Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . n of its first decade by the pur-chase of a plot of ground on MarbleheadNeck, and the erection thereon of a clubhouse, which for many years was the finestyacht club house in the United States. Itwas a building seventy-five feet front, andthree stories in height, furnished with allmodern conveniences. It had on its rollin 1880, forty-three schooners, twenty-onesloops, four cutters and one yawl. Very She was afterwards rigged as a was 49 feet over all ; 40 feet, 8 incheswater line, 10 feet beam, 7 feet, 5 inchesdeep a
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . n of its first decade by the pur-chase of a plot of ground on MarbleheadNeck, and the erection thereon of a clubhouse, which for many years was the finestyacht club house in the United States. Itwas a building seventy-five feet front, andthree stories in height, furnished with allmodern conveniences. It had on its rollin 1880, forty-three schooners, twenty-onesloops, four cutters and one yawl. Very She was afterwards rigged as a was 49 feet over all ; 40 feet, 8 incheswater line, 10 feet beam, 7 feet, 5 inchesdeep and 5 feet, 3 inches draught. At a meeting of the Seawanhaka YachtClub held November 20, 1880, Mr. Schuyler, then the vice-commo-dore, reported that he had been out sailingin his cutter Yolande two days previous,with three inches of snow on the was on the first introduction of thecutter, when its advocates thought it be-hooved them to show in all ways its superi-ority to all other types of boat. It probablynever struck Vice-Commodore Schuyler. ? STRANGER. many of the owners of the yachts, how-ever, were more prominently identifiedwith the New York than with the Easternclub, and the four cutters were suchonly in name, as neither in rig, or in shapeof hull, did they resemble such boats as theBedouin, Wenonah or Muriel. The yawl,however, was the Edith, and was modeledby Ratsey, of England, and built in 1880by 1). J. Lawlor at PLast Boston, and wasthe first of the rig built in this country. Cutter Stran;,c Owm^fl by M that the owner of the shallowest of center-boards could have gone out in the baysailing in a November snow storm if hehad been silly enough to have desired to doso. Cutters were common enough afterthis, but I have not found that owners ofthem cared to keep them in commissionany longer than it was comfortable todo so. It was in March, 1881, that we again heardof a challenge for the Americas Cup. It •. Jolin N. McCaulry, Haven. 92 THE HISTORY
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