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Show ! TWO OPINIONS. Oittae Pepective Merits of English and American Vachts Writ- ten Before the Race. Now that the great international race between the yachts Puritan and Genesta is over, and it is settled beyond all doubt that the American centerboard sloop is superior to the English deep keel cutter, both before the wind and beating to windward in a forty-knot breeze, it is interesting in-teresting to overhaul the opinions uttered prior to the event both by English and American authorities, to see who were correct in their forecast of the race, and the respective merits of the vessels. For this purpose we give place to an opinion uttered in the London Saturday Review oi August 29th : WHAT THE ENGLISHMAN SAID "THE CENTERBOARD CEN-TERBOARD IS A VILE TYPE.". ' "Now, at last, a real attempt i3 to be made by a yatch which, though not the best English yatch afloat for that proud position must be conceded to the Trex J the Genegta is undoubtedlj a very good one. She will sail with . but a small chance of success, as she will have to contend with a centerboard craft built expressly for this contest. " f lie centerboard, a vile type is for excellent reasons condemned dv all English Eng-lish yacht clubs, but undoubtedly vessels of that class have very great speed in light breeze and smooth water. "If the Genesta wins she will accomplish accomp-lish a; very exUaordinary feat, and bring home one of the ugliest cups ever produced pro-duced by an English silversmith, and that is saying a great deal." WHAT 'AX AMERICAN SAID "THE. CUTTER A ' LOXO WAV BEHIND." The following communication appearo'1 in the New York Sun of September 2d, dated at San Francisco, and signed ."An ex-Commodore of the San Francisco Zacht Club." The writer is suspected of being Mr. Dick Ogden : New York, Sept. 2, 1885. Editor Sim: For a year past I have been under a cloud. I have been reviled. If I showed my head, somebody hit it. The summer ended with a cutter boom. They were English, and therefore, superior, to bur boats. Ours, no matter how deep, if centerboard, were called skimming dishes, ft was sickening,, and I had to take back . t eets in going home to avoid this yelping and barking. There were never to bo any more skimming dishes built no, never. Tho American model was doomed. Our neighbors over the water had taught us how boats . ought to be built. This year would see a fleet of cutters, but no skimming dishes very likely lota of cutters will be built, the fools are not all dead yet, there is a large crop left. Spring and summer came, but few cutters cut-ters ; two or three were imported because they were so English, you know. I watched tho ' regattas this summer, but I saw no cutters in the lead. At Newport they said : "Give us a breeze and a heavy sea and we will drown out you skim mers." The breeze came and where were the cutters? Not one showed in advance. If one went around the course I uid not see her. They apologized for carrying awayja bowsprit or something else, it's a way the cutters have. What's the sense of such length of bowsprit curving downward, down-ward, inviting every sea to carry it away? Neither in the run from Whitestone to New London, not m the regatta at Newport, New-port, not in the run to Martha's Vineyard, Vine-yard, not m the run to New Bedford, not in the annual regatta, not in any regatta ; and in the special race of the Stranger and Athlane where was Mr. Cutter? ! Be'ind, a long way bt'ind. My lord, i don't take back streets this summer. "And what about the Priscilla and Puritan Pur-itan business? Where are the crack cutters cut-ters along side the two American models? lama Priscilla man myself. I don't like that concession to English cutters in the Puritan's stern. As for speed, she has proven herself a good one, but I think the Priscilla will beat her yet. Boston has reason to be proud ; in fact, Boston is proud. It is said that half of Boston got gloriously drunk on tho news of the Puritan's Puri-tan's victory over the Priscilla ; but if tho Puritan should beat the Genesta, the American whiskey which had been shipped ship-ped to Holland for cheap storage and to beat the revenue laws at home will bo wanted, every gallon, even more." j |