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Yachts and Yachting: With Over One Hundred and Ten Illustrations Frederic Schiller Cozzens No preview available - 2018 |
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allowance America's Cup American yachting annual cruise annual regatta Ashbury Atalanta Atlantic August beat beaten Bennett Block Island boat boiler Boston bowsprit breadth breeze Brenton's Reef Brooklyn Brooklyn club built buoy Cambria canvas Cape Captain centerboard classes of sloops Comet commodore Countess of Dufferin Cozzens 86 craft Dauntless deck depth draught Dreadnought Eastern club engine feet 6 inches feet beam feet long finish fleet Fred Galatea Genesta harbor Herreshoff hull Idler J. G. Bennett June keel length Light-ship Livonia Lorillard Madeleine Madgie Magic Mayflower miles per hour miles to windward minutes Mohawk Newport ocean October owner Palmer prize Puritan race Rambler regatta sailed a match Sandy Hook Sappho schooner season sloop speed sport stake-boat started starters staysail steam yacht steamer tack Tidal Wave tons topmast topsail vessels Vesta water-line weather wind yachtsmen York club York Yacht Club
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Page 144 - Tonnage. — The tonnage of every Yacht entered to sail in a Race shall be ascertained in the manner following : the length shall be taken in a straight line at the deck, from the fore-part of the stem to the after-part of the stern-post ; from which deducting the breadth, the remainder shall be esteemed the length to find the tonnage ; the breadth shall be taken from outside to outside of the planking, in the broadest part of the Yacht, and no allowance...
Page 144 - ... tonnage — provided always, that if any part of the stem or stern-post project beyond the length taken as above mentioned, such projections shall, for the purposes of finding the tonnage, be added to the length taken, as beforementioned.
Page 144 - ... of the stem, to the after-part of the sternpost ; from which deducting the breadth, the remainder shall be esteemed the length to find the tonnage; the breadth shall be taken from outside to outside of the planking, in the broadest part of the Yacht, and no allowance shall be made for wales, doubling planks, or mouldings of any kind : then multiplying the length by the breadth, and the product by half the breadth, and dividing the result by 94, the quotient shall be deemed the true tonnage ;...
Page 32 - ... according to the rules of the New York Yacht Club, waiving allowance of time. The sails to be carried are mainsail, foresail, jib, flying jib, jib topsail, fore and main gaff topsails, story staysail and trysail.
Page 32 - Osgood bet Pierre Lorillard, Jr., and others, $30,000 that the Fleetwing can beat the Vesta to the Needles , on the coast of England, yachts to start from Sandy Hook on the second Tuesday in December, 1866, to sail SCHOONER "COMET.
Page 144 - ... measurement of length, if at or immediately below the load line, nor above it within six inches of the water level ; the breadth shall be taken from the outside to outside of the planking in the broadest part of the yacht, and no allowance shall be made for wales, doubling planks, or mouldings of any Kind ; add the length to the breadth and multiply the sum thus obtained by itself and by the breadth ; then divide the product by 17-50, and the quotient shall be the tonnage in ions and hundredth*...
Page 54 - ... course. I feel there will be no difficulty in confirming this suggestion or arranging one on my arrival to the satisfaction of all concerned. The committee to be informed by the club to fix beforehand the days on which the several races shall take place ; and if the Livonia should win the majority of races, the Cup would then go to the club under whose flag I sailed in the last and final race, and would be held by the commodore ex-officio until won by some other royal or recognized yacht club...
Page 144 - ... water-line project beyond the length taken as mentioned, such projection or projections shall, for the purposes of finding the tonnage...
Page 26 - MADELEINE." * than these, and that is the account of the private cruises and the afternoon sailing ; these, after all, constituting the real enjoyment of the sport, to which the public races are merely incidental. It is these that make yachting the very prince of outof-door sports.
Page 13 - American yachting, saying that all interest in the sport is dying out ; but in point of fact, there was never as much interest as at present ; only now it is diffused, then it was concentrated. In those early years of American yachting, the regatta day, or days, of the New York Yacht Club were almost general holidays among the men of large business, brokers and jobbers ; and every craft that could float, from the skiff to the large excursion steamer, was brought into requisition for spectators. Before...