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96
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING.
Gracie and the Mischief, and the latter was
finally chosen.
The Canadian sloop finally arrived, via
the canals, October 30, and the two races
with the Mischief were sailed November 9
ovei the course of the club, the Canadian
being beaten 28m. 30^5., and November
10, over a course outside the Hook, the
Mischief again winning by 28m. 54s.
The irrepressible Captain Cuthbert at
once announced his intention of laying his
sloop up in this harbor, and renewing the
challenge the next season, and to protect
itself against this threatened annual Canadian infliction, the New York Yacht Club
was obliged to insist upon such a change
in the deed of gift of the America's Cup
as would prevent this. It therefore returned
the cup to Mr. George L. Schuyler, the
only surviving donor of it, and received it
back from that gentleman with a clause
providing that a defeated yacht should not
be again eligible as a challenger until two
years had intervened from the time of the
first contest. At the first meeting of the
New York Yacht Club in 1882, a proposition was made and afterwards adopted, to
do away with the club uniform, a decided
improvement, and at this meeting also, Mr.
Ogden Goelet, the owner of the fine keel
schooner Norseman, advised the club of his
intention to present two cups, one of $1,000
for schooners, and one of $500 for sloops,
to be raced for off Newport during the
annual cruise of the club. Mr. Goelet
repeated his liberal donation each year for
some years, and the Goelet Cup race
became finally the most important event of
the yachting season. Newport being halfway 'twixt Boston and New York, the race
for these cups was always participated in
by more or less Eastern yachts, the famous
sloop Puritan scoring here her first
victory.
The Seawanhaka Yacht Club, at a meeting held March 2, tacked on Corinthian to
its beautiful Indian name, and was weighted
down with it for several years. The idea
was, as stated by the advocate of the
change, that this club, having been the first
to introduce Corinthian yachting, ought to
have something in its name to call attention
to the fact; that so many clubs were now
adopting the Corinthian system, the glory
of its introduction would be lost to the
Seawanhakas if they did not in some way
label themselves as "the only true and
original Jacobs." It was a snobbish reason
for an ugly suffix, and it weighted the club
down terribly, at one time nearly carrying
it under entirely. I may mention also that
the Seawanhaka club about this time
changed its rule of measurement, adopting
the "sail area and length" rule, which,
although not as favorable to the cutter as
the old rule, was still very much in favor
of this type of yacht.
It was in 1882 that the British cutter
Maggie was imported, having been brought
over as the Madge was, on the deck of a
steamer. She was a fifteen tonner, and of
her Bell's Life said : " We are free to confess that she is the best fifteen tonner which
has ever carried a racing flag in this
country." The Maggie, however, has not
done much here, having been repeatedly
beaten by centerboard sloops. In fact,
there has never been a square race between
the cutter and the sloop, but what the sloop
was proved the victor. In extremely light
weather the cutter has generally been able
to win, but in strong breeze with smooth
water the sloop has always come off conqueror. It was in this year that the cutters
Bedouin and Wenonah were built at Brooklyn by Henry Piepgras, and taking all
things into consideration, the Bedouin has
been a most successful yacht.
The usual regattas and cruises of the
clubs took place this year, but there was
nothing in connection with them at all
noteworthy except that the New York
Yacht Club on its cruise went around Cape
Cod, and sailed a race at Marblehead ; and
at its close the centerboard sloop Vixen
had a match with Mr. Warren's imported
Maggie, and beat her very decidedly.
As an appropriate wind-up to the season,
the Seawanhaka Corinthian club organized
a series of sloop and cutter races, making
two of the series outside the Hook, and in
the full belief that under such conditions
the cutters Bedouin, Wenonah, and Oriva
must win. They were much disappointed
at the result, having been in favor of the
centerboards, the Gracie, Valkyr and
Fanita carrying off the honors. I note
April 7, 1883, the launch of Mr. Jay
Gould's steam yacht Atalanta, from the
yard of the Messrs. Cramp, at Philadelphia,
by all odds the finest yacht ever built in
this country.
At the May meeting of the Eastern
Yacht Club, Mr. Jay Gould, the owner of
the Atalanta, was proposed for membership and rejected, and there is every reason
to believe that the only reason his name
was not proposed in the New York Yacht
Club was, that it was quite certain, that if
proposed he would be rejected there also.
Object Description
| Title | Yachts and yachting |
| Creator | Cozzens, Frederic Schiller |
| Publisher | Cassell & Co. |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | [c1887] |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Description
| Title | 00000094 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 96 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. Gracie and the Mischief, and the latter was finally chosen. The Canadian sloop finally arrived, via the canals, October 30, and the two races with the Mischief were sailed November 9 ovei the course of the club, the Canadian being beaten 28m. 30^5., and November 10, over a course outside the Hook, the Mischief again winning by 28m. 54s. The irrepressible Captain Cuthbert at once announced his intention of laying his sloop up in this harbor, and renewing the challenge the next season, and to protect itself against this threatened annual Canadian infliction, the New York Yacht Club was obliged to insist upon such a change in the deed of gift of the America's Cup as would prevent this. It therefore returned the cup to Mr. George L. Schuyler, the only surviving donor of it, and received it back from that gentleman with a clause providing that a defeated yacht should not be again eligible as a challenger until two years had intervened from the time of the first contest. At the first meeting of the New York Yacht Club in 1882, a proposition was made and afterwards adopted, to do away with the club uniform, a decided improvement, and at this meeting also, Mr. Ogden Goelet, the owner of the fine keel schooner Norseman, advised the club of his intention to present two cups, one of $1,000 for schooners, and one of $500 for sloops, to be raced for off Newport during the annual cruise of the club. Mr. Goelet repeated his liberal donation each year for some years, and the Goelet Cup race became finally the most important event of the yachting season. Newport being halfway 'twixt Boston and New York, the race for these cups was always participated in by more or less Eastern yachts, the famous sloop Puritan scoring here her first victory. The Seawanhaka Yacht Club, at a meeting held March 2, tacked on Corinthian to its beautiful Indian name, and was weighted down with it for several years. The idea was, as stated by the advocate of the change, that this club, having been the first to introduce Corinthian yachting, ought to have something in its name to call attention to the fact; that so many clubs were now adopting the Corinthian system, the glory of its introduction would be lost to the Seawanhakas if they did not in some way label themselves as "the only true and original Jacobs." It was a snobbish reason for an ugly suffix, and it weighted the club down terribly, at one time nearly carrying it under entirely. I may mention also that the Seawanhaka club about this time changed its rule of measurement, adopting the "sail area and length" rule, which, although not as favorable to the cutter as the old rule, was still very much in favor of this type of yacht. It was in 1882 that the British cutter Maggie was imported, having been brought over as the Madge was, on the deck of a steamer. She was a fifteen tonner, and of her Bell's Life said : " We are free to confess that she is the best fifteen tonner which has ever carried a racing flag in this country." The Maggie, however, has not done much here, having been repeatedly beaten by centerboard sloops. In fact, there has never been a square race between the cutter and the sloop, but what the sloop was proved the victor. In extremely light weather the cutter has generally been able to win, but in strong breeze with smooth water the sloop has always come off conqueror. It was in this year that the cutters Bedouin and Wenonah were built at Brooklyn by Henry Piepgras, and taking all things into consideration, the Bedouin has been a most successful yacht. The usual regattas and cruises of the clubs took place this year, but there was nothing in connection with them at all noteworthy except that the New York Yacht Club on its cruise went around Cape Cod, and sailed a race at Marblehead ; and at its close the centerboard sloop Vixen had a match with Mr. Warren's imported Maggie, and beat her very decidedly. As an appropriate wind-up to the season, the Seawanhaka Corinthian club organized a series of sloop and cutter races, making two of the series outside the Hook, and in the full belief that under such conditions the cutters Bedouin, Wenonah, and Oriva must win. They were much disappointed at the result, having been in favor of the centerboards, the Gracie, Valkyr and Fanita carrying off the honors. I note April 7, 1883, the launch of Mr. Jay Gould's steam yacht Atalanta, from the yard of the Messrs. Cramp, at Philadelphia, by all odds the finest yacht ever built in this country. At the May meeting of the Eastern Yacht Club, Mr. Jay Gould, the owner of the Atalanta, was proposed for membership and rejected, and there is every reason to believe that the only reason his name was not proposed in the New York Yacht Club was, that it was quite certain, that if proposed he would be rejected there also. |
