New-York tribune., 1886-04-05
MANY VISITORS TO TIE ATLANTIC.
CLIMBING UP SLIPPERY PLANKs-ThE LOOK
TIE NEW Yacht.

CLIMBING UP SLIPPERY PLANKs-ThE LOOK OF
THE NFw YACHT
The Puritan Genesta races last fall gave
Yachting gre It "boom" the effects OF whcn still
noticeable. The preliminary struggle between the Prs .
ella and the Puritan, which excited the local patriotism
Of NewYork and Boston. will probably have Its counter
part this year General Paine's big soop which Is build
ing Boston, and the Atlantic whose stately lines are
undertaking in timber and plankng at Bay Ridge, VIII
doubtless. together and there will he another battle
giants which Wall Street and Beacon Street will
get ensey Interested One result OF last years rae
ing to render speces OF spy glass and excursion
boat seamanshp both popular and general BeniGhted
landsmsn who never knew a centre board from lap
board read their six columns day Of yachting news
talked tack sails club topsails
and "out-ponting" until they acquired an intensely
saline flavor.
That there plenty OF the old enthusiasm left Is shown
by the crowds Of people who 90 down to Bay Ridge on
week days and Sundays to look at Captain Els
worths sloop the Atlantic They are not content with
looking at her. They climb her and crawl under
her, They stand before he sharp bow in rapt conempa
ton. gettn her lines. the uDiDated are told and
they wander under her counter aud nearly twist their
heads of looking up at her shaped stern Doubling
Th.mases, who will not be convinced OF her promised
speed and beauty stick their fingers into her nail holes
and pick at her caukine.
Yesterday not a model day for climbing about the
hull of vessel that is propped up in open shipyard
Dut thPfo were lOts OF people
did their climbing just the same. Every time the ipor
tant little dummy cl1nging and punng down
Third-ave, II stopped at Fifty nfh-st ana ict Guy
less OF crowd bound for Mr.. Mlmlns shpyard
and look at the Atlantic. They kept along In the lee
of the fences dodge the mucn az possible ana
picked their way damp ground and the shaw
shipyard till the sOop stood before them
TIL they stood before the slOop After they had
viewed her from all points the next thing was 10 cmD
up the narrow plank staging and get on deck lhls
the performers The auKs covered with slect ana
inclined at steep aLcle. The man with an lnqnlrhg
mind would labOriousy work his way mp, holding MS
umbrella in hand and cutcbng everything WITHIN
the horizontal staging he would gaze around with
look that equivalent to recitation OF ENce sOr'
with half a dozen extra canos. After he had got used
to the elevation he would trOt around ana close
iy serqtnize the half hnished plan9lng OF me
After awhile he woud gain sufficient courage to climb
the rail and peer down through the cherry WOOD
cOmbings OF the matches though h. expected To- ma
the solution TO the Oregon mystery In the mold Iben
having explored conquered the little world or tne
Atlantic. nothing remained but to retreat. This simple
however Afforded the spectators, VINO hau
cOntented themselves with staying under the shed more
pleasure than of the others The panks were sroW
slippery every moment that when tne e1
pOrer crIc started, he kept going faster
and faster until the last half OF the descent was per
formed with rapidty than and nothing but
the parachute-ke umbrella kept him rlghtend up.
The Atlantic OF about the dimensions as the |
Puritan, though OF quite different model She is hollow
backed, like :, brOkendown saddle horse or Chinese
Junk She breadth OF beam ainldships. nut
talers quite sharply to bow and STERN The latter i
OverhangIng like the Purtan's Ii Is said that her can
effective sail She Ia planked ana caulKed
b0tn deck and hull but the first coat OF paint only covers
few plaDks either side AT the first opportunity al
orded by the weather the work ON her VIII be pushed