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to have you rectify the error. The time, which elapsed
between the passing of the home stake boat by the Columbia .and the Madeleine is incorrectly given, being
3m. 135^ instead of im. 13s. The time was obtained
from your own appointed time-keeper. Unquestionably, to my mind, Commodore Voorhis must be fully
■aware of the actual difference in the time of arrival of
our respective boats, as on an occasion like this every
yacht owner knows the time of his passing the home
stake-boat. I am prepared to furnish you with full
proof to substantiate my claim of having fairly
■beaten the Madeleine.
June 28, 1871.
Two or three times, summer residents at
Cape May have induced the New York
yachtsmen to come down there and sail a
race, and the first time that this occurred
was in this season of 1871. Attracted by
the offer of two $1,000 cups, one for
schooners and one for sloops, open to any
yacht-club in the world, several of the
schooners of the New York club and
sloops of that and other clubs went down.
They found a miserable harbor, very difficult of entrance, and an open roadstead
with poor anchorage outside; and came
home vowing that nothing should tempt
them there again.
These were the yachts which went
down. Schooners: Sappho, Dauntless, Ra7nbler, Alarm, Wanderer,
Columbia, Palmer, Madeleine, Tidal
Wave, Madgie, Eva and Sunshine. Sloops : Gracie and
Vindex, of the New York, and
39^6 miles. If the affair was remarkable
for anything, it was for the sailing of the
schooner Wanderer on the passage down.
In a nice working breeze dead ahead, she
beat the Sappho and Dauntless
handsomely. In an all day beat,
the breeze steady, she led the
Dauntless about an hour and
the Sappho over an hour
and a quarter. And she
has never sailed remarkably well since. Captain''Bob "Fish was
on board of her
on this occasion,
and said on
arrival at
Cape May,
Daphne of the Atlantic club. The race
was sailed July 4, from a point off the
hotels at Cape May, to and around the
Five Fathom Light-ship ; thence five miles
northeast to a stake-boat, and back to
the place of departure, a total distance of
that he could make her do better. He got
permission to alter her trim, and did so,
and the next day, in the race, she was
nowhere.
The Sappho was bound up too tight.
Next day, the lanyards of her rigging were
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING.
5*
to have you rectify the error. The time, which elapsed
between the passing of the home stake boat by the Columbia .and the Madeleine is incorrectly given, being
3m. 135^ instead of im. 13s. The time was obtained
from your own appointed time-keeper. Unquestionably, to my mind, Commodore Voorhis must be fully
■aware of the actual difference in the time of arrival of
our respective boats, as on an occasion like this every
yacht owner knows the time of his passing the home
stake-boat. I am prepared to furnish you with full
proof to substantiate my claim of having fairly
■beaten the Madeleine.
June 28, 1871.
Two or three times, summer residents at
Cape May have induced the New York
yachtsmen to come down there and sail a
race, and the first time that this occurred
was in this season of 1871. Attracted by
the offer of two $1,000 cups, one for
schooners and one for sloops, open to any
yacht-club in the world, several of the
schooners of the New York club and
sloops of that and other clubs went down.
They found a miserable harbor, very difficult of entrance, and an open roadstead
with poor anchorage outside; and came
home vowing that nothing should tempt
them there again.
These were the yachts which went
down. Schooners: Sappho, Dauntless, Ra7nbler, Alarm, Wanderer,
Columbia, Palmer, Madeleine, Tidal
Wave, Madgie, Eva and Sunshine. Sloops : Gracie and
Vindex, of the New York, and
39^6 miles. If the affair was remarkable
for anything, it was for the sailing of the
schooner Wanderer on the passage down.
In a nice working breeze dead ahead, she
beat the Sappho and Dauntless
handsomely. In an all day beat,
the breeze steady, she led the
Dauntless about an hour and
the Sappho over an hour
and a quarter. And she
has never sailed remarkably well since. Captain''Bob "Fish was
on board of her
on this occasion,
and said on
arrival at
Cape May,
Daphne of the Atlantic club. The race
was sailed July 4, from a point off the
hotels at Cape May, to and around the
Five Fathom Light-ship ; thence five miles
northeast to a stake-boat, and back to
the place of departure, a total distance of
that he could make her do better. He got
permission to alter her trim, and did so,
and the next day, in the race, she was
nowhere.
The Sappho was bound up too tight.
Next day, the lanyards of her rigging were
