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THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTINC 15 son; Adda (17), Mr. J. Rogers; Lancet (20), Mr. G. B. Rollins. These, then, were the men, and their yachts with which the New York Yacht Club went into business in 1845. The only yachts timed at the finish were the Cygnet, which won, in t;h. 23m. 15s., the Sybil, coming second, in $h. 25m. 25s.; and the Gimcrack, in 5L 30m. 30s. The prize was as good a cup as could be purchased with the entrance money, which was, I think, $25 for each yacht. Schooners and sloops were classed together, and there was no allowance for difference of rig. The schooner had no foretopmast, and of course that stick-breaking sail, the jib topsail, was unknown, as was also the club topsail. These were later inventions. In fact I doubt whether the schooners sported such a thing as a staysail on this occasion. The sloop had a short bowsprit and short topmast and no jib-boom. The regatta was a great event, and was witnessed by thousands of people, all New York, who could get there, being on the water. Now-a-days an ordinary club regatta attracts few besides club members, and old yachtsmen shake their heads gloomily, and lament the decadence of American yachting, saying that all interest in the sport is dying out; but in point of fact, there was never as much interest as at present ; only now it is diffused, then it was concentrated. In those early years of American yachting, the regatta day, or days, of the New York Yacht Club were almost general holidays among the men of large business, brokers and jobbers ; and every craft that could float, from the skiff to the large excursion steamer, was brought into requisition for spectators. Before the next summer arrived, the club had built itself a house at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken ; and for more than twenty years the start and finish of its races were off thh place, thousands of MR. J. f. STEVENS' "GIMCRACK."
Title | Yachts and yachting |
Creator | Cozzens, Frederic Schiller |
Publisher | Cassell & Co. |
Place of Publication | New York |
Date | [c1887] |
Language | eng |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Title | 00000013 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTINC 15 son; Adda (17), Mr. J. Rogers; Lancet (20), Mr. G. B. Rollins. These, then, were the men, and their yachts with which the New York Yacht Club went into business in 1845. The only yachts timed at the finish were the Cygnet, which won, in t;h. 23m. 15s., the Sybil, coming second, in $h. 25m. 25s.; and the Gimcrack, in 5L 30m. 30s. The prize was as good a cup as could be purchased with the entrance money, which was, I think, $25 for each yacht. Schooners and sloops were classed together, and there was no allowance for difference of rig. The schooner had no foretopmast, and of course that stick-breaking sail, the jib topsail, was unknown, as was also the club topsail. These were later inventions. In fact I doubt whether the schooners sported such a thing as a staysail on this occasion. The sloop had a short bowsprit and short topmast and no jib-boom. The regatta was a great event, and was witnessed by thousands of people, all New York, who could get there, being on the water. Now-a-days an ordinary club regatta attracts few besides club members, and old yachtsmen shake their heads gloomily, and lament the decadence of American yachting, saying that all interest in the sport is dying out; but in point of fact, there was never as much interest as at present ; only now it is diffused, then it was concentrated. In those early years of American yachting, the regatta day, or days, of the New York Yacht Club were almost general holidays among the men of large business, brokers and jobbers ; and every craft that could float, from the skiff to the large excursion steamer, was brought into requisition for spectators. Before the next summer arrived, the club had built itself a house at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken ; and for more than twenty years the start and finish of its races were off thh place, thousands of MR. J. f. STEVENS' "GIMCRACK." |
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