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FOREST AND STREAM. 
fachting. 
As the yachting journal of America, the Forest and Stream is 
the recognized medium of communication between the maker of 
yachtsmen's supplies and the yachting public. Its value for ad- 
vertising has been uemonstrated by patrons who have employed 
its columns continuously for years. 
The most important question to be considered at the 
coming meeting of the Yacht Racing Union is that of 
the measurement rule. There has been for over a year 
a general expectation that some final action in the adop- 
tion of an improved rule would be taken at this meeting. 
The indications now are that this expectation will not 
be realized, as nothing has been done during the past 
summer in the way of deliberation and discussion. It 
is impossible for the members or the council to frame a 
new rule in the very short time available for such work 
at the coming annual meeting, and the ' probabilities 
are that the new building season will begin with the 
measurement question in the same confused state as m 
former years. '_ 
The formal challenge of the Seawanhaka. C. Y. C , 
practically the same in wording as the telegram al- 
ready published, was received in Montreal on Sept. 22, 
and will be accepted by the Royal St. Lawrence Y, C. 
Nothing has yet been proposed in the way of amending 
the conditions. 
One of the best known of the old-time yachts, the 
schooner Rebecca, modeled by George Steers in 1855, 
and since in regular service, came to her end on Sept. 
21, being wrecked on the new works of the Delaware 
breakwater at 4 A. M., while trying to find shelter un- 
der the lee of the breakwater. She was returning to her 
home port, Philadelphia, from Bar Harbor, with her 
owner, Robert H. C. Brock, and friends on board. All 
hands were rescued by tugs after taking refuge on the 
rocks of the new work. 
Dominion* 
The Canadian 20-footer Dominion, the defender of the 
Seawanhaka international challenge cup, 18 remarkable 
as the most extreme and at the same time the most 
successful of the fin-de-siecle type of racing mach'r.e. 
She has already aroused a lively discussion Mt is II! ?iy 
to result sooner or later in a radical re^ n of Jnc 
rules governing the class, and possibly g> the general 
rule governing all the smaller classes. T r -° situation at 
the present time seems to be that either this new type 
must be recognized as legitimate in all classes, or some 
material change of the rules must be made to bar the en- 
DOMINION. 
Sections showing construction. 
tire scow type to which she belongs. We are indebted 
to her designer, Mr. G. Herrick Duggan, of the Royal 
St. Lawrence Y. C., for the design and various sketches 
illustrating the details of construction and other im- 
portant points. The original design was contracted, the 
longitudinal scale being iin. and' the transverse scale 
i^in.^ but it has been redrawn in its~ true proportions. 
The dimensions of Dominion are: , 
Length over all 35ft. 10 in. 
l.w.l • • • 17ft. 6 in.. 
Beam, extreme r 7ft. 7J&1. 
l.w.l, over all 7ft. i l / 2 in. 
l.w.l., one bilge 2ft. S^in. 
Draft, hull >• • 10 in. 
with board . 6ft. 
Freeboard" .... .". : ift. 
Sheer, bow • ■ • • 3 " 5 in. 
stern : none. 
Displacement i,7Solbs. 
Area midship section, total 2.88sq.ft. 
Sail ares 5<x> sq.ft. 
