King Edward VIIas a sportsman . sfully against an American racingmachine with the honours of the America Cup stillthick upon her, and admirably sailed and handledby the redoubtable American skipper. Captain HankHaff. The two great rival boats met for the first time inthe Corinthian match of the Mudhook Club on theClyde, two other competitors, Valkyrie and Satanita^forming the remainder of the field. It was adismal morning, blowing fresh from the southward ;and while Britannia, Vigilant, and Satanita carriedwhole mainsails, Valkyrie had the small reef down, jib-headed top-sails being aloft on a
King Edward VIIas a sportsman . sfully against an American racingmachine with the honours of the America Cup stillthick upon her, and admirably sailed and handledby the redoubtable American skipper. Captain HankHaff. The two great rival boats met for the first time inthe Corinthian match of the Mudhook Club on theClyde, two other competitors, Valkyrie and Satanita^forming the remainder of the field. It was adismal morning, blowing fresh from the southward ;and while Britannia, Vigilant, and Satanita carriedwhole mainsails, Valkyrie had the small reef down, jib-headed top-sails being aloft on all. Unfortunately,while manoeuvring for the start, Satanita, who wasalways rather difficult to handle in narrow waters,collided with Valkyrie, cutting into her on the portside nearly amidships with such violence that in lessthan ten minutes she was a sunken wreck. To makematters infinitely worse, one of her crew received fatalinjuries, and the wonder was that this should havebeen the only casualty. Satanitas bows were badly 312. o King Edward as a Yachtsman damaged, and it was some weeks before she couldrace again. Britannia got away with a fine start from Vigilant^and, after having most of the luck of the race, won anexciting match by thirty-three seconds. Two or threedays later, in the Queens Cup match of the RoyalClyde Club, the two cutters met again in fine weather,with a wind which gave them a true dead to windwardand leeward trial. Britannia got the better of the start,and weather-bowing her rival all the way, ran homeand finished the first round with a lead of seventeenseconds. The same tactics were pursued in the secondhalf of the race, but Vigilant wrested the lead fromBritannia when gybing round the Kilcreggan markafter the run back, and finished with a lead of sixty-seven seconds ; however, Britannias time allowancegave her a comfortable victory. The scene of en-thusiasm both ashore and afloat at the finish of thisrace was something quite unparalleled in the annals o
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