YACHTING
A yawl erusier, builb for E. 0. Werner of tho San Francisco Yacht Club, has been (at< Wilmington, U.S) launched here. The vessel is only thirty feet over all and nine feet beam, but it is thought she will be safer in a gale than a great vessel, because she can be neither capized or sunk. She will be ballasted with water. Alone the bottom and abaft the mast to the centre of tho cockpit, on each side of the kel&on, there ai-e six waterballasting chambers. The midship chamber is two feet nine inches long, three feefc nine inches wide from kelson to bilge, and thirteen inches deep at kelson, the bottoai taking the bevel of the timbers and tapering with the top to one and a half inches at the bilge, whence it rises some ten inches and spreads to eight inches again to form a section of the chambers confining air that acts, as a cushion for the water. The other ballasting-chambers become gradually smaller, fore and aft, in accordance with the shape of the bottom of the vessel. All receive the water immediately upon the launching of the vessel through twelve holes in tho bottom. A pipe and valve connection permits sufficient air to allow the water to reach the line along the bilge. There it is checked by the remainder of the air in the upward crook of the chambers extending above the water-line. When the boat careens the direct pressure of the sea thi-ough the holes in her bottom and ballastchambers against the air-cushions above the bilge-line and the weight of the ballastwater on the windward side pull the vessel , back to her equilibriuai. These agencies overcome the possibilities of capsizing. To prevent sinking an air-chamber is inserted in the bow, one in the stern, one in the oveihang of the stern, and a few above the berths. The owner intends taking the yacht down the coast and round to San Francisco. The owner will make the trip to San Francisco alone. Several vessels are being built on the new idea.
How considerate! — Cook : "Please, mum, you needn't pull the bell ten times when you wanti me ; I can hear when you've rung three times."
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 281, 14 July 1888, Page 5
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371YACHTING Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 281, 14 July 1888, Page 5
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