The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-16 00:00:00

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.

The third race of the season anseept yachts of
this di sluiaksd shah COMO off yesterday, but own% to the
very napremiscog stete of the weather in the nacestag the
attendants of ?Worm on board the clubmen/ter, the Engle,
was yeey thin. Tbroagheas the day the wind was squally
and siunaMe. acompsnied by heavy showers of rain, end •
thassisestorm in the afterneos, attar which there wee ever
and aeon a stark calm. _ _ _

ittaTeoi ;Wswithyachts of the fourth class, for prises in
pis* value 301- fee the bet boat, and 101. for the second,
mot the following oontsadod :

Y.chta. Taw fieueri.
Drone
Quiver
Octanes U
Folly
There was a time snowman of half a minute per tca,
and the cause was Iron Crayoned to the Non Light and
leek.

Mr. Charlie Tatham, a very old and experienced yachts-
men, was the officer of the day, in the abeeoce of the noble
commodore Lord Alfred Paget, and the vice Lord de Roe,
but the latter eoperiatmded the arrangement of the clutters
at their stations. The wind wee west and by south, and
plenty of it, as will be seen by the time in
which the yachts ran down to the Nora The
ram was started at 11.48. There wee no advan-
tage in position, sad the cotters all canted at the lame
momeat, the Octoroon, however, waithig till her mainsail
ibed over before aim fairly set The Dram first showed •
jib-needed topsail, sad the Mime immediately followed her
example, but with square Goes. The Folly took the lead,
followed by the Quiver, which just below Tilbury had run
into the sewed place, the Folly close behind her, with her
sheet right off, but in the lower part of Gravemed Beech
the Folly main drew past the Quiver. They treat
down right before the wind, ahiftiog topsails and
carrying as much canvass se they could well
stand coder, the wind freshening as the squalls
same 00. The Octorooe soon filled the second place,
and thee there became a pp of • oable's length between the
find and mooed boat., but there being a lull at Laigh,tz
were ell together spin, with scarcely half • doses y
between them, wises the Folly, by judicious riling. again
drew ahead, and they rounded the on Light as follows :
a. M. •
Folly 2 2 20
QUITO?
°dorms 2 3 36
Drove
They jibed rowed the lightship to the northward. The
Donee did not mend well, liming time by going to leeward,
still camper; her jib-heeded topsail, while the rest struck
theirs. As the ebb tide wee still runnieg, and the yachts
had to beat deed to windward all the way up, they courted
the slack. In the first board the Quiver went out right to
wiadward of the Folly, who shortly after was observed with
a reef doses, the vied at the tints being very heavy
sod squally, and the Octoroon shortly after reached
through her lee. With the squall the wind came
out from the north-west, and they were all
brakes off. Just below Soothed the Quiver was leading
by a quarter of a tulle, the Octoroon being mooed sad Folly
third. Thee came a thesderstone, eWm, sad some gate.
paws. The Folly having kept well over to the math ahem
got • Moe Meese of wind, and peeing the Octorom west
very neer to the Quiver, and eo close were they all through
that the slightest miseheace would have abadged the for-
, to of the day, but they were all mailed well, and the
race Wished ea follows :

H. H. L

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6 311 U
Oeborsas 6 66 SI
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