The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-22
The New York Yacht Club Sail for the
Newport Citizens Cup.
The Sloop Prize Between the
Meta and Coming.

NEWPORT, August 81 1872
Yacht racing In fog Is far from pleasant at any
time, but although the regatta for the Citizens
Cup sailed to-day was commenced in rather I'M
favorable weather the greater part OF the day
proved pleasant, and there was sufficient breeze to
fairly test the relative speed of the competing YES
sells In tho wind.
THE COURSE
The race was sailed without time allowance over
a course from an imaginary line between the Buoy
and Brenton's Reef lightship, round the lightship
of the sow and Pigs and return a distance of
about forty-ive miles. The time of each yacht was
to be taken from the lightship they crossed the
line.
THE MORNING BROKE THICK AND HAY,
with light southeast breeze. The yachts began
to get under weigh about ten A. M. The schooners
Alice, Foam, Madgie, Dauntless Alarm, ResOlute,
Madeleine and Magic and the soops Coming, Meta,
Vixen, Capt0r and Vindex soon ran outside Goat
Island and stood for Brenton's Reef The Madge
returned into harbor, the fog appeared too thick
for comfort.
The yachts arrived Off Brentons Reef little
past eleven O'Clock, and, as they appeared In doubt
whether TO- start or not the Dauntless soothed their
. THEY CROSSED THE LINE AS FOLLOWS.
-; Alarm; Coming, yindex Meta, Magic. Captor
Tidal Wave: The schooner Alice crossed after the
Dauntess, but she had her colors to the topmast
pleasant working breeze, and all crossed in
the port tack with the exception Of the
sloops Coming, vindex and Vixen, who each made
short board In the starboard tack. The time of
start Of each yacht has not yet come to hand, but
they were all pretty close together excepting the
Tidal Wave, which was about twenty minutes
astern. The Alarm had main club topsail fore
topsail: iorestaysail and two jibs. which she
Easc aeRea &c he w eastwaFd ns o 0 Ta
and set foretopsail. The Danntless was
sailing well ana closing up to windward Of the
not appear to do much good In the wind and she
took IT in shortly afterwards. The Foam was fol-
in the MAKE Of the and b
already passed the Alice. The soop yacht Meta
was doing handsomely of the weather quarter
was steady and the tide running ebb. The Magic
stayed at II ;S7 and went on port tack abeut
s 70 az the ons
well, appearing more lively on the water than she
had been this season; The sloop Vixen tackled in
ing the schooners and sailing in very good form.
The Coming. hunted up by the Meta was stand
s G the and The a %aE e
the wake Of the Magic about two miles astern. The
Dauntess, after passing the Resolute, began to
coming up on the Foam. At fifty minutes past
eleven the Coming tackled to the southwark, fol-
QUARTER The sc1ooners kept 81 steadily on to
the southwark, expecting the wind to haul round
to that quarter. The Resolute stayed at 49, fol-
less tackled on the weather quarter OF the Resolute
at l 27 and the Alarm did likewise, in the same
relative position with the Dauntess. The Made
lene, after crossing the wake Of the Foam, tackled
to the eastward at 1911, and the Dauntess
crossed the bows OF the Magic about the same time.
The Magic then stayed Off her weather quarter.
At 1890 the Meta crossed the Maglcs bow. The
Dauntless was still doing good work, but did not
appear to get away from the ResOlute as fast as
before.
THE RESPECTIVE POSITIONS OF THE sCHOONERs
were :-Dauntless Off lee bow of Magic to leeward
of Alarm, with ResOlute following Dauntless The
Foam was mile to leeward and the Madeleine fol-
lowed after the Magic. The Tidal Wave was to lee
ward OF the Foam. The breeze began to tighten
the. little Magic, as club topsail was sent
up in exchange for q small working one, and the
iib topsa set. The Dauntless. Resoiute and
Madeleine also set jb topsails. The latter yacht
was sailing pretty WELL and passed the Magic to
leeward. At 103 the Magic, Meta and
Resolute took In their jb topsails, finding
them only drawback in the wind. The
Magic set jlo topsail again at 2;lo and the Made.
leine sent up small staysail: The weather now
began to thlcken little, and for about twenty
minutes the fleet was
DEVELOPED IN Foo.
The Lfghtshp was now In sight, and at $3.50 the
Dauntless tackled to the southwark, followed about
3:45 by the Resolnte, Off her weather quarter.
The Alarm stayed at 34s,. and the Madeleine
strength of the tide by skirtng Ribbon Reef, and
tackled at 4 :O5 or the light Ship The Resolute ap-
peared to close up on the Dauntless. The Magic
made good reach this time and set her staysai
to help her along The Magic crossed the bows Of
the Madeleine and the Alarm on this tack.
THE YACHTS CROSSED THE LIGHTSHIP
as follOws:-