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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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light heart and a fair sense of humorit is not hard to turn small inconven-iences and even mishaps into a laugh. And there are compensations. Whatof those wonderful days when the skyis blue, the sunshine bright, the watersparkling, and the wind steady and true?What of those incomparable nights, softand mellow, when the white sail glis-tens in the moonlight and one lies com-fortably on deck drinking in the beautyabout and listening to the gentle swishof the water under the bow? What ofthose thrilling sails in the darkness, whenthe wind sings a mad song through theshrouds, the waves crash over the side,and one feels the boat leap like a livingthing through the inky blackness, seem-ingly eager herself to rush on to victory?Sport? Why there is nothing like it. The sport is still in its infancy, butit is developing fast, and rapidly makingrecruits. Time was, and not many yearsago, when one spoke with befitting re-spect of the few who dared venture out-side of sheltered waters in supposedly
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AGILITY MEANS MUCH IN SMALL BOAT RACING frail and unseaworthy racing craft. Butthings have changed. Yachtsmen havecome to appreciate how much a well-built little boat will stand, if properlyhandled, and it has given them confi-dence. They have also perfected them-selves in the art of navigation and lostall fear of unconfined horizons. Onehas but to compare the early fleets thattook part in the Block Island race ofthe New York Athletic Club, now theclassic small-boat feature of the Easternseason, with those of to-day, to note theremarkable progress made. Six boatstook part in the event at its introduction,and nearly fifty crossed the line last year. But even more conclusive was thecontest for the yachting cups of 1910,which were competed for over a two-hundred-and-ten-mile course that circledLong Island. Most of the distance wascovered in the open ocean in sight of adangerous coast which for some seventy-five miles offers no harbor or shelter toput into in case of storm. Nevertheless,t

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