New-York tribune., 1900-05-06
THE CRAFT AND THOSE WHO SAIL THEM


of the Atlantic Yacht Club. DR.. Robert Millhank
has been appointed fleet surgeon
THE CRAFT AND THOSE WHO SAIL THEM
The name of Euida was given yesterday to the
new keel yawl designed by Clinton Crane for a. r,
Riggs. The owner and some friends attended the
launching of the shapelv cruiser at the Piepsras
yards. City Island. over a &-foot waterllne she
has a deck length OF = feet inches, her beam is
Il feat and her dragght Of water something over c
pounds of lead and is secured by ten Tobin bronze
Whe tbefe fr rc Is ona tor four The
sci is copper fastened throughout, with outside
panking of l1stnch yellow pine and decks OF whlte
pine She has water tanks. refrigerator. filter and
hogany: Althoush the Ellida Is a much smaller
craft than tAe cruising schooners Endymion and
vessels lately designed by Mr., Crane. Under her
yawl rig she will make an easy and fast cruiser
The name Virginia has been given to the one-de-
sign 7o-foot waterline cutter being finished the
Herreshof yards for w. X. Vanderbilt, jr., and
the name Rainbow to the second of the feet
1 THfh his TaS Sande by n The hr
vessel is Vice-Commodore August Belmonts Min
cola and the fourth To be taken by Harry Payne
Whitney. is yet unnamed
Captain Bob" Wringe has arrived at Bristol
from England 20 take command of the 7O-footer
Mneola for Mr.. Belmont He brought with him
English sailors make half the crew and in
tended have the other half American. but it
seems that the Deer Island boys object many
foreigners among the officers and men of the
seventies and have refused to take the offered
places This. it is said. will force Captain Wrinse
the whole crew which on each boat of the one-de
sign fleet is to number fifteen.
The steam yacht Marjorie will next cruise TO
Nova Scotia and northern coasts. and she is
being fitted at Manning's Basin. South Brook
q for II the yoyage The owner Mrs - wa! Van
Indian cruise in the Marj9rie which she bought
that time being named the Eugenia.
AT Larchmont it is expected that W. Gould
Brokaw. the owner of the racing seventy-foot
schooner Amorita will return from Europe by
August TO put the vessel through her races in
the New-York Yacht Club cruise and try again
for the Astor Cup for schooners. which she won
tfon is going on brsky SO that the @ odtjm
winner may be in better shape than ever this year
w Lighter en- her upper works s6qu one ton She
Joseph NJ Macdonough, of the New-York Yacht
Club, is about bring again the Fife designed
Jessica, 4i-foot waterlinc keel that sailed
against the Gloriana in 1891 She has not been
In commission for two years, and Frank Wood, OF
City Island: is fitting her out She will be launched
in a few days.
Captain Sycamore who second in command
of the Valkyrie III at New-York. will bring over
entire English when he comes 10 take
command Of Cornelius Vanderbilt's seventy-foot
Rainbow After being hauled out last week fer
in place at Bristol '''
The sloop yacht Ziguener which was lately sold
by Max Agassiz. of the New-York Yacht Club Is
being fitted out by her new owner Mr. Lowering IN
be taken to New Bedford.
At the Nixon yards EIizabethport y. j.. the steel
auxiliary schooner being built for James Siblev
Watson. of the New-York Yacht Club is being
fastened toward completion. Cary Smith who has
turned out the designs of so many cruisers for
American yachtsmen, says that this vessel will be
better than the Yampa. the Lasca. the IroquoIs
aud others of his good ships and true" The sail
she viii be essentially sailing vessel as her
bring her through Gains or light head winds When
under sail her propeller blades fold back. so as
fore foot Than same the modern racers when
w Prpoa9T De sc m in of shore heavy
so Will the interior ornamentation Of the owners
uTe IL e e over 'an m ia 6 feet he on tS W &
- feet beam. and 10 feet inches draught
TO go 10 Gibraltar to take on board a fnkeel ma
hogsny half-rater which has just been built for
Mrs. Goele,'s son. Robert Goelet by the HERES
h0tfs np'ao This craft wa. lsunehed last week a,
to Gibraltar by steamer: the intention being 10
Mishe-Nahma. ~
The Gardiner & Cox design that was built by
Frank Wood in 1898 for John d. Parker OF
Boston and named the Saunterer is now at Mar
blehead being prepared cor her passage TO New.
SEsw-Y0rk ard H. LarGhm2n Yacht clubs having
siand Yards at the same time that the epoch
Parkers brother Howard
Members OF the St Regis Yacht Club, which is
row entering it's third year OF existence have or
q ola II mr. hII for