April 22, iqii.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Contracts have been let for the erection of a 
new club^ house at Morris Cove for the New 
Haven Y. C. The contract price was about 
$9,000. 1 his gives the members of the yacht 
club full assurance of having a home at the cove 
this summer. The plans submitted have been 
overhauled and some changes made which en¬ 
able the directors of the company to-day to let 
the contract. 
It is expected that the work on the new club¬ 
house will be started early next week, so that 
the building can be put into commission at the 
formal opening of the season with the yachts¬ 
men on Memorial Day. The club house 'will be 
located on Cove street about 500 feet west of 
the old club house. 
The annual cruise of the Boston Y. C. will 
begin on July 15. It will last for a week and 
the fleet will visit ports on the coast of Maine 
between Kittery and Boothbay Harbor. The 
program is a new one, and it is hoped that it 
will please the yachtsmen so that they will turn 
out in good numbers for the annual outing of 
the fleet. The fleet will leave Marblehead Har¬ 
bor at 5 o clock in the afternoon and the first 
run will be Boothbay Harbor. Saturday night, 
all day Sunday and all day Monday have been 
allowed for this long run. If the yachts make 
it quickly those on board will have lots of time 
to rest before starting on the next run. It is 
103 nautical miles from Marblehead to Booth- 
bay Harbor, 17% miles from Marblehead to 
lhachers, 79 rniles from Thachers to Sequin 
and 7 rniles in from Sequin. T. he racing yachts 
will pass outside Thachers Island, the Londoner 
and Dry Salvages and inside Boon Island. The 
fleet will then proceed by short runs along the 
Maine coast. 
The old-time sloop Venture has been rescued 
from a muddy grave near the Charlestown navy 
yard and is being rejuvenated by Jeremiah Bean, 
ot Lverett, who purchased the derelict out of 
respect for her age and record and feeling that 
there will still be lots more in the old hull 
Venture has been up against the hardest kind 
of luck in hands of many owners since she was 
youthful. A retired ship carpenter “Down 
East a long time ago put her together as solid¬ 
ly as he knew for his personal use, his slogan 
being that the boat would outlast him—and she 
has by a wide margin. Something less than a 
decade ago the Venture drifted into Boston and 
has been in that vicinity ever since. Four years 
ago she dragged anchor at Hull and for thirty- 
six hours pounded against James’ wharf dam¬ 
aging the wharf more than herself. She was 
brought back to Boston and repaired and con¬ 
tinued to carry parties to the fishing grounds 
and on pleasure trips. Early last summer at 
the Bunker Hill Y. C. Venture’s forefoot rested 
on a pile of ashes at low tide and wash from 
a passing tug rolled her over till she filled. For 
four months the tide ebbed and flowed through 
the wreck. 
She was finally sold, “nothing down, nothing 
a week, and from the purchaser on such ad¬ 
vantageous terms Mr. Bean got her. It cost 
$5-oo to raise Venture to the surface and the 
motor boat that towed her to a repair yard in 
Medford did the work in ice that cut through 
most of her bottom planking. Mr. Bean has 
raised the craft s cabin, added a large cockpit 
replaced the standing rigging and made so 
many improvements over the original Venture 
that she will hardly know herself when launched 
Since last Thanksgiving Venture’s repairs have 
been making, Mr. Bean spending all the spare 
time at his disposal on the job, sometimes labor¬ 
ing in below zero weather, with no protection 
from the weather. For many years he was em¬ 
ployed at the navy yard and is an expert boat 
builder. 
The interstate series between the 18-foot 
knockabouts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island 
will be sailed on Narragansett Bay below 
Conamcut on July 31, Aug. 1, 2 and 3. Vice- 
Lommodore Markham has offered three $50 
cups for the winning team and a handsome 
championship pennant has been offered for the 
yacht scoring the most points in the series. A 
new boat built specially for this series, which 
was won last year by the Massachusetts trio, is 
the Wanderer IV., a boat designed by Charles 
D. Mower. She is the beamiest boat ever built 
in that class, being fully eight feet on deck, with 
rather full ends, considerable dead rise and an 
easy turn to the bilges. Mr. Mower evidently 
has endeavored to incorporate the ideas carried 
out in Cima, a Sonder boat which he designed 
last year for Guy Lowell. Cima heels rather 
easily until her full ends hit the water, when she 
is practically on her designed sailing lines, 
which are long and easy. The Flint boat with 
plenty of ballast should prove plenty stiff in 
light to moderate airs, especially when there is 
a little chop on. But when it breezes she can’t 
very well help being a corker. 
Launch of Karima. 
The three-masted schooner Karima, built for 
former Commodore Robert E. Tod, was suc¬ 
cessfully launched from the yard of the Staten 
Island Shipbuilding Company, at Port Rich¬ 
mond, on April 13. 
It was an ideal day for such a ceremony, and 
in spite of the ill spell that is associated with 
thirteen, the day of the month, everything went 
off without a hitch. The launching was at 8:30 
o’clock in the morning, advantage being taken 
of the extraordinary high tide which served 
then. 
Commodore and Mrs. Tod went to the yard 
in their auto, but nearly all the other guests 
left the Battery on an early morning ferryboat. 
Among those present were W. Steward Tod, 
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Barstow, R. C. Veit, Mr. 
and Mrs. Phillip Chew, E. Burton Hart, Dr. 
and Mrs. James C. Ayer, Johnston de Forest, 
Commodore Frank S. Hastings, of the Sea- 
wanhaka-Corinthian Y. C.; L. Vaughn Clark, 
of the New York Y. C. regatta committee; Mr. 
and Mrs. Theodore D. Wells, designer of the 
yacht; William Payson, Richard Outwater, Max 
Grundner and Wallace Downey. 
Everything was in readiness at the yard when 
the launching party arrived. The big steel hull 
under a shed was resting easily in a cradle, and 
as soon as Mr. Tod took a position on the plat¬ 
form at the bow the carpenters began to saw 
through the sole pieces. Inch by inch the big 
pieces of wood were cut through. The shores 
were knocked away, and just as a tremor passed 
over the hull Mrs. Tod swung the bottle of 
champagne against the bow and as it smashed 
christened the yacht Karima. 
Very slowly at first the vessel began to glide 
down the ways, and as she cleared the shed the 
private signal of Commodore Tod, a thistle, 
the yacht burgee and ensign were run up on 
staffs. The stern plunged into the water and a 
few seconds the yacht was bobbing gracefully 
on the water courtesying her acknowledgments 
of the cheers and salutes. The yacht was then 
hauled into a pier, where she will be moored 
until her interior fittings are in place and she 
will be ready for the riggers. After the launch¬ 
ing breakfast was served and the yacht and her 
owner were wished the best of good luck. 
Karima is the largest sailing craft in these 
waters. She is 198 feet 6 inches over all, 150 
feet on the waterline, 34 feet beam and 17 feet 
draft. She has 150 tons of lead on her keel, 
which was laid last December. She is rigged as 
a three-masted schooner. The masts are of 
steel, each 24 inches in diameter, and the truck 
of the mizzen will be 160 feet above water line. 
On these three spars the yacht will spread a 
very large sail area. The hull is a graceful one 
with the spoon bow and artistic and sym¬ 
metrical stern. She will be manned by a crew 
of twenty-six men and Mr. Tod will be his own 
sailing master, as usual. 
The big schooner Atlantic, owned by Wilson 
Marshall, is 184 feet over all, 139 feet on the 
waterline and 29 feet beam; the auxiliary 
schooner Alcyone is 182 feet over all, 140 feet 
on the waterline and 30 feet beam, and the 
auxiliary schooner Visitor is 197 feet 6 inches 
over all, 150 feet on the waterline and 32 feet 
6 inches beam. These were the three largest 
vessels in these waters until Karima surpassed 
them all. 
Karima’s appointments will make her one of 
the most comfortable sailing craft afloat. She 
is to be equipped with many labor-saving de¬ 
vices, such as a donkey engine to supply power 
for windlass, pumps and dynamo, a steam heat¬ 
ing plant, electric lighting outfit, a wireless out¬ 
fit and a submarine bell. This latter is unusual 
on a sailing craft. There is space in the hull for 
an auxiliary engine, which will be installed later 
if Mr. Tod wishes to make his yacht an auxil¬ 
iary, but he is a yachtsman of the old school 
and prefers sail to steam. 
The accommodations are ample. There are 
two staterooms aft for the owner with a bath¬ 
room connecting and four staterooms with two 
bathrooms further forward for guests. The 
main saloon is the full width of the vessel and 
is to be handsomely and comfortably furnished. 
The space for the engines, the officers’ and 
crew’s quarters and the galley are forward and 
all are well lighted and ventilated. All the 
