FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 5, 1898. 
30 
Z5 20 ' 15 ~~~ " 
CANOE- YACHT EEL. 
y ' EEL TABLE OF OFFSETS. 
Measurements to outside of plank and deck. Measurements in feet, inches and eighths. 
10 
i 
Stations 
Heights. 
Half Breadths. 
Keel, 
Bottom. 
Rabbet. 
Deck at 
Side. 
Deck at 
Center. 
Level Lines. 
Rabbet. 
Diagonals. 
Deck. 
C 
B 
A 
L.W. L. 
W. 1 
W. 2 
W. 3 
D 1 
D 2 
D 3 
4 8* 
4 
85 
4 
85 
|2 
02 
02 
02 
02 
02 
02 
12 
05 
83 
■ 04 
04 
0.... ...... 
2 
2 4 
4 
72 
4 
T' 
92 
8" 
6' 
.=>« 
23 
02 
|2 
74 
.55 
J ......... . 
1 13 
1 43 
4 
45 
4 
63 
1 
1 
62 
1 
3' 
1 
T 
24 
12 
1 
73 
1 5 
1 n 
2 
7-6 
1(16 
4 
31 
4 
5 
2 
45 
2 
2' 
2 
05 
1 
9 
1 
83 
91 
31 
2 
2 
34 
1 115 
1 75 
41 
T' 
3 
11 « 
4 
35 
2 
104 
2 
93 
2 
75 
2 
4« 
1 
102 
1 
3s 
V 
25 
3' 
2 
9' 
2 45 
1 11« 
4 
15 
1 
3 
9' 
4 
45 
3 
3 
3 
23 
3 
12 
2 
10" 
2 
5« 
1 
8« 
115 
53 
6 
8 
31 
2 32 
2 22 
03 
8 
83 
4 
14 
3 
55 
8 
53 
3 
43 
3 
21 
2 
10 
2 
04 
1 2 
7 
74 
3 
61 
2 103 
3 35 
6 
6 
.56 
3 
T' 
4 
05 
3 
6» 
3 
6« 
8 
6' 
3 
42 
3 
04 
2 
24 
1 28 
7» 
S 
11 
7' 
2 112 
2 4 
3 
63 
3 
11' 
3 
6' 
3 
6' 
3 
64 
8 
4' 
3 
11 
2 
33 
1 I'- 
72 
7 
3 
84 
3 114 
2 35 
53 
3 
6' 
8 
111 
3 
55 
3 
55 
3 
53 
3 
35 
2 114 
2 
13 
ll! 
5' 
62 
33 
3 
73 
2 102 
2 22 
4" 
3 
63 
3 
10' 
3 
' 31 
3 
8' 
8 
24 
3 
02 
2 
64 
1 
61 
73 
85 
8 
43 
2 75 
2 01 
O* 
43 
71 
8 
105 
2 
10« 
2 
105 
2 
93 
2 
6 
1 
104 
103 
9« 
21 
2 
2 11 
2 35 
1 86 
11 
15 
4' 
3 
84 
8 
10' 
■2 
33 
2 
8 
2 
1' 
1 
83 
113 
4 
15 
IS 
12 
2 
3« 
1 10 
1 43 
2 53 
3 
103 
8 
112 
1 
28 
1 
13 
9 
13 
05 
12 
1 
24 
104 
5' 
.3 114 
3 
114 
114 
12 
05 
05 
05 
05 
05 
05 
05 
12 
05 
0" 
0« 
side. The mast pivots on a shaft, G, and is supported by the 
forestay. The heel is fastened by a stout iron wedge, V, and 
the iron band, E, thus keeping the heel from swinging forward. 
The mizzenmast steps in a plain wooden mast box. 
The roller jib is shown in detail. The roller is of pine or spruce, 
l%in. in diameter. It is ploughed out to form a circular groove 
at the center, and a movable slip, H, is fitted to fill the remainder 
of the groove. This slip is held in place by the lashing of the 
sail. At the lower end of the roller is a brass reel, on which is 
wound the rolling line. The roller and reel are shipped on the wire 
forestay, which is shackled to the bowsprit iron; the sail is lashed 
to the roller, holding the slip, H, in place, and the rolling line 
is made fast to the reel. The line must lead fairly from the reel 
to a fairleader on the bowsprit and must always be kept rattier 
taut; by slacking the jib sheet and hauling on the rolling line, the 
jib rolls neatly around the roller and may be reefed to any re- 
quired size or stowed entirely. Bv slacking the rolling line steadily 
and at the same time hauling on the jib sheet, the sail may be set. 
Ihe mamsheet block is of a Dutch pattern, the toe, D, being 
used to hook the fall under, in place of a fixed cleat. There is 
no opportunity to use a fixed traveler, and the sheet is made 
fast to the thwart. The mast ring or traveler is shown in detail. 
A jointed iron ring with lugs forged on to form a block; a loop 
on the. lower side takes the upper end of a flexible wire pendant 
supporting the heel of the yard. The yard is fitted with a strap 
of copper, lashed to it with wire, in which is pinned a metal 
block, A. At the masthead is a double block for the two parts 
of the halyard, the hauling part, 1, and the purchase, 2, the latter 
being seldom needed. The mast ring and also the jaws of the 
mizzen yard are leathered and greased. 
The yacht handles well under every combination, of three sails, 
main and mizzen, mainsail only, or mizzen and jib. She is sailed 
a full inch below the designed l.w.l., with the amount of inside 
ballast_ given in the table. She carries 25 fathoms of 5-16in. chain, 
galvanized; a 2%in. warp and two anchors— one of 201bs., long in 
the shank and broad and sharp in the flukes, and an extra one 
of SOlbs., seldom used. A 12ft. sweep is carried, with a crutch 
on the starboard side, as shown, and one on the port quarter, 
for sculling. The bowsprit and boomkin are ordinary hand- 
spikes, of American hickory, very tough and strong. The tender 
IS a 7ft. dinghy, of 3ft. 6in. beam, designed by Mr. Holmes, and 
rejoicing in the name of Snig. 
Measarement Rtiles. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
With the abolition of time allowance, the measurement question 
is simplified. Two questions only remain— classification, and regu- 
lations to insure the building of safe and commodious yachts. 
To be fairly matched against each other, yachts in the same 
class should have the same sail spread; and this is sufficient 
classification. 
\Vhenever the members of a club can agree in defining a 
desirable type of yacht with respect to safety and accommodation, 
in terms of length, beam, draft and displacement (and this is the 
easiest way to define it), the building of such yachts may easily 
be enforced. 
The writer's present purpose, however, is not so much to re- 
state this view ^ in these columns as to cite a modern instance. 
It has been objected that it is both wrong in principle and im- 
practicable to make arbitrary restrictions the basis of measure- 
ment rules. It is now announced that the race committees of the 
Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 
have arranged a race for the international challenge cup under 
the following measurement rule: 
"There shall be no time allowance. Sail area shall not exceed 
500ft. L.W.L. length shall not exceed 17.76ft. Draft shall not ex- 
ceed 5ft." , . 1 
This is the whole thing; and it promises to give an interesting 
race. Sextant. 
Manatee, steam vacht, formerlv Mischief, has been sold by A 
C. Box to W. R. Ellison, J. H. Carstairs and A. M. Taylor. 
