Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . de2im. 52s. Races had been arranged forthe Brentons Reef and Cape May challengecups, and for these the only yacht whichstarted against the Genesta was the schoonerDauntless. The result was a foregoneconclusion from the start, and in fact theintent of the club members was to allow theGenesta to take these cups to England :First, because they had proved nuisanceshere, and second, because they wished to lOO THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. have something to go to England for, ifany owner should so desire. This finishedthe career
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . de2im. 52s. Races had been arranged forthe Brentons Reef and Cape May challengecups, and for these the only yacht whichstarted against the Genesta was the schoonerDauntless. The result was a foregoneconclusion from the start, and in fact theintent of the club members was to allow theGenesta to take these cups to England :First, because they had proved nuisanceshere, and second, because they wished to lOO THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. have something to go to England for, ifany owner should so desire. This finishedthe career of the Gcncsta in this country,and she left for England, October 8. This also closes the yachting for 1885,and with this I will end this history ofAmerican yachting. I should have been glad to have made it more full* and com-plete, but have been obliged to omit men-tion of all except the most importantevents. I have intended to make it asmuch as possible a record, as well as toshow the well-nigh marvelous growth of thesport in the short space of forty-one THE MAYFLOWER AND GALATEARACES OF 1886. lO] THE MAYFLOWER AND GALATEA RACES OF 1886. BY CHARLES E. CLAY, Author of Bermuda Yachts and Dinghies, etc. English yachtsmen have made anothereifort for the recovery of the America s Cup,a trophy that has come to be regarded asthe emblem of the supremacy of the seas,and that effort has met with a defeat moredisastrous and humiUating than that whichattended the unsuccessful attempt of theGenesta last year. Scarcely had Sir Richard Sutton berthedhis favorite in her snug winter quartersthan Lieutenant Henn challenged for theensuing year. In this he was more patri-otic than wise, for, while nobody deniesthat the Galatea is a thoroughly represent-ative type of the highest development andperfection of the English model, yet itcannot be conceded that her performanceswere enough, if any, superior to those ofthe Genesta to warrant her owner havingany valid grounds for supposing his boa
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