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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 29, 1906. 
Larchmont Y. C. 
On Wednesday of last week the annual meet¬ 
ing of the Larchmont Y. C. was held at Del- 
monico’s. The reports of the various commit¬ 
tees show the club in a very prosperous con¬ 
dition, and the success is traceable to the in¬ 
terest. manifested in all matters exhibited by the 
members to further the ends of the organization. 
The roll numbers 816 members, with a fleet of 
366 yachts, divided into the following classes: 
Schooners, 26; auxiliary schooners, 10; cabin 
sloops, cutters and yawls, 145; mainsail yachts, 
14; steamers, 99, and launches, 72. 
The following officers were elected: Com., 
Wilson Marshall, auxiliary schooner Atlantic; 
Vice-Corn., Frederick M. Hoyt, .cutter Isolde; 
Rear-Corn., Walter C. Hubbard, ketch Paladin; 
Secy., A. Bryan Alley; Treas., William Murray; 
Trustees (to serve three years), William B. 
Jenkins and Jacob Halsted. 
The large number of prizes, valued at $6,000, 
won at the different regattas during the year, 
were on exhibition. 
Colonial Y. C. 
The Colonial Y. C. held a special meeting at 
the Hotel St. Brendan last evening, Commodore 
Frank Totten presiding, and it w&s resolved that 
the board of directors make arrangements for the 
building of a new club house in place of the one 
now at Hudson River and 108th street. At the 
same time a committee consisting of John W. 
Noble, Fleet Surgeon C. G. McGlone, and M. 
C. Kimball was appointed to secure temporary 
headquarters in the meantime. 
The committee of arrangements, consisting of 
Messrs. E. Eberlein, J. P. J. Tally, T. Kopper, 
J. J. Walsh and C. H. Newman, reported that 
all arrangements for the ball to be held at the 
Harlem Casino on the 16th day of January, 1907, 
had been completed, and a very enjoyable affair 
is anticipated. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The steam yacht Sultana, Mr. E. H. Harri- 
man. New York Y. C., is now, at Shooters’ 
Island shipyard for a thorough overhauling and 
rearrangement of the quarters below. Mr. 
Henry J. Gielow has been entrusted with the 
work, which comprises changes of the officers’ 
quarters from aft forward of the main saloon; 
the room thus gained aft will be fitted up as 
guests’ staterooms. The deck house and stairs 
are to be changed, and this will greatly improve 
the convenience of the yacht. 
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Mr. William Gardner has been commissioned 
to design for a syndicate, of the Rochester Y. 
C., headed by Commodore T. B. .Pritchard, a 
sloop yacht in the 27ft. class under the Universal 
Rule. The yacht, which will be built by Mr. 
Wood, of City Island, will be the only one built 
to defend the Canada cup now held by the 
Rochester Y. C. 
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From Jacksonville, Florida, the arrival of the 
following yachts from the north are reported: 
Eleanor III., Mr Alexander S. Williams, of New 
York; the auxiliary schooner Ariadne, Mr. James 
Laughlin, Jr. Mr. Chas. L. Webber has arrived 
aboard his houseboat Ivenesaw II. on which he 
has been cruising since July 2. The boat was 
for a time on the sound and Canadian waters, 
and will now proceed further south after a short 
stay at Jacksonville. 
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Last week Mr. Nathaniel G. Herreshoff,- of 
Bristol, and two of his sons, Francis and Sidney, 
were painfully injured .as the result of burning 
gasolene. Mr. Herreshoff and his sons were 
preparing to start an automobile when a spark 
ignited some gasolene which had leaked on the 
floor of the shop. The burns sustained were 
painful, but not dangerous, and it is expected that 
Mr. Herreshoff and his boys will be about again 
in a few days. 
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The steel steam yacht Margaret, Mr. Isaac E. 
Emmerson, New York Y. C., has been chartered 
through the firm of Messrs. Cox & Stevens to 
Mr. C. V. Walsh. The yacht prior to her sailing 
for southern waters about Jan. 15 will be thor¬ 
oughly overhauled and fitted at Mannings, South 
Brooklyn. Margaret has made many off-shore 
cruises, and took her owner around the world. 
Last year she made a cruise to South American 
ports and up the Amazon. She is 176ft. over all, 
145ft. waterline, 21ft. breadth, and 1 j ft. draft. 
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The board of governors of the Motor Boat 
Club of America announces that the new club 
house will be located at some convenient point 
on the Hudson River, and that the Committee on 
Ways and Means is making every effort to select 
a site and to begin building at the earliest pos¬ 
sible moment. The following have recently been 
admitted to membership: George Scott Graham, 
former District Attorney of Philadelphia; Com¬ 
modore Frank Maier, E. S. Mendelson, William 
Lewis Stow, John C. De Wolf, Walter B.'Craig¬ 
head, Eugene A. Riotte, Melville D. Chapman, 
member of the Board of Governors of the Auto¬ 
mobile Co of Aiherica; Frank H. Ray, Hosmer 
J. Barrett, Alfred E. Luders, Walter M. Bieling, 
George S. Macdonald, James Corrigan, Thomas 
Fleming Day, Martin C. Erismann, George Zim¬ 
mer, B. K. Bloch, N. D. Cohen, Isaac N. Solis, 
and Thomas A. McIntyre. James Gordon Ben¬ 
nett has been elected an honorary member. 
Norway Boat. 
It is not surprising that Norway should present some 
well-marked and distinctive types of craft. Small steam¬ 
ers have, very naturally, within recent years, almost 
monopolized the coast carrying trade, and in ■ so doing 
have put out of work the old sailing sloops and square- 
rigged Nordland iacgts which formerly were so char¬ 
acteristic a feature of the Norwegian coastline. Steam 
has also been introduced into the whale fisheries of the 
north, and to some extent into the cod and herring 
fisheries:. But the great bulk of the cod and herring and 
local fisheries_ of the country, the pilot and other local 
services, continue to employ and develop sailing craft. 
The two well-marked types are the high-sheered, square- 
rigged craft of Finmarken, Nordland, and the west, and 
the deep-decked fore-and-aft-rigged boat of the south, 
the former displays of the old Norse “longship.” Like 
her, she is generally a clinker-built, double-ended open 
boat, and a wet ship to face the winter seas in, by reason 
of her low freeboard. But the Norse fisherman of to¬ 
day retains the same faith in his open boat as did his 
forefathers, and as that plucky sailor, Bgoru, sang of old: 
“Salt is in my eyes; 
They are bathed: 
My strong arms fail. 
My eyelids are smarting;” 
so the herring and cod fishers weather the northern, 
gales with no shelter but the weather gunwale of their 
open boat, and with smarting eyes and tired arms bail 
for their lives with the same cheery spirit. 
they credit this old type of boat with marvelous sea¬ 
going qualities, and by reason of the faith that is in 
them, and their own strength and skill, have made this 
sample old world boat the trusted companion of their 
sea wanderings. 
The secret of the Nordland boat probably lies in the 
extreme lightness of the ends, which makes her lively in 
a seaway, and in her handiness under oars, for shallow 
as she fs, and narrow in the beam, she has none of the 
qualities of a steady going sea-boat. Her life in bad 
weather depends upon the handling she receives. The 
most feminine of boats, she demands a real man for her 
helmsman, who knows his own mind and has a strong 
hand to effect his purpose. Capricious, quick, seem¬ 
ingly, to betray her charge, she yet loves to be ruled 
strongly. It is only this she wants; and once she finds 
that she has her master, she will take him through the 
wildest winter night in safety, yet not without throwing 
more water than is either seemly or safe. The 
ends have great sheer, the sides great flare, necessitating 
in many cases a waterway inclined sharply inboard and 
carried from the quarters to each bow, upon which the 
wooden oar tholes are usually fixed. 
A wash strake is fitted to some of the herring boats 
when deeply laden with nets or fish. In the larger boats 
used for winter'fishing, a small cabin is arranged aft 
by building a bulkhead across at the quarters, raising 
the gunwale and decking it to the stern. Here a stove 
and bunks are fitted, and some protection from the 
weather is obtained. All these boats rely chiefly on oars 
for progress to windward, having little grip for Weath¬ 
erly work. They carry a crew ranging from three men 
to ten men, and range from quite small- boats to 50 or 
•60ft._ in length. The size of that in the cut, which is a 
herring boat is 33ft. Bin. in length, breadth Sft. Sin., depth 
2ft. 8in., mast 23ft. 3in., yard lift. — Mast and Sail in 
Europe and Asia, by H. VVarington Smith, E. P. Dutton 
& Cq., New York. 
. Canoeing. 
New York C. C. 
The annual meeting of the New York C. C. 
was held at the Hotel Astor on Thursday even¬ 
ing, Dec. 13, when the following officers were 
elected: President, E. A. Bennett; Com., B. V. 
R. Speidel; Capt. Wm. Yelland, Jr.; Purser, 
Harry McCaughney; Sec’y, J. H. Shroyer; 
Trustees, L. S. Tiemann and A. M. Poole; 
Auditing Committee, W. F. Clayton and Geo. 
Walsh. 
The annual reports of the officers showed the 
club to have had a very prosperous year, with 
every indication of another in 1907. The com¬ 
modore appointed H. S. McKeag and A. M. 
Poole a committee to have charge of the canoe 
racing in the club, and they have called a meet¬ 
ing for the members interested, at the club 
house on Saturday evening, Jan. 12, to talk over 
and arrange plans for canoe racing for the com¬ 
ing season. Five of the members have agreed 
to order sailing dinghies, of the same model as 
the two already in the club, which will make 
good racing, and the number will probably be 
further increased. 
