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claims of the smallest yachts in the fleet. The steamer was 
invariably kept to leeward of the vessels in the race, and 
when once the Petrel was brought slightly under the steam- 
er's lee, the latter was backed to clear her wind. Old Prob. 
himself seemed to look with high favor upon the Corinthian 
tars, ami by the time all hands were ready for the start, sent 
them a nice breeze from S. S. E., which soon increased to a 
wholesale wind, and finished up the day with a brisk blow 
and a lumpy sea, about all that the smaller craft had bar- 
gained for. The entries and crews of each vessel were as 
below, the Eddy, schooner, being the only one which failed 
to put in an appearance : 
sonooNERS. 
Estelle, Captain J. D. Smith, with Mr. W. H. Scott as 
chief officer, and W. D. Smith, A. U. Smith, “Jack” Oddic, 
B. Foulke, E. Brown. A. A. Drake, John Meday, A- R. 
Whiting and Chas. Thompson as crew. Her area is 1,881.60 
square feet; her allowance of lime lm. 29s. minus. 
Peerless, Captain J. Roger Maxwell ; J. H. Divron as chief 
officer and W. D. Steele, W. T. Lawrence, H. Earle, G. Mann, 
R. C. Field, C. Leland, A. Farrington, W. H. H Beebe, H. 
S. Washburue, S. Barton, R. S Church and R. T. Timpson 
as crew. Her area is 1,331.64 feet ; her allowance of time 
9m. 54s. minus. 
SECOND CLASS SLOOPS. 
Active, Captain F. W. J. Hurst, with E. E. Chase as chief 
officer, and J. Van Buskirk, W. L. Catlin, C. H Meigs, H. 
G. Asten, M. Nicoll. S. Griswold, S. Wood, Jr., L. Gladwin, 
W. Weston, Langdon Ward and Governeur Kortright as 
crew. Her area is 870.37 feet ; her allowance, 19m. 48s. 
minus. 
Imperia , Captain 0. T. Pierce, with George W. Moffat as 
chief officer, and F. T. Peet, E. B. Clarke, Maxwell Wrigley, 
Frank Williams, E. M- Llaydock, P. M. Brasher, W. M. JL’ile- 
ston, Thomas L. Arnold and Percy Meeker as crew. Her 
area is 652.34 feet, with 26m. 32s. allowance minus. 
Regina, Captain Wm. A. W. Stewart, with J. F. Tams as 
chief officer, and William Foulke, Frederick De P. Foster, 
Periere Meigs, E. Roosevelt, Thomas S. Young, Jr., Wm. G. 
Didricksou, G. A. Irving and Howard Mitchell as crew. Her 
area is 780 2; her allowance 22m. 32s. minus. 
Schemer, Captain C. S. Lee, with A. B. Alley as chief officer, 
and W. S. Alley, A. P. Montant, R. 0. Cornell, Philip Timp- 
sod, A. Simmons, H. Blood, Jr., and F. L. Blood as crew. 
Her area is 551.87 ; her allowance 30m. 25s. minus. 
Wave, Captain E. B. Underhill, with R. M . Munroe as chief 
officer, and H. Tynan, Morris Betts, Geo. W. Clark, Wm. T. 
Jacobs, James Millen, Harry Bailey, John O’Neil and James 
King as crew. Her area is 581 74 ; her allowance, 28m. 19s. 
minus. 
Undine, Captain Henry Bryant, with O. E. Cromwell as 
chief officer, and C. G. Peters, E. M. Cook, Chas. Leland and 
J. O Davidson, T. A. Bronson and G. L. Rives as crew. Her 
area is 889.73 ; her allowance, 19m. 9s. 
THIRD-GLASS SLOOPS. 
Blanche, Captain C. H. Grundy, with Francis Scott as chief 
officer, and E. G. Lentilhon, T. H. Pratt, E. S. Pratt, L. O. 
Henderson. M. Campbell and J. Proudfit as crew. Her area 
is 544.95 feet ; her allowance, 30m. 46s. minues. 
Dudley, Captain J. W. Russell, with A. W. Russell as chief 
officer, and B. R. Hamilton, H. L. Morris, Wm. Remsen, W. 
T. Talboys, M. Mitchell, R. Rutherford and D. Henry as 
crew. Her area is 549.36 feet, with an allowance of 30m. 41s. 
minus. 
Midge, Captain W. E. Iselin, with Giraud Foster, Alfred 
Roosevelt, Herman L. E. Emmet, R. W. Emmet and Daniel 
Lord, Jr., as crew. Her area is 308.47 feet ; her allowance 
47m. 538. minus. 
Petrel, Captain J. Hpslop, with C. B. Kunliardt as chief 
officer and W. H. Simons and Richard Ogden as crew. Her 
area is 240 feet ; her allowance, 56m. 20s. minus. 
Volante, Captain I. Hitchcock, with Robert Centre as chief 
officer and J. E. Roosevelt, J. Grenville Kane and F. R. 
Hitchcock as crew. Her area is 509.5 feet ; her allowance, 
32m. 258. minus. 
At llh. 55m. the gun for the start was given from the 
Americas, when the fleet made for the line and crossed in the 
following order : Undine at llh. 55m. 49s., followed by the 
Estelle at llh. 56m. 259.; the Petrel, at llh. 56m. 50s.; Wave, 
llh, 57m. 15s ; Schemer, llh. 57m. 39s.; Regina, llh. 58m. 
14s. ; Active, llh. 53m. 34s : Imperial, llh. 59m. 31s.; Dud- 
ley, 12h. 0m. 2s.; Peerless, l2h. 0m. 45s. ; Midge, 12h. lm. 23s. ; 
Volante, 12h. 2m. 18s ; and Blanche at 12h. 2m. 49s. The 
tide was about half ebb, and all crossed on the port tack head- 
ing toward Dix's Island. Volants, having crossed the line 
high up to windward, made a short tack to the northeast, and 
then laid a course for Hoffman Island, while Undine, Petrel 
and Active followed up the main channel in short boards in 
order to benefit by the tide as much as possible. The rest of 
the fleet went about and stood into Gravesend Bay with the 
wind to starboard, and after several boards trimmed in for 
Buoy No. 10. Undine went to windward in a style that was 
remarkable even for such a well known windjammer os she. 
Rather ungainly and unlikely in outward appearance, she 
caused a flutter among the Corinthians who knew her record, 
when her racing flag appeared in tbe lower bay with Mr. O. 
E. Oromwell to tool her. Apparently she looked a quarter 
point higher than any other sloop in the fleet, and with well 
sitting sails she soon eat out to windward of the lot, and be- 
low Hoffman Island ltd by a long stretch. The yachts that 
had stood to the noithward at the outset got the first of the 
freshening breeze, and upon nearing the spit buoy were found 
to have profited by their manoeuvre. Volante had been doing 
wonders in the meantime and was certainly in exceedingly 
fine form, for we have never seen her do so well before. Her 
canvas set like the proverbial board, and, as for appearances 
she was decidedly the smartest looking craft in the race. She 
outsailed all of her clas9, and was handled in a masterly man- 
ner by Mr. Centre, well known as the designer of bot h Vindex 
and Volante. The same can be said of Peerless. This 
schooner was not only well managed throughout by her ama 
teur crew, but must have been in good shape this year, or else 
there is something wrong with Estelle, for the latter did not 
certainly come up to expectations or her past record. To us 
she seemed a little too deep in the water, and as though she 
would do better if lightened up an inch or so. Though Peer- 
less .•went newsa \he Vine four minutes astern of Mr. Smith’s 
schooner, she out winded her and outran her by some seven 
minutes when the spit was reached. Buoy No. 10 was 
rounded as under : 
The sailing of Volante and Petrel calls for more than passing 
notice. Both of these are of the modified cutter type, of 
large displacement and comparatively narrow, the former 
having a length of 42ft. on load line, with 12ft. beam, and the 
latter 28ft. with 8ft. beam. Volante out-sailed everything in 
her class, iucluding Blanche and Dudley, both of which 
measured larger, while the sailing of the little Petrel must be 
considered even more remarkable, for she led the Midge and 
Blanche the entire stretch to the Spit by a long distance, and 
fairly out-weathered them. The latter two somewhat closed 
the gap just before rounding the buoy on account of Petrels 
running out of the breeze for a minute or two. When clear 
of the Hook Mr. Hyslop’s little cutter sprung her masthead, 
and her topsail had to he doused and the boat put off her 
course, enabling Midge and Blanche, boats twice her size, to 
run up even. Finally, when it was discovered that Petrel a 
masthead would go by the board if kept at it, she was put off 
and run inside to examine damages. Uad it not been for this 
accident she would have given some of her big sisters a bad 
beating, as she was doing splendidly in the seas, taking them 
as easily and dry as can be imagined. Tbe doings of both 
Volante and Petrel, with craft much beyond their size, points 
a moral, and will go fur to convince Ihe skeptical of the value 
of a narrow model and lead on the keel in a seaway. Some- 
how Estelle did not seem to improve in the rougher water off 
shore, for Peerless continued to increase her lead. The light- 
ship was rounded as follows : 
s. Name. n. m. s. 
so Estelle a v» oi 
80 Imperia 9 33 16 
84 Voiante 9 30 oo 
19 Dudlsy 2 M 3» 
oi Blanche 2 57 54 
10 Mid go 8 03 80 
On the run home they had the wind free, and jib topsails 
and such kites as the rules allowed were set. Regina carried 
away her stick aloft, but fished in the wreck, keeping her top- 
sail aloft in a bag to catch what wind it would. Wave's steer- 
ing wheel gave way, and she flew up into the wind. Her 
mainsail was lowered and a temporary steering gear rigged 
with spare gear, when, with her peak dropped, she was again 
put upon her course, coming home through the Swash with- 
out rounding the spit buoy. Active snapped her booming-out 
pole and lost the use of her jib in the run home from the 
buoy. Peerless, with her boom over the starboard quarter, 
continued to increase her lead, and went over the line between 
the club steamer and Fort Wadsworth, a winner in fine style, 
having beaten Estelle by over twenty minutes. The results of 
the day’s race are appended : 
Name. n. m. 
TTuJine 9 14 
Peerless 2 18 
Active 2 24 
Regina ...a it 
Wave 2 27 
Scnemer a 28 
Name. 
Undine 
Wave 
Peerless 
Regina ... 
Imperia... , 
Schemer. 
n. 
.. l 
.. 1 
.. 1 
.. l 
.. l 
Active 1 
Name. 
Estelle. . 
Volante. 
Dudley.. 
Petrel... 
Midge... 
Blanche. 
Elapsed 
Corrected 
Start, 
Finish. 
Time. 
Time. 
U. M. 8. 
H. SI. S. 
n. m. 8. 
□ . M. 8. 
5 eeriess . 
4 10 31 
4 09 46 
3 69 62 
Sstelle ... 
4 22 18 
SECOND CLASS SLOOPS. 
Undine 
4 10 29 
4 20 40 
4 01 31 
Aetlve 
11 69 34 
4 23 59 
4 25 2-1 
4 06 36 
Schemer 
11 57 39 
4 36 54 
4 3S 15 
4 07 50 
Imperia 
11 59 31 
4 42 16 
4 42 45 
4 16 18 
Wave 
Disabled. 
Regina 
Disabled. 
THIRD CLASS SLOOPS. 
/olante 
4 53 81 
4 61 13 
4 18 48 
Dudley 
6 04 51 
5 04 49 
4 34 03 
Petrel 
Disabled. 
Peerless takes the prize for schooners, Undine that for the 
second class sloope, having been pretty closely pushed at 
times by Active, and Volante bearing off the palm in the 
third-class by long odds, having shown the light drafts what 
a sea-going cutter ought to be. 
Corinthian Principles. — During the Fidget-Victoria 
match no shifting of ballast was allowed, as noticed in ouj 
last issue. The crew was limited to six, besides the owner, 
and Corinthian rules were observed throughout. We com- 
mend similar action to the many small craft of other clubs, 
believing that a close adherence to amateur rules will be vast- 
ly more interesting and of much greater benefit than lowering 
the sport of yacht racing to the level of mere machine tooling 
and jockeying. The wind in the match referred to was very 
fickle, varying frequently as much as eight points, and con- 
sisted of puffs and calms interspersed, otherwise the result 
might have been different. Fidget was sailed in her usual 
cat-rig only, and the correct dimensions of her sail are 33ft. 
on boom, 19ft. on gaff, and hoist only 24ft. She carried no 
jib, as erroneously stated in some of the reports of the race. 
Mr. Grinnell has again challenged the Victoria to sail for the 
champion pennant on the day after the annual match of the 
Central Hudson Y. C., the rules allowing any jachtof the 
first class of the club to challenge the holder of the pennant 
once during each season. In this race Fidget will come out 
for the first time as a sloop in her existence of eighteen years, 
with a 224 foot jib in addition to her present sail. 
News for the Seawanhakas. — A correspondent in a con- 
temporary thinks the Seawanhaka and the Atlantic clubs will 
soon be swallowed up by their larger sistere. Nonsense. It 
is not necessary to a club's existence that it should have any 
special anchorage or make a show in the way of club houses 
at all. The life of any organization depends upon the spirit 
animating its members individually aud the purposes kept in 
view at its foundation. The Seawanhaka and Atlantic are 
the two most essentially yachting clubs in New York waters. 
They are composed not simply of yacht owners, but of vacht 
sailers, which is, by far, more important to a successful and 
lengthy existence than big boats and a common anchorage 
ground. On the contrary, the Seawanhaka and Atlantic 
clubs are growing every year, and their influence to-day 
arnoug American yachtsmen is more strongly felt than ever 
before. Clubs which contain a dozen members capable of 
designing the craft they propose to own as well as skippering 
them in man-of-war style when built, ore not likely to be 
swallowed up by others less energetic or influential. We 
look upon those two clubs as destined to a bright future and 
great prosperity, while their influence, cast in favor of Corin- 
thian principles, is doing more to popularize and extend the 
sport than anything ever before done by wealthier and larger 
clubs. The Seawaubakas occupy in America the enviable po- 
sition of the Royal Alfreds in Great Britain. 
Brooklyn Union Regatta.—' Tuesday, the 18th inst., broke 
overcast and damp, with a moderate wind from the westward. 
The sorry outlook brought only eight yachts out of the four- 
teen entries to the start, and that ODly after the judges’ boat, 
Flelchcr, had steamed up to Gowanus aod brought out some 
of the laggards. To some the absence of the Commodore in 
the Columbia seemed a disappointment, but for our part we 
fail to see why any commodore in a cruising craft should be 
expected to put in an appearance on regatta days unless he so 
chooses for his own pleasure. A yacht match is not gotten 
up as a circus entertainment for the guests, but aa a matter of 
business between the racing craft, and gueat9 must rest con- 
tent with what they happen to find going on. Toward noou 
several sails were made out running down to the line. Comet, 
off Bay Ridge, also loosed and hoisted, Mr. Langley going 
over the course out of courtesy to his only competitor, the 
Vice-Commodore's Mystic, lie kept his boats at the davits 
and added to bis ordinary crew a few ladies, who, in nauticul 
storm rig, put to shame many a would bo yachtsman in long 
togs aboard the club steamer, by the gallant manner in which 
they remained on deck throughout the race, unmindful of 
wind and rain. The yachts went across the line, with the 
mart little Brown, from Newburgh waters, showing the way 
st I2h. 49m. 47s.: Susie S., 12b. 51m.; Mystic, 12h. 52m. 
aOs.; Kate, 12b. 53m. 7s.; Schemer, 12h. 54m. 18s ; Comet, 
42h. 55m. 10s ; Annie, 12h. ,55m. 80s , Lizzie L , 12h. 56m. 
13s. Poor Susie S. came out in her storm rig ; but old Prob.. 
leing in a mild sort of humor, failed to rouse Boreas, and so 
b rown had it all her" own way. But she not only led her 
.Reas, but the entire fleet in a most remarkable way. when 
eshe was breeze enough for some of the bigger ones, too. 
First round the buoy at the spit, she trimmed aft and made n 
a short board for the stake boat, and then eased sheets again 
for home. Among the big sloops Kate stood over to the Long 
Island shore, and led through the Narrows, making a short 
leg into Gravesend Bay, and there lying down to work on a 
long one for the spit buoy. Her only antagonist, Annie, one 
of Bob Fisher’s famous turnouts, was not long in weathering 
and headreaching on the black sloop, and although the latter 
was sailing well with her stern spun out, alongside of such a 
crack as Annie tho task was almost a hopeless one. The way 
in which Annie disposed of the fleet, including even Comet. 
was something auite as remarkable as the recent performances 
of Undine and Orion. No doubt much of this was due to the 
handling she received from Ellsworth and his crack crew, but 
for all that Annie must be counted in among the three fastest 
wind jammers in America, and a match with Orion and Un- 
dine , in a breeze of wind free from tidal flukes ns far an pos- 
sible, would form perhaps the most interesting race for 
yachtsmen that could be arranged. She had a long lead of 
the big ones down to the Spit buoy, and in the beat up the 
Horseshoe weathered all hands in a style that was wholesome 
to look at. The fleet rounded the buoy in the following 
order: William R. Brown, 2h. 33m. 11a. ; Annie, #h. 88m. 
35s.; Mystic, 2h. 37m. 47s.-, Schemer, 2h. 38m. 20s.; Comet, 
2h. 89m. 289.; Kate, 2h. 40m. 05s.; Lizzie /. , 2h. 48m. 43s .; 
Susie S. , 2li. 47m. 40s. Schemer hung to Mystic all the way 
down and hack, often receiving a bad blanketing from the 
schooner, but as Dr. Johnson's craft was well astern, owing 
to a late start and loss of breeze, it did not matter much. Vice- 
Commodore Hall’s schooner seemed to be under a very scant 
rig, barring her balloon jib topsail, which set exceedingly 
well and did good service over tho entire course almost. A 
few cloths more to fore and mainsails and piecing on the 
foot would do Mystic no ban i In the livelier breeze out- 
side Comet weathered on 'Mystic and led her a long stretch 
after rounding the stake-boat at the Outer Roraer, which was 
made in the times given below : Annie, 3b. 38m. 87s. ; Comet, 
3h. 40m.; Schemer, 3h. 44m. 87s.; Mystic, 3h. 45m. 3b. ; Lizzie 
L., 3h. 53m. 38s.; Kate, 8h. 59m. 19s. But the wind played 
the Brooklyn Club the same trick it did the others, and left 
the yachts almost becalmed when the rain ceased. Catspaws 
from the northward hardly enabled them to hold their own 
against the last of the ebb, and the match, so favorably be- 
gun, ended in a hopeless drift and a series of flukes. Mystic 
crawled ahead of Comet through a favorable slant, and Annie, 
hugging the shore to tho uortli, managed to cheat the tide 
enough to hold her long lead, working up homeward while 
the rest were Dipped about the Romer Beacon. She crossed 
the winning line at 9h. 04m., or 7m. 47s. too late to make the 
race. The little Brown was the only one to make it in time, 
and thus takes the prize in her class, having given Susie S. in 
her storm rig a very bad beating. The race was declared off, 
and probably will be re-sailed later in tho season. 
Incredible but Tbite.— ' The catamaran Tarantella, on her 
way out to Rockaway, performed Borne remarkable feats of 
speed, which, however, seem to be quite common to the cata- 
maran species. Lying in wait for the steamer Columbia, 
she trimmed aft upon her approach and ran by the steamer us 
though the latter was at anchor. Tue Columbia must have 
been making about twelve knots at the time, and the speed of 
Tarantella could not have been less than fifteen to sixteen 
knots, or about eighteen miles an hour, and this with a reef 
down and the sprit on the jib carried away. Had it been 
blowing a little stronger the catamaran would have readied 
twenty miles readily, or railroad time The marvellous exhi- 
bition of speed by the Tarantella called forth rounds of ap- 
plause from the two thousand passengers aboard the Columbia. 
On the way back the catamaran sailed three times around the 
steamer Twilight , and then stood for home, and was soon out 
of sight ahead ! 
Maqgie B.— This well known yacht, once the property of 
General Tom Thumb, but more recently known as belonging 
to Mr. W. Tumbridge, who sailed her himself all the way to 
Jacksonville, Fla. , has been heard from favorably. The pilots 
who bought tho sloop from Mr. Tumbridge express great 
satisfaction with her. She recently beat the opposition boat 
nearly eight miles in a sail of eighteen miles. 
New Jersey Y acht Club. -The seventh annual regatta of 
this club took place June 12. over the regular course, from 
Elysiau Fields, Hoboken, to Eighty-sixth street, N. R., and 
return, sailed three times over. Time allowance, 2m. to the 
foot. Estelle won in the first class in 4h. 59m. Meteor won 
in second class in 5h. 4m. 22s., with Dare Devil second aud 
Charm third. Pauline won in third class, and Freddie a long 
distance astern. 
Tbbnton Yacht Club. — The race on the 18th inst. at 
Trenton was a partial failure, owiog to want of wind. The 
E. S Ellis won over a course of about twenty miles. Fifteen 
boats were entered. 
Southebn Yaoht Club.— Mr. O’Brien has been elected 
Commodore of the club. New members are rapidly being 
added, add over $1,200 has been collected. The club has 
adopted a harbor at West End between the revetment levee 
and Hoyt's House. 
On the Lakss.— Belleville, Onl., June 6.— The yachtsmen 
of this northern section begin to enjoy their favorite pastime. 
Belleville now possesses the largest, and on the whole I mav 
say the fastest, fleet of yachts ou fresh water; for while of 
the three first-class yachts around here there may be 6ome 
faster, yet, in the second-class, competition can be successful- 
ly defied, and the third-class craft can hold their own with 
anything of their inches The fleet consists of 3 first class, 
over 10 tons ; 7 second-class, 10 tons and over 5 , and 6 third- 
class, 5 tons and under. The sport is controlled by the Bay 
