what she will prove to be when, niaay mote things are 
known about her than at present 
The Globe already has outHned her as a nlote power- 
ful and lightly constructed boat than Defender, with such 
modifications" in the latter's model as would make the new 
boat faster in reaching and down the wind with spinaker 
set, while at the same time losing none of Defender's 
"wind-jamming" qualities. An "improved Defender," 
with certainly no smaller sail plan, and probably as large 
a one as can be made to stay in place. 
Oregon pine mast, spruce topmast and bowsprit and 
steel gaff and boom can now also be added, with working 
sails of an improved weave of cotton duck and. the latest 
ideas in silk and linen for the light sails. 
Since Mr. Iselin declines to affirm or deny the truth of 
the many stories as to bronze or other plating which have 
come out since the Globe said nickel steel, the informa- 
tion on which the last named material was predicted is 
apparently as good as ever. 
The Seawanhaka Cup. 
The Seawanhaka international challenge cup for small 
yachts remains in the custody of the Royal St. Lawrence 
Y. C., of Montreal, Canada, the last match therefor hav- 
ing been won by Dominion against Challenger at Montreal 
in August last. 
The Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. has challenged for a 
match in the season of 1899, and the, challenge has been 
accepted for the 20ft. class, Seawanhaka measurement; 
the match will be sailed on the waters of Lake St. Louis, 
near Montreal, at a date hereafter to be announced. 
The Seawanhaka Club in this third effort to regain 
the cup earnestly invites from other yacht clubs of the 
United States the co-operation which for the last four 
seasons has been so generously given, and therefore pro- 
poses to hold open trial races for the purpose of selecting 
its representative yacht on July 8. 10 and 11, 1899. 
For the information of any who may be interested in the 
subject, and especially for the guidance of those who 
may contemplate making entries in the trial races, the 
race committee announces the following general conditions 
governing the cup, which are extracts from the declaration 
of trust executed by the Seawanhaka Club, and the fol- 
lowing general regulations for the control of the match, 
which have been agreed upon with the cKallenged club. 
[These conditions are the same as previously published 
in connection with former matches.] 
General Regulations Governing the Match for 1899, Be- 
tween the Representative Yachts of the Royal St. 
Lawrence Y. C, of Montreal, Holder of the Cup, and 
the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C, of New York, 
Challenger. 
The challenging and challenged clubs desire, as far as 
possible under the existing measurement rule, to prevent 
the extreme development of the more objectionable fea- 
tures of form, evident in yachts heretofore constructed 
with reference to competitions for the challenge cup, and 
to this end have agreed upon certain restrictions, eni- 
bodied in Article IX., following, to which attention is 
specially directed. 
Article I.— The courses shall consist of a triangular 
coutse and a course to windward and leeward and re- 
turn. Each leg of the triangular course shall be one and 
one-third nautical miles in length, and shall be ^sailed over 
three times, making a total of twelve miles. The course 
to windward and leeward and return shall be two nautical 
miles to each leg, and shall be sailed over three times, 
making a total of twelve miles. 
Article XL— The start shall be a one-gun flying start, 
with a preparatory signal. 
Article III. — The races shall be sailed without tmie al- 
lowance. 
Article IV.— Yachts must not exceed 20ft. racing length 
(S. C. Y. C. measurement). 
The formula for determining racing length under the 
S. C. Y. C. rules is as follows : 
JL.W.L.-(-VSail Area ^ ■ j ^, 
■ = Racing Length. 
2 
Article v.— A yacht's draft of hull or keel shall not ex- 
ceed 5ft., and with the centerboard down shall not ex- 
ceed 6ft. Draft shall be determined when yachts are in 
trim for measurement. Centerboards shall be so con- 
structed that they can be wholly housed without leaving 
any projection below the hull or keel. 
Article VI. — Yachts shall be measured without crew on 
board, but instead thereof a dead weight of 450 lbs. shall 
be carried amidships, approximately at the center of buoy- 
ancy, during measurement. The total actual weight of the 
crew, including all clothes, personal apparel and belongings 
worn by them or carried on board during any race, shall 
not exceed 6oolbs. 
Article- VII.— Shifting ballast shall not be allowed. 
(Weighted centerboards shall be considered as fixed 
ballast.) 
Article VIII. — No outrigger or other mechanical device 
for carrying live ballast outboard shall be allowed. - 
Article IX.— The overall length must not exceed 32ft. 
6in. The deck plan must show a fair curve from transom 
to stem, and the sides of the deck or gunwales must meet 
together at the stem, which must be on the longitudinal 
center line of the vessel. The angle between the gun- 
wales and longitudinal center line of the vessel at the 
stem myst not exceed 35 degrees. 
Article X.— The factor of sail area, used in determining 
racing length, shall be ascertained by adding to the actual 
area of the mainsail, computed from its exact dimensions, 
the area of the fore triangle. The hoist of the mainsail, 
when measured, shall be plainly marked on the mast, and 
its outer points on the boom and gaff or other spars used 
to set the sail, and the sail shall not be set beyond these 
limiting points. The fore triangle shall be determined by 
the following factors: (i) The perpendicular shall be 
the perpendicular distance between the deck and a point 
on the forestay, above which the jib shall not be hoisted. 
(2) The base shall be the distance between the forward 
^ side of the mast at the deck and the point of intersection 
of the forestay with the bowsprit or hull. 
Any jib, when set, must not extend beyond the upper 
and forward points above defined. 
Sails shall be limited to mainsail, jibs and spinaker. 
POJ^EST aND stream. 
The total area of the inainsail and fofe triangle shall not 
exceed 500 sq. ft. The area of the mainsail alone shall not 
exceed 80 per cent, of the total area. The area of the 
spinaker, measured as a triangle, whose base is the length 
of the spinaker boom measured from its out end, when 
set, to the center of the mast, and whose perpendicular is 
the distance from the deck at the foreside of the mast to 
the spinaker halyard block, shall not exceed twice the area 
of the fore triangle. 
Article XI. — The spinaker boom, when used in carry- 
ing sail, shall not be lashed to the bowsprit or stemhead. 
Article XIT. — The helmsman or helmsmen and crew 
shall be amateurs, and the total number of persons on 
board shall be limited to four. The helmsman may be 
changed at will, and as often as may be desired in any 
race, provided that such helmsmen shall have been named 
in writing, as required by the provisions of Article X. 
of the Declaration of Trust. 
The trial races for the election of a challenger will be 
held at Oyster Bay, July 8, 10 and 11, 1899, under the same 
conditions as in former years. 
Special Conditions, 
( 1 ) The yacht selected to represent the club shall be the 
one which, in the judgment of the race committee, shall 
be the best adapted therefor, and not necessarily the win- 
ner of a majority of the trial races. The committee will 
exclude from competition any yacht possessing peculiar 
or "freak" features, which in its judgment are objection- 
able and unfair. Additional races may be ordered by 
the committee between such contestants as they may 
select. 
(2) The owner of each yacht entering for the trial races 
must on or before July 6, 1899, furnish to the secre- 
tary of the committee the racing measurement of^ his 
yacht, certified by the measurer of the Seawanhaka Club. 
(3) Each yacht must carry a racing number, fastened 
securely on both sides of the mainsail. 
(4) In the event of any race being postponed or ordered 
resailed, it will be sailed at as early a date as may 
be practicable. 
Entries. 
All entries for the trial races, must be made by the clubs 
to which the owners of the respective yachts entered be- 
long. Clubs intending to make entries are requested to 
notify the secretary of the race committee, and will be 
furni.shed with printed or written blanks, upon or in ac- 
cordance with which entries must be made, and at the re- 
quest and upon the responsibility of any club entering a 
vacht to compete in the trial races, all the privileges of 
the club house at Oyster Bay will be extended to the 
owners and amateur crew of the yacht so entered during 
the period occupied by the said races, upon the same terms 
as to members of the club. 
Race committee : 
Charles W. Wetmore, Chairman, , 
30 Broad Street, New York. 
Walter C. Kerr, 
26 Cortlandt Street, New York. 
Clinton H. Crane, 
Exchange Court Building, New York. 
Johnston DeForest, 
7 North Washington Square, New York. 
Charle-S a. Sherman. Secretary, 
64 Leonard Street, New York. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
Mr. H. C. Wintringham has designed a c. b. schooner 
for E. A. Morrison, which will be built by Joseph 
Thomas & Sons, Baltimore. She will be 70ft. over all, 
48ft. l.w.l., 16ft. Sin. beam, and 7ft. draft of hull. She 
will be christened Lucille. 
The Riverside Y. C. held its annual meeting on Feb. 
3 at the Arena, New York, with Com. Tyson in the chair. 
The following officers were elected: Com., Geo. G. Ty- 
son; Vice-Com., I. A. Hopper; Rear-Com., Charles T. 
Pierce; Treas., C. F. Buxton; Sec'y, John G. Porter; 
Meas., E. Frank Lockwood; Trustees for term ending 
Feb., 1902, O. R. Houghton, George Lowther; Trus- 
tees for one year, Frederick Beltz, W. J. L. Davids; 
Regatta Committee, Edward Binney, George B. Clark, 
W. A. Huffington; Membership Committee, Robert Put- 
ter, W. J. Worrell, I. H. McKenna; Entertainment Com- 
mittee, J. Arthur Oatwell, H. F. Whitmore, W. I. San- 
ger; Chaplains, the Rev. George C. Houghton, D. D.; 
the Rev. Rufus S. Putney, the Rev. Charles W. Boyls- 
ton; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. H. H. Tyson, Jr.; Delegates to 
Sound Y. R. A., C. T. Pierce and Edward Binney. A 
proposal to lower the dues was not adopted. ^ Messrs. 
Pierce, Binney and Jones were appointed a special com- 
mitee to charter a steamer to follow the America Cup 
races next fall. Mr. Pierce was also delegated to report 
on the subject of a town club for yachtsmen. The club 
has a membership of 175. 
The Corinthian Y. C, of San Francisco, held its an- 
nual meeting on Jan. 25. electing the following officers: 
Com., Carl Westerfeld; Vice-Corn., W. H. Toepke; Port 
Captain, J. H. Keefe; Directors. T. L. Miller, C. L. Bar- 
rett, E. F. Sagar, and A. I. Lyons; Regatta Committee, 
J. H. Hopps, T. J. Kavanaugh and Douglas Erskine. 
The club has a membership of 168, with a fleet of thirty- 
three sloops, nine yawls, one schooner and five launches. 
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. 
The address label on the wrapper shows the date of 
JEhe close of the term for which the subscription is 
paid. The receipt of the paper with such dated ad- 
dress label constitutes the subscriber's receipt for 
money sent to us. 
Subscribers are asked to note on the wrapper the 
date of expiration of subscription ; and to remit 
promptly for renewal, that delays may be avoided. 
For prospectus and advertisins; rates see pajre W. 
The Forest and Stream i.s put to press each week on Tuesday. 
Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the 
latest by Monday and as mucli earlier as practicable. 
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The Spalding St> LawFehCe Boat Co. is building a 
keel sloop of 36fti over all) 2Sft. hw.I., gft, beam, from de- 
signs by C. H. Crane. She will be double-skin, with 
mahogany outside. Messrs. C. H. and H. M. Crane will 
race her on the Sound next summer. 
The annual meeting of the New York Yacht Racing 
Association was announced for Feb. i, but was not held, 
as no quorum was present, 
Alcedo II., steam yachtj G. W. C. Drexel, sailed last 
week from Philadelphia for Savannah, where Mr. and 
Mrs. Drexel, Miss Clementine Irick, Mr. Livingstone 
L. Biddle, Mr. Craig Biddle, Mr, Francis William Rawle 
and Dr. C. M. Merrill, of Jacksonville, will join her for 
a cruise to Porto Rico and other West Inidan ports. 
May, steam yacht, Com. Alex. Van Rensselaer, Cor. 
Y. C. of Philadelphia, will sail about Feb. 15 on a cruise 
to the West Indies. 
Coronet, schr., F. S. Pearscm, sailed from Santiago 
for Kingston on Jan. 24. After her return to New York 
she will refit for a cruise to Greenland and Iceland. 
Narwhal, steam yacht, No. i of the name, has been 
sold by C. PI. Osgood to Edgar Harding," of Boston, who 
will change her name. 
The Gravesend Bay Y. C. held its annual meeting on 
Feb. 1 at the cliib house, Bath Beach, with Com. Sher- 
wood in the chair. The following officers were elected: 
Com., Robert H. Sherwood; Vice-Com., Edward P. 
Morse; Rear-Com., W. C. Bolton; Meas., Richard W. 
Rummell; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. George G, Cochran; Prest., 
Cornelius Furgueson, Jr.; Vice-Prests., George B. 
Waters, Thomas Cleary; Treas., Henry W. Pfalzgraf; 
Cor. Sec'y, James W. Wakelee; Trustees, Dr. John E. 
De Mund, Dr. John .A.. Voorhees, James E. Bale, N. C. 
Corey, R. Hudson Riley, Thomas J. Hamilton, William 
G. Morrisey, William J. Berg, Frederick Petze, Gilbert 
Nelson, Albert Van Brunt Voorhees and Mortimer Van 
. Brunt. 
The magnificent American steam yacht Nahma, 1,806 
tons, belonging to Mr. Robert Goelet, New York, left 
Gourock this forenoon for Gibraltar. The Nahma is 
now under the command of Capt. George Harvey, who 
was for two years master of the American steam yacht 
Andria (Mr. John E. Brooks). His crew consists of 
about seventy, all told. The first, second and third offi- 
cers and seamen are all English, while the engineers, 
stewards and firemen are all Scotsmen. On the passage 
to the Rock the Nahma will not be driven at her full 
speed— sixteen and three-quarter knots — but at twelve 
knots an hour, at which rate, should she get favorable 
weather, she will reach Gibraltar by Thursday. The de- 
signer of the vessel, Mr. G. L. Watson, went dow'n the 
Firth to-day in her as far as Largs, where he was landed. 
The Nahma will complete her fitting out at Gibraltar, 
and will be joined there toward the end of next month 
by Mr. and Mrs. Goelet and party, after which she will 
make an extended cruise in the Mediterranean, returning 
to the Clyde next July. — New York Herald, European 
Edition, Jan. 21. 
The 1899 catalogue of C. P. Willard & Co., yacht, 
launch and engine builders, of Chicago, lists a very Ex- 
tensive line of steam engines and boilers, naphtha en- 
gines, yachts, launches, etc. The catalogue is fully illus- 
trated. 
W. C. A. Midwinter Meeting, 
[The secretary of the W. C. A. has prepared the ap- 
pended report of the midwinter meet of that body, to 
which is added the general address to the members ad- 
vocating the embodiment of the W. C. A. into the wider 
and older organization, the A. C. A., but with the reser- 
vation of provision for a Western division of the A. 
C. A.] 
Milwaukee, AVis., Jan. 25.— The Western Canoe As- 
sociation, Office of Secretary-Treasurer: Greeting to 
Members: On the 21st of this month the executive com- 
mittee of this association held its regular midwinter meet- 
- ing in Milwaukee, in pursuance to the call issued by the 
secretary and arrangements made at the special meeting 
of the committee held at Chicago last November. 
There were present all members of the committee ex- 
cepting two, several other association members; the com- 
modore and the vice-commodore of the Central Division 
of the American Canoe Association. The usual informal 
open meeting and discussion were held previous to the 
business meeting of the committee, and all open matters 
of interest to the association were talked over, after 
which the committee went into executive session. 
The secretary-treasurer's report showed that the asso- 
ciation was now in position to pay its indebtedness of 
record, and he was instructed to do so. The returns 
from the circular letter sent out last November, setting 
forth the proposed movement of this association to join 
the American Canoe Association, were most gratifying, 
and left to your committee but one course j^o pursue. 
Every person heard from, except one, voted .i. favor of 
this move, and in accordance with this almost unani- 
mous sentiment the following resolution was adopted: 
"Resolved, That the secretary is hereby instructed to 
make application for membership to the American Canoe 
Association on behalf of our association, and such mem- 
bership be made to constitute a Western Division o'"^^'he 
A. C. A. And said division to include as its territory the 
States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, 
Iowa and Minnesota. And that our secretary-treasurer 
is authorized to hold in trust all money received from 
members for this purpose." _ 
In view of the above action it was voted to omit the 
publication of the "Year Book" and to abandon th« sum- 
mer W. C. A. meet. 
Three changes in officers were made pending the final 
