The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-27

w. "A the southeast and both yachts were behaving
admirably. The Rambler still kept well up
to windward, as II determined to get good
ofnng. At 1904, the wind still increasing,
was whistling through the rigging . melancholy
dlrge, that gave tue warning 70 shorten sail, SO
the main gaftopsail was quickly clewed up. The
Rambler now lay about three miles on the weather
quarter and was carrying her sail well. We had
now passed to the westward Of ',tNssfs,,~t = ~
BLOCK ISLAND, 49,
ana were running with free sheet eawe sup
posed, past Montauk Point, when, at 1854, the
buoy on the Great Eastern Rock was sighted
on the weather bow We dashed by, Tanning about
sixteen knots, the gallant craft straining under
the spread OF canvas which o., DW led her IN ea ne
stern. The Rambler was doing well and still keep
ing close hauled, abont two miles afr the Made;
Mcntaux Point, nearly dead ahead, when Comma
dore Voorhis Sung out, r.
and round she went u le starboard tack in order
to get sufficient ofilngtC, weather the point. The
Rambler was now wen up to winS1ard and looked
tine Madeleine went the port tack and stood close
hauled for MontauT under the feur lower sails. The
WE'LL The weatr er was now looking very ugly and
there was pig sea running, the result OF light be-
tween VIM a. d tide In which the latter appeared
TO DE having the best OF the contest. The rain was
pouring ~ torrents, and the atmosphere was so
thick tnas was nearly impossible to see quarter
VI
LAND AHEAD,
and We mt again on the starboard tack. The
haMoF sr, In the meanwhile, had disappeared. At
IL 40 went on the port tack and made another
stree oh for Point Judith. 1t was now blowing gale,
ans the yacht labored heavily under her full main
split her flying jib and kept pitching nose first into
the sea in rather an awkward manner. A consulta-
ton was held on board. and Commodore voorhis,
after consulting his friends, deemed it more pru-
dent to seek port than to buck against wind and
sea and run the risk OF carrying away her )ibboom
and be
on lee shore, with no head sail. At
tack with the four lower sails and headed north
east, the wind being still from the southeast.
sighting land there arose difference as to where
they were, and at last there was o suggestion
made to puta
in the mainsail and single reef the foresail. She
was soon lu1ed. and all hands, about twenty IN
NUMBER lay out on the mainboom and went to work
with a will, gathering In the heavy wet sail and
knottnH the reef points When oil was snug, they
little the question was again mooted,
''wuERE ARE wEfn
and 1t was deemed the best policy to follow coast
So we lowered the main foresail and started after
the coaster under the fore stay sail. AT about
n% WITCH one s to Be On
gansett beach, another watch Hin and third
Block Island All were equally positive they were
| shore, however, Watch Hill was next
scudded quietly down to New London and anchored
! about two miles above the Pequot House at four
O'Clock P. NJ, alongside Of the Tidal Wave. The gale
appears to have been severe at New London as
| the Tidal Wave
DRAGGED HER ANCHOR
and had to her second In order to stop her drift
Ing The wind had hauled round to the northeast by
four O'Clock P. NJ and looked it intended to stay
| In that quarter for some time. The Rambler has
| last sighted her, and as she was rugged to stand
heavy weather, there is every possibility, with the
aid OF the northeast gale, she fetched the lghtshp
between nine and twelve last evening. The Made.
leine Will probably go over the course when the
| goes down.