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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 7, 1908. 
Yacht Sales. 
The following sales were recently made 
through the Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency: 
The fast racing knockabout Aspinquid II., 
owned by A. E. Whittemore, of Boston, has 
been sold to Ralph C. Crocker, of Wollaston, 
Mass. 
The 21ft. knockabout Hoiden, owned by W. 
R. Severance, of Cambridge, Mass., has been 
sold to N. S. Powell, of Boston. 
The knockabout Dixie, owned by Willard 
Welsh, of Boston, has been sold to C. E. Dow, 
of Boston. 
The 31ft. sloop Sea Dog, owned by T. H. 
Shepard, of Boston, has been sold to Guy P. 
Moses, also of Boston. 
Canoeing. 
Fragments from the ’88 Meet. 
Concluded from page 346. 
With the exception of Guenn and Charm, how¬ 
ever, the space in the racers which should have 
been devoted to the use of their crews, was filled 
up by a comparatively speaking tremendously big 
centerboard. In order that a canoe may be used 
for cruising it is an absolute necessity that at 
least six feet of the center of the canoe should 
be perfectly clear, so that the cruiser should be 
able not only to stow himself and his duffle there¬ 
in, but that he may sleep in his boat with com¬ 
fort. The one fact, therefore, that the center- 
board box of the racers is placed so far aft as 
to barely leave room for the canoeist’s legs in¬ 
side his boat is of itself enough to draw a hard 
and fast line between the cruiser and the racer. 
This then, has been the result of the organiza¬ 
tion of canoeing in the A. C. A., upon the de¬ 
velopment of the canoe, to divide canoes into 
racing machines and cruising affairs, and to 
divert the inventive genius of canoeists from the 
development of the true canoe. 
The great unclassified race was begun in a 
good breeze and finished in almost a calm; but 
it was a fine test of the merits of the different 
contestants for all that. Charm, the English 
canoe, was the thirteenth across the finish line, 
and she was fairly beaten by every one of the 
twelve| canoes that went across in front of her. 
A most peculiar craft is Charm, which last year 
won everything a sailing canoe can win in Eng¬ 
land. She is simply the incarnation of the “wave 
line” theory, with no sheer to speak of, a flat 
deck and a short cockpit. Her stern is as heavy 
as her bow is long and lean, and about the only 
good point about her is that her centerboard is 
far enough forward to be entirely out of the 
way. She was splendidly rigged with a balanced 
lug mainsail of about eighty-five square feet area, 
and a fifteen foot jigger. 
The first eleven in the unlimited race were 
entitled to sail for the trophy, and the Regatta 
Committee had the option of picking three other 
men, Mr. Stewart, as challenger, making up the 
fifteen. As Charm was among the first fifteen 
the committee simplified matters by selecting the 
first fifteen to sail the race. It was sailed on 
the morning of the third day of the regatta, and 
a fine morning it was, for young ducks. It w T as 
blowing a lively gale; every now and then great 
rain squalls swept over the lake, and, to make 
it more pleasant still, it was cold for August. 
1 here were two Canadian canoes among the 
chosen fleet, Dawn, Mr. W. Leys, of Toronto, 
and Romona, Mr. Ford Jones, of Brockville. 
The twelve American canoes were: Eclipse, Mr. 
M. V. Brokaw, Brooklyn; Notus, R. W. Bailey, 
Pittsburg; Dimple, G. C. Forest, Hartford; Fly, 
Paul Butler, Lowell; Minnie, G. F. T. Walsh, 
Lowell; Evangeline, H. L. Quick, Yonkers; 
Scud, W. A. Wheeler, Mohican; Ruggles, E. H. 
Barry, Springfield; Ethel G„ J. H. Campbell, 
Sagamore; Blanche, D. S. Goddard; Guenn, Wm. 
Whitlock, and If, G. A. Warder. Mr. Camp¬ 
bell subsequently withdrew in favor of Agawam, 
Mr. Knappe. Of these fifteen, thirteen started. 
Charm went off a little before the flag went up, 
an incident that would have prevented her win¬ 
ning the cup had she been fast enough to do it 
in the race. As it was she withdrew before the 
first round was completed, as her main yard was 
too light to prevent her splendid linen mainsail 
from bagging. That first round was an eventful 
one for most of the picked fifteen. It blew 
harder and harder, and Eclipse led through the 
squalls in magnificent style. She jibed round 
the mark in a perfect smother of foam; some¬ 
thing which Dimple, which followed her, was 
afraid to attempt. The second boat to go round 
was Fly, the only canoe among the first five with 
a reefing rig, and after her came Romona, Aga¬ 
wam and If. During the second round the wind 
moderated somewhat, and Fly passed Eclipse and 
took first place at the home buoy. By the time 
the second round was finished, out of thirteen 
canoes only five were left to continue the race. 
Ruggles and Guenn capsized and had to be towed 
ashore, and the rest withdrew. On the fourth 
round If, which then held third place, capsized, 
and her captain, the renowned Jabberwock, not¬ 
withstanding the gale and the heavy sea, man¬ 
aged not only to right her but to get his great, 
clumsy, standing mainsail stepped and continued 
the race. He was the last man to finish; not be¬ 
cause of the capsize, but because his rudder 
chains broke at the beginning of the fifth round 
and he had to steer with a paddle for the re¬ 
maining mile and a half. A finer exhibition of 
pluck and seamanship was never made in any 
race. The duel between Eclipse and Fly was, 
however, the feature of the race. Mr. Paul 
Butler is a very small man, but his canoe is a 
very large one, and with the aid of a hyking 
deck seat was a very important feature of Fly’s 
equipment. It could be pulled out to windward 
a couple of feet, and Mr. Butler—who is a son 
of General Ben Butler—would get right outside 
his canoe with his feet braced against her side 
whenever it blew hard. He had a splendid reef¬ 
ing gear as well, and could reef his sails with¬ 
out running his canoe up into the wind; and at 
one time he had a lead of two minutes over 
Eclipse. Unfortunately for Fly’s chances of win¬ 
ning, however, the lashing of her mainsail parted 
at the tack, allowing the sail to bag seriously 
at the foot; and this, with a flaw in the wind 
that left him becalmed for some little time, lost 
him the race. ^ The third canoe in was Dimple, 
a racing machine pure and simple, with no sheer, 
nothing but a round hole for a cockpit, no free¬ 
board and a standing rig. 
One of the prettiest of the sailing races was 
the “limited sail area” race. In this race the 
contestants are restricted to a sail area of 
seventy-five square feet. The wind was fairly 
strong; there were a number of entries, and the 
fleet looked even better under small than it did ' 
under large canvas. This race was won by 
Romona, a canoe built by a Canadian and sailed 
by one, Mr. Ford Jones, of Brockville. The 
number of successful sailers that Canada has sent 
to the meets have not been many. Ex-Commo¬ 
dore Edwards, in the early days, won a race with 
an open Canadian canoe, equipped with boards, 
a big Mohican sail and a paddle. Neilson, of 
Toronto, won a race in a gale at Stoney Lake; 
he was about the only man who got round the 
course, and Mr. Richards, of Brockville, won a 
consolation race at Grindstone. To Mr. Ford 
Jones, however, belongs the honor of winning 
a great Association sailing race, under the new 
conditions of smooth skin, standing rigs, and 
aluminum fittings: and in this he is alone among 
Canadians. Romona also won the maneuvering 
race, the great test of seamanship and of the 
handiness of the canoe at a meet. In this race 
the fleet is started well to windward of the finish 
line, and at a signal from the regatta commit¬ 
tee’s launch a half paddle must be thrown out 
to windward, to be recovered before the canoe 
can finish. 
If Canadians have not done well, compara¬ 
tively speaking, as sailors, they have done so 
well as paddlers as to earn a reputation for 
themselves; and this reputation did not suffer in 
1888. Mr. H. Torrance, of Brockville, came to 
the meet with a very beautiful specimen of a 
Canadian canoe, and he won three races in her, 
the one mile exempt paddling race, in which he 
used the double blade, the single blade race and 
the tandem singles. Mr. M. F. Johnston, of 
Toronto, who, some years ago, was the cham¬ 
pion paddler of the Association, was at tire meet 
this year and paddled in three races—the Class 
III. race, the tandem doubles, and the trophy 
race—but in each he was beaten by Vice-Com¬ 
modore Rice, of Springfield. Whether he was 
beaten because Rice had a better boat, or be¬ 
cause he could not paddle as hard as the victor 
is an open question, but there can be no doubt 
that Rice is a magnificent paddler. In the pad¬ 
dling-sailing race, which is the test of the all¬ 
round canoeist, Mr. W. Leys carried Dawn into 
second place in grand style, and Eclipse had hard 
work to beat him. There were only twelve 
Canadians at the meet, of whom but five raced 
at all, and only four entered for more than one 
race. The five Canadian racers took home with 
them two sailing first prizes, three paddling first 
prizes, one and four paddling second prizes—an 
average of two prizes for each racing man and 
one over. 
It was not my good fortune to see any of the 
expert events, such as the upset sailing race, in 
which the contesting canoes have to be tipped 
until the top of the mainmast is in the water, 
and then sailed over the finish line; the. upset 
paddling race, in which the canoes are turned 
completely over and then paddled on, or the 
tournament; but I did see the illuminated pro¬ 
cession of canoes, when, under the lead of the 
commodore, the whole fleet turned out with 
Chinese lanterns, instead of sails, hoisted fore 
and aft, and a wonderfully beautiful sight it was. 
At last, and it was all too soon, the time came 
when I had to leave the meet, and although I 
had enjoyed every moment of my ten days’ stay, 
although I had made many acquaintanceships that 
had been very pleasant, when I felt the paddle 
in my hand again, the easy onward motion of 
my own canoe, and remembered that before me 
was a four days’ cruise, I felt that after all the 
true joy of .canoeing was in the cruise, not in 
the organization or the meet. And as during 
the next four days I voyaged onward, though 
it blew living gales during the day and every 
night brought a thunderstorm, though my con¬ 
sort, Lucille, left me after the second day of it, 
and I had to go. on alone, and although I had 
the worst luck in getting camping places that 
ever befell a canoeist, the sense of enjoyment 
and satisfaction therein continued with me. 
When I shot through the railway bridge at St. 
John’s and completed my trip to the ’88 meet 
and my cruise back from it by running my canoe 
up on a mud bank, after as hard a twelve mile 
sail as I ever had, down the gusty Richelieu, I 
felt more strongly than ever that, although the 
American Canoe Association is the finest organi¬ 
zation of amateur sportsmen that exists, and an 
A. C. A. meet is one of the most enjoyable of 
reunions, yet is the cruise better than all else, 
than canoe politics and canoe talk, canoe monkey¬ 
ing or canoe racing. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division—Benjamin Jandorf, 116 E. 
114th street, New York, N. Y., by L. Friede; 
George Somerville, 165 E. 124th street. New 
York city, by Harry J. Dietrich; Lloyd J. Miller, 
t8 Linden street, Newark, N. J., by George V. 
Strahan. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division—5455, Frederick W. De 
Hort, Raritan, N. J. 
Eastern Division—5453, Ralph H. Keay, West 
Medford. Mass.; 5454, W. S. Palmer, Man¬ 
chester, N. H.; 5461, Earl S. Clark, Edgewood, 
R. I. 
Northern Division—5459, W. W. Bennett, and 
5460, W. J. Wing, both of Gananoque, Ont., 
Can. 
Western Division—5452, Arthur T. Brown; 
5456. Alfred A. Carlson; 5457, Stewart H. 
Crumb, and 5458. Homer Litchfield, all of Rock¬ 
ford. Ill. 
APPLICANTS FOR REINSTATEMENT. 
Eastern Division—John B. Kelley. 
DECEASED. 
Northern Division—307, J. W. T. Fairweather, 
Toronto. Can.. Jan. 9, 1908. 
