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We were absolutely without wind, as Columbia blanketed 
us in passing, and everyojie on board Albicore instinct- 
ively got on his feet and cheered as the boats swept by 
a smother of foam. Columbia heeled down with her lee 
rail well under and all the crew outlined clearly on the 
weather rail, while Constitution was just under our lee 
with her wea.her side rolled well out and her bronze 
bottom shining brightly. It was a great sight to pass so 
closely to these big machines carrying such an enormous 
spread of canvas and pounding into the big sea. 
Four of us had lived on board Albicore in addition to 
the crew for a week, enjoying every comfort, and we left 
her with many regrets at Newport, feeling that she was 
as perfect a cruiser "of her inches" as floats. Albicore 
is remarked wherever she goes for her very sweet lines 
and graceful sheer and in designing her Mr. Fife has kept 
up his reputation for turning out the handsomest yachts 
in the world. 
Tn addition to Albicore's showing as a cruiser, she has 
shown considerable speed, and has a racing record of 
which to be proud. For her last racing season, 1900, out 
of fourteen starts she won eleven firsts and one second 
prize. In her class. L 36ft. to 43ft, she headed the list 
of twenty-four bo.v- f.'ir the season's racing. Altogether, 
she has won for her owner in three years of racing, 
twenty-one prizes, eighteen of which were firsts. 
Western Yachts. 
Cabin and Knockabout Classes Stand. 
Chicago, 111., Feb. 1. — In the meeting of the delegates 
of the Lake Michigan Yachting Association held at the 
Briggs House earlier this week, there were present dele- 
gates from Little Traverse Bay Y. C, Macatawa Bav 
Y. C, Milwaukee Y. C, Chicago Y. C, Columbia Y. C. 
and Jackson Park Y. C. President H. A. Coleman had 
the chair, there being also present Treasurer W. S. 
Bougher and Secretary H. G. Finney. A warm discus- 
sion arose over the question of cabin type or knockabout 
type. The Milwaukee men especially were displeased 
at what they termed too much tinkering with the rules, 
showing an inclination to hang to the knockabout type, 
and claiming that an injury would be done to Milwaukee 
if this type were thrown out, since a number of boats of 
the knockabout type are now building in the Cream City. 
Opposition coming up to the adoption of the 21ft. cabin 
type exclusively, the matter was finally compromised by 
passing the rule relating to the 21ft. cabin boat and allow- 
ing the old knockabout clause to stand without change. 
Article 3, relating to measurements, was changed in one 
or two particulars. 
Milwaukee Y. C. Elects Commodore. 
In the annual meeting of the Milwaukee Y. C. last Sat- 
urday night, Mr. E. P. Vilas was chosen Commodore ; 
H. A. Coleman, Vice-Com. ; Rene Hilbert, Rear-Corn., 
Alexander Mathers, Sec'y-Treas. ; F. B. Huntington, 
John M. Handley. Rene Hilbert, Alexander Mathers and 
H. A. Coleman, Board of Directors. The new Commo- 
dore will, at the next meeting, appoint his Fleet Captain, 
Fleet Surgeon and the chairmen of the working com- 
mittees on House, Entertainment and Regatta. 
The regular Fourth of July regatta will be held as 
usual, and there will be a cruise to Macatawa Bay. Mich., 
of several boats, which will enter in the Lake Michigan 
Yachting Association meet next August. 
Milwaukee Y. C. comprises 180 active members, a larger 
list than it has ever had before. Thistle, schooner, will 
be the flag ship this coming season. Milwaukee Y. C. 
will probably send a trial boat for the Canadian cup pre- 
liminaries next summer, and the supposition at this writ- 
ing is that the boat will probably be a freak, something 
on the order of the Milwaukee "sidewalk," which created 
so divided a comment here last season. 
Arrival of Windward. 
Windward, yawl rigged, the property of E. L. and P. 
Springer, arrived this week from Patchogue, N. Y. Wind- 
ward will go into the fleet of Jackson Park Y. C. She is 
33ft. over all, 23ft. l.w.L, 3^ft. draft and S^ft. draft with 
centerboard. E. Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
"Western Ice Yachts. 
The sport of ice yachting has attained greater pro- 
portions in the West this winter than in any previous 
season, and there is hardly a good-sized Western lake but 
can boast of its fleet of race horses. Winnebago Lake has 
something like fifty boats, the queen bee thus far being a 
Hudson River importation. There is a constant tendency 
to look for the latest and best models which have found 
approval in the East, and there is more and more money 
going into good flyers in the West, the old makeshifts 
being relegated to the dump yards. 
Pewaukee Lake, Wis., is another to have a nice little 
fleet of ice yachts. Such waters as the Madison Lakes, of 
Wisconsin; White Bear and Minnetonka, of Minnesota, 
etc., are also turning out more and better boats this year 
"Mr. G. L. Watson, Who has his hands full with huge 
steam yachts for America, is also engaged on the plans 
for a steam 'tender' to Mr. James Coats' fine schooner 
Gleniffer," says the Yachtsman. "The 'tender,' by the 
way, will be of a tonnage almost equal to that of the big 
schooner herself, the dimensions being: Load waterline, 
147ft; beam (moulded), 22ft; depth (moulded), 13ft. 
6in. She has a plumb stem and an elliptical stern. The 
vessel is being built at the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company's 
yard at Troon, and she is now plated and riveted. The 
engines are being built by Messrs. Dunsmuir & Jackson 
and are designed to drive the yacht at twelve knots, and, 
with the_ Gleniffer in tow, at ten knots an hour. The 
launch will probably take place next spring." 
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Some Strange Cruises. 
Another, and perhaps the final, chapter has been added 
to the romantic history of the schooner yacht Noma, says 
the New York Times, which was stolen from this port 
four years ago, and has since been wandering about the 
world masquerading under the flag of the Atlantic Y. C. 
and beating her way from port to port. A private letter 
received in this city a few days ago from Australia said 
that the Noma had been put up at auction and sold there, 
and that she would soon start for the United States, either 
going to the Pacific Coast or putting around the Horn 
for New York. "Commodore" Weaver was unable to re- 
tain his yacht after the public authorities had seized her, 
though in previous cases of this kind he had been able to 
pay off all the claims. 
Noma was worth about $10,000. She was a large 
schooner of the Dauntless type and had been a famous 
yacht about these waters in the early eighties. Her ex- 
traordinary career since she came into possession of N. J. 
Weaver has made her famous in yachting annals, and she 
will go down in history as one of the select list of yachts 
which have left New York upon voyages that were roman- 
tic, adventurous or extraordinary. 
Indeed, no other port has yielded so much material for 
the chronicler of sea romances as New York. Piracy and 
the slave trade are only two of the queer lines of industry 
in which New York yachts have indulged. They have 
penetrated into unknown seas, exchanged shots with the 
guns of warships and fortifications, and been productive 
of mysteries which have remained unfathomable with the 
passage of years. 
Perhaps the most notorious yacht that ever put out of 
New York was Wanderer. While flying the flag of the 
New York Y, C, of which her owner was a member, she 
took part in the slave trade, and a special meeting of 
the club was called to expel her owner and strike her name 
from the list. 
She was built by James G. Baylis at Port Jefferson, 
L. Lj for J. O. Johnson, a wealthy member of the New 
York Y. C, and was launched in June, 1857. She was a 
keel schooner, 104ft. over all and 95ft. on the waterline. 
with a draft of about lift. That she was a fine-looking 
yacht may be seen from the beautiful painting of her 
which now hangs in the house of the New York Y. C. 
Mr. Johnson sold her to Capt. W. C. Corrie, who was 
elected a member of the New York Y. C. May 29, 1858. 
Under the rules of the club he was captain of the yacht, 
but her sailing master was a brother of Admiral Semmes' 
who commanded the Alabama in the Civil War. 
Corrie sailed south with Wanderer, ostensibly for a 
pleasure cruise, although as a natter of fact he went to 
Charleston and put a slave outfit in her hold. From there 
he sailed to Trinidad. Capt. Egbert Farnham, a- man 
of an adventurous career, went along. Wanderer put into 
St. Helena and thence sailed to the Congo River. There 
she met the British warship Medusa, looking for slavers, 
but as Wanderer was flying the American flag and that of 
the New York Y. C, the British officers never suspected 
her designs. 
Indeed, Capt. Corrie ran alongside the Medusa and 
remained there for several days, paying calls upon the 
British officer? and actually entertaining them in the cabin 
of the yacht Together they visited places of interest 
ashore, and one day, by way of a joke, Capt. Corrie asked 
them why they did not search Wanderer to see if she 
was not a slaver. The British officers laughed at this 
sally. As soon as the Medusa put to sea Wanderer sailed 
up the Congo to the barracoons. Among her owners at 
this time beside Capt. Corrie were Charles A. L. Lamar, 
of Savannah ; N. C. Trowbridge, of New Orleans ; Capt. 
A. C. McGhee, of Columbus, Ga. ; Richard Dickerson, of 
Richmond. Va., and Benjamin Davis, of Charleston, S. C. 
Capt. McGhee was authority for the statement that she 
took on 750 negroes between thirteen and eighteen years 
of age. She got away safely with this cargo, and is 
thought to have reached the coast of Georgia Dec. 2, 
1858. The Savannah Republican stated a few days later 
that she had landed her slaves on Jekyl Island, for which 
privilege the negro traders paid $15,000. 
The great difficulty was to get the slaves up the river 
past the frowning muzzles of the guns at the fort. Com- 
munication was opened with Lamar in Savannah. He 
thereupon announced that he was going to give a great 
ball in honor of the officers of the garrison, and insisted 
that the soldiers as well should come. When the ball was 
at its height and the fort abandoned, the river steamer 
Augusta steamed past with the negroes from Jekyl Island. 
The affair caused a public scandal. Congress took the 
matter' up. Wanderer was seized and condemned, but the 
smugglers escaped through technicalities. The yacht was 
sold at auction and bid in by her former owner.s. It was 
shown that slaves, purchased for a few beads and ban- 
danna handkerchiefs, were sold qn £he market for $700 
apiece; the owners cleared $10,000 apiece on the venture. 
But within a year Wanderer had again gone to the 
Congo and come back with another cargo of slaves. In 
attempting to enter Jekyl Creek she ran aground, and a 
number of the captives jumped into the water and were 
drowned. The rest of the cargo reached land in a ter- 
rible condition. Most of them were sick and many dying. 
It was said that several murders had occurred on board 
dying slaves being thrown overboard to get rid of them! 
This was the last cargo of slaves landed m America, 
