July 4, 188H.] 



VALKYRE, CUTTER. Designed by G. L. Watson for the Earl of Dunravek 



the westward. Everything that came over the ahoals stopped 

 there. Friday morning at 5:40 we started for New London, wind 

 strong west northwest. Got to Quick's Holl, double reefed main- 

 sail, set No. 2 jib and housed topmast. Had lots of wind and a 

 hard heat. Wind getting to westward, went into Newport, ar- 

 riving at 4:30 P. M. At 8:30 Saturday morning came out of New- 

 port in a strong west northwest breeze, with reef ia mainsail and 

 topmast housed. Beat all the wav to New London, where we 

 arrived at 5:10 P. M. We have beat all ihe way here, and been 

 under water all the time, but the Papoose is a little darling and 

 stands up just as well under her new rig as she did before. I 

 would like to have had some of the new 40's along with us." 



Kathleen's turn will come next, as she is entered for the races 

 at Marblehead on July 13. 



STATEN ISLAND ATHLETIC CLUB REGATTA. 



rpHE Yachting Department of the Staten Island Athletic Club, 

 A. founded two years since, held its first regatta June 29, the 

 courses being the Upper and Lower Bays, starting and finishing 

 at the mouth of the Rill von Kull, opposite St. George. The 

 larger yachts, in Class C, rounded Buoy 5, off Sandy Hook, the 

 smaller ones rounding Buoy 16, off Coney Island. The wind was 

 light S.E. and the tide just ebbmg when the start was made at 

 11:49 A. M., the 15 starters going oyer in the following order: 

 -Solus, R. K. McMurray; Shore House, Chas. T. Munn; Domino. 

 J. S. Fearon; Playmate, J. W. Edwards; Mistral, A. W. Booth; 

 Our Own, Messrs. Vreel and; Foam, C. F. Hicks; Ariel. T. A. E. 

 Busteed, Dorothy, T. A. Millen; Forsythe, Alex Roe; Bon Ton, 

 E. M. Post; Hope, H. VV. Seguine; Just Woke Up, J. Phillips; 

 Nadine, E. M. Felt, and Sea Gull, J. J. Taintor. The last four 

 were handicapped. 



^Eolus made a very good start and held the lead for a time, but 

 •was finally passed by the others, the time at Buoy 5 being: 



Mistral 2 21 30 Hope 2 28 00 



Domino 2 25 00 jEolus , 2 40 00 



The. small craft were timed at Buoy 16: 



(Our Own 1 14 00 Foam 1 21 30 



-Shore House 1 14 45 Dorothy 1 23 00 



Bon Ton. 1 17 00 Just Woke Up 1 23 50 



Playmate 1 19 00 Sea Gull 1 24 30 



Forsythe 1 20 30 Nadine 1 30 00 



The return was before the wind. The full times were: 



CLASS C— SLOOPS 40FT. AND UNDER 50EC. 



Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Domino 11 50 50 5 57 50 • 6 07 00 6 07 00 



^Eolus 11 49 10 5 56 50 6 07 40 6 07 30 



Hope. 11 55 00 5 50 00 5 55 00 5 48 01 



Mistral 11 51 40 5 57 20 6 05 40 5 53 53 



CLASS 2— SLOOPS 22 TO 30FT. 



Forsyth 11 54 00 3 04 00 3 10 00 3 10 00 



Our Own 11 52 10 3 08 50 3 26 40 3 18 49 



Just Woke Up 11 55 00 3 07 50" 3 12 50 3 01 46 



CLASS 5— CATS 25 TO 35FT. 



Nadine 11 55 00 3 23 00 3 28 00 3 28 00 



Dorothy 11 53 50 3 24 10 3 30 20 3 25 28 



Sea Gull 11 55 00 3 24 00 3 29 00 3 24 08 



CLASS 6 — CATS OVER 18 AND UNDER 22PT. 



Foam 11 52 20 3 23 30 3 31 10 3 31 10 



Shore House 11 50 20 3 07 25 3 17 05 3 13 56 



Playmate 11 51 to 3 07 50 3 16 40 3 12 57 



Ariel 11 53 20 Not timed. 



Bon Ton 11 54 45 2 57 30 3 02 45 2 55 38 



Hope beats Mistral 5m. 52s., Just Woke Up beats Forsyth 8m. 

 14s., t<ea Gull beats Dorothy lm. 20s. and Bon Ton beats Playmate 

 16m. 29s. 



The regatta committee were: E. M. Post, chairman; F. Beams, 

 George W. Clark, R. K. McMurray, Philip C. Sils, and W. Nephew 

 King, Jr., referee . 



CRUISING.-Gitana, Mr. W. F. Weld, arrived at Boston on 



June 24 from the Mediterranean Brunhilde, Mr. J. J. Phelps, 



reached Valparaiso on May 13, after a voyage of thirty-seven 

 days from Montevideo, ou which she encountered heavy weather, 

 losing her boats oft Cape Horn, 



SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN AT OYSTER BAY. 



THE Seawanhaka Corinthian race for 40-footers at Oyster Bay 

 last Monday, resulted in a victorv for the Liris over her Ave 

 competitors, Maraquita, Minerva, Banshee, Pappoose and Gor> 

 ilia. The wind was blowing: fresh from S.E. at the start, but 

 hauled around to S. when the yachts finished the second leg of 

 the course at Mattinecock Buoy. It was blowing nearly 20 knots 

 an hour at the finish. The course was from Red Ground Buoy, 

 mside Oyster Bay, northward to a buoy off Captain's Island, 

 thence westward to Mattinecock Buoy, and home to the Ground 

 Buoy, passing: outside of the black buoy off Centre Island, a dis- 

 tance of 13)4 miles m all. The starting gun was fired at noon and 

 only live minutes was allowed to cross the starting line between 

 th e Ground Buo > r and tne western shoje of Lloyd's Neck. 



The Pappoose was first away, followed eloselv by the Maraquita, 

 the , i'£ st cross mg the line in this order, Liris, Gorilla, Banshee 

 and Minerva. Spinakers were set for the run over the first leg 

 on all except the Gorilla, whose spinaker was not broken out 

 until after she had been passed by the Minerva off Lloyd's Neck 

 Phe Pappoose held her lead until within a mile of the buoy at 

 Captain's Island, with the Maraquita astern and to the westward, 

 the Liris being belaud the Maraquita. Then came the Banshee. 

 The Minerva and Gorilla were having it hammer and tongs for 

 the last place, and were to the eastward. 



Under the lee of Captain's Island the yachts found a northeast 

 breeze, laking m spinakers, they jibed all and made for the 

 buoy on the starboard tack. Then the Liris picked up wonder- 

 fully and so did the Maraquita. The former was the first to reach 

 the mark, jibing around it a few seconds ahead of the Pappoose, 

 with the Maraquita a close third. The Banshee, as she felt the 

 mitt at the wind, held closer than was necessary, and soon found 

 herself ahead and in the course of the Minerva. She turned the 

 mark fourth, with the Minerva fifth and the Gorilla last. 



Capt. Harry Hall was sailing the Maraquita, and he and Capt. 

 Sloan made the race of the day. Before turning the first mark 

 Capt. Sloan made a neat little move, which was greatly to his 

 credit. Seeing the shift of wind and holding a position just 

 astern of the Maraquita, he took in his spinaker, and at the first 

 breath ot the new current of air jibed over and passed speedily to 

 windward of the Maraquita, going by her as though she were not 

 moving. 



From the first mark to Mattinecock Buoy and back to the 

 Black Buoy off Center Island near the mouth of the hay the 

 course gave two close reaches, the first being on the port aiid the 

 latter on the starboard tack. The force of the northeast wind 

 was not felt after the buoy at Captain's Island was well astern. 

 Ihe Maraquita, getting a better wind, outfooted the Boston sloop 

 Pappoose on the sail to Mattinecock Bouv and passed her. Then 

 the race resolved itself into a procession until the buoy off Center 

 Island was reached. On the reach to Mattinecock Buoy the Liris 

 increased her lead on the Maraquita to lm. 40s. The order and 

 time of rounding this mark were as follows: Liris, 1:40:50; Mara- 

 quita l:42:o0; Pappoose, 1:43:50; Banshee, 1:45:55; Minerva, 1;47;33; 

 Gorilla, 1:48:19. 



After this the wind freshened to the finish, and there was af- 

 forded an excellent opportunity to observe how the new forties 

 carry their sails. The Liris stood up as well as could be desired 

 under working topsail and two working headsails. There was no 

 evidence of over-sparring, unless it was in the case of the Gorilla. 

 Ihe Banshee sailed well, considering that she was designed as a 

 cruising boat. ■ 



The Minerva, sailed by Capt. Barr, did not appear to as great 

 advantage as m her previous races until she began the beat home 

 from the black spar buoy, about two miles. Then she outpointed 

 the Banshee and Pappoose and finished the race third, just behind 

 the Maraquita. On this beat, too, the Banshee drew up on the 

 1 appoose, having gained on her from a position a third of a mile 

 astern at the Captain's Island mark to scarcely two lengths 

 behind at the black buoy. The yachts passed this buoy in this 



9wm ™- 1S ' 2:19:( ?ir. a ^ qui ^ 2:23M: p aPPOose, 2:26:35; Banshee, 

 2:27:00; Minerva, 2:27:46; Gorilla, 2:29:35. 



Sailing home on the last stretch of the course Liris continued 

 to gam on the Maraquita, and crossed the line 5m. 43s. before her. 

 Minerva finished third, hut her liberal time allowance of 3m. 10J4s. 

 over the Liris, against the Maraquita's allowance of lm, 8s., gave 



her second place in the corrected results. Banshee finished 

 fourth, Pappoose fifth /utd Gorilla last. As the Pappoose will 

 probably have to allow Gorilla it will put the Smith boat into 

 fifth place. 



Ou the whole, the race was a victory for William Gardner over 

 three prominent designers, and this is somewhat remarkable 

 from the fact that he is a new comer and the Liris is only his 

 second boat. His Kathleen, launched this spring, which has 

 beaten the Burgess thirties, is here, ready for her races on the 

 cruise of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. The time taken in 

 the race to-day was as follows: 



Start. Finisb. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Liris 12 05 00 2 46 10 2 41 10 2 41 10 



Maraquita 12 04 59 2 51 22^ 2 46 53}^ 2 45 45^ 



Minerva 12 05 00 2 52 15 2 47 15 2 44 04^-6 



Banshee 12 05 00 2 55 01% 2 50 01M 2 47 0654 



Pappoose 12 03 49 2 55 o3y 2 2 51 uy 3 Not m'u 



Gorilla 12 05 00 2 55 56 2 50 56 2 49 48 



[Our own report of this race not having come to hand, wo take 

 the above from the Times,'] 



"NO CASE. ABUSE THE PLAINTIFF'S ATTORNEY."— The 

 Boston Herald attacks Mr. Watson as follows in discussing the 

 action of the 11. Y. S.: ''As has been stated in these columns, the 

 chances are that tnere will be no race for the America Cup this 

 year on account of the terms of the new deed of gift. It is a fair 

 conclusion that Watson hoped to catch the Americans napping, 

 and that they would be just childish enough to build a 70-fooler 

 to meet him; and all this in six months, which is too short a time 

 in which to tmiid a yacht and expect her to perform at her best. 

 It was a sad bit of news for Watson that no new boat would be 

 built to meet him, and that the Volunteer would bo selected to 

 meet the Valkyrie. He then knew well that the Valkyrie was 'out 

 of it' with Volunteer, and tbe chestnut 'unfair deed of gift' was 

 'rung' up. Now the statement comes that the Valkyrie will not 

 come over and sail for the Cup, but will come out and sail against 

 our 70-footers. This would appear to indicate a generous spirit at 

 first blush, but, on calmer consideration, it shows the work of a 

 cunning, crafty yachtsman. It would be the proper thing for 

 Watson to come over here and sail against 70-footers, some of 

 which were designed and built some three years ago, while tbe 

 Valkyrie is this year's product, and in her Watson has taken 

 advantage and outbuilt our present 70-footers, though it is by no 

 means certain that the English craft could outsail either the 

 Titania or Katrina. Watson, all through his attempts to win the 

 Cup, has adopted the sharp practice, and the American yachts- 

 men now look upon alt his moves with suspicion. It is a clever 

 thing to give up sailing for the America's Cup and race for an- 

 other eup against 70-footers, each of whose designers, if given a 

 chance, could build new boats which would outsail the present 

 ones." It pains us to see such harsh and unkind criticism of one 

 designer by another, even though the former is only a profes- 

 sional. The same flavor of malice, rather than fair and unbiassed 

 criticism, has also been evident for some time past in the HeraWs 

 mention of Mr. Burgess and his boats, a tone very different from 

 that employed a few years since by the same writer in regard both 

 to Mr. Burgess and Mr. Watson. Can it be that professional 

 jealousy is in any way responsible for the change? 



ROYAL CANADIAN Y. C— Tbe events for the remainder of 

 the season are: July 13, 25ft. class; July 27, 20ft. class; Aug. 21, 

 skiff class; Aug. 31, 20ft. class; Sept. 14, 25ft. class; Sept. 21, cruis- 

 ing class (handicap cruising). In these races the following prizes 

 are offered: In each cruising class race, first prize, $25; second, 

 $15; third, $10. In each 25ft. class race, first prize, $25; second, 

 $15; third, $10. In each 20ft. class race, first prize, $20; second, 

 $12; third, $8. In each skiff class race, first prize, $12; second, $8; 

 third, $5. In addition to the above money prizes, there are the 

 six club cups to be sailed for, as follows: Prince of Wales cup, 

 Sept. 7, all yachts over 36ft. l.w.l.; course, 30 miles. Lansdowne 

 cup, Sept. 7, all yachts over 25ft, l.w.l. and under 40it. l.w.l.; course, 

 15 miles. The Murray cup for yachts over 36ft. l.w.l. to 50ft. l.w.l.; 

 the Lorne cup for yachts over 25ft. l.w.l. to 30ft. l.w.l.; the Cos- 

 grove cup for yachts over 20ft. l.w.l. to 25ft. l.w.l., and the McGaw 

 cup for yachts 20ft. l.w.l. and under, will be sailed for in the an- 

 nual regatta of the L, Y, R, A. 



