Nov. 5, igo4.J 
FOREST AND ; STREAM. 
LINES, CABIN AND SAIL PLANS OF FORTY-FOOT WATERLINE CRUISER HONORABLE MENTION DESIGN. 
Designed by Martin C. Erismann, Mariners' Harbor, Staten Island. 
Around the Globe in a 35ft. Boat* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Captain Arthur L. Napper, who- brought William K. 
Vanderbilt's yacht Tarantula to this side from Europe, 
and a young companion named Langford, started a few 
weeks ago from Brighton, England, in a io-ton cutter on 
a voyage of about 40,000 miles that will last from fifteen 
months to two years, depending on how often and how 
long they stop at the different ports they touch at. The 
first paper to> give me an account of this, gave it as its 
opinion that these two men were as many fools. There 
can be two opinions about that; the man who crosses, 
or tries to cross, the Atlantic in a 15 or 18-foot canoe 
might be considered a fool ; I might so consider him 
myself, though I would not say so. Some who have 
tried to do this have succeeded. One of the last who 
departed in a canoe tor Europe, taking a young woman 
with him, has, so far as I know, never been heard from. 
But a 35-foot boat is not a canoe, and this boat, from 
what little I can learn about it, stands a fair chance to 
circumnavigate the globe, barring accidents that are as 
likely to happen to a 300-foot boat as a 35-foot one. It 
may return two years from now to the port it sailed 
from. Captain Slocum a few years ago started alone 
in a boat not much larger than this one. and as far as 
he went seems to have had no trouble as far as the boat 
was concerned ; all his trouble came from quarrelsome 
or thieving natives. Two young men with two good 
magazine guns — and I would not sail without at least 
two of them — need never have any serious trouble from 
natives. The character of all the natives on each of 
these South Sea islands is pretty well known now, and 
the few of them on which the natives are chronically 
hunting for a fight (there are still a few such, but not 
many), can be given the go-by. Captain Slocum's only 
mistake, according to my idea of his voyage, was in going 
alone. You want to be able to stand watch and watch, 
and not have to leave the tiller lashed and the boat to 
sail itself when it is your watch below. 
This boat, the Brighton, is rated at 10 tons, and the 
Captain has had it rebuilt and fitted with rather short, 
heavy masts, so that one man can handle the sails with 
ease. He has a small flat-bottom tender that he will 
carry on deck in order to get rid of davits, and he has 
a storm anchor made of a long spar with a large canvas 
hung to it, having lead weights to its lower edge; this he 
can heave astern while a gale is on where the water 
would be too deep to use the regular anchor. 
The Captain is only 35 years old, and his mate is still 
younger. Both of them have been to sea since they were 
small boys; the Captain first went as a cabin boy when 
12 years of age. 
Captain Slocum went short of supplies at times. These 
