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FOREST AND STREAM. [March 2, 1907. . 
In 1905 five new boats appeared, Clorinda, de¬ 
signed by Mr. F. D. Lawley for Messrs. Cheney 
and Lanning; Rube, designed by Messrs. Small 
Bros, for Mr. Herbert L. Bowden; Nutmeg, by 
Mr. C C. Hanley for Mr. A. C. Jones; Tyro, by 
Mr. B. B. Crowninshield for Mr. Wm, H. Joyce, 
and Medric II., by Small Bros, for H. H. White, 
Esq. Of the old boats Clotho was purchased by 
Mr. F. G. Macomber, Jr., and rechristened Che- 
winlc V., Medric was purchased by Mr. George 
Lee, and Peri II. by Dr. Morton Prince. 
Tyro, sailed by Mr. Sumner H. Foster, fairly 
smothered the rest of her class and merry at 
their expense winding up the season with an 
average percentage of 91.2 after sailing sixteen 
races. Rube did well, scoring 71.5 per cent, and 
far outclassing the rest of the fleet, while Medric 
II., Peri II. and Nutmeg were respectively third, 
fourth and fifth after a hot contest. 
Marie L., designed by E. A. Boardman, Esq., 
for Mr. George Lee, was the only new boat in 
1906 when the class dwindled to herself, Tyro 
and Nutmeg. The new boat started off finely, 
but when Tyro rounded into form there was no 
holding her so that the 1905 champion again 
made good in 1906. 
William Lambert Barnard. 
Some Leaky Boats. 
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But her seams were all caulked sound; we 
could find no place where a leak was possible 
until we removed those brass straps to put new 
ones in. There was the trouble plain enough. 
The five or six seams crossed by these straps 
were wide open under them, not a bit of caulk¬ 
ing or putty in them. They had caulked up to 
the straps on each seam and left each hole under 
the straps to leak. No wonder she did so. 
We caulked all these holes and put new straps 
on. 
There was no report of a leak since. 
We also put in several heavy wood floors to 
stiffen her keel, for without them she would 
again have broken the straps. 
Case 4.—Rudder ports are often the cause of 
leaks. I remember a modern sloop that con¬ 
stantly leaked. We followed the flow of water 
with candles so we could see clear up under 
the cockpit floor where the leak was ungetatable. 
So we took up part of her cockpit floor and 
there was the whole trouble. 
She was built with a plank keel about two 
inches thick; into this was screwed a brass pipe 
for a rudder port raking aft at quite an angle. 
These brass pipe rudder ports are all right 
if properly put, but hers was not. In threading 
the pipe the thread was not run up far enough. 
They had screwed it into the wood so the pipe 
came flush with the after edge of the keel, and 
being square across on its end this made the 
forward edge of the pipe only go about a half 
an inch into the wood and that wood was a 
thin-pointed wedge shape piece that had become 
soft in a few years and water leaked in here. 
We found some one had located this fault 
ahead of us. Whether the builder, when he 
built her, realizing it as a danger point or some 
one subsequently had done it, there was no 
means of telling, but hot tar had been poured in 
forming a puddle even with a cross floor. 
Now this tar business is a poor remedy. It 
chills and cracks so the water in time runs 
under it and it is no good. This we had to 
dig out, remove the brass rudder port, thread 
the pipe up further, rivet in a re-enforcing block 
on top of the keel with white lead between, and 
screw the port back in place. 
If this port had been put in properly at first 
there would have been no trouble. The brass 
pipe should have been threaded up far enough 
to let it go clear through the keel so its for¬ 
ward edge and not the after adge come flush 
with the outside of the keel, then there would 
have been plenty of wood against it to keep out 
the water. 
The blade of the rudder has to be kept down 
that distance anyway to clear the bottom, as the 
rudder swings so it might better have been put 
that way at first. 
Case 5.—Was an old time cat, built with a 
wooden rudder post. All old time vessels have 
a square wooden box built in aft of the stern 
post in which the rudder post swings with 
plenty of room so it can be canted to clear the 
lower pintles (the hinges as some call them) 
so it can be removed. 
When the rudder is put in place it is held 
from wobbling about in this box by what is 
called the “pot lid.” This pot lid is a block of 
the toughest oak the builder can find, cut to fit 
snug around the rudder, and fits like a bottom 
in against this box rudder post, being fastened 
with screws so it can be removed and then 
caulked. 
On deck is another block, fitted to remove, 
that has a hole cut in it just large enough to 
drop snug over the rudder post and steady its 
upper end. 
But in building this box-like post a groove 
should be cut in the posts at each end and a 
corresponding groove in the side pieces. In this 
groove is fitted a square strip of soft white pine 
as a stop water. Any leak here when it gets to 
this soft pine dowel will swell it up tight and 
prevent the water going through. But this cat- 
boat had been built without this “feather,” as 
the pine dowel or strip of wood is called, and 
so in time her “box” rudder port ceased to swell 
up that and so naturally leaked. 
This had been remedied by a tinsmith putting 
a copper sleeve in the port. 
Canoeing . 
The twenty-first anniversary of the Yonkers 
Canoe Club was celebrated with a notable gath¬ 
ering of prominent canoeists at Francfort’s 
Hotel, Yonkers, on Saturday evening, Feb. 16. 
There were present, as guests of the club, Com. 
Douglass and Secretary Furman, of the Ameri¬ 
can Canoe Association, and among others, Messrs. 
Quick, Ward, Thorne, Barr, Van Varick, Ohl- 
meyer, Dorland, Palmer, Hyde, Hand, Voss, 
Hale, Underhill, Quasebart, Eastmond, Edgar, 
Morrisey and Watt. 
Ex-Commodore Upton M. Van Varick acted 
as toastmaster, and called upon Messrs. Doug¬ 
lass. Quick, Furman, Ohlmeyer, E. A. Quick, 
Barr, Hale, Ward and Hand to respond to toasts. - 
All the old rollicking canoe songs were sung, 
and in addition George Morrissey gave some of 
his excellent chacacterizations, while the even¬ 
ing’s fun was wound up with, “Oh ! du Schone” 
led by “Baron” Ouasebart. 
Many of the canoeists took advantage of their 
visit to Yonkers to see the model and design of 
Quick’s new racing sailing canoe that has just 
been started in Farrand’s boat shop. 
Later on a description of this canoe will be 
published in Forest and Stream, but it can be 
said now that Mr. Quick has designed the canoe 
himself and that he has drawn a boat that will 
be very different from his canoe of last year, 
having gone back to the customary methods of 
construction and design, although it shows some¬ 
what that he had last year’s canoe in mind when 
planning the new one. He has, however, re¬ 
fined and softened the “scow” model by giving 
round though very hard bilges and raised the 
sheer considerably. 
The annual dinner of the Eastern Division A. 
C. A., held at the Crown Hotel, Boston, on Satur¬ 
day night, was the most widely attended and 
enthusiastic function held by the Eastern Divis¬ 
ion for some time. There was just a round 
hundred from Boston and vicinity and ten from 
New York as follows: Commodore Douglass, 
Vice-Commodore Ohlmeyer and Purser Stark, of 
the Atlantic Division, and Messrs. “Pop” Moore, 
Dan Goodsell, Bert Bennett, Baron Quasebart, 
Herbert Moore, J. K. Hand and F. W. Lohr. 
Vice-Commodore Bodwell presided, and among 
the prominent Eastern men present were H. D. 
Murphy, L. S. Drake, W. J. Ladd, D. S. Pratt, 
Jr., W. W. Crosby, A. G. Mather: R. B. Burn¬ 
ham, F. E. Leathe, F. S. Chase, Ralph Hunter, 
H. G. Chamberlain. John Robertson, Jack 
Howard and R. C. E. Hicks. 
The principal speaker was Commodore Doug¬ 
lass who gave a very full outline of the arrange¬ 
ments in progress for the coming meet of the 
A. C. A. and particularly the items of particular 
interest to the eastern men. 
The Transportation Committee are making 
special efforts to get a car for the transporta¬ 
tion of cajioes, which will materially affect the 
number who will attend. Interest is strongly 
shown, and if this feature is accomplished there 
will be the largest attendance ever held at Sugar 
Island. Vice-Commodore Bodwell outlined some 
of the plans for the Eastern Division meet which 
will be held at Lawrence on June 17. 
Other addresses were made by Rear-Commo¬ 
dore Burnham, W. W. Crosby. D. S. Pratt, Jr., 
Jack Howard and R. G. E. Hicks, of the Eastern 
Division, and Vice-Commodore Ohlmeyer and 
D. B. Goodsell, of the Atlantic Division. 
* * * 
Next week Forest and Stream will publish 
the programme of races for the A. C. A. meet in 
August and will follow it with a description of 
Matt Ohlmeyer’s new racing canoe. 
