Jan. 28, 1899.] 
vision should be made for the pull of the halyards on the 
hitts, blocks and hooks around ibe mast. For this pur- 
pos(? bolts may be rnn from deck to Iceel, or iron 
braces may be fitted below deck, well bolted to the 
mast. At least three hanging knees should be worked 
on each side, and in the larger yachts there should be 
hanging knees on the main beams at bitts, partners, 
middle and after end of house and transom. Lodging 
knees should also be worked about the partners and ni 
either end of house. 
The shelf or clamp may be reinforced by foie and aft 
pieces abreast of the channels, worked inside the shelf 
and up under the deck beams and covering at least six 
frame spaces. Similar pieces may also be worked lower 
down, to take the lower bolts of the main chainplatcs. 
The America Cup. 
An attempt was made on Jan. 21 to cast the lead keel 
for the new Morgan j^acht, but it was unsuccessful, and 
the work was stopped after some lead had been run into 
the mould. The reports are that one of the two melting 
pots cracked, and again that the pots were located so 
far from the mould that the lead cooled in the leaders. 
The following is from the Boston Globe of Jan. 21: 
Extended experiments have been made at the Herres- 
Iioff Works with a view to testing the value and prac- 
ticability of what may be called a "knuckle joint" plat- 
ing, but all indications are that this method has not been 
adopted, but that the usual form of "in-and-out" plating 
will be used, with a possible modification based on the 
experiments made for the first-named method. 
A- "knuckle joint" plating would mean one in wloich the 
edges of the plates would be flanged inward, and then 
riveted together by the flanges, instead of having the riv- 
eting done in the overlap of the plates, as in the custo- 
mary form- of "in-and-out" plating. The advantages 
would be a smooth outside surface, in which all possible 
resistance from the edges of the plates in the ordinary 
style would be done away with. A little seam would 
show where the flanges turn inward, but that would be 
filled with cement, so as to make the entire surface of the 
body uniform in smoothness. 
At the same time the flanges would strengthen and 
stiffen the plates and permit the use of thinner ones than 
by the usual form of lap. 
The method has disadvantages as well as advantages. 
To flange all the plates on both edges and make a smooth 
joint would be a long, tedious and expensive job, entail- 
ing probably a new block for bending each plate and ex- 
tremely careful fitting and riveting. Cost would not, of 
course, be considered, but time is a factor, and the boat 
is to be launched by the first of June. 
A practical modification of the "knuckle joint" plan 
would be the use of "in-and-out" plating, but with the 
"in" plates flanged as for the other style. This would 
give practically the same stiffness to the plating and al- 
low the use of as thin plates, while at the same time allow- 
ing the usual way of fitting and riveting. The outside 
surface would be no smoother than shown in the "in-and- 
out" plating of Defender, but this is not so much of a 
disadvantage as to make the "knuckle joint" very much 
superior. 
The plating of Defender is so tapered in width from 
amidships to the ends as to have the seams follow very 
closely the diagonals of the boat. It is along these diag- 
onals, according to the accepted theory, that the water 
flows as the boat forces her way through it, and there- 
fore in making the plating correspond the friction is re- 
duced to a minimum. 
The modification as also experimented with is believed 
to be the one most likely to be shown if any flanging is 
done. 
Either style would necessitate the cutting of the flanges 
at every frame, or every 2oin., and while this weakening 
of the flange could be obviated by turning a flat plate 
around each frame and riveting it to each end of the cut 
flange, yet the process would be a long one. Still, it is 
believed that it would be possible to do the work by the 
modification as outlined before June i. 
Defender's frames were of steel. . Most of them were 
r s-i6in. on the flange, or the portion of the angle to 
which the plating is riveted, and 2j^in. on the web, or 
portion projecting into the boat. Some of the frames 
amidships were by aj^in., but all of them showed a 
^in. bulb on the web, greatly increasing their strength. 
The steel frames for the new boats are in varying sizes, 
as if greater differences were to be made between those 
amidships and those fore and aft than shown in Defender, 
but all show the same bulb and general characteristics. 
Another consignment of these steel bulbed angles for 
the new boat arrived to-day, and are from the rolling- 
mills at Phenixville, Pa., as were the angles that ar- 
rived last week. There are sixty-eight of the angles in 
this lot, and most of them are about 30ft. in length and 
about 3in. in width, the shorter angles being about 2m. 
in width and about 10 to 12ft. in length. This makes a 
total of exactly 186 bulbed angles that have arrived here 
from Phenixville. 
The Seawanhafca Cup. 
The following has been sent out from Montreal, folloW'- 
ing the visit of Mr. John Hyslop last week: 
The details for the next international races for the Sea- 
wanhaka cup, between the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. and 
the Seawanhaka Club have been arranged amicably, but 
they will not be made public till both clubs have signed 
them. Although it took a long time for the negotiations 
to be completed, this was due more to the difficulty on the 
part of both clubs to get committees together to discuss 
the affairs than to any squabbling about the details. There 
has been some very voluminous correspondence, when 
finally the Seawanhaka Club announced that they would 
send one of their members to discuss the matter with the 
gentlemen in charge of the affairs in Montreal. Yester- 
day Mr. Ilyslop, who for years has been the official 
measurer of the Seawanhaka Club, came here and spent 
the day in close conference with Mr. Duggan and the 
other gentlemen interested. The meeting was of the most 
amicable kind. Both sides were ready to make all possi- 
ble concessipp?, and- Mr. JJyslop wmt away wifli ihe 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
draft of the conditions in his pocket, leaving behind Hui 
the assurance that they would doubtless be accepted in 
New York. The three most novel and most important 
points are in regard to the time for holding the races, the 
form of the boats and their measurements. It was well 
understood last year when negotiations were opened 
again for another series of races between the clubs that 
the form question would be among the principal ones to 
be decided, so as to prevent any questions being raised 
at the lime of the races, as was done in the case of the 
Dominion. Therefore certain restriction.s have been 
placed upon the form of the boats. Restrictions have also 
been placed upon the length over all, but the question of 
solidity has been left in abeyance. The date, however, 
has been changed on account of the Canada's cup races, 
which will take place in August in Toronto, between the 
Chicago Y. C. and the Royal Canadian Y. C. The date 
has not yet been definitely settled, but it is expected that 
the races here will take place about the ,|uiddlc of July. 
Jenny Wren, Knockabout. 
We arc indebted to Mr. W. B. Stearns, of Marblehead, 
for the accompanying photo, taken by Mr, Willard Jack- 
son. The yacht is the handicap knockabout Jenny Wren, 
owned by Mr. F. E. Peabody. There was at the time a 
good sailing breeze and short sea, the single wave shown 
being but one of a series. 
Airs Well that Ends Well. 
I. 
It was all Vic's fault. There's no -doubt about that. If 
T start on a cruise or a picnic, I never leave anything be- 
hind; well, that is, haixUy ever. 
It was aU very Well for Vic to say that it was as much 
my picnic as his, and that I, being older and more experi- 
enced, should have looked all round, and should have seen 
that everything was on board. I'm too old a bird to take 
the blame when there is a decent excuse for shiiffling it 
off on some one else, and it was Vic's boat and his picnic; 
we didn't care whether we went or stayed, though we all 
thought it would be just the thing to give the Mater a 
nice quiet day at home without a lot of meals to get. The 
Mater appreciated our thoughtfulness, and packed up an 
ample lunch and tea for the five of us, taking careful ac- 
count of the Stony Lake appetites we were all known to 
pos.sess. 
It was a hot day, a genuine inland July scorcher, and the 
frogs basking in the sun at the boat house landing sizzled 
and hissed when our approach made them jump in alarm 
into the cool depths beneath the Hlypads and I'ushes. On 
such a day a straw hat with a 3ft. brim is the finest boat- 
ing cap ever invented, and when you get a crew of five 
strung from end to end of an iSft. partly decked skiff, you 
might almost take her for a straw stack gone adrift in a 
March flood. 
I cannot tell, dear reader, whether you know milch 
about Stony Lake or not. I do. It has some hundreds of 
islands and about as many rocks. I know there are rocks, 
because I had several opportunities of becoming intimately 
acquainted with some of them, being, so to speak, thrown 
into their company quite unexpectedlj', which is often a 
very good way indeed of becoming well acquainted with 
either persons or things. 
It was because I knew all about the rocks and islands 
that I was asked to sit forward on the lookout, where it 
was only possible to have a young lady on one side of me, 
while Vic, being at the tiller, had one next him to port 
and another to starboard. The above is the reason Vic 
gave, but I'm still in doubt myself; yet it may be so. 
Well, as I said before, I was to act as pilot, and under 
my guidance we got away about 10 A. M. with a moderate 
southeasterly breeze, our general course being about east 
by north. I say advisedly general, for the many islands 
introduced various kinks in our course, and also various 
kinks in the direction of the wind, which necessarily re- 
acted to make the boat's course still more erratic. 
Let me explain briefly the general features of Stony 
Lake. Imagine a miniature Muskoka minus the burnt 
pines, or a reduced copy of the Thousand Islands minus 
the fashion and expensive tourist resorts, and you have 
Stony Lake, a grand place to wear old clothes and to en- 
joj^ outdoor life to the full. A_bout twelve miles long al- 
together, it may be roughly divided as follows : Four 
miles at the southwest end practically free from islands, 
and appropriately called Clear Lake ; then an archipelago 
of islands, followed by a more or less clear stretch, brings 
us to'Boschink Narrows, some eight miles from Young's 
Point, at the southwest end of the lake; thence it is about 
four miles as the crow flies to the easterly end of the lake. 
At Boschink the lake is only about half a mile wide, and 
as it is thickly set with islands at this point, the boat chan- 
nels are very narrow. At no point is the lake more than 
two miles wide, so what with rocks jmd islands the navi- 
gation is often somewhat intricate. North of the eastern 
.end of Clear Lake an arm thickly studded with islands 
runs westerly some two miles to Burleigh Falls. 
We were at Boschink, and Jack's Creek at the far east- 
ern end of the lake was the point to which I was expected 
to pilot the party. I had, so far, only been as far east as 
Eels Creek, about half-way there, but my little chart would 
do the rest. 
Now the islands about us at the start were very pretty, 
I'll freely admit, but just then they came in for more left- 
handed blessings than artistic appreciation. .An opening 
appears between two islands, and rushing through it comes 
a vagrant zephyr, filling our sail, and gently waving our 
hat brims till we resemble more a row of huge yellow 
cabbage butterflies sitting on a log than sensible human 
beings oft" on an outing. Then a high bluff' on the next 
island interposes, and we crawl slowly along till a wander- 
ing air, stealing down a narrow cleft, takes us almost dead 
ahead, and Vic lets the boat fall off to keep her full. 
So we run on till, looking under the sail, I see big 
brown rocks just under our lee. "Put her about, Vic, 
quick!" I cr_y, and down goes the helm. But will she go 
about? Not a bit of it. The njore the boat conie?s up the 
79 
Tfiore the wind frees till Vic finds that, if he goes about he 
will be pointing for home again. 
However, the free wind suits us exactly, and away we 
bowl till a fresh island becalms the boat once more. 
I said it was hot when we started, but it was hotter now. 
No man dared move from his seat, for unless he sat: 
down again with the utmost accuracy on the same spot, he 
might as we^l have sat upon a red hot stove. A row of 
blackbirds sat upon a dead limb near by, with beaks open 
and wings hung out to cool. The rocks and trees upon the 
islands wavered and quivered like a landscape seen 
through a running brook, and a smell of heated pine and 
cedar floated over the water to our noses. 
But the worst of our trouble was over when once we 
drew out into the more open waters of the eastern end of 
the lake, where the islands seem to hug the southern 
shore. 
Here the breeze got a fair sweep at us, and we raced 
along at a glorious gait, quite happy and care free till 
certain black dots and breaking wave crests warned us 
the course was set with numerous rocks. 
"Keep her away, Vic. Keep her away," and a block 
of granite swept hy to starboard. 
"Luff her, quick!" and a brown swirl showed where a 
hidden rock flashed by to port. 
So we zigzagged our way down the lake, watching care- 
fullj-^ each breaking wave lest it meant a reef, and keep- 
ing clear of all low lying points lest they ran on beneath 
the water's surface. 
By and by we ran into the streaming weeds at the lake's 
end and dropped our canvas. 
No creek could be seen. Where was it? A gentle roar 
struck my ears and I said : "There's the creek," and 
pointed where a slight indentation showed itself a few 
hundred yards to the west. With a sigh, Vic dropped the 
oars in place and started to pull. He hates rowing when 
off for a sail, and his first strokes were gentle. We didn't 
seem to move. "Confoitnd the weeds," he said, and pidled 
harder. Still no move. He ground his teeth together, 
humped his back and gave a lift that would raise a church 
mortgage. The next instant he was flat on his back in 
the bottom of the boat, trying to think of something suit- 
able for a Sunday school teacher to say under such cir- 
cumstances. We were on drowned land, and had stuck on 
the branch of a submerged tree. Vic's last pull had 
started us so suddenly that his vigorous effort found in- 
sufficient resistance to balance the enormous surplus of 
power. 
Well, we found the creek, and found the rapids, the lat- 
ter being rather pretty, though not very imposing. 
On landing we scattered in search of huckleberries, and 
then, driven by hunger, found a picnic grotmd and un- 
loaded the boat. 
II. 
Now let's talk of graves and worms and epitaphs. Vi» 
was standing by the boat. I was standing on a rock near 
by, and the girls were setting the tablecloth some 50ft. 
away among the bushe,?. 
"Bring up the lunch basket, Vic," called a dulcet voice^ 
"Everything is up there," Vic called back. 
"There's no lunch basket up here," cried several voices 
together. I looked at Vic in blank dismay, and Vic 
looked at me. The lunch basket had been left behind. 
It was just like Vic to blame me for it, and to a.sk me 
why in thunder I didn't look to see that everything was 
aboard before we started. I told him that it wasn't my 
basket and it wasn't my picnic, and that I never cared 
much for lunch anyway. I had him there, for he was 
hungry for every meal, and half the time between meals 
too. 
But the girls — the mild reproach in their eyes made us 
sink our differences and try to find some way out of our 
dilemma. 
It meant a five mile trip with the thermometer over 90 
degrees to go back home, and the wind had almost 
vanished. Returning was not to be thought of. 
It then struck me that, nearer the end of the lakvi, I had 
noticed a log house and clearing, and I proposed to Vic 
that we go there and see if they had any bread to spare. 
This produced a very visible rise in spirits. 
Then some one mentioned that we had the ice box with 
the milk, butter, pickles, berries and a tin of beef, and 
at once the spirits of the party became about normal. 
It was a pretty walk to that house along a wagon track 
leading through the shade of an open second growth of 
oak, maple and other deciduous trees, with here and there 
near the lake the gaunt, bare trunk of some old burnt 
pine. 
After some fifteen minutes' walking we came to a 
clearing, and there stood the house, a two-story log af- 
fair with a potato field in front of it and wilted looking 
cabbages behind. 
Three boys ran out to meet its, respectively 3, 3VS and 
4ft. in height, each clad in a pair of well patched knicker- 
bockers, a blue cotton shirt and an old straw hat with a 
sugar loaf crown. I don't know whether the younger 
boys had tails to their shirts or not, but I am sure the 
eldest had, for it was sticking out of a hole behind. 
"Is your ma in. boys?" said Vic. 
A shrill cry of "Ma!" brought out a stout, good- 
humored, middle-aged woman, with bare feet, a blue gown 
and a crease around her where a belt indicated her waist 
ought to be. 
Time was precious, so we went straight to business and 
asked for bread. 
"No, sir. We haven't a bit in the house, and won't have 
till the boat comes in from Young's Point this evening." 
Vic looked at me reproachfully, as much as to say, "See 
what your grand scheme has amounted to." 
But I wasn't going to be beaten that way, and the idea 
of hot biscuits floated into my mind. I broached the sub- 
ject to the old ladJ^ and she took to it like a black bass to 
young frogs. 
"Emmy," she called, and a slighter edition of the old 
lad}^ appeared, similarly clad. 
"Can you bake these gentlemen a pan of biscuits?" 
Emmy thought she could. 
I suggested that there were five of us, and we were 
hungry. 
"Better bake two pans, Emmy.^* 
Emmy said she would. 
"How long?" said I, "and how much?" 
Emmy thought about half 4n hour wot^d do it, but 
