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FOREST AND STREAM. 
(May 1.3, 1899. 
The Rochester Y, C, 
The Rochester Y. C. promises to make the most of the 
present revival of racing on the Great Lakes through the 
coming contest for the Canada cup^ and is now preparing 
to take an active part in that contest with its new Gen- 
esee. At the same time, a very lively season is expected 
on Lake Ontario and about the club station, Charlotte, 
with club and local races, and the open races for the 
Fisher cup, now held by the club. The club has at tlie 
present time the following cups: 
The Fisher cup, which was donated to the Chicago 
Y.C. by A. J. Fisher, July 8, 1882, as a challenge cup. 
Won by Cora, Royal Canadian Y. C, twice. Then it 
became the trophy of Atalanta, and was won b}^ Nora 
twice. On Sept. 10, 1892, it was won by Onward, of the 
Rochester Y. C, Nov. i, 1895, it became the bona fide 
property of the owners of Onward, according to the 
rules of the Lake Yacht Racing Association. On Nov. 
5, 1895, Arthur T. Hazen, Fred S. Todd and J. R. White, 
the owners of Onward, made a deed of gift of the cup to 
the Rochester Y. C. on condition that it be a perpetual 
challenge cup. It has since remained. 
The Madge cup was given to the Rochester Y. C. in 
1888, by Wohers' Bros., to be awarded to the yacht mak- 
ing the best record in the club's fixtures during that sea- 
son. It was won by Madge, and was given by her owners 
to the club, to be raced for each year and awarded to the 
yacht making the best record in all the club races and 
cruises for that 3'-ear. 
Won by Velnette in 1890. 
In 1891 Velnette, Amelia and Romola each scored the 
same number of points, and the cup remained in the pos- 
session of Velnette. 
Won by Nox in 1892. 
Won by Nox in 1893. 
Won by ■ in 1984. 
Won by Nydia in 1895.. 
Won by Zarita in 1896. 
In 1897 Pedro and Chic each scored the same number 
©f points. 
Won by Pedro in 1898. 
The Flynn cup was presented to the club by Jerry 
Flynn, of Charlotte, and became^ the property of the 
yacht winning it in the special series of races. 
Won by Veritas in 1897. 
The Kelpie cup was presented to the club by Col. 
James S. Graham, to be awarded to the winner of the 
sealed handicap race on Labor Day of each year. 
Won by Kelpie in 1897, fifteen competition. 
Won by Majel in 1898, thirteen competition. 
The Wright cup was presented to the club by Commo- 
dore Alfred G. Wright in 1899, to be awarded to the 
winner of the cruising race on Memorial Day (May 30) 
of each year. The winner in this race may be challenged . 
not earlier than thirty days from above date, the winner 
of second race to hold the cup for the balance of the 
season. ■ 
The McFarlin cup was presented to the club by Mr. 
McFarlin in 1899, to be awarded to the winner of best 
two ou{ of three races, one at least to be to windward 
or leeward and return. Open for all yachts in club un- 
der 35ft. sailing length and over 19ft., Genesee excepted. 
Cup becomes the property of the winner. Regular sail- 
ing rules and time allowance to apply. 
The Hotel Ontario- cup was presented by George W. 
Swfeeney, proprietor of the Hotel Ontario, and is open to 
all yachts on the lake. Regular time allowance and rac- 
ing rules to applj'. The cup becomes the property of the 
winner. The first race will take place the day after the 
Fisher cup races. 
The last cup was presented at the club meeting last 
week. The fixtures as arranged are as follows: 
May 27.— Opening cruise to. Sodus. 
May 30.— Cruise from Sodus Bay to Charlotte. The 
Wright cup will be awarded to the winner of this race. 
June 10. — Club race, first, second and third classes, 
twelve miles; fourth class, six miles. 
June 15. — Annual ball. 
June 24.— Club race, usual distance for classes. 
Sealed handicap race, Tuesday, July 4, 10 A. M. 
Saturday, July 15. — Ladies' day and club race; race at 
2 P. M., twelve miles for first three classes, six for fourth. 
Luncheon and hop in evening at club house. 
Saturday, July 22. — Ladies' day and club race, 2 P. M.; 
six miles for all classes. 
Saturday, July ^9. — Club race, windward and leeward 
course, ten miles for all classes. This is one of the Mc- 
Farlin cup races. 
Saturday, Aug. 5.— Club race, twelve miles for first three 
classes, six for fourth and course triangular. A McFar- 
lin cup race. 
Monday, Sept. 4. — Sealed handicat5 race, start at 10 A. 
M., triangular course, usual division for distance of 
classes, The Kelpie cup will be awarded to the winner 
of this race. 
Tuesday, Sept. 19.— Clam bake. 
Columbia and DefeiKiei*. 
The work of plating the topsides of Columbia with 
Tobin bronze is now nearly completed, all but a few 
sheets at each end are in place, and many of the sheets 
have been riveted. As they come from the works in 
Bridgeport the sheets are 21ft. long and 4ft. wide. It is 
expected that the yacht will be ready for launching about 
June I, and the operation should be an easy one, very 
different from the launching of Defender- four years ago. 
The old yacht was launched in the usual way, being shored 
up on greased sliding ways. It will be remembered that 
when partly down the ways the yacht stuck, probably 
owing to some obstruction in the ground ways deep un- 
der water, and she was only hauled off with difficulty by 
powerful tugs after several days work, 
The new yacht has been built on a well constructed 
marine railway, the keel resting in a strong steel cradle 
on rollers.. When the time comes for latmching this cra- 
dle will be allowed to run down the ways, controlled by a 
powerful steam windlass and steel cable. The operation 
is the same as is employed in hauling out and launching 
much larger and heavier vessels. 
On May 2 Capt. Urias Rhodes and Mate Miller, with 
a crew of thirty-one men, arrived at Bristol from New 
York and boarded Defender. They will put her in com- 
mission as speedily as possible. The men are all Scandi- 
navians, and mostly young. Mr. C. Oliver Iselin was at 
the shops on the same day, inspecting Defender and 
Columbia. 
The Canada Cup. 
The 35-footer for the Rochester Y. C. syndicate was 
launched at Hanley's Yard, Quincy, Mass., on May 2, 
and will proceed to New York, where she will be deliv- 
ered to her owners, who will take her up the Hudson 
and by canal to Oswego, thence by Lake Ontario to 
Charlotte. She has been named Genesee. It has not yet 
been decided who will be in command, or who will make 
up the Corinthian portion of the crew. 
On the other side of the Lake three boats are well ad- 
vanced, those building at Hamilton. Much secrecy has 
been observed concerning them, but something is now 
known, the following being from a Hamilton dispatch 
to the New York Tribune: 
Owing to the secrecy maintained regarding the con- 
struction of all the Canadian defenders which are to take 
part in the trial races beginning Aug. 7, no information 
has been obtainable until to-day. Only two of them have 
been seen. The third racer, being built here, is still kept 
locked up, owing to the ordering of a seventh yacht from 
English designs. 
The boat for the Victoria Y. C. syndicate is a fin-keel 
cutter, 44ft. 4in. long over aU, with loft, loin. of beam, 
and will draw about Sft. 2in. of water. She is built of oak 
and pine and is finished in cherry and oak. She will be 
out of the shop in about a week and will be launched on 
May 10. Her water line length is about 25ft., and while 
in no sense a freak boat, she has every indication of be- 
ing a "hustler." Her canvas area will be i,Sooft. The bal- 
last on her fin weighs 4,8oolbs. 
The second boat seen is also a fin-keel cutter. The 
exact measurements were not allowed out, but this one 
seems to be 4 or 5ft. longer over all than the one first 
described. She will be not far from soft, in over-all 
length, and with several more inches of beam than the 
Victoria boat, and much shallower in the underbody and 
harder in the bilges. She seems to be a larger edition of 
Verona, which the same firm turned out last year, and 
which took eleven first prizes out of eleven starts. She 
will carry 1,300 sq. ft. of English-made sails. 
The third Hamilton boat is described as follows by the 
Toronto papers: 
Messrs. Fearnside and Johnston, who are building a 
Canada cup defender in Luke Thompson's old boat house, 
took the peep-proof covers off Monday afternoon long 
enough to allow a party of friends to see their product. 
The hull is completed ready for the planking, and shows 
a very fine racing model. This boat is so different from 
the Weir and Burnside boats that the difference is easily 
.seen. She is a fin-keel, like the others, but lightness is 
the first thing that strikes the mind. She looks to be 6 
or 8ft., probably more, shorter than the Weir boat, about 
as beamy, but much shallower, and with a more sudden 
turn of the bilge. She is of flush deck construction. The 
builders will give out no dimensions, but she looks as if 
she might be 42 or 44ft. over all, about 10.6 or lift, in 
beam, and of small draught. 
If anything lighter in wood can be found in Canada it 
will be a marvel. Every stick is like cork, and you could 
hunt the boat over for a day without finding a knot. 
With her lightness, however, she will be strong, her 
scantlings coming fully up to the required specifications. 
While she does not look freakish, she has much more the 
appearance of a racing machine than either of the other 
Hamilton boats. 
At Toronto the Duggan boat is weJJ under way, while 
the McLeod boat is_ building at Oakville, where Canada 
was built. The designs for the third boat are expected 
from Arthur E, Payne, of Southampton, and she will be 
started immediately. 
Kingfston Y« C. 
Kingston, Ont., May 6. — At the annual meeting of 
the Kingston Y. C, held on Monday evening, the ist 
inst., the following gentlemen were elected officers for the 
ensuing year. Com., Dr. Allan Black; Vice-Com., W. 
Bruce Carruthers; Rear-Com., Jas. H. Macnee; Sec'y, 
T. J. Rigney; Treas., J. E. Cunningham. 
The Yachtsman gives the following interesting particu- 
lars of the original "Will Fife" of yacht building fam.e: 
"There was buried in Largs last week the man who dis- 
covered and gave to the world the first chapter in the 
deeply interesting history of the evolution of yacht build- 
ing at Fairlie, namely, the Rev. John Boyd, M.A., minister 
of the United Presbyterian Church at Wemyss Bay. The 
story as Mr. Boyd told it is briefly as follows: 'William 
Fife, a mill and wheelwright of Kilbirnie — a small parish 
eight miles inland from Largs — settled in Fairlie toward 
the end of the last century. He had a son, also William 
by name. This young man was acquiring the craft of mill 
and wheelwright under his father when a strong longing 
to go off into the Bay of Fairlie and inspect the vessels 
that often came to there, seized him. Having no boat in 
which to carry out his desires, he boldly set to and built 
one. So well did he build her that she was speedily 
bought from him. When several more that he built in 
rapid succession were quickly bought up, it dawned on him 
that boat building, rather than the construction of carts, 
was his true vocation ; and, much to his father's vexation, 
a yacht and boat builder he became. And so was founded, 
rather more than a hundred years ago, the now world- 
famous business. The present head of the Fairlie firm, is 
a son of the founder of it, and the designer of Shamrock 
is a grandson of (for yachting purposes) William 
Small Yachts in Gerinany. 
There was a time many years ago when yachting in 
Germany was confined very largely to the "bubfish" boats, 
open center board skimming dishes imported from New 
York, some of the best being built by Capt. Bob Fish, 
whence the name. At the present time Germany has no 
need to go abroad for her yachts, as was shown last year 
in the 65-footcr Kommodore, and though the conditions 
are not favorable to the construction of many very large 
yachts, the German designers have shown in the smaller 
classes their ability to do good work. The two designs 
here shown were selected at random from The Wasser- 
sport, as good boats that in size are well within the pow- 
ers of the young amateur, who, if he once succeeds in 
building one of theni, will be able to feel that he has a 
yacht to sail in and not a coffin. They are not racing craft, 
and neither was designed with a view to great speed, 
The first one is the work of the clever Hamburg designer, 
Max Oertz, and was designed for the one-design class of 
the Royal Danish Y. C, at Copenhagen. The design 
shows a fine little keel sin.gle-hander, a thoroughly safe 
boat for the novice. Her dimensions are: 
Length — 
Over all 22ft sin. 
L.W.L 14ft. 9in. 
Beam sft. 6in, 
Draft 2ft, 6in. 
Mainsail 195 sq. ft. 
Jib 80 sq. ft. 
Lead keel , 0.50 ton, 
The original scale is of course in metres, but a scale of 
equals ift. will give from this drawing a boat of isft. 
6in. l.w.l., with other dimensions enlarged in proportion. 
The other yacht was designed for single-hand work, 
and is of the following dimensions: 
Length — 
Over all 21ft Sin. 
L.W.L 14ft. sin. 
Beam 5ft. iiin. 
Draft— 
With rudder ift. 8in, 
With centerboard 4ft. 3in. 
Mainsail , 204 sq. ft. 
A scale of ^in. applied to this drawing will give a 
waterline 15ft. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES, 
Mr. Arthur Curtis James, one of the joint owners of the 
new auxiliary brigatine Aloha, now nearly plated at the 
Erie Basin drydocks, has just passed a very successful 
examination before the United States local inspectors, at 
NewiYork, and received his license as master. During 
his ownership of Coronet, schr., Mr. James devoted him- 
self to the study of navigation, and he has been for some 
years a student of Capt, Howard Patterson. He will 
command his new ship himself. 
The Kingston Y. C, of Kingston, Ontario, has elected 
the following officers: Com., Dr. Black; Vice-Com., W. 
B. Carruthers; Rear-Com., J. H. MacNee; Sec'y, T. J. 
Rigney; Treas., E. Cunningham; Regatta Committee, 
Messrs. Burns, Mowat, Conway and Com. Black ; General 
Committee, E. Burns, H. W. Richardson, S. Calvin, W. 
C. Kent and F. M. Strange; Auditors, R. E. Burns and 
A. C. Johnston. 
The Jamaica" Bay Y. C. held its annual meeting on 
May 4, and elected the following officers: Com., Henry 
F. Hewlett; Vice-Com., Benjamin F. Dal}^- Rear-Com., 
Oscar M. Lipton; Fleet Capt., Frederick S. Lafond; 
Treas., M. H. Christopher ; Chairman House Corrimittee, 
George A. McDermott; Chairman Regatta Committee, 
John C. Lefferts; Chairman Membership Committee, Con- 
rad V. Dykeman; Chairman Entertainment Committee, 
F. L. Johan: Board of Directors, John J, Jones, R. H. 
Pforr and Charles Solomon; Fin. Sec'y, James E, Lent; 
Recording Sec'y, Charles P, Daly. 
The following dates have been agreed upon by R. C. 
Y. C, National Club, Q. C. Y. C, Parkdale Club and the 
Royal Toronto Sailing and Skiff Club, on which each 
club will race under the auspices of the Lake Sailing 
and Skiff Association : May 24, R. C. Y. C. ; June 10, 
National; July 15, Q. C. Y. C; Aug. 5, Parkdale; Sept. 
9, Royal Toronto Sailing and Skiff Club. Mayor Shaw 
has donated a silver cup for the i6-footer making the 
best average in the five regattas. Cups will also be given 
for boats making the best averages in the other classes. 
The new royal yacht, Victoria and Albert II., will be 
launched this week at Pembroke Dockyard, England. She 
will surpass anything of the kind yet floated, being a 
yacht and not a warship. 
A Manual on Laying-Off Iron, Steel and Composite 
Vesels, by Thomas H, Watson, has recently been pub- 
lished by Longmans, Green & Co., London and New York. 
Mr. Watson, the inventor of the double sliding rule for 
calculating displacement, tonnage, speed and indicated 
horse-power, is the lecturer on naval architecture at the 
Durham College of Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eng- 
land, and also a member of the North East Coast Institu- 
tion of Engineers and Shipbuilders. In this new work, a 
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The various subjects covered include the laying off of the 
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more expert draftsmen m4 builders. 
