He had not, however, entered her for any race.
"There is no hurry," he said to his skipper, when the latter suggested that they should try her at Cowes.

"I should like to win my first race, and in the first place we don't know that she is in her best trim.

In the next place we must get the crew accustomed to each other and to the craft.

I bought her as a cruiser rather than a racer, and don't want to have her full of men, as are most of the racers.

It is a heavy expense, and fewer hands accustomed to work well together do just as much work, and more smartly than a crowd.
We found, when we sailed round the islands with the Royal Victoria race, that, considering we went under reduced canvas, we held our own very fairly; and I have no doubt that when we get all our light canvas up, the Osprey will give a good account of herself.