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AUXILIARY SCHOONER YACHT "ATLANTIC 1904"
ATLANTIC HAS BEEN BUILT IN A FEW SCALES. IT IS AVAILABLE IN EITHER A BRASS OR WOOD FRAMED DISPLAY CASE OR STANDING ALONE ON A MAHOGANY BASEBOARD WITH BRASS PEDESTALS. Atlantic was probably the best known schooner yacht ever built in the United States. A really beautiful vessel, designed by Gardner, she was admired wherever seen. She was entered in the Kaiser’s Cup Transatlantic Race of 1905 and from the start was the clear favorite. She was sailed by Capt. Charles Barr, easily the greatest professional skipper in the United States, though his fame had heretofore been as helmsman of such cup defenders as Columbia, Reliance, and the schooner Ingomar on round the buoy races. He drove Atlantic unmercifully in the Kaiser’s race, to the extent that the owner and some others of the afterguard pleaded with him to reduce sail, to which he made his well-known reply, “Sir, you hired me to win this race in Atlantic, and that is what I will do.” Fred Hoyt, a very experienced yachtsman and designer, was aboard Atlantic in this race and wrote a most enlightening description in Yachting of July 1925. Atlantic made the 3013 miles from Sandy Hook to the Lizard in 12 days, 4 hours, 1 minute, the fastest crossing ever made by a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. Her best day’s run was 341 miles from noon to noon or an average of 14.5 knots for nearly 24 hours. Through the years, Atlantic was owned by General Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerard Lambert. Atlantic will always be remembered as one of the finest vessels in yachting history. |
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