. The sloops of the Hudson; an historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the last century, with a record of their names; together with personal reminiscences of certain of the notable North river sailing masters. n, the , the Asa Bigelow, the Gideon Lee, andhundreds of others that I could mention wouldgo to windward or any other way under a tworeef, and many of them under a three reef sailand turn around, or go about as the boatmen say,almost as quick as our ice boats. And then hesays the Tanner had a mast one hundred andsix feet and topmast fifty-eight feet, and shehailed fr
. The sloops of the Hudson; an historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the last century, with a record of their names; together with personal reminiscences of certain of the notable North river sailing masters. n, the , the Asa Bigelow, the Gideon Lee, andhundreds of others that I could mention wouldgo to windward or any other way under a tworeef, and many of them under a three reef sailand turn around, or go about as the boatmen say,almost as quick as our ice boats. And then hesays the Tanner had a mast one hundred andsix feet and topmast fifty-eight feet, and shehailed from Saugerties, eight miles above Kings-ton. Saugerties is twelve miles above Kingston,and the Tanner never hailed from Saugerties,and never had a long topmast when a sloop; hermast was ninety-six feet only with a short top-mast. She carried a large square topsail, andonly used it when sailing with a fair wind. TheTanner was built at Catskill in 1832, and hailedfrom Catskill until bought by the well knownCaptain called Gus (Augustus) Decker, to runfrom Wilbur carrying wood and stone to NewYork. He afterwards sold her to Ezra Fitchto run in the stone and lumber trade. In aboutthe year 1850 she lay up at Rondout. There. CAPTAIN AUGUSTUS WESLEY HALE LATE OF SAUGERTIESFrom a photograph by Austin The Packets 59 was a fire that winter near where she laid sparks set her rigging on fire and her rig-ging and spar were burned to her deck. Shewas then rigged into a schooner and had a longtopmast and jib-boom. Capt. Wm. Hyde thenbought an interest in her and sailed her nearlyforty years, carrying stone from Wilbur toEastern ports. She carried her mainmast awayin a blow near Point Judith, and lost mast, rig-ging, and mainsail. A fishing smack found itand towed it to Newport. The Tanner is still inthe stone trade. The Wm. Mayo was built at Coxsackie in 1836by Wm. Mayo and she has quite a was bought by Robt. Kerr to carry stonefrom Wilbur. Capt. James Schoonraaker tookcommand
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