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Smith’s 
Spar Coating 
Appearance 
The week after, even two months 
after, there probably will not be very 
much apparent difference between the 
best and half a dozen favorably 
known brands, but thereafter every 
week counts, every month makes 
the inherent difference clearer. 
SMITH’S SPAR COATING stands 
severe winter weather so successfully 
that those using other brands are in¬ 
credulous. 
Durability 
Spar Coating is much like Port 
Wine. The latter must be of a good 
vintage, the former of good ma¬ 
terials; and both must be aged but 
not until matured are they really 
“worth while.” SMITH’S SPAR 
COATING is never sold until it is 
without question “worth while.” 
Cost 
To “age” Spar Coating properly 
means extra cost, but nowhere near 
as much as its additional value to 
you. The difference in your bill is 
slight, the difference in durability and 
appearance is great. 
Verification 
SMITH’S SPAR COATING was 
used on the International Cup De¬ 
fenders, and has the endorsement of 
the leading Naval Architects, Boat- 
Builders, and Owners, at home and 
abroad. 
Winners 1908 
Giving names of winners of last 
season’s races, club officers, etc. Free 
on request. 
Edward Smith & Co. 
Varnlsb Makers for 82 Years 
CHICAGO NEW YORK 
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casionally a sailing yacht has been known to 
attain a great speed for a comparatively short 
distance, d'he American schooner Sappho in 
1869 was said to have logged 16 knots, but, al¬ 
though she was a large vessel—121 feet load 
waterline—we cannot altogether accept this 
statement. The British schooner Rainbow 
(now Hamburg), 115 feet load waterline, 
designed by G. L. Watson, sailed in the German 
Emperor’s cup race, when she belonged to the 
late Mr. Charles Orr-Ewing, in 1898, from the 
Borkam Lightship to Heligoland markboat, a 
distance of 6^0 miles, in 4 hours, and twice during 
that time the log registered i 6)4 knots. We do 
not know what was the state of the tide, but this 
is, we believe, the highest known speed of .a 
sailing yacht for a short distance. Rainbow also 
averaged 12.3 knots over the Queen’s course, 
Cowes. On Aug. 5, 1908, the 368-ton German 
schooner Germania, load waterline about 122 
feet, sailed the old Queen’s course at Cowes, 
47 miles, in 3 hours 35 minutes ii seconds, or 
13.1 knots, easily beating, with a quarter of an 
hour to spare, all other records at_ Cowes re¬ 
gatta. The speed of Germania in this race was, 
indeed, one of the most remarkable events in 
yachting history. Yachtsmen love to recall 
what a wonder the old Irex was to reach. Al¬ 
though this cutter was only 84 feet load water¬ 
line, on Aug. 12, 1885, from Ryde she went 
round the Isle of Wight in 4 hours 8 minutes. 
Turning to such records as we are able to 
find of the old clipper ships of fifty years ago, 
among the most marvelous for speed were the 
Sovereign of the Seas, Lightning, Champion 
of the Seas, Red Jacket, James Baines, and 
Donald Mackay. With the speed of these 
vessels there is no doubt even the greatest run 
of Mr. Wilson Marshall’s yacht Atlantic_ of 
341 miles in a day cannot compare. A writer 
in the Field of April 9, 1887, Mr. George 
Hickens, gave a few extracts from the logs of 
these vessels as follows; 
1853. Sovereign of the Seas, Oaten Island to 
New York, March 16, 396 knots. 
1853. Sovereign of the Seas, Oaten Island to 
New York, March 18, 411 knots. 
1853. Red Jacket, America to England, Jan. 
18-19, 417 knots. 
1856. James Baines, in Southern Ocean run¬ 
ning east, June 17-18, 418 knots, in 23 hours 23 
minutes. 
An extract from the log of James Baines, 
June 18, 1856, 8:30 p. M., is: “In all starboard 
stun'sails, ship going 21 knots, with main sky- 
sail set.” 
This is the fastest speed we have ever heard 
of being attained by a sailing vessel. Think of 
it, ye yachtsmen who race in summer seas with 
your butterflies with cream-like cotton wings! 
What a wealth of eloquence the brief words of 
the logs contain: ‘Tn all starboard stunsails, 
ship going 21 knots with main skysail set,” and 
picture if you can the old James Baines thunder¬ 
ing in the force of the gale. 
Mr. C. Sherlock, of Teddington, wrote to the 
Field on April 16, 1887, saying that Capt. 
Samuel Reid, who was retired and living at 
Teddington, was captain of the ship Red Jacket 
in 1854. Capt. Reid had showed Mr. Sherlock 
the log of Red Jacket, and the actual runs of 
Red Jacket from Capt. Reid’s log in 1854 were 
as follows: 
Knots. Knots 
July 3. 313 July 9. 357 
July 4 . 300 July 10 . 334 
July 5 . 28S July 11. 
July 6. 400 July 12 . : 
July 7. 299 
July 8. 350 Toatl .3185 
This establishes the actual fact that on July 
6, i 8S4, Red Jacket ran 400 miles, nearly 16.7 
knots, and that for ten consecutive days she 
sailed more than 300 miles a day. A writer in 
the Field on the same date tells us that the 
clipper ship Lightning, belonging to the old 
Black Ball line, was always advertised as having 
logged the extraordinary distance of 420 miles 
in one day. 
We have endeavored to verify some of the 
above records, and, turning to a chapter on 
the “Prevailing Winds” in Physical Geography, 
by John Knox Laughton, M.A., mathematical 
and naval instructor at the Royal Naval College, 
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