New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-06


line and with about thirteen feet six inches beam
These figures are given by one who saw the boat
urements and they are only approximate The
>cushla II has been sailed mp tn sound undo
her own canvas and she Is now laid up FOR the
winter at her new home
TIE CRAFT AND THOSE WHO SAIL THEM
The Shelter Island Yacht club has decided to
have fleet OF one-desgn knockabouts built for
the racing Of next year. number OF designs have
been submitted. but the intending subscribers have
not yet agreed TO which OF them is the most
desirable. These yachtsmen will do well to copy
the Pan adopted by the Philadelphia Corlnthian
Yacht Club. In which the subscribers appointed
capable amateur TO control and supervise he work
to pass. and the result was that the craft received
were highly satisfactory, which Is not the record
OF another fleet that could be mentioned.
James Iaughn. jr.. OF the New-York Yacht
Club. has had hts yawl. the Flying Cloud taken
to Morris Heights to be prepared for trip to the
South for the winter months MCGOWAN. Of South
Brooklyn lately put steel bulkheads into the Fly
ing Cloud which are not only watertighj but In
sect-tight. 1t explained by MCGOWAN that in
the warm Southern waters Of the West Indies and
Florida il Is impossible to keep insects Of various
kinds from overrunning a yacht He said that
these always appeared first in the forccas;le and
worked their way aft The Flying cloud has passed
a number of winters in the South and the abate-
out She has now a steel bulkhead Just III OF the
forecast:e and another between the galley and tho
after cabins not for safety but for purposes which
Will certainly seem peculiar TO the general reader.
The line limited in the charter-party Of the steam
yacht Sycamore has nov expired, and Commodore
J. Pierpont Morgan has the yacht to the Erie
Basin to be laid up for the winter. or until her
owner. John II. IIanan. puts her In commission
Commodore Morgan will not use the Sycamore
again, as he expects his new steam yacht Corsair
70 be ready In good time next spring 10 act as the
flagship of the NewYork Yacht club.
The huge steam yacht Varuna. which was tied
up in Mediterranean port during the war with
Spain; Is expected to leave Southampton today for
Wy he Dp IiY-
gins, Of the New-York Yacht club
The sloop yacht ashore. which was chartered
and raced By Frank Bovine Jones in the last sea-
son. has been sold by her owner Philip r Dodge
OF the New-York Yacht Cub and is now laid I'D
at the yards Of the Construction Company. at
Greenport. y. Y.
Clifford V. Brokaw Of the Iarchmont Yacht
Club. who lately sold the well-known cutter I'vra
to Robert p. Doremus, has bought the steam yacht
Althea from Charles Sooysmith. of the New-York
Yacht Club. who reserves the name AIthea for his
own use and for future yacht. while Mr.; Irokaw
VIII name his new purchase the Uyira. This yacht
IS now at Manning's basin.
A. H. W Johnson. Of the Atlantic Yacht club
has had his new cutter Newasi on the drydock az
Daviss yard. Twenty-scventh-st.. South Brooklyn
to have her hull painted.
F. +. Weston. Of the Rhode Island Yacht Club
IS Of the late cruisers and is now reported -
be coming westward along the Sound. a cruise
to New York
Larry" Huntington. Of New Rochelle has re-
celved at his yards the one-dcsgn schooner I'ncas
lately built by Brown & Son. Of Tottenvllle for
G. l.. Buchanan, OF this city, ii member OF the
New-York Yacht Club.
Captain Gates and a crew OF New-York sailors
have gone South to take charge OF the steam
yacht Dungeness. owned by Mrs Lucy G. Carnegie
Of the New-York Yacht Club The Dungencss has
been fitting = Fcrnandina Fla and after the
cruise to West indian ports but not until danger
OF yellow fever has passed.
stated that Miss Susan de Forest Day intended 10
charter her steam yacht the scyihan. to some
one else for he winter. The name OF "A member Of
the New York Yacht Club was mentioned au-
thory for this.
The cruising schooner Gitana which formerly be-
longed to William f. Weld. Boston millionaire
has been bought by Frank Is. McQucston. and VIII
nrow be fitted out for cruise IA Southern waters.
Captain Sherlock had her in charge and at one
time she was rebuilt after being wrecked on the
Although formally closed. the clubhouse of the
Atlantic Yacht Club at Sea Gate will to some
extent be used by members during the winter
months.
John Hyslop, whose story Of escape from the
Michigan has yet been told will be entertained
at dinner given by the Seawanhaka Corinth!au
Yacht Club soon after HIS return to this country
The short cablegram. "iiysop saved" brought
sense OF relief 20 great many yachtsmen AS
meesurer OF the Seawanhaka and Ncw-York Yacht
clubs his name has for many years been a synonyme
for strict integrity on some points vachtsinen
may at times have been almost ready to knife
each other but never on John Hysiop's measure
Incnt
! The launch OF Colonel Oliver H. Payne's new
steam yacht may now De expected al any time On
September 10 her overseer said for publication In
/ The Tribune that she would probably be ready to
take her first plunge about the middle Of October
Her outside plating was almost completed a month
ago. G. ". Scott. VINO VIII be her skipper said
that her engines viii develop three Thousand horse
! power ana that she viii receive Il barb rig lust
! Ike the Elesnors
Charles Solhcm. 81 Gravesend Beach IL 10
lengthen the sOOp Irene which has been bought
/ by i. Wolfe Brown. OF inc Brooklyn Yacht club.
John r. Brooks. Of the New-York Yacht club
mas gwen up his intended trip 10 the Mediterranean
IN his sienm yacht Andrin. and the vessel has been
laid up IN England.
n. j. van Ripper has returned the Ballantine Cup
| 10 Colonel David J.. Austen secretary OF the At
ianuc Yacht Club. so that II may be raced for
| again next summer. Mr.. Van Rper's yacht won
ne cup In drifting match, which he thought was
Meohciuslvs ~ TO The mefits Of the boats. and be