Mr. Webb is now having built, by Murray & Treg-ur- 
Iha, a 42ft. waterline cabin power yacht, which win 
!>e very complete in every detail. White oak will be used 
for the keel and stem and sternpost. and also (or tlv 
frames, while her planking will be of cedar in selected 
lengths. Her cabin trunk, rails, doors and hatches will 
all be of mahogany, and the interior finish will be in 
butternut. She will have good accommodations, and will 
be fitted up with all the necessities for cruising. It is 
expected that she will have a speed of about ten miles. 
Mr. Webb intends to keep this boat in salt water as much 
as possible. It is likely that he will use her for cruising 
in eastern waters. 
Crowninshield's latest venture in the merchant marine 
is a four-masted schooner. The managing owner of this 
schooner, the lines of which have been turned out by the 
designer of Independence, will be Edwin P. Boggs, who 
is Commodore of the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. She 
will be built by the New England Company, at Bath. 
Me. She will be called Robert H. Stevenson, and will 
hail from Boston. She is a big bodied vessel, her sec- 
tions being very square. She gains her greatest beam 
only a short distance from the stem and carries it nearly 
to the taffrail. She will- be 220ft. loin, over all. and 185ft. 
2in. on the keel. Her load waterline will be 197ft.. and on 
this length she will draw 20ft. Her beam is 40ft. Her 
displacement will be 2,862 tons and she will have a cargo 
capacity of 1,800 tons, or 1.000,000 feet of lumber. She 
has one general hold, as it is intended that she shall be 
used in the lumber trade, but she has beams for a third 
deck, and, if necessary, can be loaded with other cargoes. 
At Lawley's a 35-footer and 25-footer are planked. The 
46ft. schooner, designed by Crane for Arnold Lawson, 
is in frame. The frames have been turned out for the 
Lippitt bronze 60-rater, and it is expected that she will 
take form in a short time. Fred Lawley has three new 
designs for 2r-footers and 25-footers. 
John B. Kii.t.kkn. 
The Cruise of the Tunie. 
The "staunch and - favorite" yacht Tunie had begun 
life in the service of her country as a man-of-war's "gal- 
ley." I had, up t9 the time when I became principal, 
though not sole owner. , of this vessel, supposed that a gal- 
ley was a place to cook in ; but this was not the case with 
the Tunie ; she was certainly no place to cook in. On the 
other hand. I found the fact that she was a galley legibly 
set forth in black letters in several places in her interior, 
and as the statement had undoubtedly been made under 
the authority of the Bureau of Construction of the United 
States Navy (or whatever it called itself in those days), I 
suppose there can be no doubt that she had at some time 
certainly been a galley, though I don't think she ever 
carred a cook — she did. not while Cheeksey and Phan- 
tom and I owned her, at any rate. 
Beside being the only boat I ever owned in conjunction 
with a partner, the Tunie was the only boat I ever bought 
on anybody else's recommendation, a single experience in 
both cases being sufficient to convince me that I set too 
high a value on my own opinion to be satisfied with any 
other. Be that as it may. I listened to the glowing ac- 
counts I heard of her performances in the Straits of 
Karquinez, and betaking myself to Martinez, bought her 
at about double her value without even trying her. I can 
only plead youth and deference for the opinion of my 
elders as excuse for my idiocy, and I have never made 
exactly the same mistake since. 
This yacht, with a length of 30ft. and a beam of only 
7, had a draft which would have been none too great 
had she been 12ft. wide. . In appearance she was some r 
thing like a whaleboat, without a whaleboat's grace. She 
had rather more sail than she could carry ; couldn't get 
out of her own way, going to windward ; was nearly as 
hard to get about as a four-masted ship, and had, as far 
as I can recollect, but the single merit of being able to 
run before a breaking sea in a gale without showing the 
slightest tendency to take any water over the taffrail. The 
fact that she had no taffrail, being as sharp aft as for- 
ward, may have had something to do with this but it cer- 
tainly was the fact that she left the watc-4" as clean as a 
knife. 
While waiting for her .to be towed down to our abiding 
place, we had had constructed some gorgeous white shirts 
and caps of a supposed sailor-like cut and fashion, and 
one Fourth of July a great many years ago made our 
appearance on the bay in full uniform. 
There was. I think, some sort of a regatta on — probably 
one of the races of the "Master Mariners' Association," 
but what few yachts there, were — this was several centuries 
ago, you must understand — were out making themselves 
as prominent as possible, and among them we were by no 
means the least conspicuous. When it did not blow too 
hard and we did not have to get anywhere in particular, 
the boat really looked very well, but the thing that para- 
lyzed the assembly was those uniforms. 
Such a thing as a yachting uniform wa - unknown. 
Commodore P., when elected Commodore of the S. F. 
Y. C. (he was its first), did attempt the innovation, but 
his brass buttons nearly swamped his dinghy and no one 
had strength of mind enough to follow his example ; there- 
fore, our complete rig out drew upon us an amount of 
attention which, though pleasant enough while the wind 
was light, became somewhat embarrassing later in the day 
when our inability to "fetch" anywhere became painfully 
apparent to the nautical eye; but for a time all went well. 
The flagship, under steam and sail, vainly tried to leave 
us. until, in desperation, the Commodore set his foresail, 
and in imminent danger of capsizing, at la st drew away. 
By this time we were in Islais Bay, and not deeming it 
prudent to run to leeward lest we might never be able to 
beat back again, I gave the jib to one and the foresail 
to another, and kept the remaining member of the crew as 
a reserve, whom unkind destiny might compel me to put, 
on a sweep; then, with a rap full that brought the cockpit 
rail to the water, I gave her the helm and awaited de- 
velopments. . . 
To our intense relief she got far enough around to en- 
able us to back the jib and slowly (very slowly) swing- 
on the other tack; but it was not until we had made a 
spectacle of ourselves that we managed, after many miles 
of sailing, to get. our yacht back to her moorings. 
Chapter two of her adventures was a cruise to Napa, 
