New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-16
WHAT THE YACHTSMEN ARE DOING.
THE VOLUNTEER TO REMAIN SCHOONER
ARRIVAL OF TIE CONQUEROR.

THE VOLUNTEER TO REMAIN A SCHOONER
ARRIVAL OF TIE CONoUERoR.
There are now Hfty.fve electric launches In this
country Most OF them are In the West. The highest
speed so far obtained from electric launch is t"ee
knots an hour. The Astor launch makes from eigh'
to nine miles an hour The electric launches on 'he
lagoon at the Worlds Fair run at speed not
exceeding six miles an hour.
Abou, twenty tons of lead will be taken from the
inside of the Navahoe and bolted TO the bottom OF
her keel This WILL It is thought. better III her lor
racing in English waters and English weather. ii
she were to race here alterations would be maue
Mrs ROYAL Phelps Carroll accompanied her huso"h"
I'm his daily visits TO the Navahoe and is as ueepy
interested as her husband In the success oi 'he
yacht. IN
II IS now said that the schooner Volunteer will
not he changed back into sloop. as was reported
The rumor that her owner was to make her
once more singlesticker was received Win IN
crednity by yachtsmen from the first. Wheh she
was made into a schooner her ehtire ior""'u
BODY was rebuilt, and II she were now made INTO ="
sloop she would have neither the lines nor the speeu
which she had when she defended the cup
Yacht designers on this side the water are OF 'he
opinion that the strongest point OF the Valkyre VIII
be in windward work. They also are OF the opinion
that she will not prove fast as the boats Dun.
to defend the ROYAL Victoria and the Cape May anu
Brentons Reef cups.
The Prince OF Wales's boat Britannia ana 'he
Scotch syndicate boat Callnua are to meet In ahe
coming races Of the Royal Thames Yacht Clno al
Cowes.
The new Gardner. Mosher hlgh-specd steam yach'
now at City Island will probably be ready LOT pre-
liminary speed trial on saturday.
Pbilip Ellsworth the welknown designer, has de-
signed cabin catboat with two centreboards lot .he
sons of his brother Captain joe the SAILING master
by whom New-York swcars
That Aou,lshng Institution, the Columbia Yacht
Cub opened the at Its clubhouse on the
North River on Sunday with a planked shad dinner.
The steam Yacht Conqueror, with Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick W. Vanderbilt board, arrived at her
anchorage off Stapleton early yesterday morning.
she will return TO Newport in a few weeks, when
Mr. and Mrs Vanderbilt will open their house
there for the summer.
The Massachusetts Yacht Club opened Its summer
clubhouse at Rowes Wharf, Boston, last night. Music
was furnished by the Boston Cadet Band and supper
served.
The site secured by the Corinthian Mosquito fleet
for its new clubhouse is in the "cOve" on Echo Bay,
New Rochelle. The house will be opened on Memo
nal Day.
After many unsuccessful attempts the hull OF the
sunken steam yacht Alva has been destroyed by
dynamite Two acres Of water were lifted several
feet in the air by the exposic:o
F. r. Coleman. OF Philadelphia, has chartered the
sloop yacht Wasp the victorious forty sX-footer OF
last year. from Archibald Rogers Mr.. Coleman will
race her this season. The steam zach. Vivcnne has
been sold by James D. Hutchinson to Robert d.
Evans, Of Boston.
The forty-ratng racing cutter Queen Mab which
won many victories in her class en- the other SIDE Is
to sail this week for New-IOrk. She has had her
centreboard removed and other alterations made al
Cowes.