SAILING CRAFT 103 



West. The course was sixteen thousand miles ; 

 the prize was the world's championship in 

 clipper - racing. Three ships dropped con- 

 siderably astern. But the Ariel and Taeping 

 raced up the Channel side by side, took in their 

 pilots at the same time, and arrived within 

 eight minutes of each other. The Ariel arrived 

 first ; but the Taeping won, as she had left 

 twenty minutes later. The total time was 

 ninety-nine days. A very different, but still 

 more striking, record is the longest daily run 

 ever made entirely under sail. This was, in 

 one sense at least, an Anglo-American record ; 

 for the ship, appropriately called the Lightning, 

 was built by that master craftsman, Donald 

 M'Kay of Boston, and sailed by a British crew. 

 She made no less than 436 sea miles, or 502 

 statute miles, within the twenty-four hours. 



There are no individual Bluenose rivals of 

 these mighty champions. But the Bluenoses 

 more than held their own, all round, in any 

 company and on any sea. So it is well worth 

 our while to end this story of a thousand 

 years — from the Vikings till to-day — by going 

 aboard a Bluenose vessel with a Bluenose crew 

 when both were at their prime. 



The Victoria is manned by the husbands, 

 fathers, sons, and brothers of the place where 



