, 1888-07-25

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At n rough estimate. the twenty yacht
clubs that have their rendezvous in and
about New York hArbor and bay and Long
Island sound have now in commission some
800 yachts of all sizes and rigs, owned by
men pursuing various professions, from the
millionaire who owns "A big steam yacht to
the enploye in a factory who gets as much
fun and perhaps more glory out of his
twenty foot eat boat when she wins "a prize
in her class.
Thomas Chaplain has recently finished at
Roslyn, l.. l., for n New Yorker, an excep-
tionally handsome single handed shhrpie
yacht, designed for pleasure cruising in shoal
waters. Her model is such that she will com-
pare favorably in appearance with round
built craft. She is % feet over all, and n
little less than 8 feet beam, and with her
centerboard up she draws only about IA
inches of water. She has two berths, and
about AZ feet of head room in her cabin.
She Is yawl rugged, with mainsail, balance
jib, apd miZzen. The mainsail is nearly tri-
angular, the upper two-thirds of the lufR
being laced to n spar that hoists nearly per-
pendicularly to the masthead. The small
after sail is triangular with a BOOM She
carries about 400 feet of canvas. She has a
balance rudder, and is quick in stays, She
works well under jib and mizzen alone, or
NA1' my ~ AAA7 DI0 lANl I'm
handle her as easily as he could handle an
IS foot catboat
FIom Oakland, on the Pacific coast, comes
a description of n small yacht that has u
unique arrangement for increasing her roomi-
ness. 1t is II telescope cabin. She is 33I
feet long, II feet beam, and hoists 06 feet of
cabin with her telescope contrivance. She
is schooner rugged, is for the use of SPORTS
men, and is the only telescope cabined yacht
on the Pacific coast.
Charles A. Stevenson, the actor, husband
of Kate Claxton, has q fast cutter yacht in
the VII.
Capt. George Lawler, of the Boston pilot
boat Hesper, has challenged the schooner
yacht Gitana and the pilot boat Carrie Z.
Phillips TO an ocean race, distance to suit the
challenged.
The 60-foot yawl rugged yacht now being
constructed at Baltimore ON the Norton sys-
tenn water BALLAST will be launched in six
weeks and shipped to this city. Capt.
Norton will challenge any yacht of her size
for Il race 20 tho island of Bermuda and back
in September.
Designer Ed Burgess says that he prefers
small cutters to center board boats of the
same size for convenience, provided they are
not to sail in shallow water, and thinks he
can build them TO go as fast. He says, more
over, that he thinks. he can build II T0foot
keel boat that would sail as well as a 70-foot
center board boat.
That the oarsmen of Yale university nave
great faith in the ability of George A. Car
ter, of the scientific school, is evident from
fact of their electing him captain for 1889.
Carter rowed No. z in the varsity eight that
defeated Harvard ON the River Thames last
week. He has rare judgment and is second
to none in the possession of knowledge on
boating affairs
With the exception hat the new sloop
Katrina has a wider proportionate beam
than the cutter Thistle, she is almost an
exact reproduction of the Scotch boat, not
quite 30 much cut away forward, and with a
main cross section further aft. She looks
rs like the Thistle as it is possible for a sec
ond-class boat TO look lik n first. She also
exhibits the same weakness in windward
work, which was strongly indicated in her
prototype.