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"" P6rt Sixty-.ina and invective on his opponent.,, who retorted in By similar style. The other side paid little attention to WILLIAM P. STEPHEHS technical argument, but went back to the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Declaratl.n of Independence, and ¯ allied items of history. \ In 7"he Spirit of June 11, 1881, ,ae read: "The \ Cutters, Cuffer-Cranks cutter-craze still continues. Mr. ]~]organ, tile owner of the schooner Wanderer, has given Mr. A. Cary \ \ and Corlnthians, Pert II \ Smith an order for a boat--or ’ship’ as Rear Corn- X \ modore Scnuyler loves to call themmabout the \ , length of Murlel but with on/~ and one half feet \\ less beam. Every little helps, the next man will ,, see that and go one and one half foot better. Why / \ on earth anybody shouhl desire to huild a wedge / \ in this country only a ]:itz-Noodle (Kunhardt) can \ tell?" A little later: "l don’t care for news, you know, says Fitz-Noodle, I’m a wrltah, nor a re- portah." Commenting on the small number of starters in the Atlantic Y.C. regatta of June 14, The Spirit said: Of course the advocates of the wedges or cutters (one hardly knows what to call them since it has been gravely stated by one high authority that the term ’cutter’ applies only to the rig and not to the model) will raise an exultant shout over this faih, re to start." In September, just prior to the races, "]’he Nau- tical Gazette predicted: "If report he’ true the Madge Sail plan. Schemer shown by broken lines Scotch racing cutter Madlze will get a bellyfull of racing from our yacht.~men before the season closes." In The Spirit of September 10 we find the follow- ing prediction: ’"l’lle honest fight which 7"he Spirit THE visit of Madge, ttmugh accidental and unpremedi- has made against the importation of the plank-on-edge rated, came at the right monent; the discussion, vocal principle in the modeling of American yachts seems likely and written, had passed the limit of polite controversy to be crowned with entire success. In a recent Imblication and degenerated into an exchange of billingsgate; now we notice that one of the staunchest advocates of the the issue was shifted to the racing courses. Opposing latest British style speaks of boats of five and six beams Kunhardt were Captain Coffin, writing in the daily as extravaganzas, which they certainly are; and calls IP’orld and the weekly Spirit of The Times; Captain yachts of three and three and one half beams ’heahhv Cornelius McKay, writing in The Herald and later in craft,’ and is right again. Until something has been founcl The Telegram; and B. S. Osbon, owner and editor of to beat them we shall still insist that the beamy center- The Nautical Gazette, with other writers on The Sun, board is the best type of boat for speed in the ordinan" The Times and Boston dailies. At one time Kunhardt w:,ters, an-! by that we mean the New Voric had been associated with The Nautical Gazette, but now ’s course here and the inland route from New they were sworn enemies. ~,Yhile on his part Kunhardt York to 1VIartha’s Vineyard. \Ve have not seen ,Xladge, was capable of discussing the question on its technical but we learn that she has been beaten bv everything that merits, he was not content with this, but showered ridicule has encountered her since she came },ere."

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3O2 A , SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, lSSl. { ~ae~v,~ O~plomacy and Tactics in The positioa of Captain Duncan was a delicate one, three thousanJ miles away from his owner, and relying only on his own judgment. Once under ~vay, he sailed about the b ty every day, accepting the implied cha!- lenges of the sloops which ~, J" came out to meet him; while .. Madge was to all appear- s ances in racing ’form, her head sheets were ahvays off an inch or two, and her top- sail yards in their chocks on deck. As the result of these informal brushes the boar sharps of Gowanus Bay formed an opinion which was well expressed by Captain

Wave, Madge end Schemer. From The Spirit of The Times. October IS, 1881. "Engraving on wood," as employed for newspaper i!lustretlon prior to ~he in|roducfion of pho|o- lithography. Below: Madge ’otte,(Rochoster,abandoned in a swamp N.Y.}.in,90S. at Char. Her greenheart keekon and :INTERNATIONAL YACHT- RACING: teak members were still sound The Wave, Madge, and Schemer,

cutters of her class. The Lavrock stuck to us, some- times lying to and sometimes’ tacking round us, evi- ,tently showing no intention of quitting us. We were loaded with extra sails, with beef and pork, and bread enough for an East India voyage, and were some five or six inches too deep in the water. We got up sails with a heavy heart--the wind had increasect to a five or six knot breeze, and after waiting until we were ashamed to wait longer we let her get about 200 yards ahead and then started in her wake. . "I have seen and been engaged in many exciting trials at sea and on shore. I made the match with Eclipse against Sir Henry (a horse from the South), and had heavy sums both for myself and my friends depending on the result. I saw Eclipse lose the tirst heat and four fifths of the second without feeling one hundredth part of the responsibility, and without suffering one hundredth part of the fear and dread I felt at the thought of being beaten Ira Smith on the morning of the first race. \Vhen hi~ Iw the Lavrock in this eventful trial. During the first attention was called to the miserably fitting topsail on fi’ve minutes not a sound was heard save, perhaps, the Schemer, an old one borrowed for the race, he shrulz~ed heating of our anxious hearts or the slight ripple of the his shoulders and said: "Oh, it’s good enough, anything water upon our sword-like stem. The captain (Old Dick will beat that thing." Just by way of diversion, while lirown) was crouched down upon the floor of the cock- waiting for the first race, let us turn again to The Spirit pit, his seemln~zly unconscious hamt upon the tiller, with o[ The Times, this time of the date of October I1, 1851, his stern, unalterlng t;aze upon the vessel ahead. The in which is reported the speech made b\, (’ommodore men were motionless as statues, with their eager eyes Stevens at the dinner given hhn on his leturn from fastened upon the Lavrock with a fixedness and intensity England. that seemed almost unnatural. It could not last long. "You may, perhaps, observe that my hair is somewh:lt We worked quickly and surely to windward of her wake; grayer than when I last met you; I’ll tell you ho\v it the crisis was past and some dozens of deep-drawn sighs hapl~ened. In coming from flavre we were obliged to proved that the agony was over." andmr some five or six miles from Cowes. At nine The Lavrock’s report of this impromptu brush spread ¯ o’clock a gentle breeze sprang up, :rod with it came through Cowes immediately on her arrival and ended all gliding down Lavrock, one of the newest and fastest chances of matches with the British fleet. Lnter on one yachtsmau, and one only, accepted Commodore Steven’s challenge Gorman at Gowanus, selling her to Dr. Barron in 1880. For ~e and sailed against the Yankee. years after that he was a familiar figure among the boat yards attd This was Tactical Error No. 1 in international racing; there yacht clubs of Bay Ridge. Dr. Barton wan a spirited and ~tthu- have been others. Those yachtsmen of today who can spare the siastic racing man. In 1884 he replaced Wave with the compromise time from war, political and baseball reports are advised to read keel-centerboard sloop Athlon, modelled and built by John Mumm; the long arid interesting speech of which this is only a brief extract, later he owned and raced file cutter Clara. From the Narrows ~o th, Sea MISTRAL was modeled and built in 1878 by D. O. Rich- When it came to maklug matches Mr. Blatch had no trouble, and mond of Stonington; in model she was deeper and abler than the five yachts were soon signed up. In the course of a generation the Gowanus boats. Pa!oma, originally named Blanche, was built by New York Yacht Club had moved from its birthplace off Hoboken Albcrtson Bros. in Philadelphia in 1871 ; as it happened she did not to Stapleton, , on the Upper Bay. The Seawanhaka race. Shadow was illustrated and described in MoToR Bo^’ftr;G Yacht Club had left its birthplace and had a station nearby at for September, 1942, but her regular rig was that shown in the Tompkinsville, and across on the Bay Ridge shore were two strong photo, a single big jib, and not the "morfydyte" cutter shown in clubs, the Brooklyn and the Atlantic. Long Island Sound was the sall plan, a rig then popular about Boston. Shadow’s owners almost as far in the future as Hoboken was in the past, the metro- for many years were Dr. John Bryant and his brother Henry, ex- politan yacht fleet moored and started its races in the center of the perlenced racing men; throughout their ownership she was sailed Upper Bay. The Seawanhaka course was from off Fort Wadsworth, by "Capt’n Aub" Crocker. Captain Crocker was selected by just inside the Narrows, past Buoy 10 and down the ship channel, General Paine to sall in her races with Genesta. In dimen- around South West Spit, out. past , and around the sions and model Shadow had nothing in common with the New York Sandy ttook Lightship; which, prior to the dredging of Ambrose sloops of her size. Channel, was about sLx miles due East of the point of the Hook; Among the leading professional skippers of the day were the vet- the length of the course was 32 nautical miles, erans, "Capt’n ’Than" Clock, "Capt’n Itank" Haft, "Capt’n Jim" The measurement rule in use by the Seawanhaka Y.C. in 1881 Berry, "Capt’n Lou" Tonns and "Capt’n Sam" Gibson ; apart from was no better and no worse than others of the variety of empirical these was a class of semi-professlonals, "boat-handlers/’ who were rules then in use. The "mean length" was multiplied by the extreme called on to supplant the regular skipper at the wheel of a cabin yacht, breadth, but what this proved as to the "size" of a vessel was’ an or to take the stick of a sandbagger, in the more important races. In open question. The overhang of Madge was 6.51 feet, for which this class head and shoulders above all others in his knowledge of she was taxed 3.25 feet; the overhang of Schemer was 2.64 feet, wind, weather and tides, his judgment, and his skill at the wheel was for which she was taxed 1.32 feet; that of Wave was 2.80 feet, "Capt’n Joe" .Elsworth, the patriarch of a web-footed tribe of with a tax on 1.40 feet. While this was unfair to M’adge, the breadth Elsworths and Van Busldrks, interrelated, which inhabited the factor was equally unfair to the two sloops. The first attempt at a Bayonne-Pamrapo shore. The family business was oystering, and sane measurement rule was made by the Seawanhaka Y.C. in 1882 Elsworth oysters, no longer from Raritan Bay but from Greenport, iu the introduction of sail area as a co-factor with length. This L I., are still esteemed by New York’s gourmands. With "Capt’n .rule, amended in 1883 and later generally adopted, worked sails- Joe" were Iris brothers, "Capt’n Bill," "Capt’n Bob" and "Warty." factorily as applied to both sloops and cutters down to 1891, when The best "boat-handler" of the sandbaggers was "Capt’n Ira" Smith, the introduction of a weighted lever in place of displacement made a pilot in the Brooklyn ferry service, always called on in the matches it useless. Under this Seawanhaka Rule the measurements of the for big money. When he bought Bella, the fastest of the 27-foot three would have been : Madge, 43.76; Schemer, 42.27; Wave, 42.71 ; Class, he changed the name to Susie S. after his daughter. Jake rating them, as events "proved, practically on an equality. In 1881 Schmidt, though best known as a builder, was a skillful sailer of his the question of the one-gun start was being mildly discussed as an improvetAent on the crude methods then followed, it was condemned own boats. by Captain Coffin as too dangerous, involving risk of collision. In this series of races an interval of ten minutes was used, each yacht tlko tambt to tho Slaughfer being timed as she crossed the line. AFTER several changes of plan the first race was started on Tuesday, Septerriber 27, the prize being a i THREE races were arranged by Mr. Blatch and the by the club. The Regatta Committee of the clubcUPhadC°stinga tug$100to folIowglven Scawanhaka Y.C., one with Schemer, one with Wave, and one with the course. With Captain Duncan and his two men were Niels an us-named yacht, to be sailed on September 20, 21 and 22; but the Olsen, the Superintetadent of the New York Y.C., a hardy Norse complete list of contestants is as below, sailor, Mr. Blatch and Rear Commodore Schuyler representing the club. Mr. Alley was not able to sall aboard Schemer, but Captain Yacht Owner Captain Ira Smith was in command, with John M. Sawyer as mate and ~[adge ...... James Coats, Jr ..... Robert Duncan "Capt’n Jimmy" Smith, long in the employ of J. Roger Maxwell Schemer ...... ~,V. S. Alley ...... Ira Smith on many yachts. The day was clear, with a light SE wind inside Wave ...... Dr. J. C. Barron .... }dichael Wallin the Narrows; the tide being against the yachts going and returning. lkTistral ...... Edward Fox ...... John Prior Madge sailed down from the Seawanhaka Basin and Schemer came Paloma ...... C. H. Leland ...... across from Bay Ridge; the sloop carried the borrowed sail just Shadow ...... Dr. John Bryant .... Aubrey Crocker mentioned while the cutter swung her big yard topsail. Schemer crossed on the gun at 10:40 and Madge 40 seconds later. Beating Over down to Buoy 10 Madge gained 57 seconds, when they reached the Yacht L.O.A. hang L.W.L. Beam Depth Draft bar Schemer housed her topmast, and Madge lowered her club ~,[adge ...... 45.91 6.51 39.40 7.75 6.2 7.83 t~’psail, both pitching. Madge rounded the Lightship at 1:41:18 Schemer ...... 39.48 2.64 36.84 14.50 3.8 3.10 with a lead of 5 minutes 35 seconds. Once inside the Hook Schemer Wave ...... 41.52 2.88 38.64 14.96 4.25 4.00 sent up her topmast and set her topsail; from Buoy 10 they ran ~.fistral ...... 39.50 2.84 36.66 14.94 4.33 3.92 under spinnakers. The finish was timed: Madge, 3:58.05; Schemer, Paloma ...... dl.00 3.00 38.00 14.00 4.66 4.00 4:03:06, a difference of 5 minutes 1 second elapsed time. ¯ ’ Shado~ ...... 37.08 2.91 34.17 14.25 ... 5.33 The i:onditions were the same for the second race on September 28, with Wave. The wind was light south, outside it was southwest The ;ines and portrait of Schemer were given in MoToR BOATING and variable. Wave led ovei" the llne at 10:37:43, M;.dge following for Aug-ust, 1944; William S. and A. Bryan Alley were sandbag at 10:38:09, both carrying working topsails. Wave gained (or a time. sailors, both charter members of the Larchmont Y.C. organized a but her skipper broke tacks and worked her out of the wind, which year Irreviously; "Bill" had"’bought Schemer and "Bry" was still shifted to the westward and gave Madge the advantage; at Buoy 10 racing Cruiser, one of the fastest of the 21-foot class. Wave was she led by 10 minutes 23 seconds. On the reach out to the Lightship the la~,t yacht built for the veteran John H. Dimon, who joined Wave cut the lead down to 6 minutes 51 seconds; they were even the Brooklyn Y.C. in 1858, its second year, then owning Arago, on the beat in to Buoy 10, but in the final run Madge gained nearly 30 tons, and Laura, a 26-foot sandbagger; he continued to build five minutes, the finish being timed: Madge, 5:45:59; Wave, and race yachts down to the building of Wave, in 1878, by Cornelius 5:56:39. Madge won by 11 minutes, 51 seconds, elapsed time. 304 The third race on September 29 was a private match [or $250 t~o time aliowance, the seco,xd a tria,~lgte of ten-mile sides under tl,c Per side in answer to a challenge from Edward Fox, owner of Eastern Y.C. rule, by which Shadow allowed 3 minutes 4 seconds. Mistral. Nothing is known about Mr. Fox save that he bought The match aroused much i:~terest and a number of yachts were Mistral in the previous year and sold her at the end of this sea,on, present, while the pa’-;*;enger steamer Day Star carried a large His name dots ilot appear in any yacht register or club bo~,k, and part)’ over the course. N. G. Herreshoff, the des;gt~er of 5,badow, this was his only appearance in yachting Ilistory. It is po.ssible covered the course on both days in a 32-foot steam launch1. The that he was ~he Englishman who published the first yacht register committee included three members of the Eastern Y.C. Regatta in 1872. The race was over the New York Y.C. course, from off Committee, Henry B. Jackson, George A. Goddard and Francis W. the club station, around the Lightship and finishing off Buoy 15. I..awrence- The party aboard Shadow included Dr. Bryant Henry The wind \~as strong from ESE and the start was made after Bryant, Joseph S. Fay, J. P. Itawes and tlenry G. Hawes, witl~ half flood. Under the club rule Madge would have received 32 Captain Crocker. With Captain Duncan and his two men aboard seconds, but this was waived. The skipper of the yawl Caprice held Madge were Gouverneur Kortright, of the New York Y.C., owz~er the wheel on Mistral. The tug used on the first two days was of the sloop Wizard, and Josiah Albro, the Newport boatr~an who replaced by the larger Luckenback, carrying a large party, some of had taken George and Annie to Scotland; both were ulffamiliar whom paid tribute to Neptune in crossing the bar. with the complicated gear of a cutter. Both yachts were docked at Newport for cleaning. ~d[ISTRAL crossed close to the tug 35 seconds after the On October 14 the wind was ENE moderate, and the course was gun, but Madge, 10 seconds later, was on her weather. Both carried laid SSW from Brenton’s Reef Lightship, the committee boat working topsails hut were glad to douse them before they were clear being anchored to the eastward. Shadow started out of Newport of the Narrows. Madge gained steadily; at 11:35 Mistral turned Harbor with a single reef, but cast it out before the start; she in two reefs and soon after Madge lowered her foresail. Nearing swung a club topsail while Madge set her working topsail. There Btmy 10 Madge housed her topmast, the times at this mark was the usual ten-minute interval, Shadow going over at 11:11:20 being: Madge, 12:06:.$1; Mistral, 12:16:35. As they neared the and Madge following at 11:12:09; both with booms to port. Shadow ttook Madge turned in one reef; a little later Mistral set a staysail had trouble with her spinnaker, the stops failing to break, and lost in place of her big jib, but the stay parted and she was obliged some time, Madge taking the lead and holding it until they jibed to re-set her jib. In crossing the bar Madge justified the opprobrious otl nearing the mark, there now being some sea runnir:g. Shadow’s epithets freely bestowed by her opponents: "half-tide rock," "diving- spinnaker was handled smartly at the turn, but the green crew on bell" and "submarine." When Madge turned the Lightship at Madge bungled badly. She was obliged to run off to clear the 2:37:23 Mistral was a mile and a half to leeward; shortly after her sail, and the spinnaker boom was topped up with a run, carrying jib blew into ribbons and she turned for home with her crew bailingaway 12:16:31" the starboard Afadge, spreader.12:17:31. TheOn the turn beat was in, timed: the wind Shadow, varied in with buckets. Madge passed Buoy 10 at 4:06:40 and was off Buoy 15 at 4:59:59, her elapsed time being 6:14:35. force and direction and topsails were shifted. The big club topsail The fourth race, on September 30, was again with Schemer, of Madge was never properly hoisted, and she could carry it only on under the same conditions as the first; the wind was light SSE, the port tack. One or the other profited at times by slight shifts of freshening through the race. Schemer started with a balloon jib wind, but Shadow coutinued to gain, finishing at 2:43:17 with a lead topsail; Madge had her club topsail aloft. Scheme- crossed on the of 22 minutes 42 seconds on Madge. gun, but Mhdge held back until the last gun. Outside the Narrows Madge shifted to working topsail at 12:50; at Buoy I0 Schemer Tim seco,:d race wa~~ sailed on October 15 over a triangular \\,as timed : 1:14:56, Madge, 1:23:56. Schemer turned the Lightship course estimated at 30 miles, the first leg S by E ,Z4-E, \lie second at 2:39:45 and Madge at 2:45:47. The finish was timed: Schemer, \V by N, and the third NE by E. The wind through the night I~ad 4:55:33; Madge, 5:01:01; or a lead of 5 minutes 6 seconds elapsed been fresh SSE, kicking up 9. good sea outside. Shadow sailed to time the start with a reef in b~lh mainsail and jib; Madge was towed The lifth race, on October I, was again with Schemer, for a out by the committee boat with a single reef in her mainsail and stake of $75. Madge was ready to sail but Captain Smith sailed working topsail. The start was given at 11:20, Shadow crossing at over from Bay Ridge in the sloop Dream and reported to the 11:23:50 and Madge at 1!:26:49. They beat out evenly to the first commit(ee that his yacht had sprung her rudderstock an,.l was mark, Madge having a lead of 45 seconds, or a gai’a for Shadow unable to sail. On the advice of Commodore Stewart, ~’r. Blatch of 2 minutes t4 seconds in the ten miles. On the reach to the ordered Madge to sail over the course, which she did in company second mark Shadow shook out her reef, Madge gained 6 minutes with the cutter Oriva. Mr. Alley sent his check for $75 to Mr. ,30 seconds, and on the run Shadow sprung her spinnaker boom and Blatch, but it was returned to hhn. A match had been made with set a shorter one, losing 26 secomts. The finish was ti,ned: Madge. Paloma for October 4, but was cancelled on accouqt of a death in 3:43:05; Shadow, 3:49:09. Madge won by 9 minutes 3 seconds the family of her owner. On the following dily Madge and Wave elapsed time and 12 minutes 7 seconds corrected time. were to meet again. Madge was ready at the start with topmast The failure of Wave to meet Madge on October 5 owing to housed when it was announced that Wave, out for cleaning, could difficulty in launching brought some hostile criticism on Dr. Barro**. smt’he launched on accouut of the heavy sea on the Brooklyn shore. That it was most unjust was proved on October 17 when, at 6 A..x~, Another proposed race with Elephant fell through, and on October 8 coming from New York, Wave sailed up beside Madge and pro- Madge sailed for Newport to meet the renowed Shadow. posed a start at 11 ^.~. After some discussion this was agreed to and hurried arrangements were made to lay out a course and find a Shadow and Madga committee. A Newport partyboat man, Tom Shea, well known to all yachtsmen in his day, was found to handle Wave, and Josiah AS told in the chapter, "East of the Cape," the sloops of Albro again sailed aboard Madge. The course was an estimate’.l about forty feet and under about Boston were deeper in body, more triangle of thirty miles, the wind ESE and fresh. Wave crossed at able, and of better build than the average of New York. The work 11:43:45 and Madge at 11:45:27; at the end of the ten-mile beat , of "Old George" Lawley, "Billy" Smith, "Mel" Wood and the they were timed: Madge 1:05:12; Wave, 1:10:56. On the reach Pierce Brothers was of a high quality for the day. The Herreshoffs Wave picked up 2 minutes 9 seconds, and on the run she added always led in original and sound construction. Throughout a racing 2 minutes 8 seconds, losing by an even 2 minutes elapsed time. career of alm’~st a quarter century Shadow was recognized as the The Posf-mor]’em fastest sloop of her class. For most of this time she was under the ownership of the Bryant brothers, with "Capt’n Aub" Crocker THE .joyous chortlings of Kunhardt may be left to the to care for and sail her. She had her own railway and house on imaginat on of the reader, but the co*nments of the other side are her owner’s beach at Cohasset and was kept in perfect racing con- interesting. In the reports day by day in many papers the superior difion. Her record under the Bryant ownership from 1877 to 188! speed and weatherliness of the cutter, as well as her condition and was said to be 49 starts, 39 firsts, 7 seconds and 3 thirds. !|andling, were freely recognized; but at the conclusion of the series The measurement rule of the Eastern Y.C. was another of the the press took a new tack. It was declared that American gentlemen w~ird formulas then fashionable: one fourth of the overhang being desired comfortable yachts for the pleasure of themselves and their added to the waterline to give the "length," and two-thlrds of this friends, merely racing them ocasionally. Madge, on the other hand, "length" being added to the extreme breadth. The match was to was a mere shell of a racing machine, with no internal room or ~nclude two races, die first ten miles to windward and return with fittings. As to condition and handling, while a British yacht made 305 a business of thirty to forty races in a seaso**, our racing was After her race with Wave, Madge was laid up at Newport and mer:.’y incidental, and did not call for new sails and skilled handling. Captain Duncan and his crew returned home; for a couple of year, .The owners of the larger yachts of the New York Y.C. were called she was used by the Auehincloss brothers but not raced, she was on to substantiate these statements, among them being "the promi- later owned by E. W. Shehlon of New York who, in 1889, sold her nent yachtsman who does not desire his name to be mentioned." to George P. Goulding of Rochester, who took her to Lake Ontario. Apart from the professional scribes like Captain Coffin, Captain Here she was in company with her older sister, Verve I ("Toronto McKay and B. S. Osbon, an active discussion in print brought out Verve") and her younger Verve oII, ("Chicago Verve"); racing the usual anonymous writers. My old friend Podgers, waving the with both. About 1899 I made the round of Ontario with the American flag, declared that no cutters were wanted in this free L.Y.R.A. fleet and at Charlotte, the port of Rochester and the country, and that the , now in her thirtieth year, was home of the Rochester Y.C., there lay in a swamp all that was left superior to all the more recent schooners. The irrepressible Clapham of Madge, a mere skeleton. .~(y friend AEmilius Jarvis was in put in his oar, sniping at both sides and proclaiming that his patent the fleet with his cutter Merrythought. tie found Captain Goulding Nonpariel sharpie surpassed in speed, accommodation and general and bought from him all the spars and gear, taking the stuff to good qualities both the shoal sloop and the deep cutter. In the quasi-scientific discussions every known rule of measurement was Toronto and setting up the mast as a flagpole on his property. called on to prove one thing or the other. The tiller was presented to the New York Yacht Club. The aban- Sailed so late in the season, in all the races there were shifts of doned hull had been well stripped, but the greenheart keelson was wind and cahns favoring one yacht or the other; as the reporting still sound, as were the oak frames. The rudder, unshippe~ l~ in was entirely on a partisan basis much was made of these incidents, the swamp. I borrowed a saw from Henry Stanton’s boatshop and but they practically offset one another and had no material effect sawed off about seven feet of the stock, shipping it to my home in on the final result: that l~fadge won six out of the seven races, Bayonne. It is still one of my sacred relics, in company with the and on elapsed time. rudder stock and bronze rap of Papoose.

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