Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations (1887)
Cozzens, Frederic Schiller, 1846-1928 · New York, Cassell & company, ltd · leaf 41
and her builders confidently expected that she would prove faster than anyyacht afloat. She did so prove afterwards,but her early career was not promising.She sailed her first race off New Lon-don, August 7, 1867, a match of thirty-five miles for a cup offered by the com-modore of the club, in… … £.6 August 10, of this same year, the Sapphowas again entered by her builder, Mr.Poillon, in a race off Newport, the coursebeing from Brentons Reef to a stake boatanchored about a mile east by north fromthe lighthouse on Sandy Point, Block Island,returning to a point off Port Adams, therace to be…
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