New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-18
YACHTS THAT CROSS THE SEA
THE CUP cHALLENGERs NO LONGER THE
ONLY ONES.
CURRENT INTERNATIONAL FEATURES AS VIEWED
BY AN EXPERT-THE PLEASURE TO BE
GAINED WHEN ALL is NOT sACRI-
FICED TO SPEED

GAINED WHEN ALL 10 MI SANiA-
FIcED TO SPEED
Fashionable Yachting promises to become more
and more International in character. AFTER lapse
of a good many years, Royal Phelps Carron opeheo
a new era with his cutter. the Navahoe MIS-. Car
roll crossed with him and took part III the |""es
festivities John f. Brooks followed Lost year with
his scboonor the I.asca together with George j.
Goulds yacht the Vigilant. This year ho"aru
Gou,ds 2O-rater the Niagara has creditaoiy repre-
serted America while suydam Palmer iarse
schooner the Yampa, has joined In the huriy-ouriy
with good Will , -, 49,
On this sdc the importation Of several small Try
- contest in challenge races, which followed the
able Queen Nab. has helped to sustain the inter-
national courtesies and general exchange Oh soou
fooI,ng The coming OF valkyrie III. backed by
the sportsmanlike psrsstency OF Lord DunraVen'
will It is hoped. further the increase OF am''y oe-
tween both nations and the generai oesire on oo'n
sides of the water for large yachting.
THE grade of the sport is advisedy called large
Yachting because--well, because II Is not small
There is nothing small about 1t when your boat
has 10 travel 5000 miles OF ocean, ana De able 10
weather every gale that this trip may contain,
| before It begins its first race. There is nothing
email IN craft or crew when this Is done. 1t
takes a pretty good boat to be even fairly GER
tain of arriving her destination, TO say nothing
| Of any subsequent success; and the whole under
taking is full OF honor
A YACHTSMAN'S FANCY.
Indeed it may be remarked that too little respect
seems 10 be paid to the boat. when 1t Is thus aDie
TO carry Itself so sereneiy through the storms and
water cliffs of ocean wastes. Ii may De Only mag
| nation. but some people. including the present
writer can never get over the notion tnat sranu
u,,lo hork that can do this is living thing. To
| eucb neonle land perhaps they only dreamers
| the temporary owners Of such crafts are almost
non-existing. 1t is always the boat. the wee o''
| boatle. that is gallant. And somehow the unn'er-
es,ny individual who foots the bill doesn't amount
| IN shucks The lover OF such boat wants 10 30
down and Pat her. and feel her, and see her water
| stains and her gray wave-swept decks as soon as
| che arrives He wants TO examine the rigging tna'
| has held the mast in. and every frayed sheet or
| split canvas or broken spar holds for him story
| from the sea. A whole hour OF tobacco-chased
| wonderment is to be spent while he measures the
low small side of her against those walls OF water
which his minds eve can see. The marvel OF the
whole thing is upon him he asks himself. How
! did che ever come through it?" And he loves that
| boa: because 1t is gallant. But the owner WHO
travels by steamer not trusting himself to cross IN
| her is no more than drftwood
Perhaps those who seek yachting only as a
| medium for advertisement may think it silly TO
| demand that respect should be paid to boat but
| II is only a part OF a general idocy that every
lover OF the sea knows right we'll and Delights IN
| clever old man once said that heaven would seem
! mpossble II we couldn't sometimes be so direrent
| from others that they called us idiots
The Yampas visit to Cowes Is just one OF those
| pleasant happenings that seem about to become
| more numerous Mr. Palmer is over there with MS
| commodous keel schooner. that is by no means
drstrate in point OF speed but most able and ad-
mrable in many ways. He IS there to get all the
m, he can out OF lt-fairy we'll matched, and in
one case er-nla tched, among the more slow-gons
English sctooners, but there for true yachting anc
| uhatever nicnics the ravens may DrnB.
OTHER FUN THAN RACING.
| ,d after all Is not this the real thing? Have
| NOT some in America gone far toward missing the
| hest outcome OF the sport when supremacy OF
| speed is so universally made the highest type OF
| en- ioyment? In practice it is not. The continuous
hustle OF continual racing is hugely uncomfortaoe'
| The true yachtsman is the cruiser who moves from
| pace 10 place lives his boat, has good time
everywhere accepts all chances Of a race, but re-
| trains from breaking his heart II he loses
| NEW ERA COMING
| These things go BY fashion Real yachtsmen are
| in fact scarce They know. But they are few, ana
requires no prophetic ancestry to predict tnat WIN
their lead fashion and fad about 10 bring about
| a good thirg-an international interminglng which
has for its end the best average OF solid enjoyment
and one that will be far more social in its condi-
tons than is possible in the present lie ana uea'h
| struggle for speed supremacy
| Mr. Palmer with his Yampa seems to have the
| right idea When in the past week the fampa was
| DISQUALIFIED on a technicaty, Mr.. Palmer ony
| smiled and proposed to run for flcc. Then, when
| the Amphitrte relieved him of this sum. with
eighteen minutes spare he took 1t calmly as part
of a weeks SPORT and the unimpaired condition of
| Mr. Palmer's digestion seems to hold some element
| of prophecy-that further Americans VIII follow
| his lead in not pinnng enjoyment TO speed sue
! cess one who can win without becoming obnoxious
is satisfactory; but the ability to lose gracefully
| Is
In the general makeup Of yacht perhaps these Ss
| ideas are best represented In the Britannia. Sne
! is the best combination OF speed ease ana comfort
| that the word has witnessed one never Sareens
peculiar dignity very stately IN movement ana a
total stranger to acroDauc prhns 10 one h Wa tS
| Vgilant would beat her; but different views soon
arrived when both were seen rams he enseS in ths
Britannia's interests. Il mad no place curing hasu
Asa this luck has seemed to give her the prize
even after her position became apparently hopeless
| over and over again she has been becalmed and
left miles behind But The evening paper has nearly
| always said, britannia won. indeed, the New
an ar the Union club come time ago three men
| were talking together, while fourth was appar
read out a late dispatch saying that the Britannia
was ashore near Ryde ara would lose the race ihs
| tBut this cable says She has been hard aground
| for four minutes. and that the Ailsa is miles
'Tha, doesn't matter. Being hard aground won
stop her. She'll VOL OH the snoai ana WIN Mn yet S
| laughed at Kim But he wa right. later edition
| proclaimed that the Britannia won by nfty-thre'
| seconds. ~ -. -, An.
1t was thought her day had come when the Aisa
| apnea red in the Mediterranean and began Dy beat
| ne nor about thirteen minutes. But the Ai.sa got
| tired and gradually the Britannia appeared ono,
| more as the best boat. As between her and the
| Ailsa the interest Is growing slack, and perhaps
| New Workers received 'heir best Insight into me
| Rrifannia's powers when she lately in fifty mile
| race engaged with both the Niagara and the lsold,
| off Queenstown. New-York yachtsmen have goo
| siea of how uncommony smart both these Ameri
| can exported Herrcshon boats are On account o.
| their being smaller. the Britannia allowed th'
| isolde thirty-three minutes and forty-eight sec
| onds and the Niagara hfty-four minutes and min,
| seconds Yet In spite OF these enormous allow
F! ances the Britannia by fourteen seconds.
| On Wednesday last AZ the Royal Victoria zach
club regatta off Ryde, she gave each OF the forty
| rafnrs me Isolde and the Caress 33m 4ss.
| beat them easily. She also pulled down the Alsai
lead of nearly -four minutes. and suddenly slippe,
| In AT the finish a winner BY 80 seconds.
| The writer OF these notes has been many times