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Identifier: yachtsyachtingwi00cozz (find matches)
Title: Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Cozzens, Frederic Schiller, 1846-1928
Subjects: Yachts Yachting
Publisher: New York, Cassell & company, ltd
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Durant, at that time owner of the schooner Iti/cr, gave one at Newport, and there was an ocean sweepstakes from Clarks Point, off New Bedford, twenty miles to sea and return, and to be made in five hours. Of course, it was not made in that time.The Poillons, meanwhile, not having been able to secure a purchaser for the Sappho, had sent her to England for sale, and she sailed a match around the Isle of Wight. It was a sweepstakes, ^2entrance money; the race to be made in nine hours. The Sappho entered at 310 tons. Cutters were to have two thirds of their tonnage added.There were no square sails allowed,but in fore and aft canvas there was no limit. No greater amount of time than twenty minutes to be allowed in any event. Evidently, the big Yankee schooner did not frighten John Bull to any great extent, for the cutter Owiara undertook to sail the Sappho on even terms, while respected English yachts, she was to have two-thirds of her tonnage added, and was to be classed at 275 tons.The other yachts were the
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IMAGE: MARIA AS SCHOONER MAUD. The Maria, built circa 1846) cutter Condo? (215), and the schooners who came here last summer with the cutter Cambria (\^:^ 2i^A Aline (2\2). The Cam- Genesta. The above were the measure- bria was owned by Mr. Ashbury, and the ments sailed under, the real measurements Aline by Mr., now Sir Richard Sutton, of the Oimara and Condor being 165 and THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 39 129 tons respectively. The allowances were: Sappho allows Oimara ,00; Condor^9.12; Aline^ 9-12; Cambria, 11.55. Oi??ia?^a, allows Condor 6.16; Aline, 6.16; CambiHa, 8.59. There was a fine breeze northwest,and the yachts came in: The Cambria, 6.17.50; Aline, 6.19.55; Oimara, 6.23.10;Condor, 6.25.00; Sappho, 7.58.00. The Sappho lost jib boom off Ventnor, and about half way over the course. She ought not to have started at all. The gentleman in charge of her, a good navigator and thorough business man, was not a yacht-racing skipper, and this defeat settled all chance of selling the yacht, and she had to return to this cou

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