June i, 1907.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Tanya’j 
863 
Trip. 
(Concluded from page S25.) 
By 10 A. M. it had lightened up a little over- 
. lead and stopped raining, so Block Island, far 
0 leeward, could be seen with a big five-masted 
ichooner that had come through the Race half 
; vay between. Watch Hill Lighthouse, with its 
background of square two and three story hotel- 
ike buildings, was passed at n :io A. M. and 
lere a schooner that had chased us all the way 
; rom Newport overtook and passed us just at 
1 he spar buoy. He had his work cut out to beat 
is through Fisher’s Island Sound, however, as 
he tide swept him off down toward Fisher’s 
sland to leeward so he had to tack while Tanya 
I ooked up nobly, and he was astern again when 
le stood up toward her again. 
1 Latimer Reef Light, an iron cage on a round 
I ock base, poked up out of water, was abeam to 
vindward at 11 -55? and our schooner friend was 
hen way off to leeward, but evidently bound to 
usher's Island, for he disappeared in some cove 
>ver there. The North Dumpling Light was 
massed at 12:40 with the tall white shaft of New 
.ondon lighthouse off the weather bow. The 
ireeze grew lighter along here and soon after 
massing New London at 1:10 P. M., and with a 
pot dinner disposed of, we felt quite cheerful 
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i nd shook out full mainsail. Then she did go, 
ith white suds spread out, yards on either side, 
er rail not yet quite down and dinghy well 
’ tern to keep from standing on her stern and 
vamping. Bartlett Reef Lightship was passed 
"• 1 ; 3 S aod a patch of blue sky let the sun come 
ut bright for the first time, just as a schooner, 
ie J. Lloyd Hawkridge, of Northport, N. Y., 
vept past us bound east. The man at the wheel 
aving luffed up close so a young fellow aft 
; )uld take a snapshot at us. 
J With a north wind right off the beach and 
| nooth water, buoys went by so fast, it seemed 
0 if one man was kept busy jotting down the 
i mes in the log book. Saybrook Lighthouse, 
j el l out from shore at the end of a stone break- 
ater at 3:10 P. M., then Cornfield Lightship 
{>eam to leeward and outside of us at 3:3s P. 
i . as we went to the north, inshore of Long 
md Shoal. 
haulkner s Island was the next landmark in 
f?ht ahead and our anticipations were high when 
e water to windward turned a dark green with 
tie flashes of white so well known as an ap- 
! oaching squall, but we had had them all day 
‘ id thought little of it, though a schooner ahead 
j wered her foresail, but when it hit Tanya there 
as “something doing - ’ to use slang. The noble 
tie craft that she is, with only two reefs in 
| id full jib, was only rail to, and for a while 
j -nt horsing along in grand style; but in about 
. 11 minutes a deluge of spray went over all 
j nds and two of them went below to keep dry 
there was no use in getting soaked unneces- 
! rily. The sea grew in an astonishingly quick 
i ne, shower after shower of spray now came 
. ‘ar over her from fore hatch to taffrail, the 
J o men in the cockpit got soused from head to 
1 at, and not having a full oil suit, only a coat, 
1 e was soon soaked, but it was not long before 
I th‘ were the same. Tanya was taking her 
|:dicine; she could stand it and one would 
never need a more thoroughbred little craft. 
She had a way when a sea underran her of not 
putting her nose down into it to shovel the next 
aboard wholesale, but she seemed to hold her 
head up and the quarters would gently settle so 
she met the next sea nicely. There is a sea that 
fits every boat and these seas were just about 
her own length, so she was hit slap, slap, slap, 
so quickly each one flying over her in hissing 
showers that the two men aft could not wipe 
the stinging salt out of their eyes before another 
dose of water splattered over them, smarting as 
it struck. 
It was not long before it was what might justly 
be termed strenuous sailing. One man with a 
pipe between his teeth sucked three or four 
mouthfuls of salt water before he realized the 
pipe bowl was getting filled with spray. Soaked 
from head to foot, with shoes full of water, 
pockets full, chilling streams running down their 
necks and the thermometer at about the freez¬ 
ing point. _ In fact fhat night at New Rochelle 
the water in a pan left for a dog to drink was 
frozen a quarter of an inch thick. Do you 
wonder their teeth chattered. If it had not been 
so cold Tanya would have come on down the 
Sound all night, but with not a dry shift to put 
on it was decided to tack and get out of the 
heavy sea by getting up under the shore. 
She came around handy as a pilot boat and 
swinging easier in the sea, now not end on as 
before, she soon covered the three or four miles 
and tacked again, standing west along shore for 
Sachem s Head. I he two shivering men in the 
cockpit debating as to the advisability to pro¬ 
ceed all night or not, the spirits of the two below 
alternately rising or sinking as remarks over¬ 
heard were favorable or not for making a harbor. 
Were it not for the broad open waters off New 
Haven just ahead where the seas are always 
much worse, the decision might have been to con¬ 
tinue, but as it was Sachem’s Head was picked 
as a stopping place and at 7 P. M. Tanya rounded 
to in the small pocket-like well sheltered anchor¬ 
age and let go her hook for the night. The oil 
heater was lit, cabin doors shut, and the soaked 
ones shifted to the skin, rubbing with alcohol to 
help dry off the wet. Then supper was cooked 
on the oil stove forward and a royal supper it 
was too, though one course was omitted, owing 
to one man in moving about in the crowded 
cabin knocking the saucepan full of hot tomato 
soup off the heater. Below it were a pair of 
shoes and that soup filled both of them full to 
the muzzle. Nice way to serve up soup, wasn’t 
it? Well, soup and shoes went over the side 
and by swashing the latter around they were 
cleared of soup, but hardly any wetter than 
before. George and Charlie cooked the supper, 
so Fred and Jack washed up the dishes; then all 
had a smoke, rolled up in blankets and some say 
there was some tall snoring reverberating through 
the still cabin—there might justly have been after 
such a sail. Every star in the heavens shone in 
a clear wind-swept sky, for it blew great guns 
during the night. 
Sunday, May 12, at 4 A. M., all four turned 
out and dressed. Coffee was started, followed 
by the sizzle and fragrant odors of cooking bacon 
and eggs. Wet socks and cold shoes were 
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warmed over the heater before being put on, 
hands and faces soused into cold sea water felt 
warm by comparison after the first shock and 
made a man ready for another day’s work. 
I he spinnaker pole was used to start Tanya 
from the mud in which her keel just touched, 
then with a north wind, smooth sea, fair tide 
and a warm sun rising in a cobalt sky, and with 
all hands rested by six hours’ sleep, Tanya started 
west along the north shore to show what she 
could so. 
Full sail was shaken out and the buoys slipped 
past like lamp posts past a trolley car. When 
the sun got real warm, oilskins, coats, hats, mit¬ 
tens and shoes were hung up to dry until the 
yacht looked like a week’s washing gliding down 
the Sound. 
. The time she passed the various buoys and 
lights shows her speed by looking them up on 
the charts. Six-twenty-five A. M., Bradford 
Reef; 7 A. M., New Haven; 8:10 A. M., Strat¬ 
ford Shoal; 8:55 A. M., Bridgeport; 9:18 A. M., 
Penfield Reef. A schooner and a yawl about 
three miles ahead at 9:45 A. M. were seen to 
suddenly turn and head across for Long Island. 
Through the glasses they were seen to be still 
close hauled, showing a shift of wind, and the 
smoke of several tug boats with a train of barges 
strung out behind them was curling back and 
blowing toward us. There was no doubt the 
wind was about to shift to southwest, but when 
it did so about ten minutes later at 10:20 A. M., 
it came unexpectedly sudden, without a moment’s 
calm, it swapped clear around from north to 
southwest. 
Tanya was headed close hauled for Long 
Island while the tide was still favorable and 
setting her up to windward. She held on until 
11 A. M., then tacked and headed west again, 
having passed one of the old Seawanhaka knock¬ 
abouts in mid Sound heading off toward the 
Connecticut shore, but way off the wind. Tanya 
looked up to a west by south course, but the 
tide turned against her and set her off back to 
the north shore. Everything was then jigged up 
flat and looking well up close hauled. Stanford 
Light was abeam at 1 P. M., Captain’s Island 
at 2 P. M„ Milton Point at 3 P. M. Here a 
sail was sighted ahead that looked familiar and 
turned out to be the little cutter I. O. out look¬ 
ing for us. 
It breezed up so off Mamaroneck that sail 
should have been reefed, but the home port being 
so near she was lugged along to Echo Bay where 
lowering away as she ran in she fetched her 
mooring nicely, and for the first time Tanya came 
to in her new home port amid the hails of wel¬ 
come from surrounding yachting friends. 
C. G. Davis. 
At Hansen’s yard the two little Mower 15- 
footers are being painted and finishing touches 
put on her cabin work. Liris, the once powerful 
over-rigged crack 40-footer, is now a bare hulk 
minus even her lead and her copper, and plank¬ 
ing is ripped away aft wher a propeller is being 
put in. Neola has painted up and been put 
afloat at Hawkins’ yard and the small sloops 
Alca, Haydee and Agnes S. at Bayles’ yard. 
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Pollock Rip Lightship. 
George P. Granbery. 
Tanya 
(becalmed). 
Fisherman “Good Luck.” 
Becalmed. 
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