Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . e Bren-tons Reef Challenge Cup race, fixed forJuly 22, and the Cape May Challenge Cuprace, fixed for October. In preparationfor these events, the schooners Rambler^Dreadnought and Idler were all lengthenedthis year, and many minor changes made inother yachts, the sail-makers being kept atwork day and night. I may mention just here that it was inthis year that the first yacht at all approach-ing in model to what has, by common con-sent, come to be known as the cutter, wasbuilt, and that the designer of her, Hyslop, who
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . e Bren-tons Reef Challenge Cup race, fixed forJuly 22, and the Cape May Challenge Cuprace, fixed for October. In preparationfor these events, the schooners Rambler^Dreadnought and Idler were all lengthenedthis year, and many minor changes made inother yachts, the sail-makers being kept atwork day and night. I may mention just here that it was inthis year that the first yacht at all approach-ing in model to what has, by common con-sent, come to be known as the cutter, wasbuilt, and that the designer of her, Hyslop, who has contributed someinteresting articles on yachting to Outing,was considerably ridiculed, and was bysome considered a trifle insane upon thissubject of yacht designing. Theyacht was called the Petrel, and shewas 32 feet over all, 8 feet beam, 6feet deep and 4 feet 6 inches was to have four tons of ballast,all of iron, inside. It was in this year 1876, that the Seawan-haka club first came to New York fromOyster Bay, where it had been first organized,,. 60 mai)<;k. Cutler Mtitii;i\ owiuci by H. W. Sheldon, New York. 76 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. and it fixed on June lo for a strictlyCorinthian race, the course being the sameas its present one, starting from off FortWadsworth and going around the Spitbuoys to the hght-ship. Always progres-sive, this club also arranged for a schoonerrace outside of the Hook, inviting entriesfrom the New York, the Eastern, Brooklyn,Boston and Atlantic yacht clubs; yachts tobe steered by owner or mem-ber of the club to which shebelonged^ but she could bemanned by her regular , a correspond-ence had been going on be-tween Major Gifford andthe Committee of theNew York Yacht Clubin relation to the pro-posed race for thecup, and finally,at a meetingheld May 25,all of the
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