New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-24
BuILDING NEW YACHTS.
PREPARATIONS FOR TIE OPENING OF TIE
SEASON.
Proposition TO LIMIT THE sArIdAREA--
LIGHT AND DEEP DRAueHT CRAFT

PROPOSITION TO LIMIT The sAAhNAA
LIGHT AND DEEP DRAUeHT GRAFT
YACHTING NEWS GENERALLY.
The yartons craft now on the stocks in the ship
yards here and elsewhere on the coast are rapoiy ap
nrnacb,nu eo,uuietion, and extra gangs Of workmen
M. hsn n,t On by the builders to rush. the work
Al ppvras,s yards on City Island, the great Morgan
schooner about three plates up, and looking eno
Yoo,sly large She viii be remarkably stanch ana
roomy, ia fact an ideal vessel OF her kind. In the
same yards the big yawl is almost finished, ana Ws
be ready for launching within few days. imnetn
seiy alongside Of her is the forty-footer TomaaamA
only In the frame, bat nevertheless showing thas sac
win be an extreme example Of the modern deep draugnt
loop Though her neghbor, the yawl. is almost twice
her length the Tomahswk looks quite as high though
of course there is difference The comparison sug-
gested by the relative positions of the two Is In way
almost eomlcal
recent compilation of the Dimensions of the IDEAL
Soryfooter Is remarkable for the picture 1t suggests
and Is as graphic In its figures as any Description
could wen be- There Is craft 81 feet over all, and
80 feet inches to 80 feet inches on the water-iine
Beam Is ID feet, draugm at least 10 feet, and WIZ
centreboard down at fully Is feet Her boom Is %
feet long, and the bowsprit 80. She has 80 to 20
fet hoist gait % TO 30 feet, and topmsst 20 feet In
length Any one can read from these figures what
an enormous spread of such spss VIII allow.
Such an example the Tomahawk VIII put Barnums
circus to when It comes to comparison OF can
vas measure In square feet S0mething more may 70
gained toward realization Of what the new craft wan
be Hhe when II is stated, on authority OF captain
Half, that the Chiquta's new bowspnt win be oniy
three feet shorter than that of the Volunteer ana nor
new racing spars in the same proportion Inc I'M
oua by the way has been dosed with lead as was he
Banshee year. enable her to carry nor no"
sallplan.
The committee appointed by the New.York yacht
Club TO revise the sailing rules so as 70 heao On INC
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the rules in vogue is meeting at Intervals ous
Is always hampered I'm its action by the absence VI
one or of its members. Measurer Hyslop ana a
Cary Smith are always there and are busy preparing
rule which Is intended to achieve the result indoa1ea
It VIII not be complex rule, but wiz prooaDy hnps
limit the san Of the yachts besides fixing certain
details of tho rig itself The committee IS expeo'eo
to report at the next meeting of the club. whcn Is
10 be held on Thursday. The question viii then I'M
doubtedy be fully discussed but it can hardly DC OK
pected that the rule will DO adopted enls year
There win certainly be tendency to give tho now
craft trial. for the purpose OF seeing how taey WIZ
set II 1t DO discovered that there are certain yachts
20 badly handicapped by the rigs that there Is no
Justice In the race the change will be made then and
forty.footers viii be cheap next year. AT the same
meeting Of, the New.York Yacht Club an amendment
to the racing rules viii be offered for consideration,
providing for class, No. T. In sioops cutters ana
yaw,s To consist of all of forty feet load waer-line
and under The old class, No. 8. viii then include all
between forty and forty'sR feet.
At Ayers yard. in south Brooklyn, there is an
orthodox -footer approaching completion, and
thirty-fve footer Just getting TO look like yacht
One of the finest boats Ayers stocks Is new caoh
gloop SO feet long, with IL feet beam and ieet
inches draught, the skimming-dish hnes' tnis
craft looks able, and is intended for racing. sne
was ordered by Fl. b. Ogden, Of the Brooklyn facht
Club AT Rawlings yard, City Island, the steam
yacht Adelaide viii be ready for launching next week.
after having been greatly improved about her DOW
and stern Up at Lawley's, in Boston, the dig
Forbes schooner is entirely planked and Is almost
completely ioinered outside Everything else ABOUT
her progressed fayorably, and seems 70 promise
launching carly In April The Ellis and Richardson
forty- fvess are practically finished, and VIII DO
ala of 10 few days. The Belmont forty-footer u
being ra,sheds so get her out OF the way OF u
larger boats and make room for now ones. Ihe
Beebe forty win go into the brine at about the Same
time. When they of, the Foster. forty and the
forty-fve for Mir. owens Of Providence, ono OF the
former owners of the sachem, win 80 up.
The Boston yacht clubs are arranging race SEIZED
ME so as not TO interfere with one another.
George Mathews Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Aston
Carey Edward Perry, Macomb g. Foster and Charles
A. Post are candidates for membership In the New"
York Yacht Club.
Pepgras of City Island, is building q ade-vheel
stesm yacht for Southern waters She is to DO Of
, UQht draugbt, so as 10 DO III tOf intenu iaA0S
The great auxiliary steamer with barkentne rig,
which Beaver Webb designed and Piepgras is going
, to build, is not for Fred Vanderbilt, as has been
stated. It is now well determined that her owner
win DO Trainor l. Park
A. Cary Smith is designing racing forty-foOter for
Royal Phelps Carroll, who has sold bis schooner
Nokomis. The new yacht rs to be built by Pollon-
Sailing master Ludlow, Of A e. Bateman's steam
yacht Meteor, has been exonerated from all blame in
The matter of tho collision of the Meteor
man, Of the wyanoke, has been suspended for six
, The Melbourne papers are now declaring that the
visit of Rockies, the designer, to this country, was
merely a ablIf9's They add that no challenge has
been talked Of over there.
British steam yachtsmep becoming interested
In the $4,000 International challenge cup OF the
American Yacht Cub. There is some talk that q
Scotch syndicate VIII build steam yacht to challenge
for the trophy.
Tho sloop Atlantic is at her dock in South Brooklyn
She WIN san the coming season with schooner rig
drapght forty -footer from his own designs. The new
yacht wiz be an orthodox skImming-dsh and is In
tended to show lovers Of deep draugh whore they are
wrong.
Considerable speculation Is being caused by the
new forty-f0oter designed by A. G. McVey, OF The
Boston Herald She is approaching completion at
Her name win be HeienS
Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry's flagship Electra is
at South Brooklyn being thoroughly overloaded and
completely re-rtgged and furnished. The Electra will
Be prominent in the naval display at the Centennial
Of washington-s inauguration.
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THE POLICE ATD THE COyCERT Halls!
Mayor Grant and Police Superintendent Murray had
which had been received by the Mayor regarding
Ucepsed 1dfyasS The hIqcnyerfes nv fNnorfaPa WIN