New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-23
REVIVAL. OF THE SCHOONER
INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACING NfNT fEAH-
THE RAINBOW AND THE OGDEN
GOBLET CUPS.

roues Coates. OF Paisley for whom the large
sohoo,o,vacht Is now building at the yards OF tho
Hendersons on the design Of George H. watson
has heen the owner OF many fine racers. The
smallest OF these was the most famous lhs was
the n-ton cutter Madge. which came over 10 New
york q good many years ago and beat everything
A number OF American yachtsmen feIl In love WIN
,he Madga because Of her exceedingly game per
Torrance I'm heavy seas. and because. unlike 'he
National type centreboard. she could not Dc fnauo
10 upset The Madge and the Minerva, "A flie ooh''
now owned by W II. Johnson Of New-fork' intro
ducod the English keel to America. after which
the long series OF studies in combining both types
bosan that evolved the compromise craft most
suitable for these waters. Captain ROBERT duncan
who sailed the little Clyde cutter In American
waters Is still alive and Will command the husc
vessel which is being prepared for Mr.. Coates
Duncan has had the command Of every yacht buiit
for Mr. Coates. including the famous Marjorie
sixtv-ton cutter that won everything In her class
on the other side OF the Atlantic.
The now schooner which is to come TO America
next year has been differently reported as 10 he'
size being first mentioned a 50o-ton craft Inc
latest news from the Clyde says she Will be ao3ut
four hundred tons. builders measurement ana tnlS
will make her the largest schooner-yacnt ,S Sree
hundred tons was previously the largest schooner ne,
owned and raced in England. and she was OF t ,h
old-fashioned cruiser type which set none Oh the
water on fire The vessel Is to be OF the lnst
cruiser kind which means that she WIZ De shom
schooner rugged for heavy weather IL she sHou,
faT IN with il. An Englishman writes: she VIII
certainly beat our records and proViue d !dCint.
ing spectacle much wanted. When our larger iao'"s
vachfs have all but disappeared ,--
Races hetween the present American schooner
Yachts and the Rainbow which Is also repott',u
n he coming over next summer. may apparently
rare contests are open these boats without pre-
,ious arrangement The cups which TOT many
wears were presented by the late Ogden ooelet ~
he raced for by the NewYork Yacht CluD were OF
fered on the condition that all foreign yachts pres
emf in America should have the rlght TO enter. anu
when after his death. Mrs. Goelet Ola not cohti.e
the annual prizes John Jacob Astor prop2seo 20, 10
keep them going on the same terms oI,Iei -, -
is a good one and he specially mentioned us con-
tinuance at the time his generous proposals "eLe
considered and accepted by the New-f ork lacht
club II Ia also said that the English yachts chn
maize FRY for the cup that was won by the NaNa
hoe when her present owner Royal lips carroll
raced her against the Britannia and other yacn,s
from the Isle Of Wight to Cherbours ana oa'n
Races would ne held either on time allowance or
handicap with the fastest American schoohers' INC
Colonia owned by Commodore fostey, OF th,
I.archrnont Yacht Club and the Emerald: owned
by ]. Rogers Maxwell, or the AuahuC iacnt , iuo
MANY ruesses have been made as 10 how these
heats would come out with the Rainbow, ana some
yachtsmen think that as the Colonia is racer OF
comparatively light construction snc ~oud proDdi
Iowance ae against boat that Is loaded down WIN
heavy planking. The enormous weight or the Ram
hnw's three-inch planklng has literally anchored
hor in spite Of her good racing model, ana. al
,houch her extra twenty-five feet Of water-line
length might be expected to do much. sun tnere Is
no SAYING what the phenomenal Colonia could 90
to her in the light average American weather. ! ne
CoIonla has been seen to go to windward Of sloops
I'm cruising trim. OF her own size. she ana the
Emerald are the closest sailing two-stickers that
have ever been raced and probably the Rainbow
out ali her power, which is in the American