Dr. Guy C. Bayley was thrown from the Gracie and was "ducked" in the river, when her runner dropped into an air hole. One of the races was between the GracieJ Aeolus and the ScudJ each carrying three men. The Scud was defeated. In 1884 the North Shrewsbury Ice Yacht Club challenged the Poughkeepsie association for the Ice Yacht Challenge Pennant of Ameri ca. The local club accepted the challenge and appointed a regatta com mittee composed of William Morse, Thomas Ransom and Thomas Foster. The race was sailed on February 10, on the Poughkeepsie course, north 6 2/3 miles and return, sailed over three times; twenty miles, with a time limit of one hour and eighteen minutes. The North Shrewsbury group was represented by the DreadnaughtJ Captain Throck morton; ldlerJ Captain George Coley; Uncle BobJ Captain Thomas Hubbard and TempestJ Captain James E. Doughty. The wind was fresh, S.S.E., the ice was good ( there was a slight rain), and the start was made at 10 :29 a. m. Position l Jack Frost 2 Icicle 3 Aeolus 4 NorthernLight 5 Tempest 6 Idler 7 Haze 8 Dreadnaught 9 Avalanche 10 Jessie 11 Uncle Bob
first 2nd third owner, sailor leg leg leg time 2 3 3 1:07:10 A. Rogers 7 6 8 1:12:48 J. A. Roosevelt Norman Wright 5 8 6 1:11:35 Dr. Barron 6 7 4 1:10:14 James E. Doughty 9 did not finish George Coley 4 4 5 1:11:14 A. Innis (Knight) 1 1 1 1:05:30 C. E. Throckmorton 3 2 2 1.:06 :56 8 5 7 1:12:05 E. H. Sanford George Lumb 10 9 9 time not taken did not finish Thomas Hubbard 11
The Haze led away, followed by the DreadnaughtJ lack FrostJ Icicle and AvalancheJ and was first at the out buoy. From there to the finish line it was a great race between the HazeJ Jack Frost and Dreadnaught. It was the first time the remodeled Haze had raced for this trophy and she finished "amidst the blowing of whistles, firing of cannon, ringing of bells and the cheers of the two thousand spectators, to which her sailing master, Dick Knight, responded by rolling on his back in her cockpit and kicking up his heels as he 'downed stick' and sent her across the line, winner of the 'Ice Yacht Challenge Pennant of America,' twenty miles in one hour, five minutes and thirty seconds." Dreadnaught came in second and lack Frost third. It was a great race. Other races, of less importance, were held that season. Dr. J. C.
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