. Yachts and yachting; a magazine devoted to the upbuilding of the noble sport of yachting. the eighteen large schooners, beating out and tacking fre-quenth, made a sj^ectacle never to be forgotten. The Magic, a fine little schoon-er of ij tons, was first and the old America, 178 tons, second in passing theSouth \Aest Spit buoy. The hitters wonderful work at her age surprised everv-(ine and she was cheered by tens of thousands of admirers and members c^f the l-tol.!-vou--(i club. The noise was deafening, for in those days evervthing inth(. sh;ipe (T a vacht carried a cannon ami on that especia
. Yachts and yachting; a magazine devoted to the upbuilding of the noble sport of yachting. the eighteen large schooners, beating out and tacking fre-quenth, made a sj^ectacle never to be forgotten. The Magic, a fine little schoon-er of ij tons, was first and the old America, 178 tons, second in passing theSouth \Aest Spit buoy. The hitters wonderful work at her age surprised everv-(ine and she was cheered by tens of thousands of admirers and members c^f the l-tol.!-vou--(i club. The noise was deafening, for in those days evervthing inth(. sh;ipe (T a vacht carried a cannon ami on that especial day the s;dutes vereinnumerable. The Cambria was the tliirttenth to reach the first mark,—later .she did belter,ciniin.; JKime the ei^ while the magnificent Dauntless of nearl_\- 31)0 tons, andthe swift Idler, had passed the America. The finish w^is sensational, and .alniost all of tlu sjnCtators for tlulittle Magic, which, howe\er, ])assed tlu linsh line less than two miinites :i!ieadof the mightv 1 )auntless, which was h;irdl_\- [\ minutes ahe;id of ihe Idlei-, be-. UJ XH <X o -J< Huj UJ -Ju, CQ J eU ^ 5 i a: u2 = ^ < UJ u z s EoU X UJ YACHTS AND YACHTING r- .T/ hind which was the America ten minutes later, seeminoly hy insuffi-cient light sails. The Cambria was 2y minutes behind the Maoic. Never wasthere such a finish; the scene and hubbub were simply indescribable—guns,horns, whistles and cheers rent the air and thousands of flags were dipped, asthe racers tore by in the hard breeze. A nwst interesting coincidence was the ar-rival of the American yacht Sappho, which on her voyage from luigland, reach-ed the Hook as the racers were nearing the mark. This magnificent vessel, thelargest in the country, and fresh from triumphs in British waters, met the yachtslieatmg out while she was running up the narrows to her anchorage at Strstenisland. Another object of great interest and also of transatlantic fame was the mini-ature full rigge
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