wrote:
Hi everyone -
We need your help!

We just founded our new website: http://www.jsjohnston.org . It's a
collection of several hundred yacht photographs from the late 1880s and

1890s, as taken by photographer John S. Johnston of New York City. Take
a look and see what you think! We're adding more photos and information

almost every day!

There are quite a few Herreshoff vessels, America's Cup contenders,
NYYC members (and other NY, CT, and RI yacht clubs) and a wide variety
of interesting vessels, large and small, steam and sail. Johnston died
in 1899 after taking ill at the Columbia - Shamrock America's Cup race
of 1899.

We need your help identifying many of these racing yachts, however.
Some (the Herreshoff and America's Cup participants, for instance) are
fairly well documented. But many others are more obscure.

For instance, what was the Comanche?
http://www.jsjohnston.org/~comanche.html
Or the Katrina? http://www.jsjohnston.org/~katrina.html
Or this vessel? http://www.jsjohnston.org/~schooner.html

2 photographs by Johnston have appeared in
Yachting's Golden Age: 1880-1905 by Ed Holm (1999)
p. 129 (in the French edition I have) (crew aboard Puritan (1885))
p. 134 Mayflower (in dry dock)

A quick check in the index : re your present list,(at least) the
following have a picture and/or text in this book
Chispa
Colonia
Coronet
Emerald
Erin
Grayling
Lurline
Mischief
Valiant
Valkyrie III
Vamoose
Wase
....

BTW,I am glad I forked out (quite) a few $$ for this book : great
photographs, informative and (at times) intertaining text.