The Portland daily press., 1895-09-07
vALKYRIE iii.

The loss of the third race by Columbia
was due to an accident Of the steering
gear.
Livonia raced Dauntless for a fifty
guinea cup twenty miles to windward
and return from the Sandy Hook light
ship. Dauntless won by II minutes 80
seconds actual time and minutes sec
onds corrected time. Any one Of the four
schooners selected could easily beat Lii
vonia.
The next attempt to capture the Ameri
can cup was made by the Canadians, as
was also the following on the next year:
Countess OF Dufferin, was the first. Cana
dian yacht, which in 1875 tried to capture
the trophy. Built by Capt. Cuthbert of
Coburg, Ont, it arrived in New York
July II, and was found to be constructed
upon American lines, although of poor
workmanship. Although Americans had
heard alarming stories about Capt. Cuth-
bert's skill as a yacht builder, and that
he was liable to produce a yacht which
would beat the Yankees. yet when it was
| seen in our water all interest died out,
and on great excitement or public inter-
est prevailed ON the days of the races.
The flagship of the New York Yacht
| Clubs squadron, Madeline, was pitted
agains the Canadian.
The first race was won by Madeline,
| beating Countess of Dufferin ten minutes
and forty mine seconds. The second race
was sailed out Of Sandy Hook next day,
| to windward and return, twenty miles,
with tho old schooner yacht America as
one of the competitors America beat
both boats to the route mark, but lost
on the reurn. Madeline beat America by
| eleven minutes and forty SIX seconds and
| Countess of Dufferin by thiry-six min
utes and forty seven seconds, actual time.
| 1t is not probable Countess would have
done nearly as we'll as it did If it had
not been thoroughly overhauled at New
York after its arrival there Its sails
were made in New York
In 1881 Capt. Cuthbert built another
yacht, Atlanta, and again challenged for
| the cup. The'rac did not occur until
late in the fall, Nov. 8 and TO- Mischief
beat Atlanta easily in both events. In
the first race Mischief won by twenty
eight minutes and thirty seconds and in
the second by twenty eight minutes and
| fifty -four seconds
| After thirteen more years the English
again determined to CONGESTION the Ameri-
| ca cup and in in December 1884, the New
| York Yacht club learned the owner of
the Genesta, Sir Richard Sutton, would
challenge to race in the following year.
| In order to meet the cutter the club de-
| termined to build boat which should
combine all the advantages OF the cut
ter,s rio and model with the best features
/ of the American centerboard sloop. The
| result of this determination was the
Puritan, designed bv Edward Burgess.
The number of races agreed upon was
three. one to be sailed over the yacht club
lcourse from inside Sandy Hook to the
llightshp, one to windward of Sandy Hook
a i'd RETURN and one twenty miles from
Scotland Lightship and return. The
traces began Sept. IA, 1885, and Puritan
won the first by sixteen minutes nine
teen seconds corrected time and the Sec
lnnd nv one minute thirty eight seconds
corrected time
Lieut Hem challenged the same yesr in
lbebalf of Galatea and the Maytiower was
Ihuilt nv the members of the New York
and Eastern yacht clubs to meet the out
ter The first race was sailed in Septem-
Der, 1885, in light winds, fully demon
stratino the American boats superiority
in reaching, beating, or running under
light winds. Mayfower won the race by
twelve minutes, two seconds. The second
race proved iuke owing to the fact it
was NOT sailed within the seven hour
limit. but it showed pretty conolusively
when the wind and sea were raging dur
ING the early stage of the race that the
sloop did even better work than the cutter,
although the general opinion was that
rough weather would favor cutter. The
third race proved decisive one to May
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