The manner in which she defeatved and enurely outsailed our yachts was remarkable, and the impression that she created upon the minds British yachtsmen was little short of marvellous. In her famous race on 22 August, 1851, against 17 of the best yachts of the Royal Yacht Squadron—the course was round the Isle of Wight—although it has been said that if there had been a time allowance the little cutter Aurora of 47 tons, which came in second 24 minutes astern of America, might have won, this assumption does not affect the America's performance in the least, because the wind was light and fluky towards the end of the race. When the wind was true, there ws no doubt that the pilot boat outsailed the English vessels, and ct about six o'clock in the evening, the Aurora was five or six miles astern of the America.
The America revolutionized
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