Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . 000 cups, one forschooners and one for sloops, open to anyyacht-club in the world, several of theschooners of the New York club andsloops of that and other clubs went found a miserable harbor, very diffi-cult of entrance, and an open roadsteadwith poor anchorage outside; and camehome vowing that nothing should temptthem there again. These were the yachts which wentdown. Schooners: Sappho^ Datmt-less, Rambler, Alarm, Wanderer,Columbia, Palmer, Madeleine, TidalWave, Madgie, Eva and Sun-shine. Sloops : Grade andVindex,
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . 000 cups, one forschooners and one for sloops, open to anyyacht-club in the world, several of theschooners of the New York club andsloops of that and other clubs went found a miserable harbor, very diffi-cult of entrance, and an open roadsteadwith poor anchorage outside; and camehome vowing that nothing should temptthem there again. These were the yachts which wentdown. Schooners: Sappho^ Datmt-less, Rambler, Alarm, Wanderer,Columbia, Palmer, Madeleine, TidalWave, Madgie, Eva and Sun-shine. Sloops : Grade andVindex, of the New York, and 39^ miles. If the affair was remarkablefor anything, it was for the sailing of theschooner Wanderer on the passage a nice working breeze dead ahead, shebeat the Sappho and Dauntlesshandsomely. In an all day beat,the breeze steady, she led theDauntless about an hour andthe Sappho over an hourand a quarter. And shehas never sailed remark-ably well since. Cap-tain Bob Fish wason board of heron this occasion,and said onarrival atCape May,. Daphne of the Atlantic club. IMic racewas sailed July 4, from a point off thehotels at Cape May, to and around theFive Fathom Light-ship ; thence five milesnortheast to a stake-boat, and back tothe place of departure, a total distance of tiiat he could make her do better. He to alter her trim, and did so,and the day, in the race, she wasnowhere. The Sappho was bound uj) too day, the lanyards of her rigging were 52 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. eased a trifle, and she beat all the otheryachts with ease. The Dauntless^ Sappho and Wandererraced from Sandy Hook to the Cape MayLight-ship for a $500 cup, a little privatearrangement; and as stated, the Wandererwon. The schooner Dreadnought madeher first appearance in this trip to CapeMay, but her performance on the waydown did not warrant Captain Samuels inentering her for the race, and although she iron, for one thing, and I think that in
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