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THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. The Canadian yacht showed ■ much better in this first race than had been expected. But she had been much improved since her first arrival. Captain Cuthbert, her builder and sailing master, was a friend of the Elsworths, of Bayonne, N.J., expert yacht racers from their boyhood, and under their advice, the Countess had been placed upon the dock at Port Richmond, and scraped and sand-papered, and made as smooth as was possible, and she was then given a coat of pot-lead and tallow. All her sails, also, with a few exceptions, had been made in New York, and so, as a daily paper remarked, whichever way the contest terminated, it would be a victory for the American model. The race, however, attracted much interest, although not a tithe of that evinced when the Cambria and Livonia came, or when the Genesta appeared as a challenger. Still there were a dozen excursion steamers and a couple of dozen of yachts present at the start ready to go over the course with the racers. The start was a pretty one, and that the reader may judge of the quality of the two yachts, the following table of times is given, the wind being south, a moderate breeze, and the tide last quarter flood : Madeleine Countess of Dufferin. START. BUOY 10. LIGHTSHIP. BUOY IO. h. m. s. h. m. s. h. m.s. h. m. S. II.16.31 1.19.19 2.5I.52 3-57-28 II.17.06 1.26,32 Z-56.33 4.06.48 FINISH, h. m. s. 4.41.26 4-51-59 The Madeleine, therefoie, won by 9m. 58s. actual time, and by 10m. 59s. corrected time. The second and concluding race was sailed the next day, and the course was twenty miles to windward from Sandy Hook and return, the wind light throughout from south-south-east,and the water smooth. The old yacht America, the original winner of the cup, stripped for a contest, sending all weight ashore that could be spared, and in racing fettle went over the course with the other two yachts, beating the Canadian yacht, but being in turn beaten by the Madeleine ; and as a matter of comparison, I will give the times of all three schooners over the course : NAME. START. h. m. s. OUTER MARK. h. m. s. FINISH. h. m. s, Madeleine. Countess of Dufferin 12.17.24 12.17.58 12.22.09 5.01.52 5-13-41 5-04-53 7-37-n 8.03.58 7.49.00 It will be seen that to the outer mark, the America beat both the other schooners. The difference in time between the Madeleine and Countess of Dufferin at the finish does not accurately represent the distance between them, as after the Madeleine finished, the wind failed, and the tide being ahead, the Countess of Dufferin was a long time doing a short distance. She was, however, decidedly beaten. August 14, the fleet of the New York club assembled in Glen Cove Harbor to begin the annual cruise. Of schooners, there were the Alar?n (the flagship), Restless, Wanderer, Dreadnought, Estelle, Rambler, Palmer, Idler, Foain, Vesta, and Meta. Sloops Arrow, Vindex, Vision, Wiitdward, and Wayward. The programme agreed upon was an extended one, and included a visit to Greeriport, Vineyard Haven, Marblehead, the Isle of Shoals, Portland, Province- town, Vineyard Haven, and Newport, sailing races there August 28 and 29, and disbanding the 30th. All this was changed later on, and the new schedule was from Shelter Island to New London, Newport,and Vineyard Haven, and the participation in the regatta of the Eastern Yacht Club at Swampscott was abandoned. The cruise was a very tame one, and the fleet broke up at Edgartown August 21. Probably if the Canadian schooner had accompanied the fleet, it would have taken her around Cape Cod, and the original programme would have been adhered to ; but Major Gifford had had enough of it. The funds of the syndicate of club members which had built and sent her to the contest were running low, some new sails purchased in New York were yet to be paid for, and things were in no condition for a junketing excursion. As it was, although the cruise was practically at an end at Vineyard Haven, some of the yachts went on to the east as far as Provincetown, returning to Newport August 27, where they finally separated. It was about the last of August that Mr. J. E. Loubat, owner of the schooner-yacht Eiichantress, presented to the New York Yacht Club a $1,000 cup to be sailed for October 12, open to all schooner-yachts of 100 tons and upward, belonging to any organized club in the world, on an allowance of twelve seconds to the ton ; New York Yacht Club rules to govern in all other respects. The course to be from off Owl's Head, to and around Sandy Hook Light-ship, thence to and around the Cape
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Title | Yachts and yachting |
Creator | Cozzens, Frederic Schiller |
Publisher | Cassell & Co. |
Place of Publication | New York |
Date | [c1887] |
Language | eng |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
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Title | 00000079 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. The Canadian yacht showed ■ much better in this first race than had been expected. But she had been much improved since her first arrival. Captain Cuthbert, her builder and sailing master, was a friend of the Elsworths, of Bayonne, N.J., expert yacht racers from their boyhood, and under their advice, the Countess had been placed upon the dock at Port Richmond, and scraped and sand-papered, and made as smooth as was possible, and she was then given a coat of pot-lead and tallow. All her sails, also, with a few exceptions, had been made in New York, and so, as a daily paper remarked, whichever way the contest terminated, it would be a victory for the American model. The race, however, attracted much interest, although not a tithe of that evinced when the Cambria and Livonia came, or when the Genesta appeared as a challenger. Still there were a dozen excursion steamers and a couple of dozen of yachts present at the start ready to go over the course with the racers. The start was a pretty one, and that the reader may judge of the quality of the two yachts, the following table of times is given, the wind being south, a moderate breeze, and the tide last quarter flood : Madeleine Countess of Dufferin. START. BUOY 10. LIGHTSHIP. BUOY IO. h. m. s. h. m. s. h. m.s. h. m. S. II.16.31 1.19.19 2.5I.52 3-57-28 II.17.06 1.26,32 Z-56.33 4.06.48 FINISH, h. m. s. 4.41.26 4-51-59 The Madeleine, therefoie, won by 9m. 58s. actual time, and by 10m. 59s. corrected time. The second and concluding race was sailed the next day, and the course was twenty miles to windward from Sandy Hook and return, the wind light throughout from south-south-east,and the water smooth. The old yacht America, the original winner of the cup, stripped for a contest, sending all weight ashore that could be spared, and in racing fettle went over the course with the other two yachts, beating the Canadian yacht, but being in turn beaten by the Madeleine ; and as a matter of comparison, I will give the times of all three schooners over the course : NAME. START. h. m. s. OUTER MARK. h. m. s. FINISH. h. m. s, Madeleine. Countess of Dufferin 12.17.24 12.17.58 12.22.09 5.01.52 5-13-41 5-04-53 7-37-n 8.03.58 7.49.00 It will be seen that to the outer mark, the America beat both the other schooners. The difference in time between the Madeleine and Countess of Dufferin at the finish does not accurately represent the distance between them, as after the Madeleine finished, the wind failed, and the tide being ahead, the Countess of Dufferin was a long time doing a short distance. She was, however, decidedly beaten. August 14, the fleet of the New York club assembled in Glen Cove Harbor to begin the annual cruise. Of schooners, there were the Alar?n (the flagship), Restless, Wanderer, Dreadnought, Estelle, Rambler, Palmer, Idler, Foain, Vesta, and Meta. Sloops Arrow, Vindex, Vision, Wiitdward, and Wayward. The programme agreed upon was an extended one, and included a visit to Greeriport, Vineyard Haven, Marblehead, the Isle of Shoals, Portland, Province- town, Vineyard Haven, and Newport, sailing races there August 28 and 29, and disbanding the 30th. All this was changed later on, and the new schedule was from Shelter Island to New London, Newport,and Vineyard Haven, and the participation in the regatta of the Eastern Yacht Club at Swampscott was abandoned. The cruise was a very tame one, and the fleet broke up at Edgartown August 21. Probably if the Canadian schooner had accompanied the fleet, it would have taken her around Cape Cod, and the original programme would have been adhered to ; but Major Gifford had had enough of it. The funds of the syndicate of club members which had built and sent her to the contest were running low, some new sails purchased in New York were yet to be paid for, and things were in no condition for a junketing excursion. As it was, although the cruise was practically at an end at Vineyard Haven, some of the yachts went on to the east as far as Provincetown, returning to Newport August 27, where they finally separated. It was about the last of August that Mr. J. E. Loubat, owner of the schooner-yacht Eiichantress, presented to the New York Yacht Club a $1,000 cup to be sailed for October 12, open to all schooner-yachts of 100 tons and upward, belonging to any organized club in the world, on an allowance of twelve seconds to the ton ; New York Yacht Club rules to govern in all other respects. The course to be from off Owl's Head, to and around Sandy Hook Light-ship, thence to and around the Cape |