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“Here it is,’ he replied as he found the 
frayed out end of the halliard. 
“Give me the end, quick!” I shouted, 
heard above the screech of the wind. 
She was still scudding along under jib, and the 
mainsail, like a huge bag, was pulling hard, too. 
I shinned up the mast, found the throat block 
all right, hooked one leg over the forward 
strut and rove the halliard through the block. 
Overhauling enough to reach the deck, I hove 
it down to George; hé rove it through that 
block and sent it back on its own part. I rove 
the second part, and with the end started to 
slide down but was stopped half way. 
“Hold on!” yelled George, “that’s all there 
is. 
“Bend something on to it!’ I replied as the 
spar jumped me about. So he pieced it out and 
I came down. George made the end fast, while 
I got my wind. The others had in the mean- 
time started to tie in a single reef, so we com- 
pleted that and then hoisted the throat again 
and went on as before, having lost but little by 
the accident. 
We went to the northward of 
skirted the beach all the way home. 
was passed at 8 o’clock, with a gray 
looking sea. and sky and not a sail in 
to be 
Faulkner's and 
Bridgeport 
windy- 
sight, 

Touched the High Spots. 
Boats Came Home under Tri-sails. 
Capsicum Only 
Some 
while a nasty driving light rain kept us all 
chilled to the bone. By holding the frying-pan 
on the stove, we cooked a good breakfast, coffee 
and all. One man steering, another smoking 
near him, for company’s sake, and two below 
keeping warm in the blankets was the way the 
morning was spent till we were off New Haven. 
Sandy then went sound asleep after his strenu- 
ous life and the rest of us all stayed on deck. 
From a rift in the clouds to the west the sky 
cleared in a wonderfully short time and we had 
the most beautiful kind of a day. The Oneida 
passed west away to leeward of us off Eaton’s 
Neck, and the wind gradually lightened and 
headed, so shaking out full sail, we just cleared 
the bell and spar off Lloyds Point and crossed 
the line between Oneida and the black spar 
buoy at 11:08 A. M., thinking we must be last 
boat surely, as all the others except Busy Bee 
were far to windward of us when the shift of 
wind came. 
It wasn’t until next day we learned we had 
won in the handicap class. So Little Peter must 
have found the weather too heavy and reefed. 
Capsicum won out by carrying sail, beating 
Red Rover, Regina, Vingt-trois and Vagabond. 
It was a cracking good race—one to encourage 
discourage freak racers. 
C. G. Davis. 
Tn the vicinity of Plum Gut, on Saturday night, 
handsome and fast racing vachts. 
return to SEW-ON-A-HANK 
real cruisers’ and 
LOST: 
\ugust 3, two very 
Liberal reward for their 
YACHT CLUB. 

“Larry” HUNTINGTON, in the three-decked 
clipper sloop “Exit,” was surprised in a recent 
voyage to Martha’s Vineyard to see floating in 
the water a mysterious object. 
Altering his course it was found to be a green 
parrot badly soaked, but still alive. How this 
bird ever came to be a mile off the Long Island 
beach half way between Old Field and. Horton’s 
Point is a mystery fit for a guessing contest in 
an evening paper. 
Anyway, the bird dried its plumage, but hav- 

FOREST AND STREAM. 
ing had its education neglected, failed to express 
its thanks or even “cuss” a little. 
Finally Mr. Parrot climbed the mast and Larry, 
fearing it would fly away, climbed after it. So 
the parrot went out to the end of the main gaff 
Larry the merry ha! ha! Not fo be 
Larry lowered the sail, parrot and 
again, keeping it a prisoner 
and gave 
done so easy, 
all and caught it 
below. 
But the even. They had cooked 
a plate of tomatoes, but when they sat down to 
eat supper the tomatoes were gone and _ polly, 
except for a well rounded bunch of feathers in 
the region of its solar plexus, was a picture of 
innocence 
parrot got 

New York Y. C. Cruise. 
WHEN. you see a. fleet of forty such yachts 
as those assembled in Glen Cove at the start of 
the N. Y. Y. C. cruise you begin to realize the 
amount of money there is any ested in America’s 
pleasure fleet. The smallest here are the special 
30-footers, while the bulk of the fleet is made up 
of such craft as the staunch Endymion, Queen, 
Ingomar, Elmina, Invader and a host of others, 
all large comfortable craft. This indeed is 
yachting, and when ,this fleet of racers get un- 
derway for a day’s ‘run from port to port, ac- 
companied by the palatial steam yachts, it is 
1 flotilla of which the Ne WY eG. oldvandere= 
beecied as it is, may well be proud. 

The Last of the Schooner Idlewild. 
WHILE sailing in the lower bay off Norton’s 
Point the old schooner yacht Idlewild, Capt. M 
S. Hewitt; owner Mr. Edward A. Summers, sud- 
denly sprung a leak and «settled so fast in the 
water a signal of distress was set and the yacht 
for the beach. The ocean going tug 
came to their aid and transferred all the 
Ineffectual efforts were made to 
keep the yacht afloat, but she sank and the 
Merritt & Chapman Wrecking Co. soon gave 
up all hope of raising her as they found she was 
fast going to pieces. 
Idlewild was built in 1865 by A. Johnson, at 
Wiscasset, Maine, and was nearly all of oak 
frame, planking and all being of that wood. She 
was only 55ft. over all, 4oft. waterline, 1oft. roin. 
veain, and drew 8ft. of water. 
neaded 
sland 
passengers. 


An Answer to “The Yachtsman.” 
Tue Yachtsman, for July 25, on its editorial 
page, professes ignorance as to the question put 
to it by one of its old subscribers as to why 
in Lloyds yachting lists one of two new boats 
is listed at-eleven years and another at ten, on 
page 575. 
Perhaps it is ignorance, but more likely it 
is a case of business diplomacy on their part 
in not wishing to hit any one particular builder. 
American Lloyds turned to their books . and 
showed us a clause, one of the first in the book, 
which says yachts shall be rated according to 
the quality of the material used in their con- 
struction. Does not that explain for itself? 
Lloyds surveyor must have reported better 
material in the eleven year boat or she would 
not have received a year more lease of life than 
the other. 
We noticed that the eleven year old boat 
carried only 689 sq. ft. of sail against 1,020 sq. 
ft. on the ten year one, and suggested possibly 
that was the reason for her receiving a longer 
life, as the strain would evidently be far less, 
‘but Lloyds’ reply was that the sail had nothing 
to do with it: it was the soundness of the hull 
upon which the report was based. 

DestcNErR C. D. Mower, of 29 Broadway, re- 
ports having an order to design a new Class R 
racer for Long Island Sound work. Her ap- 
proximate dimensions are 21ft. waterline, 32ft. 
deck, 7ft. beam. 5ft. draft. She will be a keel 
boat carrying about 500 sq. ft. of sail. 
ev PP 
Tre New Rochelle Y. C. held a club cruise 
10 and It, re- 
on Saturday and Sunday. Aug. 
objective 
spectively, with Black Rock as the 
point. 

[AuG. 17, 1907. 

Atlantic Y. C. Race 
WEDNESDAY’S postponed race was sailed off 
Sea Gate on Friday, Aug. 9. It was the second 
race of the special series for classes Q and S, 
and a strong, steady southerly wind made it one 
of the best races of the season. All the yachts 
had a close reach from the starting line to the 
Sea Gate mark, a broad reach, with ballooners 
set, to Fort Hamilton, a beat to Bensonhurst 
and a short reach home. The Soya led the 
Q division at all the marks, and the Gunda led 
the other class. The summary: 
Sloops; Class Q—Start, 3:15—Course, 8 Mil es. f 
Finish. EF! apsed. 
Soya; W..cA.” BarstOwicss «cess sare 4 51 35 1 36 35 
Joy; W.» Hi Childs '.it,.cea nae eemterer 4 54 O8 1 39 OS 
Vingt Trois; KR. A. Browittois <2. 2.ctenn 4 56 56 1 41 56 
_ Class S—Start, 3:20—Course, 8 Miles. 
Gunda; ‘Ci embeke.<.....;-csaslecwastlsds 5 23 14 203 14 
Nereid; Haj. ti Robertss. caput 5 24 41 2 04 41 
Blwe: Bill, Ds Ds Allerton. sic. ccectes tere 5 26 21 2°06. 21 
Goblin; Speidel Brothers, <.cccscscunele 5 26 40 2 6 40 

The Mishap to Hamburg. 
different versions have appeared in 
reference to the accident to this schooner in 
the race from MHeligoland to Ostend, that a 
statement of the exact facts may be of interest. 
During the night, when blowing hard, the main- 
sheet parted, and, after the boom had been se- 
cured, the mate went out on the boom end to 
reeve a new sheet. He had almost completed 
his task, and was reeving through the last 
sheave, when he was washed overboard. A boat 
was launched and manned, but the apa ne 
mate could not be picked up.: There was a big 
sea running. In returning to the yacht the boat 
got under her bows, which came down upon it 
and cut it in two, with the result that one of 
the men was drowned, two lives being thus lost. 
~From the Yachtsman., 
So many 

Large Gasolene Cruiser Sold. 
Elkhorn has been sold 
Boston, Mass., to Mr. 
Md., through the 
220 Broadway, 
THe gasolene yacht 
by Mire @iliveekieetansone 
O. A. Turner, Baltimore, 
agencv of Stanley M. Seaman, 
New York. 
Elkhorn is the largest gasolene yacht so far 
built and one of the handsomest hous of her 
type. She was designed and built by Geo. Law- 
ley & Son Corp., 1906: She is 1o2ft. over all, 
t4ft. beam and 5ft. draft, equipped with 300 
horsepower Standard engine, compressed air for 
auxiliary purposes, electric plants, etc. She 
averaged 16 knots an hour on the Province- 
town Government course. She is finished 
throughout in paneled mahogany. 
The price is reported. to be the highest ever 
paid for a craft of this type. Her new owner 
is using her on the coast of Maine. 
Jamestown Yacht Races. 
THE yacht races at Jamestown are, notwith- 
standing a rumor to the contrary, to be held this 
fall and are scheduled as follows 
Sept. 11.—Classes P and Q. 
Sept. 12—Open regatta. 
Sept. 13.—Classes P and Q. © 
Sept. 14—Bugeyes and canoes. 
Sept. 16.—Classes and Q. 
Sept. 17.Free-for-all race. 
Sept. 18.—Fall regatta. 
Sept. 19.—Lipton cup classes, H, I and K. 
Sept. 20—Lipton cup classes, H, I and K. 
Sept. 21.—Lipton cup classes, H, I and K. 

The Largest Steam Yacht. 
K. G. Briirnes is having constructed abroad 
a new steam yacht to be the largest afloat. She 
will be called Vanadis, and-.is from designs of 
Tams, Lemoine and Crane, of New York. 
NAVAHOE, at the conclusion of the racing at 
Ostend, England. was flying a string of fourteen 
winning flags. Pretty good for Herreshoff, isn’t 
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