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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
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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
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING.
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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
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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
