Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . the day, in the race, she wasnowhere. The Sappho was bound uj) too day, the lanyards of her rigging were 52 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. eased a trifle, and she beat all the otheryachts with ease. The Dauntless^ Sappho and Wandererraced from Sandy Hook to the Cape MayLight-ship for a $500 cup, a little privatearrangement; and as stated, the Wandererwon. The schooner Dreadnought madeher first appearance in this trip to CapeMay, but her performance on the waydown did not warrant Captain Samuels inentering h
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . the day, in the race, she wasnowhere. The Sappho was bound uj) too day, the lanyards of her rigging were 52 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. eased a trifle, and she beat all the otheryachts with ease. The Dauntless^ Sappho and Wandererraced from Sandy Hook to the Cape MayLight-ship for a $500 cup, a little privatearrangement; and as stated, the Wandererwon. The schooner Dreadnought madeher first appearance in this trip to CapeMay, but her performance on the waydown did not warrant Captain Samuels inentering her for the race, and although she iron, for one thing, and I think that in time,iron will supersede wood entirely for thehulls of yachts. Then, too, she had partsof the cutter rig ; that is, she had the shortmast and long topmast ; but I think hermainsail laced to the boom, and that shehad a standing jib. She had also a stay tothe knight heads, and a stay-sail. Mr. Cen-ter, who designed her, afterwards had herjib to set flying, and found it a great j^^ SCHOONER Started with the lot, she did not return, butbore up and ran for New York. The Sappho took the Citizens Cup withtime allowance, and the Benson Cup (both$1000 mugs), beating the Columbia 5m. Grade took the Citizens Cup forsloops, beating the Vindex 2m. 37s. Thelatter yacht was new, and she also em-bodied several new principles. She was So far as model was concerned, the, Vin-dex had little in common with the moderncutter, being over 17 feet beam on a water-line length of 56 feet. She may, however,I think, be said to have been the first Amer-ican-built sloop that was cutter rigged. During the August cruise, this year,1871—for the first time the Eastern andNew York club fleets joined each other Original owner R. F. Leper ; present owner Rutherford Stuyvesant. 2^HE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 53 and, with some few exceptional years, havedone so ever since. Many New York clubmembers joined the
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