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boat. As an instance of the amount of trouble that would 
be saved, we may say that for the Nautilus canoe now 
building, fourteen scale drawings at full size have been 
made for templates to be made from for stich as the above 
metal fittings, and these are exclusive of the center plate 
and rudder fittings, which, being of special novel pattern, 
must have complete drawings and templates made in any 
case. Illustrated catalogues and price lists of "yacht, 
boat, and canoe hardware" are common in America; and 
though the form of the fittings may not be quite our notion 
of the best, no doubt the enterprising purveyors, with keen 
eye to competition, would soon "put on" any approved new 
pattern. 
Going from mere hull and rigging fittings, which are 
and can be obtained to one's own desire, on giving a little 
trouble and at some extra expense, there are some other 
requisites for small craft and for cruising canoes which, 
so far as we can at present ascertain, are unobtainable, 
except, possibly, on special order and at prohibitive ex- 
pense. It will be conceded by every expert cruising man, 
whether he goes to sea in a "single hander," a canoe-yawl, 
or in a canoe, that two things absolutely necessary for safe 
navigation from place to place are compass and clock; that 
in addition to these a reliable and powerful lamp is a sine 
qua non. The expert will also admit that, in the quick, 
jerky movements of small boats, the ordinary balanced 
compass card is practicallj' useless, and that only a spirit 
compass fills the bill. There is no such thing of a practical 
size on the market. The lifeboat .spirit compass in its bin- 
nacle is twice as large and heavy as would be suitable for 
a canoe-yaAvl or a canoe. No binnacle is needed; night 
passages are seldom, if ever, made. What is wanted is a 
plainly marked spirit compass, with about aj/iin. card, with 
a revolving rim outside the top of the case, holding a 
couple of fold-down sights used as bearing finders, the 
rim removable for ordinary steering work: the case, thor- 
oughly well weight balanced, should be set in jimbalis and 
held by a bracket, like a cabin swing candlestick, so as to be 
connected to the well coaming just as is a bicycle lamp 
to the bracket on the machine. Thus, when fog is ex- 
pected, or it becomes necessary to steer a compass course 
or to take a bearing, the compass can be picked out of the 
locker and shipped in a convenient place for work. 
As to clock, for time of tide and a dozen other uses, of 
course, such things are made, but what the cruising man 
wants is to be able to purchase such things ready cased for 
salt-water roughing. A "railway guard's" eight-day 
watch, with very plain black figures and hands, the rest 
of the face being of luminous white enamel, together with 
a similar sized aneroid, should be set firmly in a plain 
mahogany case, with thick plate glass front, as a lid open- 
ing for winding up and aneroid setting purposes, but clos- 
ing washer bound so as to exclude all damp. Such a case, 
made of J4in. mahogany and ^in. glass, measures S^in. 
by 3/4in. by.i^in. ; both instruments should be well bedded 
and turnbotton held in place, and not merely hung on 
hooks ; a couple of small brass plates standing out from 
the back of the case enable it to be fastened in some place 
convenient to the skipper, but the case must be watertight. 
The glass should be bedded in the lid frame with varnish 
before the four parts of such frame -are screwed to- 
gether. 
The infallible lamp of great power is as yet not obtain- 
able in reasonablj' small size, nor of convenient shape and 
make, for boat for boat work. Trimming oil lamps in a 
boat is nasty, troublesome work, and we hope it is no 
longer necessarj'i that is if the new acetylene gas lamps 
are really practical things, where a loaded cartridge is in- 
serted and lighted, and no other trimming needed, and a 
most brilliant light results. The canoe-yawl or sailing 
canoe may very easily, early or late in the season, find 
herself with darkness come on, and yet a mile or two of 
her passage to make. In busy places, such as Southamp- 
ton Water or the estuary of the Thames, she may be cut 
down in a minute by some fussy little steamer if she does 
not show a light; and to recover damages for a collision 
she must, even though only a canoe, comply with article 7, 
subsection 3, of the "Rules of the Road at Sea," and must 
"exhibit in sufficient time to prevent collision a lantern 
with a green glass on one side and a red glass on the 
other, so that the green shall not be seen on the port side 
nor tbe red on the starboard side." This means a green or 
red shield to be clapped on over the white, as may be 
wanted, and exposed with care. This lamp would be 
necessary now on any navigable water, necessary to pre- 
vent damage as well as to recover damages. If made in 
suitable size no doubt there would be a large sale for so 
cleanly a lamp, and the price need be but little more than 
that of a bicycle lamp, as the only extra would be the two 
colored glass plates and suitable fittings for them. 
Red Dragon C. C. 
The Red Dragon Canoe Club, of Philadelphia, held its 
annual meeting at the Colonnade Hotel on Jan. 6. The 
following officers were chosen: Com., Joseph Edward 
Alurray; Vice-Com., F. L. Wise; Purser, Omar Shall- 
cross; Quartermaster, H. E. Bachmann; Correspondent, 
Will K. Park; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. F. O. Gross; Measurer, 
H. E. McCormick: Trustee, for three years, M. D. Wilt; 
House Committee, H. M. Rogers, Lloyd Titus, R. G. 
Fleischmann and H. E. Bachmann. 
The purser's report showed the club to be in a most 
excellent financial condition. Several new members have 
joined the club within the past j'^ear, and some new canoes 
have been added to the fleet. 
The prize offered for the greatest mileage made in 
canoes under sail or paddle or both, during the year of 
1898, was awarded to E. W. Crittenden, with 347 miles. 
M. D. Wilt was his nearest competitor, with 231 miles. 
The annual camp mess was held at Dooner's Hotel, 
Philadelphia, Wednesday evening, Jan. 11. There was a 
full attendance of members, and the affair was a success. 
W. K. P, 
Western Canoe Association. 
The mid-winter meeting of the exectitive committee of 
the Western Canoe Aisociation will be held at the Hotel 
Pfister, Milwaukee, on Jan- 21, 1899, at 2 P. M. The 
question of joining the American Canoe Association will 
be decided at this meeting, and all members are invited to 
attend. To those members who have not as yet responded 
to recent circular the committee urges an immediate reply. 
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 aemonstrated by patrons who have employed 
its columns continuously for years. 
On Saturday, Jan. 14, Defender was launched from the 
new railway in the Herreshoff shops, and moored to a 
buov in the bay, The work on her plating has been com- 
pleted, but the decks have to be caulked. The lead keel 
for the new yacht will be run at once. 
The Canada Cup. 
The competition for the Canada cup, challenged for by 
the Chicago Y. C, promises to be one of the great yacht- 
ing events of 1899. Both sides are now busy in prepara- 
tions for trial fleets. Tbe Chicago Y, C. will hold its 
trial races from July 4 on through the week. A sum of 
$1,000 has been appropriated for prizes, the first prize to 
be at least $500. The following, just prepared by the 
club, gives full particulars of the conditions of the trial 
races: 
Entry Blaofc. 
The Yacht Club, of enters 
the yacht .... , owner for the trial 
races to be held during the week vcommencing July 4, 
1899, off the port of Chicago. Illinois, under the auspices 
of the Chicago Yacht Ouh, for the purpose of selecting 
its representative in the match for Canada's cup. 
The Chicago Yacht Club accepts the entry of the yacht 
for said trial races, subject to the following 
conditions, which are hereby agreed to by the said 
Yacht Club, and . . . » , owner of said 
yacht : 
I, All yachts entered for the trial races must be meas- 
ured by the Committee of the Chicago \''acht Club be- 
fore the day of the first race. 
• 2. No yacht Shall be eligible to contest in the trial races 
unless it is built in accordance with the rules of the 
Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes, and the agree- 
ment made between the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and 
the Chicago Yacht Club. 
3. The yacht selected to represent the Club shall be the 
one which in the judgment of the committee shall be the 
best adapted therefor, and not necesarily the winner of a 
majority of the trial races. Additional races may be 
ordered sailed by the committee between such contestants 
as they may select. 
4. All races shall be sailed under the racing nUes of the 
Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes. 
5. In the event of a race being postponed or ordered re- 
sailed, it shall be sailed at as early a date as possible. 
6. The trial races will take place in the early part of 
July, off Chicago, and the courses and instructions will 
be furnished to the owners of competing yachts on or be- 
fore June 20, 1899. 
7. A purse of $1,000 will be offered for prizes, such 
amount to be divided according to the number of boats 
competing; but in no case shall the first prize be less 
than $500. 
8. All entries for the trial races must be made by the 
clubs to which the owners of the respective yachts belong. 
Entries must be made on or before June 15, 1899. 
9. The Chicago Yacht club reserves the right to refuse 
any entry which may be tendered. 
10. If the yacht shall be chosen "as^' the 
representative of the Chicago Y'acht Club in said match, 
then the Racing Committee of the Chicago Yacht Club 
shall take the entire control and management of said 
yacht until after the match race at Toronto, 
and shall then deliver said yacht to the said 
, owner, at the port of , in as 
good condition as when it was turned over to saicl Com- 
mittee, ordinary wear and tear excepted. 
II. It is understood that the Chicago Yacht Club shall 
be held blameless for injury to said yacht , 
which may happen, (a) on account of the ordinary perils 
of the sea, (b) on account of the fault of the crew of said 
yacht, providing said crew is the one selected by the 
owner, and not by the Race Committee, and (c) on ac- 
count of fault}'' construction. 
Accepted: 
Owner. 
Secretary. 
Gilberts Bar Y. C 
Waveland, Fla., Jan. 2. — The opening day of the Gil- 
bert's Bar Y. C. was on Saturday, T)eG. 31. The wind was 
southeast and very light. 
In the first class the boats finished in the following 
order : Joker. Penguin, Omega, Britannia, Albatross. 
In the second class : Ethel, Swallow. 
After the race a shoot was held. 
Men's shoot : Mr. Tyndall first, Air. Harmer second. 
Ladies' shoot : Mrs. Andrews fir^t, Mrs. Hoke second. 
Prizes were presented to the winners of the different 
events. ; C. B. B. Harrison, Sec'y. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The annual meeting of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. 
C. was held on Jan. 10, with Com. Rouse in the chair. 
The officers and committees reported a generally pros- 
perous sea.son, in spite of the war, with an unusually large 
amount of racing, partly through the success of the new 
knockabout class. The following officers were unanimous- 
ly elected: Com., Henry Clark Rouse; Vice-Com., Col- 
gate Hoyt ; Rear-Com., Henry C. Eno ; Sec'y, Charles J. 
Stevens; Treas., R. C. Wetmore; Meas., John Hyslop ; 
Fleet Surgeon, H. Holbrook Curtis, M. D..; Fleet Chap- 
kin, George R. Van de Water, D, D. ; Race Committee, 
Waltef C. Kerr, Charles A, Sherman, C. W. Wetmore, 
Clinton H. Crane and Johnson de Forest; Committee on 
Lectures and Entertainments, Frank S. Hastings, Allan E, 
Whitman and Jacob Wendell, Jr. ; Committee on Lines 
and Models, John Hyslop, A. Gary Smith and W. P. 
Stephens; Law Committee, Wilmot T. Cox, Alfred Ely 
and W. Kinzing Post; Trustee, Class 1900, Nelson B. 
Burr; Class 1901, Walter Luttgen; Class 1902, E. C. Bene- 
dict, Clinton H. Crane and D. Le Roy Dresser. It was 
voted to endorse the challenge already made by the race 
committee tq the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. for a race for 
the Seawanhaka cup in 1899. 
The executive committee of the Long Lsland Sound Y. 
R. A. .spent a pleasant evening on Jan. 13 in discussing 
three protests referred to it by the Seawanhaka C. Y. C. 
race committee. All related to alleged fouls in the knock- 
about races in Oyster Bay during the past summer. In 
two cases the committee upheld the decision of the race 
committee, in the third case it decided that the evi- 
dence was insufficient to enable it to make a decision. It 
was decided to reconsider the limits of planking in the 
21 and iSft. classes as adopted at the previous meeting, 
making them 5^in. instead of H'm., and y'/m. instead of 
'5^in. re.spectiyely. The full text of the new rules and 
regulations will shortly be published. 
Robert C. H. Brock, owner of the schooner yacht Rebec- 
ca, has brought suit in the United States District Court 
to recover $12,450 damages from Hughes Brothers & 
Bangs, who are building the new harbor of refuge at the 
mouth of Delaware Bay. Mr, Brock claims that on the 
night of Sept. 21, while the vessel was endeavoring to 
secure an anchorage in the Delaware Bay, she struck the 
breakwater, which was not visible above water, being just 
awash, which caused the loss of the vessel, with every- 
thing on board. Mr. Brock claims that the contractors 
are liable by reason of their negligence in not having a 
light displayed on the hidden danger. He claims $600 for 
tbe loss of property of his guests, who were on board at 
the time of the disaster. The writ was served on Mr. 
Bangs, one of the members of the firm, by United States 
Marshal Myers. 
The annual meeting of the Genesee. Yacht Racing As- 
sociation, of Rochester, was held on Jan. 9, the following 
officers being elected: Com., F. E. Henrickson; Vice- 
Com., F. T. Christy; Fleet Capt, F. A, Miller; Direc- 
tors, L. J. Perry, A. N. Bennett, W. F. Meyer. 
Ariel, schr., G. H. B. Hill, has been sold through 
Messrs. Tarns & Lemoine to Francis L. Leland, N. Y. 
Y. C. 
The annual meeting of the Indian Harbor Y. C. was 
held on Jan. 11 at the Hotel Manhattan, New York; the 
following officers being elected : Com., C. T. Wills ; Vice- 
Com., George G. Tyson; Rear-Com,, Isaac A. Hopper; 
Sec'y, Charles F. Stewart; Treas., Richard Otttwater; 
Trustees, C. S. Somerville and J. H. Downing; Regatta 
Committee, F. Bowne Jones, Charles E. McManus, D. 
Willis Merritt, Lee C. Hart and Thomas A. Mead. 
Messrs. Geo. B. Carpenter & Co., the ship chandlers 
and sailmakers, of Chicago, celebrated the new year by a 
ball, given by the firm to its numerous employees on Jan, 
7. The different floors of the company's sail lofts were 
specially lighted by electricity and fitted for dancing and 
supper, an elaborate banquet being prepared by a local 
caterer. A large number of employees were present with 
their friends; the members of, the firm being on hand as 
hosts. 
Mr. H. C. Wintringham, designer of Emerald, hds de- 
signed a steam yacht for J. R. Maxwell, wliich will be 
built by the Pusey & Jones Company, of VVilmington, Del. 
She will be of steel, 140ft. 3in. over all, 117ft. l.w.l., i8ft. 
6in. beam, iift. hold and 7ft. draft, schooner rigged. She 
will have triple expansion engines, by J. W. Sullivan, 12, 
18, 20 and 20 by i8in., with two Almy boilers. 
The Massachusetts and the Hull yacht clubs have just 
consolidated imder the name of the Hull-Massachusetts 
Y. C, the annual meeting being held on Jan. 14. The 
following oflicers were elected: Com., Edwin P. Boggs, 
steamer Nashawena; Vice-Com., Winthrop Thayer, 
.steamer Zuleika; Rear-Com., Louis M. Clark, knockabout 
Spinster; Sec'y, William Avery Gary; Treas., John L. 
Amory; Meas., William E. Sheriffs; Executive Commit- 
tee, James R. Hooper, J. J. Souther; Member.5hip Com- 
mittee, William B. Emery, Charles Hayden; Regatta 
Committee, Henry M. Faxon, C. Edwin Bockus. The new 
club starts with a membership of 366 and a cash balance of 
$650. The Massachusetts Y. C. is an enlargement of the 
famous old Dorchester Y. C. 
The annual meeting of the Dorchester C. was held 
on Jan. 11 at the club house, the following officers being 
elected: Com., Franklin L. Codman; Vice-Com., Dr. W. 
S. Smith; Rear-Com., Thomas F. Temple, Jr.; Treas., 
George H. Collyer; Sec'y, W. Ross Guilford; Meas., C. 
W. A. Bartlett; Board of Directors, Commodore, Vice- 
Commodore, Secretary and' Treasurer, ex officio, and C. 
H. Nute, W. H. Swift, H. W. Smith ; House Committee, 
Fred P. Hayward Hjalmar Lundberg, W. S. Mace; Mem- 
bership Committee, W. G. Hayward, Theodore W. 
Souther. C. W. A. Bartlett. Dr. J. H. Daly, W. Ross Guil- 
ford; Regatta Committee, T. W. King, O. F. Davenport, 
A. P. Nute, J. C. Gray, Thomas Leavitt. 
At the annual meeting of the Shackamaxon Y. C. on 
Jan. 3, the following officers were elected: Com., John 
Engle, Sr.; Vice-Com., Isrial Jones; Rec. Sec'y, Henry 
S. Anderson, 309 East Cabot street, Philadelphia, Pa.; 
Fin. Sec'y, Rollins B. Murphy ; Treas., Wm. Gaun ; Fleet 
Capt., Frederick Anderson ; Measurers, Wm. Cravin, Wm. 
Wurst, Geo. Le Sage; Board of Directors, John Engle, 
Wm. Gaun, Max Schladensky, S. B, Edwards, Henry S. 
Anderson. 
The members of the Horseshoe Harbor Club, of Larch- 
mont, met at the Manhattan Hotel on Monday evening 
for their annual meeting, and elected officers for the ensu- 
ing year: Com., Albert C. Smith, Oconnee ; Vice-Com., 
Frank E. Towle, Fairy; Sec'y. W._ J. Merrill ; Treas., Dun- 
can Sterling, and Trustee, Eustis L. Hopkins. The re- 
ports of the various committees showed the club to be in 
excellent condition in all departments. Over forty mem- 
bers were present, among them being ex-Commodores 
Joseph H. Sterling and George S. Towle; Vice-Commo- 
