Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . to have desired to doso. Cutters were common enough afterthis, but I have not found that owners ofthem cared to keep them in commissionany longer than it was comfortable todo so. It was in March, 1881, that we again heardof a challenge for the Americas Cup. It •. Jolin N. McCaulry, Haven. 92 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. came again from Canada, and was promptedsolely by the desire of Captain Cuthbert,the builder of the schooner Countess ofDufferin, for the advertisement and conse-quent increase of business which the n
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . to have desired to doso. Cutters were common enough afterthis, but I have not found that owners ofthem cared to keep them in commissionany longer than it was comfortable todo so. It was in March, 1881, that we again heardof a challenge for the Americas Cup. It •. Jolin N. McCaulry, Haven. 92 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. came again from Canada, and was promptedsolely by the desire of Captain Cuthbert,the builder of the schooner Countess ofDufferin, for the advertisement and conse-quent increase of business which the noto-riety of building a challenging yacht wouldgive. The schooner he had built had proveda failure, but he asserted he could build a thiit ensued, a writer in one of the NewYork weeklies incautiously suggested thatthe Bay of Quinte Yacht Club was hardlyas important as the New York Yacht Club,and that the social position of the membersof the latter was, perhaps, rather more ele-vated than that of the members of the chal-lenging club ; and he raised such a storm. ORIVA. sloop which could beat any of the Ameri-can single stick vessels, and a schoonercould not be put against her with any chanceof success, because there was, in the NewYork Yacht Club rules, no allowance fordifference of rig. The Royal Canadian Club had had enoughof Captain Cuthbert, and of challenges forthe America s Cup, but there was a spiritedlittle club at Belleville, Ontario, with anattache of the local newspaper as its secre-tary, and its members were delighted withthe prospect of being brought prominentlyinto notice as the challenger for this cele-brated trophy ; so probably for the first timeoutside of Belleville, Ontario, the Bay ofQuinte Yacht Club was heard of. In thecourse of the preliminary correspondence 1 Cutter Oriva. Owned by of indignation in Belleville that he repentedhis incautious utterance in sackcloth andashes. However, the Bay of Quinte YachtClub at its annual meeting adopted a reso-lution
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