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M. Hoyt, Stamford; StuyA^esant Wainwright, American, 
and Charles P. Tower, New Rochelle. 
The following resolution was adopted : 
Resolved, That it is the sense of this Association that 
the eligibility to the cruising division of any yacht of 
30-foot racing measurement or mider that was in exist- 
ence December i, 1898, shall, in case of dispute, be passed 
upon by the oflicial measurer of the Association and ap' 
proved by the Executive Cimmittee, 
Resolved, further, That as the sense of the Association 
it is not the intention of the Association in creating a 
cruising division, to exclude therefrom any boat already 
in existence that is of a wholesome type and of seaworthv 
condition. 
An amendment to" the racing rules, providing that m 
Corinthian races the helmsmen must be members of or- 
ganized yacht clubs. It was also decided to abandon 
the system of blanket entries. A special meeting will be. 
held on Api-il 3, of delegates from clubs giving races ftir 
the dory class. [ 
Y. R. A of Massachusetts, 
The annual meeting of the Y. R. A. of Massachusetci.-, 
was held on March 16, the following officers being 
elected : Pres., A. H. Higginson, Manchester, Y. C.j 
Vice-Pres., Henry W. Little. American Y. C; Sect'y-, 
A. T. Bliss. Winthrop V. C; Treas., I. H. Wiley, Well- 
fleet Y. C; Executive Committee, Walter Burgess, Bos- 
ton Y. C; C. Edwin Bockus, E)orchester Y. C. ; John 
T. Hurley,- South Boston Y. C. The following dates 
were announced : 
May 30 — -South Boston, open, oflf City Point. 
June ^7 — Hull-Massachusetts, open, off Nahant 
Jime 28 — Mosquito fleet, open, off City Point. 
July 4 — City of Boston, open, off City Point. 
July' 15 — Quincy, open. 
July 22 — ^Burgess, open, Marblehead. 
July 24 and succeeding days — Quincy challenge cup 
races. 
Julv 29 — ^Winthrop. open. 
Aug. 3, 4. 5, 7 and 8 — Manchester, midsummer series 
of open "races. oiT West Manchester. 
Aug 9, 10 and 11— Corinthian, midsummer series, Ma-^- 
blehead. 
Aug. 12 — Corinthian, open, Marblehead. 
Aug. 12 — Wollaston, open. 
Aug. TA — American, open, Newburyport. 
Aus:. 26— Duxbury. open. 
Sent. A — Lynn, open, off Nahant. 
Pate" ff^r oner racs will be announced later by the 
Savin F^n and Old Cf^lony ''h-'bs, and also bv the Ply- 
mouth. Kif^o-ston and Ca'^e Cod to complete, with Dux- 
bury, the "South shore" circuit. 
The Dominion — Yankee Match 
One of 'the events of the season on fresh water will be 
the match between the Duggan 20-footer Dominion, of the 
Roval St. Lawrence Y. C, and Yankee, the representative 
of 'the White Bear Y. C. The challenge was issued by 
the latter club, being specifically directed at Dominion; it 
was accepted on Feb. 27, and a date about June 12 was 
agreed on. The challenging yacht is described as follows 
by the Mail and Empire, of Toronto; 
Yankee is owned by Messrs. L. P. Ordway, George 
Thompson and M. D. Munn. She will be sailed by Mr. 
Ordway, and her crew will be Messrs. Reid, Douglas and 
Ramaley, all members of the White Bear Y. C. Yankee 
is 35ft. over all, 7ft. Sin. beam, and 6in. draft of hull, 6ft. 
with centerboard down. Her midship section is scow- 
shaped, giving her nearly 6ft. loin. beam at load water- 
line. Her keel line is a true curve. She is without reverse 
curves in any part of the hull. The gunwale lines are 
slightly curved, and the bow is a half-circle. The free- 
board is I3in., and the deck crowned 3in. Her displace- 
ment in racing, with crew, is about i,90olbs. She is built 
with bent oak ribs over longitudinal ribs, each Sin. apart. 
These are framed together so as to be flush when they 
receive the planking. The plank is 5-i6in. by 8in., single, 
with joints in center of longitudinal ribs. The centerboard 
is of steel, and weighs 20olbs. Her mainsail 'is long on 
the boom and the gaff is peaked high. Her mainsaU 
contains about 380 sq. ft., with a jib that makes her total 
sail area nearly 500ft. when measured in accordance with 
the rules. Her sections are carefully designed so as to 
make her displacement curve conform with the wave line 
theory, when keeled to an angle, excepting that this curve 
was corrected so as to allow approximately for the dis- 
placement caused by the rise of water at bow and stern, 
when in motion. She gains on the waterline as rapidly 
as she is keeled, and when sailing free, uses apparently 
about 32ft. of her hull. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
Gossoon, cutter, has been sold by P. T. Dodge to T. L. 
Arnold, of the Atlantic Y. C, and Walter A. Peck, Rhode 
Island Y. C. 
The sloop Sasqua, built in 1882 for Morris Ketchum by 
C. & R. Poillon, from a model by Philip Ellsworth, has 
long been known as one of the best of the type of purely 
American centerboard sloop. She has been owned since 
1883 by ex-Com. Henry Andruss, of the New Rochelle Y. 
C, who has used her const antly for cruising about Long 
Island Sound, and as far east as the Vineyard, and has 
also raced her successfully in her day. She is 3gft. over 
all, 33ft. l.w.l., 14ft. 3in. beam and 6ft. draft, a good deal 
for 1882. During the past winter Mr. Andruss has had 
her hauled out at City Island and has removed the 
centerboard trunk, replacing the board with a lead keel of 
three tons, the greater part of the old inside ballast, the 
draft being increased about ift. 6in. A new mast has 
been stepped and the rig overhauled. The removal of the 
trunk has practically doubled the size of the cabin, giving 
a fine room, with wide floor and sufificient length for two 
berths on a side. The yacht is as strong to-day as when 
launched, being timbered as heavily as a working schoon- 
er, with big hackmatac knees wherever space could be 
found for them. 
Alcedo, steam yacht, G. W. C. Drexel, arrived at Key 
West on March 23 from the West Indies. 
The Sachem's Head Y. C. lias just issued its first year 
\>Qok dated 1898-9. Jhe club was organized in 1896, and 
it has now a picturesque house on the rocks at Chimney 
Corner, Sachem's Head, Conn. The membership numbers 
eighty, and the fleet mustered twenty-four yachts last 
season, while some new ones will be added this year. The 
club burgee is a simple and easily distinguishable design 
in red and blue. Mr. W. E. Peck, 100 William street. 
New York, is the secretary. 
The sixth volume of the Transactions of the Society of 
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, for 1898, has 
just been published, containing the report of the last 
meeting, and the full text and illustrations of the eleven 
papers then read, with the discussions. The volumes thus 
far published make of themselves a large and very valuable 
library of technical papers relating to naval architecture 
and marine engineering. The book is edited by tlie secre- 
tary, Mr. Francis T. Bowles. 
Mr. G. L. Watson has received an order for a cutter of 
the largest size for Mr. C. D. Rose, former owner of 
Satanite, Aurora and Dusky Queen. She will be reaiy 
for the season of igoo, and Capt. Sycamore will com- 
mand her. 
Com. Morgan presided at the meeting of the Nev; York 
Y. C. on March 23. The following resolution was 
adopted; "Resolved, That the squadron rendezvous for 
the annual cruise on Aug. 7 next at such hour and place 
as the commodore shall designate in general orders." 
Upon motion, the commodore was requested to appoint a 
committee to draft resolutions upon the death of Mr. 
Richard Suydam Palmer. The committee will be named 
at an early day. Vice-Com. Ledyard reported that the 
club's charter had been so amended by the Legislature 
that it can in the future hold property of the value of 
$500,000. The sura of $16,000 has been set aside for the 
use of the Regatta Committee during the year. Twenty- 
three new members were elected, as follows: George VV. 
Scott, Seymour L. Cromwell, William H. Cranberry, 
Lewis B. Curtis, Addison G. Hanan, Henry R. Ickel- 
heimer, John P. McGowan, M. D. ; Edward Weston. 
George De Forest Barton, Charles E. Tilford, Daniel 
Bacon, Payne Whitney, Percy R. Payne, William Henry 
Patterson, R, C. Alexander, Joseph T. Tower, George 
A. Freeman, William S. Edey, C. K. G. Bilhngs, Robert 
P. Doremus, W. J. W. O'Shaughnessy, Lloyd Warren, 
Jos^h J. O'Donohue, Jr. 
Articles of association were signed last night at the 
Morton for the formation of the Macatawa Yachting Club. 
The committee on subscriptions reported that about $1,500 
had been raised for the erection of a club house. This 
committee consists of Charles Logic, C. W. Baxter and 
Charles Luce, of Grand Rapids, and Charles Skates, Judge 
Everetts and C. B. Conkey, of Chicago. The Chicago 
members of the committee have assured the club that 
$1,500 will be raised at that place, which will make a 
total of $3,000. Of this sum the club expects to erect a 
club house at a cost of about $2,500, thus keeping a re- 
serve of $500 for incidental expenses. The committee on 
organization, which consists of R. W. Irwin and H. W. 
Hompel, to this city, and Charles Skates, of Chicago, 
are to be commended for the excellent work shown in 
organizing the club, which has over fifty members al- 
ready, with a prospect of about 150 more. The first formal 
meeting of the club will be held one week from to-night, 
when the officers will be elected. — Grand Rapids (Mich.) 
Democrat, March 23. 
The Newport Y. C. announces the following events for 
the season : Tuesday, May 30, Memorial Day, club race ; 
Monday, June 19, ladies' cruise; Tuesday, Jul^ 4, annual 
regatta; Tuesdav, July 18, ladies' cruise; Thursday, Aug 
17, ladies' cruise ; Monday, Sept. 4, Labor Day, club race ; 
Thursday, Sept. 1^ ladies' cruise. "Ladies' days" will 
be given the second and fourth Thursdays in each month 
of the season. An open race will also be given, date to 
be announced later. The club numbers 112 members and 
forty yachts. 
The library committee of the New York Y. C, Messrs. 
Fordham Morris, Arthur H. Clark and Theodore C. Zere- 
ga, is doing good work in building up a complete and 
permanent yachting library that will in time be a credit 
to New York city, as well as to the club. The report of 
the committee, just issued, shows many valuable addi- 
tions to the already extensive collection. 
§maemg. 
A Few Stray Leaves from the Log 
of the Frankie. 
BvJtHE " COMMODORE." 
VII. 
We found a beautiful place for a camp across the 
river from the village in the shape of a long, smooth, 
level shelf of hard sand, a few feet above the water, 
beautifully shaded with a fine growth of young wd- 
lows; and, although it was but 2 o'clock, we_ went 
into camp here for several days, to rest and refit and 
overhaul our outfit, which had been well tested by our 
three days' cruise. 
My recollections of the three dreamy, lazy days, which 
drifted slowly by us as we lay here, are very pleasant 
ones. The long, narrow strip of sand, the rough plank 
fence parallel to the river, with the tented canoes strung 
along it in a long row; the river rippling and sparkling 
in front, gleaming in the sunlight through the soft, 
feathery plumes of the willows, with the deep, hoarse 
roar of the rapids above droning musically in our ears 
day and night; the Mac moored at the door of the big 
shore tent, occupied by Prof. Murray and the boys, 
doing duty as a tender, and pretty generally employed 
in taking some of the members of the party over the 
river or back again for water from the spring in the 
bank directly across from us, for little fishing jaunts, 
for trips over to the old tumbledown village (Porte 
Crayon, in a paper on Weyer's Cave, published in 
Harper's Magazine some years before the war, de- 
scribes Port Republic as a dilapidated little village, and 
it has not improved to any appreciable extent since 
that time), for supplies or for pleasure, 
The bridge was close at hand, but the skiff was so 
much handier, and then it was so much fun for the 
boys to paddle it back and forth! The heavy rain of 
Wednesday evening, which came upon us suddenly as 
we were finishing our suppers and drove us off to the 
shelter of our tents for the night as early as half past 
seven and lulled me to sleep with its soft, murmuring 
patter on the roof of my snug, tight little tent; the 
two heavy rains of the next day— Thursday' — which we 
sat out under the trees clad in our oilskins or rubber 
suits, perfectly dry and comfortable; the canoe tents 
down, the hatches battened tightly, as the little boats 
lay ■ there as impervious to the rain which splashed 
from their decks and collected in pellucid little pools 
in the hollows of the waterproof canvas aprons as so 
many logs of wood; the rapidly rising river after the 
rains, and the tramp around through the wet weeds and 
grass on the top of the hill behind our camp, in com- 
pany with Prof. Murray and the Doctor, in search of a 
higher and safer site for the tents in our uneasiness lest 
the river should continue to rise and flood our camp 
(which was but 3 or 4ft. above the water) in the night, 
and our hard work relaying the floor in the capacious 
old ferry boat, which lay moored a short distance below 
our camp, after hitting upon the happy expedient of 
pitching the tents, canoes and all in it, until we dis- 
covered that the river was falling as rapidly as it had 
risen, when, having by this time worked some of our 
uneasiness off, we wisely decided to remain where we 
were and take our chances. 
The bright, sunny, balmy day that followed this day 
of storms, during which we all took occasion to apply 
a fresh coat of oil to our tents and I paid a visit to my 
friends, the Scotts, living close by, who had enter- 
tained me kindly and hospitably while cruising in these 
waters a couple of years before; Gibbs' fall into the 
river while attempting to launch the Kathleen to come 
over and set me across the river, that coquettish craft 
gently but promptly slipping out from under him as he 
stepped carelessly in and landing him on his back iti 
the drink, on which occasion he favored the company 
with a few choice quotations from the Koran as he 
scrambled dripping up the bank. 
Perhaps the pleasantest of all is the recollection of 
our last night in camp here. Gibbs and I were over in 
town on some errand or other after a bountiful supper 
of bass, catfish, eels and bacon; and as we crossed the 
long, lofty bridge on our way back to camp, the moon- 
light effects on the water, with the camp-fire burning 
brightly on the bank and the lanterns glimmering 
among the trees, reflected back again from the mirror- 
like surface of the water, were most exquisitely beautiful, 
and we lingered a long time on the bridge to admire 
and enjoy the scene; the soft, balmy breeze from the 
wooded slopes of the adjacent mountains caressing our 
faces, and breaking the long silvery sheen of the moon 
in the river below into a million diamond points. A 
3'oung man and a couple of young ladies from the village 
were leaning over the railing near us, enjoying the 
beauty of the scene, and they evinced great interest in the 
camp and the cruise. We invited them to go over with 
us and visit the camp, but they did not like to undertake 
the difficult climb down the hill across the bridge, and 
so declined. 
In response to a prolonged blast from my hunting 
whistle, one of the lanterns came glimmering through 
the trees, with its reflection dancing along on the water, 
climbed up the bluff, was lost to sight, and presently 
reappeared at the further end of the bridge and soon 
joined us, in company with the Doctor, who, after we 
had exchanged good-nights with our companions of 
the moment on the bridge, lighted us down the rough, 
narrow path under the bridge, down the face of the 
steep bluff and back to our camp, where we gathered 
companionably around a rousing big camp-fire, smoking 
and talking until a late hour before we turned in for 
the night. 
vin. 
A bright sunny Sabbath in the country! Around us 
nature's grand catliedral of smiling fields, leafy woods, 
sparkling river and majestic, cloud-capped mountain 
peaks, overarched by the blue dome of the heavens! 
The lowing of the cattle in the fields, the voices of the 
birds and the myriad insects and invisible, sound-pro- 
ducing things that go to make up the life of the forest 
for the choir; and the murmuring treble of the breeze 
through the leafy tree tops, the rippling wash of the 
river in front of us, and the deep-toned, heavy, domin- 
ating bass of the rapids just above us, whose white, 
foam-crested waves leaped and sparkled in the sun, for 
the organ! Who but would be impressed with such 
surroundings, and feel his mind and soul elevated and 
refreshed, as he batfied in the free, pure mountain air 
and the bright, invigorating sunlight that flooded and 
sparkled everywhere? 
We unconsciously reveled in it all day as we rested 
quietly and pleasantly in camp. Our wet blankets, cloth- 
ing and other belongings were spread out over the 
fences; bushes, trees and the generally adjacent country 
to dry and air, until it looked as if twice as many boats 
would never contain them all again. Letters were writ- 
ten to loved ones at home; plans were discussed and 
speculations indulged in as to the unknown river before 
us, its dimpled, smiling waters inviting us on. Those 
of us who were equal to the task brought forth shaving 
materials and removed the week's growth from our 
bronzed and sunburned faces, much to our relief and 
satisfaction. We were visited by Mr. Coffman and his 
pleasant family, among them two charmingly handsome 
daughters, who instantly made a profound impression 
on our young men, though owing to the general dis- 
reputable appearance of the party, I have grave doubts 
as to whether the impression was at all mutual or not, 
who showed us many attentions and supplied us with 
everything needful. 
And the day drifted quietly by. The cattle in the 
fields, the birds and innumerable flying and creeping 
things in the forest, and the sighing breezes in the 
tree tops, the musical murmur of the river, and the 
deep, hoarse roar of the rapids kept up their ceaseless 
pastoral symphony all day long, and night come all too 
soon. 
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