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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AMERICA S CUP. here to buoy 5 the positions of the contest-ants did not vary much, and the Mayflowerled her antagonist by about six minutes, irre-spective of. the 38 seconds time allowanceshe had to give the cutter. The wind con-tinues light, and the sea is as smooth as atennis court. Rounding buoy 8)4 both boats can about lie the course to the light-ship, which bears S.E. by E. The breezeseems a good deal fresher outside, and theMayflower is dancing gaily along, lyingover to her plank-shear. How gloriouslybuoyant is her motion as she rises andfalls to the gentle undulations which makeup as we gain the open water! This is thelongest reach of the day, and gives us alla breathing spell for refreshments. At 2.28 the sloop comes in stays, andtakes in her jib-topsail as she stands towardsthe ugly-looking red hulk that shows theway into the channel. Her crew are busygetting her balloon jib-topsail run up instops, and soon a white streak runningfrom truck to bowsprit end appears. Thefloating

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