Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . started with a splendid lug-foresail,and a crew of twenty-five men. I was fort-unate in having been a guest of Mr. Gar-ner during this race, and am certain thatit was this perfect preparation, rather thanany superior speed, which gained the vic-tory for the Magic. The Comet led to thelight-ship, but upon a wind, her sails didnot sit as well as those of the Magic, andshe had to give place to her. It was, how-ever, a very close race throughout, and upto the time that the Magic passed throughthe Narrows, on the returri, it was an
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . started with a splendid lug-foresail,and a crew of twenty-five men. I was fort-unate in having been a guest of Mr. Gar-ner during this race, and am certain thatit was this perfect preparation, rather thanany superior speed, which gained the vic-tory for the Magic. The Comet led to thelight-ship, but upon a wind, her sails didnot sit as well as those of the Magic, andshe had to give place to her. It was, how-ever, a very close race throughout, and upto the time that the Magic passed throughthe Narrows, on the returri, it was anybodys race. She managed, however, tojust squeeze by Fort Lafayette on the last THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 67 of an ebb tide, and reached the slack wateron the Long Island shore, while the Cometwas reaching in the strong ebb of the Nar-rows. I will give the dimensions of thetwo yachts : NAME. OWNER. W. L. CUBICAL CONTENTS. FT. Wm. T. H. Langley . 5,077-794, The Magic allowed was a miserably rainy afternoon, the yachtstuck in launching, and the elegant assem-blage of ladies and gentlemen whom had bidden to the launch, and forwhose accommodation he had chartered alarge steamboat, had a moist and disagree-able time. To give an idea of the enormoussail-spread of this famous schooner, I maystate that from the top of her club top-sailsprit to the water was 163 feet, and fromthe end of her main boom to the end ofher flying jib boom was 235 feet ; andwithal, she was the stiffest yacht I was everon board of. She was 121 feet on water-line, 30 feet, 4 inches in beam, and 9 feet,4 inches depth of hold. I have sailed inher, carrying three whole lower sails, withthe water just bubbling along the lee-plank-sheer, when all other yachts in companywere double-reefed and staggeringalong with lee-rails under. TheMohawk had greater initial stabilitythan any yacht ever built in thiscountry, and only
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