FOREST AND STREAM, 
!tAUG. 22, 103. 
The Canada's Cup Races* 
Second Race, Monday, Aug. JO, 
The second race went to Canada by an unexpectedly 
easy margin. It seemed incredible that the boat, which 
had made a hair raising finish on Satm^day, should be 
lom. astern at the start on the following day, but that 
is what happened. The course was nine miles to wind- 
ward and return, on this day, and t!ic light breeze and 
absence of reaching prevented any fast time being- 
made. The wind was from the southward with a spice 
of west in it, taking the boats right out into Lake 
Ontario for their windward work. The breeze was 
never more than eight miles in strength, and at times 
it was much less than that. 
The race was lost at the start by Irondequoit getting 
a calm spot near the starting line. Strathcona flaated 
over at a gentle pace 7s. after the gun was fired, but 
Irondequoit was 2m. los. behind the signal. The yachts 
were not widely separated, owing to the light breeze, 
and they both crossed on the starboard tack. Time 
at the start: 
Strathcona ...11 00 07 Irondequoit 1102 10 
Two minutes after Irondequoit had got over she 
came about on the port tack, followed promptly by 
Strathcona. The challenger footed about as fast as the 
Canadian boat, but she did not point so high, and the 
defender was rapidly eating out to windward of her, as 
well as going ahead. Irondequoit came about on the 
starboard tack at 11:27:30, but Strathcona was so far 
ahead that she did not worry about following her, and 
held the port tack until 11:29:15. Then she came 
about, and both were on the starboard tack until 11:50. 
When they came about at this time Strathcona was a 
quarter of a mile or more to windward, and the case 
of Irondequoit was hopeless. The port tack was a long 
one, bringing the yachts away to the westward, oppo- 
site Humber Bay. Both came about at 12:30, and 
Irondequoit set her largest jib topsail in place of the 
working one. It made her foot well, but she was going 
to leeward all the time, and after lom. of experiment- 
ing it was taken in, and the working one set in its 
place, but slowly. 
The starboard tack was also a long one, lasting un- 
til 12:50, when Strathcona broke tacks and headed for 
the buoy on the port tack. Irondequoit stood on 6m. 
longer, and then also came for the buoy on the port 
tack. 
Time at the weather mark: 
Strathcona 12 54 43 Irondequoit 1 01 41 
Strathcona's spinnaker was set in 40s. after round- 
ing the buoy, being carried to starboard. Irondequoit 
took 2m. 30S. in breaking out her spinnaker, and it 
spread very slowly. The stops seemed to be too heavy 
and refused to part, but the wing was spread at last 
and the challenger followed tamely in the wake of 
Strathcona, at least a mile astern. 
Irondequoit's course was remarkably different to 
that of Strathcona. By the time half the homeward 
course had been covered, she was at least a quarter of 
a mile to leeward. She hauled up at 2:25 P. M., but to 
get back on her course she had to take in her spinnaker 
and sail with her balloon jib for head canvas for lom. 
At 2:3s P. M. she again set her spinnaker, but she 
was a mile or more away and was only making a poor 
secotid in a dull procession, The finish was, accord- 
ingly, by no means sensational, Strathcona having the 
enormous lead of lom. 5s. 
Time at the finish: 
Strathcona 2 48 47 Irondequoit 2 58 52 
Official summary of the race: 
Start. Windward Mark. Finish. 
Strathcona , 11 00 07 12 54 43 2 48 47 
Irondequoit ....... .-,,-^,nr^..ir,..ll 02 10 1 01 41 2 48 52 
Third Race, Tuesday, Aug. U. 
There was a council of war in the Irondequoit camp 
Monday night. Things were looking pretty blue, and 
'tis said the atmosphere had a corresponding tint. It 
was Captain Barr who got the blame. Being nephew 
of Charlie Barr, of America's Cup fame, did not save 
him from censure. The loss of two races, one by a 
small margin and one by a big one, was exasperating. 
Designer Gardner, of Gardner & Cox, was particularly 
severe, as he had a reputation to lose if his product 
was beaten so. As a matter of fact, Barr was not 
entirely to blame for the loss of the two races. The 
Canadian crew won just as much by quick sail handling 
as they did by skilled maneuvering, and Barr could 
not be expected to be handling head canvas and the 
tiller at the same time. But at any rate, he got the 
blame, and it was decided to get Mr. Addison G. 
Hanan, of New York, to sail the boat, and the tele- 
graph wires tick&d accordingly. 
Addison Hanan is a name to conjure with. His 
reputation had reached Toronto long before the Ironde- 
quoit was in the water. The Canadians had expected 
him to sail the boat at the start. His record of last 
season in Dorwina and Effort, and his record this 
year of eleven starts in Long Island Sound, and eleven 
first places, were enough to cause him to be regarded 
with respect and awe. 
Mr. Hanan had not much time to reach Toronto. 
Irondequoit left her island moorings about half past 
9 Tuesday morning and stood across to the city, com- 
ing in stays opposite the Royal Canadian Y. C. pier, 
but as there was no Hanan on the yacht club balcony, 
she filled away on the opposite tack and stood out to 
the race course with Captain Barr at the tiller. But 
the 10 o'clock train brought Mr. Hanan to Toronto, 
and without delaying for parley, he went aboard the 
steam yacht Navajo and started in pursuit of Ironde- 
quoit as fast as triple expansion engines could speed 
him. The Navajo reached the course in time and put 
the skilled amateur aboard, taking off Designer Gard- 
ner in his place. There was also a change aboard 
Strathcona, James McMurray, one of the amateur crew 
in charge of the headsails, being replaced by Wm. 
Fisher, the professional, who was forward in Invader 
when the latter carried off the Canada's Cup at Chi- 
cago two years ago. Mr. McMurray was unable to 
sail in this race, owing to the death of his brother. 
Captain Barr, in Irondequoit, went forward and took 
charge of the headsails, and ever after a noticeable im- 
provement was shown in this line. The yachts hugged 
one another closely at the start, but the challenger got 
the best of it. Strathcona's balloon jib had been sent 
lip in stops, but in the fresh breeze it started to break 
out, and had to be gathered down on the horn. Ironde- 
quoit's biggest jib topsail was broken out immediate- 
ly on gun fire, and she crossed the line in advance of 
Strathcona. Skipper Jarvis, anticipating a luffing 
match and perhaps a battle at close quarters, was wise 
enough to keep his ballooner on the horn until he 
found where he was at, but Strathcona, under reduced 
head canvas, did not travel so fast. 
Time at the start: 
Irondequoit 11 00 18 Strathcona 11 00 35 
The course was again a twenty-one-mile triangle 
with a westerly wind, and the judges' signal, "AH 
buoys to starboard," made it a reach and a beat and 
a reach again. There was plenty of wind, the velocity 
ranging from twelve to fifteen miles an hour, and there 
was a crisp, choppy sea, which flew in sheets from the 
cleaving bows of the racers. 
After Irondeqouit's performance reaching on Satur- 
day, it surprised no one that she should outfoot the 
defender in the first leg of the triangle. Indeed, the 
surprise was that the difference between them Avas not 
greater at the end of the first seven miles. They sailed 
very evenly, and the challenger's gain was compara- 
tively slight. 
Time at first buoy: 
Irondequoit 11 50 46 Strathcona .11 52 21 
Elapsed time showed that Strathcona had just lost 
im. i6s. since the start. 
But to the surprise of all Irondequoit stretched away 
like a greyhound when they jammed on the wind for 
the thresh to the second buoy. The stiff breeze heeled 
her until her weather bilge was clear of the water, and 
with the white waves churning in over her tumble 
home on the lee side, she plowed grandly through 
and over the seas, liking the rough going, footing fast 
and eating steadily to windward. It was a -complete 
reversal of her previous windward performances, and 
strangers marveled at the burst of speed she was 
showing under the management of the new skipper. 
The yachts were not close enough together when they 
hauled on the wind to bring about a battle of short 
tacks, and they worked away to the westward in long, 
steady stretches. It was piping too hard for jib top- 
sails to be of use in the first part of the beat, at any 
rate, but at 12:18 Skipper Jarvis ventured a baby jib 
topsail, which seemed to draw him along well. Strath- 
cona pounded hard in the seas, the water shooting in 
cataracts about her bows, and Irondequoit, with the 
longer overhangs, took the seas much easier. She was 
sailed very high, Hanan reversing Barr's tactics of 
making her foot at the expense of her pointing. She 
sailed grandly under mainsail, staysail, jib and club 
topsail, the latter always a-flutter as it lay off a little 
more to leeward. Soon she had a quarter of a mile 
to the good. 
The second buoy was only reached after an hour and 
a half's thrashing through jumping seas. There was 
not what is considered a big sea for Lake Ontario by 
any means, but it was a short, choppy jozzle that made 
things interesting for sailing craft, and put the passen- 
gers aboard many of the pleasure steamers hors de 
combat. Irondequoit led by 4m. 32s. at the second 
mark, having gained nearly 3m. in the windward work, 
which 'was supposed to be Strathcona's great hold. 
Time at the second buoy: 
Irondequoit 1 19 g2 Strathcona 1 23 54 
The wind held true out in the lake, but further in- 
shore it had hauled a point or so to the northward, 
so that the third leg, begun as a broad reach, wound up 
as a close one. The only difference in canvas was that 
Irondequoit carried a reaching jib topsail and Strath- 
cona set her balloon jib. The yachts came home at 
such a pace that steamers that had been plunging and 
spluttering about while they were beating to windward 
found themselves caught and passed. The judges' boat 
for the day was the steam yacht Tranquilo, and she 
could not keep up with the racers. They rushed past 
steamer after steamer, and the only steam craft to 
take their time at the finish was the Gooderham yacht 
Cleopatra. 
Irondequoit shortened down half way in, and re- 
lieved of her jib topsail, she made better time. It was 
blowing so hard that the balloon jib threatened Strath- 
cona's topmast every minute, but Skipper Jarvis grim- 
ly hung on to it as long as it would draw, shifting to 
working jib topsail when he had to flatten in sheets. 
It was a gamely sailed race, but Irondequoit gained 
on this, as on the other legs of the triangle, picking 
up 53s. and finishing with a half mile lead. 
Time at the finish: 
Irondequoit 2 16 05 Strathcona 2 29 19 
Official summary of the race: 
Start. 
Irondequoit 11 00 IS Strathcona 11 00 35 
First Buoy, 
Elapsed. 
Irondequoit 11 50 46 0 50 28 
Strathcona 11 52 21 0 51 48 
Second Buoy. 
Irondequoit 1 19 22 1 28 47 
Strathcona 1 23 54 1 31 33 
Finish. 
Irondequoit 2 15 05 0 55 32 
Strathcona 2 20 19 0 56 25 
Foutth Race, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 
Toronto yachtsmen were glad to see Irondequoit 
win the third race. After their easy victory on Mon- 
day the cup looked safe, and to keep up the courage of 
the challengers and the general interest in the sport, 
they were quite willing to lose the third race or even 
the fourth race— that is, always providing the fifth race 
should go to Strathcona. That, at least, was the public 
feeling; what Commodore Jarvis thought about it may 
be a different matter. 
Conditions Wednesday morning favored the chal- 
lenger. The wind was light, out of the north and north- 
west, and having blown off shore all night, the water 
was smooth. There was plenty of wiiad for a finish 
well within the time limit, but not enough to bother 
Strathcona. Prospects of her saving the cup were good 
on Wednesday. There was the additional favoring 
circumstance that the course again only involved wind- 
ward and leeward work, being nine miles to leeward 
and return. 
The start showed that both skippers were out for 
blood. The yachts rushed over the line with balloon 
canvas forward and spinnakers aloft in stops, but 
spinnaker booms still inboard. They went over the 
line with the wind over the poi-t quarter. 
Time at the start: 
Irondequoit 11 16 20 Strathcona 11 15 30 
The figrht for the weather berth was better. Strath- 
cona hung on Irondequoit's weather counter like a 
deerhound on the flank of a hunted stag. Luff, luff, 
luff was the order, and the yachts stood off to the east- 
ward, an eighth of the compass off their course. Their 
wake became an arc, and soon they were tearing 
through the water close hauled on the wind, with bal- 
loon canvas slatting wildly. They were heading into 
the eastern piers of Toronto harbor when they gybed. 
Strathcona tried in vain to pass to leeward, and an- 
other gybe followed, and a luffing match succeeded it, 
Jarvis clinging tenaciously to a position on Ironde- 
quoit's weather quarter, until, after nearly ism. of sail- 
ing, he gybed suddenly and stood back to the true 
course, setting his spinnaker when a quarter of a mile 
to windward of Irondequoit. The move was a repe- 
tition of the preceding Saturday's tactics on a grand 
scale — shooting across the wake of an opponent and 
throwing the silken cloud of the spinnaker to the breeze 
as soon as well clear. 
It looked like a Canadian victory, and, indeed, it was 
one, although not final. From his position Jarvis was 
able to lay the buoy directly. Hanan, to avoid sailing 
by the lee, had to gybe over. Strathcona footed along 
beautifully, a quarter of a mile to windward and lead- 
ing 200 yards. 
But two miles from the buoy luck went against the 
defender. The breeze lightened. Then she struck a 
long roll, the remnant of dead sea after the preceding 
day's tumble, galvanized into life by the brisk north 
breeze early in the morning that had escaped from the 
lee of the land. Strathcona's sails slatted and banged 
about and spilled every breath. For a time she rolled 
helpless, her slack bilges allowing her to sway down 
until her decks were almost awash — and never a breath 
to steady her. And 300 yards off, on the port beam, the 
challenger was shouldering through the roll, swaying 
steadily upon the support of her full bilges, spilling a 
little wind, but carrying her lofty club topsail full all 
the time. This was the fateful moment of the race, 
the fateful moment, indeed, for the Canada's Cup. By 
the time Strathcona was swinging through the roll, in- 
stead of on it, the challenger had a lead of nearly half 
a mile, and to overtake her was hopeless. 
Time at the leeward mark: 
Irondequoit 10 01 34 Strathcona 1 04 26 
And then the wind bit in steady and true, twelve 
miles strong at times, giving the yachts, with their 
loftiest canvas, all they could stagger under. They 
were too far apart for much to be accomplished by 
maneuvering; but Skipper Jarvis tried a bold ruse. 
His first port tack was a long one. Had Hanan held 
it as_ long as Jarvis desired, Irondequoit would have 
run into the calms that prevail off what sailors call 
The Highlands and landsmen call Scarboro Heights, 
the 20oft. sand cliffs that line the shore east of Toronto. 
Strathcona, the following boat, would have been able 
to get away with a fresh breeze, while Irondequoit lay 
dead. Such, at least, seemed Jarvis' plan, but Hanan 
snoiled it by breaking tacks with him, instead of over- 
standing the distance. And after that it was plain, 
straightforward threshing, with the Strathcona crew 
on her weather rail to help out her slack bilges. 
Strathcona was well sailed, and steadily drew nearer 
Irondequoit, but she had not far enough to go to 
overhaul her, and so lost the fourth race. 
Time at the finish: 
Irondequoit 3 12 13 Strathcona ..........3 13 31 
Official summary: 
Irondequoit. Strathcona. 
Start 11 15 20 11 15 30 
Leeward mark 1 01 34 1 04 26 
Finish 3 12 13 3 13 21 
Elapsed Time. 
Spinnaker run 1 46 14 1 49 56 
Windward work 1 10 39 1 08. 55 
Fifth Race, Thursday, Aug. 13. 
The fifth and deciding race of the series was just as 
uncertain as any. The weather conditions in the morn- 
ing favored Strathcona. The wind was northerly and 
light, and, after the manner of such summer breezes 
in the vicinity of Toronto it inight have been expected 
to swing to the westward before night, following the 
sun steadily around. But the breeze did not act ac- 
cording to schedule. In two hours it had backed into 
the south-southwest, and there it held, disproving for 
once the old adage: 
"When the wind shifts against the sun 
Trust it not for back 'twill run." 
Once it had settled to an eight-knot breeze it blew 
true and steady from one quarter. 
Excitement was high in Toronto. Canadians are 
naturally optimistic, and while they were greatly 
alarmed for the fate of the cup, not a few expected 
their favorite .^Emilius Jarvis to put forth a strong 
hand at the proper moment and save the trophy. If 
the effort required was superhuman, they expected it 
all the same. Besides, were not weather conditions in 
the defender's favor? To offset the disadvantage of a 
triangular course, there was the light breeze and smooth 
water. Strathcona looked to them a winner. 
The spectator, fleet was fairly large Thursday, and 
crowds lined the piers and shores. The maneuvering 
