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to the ancient Romans as Castor and Pollux, are a 
favorable sign ; 
"Safe comes the ship to haven- 
Through billows and through gales, 
If once the Great Twin Brethren 
Sit shining on the sails." 
In Horace's Odes too, we read 
"Whene'er the sons of Leda shed 
Their star-lamps on our vessel's head, 
The storm-winds cease, the troubled spray. 
Falls from the rocks, clouds pass away, 
And on the bosom of the deep 
In peace the angry billows sleep." 
According to a Scandinavian myth, storms are caused 
by the flapping of the wings of Hrasvelig, the gigantic 
eagle who is stationed at the root of the tree which 
supports the world. Many charms used to be em- 
ployed in order to secure immunity from storms. At 
Mont St. Michael, in Normandy, nine druidesses used 
to sell arrows to sailors for this purpose. The arrows 
had to be discharged by a young man on his twenty-fifth 
birthday. In Lapland, favorable winds were often sold 
to sailors. Whistling on board ship is said to bring 
'"both bad winds and bad luck." Eric, King of Sweden, 
was often called "Erie Windy-cap," from a popular be- 
lief that the wind would blow from the direction in 
which he turned his cap. 
Southey mentions St. Cyric as the patron saint of 
sailors in "Madoc," where he says: 
"The weary mariners 
Called on St. Cyric's aid." 
But it was St. Clement who was generally regarded as 
the sailor's saint, while St. Nicholas was the special'" 
patron of the fishing community. Many cliffs along the 
coast used to have caves which were used as oratories, 
and dedicated either to one of these saints or to the 
Virgin, the "'star of the sea," who was supposed to 
possess great influence over the weather. Passing 
vessels always lowered their topmasts to these cave- 
chapels in token of respect. 
Sailors have a decided preference for a vessel that 
has been christened by a woman. If the bottle of rose- 
water does not break when thrown over the bows, the 
vessel is not properly christened, and it is sure to be 
one day lost with all hands. A similar fate awaits the 
vessel whose name has been changed. In some 
European countries the name of a boat must not be 
divulged before it is launched. 
To sail after a Saturday's moon is quite as ill-fated 
as the well-known superstition concerning a Friday's 
voyage, but a horsehoe "that has been found" insures 
a boat's safety if nailed to the mast with its ends up- 
ward. A boot-jack or red garments of any kind are 
strictly tabooed by sailors, and it is considered to be a 
very evil omen if a stray bird rests upon the yardarm 
of a vessel. It is unlucky to pick up a drowning man, 
as he is sure to do some injury: 
"Save a drowning man at sea, 
And he'll prove your enemy." 
If a fisherman runs a fish-hook into his finger, the hook 
must be carefully kept from getting rusty until the wound 
has healed, otherwise he would get blood-poisoning. 
Swedish fishermen believed that a fish-hook made from 
a nail used in building a church will bring successful 
fishing. 
It used to be considered lucky to commence mackerel- 
fishing upon May Day, as a good haul could be obtained 
by decorating the masts of the fishing-boats with gar- 
lands. When the floats to the mackerel-nets were 
thrown overboard, the fishermen used to shout in 
chorus: 
"Watch, barrel, watch! mackerel for to catch; 
White may they be, like a blossom on a tree, 
j God send thousands, one, two, and three, 
Some by their heads, some by their tails, 
God sends thousands, and never fails." 
As the last net went overboard, the captain was care- 
ful to use the formula, "Seas all!" which was supposed 
to insure the perfect safety of the nets. 
Tradition declares the haddock to be the fish in 
whose mouth St. Peter discovered the tribute-money. 
In proof of this assertion, the dark spots upon its 
body just beyond the gills are pointed out as the im- 
pression left by St. Peter's first finger and thumb: 
"Haddock, which appear 
With marks of Rome, St. Peter's finger here." 
The dory disputes with the haddock for the honor of 
being St. Peter's fish; but another tradition attributes 
the marks upon the dory to St. Christopher, who is 
said to have caught one while wading through an arm 
of the sea, bearing our Saviour upon his shoulders. 
The Finns declare that the re-ason why the flounder 
is so much whiter upon one side than on the other is 
that the Virgin Mary once laid her hand upon one. 
The spot which she touched immediately turned white, 
and has remained so ever since. 
The pike is said to bear marks of the Crucifixion 
upon its head. The cross, hails and sword may all be 
seen there. Upon the continent there is a superstition 
that these marks appeared because the pike alone re- 
mained above water at the time of the Crucifixion. All 
other fishes sank in terror to the bottom of the sea, 
but the inquisitive pike put out its head in order to be- 
hold the scene. 
The Jews have a superstition that a child which is 
backward in learning to talk can easily be cured by 
putting a live fish into its mouth. But it must not be a 
shell-fish of any kind. The barnacle is supposed to 
turn into a brent-goose when broken off the keel of a 
ship. So general was this belief in days of yore that 
the Roman Catholics permitted the brent-goose to be 
eaten upon all fast days on account of its supposititious 
marine origin. 
phantom ships find a place in the folklore of many 
nations, from the spectral bark which glides in and out 
of the icebergs near the North Pole to the Flying 
Dutchman, which may only be seen off the Cape of 
Good Hope. The French cherish a tradition of a vessel 
which enters Dieppe Harbor upon the eve of All Saints' 
Day, having on board the wraiths of those who have 
been drowned at sea during the past year. Their faces 
are turned toward the shore as the vessel glides slowly 
and silently past the pier, but not a word is spoken, 
and as the hour of midnight strikes the death ship 
vanishes into the. gloom .. of night, In Brittany the 
fisher-folk tell of another phantom ship, which roams 
for ever up and down the coast bearing the souls of 
the lost. 
The Germans have a legend of a vessel manned by 
a skeleton crew, which sails about the North Sea, 
carrying skulls at her portholes instead of cannon. 
Upon the bridge stands the captain, with an hour-glass 
in his hand. When this mystic glass shall have been 
turned a certain number of times, the end of the world 
will come. Tradition also speaks of a gray-colored 
ship, which has sailed the North Sea for many centuries 
without helm or crew. She is only visible at night- 
time, when flames play about the masthead. 
The Kobold of the Baltic is a sea-goblin, who rides 
upon the bowsprit of a phantom ship, called the Car- 
milhan, during a storm. She 
"Haunts the Atlantic north and south, 
But mostly the mid-sea, 
Where three great rocks rise bleak and bare, 
Like furnace-chimneys, in the air, 
And are called The Chimneys Three." 
These rocks will not be found marked upon any chart, 
for they are of the same nature as the Carmilhan. 
Norse traditions speak of a colossal ship called the 
Mannifual, whose masts would shame the dimensions 
of our largest oaks. She was so huge that when she 
once ventured into the English Channel, her mizzen- 
boom swept a flock of sheep off the Dover cliffs while 
her bowsprit was touching Calais. 
Cadillac Reaches New Orleans. — The ex-Canada's 
Cup defender Cadillac reached New Orleans a few days 
ago, after having been transported from Detroit, Mich., 
by rail. She is 49ft. long, n ft. 6in. beam, and draws 3ft. 
She was carried on a 60ft. car, and the journey was made 
in about two weeks. Mr. S. F. Heaslip, president of the 
South Gulf Coast Yachting Association, is the new owner 
of Cadillac. She was sold through the agency of Mr, 
L. D. Sampsell, secretary of the Southern Y. C. 
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N ew Power Tenders Completed. — The Gas En- 
gine & Power Co. have ready for shipment two particu- 
larly interesting power boats. They are both yacht 
tenders, but in size and general appearance are about 
as unlike as two similar boats could be. One is for 
Mr. James Gordon Bennett's Lysistrata, 30ft. long, 
7 l Ah. beam, 2ft. 4m. draft, with liberal freeboard, 
square stern, a nice looking boat which will easily 
seat twenty-five persons. Power is furnished by one 
four-cylinder model A Speedway motor 4^2 by 5m. 
On speed trial she did better than nine miles. The 
other is 32ft. 6in. long, 4ft. 4m. beam, double cedar 
planked, two cockpits, finished inside with' Spanish 
cedar, has a six-cylinder 4 l / 2 by sin. model A Speedway 
motor, and weighs, complete, approximately 20oolbs. 
Commodore F. G. Bourne, New York Y. C, is the 
owner of this high-speed and remarkably light-weight 
tender. She will be carried on board Delaware on 
davits. Eyebolts are connected to two four-legged 
yokes, fastened through two sister keelsons, instead 
of the usual plates outside the keel. New departures 
noted were aluminum engine beds and tank amid- 
ships, between the two cockpits. Her appearance in the 
water will be marked, as she will be white above and 
green below the waterline. 
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New York Y. C. One-Design Class. — At a meet- 
ing of the committee appointed by Commodore Bourne 
to select a design for a one-design class, the plans sub- 
mitted by the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. were accepted. The 
design shows a boat of 30ft. waterline, 43ft. over all, 
8ft. 6in. breadth and 7ft. draft. The sail area will be 
slightly over 1000 sq. ft. Eleven members of the club 
have already agreed to build from the design, and it is 
more than likely that twenty boats will be built in 
time for next season's racing. 
" Forest and Stream" Designing 
Competition No, IV. 
Sixty-foot Waterline Cruising Power Boatt 
$225 iu Prizes. 
The three designing competitions previously given by 
Forest and Stream have been for sailing yachts. In 
this competition, the fourth, we are to change our sub- 
ject and give the power boat men an opportunity. The 
competition is open to amateurs and professionals, except 
that the designers who. received prizes in any of the three 
previous contests may not compete in this one. 
The following prizes will be given : 
First prize, $100. 
Second prize, $60. 
Third prize, $40. 
Fourth prize, $25, offered by Mr. Charles W. Lee for 
the best cabin arrangement. 
Mr. Henry J. Gielow, N.A., has very kindly agreed to 
act as judge. In addition to making the awards, Mr. 
Gielow will criticise each of the designs submitted; and 
the criticisms will be published in these columns. 
The designs will be for a cruising launch propelled by 
either gasolene or kerosene motors, conforming to the 
following conditions: 
I. Not over 6bft, waterline. 
II. Not over 4ft. draft. 
III. A signalling mast only to be shown. 
IV. Cabin houses, if used at all, to be kept as low 
and narrow as possible. 
V. Construction to be of wood, and to be strong, 
simple, and inexpensive. The cost of the boat complete 
in every detail must not exceed $9,000. 
VI. The location of tanks and engine or engines to 
be carefully shown. Either single or twin-screws may be 
adopted. The power and type of the motor must be 
specified. 
VII. The boat must have a fuel capacity sufficient to 
give a cruising radius of 700 miles at a rate of 8 miles 
an hour. The maximum speed shall not be more than 14 
miles nor less than 10 miles. The -estimated maximum 
speed must be specified. 
VIII. All weights must be carefully figured, and the 
results of the calculations recorded. A thousand-word 
description of the boat and a skeleton specification must 
accompany each design. 
The design must be modern in every particular, with- 
out containing any extreme or abnormal features. We 
wish to produce an able, safe, and comfortable cruising 
boat, one that will have ample accommodations, so that 
the owner and his wife and two guests, or three or four 
men, can live aboard, and one that can easily be managed 
at all times by two or three paid hands in addition to the 
steward. The draft is restricted to 4ft. in order that the 
boat may have access to nearly all harbors, canals and rivers 
North and South, and may thereby widely increase the 
cruising field. Wc"1iave in mind a boat that can be used 
North' in the summer and South in the winter, and a 
craft well able to withstand outside passage along the 
coast in all seasons of the year. . . 
Special attention' must be given to the cabin arrange- 
ment. The interiors should be original, but devoid of any 
impractical features. Arrangements should be made for 
a direct passage forward and aft without going on deck. 
Drawi >gs R? quired. 
I. Sheer plan. Scale, J^in.=ift 
II. Half breadth plan. Scale, l / 2 m.=\it. 
III. Body plan. Scale, ^in.=ift. 
IV. Cabin plan and inboard profile and at least one 
cross-section. Scale, l / 2 \n.=iit. 
V. Outboard profile. Scale, %'m.=i ft. 
The drawings should be carefully made and lettered; 
all drawings should be preferably on tracing cloth or 
white paper, in black ink. No colored inks or pigments 
should be used. 
The drawings must bear a nom de plume only, and no 
indication must be given of the identity of the designer. 
In a sealed envelope, however, the designer must inclose 
-his name and address, together with his nom de plume. 
All designs must be received at the office of the Forest 
and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broadway, New 
York, not later than February 3, 1905. All drawings will 
be returned. Return postage should accompany each. 
The Forest and Stream reserves the right to publish 
any or all the designs. 
moving. 
Officers of A. C A., J 905. 
Commodore— C. F. Wolters, 14 Main St., East Rochester, N. Y. 
Secretary— H. M. Stewart, 80 Main St., East Rochester, N. Y. 
Treasurer— F. G. Mather,' 30 Elk St., Albany, N. Y. 
ATLANTIC DIVISION. '" 
Vice-Commodore— W. A. Furman, 846 Berkeley Ave., Trenton, 
Rear-Commodore— F. C. Hoyt, 57 Broadway, New York. 
Purser— C. Ws. Stark, 118 N. . Montgomery St., Trenton, N. J. 
Executive Committee— J. C. Maclister, U. G. I. Building, Phila- 
delphia, Pa.'; L. C. Kretzmer, L. C. Schepp Building, New 
York; E. M. Underhill, Box 262, Yonkers, N. Y. 
Board of Governors— R, J. W ilkin, 26 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Racing Board — H. L. Quick, Yonkers, N. Y. 
CENTRAL DIVISION. 
Vice-Commodore— Lyman T. Coppins, 691 'Main St., Buffalo, N.Y. 
Rear-Commodore— Frank C. Demmler, 526 Smithfield St., Pittsburg. 
Purser— J. C. Milsom, 736 Mooney Brisbane Bldg., Buffalo, N. y! 
Executive Committee — F. G. Mather, 30 Elk St., Albany, N. Y.: 
H. W. Breitcnstein, 511 Market St.,: Pittsburg, Pa.; Jesse T. 
Armstrong, Rome," N'. Y. ' " 
Board of Governors— C. P. Forhush, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Racing ^Board— Harry M. Stewart, 85 Main St., East Rochester, 
EASTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Commodore— D. S. Pratt, Jr., 178 Devonshire St., Boston, 
Mass. 
Rear-Commodore— Wm. W, Crosby, 8 Court St., Woburn, Mass. 
Purser — W. S. Stanwocd, Wellesley, Mass. 
Executive Committee— Wm. J. Ladd, 18 Glen Road, Winchester, 
Mass.; F. W. Notman, Box 2344, Boston, Mass.; O. C. Cun- 
ningham, care E. Teel & Co., Medford, Mass.; Edw. B. 
Stearns, Box 63, Manchester, N. H. 
Racing Board— Paul Butler, U. S. Cartridge Co., Lowell, Mass.; 
H. D. Murphy, alternate. 
NORTHERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Commodore— Chas. W. McLean, 303 James St., Montreal, 
Can. 
Rear-Commodore — J. W. Sparrow, Toronto, .Canada. 
Purser— J. V. Nutter, Montreal, Canada. 
Executive Committee — C. E. Britton, Gananoque, Ont. ; Harry 
Page, Toronto, Ont. 
Board of Governors — J. N. MacKendrick, Gait, Ont. 
Racing Board — E. J. Minett, Montreal, Canada. 
WESTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Commodore — Burton D. Munhall, care of Brooks Household 
Art Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 
Rear-Commodore — Charles J. Stedman, National Lafayette Bank, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. . 
Purser— George A. Hall, care of Bank of Commerce, Cleveland, O. 
Executive Committee — Thomas P. Eckert, 31 West Court St., 
Cincinnati, O. ; Dr. II . L. Frost, 10 Howard St., Cleveland, O. 
Board of Governors — Henry C. Morse, Peoria, 111. 
How to Join the A. C. A. 
From Chapter I., Section 1, of the By-Laws of the A. C. A;: 
"Application for membership . shall be made to the Treasurer, 
F. G. Mather, 30 Elk St., Albany, N. Y., and. shall be accompanied 
by the recommendation of an active member and by the sum of 
two dollars, one dollar as entrance fee and one dollar as dues for 
the current year, to be refunded in case of non-election of the 
applicant." 
