New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-05-09
epORTS ON LAND AND WATER
YACHTS GOING INTO COMMISSION.
WHITE WINGS SOON TO BE OUTspREAD.

,.s ,u,r ARE IN GREss-CoMPARATIvE
SAFETY OF YACHTS.
All along the coast the yachts are gong into
,s.,o, and old fsvortes and new Will shortly
their white wings to the breezes The old favor
~ ,,,a ba, had several important changes made In
~a will take water this summer as full OF hsht
The alterations In the Priscilla are nearly COM
$3.50 She will carry moro sail this year thau last ou'
an larry II lower. Mr.. Garfield is extremely hopeful
che, .be will prove the best OF the crack soops this
~.ar Extensive alterations have been made In
e.. Puritan, but no ono seems to know
What they Those yaehtsnen who do not believe IN
.csn,idc yacht modelling, but pin their faith on the
,p,eo' Thumb, are making sarcastic remarks about all
sh and intimate that has had to give way 10 ex
c.renca But the scientists say 3" no., aud aver tnat
change In Puritan being made on as purely
sceutdc principles were her original designs As
matter Of fact the Puritan purely scientific boat
and her designer know almost exactly what she would
do before she was put In the water
II ia doubtful If any other largo boat was ever
launched on this side into whose model the
rule thumb did enter at least In part In most or
then in fact. it has been the only rule used The At
t,c is entirely rule-o thumb boat and the Priscilla was
originally compromise but has since her launch been
overwhelmed with science. In the Mayfower changes
from the original design of Mr. Burgess have been MADE
By General Payne. her owner. The building OF s"on
By Burgess his first success recais 'no Nv
tempt OF 1.-THE Incompatible steers" to do the same
thing in the days when the Juiia was tho
fnstest sloop ahoat She was owned Dy Mr.
Waterbury. and when Commodore Edgar was eiected
ohsf OF the New-York Yacht Club he wanted to have
che soop. So he steers carte pahcne 10
Snild the soop WidgeOn to beat the Julia. He ala so
and the Widgeon "a dead failure subsequently lucy
were both changed schooners and the Wldgeon rom
ciow soop became smart schooner, while the Juiia
nom a swift sloop became slow schooner. $50
large number of fine steam yachts are Tor sale this
season ON sides OF the water The finest steam
6neen, whose owner died before she was fairly
rsmp eted, over the beautiful Yosemite SUN
goes begging for a purchaser
W,, Inc OF the yachting arises again
OF va hts In speaking OF this recently old yachs
man said These cutter fellows are always talking
about capsizng II that was the only thing TO be
ruarded against AS matter of fact 1t is one or the
Mohawk disaster the New-York Yacht Cluo never has
LOST life through capsizing OF yacht Now look
A. The long list OF who have been lost overheard
from yachts and drowned. Why, was counting up the
1 1se had sd' BEEN drowned from yacths Of the
Eew-York Yacht Club The Henrietta lost four men
overheard time, and ohce the Fieetwlng lost SIX
believe greatest danger in yachting Is In being
washed overheard and believe the cangcr Is greater III
\ than a sloop'
rae first overt act" of the yachting season will take
place on Decoration Day. when the Atlantic and sea
Wanhaka Clubs will hold their opening sail ana the
Yacht Dauntlcss being overhaued preparatory to going
ntocommssion the The ancient craft orly
wants sufficient wind-say simo0n-to be one OF the
fastest schooners aOat Among the yachts already In
Rove and Nyssa. The sloop yacht White Wing. the
schooner Southern Cross the sloOPs NKen Outve ana
Peerless and the steam yachts Pamela and Rival VIII
probably be put In commission the last or TINS week
The Xiety which caused In yachting circles last
the here OF the sloop Carlotta was
relieved by the news OF her arrival at Ferdandlna