SHIPPING.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 185, 17 January 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF PAT FA. 111< ii i WAIT 11. This Day—ll..to a.m.. p.m. Thai-Gay - !C. ti a.m,. 12.Ul p.m. Friday —12.:>7 a.m., 12,52 p.m. * mnVKD. January lit.—Qiyde. s.s.. < til .bon*, from Wangan li, wilh I<< Dus of general cargo. J. JI hot, agent. A i:,K I). January 12. (Tyde, s.s., (Jibbons, for AVamr'oiui. January 15. —Tay. cutler, for Abmukau. .January 15.—Dante, cutter. Jor 'Aaoara. The !ar-.ro<t cargo of wool li;af lias ever been shipped in one ve-ocl from this port, vrai Ilia*, nlaccd on board the Clyde, on Pa' t.tl'.lay last. Bhe look no ie- : '.hen ho bales oi' v.oui and two tun-i of bacon, n: addition to The cut lei’s Dante and 'Fay made a succe ;-f;d exit from die river on Monday In T. < ,ieh having a leading wind, though bound to di lie re nl desiinaiion The Dlcde, s.-.. is expected on Thursday from Wanganui, and lias the promise ol a Jair re! urn cargo. The Jane Fikin i ; expected daily, wirh a cargo of lin i i .er fur Air Alilroy. Irom I’elorns D kind. The Agnes, ketch. D abo expected from Waitnpu. wilh timber. con-Jgued !o Air Win. Hale. An A uckland contemporary says : —Apropos of yacht sailing, a few words about the fastest craft, now alloat will interest nautical men. The fastest yacht alloat at the present time is the Ocean Queen, winch was constructed be a shipbuilder at I ’embay. With everything in her favour she can make 20 knots an hour. The masts of the Ocean Queen rake heavilv forward, and she may bo termed kelch-rigged. as her largest sail is. lorward. She only carries two sails, and they much resemble tho-e triangular sails carried by island canoes. Unlike most yachts, her (gresle J draught of water is forward, and };cr smallest amidships, so that her keel is of concave shape, or quite (he opposite of the Sydney yacht Xarifa. Next to (he Ocean Queen comes (he American yacht Amaryllis, which is built on the catamaran principle, and which lately defeated all the crack centreboard and keel yachts of America, ihat perhaps the Amaryllis, being of such extraordinary build, should not rank with, ordinary yachts, being not a vessel, but a mere sailing machine. Far different from these was the celebrated yacht America, built for ocean nailing, and which won her laurels iu 1851. Afoslcru shipbuilders, with all the skill, have never yet improved upon her. Her masts rake heavily aft, and she drew nearly three times as much watci aft as forward. Perhaps some of our shipbuilders may be able to inform ns how two vc tscls built ami rigged on i nch opposite principles as the Ocean Queen and America, should both have such wonderful sailing qualities.