Editorial comment for this plate:

OUR YACHT PICTURE.

WE take pleasure in presenting our readers this week with a picture by H. G. Peabody, the well known instantaneous photographer, of Boston. It is one from his famous collection of yacht pictures which have won for him so many awards and so much praise. The “Gossoon,” which he here depicts, is one of the later yachts, and has already made a remarkable career. It was illustrated in the second series of Mr. Peabody’s notable collection of yacht pictures, “reviewed in these columns several months ago, and this picture, reproduced by the Heliotype Printing Co, of Boston, in all but size, is a specimen of the work contained in that important collection of yacht pictures. In Mr. Peabody’s collection the pictures are much larger than this, and appropriate letterpress by an authority, descriptive of the various yachts, accompanies each number. For the excellence of the photography manifested in the negative, and the exquisite beauty of the reproduction, we consider this picture as one of, if not the very finest illustration yet brought out in THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES, notable as it has been on two continents for its high grade illustrations.

Background on the Gossoon from the Naval Marine Archive: The Canadian Collection:

Gossoon, 1890

An Edward Burgess design

Designed by Edward Burgess and built by George Lawley & Son, South Boston, Mass., in 1890 for Charles F. Adams, 2nd, and George C. Adams. Length overall, 53 feet; length on waterline, 40 feet; beam, 12 feet; depth, 8 feet 10 inches; draft, 9 feet. Gossoon was the last of the 40-foot class built to beat Minerva; at the end of the season of 1890 each had won five races with a question of measurement in one race never decided.

• Length overall, 53 feet 0 inches
• Waterline length, 39 feet 10 inches
• Beam, 12 feet 0 inches;
• Depth, 8 feet 10 inches
• Draft. 9 feet 0 inches