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powers of the officers and trustees are those usually de- 
volving upon such officials. 
The club rooms are in The Royalton, a bachelor apart- 
ment hotel, at No. 47 West Forty-third street, in the 
heart of the club house district of New York city. They 
are on the first floor, and have a private entrance. They 
consist of four rooms, adapted for use as reception rooms, 
committee rooms, library, etc., and in addition a dining 
room of ample size to accommodate about fifty persons. A 
contract has been made with the management of The 
Royalton by virtue of which meals are served in the club's 
dining room at all hours from early morning to 10 P. M., 
and beverages and cigars to 12 P. M., at club prices. Thus 
the club is able to afford its members all the privileges of 
restaurant, cafe, bar, etc. 
The club rooms are well furnished, handsomely deco- 
rated, lighted by electricity and equipped with long-dis- 
~ tance telephone service. The several committees have 
begun the work of accumulating books, photographs, lines, 
models, etc., of interest to yachtsmen. 
The membership of the Yachtsmen's Club already in- 
cludes gentlemen who are members of the American, At- 
lantic, Eastern, Bridgeport, Hartford, Hempstead Harbor, 
Horseshoe Harbor, Huguenot, Huntington, Indian Har- 
bor, Larchmont, Manhasset Bay, New Haven, New 
Rochelle, New York, Norwalk, Riverside, Royal Cana- 
dian, Seaclitf and Seawanhaka Corinthian yacht clubs. 
Application for membership should be sent to the 
secretary. 
The officers of the club are: David Banks, Pres., At- 
lantic Y. C. ; Hazen L. Hoyt, Vice-Pres., Larchmont Y. 
C. ; Chas. T. Pierce, Sec'y, Riverside Y. C. ; P. G. San- 
ford, Treas., Norwalk Y. C. Trustees— President, Secre- 
tary and Treasurer, ex-officio; Frank Bowne Jones, In- 
dian Harbor Y. C. ; Chas. P. Tower, New Rochelle Y. C. ; 
Hazen L. Hoyt, Larchmont Y. C. ; Edw. M. MacLellan, 
Manhasset Bay Y. C. ; Newbury D. Lawton, New York 
Y. C. ; Ward Dickson, Hempstead Harbor Club. 
A Catboat Cruise on Lake Ontario. 
When in Toronto last August we had the pleasure of 
wishing bon voyage to a merry party of six who were 
just getting away from the float of the Royal Canadian 
Y. C. for a summer holiday afloat. The boat was so 
small and the pile of duffle passed aboard from the float 
was so large that we were interested in hearing the out- 
come of the experiment. The following log was sent 
us recently for private perusal, knowing all of the parties. 
It was not written for publication, but as a record of a 
pleasant cruise. At our request we have been allowed 
to publish it in connection with the lines of the boat. 
She was designed by Mr. J. Wilton Morse, of the Royal 
Canadian Y. C, designer of the little dinghy illustrated 
in the Forest and Stream, and which has proved so 
popular. The sixth member of the party deserves more 
mention than is accorded him in the cruise. Burleigh is 
a big bull terrier, of sage and dignified mien, according 
with his name. Though not by nature a navigator, he 
proved an amiable and appreciable companion on tlie 
cruise. 
Drift was designed for use up on Georgian Bay, and 
was intended to be large enough to carry a party of four 
and supplies for a camping out trip of two weeks 
through byways where provisions could not be obtained. 
Sleeping accommodation was provided by a tent, which 
was rigged over the boat from the mast to the stern, the 
after end of the ridge rope being fastened to the boom, 
which was then well topped up, and the forward end tied 
to the mast. The sides were hooked to rings lashed 
through "the gunwale, this arrangement making the deck- 
ing around the side available as a shelf at night. 
The tent was i6ft. long by the full width of the boat, 
and was found very comfortable for a two weeks' trip 
down the Bay of Quinte this summer. A party of five, 
three of them ladies, found ample sleeping accommoda- 
tion on the broad flat floor, while during the day the 
thousand and one things required were all stowed away, so 
as to leave plenty of room for every one. 
The boat turned out very successful, being a good dry 
sea boat, thanks to buoyant form and ample freeboard. 
She would, of course, have looked much better with a 
counter on her, but being able to unship the rudder in a 
hurry is a matter of necessity in strange waters, when 
it projects so far below the keel, and the rudder was 
none too deep to control the boat in some of the weather 
she went through this summer. She would work to 
windward easily through a channel not more than 50ft. 
wide, and her speed all round left nothing to be desired 
from a cruising standpoint. 
Her construction was very strong, the trunk logs of her 
certerboard box running through from the stem to the 
stern seat with cross floors every 2ft. bolted to it and to 
the bilge stringer, taking all the strain of the heavily 
loaded centerboard and stiffening the whole boat up. 
The bottom boards being laid over these cross floors 
gave a lot of stowage room underneath, in which all our 
provisions were carried in watertight jars. 
Her dimensions are as follows: 
Length — 
Over all 19ft. 
L.W.L 15ft. 6 in. 
Overhang — 
Bow 2ft. 6 in. 
Stern. 9 in. 
Beam — 
Extreme 7ft. 
L.W.L 6ft. 8 in. 
Freeboard — 
Bow 2ft. 
Least ift. 3 in. 
Stern ift. 5 in. 
Draft — Hull only loj^in. 
Displacement 2,6oolbs. 
Lead on centerboard 20olbs. 
Sail- 
Foot 19ft. 
Luff 13ft. 
Head 12ft. 
Leach 26ft. 
Throat to clew. 21ft. 9 in. 
Area 250 sq. ft. 
TABLE OF OFFSETS FOR 19FT. SAILBOAT DESIGNED BY J. WILTON MORSE AND BUILT BY AYKROYD BROS. 
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Sections. 
Heights above L.W.L 
Depths below L.W.L 
Half-breadths at deck 
Half-breadths at W.L. C. 
Half-breadths at W.L. B., 
Half-breadths at W.L. A.. 
Half-breadths at L.W.L.... 
Half-breadths at W.L. 1... 
Half-breadths at W.L. 2... 
Half-breadths at W.L. 8... 
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Sections from 1 to 12 spaced 18in. and waterlines Sin. apart. No. 1 section 2ft. 6in. from bow. Diagonals cross center line 27in. above L.W.L. No. 1 
diagonal crosses W.L. B 37in. from center W.L. A 4S.%\n. No. 2 diagonal crosses W L. 2 86J^in. from center. No. 3 diagonal crosses W.L. 3 19J^in. from 
center. Stem cuts W.L. A 12}^in. from section 1, W.L, B 20in., W.L. C 25%:in,, W.L. D 28in., W.L, E W%in. Front end of centerboard slot 2ft. 9in. 
from section No. 1. Aft end of slot 9ft. from section No. 1. 
Planking Yzin. cedar lapstreak. Ribs ij^x^in. oak 
spaced 6in. centers. Deck J^in. cedar. Deck clamp, 
spruce, 2xlj4in. Bilge stringer, spruce, l^xi,^in. Tran- 
som oak, %in. thick. Centerboard, spruce, 2in. thick, 
faced with oak and loaded with 20olbs. of lead, edges 
chamfered ofi; and finished with J^in. half-round iron. 
With hollow spars and silk sail, she is very light aloft, and 
the loaded centerboard and ballast make her practically 
non-capsizable. 
[Sail plan will appear next week.] 
Saturday, Aug. i8, at noon sharp, had been set as the 
time of starting for a cruise from Toronto down to 
Kingston, through the Bay of Quinte, in the half-decked 
catboat Drift, of the Royal Canadian Y. C.'s fleet. 
We had been talking about this cruise from early 
spring, and when the time arrived the crew were all on 
hand. Stores were aboard and we were ready to be off, 
but at noon rain from a thunder storm was coming down 
in sheets, so the start was postponed for sundry reasons. 
Half an hour later the sky was clear, and with a light 
southwest wind we left the club house and started for the 
Eastern Gap. When half a mile on our way the wind 
dropped, clouds came up and once more the rain came 
down as though all the water in the heavens were pour- 
ing down on that one little defenseless boat. 
Oilskins were donned, the covers spread over the 
along with a good fresh breeze abeam, but about midnight 
the wind lightened and then hauled to the northeast, which 
was dead ahead, and the crowd finally settled down to 
get what sleep they could. 
The wind gradually freshened and kicked up a nasty 
sea, but the boat proved herself a good one by riding the 
seas like a duck and making good time through it all. 
Occasionally one of the sleepers would rouse up and 
ask if we had passed Oshawa Light yet, and the invariable 
answer was "No," but at last a light loomed up ahead, 
and a long way ahead, too. By this time the sea was so 
heavy that the skipper was kept busy dodging the big 
ones. They doubtless looked worse than they really 
were in the dark, but it was rather an anxious hour, and 
gave the ladies an experience they are not likely to forget 
very soon. 
Shortly after 3 a faint light appeared in the sky which 
gradually spread and brightened, till one of the finest 
dawns ever seen by any of the party (who, by the way, do 
not see many) came over the eastern sky. 
The light from the lighthouse got dimmer and dimmer, 
and now that the waves could be seen the boat was 
making better time. Tack after tack was made so as to 
keep under the lee of a long point which broke the seas 
some, and gradually we drew near the piers, and at last 
shot between them at 6 o'clock, after a long, hard night's 
sail, and found out that Oshawa had been passed and 
duffle and all rather enjoyed the rain storm, as it was 
very cooling through the oilskins, and we consoled our- 
selves with the thought that a bad beginning makes a 
good ending. Ten minutes later the rain stopped, clouds 
drifted over, the sun came out, the wind settled back to 
west and this time we started for good. 
Going through the Eastern Gap we got a fearful sha- 
king up from the waves of the steamers passing through 
on their Saturday afternoon excursions. Four big ones 
passed us before we got clear, and the boat was shaken 
around like popcorn on a griddle, fortunately without 
shipping any water. 
Getting clear of the steamers we jibed over and started 
down shore with the wind almost directly behind us, and 
as the sun came out good and hot everything was soon 
dry and we had a delightful run. 
We were soon abreast the Scarboro cliffs and close 
enough in to get the full benefit of the view, and a mag- 
nificent sight it was. The sun by this time was shining 
pretty well parallel with the line of the cliffs, clearly out- 
lining the face of the bluffs against their own shadows 
and rnaking pictures not soon to be forgotten. 
As every one had had lunch early, appetites made a 
swift call, so about 5 o'clock the boat was headed in for 
the shore and we landed at a little nook we had been in 
at before, about four miles west of Frenchman's Bay. 
In a short time a fire was going and a big steak was 
under way, the party enjoying to the full the first meal 
of the cruise. 
As soon as dishes were washed up away we went, as 
the wind was favorable, and we wanted to make the most 
of it. About 8 o'clock the wind hauled off shore and 
freshened, and the skipper settled down for an all night's 
sail, hoping to be far on the way by daybreak. At 11 
we ran ashore again to stretch our legs, but found a 
gravelly beach, so did not stay ashore long, and shortly 
after starting again w^ passed Whitby Light. 
Oshawa Lighthouse, some six miles down the coast, was 
what we were now on the lookout for, and we hoped to 
see it by 12:30, as the boat was now moving rapidly 
that we were at Port Darlington, some forty-odd miles 
from Toronto. 
We ran up the creek and cooked breakfast while the 
skipper took a nap, and after a walk, which took all the 
stiffness out of our joints, we decided to go on. 
Working out of the narrow creek was quite a feat, but 
the boat did it nicely, and we were soon in the lake again, 
finding the sea heavier but the wind lighter. A long leg 
and a short one was the order, and soon Darlington 
Lighthouse was a thing of the past and Port Hope was the 
cry. As the sun came up, the wind went down, and soon 
we were barely moving, once having to anchor for a few 
minutes to prevent the seas washing us ashore, but gradu- 
ally we worked down the coast till about 4 o'clock we once 
more landed for our evening meal. 
Our method of landing on the lake shore was to drop 
the anchor about looft. off shore, then let the boat tail 
in till the crowd, all of whom had long rubber boots, could 
wade ashore, then by fastening the boat with a shore line 
we could come and go as we pleased. This was made 
quite possible with only a loin. draft, and a few minutes 
ashore easily repaid the slight trouble of getting in 
and out. 
After a good hot meal every one felt better, and as 
there was not a breath of wind, one of the ladies sug- 
gested towing the boat along shore, with the double object 
of getting some exercise and at the same time gaining 
ground. The scheme was adopted, and before quitting 
two or three miles had geen gained, when a light breeze 
sprang up and the sail was called into use. 
Once 'more the wind hauled dead ahead, but the lights 
of Port Hope town were in the distance, and gradually 
they came nearer. Making Port Hope from the west in 
a small boat at night the lights are very perplexing, as 
after rounding the last point, Port Hope, the Gull and 
Cobourg lights are all seen, forming apparently a tri- 
angle, and it is hard to tell one from another, but by 
working close along shore we were bound to strike Port 
Hope first. 
The wind was very light and dead ahead, and at the 
