


Auc, 10, 1907.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

The proper staying of such lofty masts has 
been a most difficult problem. Aileen came out 
very well in this regard. Crusader tried three 
different spars and three different sets of rigging 
before she got what suited her, and Adele had 
five masts, and carried away five different 
spreaders. They are so narrow forward that it 
is difficult to get enough lead for the shrouds 
without resorting to the nse of channels. 
Comparative dimensions of the three Canadian 
boats and of Seneca, the defender, follow, al- 
though the Seneca dimensions have not. been 
authenticated to the same extent as the Can- 
adians’, her owners, the syndicate of the 
Rochester Y. C., agreeing ‘with her designer, 
N. G. Herreshoff, and her skipper on a policy 
of strict reticence. 

Crusader. Adele. Aileen. Seneca. 
Overall i5.i015- 43.6 43.1 40.0 47.0 
Beam 8.6 9.3 9.7 
Dratit 6.3 6.5 6.5 * 
Waterline. ......- 29.11 29.8 31.0 32.0 
Sail area, sq. ft.. 1273 1347 1205 1150 
Boom 32.0 30.0 33.0 
Gaatiaeeractscl stan. 22.6 21.0 22.0 
Hoist Beer 20.0 31.0 30.0 Pn 
Ballast (lbs.) ..10,427 12,627 12,600 9,500 
Displ’m’t, cu. ft. 260 310 273 
Seneca is carried out so far forward that she 
does not need any bowsprit. Her entrance is 
exceedingly sharp, and looks indeed to be hol- 
low-ground. Her fin is more distinct from the 
hull than the Canadian boats’, and is very flat, 
the lead in it being nearly 2{t. deep and spread 
wide at the bottom. In point of construction 
she is very much lighter than the Canadians. 
every one of which is built to last. She is planked 
with hard pine on stcel frames said to be spaged 
11in., and phosphor bronze straps on the out- 
side of the hull reinforce the planking and 
frames where the strain of the lead comes. 
And now to the selection of the Canadian 
challenger. The Royal Canadian Y. C. decided 
before holding any trial races that A¢milius 
Jarvis would be the skipper, no matter what 
boat was chosen. ‘The trials were verv late be 
ginning, for it is scarcely possible to tune up 
boats of this class—the 27-footers, under the 
universal rule, to their best pitch in the first 
season, and as it was the candidates rushed into 
the trials practically unknown quantities. Adele 
had had more training work than the others, 
and hers was little enough. Crusader was so 
much of an unknown quantity that after she had 
sailed three races she was withdrawn for a 
week, and her ballast was completely re- 
modeled, her keel being lowered ain. and 
lengthened slightly. She had been found to be 
tender, and weak in windward work. It 
happened fortunately that Mr. Fife, her designer, 
was in America at. the time, and Vice-Com. 
Nicholls.at once secured his services. Mr. Fife 
entered into the task of improving Crusader 
with enthusiasm, and not only supervised the 
work of remodeling, but afterward sailed her in 
thesthalenaces. ~ 
Seventeen races wére started. Their record, 
as kept by the judges, Messrs. F. A. Turner, 
H. C. McLeod, F. Rolphe and Allan Chisholm, 
is given below, in the elapsed time of each boat: 
_ July 18.—First race, triangular, 7 miles; wind S. by W., 
8-mile strength: ° 

BUele peci cscs a cecns 1 14 04 ACS BOER SARD rc, 1 15 29 
Crusader .ccedss 115 11 
* Second race, windward and return, 6 miles; wind 
S.:S.W., 8 miles: 
Adieleuicfarnce niente oie: 1 10 04 SAGE EI wielessrassrat vere'os acess 1 12 08 
Grusagerayccts os sis s 110 10 
Third Yace, windward and réturn, 6 miles; wind 
S.S.W., 8 miles: 
Grysadereitaieeneece Lilo, 40 PAA SETI” beste ctone seca! (ocagete 1 15 51 
PLAGE Scales civicwisieisis 1 14 05 

July 27.—Fourth race, triangular, 7 miles; wind W., 
18 to 25 miles strength: 
Adel Ge caxaetace’ + sie 0 57 02 SIOER © cicdins's congas 1 00 10 
Grasaden ge specs ss 0 58 23 
Fifth race, similar conditions: 
Critsades? Eines ta 1 03 18 AIBC oo cererovsicratelero dh 1 03 52 
Adele carried away spreader. 
July 29.—Sixth race, triangular, 7 miles; wind S.E. to 
S.W.,°1 to 6 miles: — 
Crusader iio r.. os 6 1 12 20 Adele cass cnctsscccue 1 14 39 
Ailéene asi nescacien 1 12 39 
This race was called off before course was completed. 

Seventh race, windward ‘and return, 3 miles; wind 
S.W., 8 miles 
Adele ...... 22 17 Aileen .....- +. 0 23 10 
Crusader 22 30 

Eighth race, windward and return, 5 miles; wind S.W., 
8 mules: 
Adele 
Crusader 
Ninth race 
Adele 
0 53 05 
0 54 22 
1% miles to windward; wind S.W, 10 miles: 
. 0 39 28 Crusader 0 40 30 
Tenth race, 2 miles to windward; wind W., 14 miles: 
Adele . 0 31 56 Grusaden 4a. cnns 0 32 02 
Eleventh race, broad reach; wind N.W., 18 miles: 
Crusader 7 58 PICele 1.0 ena emacs 0 28 05 
AOL O00 SE 0 27 
July 30.—Twelfth race, triangular, 7 miles; wind S.W., 
10 miles: 
PRCTOIG htc saweieisa inocu it Lae 
Thirteenth race, 442 miles to windward and 
Called off cn Adele’s protest, Crusader leading. 
Piereb alee visiies\s/e Asleen / as. tina oenseeLes 48 






1 11 56 
return: 
Crusader 
Fourteenth race, 44% miles to and 
wind W., 10 miles: 
RSrUSAGeR. Love. 230. 1 46 53 Pa ele sisi oGrktye esas 1 48 53 
Adele led at the weather mark by aimost a minute, 
but: lost 35s. there through mistake in turning. 
windward return; 
Fifteenth race, triangular, 7 miles; wind W., 12.miles: 
BNC ENG. saainiais isi les. 1 03 50 Crifsaders ig. dents 1 04 03 
July 31.—Sixteenth race, triangular, 7 miles; wind S.W., 
12 miles: x fs p 
PR CTE LEU rere a sis trickestldtoss 1 00 26 GTUSAC erie seaye an <i 1 00 47 
Seventeenth race, 2 1-3 miles to windward and return; 
wind S.W., 12 miles: 
dole: Usiaricclee watsiotcs 0 49 40 Crusader si i.pee. 0: 0 50 45 
Aileen, usually finishing last, was sent home 
after the seventh race. Crusader was sailed by 
her regular’ skipper, Mr. E. K. M. Wedd, in 
the first four races, and in the fourteenth. 

THE 
CEN TERBOARD. 
Skipper Jarvis sailed her in the fifteenth. De- 
signer Fife was at her helm in the other races. 
Adele was sailed by her professional mariner, 
Dan Parker, in the fourteenth and _ fifteenth 
races. : : 
Although the judges took the record in the 
sixth race, the yachts did not sail the last mile 
of the course, running into a soft spot that pre- 
ceded a squall. : 
The protest in the thirteenth tace was from 
Skipper Jarvis, who refused to sail with Mr. 
Fife weather-bowing him. . The instructions to 
the skippers had been to keep clear, although 
it was next to impossible to carry these out, 
with evenly matched boats starting at the same 
time. Taking them all in all the trials showed 
Adele to be fast in windward work in all con- 
ditions, but especially good when it blew hard. 
Off the wind she was seldom able to keep clear 
of Crusader, even after her gains in the pre- 
ceding threshes. On reaches Crusader was 
slightly the faster. Adele won eleven races and 
Crusader five. In weight of wind found to be 
the average at Charlotte. on Lake Ontario, 
where the races are to be sailed, for the week of 
Aug. 10-17, there is little or nothing to choose 
between Adele and Crusader. The average ve- 
locity is 8.26 miles per hour. 
(OHS Ji SINDDER: 

Ir is reported the wind was blowing between 
37 and 42 miles an hour off Larchmont Satur- 
day, the last race week day. 
Boston Letter. 
THE past week has been a lively one for the 
racing fleet with events for old and modern boats. 
Preceding the midsummer series at Hull there 
was a trace at Hingham, and the Hull events 
were followed by races at Dorchester and Mar- 
blehead. Eleanor, by taking the first two races 
at Hull, still further increased her lead for the 
Lipton cup. In her absence Sally [X. won on 
the last day at Hull, her first win and a popular 
one, With Bonifor, George W. Wightman 
maintained his lead in the Hull O, D. C. of 15- 
footers, breaking even with Nicknack on points 
in the midsummer series, but by winning on 
Saturday when the Holmes boat fell back to 
twelfth place, Bonifor has secured a moderately 
safe margin. It is noticeable that in this class 
with fourteen boats following the racing only 
four have scored wins, Bonifor, Nicknack, Pals 
(Charles W. Cole) and Nutmeg II. (A. C. 
Jones ). 
In the Cape catboat class Iris has been a very 
consistent performer, and if she can hold the 
pace has a good chance to fly the cock of the 
walk pennant. Almira has been doing well, but 
not consistently. 
The Quincy cup races are but a week away, 
yet little is heard of them. The only authentic 
news is that the Manchester, Charles Francis 
Adams .II., will represent the Quincy Y. C., one 
of the challengers. This has been known all 
along so is hardly news. Sally VIII. is the prob- 
able defender on behalf of the Corinthian Y. C.,, 
but the representative of the Boston Y. C. is not 
even a good guess. 
Mr. B. B. Crowninshield is at work upon an 
order to design a boat for the next San Diego 
Hawaian ocean to be built on the Pacific 
coast. 
Mr. IXonald M. MacLean, of this city, has re- 
cently secured letters patent on a new type of 
centerboard perfected by him after several years 
of study. Mr. MacLean is an old seafaring man 
of long experience in centerboard vessels and 
therefore thoroughly conversant with the practi- 
cal virtues and faults of this device. In com- 
mon with others he long ago perceived that few 
race, 
centerboard vessels of large size are properly 
balanced, especially under varying conditions. 
He has sought to remedy this fault and the 
various other shortcomings of centerboard craft 
and, so far as one can judge from the workings 
of a model, it would seem that he has been suc- 
cessful. 
The accompanying photograph shows a model 
of the MacLean centerboard with the board down 
and parts of the case removed from the port side 
to show the peculiarities of this type. The board 
is-not pivoted at the forward end as is custom- 
ary, but at a point one-third its length aft of 
the forward end. Consequently the board when 
dropped will, of its own weight, swing through 
an arc of I15 degrees to a position where its 
lower end is raking forward. The ordinary board 
can be lowered through an are of but 45 or 50 
degrees because of the necessity of keeping its 
upper forward corner well within the case. The 
feature of the MacLean board permits of a wide 
range in the location of the center of lateral re 
sistance offered by the centerboard and thus gives 
a better control over lee and weather helm, a 
serious matter with most large, shoal-draft 
vessels whose C. L. R. and center of effort of 
sails varies greatly with the varying conditions 
of. weather and big and small cargoes. + The 
bottom of the board is brought to a sharp edge 
and capped with a sharp strip of metal to offer 
little resistance and yet be protected from sunken 
logs or other snags. On one, side of the center- 
board case is an arrangement, similar to a set 
screw, by which the board can be held in any 
position. This sets up on a wearing strip of 
metal on the board, placed in an are correspond- 
ine to that through which the board swings. 
While this will hold the board in any desired 
position it still permits the board to come up, 
should it strike a rock or the bottom, without 
damage to the board or the case. 
The position of the pin. on which the board 
hanes being further aft than usual does not 
necessitate as long a slot in the keel as do ordi- 
nary boards of equal size and consequently per- 

