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 The Yacht Racing Association, on the other hand, held the view that what the yacht-owning public want in a racing yacht is speed first, last, and all the time, no matter what the cost. The only change made at that time was in the measurement of the fore triangle and marking the load water-line forward and aft.

Designed by Watson, 1894.

"ELLEN"—20-RATER.

Thistle was the first big English racing cutter with a clipper bow. Her advent caused much critical comment among the experts, whose eyes had become so accustomed to the "cutter stem" that they fairly blinked when they first gazed on the new Clyde craft.

Mr. Watson, writing about the defeat of the Thistle in 1894, says: "Her surface was so cut down that sufficient