Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . ched (de-pendent, of course, somewhat on the modelof the vessel), the resistance and slip bal-ance the power employed, and no furtherincrease can be obtained. Our Americanyachts make better time, as a rule, thanthose of England, the latter seldom attain-ing a greater speed than lo knots, whileour larger class make from 12^ to 17. TheAtalanta can steam 17 knots, the Corsairand Stranger 15, and a number of others14, thus showing either that our models are the center of the boat, working in an air-tight iron box, into which air w
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . ched (de-pendent, of course, somewhat on the modelof the vessel), the resistance and slip bal-ance the power employed, and no furtherincrease can be obtained. Our Americanyachts make better time, as a rule, thanthose of England, the latter seldom attain-ing a greater speed than lo knots, whileour larger class make from 12^ to 17. TheAtalanta can steam 17 knots, the Corsairand Stranger 15, and a number of others14, thus showing either that our models are the center of the boat, working in an air-tight iron box, into which air was forced,for the purpose of keeping the water invention proved a failure, and thenit was that Mr. Aspinwall altered this boatby putting on her side-wheels with feather-ing buckets, and an oscillating engine, andthus produced, so far as there is any record,the first steam yacht in New York har-bor, and probably the first in America. Shewas named the Fire-Fly, and he used tocome up in her quite frequently to his bus-iness in New York from his country-seat. y^^^^^^% PASTIME, OWNED BY E. C. WALKER, OF DETROIT, MICH. better, or that we use engines of greaterpower. I will now give a sketch of the rise andprogress of steam yachting in this country,and in doing so, I tender my acknowledg-ments to the Rev. John A. Aspinwall andMr. Jacob Lorillard for much valuable in-formation which they have kindly furnished. About thirty-three years ago, Mr. WilliamH. x\spinwall, of New York, the Presidentof the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,built a steam-boat 50 or 60 feet long, inorder to try an experiment with a wheel,which a Frenchman had invented, andwhich it was thought would be a consisted of a single paddle-wheel, in on Staten Island, and take pleasure-tripsdown the bay and sound. Her captain wasnamed, Dayton, and her engineer, JohnArmstrong. Her speed was from nine toten miles an hour. This boat was afterwards bought by theGovernment, and went south at the begin-ning
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