July 28, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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out a fine fleet of yachts in all classes. The 
day was very disappointing, as early in the morn¬ 
ing a fierce squall passed over, breaking the 
club flag pole a second time this summer. In 
the afternoon the wind was very light and fluky, 
and not very satisfactory for racing. The sum¬ 
mary of the races for the week will be printed 
in full in our next issue. 
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Tarantula Breaks one of her Shafts. —The 
Tarantula, owned by Mr. William K. Vanderbilt, 
New York Y. C., while proceeding from New 
York to Newport, at the eastern end of the 
Sound, broke her central propeller shaft. The 
yacht continued to Newport, where docking and 
repairs will be carried out. 
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Dixie Arrives at Galveston. —We reported 
sometime since the departure from New York 
of the power yacht Dixie, owned by Mr. R. 
Waverly Smith, for her home port. Dixie pro¬ 
ceeded via the Hudson, canals, Great Lakes and 
down the Mississippi River, and on the 17th of 
July brought her long trip to an end at Galveston. 
The yacht was built by the Electric Launch Co., 
of Bayonne. 
with much difficulty, and with close-reefed main¬ 
sail, which was all we could stagger under, beat 
out through the blackness by compass and watch 
until we could see the Burncoat Light, and at 
dawn were past Economy Point and in the 
deeper water of the lower bay. 
After a most exhilarating sail over a steep, 
vicious sea, practically one big rip, we reached 
the mouth of the Avon an hour after low water 
and made our way in to the anchorage at Hance- 
port. Barometer 29.96. 
The next time the skipper tries this beautiful 
but vicious little bit of water it will be in a 
steamer. The bay is most beautiful. -The color¬ 
ing in many delicate shades of brilliant green and 
red, the ever-changing cloud and mist effects, the 
wonderful “atmosphere,” the unusual slopes of 
island and cliff, and the swift-rushing yellow 
waters are charming, but, because of the enor¬ 
mous tides and tidal currents which have to be 
most closely observed, and the absence of any 
but high-tide harbors, life in a small boat be¬ 
comes at times just a bit too strenuous for 
pleasure. 
The range for Iflanceport Channel anchorage, 
as given on the chart, is no longer correct, and 
if followed will have you high and dry at low 
water. The correct range at the present time is 
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Storage Sheds. 10-Ton Steam Shearlegs. 21 feet of water 
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The Ideal and the Real. 
Notes of a Cruise to Acadie. 
BY B. H. W. 
(Contained from page 105.) 
Before we had gotten the sails tied up and 
everything snug a dirty yellow sandbar had ap¬ 
peared ahead, sticking up its back some 5 or 6ft. 
This grew and grew until it was, at low tide, a 
40ft. mound, and only one in a maze of others 
that lowered above us on all sides. The tide 
dropped until 8 o’clock, when there was only a 
foot to spare under our keel, and the banks of 
the swift running sluice in which we lay had 
dried out to within a couple of hundred feet on 
either side. Aside from the sluiceway, which 
could be traced a little distance, there was no 
water in sight from the mast head. Then a break¬ 
ing ripple came swiftly up the channel, and the 
flood was coming in. As the water rose over 
the bars to the west of us the sea again made up. 
The gigantic shifting bars over which we would 
have to sail to reach the basin behind Salter’s 
Point on the Shubenacadie had a chastening ef¬ 
fect on the skipper’s ambition, and when, to the 
difficulties of navigation was added a black, 
cloudy night with low barometer (29.64) and a 
stiff westerly gale, sleep and Maitland both seemed 
out of the question. Then the light at Salter’s 
Point, the guide to Maitland, a red lantern on a 
pole, after flickering for a time disappeared, ap¬ 
parently blown out by the heavy wind and was 
not relighted. 
At slackwater at 2:15 A. M. we did not dare to 
attempt Maitland, and not wishing to be caught 
where we were for another tide, got our anchor 
“In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of 
Minas, 
Distant, secluded, still the little village of Grand Pre 
Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the 
eastward, 
Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks with¬ 
out number. 
a white steeple bearing about S. by E. *4 E., in 
line with, or a little clear of, a wooded point on 
the west bank of the river, with Hanceport wharf 
bearing W. to S.W. This will give you 2 fath¬ 
oms at low water, but after you have anchored, 
go ashore and make sure of your position. The 
red tides of the river, rising here some 48ft., run 
in and out at the anchorage with a 4 to 5-knot 
speed, but the holding ground is good and the 
waters are sheltered. 
Hanceport was formerly a shipbuilding center, 
but now this glory has departed. At its single 
wharf big schooners and barges lie aground at 
low water and load with lumber. Run upon a 
rude platform at high tide they are left high and 
dry, ready for coppering or painting, so that no 
dry dock or railway is needed for repairs. 
The village is a snug little town of two score 
or so of houses which seem to be peopled mostly 
by ancient and retired ship captains. There is 
considerable wealth for a Nova Scotia town, the 
Churchills, large ship owners, being one of the 
wealthiest families of Nova Scotia. But all lead 
the siirmle life. 
Dykes, that the hands of the farmer had raised with 
labor incessant, 
Shut out the turbulent tides, * * * 
West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards 
and cornfields 
Spreading afar and unfenced o’er the plain; and away to 
the northward 
Blomidon rose * * *” —Evangeline. 
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