Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . ay over the course. Sheought not to have started at all. The gen-tleman in charge of her, a good navigatorand thorough business man, was not ayacht-racing skipper, and this defeat set-tled all chance of selling the yacht, andshe had to return to this country her return, she was purchased by P. Douglass, recently the vice-commo-dore of the New York club, and underthe direction of the late Captain RobertFish, she was hipped out, and beganat once a most successful career. Marine architects differ inopinion as t
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . ay over the course. Sheought not to have started at all. The gen-tleman in charge of her, a good navigatorand thorough business man, was not ayacht-racing skipper, and this defeat set-tled all chance of selling the yacht, andshe had to return to this country her return, she was purchased by P. Douglass, recently the vice-commo-dore of the New York club, and underthe direction of the late Captain RobertFish, she was hipped out, and beganat once a most successful career. Marine architects differ inopinion as to the value of thealteration. The builders ofthe Sappho, to this day, areof the opinion that shewas as fast before asafter the alteration,and that her excessof sail - carryingpower, resulting was remarkable as having had for prizescups presented by James G. Bennett, Jr.,then the vice-commodore of the Mr. Bennett first became a memberof the New York Yacht Club, there was astrong prejudice against him, on the partof some of the older and more aristocratic. from the hipping, was more than counter-balanced by the increased resistance. Thefact, however, is patent, she was a failurebefore, and a grand success after the altera-tion. The autumn regatta of the New Yorkclub for 1868 was sailed September 22, and members. He was considered by them asort of parvenu, and it was the influence ofthis feehng that ruled his yacht out whenshe had won the race around T>ong Islandrather than because she had deviated fromthe course by coming through Phun (Uit ;for, as is well known, at c:ertain times of ?First owner William Voorhis, then Win. Krel)s, next John V. Walkr ; present owner Jo-Stph I. I 40 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. the tide, nothinof can be gained bygoing through this passage. GraduaUy, however, Mr. Bennettstrue sportsmanlike spirit foundproper recognition in the cUib, andon his return from the great oceanrace — he having phickily gone outand returned on his yacht
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