The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-13 00:00:00

AQUATICS.

ROYAL VICTORIA YACHT CLUB.
Two races were on the card of the programme for yester•
day of this famous club—one for Cutters and yawls, and
the other for schooners. It was a dead calm early in the
morning, but towards 10 a.m. (the time announced for the
start of the vessels entered for the first race) a light breeze
sprung up from W.N.W., and soon steadied down to a light
sailing breeze, with a promise of more to follow; and at
10 a.m. precisely the vessels engaged in the following race
were started, the course being commenced to the eastward,
with the wind at W.N, W. and the tide at flood :

A prize of £5O, open to all cutters and yawls belonging to
any 'toys' Yacht Club. Time race, half Ackera's scale,
Thames measurement. No restriction in this raco as to
ballast, crew, or canvas. Victoria Course, twice round.
Stations—No 1 nearest the pier.

The Vindex, 45 tons, light blue, white finer-de-Hs, Mr
A. Duncan, R.T.Y.C. ; Volante, 69 tons, white bargee,
Mr 11. C. Maudeley, R.V.Y.C.; Astarte, 73 tons, red,
white, and blue, diagonal, Mr T. Seddon, R.M.Y.C.; Ban-
shee, 63 tons, red and white, diagonal, Mr J. Jones, jun.,
R.M.Y.C.: Osprey, 50 tons, black, with white cross, Mr F.
Sloane Stanley, R V Y.C.; Osprey (yawl), 25 tons, white
ground, black bird, Lord Burghley, V.C., R.V.Y.C.; Em-
met, 32 tons, square white, Mr Stuart Lane, R.V.Y.C.; and
Mosquito, 59 tans, green, gold ball, Mr Thos. Holdsworth,
R. M Y. C.

The time to be allowed was arranged in accordance with
Ackers's scale, thus:---Astarte allows Volante, 3 min 7 sea;
Mosquito, 3 min 25 sec ; Banshee, 5 min 10 sec ; Osprey
(cutter), 6 min 36 sec; Vindex, 7 min 42 sec; Emmet, 12
min 22 see; Osprey (yawl), 15 min.

The schooners were started after the cutters 30 minutes,
in the same directi,n and over the same course.
The conditions of this race and the names of the com-
peting vessels were as follow :

A Prize of £5O, open to all schooners belonging to any
yacht club. Time race, half Ackers's scale ; Thames
measurement. No restriction in this race as to ballast,
crew, or canvas. Stations—No.: nearest the pier.

Albertine, 153 tons, distinguishing flag, blue, pierced
white, red Maltese cross in centre, Lord Londesborough—
Madcap, 74 tons, blue, crest in centre with motto crimson,
Mr F. S. Abbot Dunbar—Galatea, 131 tons, witch on a
broom on white ground, Mr T. Broadwood—Blue Bell, 71
tons, blue, Mr F. Edwards--Vestal, 74 tons, black, with
Maltese cross in centre, Sir B. Chichester—Aline, 214 tons
blue and yellow checkered, Mr C. Thellusson, commodore
—Medea, 68 tons, blue, red crest in centre, Mr W. Ridout.
The time allowance was given thus—Aline allows Alber-
tine 3 min Bsec—Galatea, 4 min 4 sec—Madcap, 8 min 22
sec—Vestal, 8 min 22 sec—Medea, 8 rain 45 sec—and Blue
Bell, 8 min 22 sec.

The run down to the Nab was without interest with both
cutters and schooners. The Noman was passed by each
class thus :

H. M. a.
Volante lO 17 12
Vindes
Banshee
Mosquito
Astarte
Osprey (cutter) 10 20 45 1
Fmmet
Osprey (yawl) 10 23 25 1
In the run out to the Nab the wind was light and variable,
changing the position of the vessels as they caught a puff,
favourable or otherwise. The schooners passed round the
Nab as follows:

H. M. 8.
Albertine lO 2 14
Aline ll 2 40
Madcap ll 3 0
Blue Bell
Galatea
Vestal . . 11 3 30
Medea

M. M. s.
Aline ll 46 21 Blue Bell ll 52 15
Albertine ll 47 10 Galatea
Madcap
Vestal
The cutters were not timed round, owing to the difficulty
in making out their flags. The Volante and Banshee led.
The cutters and schooners were all together after rounding
the Nab, with the wind very light from WNW. In coming
up as they best could, they passed the Noman on the port
hand in the following order :—.

Cutters. H. H. S.
Banshee ........ 12 35 0
Mosquito ........ 12 37 40
12. 41 47
12 44 15
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12 45 10
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.... 12 48 26 ;
12 46 32;
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Volante
Osprey (yawl).... 12 58 101
At 120 p.m. the Banshee, a steel-built vessel belonging to
(of
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; but soon went about
again to shun the tide along
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The Aline, heading the schooners, at 1 55 was in a
v index, Osprey, and
line with Stokes Bay pier from Hyde
Pier, standing along
the bay shore, with the Albertine a short distance astern
and a cable's length to leeward, the Madcap being at about
the same distance from the Libertine. Blue Bell came next,
with the others at longer intervals astern, From the Nab
to Stokes Bay the wind had fallen very light, bat soon atter
the headmost vessels of each class had entered the bay the
wind freshened a little, with alook away to windward that
bore the appearance of a coming increase of the breeze as
the day wore on. Of the cutters the Banshee was the first
to catch the increase in the breeze as it came up from about
W. by N., and she went along beautiful!-
' under its influ-
ence: The Mosquito, from her position as second, next
caught it, and a struggle now ensued westward between
these respective representatives of steel and iron. At 215
p.m. all the vessels in both matches_cutters and schooners
—were on the port tack, and a good idea may be formed of
the area they covered when we state that the line extended
from the Noman fort, near the Bramble shoal. At 235 the
Banshee went about under Calshot, and was imweiiately
followed by Mosquito, both carrying a slashing W.N.W.
breeze from off the land with them to the west buoy of the
middle, which was rounded by them and other leading
vessels of both classes in this order and time :

Schooners. H. M. S.
Aline .. 12 46 0
Madcap
Albertine l2 50 12
-Vestal
Blue Bell
Galatea
Medea 2 14 -0

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tide 6 7
and 37
Mosquito Schooner.
Volante
51
52 43 Astarte . .
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on
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wind, passed the Banshee and took first place. The first
round was completed by cutters and schooners by passing
to the eastward on the second round between Ityde Pier
head and the mark boat as follows:

Cutters. H. lc s.
Mosquito
Banshee 3 '27 34
Volante 3 31 4
Astarte .. 3 37 14
Vindex
Osprey
Nutlet
Osprey (yawl)

Schooners. n. M. S.
Aline .......... 3 36 0
Madcap ........ 3 48 21
Albert ine ...... 3 46 38
Blue Bell ...... 3 50 45
Galatea ........ 4 0 32
Vestal ........ 4 4 52

The wind was just sufficier
topsails in ru4hipg for the 111

Lt to well fill the yachts' large
lb ter the second and last time,

but freshened on their opening Brading harbour, and two of
the leading cutters were unexpectedly put hors de co►nbat.
The Banshee, after lying to for some time, just as she should
have been making for the Nab, in wake of Mosquito, with
topsail and foresail down, and the tack of her mainsail up,
bore up for Ryde Roads, with apparently something amiss
with her masthead. The Vindex, too, had just previously
given in, and bore up for the same anchorage with two reefs
down in her mainsail and the leech split, the Madcap hav-
ing shoved her jibboom through it in rounding the Noman
buoy. The Nab was rounded the second time by the lead-
ing vessels as follows :
Cutters. H. M. s. Schotmers. H. M. S.
Mosquito ...... 4 25 3 Mine
Volante
Astarte
Osprey .. 4 41 24 Blue Bell
In reaching to the westward from the Nab the Astarte
carried away her boystay and, giving up the race, brought
up in Ryde roads. The Vestal and Emmet gave up the race
when off Ryde at 6 p.m. The wind continued steady at
west, and both cutters and schooners yet remaining in the
race continued their course with every prospect of conclud-
ing it before sunset, although the vessels were not in when
leading their respective classes, and were running up before
the wind for Ryde between the Motherbank and Osborne.
The race finished as follows &
H. M. S. M. M. S.
Aline
Albertine 6 52 55 Volante 6 55 5

A grand pyrotechnic display took place last night on the
battery of the Royal Victoria Yacht Clubhouse and on
board the yachts afloat. The annual ball was given at the
Clubhouse in the evening.
To-day boat racing and other aquatic sports off Ryde-
pier and the Club-house bring to a conclusion this week's
regatta of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, but on Tuesday
next the ocean matches of the club will commence with the
Commodore's Cup. A prize, value 1100, will be given by
Mr Charles Thellusson, for all yachts belonging to the
Royal Victoria Yacht Club. To be sailed from Ryde to
Torquay. Time race, double Ackers's sale ; time to be
allewed at starting. Yawls to be classed as schooners.

The cup is a work that reflects great credit upon the
makers and designers, Messrs. London and Ryder, of New
Bond-street, and is equal in style to any of their well-
known Doncaster or Goodwood cups. It is entirely of
dead gold and matted frosted silver, possessing that air of
quiet refinement so agreeable to the eye in works of art
composed of the precious metals, while its subdued effect
aids the modeller in the development of the beautifully
conceived " Syrens of the deep," that form the handles,
these syrens being double-tailed mermaids' spreading their
finny forms over the body of the cup, the body springing
boldly outwards for the handles, and the hands of each
figures playing on mystic lyres. The cover of the
cup is surmounted by an infant Neptune, astride a
dolphin. The cup is strictly utilitarian, as it forms a
large claret bottle to hold three magnums, and has been
manufactured entirely from the suggestions of Commodore
Thellusson, who gave the commission for its execution in
February last, thereby affording ample time for the work to
be carefully accomplished. Messrs London and Ryder had
the honour of submitting the cup to the inspection of his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who expressed him-
self as greatly pleased with it. The cup bears the following
inscription in silver letters upon a gold ground .—" Pre-
sented to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, by Charles Thel-
lusson, Esq., Commodore. Ocean Match, Ryde to Torquay,
Aug. 16, 1864."