Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . ettle, Frolic, Twi-light, Carrie, Khedive, Water Lily, Ah Sin,Haidee, and Annie. Many of these wereyachts belonging to New London. TheMaggie B., at this time, was owned by thecelel)rated Tom Thumb, who was amember of the lUooklyn cliii), and had a 56 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. racing crew of Bridgeport fishermen, whomade the Maggie very hard to beat. Theirdiminutive owner was immensely popularwith them. The Sophia, another of these sloops, hada most melancholy ending, having capsizedand sunk in the Sound, a few years ag
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . ettle, Frolic, Twi-light, Carrie, Khedive, Water Lily, Ah Sin,Haidee, and Annie. Many of these wereyachts belonging to New London. TheMaggie B., at this time, was owned by thecelel)rated Tom Thumb, who was amember of the lUooklyn cliii), and had a 56 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. racing crew of Bridgeport fishermen, whomade the Maggie very hard to beat. Theirdiminutive owner was immensely popularwith them. The Sophia, another of these sloops, hada most melancholy ending, having capsizedand sunk in the Sound, a few years ago,with loss of several lives. I mention this regatta of the Brooklynclub, because my readers may have thought York club, although the Eastern and theBrooklyn, fostered and encouraged by theNew York, were coming into prominence. It was on this cruise of the New Yorkclub, and while at Newport, that it receivedMr. Ashburys proposition to come here inthe schooner Livonia for the AmericasCup. As that gentleman has been somewhatmisrepresented, I will state exactly what. the title of these chapters a misnomer, andthat instead of being a history of Americanyachting, it was simply a history of theNew York Yacht Club. But in point offact, down to this time, there was littleelse of American yachting save the New his proposition was. He was to comerepresenting twelve different clubs, and inhis letter he says distinctly : If theLivonia shall win a majority of the races,the cup would then go to the club underwhose flag I sailed in the last and final THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 57 race ; and he wanted a series of twelveraces. He has been represented as desir-ing to sail twelve races, and if he won one-out of the twelve^ to take the cup. I feellike saying that Mr. Ashbury was nottreated over and above fairly by the NewYork club, and am glad to have him setright on this important point. As I have said, the club received thisproposition at a regular club meetingheld on the Dauntless^ and s
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