New-York tribune., 1900-01-07
ICE AND WATER YACHTS.
REMARKABLE SPEED SHOWN By THE
SCUD-FoREIGN NOTES.


The ice racer Snowflake. owned by John Hopkins
secretary of the Hudson River Yacht Club. has a
record OF nine miles In seven minutes.
The records of the Shrewsbury Ice Yacht Club
are made on triangular course Of three miles
officially measured by civil engineer. The ice
yacht Scud did the mile and quarter leg of this
course in As seconds. She did the ive-eighths of
mile leg in Is seconds and the performance is said
20 be amply vouched for. The Scud took this leg
with flying start and II represents the immense
speed OF 80 miles hour.
The current number OF ''The London Yachtsman"
says that the steam yacht Catania, which has been
chartered by William Waldorf Astor for Med
iterrRnean trip. has just bilge keels put her
Cowes
The same authority says that the steam yacht
Arcturus. owned by Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, of the
New-York Yacht Club. has received a mast
and has completed her reftting for the Mediter-
ranean cruise about to begin.
Fay's workmen still busy the steam yacht
Erin making the alterations ordered by Sir Thomas
Upton for the proposed Southern cruise. The Erin
has remained in dock since her from
America.
1t is confidently said on the other side that
George L. Watson had the first offer TO take the
designing Of Sir Thomas Ispton's Shamrock. and
that he declined the commission because he hoped
another man would undertake the challenge 1t is
said that Watson wished supply a boat for
certain practical yachtsman who could be ex-
pec;ed to avoid all kinds Of greement and that
he declined in order risk in this respect
success in re-establishing general good feeling It
is now said to le almost certainty that Watson
viii produce the challenger of 1901. This seems TO
be the first time that titled person has had to
prove himself worthy before gaining the assistance
of yacht designer.
AS this. the remarks in private letter re-
ceved at this Office from well known English
yachting editor may be considered. He writes:
watson has made remarkable strides since he de-
signed that awful Valkyrie ILL., but he supplies
emperors and princes with better boats than he
can turn out for mere Irish earls. and the Meteor
as a yawi truly a remarkable boat How an
Jrizhman who is merely a knight will fare on
this list is impossible as yet to guess. but IL
Sir Thomas Upton finally succeeds in getting him.
self accepted by Mr. Watson he Will no doubt take
what he can get and be thankful
The Carthage Landing Ice Yacht Club has
feet of nine vessels and particulars concern
ing these have been supplied by the secretary. The
Scud owned by ]. B. Weaver, Is a slooP o.
Tse Geg eg aaa o@ned oSS bg Stephen Glass is oot
sIoop carrying 80 feet of canvas The Kanger; er
s25 feet of canvas and length of So feet G. II.
Higginsons windward is described as as cat5nggea' ,e
owned by d. Bradbury S6-foot sOop with Wbi$s Sss
Wing, soop of "a feet length and Ss2 feet OF sal sail
The North @ saG m ee %hef @ % aas for aetG Two is owned
by Isaac Miller. She is SO feet long and carries S9S
et Of aop Sa 9 ~ Mef FEET OF SAIL ine Fhe
Charles Dow carries S25 feet Of sail and her centre
The last issue Of he London Yachting World
sTe asy lately been soid by auction at
These We're by the late James Asbury with
his celebrated schooners the Livonia and the Cam
bria The highest amount realized was f76 for the
cup by the Cambria In her historic race across
the ocean against the American schooner yacht
I1auntIess in 1870. This originally ESQ cup,
Kinsale Head. Ireland, to Sandy Hook Lightship:
hours Il minutes; the Dauntless. o days hours euT:
The cup won by the Cambria at the regatta of the
Royal Victoria Yacht Club in 1868 fetched t53.
Colonel Oliver H Paynes new steam yacnt
Aphrodite averaged 14h knots for $500 knots easy
stearning in her passage back from England The
Aphrodite is not fitted with forced draught, ana
her best speed is not exactly known, though It is
find out that she could not beat the Josephine,
which. at the time, was travelling at more than
model of c. r. Flint's steam yacht, now
in construction at New-York Will be one OF the
exhibits at the Paris Exposition. The craft will,
fits projectors assert, be expected to travel at
the rate OF fifty miles hour. or mere Its de-
signer is c. D. Moshera who produced the ELloe.
craft which for mile or less could go at the
been made by Gustav Cram.
Wilson & Ssby making the sails for the
schooner Endynion for George Lord Day, ana
also for the steam yacht Virginia.
The steam yacht White Ladye, which attended
the for the Americas Cup here in october,
has been reftted by J. Lawson johnson for a
cruise to the Mediterranean. -
In about two months the Empress Eugene will
cruise to the Mediterranean in the steam yacht
Thistle, which is being prepared.
Eugene Higgins, of the New-York Yacht Club,
has his big steam yacht Varuna at Brightlingsea,
laid up since she returned from the races at New
York. She is now about to reht for a cruise to
the Mediterranean.
Amzi L. Barber. Of the New-York Yacht Club.
who last season bought the steam yacht Roma,
formerly the property OF the late Baron Ferdinand,
has had the vessel brought TO America and re-
christened the Sapphire, after the former Sapphire
which sold by Mr. Barber.