The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-10-06


the Lavonia, got himself accredited
by fourteen organized yacht clubs,
and challenged the New York Club
in the name of every one of them.
This would have neccssitatcd four
teen separate races, and there was
long and bitter wrangle as to how
the matter should be arranged.
At last it was decided that there
should be seven races, and the
Columbia was picked out to meet
the challenger. The first two races
were won by the America easily,
the third the Lavonia took; the
Columbia was disabled, and the
fourth and fifth were won by the
Sappho, which was picked out to
face the music on the day of the
race. In 1876 came the next trial
for the cup, and this time it was n
Canadian fresh water yacht that
made the attempt. The Countess
of Dufferin was built at Cobourg,
by Mr.. Alex. Cuthbert, whose single
stick, centreboard boats, had beaten
everything ahoat on the great lakes,
on behalf of company of gentle
men, prominent among whom was
Commodore Boulton, of the Royal
Canadian Yacht Club. On August
10 she sailed over the club course
with the Madeline, and was
beaten badly. On the second day,
u twenty mile beat to windward and
return, she was 81 min. II sec. be-
hind, and the America, which
sailed with the racers that day,
proved her speed by beating them
both, and that with ladies on board.
Mr.. Cuthbert was as little inclined
as Mr.. Ashbury, to be satisfied with
one beating, and in 1881, he took
down the sloop Atalanta, as pretty
craft as ever sailed Canadian
waters, to try again. She was
matched with the Mischief, and was
beaten on two consecutive days, and
that badly. In 1882, a change came
in the status of the cup, and for the
first time regular code of rules to
govern championship races in the
future, was laid down. They are
as follows =
ANY organized yacht club of Il
foreign country Incorporated, pa
tented, or licensed by the Legisla-
ture, Admiralty, or other executive
department, having for its annual
regatta an ocean water course on the
sea or on an arm of the sea Cor one
which combines both), practicable
for vessels of 800 tons, shall always
be entitled, through one or more of
its members, to the right of sailing
q match for this cup with yacht or
other vessel propelled by sails only,
aud constructed in the country to
which the challenging club belongs,
against any one yacht or vessel as
aforesaid constructed in the country
of the club holding the cup.
1.-The yacht or vessel to be of not
less than so nor more than 800 tons,
measured by the Custom House rule
in use by the country of the chal-
longing party.
line challenging party shall give
six months notice in writing, naming
the day for the proposed race, which
day shall not be less than seven
months from the date of the notice.
1.-The parties intending to sail for
the cup may, by mutual consent,
make any arrangement satisfactory
to both as to date, course, time al
lowance, number of trials, rules and
sailing regulations, and any and all
other conditions of the match, in
which case also the six months no.
tice may be waived.
''In case the parties cannot mutu-
ally agree upon the terms of
match, then the challenging party
shall have the right to contest for
the cup in one trial, sailed over the
usual course of the annual regatta
of the club holding the cup, subject
to its rules and sailing regulations,
the challenged party not being re-
quired to name its representative
until the time agreed upon for the
start.
accompanying the six months
notice, there must be Custom
House certificate of the measure
ment, and statement of the dimen-
sions, rig, and name of the vessel.
''No vessel which has been de-
feated in match for this cup can be
again selected by any club for its
representative until after contest
for it by some other vessel has inter-
vened, or until after the expiration
of two years from the time such con-
test has taken place.
Vessels intending to compete for
this cup must proceed under sail on
their own bottoms to the port where
the contest is to take place.
Should the club holding the cup
be for any cause dissolved, the cup