Race Horse was an 1850 clipper barque . She set a record of 109 days from New York to San Francisco during the first Clipper Race around the Horn.
17-441: Race Horse was similar to a barque built by Samuel Hall a few years earlier, Coquette . The design of Race Horse has been credited to both Samuel Hartt Pook and to Hall. According to a letter written by Hall to the "Boston Daily Atlas", he asked Pook to make the models and molds for Race Horse based on Coquette , with a few modifications, in order to help Pook to "get his name before the public". Race Horse performed well in
34-540: A pleasure yacht. He refurbished her at a cost of $ 8,000 and moved her to Fairport Harbor, Ohio , on Lake Erie . On July 7, 1900, the Idler capsized in a squall on Lake Erie off Cleveland killing six members of the family of John A. and James Corrigan, the owners of the vessel. John A. and James C. Corrigan left the boat early to attend other matters. The only survivors were Captain Charles Joseph Holmes, master of
51-618: A speedy passage for the period. He was involved in the design of the 1850 clipper barque Race Horse . Pook also designed the 1853 clipper Challenger and the Red Jacket , a holder of the speed record for the New York City - Liverpool and Liverpool- Melbourne passages. Pook was less successful in his design for the Civil War -era ironclad Galena , which was found, in combat conditions, to suffer from ineffective armoring. Pook's father
68-790: The China trade . "Large sums of money were wagered on the result, the four older vessels having established high reputations for speed. The Samuel Russell was commanded by Charles Low, previously of the Hoqua , while the Hoqua was now commanded by Captain McKenzie; Captain Gordon was again in the Memnon , and Captain George Fraser, who had sailed with Captain Waterman as chief mate." Samuel Russell knocked eleven days off
85-519: The Dauntless , Idler , Alarm , and Josephine yachts. After racing for over twenty-five years, in 1890 A. J. Fisher sold the Idler to John Cudahay, a millionaire owner of the Cudahay Packing Company. After the 1893 panic, Cudahay lost his fortune and sold the yacht to W. D. Boyce in 1896. He refurbished the Idler and raced her. In the fall of 1899, James C. Corrigan bought the Idler as
102-587: The Idler finishing in 2nd place. Franklin Osgood's yacht Magic beat 16 competitors from the New York Yacht Club , including James Lloyd Ashbury 's English yacht Cambria that sailed to New York on behalf of the Royal Thames Yacht Club and the yachts Dauntless, Idler, Fleetwing, Phantom, America and others. In March 1873, Durant sold the schooner yacht Idler to Samuel J. Colgate of
119-475: The schooner Idler, fired the starting gun and gave two prizes for the New York Yacht Club schooner and sloop race in Newport, Rhode Island . The race included the yachts Dauntless, Gracie , Magic, Widgeon , Phantom, Fleetwing and other schooners and sloops. The course was from the northeast point of Block Island , rounding it from the north west, and returning to the same point. In June 1869,
136-891: The Antarctic midwinter. "The remaining ships arrived in the following order: Memnon , 123 days, Celestial , 104 days, Race Horse , 109 days from Boston, and Mandarin , 126 days from New York-- all 'exceptionally fine passages,' average passages of the time being 159 days." On August 8, 1851, Race Horse sailed from Boston to Smyrna , Turkey under the command of Captain Searles, with several passengers who were en route with their wives to work as missionaries in Armenia : Sanford Richardson, Edwin Goodell, and Benjamin Parsons. Samuel Hartt Pook Samuel Hartt Pook (January 17, 1827 – March 30, 1901)
153-652: The First Clipper Race Around the Horn , which took place in 1850. Race Horse sailed from Boston to San Francisco in 109 days (or 94 days, 14 hours land to land). She made Cape Horn just 52 days out on this trip, 20 miles offshore. "The keen rivalry between clippers led to races over thousands of miles of seas; and upon the result thousands of dollars were often wagered." The new clippers Race Horse , Celestial , and Mandarin challenged Hoqua , Sea Witch , Samuel Russell , and Memnon , which were old rivals in
170-656: The N.Y.Y.C. He rebuilt her at the Henry Steers shipyard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn . She was lengthened eight feet and her topmasts were increased to carry more sail. In August 1874, the Idler was in the New York Yacht Club annual cruise of the New York Yacht Squadron. The race was for a set of colors for each class. The course was from off Brenton's Reef lightship and finish at Oak Bluffs. She competed against
187-526: The New York Yacht Squadron. The Idler, was registered as a yacht schooner with the ‘’Record of American and Foreign Shipping,’’ from 1886 to 1900. Her ship master was Edward Colby; her owners were Samuel J. Colgate; built in 1865 at Fairhaven, Connecticut; and her hailing port was the Port of New York . Her dimensions were 95.7 ft. in length; 22.6 ft. breadth of beam; 11 ft. depth of hold; and 85-tons Tonnage . In August 1868, Thomas C. Durant, of
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#1732851866939204-730: The Queen's Cup) was the first America's Cup to be hosted in the United States at New York Harbor . Thomas C. Durant with his American schooner Idler was in the competition. The course started from the Staten Island N.Y.Y.C anchorage down through the Narrows to the S.W. Split buoy , across to the Sandy Hook lightship and return to Staten Island. The race was won by the Franklin Osgood's Magic with
221-467: The record, arriving first in San Francisco after 109 days from New York. Race Horse would also make a 109-day passage, but it was Hoqua that arrived next, having made a 120-day trip from New York. The following day Sea Witch arrived after a 97-day passage, knocking an additional 12 days off the record. The performance of Sea Witch was particularly astonishing because she had rounded Cape Horn during
238-513: The schooner Idler was in the annual June New York Yacht Club regatta . She raced against the Phantom, Alarm, Palmer, Slivie and other schooners and sloops. The course was from Owl's Head to the S.W. Split, then across to the Sandy Hook Lightship and back. The Idler came in 1st place at 4hr. 24min, and 30 secs. On August 8, 1870, the international 1870 America's Cup (also called
255-512: Was a Boston -based American naval architect and son of Samuel Moore Pook (1804-1878), the noted clipper ship naval architect . Pook designed several very fast clippers, including the Surprise , Witchcraft , Herald of the Morning and Northern Light , all of which made passages, prior to 1861, from an American East Coast port to San Francisco , via Cape Horn in fewer than 100 days,
272-623: Was one of the fastest yachts in the New York squadron . Idler came in 2nd place in the America’s Cup defense in 1870. She was sold as a racing yacht several times before she capsized and sank in 1900. The Idler was a luxury schooner yacht built in the summer of 1864 by the Samuel Hartt Pook shipyard in Fairhaven , Connecticut . She was owned by yachtsman Thomas C. Durant and part of
289-569: Was the naval architect Samuel Moore Pook , who designed the far more successful City-class ironclads of the same period. The Idler was a luxury schooner yacht built in the summer of 1864 by the S. H. Pook in Fair Haven. She was owned by yachtsman Thomas C. Durant and part of the New York Yacht Squadron. Idler (yacht) The Idler was a 19th-century schooner - yacht built in 1864 by Samuel Hartt Pook from Fairhaven , Connecticut , and owned by yachtsman Thomas C. Durant . She
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