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Identifier: ForeststreamXXVIA (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
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ely The boom will be lengthened, and also the gaff and bowsprit,wbilethe mast will be cut down, preserving about the same sail area, BROOKLYN Y. C—A meeting of this club was held last week, atwhich the date of the annual regatta was fixed for June 12. Thecommittee on the location of a club house recommended a site onwhat is known as the Widows Hole. Though the anchorage is indeep water, it can only be reached by passing over a bar tbat wouldexclude the larger boats of the club and admit only the shoal ones.The selection of s».cb a site as this is not likely to help the club toregain its old position. SOUTHERN Y. C. - At the aDnual meeting on April 1, the followingofficers were elected: Emile J. OBrien, Commodore; AlexanderBrewster, Vice-Commodore; Joe Marencovicb, Esq., Rear Commo-dore; J, B. McConnell. Esq,, Treasurer; H. B. Hopkins. Secretary.House Committee: Frank M. Hall. Chairman; M S. Bnngier, Win.Walsh, Blaine Jamison, P. 13. Canfield. April 8, 1886.) FOREST AND STREAM. £i5
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AMERICAN CENTER BOARD SLOOP ATLANTIC. (From a Photograph by Miller.J THE COLLAPSE OF THE CUTTER BOOM. SOME wicked person has evidently imposed successfully on thecredulity of the London Field and has magnified a petty differ-ence in a yacht club into a general uprising of the leading Americanclubs against the cutter men and a complete extinction of the typein America. Under the title of Topics of Interest. the Field ofMarch 20 speaks as follows anent the present status of sloops and cut-ters in America. ■ The centerboard type of yacht is jus: now excitinga greatdeal of justifiable admiration in America. A year or two agowas some chance that the type would succumb under the advocacythere and introduction of the British type of yacht in Ameriea. Butwe saw all along that this was not likely to be the case, and predictedexactly what would happen in the way of a compromise. Well, theundoubted success of the Puritan has stifled the ^cutter boom.and the British type of yacht will have a st

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