The Archive · 1899

Shanghai Yacht Club

THE RATING CLASS

For the rating class the following boats started Mr. D. Glass' Violet.

G.V.T. Marshall's Coronella, Gary's Lorna. astern soon after the start. The Violet led "The latter was apparently a long way until Tungkadoo Dock, when the wind became very light and the tide began to ebb. From this point the Coronella ly romped away from the Violet, the stakeboat, which was moored a little beyond the top of the Pagoda Reach, being rounded in the following order Goronella 5h, 23m. 00s.

~Lorna "Sh, 45m. 008.

Violet 5h, 43m. 00s, It was more or less a drift home; the finishing line being crossed as follow:

Coronella 6h. 35m. 45s.

Violet: 6h. 45m. 075.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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