New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-12-17
INSTRUCTION FOR YAOHTsMEN.
LECTURES AND NAVIGATION CLASSES Ar
THE YACHTSMEN'S CLUB.


The programme OF lectures to be given az tn.
Yaehtsmen's Club In the remainder OF December
and in January was given out yesterday by G. T.
Pierce. the club secretary. as follows:
December 19-"A Talk on Navgaton'' illustrated By
December % and January c-Holiday lectures.
January s@'Niarin. Engineering Professor c. C.
January bsssnins and
Lawton.
II a sufficient number Of members Join. IL Is tn
tended to have class for the study OF navigation.
under the tuition OF Captain Howard Patterson.
and the fee for the will he Sls each. Thosa
desiring to join this class may send their appica-
tions to the secrasaEy The further programmes for
evening entertainments 20 be given in February
and March will be announced In few days. The
following members OF other yacht clubs have been
put up for election:
DR.. C. W. Schwartz. Gin Haven Yacht Clus.
D. FIntEnstonf Nsw-Roehele Yacht club,
2 g MyriGk Raodes Island Yacht club.
John Taylor Humphrey. IMassashgsetts Yacht CLUB,
simeon Ford. American Yacht Club.
THE CRAFT AND THOSE WHO SAIL THEM
DIR. Lewis A. stimson. OF New-York. has bought
the we'll known cruising schooner Fleur ds Lys
from Charles Smithers. OF the New-York Yacht
Club and the yacht Is now at the Mcintosh Basin
South Brooklyn
The wyckorrs. builders. OF Clinton. Conn. have.
begun work boats in the ons-desisn es-roos
class designed by Gardner & Cox Among those
who have put In their orders II. q. g. NobIs. Z.
OF this city: Robert d. Graham. Of Greenwich; Or.
J: NJ; Woodbury., OF the New-York Yacht Clubs J.
Nsw3York Different clubs will give special prizes
John L. Bliss. lately OF the Atlantic Yacht Clubs
Regatta Committee. gave highly instructive lsct-
ure about the mariners compass last Wednesday,
night at the Yachtsmen's Club. in West Forty
thlrd-sI.. and forty well known amateurs took al
oaRb 10 81 be- wbp sgrY e 20 SBe which
The Vanderbilt 7O-footer Rainbow was iaunehedi
on Friday at the Herreshor yards. and ths cast
ing Of the trial boat for the Cup defence will
aost snd is that ss
s5-ton foundation OF the craft win IN shape
to receive the keel plate in Christmas week
Frank L. Perine. OF the New-York Yacht c1uo,
is fitting the big steam yacht Enterprise eor .
cruise to South America The yacht Is having TIA
work done her at the Curtis Bay station OF thu
Baltimore Yacht Club. The Enterprise Is q hrigAn-
tine with auxiliary power, and Is 5s feet long
Of "a feet inches and dTsugRt Of IA FEET snohss
This fine ocean cruiser was built at Ieith, Scotland,
by Ramase Ferguson
The thanks Of The Tribune are extended TO T. "
S. eddie. the secretary OF the Nsw-York Yacht
Club. for assisting in the compilation OF the records
of the for the Goeet and Aston cups from che
club books. In order that the might appear IN
The Tribune Almanac and Record. now being pre-
pared This will show the results OF the sixteen
xstoT Cup Contests Down 10 da3s ans Mn the
found ssryiesaole to most amateurs snd 70 all
ord has been made for many years.
Captain White has the steam yacht Sagamors
at the PoillOn yards. South Brooklyn. where shs
is being repanked. This large three master which
was recently sold by John H. Hanan. Of the New
phia will also receive other repairs befors being
PUT Into commission.
The following officers have been elected for thu
ensuing year in the Harlem Yacht Club: Cornnc-
dore. Lorenz Zeller; vice-commodore William a.
Ringier; rear-commodore. Christopher Branock:
recording secretary. James r. Proctor; financial
secretary, s l. schlder: treasurer. John Moorins:
~ Wilson; directors r. 81 Batss al III En S5sorge
F, G. sulliyan and j. swimmers: Membership Com.
On the design OF Cary Smith & Barley new
cruising raceabout is under construction AT ths
Robert Jacob yards. City Island, for E. H Wealth
erbee. The dimensions are a. feet inches over an
IS feet waterline. II feet beam and feet draught
She win be a centre6oard boat with the usual jih
for cruising at this end Of the Sound.
The steam yacht Priscilla formerly the Aouno,
recently purchased by S. NJ Jarvis of this city Is
reported at Havana. with the owner and party or
board. she left South Brooklyn tor the south on
November IS
For the defence trial races TO be held at Chi
next spring and &c meet the Royal Canadian
Yacht Club challenger. Benjamin Carpenter the
secretary OF the Inland Lake Yachting Association
has ordered 35-foot raeipg length craft to be de-
signed by r. 3. Crowninshield. OF Boston, the de-
signer of Mr.. Lawson's Americas Cup defender
Everything except the sails will be made IN Boston
and the boat will be built the Lawiey Yards
She will be keel boat of moderate draught, on a.
to the grth rule now IN force the Great Lakes.
and she will he double panked with naho sany
with something over two tons OF lead on her in
and an over an length Of about 50 feet IIsr ris
will be just like that the raceabout Jolly Roger
with similar design OF hull