Dec. 26, 1903.1 
Chattanooga, which vessels were built at the Crescent 
Shipyard, Elizabethport, N. J. Among the yachts 
turned out this winter by Mr. Schock are the follow- 
ing: 50ft. launch for Mr. Wra. E.'C. Mayer, of Brook- 
lyn; 36ft. launch for Mr. E. H. Foss, of Bay City, 
Mich. ; 43ft. steam launch for Mr. E. M. Fulton, of 
Annapolis, Md.; 30ft. catboat for Mr. C. Shearer, of 
New York City; 28ft. catboat for Mr. Wm. F. Zimmer- 
man, of New York city, and a 36ft. sloop for Mr. Alex 
Rennick, Philadelphia, Pa. 
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Mr, Joseph Fellows, of Los Angeles, Cal., is building 
a racing sloop for Mr. Walter Folsom, and a 40ft cruis- 
ing yawl for a gentleman whose name is withheld for 
the present. 
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A dinner was given to Mr. Wilson Marshall, owner 
of the new auxiliary schooner Atlantic, by his friends 
at Rector's, on Saturday night, Dec. 19. Mr. Marshall 
was presented with a loving cup. 
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The regular meeting of the Old Mill Y. C. was held 
at the club house on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 13, and 
the following olilicers were elected: Com., John May; 
Vice-Com., C. Mehrtens; Rear-Com., C. W. Cooper; 
Rec. Sec, George Buehler; Cor. Sec, E. Ferry, and 
Treas., Harry Walker. The report of the Board of 
Trustees showed a very healthy condition of the finan- 
cial affairs of the club. The club has grown to such 
an extent during the past three or four j'ears that it 
is absolutely necessary to make an addition to the 
quarters on Jamaica Bay, and as soon as the weather 
permits work in the extension will begin with a view 
to having the improved home ready when the club goes 
in commission in the spring. 
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The Jamaica Bay Y. R. A. is exploiting a one-design 
class of shallow draft i8-footers, and several members 
of the Old Mill Y. C. have agreed to build in this 
class. 
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Ruffhouse, the house-boat built by the Nilson Yacht 
Building Co., of Ferr3'^ Bar, Baltimore, Md., from de- 
signs by Messrs. Sadler, Perkins and Field, for Mr. A. 
, R. Whitney, of Morristown, left Baltimore on Dec. 19 
for Florida by the inside route. The plans of this boat 
^ appeared in Forest and Stream Nov. 21. 
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The auxiliary Aloha, owned by Com. A. Curtiss 
James, reached New York on Dec. 19, twenty-five days 
out from Falmouth, England. The yacht returned by 
the southern route, and she had good weather until she 
reached Bermuda. From the time Aloha left Bermuda 
strong N. W. gales were encountered. Aloha has been 
making an extended cruise in foreign waters, and while 
she was away she figured in two collisions. On the 
night of Sept. 17 she lost her lower fore yard when 
in collision with a fishing vessel off May Island. She 
put into Leith the day toUowing. On Oct. 28 Aloha 
reached Falmouth with her bowsprit and head gear 
carried away. This time she had been in collision with 
the British tramp steamer Zoroaster. 
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The second annual duiner of the Red Bank Y. C. was 
given at Delmonico's on Saturday night, Dec. 19. Over 
100 members and their guests were present. 
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A venturesome old salt living in New Zealand has 
built a yawl, intending to sail in her with one other 
hand to London, via Cape Horn, and afterward to the 
St. Louis exhibition. 
The boat is much after the style of a ship's lifeboat, 
with more rise of floor and freeboard, and with a keel 
running from nothing forward to close on 2ft. at the 
heel. The boat is built of kauri, with three skins — two 
diagonal and the third and outer fore and aft. Her 
dimensions are: Length, over all, 22ft.; beam, 6ft. 
6in.; draft, 3ft. 6in. Ballast consists of 4cwt. of shingle 
inside and yyi cwt. of lead on the keel, but she has also 
four tanks, holding 128 gallons of fresh water, placed 
low down on the keel, and it is the intention, as these 
are emptied, to refill with the briny. She has a small 
raised cabin top with sliding companion and a water 
tight self-draining cockpit lined with zinc. A pipe with 
stopcock connects this cockpit with the tanks, so that 
by shutting off drain pipes any fresh water caught in 
the cockpit during a heavy rain can be run into tanks. 
She is rigged as a pole-masted yawl with jib-headed 
mizzen. Mast, 2ift. over all, 12ft. hoist; beam, 12ft. 6in. ; 
gaff, loft. ; mizzen boom, 5ft.; no bowsprit. There is 
nothing special about the rigging in the way of reefing 
gear, but everything is good and sound. — Brooklyn 
Eagle. 
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Tarantula, the turbine yacht owned by Mr. W. K. 
Vanderbilt, is at Tebo's, South Brooklyn, where she 
will receive a general overhauling. The forward center 
turbine will be removed and numerous other changes 
will be made in her machinery. 
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Mr. T. Jenkins Haines, the well-known writer of sea 
stories and author of "Wind Jammers," "The Strife of 
the Sea" and "The Wreck of the Connemaugh," with 
his wife and the crew, was rescued from his yacht Edna 
by schooner William G. Tanner. Edna left Ocracoke, 
N. C, on Dec. 7 for Florida. On the afternoon of 
Dec. 9 she was struck by a heavy gale and was blown 
several hundred miles off her course. Thrashing 
around in the heavy seas caused her rigging to part 
and considerable water found its waj' below. On Dec. 
II the bowsprit was snapped off at the stem head, and 
■on the day following, Dec. 12, the rudder was carried 
away. The yacht became unmanageable and an ensign 
was hoisted at half mast. The signal of distress was 
seen by Captain Johnson, of the schooner William C. 
Tanner, and he ran down and passed a line to the un- 
seaworthy yacht. The owner and his wife, together 
with the crew, were taken aboard the schooner, and 
some few things were saved from the yacht. Edna was 
abandoned after an unsuccessful effort to tow her had 
been made. Edna was built by Geo. Lawley in South 
Boston, a number of years ago. 
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Cruising Competition Awards 
When we say that canoeists are apathetic and indif- 
ferent to the papers that devote space to their favorite 
pastime, we speak advisedly, and this has been a source of 
regret, not to say disappointment, to us. Our columns 
have been open to canoeists for the past thirty years, but 
only a few enthusiasts have taken advantage of this; yet 
it is only through the medium of the papers that sports- 
men can keep in touch with one another. 
It was with some misgiving that we gave out the canoe- 
ing competition, for we were uncertain as to what sort of 
a reception it would receive, and it was an open question 
whether it would be proper]}"^ supported. However, the 
results prove that we were on the right track. The com- 
petition seemed to infuse new life among canoeists, and 
we hope that it will prove to be a stimulus, to revive 
and awaken new interest in Forest and Stream as a 
canoeing paper. We hope that we are on the eve of a 
new era, and that canoeists, both individually and col- 
lectively, will accord us the hearty support that we have 
given them in the past. 
The stories submitted in the competition were numer- 
ous, and the cruising grounds were varied and well 
scattered. If any general criticism were made, it might 
be that not enough attention was paid to practical hints 
while en route. We wish to lay particular stress on this 
point, for while in almost every instance a list of supplies 
was given, the logs were sadly lacking in pilotage notes 
and suggestions. 
The photographs sent in with the stories were not all 
that might be wished. Those sent in by L. O. Armstrong, 
who won the fifth prize, are really superb. Solio prints, 
with a glossy surface, give good results in making half- 
tones, and competitors in the future should bear this fact 
in mind. 
To "Hector and Me," by Mr. C. S. Howard, of 
Toronto, Canada, was awarded first prize of fifty dollars. 
The second prize goes to one of the oldest and best 
known writers on canoeing subjects in this country, Mr. 
Perry D. Fraser, of St. Louis, Mo. His cruise was en- 
titled, "The Nomads on the Osage." 
"The Cruise of the Red and the Green," by Arthur L. 
Wheeler, Brvn Mawr, Pa., third prize. 
"The '03 Log of the Frankie," by F. R. Webb, of 
Staunton, Va., fourth prize. 
"Mississaga Canoe Trip," by L. O. Armstrong, of Mon- 
treal, Canada, fifth prize. 
"The Log of the Iris," by J. M. Stalker, Detroit, Mich., 
sixth prize. 
"Canoe Cruising in Canada," by R. W. Ashcroft, New 
York City, seventh prize. 
"A Canoe Cruise," by William H. L'Estrange, of Du- 
luth, Mich., eighth prize. 
Among the others sent in the following are particularly 
deserving of honorable mention : 
"The Allegash Canoe Trip," G. Harry Sperry, Brook- 
line, Mass. 
"Canoeing on the Delaware River," William EUery 
Tufts, Bath Beach, N. Y. 
"A 350 Mile Canoe Trip," J. Philip Wahlmean, New 
York city. 
"In Canoe and Camp," C. E. Noxon,^ Rochester, N. Y. 
The Canoe Tent of the Nautiltts 
Sailing Canoe. 
From ike London Field, 
Canoe tents, at least such as have proved successful, 
have varied very little in design during the last twenty 
years; peculiar formations have occasionally been 
brought out, but never seen again, having failed when 
put to actual test. Probably the wall-sided tent with 
sloping roof is the most popular; but it is not so much 
in relation to general design as it is to detail that a 
tent is successful or the reverse. 
One dominating requirement in a canoe tent, which 
is to be used on the canoe afloat, is that of convenience 
of stowage and lightness of structure. There must be 
no long poles about it, any stift'ening spars or stretch- 
ers must be withdrawable, so that the tent itself may 
be packed or folded into the smallest possible package, 
and no spar be longer than can be stowed up under the 
side deck in the well; but, preferably, such spreaders 
should be stowable via the fore hatch into the forward 
compartment. Another point in favor of stowing in 
the forehold is that the tent is more likely to be kept 
dry, a very important state so long as it can be main- 
tained. A saturated tent will be clammy and steamy in- 
side all night, and will convey its dampness to every- 
thing exposed, including the man. A dry tent set up 
properly will, on a wet night, so shoot the rain as to 
remain practically dry on the inside all night; but with 
the doors, to be afterward described, much of the dis- 
comfort of a wet, clammy tent can be obviated, and the 
steam from the kettle carried oft'. 
The leading requirements for a canoe tent for use 
afloat are as follows: (i) It should, when fully set up, 
give sufficient width and head room for the skipper to 
change all his clothes; and then be reefable for a bad 
night, to a mere slanting roof, so as to avoid the danger 
and discomfort of considerable surfaces exposed to 
wind and rain. (2) The tent should be of such nature 
in shape and substance of stuff that, when set up, it is 
practically rainproof; and the details of eyelet holes for 
spreaders, and of lashings, must be looked to to pre- 
vent the admission of wet. (3) The mode of setting up 
must be such as can be operated afloat from inside the- 
tent, especially as to rapidly striking tent should a sud- 
den night shift have to be made. (4) Entry or exit 
should be obtainable on either side not .at the ends, 
and yet the doors should be closable as nearlj'- wind 
and rain tight as possible. (5) The standing of the 
tent must be quite independent of the mast and spars; 
and the tent in no way attached to any of the sailing 
gear. On a very wet night it is no harm, indeed, it is 
a great comfort, to spread a light fly sheet over the 
lowered mast and spars, first fetching, say, half way 
down the walls with a lanyard or two to the deck 
edge; it not only shoots the rain, but it very much 
deadens the unpleasant noise of the rain patter which 
occurs on the well stretched roof when left exposed. 
(6) The ventilation of the tent must be independent of 
the side doors, and yet not admit rain. In dry weather 
there will be always more than enough ventilation blow- 
ing in all round the deck edges of the tent; but in wet 
weather the foot curtain, being wet, will pretty well 
stick to the deck; then a window, if not two, will be 
wanted. 
So much for the qualifications of the tent. Now for 
safety, comfort, and quietness at night the mast ought 
to be lowered, but every bit (?f sailing gear should still 
be in such a position, and free of any tent ties, as to 
be immediately set up without waiting to strilce the 
tent. It will be seen by the drawing that by pulling 
on the fore stay tackle the mast could be set up, and 
