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Identifier: outing29newy (find matches)
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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t blizzardof 1888, four schooners, in-cluding a New York pilot boat T signed by the self-same hand. Wouldthe modern yacht, with her long over-hangs and short keel, have ridden outsuch a gale ? Could it have been pos-sible to hold her hove to at all insuch a tempest? Or would the veryqualities which constitute her quicknessin turning and her speed to windward have rendered her powerless to wrestlewith the whirlwind ? There are a large number of men whowould sail racing yacnts provided suchcraft were adaptable, as were the schooners of the past generation, to all-roundpurposes. There are a limited num-ber who are willing to maintain costly yachts suitable only for racing. A racing sportsman wants the fastest yacht in her class. That is right! Heshould have it. He orders the de-signer to lay down the fastestboat possible in accordancewith the rules. The designerworks up to the full ofhis abilities, and thatalso is right. If theresulting master-piece turns outto be a craftof such acharacter
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Photograph by J. S. Johnston, N. Y. Image: yacht ELSEMARIE. Else Marie (ship, 1894) (Else Marie (yacht, 1894)) and a down-East smack, and also the stanch yawl Cythera, sailed out of New York Bay within a few hours ofeach other. All were lost in that fatalstorm. The little schooner Iroquois rodethrough the fearful fury of that tempest and was hove-to riding to a canvasdrag for a couple of days, oil beingpumped the while from her bows. Last year the swift Amorita was launched from the yards where the Iroquois had been built, having been de- that, her races having been sailed, shemust needs be dismantled and laid up until the next great contest shall callher out, then there is that muchtreasure, for the meantime, anchoredto the bottom, that much sport lost to somebody. If yachtsmen consider thatthe ideal craft shall be such as are capable of flying with the greatest pos-sible speed in smooth water over thelittle triangles in Long Island Soundand useless for other purposes, that is 17° OUTING FOR NOVEMBER. their affair. But if such is the case, whynot remo

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