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of the larger or abler craft nosing about. The 
judges were again in Navajo, Mr. Cromwell 
being able to attend. 
The course was the twenty-one mile triangle 
again, all buoys to starboard, the first leg to 
windward, northwest by west, the second north- 
east by east, half east, the third south, half west. 
This time the start was nearer the regular time, 
11 o'clock. The judges sent them over the line 
at IT.0s. 
Again Jarvis had the best of it. Standing 
for the line on the starboard tack, with Adele’s 
staysail in stops, he came swooping over in the 
weather berth, breaking out his additional head 
sail as he crossed. The judges made the time 
as follows: 
A ele oS oem seins iascaes 11 15 10 Seneca A. ovens 11 15 13 
Adele led by three seconds. The wily Hanan 
immediately tried short hitches. It was bound 
to tell against a boat with double headsails_ to 
trim. Smart as the Canadians were, the trim- 
ming of jib and staysail was bound to take 
longer than the trimming of the jib alone, and 
soon Seneca had shot through Adele’s lee and 
was clawing out to windward. 
Hanan kept Seneca’s mainsail lifting at the 
luff, having all the wind he wanted and some to 
spare. Adele’s reefed sail set as hard as granite 
all but the leech. Here it flipped with a tre- 
mendous vibration, the leech line apparently not 
being in working order. Although certainly 
hard pressed Seneca did not heel much further 
than Adele. The latter made a tremendous fuss 
getting through the water. She ploughed into 
the seas ahead more like a battleship ramming 
them than a marine creature breasting them, and 
she carried an enormous water wall after her, 
white-topped and seething. She was buried in 
spray all the time, her big displacement telling 
heavily against her at the increased velocity. 
Seneca on the other hand made beautiful weather 
of it. As said before she was not heeled to a 
noticeably greater angle than was Adele, and 
her long fine knife-like bow ripped through the 
waves and lifted her body clear of them with 
very little smother. Her wake, too, seemed 
much cleaner, and her angle of heel, while 
greater than Adele’s, did not delay her progress 
much as the tumble home to her side gave her 
a great range of easy sailing lines. 
The boats took a very long starboard tack, the 
object being to get the lee of Braddock’s Point 
which projects into Lake Ontario ten miles above 
Charlotte. They went so inshore that 
grave fears were expressed that they should 
find the bottom in the sea that was running. 
When they came about Adele was hopelessly 
to leeward and astern. 
The battle continued in long stretches, and 
either Seneca was not sailed so hard for the 
rest of the race or Adele discovered some speed 
secret known only to herself, for her loss dur- 
ing the rest of the thresh and the rest of the 
contest was not nearly so great. The _ short, 
steep sea bothered the racers very much and 
made progress to the weather mark slow. An 
hour and a half to do seven miles in is pretty 
liberal allowance for any yacht, but the racers 
needed it all. It was 12.39 when Seneca caime 
close 
around on the port tack to lay the buoy. Adele 
hung on for five minutes longer. The turn 
Was: 
Senecay stmacesiicsh as 12 46 42 NC ELE Rituals aranatees 12 52 14 
Seneca led by 5m. 32s. Mainsheets fairly 
sizzled out of the blocks as everything was 
started for the reach to the next mark. It was 
glorious traveling, but there was no phenomenal 
sail lugging. Seneca, under all plain sail, as 
Clarke Russell would be sure to say, had quite 
enough to drive her, and her lead of easily half 
a mile did not offer any reason for carrying a 
balloon jib, although one would have drawn 
well. It was up to Adele to set the pace in 
sail carrying if this was to be done, but skipper 
Jarvis evidently thought that Adele, single- 
reefed, would sail as fast under the circum- 
stances as Adele with everything on, for her 
single reef stayed in. Off the wind the double 

headsails did some grand pulling and Adele 
was sailing as tho-ch driven by a 20 horse- 
power motor, but she could not catch Seneca. 
The wind had only been around the fourteen 
knot mark at the start, but it had freshened and 


freshened and was now at the twenty notch and 
going up, up, up. With started sheets the racers 
were in a position to make a speed record, but 
what they did was by no means phenomenal. 
Seneca, traveling slightly the faster, took fifty- 
two minutes to go seven nautical miles. Say 
she made eight and a half knots an hour. That 
is not phenomenal sailing. The Seawanhaka cup 
boats on Lake St. Louis have made as high as 
13.6 knots, on a close reach, with water as 
rough, in proportion to the size of the boats, as 
it was here, and the Seawanhaka cup boats only 
swung five hundred feet of sail. The statement 
was made and denied that the second leg of the 
triangle was much too long, being nearer ten 
miles than seven. The tug that usually laid the 
mark did not do the work this time, and the 
judges’ boat had to tow the marking dinghy 
down. That she overstood the distance is not 
at all certain, for the spectator fleet seemed to 
be pretty well able to keep up with the racers. 
Indeed, the whole series of the Canada’s cup 
races and trials would indicate that the racers, 
while remarkably fast boats going to windward 
and sailing at surprising speed in light winds 
that would leave the older boats standing: still, 
are not capable of top notch speed as sail craft 
go. 
Leaving that, however, for the designers to 
argue out, Seneca swooped down on the second 
buoy like a great saffron-winged seagull. It was 
a jibe. Seneca might have taken the long way 
round and “stayed” at the mark, in view of 
her big lead and the weight of the wind, but 
Hanan took the chance and slammed her over. 
Bang went the mainboom, and she rolled down 
almost to her hatches as he brought the wind 
on the other side. Then she recovered herself 
and started home with her nose in the air, a 
boiling froth of water abreast of her main 
shrouds, and a white streak for a wake. 
Adele came ploughing along six minutes odd 
later. No question about it in her case. She 
had to jibe for the credit of Canada, and jibe 
she did, and smartly, too. Luckily nothing 
parted just here or she would have carried away 
her mast. The time at the turn was: 
Seneca. (s,s cccete wees 1 38 19 Adele: cvsawnssaidsiens 1 45 04 
Seneca led by 6m. 45s. Seneca had gained 
a minute and thirteen seconds on the reach; 
not in proportion to her phenomenal gain in the 
windward work. 
Higher and higher pitched was the hum of 
the wind in the rigging as the yachts came stag- 
gering home. The sail craft laid a straight 
course for Charlotte piers in a hurry to get in 
before the rising gale made it a case of close 
reefed mainsails and storm jibs. Many of the 
power craft had already sought shelter, and it 
was a greatly diminished convoy that watched 
the racers to the finish. It was blowing twenty- 
five miles an hour now. 
Chances for accidents were not remote, and 
the judges headed away to windward of the 
finish line, so that if either boat broke down it 
would not be necessary to tow them up the lake 
again in the teeth of the gale to Charlotte Har- 
bor. Before many minutes had gone Adele’s 
strut twisted up and her masthead settled back. 
To save the stick she settled her mainsail down 
and close reefed it. The mishap put her out of 
the race, but not further out than Seneca had 
already put her, and she did not go on with 
the formality of finishing, but headed away 
straight for the piers as soon as the last reef 
was tucked in. 
Once Adele had lowered away, skipper Hanan 
took no chances. He squatted Seneca’s main- 
sail down till the last reef band was on the 
boom and there let it stay. If Adele could 
overhaul her up it would go. If nothing hap- 
pened Seneca could finish the race that way. 
Tt was a fair wind and a reef was not ncessary, 
but Seneca is the first Canada’s cup hunter to 
finish a race under squatted sails. 
In order to take no chances on having to 
reef in order to reach up to the mark, through 
fetching to leeward of it, Seneca was hauled 
pretty well up; even higher than the judges’ 
boat was steering. Consequently when the latter 
suddenly sheered off and ran down to the finish 
line the defender had an ugly proposition to 
negotiate—hard wind, ugly sea, squatted sail, 
and the buoy dead to leeward. But she did it. 
Keeping away all she could, with the jib  bal- 
looning off on the weather side like a spin- 
naker, she ran down toward the line and then 
lowered her mainsail till only the peak hung on 
the lifts, and took an easy jibe. A moment 
later and the roars from the diminished specta- 
tor fleet mingled with the wind and announced 
that the Canada’s cup had again been success- 
fully defended. The time was, 2.31.50. 
The winner came into port under her jib and 
received a tremendous ovation, the visitors 
cheering her as heartily as her own people. Her 
victory was so complete it left so little room 
for argument that there was nothing left for 
them to do but throw up their hats with the 
crowd. 
Although in view of the enormous difference 
between Seneca and Adele, Canadians might 
have been expected to be somewhat hopeless 
about the Canada’s cup future. Commodore 
Macdonald, of the challenging Royal Canadian 
Y. C, announced immediately after the race, in 
conversation with Forest AND STREAM corres- 
pondent, that he had three offers of challengers 
from Toronto yachtsmen. The club, however, 
would have to consider matters first so that 
there would be no immediate filing of a chal- 
lenge. 
This is the first time since 1899 that the cup 
has been won in three races straight. That was 
in the contest between Beaver and Genesee, and 
then there was more consolation for the losers, 
for the races were all in light weather, favoring 
Genesee. Seneca’s victory was the most com- 
plete in the history of the cup. That history, 
in brief, is this: 
1896.—Won by Canada, of Toronto, from Ven- 
cedor, of Chicago, at Toledo. 
1899.—Won by Genesee, of Rochester, for the 
Chicago Y. C., from Beaver, of Toronto, at 
Toronto. 
1901.—Won by Invader, of Toronto, from 
Cadillac, of Detroit, for the Chicago Y. Gara 
Chicago. 
1903——Won by Irondequoit, of Rochester, 
from Strathcona, of Toronto, at Toronto. 
1905.—Held by Iroquois, of Rochester, against 
Temeraire, of Toronto, at Charlotte. 
1907.—Held by Seneca, of Rochester, against 
Adele, of Toronto, at Charlotte. 
C. H. J. Snmer, 
Cruise of the Corinthian Y. C. of Phila. 
Y. C—General 


FLAGSHIP Trolita, 
orders No. 2: 
1. The fleet of the Corinthian Y. C. will ren- 
dezvous for the annual cruise at Annapolis, Md., 
on Sunday, Sept. 8. 
2. A meeting of captains will be held on board 
the flagship at 8:30 P. M. 
3. Yachts going by the inside route, via Dela- 
ware and Chesepeake Canal will leave the club 
anchorage, Essington, on Friday afternoon, Sept. 
6, at 3 o'clock. A tug boat will accompany the 
yachts, and, if necessary, tow them to Delaware 
city. On Saturday morning they will tow through 
the canal and sail to Curtis Bay, Baltimore Har- 
bor, remaining there over night. On Sunday 
morning sail for the rendezvous at Annapolis. 
4. The routine and rules contained in the club 
manual will be observed during the cruise. 
5. Squadron runs, weather permitting: 
Monday, Sept. 9.—Annapolis to Choptank 
River. 
Tuesday, Sept. to—Choptank River to Patux- 
ent River. 
Corinthian 
Wednesday, Sept. 11.—Patuxent River to 
Wicomico River. 
Thursday, Sept. 12.—Wicomico River to 
Piankitank River. 
Friday, Sept. 13.—Piankitank River to Old 
Point Comfort. 
6. The race committee will issue instructions 
for runs from port to port and for all other rac- 
ing events. 
7. Captains intending to join the cruise will 
kindly notify the fleet captain at club house, 
Essington, Pa., at as early a date as possible. 
Captains are requested to give the fleet captain 
a list of their guests. The cruise promises to 
be of unusual interest. 
Ropert ToLanp, Fleet Capt. 




















































































