15 TO 18fT. 
Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 
Amie, M. S. Weston, Jr 17.02 1 18 44 0 51 65 
Hone«t John, J. C. Dawes 17.04 1 19 44 0 64 06 
FOURTH CLASS, B- SPRIT SAILS, 15 TO 18BT. 
lM[8jorD,0. H. Drew .10.01 1 18 39 0 51 86 
Yankee, A. E. Walker 16.10 1 18 00 0 51 49 
Natalie, H. M. Jones 17.08 1 18 43 0 52 64 
Oypsy Girl, W. Steele 16.09 1 SO 80 0 54 13 
Eunice B Weston, I. Symmes 17.03 1 20 10 0 54 26 
Ideal, C. F. Bradford 16.10 1 21 06 0 54 55 
FO0RTH CLASS, 0— OAFF FORESAILS, 15 TO 18FT. 
Dolphin, N. Morton 16.06 1 24 43 0 58 14 
Tom Jeff, 8. S. Richards , 17.07 1 35 06 0 59 44 
Myra, S. B. Cheney 18.00 1 24 54 0 59 57 
Jamaica Bay V. C. 
FAR ROCK 4 WAY— JAMAICA BAY. 
Saturday, Aug. S. 
The Jamaica Bay Y. 0. sailed a club regatta on Aug. 8 in a fresh 
S.W. breeze, Bunaway and Cecelia were in collision before the start, 
the former being so disabled that she could not start. The times 
were: 
GLASS A— SLOOPS. 
Siaro. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 
Cute 3 40 50 6 28 33 2 47 43 2 07 43 
Iris 3 44 20 Did not finish. 
Runaway 3 44 20 Disabled. 
Cecelia 3 4 4 20 Did not finish. 
CLASS B — OATS. 
Lochinvar 3 40 40 6 36 35 2 55 55 2 55 55 
I,oyal 3 41 25 Did not finish. 
CLASS O— CATS. 
Vitesse 3 40 20 6 44 20 3 04 00 3 01 00 
Trilby ,. .3 40 55 Did not finish. 
Qennette. , , ,4-, , , , ,3 43 23 Did not finish. 
Cohasset f. C. 
COHASSET, MASS. 
Saturday, Aug. 8. 
Thb Cohasset Y. C started a slub race on Aug. 8 In a light W- 
Wind, the times being: 
FIRST CLASS. 
Elapsed. 
In It, B. B. WilUams 1 09 30 
Heron, E Stoddard 1 12 15 
15ft. class. 
Hoodoo, Gammon d & Wheelwright. , 1 46 08 
Mermaid. W. B. Sears 1 49 10 
Mungo, E. 8. Wilcutt 1 53 30 
Jap, Bouve&Pegra , ^ 55 18 
Swallow, John Richardson ■ ■ 1 55 28 
Sea Gull, Fred Higginson , 1 58 23 
Ronie, C, H. Oousens 2 01 04 
Nit, Joseph Bigelow 2 03 05 
Blink, FredH. Pratt, „,.»...,,...,... 2 06 30 
:Scoot, John Dean 2 10 00 
Pathfinder. 
TBiE new steel steam yacht Pathfinder, built for F. W, Morgan, of 
"Dhicago, at a cost of $75,000, demonstrated on her first trial trip late 
this afternoon that she is one of the speediest, if not the speediest, 
boats on the Great Lakes. The trial far exceeded the expectations of 
Pathfljider''s owners, builders and designer. The engines worked 
splendidly, and she answered her tiller to perfection. Several thou- 
sand people lined the banks of the river and the shores of the lake, 
watching the beautiful craft as she ghded through the water. On 
aboard was Capt. Morgan, her owner; Capt Warner, John Williams and 
Wm. Herricfe, of Ciucago; Designer Poekel, Waller Reynolds, mana- 
iger of the Racine Boai Company ; Cape. Hale, of the yacht Alcyone, of 
■Chicago, and thirty other guests. She was in charge of Capt. Dan- 
:staedt, of Detroit, and Engineer James Froth. 
On the first run southeast against a head sea the boat made over 
nine miles an hour wltb 12Elbs. of steam and the engines running 125 
revolutions a minute. With 155Ib8. of steam and 155 revolutions of 
the engine per minute she made seventeen miles an hour. On account 
of the machinery being new and stiff the boat was not speeded to her 
full capacity, but good judges aboard predicted that she could make 
twenty miles an hour with ease, and when pushed can make as high 
as twenty -two miles. 
The yacht is constructed of the finest steel, 145ft. over all, 14ft. Sin. 
beam, 12ft. depth, 8ft. draft, and has a displacement of 150 tons. The 
main engines are four-cylinder, triple expansion, 14in., 19}^in. and a 
two 20J4'n-i with lOin. stroke. The boilers are of the company's own 
special design and will develop 1,000 horse power. In addition to the 
main engines there are four small ones for driving the dynamos, 
pumps, blower and circulating fan. There is a steam capstan, electric 
light service throughout the boat, telephone service, hot and cold 
water, steam heat, etc. There are four steel water-tight bulkheads, 
making the yacht unsinkable in case of a collision. These are divided 
by four different water compartments. The boat has two spars, and 
In the distance has the appearance of a small man-of-war. — Chicago 
Tribune, July 26. 
The Lake Races. 
Lake Erik will this'year be the scene of a number of interesting 
races between the best yachts of the lakes, including several new ones. 
A number of races are scheduled and some interesting matches are 
promised, with the probable result of a revival of interest In yachting 
on all of the lakes. The racing opens at Port Dover, Ontario, at the 
eastern end of the lake, on Aug. 3-4; then follow the Erie regattas, 
Aug. 6-7, and then the four days, Aug. 10-13, at Cleveland, where the 
Cleveland Y. C. will hold Its open regattas in connection with the cen- 
tennial celebration of that city. From Cleveland the fleet will go to 
Put in-Bay, near the western end of the lake, where the races will be 
held on Aug. 17-22, and then all the yachts will cross to Toledo for the 
final international races between Vincedor and Canada. 
The Chicago champion, Vmcedor, left that city on July 29 in tow of 
the steamer Madagascar, in company with three barges, and should 
have reached Detroit on Aug. 2, Out during the night a heavy N.E. 
gale sprang up, and the yacht was forced to drop her towline before 
Milwaukee was passed. She made sail and ran before the gale into 
Port Washington, north of Milwaukee, lying over night ana sailing 
next morning with a Ught breeae. The night of July 31 was spent In 
harhor at Manitowoc; next morning more bad weather was mot with, 
the yacht putting back. On Aug. 2 she started again, and made Mack- 
inac at noon next day. 
The Canadian champion, Canada, though unsuccessful at first in 
her preliminary trials with the older Toronto and Hamilton yachts, has 
Improved greatiy, and of late has defeated Zelma and Aggie a number 
of times. She took part in the Port Dover regatta of Aug. 4 and won 
«r8lly from two local yachts. Scorpion and W est Wind. In the second 
class, Dinah, of Hamilton, beat Puritan, Eva and Ylvia, and In the 
third class Hiawatha won. 
Cowes Week. 
Thb racing week at Cowes began on Aug. 3 with the regatta of the 
Royal London Y. C, followed next day by the race of the Royal Yacht 
Squadron for the Queen's cup. The course was from off Cowes 
around the Lymingion Spit Buoy and back around the Bullock Patch 
Buoy, 50 miles, with a N. W. wind. Meteor crossed first, with Britannia 
on her weather, followed by Hester and Mohawk. Hester was an- 
nounced as the winner, but ine race was afterward given to Mohawk. 
On the same day Ailsa and Satanita sailed in the regatta of the Royal 
Southampton Y. C, the former winning. On Aug. 5 Meteor, Britannia, 
Caress, Ailsa and Satanita started for the R. Y. 8. prize of £100. 
There was a strong N.E. wind and the race promised to be very exciting, 
but when off Ryde Meteor lost her bowsprit and topmast. Britannia, 
Satanita and (jaress passed on the wrong side of a buoy and withdrew 
and Ailsa was disqualified. Whether all the withdrawing and disquali- 
fication was intentional or not does not appear, but the race will be re- 
sailed. 
The race of Aug. 8 was for the Town prize of £100, the course being 
from Cowes west around the Lepe Buoy, then east and around the 
Warner and back; two rounds, 48 miles. Ailsa, Britannia, Satanita, 
Corsair and Caress started in a good N.E. breeze; the former winning. 
On Aug. 7 the Meteor challenge shield was sailed for, again in a 
nortberly wind, Ailsa winning. 
The 30-Footers at Newport. 
On Aug. 4 the 30-footers sailed a race for the Morgan cup, two 
rounds of a triangular course In a light S.W. wind, (he times being: 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Bsperanza 4 32 30 1 57 30 
Asahi 4 33 15 1 58 15 
Hera — 4 36 50 2 01 50 
Caroline 4 37 35 2 02 35 
Wawa ....I.., Withdrew. 
Dorothy II , , . .Withdrew. 
Vaquero III .Withdrew. 
Vaquero took the ground and Wavia, wi.iii i.t.ar the finish, picked 
up a lobster pot. Dorothy was steered by Gerald Paget, owner of 
Rosemary. 
On Aug, 5 the fleet started again for a sweepstakes, the course be- 
ing at im from Brenton's Cove to Dyer's Island and a beat home, 16 
miles. Asahi and Hera led on the run, but were beaten by Vaquero on 
the windward work. 
Another sweepstakes was sailed on Aug. 7 over a new course, 10 
miles to windward to the kouy off Point Judith and return, in a fresh 
S.W. wind. The times were: 
Start. Finish. Elapsed. 
Vaquero.. ..^v... 11 05 00 12 58 45 1 53 45 
Asahi 11 05 00 12 59 25 1 54 25 
Hera il 05 00 1 00 35 1 55 35 
Caroline 11 05 00 1 01 00 1 66 00 
Wawa 11 05 00 1 01 15 1 66 15 
On Aug. 8 the wind was very light and a slow race was sailed over 
the triangular course. The times were: 
Start. Finish. Elapsed. 
Hera 2 50 00 6 08 50 3 18 50 
Esperanza 2 50 00 6 16 05 3 s:6 05 
Vaquero 2 50 00 6 23 40 3 83 40 
Caroline 2 50 00 6 23 45 3 33 45 
Musme ii;.;m..t 2 50 00 6 30 45 3 40 45 
Wawa Did not finish. 
Dorothy......... Did not finish. 
Asahi , Did not finish. 
The racing will continue next week, the new Rosemary taking part. 
East Bay 7^ C. 
OEKTKR MORICHES— GREAT SOUTH BAY. 
Saturday, Aug. 8. 
The East Bay Y. O. sailed Its annual regatta on Aug. 8 over a 10- 
mile triangular course. The times were: 
Start. Finish. Elapsed, Corrected. 
Madcap 4 01 00 6 41 35 2 30 35 2 30 35 
Sunol 4 10 50 7 10 50 3 00 00 2 58 40 
Zoe 4 10 30 7 37 60 2 57 20 2 53 47 
Druid 4 10 40 6 57 50 2 47 10 2 43 21 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The Eastern Y. C. will hold special open races on Aug. 18 and 19 for 
sloops of the seventh and special 30(t. classes, and for knockabouts. 
The races are open to all yachts which conform to the requirements 
of the respective classes, viz. : In seventh class sloops, -waterline 80ft. 
and not over 35ft.; In special 30ft. class, the agreement of owners as 
made in November, 1895; in knockabout class, the rules of the Knock- 
about Association. Kntrles must tie delivered to the secretary of 
the club, William S. Eaton, Jr., Eastern Y. C, Marblehead, be- 
fore 10 A. M. on the day of the race. The prizes on Aug. 18 
are: For special 30ft. class, first, a purse of f 100, presented by 
Capt. Henry S. Ho vey; for knockabouts, first, a cup, presented by 
Com. Gardner; for seventh class sloops, first, glOO. In each class 
where five or more start, a second prize of 830, and where seven or 
more start, a third prize of $10. The prizes on Aug. 19 are: For 
special 30ft. class, first, a purse of $100, presented by Rear-Corn, 
fiemenway; for seventh class sloops, first, $100. In each of these 
classes, if five or more start, a second prize of giO, and If seven or 
more start, a third prize of $10. For knockabouts, purses presented 
by Capt. C. S. Eaton, viz.: First, $100; second, if five or more start, 
$50; third, if seven or more start, J25; fourth, if nine or more start, 
$15, and fifth, if eleven or more start, $10. The prizes being given by 
Mr. Eaton, Cock Robin will not compete. In the special 30ft. class 
prizes of $50, $25 and $15 will be given to the professional helmsman. 
The 30ft. special class has received a new addition in the Sibbick 
yacht Rosemary, nominally of 36ft. linear ratlug, Y. R. A., but built, 
as we understand, to the special rules governing the new 30ft. class. 
She is owned by Mr. Gerald Paget, of London, brother-in-law of Mr. 
Whitney, owner of Dorothy, who will spend the summer at Newport 
and race the yacht there. Mr. Paget also owns the 1-raters Caprice 
and Cigarette, built by Sibbick last year. Rosemary, as the new 
yacht IS named, came over on the Wilson Line steamer Ontario, and 
was launched at Brooklyn, being ligged by her skipper, Capt. Vincent, 
and his crew of two, who accompanied her. She has been accorded 
the privilege of free entry, as ^he will be reshipped to England later 
in the season. She is now at Newport and will sail in all races of the 
class there. 
A race was sailed on Lake Oconomowoe on Aug. 1 in a moderate 
N.W. wind, the times being: 
„ Elapsed. Corrected. 
Hope 0 5y 12 0 65 57 
Bird 1 00 80 0 59 34 
Skedaddle 1 01 21 1 00 27 
Argo 1 01 30 1 00 56 
Yumpin' Yaper. ...... a i... Capsized. 
Empress , Withdrew. 
Idle Hour Withdrew. 
The Almy Water Tube Boiler Co. has supplied the following yachts 
with boilers since the last cruise of the New York Y. C: Steam yacht 
Gretchen, John E, Reyburn; Arcturua, Rutherford Stuyvesant; Far- 
thenia, Stephen B. Roach; Giralaa. B. S. Renwick; Indolent, J. C. 
Rhodes; Illawarra, Eugene Tompkins; Corsette, C. A. Tatum; Vesta, 
Henry A. Laughlln; Orienta, E. R. Ladew; Magnet, T. A. Howell; 
Valima, Wm. H. Post; Cheplta, C. W. Wharton; Iduna, F. A. Foster; 
Marion, N. Witherell; Kalolah, C. L. Hubbard; Ardarth, J. A. Aspin- 
wall; Aida, W. P. Douglas. This record speaks for itself. 
The third annual regatta of the Cnippewa Y. C, of Chippewa Bay, 
N. Y., on tne St. Lawr, nee River, wIU be sailed on Aug. 19. The pro- 
gramme includes a race for the Bell trophy, recently sailed for at Og- 
densburgb; a race for St. Lawrence River skiffs, and one for sailing 
canoes, a prize of a $60 cup being offered by C. M. English for the lat- 
ter event. There will also be rowing races. Particulars may be ob- 
tained of H. W. Williams, Secretary, Chippewa Bay, N, Y. 
The Corinthian Y. 0. of Philadelphia, the Corinthian Y, 0. of At- 
lantic City, the Corimhian Fleet of New Rochelle, and the Knicker- 
bocker Y . C. have made a joint cruise on Long Island Sound, from 
New Rochelle to New London, the combined fleet dividing there for 
Shelter Island and Newport. 
We have received from the Corinthian Y. C, of Philadelphia, a copy 
of the club book for 1896, a handsome volume quite worthy of this 
flourishing and progressive club. The membership is now 163, with a 
large fleet of yachts. 
A rumor that is hardly worth repeating is to the effect that Valky- 
rie HI. will be raced next season under the management of Sir James 
Bell, former head of the Thistle syndicate. 
Cleopatra, the fast Hanley cat, originally named El Paso, has 
been sold by Melbourne MacDowell to H. M. Faxon, the Boston yachts- 
man. 
The regatta of the Hempstead Harbor Y. C, set for Aug. 8, was 
postponed to Aug. 15, on account of lack of wind. 
Illawarra, steam yacht, Eugene Tompkins, was at Halifax on Aug. 7 
bound from Bras d'Or Lakes lor Boston. 
Almy, steam yacht. Frederic Gallatin, passed Skagen Fyr, Denmark, 
on Aug. 1. 
THE ROYAL C. C. RACES. 
We published last week the account of the race for the 
Royal C. C. challenge cup, the principal event of the 
annual sailing week of the club. The races this year, 
instead of being up river, were at Barnham-on-Crouch, 
at the mouth of the Thames; on open, and as it happened 
rough water. It will be remembered that in 1894, the 
year Mr. W. W, Howard visited England first and entered 
for the R. C, C. challenge cup as the representative of the 
New York C. 0., but half an hour before the race started 
he withdrew his entry on the grounds that the waters 
were unsuitable for canoe sailing; in^consequeuee of 
which act the R, C. C. withdrew the offer of a special 
cup promised for an international race at Burnham later 
on. Last year Mr. Howard's canoe Yankee was shipped 
back to Clayton, N. Y., for alterations, and did not reach 
England in season for the challenge cup j-ace, for which 
she was entered. This year Mr. Howard arrived from 
America in season to prepare for the race, which he 
entered as a member of the British 0. A. Unfortunately 
for the correctness of the Field's surmise, his victory has 
awakened no enthusiasm in this country, and there has 
been no disposition whatever to claim it as an inter- 
national event. 
The Field, in the following comments, deals very 
severely with some of the leading features of modern 
canoeing, and in many points we agree with it, having 
preached the same lesson some years ago when there was 
still some chance of saving American canoeing from the 
racing machine. In the canoe yawl race alluded to, two 
boats were abandoned by their crews and towed in, one 
being finally wrecked. The Field's comments are as fol- 
lows: 
The "sailing week" of the Royal Canoe Club for 1896 
was held at Burnham-on- Crouch on open salt water, and 
has undoubtedly furnished by actual facts just the very 
lessons which it has been found almost impossible to 
drill into some men by mere words of warning. If these 
lessons are now neglected sailing canoeing will be just 
about killed as a sport; of course, a few odds and ends 
will always be found at it, but true canoe sailors must for- 
sake the sport if it is kept in its present form, wherein 
winning races can only be attained by a perfect acrobat 
mounted upon a dangerous machine. 
The Crouch racing has amply proved what it was in- 
tended to prove; it has done so in the kindest manner — 
that is, without loss of life, without actual loss of prestige to 
British canoe sailors, and without demonstrating any 
really better type or class of canoe than the existing rules 
permit to be produced; and yet has clearly pointed out 
where the present machine nature ought to be toned down 
for the general good of canoe sailing. The move of the 
Royal C. C. to open tidal water for a sailing course was 
decided upon with intent to demonstrate by actual expe- 
rience and facts that, though the rules permitted equally 
the sharpie and the skimming- dish type, the racing ma- 
chine and the useful cruiser type, the man ballasted and 
the metal ballasted craft, there are conditions on such 
waters when the type of craft innocently in favor on the 
Thames and other quiet inland rivers are in other waters 
absolute death traps. Drowning in the north at Easter, 
and very nearly drowning in the summer in the south, 
should be ample teaching for any rnen who claim to have 
average quality of brains. Past capsizes, with happily 
prompt rescues, in sheltered waters, are soon forgotten, 
and the "cheap- jack" creation, the flimsy flying orange- 
box type of canoe-yawl, or butchers' tray canoe, are again 
manned with human life. The reckless life that elects 
thus to embark may be allowed to go, but the sport of 
canoe sailing should not also be drawn into the idiotic 
vortex. 
The second point is the slack state into which the sport 
of canoe sailing has been allowed to drift. When the 
technical details of the racing are noted, it will be seen 
that no serious attempt, or, perhaps, proper attempt, was 
made to defend the cup against the attack of Yankee, 
Mr. Howard's canoe. It may be all very well to say that 
Mr. Howard only raced as representing a British club and 
not as an American, but we venture to say and suggest 
that ere these lines appear in print the victory will be 
claimed as international, 
It may be international, and whether Mr. Howard was 
backed by one club in America or one in England matters 
little or nothing; no doubt he would have raced just the 
same, but the grave fact remains that the holder ot the cup 
and the club owning the cup were not ready, and were 
not properly tuned up with defenders; and in the previous 
days of the week, while the Englishmen were racing in 
hard weather and straining their flimsy craft to true 
basket-leaking stage, the American boat never entered a 
race; she went only for the cup. The holder of the cup, 
instead of getting to Burnham by train and then practic- 
ing over the course day by day, spent his days and nights 
in an otherwise gallant struggle against wind and tide 
and a heap of mishaps in a passage around by sea, which 
landed both man and boat in a state of total collapse at 
Burnham on the morning of the race. Thus, in part at 
any rate, the Royal C. C. challenge cup for the first time 
is won out of the club. 
We do not in the slightest degree intend to spare men 
or materials by using the common form of gushing praise 
where none is due; we prefer to state facts only, and ex- 
pert men can thereupon form opinions which, we will 
venture to say, amply bear out all we have written for 
years past in connection with the sport. 
Looking at the fleet of canoes and yawls at Burnham, 
with the exception of the two "cruising canoe" class new 
boats, there was not a canoe "up to date" — that is to say, 
that new craft could have been built, or older craft could 
have been reballasted and rerigged "up to date." The 
two cruiser class canoes were new and untried, and one 
lost her mast; the other was leaking to perfection all the 
time, and neither had a suit of sails which could fairly, 
or at all, be said to "set." The Dragon performed in a 
manner which should take a few years clean off the life 
of her owner. She ran before the wind with the whole 
of her fore deck out of sight under water; the water was 
up to the tack of her mainsail and rushing aft; the 
"bucket well" was full, and in this canted-down-by-the- 
head position of hull the rudder barely touched the 
water. Can any craft go the pace in such circumstances? 
The two cruiser class canoes, though new and untried, 
were further "out of it," in that with their large sloop 
rig and very high freeboard and body structure, they de- 
mand and were intended to have bulb keels; they had at 
Burnham only plain metal center-plates, and not heavy 
ones even at that. Three hundredweight of ballast inside 
them would not have acted up to lOOlbs. on the bulb. 
Yet their owners and all who saw them acknowledge 
them as fine, roomy little craft, and speak highly of the 
class as a future class, capable of racing and of cruising. 
Prucas, canoe, is merely a 30in. beamed semi-sharpie, not 
a new boat, but a very fast old one, and if she had not 
got strained to a bad leaking point we doubt not she 
would have given Yankee a close tie-up; her sails are far 
from being in racing fettle, but the handling she received 
from Mr. I^aws was a masterpiece worthy of better 8tu:fiE 
to handle. 
