Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . , and Knickerbocker Yacht Clubs,than in the others I have named. In 1866, however, the Brooklyn club wasbut nine years old, the Jersey City buteight, the Boston but one, and the AtlanticClub just organized. Practically, all the yachtsmen of this sec-tion belonged to the New York YachtClub, and in those early days, fewjoined it who were not practicalyachtsmen. This very brilliant featof which I am writing, did muchto attract to its rolls gentlemenfrom all the professions of had been ample time for probability
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . , and Knickerbocker Yacht Clubs,than in the others I have named. In 1866, however, the Brooklyn club wasbut nine years old, the Jersey City buteight, the Boston but one, and the AtlanticClub just organized. Practically, all the yachtsmen of this sec-tion belonged to the New York YachtClub, and in those early days, fewjoined it who were not practicalyachtsmen. This very brilliant featof which I am writing, did muchto attract to its rolls gentlemenfrom all the professions of had been ample time for probability is, that inasmuch as the twogentlemen who first made the match wereenthusiastic yachtsmen and keen sportsmen,they needed no other inspiration than theirown love of sport, and had no other. Igive the original agreement verbatim. George and Franklin Osgood betPierre Lorillard, Jr., and others, $30,000that the Fleetwing can beat the Vesta tothe Needles, on the coast of England,yachts to start from Sandy Hook on thesecond Tuesday in December, 1866, to sail. life, and lawyer, the doctor, themerchant, esteemed itan honor to belong tothis famous organization, and its F-;; SCHOONER COMET. members were nearly doubled within theyear. It is said that this ocean match was orig-inally made as an after-dinner inspirationover the wine; but although this might havebeen true as to two of the gentlemen engagedin it, it certainly was not as to the third,for he came in subsequently, and after there according to the rules of the New YorkYacht Club, waiving allowance of sails to be carried are mainsail, fore-sail, jib, flying jib, jib topsail, fore and maingaff topsails, storm staysail and trysail. This shows that in the process of evolu-tion, schooners had come to a fore top-mast and to a flying jib boom. At first THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 35 they only had a httle stump of a bowspritand a short main topmast—more a flag-staffthan anything else — on which was hoisteda
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