Identifier: ForeststreamXXIIA (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.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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procure. The writer of this no doubt deemed it extremeiy improbable thatthe North Sea vessels and our own fishing schooners would meet asthey did at Iceland this year, under conditions to try their relativemerits—^in part at least. The former bein,g very lightly ilgged, andcarrying only about two-thirds as much cau\osas the Gloucestervessels, cannot, of couise, be eipoeted to be so f.ist as the latter arein light winds. But I was told by Caprahi reudleion. of the schoonerAlice M. Wfiliams, that on the day lie lefi Iceland he encountered aheavy wiud and sua, that rendei.-! ■ r> for hiru to heave to under a double reefed foresail. . hove to he was jiassed by an English smack, going Laidy under a single reefed mainsail and a whole jl^ . ...r,..^..:!, and inakiug an esti-mated speed of about eleven knots per hour.. At the sametime, says Captain Pendleton, she was so dry that a por-tion of her pyew were on deck without any oil elotnes on. Com- Not. 13, 1884.) FOREST AND STREAM. S18
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BOAT FOR ROWING AND SAILING. ment is unnecessary. On one hand we have one of the finest ves-sels of our flsbins fleet lying to and drifting, while the other is justputting in her best work and demonstrating what she might do if oc-casion called for a greater exhibition of her power. It is fortunate, however, that through the intelligent action of afew individuals, who have been wiJUng to accept the logic of events,we are now in a fair way to have the gem of a fleet of deeuer vesselsin New England, and the settlement of the merits of this questionneed no longer depend on occasional or uncertain meetings of ourfishing schooners with the English smacks. The success that attendedthe ad vent of the Roulette in the mackerel fleet, and the splendidreputation she acquired, led Capt. Sylvester Whalen, of Boston, tohave a schooner built on an improved model. This vessel has recentlybeen launched, and is named the JuUa A. Whalen. She was also de-signed by Mr. Lawlor, though built in Essex, and d

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