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Murbleliead, Rweep 



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Atlantic, annual.. . 



Oorintiiian of N. Y., annual 



New York, annual 



Seawauliaka. annual 



PeawanhaVa, sweep. 



Marblehead, sweep 



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New York, cruise, JstllnOnp ... 



New York , cruise, fllr 't run.. . . . , 



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New York, cruise, special 



Corinthian of New York, sweep. 



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Notes. 



Liris, Helen and Tomahawk handicapped. 



Minerva disqualified, wrong course. 



Moderate sea outside, Leland cup. 



$25 sweepstakes and Carroll cup. 



Tbelma 1, Milicete 3, G-ossoon lost topmast. 



Gould cup and cash prize. 



Pappoose withdrew. 



Moccasin broke tiller, i Qj^^ p^.^^ 

 Moccasin grouaded. ^ ^"^^ J'^^^^s. 

 Special race, Newport. 



Hemmenway & Thayer cup, for winner of 

 series (two out of three races). 



Mod. sea. Tnese mat ches sailed under mean 

 of N. Y. and Eastern allowances. 



Sasqua 1, Polly 2, Broncho 3. 



Jessica finished fourth. 



Milicete wins ^300, Go.s8oon broke gammon. 



Heavy sea. Alga 2, Thelma 3, Milicete 4,. 



Heavy sea, Liris broke tiller. 



Heavy sea. 



Heavy sea, match won by Jessica. 

 Private match decided on this race. 



Starts 



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Total of prize'. 



Full-faced figures indicate prizes. 



Nos. 14 an d 15 . races on runs of New York Y. C. Cruise, count as one rac". 



^' ^ 2 ^ ^ ' ^" '^^^^^^^ corrected length; W. L., classed by waterline; s.o., sail over; (/., grounded; d., disahled; w., withdrew; n.t., not timed; p., disqualified; m., private match. 



races in New York Bay, with Minerva easily first and nobody in 

 particular second. 



On July 4 at Larehmont Minerva, Liris. Mariquita and Choctaw 

 were the starters, in a light anfl flaky race. Minerva won by over 

 2m. from Liris, with Mariquita far astern and Choctaw with- 

 drawing. In addition to the regular prize Minerva won the 

 Gould cup. 



Thus far nothing had been heard from Gossoon, but she had 

 been sailing about Marblehead to stretch her sails and gear. Her 

 first race was the July 4 sweepstakes with Ventura and the two 

 46-footers, Thelma and Milicete, in which she lost her hollow top- 

 mast when holding the lead in the middle of the race, disabling 

 her completely. Ventura did poorly in this race and was not 

 timed. The meeting of Minerva and Gossoon was looked for- 

 ward to with an interest almost as deep as that of the Cup races, 

 hut unfortunately the first race, the Eastern Y. C. annual, on 

 July 10, was a failure, not being sailed to a finish. In the light 

 and variable winds through which the yachts drifted all dav. 

 Gossoon did rs.ther the better work, while her sisters, Ventura 

 and Pappoose, were far astern of Minerva. Next day there was a 

 fine breeze and a tumble to the waves, making good racing; Gos- 

 soon and Minerva running and reaching the first twelve miles 

 with but 18s. between them; but on the wind Gossoon gained over 

 3m.. winning by 2m. 20s. corrected time. Ventura beat both the 

 others down wind, in part owing to her sailing her own course 

 while they were fighting in company; but on the wiad she did 

 very poorly, finally giving up. Pappnose also did not sail the 

 race out, tnese two days being her only trials during the season. 



Following this race, wbich still left sufficient uncertainty to 

 make the coming contests very interesting, was a lull of three 

 weeks before the forties met again in the New York Y. C. cruise. 

 Gossoon sailed in the Goelet cup race, doing very well for her 

 size, but the first class race of tbe cruise was for the Iselin cup, 

 $250, sailed off Newport, 12 miles to windward and return, on 

 Aug. 2; the wind being but moderate with a clear day and smooth 

 water. Starting 4m. after Minerva, Gossoon bad nearly caught 

 her within the first 20m., and all looked for a clear walk -over for 

 th. Burgess boat, but after this sudden gain Gossoon failed to 

 cai ry out the programme, and at the turn was still a little be- 

 hind her Time, which little in the long run home she failed to 

 make up, Minerva fiaally winning by 493. This was the maiden 

 race of the centerboard Moccasin, and though she was but third, 

 being lOm. astern of Minerva, it is the best out of her five starts. 

 Mariquita, though again steered by Mr. Burgess, did nothing in 

 this race save to beat Choctaw, the two never being fairly in it 

 with Gossoon from the start. 



Liris was with the fleet in cruising trim, and did not enter this 

 race, but she took part in the two runs from Vineyard Haven to 

 New Bedford, and from that port to Newport. On the first run 

 only Gossoon, Liris and Moccasin started, Minerva having put 

 into New Bedford for a topmast to replace one lost on the run to 

 the Haven, which does not count as a race. Liris was delayed 

 shortly after the start by going to the assistance of a yacht in dis- 

 tress, while Moccasin broke her rudderhead and withdrew. On 

 the second run she was again in hard luck, taking the ground and 

 beine towed off, which put her out of the race. This race was 

 very fluky and amounted to little, but Minerva won with Gof soon 

 second, Lu-is not being tim^d. The final race of the cruise, a 

 special event for a S200 prize given by the club, found Mariquita 

 in again with the other four. As on the previous day the wind 

 was light and fluky; Minerva was Im. 153. ahead of Gossoon at the 

 end of the 9 knots beat out, but Gossoon overtook her coming in, 

 finally winning by 3m. 34s. Mariquita and Liris were never in 

 the race, being over 15m. astern of Minerva at the finish, while 

 Mocoasin varied proceedings by smashing her centerboard and 

 giving up. 



The Corinthian Sweepstakes followed the close of the New York 

 cruise, aslant year, the course and conlitioas, even to the wind 

 and wexther, being practically tue same. The starters were Gos- 

 soon, Minerva, Mariquita, Cnoctaw, l^iris. Ventura and Moccasin. 

 Minerva, with Mr. Will Fife on board, ihough he took no part in 

 the sailing, was in trouble before the start, carrying away some of 

 her topmast gear, and crossed the line 10m. astern of Gossoon, 

 with a handicap of 5m. In actual time she beat Gossoon nearly 

 4m. on the windward leg of 8)4 miles, lost half a minute on the 

 final leg, a reach home. Thus, in actual time, she did the best 

 work of the dav, but her big handicap made her official elapsed 

 time 2m. 1.3s. greater than Gossoon's. This is so n^ar to her allow- 

 ance from Gossoon that it was a matter of very close measurement 

 between them as to the winner, and a lengthy correspondence has 

 resulted between the club and Messrs. Burgess and Adams. We 

 understand that by the official measurements of Mr. Hyslop for 

 both boats, which it was agreed in advance were to govern this 

 race, the prize goes to Minerva by a few seconds, but in so far as 

 the merits of the boats are concerned this is a small matter in 

 view of her large handicap which she succeeded in working off. 

 Mar'quita made the best showing of the year in this race, save in 

 the Seawanbaka annual, being third boat, and within one minute 

 of the leaders. Liris was a couple of minutes astern of her, while 

 Ventura and Choctaw were never in it. Moccasin broke down 

 and withdrew, as usual. 



The race now shifted to Marblehead, and the Beverly Y. C. gave 

 a special race for the forties, after which the Corinthians of that 

 pretty port followed their brothers of New I'orli in a repetition of 

 the very successful series of the year before. The Beverly I''. O. 

 race was sailed on Aug. 17, the course being 10 miles to windward 

 from M -rblehead Rock and return, the weather being light and 

 fluky. Minerva was 9min. ahead of Mariquita at tue outer mark, 

 and nearly 15 ahead of G-ossoon the fourtu boat, Ventura, parting 

 her bobstay and withdrawing. Minerva finallv beat Mariquita 

 by llmin. and Gossoon by 15 min. 



This year there were 3 instead of 5 races in the Corinthian 

 series, the prize being a $300 cup presented by Messrs. Augustus 

 Hemmenway, of Chiquita, and Bayard Thayer of Pappoose. The 

 first race was very much of a fluke, Ventura beating Gossoon 

 17min. and Minerva nearly 33min. in 24 knots, Mariquita being 

 second. The second race, m a strong br* eze and sea, was won by 

 Minerva by 2sec. only from Gossoon, M iriquita being 3min. astern 

 and Ventura 7. The sail-olf between Minerva and Ventura, in a 

 light and baffling wind and some sea. was won by Minerva in 

 S4min. for 20 knots, thus giving her the cud, as in 1889. 



Up to this time Minerva had beaten Gossoon five times out of 

 eight races, or counting the Corinthian sweepstakes for Gossoon, 

 as was claimed, the score would be even. To settle it fluallyt Gos- 

 soon challenged Minerva for a series of three private matches for 

 $100 per .side, the mean of the allowance of the Eastern and New 

 York clubs to be used. In the first race, on a rainy day with a 

 strong wind and a good sea. Gossoon won by 5m.; and on the 

 second, with a moderate breeze and less sea, she won by nearly 

 4m. 



The rest of the racing of 1890 is soon told. Gossoon and Ventura 

 sailed two private matches oflf Marblehead, Gossoon winning 

 both, then she started in a priv-ate match with the 46ft. center- 

 board Milicete, losing her gammon iron when near the end of the 

 race and with a good lead. This kept her out of the Eastern fall 

 regatta, the last event of the year at Marblehead, in which Ven- 

 tura was classed with the 48ft. boats, beating them by the aid of 

 their own tardiness in starting, all but she being handicapped 

 badly. 



The season ended at Larehmont, where several particularly 

 good races were sailed. The two club races of Sept. 6 and 8 were 

 Bailed in light ant' flaky weather, thowgh Minerva won both very 



easily; but they were followed by two dajs of rough sailing in a 

 N.E. gale, the races heingboth private matches between Minerva 

 and L'ns. In the first Liris broke her tille", being obliged to give 

 up, though Minerva completed the course in the worst weather in 

 which the forties have yet raced. Next day the weather was still 

 worse, Minerva sailing with three reefs in and Liris two, Minerva 

 winning by 7m. Nest day Liris sailed a private match with the 

 46tt. Jessica, and was again beaten, the race being mainly run- 

 ning and reaching in a good breeze and disturbed water A day 

 later Mariquita and Liris met for the last time in the resatta 

 given by the Manhattan Athletic Club of New York, an organiza- 

 tion which has lately included yachting and canoeing among its 

 many specialties. Mariquita and Liris decided also a private 

 match by the result of this race, both prizes going to Mariquita. 



This ended the season in the 40ft. class, the total resulis being 

 summed up m the table. As in the previous tables, we have 

 counted the first places won, whether each carried a prize or not 

 and also the second place where four or more started. We also 

 give the actual number of prizes won by each vacht, including 

 special cups. Leaving out Chispa's percentage of 100, through a 

 total of one win to the same number of starts, Minerva stands at 

 the head, with a score of 15 first places for 23 starts, or a per 

 centage ot .65, Gossoon being next, with 7 firsts to 16 starts or 44 

 per cent. The others are so far behind these two that no com- 

 parison is necessary. Between Minerva and Gossoon thfi score of 

 10 races stands 5 lo 5, so that honors are even; but it would be very 

 unfair to Minerva, the single representative of Mr. Fife, to com- 

 pare her only with one picked boat from the large Burges« fleet 



Throng li the seasxm three new racing boats sailed against 

 Minerva; Gissoon, Ventura and Moccasin; 11 races being sailed, 

 of which Minerva has won 6, Gossoon 4 and Ventura 1. In compet- 

 ing against the entire Burgess fleet, in 21 races, Minerva has made 

 that number of starts against 46 for the entire fleet, her score 

 being 14 firsts, 4 seconds, 1 fourth and 1 break down, beside which 

 IS the Atlantic Y. C. regatta, in which she outsailed two of the 

 other boats, though disqualified for a blunder. She and Gossoon 

 stand so tar ahead of the fleet that the doings of the others is of 

 secondary interest. 



The Burgess centerboard boats have done nothing, showing a 

 total ot 4 first places for 25 starts. Choctaw has once beaten 

 Tomahawk and Mariquita; the new Ventura, though pluokily 

 and persistently raced, has once beaten Minerva and (iossoon, 

 the race being a flaky one. Moccasin's achievements are limited 

 to a third place out of 5 starters and 4 breakdowns. Mariquita 

 has been considerably improved by the alterations in her keel 

 and ballast, and has been very steadily raced, but she won only a 

 single race, that with Liris on Sept. 13. Her best work was in the 

 Seawanbaka annual, but beyond that her next achievement was 

 only a third prize in the Corinthian sweepstakes. She has, how- 

 ever, succeeded in beating Liris, coming in ahead 5 times out of the 

 8 races they have s dled together. Liris has but one first to show 

 for a large number of starts, beating Minerva once in the early 

 part of the season. Gorilla and AJice have also joined the 

 cruisers. 



This year's racing has settled the fate of a number. Helen has 

 been sold for a cruiser, Pappoose has been sold to race on the 

 lakes, where she will be in the 46ft. class, with the 30-rater Vreda; 

 Mariquita is for sale, her owner having a n^w Burgess 46-footer 

 underway; Minerva is also for sale, Choctaw has already been 

 sold for a cruiser, as well as Awa, whom we have not included in 

 the table as she has sailed only a few local races. Liris is now 

 being altered for cruising, a cockpit and wheel being added. 



Tbe future of the class for 1891 is yet uncertain, but the Boston 

 48tt. boom nas not reached such formidable proportions as to 

 threaten the complete extermination of the 40ft. olass; a new 40 is 

 pcFOinised from a cleajgn by Mr. John B. Paine, who haa been »o 



