Dec. 11, I897.j 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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bank, on marsh to left side and ahead. Raccoon Key has 
low trees on it. 
Make turns as shown oa chart and run up the 
Ogeechee Rivee, steering along right side and keeping; it 
50yds. off. 
Hold right shore until yon approach point to right with 
grove of palmetto trees, on somewhat higher ground. 
Then entrance to Florida Passage will be seeu to bear 
S.W. by W. to right of low marsh point seen ahead, with 
high trees away off in the distance. 
Florida Passage.— Steer for middle of entrance, "W.S.W., 
and use the chart. 
Beak River.— Use chart for this river. Just other side 
Kilkenny Creek, sandbank and higher land shows ahead. 
When yon open the last reach in this river and see the 
open waters of St. Catherine's Sound, steer about E, by S. 
On this course you will sight black buoy No. 1 (on Med- 
way Spit) on the starboard bow. Pass this buoy on your 
starboard hand and steer W.S.W. between Med way Spit and 
the Middle Ground. 
Round the red buoy as chart shows and steer for 
Walburg Creek. — There is a beacon on the west point of 
entrance to this creek. 
Work the creek as the chart shows and run down to 
JOHNSOJr's Creek.— Entrance to Johnson's Creek is 
through low marshes. As you open the mouth of creek 
hi^h woods are seen ahead. Steer in about S.E. by E. Keep 
middle of creek until you near its southern mouth, then take 
the left bank as the chart shows. 
SapELO Souud.— Cross Sound as the chart shows, heading 
for 
Mtjd River. — The entrance to this river is buoyed. Sapelo 
Island, to the left, is covered with high trees. 
Having passed black buoy No. 3, steer S.W. byW. 5^ W. 
until you open the western shore of the island to the south- 
ward of High Point. Then steer S.W. W. for Mud River 
buoy (black No. 1). 
One- half mile S.W. ^W, of buoy No. 1 is a stake to mark 
the 8hoal to south. Go to right of it about 20yd8. Keep 
course S.W. 34 W., and steer for stake on point of marsh 
ahead and to fight. Keep 40yd8. off right shore as yon near 
the stake. 
This stake has a round barrel head nailed to it which is 
painted white. Follow along same course until you make a 
smaller stake (about 100yds. to S.W. of barrel head). When 
up with this steer S.S.W. for entrance to 
New Tea-Kettle Creek.— Leave left point 50yds. off as 
you enter, and keep to middle of creek for best water. 
The large lumber mills and other buildings at Doboy show 
as you run out of Old Tea-Kettle Creek. 
DoBOT Sound. — From the mouth of Old Tea-Kettle Creek 
steer about S. for the red buoy, and turn to right, drawing 
in to the right bank. 
North River.— At Doboy Island dock there are stores, a 
post office and good artesian well water. 
When you open the passage between Commodore and 
Doboy islands, steer for the western point of Doboy Island, 
and follow along its western side about oOyds. distant until 
up with its southern point. 
You will then pass from the North into the 
Back River — Steering a course to the eastward of south, 
and gaining the eastern shore before you are up with a small 
island situated in this reach about half a mile beyond. 
Hold the eastern bank close aboard until you are up with 
the point at the junction of South River, when you must 
cross to the western bank with Sapelo lighthouse astern. 
Little Mud River.— Keep left shore 35yds. off at first, 
afterward leaving it 40yds. off as the mouth of the river is 
neared. 
Altamaha Sound.— Some high trees are seen ahead as you 
open this Sound. When Little Egg Island opens it will bear 
aboxit E.S.E., when you must steer S.S.E., crossing Little 
Mud River Bar, ^vhere you will find 4ft. of water at low 
tide. As you cross the bar, looking about S.S.W., you will 
see two marshy points just opening. The channel passes to 
1 he westward of the more distant one, but a direct course to 
it cannot be taken. 
- After you have crossed the Mud River Bar and have 
deepened your water to 10ft. or more, steer S.E. K E. for half 
a mile, heading for the northeast point of Egg Island. 
Then change course gradually to the southward and west- 
ward, and as soon as you deepen your water to 18ft. or more 
steer W.S.W. and hold that course nearly % of a mile, pass- 
ing into the opening between the two marshy points men- 
tioned above. 
When you make out the one on your port bow distinctly, 
bring it to bear about S.W. and steer so as to pass it close 
aboard (20yds. off). 
The channel to the westward of this marsh island is very 
narrow, but 9ft. is the least water to be found in it. The 
land right ahead is higher, with some bushes on it. 
Steer W.S.W. along St. Simon's ^^sland, keeping left shore 
about 50yds. off. 
Buttermilk Sound.— As you near this Sound steer N.W. 
W. for Broughton Island, leaving point to right vrtth low 
bushes on it 70yds. off. 
One Mile Cut will be seen open and ahead. 
Follow along Broughton Island, leaving the shore 75yd3. 
away. 
Frederica River.— When the left point of entrance to 
Frederica River bears about S.E. by S, steer over for it. This 
point is rather high, with bushes on it. 
Keep left point 25yds. off. Follow along left shore, steer- 
ing about S.E. Work river same as others, giving all points 
a good berth. 
As you run on last stretch of Frederica River you see the 
lumber mills of the St. Simon's Island Lumber Co. to the 
left. There are some large saw mUls here. 
St, Simon's Sound.— When abreast of black buoy No. 1, 
at mouth of MacKay's River, steer about S. by E. for the 
north end of Jekyl Isl nd, and when nearly across the 
Sound change course to the westward of south, passing to 
the eastward of red buoys in the Brunswick River. 
Jektl Creek — From red buoy No. 10 a white shell bank 
with beacons on top of it is seen at the mouth of this creek. 
From red buoy No. 10 steer about S.W. by S. until up with 
the buoy off Jekyl Creek. 
From this buoy you will see two tripods in range to the 
westward of the mouth of creek. Steer about S. M E., hold- 
ing this range until the mouth of the creek opens, when 
change course to the eastward and enter the creek, keeping 
in the middle up the firpt reach. 
As the creek widens out, go 40yd8. to the left of the two 
small hammocks seen to the right. 
When abreast of smallest hammock steer over to cupola 
of club house, afterward steering inside of point ahead, as 
the chart shows. 
Good artesian well water may be had at the club house 
dock. 
Run balance of cseek as chart shows, keeping Jekyl Island 
best flibosdrd 
St. Andrew Sound.— After rounding the south point of 
Jekyl Island steer S.E. until up with a red and black buoy 
on east eud of Horseshoe Shoal and N. by E. from the light- 
house. 
When up with this buoy steer S.W. by b. mto the 
Cumberland River.— Follow the Little Cumberland 
Island shore until the lighthouse is shut in by the woods, 
when steer S S.W. M W. for the extremity of the high point 
of Cumberland Island. 
When abreast the lon2 wharf on this bluff point change 
course gradually parallel with the shore and continue 
around the point and to the end of a small strip of shell 
beach nearly abreast the lower end of the woods. 
Cross the month of Brickhill River, steering about S.W. 
KW.,- keeping well to the eastward of the middle of the 
Cumberland as you approach its southern entrance point; 
but when up with it edge across to the western bank, toward 
thft mouth of Shellbine Creek. 
Follow the western bank best aboard until you have 
turned the point one and a half miles below and are heading 
a course to the southward and eastward, when you must 
cross to the port hand bank. 
About one and a half miles below this you will see the 
mouth of Delaroche Creek, with a small marsh island a 
short distance to the northward of it. 
When nearly up with the marsh island, with the eastern 
bank close aboard, steer for Delaroche Creek, crossing the 
river, and when nearly up with it change course gradually 
to the eastward, crossing its mouth and holding the right- 
hand bank close aboard. 
After following this side about one- fourth of a mile cross 
again gradually to the eastern side. 
You will now make out to the southward and eastward a 
cluster of small, marshy islands. The channel lies along the 
east side of the most eastern island. 
Leave the east side of this island 30yds. off, and when its 
southern end is reached turn to starboard and run along by 
the south end of all these islands until point of mainland 
ahead is reached. 
Follow closely along this right-hand shore for 1.50yds., or 
until a pile of stone ballast is reached, when turn sharply to 
port, and steering S S.E. a small mar.sh island about 15ft. in 
diameter will be seen ahead and in range with the end of a 
marshy point just beyond. When you near this islet turn 
to south as chart shows, leaving a small island about 150yds. 
to the right. 
Then steer S S.W. W. until you are about 150yds. from 
the shore of the next large island, to the southward of the 
small one. 
Prom this a course of S. }i E. must be steered, crossing to 
the other side of the river As you approach this port hand 
side you will see to the southward a large marsh island lying 
in the middle of 
Cumberland Sound, below King's Bay. Steer with the 
northern end of this island a little on the port bow, and as 
you near it .steer to pass along its western side and to the 
westward of the next island to the southward. 
When you are abreast the latter you will see another 
island nearly ahead (about S. by W.). "Continue on the same 
course until you are within one-fourth of a mile from the 
island ahead, when change course a little tor the eastward of 
south. 
When abreast the northern point steer about S.E by S. for 
half a mile, after which follow the Cumberland Island shore 
until you sight the red and black buoy on Tiger Island Spit. 
Pass to the northward of this buoy and enter the 
Amelia River, keeping the eastern shore until you arrive 
off Fernandina. 
From Fernandina to the St. John's River is a difficult piece 
of navigation. 
It is better to take a pilot. 
After leaving Fernandina you go through County Bridge, 
just before you get to railroad bridge shown on chart. 
The water is shoal to the left just before you go through 
the County Bridge. 
As you run out of Kingsley's Creek it is very confusing.. 
Keep to the right for channel. It is staked on banks to 
right as you run tor main shore to starboard. 
As you enter Gunnison's Cut two or three palmetto trees 
are seen to left and about one-quarter of a mile from shore. 
When near the entrance to Breward's Cut there are some 
wide places. The channel is to left, and there are shoals in 
the middle. 
There are numerous oyster banks in theSisters, and at the 
mouth of it the navigation is too crooked to be described. 
Thos. I. Miller. 
The L.W.L. Rule. 
Plymouth, Mass., Dec. 1.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
Referring to your article of Nov. 27 on the Massachusetts Y. 
R. A., your position does not seem to be clearly defined. 
You say: ''We are pleased to see that the proposal to reduce 
the crew limit was not carried"; and you say further, "We 
are strongly in favor of reduced crew limits in all cla.sses to 
the number of skilled men required to handle a reasonable 
rig for the length in each class." These two statements 
seem to conflict. The only explanation to the contrary I see 
is that you may think that taking one man from the crew of 
each class may leave more crew than necessary for some 
classes. 
Those who favored reducing crew by one man may not 
have considered the reduction to be enough for all classes, 
but to be as great a reduction as it would be desirable to 
make for a trial year. Nathaniel Morton, 
Ex-Com. P. Y. C. 
[The advocates of a length measurement with sail un- 
taxed, both in the East and elsewhere, have for some time 
pointed to the success of the Massachusetts Y. R. A. as a 
conclusive argument for their side. So far from this being 
the case, the successful racing of the past two years is due, 
in our opinion, to several causes which are entirely discon- 
uected from the question of L.W.L. only versus L.W.L. and 
S.A. as factors of the rule. In order to test this question 
conclusively, it is necessary that new boats, especially de- 
signed for the L.W.L. rule and to the full class limits, shall 
be built and raced. This will be done next season, and 
(through the retention of the old crew limit) under the same 
conditions as have existed in the past. If the limit had been 
changed this fall, as proposed, the result of the building and 
racing would be far less conclusive as to the extreme type 
promoted by the L.W.L. rule, as the limiting of the crew 
necessarily acts to restrict sail area. 
As the rules and general conditions now are in the Mass. 
Y. R. A., with a large crew limit and everything free except 
L.W.L., there is every inducement to the racing man to 
build a poor type of boat, of great beam (to carry the crew 
well to windward), of limited draft and displacement, exces- 
sive over-all length, extravagant sail plan and the lightest 
possible construction. Such a "splasher" is likely to prove 
the winner in all the classes of the Mass. Y. R. A., to the ex- 
clusion of all honest craft, of which there are still quite a 
number in the racing. The experiment of 1891-3, in the 21ft. 
class, failed of conclusive results through the excellence of 
the Herreshoff Alpha, the low-powered boat of the class, 
and the special skiU of her three owners; and, on the other 
hand, from the inferiority in design of the high-powered 
boats. The same experiment will be tried in 1898 under 
very different conditions, and in a number of classes, and it 
is likely to dispose finally of the claims of L.W.L. as the 
sole factor of measurement, and to open the way to a new 
formula and a reasonable crew limit.] 
Gilbert's Bar Y. C. 
WavelAnd, Fla., Nov. 37.— Results of races sailed Nov. 13; 
FmST CLASS. 
Actual. Corrected. 
Albatross 4'":'.. ?--0 47 34 0 47 34 
Omega.. 0 49 43 0 49 43 
Britannia .,.....,..,»>.......,• r.-. — 0 43 35 OA! 18 
Joker .■- , 0 48 29 0 40 t9 
SECOND (ILASS> 
Kclipse 0 47 E.t 0 47 55 
Beatrice 0 47 31 0 47 01 
Sparrow 1 00 8-5 0 59 C8 
The Miramichl Y. C. Rule of Measurement. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I used to think our rule of measurement in the Miramichl 
Y. C. was rather primitive, though very convenient, bu^ 
some of the great yachting associations are moving in Our 
direction. We do not tax sail, and I note that the Massa- 
chusetts Y. R A. does not now tax it; that it is taxed at 
only one-half its area under the new English rules for large 
yachts, and that it is not taxed, or recommended for non-tax- 
ation, in the smaller British classes. 
Our rule is very simple. We add two-thirds of the L.W.L, 
to the extreme beam and get the racing length. 
It has encourasred the building of yachts of moderate bearn 
and consequently of moderate sail area— a very nice type of 
handy and serviceable boats. The wide skimming dish is 
discouraged The measurer has so very little to do that he 
asks for no fees. Everybody carries all the sail he can 
handle with the limited crews allowed. There are no re- 
strictions whatever except on the number of men and 
against the .shifting of ballast. 
Oriana, a boat of very moderate proportions, with small 
sails, being three and a half beams on the load line, and_ ab^- 
solutely safe from f.apsizing in auy wind, an ideal cruiserV 
has won the championship pennant for three successive sea- 
sons, though sailing against larger yachts — won it in light 
winds, in reefing breezes, in smooth water and in rough. 
This rule would encourage the building of fin-keels, and 
render them certain of success if it were not for the fact that 
deep draft is so inconvenient on a tidal river course that no- 
body cares to be bothered with it. But it would be easy to 
amend it in such a way as to meet the fin-keel problem. 
Add, for instance, to the racing length all of the draft, or a 
certain percentage of the draft in excess of, say. two-thirds 
of the beam This would permit a jacht of 6ft. beam to 
draw 4ft. without tax on draft, and one of 9ft. benm to draw 
6ft., and by adding any excess of draft to the racing length 
the carrying of low-down lead bulbs on metal fins would be 
discouraged. 
Is not the rule, with an amendment in the line of my sug- 
gestion, a very simple and effective one, meddlintr very little 
with the designer, and not at all with the sail-maker? 
J. L. Stewart. 
Chatham, N. B.,Nov. 26. 
Lake Y. B. A. Annual Meetiag. 
HAMILTON, ONT. 
Saturdaij, Dec. 4. 
The annual meeting of the Lake Yacht Racing Associa- 
tion was held at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton, on Dec. 4, all 
the enrolled clubs being represented. Notice had been given 
of several amendments to the measurement rules, all dealing 
with the coefficient of the midship section, but after long 
discussion no changes of importance were made. Provision 
was made, however, for a restricted class of cabin knock- 
abouts in addition to existing classes. 
The tables of scantlings prepared by W. P. Stephens were 
adopted, with a vote of appreciation of the care and labor be- 
stowed on them. Kingston was named as the next place for 
the annual meeting, and Com. Strange, K. Y C, waselected 
president of the Association. The question of a circuit next 
year was left to the Council. In the evening the visiting 
delegates were entertained at dinner by the Hamilton Cluh. 
A fuller report will appear next week. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES.' 
Catania, steam yacht, the Duke of Sutherland, has been 
chartered by Cornelius Vanderbilt, who joins her at Mar- 
seilles, on Dec. 10, for a cruise in the Mediterranean. 
White Ladye, steam yacht, Mrs. Lily Langtry, was sold at 
auction on Nov. 24 by Thompson & Campbell, London. 
This magnificent vessel brought but £11,200 ($56,000), the 
purchaser being John Lawson Johnston. It is very cruelly 
said that when Mr. Johnston recently purchased Britannia 
from the Prince of Wales, he did so in the belief that she was 
a steam yacht; and that, being now undeceived, he has pur- 
chased White Ladye for his cruising. 
TheSeabury Co., at Morris Heights, has an order from a 
New York yachtsman for a steam yacht lOSft. over all, 83ft. 
l.w.L, 15ft. beam, and 8ft. draft, with flush deck and 
schooner rigged. 
At New Rochelle Thomas Webber has commenced work 
on a 51-footer of his own design for Mr. Baird, of Philadel- 
phia, for whom Mr. Webber built the successful Surprise 
last year. The new yacht will be a centerboard craft, and 
designed for racing in the class. 
Katrina, cutter, has recently been sold, and Messrs. Smith 
«& Barbey are making a new sail plan for a yawl rig. 
Intrepid, schr.. designed by A. Cary Smith, and built by 
Poillon in 1878 for Lloyd Phoenix, has just been under sur- 
vey preparatory to a winter cruise to the West Indies, having 
recently been purchased by E. T. Hunt, of Brooklyn. 
Varuna, steam yacht, Eugene Higgins, sailed from New 
York on Nov. 20, with her owner and friends on board, for 
Bermuda, Madeira, Gibraltar, and then through the Medi- 
terranean for several months. She arrived at Bermuda on 
Nov. 30. 
A yacht club has just been organized on the Hackensack 
River under the name of the Bergen County Y. C, the 
officers being: Com.. John Wallace, New Y^'ork city; Treas., 
Louis Mangin, West Hoboken; Sec'y. Henry C. Q.uelch, 
Jersey City; Treas., Robert Woodman, North Bergen; Board 
of Trustees: Henry J. Rippas, Charles C. Aimone, Robert 
Woodman, Van O. Nevins, August Mangin, Gratien A. 
Vinger and William V. Collins; Regatta Committee: Louis 
Mangin, Van O. Nevins and William V. Collins; Member- 
ship Committee: George P. Breakey, Emil Frantz and EmU 
Angot. The sailing course will be on the Hackensack, be- 
tween the Plank Road and Little Ferry, five miles. A 
club house will be built at the bridge. The club will hold 
regular races for small craft. 
AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION, 1897-98. 
Commodore, F. L. Dunnell, BrooWyn, N. Y. 
Sec'y-Treas.. C. V. Schuyler, 309 Sixth avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Bayonne, N. J. 
PURSERS. 
Atlantic Division. Wm. M. Carpenter, Main street , Sing Sing, N. Y. 
Central Division, Laurence C. Woodworth, Gouverneur, N. Y. 
Eastern Division, F. J Barrage, West Newton, Mass. 
Northern Division, Edgar C. Woolsey, 37 Charles St., Ottawa, Can. 
Annual dues, $1; initiation fee, $1. 
WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION, 1895-96. 
Commodore, C. F. Pennewell, Detroit, Mich. 
Vice-Commodore, Nat. H. Cook, Chicago, lU. 
Eear-Commodore, E. H. Holmes, Milwaukee, WlB. 
Sec'y-Treas., W. D. Stearns, Detroit, Mich. 
Executive Committee: R. M. Lamp, Madison, Wis.; O. J. Steactoan 
OInciniiati, O.; F. W. Dickens, Milwaukee, Wis. 
