Sf AND STREAM. 
•committee was siiiipointed, induding Messrs. Frank Bgwen 
June.-,, Indian harbor V. C> ; A. F. Aldridge, Atlantic 
C, and Charles P. ToWer, New Rochelle Y. C. 
Messrs. E. Buriuil Hart, Jr., Huguenot Y. C. ; Ward 
iDixon, Hempstead Harbor Y. C, and J. S. Appleby, were 
appointed a noniinaling committee. On Feb. 13 the 
first annual meeting will be held for the election of officers, 
a permanent president, vice-president, secretary, treas- 
urer and six trustees. 
Minota. 
The class of yachts constructed last year on the Great 
Lakes for the international matches for the Canada cup 
is one of the most interesting and instructive yet pro- 
duced in America. It included twelve yachts of the same 
measurement, racing without time allowance, and of all 
modern types, the moderate keel boat, the senii-fin, the 
extreme fin both wide and narrow, the shoal centerboard 
.and the scow type in several varieties. The rule imder 
\which these yachts were designed is a new one in Amer- 
lica, the girth being taken as a factor in addition to the 
Ibeam, waterline and sail area. Vvniie, as us Ubualiy tne 
.case, the ileet as a whole was not put in perfect form 
and thoroughly tested, and probably all of the yachts are 
(Capable of improvement on further racing, the results of 
Ithe double trials of the challenge and defense and of the 
ffinal cup races are well worthy of careful study. 
The two fleets numbered six each, the challenging fleet 
jjuriuding one of the scow type, two of the keel type and 
three fin-keels. The final choice of a defender after a 
very satisfactory series of trials was a matter of con- 
siderable difficulty, there being very little difference be- 
tween the two keel boats, Minota and Beaver. The 
Minota proved a little faster in extremely light weather, 
.but was not quite equal to Beaver in a moderate breeze, 
:and the latter was ultimately chosen. Minota was de- 
isigned by H. C. McLeod, Esq., of Halifax, N. S., an 
amateur designer and Corinthian yachtsman, through 
whose courtesy we are enabled to publish her lines. Her 
Heading dimensions are 30ft. l.w.l., 8ft. io>^in. beam and 
(6ft. draft. 
The design is worthy of attention as a remarkable one in 
tt'hese days of freaks. In the proportions of the four 
ifactors of measurement and of the other dimensions and 
(elements, as well as in the actual form of hull and fairness 
of lines, Minota is a piece of clean, skillful and scientific 
designing. There is no attempt to gain advantage by an 
excess of any one crude quantity, but all the elements are 
lharmoniously fitted to each other. There is not the 
slightest indication of freak form in the midship sec- 
tion, or where it is almost invariably found in modern 
yachts, in the overhangs and about the ends of the water- 
lines. There is not a line in the design which is not only fair 
in itself and free from any cramping or snubbing, but which 
in addition harmonizes with all other lines. It is a pleas- 
ure to inspect and study such a design in these days when 
more than half the lines of a design cannot be drawn 
with the most flexible battens, but require the smallest set 
curves. 
Mr. McLeod has for some years past resided in Chicago, 
and his sailing and designing has been confined entirely 
to Lake Minnetonka and the modern shoal skimming dish. 
Though he has in the past designed various keel yachts 
of cruising type for Nova Scotia, including the Royal 
Nova Scotia One-Design Class, illustrated in the Forest 
AND Stream of May 14, 1898, he had no experience in 
anything of the nature of a 35ft. racing yacht under the 
girth rule, and only his judgment to guide him in the 
selection of dimensions. The trial of the yacht disclosed 
several points in which improvement was possible, but it 
was then too late to make any important changes. The 
final measurements would have permitted an increase of 
ballast which would have improved the boat in moderate 
and heavy weather. The design shows this added ballast 
and the. original curve of stability has also been revised 
to include it. The sail plan will follow next week. 
Length — ■ 
Overall...,..,,......,....,,,...,, 40ft. 6 in. 
Overhang — 
Bow 4ft. 4 in. 
Counter 6ft. 2 in. 
Beam — 
Extreme {>rt. 11 in. 
L.W.L. ............................ 8ft. I in. 
Draft 6ft. 
Freeboard- 
Bow .............................. 2ft. II in. 
Least ift. gyiln. 
Counter 2ft. 4 in. 
Displacement 6 tons 
Ballast — Lead keel 3 tons 
Ratio of ballast to displacement — 
Coefficient .50 
Areas — 
Midship section 12,45 sq. ft. 
Coefficient 31 
Lateral plane — 
Without rudder 89.00 
Coefficient .42 
With rudder 96 . 20 
Coefficient 53 
Netted surface , ......... 299.00 
Station O to — 
Midship section 17.00ft. 
Coefficient , 57 
C. B. 16.50 
Coefficient 55 
C, L, R.— 
Without rudder 17.00 
Coefficient , .57 
With rudder 16,25 
Coefficient 5.4 
C. E 16.00 
Coefficient 53 
Sail area 1,416 sq. ft. 
Girth , 16.48ft, 
Yacht M ^.dels for Paris* 
Stowed snugly awa ■ among c cher United States ex-^ 
hibits for the iraris Ks lOsiLion in the hold of the United 
States steamship Praii « is the n ost interesting and ex- 
pensive collection ot ri ,>dels oi f; mous American yachts 
ever shipped for the p; rpose of e chibition. 
It has taken Lieut. , Rutherfo d Buchan, of the New 
York Y. C, nearly a ;• tar to coll set this exhibit. There 
are thirty-three full-r j^fged moc ds of famous yachts, 
thirty-one half models, three mod ;ls of fishing schooners, 
two of pilot boats, foi f of whak-back steamers and ten 
others, including a P. ansylvani;, Railroad ferryboat, a 
tug, a railroad float to carrying cars, and several of the 
old-time down East fi; hing craft, which were loaned by 
the State of Massachusetts. 
Handsome paintings of the schooners Colonia, by Coz- 
zens; of Quisetta, by Tyler, and of Amorita, b}' the same 
Those- loaned by the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. are: 
Titania, Utowanna, Ariel, Yampa, Wasp, a club catboat^ 
Nymph, Iroquois, Katrina, Sea Fox, Ethelwynn, Audax 
and Aloha. — New York Herald. 
artist, have been loaned by their owners. Very complete 
collections of photographs of yachts were loaned by local 
photographers and by a Detroit company. 
The exterior scheme of decoration for the faqade of 
the exhibit will be remarkably unique and beautiful. The 
interior of the exhibit, the walls of which are to be cov- 
ered with sea green burlap, and which will show on the 
sides and rear half models of such famous yachts as 
Puritan, Mayflower, Volunteer, Vigilant and Defender, 
will have a remarkably handsome frieze arounds its up- 
per edge, showing the seals in bas-relief of the New York, 
Larchmont, Atlantic, Seawanhaka and Eastern yacht 
clubs, each flanked by its club signal and its commodore's 
flag. These seals are made by Albert Weinert, the sculp- 
tor, and are fashioned in papier mache to represent seal- 
ing wax. 
It was necessary to build and rig many of the full 
models of the yachts, and some of the larger ones cost 
$1,000. They will be exhibited in glass cases, each model 
bearing a silver plate, with the name of the yacht, her 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The South Boston Mosquito Fleet elected the follow- 
ing officers on Jan. 30: Com., Charles P. Mooney; Vice- 
Corn., Clement J. Moriarty; Sec'y, John M. Sullivan; 
Treas., C. J. DriscoU; Meas., Fred H. Borden; Direc- 
tors, James Bertram, Thomas W. Flood and John A. 
DeLeire. After the meeting the annual banquet took 
place at the United States Hotel, Boston. 
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Sapphire IIIL, A. L. Barber, under charter to Capt. 
H. L. B. McCalmont, sailed on Jan, 16 /rom Marseilles 
for Cape Town. 
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Glendoveer, schr., has been sold by Clifford B. Hen- 
dricks to a New York yachtsman,' 
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Endymion, schr., George Lord Day, sailed from New 
York for a West India cruise on Jan. 31, with Capt. 
James Loesch in command. Mr. Day has as guests 
Messrs. Seymour L. Huested, Jr.; A. C. Hoyt and C, H. 
Crane. The yacht will call first at Bermuda. 
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Messrs. Cary Smith & Barbey have designed an aux- 
iliary schooner for Mr. James Sibley Watson, of Roch- 
ester, former owner of Lasca, schr. The yacht will be 
,147ft. 6in. over all, iioft. l.w.l., built of steel, at the Cres- 
cent Shipyard, Elizabeth. 
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On Jan. 25 the West Lynn Y. C. elected the following 
officers: Com., Frank Vallandry; Vice-Com., H. C. 
Sparks; Sec'y, J. P. Linehan; Treas., F. G, Olin; Fleet 
Capt., William Forsyth; Meas., Barclay Spurr; Directors, 
E. F. Davis, Lewis A. Cann, William Eastman; Regatta 
Committee, William Eastman, H. W. Foster, John Mc- 
Neil, F. T. Philbrick, A. W. Forsyth. After the election 
supper was served in the large meeting hall. 
Acushla II., sloop, has been sold by Messrs. Hanan to 
Wm. T. Rainey, of Philadelphia, who will use her for 
cruising. , , j 
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Black Pearl, steam yacht, recently purchased by Evans 
R. Dick, of Philadelphia, has been renamed Elsa. 
The Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. has closed a contract 
with the Davis Dry Dock Co., of Kingston, Ont., for a 
65ft. steam yacht. 
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The German Emperor has decided to offer a gold cup, 
to be raced for at the Kiel regatta in June, open to boats 
of all nationalities, which have been built since Oct. i, 
last year. His idea in offering this prize is to establish 
a class of boats in German waters similar to the re- 
Coon, yawl, W. H. Langley, arrived at Beaufort, N. C, 
on Jan. 27 from New York. 
owner, and the person who either loaned or had it built. 
Following is a complete list of all the models shipped 
in the Prairie for this exhibit. Lieut. Buchanan will in- 
stall them and have entire charge of that portion of the 
Exposition: 
FULL RIGGED MODELS. 
Name. Exhibitor. 
America N. Y. State Commission. 
Ellide E. B. Warren.. 
Columbia E. B. Warren. 
Viper F. P. Magoun. 
Madeleine E. B. Warren. 
Fox C. D. Mosher. 
Magic....... T. N. Motley. 
Pocahontas C. D. Mosher. 
Sappho New York Y. C. 
Utopian J. J. Astor. 
Mischief Mrs. J, R. Busk. 
Norota George BuUock. 
Puritan J- M. Forbes. 
Constellation E. D. Morgan. 
Mayflower E. D. Morgan. 
Volunteer C. J. Paine. 
Vigilant New York Y. C. 
Defender New York Y. C. 
Corsair ...J. P. Alorgan. 
Kanawha J. P. Duncan. 
Sachem Mrs. W. A. Arnold. 
Mohegan C. A. Miller. 
Amorita W. G. Brokaw. 
Intrepid (S) L. Phoenix. 
Intrepid (A) L. Phcenix. 
Center Mrs. J. R. Busk. 
Harlequin Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 
Yampa. , - New York Y. C. 
Jack Frost Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 
Georgie CP. Irwin. 
Cold Wave H. C. Higginson. 
Titina CM. Stebbins. 
Presto . ,,^. ..J. Adolph Mollenhauer. 
Jack Frost, Georgie. Cold Wave and Titina are ice 
boats. 
The half models loaned by the New York Y. C. are: 
Corsair III., Uncas. Katonah, Emerald. Hildeearde, 
Mira. Gossoon, Quickstep. Eleanor, Niagara. Colonia, 
NaAmhoe, Ingomar, Latona. Hera and Liris. The model 
of Columbia was not loaned, for obvious reasons. 
stricted 24-footers of the Royal Corinthian Y. C, which 
have proved so successful on the Thames and the east 
coast. Half a dozen of them have already been ordered 
in Germany, and one for the Emperor himself. Mr. Cecil 
Quentin, who won the Dover to Heligoland race in 1898, 
will be one of the English owners represented in the 
race, his boat, which will be built in Southampton, being 
constructed to Mr. A. E. Payne's design. 
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Orienta, steam yacht, has been sold by E. R. Ladew 
to Edvvin T. Trowbridge. 
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Com. Harry Rareshide, the "father of yachting" in Gulf 
waters, died on Jan. 31 in New Orleans, aged eighty-two. 
He was a native of New Orleans. Sixty years ago he 
was one of the organizers of the Stingaree Club, the first 
yachting club in Louisiana. The club had a fine fleet, 
which made an anual cruise along the Gulf coast. Mr, 
Rareshide subsequently organized the Crescent City Y. 
C, of which he was first commodore, and, finally, the 
Southern Y. C, the present New Orleans organization, 
of which he was vice-commodore. In 1850 he went to 
Nicaragua in the Walker filibustering expedition, and 
during the Civil War he served as an officer in the Con- 
federate army. — Philadelphia Telegraph. 
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The Seawanhaka Co. is the name of a new organiza- 
tion, formed for the purpose of providing a new city 
club house for the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. It is 
proposed to erect a ten-story bachelor apartment house 
near Fifth avenue, and between Forty-fourth and Fifty- 
ninth streets, the two lower floors to be specially fitted 
up for the use of the club, and the remainder to be leased 
in apartments. The incorporators are Messrs. H. C. Rouse, 
E. C. Benedict, Colgate Hoyt, Alfred Ely, Arthur C. 
James, F. Augustus Schermerhorn, Henry C. Eno, J. F. 
Tams, Walther Luttgen and C. J. Stevens. The officers 
are: Pres., H. C. Rouse: Vice-Prest.. Colgate Hoyt; 
Sec'y, Alfred Ely; Treas,, Walther Luttgen. 
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The second of the one-design 70-footers is now about 
read for launching at Bristol, with her steam tender. 
The pair are for E. D. Morgan, former owner of Vindex, 
.Amy, Catarina, Ituna, Gloriana, Tomahawk, May, Con- 
stellation, Moccasin and Puck. 
