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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
Title | Yachts and yachting |
Creator | Cozzens, Frederic Schiller |
Publisher | Cassell & Co. |
Place of Publication | New York |
Date | [c1887] |
Language | eng |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Title | 00000049 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | 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 |
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