Identifier: yachtsyachtingwi00cozz (find matches)
Title: Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Cozzens, Frederic Schiller, 1846-1928
Subjects: Yachts Yachting
Publisher: New York, Cassell & company, ltd
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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t not for many years.June 13, 1865, five days later, there wasa match sailed between the schoonersMagic and Josephine, for $1,000 a side ; got out to the mark all right and made therun back successfully. The Josephine failedto find the outer mark and lost the race. Thus, it will be seen that, from year toyear, each season brought something new,and this year was particularly fruitful ofnovelty, for on September 11, the first raceever sailed from Sandy Hook to Cape Maywas started, being a match between Mr. J.G. Bennetts schooner, Heitrietta, 230 tons,and Mr. George A. Osgoods schooner,Fleetwing, 206.1 tons. The Eleetwifzg wonby one and a half hours. * First owned by Jas. Gordon Bennett; present owner G. P. Upham, Jr., Boston; now altered to a schooner. THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. Mr. Bennett was always ready for thesematches, and October i6, of this same year,1865, he sailed the Henrietta against theschooner Palmer^ then owned by Mr. R. F.Loper. She entered at 194.22 tons, and the
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Mr. Bennett made another match withthe Henrietta this same fall. It was herfirst season, and he seems to have been in-clined to race her for all she was worth.He wound up the season by sailing heragainst the schooner Restless, for $500 aside, the course being from Sands Point tothe Bartlett Reef Lightship, off New Lon-don, and the Henrietta won by twentyminutes. The annual regatta of 1866 was sailed, June 14, from Owls Head to and around the lightship, with the regulation single class of sloops and schooners, and nothing special occurred. The club seems now to have permanently abandoned the Elysian Fields course, and to have adopted Owls Head as the place of start and finish. During the cruise, this year, a match was sailed betwen the schooners Widgeon and Vesta, on August 17, the stakes being $1,000 a side, and the course from off Fort Adams to and around the Block Island buoy, and return, which has come to be known as the regular Block Island course. This was a very close race, and

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