Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . scuddingbefore a hard gale,December 19, under adouble-reefed foresailand fore staysail. Atnine oclock in theevening, she took a seaaboard which washed six of her crew outof the cockpit, and they were lost. Theboat was then obliged to lay to for fivehours, under her double-reefed foresail. It was in 1867 that the schooner yachtSappho made her first appearance. Shewas built in Brooklyn, by the Poillons, onspeculation ; a deep keel vessel, with finerlines than had been the fashion previous tothat, and her builders confidently exp
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . scuddingbefore a hard gale,December 19, under adouble-reefed foresailand fore staysail. Atnine oclock in theevening, she took a seaaboard which washed six of her crew outof the cockpit, and they were lost. Theboat was then obliged to lay to for fivehours, under her double-reefed foresail. It was in 1867 that the schooner yachtSappho made her first appearance. Shewas built in Brooklyn, by the Poillons, onspeculation ; a deep keel vessel, with finerlines than had been the fashion previous tothat, and her builders confidently expected that she would prove faster than anyyacht afloat. She did so prove afterwards,but her early career was not sailed her first race off New Lon-don, August 7, 1867, a match of thirty-five miles for a cup offered by the com-modore of the club, in which five sloopsand seven schooners started. There was athick fog, and some of the yachts did notreturn until after midnight. The schoonerEi^a was the only one that made the raceinside of the time £.6 August 10, of this same year, the Sapphowas again entered by her builder, , in a race off Newport, the coursebeing from Brentons Reef to a stake boatanchored about a mile east by north fromthe lighthouse on Sandy Point, Block Island,returning to a point off Port Adams, therace to be made in eight hours. She camein second to the Palmer by two minutesactual time, and, considering the difference * Originally owned by Mr. Pierre Lorillard, and now by Mr. Fred. F. Ayers. THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 37
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