It is not often that any sort of weather lessens the ardour of the sailing members of the Shanghai HYacht Club, but evidently the very y.|strong wind which was blowing] on October 19, at times reaching the force of a gale, was too much [for many of then. "At any rate, Jalthough the Iaodshs had all the boats ready, only three in each class went out—the Viking, Phantom, and [Corsaire in the miscellaneous class, jand the Spectre, Phooka, and Pixie jof the Byrne boats. The Wah Lee set sail with the others, but her [sporting owner was not on board fand she soon returned to moorings, so it is presumed she was not racing.
The six skippers and their crews had one of the wildest races ex-
*|perienced for many years.
The [course set was up-river to the upper]
rieasured mile marks, a distance of just under 13 miles. ihe big boats,|went out with four reefs and Tiyine boats were refed down as} Jclose as possible, but even this dil not suffice for rome. The Phantom, which is no more than a racing machine snd never is stable in a real wind, capsized off the Dollar Wharf, Shortly afterwards, the Viking have to in order to put in another reet, having gone out with only two, with] B. the result that the Corsaire finished an easy first, with only the Viking behind her.
The Spectre had so much of a [dusting in the carly part of the race that her skipper put cack from the Arsenal Reach. The other two carried on, but off Hizh Bank the Phoo-ka capsized, so the Pixie finished alone.
In these circumstances, it was left to the Corssire and the Viking to provide the only completion for the return race and the Viking was the first to cross the line. However, the.|!Corsaire had stayed so well with her that she won on handicaps, thus securing two winning flags for the lay as some compensation for past disappointments this season, The Phatom is only a large edition lof the Byrne boats and the Into Com modore built them to 2 non-sinkable Jand comfortably capsizing design, #o [that nothing resulted from the two.|aceidents worse than being put out Jof the races.
Arrangements are cing made to complete the International series on November 2, for which purpose the down-river meeting originally fixed for that date will be cancelled,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.