The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

ROYAL VICTORIA YACHT CLUB.

This famous club, flourishing numerically and financially
to an extent that reflects the utmost credit even upon the
position it occupies as the Red Squadron of the Solent, has
issued its programme for 1861, and offers no less a sum than
£6lO to be competed for on the occasion of its annual car-
nival.

The programme is as follows :
Tuesday, August 9—A piece of plate, value £lOO, given by
the tradesmen of Ryde, for all vessels belonging to the
Royal Victoria Yacht Club.

Wednesday, August 10—The vessels of the club to sail in
divisions under flag officers.
Thursday, August 11—A cup given by the ladies of Ryde,
exceeding £5O in value, with £75 added, for all vessels be-
longing to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club,
Friday, August 12—A prize of £5O, open to all schooners
belonging to any Royal Yacht Club ; no restrictions as to
ballast, crew, or canvas. Same day a prize of SiO, open
to all cutters belonging to any Royal Yacht Club; no re-
strictions as to ballast, crew, or canvass. Time race.
Saturday, August 13—Beat races and other aquatic sports.
Tuesday, August 16—The £lOO cup (the Commodore's cup),
given by Commodore Charles Thelluson, for all vessels

belonging to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, to be sailed

for from Hyde to Torquay.
Tuesday, August 23—Three prizes given by Mr Thomas
Broad wood, for all vessels belonging to the Royal Victoria
Yacht Club, to be sailed for from Torquay rouad theEddy-
stone Lighthouse to Plymouth Sound—First prize, a
silver soup tureen, value £6O, for schooners ; second
prize, an ornamental piece of plate, value £lO, for cutters ;
third prize, a piece of plate, value £l5, for vessels under
40 tons.

The Torquay Regatta is definitively fixed for the 18th or
19th August, and will therefore take place in the presence
of the Royal Victoria fleet, which will also be present at
Dartmouth during the regatta there in the last week in
August,

The Royal Western Regatta is expected to take place
about the 25th and 26th of August, in which case the occa-
sion will be considerably enlivened, as at Torquay and
Dartmouth, by the presence of the red flag of the Royal
Victorians,

In looking over the programme of the Royal Victoria
Yacht Club there will be found much in it that must com-
mend it to the favour of all true yachtsmen. There is not
only the established number of smooth water matches
in sight of the Clubhouse, and the more stately
pageant of "division" sailing, but there is again this
year the Channel matches, the fair dashings out into
blue water, where the best craft and the most perfect
seamanship stand a fair chance of reaping their due re-
ward. The matches this year down Channel may not, at
first sight, appear to possess so great an amount of interest
as did the race to Cherbourg last year, when, blessed with
a moderate gale and a tumbling sea, the famous schooner
Galatea and the equally famous cutter Marina passed inside
the Cherbourg breakwater, each the first of her class, and
soundly "whipped" the American schooner Gipsy, which
was started with the competing craft to show them the way
into Cherbourg roadstead. The matches down Channel this
year, however, may prove to be quite as interesting if
favoured on each day with a good stiff breeze a point or
two on the bow.