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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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LAZY JACK— DETAIL DRAWINGS, 
Alcaea, Ingomar, Jubilee, Latona, Endymion, Alcedo, 
Aquilo, Currier, Inca, Kaleda and Valda. 
The. Beverly Y. C. has amended its rules in regard to 
restricted 2S-footers, so that keel boats may now have a 
show with the centerboards. The minimum of beam 
in the keel boats is set at 8ft., the excess of draft 6ft, and 
they are to carry 5,ooolbs. of ballast. The minimum of 
beam in the centerboards is fixed at 9ft., the excess of 
draft 4ft. and ballast 5,5oolbs. At the annual meeting 
the club elected the following officers for the coming year : 
Com., G. H. Richards; Vice-Com., L. S. Dabney; Sec'y 
and Treas., Laurence Whitcomb ; Meas., John Parkinson. 
There are two i8ft. knockabouts being built for Dux- 
bury parties. A cup has been offered for this class by Ex- 
Com. Cushman, of the Duxbury Y. C, to be raced for by 
all comers. -r. tt 1, 
F. D. Lawley is at work on the lines of a Bar Harbor 
25-footer. A:2ift. raceabout is set up in the shop. The 
King 3S-footer is partly planked. 
Crowninshield is designing a 32ft. yawl for E. I. San- 
ford, of New York; a 21ft. knockabout for Durbin Home, 
of Pittsburg, to be used at Providence, and a 25ft. knock- 
about for Lome C. Kenney, of Toronto. 
Graves, of Marblehead, is building a i6-footer for A. D. 
.Irving, from Crowninshield's design. 
The annual ball of the South Boston Y. C. will take' 
place on Feb. 6, 1901. John B. Killeen. 
Lazy Jack. 
We give this week the sail, deck, cabin and detail plans 
of the catboat Lazy Jack. Her lines and construction 
plans appeared last week. In racing trim Lazy Jack 
carries Soolbs. of ballast and not Solbs., as was stated 
last week. 
Yacht Vefsus Steamer. 
Judge Addison Brown in the United States Circuit 
Court has returned a decision of unusual interest to 
yachtsmen in the suit of R. Floyd Clark to recover dam- 
ages on his schooner yacht Vif, which was sunk in the 
East River riear Hell Gate on July 16 as the result of a 
collision with the steamer Crystal Stream, owned by the 
Myers^ Excursion and Navigation Company. The deci- 
sion is important as defining the rights of way of a sailing 
vessel as against a steamer. 
Vif was a Soft, keel schooner yacht, and had among 
her former owners the actor William H. Crane and 
Charles Stevenson, then the husband of Kate Claxton. 
She and the Crystal Stream sighted each other when the 
yacht was sailing north in the easterly channel of Black- 
well's Island, nearer to the Blackwell's Island shore and 
about opposite the workhouse. The Crystal Stream, with 
an excursion barge lashed to each side of her, was then 
headed down stream, about looft. from the Astoria ferry. 
The collision occurred within three minutes near the 
light and about lOoft. from the shore of Blackwell's 
Island. 
On the part of the yacht, the crew of three men, who 
were the only persons aboard, testified that they held their 
course and saw no side lights on the tow, but that it 
LAZY JACK— SAIL PLAN. 
sagged across their bow and ran into them, the set of the 
tide forcing them to the westward after passing the bend 
of the island. 
On the part of the Crystal Stream, it was claimed that 
after passing Astoria ferry slip she crossed the current to 
avoid the flood tide and an eddy near the Blackwell's 
Island side, and that after she had straightened out down 
the stream the yacht ran into her. 
The claim on the part of the yacht was that this crossing 
of her bow by the Crystal Stream and tow rendered the 
Crystal Stream liable for all damages, and that, at any 
rate, as there was a bend in the river at that point, each 
