The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-06
LIVELY LING Shore.
Waking Up Sunday on New
York Bay-New Yacht
ing Craft.

All the boating enthusiasts and lots Of
others, who do not NOW starboard from
port, nor the cardboard streak from a
topsail halyard, We're down to the New
York Bay shore yesterday. All but a
very few came down by way of Linden
avenue and visited the ~clubhouses n
floats of the G~reenville and New York
Bay Yacht Clubs. There. many of the
boats which were hauled up on shore
last fall are being overhauled by their
owners and prepared for launching in a
few weeks. Some are so far advanced
that they will slide down the ways in a
few days. These are c. P. Morton's Lot
tie NJ. the Albatross. owned by CoTnmo-
dore Renshaw of the Greenville Yacht
Club, and the big. graceful Ensign Of
Cornelius Mcclellan.
Mr.. ". P. vreeland has almost com.
pleted his latest effort in the yacht build
ing line. Penn" has been building
yachts for the last eight years in his
little shop on the shore of the New York
Bay. near the foot of Linden avenue
Many winged flyers nave been put to-
varying success in the waters there
about. Penn is an amateur and builds
on lines peculiarly his own. yet he builds
fast boats and strong ones, too, as many
yacht owners who sailed their favorites
against his well know. His Lizzie v. and
Aida were well known on both sides Of
New York Bay for their sailing ability,
and many prizes adorn the parlor of
Mr.. w. p. vreeland's residence at Lin
den avenue and Avenue E.
The Lizzie v. he sold and its new own
ser changed her name. Mr.. V~reeland's
wife's name is Elizabeth, and the new
boat is dedicated to and named after
her. 1t is the biggest one PENN ever
built. 1t measures "a feet 10 inches over
all an 26 feet 9 inches on the water line.
The beam is II feet 6 inches and the
draught A feet. She is built limos en-
tirely of hackmatack, a kind of wood
which Penn, prefers to any for boat
building, because it lasts forever, or near
ly that long, whether in or out of water.
The keel, however. is a long and heavy
piece of white oak. When Mr.. Vreeland
first procured this piece of timber he
took it because it struck him as an ex-
cellent piece of wood for the purpose
for which he mas since used it. 1t lay
on the stone jetty in front of his shop
all last summer, fall and part of the
winter. Finally. he decided, like the
man who built a barrel around a bung
he owned, to construct a yacht upon
that keel.
So to work he set, alone and unaided
to place the heavy timbers into position.
All the minute calculations were mis- own
end every curve he warped as carefully
as if his life depended on it. Once one of
the clamps which held the ends Of the
sT usy aSo boards fhe w centre Mi 81. H thsm. sIip waa
and released the cardboard streak. It split
half way of its length. but Penn fixed
wonderful to look at the 1900 pounds of
iron bolted to the keel and think that
one man, and a man as slight as MIR.
Vree1and, devised a means of placing it
on the keel without any assistance.
h sails will also be constructed by
Mr.. Vreeland. The new boat will have a
30-foot hoist OF sail spreading 70 rect at
back.
1t is Mr.. vreeland's intention to race
Iaian d0s Sound m N after May Is. the day he
expects to have her completed. He will
enter the boat so as to race only twice
ma1 anE wg11 t ha is fbe w ree.tt mis Of n the aiigantic
Yacht Club, in which the Lizzie "; will
compete against are still on the stocks,
Where co 5ney aGe as nui she s an aps aIp9' w ii
apply for membership in the New
land Yacht Racing Association and other
yachting associations along the Sount.
so that he may not be troubled with a
deartn OF racing.
ssPenn's' father was a boat builder be-
fore him.. and it is probable that he in
herited the art of constructing yachts
from him. After Penn has laid his last
keel he win doubtless find a successor in
his son Charles, who has already shown.
himself proficient in that art, His father
long ago constructed in his idle hours a
model that could outsail any model II was
ever pitted against. That was before
Charles made a mark. of it. He con-
structed a model of the same class di-i
mensions that licked the spots out of
mis- fathers model. That. pleased Penn
nightly. especially as the young man
had attended 20 cuisines in New York
daily while working on the boat at home.
Charles is a good sailor and he. and Frank
Grady will be on the Lizzie v when she
sails her first race in Howard Gould's
Yacht Club.