The Republican journal., 1898-08-25
Yachts and Boats.

The steam yacht Day Dream was in port
Thursday with a party from the Point Look.
out Club, Isle all Haut. They left at 80 D.
m. ON the return trip.
Charles R. Coombs took party of friends
down the bay in his sloop Eagle Saturday
and returned Monday They were Arthur
and Fred Hollings of Rockland and Messrs
Hale and Abbott of Dexter.
The steam launch Leola was launched last
Friday from the shore of Goose River, where
she had been laid up for three years, and
taken to Dyer's dock. Her new owner, Capt
Arey of steamer Laurena, has made her bot
tom tight and is now painting the house, etc
W. A. kimbal is building an addition to
the Passagasswaukeag Yacht Club building
III Carter's yard, and will build knock.
about there this winter. E. L. Macomber
has made the model 1t is probable that
three or four others will build knockabouts
the coming winter.
Charles B. Harrington of Bath is building
five boats for the Payne yacht, now under
construction at the Bath Iron Works. They
are of cedar and finished witt, mahogany
The yacht will also carry two naphtha
launches, which are being built in New
York.
We print this week the conclusion of "The
Cruise of the Scandal the illustrations in
Guiding map showing the course sailed
over. The skipper of the Scandia handles
the pen as well as he does the tiller, and the
mate made good use of the camera as the
many fine illustrations show. We are under
obligations to the Rudder Publishing Co.
for the use of the cuts and permission to re-
print this very interesting article.
MONTREAL, August'19 A meeting of the
SAILING committee of the Royal St. Lawrence
Yacht Club was held to-day to consider the
conditions under which challenges would he
received for. the Seawanhaka Corinthian
| challenge cup for small yachts. After care
full consideration it was unanimously re-
| solved to return the cup to the Seawanhaka-
| Corinthian Yacht Club.
: This seems very proper thing to do, in
view of the fact that in the recent races for
| this cup the American yacht had to sail
against catamaran. 1t might as we'll have
been steam launch.
! A race between four crack yachts took
| place at Curtis Cove, South Surrey, last
week. The boats participating in the race
We're the Empress, Capt. Lord; Old Comfort,
| Capt. Sowle; Annie Lee, Capt. Whiting,
and the Hazel, Capt, Holt. All but the lat
| ter are Ellsworth craft the Hazel halls from
| hamoine. The race was over course five
miles in length, sailed twice. The race was
won by the Hazel The Annie Lee, finished
second and the Empress third There was
good sailing breeze and the race was a
pretty one to see.
While on the sea coast in this vicinity
| yacht races are practically unknown we
| notice that the third annual regatta of the
CHINA Lake Yachting Association took
place recently on the waters of China lake.
and extended over three days. The first
boat race was for boats designed and huilt
outside of China. The entries were the Genie
anG the Lillian, G. y L. .etcher, won by the
fornicr. The second was for boats built and
owned on the shores of China lake, for the
"chlna cup' prize, the entries being. Ethel,
D. y. Flske; Florence, S. J. Brown; Hazel
ii. b. Wallace and the Ariel, VIM Rhodes
The Ethel won on this and the two succeed
ing days. An exchange says; "The associa-
ton is an incorporated body and although
OF small membership it owns fine wharf on
which it has recently built club house. Mr.
K. NJ. Jones' generous offer Of the cup as a
perpetual challenge cup for boats built and
designed exclusively on the shores of China
lake should give an unusual impetus to boat
building during the coming year"