Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . indicating to theDatmtless, by her whistle, the error of hercourse. She had been running wing-and-wing, with fore-boom to port, and had gotwell by the mark. Hauling to suddenly,her foresail gybed over, and the gaff, strik-ing the triantic stay, was broken. Allflying-kites were let go by the run, and theyacht was hauled sharp by the wind, andfetched in just to leeward of the mark,having to make a short board on the star-board tack, to weather it. Of course the prize, a $1,000 cup, washers ; but had the Mohawk been sailedwith be
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . indicating to theDatmtless, by her whistle, the error of hercourse. She had been running wing-and-wing, with fore-boom to port, and had gotwell by the mark. Hauling to suddenly,her foresail gybed over, and the gaff, strik-ing the triantic stay, was broken. Allflying-kites were let go by the run, and theyacht was hauled sharp by the wind, andfetched in just to leeward of the mark,having to make a short board on the star-board tack, to weather it. Of course the prize, a $1,000 cup, washers ; but had the Mohawk been sailedwith better judgment in this race, shewould have beaten the Dauntless by at leastten minutes. The next was the Centennialyear, an important year for yachting, asfor all other sports, and I may well reserveits events for the next article. As showingthe wonderful development of the sport ofyachting, I may say, in closing this chapter,that in the New York, the Brooklyn, theAtlantic, and Seawanhaka Yacht Clubsalone, there were sailed, during this year1875, twenty-two THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. BY CAPTAIN R. F. COFFIN, Author of Old Sailor Yarns, The Americas Cui^ etc., etc. V. FROM 1876 TO 1878. 1876, the Centennial of the United States,was a year of jubilee, and all out-of-doorsports were immensely stimulated. Ofcourse, yachting shared in the generalprosperity, but in addition to the naturalstimulus of the time of holiday, yachtinghad the extra excitement of an interna-tional contest, which, as we have recently,in 1885 and 1886, been made aware, is suf-ficient of itself to cause quite a yachtingfurore. At the very beginning of the year — inJanuary — and before anything had beendone to release the pleasure fleet from itswinters seclusion, rumors began to be cur-rent that during this year there wouldcome another challenger for the America sCup. There did not seem to be any defi-nite basis for the rumors, but they werefloating around. At a meeting of the New York YachtClu
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