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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he signified his desire to take a part in it, and, after some consideration, the other gentlemen consented, an article being added to the agreement as follows : The yacht Henrietta enters the above race, by paying $30,000 subscription by members of the New York Yacht Club ;any minor points not embraced in the above, that cannot be settled by Messrs. Osgood, Lorillard and Bennett, shall be de-cided as follows : Each shall choose an umpire ; the umpires chosen in case of a disagreement to choose two others.^ Twenty per cent, of the money to be deposited with Mr. Leonard W. Jerome, on the 3d of November, the balance to be deposited on the first Tuesday in December—play or Signed by /. G. Bennett, Jr., Franklin Osgood,George A. Osgood, Pierre Lorillard, Jr. 1866. was a supplementary agreement which provided that neither yacht was to take a chan-nel pilot from this city, and that, in addition to thesails previously named,each yacht might carry a square sail. The third agreement provided December 5,There
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Image: VIXEN (yacht). THE HISTORY OF* AMERICAN YACHTING. that each yacht might shift during the race everything- but ballast, and that the forty-eight hour rule should be waived (that is,they could trim ship up to the very moment of starting). The race to end when the lighthouse on the west end of the Isle of Wight appears abeam, with the yacht on the true channel course, yachts to start on Thursday, December ii, at i oclock P.M., blow high or low. Boats to be started by H. S. Fearing. I have no space to dwell on their pass-ages, although the logs of all three are before me. We know that they had a fine, fair start, and the result shows how wonderfully well they were navigated. The Henrietta won having sailed 3,106 miles in thirteen days, twenty-one hours, fifty-five minutes. The Fleetwing was second, having sailed 3,135 miles,in fourteen days,six hours,ten minutes. The Vesta (fastest of the three) came last, having sailed 3,144 miles in fourteen days, six hours, fifty minutes.She was the only center-board boat

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