March 12, 1904.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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the spinnaker boom anent our return to these waters 
with our god friend R., whose house is always open to 
wayfarers and "Thoroughfarers," and at i are under 
way again with a fair west wind headed east. At 4 
o'clock we are at the westerly entrance to Casco Pas- 
sage. Watch the buoys and keep the red ones to port! 
"Aye, aye," from the writer at tlie wheel. "Shoaling 
ahead, sir," comes from forward. "Helm hard over." 
"Too late! we are fast, grounding on the Long Ledge," 
and Uncle Sam to blame for it. A black buoy after 
all, but defaced beyond recognition and of rusty red at 
the waterline. Memo.^ — See the Department about this 
and urge their copying our Dominion neighbors in 
distinguishing port from starboard buoys by the shape 
and not by the color only; this applying to spar buoys 
alone, the "cans" being already so marked. Luckily 
we have touched lightly, and we get out an anchor and 
A Fisherman. 
haul ofif, the tide helping us, within the hour; and at 
6:15 are safely anchored in Bass Harbor. 
A 5:30 start in the morning, but the light wind fails, 
and we drop anchor again to avoid going ashore with 
the tide. A fresh start in light rain and almost no 
wind, so we run in between Cranberry and Sutton 
Island and lunched. At i, we get a fair breeze, which 
lasts us to Schoodic, but it falls again and the fog sets 
in as we pass Petit Manan. Such are the vagaries of 
sailing, and we are yet to see more of them in the near 
future. Cape Split anchorage is fortunately comfortable 
enough in any weather, and we run in here for the 
night. 
With the morning the fog is driving heavily in be- 
. fore a southeast wind, and neither this day nor next 
do we tempt adverse fortune. There is rain, too, and 
continued fog in the offing, rising a little from time to 
- time, but settling again, and what wind there is is 
against us; so we go ashore to the little town. of South 
Addison, where we. meet Mr. C, late first mate of the 
W. B. Thomas, a fine five master lost on her first voy- 
"Dress- ship in hor'or of the day." 
age, and hear the distressing story of the wreck. We 
had sighted the vessel on the rocks the day before. 
Again on board, we turn to rainy day occupations, 
labeling charts and doing odds and ends about ship. 
Then another trip ashore for newspapers and whatever 
may fall in our way to ligthen a dull day. 
There is rain again in the early morning and fog 
outside, as before, but clearing weather later and hope 
for a marked change with the full moon to-night. But 
the next morning comes with no wind, and the ebb 
tide running westwardly through the "Reach" against 
us. It is late before we get under way with a light 
breeze, and at 10 in the evening run into Jonesport, 
Here the yacht is to be docked for inspection of thf 
hull, and next morning she is brought alongside thi 
wharf, tackle from the upper masts made fast ashore tc 
hold her upright when the tide goes out, and at lov 
water, about 5 o'clock, a careful examination is made 
No injury is found, and at 10 in the evening we warp 
and tow her out again to the anchorage. We have 
beguiled the hours while waiting for the ebb, by visit- 
ing the great sardine-packing factory, an admirable 
plant, with a capacity of handling and preparing some 
seven tons a day. 
July II, fog again, an old friend by this time, clear- 
ing inside to blue sky later, but the same heavy curtain 
further out, and no sign of lifting. The Captain and L. 
go ashore with vast preparation for a reputed trout 
stream in the interior, returning in the evening wet to 
the skin from a smart shcv»'er, but having depopulated 
Indian River to the extent of half. a dozen fingerlings, 
and a couple of their unwary brethren of large growth, 
pronounced by admiring natives a "iHQre. than average". 
catch, especially as taken with the fly. The arrival of 
the Frank Jones in the evening, Jonesport being now 
her eastern terminus, is a pretty sight, as she threads 
her way in picking up buoys and vessels at anchor 
with her sweeping searchlight. These daily steamers 
run on schedule time, making no allowance for fog or 
darkness, but reckoning distances by revolutions of 
the propeller and using the searchlight with ef¥ect in 
difficult places or in making port. The derided trout 
look larger in the pan at breakfast, and are of ex- 
cellent flavor, so we retract our comments of the day 
before. 
We are off next morning at 9 o'clock with a light 
southwest wind, and shortly after pick up a derelict 
ship's boat, floating bottom upward, but in good con- 
dition. She is righted, bailed, and towing astern inside 
of twenty minutes, and is awarded as "lawful prize" to 
the salvors, who promptly sell her to a fisherman at the 
next port. Seal Harbor, Grand Manan, at 4:15, the 
anchorage an exposed one from the south, but the wind 
which has increased during the day falls again at sun- 
down, and we have a quiet night. 
Next day, no wind. We go ashore and drive twelve 
miles to North Head, on a fine, broad cove with Swal- 
lowtail light at its easterly end. The great cliffs to the 
north, which we see from Whale Cove, are particularly 
fine, but are best seen, of course, in rounding the island 
from the other side. The fog is dense on our return 
and continuing with no wind through the following 
day. ■ 
[to be continued.] 
White Bear Y. C, 
In the early part of February Messrs. Lucius P. Ord- 
way and Homer P. Clark, of the White Bear Y. C, met 
in New York to consider the designs submitted for trial 
boats for the Seawanhaka cup, and decide which of the 
boats should be built. Plans had been submitted by the 
following : 
Mr. B. B. Crowninshield, Boston, Mass. 
A Topsail Schooner. 
Mr. F. D. Lawley, South Boston. Mass. - 
Messrs. Burgess & Packard, Boston, Mass. 
Mr. Charles D. Mower, New York City. - 
Mr. Gus Amundson, St. Paul, Minn. 
Mr. ..A.ndrew Peterson, Minnetonka, Minn. 
Messrs. Jones & LaBorde, Oshkcsh, Minn. 
Mr. C. M. Palmer, Highland Park, 111. 
Out of the eight designs submitted four v>'ere selected. 
Mr. C. D. Mower sent «in a design for a sharp-bowed 
boat of the Duggan type that impressed the committee 
favorably, and this boat will be built by Anundson. 
Messrs. Jones & LaBorde's design showed an improved 
Tecumseh, and she will be built by themselves. 
Mr. Gus Amundson sent in a design that was similar 
to his s'.xcessful Minnesota, and a boat will be built by 
hunself from these plans. 
Mr. J. Johnson, of While Bear Lake, will build the 
fourth boat. She will be similar to Massasoit. 
All the above boats will be built at -once, and will be 
put overboard as soon as the weather permits. After fully 
trying out the boats at White Bear Lake, the most suc- 
cessful will be taken to Oshkosh, and they will race there 
on Lake Winnebago. 
We publish in full the matter sent out by Mr. Ordway, 
as it contains much of interest and value : 
The Royal St. Lawrence Y. C, of; Montreal, Canada, having 
accepted the challenge of the Wliite Bear Y. C, of St. Paul, 
Minn., for the Seawanhaka international challenge cvip for small 
yachts, and the conditions governing the match having been 
arranged, the White Bear Y. C. can now announce both these 
conditions and the plan which it proposes to follow in its eiTort 
to wrest the cup from its present holders. 
The White Bear Y. C. realizes the responsibility of its position 
and the difficulty of lifting this cup, which seems to be a fixture 
at Montreal. This country has attempted to bring back the cup 
on various theories, and four different yacht clubs have handled 
the problem, only to be successively beaten. Our experience and 
study of the problem show us that a wide-open, loose policy 
cannot win the cup as long as either Mr. Duggan or Mr. Shear- 
wood manages the defense. We know that, in order to win, we 
must concentrate our etTorts along certain lines, and put the 
management into competent hands, following methods so success- 
fully used by the defenders. Our opponents in this race are 
wonderfully expert, not only in designmg, but in building, rig- 
ging, and tuning up their boats, their committee having absolute 
control of the selection and sailing of same, and the solid back- 
ing of their club and country. 
In view of the above conditions, a plan of concentration has 
been decided upon, and the entire management of all matters 
pertaining to the selection of the challenger and the races at 
Montreal have been placed in the hands of a special racing 
committee of seven, of which ex-Com. L. P. Ordway is chairman. 
This committee has secured and is studying the designs of a 
number of the best small boat builders in this country, and will 
build for the members of the White Bear Y. C. as a syndicate 
four boats, thus concentrating the problems of designing and 
construction, including sail plan, rigging, etc. When the time 
comes for tuning up the boats, the committee hopes to p'ace 
from two to four crews in the field, v/hose experience is suffi- 
^- -..^,^,1 ,1.^ m^.st severe test of seamanship. Both crews 
and yachts will be under the supervision and management of a 
suD-cunimittee of two — probably the chairman and ex-Com. C. M. 
Griggs. 
In order to avoid any misunderstanding, we have decided to 
€xp,ose .our raediod of attagk, as above - stated, that our - sister 
clubs of this country may know just how we view the situation. 
We want the help of your club, if you have confadence 
enough in us to sail under our colors and in accordance with 
the above plan of management. If your loyalty to country is 
sufificient to prompt you to lend us your aid and warrant your 
building and sending to our committee a boat to be tried out 
against local and outside boats which may be entered in stjch 
preliminary races as our committee may order (you guaranteeing 
to us posses.sion of the boat from the beginning of the preliminary 
trial races, until after the races for the cUp at Montreal, providing 
the committee wishes to keep it that long) then we will be glad 
to accept your aid, and will guarantee to take reasonable care 
of your boat and to give her a fair and thorotigh test. The same 
conditions are imposed upon members of our club entering boats 
as are imposed upon members of other clubs, and the members 
of the special racing committee are prohibited from owning an 
interest in any individual competing boat. 
We cannot proceed with any confidence along other lines than 
the above. Three years ago we made the attempt to hold an 
Indra. 
open regatta, with the result that not a single outside boat was 
sent to the trial races. 
METHOD OF PROCEDURE FOR SELECTION OF THE 
CHALLENGER. 
The committee will race in pairs, by such crews as it may 
select, the boats which are presented to it for trial. It will prob- 
ably sail several series of races on the Bagnall-Wy'd, system of 
drawing — racing down to a single winner. This is a jjrocess of 
elimination, the loser dropping out, and the winners only con- 
tinuing. The above method has the advantage of reducing to a 
minimum the chances of fouls and the chance of a boat's losing 
races by flukes; and if continued long enovigh to embrace all 
kinds of weather, will, v/e firmly believe, result in demonstrating 
which is the best all-around boat. A suitable trophy . will be pre- 
sented to the winner of each series. 
The preliminary trial races will commence on Monday, June 13, 
and any outside boat entered can be sailed during that week by 
such crev/ as the owner may present, with the understanding and 
agreement that if desired by the committee, the boat shall be 
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left in their charge and possession for further trials and use at 
Montreal — if selected for such honor. 
Instructions as to contestants, courses, marks, signals, starting, 
numbers, and all matters pertaining to the race for the day, will 
be posted by the committee in charge on the bulletin board at the 
White Bear Y. C. house at 9 A. M. each morning during the 
week commencing June 13, 1904. 
In the event that any outside boat is retained by the com- 
mittee for further trial races at White Bear Lake, or to go to 
Montreal, the White Bear Y. C. guarantees to pay the transporta- 
tion charges to Montreal and from thence to the home waters of 
such boat. 
At the request and upon the responsibility of any club entering 
a yacht with the committee for the trial races, the privileges of 
the club house of the White Bear Y. C. will bo extended to the 
owrier and amateur crew of the yacht so entered during the 
period occupied by such races, and upon the same terms as to 
members of the club. 
Entries and correspondence may be addressed to the chairman 
of the committee, Lucius P. Ordway, at 248 E. Fourth street, St. 
Paul, Minn. 
Conditions governing race between the Royal St, Lawrence Y. 
C, of Montreal, and the White Bear Y. C, of St. Paul, Minn., 
for the Seawanhaka International challenge cup, to be sailed 
beginning Aug. 4, 1904. 
AGREEMENT 
Covering the special conditions of the match for the Seawanhaka 
international challenge cup for small yachts, to be sailid by 
the representative yachts of the Royal St.- Lawrence Y. C, 
Montreal, Canada, and the White Bear Y. C, of St. Paul, 
Minn., U. S. A., during the yachting saeson of 1904. 
In pursuance of the provisions of Article XL of the Declaration 
of Trust, executed by the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C, dated the 
1st day of June, 1896, and containing the terms and conditions 
governing the tenure of the Seawanhaka challenge cup, it is 
hereby agreed between the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. and the 
^^'hite -Bear Y, C , of St. Paul, Minn., that the following special 
terms and conditions shall govern the match to be sailed on the 
waters of Lake St. Louis during the yachting season of 1904. 
EXPLANATION OF TERMS. 
Article 1.— The following expressions have the meanings assigned 
to them in this section unless the context requires otherwise: 
(3) "Jhe Match'' me3«& Ui? raQ?§ tQ be sailed for t 
