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THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 61 he charged me club with unsportsmanlike conduct, and the club at once ordered that the cups he had left to be sailed for should be returned to him, and that ended his connection with American yachting. From this time on, 3'achting events have been too numerous to mention them in detail, and I shall only refer to the most important. It was in this year that the Atlantic club began to come into prominence, with Mr. William Voorhis as its commodore, and the schooner Tidal Wave as its from- the fact that the flying start was adopted — the fairest way of starting yachts which has yet been tried — and it was also remarkable from the fact that in an exceptionally fine lot of schooners, the little Ianthe, the very slowest of the lot, beat all of them without allowance of time. When all except her had been out around the light-ship and were returning, they met her at the bar buoy going out. They all got becalmed in the bay, and with a strong flood drifted away to the westward, while the Ianthe, with a cracking breeze, went out to the light-ship and returned, and keeping in a little cat's-paw of wind, luffed over close to Coney Island Point, and went on up to the finish-line, distancing the lot. The Peerless took the schooner prize on allowance of time, and the winning sloops were the Gracie and Vixen, the prizes being four $250 cups. It was about this time that Mr. Lester Wallack, the actor, began to come into 86 flag-ship; and this year at its annual regatta it started three such schooners as the Tidal Wave, Resolute and Peerless, with ten sloops, those in the first class being the Gracie, Addie, Orion and Vixen. The regatta of the New York Yacht Club, this year, on June 20, was remarkable prominence as a patron of yachting, and he gave a cup for schooners, which was competed for June 24, 1872, the course being from off No. 5, at the point of Sandy Hook, to a stake boat close in to Long Branch, where Mr. Wallack had a cottage. There was a good entry, and the Madeleine
Title | Yachts and yachting |
Creator | Cozzens, Frederic Schiller |
Publisher | Cassell & Co. |
Place of Publication | New York |
Date | [c1887] |
Language | eng |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Title | 00000059 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 61 he charged me club with unsportsmanlike conduct, and the club at once ordered that the cups he had left to be sailed for should be returned to him, and that ended his connection with American yachting. From this time on, 3'achting events have been too numerous to mention them in detail, and I shall only refer to the most important. It was in this year that the Atlantic club began to come into prominence, with Mr. William Voorhis as its commodore, and the schooner Tidal Wave as its from- the fact that the flying start was adopted — the fairest way of starting yachts which has yet been tried — and it was also remarkable from the fact that in an exceptionally fine lot of schooners, the little Ianthe, the very slowest of the lot, beat all of them without allowance of time. When all except her had been out around the light-ship and were returning, they met her at the bar buoy going out. They all got becalmed in the bay, and with a strong flood drifted away to the westward, while the Ianthe, with a cracking breeze, went out to the light-ship and returned, and keeping in a little cat's-paw of wind, luffed over close to Coney Island Point, and went on up to the finish-line, distancing the lot. The Peerless took the schooner prize on allowance of time, and the winning sloops were the Gracie and Vixen, the prizes being four $250 cups. It was about this time that Mr. Lester Wallack, the actor, began to come into 86 flag-ship; and this year at its annual regatta it started three such schooners as the Tidal Wave, Resolute and Peerless, with ten sloops, those in the first class being the Gracie, Addie, Orion and Vixen. The regatta of the New York Yacht Club, this year, on June 20, was remarkable prominence as a patron of yachting, and he gave a cup for schooners, which was competed for June 24, 1872, the course being from off No. 5, at the point of Sandy Hook, to a stake boat close in to Long Branch, where Mr. Wallack had a cottage. There was a good entry, and the Madeleine |
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