Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . lantic club began to come into prominence,with Mr. William Voorhis as its commo-dore, and the schooner TiWa/ Wave as its from the fact that the flying start wasadopted — the fairest way of startingyachts which has yet been tried — and itwas also remarkable from the fact that inan exceptionally fine lot of schooners, thelittle lanthe, the very slowest of the lot,beat all of them without allowance of all except her had been out aroundthe light-ship and were returning, they mether at the bar buoy going out. They allgot
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . lantic club began to come into prominence,with Mr. William Voorhis as its commo-dore, and the schooner TiWa/ Wave as its from the fact that the flying start wasadopted — the fairest way of startingyachts which has yet been tried — and itwas also remarkable from the fact that inan exceptionally fine lot of schooners, thelittle lanthe, the very slowest of the lot,beat all of them without allowance of all except her had been out aroundthe light-ship and were returning, they mether at the bar buoy going out. They allgot becalmed in the bay, and with a strongflood drifted away to the westward, whilethe lanthe^ with a cracking breeze, went outto the light-ship and returned, and keeping cat s-pawto Coney Island Point, luffed overwent onfinish-line, dis-tancing the lot. The Peerlesstook the schooner prize onallowance of time, and thewinaing sloops were theGrade and Vixeit, the prizesbeing four $250 cups. It was about this timethat Mr. Lester Wallack, theactor, began to come into. , •CLYTIR. flag-ship; and this year at its annual regattait started three such schooners as theTidal Wave, Resolute and Peerless, withten sloops, those in the first class being theGrade, Addie, Orion and Vixen. The regatta of the New York YachtClub, this year, on June 20, was remarkable prominence as a patron of yachting, andhe gave a cup for schooners, which wascompeted for June 24, 1872, the course be-ing from off No. 5, at the point of SandyHook, to a stake boat close in to Longl^ranch, where Mr. Wallack had a was a good entry, and the Madeleine 62 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING.
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