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The steam yacht Turbese, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. A. Schwartz- 
mann, will be rebuilt by the same company, very little of 
the present boat being allowed to remain. The yacht 
when completed will have a flush deck and be I37ft- over 
all. The owner's quarters will be finished in mahogany, 
maple and butternut. The deck houses, skylights, etc.. 
are to be of mahogany. The after house will have stairs 
leading to the main saloon, and the forward house is to 
have a dining room and pantry, with bridge and steer- 
ing arrangement on top. 
This company has a contract to build a cruising sloop 
yacht, 32ft. over all. 23ft. on the waterline and 5ft. draft. 
She will be ready for delivery in the early spring. 
The following yachts are laid up in winter quarters at 
the Greenport Basin and Construction Co. : The steam 
yachts Turbese, Aunt Polly, Willada, Altair, I^Iagnolia, 
Alto Presto, Whim, Lucy, Claymore and Helys. The 
schooners Atlantic, Katrina, Miladi, Muriel and Fenella. 
The sloops Isolde, Effort, Mira, Bijou. Zenobia, Martha, 
Thalia, Wimpoy, Gretchen, Vorant II., Spasm, Altair, 
Marion, Senta, Katrina, Peri, Aloha, Lineta, Hebe, Sa- 
Bina, Consternation, Drone, Minnie Rogers, Surprise, 
Lynx, Natalie, Poco, Asthore, Hermes, Winnie Wish. 
Helen, Arrow and Zenita. Also the yawl Vigilant. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
Messrs. Huntington & Seaman have sold for Mr. Mar- 
celis C. Parsons, of New York city, the 40ft. waterline 
cutter Kiaora to Mr. H. R. M. Cook, also of Ne wYork 
city. The yacht's rig will be changed to that of a yawl, 
under direction of Mr. Charles D. Mower. She will re- 
ceive new sails and spars. The work will be done at 
Cold Spring Harbor, where the yacht is laid up for the 
winter. 
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The steam yacht Halcyon, owned by E. C. Potter, was 
sold at auction on Nov. 6 by Adrian H. Muller & Son, 
aucti<?neers, at the New York Real Estate salesroom. 
Bidding was started at $1,000, and went up slowly to 
$1,700, at which price the yacht was knocked down to the 
Manning Yacht Agency. The Halcyon is 125ft. over all, 
io6(t. 3in. on the waterline, i6ft. beam, and 6ft. 6in. draft. 
She has two masts, two large deck houses, four state- 
rooms and bath, and a large main saloon. Her coal 
capacity is ten tons, and her speed twelve miles. The 
Halcyon has not been in commission for the last two 
seasons. In the sale all the equipment and furnishings 
went vyith the yacht, including a large quantity of silver, 
linen, bedding, etc., as well as the sailing equipment. 
Manning's Yacth Agency have sold Halcyon to Mr. F. 
F. Ames for $2,500. 
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The London Times states that Sir William Henry 
White, Director of Naval Construction, has resigned his 
position on account of ill health, and was not removed 
from office as the result of blunders made on the royal 
yacht Victoria and Albert. 
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Mr. Fred W. Martin, of Waukogan, 111., has a large 
amount of work on hand. Among the orders for yachts 
already placed are the following. A steam yacht for Mr. 
Vernbi) C. Seaver, of Chicago, 111., owner of the gasoline 
laiiqch JCid that was blown up in Chicago Harbor off 
the' Chicago Y. C. house last August. She will be 78ft. 
oyer. aU, 63ft. waterline, 14ft. beam and 4ft. 3in. draft. 
J^r. R. H. Adams, of Philadelphia, Pa., has ordered a 
keel schooner, which will be 50ft. over all, 35ft. water- 
line, I3f^ 6in. beam and 5ft. 6in. draft. Mr. F. J. Rogers, 
of Chicago, 111., has ordered a keel cutter to be 32ft. over 
all, 2lft. 6in. waterline, 8ft. beam and 5ft. draft. This 
bojit is designed to stand the heavy weather of Lake 
Michigan, but still to have some turn of speed. A cen- 
terboard jib and mainsail boat has been ordered by Mr. 
W. C. Wheeler, of Ballard, Wa.sh. This boat is 40ft. over 
all, 25ft. waterline and lift. beam. Mr. Martin has 
orders for two house-boats, and he is also designing a 
large number of smaller craft. 
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Mr. John D. Archbold has placed an order with the 
Gas Engine and Power Company and Seabury & Co., 
Morris Heights, for a steam yacht looft. long. The own- 
ers' country home is at Tarrytown-on-tlie-Hudson, and 
the j'acht will be used to convey Mr. Archbold to and 
from NcAv York city. In order to make the trip in a 
reasonable amount of time, it was necessarj' that the yacht 
should be fast, and a speed of twenty-one knots is guaran- 
teed. The cabins will be fairly roomy, and the dining- 
room will be in the forward deck house. The saloon, 
owner's cabin and bathroom are below decks aft, while 
the galley, officers' and crew's quarters will be forward 
of the engine space. The yacht will be driven by two 
triple-expansion engines and a Seabury Avatcr tube boiler. 
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Mr. Thomsa W. Lawson, of Boston, has presented to 
the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. a $10,000 silver trophy to 
be raced' for by 90ft. sloops. It represents a historical 
record of the past half-century of America's Cup racing, 
and is claimed to be the most beautiful trophy of its 
kind that artists' modelers and silversmit shhave yet pro- 
duced. It consists of a superb punch l)owi stand, a set 
of drinking cups and a punch ladle. 
Each of the cups represents a chapter in yacht racing, 
and bears an etching of one of the winning years, with 
name and date of race, as follows: America. iS^t ; 
Magic, 1870; Sappho. 1871 ; Madeline. 1876; Mischief, 
1881; Puritan, 1885; Mayflower. 1886; Volunteer, 1887; 
Vigilant, 1893 ; Defender, 1895, and Columbia, 1899. 
The dimensions give an idea of their massiveness and 
extraordinary size for a work of this character. The 
bowl and stand measure 25in. in height, the bowl has a 
capacity of seventy pints — almost nine gallons — and the 
entire set contains 1,36002. of sterling silver— something 
over ii3lbs. 
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Mr. Thomas Ratsey, the famous English sailmaker. 
sailed for America on Nov. 9. He is coming to the 
United States to complete arrangements for opening a 
sailmaking plant in this country. Americans wishing to 
have English sails on their boats have in ntany cases been 
prevented from so doing on account of the' heavy duty 
placed on them. The great cost of these sails, however, 
has not prevented a number of owners from using them 
on their boats, and Mr. Ratsey will undoubtedly do a 
large business should he carry out his project of establish- 
ing a factory in Brooklyn. 
Small Yacht Construction and 
Rigging. 
BY LINTON HOPE. 
Part II.— Chapter III.— Various Rigs. 
Among the various types now in use on small yachts and boats 
the most_ popular rig for either racing or cruising is the sloop, 
whether it is of the simple, two-sailed type, as shown in .\o. 1 
sail plan, or the more elaborate arrangement with jackyard topsail 
and large spinnaker carried by the racing cruiser No. 2. 
Other nearly allied varieties of the No. 1 tvpe of sloop arc the 
so-called gunter lugs and .Solent or Clyde h'lgs, in place of llic 
high-peaked gaff sail of No. 1. Ail these tliree are verv much 
alike, and have been developed from the old standing fu<j still 
used by the fishermen. This development has always been in the 
direction of higher peaked sails, with smaller and smaller propor- 
tions of the sail forward of the mast, the Clyde lug having only 
a very small piece of the sail forward, while its next stage, the 
Solent lug, has only the heel of the yard alongside the mast,' and 
nothing forward of it. This heel of the yard is hauled round the 
after side of the tnast every time the boat goes about, so that it is 
always to leeward; and to do away with this the heel of tlie yard 
was fitted with jaws to keep it on the after part of the mast and 
alike on both tacks, the result being a combination of the old slid- 
ing gunter and the Solent lug, generally known as a gunter lug. 
This sail is a great improvement on the Solent lug, but has one 
fault, and that is that the jaws' occasionally get round to one side 
of the mast and stop there. 
To get rid of this very annoying habit, various plans have been 
tried, and among them the most successful is to sling the yard by 
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a long wire span fastened to the jaws and to the usual place for 
slinging the yard, with a shackle spliced into it at a point which 
W-iU allow the yard to sag away from the mast at the slings for 
some few inches more than its proper position for setting the sail 
the yard being drawn into the mast to the correct place by a par- 
allel line from the slings of the yard. This method answers ad- 
mirably, especially if long battens are used attached to the jaws, 
as shown in the sketcli ; but as it requires two lines — viz., the hal- 
yard and the parallel— it is now considered better to use two sep- 
arate halyards for throat and peak, whicli practically converts 
the sail into a true gaff sail, thougli it still has the same shape as 
before. The peak halyard is shackled to a' long, fight wire span 
on the gaff, and in reefing, only the throat halyard is eased' up, 
the peak halyard traveling up the wire on the gaff and always keep- 
ing the gaff at its proper angle with the mast. The throat' halyard 
should be rove through a block as close to the jaws of the gaff 
as possible, to keep them from twisting round the mast; they will 
