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[Aug. 14, 1897. 
about. 2ft. long, lin. wide and 2in. high, with several belay- 
ing pins through it to be used as ridiDg bitts, for stowing 
headsails and any similar use. On each side of the deck, 
abaft this strip, is an inch strip as a hold for the feet. 
The entire bottom and topsidesare polished until they look 
like a new stove with the Canada Paiut Co.'s special graphite 
preparation. The surface thus obtained is very hard and 
smooth as far as the roughing up of the new wood goes, and 
whatever may be thought of the lubricating qualities of wet 
graphite, the paint seems to answer admirably. In putting 
it on the bands of the workmen are a^t to bestow a liberal 
coat on the deck, and with its lubricating qualities added to 
the high crown, all deck work is made most dangerous. 
The rudders are approximately rectangular and slightly 
balanced, and very small in area; that of Avoca, a very pow- 
erful craft, is just lin. wider and deeper than the rudder of 
the 15 footer El Heirie. It was entirely too small in strong 
winds, and that of Glencairn II. was made larger. The 
boats have wood tillers about 3ft. long, each with a jointed 
piece or "dog's leg." 
A very neat and shipshape detail of the deck fitting is the 
pinrail about the mast, to which all halyards lead. 
The spars, made in the shop, are all hollow and of very 
light proportions, the masts being barely 4\n. diameter in the 
partners and with but %in. shells. Several have failed, but 
those which have been carefully handled have stood through 
the season; the limit of reduced size and weight has probably 
heen reached, but it seems to be only si question of careful 
and skillful handling to hold them safely. The rigging is of 
a fine grade of steel wire rope imported from England; it is 
very well disposed about the masthead, with a single shroud 
from the top and runners led well aft. The chainplates are 
of steel, 1 by ^in., and spliced into each is a piece of wire 
rope about 1ft. long. Between this leg and the shroud is the 
lanyard, of rope, no turnbuckles being used on the boats. 
The blocks were all designed and made by Mr. Poe, with a 
very complete outfit of soecial shackles and other fittings. 
The weal?est point of the whole outfit, and the one In 
which the New York boat is unquestionably superior, is the 
canvasing. Montreal boasts of no sailmaker up to this work, 
and though the local man— Sonne, who has made the sails 
for the fleet— has done the best possible, his work by no 
means compares with that of the New York and Boston 
makers— men who have long been experts at the art. Both 
Mr. IDuggan in Montreal and Mr. Jarvis in Toronto, have 
cut their sails, of necessity. The sails of Glencairn and Bon- 
shaw were made from the same piece of Union silk, imported 
by Mr. Jarvis. Both Glencairn and Avoca are now swing- 
ing crosscut mainsails— very fair sails, but not up to those of 
Momo. 
During the season Mr. Duggan has had every possible op- 
portunity to try Avoca, and he was fully satisfied with her 
performance as compared with the rest of the fleet, and also 
with Glencairn I., Sothis, Xania and other of his older boats. 
She proved to have an excess of stability for match sailing — 
more than was needed with only a moderately heavy crew. 
It was at Com. Ross' suggestion that the new Glencairn 
was planned, he wishing to leave nothing undone that was 
possible to insure success, and believing that Mr. Dusgan 
could improve on Avoca as he had done last year in Glen- 
cairn I. on Sothis. In the new boat, with substantially the 
same sheer plan, the beam was reduced about 4in., the bilge 
was eased oflF, the whole section being thrown into a little 
rounder and fairer curve, and the fore and aft lines were 
changed, a fair sweep being maintained from end to end, but 
with the bilge carried out almost to the stem, making a per- 
ceptible hard spot there. The design, as a whole, in spite of 
all fullness, is fairer and more pleasing than Avoca, and it is 
undoubtedly superior; thouigh Avoca still showed very well 
in comparison with the finer boat off the wind in light 
weather in the final extra races. 
The only Montreal boat of outside desiern in the trial races 
was Millie, the work of an amateur member of the club, the 
Rev. Henry Kittson. Mr. Kittson last year designed the 15- 
footer Missie, and she was built quite heavily for general 
use: however, she made a very good showing in the races, 
taking the second prize in the Ross series. This year Mr. 
Kittson went up to the 20ft. class, and made a design for a 
racer, the boat being built at his home by a couple of 
boat builders from Toronto. She has a high freeboard, a 
short and full fore overhang, an oval stern on a rather long 
and fine counter, and her topsides are bright. The jib is 
high and narrow, with a club on the foot. One of the fleet, 
which has done little in the races, is the Toronto boat 
Lalag6, designed and built by Cuthbert. She is of .shallow 
body, but carried down into a wooden fin with a lead bulb, 
through which a centerboard drops, the draft of keel being 
3ft. The middle body afld fore end are well formed, and, 
though not a racer, she should make a very good sailing 
boat, out her counter is carried out to an extravagant length 
and width, 5ft. across the sternpiece, and very flat. Viola, 
another new boat of the class, sailed only in the first 
races. 
It looked at one time as though a number of outside boats 
would be sent to Montreal for the trial races, but only ono 
appeared, Bonshaw, owned and sailed by Com. iEmilins 
Jarvis, Royal Canadian Y. C. of Toronto, who last year 
sailed CaUada in her international races with Vencedor. 
Bonshawis of the scow type, but quite unlike the New York 
boats. She was built by Hodgson, at Toronto, from a modi- 
fication by Com. Jarvis of a design, as published, of Mr. Lin- 
ton Hope's Flying Scud, so successful last spring in the 
Mediterranean. The design was lengthened considerably, 
with the same beam. The bottom is perfectly flat, the sides 
are nearly vertical, with a right angle between them and the 
bottom, but instead of being almost parallel, they have a 
strong sweep, the deck being pointed forward and oval aft. 
The planking is but 3^in. thick, but the frames, spaced about 
12in , are all trusses, while the hull is liberally trussed fore 
and aft; a cat could hardly chase a rat through the maze of 
light struts and braces below. She has a large plate board 
and shoal cockpit, and is steered with a long tiller of steel 
tubing. The rig is peculiar, having the mast well aft and a 
very large fore triangle, by. means of which she was enabled 
to set a big spinaker, very long on the foot, giving her an odd 
appearance down wind. The boom aud gaff were hollow and 
the mast solid, she had lost her first hollow mast in a col- 
lision when first under way at Toronto, and the solid one 
was hastily prepared. Mr. Jarvis was at a serious disadvan- 
tage, as the boat was finished so late in the season that he 
had 'no opportunity whatever to try her alongside of other 
craft and to get her into shape or to become acquainted with 
her peculiarities. Even considering that inexpensive woods 
have been used in place of mahogany and Spanish cedar, the 
cost of these boats is astonishingly low, $500 complete for 
racing, as compared with $1,000 to $1,500 for the New York 
^"aU of this year's fleet are rigged with the ordinary gaff 
mainsail, and most of them have a club on the foot of the 
jib. While Momo has the lofty and narrow rig now popular 
In Boston, the Montreal boats have a lower and broader rig. 
As the result of the ten races of the Ross series only Glen- 
cairn, Avoca, Millie, Glenowen, of the club fleet, with Bon- 
shaw, were present to start in the trial races. Neither Viola 
nor ijalag6 were up to the fleet in speed ; Islander, a very fair 
and taking boat in model and rigged with the other Duggan 
boats, had not shown such speed as might be expected from 
her- and though Rogue had done very v\ ell in the Ross series, 
there was no chance of her being chosen in the face of 
Avoca and Glencairn, and Messrs. Almcn and Riddell were 
both needed on the race committee. The entries for the races 
■^yere; 
Bonshaw— Skipper, iEmilius Jarvis; crew, J. S. JVJcMnrray 
^ud Xeiuple McMurrieli, 
Glencairn II.— Skipper, G. H. Duggan; crew, F. Shear- 
wood and J. Paton. 
Avoca— skipper, H. K. Wickstead; crew, Arthur Hamilton 
and Harold Eadie. 
Millie— Skipper, Vincent Pelletier; crew, Arthur H. Her- 
sey and F. W. Gross. 
Glenowen— Skipper, Shirley Davidson; crew, L. Davidson 
and J. Whyte. 
The courses for the club races, as already stated, lie just 
off the club pier, the longer course being shown on the ac- 
companying chart. In order to avoid the shoals, rocks and 
sand bars, the courses for the international races, which will 
be determined this week by the club and Mr. Crane, will be 
up the lake and somewhere off Pointe Claire, starting about 
four miles from the club house. The courses for the trial 
races were laid in these waters, the starting line being close 
to the point marked 2 on the chart. From this point a mile 
leg was laid off, the mark just west of Pointe Claire, the 
next leg, of one and one third miles, ran S.W., and then a 
mile leg closed the triangle. It was decided to sail a large 
number of very short races, not more than three and one- 
third miles, as eliminating flukes, poor starts, etc., and giv- 
ing a better test of the actual merits of the boats. This tri- 
angle was sailed, with marks on port or starboard hand, ac- 
cording to the wind, and a windward or leeward course was 
laid out according to the direction of the wind at the time. 
The result of this experiment, rather a novel one, in that it 
gave Glencairn a chance to make a record of six firsts for six 
starts in one day, was generally satisfactory, all who took 
part in or witnessed the races were unanimous In the opin- 
ion that it was the best method yet tried of making a thor- 
ough test. Of course, the running off- of so many short 
races would not be practicable with a fleet of fifteen to 
twenty boats, but with half a dozen there was no trouble in 
getting all together at once after the finish for a new start. 
In the different races of the 15-footers in previous years there 
has been a time limit of five hours for the regular course, 
twelve nauticaltailes At a meeting of the sailing committee 
of the club on the evening of the first trial race, Mr. Crane 
being present, a suggestion from him of a shorter time limit, 
in view of the greatly increased speed of the SO-footers over 
the 15-footers, was discussed, and it was unanimously de- 
cided to make the limit four instead of five hours, and in the 
same proportion for the shorter courses of the trial races. 
Mr. C. H. Crane was on hand for the first of the races, 
about the course much of the time in one of the other boats. 
Mr. Stackpole and Mr. Shaw, who will be the third member 
of the crew of Momo, came up on Wednesday. 
First Day. 
Monday, Aug. 2. 
FIRST TRIAL. 
Monday morning brought hot weather and little wind, 
what there was being from S.W. The steam yacht Dama 
had been placed at the disposal of the club by her owner, W. 
Barclay Stephens, and it was arranged that she should call 
at the club house early in the morning for the committee, 
guests and luncheon. Sbe was down the river, and the locks 
are closed on Sunday. She started early on Monday morn- 
ing, but was delayed for some hours in the locks. 
In her absence, the naphtha launch Gadabout came to the 
aid of the committee, and they ran up in her to start the 
first race. Meanwhile a number of ladies were left at the 
club house, while others waited at Pointe Claire for the 
yacht. 
The first race was called at 11 A. M., with the preparatory 
at ll.-lO, and the start at 11:1.5. The wind was light S. W., 
veering to W., with smooth water. The triangular course 
was used, with all marks to port. Millie was first away, 
with Avoca second, Bonshaw, Glencairn and Glenowen. 
They could lay their course for the Pointe Claire mark, and 
they moved along slowly in a falling wind, Glencairn soon 
taking the lead. Both she and Bonshaw set balloon jibs 
for a short time. The Pointe Claire mark was timed: 
Glencairn 11 31 03 Glenowen 11 34 80 
Avoca 11 32 03 Bonahaw 11 36 01 
Millie 11 38 11 
It was a reach on the other tack to the second mark, with, 
the same light breeze, the times being: 
Glencairn 11 53 a!5 Glenowen 11 54 40 
A^'oca.....nj.,...o. ...... II 53 45 Bonshaw U 57 4? 
Millie 
Millie, in third place, was hidden by another yacht and 
could not be timed at the buoy. They jibed and set spin- 
akers to port, running in with the current, the final times 
being: 
Finish. Elapsed. Points. 
Glencairn 12 11 84 0 56 34 H 
Avoca . 1-i 12 37 0 57 17 7 
Glenowen 12 13 20 0 58 20 6 
Millie 12 14 28 0.59 28 5 
Bonshaw.. ...... ...r.,i..iVi...iiiii. 12 15 20 1 00 20 4 
SECOND TRIAL 
The second race was at once called over the windward- 
leeward course, with marks to starboard, the wind being 
still light from S.W. The start was given at 12:35:45, Glen- 
owen going over first, with Bonshaw, Glencairn, Millie and 
Avoca in order. They drifted out slowly to the windward 
mark, Glenowen always in the lead, and were timed: 
Glenowen 1 11 00 Bonshaw. ,1 16 12 
Avoca ....1 14 04 Millie 1 19 04 
Glencairn 1 14 36 
They ran home very slowly, and Glenowen was nearly 6m. 
over the time limit of 50m, for the two-mile course. The 
race was not counted, but the times were taken: 
Finish Elapsed, 
Glenowen 1 31 .33 0 55 50 
Bonshaw............... 1 85 38 0 59 53 
Avoca 1 36 C9 1 00 24 
Glencairn 1 t 6 12 1 OO 27 
Millie 1 41 02 1 04 17- 
While the races were going on the ladies were waiting im- 
patiently at the club house, where the club steward was 
ready with a bountiful luncheon packed up for the commit- 
tee boat. About noon the Dama came in view clear of Dor- 
val Island, but ran up to the course and anchored instead of 
coming in to the club house. She was finally notified, and 
returned for the ladies and the luncheon, reaching the line 
about 2 o'clock. She was at once boarded by the famished 
crews, who had been broiling since early morning with noth- 
ing to eat or drink. After luncheon, at 4:45, an attempt waa 
made to start another race, but there was no wind. 
Second Day. 
Tuesday, Aug, S. 
THIRD TRIAL. 
Tuesday morning found the wind still about S.W., with 
the sky overcast and cooler weather. The Dama was off the 
club house in good season and started for the course with 
Avoca, Millie, Glencairn, Glenowen and Bonshaw in tow. 
With a moderate breeze from S.S.W. at the line, it was de- 
cided to sail the triangle with all marks to starboard, the 
first leg being thus dead to windward. The first whistle was 
given at 10:38, the second at 10:39 and the start at 10:44:. 
The five boats were grouped about t&e buoy and four went 
over promptly, Glencairn to windward of Glenowen, then 
Avoca and Millie, Bonshaw was about 30a. late at the 
line. Avoca footed off through the lee of the fleet, but 
Glencairn from the start worked out to windward and was 
soon ahead of Glenowen, the second boat. Bonshaw footed 
very fast, but at all timea she sagged to leewavd, Th© 
weather mark, was timed; , 
Glencairn...... 11 02 20 Millie ...11 05 OO 
Glenowen.., 11 03 03 Bonshaw .....11 05 CO 
Avoca 11 01 14 
On this leg the wind was moderate and there was a little 
sea. 
The second leg was a free reach, with booms to starboard, 
to the Point Claire buoy. They get balloon jibs and ran off 
very fast, Bonshaw passing Millie. The Point Claire buoy 
was turned: 
Glencairn 11 10 50 Bonshaw ,..,.,.....,,,.,..11 14 10 
Glenowen 11 12 03 Millie. .,„„.,;...„..,^,;..,.,, ,,,11 15 02 
Avoca. ,11 13 EO . 
The last reach was quickly made, the only incident being 
the finish of Avoca and Bonshaw, the latter almost catching 
Avoca at the mark, but failing to secure her overlap, Mr. 
AVicksteed luffing out and cutting off Bonshaw, and then 
bearing away sharp to get by the buoy first. The final timea 
were: 
Finish. Elapped. Points. 
niencairn .11 17 .51 0 33 61 8 
Glenovcen ..11 19 15 0 3=i 15 7 
Avoca ...i.i...i-.>.i":.-....,. 11 £0 36 0,36 36 6 
Bonshaw. ....11 ?0 44 0 .36 48 5 
Millie.... .iiiri^rt > 11 21 49 0 S7 <19 4 
FOURTH TRIAL 
Very few minutes' grace were given before the crews were 
ordered to repeat the same course, and the start was given at 
11:30, The four home boats were at the line too soon and 
reaching along, when the leeward one luffed, and put herself 
as well as the o'thers over before the whistle. Bonshaw 
crossed properly and was well on her way, but when the 
other four were recalled she came back as well, and a new 
start was made at 11:40. A good start was made this time, 
the order being Glenowen, Bonshaw, Millie, Glencairn, 
Avoca, all on starboard tack, with Millie to windward, Glen- 
cairn soon tacked to clear her wind, and Avoca followed. 
With a lighter breeze than in the first race, Glencairn again 
imined on the fleet, the flrst mark being timed: 
Glencairn ....,,,„„,., ,...,.11 59 21 Bonshaw. 12 03 52 
Avoca...... i.... .12 00 49 Glenowen ...,.„i".ivi.-i...>..i. 12 04 13 
Millie 12 03 40 
They reached across to the second mark in a very light 
breeze, and were timed : 
Gleooairn 12 09 50 Millie 12 Ifi 10 
Avoca 12 11 48 Glenowen 13 IB 10 
Bonshaw. 1<! 15 03 
The wind came offshore in by Pointe Claire, and Glencairn 
tried her spinaker to starboard, hut soon took it in. Bon- 
shaw set hers and it fouled a jibhank, so that she could not 
lower it. She ran by the lee, finally luffing for the line with 
spinaker set, and barely saved third place from Millie. When 
she finally lowered jib and spinaker together the latter was 
torn. The final times were: 
Finish. Elapsed. Points, 
Glencairn „ 13 19 14 0 39 14 8 
Avoca fc....-,..,v,,,»i,,i,,...,...12 2! 20 0 42 20 7 
Bon.shaw .....i. 12 E5 20 0 46 20 6 
Mime 12 '.6 35 0 46 35 5 
Glenowen 12 g? 40 0 47 40 4 
FIFTH TRIAL 
The buoy for the windward course had meanwhile been 
set, and the boats were at once ordered to prepare for an- 
other race. Bonshaw lost some time in clearing her head- 
sails and requested a delay until she could mend her spina- 
ker, but her request was not heard by the committee, and 
the start was given at 12:40. It was hardlv more than a drift 
over the line, the order being Glencairn, Millie. Avoca, Glen- 
owen and Bonshaw. The latter was not ready and far to 
leeward, with little wind to bring her up against the current; 
she crossed the line, but aoon withdrew, and set to work to 
mend her spinaker for the next race. 
Again Glencairn went to the front, the timea at the 
weather mark being: 
Glencairn 1 11 80 Millie...... 1 IS .3"> 
Glenowen ........1 12 00 Avoca...... 1 13 !0 
Millie, in rounding, fouled the mark boat and set her 
adrift. 
The run in was quickly made in the same order, the final 
times being: 
Finish. Flapsed. Points. 
Glencairn 1 22 23 o 42 22 8 
Glenowen. ...„....„...,►.,.».:.,,,.,„,;.„,,.. .1 27 0 43 57 7 
Millie. ......,„r.i....................i....,.,..l 23 39 0 43 3^ 
Avocai . 4 .. i < i.. 1 .... I . . . .1 24 05 0 44 03 6 
SIXTH TRIAL. 
A wait was now made for luncheon, which was passed out 
from the committee steamer to the boats as they came 
alongside- at 2:00:00 the fleet was again sent away over the 
windward course. The wind was now quite fresh, W,S,W,, 
and Avoca, with a light crew, tied in one reef before the 
start. They made a good start, Avoca, though first over, 
being to leeward. Glencairn, second over the line, was close 
to the weather buoy, with Bonshaw, Millie and Glenowen in 
a string astern of her They all crossed on starboard tack 
and held it for a time, Bonshaw footed fast through Glen- 
cairn's lee, standing up very straight. Glencairn held the 
lead with Bonshaw a good second, but the leeward propensi- 
ties of the latter gradually told on her and she dropped 
astern. Before a third of the leg had been covered Glenowen 
luffed up, lowered jib and finally withdrew, her hollow mast 
having opened a little below the gaff. The weather mark 
was timed: 
Glencairn , 2 16 40 Avoca 2 20 10 
Bonshaw.., 2 17 52 Millie 2 21 49 
They ran home under spinakers and were timed: 
Finish. Elapsed. Points, 
Glencairn.,. ... 4...... 2 25 80 0 i'5 .30 8 
Bonshaw .>.i,.^..ii.,,.i.,..........,.,ii.i...,2 27 01 0 37 01 7 
Avoca, ...,,.,..:,ii,i.>,..i..i. 2 30 CO 0 30 00 6 
2 31 14 0 31 14 5 
Millie.,., i.^,.,.^,,.:,.. 
8HVEKTH TRIAL. 
Another race was at once ordered, and at 2:46 they were 
sent away over the triangle, this time with all marks to 
port, to the Pointe Claire mark first. Millie decided to 
withdraw from the trials; but Glenowen was ready to start 
again. They went over well together on port tack, the order 
being: Glenowen, Glencairn, Avoca and Bonshaw, the latter 
to windward. The wind was W.S.W. at the line, but draw- 
ing off the Pointe Claire shore, making a beat to the first 
mark. 
Bonshaw made a good start, and followed it up by run- 
ning past Avoca to windward and taking flrst place. It was 
the old story, however; she fetched to leeward and lost more 
than she gained in the footing, while Glencairn, starting in 
a leeward berth, worked out fi-om the fleet and was ahead 
before she was half way to the buoy. They all had to beat 
up to the mark from under the Pointe Claire shore, and they 
were timed: 
Glencairn 2 59 21 Bonshaw ,,...,.^..,.2 53 41 
Avoca .........2 59 36 Glenowen....... ,...3 01 41 
Avoca fouled the mooring line of the buoy with her board, 
but was not disqualified, as the line was very long. 
They reached across to the record mark, and were timed: 
Glencairn ...,ii..i.i.3 CO 5S Avora 8 10 51 
Bonshaw, ,..,...,...t.t;i. .3 10 38 Glenowen ...........3 14 S2 
They ran for the finish with spinakers to port, and were 
timed: 
Finish. Elapsed. Pointe, 
Glencau-n 3 21 10 0 :i5 30 « 
Bonshaw. .4. 3 23 05 0 3? 05 7 
Avoci ...,.,.iiM.......»44<.M. 3 23 09 0 3? 09 fi 
Glenowen..,,,.,,,,,.,..,, ,..,3 37 26 9 41 26 5 
