The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-28
Won SCHMIDT'S TUB.
A Novel Yacht Being Built at
Alameda Point.

There are some peculiar crafts afloat in
the waters of the Bay Of San Francisco, pc
culiar both as to design and model and as to
rig. There are fOuT-masted Square-riggerS,
four and five masted sch0onerS, jackaSs
barkS and brigS, sc0w-schOOAers square
sterned and square-bOwed, cat-boats, yawl-
boats, catamaraDs, canoes, Italian feluccas
and Chinese junks and one Whaleback tug,
the Thistle that sheds water like duck.
A peculiarly modelled vessel will soon be
added to the fleet in the shape of yacht
that is now being built by Alex Hay at his
ship-yard at Alameda Point. and which
will be ready for launching in about two
weeks. Hays ship-yard is located about
500 yards above the first depot on the mar
rOw-gauge running from the Alameda mole
to Oakland and the passengers on the cars,
especially old salts, haze taken particular
interest in the novel craft since her keel
was laid, and now that she is nearly fin
ished hardly know what to make of her.
She is unlike anything ever seen atfoat.
NAMED AFTER THE DESIGNER.
What the name will be is not yet known,
but at present she is known rs Won
Schmidts tub" Captain Edward y. Won
Schmidt, her designer and owner, having
given her that name himself, temporarily,
in place of a better one.
The tub is built OF Oregon pine and is
length Al feet, beam 200, nodded depth 10
feet and she has two-feet sheer Her side
plan is a segment of circle ten feet in
fOr.y-fOur-foOt radius. She will draw when
afOat eight feet six inches Of water aft and
six feet six inches forward, giving a mean
draft of about seven feet six inches. She
has what is called q straight frame line, n
straight base line on top of keel and seq
ment ot' ten feet for gunwale. The plan OF
the deck is about like that OF an Italian fish
tyrv hnat A hntt ftua, ~ air fgn pf 1Nia,
iron Will be used for ballast in the novel
craft and it will all be slowed below the
cabin Il cor; there will be no outside ballast
of any description.
ALL STRAIGHT TIMBERs.
Although person could hardly believe it
to look at the vessel as she lay on the stocks,
| the frames are all straight timbers from
keel to gunwale. These timbers are Axe
inches at keel and Aka at gunwale, all being
| of Oregon pine. The stem and stern posts
| stand straight from the water-line. The
| vessel is planked with two-lnch Oregon
| pine fastened with galvaniZed-iron spikes.
| The deck-bealns are AKA inches at ends and
Axe at centers. The cabin deck is 6 feet
| inches clear Of upper deck, as Won Schmidt
| says he wants the captain to have a chance
| to stand up straight. The cabin-1oor beams
| are secured to the frame timbers to keep the
| ballast from shifting, in case the vessel is
| hove down. The keel is IS inches deep,
clear OF the cardboard.
CUTTER-RIGGED.
The new craft will be cutter-rgged, hav-
ing one mast, tOpmast, boom, bowsprit and
| gaff. The mainmast will be fifty feet ex-
treme length, twelve inches in diameter in
the partners and ten inches at the trestle-
trees. The head Of the mast will be octag-
/ Onal in shape and six feet long. The top
mast will be fifty feet in all, with a four
| foot pole, and the b0wsprit twenty feet out
| board and ten inches square at the knight
heads. The boom will be ffty-three feet in
length having diameter of eight inches at
| the sheet, and the gait will be thirty-two
| feet long.
The working sails will be mainsail, jib-
headed gaff-topsail, inner jb, outer jib and
| jtb-topsail. The tack of the latter sail will
be fourteen feet above the bowsprit, and
the head will reach within eight feet OF the
eyes of the topmast rigging: When the YES
sci is running before the wind she will have
set $500 square feet OF canvas.
NoN-CAPsIZABLE.
Although the design of the craft Is a sub
| ject of merrimeut among old tarS, there can
| be hardly any doubt that she is practically
| nOn-capszable, and there seems to be no
reason why she should not be rapid saer.
| She cannot fail to be stiff" and her lines
her beam ends before the flare of her sides
causes much obstruction to her progress.
| If she goes over so that her sails lay fiat in
| the water the weight of ballast in her bot
! tom must bring her back Altogether she
! is q novel craft, and her trial trip will be
| watched with much interest by yachtsmeD,
ship-builders and seafaring men generally.
| 1t is the intention of her owner to use her as
| q pleasure yacht.