The Model Yachtsman and Canoeist: Volume 8, Issue 5 – May 1891

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Editorial Notes
Editorial commentary on new club formations, inter‑club cooperation, regional developments, and policy trends in model yachting and canoeing.

Model Yacht Construction
Discussion of hull forms, dimensions, materials, and emerging design practices for competitive model yachts.

Fitting and Rigging
Coverage of sail plans, spars, steering gear, ballast arrangements, and practical improvements to fittings.

Model Yacht Sailing and Racing
Detailed accounts of matches, heats, weather conditions, tactics, and seasonal openings for model yacht racing.

Design Competitions
Announcement and discussion of a proposed 15‑rating design competition, including rules, prizes, and subscription support.

Doings of the Clubs
Extensive reports from local and regional model yacht clubs describing races, meetings, prizes, and club administration.

Inter‑Club Matches and Challenge Cups
Coverage of inter‑club racing, including major challenge trophies and regional competitions.

Model Yacht Performance
Observations on speed, handling, weatherliness, and comparative performance of different designs and classes.

Correspondence
Letters from readers debating design theory, racing practice, club relations, and measurement methods.

Yachting Items (Full‑Size Yachts)
Notes on contemporary full‑size yacht racing, ownership changes, new launches, and international competition.

Model Steamers
Reports of model steam yacht races, machinery performance, and competitive results.

Canoeing News
Editorial commentary on canoeing trends, rigs, seasonal conditions, and the growth of canoe‑yawl sailing.

Canoe Club Racing and Regattas
Reports of canoe and canoe‑yawl races, championships, and organized regattas.

Cruising and Camping Accounts
First‑person narratives of canoe cruises and coastal or river voyages, including weather and navigation experiences.

Canoe Design and Fittings
Discussion of canoe hull forms, sail arrangements, storm sails, steering systems, and structural considerations.

Public Access and Boating Rights
Coverage of disputes and campaigns relating to public rights of access to waters used for sailing and canoeing.

British Canoe Association Affairs
Notices and commentary concerning B.C.A. meetings, cruises, competitions, and organizational matters.

Model Yacht Club Register
A directory of model yacht clubs with locations, rules, sailing waters, and officers’ contact details.

Exchange and Sale
Notices advertising the sale or exchange of model yachts, canoes, and related equipment.

Advertisements
Commercial advertisements for boats, sails, fittings, designers, books, tools, and sporting publications.

be belayed at the cleat is passed to the end. Being knotted it cannot get away, and you always know where to put your hand on each of your ropes. Up to the present time I have always used brass jam cleats, but this season I am going to see if oak will not be better. “The cleat shown April Supplement. is similar to No. 7 shown in the THE CANOE “SEVERN.” This canoe, of which we this month give the lines, was designed in 1889, by Mr. Walter Stewart, of the ‘‘ Charm,” as a fast cruiser. She was intende d to carry a ‘crew’ of to or 11 stones weight and 8olbs. of duffle. In her first cruise from Oxford to London she carried two men and their camping gear, sailing with 75ft. cruising rig. Mr. Holding, her late owner, writes of her—“She was raced at “most of the R.C.C. fixtures in the year 89. ‘Though a fast boat, her performances on Hendon “Lake were not marked by success. She is not ‘and can never be a good boat to windward, but “in running I know nothing faster. In sailing ‘with a beam wind she was amongst the fastest, “but as most of the racing that season was a dead “beat up and a run down this placed her at a 98 _ THE MODEL-YACHTSMAN AND CANOKEIST. “disadvantage. At the R. C. C. regatta she entered “in four races, taking one first and three second across the masts, and then, in the dark, went ashore across two other craft to prospect for a “orizes, kipper. Again at the regatta last year she “com peted in three events, taking one first prize. “The boat’s sensitiveness under way was remark“able, whilst in coming about it was rarely “necessary to put the rudder over as she spun “round directly the tiller was let go. It isan “open question whether sails abaft the mast or “lugsails are best for boats of this peculiar model. “In competing with the sailing gigs of the ‘Ranelagh Sailing Club in two races where we “chiefly had a beam wind she took a prize in the “first race, failing in the next by only six seconds “‘thro’ being detained nearly two minutes by a “foul caused by the bowsprit of the following boat “hooking into the reef lines of the Severn’s mizen. ‘The weight of the hull is 120lbs., centreplate 30 ibs., drop-rudder 7lbs. She has also a light centre plate for cruising, weighing 8lbs. ‘This season the “Severn” is owned by Mr. G. E Webster, and under the name of “Stella” willbe raced at Hendon under lug-sails—so that the question of abaft-the- mast sails versus lug-sails is likely to be brought nearer to a practical solution, TABLE ££ 2 OF 8 OFFSETS 4 Freeboard…92 72 68 6 Draught ..8 5 od 6 4-bdth Deck8$ 124 142 15 , ~~»: BE 194 144 15 8…72 » ” 4,..54 ” 5..0 Sec. Areas.16.5 12 142 104 183 5£ 94 61 92.5 152 15 11f 108 86 6 7 8 65 74 84 52 4 3 148138410 10% 0 14 15 132 10 142 128 84 10 68 0 100 74.5 24 3 0 0 142 138 102 0 0 Stations spaced 223:n apart ” ,, 3in Waterlines ,, Buttocklines ,, 32in Overhang, forward lin, aft lin Displacement, 380lbs LINES FROM A _ 17-FOOTER. August 14th. Blyth, 10-30 p.m. Left Cullercoats, with close reefed mainsail only, at 6.15 p.m. Wind W, and brisk, sea flat, with long, low roll from northward. Not so much wind as I imagined, so almost at once spread whole mizen, and spanked along delightfully. But the wind lost strength all the way, and was quite mild when I got near to Blyth. I had to lie pretty near the wind, and had the flood tide against me throughout—and it runs south here at near three knots an hour—nevertheless I did the measured mile in seventeen minutes, I am satisfied that she is a fast boat. She behaved very well indeed. I got to Blyth at 7.55, just at the top of the tide. Found a berth alongside a small steam yacht, to which Iam moored head and stern. I stowed the sails, and lashed main spars Returning, I put up tent and lit lamp. ‘The tent is simply capital. It fits first go off, and the ties, substituted for the proposed buttons on deck, The tent up, I are most successful. teil commenced the first fry of the cruise, and managed to cook the kipper to perfection. This over, I made some tea and “ washed it down” with bread and butter. Now I am writing to you and splicing the main brace, and you will get this, I hope, to-morrow afternoon, The cabin looks really jolly from here. It would make chortle. The lockers are shut up; the water keg stands beside me on the other side the centreboard; storm sail, mop, top boots, &c., occupy the same side; anchors and cables stuff the forehold ; a blanket covers my legs as | half lie on the air bags, and the famous lamp hangs overhead. The bows of a big steamer overshadow me within biscuit throw, and all is perfectly still, so I shall turn in almost immediately, My face is already smarting with salt (and dirt perhaps, for you cannot use soap in salt water), and I am as warm asa toast, and expect to sleep well the first night. There was a fine red sunset and things promise well for to-morrow. August 16th. Newbiggin. My history since To begin exactly where I left offI had wot a good night, in spite of my prophesy. The steamer I spoke of had holed herself against a dredger very shortly before I came into the river, and shipplaters were at work through the night—hammer, hammer, hammer—to get her ready for next evening’s tide, when her cargo of coal would be on board. I was also the outside boat of the tier, and every vessel that went in or out, though moving slowly, made waves that sent me bump against the steam yacht. However, I did sleep until four a.m., and then watched the platers at work. I never in my life saw a man work so hard as the fellow who was chiefly engaged. ‘There he was, on a couple of planks slung over the side, with a blazing oil lamp by him, pegging away magnificently. He quite raised my opinion of the working classes. His whole heart and body seemed to be centred at his hammer he d. So it was some time before six o’clock that I was up, and went first for a dip inthe sea. The sunrise (I watched both dawn and sunrise) was pink, which did not promise well; nevertheless the day turned out to be very fine and warm. I breakfasted, perforce, before an admiring crowd, but was “ Hail fellow, well met” with everyone, especially a young seaman who was disposed to chum, and so I got on all right. By eight o’clock last letter has been on the whole uneventful. THE MODEL-YACHTSMAN I had breakfasted an hour, and had cleaned and stowed everything and swabbed the vessel, and was wandering disconsolate in search of a wash / An early barber supplied both wash and shave, for I could not find anything which pretended to be better than a public-house. There was no hurry, so I only started at a.m. 10.15 Plenty of wind, butI spread an oiley over my legs and pegged at it. The tide was running south hard, and the wind N.N.E, so that it was a close haul, and I went very slowly, and she was a bit wet. Perhaps if I had kept her a little fuller, and made a board or two she would have gone as fast and been dryer. However, it was not altogether too rough, and I at last reached New- biggin at 12, noon. This was very slow work, and the wind had increased too, and a big swell had set in from the north; so much so that, when I came to double Newbiggin point, I found a sea that I thought it prudent not to face, and so ran down into the quiet bay, at any rate to see if the wind and sea would go down. Decided to remain. Later took and. for a sail, and the wind had failen so much that I determined to go on. Put them ashore and started afresh. But the wind was now /vo light, taken with tide which was again running south, and I got on so slowly that it was evident I could get no further than Creswell, which is such an entirely exposed place that I turned back, and again slept here. A peep from my window next morning showed me no better weather, and a stroll to the point after breakfast discovered a very heavy sea to northward, quite impossible for my boat. Lucky I came back. I don’t know what the boatie would have done if she had been anywhere at Creswell except high up on the beach. AND CANOEIST. 99 point of view, you would never imagine how rough it was north of the point. So yesterday, again, I indulged in “ Ryder Haggard” and explored the golf links, and generally loafed—including in that word a rummage in the sandy old church yard at the end of the point, which you can see so well on a clear day from the Tynemouth Cliffs, and a long “crack” with my fisherman friend. Poor chap! He told me to-night that he had made 5s. this week! The fishing for the past twelve months has been awful. He is a big, strong, honest sort of fellow, with a wife and five children —sturdy withal—he would not take a shilling that he was to have earned, but did not owing to a change of plan on my part, just decause he had not earned it. Then I went off and practised gybing in the strong wind round and round the bay. Evening at as before. This morning I got up late and went to the point. Wind much softer, but a long roll still running in from the north. Went off with for asail in the bay, and to taste the sea outside. Wind N.E. light, tide setting northward. So, after a long sail with little who picked things up remarkably smartly, and turned the boat about the bay very knowingly, I once again shipped everything, and set out northward at 4.15. Again a failure. I had to make a long board E. and then point north. It was a pinch, the wind fell as the evening advanced; got about two miles in an hour and a half; tide turned south; not the remotest chance of fetching the Coquet; turned bick, and reached anchorage at 8 p.m. N.N.W. breeze blowing now, 10.30. Gentle Hope for Monday. So I went on board in the bay with papers and book, and just lazied and talked with visitors and spied passing vessels, and gossipped with the crew ofa coble which ran alongside. Then up sail, and turned about the bay, which is entirely sheltered from a northerly sea. These diversions ran out the day to half-past four,and I am off, after posting this, for a good constitutional on the Links before dinner. Thisis not getting on, but it is jolly enough and a real holiday. ‘The fishermen say I may be held two or three days. August 18th. Newbiggin stil! To resume. Yesterday morning showed no improvement. In fact it was worse, for the big 40 and 50 foot “‘ Keel boats,” which were starting for the herring as I took my constitutional the night before, were all back in the bay by ten o’clock the same evening. The sea was very rough to the northward, and ha’f a gale blowing. The long point here, and the rocks which run a long way out from it completely protect this bay from anything from the N. or N.E. or indeed almost E., and leave a large space of flat water. Looking at the weather from the bay Gxchoune & Sale Column, For SALe. 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