POnESt AND STREAM. 
873 
Part I — Buildiog. 
CHAPTER I. — TOOLS. 
To turn out good work it is absolutely essential to have a set of 
good tools, which must always be kept in proper order, though I 
Snow by my own experience that one does not care about the 
drudgery of sharpening them the moment they gel the least bit 
blunt. If, however, they are allowed to get blunt and gapped it is 
quite impossible to make a good job. 
A common fault with amateurs tools is that they are sharpened 
only on an oil stone long alter they shruld have been ground, and 
the consequence is that the cutting angle gets steeper, and though 
the actual edge is sharp, yet it is so sleep that it will not make a 
clean cut. Ihe following diagrams sho>v a section of the edge of a 
chisel, A as it should be, and JLJ as it should not be, but often is: 
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A B 
1 do not propose to teach the use of the tools, as there are 
many excellent books on the subject; but I will give a list of the 
various tools requisite for the work before us, and also some extra 
tools which, though not absolutely necessary, are exceedingly use- 
ivX if the expense is not too great; these are marked with a *. 
that very long stuff may be held in bolli. A flush rising and fatline 
planing Uop should be fixed in the top at the left-hand end, and 
some tool racks and drawers will be very handy; also a nail box or 
two. 
Note.— The steam chest can be made of four 9in. by l%m. fir 
planks rabbeted at joints and well screwed together, with one end 
permanently blocked up and the other end fitted with a loose plug 
or door. The boiler may be any sort of kitchen copper or even a 
large kettle capable of holding two or three gallons. The lid must 
be made steam tight, and a pipe fitted from the boiler to the steam 
chest, A good pian is to fit one or two small bars across the steam 
chest inside about half way up, so as to keep the wood to be 
steamed off the bottom and let the steam get all around it. All the 
joints can be made sufficiently steam tight with red lead and 
canvas. A couple of good stout saw horses or trestles must 
also be made. 
[to be continued.] 
Qui Vive* 
In the summer of 1862, when on a cruise in my little 
sloop yacht Jerry Bryant, a jolly crew consisting of four 
Derby, Conn., boys and the writer found themselves flying 
high and dry on a sand bar in the lagoon at Holmes Hole 
— since then renamed Vinyard Haven. We had run on 
down to the sand bar and feeling along and arotmd ami 
under Jerry Bryant from stem to rudder. 
After again coming aboard he quietly remarked th.nt 
Kelpie could beat us to windward, though po>.s!l) y our 
greater length might enable us to run a trifle fa-iter s:i;iing 
free. Well, the next day the race was sailed and Kflp.e 
won handsomely, much to our astonishment, for up to 
that time we had found nothing of our sizevlhat could 
sail with us. 
Just before bidding us good-by, HerreshofT remarked 
to me, "I'm intending to commence a yacht buikling busi- 
ness." "All right," I replied; "make me a mrdJ for a 
40ft. sloop yacht and if it suits I will let you build from 
it." The model did suil. Johnnie, as we had learned to 
call him, btiilt the yacht, and duBing the twelve years that 
I owned and sailed Qui Vive we never met a boat of any 
size or kind that could sail as close to the w'nd wli le 
very few were able to hold her with the wind from any 
direction. 
Most of Qui Vive's racing was done in New York and 
Connecticut waters, and to her remarkable speed vvas l!"je 
the first fame of the Herreshoffs. 
The total oo»t of all the tools which are really necessary will come 
to about £5, not including the cost of a bench. 
List of Tools. 
1 half rip saw. 
*1 fine panel saw. 
1 turning saw, with 2 extra blades of different sizee. 
*1 small compass saw, with half a dozen spare blades. 
1 medium-sized tenon saw, with fine teeth. 
1 jack plane. 
1 smoothing plane (wood). 
*1 small plane (iron), with various adjustment*. 
1 rabbet plane. 
1 %in. round plane, for working hollow for gold liae. 
*1 3fn. circle, spar makers' hollow plane. 
*1 IMiiu- firmer chisel. 
1 lin. firmer chisel. 
*1 %i'n. firmer chisel. 
1 %in. firmer chisel. (This may be a dovetail cluadL) 
1 ^in. firmer chisel. 
♦1 %in. inside bevel gouge medium swaep. 
1 small shipwright's adze. 
1 draw knife. 
1 spokeshave, with adjustable mouth. 
1 ratchet stock and set of bits. 
*1 set of pat twist bits, 3-16in. to liji. 
1 Archemed'an stock and set of boat builder*' pieroer*. 
1 set of 4 gimlets. 
1 set of 4 bradawls. 
2 screwdrivers, large and smpll. 
2 hammers — a 21b. engyineei's ball paned hammer «nd a light 
boat builders' riveting hammer. 
*1 "holder on" or small maul head. 
1 rooving punch. 
1 carpenter's punch. 
*1 pair stout pliers. 
1 pair cutters. 
1 pair pincers. 
1 large vise. 
•1 hack saw. 
1 cold chisel. "i^ 
1 llhn. bastard file (flat safe edge). 
*1 lOin, bastard file (half round). 
♦1 Gin. saw file. 
*1 Sin. round or rat tail file. 
*1 lOin. smooth file (half round). I 
*1 bre?<-t drill and set of Morse twist drills. 
*1 small anvil. 
*1 hand vise. i 
1 12in. square. l. 
1.2ft. two-fold rule, with slida * 
1 bevel. 
1 spirit level. 
1 marking gauge. 
*1 pair dividers with set screw. 
2 plumb lines. 
1 chalk line, 
1 good sized oil stone and a slip for the gouge, etc 
1 grindstone and stand, etc., for foot power. 
*1 30ft. steel tape (if possible marked in incbe« oa one side and 
decimals of a foot on the other). 
2 12in. stout iron cramps. 
4 9in. light iron cramps. 
2 or 3 paint and varnish brushes and a putty knife. 
2 small caulking irons. 
1 caulking mallet. _ 
1 steam chest and boiler. 
In addition to these tools, a really good firm bench should be 
made, long enough to take the, longest planks which will be used, 
say 25ft. long and 2ft. wide, with the top not less than l%in. 
fir, and quite flat. A wooden bench vise should be fitted at "the 
kft-band end, and the large iron vise fitt«d at the otliuer end, so 
_ SHAMROCK II. 
From the Yachtsman. " T "i 
the bar for the purpose of scrubbing our boat. While so 
occupied a trim yacht somewhat smaller than ours sailed 
up the harbor and anchored a few hundred feet distant. 
Her sails were no sooner furled than a yawl containing 
two men put off from her and ran up under our stern, and 
one of the men hailed us with the query, "Is that the fast 
sloop from New York?" 
We told thein it was, then invited them aboard. The 
man who had hailed introduced himself as Dexter Stone 
and presented his companion as John B. Herreshoff, from 
Bristol, R. I. After talking boat for awhile with Herres- 
SHAMROCK n. 
From the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. 
hoff, who was wearing dark blue spectacles, I was in- 
formed that he was totally blind. He told me that his 
yacht was named Kelpie, that he had designed and built 
her, and having heard that my boat was very fast had 
come all the way from New Bedford to ask if I would sail 
a race with him just to test the speed of his Kelpie. I 
said we would be happy to do so, but thought we could 
easily win, because our boat was much larger than his 
and had been built by David Kirby. He then very coolly 
informed me he would "let me know as to that after he 
had looked at the shape of my boat." Naturally, we boys 
wondered how a blind man proposed to see anything. But 
he soon settled matters by taking off his boots, chmbing 
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John Herreshoff, I believe, can to-day take a block of 
wood and with a jackknife whittle out a model that won d 
equal in speed the best boat yet prodixced by any of the 
merely "scientific designers," so called, with .heir eyes 
wide open. Tlie photograph of Qui Vive, shown herewith, 
illustrates what a Herreshoff yacht of nearly forty years 
ago looked like. Her dimensions were: Length over all, 
42ft.; length waterline, 37ft. 6in.; beam, 15ft. 2in.; draft 
with centerboard up. 3ft.; length of mast, 5olt. ; length of 
boom, 50ft.; foot of jib, 26ft. Her cabin contained four 
full-sized berths with cushioned transoms in front of 
them. She had a stateroom with double s ze berth, two 
berths in forecastle, a large butler's pantry, arid every 
convenience for comfortable cruising. 
Thomas Clapham. 
RosLVN, N. Y., Feb. 21. 
Orizaba. 
Mr. Henry C. Pierce, of St. Louis, has ordered from 
Messrs, Gardner & Cox the largest steam yacht yet turned 
out by an American yacht designer. Orizaba, as she is to 
be named, will be built at Mr. Lewis Nixon's Cre-cent 
Shipyard, Elizabethport, N. J., and she is intended for 
deep-sea cruising; her speed will be fourteen knots, and 
she will have bunker capacity sufBcient for her to <;team 
6,000 miles without recoaling. The designers will have 
entire charge of the vessel from the designing of boilers 
and engines down to the furnishings and decorations. Her 
dimensions are'as follows: 258ft. over a'l, 195'^t. on the 
waterline, 30ft. beam 14ft. draft. 20ft. depth of ln!d. and 
she will be about 1,000 tons displacement. The freeboard 
fonvard is i8ft. Her large single ftinnel, together with her 
simple rig and high freebroard, gives her a most dignified 
and powerfitl appearance. Orizaba is fitted w'th twin 
screws, and her engines consist of two four-cylinder triiile 
expansion engines of 2,400 horse-power. The two Scotch 
boilers have a working pressure of 20olbs. Much time has 
been spent by the architects in laying out the cab'n nlans 
for the owner and the crew. To obtain the amount of 
accommodation made necessary by the requireiU'Mits. the 
type of the later English steam yachts, such as Mr. H-g- 
gins' Varuna, has been adopted with the bulwark ^ car- 
ried up to the hurricane deck. In following this method 
the usual deck houses and gangways on the main deck are 
done away with, and the great gain in space gives ro-^tn 
for large and airy quarters on the main deck in additi-n 
to those below. The forecastle is in the forward [lart 
of the vessel, occtipying part of the main and jiart 
of tiie lower decks; the^ deck crew are housed 
on the main deck, while the firemen and the oilers 
are directly below on the lower deck. Aft of the crew's 
quarters come the officers' .staterooms. These include 
six staterooms, messroom and two bathrooms, which are 
fitted with hot and cold shower baths; a separate galley 
