Saturday (25th ult.) was asplondid sailing doy in every point but one, and that a very important one, that there was not enough The morning opened with a very it from the nort ud all the the intending yacht he smoke from the chimneys th flags that brighter band and the river, in the hope of g th wind increase before 2 p.m., the hou for the start, The wind remained so light that the Comittee postponed the race till half-past two, and had it in serious con-ration to postpone it altogether. Towards the hour for starting what wind there was east of north and louked as if it were going to strength!
bit, and three boats came out to contest, the Clutha, Romolo and Undine, all sailing on even terms, The course was from the usual starting line, river, luffing round the uppermost Woosung, and back actaas the starting line no i The wind was light and befiling, and the ebb tide so weak, that the start was a very ragged one, the Undine, which came out last from her jetty, and just luffed round the Naval Buoy, crossing first and managing by a series of more or leas compulsory tacks, to hoop in the middle of what tide there was. Lhe official times of crossing the line were The two cutters lost ground by drifting Into the eddies at the mouth of the Soochow Creek, but they soon got out, and th three yachts set unt for a dead beat through the shipping.ia the lower reach, the wind drawing a little more to the eastward, but being very light and uncertain, The tacking suited the Undine as usual, and she drew aw: twice in the lower reach of the harbour, the order after leaving the shipping being Undine, Romolo, Clutha. As long as the wind held, the Undine maintained her position, though losing ground through having to make to make two tacks to avoid the fishing boats in Collyer's Dock reach, and the Kiangyung which was coming up the river, The wind was so light that the swell caused by the Kiangyung knocked the way off the yachts altogether for a time, and uesr Black Point it fell almost to calm, and the high topsails of the cutters enabled them suc ce pass the Undine. All three yachts now squared away for the junk citannel, the light airs just giving them steerage way, the order uow being Romolo, Clutha, Tndine, and when nese the top of Gough Inland the Undine, sooing that it would be impossible to get back before a late hour, if the: race were continued, hauled down her racing flag and started homewards. The two cuttere kept.on, the Clutha gradually overhauling the Komola, and b firat at the turning-point, Jot of sampans as usual attach stern of the French man-of-war, round which the yachts had to luff, and the Clutha steered round them. The Romolo, as she approached, shouted to the sampans to haul up, which they did, enabling the Romolo to ent in between the man-of-war the Clutha, There was so little wind, the tide was so strong, 2 1d the Romolo into the Clutha, the bowsprit of the form carrying away portion of the safety-rail on the starboard side of the latter's hous bending the spindle of her steering gear, and disabling it; the Clulha being unable to boar away for fear of drifting down on the next ship at anchor below the turning-point. The Clutha dropped her anchor and shipped her tiller as fast as possible, while the Romolo, hee way having been stopped by the collision, drifted down some 200 yards. When the Clutha had shipped her tiller, she got under way again, and wax proceeding up river inshore when it atruck one of the crew that she had not rounded the mark, and she had to come back and pass outside the man-of-war. The wind was atill very light, and the late, and it wasa ted io drag home, although what air ther was dead aft after the Point was pas: The Clutha crossed the line at 9h. 5u p.m., the Komola being about twenty minutes behind her and anchoring near the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Whagf, without coming up to the line at all, leaving the Clutha the winner of the r i got quietly back to Phe beauty of the day, of the temperature, almost camp the lack of wind, and made it an afte of genuine ment.
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