Identifier: ForeststreamXXIV (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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ood ordei. iat was liked so well last season m her new rig, that from the inquiries made I think others will make the change this season. B. THE COST OF SNEAKBOXES.-Mr. M. H. Bishop, the travelerand cruiser, to whoso exertions the A. 0. A. ow-es its iuceptiou audorganization, has found a new field of missionary labor among thesneakboxes of Barnegat. Mr, Bishop has gone to work with hisusual energy to stir up the local builders and induce them to im-prove tlie sneakbox as a cruising boat, fie writes in regard toprices: t have not seen a w-ell built 12ft. box on these bays thatcan be bougut for less than $15 to 850, and I should add in improve-ments at least §20 to lit them for cruising. Socond-hand boats, 12ft.long, can be bought for £35, aud even less. We have cheap boxeswhich would run under a head sea, yet the best box is a true climber,always sliding upward. A 16ft. box, of bes, construction, will cost,■yyben completely fitted, about ?jil25, Jan. 29, 1835 1 FOREST AND STREAM. m
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DCUCO 5 oco h< o 03 z UJ a.o a.o 2 < < CO 16 FOREST AND STREAM, (Jan. 29, 1885. AWAKE AT LAST, SINCE the speed of the cutter has been proved beyond question,the opponents of the type have fallen back on the other details ofsafety, accommodation and sea-going powers, admitting their speed,hut deriding them as racing machines aad not yachts. For a longtime the Forest and Stream has stood alone in combating suchideas, which were only too readily accepted in this eonmry, supported, as they were, almost unanimously by other journal*. As fast as our yachtsmen have become better acquainted with thereal qualities of the boats, their ideas have changed, until many areready to recognize the cutter as a bona fide cruiser as well as racer.The daily press, however, has held out for a long time against thisview, but at last even they have begun to weaken, and now we arcglad to welcome the first to flop over entirely, the New York Herald.which discourses as follows of the latest English yac

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