£34 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



[Oct. 13, 1887. 



through a great deal of "weather," as proved hv the Brownie hav- 

 ing been sailed round from the Thames, and on the passage she 

 ran from Harwich to Lowestoft under eight hours. Their draft 

 of water is only 9iu. with centerhoards up, with all stores on board. 

 Either can he hauled about on shore fey two men; that is then- 

 ordinary crew, and, therefore, thev are at no disadvantage on 

 such a cruise compared with the smaller boats, the Doris having 

 been hauled over the Dyko and taken up the Muck Fleet by hex- 

 crew without assistance when prospecting camp sites for the 

 cruise. 



The Cassy has already been described in Hie Field, and her lines 

 appear in "Yacht and Boat Sailing." She was at the cruise with 

 others of the same build. The disadvantage of this type is that it 

 is not large enough to carry two men with stores, etc., while it is 

 largo enough and heavy enough to be more awkward, in fact, 

 impossible for one to haul about except on wheels. It is a half- 

 way stage between Pearl and Brownie, or Doris, like the goose, 

 "an awkward bird, too much for one, and not enough for two." 

 Of course this was written with special reference to the cruise 

 that has just taken place, and without any desire to disparage the 

 good qualities of the Cassy, which, make her so suitable for the 

 use to which she was designed, single-handed sailing on the Hum- 

 ber and the neighboring coasts, where something larger than an 

 ordinary canoe of R.C.C. dimensions is necessary for comfort and 

 safety. Sabrina and Muriel are very much alike. Two powerful 

 boats, about 15ft. long, and a little over 3ft. beam. Sabina was 

 built for Dr. Paul this spring, by Bond, and is about aa large a 

 boat as one hand can put afloat or haul up at the M.O.O. slip, and 

 the proof of their sea-going quality is, that after the meet they 

 sailed round to the Thames. 



Of the eight Mersey boats present, seven were new this year, 

 and six of them were, built by Bond. 



Of the second class canoes that went the cruise, Mr. Cox's Lita, 

 14ft.X33in., built by Bond, is a very good example of what can be 

 made of an R. C. C. cruiser, She has her faults, no doubt, but 

 want of pace is not one of them. She did her work well, and was 

 sailed all through the bad weather, when a good many other boats 

 took to the paddle and towline. She has a little t oo much rise of 

 floor for most people, but carries her lead well, and always seemed 

 to sail better with her duffle on board. 



Any account of boats at the meet would not be complete without 

 a mention of Mr. Scott's old cruiser Jacare. Not by any means a 

 handsome boat, and with no centerboard. she paddled extremely 

 well, and was nearly always first in camp. Where her owner 

 managed to stow everything that came out of her was surprising, 

 and as far as having everything necessary on board was concerned 

 she was certainly a marvel. 



There were some Humber yawls, notably one belonging to Mr. 

 Holmes, and one to Mr. Jacobs, which exceeded in size any of the 

 boats already mentioned, being about 19ft. X 5ft., fine, able boats 

 that would live through very rough water. These boats had no 

 centerhoards, and only about Oin. of keel, their draft being about 

 15in., and the rig being the canoe battened balance lug mainsail 

 wtth sprit mizzen. They could carry a crew of four with ease, and 

 were very comfortable boats to cruise and camp in, but, of course, 

 they could not he hauled about and taken up the shallow waters of 

 the Muck Fleet like the smaller boats. 



OAKLAND C. C.-On Sept. 25 the Corinthian Y. C. gave a 

 reception at their club house, Point Tiburon, to the Oakland C. 

 C. Early in the morning thirteen of the club canoes were taken 

 in tow by a tug and proceeded to Point Tiburon, where a race was 

 arranged for a silk pennant offered by the Corinthian Y. C. The 

 course was triangular, two rounds, making three miles. Ten 

 canoes started, the finish being timed Ronita, 12:53:3:2; Gipsv, 12: 

 55:15; Alista, 12:511; Mystic, 12:56:30; Flirt, 12:57; Zoe Mou, 12:59. 

 After the race a dinner was served at the club house, followed by 

 a sail in the yachts of the club, Spray, Ripple, Freda, Thetis, Pil- 

 grim and Windward. At 5 P. M. the tug started home with the 

 fleet, only Bonita going back under sail. 



BUILDING NOTES.— Mr. H. M. Spragne. whose boat shop at 

 Parrishvilie, N. Y. was burned out entirely last August, has 

 erected a two story building, 50x22ft. on the old site, and is better 

 equipped for work than before the lire. 



fachdng. 



THE REVISION OF THE DEED OF GIFT. 



INcommeuting last week on the deed of gift, andits interpretation, 

 we touched on the desirability of permanence in such a docu- 

 ment, and suggested that any needed improvements might be 

 made by such action of the club as would establish a precedent 

 without recourse to anything so radical as a second alteration of 

 the deed of gift itself. While the article in question was in type 

 the New York Y. C. held a meeting, at which a committee was 

 appointed for the purpose of amending the deed of gift in co- 

 operation with Mr. Geo. L. Schuyler; so that the entire question 

 may be considered as open for argument, pending a decision which 

 we hope may be both satisfactory and final. It is a most difficult 

 matter for any body of men, however well informed, to frame 

 conditions which shall be permanent and binding, and yet which 

 will stand the test of time and of the constant change and im- 

 provements that are found everywhere. The vital importance of 

 protecting such a trust as the Cup from any unauthorized tinker- 

 ing, or even from too frequent changes, good as well as bad, is too 

 plainly evident to need proof; but at the same time yachting is 

 constantly changing, boats, methods and rules must improve with 

 time, and some provision must be made for the natural process of 

 growth. To meet these two conditions, then, but one plan is pos- 

 sible; the deed of gift must be framed broadly and must be based 

 only on the general principles of fair play which govern all sports, 

 while as to the minor details they must be left largely to an inter- 

 pretation of the general specifications in a liberal and sportsman- 

 like spirit, and to the establishment, of such precedents as will 

 insure an adherence to these principles on the part of all to whom 

 the temporary guardianship of the Cup may fall. 



The history of the deed of gift is nriefly as follow: After re- 

 maining in the hands of the original owners of the America from 

 the time it was won in 1851 un til 1857, the Royal Yacht Squadron 

 Cup was presented to the New York Y. C. in the latter year, with 

 the following conditions attached: 



"Any organized yacht club of any foreign country shall always 

 be entitled, through any one or more of its members, to claim the 

 right of sailing a match for this Cup with any yacht or other 

 vessel of not less than thirty or more than three hundred tons, 

 measured by the Custom House rule of the country to which the 

 vessel belongs. 



"The parties desiring to sail for the Cup may make any match 

 with the yacht club in possession of the same that may be deter- 

 mined upon by mutual consent; but in case of disagreement as to 

 terms, the match shall be sailed over the usual course for the an- 

 nual regatta of the yacht club in possession of the Cup, and sub- 

 ject to its rules and sailing regulations— the challenging party be- 

 ing bound to give six mouths' notice in writing, fixing the day 

 they wish to start. This notice to embrace the length, Custom 

 House measurement, rig and name of the vessel. 



"It is to be distinctly understood that the Cup is to be the prop- 

 erty of the club, and not of the members thereof, or owners of the 

 vessel winning in a match; and that the condition of keeping it 

 open to he sailed for by yacht clubs of all foreign countries upon 

 the terms above laid down, shall forever attach to it, thus making 

 it perpetually a challenge cup for friendly competition between 

 foreign countries." 



The gentlemen who gave the Cup were John C. Stevens, Edwin 

 A. Stevens, Hamilton SVilkes, J. Beekman Finley and George L. 

 Schuyler. 



It is a fact generally overlooked that the manner in which the 

 Cup came into the possession of the gentlemen has not, and never 

 had, any bearing on the international races, the Cup was simply 

 their property, no matter whether won by them or purchased for 

 this purpose, and it was dedicated by them to the promotion of 

 international yacht racing. It was originally offered as a prize 

 for an open race and was won by the America from a fleet of fif- 

 teen yachts, a comparatively easy task then when the rigs and 

 models of her opponents, as well as the state of yacht racing at 

 the time are taken into account. "With the yachts of to-day, how- 

 ever, a large number of boats fairly equal in speed, it would be 

 almost an impossibility for one yacht, however speedy, to win 

 from a dozen or m ^re boats of a different nation, all sailing not 

 to beat each other, but her alone. AVere such conditions adhered 

 to all international competition must cease at once as far as the 

 America's Cup is concerned. It sounds well to say that as Amer- 

 ica won it EroiO a fleet it should be defended, as in 1870, by a fleet, 

 but the faliacy of this reasoning is apparent to every fair-minded 

 sportsman. Further, when America sailed for the Cup every one 

 of her fifteen competitors was also sailing to win it, but when 

 Livonia sailed against twelve yachts at New York every one of 

 the twelve was sailing, not to win the Cup herself, but to prevent 

 the British yacht from wiuning it, a vastly different matter. 



Under the old deed of gift four series of matches were sailed. 



the last being with a yacht of American type that was towed to 

 New York through t he canals on her bilge, being fitted out here, 

 In order to prevent the bringing of a challenger by rail, by canal 

 or by an ocean steamer, and to confine the challenge to seagoing 

 craft, the Cup was returned by the club to Mr. Schuyler, the only 

 survivor of the five donors and by him was again presented to the 

 club with the following new deed of gift: 



"Any organized yacht club of a foreign country, incorporated, 

 patented or licensed by the Legislature, admiralty or other execu- 

 tive department, having for its annual regatta an ocean water 

 0011*86 on the sea or on an arm of the sea, (or one which combines 

 both), practicable for vessels of 800 tons, shall always be entitled, 

 through one or more of its members, to the right of sailing a 

 match for this Cup, with a yacht or other vessel propelled by sails 

 only, and constructed in the country to which the challenging 

 club belongs, against any one yacht or vessel as aforesaid, con- 

 structed in the country of the club holding the Cup. 



"The yacht or vessel to be of not less than 30 nor more than 300 

 tons, mcasnred by the Custom House rule in use by the country of 

 the challenging party. 



"The challenging party shall give six months' notice in writing, 

 naming the day for the proposed race, which day shall not be later 

 than seven months from the date of the notice. 



"The parties intending to sail for the Cup may, by mutual con- 

 sent, make any arrangement satisfactory to both as to the date, 

 course, time allowance, number of trials, rules and sailing regula- 

 tions, and any and all other conditions of the match, in which case 

 also the six months' notice may be waived. 



"In case the parties cannot mutually agree upon the terms of 

 a match, then the challenging purty shall have the right to con- 

 test for the Cup in one trial, sailed over the usual course of the 

 annual regatta of the club holding the Cup, subject to its rules 

 and sailing regulat ions, the challenged party not boing required 

 to uame its representative until the time agreed upon for the 

 start. 



"Accompanying the six months' notice, there must bo a Custom 

 House certificate of measurement, and a statement of the dimen- 

 sions, rig and name of vessel. 



"No vessel which has been defeated in a match for this Cup 

 can be again selected by any club for its representative until after 

 a contest for it by some other vessel has intervened, or until after 

 the expiration of two years from the time such contest has taken 

 place. 



"Vessels intending to compete for thiB Cup must proceed under 

 sail on their own bottoms to the port where the contest is to take 

 place. 



"Should the club holding the Cup be for any cause dissolved, 

 the Cup shall be handed over to any club Of the same nationality 

 it may select which comes under the foregoing rules. 



"It is to be distinctly understood that the Cup is to be the 

 property of the club and not of the owners of the vessel winning 

 it in a match, and that the condition of keeping it open to be 

 Bailed for by organized yacht clubs of all foreign countries, upon 

 the terms above laid down, shall forover attach to it, thus making 

 it perpetually a Challenge Cup for friendly competition between 

 foreign countries. "Geobge L. Schuyler." 



The principal changes were the limitations to clubs having deep- 

 water courses and to vessels coming under sail only to race; a id 

 while in a general way there is little fault to be found with the 

 conditions here laid down, it Is evident that they do not fully cover 

 the ground, and that many loopholes are left for misunderstanding 

 and disagreement, and one such question has come up this year— 

 the waterline length. 



To auy one -who studies the original deed and bears in mind the 

 general practice of yachtsmen and builders thirty years since, it is 

 evident that no reference to waterline length was intended, nor is 

 there any intimation in the revised deed that a change in this re- 

 spect was inferred, though not specified. To-day the load Waiter* 

 line is the common standard of comparison among all yachtsmen, 

 whatever their local rules may be, and that only should be re- 

 quired of the challenger, the obsolete tonnage and Custom House 

 measurement clause being dropped entirely. 



Another point on which the deed is not explicit is that of more 

 than one challenge at the same time, or the right of one yacht to 

 challenge while a match with another is pending. If a challenge 

 were received now for a match in April, there is nothing in the 

 deed of gift to prohibit a second challenge later for a match in 

 July and a third one in October. The only case of the kind that 

 has yet arisen was that of Galatea's challenge in 1885, when the 

 club agreed to sail her if Genesta failed to win the Cup. As to 

 the desirability of more than one race in a season, it is probable 

 that all future defenders will be fully satisfied with a single match, 

 certainly one each year is enough for the New York Y. C, and we 

 believe that by all sporting precedents the holders would be jus- 

 tified in declining any challenge for something that may not be in 

 their possession when the time for the race arrives. The cham- 

 pion is always guaranteed a certain time in which he is free from 

 challenge after a contest, and this general rule should apply here. 

 The matter should not be left open, however, until the club is con- 

 fronted with two or three simultaneous challenges, but should be 

 decided now, cither to recognize or to specifically prohibit more 

 than one challenge, in a season. 



There is another question that may arise in the event of the 

 Cup going abroad that is certainly worthy of some attention just 

 now. The races are sailed under the rules of the club holding the 

 Cup, and by means of the cast iron provision in the fifth clause of 

 the new deed a refractory challenger maybe forced into almost 

 any terms, on the principle that half a loaf is better than no 

 bread. If, for instance, the Cup were held by a British club and 

 it should lay down such terms as those imposed on Mayflower by 

 the owner of the Arrow, terms that no centerboard yacht should 

 in fairness submit to, in the event of the challenger refusing to 

 agree to the terms the holders could fall back on this clause, offer 

 one race over their club course under their club rules, and under 

 the latter they could at the same time refuse to admit any center- 

 board yacht to a race, as such vessels are prohibited by the British 

 racing rules. Whether or no this would be done, it is possible 

 under the present conditions, and it is by no means improbable, 

 in view of the stand taken by a prominent British yachtsman and 

 by the leading yachting authority in Great Britain in regard to 

 Mayflower this year, that if the Cup should go abroad an attempt 

 would be made either to debar centerboard yachts entirely from 

 efforts to rec ptureitor to cripple them so effectually as to pre- 

 vent any chance of their success. There is little fear of this hap- 

 pening at the hands of such gentlemen as have come here thrice 

 of late to race for the Cup, but it is not so certain if those who 

 have stayed at home and Written about it have any voice in pos- 

 sible contests, and the. point should be settled at once that com- 

 petition for the Cup shall be open to all vessels propelled by sail 

 only and capable of crossing the ocean alone, whatever their con- 

 struction or mechanical features. It is impossible to prohibit 

 racing machines, it may he that some future challenger will be 

 even less of a yacht and more of a machine thau anything yet 

 seen, but such a risk cannot be avoided. It is absolutely essential, 

 however, that the races be open to all types of yachts and that 

 no protection of the national type be possible with any chal- 

 lenger. 



In connection with the fifth clause another idea suggests itself, 

 there is now not hing to prevent a change in the rules of a club 

 after a challenge has been received, in fact we believe that this 

 has been done in the past. Such a course is obviously unfair, and 

 the provision should be made that any changes made in its rules 

 by the club holding the Cup after a challenge has been accepted, 

 should not apply to the Cup races unless with the consent of the 

 challenger. Changes in rules are frequently made and are for the 

 most part for the better, but it might easily occur that, a wise and 

 good rule passed by the club in good faith during the winter or 

 spring would work to the detriment of a challenger then building, 

 and the rules in vogue at the time of sending the challenge should 

 be held to govern the race, unless the change is agreeable to the 

 challenger. 



There is a vital point, however, in which the deed of gift is lack- 

 ing, and which demands a remedy now, before it is open to further 

 abuse; the course over which the races are sailed. It is full time 

 now that the Now York Y. C. concedes this much to modern yacht 

 racing, that important races shall be sailed over fair and open 

 courses where interference and obstructions of all kinds are re- 

 duced to a minimum. Every year gives additional evidence of the 

 utter worthlessness of the present club course for testing yachts. 

 This spring the faults of the course were fully shown, as they have 

 been year after year in both Cup and club races, and yet the club 

 persists in retaining it, in spite of the serious risks involved and 

 the protests of all unprejudiced yachtsmen, both American and 

 foreign. If the club persists iu making at least one of the races 

 a penny show iu a puddle for the benefit mainly of steamboat 

 owners, there is no power to prevent it, but if it has any conception 

 of the importance and dignity which international racing has now 

 attained since Boston has taken it in hand, it will at once give up 

 the inside course forever, and further will stipulate that all future 

 races must be sailed on open sea courses, tree from shoals and 

 headlands, such as outside the Hook, at Newport and at Marble- 

 head. It must not be forgotten that there are courses about Eng- 

 land as bad or nearly so as the New York course, and the New 

 York Y. C. has given a precedent for adopting them that is not 

 likely to be forgotten should the Cup go abroad. Now is the time 

 to formally repudiate this precedent, and to provide that all future 

 races shall be sailed only over open and deep courses! 



There is still another point that demands attention, the pre» 

 arrangement of all future matches between two yachts of approx* 

 iinately equal size and rig. Holding The Cup by a victory of a 

 fleet against a single yacht, of a cutter against a schooner, 

 or of a large yacht over a small one is something repugnant 

 to the instincts of every true yachtsman, who values the ex- 

 citement of sailing or seeing a good race far above the owner- 

 ship of the prize attached to it. Under the deed of gift all of 

 these things are possible, and it is timo that a change be 

 made. There is little danger of two of the points beiug raised, 

 but the last one is found in all the late races, the competition of 

 one side or the other to have the largest boat. Nothing could be 

 more absurd than the proceedings over last year's challenge, the 

 refusal to settle preliminaries in advance, the long state of doubt 

 over Thistle's dimensions or oven her class, the sparring for points 

 during the long interval between the notice of a challenge last 

 October, and the receipt of the challenge in March, and then the 

 hurry to build a little larger boat than the challenger. Now the 

 club is in exactly the same position as before, with an intima- 

 tion of a challenge for next season, find common sense as well 

 as a knowledge of ordinary business methods suggest a plain 

 and simple course that must be more satisfactory to both parties 

 than that of last year. In any ordinary transaction, either of 

 sport or business, the parties always meet and discuss the terms 

 which both will agree to, and there seems no reason why the races 

 for the Cup should be conducted in a different manner. It would 

 certainly seem reasonable that both parties should agree now on 

 the length of yacht to be raced next year, as well as*bn other de- 

 tails, by which means the holders of the Cup will have all winter 

 in which to construct a, fleet if necessary from which to pick a 

 single boat, while the challenger is limited to but one boat- 

 throughout. Certainly this is not unfair to the present holders, 

 nor do they give up any advantage in entering into such an agree- 

 ment. As far as the deed of gift is concerned, this is now possible 

 without any change; but it is full time that the principle be laid 

 down that yachts of approximately equal size shall be raced. 

 This was not possible in the past, as challenger and defender have 

 generally been selected from the existing fleet, but the time has 

 come now when both are especially built for the Cup races, and as 

 such is the case, it should be recognized in the conditions that 

 govern them. 



We submit then the following general conditions as essential 

 and at the same time perfectly fair to all, while they seem well 

 calculated to guard the interests of international racing for ah 

 ihfinite timet 



First— The races shall be open to all legitimate sailing craft 

 capable of proceeding to the point of racing without aid. 



Second— The races snail be sailed only over open water courses, 

 free from shoals and headlands. 



Third— No change in the rules made after a challenge has been 

 accepted shall apply to the races without the consent of the chal- 

 lenger. 



Fourth— The waterline length shall be given in the challenge, 

 the tonnage being omitted. 



Fifth— The question of accepting more than one challenge at a 

 time shall be definitely settled. 



The above suggestions are only in a crude form, and a thorough 

 discussion of the subject may develop points of equal importance. 

 Li regard to outbuilding and the prearrangement of size, all may 

 perhaps bo settled as well by such action of the club as will es- 

 tablish a precedent, as by any formal restriction in the deed of 

 gift. In one way or the other, however, it should receive the 

 earnest attention of the club, as well as of the committee on the 

 deed of gift, as by its moans much may be done to advance the 

 waning fortunes of New York yachting. 



FROM BAY RIDGE TO BOSTON. 



THE great races of the year and the repeated victory for the 

 Boston boats have so engrossed the general attention that 

 events of the first importance to yachtsmen are allowed to paBS 

 without Dotice. In the universal jubilee over the triumph of the 

 new compromise boats all else is swallowed up in the one matter, 

 that Britain has failed again to capture the America's Cup; but if 

 New York would, for her own good, take time to look quietly at 

 her domestic affairs, she would find but little cause for pride or 

 boasting. Everything in yachting from the victory of the Volun- 

 teer downward, tells the same story of the overthrow of the old 

 idols once worshipped by New York yachtsmen, and the failure to 

 supplant them with anything now or modern. The failure of 

 Pocahontas was a surprise to nobody, but as this was not enough, 

 another old time sloop was built to demonstrate the fallacy of 

 modern ideas, and that the world does move backward. Fortun- 

 ately these laudable efforts met with a signal failure when Ana- 

 conda turned tail and ran home at Larchmont. Following close 

 on the heels of this miserable exhibition of the national type came 

 the collapse of another of New York's champions, the disaster to 

 Gracie, the drowning of one man, the peril to the lives of many 

 others, and the narrow escape from a fatal capsize of one of the 

 larger yachts. It seems, however, that even this was not the end. 

 that the dying season had still more in store, and the last blow or 

 all has now fallen when Grayling goes to Boston to be modernized, 

 to be Bursessizecl, to be Bostonized, to an extent that will enable 

 her to keep up with the fleet. 



Grayling's history is an interesting one. Built four years since 

 in the height of the battle between the old and new schools, she 

 was the supreme effort of the defenders of the skimming dish, and 

 the upholders of rule o' thumb methods. Before launching she 

 was heartily condemned by many and as lavishly praised by 

 others, including nearly all the New York papers, and ou her trial 

 trip she vindicated the position of her opponents and covered her 

 friends with confusion by quietly capsizing in the Bay in a puff of 

 wind and sinking to the bottom. The daily papers which to-day 

 speak so loudly for depth and lead ballast, then rushed to her 

 defense with ridiculous excuses and lame attempts to bolster up 

 the wild theories that upset and sank with her. Raised and re- 

 fitted at heavy cost, anciballasted far below her intended water- 

 line, she has proved very fast in her class for three years, but after 

 one trial with the new Sachem last year she dropped from the 

 ranks, and this year has left the new boats. Sachem and Iroquois, 

 to fight alone. In a racing boat with a racing owner this of itself 

 is a sufficient confession of inferiority, hut it is further corro- 

 borated by the fact that last week Grayling sailed with Volunteer 

 for Boston, where she will go into the hands of Mr. Burgess for ex- 

 tensive alterations in hull and rig, a new stern, a deepening of the 

 hull, and a lead keel of 25 tons. Whether or no she will be able to 

 keep up with the procession when she re-enters the racing ranks 

 is a matter of doubt, but this much is certain, she will be angli- 

 cized and Bostonized to a degree that will separate her forever 

 from Bay Ridge, and if she should prove a success it will be but 

 one more for Burgess and Boston, and one less for New York and 

 rule o' thumb. 



Side by side at Poillon's yard in 1883 were Grayling and Fortuna, 

 centerboard and keel; and the criticism passed on Fortuna by one 

 of the great admirers of Grayling was, that she might make a 

 good boarding house, but never would he a yacht. Alter five sea- 

 sons it is amusing to see how this direful prediction has failed. 

 Fortuna has won a place at the head of the keel fleet and has 

 hurried the fastest centerhoards more than once over American 

 courses; she has carried the American flag with credit in foreign 

 waters, and ttiis year has found none ot the British fleet able uT 

 willing to face her on equal terms. Grayling began her career by 

 an escapade that brought wide disgrace to American yachting, 

 her exploits otherwise are confined to races in light and moderate 

 weather, in which she. has proved very fast, but at last she goes 

 over to the enemy, takes to the lead keel that once would have 

 made her "logy," but now is relied on to make her safe and fast. 

 Boston's record is written at home and abroad this season, Volun- 

 teer, Sachem, Pappoose. What is New York's for the year? 

 Palmer, hauled out for conversion to a keel boat; Pocahontas and 

 Anaconda, dead failures as racers; Gracie, narrowly escaping a 

 fatal capsize; Grayling, sent to Boston for a lead keel and English 

 counter. At this time of rejoicing over Volunteer's triumph. New 

 York may be excused for wasting a little time in self-congratula- 

 tion over t he second-hand victory that Boston has won for her 

 thrice in succession, but the sooner she settles down to a thorough 

 consideration of the above hard facts, the better for the future 

 of her yachting interests. 



CYTHERA AND NONPAREIL.— On Oct. 5 a match was sailed 

 between the two 34a wis Cythera, W. A. W. Stewart, and Nonpar- 

 eil, R. B. Pomeroy, the course being from the Narrows around 

 Sandy Hook Lightship. Tho wind was light from the westward, 

 increasing a little later on. Nonpareil led at the start, but Cythera 

 passed her inside the Hook, leading by 3min. at the Lightship, and 

 increasing the distance to 7min. at the finish. Nonpareil won, how- 

 ever, on allowance. The steam yacht Hinda, Mr. F. P. Osborne, 

 arcompanied the yachts 



DORA AND CHAS. WELDE.- A match was sailed on Sept. 30 

 over the Larchmont Y. C. course around Execution, Matinnicock 

 and Captain's Island, 20 miles, between the : loops Dora, owned by 

 Rudolph Oelsner, and Ohas. Welde, owned by Chas. Welde, for 

 $150 per side. The wind was blowing very strong with a good 

 amount of sea in the Sound, and the Welde was soon so badly dis- 

 abled that she put back to Larchmont. Dora sailed the course in- 

 3h, 48m. 



