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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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(81) ; Foam(ill) ; Tidal Wave (153) ; Vesta (201) ;Sprite (77) ; Rambler (242). The Eastern Club had the schoonersRebecca (77) ; Belle (45) ; Edith (47)Juniata (81) ; Vivien (52) ; EthelJulia (80) ; Ia?ithe (35) ; GlimpseDawn (41) ; Silvie (106) ;and Zephyr (41). In sloops, the New Yorkclub entered the Vixeii (32Sadie (26); Grade (58);and Vindex (61). The Eastern club hadsloops Alarm (21) ; Alice(24) ; Coming (54) ; Violet(15) ; Narragansett (28). Things have changed relatively sincethat time, and to-day the Eastern Club hasthe finest club-house in America, on Mar-blehead Neck, and some of its schooners — the Ambassadress^ Fortuna, Gitana, etc. — are the peers of any in the world ; whilethe Puritan, Thetis, and a half-dozen otherbig sloops cannot be beaten by single-stick vessels anywhere. This course at Swampscott was 39Xmiles in length, and there started thirty-three yachts, of which thirty finished thecourse. It was the largest number whichhad ever competed in American waters.
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KKOLIC, SAN I-KANCIS( 54 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. Now-a-days we think nothing of startingover a hundred. The Columbia took theEastern Chib prize, and also the Svvamp-scott, and the Grade took both of thesloop prizes. The wind was moderatefrom east-south-east. The cup awarded to the Tidal IVaiJc onthe occasion of the muddle about the buoys^)(i and lo, was not retained by the ownerof that schooner. He returned it to theclub, and it was again raced for over theBlock Island course, August 21, 1871 ; theconditions of the deed of gift providingthat it may be competed for over either ofthese club courses ; and to make thematter interesting, the flag officers sub-scribed for a cup for sloops. Eight schoon-ers and four sloops started, and the prizeswere won by the schooner Madgie and thesloop Sadie. The Sappho made the besttime, but was beaten 45^28. by the Madgion time allowance. August 22, 1871, an attempt was madeto sail for the Douglass $1,000 Cup overthe 64-mile course off New-po

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