Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . , •CLYTIR. flag-ship; and this year at its annual regattait started three such schooners as theTidal Wave, Resolute and Peerless, withten sloops, those in the first class being theGrade, Addie, Orion and Vixen. The regatta of the New York YachtClub, this year, on June 20, was remarkable prominence as a patron of yachting, andhe gave a cup for schooners, which wascompeted for June 24, 1872, the course be-ing from off No. 5, at the point of SandyHook, to a stake boat close in to Longl^ranch, where Mr. Wallack had a cot
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . , •CLYTIR. flag-ship; and this year at its annual regattait started three such schooners as theTidal Wave, Resolute and Peerless, withten sloops, those in the first class being theGrade, Addie, Orion and Vixen. The regatta of the New York YachtClub, this year, on June 20, was remarkable prominence as a patron of yachting, andhe gave a cup for schooners, which wascompeted for June 24, 1872, the course be-ing from off No. 5, at the point of SandyHook, to a stake boat close in to Longl^ranch, where Mr. Wallack had a was a good entry, and the Madeleine 62 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN y vect -^^^^^^^ens GRAYLING. secured the prize, beating the Peerless OS. It was in this year, also, that thesloop Meta was built by Mr. P. McGiehan,at Pamrapo, N. J., for Mr. G. H. Beling,and with Captain Ellsworth and his Bay-onne crew on board, she took rank as thefastest single-stick vessel in the Beling, during the previous year, hadthe sloop Kaiser Wilhelm built by Mr. Mc-Giehan, and there was enough of suspicionthat during some of her races ballast hadbeen shifted, to cause her owner to beblack-balled in the New York club, and onthis account he adopted as his signal onthe Meta two black balls, and entered herfor all the races that were possible. July23, 1872, the Meta sailed a match with theGrade from buoy No. 5, twenty miles towindward and return. The Grade at thattime was owned by Mr. S, J. Colgate, NewYork Yacht Club, and was 58 feet 5 incheslong. Last year she was 79 feet iq inches,and this season is still longer. The Metawas 61 feet. The race was sailed und
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