Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . d ; the Mayflower and Puritan,center-board sloops, that are superior toanything in the New York Yacht Club, anda lleet of smaller yachts that are unrivaledin their respective classes. While the con-servative and eminently respectable New 73 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. York Yacht Club has been standhig still,and living on its past, its sister organiza-tions, the Atlantic, the Eastern, the Amer-ican, the Seawanhaka Corinthian and theLarchmont, have been going ahead withspinnakers pulling. Some of them arefully abreast of i
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . d ; the Mayflower and Puritan,center-board sloops, that are superior toanything in the New York Yacht Club, anda lleet of smaller yachts that are unrivaledin their respective classes. While the con-servative and eminently respectable New 73 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. York Yacht Club has been standhig still,and living on its past, its sister organiza-tions, the Atlantic, the Eastern, the Amer-ican, the Seawanhaka Corinthian and theLarchmont, have been going ahead withspinnakers pulling. Some of them arefully abreast of it now in the number andcharacter of their vessels, and unless theold club obtains some new blood from the Canadian schooner-yacht Countess ofDufferin^ for the Americas Cup, was re-ceived and considered at a meeting of theclub, held April 20, and as has always beenthe practice when this cup has been chal-lenged, the club unanimously decided towaive the six months notice, and to sailon any day most convenient to the chal-lenger. Also, if he desired to sail in July,. Co^^jens ATHLON. somewhere, these other clubs will outrankit in popular estimation. The Easternclub, in 1885, and the Atlantic and Sea-wanhaka clubs, in 1886, by their spiritedaction in defense of the Americas Cup,gained immensely in popular favor, andnotified the New York Yacht Club that itwas no longer considered able to defendthis trophy, the emblem of the yachtingsupremacy of the world. The building of open yachts, sloop andcat-rigged, was immensely stimulated bythe action of the Centennial Commission-ers, it being understood that one of theraces would be for this class of yachts inNew York Bay. In due time, the chal-lenge of Major Charles Gifford, owner of * Sloop Athlon^ owned by J. it was decided to give him two races—?one over the New York club course, andone outside, and in case a third was neces-sary, the course to be determined by , however, Major Gifford preferred sail-ing in August, he was
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