Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . , took the prize , a proposition to race a sloopagainst a schooner inferior in size, andwithout allowance for rig, would be laughedto scorn. October 12 of this year, 1847, there wasanother Corinthian race, and this timeover the regular club course. It was for asubscription cup, the yacht to be inannedand THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 19 sailed exclusively by members, allowing eachyacht a pilot, and there started the schoon-ers Gimcrack, Dream, Spray, Cygnet, Siren,and Cornelia, with the Una. Of course,the U
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . , took the prize , a proposition to race a sloopagainst a schooner inferior in size, andwithout allowance for rig, would be laughedto scorn. October 12 of this year, 1847, there wasanother Corinthian race, and this timeover the regular club course. It was for asubscription cup, the yacht to be inannedand THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 19 sailed exclusively by members, allowing eachyacht a pilot, and there started the schoon-ers Gimcrack, Dream, Spray, Cygnet, Siren,and Cornelia, with the Una. Of course,the Una won. Siren second. Spray third. The regatta called third on the clubrecord took place June 6, 1848, the yachtsbeing divided into two classes, but noseparation of rig. There was a crackingbreeze from the west-north-west, and theMaria was dismasted, a bad habit whichshe contracted in her youth, and neverrecovered from. She was finally alteredto schooner, because, among other reasons,it had been found impossible to hold herstick in her. She was a boat of enormous. beam and great initial stability, and hersail spread was something accident on this occasion took placebetween Jersey City and Hoboken, whenshe was at the head of all the fleet exceptthe Coi^nelia, and was gaining very rapidlyon her. The Maria seems to have beenconstantly shrinking in size, for at thisregatta she is entered at 118 tons, quite adrop from 160, at which figures she sailedher first race. The winners were, in thefirst-class schooners, Cornelia and Siren,and in the second-class. Cygnet and LaCoquille. Thus it will be seen that in theprocess of evolution the club had come totwo prizes in each class. October 26, 1848, there was a kind ofexperimental match proposed, showingthat there had been some dissatisfaction,and that there was a reaching out for some-thing better. It was a ^ Corinthian match,members to steer and man the yachts, andwas for three pieces of plate subscribedfor by members. One
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