Aug. ii, 1906.] FOREST AND STREAM. 
KETOIi-OUTBOARD DECK AND CABIN PLANS-DESIGNED BY MESSRS COX & STEVENS FOR MR. ELDRIDGE. 
Boston Letter. 
With the cruising element the unseasonable 
weather of the past month has been the most 
live topic in this vicinity. In the parlance of 
State street, somebody is flooding the market 
with Consolidated Fog, while there is a corner 
in Sunshine Preferred. Shipping disasters are 
recorded daily, or oftener, and the yachting 
fleet has suffered to a greater extent than for 
years past. 
Sabrina IV. ex-Sauquoit, owned by Benjamin 
D. Hyde, of the Boston Y. C., was wrecked July 
30, on the outer ledge near Jerrys Point, Little 
Harbor, N. H., and is a total loss. Her owner 
was not on board and the boat was in charge 
of H. S. MacPherson and W. L. George, who 
with the steward, comprised the entire crew. 
They had left Wood Island the afternoon of 
July 29, against the advice of local fishermen, 
and made a night run in a strong following 
breeze and thick fog. They state that the 
recent installation of a metal water tank had 
caused an unascertained amount of deviation in 
their compass, “probably four points.” This ex¬ 
cuse is as old as that of “my wicked partner,” 
and as a matter of fact they were not far off 
their course after a long run. They struck about 
2 A. M., carried away the mast, and as the yacht 
commenced at once to go to pieces, they had to 
swim 200 yards and land through a bad sea on 
a rocky shore. 
The steward could not swim a stroke, but 
Messrs. MacPherson and George are adepts, and 
KETOII IMMEDIATELY AFTER LAUNCHING. 
floating him on a pneumatic mattress fought their 
way ashore. They deserve great credit for their 
skill, grit and endurance. Sabrina IV., was a 
new boat in 1900 and was well-known as Sau- 
quoit. She was one of three boats built for and 
raced in the restricted 30ft. class and was not 
very successful. Her principal dimensions were 
L. 0 . A., 47.8ft.; L. W. L., 29.5ft.; breadth, 
10.4ft. and draft, 6.9ft. 
A new unnamed 30ft. power launch -was lost 
off Nausett Harbor the night of July 31. She 
had just been completed at York, Maine, and 
Winthrop Gardiner and Julian Dustin, two prep 
school boys, were taking her to Shelter Island, 
N. Y. They anchored off Nausett Harbor in 
thick, fresh easterly weather and rowed ashore 
to find the channel over the bar. The launch 
went adrift, and striking, the beach between 
Chatham and Nausett became a total wreck. 
The thick weather has also been a great source 
of annoyance to the racing fleet which has 
centered at Marblehead the past week. Interest 
has been focussed on the Sonderklasse boats and 
there have been some striking developments. It 
has at last been decided that the cat rig is a flat 
failure and the Caramba and Ellen have followed 
the example of the Auk in shifting over to jib 
and mainsail. The rig held out two positive ad¬ 
vantages ; all the driving power was concentrated 
in one sail, and there being no lost area in the 
fore triangle, the cats could get a larger actual 
sail area than the sloops. But under the inter¬ 
pretation of the rules, they could not carry either 
balloon jib or' spinnaker, and off the wind in a 
breeze they steered like the brutes that all cat- 
boats are under such conditions. Mr. Board- 
man’s fourth design, the Manchester, owned by 
Dr. Bremer, made her appearance last Sunday 
and has been doing very good work. She won 
on Wednesday and being tied with Sumatra and 
Sally VIII. for the Corinthian Y. C.’s midsum¬ 
mer series cup, sailed against Sally VIII. Satur¬ 
day morning and won (the Sumatra not showing 
up.) The Manchester was second in Monday’s 
race to Sally VIII.’s win, so that each won twice 
during the week. The other winners were 
Sumatra and Hayseed III., both in paltry airs 
and rather fluky conditions where the win was 
more credit to the skipper’s judgment than to 
the boat’s speed. 
Bonidrei has not been out this week owing to 
the fact that Mr. Wightman is well satisfied with 
her showing so far and does not care to take 
any chance of straining her before the formal 
trials to select the defenders. 
Prophecies are dangerous, but pleasant to 
make, especially if one is not held to too close 
account of them. It looks now as if the three 
American representatives in the series for the 
Roosevelt cup would be picked from among 
Sally VIII., Manchester, Bonidrei, Auk and 
Sumatra. 
The New Orleans is now being sailed by a 
scrub crew, but her owners should soon arrive 
from Louisiana and may make a much better 
showing with her. She has the appearance of 
great possibilities. 
The most important event of the week in this 
