Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . There was a fresh breeze from north by eastto east by north, and the Breeze carriedaway her bowsprit, and the Cornelia sprungher mast, but came home a winner. Next year there was again two daysracing, June 6 and 7, the first day over Sandy Hook, bound out, and had to giveup. By this time the yachtsmen had gotto protesting quite lively against eachother, and regatta committees liad plentyof work after the races, decicHng (jiicstionsof violation of rules. lu there was TJIK JIISrOKY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. also two days racin
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . There was a fresh breeze from north by eastto east by north, and the Breeze carriedaway her bowsprit, and the Cornelia sprungher mast, but came home a winner. Next year there was again two daysracing, June 6 and 7, the first day over Sandy Hook, bound out, and had to giveup. By this time the yachtsmen had gotto protesting quite lively against eachother, and regatta committees liad plentyof work after the races, decicHng (jiicstionsof violation of rules. lu there was TJIK JIISrOKY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. also two days racing over these same twocourses, with six starters on the first day,and but four on the second. This, how-ever, was a memorable year, for this wasthe summer that the schooner Americacame out and sailed across the ocean. On Friday, May 9, 1851, at a generalmeeting of the Royal Yacht Squadron, acup valued at $100 was offered for com-petition by yachts of all nations, the course. was that the end of the match was a meredrift, but had there been an allowance fordifference of size, the Am-ora would havebeen beaten by less than two minutes, al-though, when passing the Needles, on thereturn, she was full eight miles astern, andthe rest of the fleet out of sight astern. I may say a word in passing of the otherrace sailed by the America in Britishwaters, before she was sold by her Ameri-can owners. This race is not so wellknown as the other for the cup which stillbears her name. This was a match sailedAugust 28,1851, with the schooner Titania(100). The course was from the Nab to astation twenty miles away, either to theleeward or windward, as the case mightbe. There the first part of the raceended, and ^50 was to be awarded to thewinner. The yachts were then to be againstarted, on the return, and another ^50depended on the finish. The wind atthe start was fresh from northwest,increasing to a gale, and haulingto north by west. In the runoff, the America beat theTitan
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