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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 39, 1897. 
Seawauhaka Corinthian Y. C. 
SPECIAL OEDEE KO. 1. 
I, Heebeet L. Satteelee is hereby appointed fleet cap- 
tain, and W. G. Ulshoelfer is hereby appointed signal 
oflEicer of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C, for the current 
year. 
II. The fleet captain is charged with the publication of 
this order. Henet C. Rouse, Commodore. 
genebal oedebs no. 1, 
I. The squadron will rendezvous at Seawanhaka Harbor, 
Oyster Bay, on Saturday, May 28, in order to take part in 
the opening exercises at the club house. 
II. A meeting of captains will be held on board the 
flagship at 11 A. M. to discuss the programme for the day. 
HI. All vessels in harbor will dress ship at 12 o'clock 
noon, and flre a salute when the club burgee is mast-headed 
on the club fiagstaif . 
IV. Divine service will be held on the flagship on Sunday, 
May 30, at 11, A. M. , the fleet chaplain ofliciating. The cap- 
tains of all vessels in harbor, and the members, with their 
guests are invited to attend. 
By order of Commodore Rouse. 
Heebeet L. Satteelee, Fleet Captain. 
The racQ committee announces the following programme: 
May 29— Race for special classes. Jxine 26— Annual race. 
July 12 and succeeding days until decided— Trial races to 
select the yacht to represent the club in the match with the 
Royal St. Lawrence Y. C, of Montreal, for the Seawanhaka 
International Challenge Cup. July 17— Race for the Alfred 
Roosevelt Memorial Cup Aug. 14, 18 and 17 — International 
Challenge Cup match at Montreal. Sept. 4 — Race for special 
classes. Beginning May 29— Saturday races. 
Race Programme— No. 1. 
BACE FOE SPECIAL CLASSES— SAT CTED AT, MAT 29. 
In addition to the usual opening day race for the club cat- 
boats the race committee announce a special race on that day 
in the 15 and 20ft. classes of sloops. 
The race for these classes is open to entries from the 
Atlantic, Beverly, Brooklyn, Corinthian of Marblehead, 
Corinthian of New York, Eastern, Harlem, Larchmont, 
Massachusetts, Marine and Field, New York and Pavonia 
yacht clubs, the yacht clubs of the Yacht Racing "Union of 
Long Island Sound and the New York and Brooklyn canoe 
clubs. 
Open to Sloops— Class Q, 20ft. class. Class R, 15ft. class. 
Catboats — The club catboats. 
A prize in silver will be awarded to the winning yachts in 
classes Q and R of sloops, and a prize will be awarded to the 
helmsman of the winning club catboat. 
A special prize of the value of fifty dollars ($50) is offered 
to the helmsman (who must be a member of the club) who 
shall sail in at least three of the regular Saturday races 
for the club catboats beginning May 29, and who shall win 
the highest percentage of races sailed during the season of 
1897. 
Course.— The course for all classes will be inside the bay 
and in view from the club house. 
For Sloops.— Starting from west to east across a line be- 
ween the club float and a stakeboat anchored southeast of 
the float, thence around a mark bearing a red ball, anchored 
northeast of Plumb Point, and distant therefrom about one 
mile, leaving it on starboard hand, thence around a mark 
bearing a red ball, anchored southeast of Moses Point Buoy, 
leaving it on starboard hand, thence across the starting line, 
twice around; thence, after finishing the second round',, 
around Black Channel Buoy off Plumb Point, leaving it on 
starboard hand, thence to a finish across the starting line. 
In the first two rounds yachts will pass on the channel side 
of the Black Channel Buoy. 
For Catboats.— Three times around the short triangle. 
The start will be a one-gun start with a preparatory signal, 
and will be made at 12 o'clock noon. 
First Signal.— Preparatory. A gun will be fired and the 
blue peter hoisted at the yard arm of the club flagstafp. 
(There will be an interval of five minutes between each signal 
and the succeeding signal.) 
Second Signal.— Start for both classes of sloops. A gun 
will be fired, the blue peter lowered and a red ball hoisted. 
Third Signal.— Start for the club catboats. A gun will be 
fired, the red ball lowered and a white ball hoisted. 
Fourth Signal.— Will denote conclusion of the race, which 
may be terminated in the discretion of the race committee at 
the conclusion of any round. A gun will be fired and the 
club burgee lowered from the head of the flagstaff. 
The race will be governed by the Racing Rules of the 
Yacht Racing Union of Long Island Sound, and will be un- 
der the direction of the race committee of the club. 
Copies of the racing rules and entry blanks will be fur- 
nished upon application to the secretary of the race commit- 
tee. 
Entries must be made in writing and flled with the secre- 
tary of the race committee by 12 o'clock noon on May 27 
aceompanied by the Y. R. U. measurement of the yacht) 
certified to by her owner or the measurer of the club from 
which she is entered. 
Olivee E. Ceomwell, Chairman, 
64 Leonard St. , New York. 
Chaeles W. Wetmoee, 
30 Broad St., New York. 
Waltee C. Keee, 
26 Cortlandt St., New York. 
D. Le Rot Deessee, 
55 White St., New York. 
Chaeles A. Sheeman, Secretary, 
64 Leonard St., New York. 
The house committee has arranged a new schedule of 
charges for board and rooms, which it is expected will prove 
acceptable to members. 
The club house at Oyster Bay will be opened for the season 
on Saturday, May 29, when the club steamer will begin mak- 
ing regular connections with the trains at Oyster Bay 
station. 
At a recent meeting of the club a regulation club ribbon 
was adopted. This ribbon can be made into belts or hat 
bands and can be purchased, by members only, from Messrs. 
Dunlap & Co., No. 180 Fifth avenue, who are exclusively 
authorized to manufacture and supply it. 
Race 
Committee.. 
Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. 
The Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. has issued the following 
programme for the season: . 
The station of the club shall be at is house at Dorval. 
The courses for racing shall be the A course for A, 30 and 
25ft. classes, and the B and C courses for the 20 and 15ft. 
classes, as the sailing committee may determine. 
The following races will be held as follows during the sea- 
son, on the dates fixed: 
Saturday, May 22, 20ft. class, club prize; Monday, May 24, 
20ft. class, first Ross series; Monday, May 24, 15ft. class, club 
prize; Saturday, May 29, 20ft. class, club prizes, three pew- 
ters; Saturday, J une 5, aOf t. class, second Ross series; Wed- 
nesday, J une 9, 20f t. class, club prizes; Saturday, June 13, 
80ft. class, third Ross series; Saturday, June 13. 15fi. class 
club prizes; Saturday, June 19, SOffc. class, fourth Ross series' 
Saturday, June 19, A, 30 and 25ft. classes, club prizes- Wed- 
nesday, June 23, 20ft. class, club prizes; Saturday, June 26, 
20ft. class, fifth Ross series; Saturday, June 26, 15ft class 
club prizes; Thursday, July 1, A, 30 and 25ft. classes, Sir 
Donald Smith challenge cup; Thursday, July 1, 20ft. class. 
sixth Ross series; Thnrsday, July 1, 15ft. class, club prizes; 
Saturday, July 3, 20ft. class, seventh Ross series; Wednes- 
day, J uly 7, 20ft. class, club prizes; Saturday, July 10, 20ft. 
class, eighth Ross series; Saturday, July 10, 15ft. class, club 
prizes; Saturday, July 17, 20ft. class, ninth Ross series; Sat- 
urday, "July 17, A, 30 and 25ft classes, club prizes; Saturday, 
July 24, tenth Ross series; Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- 
day, Aug. 2, 3 and 4, 20ft. class, trial races to select a de- 
fender of Seawanhaka Corinthian challenge cud; Saturday, 
Aug. 14, 20ft. class, beginning of series of five international 
races for Seawanhaka international cup; Saturday, Aug. 21, 
A and 30ft. classes, club prizes; Saturday, Aug. 21, 25ft. class, 
Girouard tankard; Sattirday, Aug. 21, 20 and loft, classes. 
Hamilton trophy. 
No entrance fee will be charged for any of the club's sail- 
ing races. 
The regular club races will be started as provided for in 
the sailing regulations, at 3:30 P. M. for Saturday races, and • 
6:30 for Wednesday evening races. The Sir Donald Smith 
cup race will be started at 10 A. M., and the 20ft. and 15ft. 
races on July 1, at 2 P. M. The trial races will be started 
at 10 A. M., and the International Cup races at the same 
hour. Any alteration of the hour of starting will be signaled 
as elsewhere provided for. 
In all club races and races for trophies, the prize will go to 
the winning boat, and first, second and third prizes will be 
given under the provisions of Sailing Regulations XXIX. 
In the Ross series and all other series races, place will be 
determined by ]]oints, and each boat completing a round 
will be given points as follows: First boat, 20 points; second 
boat, 19 points; third boat, 18 points; fourth boat, 17 points, 
and so on downward by one point. The first Ross prize vdll 
go to the boat winning the greatest number of points, and 
the second to the next, and so on, there being four prizes — 
$250 for first, 1200 for second, 1150 for third, and $100 for 
fourth.; 
The measiirers have been instructed to enforce the meas- 
urement rule strictly in accordance with the letter thereof, 
and no question of doubt shall be decided in favor of the 
boat. All boats will be measured in the club's basin, Dorval. 
Yacht-Building' at Ogdensburgh. 
The Spalding-St. Lawrence Boat Co. is now very busy at 
its shops at Ogdensburgh, N.Y., the work being mainly small 
sailing yachts and yacht boats. The company has this year 
devoted itself specially to these two classes, and has aban- 
doned its cheaper grades of rowboats and skiffs The list of 
racing yachts, which claims the first notice, is headed by the 
new bulb-fin Shark, shipped last week to Oyster Bay. This 
yacht was designed by Gardner & Cox for Com. Rouse, S. C. 
Y. C, and Mr. Colgate Hoyt, and will be sailed in the races 
by Sherman Hoyt, who owned and raced Paprika last year. 
She is of the regulation dimensions, about 30ft. over all, 
17ft. 6in. l.w.l., with 500sq. ft. of sail. Her beam is 6ft., and 
she will draw the full limit, 5ft. with fin on, but the hull 
draws only 6in. The model is of the Question type in a way, 
but the sections show a round bilge instead of a chine; at 
the same time she has the nearly flat bottom, full deck line 
forward with nearly parallel sides, square transom and very 
long easy fore and aft lines that were characteristic of the 
first boat of the type. She is narrower in proportion than 
Paprika, and the fore and aft lines are apparently fairer and 
easier. 
As to model, while one may admire the skill of the designer 
in handling this particular type, the boat is anything but 
a beauty; the construction and workmanship, however, do 
credit to both designer and builder. The planking is of 
mahogany, in strips about lin. wide, with hollow-and-round 
edges, each plank edge-nailed with brass wire nails extend- 
ing through into the second plank below. This makes a 
very smooth, strong and stiff skin, which is reinforced by 
light frames spaced close together. Additional strength is 
obtained by the use of light tie straps below of steel or Tobin 
bronze, very ingeniously disposed. The cockpit is small, 
with a watertight bulkhead fore and aft. The rig includes 
a gaff mainsail. 
. The spars are all hollow, and very beautiful sticks, clear, 
sound wood to begin with, and put together in the best pos- 
sible manner. Last year the company for the first time ob- 
tained a lot of spruce from the Pacific coast— Washington — 
thus obviating the difficulty encountered by all makes of 
light spars in the East, of obtaining good material. This 
year, in addition to a new stock of the same lumber, it has 
secured the services of Mr. L. K. Young, formerly of Bridge- 
port, whose hollow spars have always rated as the best 
made. With the new material, Mr. Young is turning out 
work far superior to any before feen; he is also making his 
pattern of blocks and other fittings of all kinds. The rig- 
ging department is also in the hands of an expert, and in 
these two important branches the work is of the very best 
possible. 
It has always been the case in all parts of the country, but 
especially on fresh water, that the quality of work on spars 
and rigging was very much inferior to that which could be 
had in hulls and sails. The present work of the company 
completely disprovestheold experience of many, thathowever 
perfect a hull might be turned out by the builders on fresh 
water, the rig required to be entirely replaced by a salt water 
man. 
The spars for Shark are hollow, and lined with stout bur- 
laps, fastened by a special glue, the secret of Mr. Young; the 
added weight is not appreciable, and the stiffness and ulti- 
mate strength are greatly increased. This mast has a triple 
spreader, an arm on each side for the main shroud and one 
forward for the mast stay, which leads from the masthead 
over the spreader and down through the deck. The spread- 
ers are of bent wood, fastened to the hollow shell by an in- 
genious arrangement that prevents any great strain at one 
point. 
Both fin and rudder, the former a bronze casting, and the 
latter of mahogany, will be narrower than the usual prac- 
tice. The rudder is a very neat piece of woodwork. 
The second 20-footer designed by C. H. Crane, owned by A. 
W. Durkee and J. H. Crane, is on the stocks in the shop. 
She is 29ft. 6in. over all, with the regulation l.w.l. and sail 
area, 8£t. extreme beam, 6ft. 2in. beam at l.w.l., and 6in. 
draft, a centerboard boat. The model is very different from 
that of Shark, the sides flaring considerably. The bow is 
much like El Heirie on deck and quite as hard to plank. 
The counter is cut off square. The planking is of Spanish 
cedar in single thickness, about Kin., ship-lap joints, making 
a smooth skin. The frames are light also, btit the hull will 
weigh considerably more than Shark. The rig has a gaff 
mainsail, the spars, rigging and fittings being made by the 
company. 
Another boat from the design of Mr. Crane was shipped 
last month, a sailing boat for the schooner Coronet, D. W. 
James. She is called a "life-boat," being very completely 
fitted with bulkheads and air tanks for use in case of an 
emergency; but in model she is more like the modern sailing 
tender carried by large yachts, with but moderate freeboard 
and fairly long overhangs, She is 27ft. 6in. over all, 18ft. 
l.w.l., 6ft. 6in. beam, 3ft. 6in. depth, with mainsail and jib 
rig and hollow spars. 
A few weeks since the company shipped the very handsome 
sailing boat designed for Mr. Lloyd Phoenix by W. P. 
Stephens and built last year when Intrepid was abroad. She 
is now aboard the yacht. 
' There is just completed a little racing catboat of 16ft. 
l.w.l., named Elsa, designed by W. P. Stephens for Mr. C. I. 
Hudson, of New York, who will sail her at Alexandria Bay 
on the St. Lawrence. She is wide and very powerful of 
light construction and fitted with hollow spars. ' 
Of the well-known Scarecrow and La Gloria models de- 
signed by Mr. Stephens and first published in the Foeest 
AND Steeam, the company is building several;it has lately 
shipped to Mr. H. S. Chisholm, of Buffalo, N. Y., one of the 
No. 2 Scarecrow models, a 20-footer, a very handsomely 
finished craft, with bulb fin and sloop rig, named Kittiwake. 
Another similar boat is now in stock, to be finished with 
either centerboard or fin in trunk and gaff or leg-o'-mutton 
rig, as the purchaser may select. A smaller boat of the 
same model, 15ft. class, goes to W. B. Tuttle, Syracuse, and 
one to E. M. Scull, Overbrook, Pa. There is aJso completed 
a 15ft. La Gloria model, for E. F. Cooley, Lansin.g, Mich. 
On the stocks is the first of the special 16ft. sailing boat 
designed by Mr. Stephens last winter, and also one of the 
so-called "one-design canoe" model, whose design has ap- 
peared in the Foeest and Steeam. The former of these is 
for C. M. Stebbins, Newburgh, who will use her on Orange 
Lake, the other for E. E Buddington, Cranford, N. J. 
In the small shop directly beside the river, where the 
steam yacht Vailima is hauled up, there is a handsome little 
racing sloop designed by Mr. Stephens for J. G. Averell, of 
Rochester, N. Y. She is for the 22ft. class of the Lake Y. R. 
A., the same class as Koko, the fin-keel illustrated in the 
Foeest and Steeam of May 2-9, 1896, but as one of the con- 
ditions was that she should be capable of cruising about the 
lake from port to port, as well as racing in the class, the ex- 
treme open fin tyoe was not admissible. The yacht is 30ft. 
over all, 19ft. l.w.l., 8ft. extreme beam, 7ft. 6in. beam at 
l.w.l., and 5ft., the limit, in draft. She is as near to the fin- 
keel in model as the normal wooden construction and some 
regard for internal room will admit of. The section is a 
very strong S, and the keel, a very fine casting containing 
two tons of lead, is well bulbed. She has the ordinary cut- 
ter rudder, of wood, and both in model and fittings is in- 
tended to stand such hard use as she must be put to at 
times in knocking about the lake. With a 12in. trunk she 
will have 5ft. headroom and accommodation for three in 
sleeping, cooking, etc. She is now planked up, showing a 
very powerful form and easy fore and aft lines, in spite of 
the displacement and beam. 
The company has for some time made a special feature of 
yacht's boats, in the effort to .improve this class of craft. It 
has built a number from special designs by W. P. Stephens, 
and is now turning out a very shipshape and serviceable 
boat. The effort, on the part of both designer and builder, 
has been to eliminate the numerous faults both of design 
and construction in the average yacht boat; and to produce 
craft specially fitted for the distinct uses of yacht service, 
and at the same time strong, light and shipshape. . A num- 
ber of boats are now under way, a 24ft. gig and 20ft. cutter 
were lately furnished to the schooner Yampa, R S. Palmer; 
the new steam yacht Yergana, F. H. Benedict, will have an 
18ft. cutter and 16ft. dinghy; the schooner Carmita will have 
a 12ft. gig and lift, dinghy; the schooner Iroquois, Com. 
Rouse, S. C. Y. C, will have a 15ft. dinghy, and A. N. 
Chandler, of Philadelphia, hai ordered a 14ft. dinghy. The 
latter gentleman has also ordered a 14ft. power tender, with 
American Motor Co. engine. The steam yacht Intrepid will 
have a very handsome 15ft. dinghy, finished in teak. The 
schooner Southern Cross, Vice-Com. Phillips, Knickerbocker 
Y. C, will have a power tender 18ft. long, with Manhattan 
gas engine. 
The company is finishing off a number of the finer grades, 
of skiffs and some rowboats, and also has in hand several 
hulls for naphtha engines. 
New Rochelle Y. C. 
NEW BOCHELLE— LOSG ISLAND SOTTHD. 
Saturday, May SS. 
The New RocheUe Y. C. opened its club house on Satur- 
day, May 22, with music, dancing, dinner and general festiv- 
ities, including a race. The course was to Hen and Chickens 
Buoy, then Execution Buoy and home, this triangle to be 
sailed three times. The 25ft. cabin cat class had a good list 
of starters, but only one 20-footer, Keneu, was present. She 
sailed alone, as did the new Webber sloop Surprise and the 
Huntington 15-footer, which has been christened Dad. The 
wind was very light from N.W. over the first leg, all drift- 
ing; but a light S.E. breeze came in and helped the fleet 
through two rounds of the course, when the race was called. 
Keneu and Dad led the fleet for some time, but the first 
round was timed: 
WiaorLose 4 28 25 Keneu. 
Surprise 4 28 40 Dad 
Mary S 4 30 15 Ofldawa 
The final times were: 
SLOOPS— 20pt class. 
Length. Finish. 
Keneu, M. Olart aO.OO > 5 41 31 
CABIN CATBOATS— J5fT. CLASS. 
,,.,..,.4 -31 CO 
...,.4 84 00 
4 35 32 
Addie. W. L. Diaz. 
MaryS.,E B Hall 
Meli:a, O. H. ChPllbore....,.„.4,,...,22.46 
Win or Lose, J. S. Appleby ^,,,.,.....23.73 
Grace, J. F. LambdeD...,.,.„f,,"..^v 
Jonquil, B.. B. Roosevelt ..,..,7. 
Argo, Daniel Bacon ". 
OPEN CATS -25ft class. 
Edwina, J. N. Gould 81.44 
Ondawa, H. Lambden .....90.91 
cabin sloops -36ft CI ass. 
Surprise, J. L. Baird SB. 00 
OPEN SLOOPS— IEFT class. 
Dad, L. Huntington 15.00 5 
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6 01 55 
5 IB 58 
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"Yacht Desig-ninsf." 
The following comments on the articles on "Yacht De- 
signing" have reached us lately. We shall be glad to hear 
from all who are reading the articles as they appear: 
"Perhaps I am dull, but the articles on 'Yacht Designing' 
appear disconnected and somewhat incomprehensible to me, 
especially that part relating to the buttock lines." Another 
correspondent writes: "I have been very much interested in 
reading the articles on 'Yacht Designing' in the FoSEST 
AND Steeam from week to week, and must congratulate you 
upon the plain and intelligent way in which you present the 
subject Any one who has had experience in the handling of 
designs and drafting tools must especially appreciate your 
suggestions in regard to the use of flat sheets and the unreli- 
ability of T-squares in drawing long lines. Too great confi- 
dence in a T-square has caused me many hours of extra 
work. Have you found the planimeter and similar instru- 
ments practicable or feasible? If so, I hope you will tell us 
all about them in the coming papers. I have several times 
been tempted to buy a planimeter, but have not been able to 
find any one who could give me practical instructions in the 
use of it. The salesman in one store told me that it was a 
very simple instrument, but when I presented different fig- 
ures for him to compute, he gave it up and said that he did 
not understand it. It was the same with two other instru- 
ment makers whom I talked with." 
The Howard 20-footeF. 
The new '20-footer Aranca, which Mr. W. W. Howard will 
race this summer, has been launched, and made a trial trip 
at Clayton, N. Y. She was designed and built by R. E. Pry, 
who built Yankee and Ulmec for Mr. Howard, and is 32ft, 
Sin. over all, 17ft. 6in. Lw.l., 10ft. l}4m. beam andCin. draft. 
The centerboard is of saw steel plate. She has the long, 
self-bailing cockpit, as in Almec, 10ft. long and 6ft. wide. 
The hull is light, and, as in all of Mr. Fry's boats, the work- 
manship is excellent. 
