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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April i^, igoi. 
A Higfh Speed Sea-Going: Laanch. 
The accompanying design is for a high-speed day boat 
for use on rivers or inland waters, although having 
sufficient metacentric height for sea-going cruising. The 
launch would be diagonally built of cedar to insure light- 
ness combined with the necessary strength, although 
watertight bulkheads, boiler, deck casings and bunkers 
would be constructed of about 17-gauge galvanized nickel 
steel plating. The dimensions are : Length on load water- 
line plane, 6oft. ; beam, moulded, gft. 6'n.; depth, moulded, 
5ft. 6in, with a gin. bulwark all round. The maximum 
draft of water to bottom of propeller in cruising condition 
is Sft. The long, graceful counter stern permits of build- 
ing a roomy, raised quarter deck, giving a freer space 
for deck lounging than the cockpit, which itself is quite a 
spacious one. 
The dwarf deck house has the panels arranged for 
two windows each, the upper and smaller ones being 
made to hinge inboard at top for ventilation. An addi- 
tional panel has been fitted to after end of house to form 
a wind shelter for corners of cockpit. This deck house 
incloses the owner's accommodation, comprising cabin, 
pantry and toilet. The forward part of vessel has been 
arranged as crew's quarters— that is for skipper, engi- 
neer and deck hand. The launch is steered from the pilot 
house right forward, and the steering leads tiller, etc., 
are fitted below deck. Although designed with a clipper 
stem, a straight or a ram bow could readily be substituted, 
as in some recently built high-speed launches by the same 
designer, without in any way militating against the speed 
estimated — viz., 23 statute miles. 
The propelling machinery would consist of a set of com- 
pound surface condensing engines with a large ratio L. P. 
cylinder. Steam to be generated by water tube boiler at 
working pressure of 25olbs.. making engine revolutions 
of about 700 per minute. The launch was des gned by 
Geo. Simpson, M. I. N. A., of 116 North Sixth street, 
Camden, N. J., who has designed a number of the fastest 
launches and yachts on the other side, including Scud, 
205^ knots; Orel, i8>4 knots; Zaida, Xarifa, etc. 
Yacht Club Notes. 
The Ocean Y. C, of Stapleton, S. I., has elected the 
following officers: Com., Herman Seimer; Vice-Com., 
Fred Rierson; Rear-Com., Theodore Tompkins; Fin. 
Sec'y, John H. Schron; Cor. Sec'y, Otto E. Schroeder; 
Treas., Charles H. Robinson; Meas., James_^ A. Dunn. 
Com. A. Curtis James, of the^ Seawanhaka Y. C, has 
appointed Mr. D. Le Roy Dresser Fleet Capta n. The 
third reo-ular meeting of the Seawanhakas for the year 
will be held at Delmonico's, Forty-fourth street and Fifth 
avenue, on Wednesday, April 10. at 8:30 o'clock in the 
evening. Supper will be served after the meeting. 
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Com. David Banks, of the Atlantic Y. C. has appointed 
Mr. George Hill Fleet Captain, and Dr. Robert Millbank 
Fleet Surgeon. 
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Com. Frederick T. Adams, of the Larchmont Y. C, has 
appointed Mr. Joseph H. Sterling Fleet Captain. 
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' The annual meeting of the Hempstead Bay Y. C. will 
be held on Wednesday evening, April 17. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The racing sloop Ashumet has been sold by Mr. Richard 
C. Kipp to Mr. Gouverneur Paulding through the agency 
of F. Bowne Jones. This yacht will be raced by Mr. 
Paulding in the 36ft. class on Long Island Sound, and 
will probably be taken to Buffalo for the Exposition races 
there. , _ 
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The raceabout Jolly Roger, owned by Mr. B^ B. Crown- 
inshield, was sold to some members of the Northport Y. 
C, who will race the boat throughout the season in her 
class. This sale was made through the agency of F. 
Bowne Jones. 
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Mr F Bowne Jones has sold one of the Bar Harbor 
25ft. knockabouts to Mr. Clifford V. Brokaw, lately owner 
of Queen Mab, and the raceabout Spindrift to Mr. Samuel 
Comly, of the Indian Harbor Y. C. 
The steam yacht Rapidan, owned by Mr. R. Hall Mc- 
Cormick, has been chartered through the agency of F. 
Bowne Jones to Mr. H. P. Shippy for a part of the com- 
ing season. ^ ^ 9i 
Capt. Howard Blackburn, the Gloucester navigator who 
last year crossed the Atlantic alone in a 2Sft. sloop from 
Gloucester, Mass., to Gloucester, England, in sixty-two 
days, and who now wants to race Capt. Andrews or any 
other man in the world a similar race for $500, has a 
unique plan for visiting the Pan-American Exposition in 
his famous sloop. , „ „ , „ 
Capt. Blackburn's idea is to go to the Buffalo Exposi- 
tion by an all-water route and return home to Gloucester 
by water. His idea is to sail from Gloucester in August 
upon his return from his trip to Lisbon Portugal, to New 
York, up the Hudson River, via the Erie Canal into the 
lake to Buffalo. After taking in the sights of the Exposi- 
tion ~ioT several weeks. Capt. Blackburn will continue 
through the lakes to the St. Lawrence River, down by the 
Thousand Islands, stopping at all the prmcipal cities to 
the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and down the Atlantic coast, 
putting into Halifax, St. John and other principal ports, 
until he arrives home in Gloucester. — New York Sun. 
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The steam yacht Tide has been purchased by Messrs. 
Thomas & Post. The new owners will change her name 
from Tide to Taro. owing to the confusion arising from 
having two steam yachts in this part of the country of the 
same name. Tan? is the ocean lily of the Pacific and the 
name is also apPed to a food produtt of Polynesia. 
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