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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 13, 1907. 
A New Class Q Boat. 
Mr. C. ShermAn Hoyt, of the firm of Hoyt 
& Clark, 17 Battery Place, New York, has de¬ 
signed a new Class Q boat for his own use this 
summer. 
The boat is being built by the Greenport Basin 
& Construction Co. and will be named Capsicum, 
another species of “hot peppers” which seem to 
be favorites with Mr. Hoyt. 
Her dimensions are 38ft. loin, over all, 27ft. 
6in. waterline, 7ft. 9m. beam, and 6ft. iin. draft. 
Ballast 6,000 pounds of lead. Her sail plan has 
835 square feet of canvas as shown in the ac¬ 
companying plans. There has been no attempt 
made to build an extreme type under the rule, 
her displacement being very heavy, 160 cubic feet 
as against only 140 cubic feet in the Mower de¬ 
signed Joy. 
"Her construction is substantial, being fully up 
MIDSHIP AND BOW SECTION OF CAPSICUM. 
to the Boston scantling tables, and a cabin house 
gives living room on cruising races. Her spars 
are being made by the Pigeon Hollow Spar Co. 
and cross cut sails by Cousins & Pratt, of Boston. 
Peculiar Wrecks. 
A most peculiar wreck was that of the schooner 
Forest City. She was dismasted and abandoned 
off Cape Cod sinking. Her load of lumber kept 
her from going down and she drifted ashore on 
Cape Cod. 
Later an unusually high tide and offshore wind 
set her adrift again and she was carried by wind 
and tide down off New York where the pilot 
boat Ambrose H. Snow picked her up and 
brought her into Poillon’s ship yard. Every¬ 
thing on deck was swept clean and her decks | 
scoured by the constant wash of the sea, so it 
looked as "if it had been sandpapered, it was so j 
white and smooth. 
Captain Baxter, of the wrecking company, 
undertook to patch her up afloat, but threw up 
his contract, when he got divers under her and 
saw how much of her bottom she had left on 
the sands of Cape Cod. He first tried to pump 
her out, but got tired of pumping the bay through 
her to no effect. 
Sliewan & Son’s drydock people refused to 
haul her out when asked to do so. “No, no,” 
said they, “we got stuck with one wreck in our 
dock whose keel was twisted crossways and we 
could neither get her on or off; take her else¬ 
where.” 
Finally a dry dock was found. She was hauled 
out, a lighter came under her bows and the 
lumber was passed out of her. Then she would 
not float. The owners would not pay for hav¬ 
ing her rebuilt and the dry dock men could not 
launch her, for she would sink and block the 
dock. But they got rid of her somehow. 
Another peculiar accident happened to a 
schooner the time Galveston was flooded. 1 he 
hurricane and flood carried this schooner and 
a bark about 'three miles inland, the country 
being very low and flat there, and when the 
water subsided there were these two ocean-going 
packets high and dry in a field three miles from 
water. 
The underwriters of the bark set to work and 
dug a canal from her to the ocean, launched 
her into it and towed her out safe and sound. 
They offered to get the schooner out also for 
a good fat sum. 
The schooner owners shook their heads. They 
woulcl let the schooner rot first. 
But about a year later they dug a short canal 
connecting their vessel with the canal by which 
the bark went out and she followed the same 
way. 
Another schooner went ashore once on the 
Jersey beach at a summer resort and her captain 
rented her out as an amusement resort, sold 
lemonade, etc., aboard and made as much money 
as though risking his neck on the briny. In the 
fall a heavy easterly breeze rose the water high 
enough and the schooner came off the beach and 
returned to the coasting trade. 
Resurrection of the Pup. 
CAPSICUM, MR. SHERMAN HOYT’S NEW CLASS Q RACER. 
( 1 Concluded from page 493.) 
Their labors were rewarded, for the boat soon 
began to move as the swells rolled in, showing 
she was floating, and once they got her so the 
waves didn’t roll over the deck into her, they 
soon had her pumped out clear. 
But what a sight met their eyes. The in¬ 
side of the boat was a mass of sand and snails 
and a coating of slime was on everything. She 
must have lain all the week under water. 
The leak that caused her to sink was found 
way aft just below the waterline, so while the 
tall man and the negro janitor sat on the bow 
so it raised her stern up the short man caulked 
the leaky seam and Pup was sound and tight. 
To sail that day was out of the question. Her 
sails were hoisted to dry and everything put 
in perfect shape for an early start on the morrow 
As usual luck was against them again. They 
were there on time, Pup was ready, the tide was 
favorable and all, yet there wasn’t a zephyr to 
be seen on the glassy water of the lower bay 
Ocean steamships came gliding in. smoky and 
grimy, looming up twice their natural size in the 
heated, throbbing atmosphere, while here and 
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