Suturday was a perfect day for yacht-racing, and it is therefore unfortunate that, owing to there being only one stakeboat, the principal race was somewhat of a fiasco. The start was at 3.30 p.m., the course being up river, round w stakeboat moored three miles beyond the Pagoda for the Yachts, and another moored only two miles yond for the small boats. The wind was strong from the north with flood tide, and as the No, 3 handicap was in force, the Clutha had to allow the Arrow 1 minute and the Thistle 7 minutes. The times of crossing the line were Clutha lih. Skim.
20s.
Lhistl 321
321 08s.
The Clutha had her top: housed and was under all plain sai the other two yachts having reefs in their mainsails, On the way up the Arrow secured the lead, she and the Thistle, which also overhauled the Clutha, having the aid of their spinnakers. The Arrow had passed what she tonk to be the first stakeboat and was going on looking fur the second, when the Clutha and Thistle were soon rounding the stakeboat she had passed. In the confusion incidental to this discovery, her big jib was allowed to get into the water, and this delayed her some five minutes. 'The Thistle was equally unfortunate, for she also was unprepared to round when she saw the Clutha luting, 'This gave the Clutha the Tead, and in' the dead beat back against wind and tide, she distanced her compe tors, the times of crossing the winning line being Clutha,. 03m. es.
Thistle. 23m. 0s.
Arrow... h, 27m. 20s, The elapsed and corrected times are
Clutha. 3h. 3lm. 55s. 3h. 3im. 55s.
Elapsed Corrected time. Thistle Sh. 50m. 53s, 3h. 43m. Arrow 3h. 55m. 12s. 3h. 64m. 12s, So that the Clutha won by 12 minutes, Only the Alone and Albatross competed in the Small Boats race, the former having to allow the latter 12 minutes. Before the start the Albutruss, which was hampered by a tugboat while getting under way, drifted some distance up the river, and thus some twenty minutes were lost, the Alone waiting for her, and ultimately getting off ahead of her. No times were taken either at starting or finishing, but the Alone was about 8 minutes ahead of the Albatross in rounding the stakeboat, and rapidly increased this lead when it ame to beating back against wind and tide. The Alone crussed the line with the Arrow, but as no times were taken we presume no prize was awarded,
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