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ing match ensued. Then it canted more to the 
starboard quarter and Seneca got her sheets 
more aboard. This was at 12.27 when they were 
two-thirds of the way out to the buoy. Adele, 
however, kept broad off. She had been sailing 
nearer the true course all along, Seneca being 
on the outside of the circle and much of her 
gain going to waste. At 12.43, the buoy being 
well in sight on the lee bow, Adele jibed. Seneca 
was watching for the move and came over as 
though steered by the same tiller, but the Cana- 
dians were a little faster shifting their spinnaker 
and had their big kite pulling again first. 
But the capricious wind immediately began to 
haul to the westward.- This put Seneca’s weather- 
edging on the preceding jibe away to the bad. 
Spinnakers set to port would barely draw. Down 
they came, balloon jibs taking their place. 
Seneca, to leeward of course, got the worst of 
this. Adele stretched out a lead of a hundred 
yards, when Seneca dowsed her ballooner and 
set her working jib. Adele promptly followed 
her example. Practically closehauled, the fatal 
windward ability of Seneca came into play. Up, 
up, up, she ate, and only the proximity of the 
buoy saved Adele. 
They had to wear around the mark to pass 
it to starboard. The time of the turn was: 
ATCC MEA sathe s'en'sae 6 1 05 21 
Adele’s gain in nine miles of running was 15 
seconds, in actual elapsed time nothing. The 
starboard tack they made was of the shortest. 
At 1.06 Seneca swung round, and Adele in the 
lead did the same. Her working jib had been 
set up very taut before turning the buoy, and 
the purchase block below deck simply lifted from 
its moorings as the sheet was flattened down. 
It only took a few seconds to recover the hal- 
liard, reeve the purchase through the spare 
sheaves of the peak halliard purchase on the 
keelson, and sweat all taut again. But Adele 
was only leading by seconds and had nothing 
whatever to spare. She was doing her prettiest 
in bucking—working within five and a half points 
handily—but Seneca, not pointing quite so close 
and bent down to her knitting most intently, 
went boiling along through her lee and out of 
it. At 1.09.30 Seneca swung back to the star- 
board tack, Adele still leading, following the 
maneuver, but Seneca was abreast of her, 
though to leeward. By 1.25 Seneca had torn 
away and was leading by a couple of hundred 
yards. Twice they luffed her to get her throat 
halliard set taut, but Adele could not gain 
enough while this was going on to overtake her. 
Seneca rapidly worked out such a lead that 
she could safely disregard Adele. All skipper 
Hanan had to watch was wind slants, and his 
mast. The latter was buckling and beginning to 
pay the penalty of the raising of the spreaders 
and the mainsail which had been necessary to 
qualify the boat for measurement in her class. 
At 1.45 Seneca split tacks, taking the port one 
and holding it for three minutes. Then the 
wind freshened up to a fourteen mile clip, and 
she went boiling along on the starboard tack, 
holding it till 2.36.40. This time, when she came 
around, Adele followed suit, but she was nearly 
a quarter of a mile to leeward and as much 
astern... 
Both boats came boiling along at a terrific 
clip, but the difference between Seneca and Adele 
when hard pressed was very apparent. Adele’s 
lee side was buried in foam, nothing but a little 
patch of red mahogany showing near her stem- 
head, and spray from her lee quarter wave wash- 
ing half way up her counter. Seneca, heeling 
to a greater angle, parted the water with much 
less uproar. Her bow wash broke abreast of 
the rigging and her quarter wave swept off astern 
into the wake before bursting. The wind blew 
in hot gusts, whipping the tops off the little 
waves and making great dark streaks along the 
dancing blue green. It was much heavier in 
some spots than in others and many of the spec- 
tator fleet had to shorten down. 
The port tack was a long one. Seneca, with 
all the wind she wanted and some to spare, was 
not sailed as hard as she might be on toward 
the last and Adele closed up considerably. Eyes, 
anxious or secretly hopeful, were cast on Seneca’s 
bending mast. It looked as though one race at 
least might go to Adele, and one race of the 
Seneca 
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series, even by default, is better than a complete 
whitewashing. But careful nursing of the mast 
saved the day, although Seneca lost some of her 
winning margin by it. She had half a mile to 
the good, however, when, amid a perfect bedlam 
of horns, guns and whistles, she swept across 
the line. 
Even Adele, able as she is for heavy weather, 
had wind to spare for the last five minutes and 
lugged her canvas uncomfortably, but nothing 
parted and she ate up the distance greedily. The 
time of the finsh was: 
DIOMGCE. | Gaits cain nama 2 61 16 AMEIG? colts crecawioer tea 2 56 54 
Seneca’s gain in nine miles of windward work 
was 5m. 53s. Seneca wins by 5m. 38s., and so 
the second race of the series was over and Cana- 
dians began to pack their trunks for home, for 
it looked as though nothing but a miracle could 
make Adele win a race where Seneca had any 
chance at getting in any windward work. Of 
course Adele’s turning the buoy ahead, after the 
run to leeward, was more to the credit of the 
skipper than of the boat. In actual time, from 
crossing the line to turning the buoy, Adele 
sailed the distance just as rapidly, and no more, 
as Seneca. In actual distance covered Seneca 
went much further than Adele in the same time. 
So that, boat for boat, there was little left to 
hope for in Adele’s reaching or running abilities. 
There did seem a chance that in a hard blow, 
say twenty miles an hour and upward, Adele 
might have some possibility of winning, but it 
was only a possibility, based as much on the 
fact that it was the sole remaining untried 
chance, as on the performance of the two boats 
in the last half hour. 
Skipper Hanan, to make sure of not being 
left in the lurch by the questionable ability of 
Seneca’s mast to carry her canvas in a hard 
breeze, made arrangements immediately after the 
race to have his second mainsail measured. This 
is one supplied by the Herreshoff firm and is 
considerably smaller than the flowing, hump- 
backed mainsail Seneca had been carrying. The 
latter is essentially a lightweather sail, loose 
fitting unless the lacings of the slab reef are 
pulled taut, and with a huge roach to the after 
leach, requiring long battens to hold it out. 
There could be no_ objection, of course, to 
Seneca substituting a smaller mainsail for a 
larger one, so she had this resort to rely on for 
heavier weather. 
Like the first race of the series 
was slow in starting. 
the second 
The delay this time was 
due to the tug Genesee, which carried the 
markers. The judges had to wait for her to get 
well out toward the weather mark. The start 
in Canada’s cup races has usually been at II 
o'clock, unless the uncertainty of the wind has 
prevented the judges from laying the course, or 
some mishap to the contestants’ gear has necessi- 
tated a delay while repairs were made. 
Seneca sailed this race with Wilfrid Pembroke 
in her crew in the place of Capt. Wm. Miller. 
As might have been expected there was a 
protest over Saturday’s close start. Just before 
the gun went both yachts were edging along the 
line, to leeward of it, on the starboard tack. 
Seneca was ahead. Adele came up on_ her 
weather quarter. Skipper Hanan had a great 
anxiety lest she should slide over just before 
the whistle instead of just after it, and to check 
her he let her come up and fall off. One of 
these zig-sags brought Adele’s bowsprit over 
Seneca’s counter. Wm. Miller jumped up and 
fended her off. There was no collision. 
There were rumors of protests from both sides, 
Canadians basing theirs on the rule preventing 
luffing under such conditions, although declin- 
ing to file one in view of the fair and square 
beating Adele received. There was nothing 
heard of protests, it should be understood, until 
after the race. The Americans based their pro- 
test on a perfectly clear reading of the rule which 
says an overtaking boat must keep clear. Of 
course the disputed point was whether Adele 
was overtaking when Seneca, a faster boat than 
she, was luffing and filling under her bows. 
It was a kinky problem, and not rendered 
easier by the fact that the best of feeling did 
not prevail. Commodore Pritchard, of the 
Rochester Y. C., said that in the light of Seneca’s 
victory no protest would have been made, but 

for the fact that the Canadians had been so pain- 
fully technical over the measurement difficulty. 
The Canadians, although realizing that there 
would be nothing in it for them in any event, 
were rather anxious that the protest should go 
to trial, so as to clear up a point that might 
be of great importance in some very close race, 
but declined to enter any counter protest. 
The judges were not anxious to handle the 
hot tongs, but made a very diplomatic move. 
They held a meeting Sunday night and decided 
not to consider the protest, so there the matter 
ended. 
The feeling over the measurement difficulty, 
while suppressed in view of the manifest super- 
iority of Seneca in anything up to heavy weather, 
remained considerably in evidence. «Commodore 
Macdonald, of the Royal Canadian Y. C., made 
this final announcement on the failure of the 
defenders to produce the lines of their boat as 
required by the agreement: 
“As to our standing out on technicalities and 
trying to gain the cup on forfeit, as has been 
whispered about by some, I would say that, 
strictly interpreted, the rules and conditions of 
the contract for the race are not yet fulfilled 
and cannot be by Seneca, but through the 
courtesy of our club those rights were waived 
and we're going to have our races.” 
Third Race. 
3EATEN in a calm, beaten in a breeze, a howl- 
ing gale was all that was left for Adele’s sup- 
porters to hang their hopes on. And, oddly 
enough the howling gale came along for the 
third race. 
This Canada’s cup series is the most remark- 
able ever sailed, in giving, in a minimum num- 
ber of contests, opportunity for testing every 
possible ability of the two boats. The cup has 
been lost and won before through candidates 
being light or heavy weather boats and being 
able or unable to get their weather; but here 
for the first time the series was sailed in breezes 
from one to twenty-five mile strength—and all 
in three races, 
The howling gale is, of course, partly a figure 
of speech. It will blow harder than twenty-five 
miles an hour on Lake Ontario, although an 
eminent British designer told us once that we 
never got any wind here. The highest estimated 
velocity on the lake on the day of the last cup 
race, Aug. 13, was forty miles an hour near 
Toronto. At Charlotte, while the race was in 
progress, it never blew harder than twenty-five, 
although the puffs might rise to thirty. 
Twenty-five miles an hour is enough, how- 
ever, to give light built cup hunters—built for 
an average wind of 8.26 miles an hour, based 
on the records of sixteen years past—all the 
wind they want, and twenty-five miles an hour 
can tear up Lake Ontario into a good represen- 
tation of a rough seaway. The sea this day 
was not high, as it had not had long enough to 
“make,” but the waves were short and _ steep, 
bursting into cottontops in every direction. 
It reminded one of the northeaster seven years 
ago when Genesee and Minota battled for the 
Fisher cup, and the American centerboarder 
struggled through successfully while her Cana- 
dian keel rival broke down; but it was only 
in the very last stages of the contest, and after 
it was over that the breeze rose to the strength 
of the wind in the historic Genesee-Minota 
match. 
Adele tucked in one reef before venturing out 
of the harbor. Her reputation at home was one 
for sail carrying—she certainly is the stiffest 
of the Canadian fleet of challengers—and people 

were surprised when they saw Seneca come 
down the piers under full sail. Hanan had, 
however, made this much concession to the 
weather, or the buckling possibilities of his mast, 
with the raised spreaders; he had shifted to 
the Herreshoff mainsail, a slightly smaller. sail 
with less flow to it. Adele had changed her big 
boom-footed jib for a cutter rig forward, a 
small staysail snapping on to a newly set up 
forestay coming down to the stem head, and 
a jib setting flying outside of this. 
The weather conditions were too much for 
many of the smaller members of the spectator 
fleet, and they hugged the shelter of the west 
pier and lighthouse, but there was a good fleet 
