Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . would not have attracted any entries thisyear, had it not been that the owners ofthe Wanderer and Idler desired to givethe Canadian visitor a chance. GeneralButler desired to exhibit the America as awinner, and the owner of the Tidal Wave,desiring to sell her, thought it would addto her value if she could win this here I may say that, if he had ex-pended a few hundred dollars for newropes and sails, it is very probable that shewould have been the victor ; certainly shewould have had a long lead at the BrentonsReef L
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . would not have attracted any entries thisyear, had it not been that the owners ofthe Wanderer and Idler desired to givethe Canadian visitor a chance. GeneralButler desired to exhibit the America as awinner, and the owner of the Tidal Wave,desiring to sell her, thought it would addto her value if she could win this here I may say that, if he had ex-pended a few hundred dollars for newropes and sails, it is very probable that shewould have been the victor ; certainly shewould have had a long lead at the BrentonsReef Light-ship, as she showed a betterturn of speed on the reach along the coastthan either of the other yachts, and al-though continually breaking down, she wasthe first to turn the mark. The Countess of Dujfcrin did not enterfor this race, but she started with the THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. yachts• just to see what she could do,her owner said. In his heart of hearts, hebeheved he was going to come home at theend of the race far in advance of any of the secretarys certificate, aheady Mr. Smiths tiipe-hne, she was over all, feet water-line, beam, 7!4 feet deep. The Atlantic Yacht Club this yearstarted from Glen Cove on its annualcruise July 30, and it did not muster avery large fleet, but it was larger than onprevious years. There were the schoonersTriton, Peerless, and Agnes, and the sloopsUndine, Orion, Nimbus, Myra, Genia,Lotus, and Hope. There was a greatgathering of open racing craft this yearat Newburgh, the starters numberingtwenty-five, among them being theWilliam R. Brown, a new racerjust built at Brooklyn by Smedley, and out ofthis Newburgh race grewa series of two niatchesbetween this yachtand the Susie S., ZOE. So the starters were the schooners Idler,Wanderer, Tidal Wave, America, andCountess of Dufferin. The Idler won, withthe Wanderer second, the rest the Idler was sold, the cup revertedto
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