July 14, 1906.] 
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Lloyd’s Register of American Yachts, 1906 
The activity and prosperity of the present 
yachting season is mirrored in the annual edition 
of Lloyd’s Register of American Yachts, which 
lias just been launched in new and improved 
shape. When first published, four years ago, the 
American register was modeled largely on its 
English namesake, but the changing conditions of 
yachting have shown the necessity for a complete 
rearrangement and revision. 
The new volume is deeper than the old (714 
by 9 r 4>n.) with a proportionate decrease of thick¬ 
ness, thus making a more shapely volume and 
one more easily handled; while the number of 
entries has been increased from ten to fifteen to 
the page. The old arrangement of two separate 
lists of power and sailing yachts, has been aban¬ 
doned, and there is now a single list of yachts 
in alphabetical order. This list includes 3,399 
yachts of all types and sizes, from the little 18ft. 
Okee, which won the recent race from New 
Rcchelle to Block Island, up to such magnificent 
craft as Lysistrata, Margarita, Lorena, Niagara 
and the other great steam yachts. 
The arrangement of the page has been greatly 
improved, a smaller but very distinct type giving 
space for much additional information; in par¬ 
ticular. by means of special abbreviations the type 
of cabin, such as trunk cabin, hunting cabin, etc., 
is indicated. The particulars of the various types 
of gas engines, now so generally used in yachts 
are very fully given, a new feature being the 
special type of engine, four stroke or two stroke. 
One of the most interesting features of the 
book as indicating the recent growth of yachting 
in America, is the club list covering thirty-four 
pages and containing the full particulars of 302 
yacht clubs. This list includes the Royal Bermu¬ 
dian Y. C. and the Hawaii Y. C., each conspic¬ 
uous just now in connection with ocean racing, 
the Royal Vancouver Y. C. and its neighbor, the 
Seattle Y. C. (also the new Seattle Power Boat 
Club) the South Coast Y. C. of lower California, 
the Royal Halifax Yacht Squadron of Nova 
Scotia, the Halifax River Y. C., and a dozen other 
clubs of the Florida peninsula and the Gulf coast, 
and in addition to the well-known clubs of the 
coast and the Great Lakes, newer and smaller 
clubs in every section of the country. The bur¬ 
gees of these clubs fill nine large color plates in 
addition to twenty-five plates with 1.576 private 
signals of individual yachtsmen throughout the 
United States, the Dominion of Canada, and the 
West Indies. 
For the first time, the various yachting asso¬ 
ciations of the country are included; with the 
rest, the American Power Boat Association. 
A specially interesting feature of the club list 
is the number of new clubs devoted to power 
boats, many of these with fine club houses and 
large lists of members being established on the 
inland rivers where sailing is possible. 
New and very complete lists are given of 
American designers, yacht builders and sail- 
makers, making a full directory for this side of 
the sport. 
The list of yacht owners includes some 3,300 
names, the address of each owner being given, 
with the clubs to which he belongs, and the yachts 
owned by him ; a special key number refers to the 
cut of his private signal in the colored plates. 
The book is very handsomely made, bound in 
blue cloth, with all gilt edges, and with the old 
seal of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping in gold on 
the cover. It is published by Lloyd’s Register of 
Shipping, 15 Whitehall street, New York. 
New Boats on the Gulf Coast. 
The Latest Northern yachts to go south to 
help in the good work of modernizing the fleet 
on the Gulf Coast, are two class A racing machines 
of the Inland Lakes Yachting Associa ion. The 
Wahkita is a sister boat to this year’s champion 
Glyndyr, and she won two races out of five 
against that crack flyer. The second boat is a 
new craft, and has been named Kibosh, both she 
and Wahkita being productions of Jones and 
Laborde. of Oshkosh, Wis. Wahkila is owned 
by Rear Com. E. L. Jahncke, Zachary Adler and 
C. A. Sporl, of the Southern Y. C., and Kibosh 
is the property of Bernard Chotard, Gage Clark 
and Bert Jones, of the Gulfport (Miss.) Y. C. 
The Ideal and ihe Real. 
Notes of a Cruise to Acadie. 
BY B. H. W. 
(Continued from page i6.) 
Toward the head of the Cove, southwest from 
the light, is an old wreck with blackened ribs, 
visible at low water. It is not marked and must 
be remembered and avoided by the small boat 
seeking a snug anchorage. 
The three following days were perfect and car¬ 
ried us through the islands to Bar Harbor and 
Winter Flarbor for supplies and mail, and up by 
Petit Manan, through Moosabec, the Quoddy 
Channel, Lubec Narrows and Passamaquoddy to 
Bliss Harbor, New Brunswick. 
When off Petit Manan the air was so abnorm¬ 
ally clear that vessels could be seen, sharp cut, so 
far away that only the upper half of their top¬ 
masts were visible over the sea rim, and this with 
the S. wind that is so certain to bring with it at 
this point the gray curtains of fog. n 
From Bliss Harbor we were two days working 
our way in calm and fog to Musquash, and at the 
end had to get the dinghy over and tow the last 
half mile to make an anchorage inside the heads 
before the tide should turn and sweep us back. 
From Point Lepreau to Musquash, salmon broke 
alongside frequently. In early July many are 
caught in the open bay and in the harbor mouths 
in drift nets. We saw ninety taken in one net, 
but the average catch was small. The fish ran 
from 16 to 20 pounds in weight. 
From Musquash Head on the eastern side of 
the harbor entrance the high rocky cliffs of the 
coast trend E.S.E. for a mile and then fall away 
to the N.E. toward St. John, forming a project¬ 
ing point. Part of this point—a sheer, black 
pinnacle. Split Rock—rises from the depths some 
60ft. above low water. At times the flood tide 
sets strongly on to the rock and here we whre 
destined to have our first adventure. 
Istar had lain in Musquash all through a foggy 
night and a calm and foggy morning. Sail was 
set, the anchor was short, only wind was wanting. 
At 11, just at the end of the ebb, a little air from 
S.S.W. tempted us out. We glided slowly along 
through the grayness, by the bell buoy at the har¬ 
bor mouth and out into the open bay, expecting 
to easily get far enough off the land to clear 
everything. To our surprise we ran almost at 
once into a high, confused, rippy sea, which shook 
us up most disagreeably and drifted us along, any 
end foremost. There was no wind; we had no 
THE EBBING TIDE, ST. JOHN RIVER. 
way on; it was so rough that towing could not 
be thought of. As quickly as possible the topsail 
was gotten off. We hoped to drift clear of Split 
Rock, but the growl of breaking water growing 
rapidly louder showed that we were getting dan¬ 
gerously close. A shadowy darkness began to 
loom through the fog. The anchor was let go 
with a long scope of cable, dragged a few sec¬ 
onds and held us in a tumbling rip of swirling 
tide, with our stern scarcely 100ft. from the black 
face of the rock, which towered menacingly 
above us, its top hidden in the mist. This hiding 
of the top of a cliff by the fog greatly exaggerates 
the impression of height, and is most stimulating 
to one’s imagination. 
There was no doubt the position was danger¬ 
ous._ Pitching bows under at every jump, the 
motion was extremely violent. In a minute or 
two, and before we could lower the mainsail, a 
vicious plunge snapped the deck bolt holding one 
of the main sheet blocks, and at the same instant 
carried away the sling holding the upper peak 
halliard block. The gaff, in falling, carried away 
the throat-shackle and the sail came down on the 
run. Later, when we could go aloft, damages 
were temporarily repaired. The peak block was 
secured by a couple of turns of two-inch rope 
and the throat-shackle by a piece of flexible wire. 
We were very uncomfortable until 5 :30, when the 
current turned and a little breeze came that en¬ 
abled us to grope our way back to our anchorage 
in Musquash. We dined luxuriously on boiled 
salmon with bacon sauce, hardtack and cocoa, 
and at 9 P. M. were tucked in our bunks. 
The next day there was the same thick fog. At 
11:30 ran out again and found a gentle S.W. 
wind and smooth sea. Gave Split Rock a wide 
berth and made a course close in by Tiner Point 
(Negro Head), where there is now a powerful 
fog signal, a diaphone with a blast of 3 seconds 
every minute, and groped our way to Partridge 
Island and into St. John, where we lay for two 
days making repairs and waiting for mail and 
wash. 
At 12:02 A. M. July 29 we slipped out from St. 
John bound for Minas Basin. Lay becalmed off 
Black Point from 2 until 9, when the wind came 
in strong from W. with the usual thick fog. Made 
Quaco Light close aboard at 11. Set log and 
made a course for Cape Chignecto. The ebb was 
now running ij4 miles an hour to the westward. 
At the end of each hour our course by compass 
and distance by log were marked on the chart, and 
from the point so obtained the drift and set of 
the tidal current projected. This gave our posi¬ 
tion with considerable accuracy. The wind grad¬ 
ually failed and at 6 P. M. we were becalmed 
with Cape Chignecto supposed to be bearing N.E., 
distant \V 2 miles. Shortly before this we had 
passed through a circle of driftwood about V\ 
mile in diameter and revolving in a < direction 
contrary to the hands of a watch. This we took 
to be at the division of the tides between Cum¬ 
berland and Minas Channel. This heavy drift¬ 
wood is a constant menace to a small boat in 
these waters and makes great vigilance necessary 
when sailing at night. 
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