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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
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d awayher flying jib stay, when rounding the Spitbuoy, going out, and this causing her togripe badly, her steering gear gave out onthe return. She was beaten 19m. 33s.actual time, and 15m. los. corrected time. There was a dispute as to the secondrace, which was over the outside course,the captain of the British yacht, believing ^8 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 59 that he had to leave the outer mark on thestarboard hand, gybed his boat around itin order to do so. The captain of theColmnbia, who had, previous to the start,been informed that he could turn it eitherway, luffed around and secured an advan-tage by doing so. Mr. Ashbury asked thatthis race might be thrown out and anothersailed in place of it, but the committee re-fused. I was on board of the Columbiaduring this race, and I think that Mr.Ashburys request was aproper one. The Livoniahad led the Columbia allthe way to the outer mark,and but for this misun-derstanding, would havebegun the return in thelead. It was a straight
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reach to the finish, and it was possible for herto have won. As the committee was clearlyat fault in not giving explicit directions asto how the mark should be turned, and asthey had given permission to one skipper toturn either way, and had not given the samepermission to the other, and as it was evidentthat the captain of the Livonia — followingthe racing rule of England, which providesthat all marks shall be left on the starboardhand unless other direction be given —had lost time, Mr. Ashburys request was areasonable one, and should have beengranted. The committee were Moses II. Grinnell (chairman), Sheppard (landy,.Robert S. Hone, Philip Schuyler andCharles A. Minton. In support of its de-cision, the committee called attention to theprotest made by the owner of the yachtBrillia?it dgAmst the America in the originalrace for the cup, claiming that the Americahad gone the wrong side of the Nab Lightvessel, and the British committee decidedthat the America., having no written in-s

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Yachts
  • booksubject:Yachting
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Cassell___company__ltd
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