New-York tribune., 1883-06-20
OTHER OUTDOOR SPORTS.
YACHTS IN FOG AND HEAVY SEAS.


THE ATLANTIC YACHT CLUB REGATTA-vIcToRY
FOR THE ATLANTA MISCHIEF AND FANIrA.
There was a great gathering of yachts and
yacbsmen OF tho Atlantic Yacht Club of Bay Ridge
Yesterday morning. and everything seemed proptious
for the eighteenth regatta, which the club to hold
The sky though partially overcast, was clearing
aud topsai breeze blew from the
south The steamer Columbia, crowded with
people and gayly decorated with flags. came down just
beiere the start aud accompanied the racers out to
Sandy Hook. The tug Luckenback was the judSes'
boat. Shortly before 11.3O o'clock the sigud was
given to start aud fleet OF twenty-five yachts after
another gded swiftly across imaginary line extend
ing from the stake boat to the breakwater.
The yachts starting and their were as follows:
Class A-schooners. Atlanta, Commodore Vermlye;
Crusader, j. b. Maxwell; Grayling, L. A. Flsni Oiyue'
Class BNschooners-Haze, W. and ]. Hogans; Sum-
Glass C-sioeps~ Flint & EaFle Mischief, J. R.
Glass D--sloops- -Roamor. j. ". Cooper; Enterprise,
6. r. Moaa Fanita Georgey Gould pion sse Kear qopl ~
Hogins; Lizzie L., J. g. Johnson. w.u.-n.
Class E-SlOops-Crocodile. j. g. PragueI wave DE-
Glass f-sloops- Daisy jones smith; ESneyn' Com
modors yermilye nderan, Walter southwick
Ciass G-sloops- =; Amazon, Franklin Beams;
Class H-sloops-Fiy, -; Pilot. Charles Hazard.
The Grayling got off lrst closely followed by the Mis-
chief The Crusader and the Cye then crossed within
five seconds OF each other. Then came the Hage, At
lania Oracle, SuusnnP Enterprise, Crocodile, Fanta
Rover Stella, Wave and Lizzie l. IN the order named
The yachts in classes r. and crossed in bunch All
plain sail was set by the but club aud b topsas
werc reserved for later in the day. The feet, after
crossing the line, stood toward the staten
Island shore and then out through the Nsrrows.
When the Narrows reached george j. Gould's
Fanita was leading the heet The Oracle and the
Mischief were not far behind ber, the former being
slightly in the lead The little white soop Stella was
nd thano he
Crawling and Crusader. The Lizzie u. was dong finely
aud led the Crocodile considerably. The Rover stood
away TO leeward for some reason
and was much the lOsor thereby. As soon as the
felt the resher breeze that blew In the Lower
Bay, they crawled up the leading sloops. At the
same time the Atlanta drew away from the Graylng
and the Cye passed ahead Of several Of the smaller
yachts that had been leading ber There was scarcely
enough wind for tho Oracle. but she ran up a JD-
topsai abreast Of the lower Hospital Island and In
creased the distance between herself and the Mischief
The spread itself the Lower Baybut each yacht
laid her course for Sandy Hook. Before the yachts
reached the Hook the wind hauled little to the east
ward and almost died on the point Of tie Hook
sakehoat was moored The coursefor the larger yachts
lay around this boat then out ar ound tae scotland sno
Sandy Lightships and home, keeping 10 toe west
ward o; the Beacon Romer shoals Glasses Il and E
went only around the scotland ilg1tsblp ana = ana
only the stase-boat OF the point oil the Hook
& lie ts6oa IS we reached and rounded over eight
away TO tho sout6easi, whero a black speok
I'm the tumbng expaI.se OF sunht waters marked
the soop, feeling It, Few through the water like an
arrow Heavy rolled In the bar, and - the
Fanita plunged into them she threw smother OF white
halfway up her jib She made good weather oflt
however and sprang from to Ike one OF
Mother Cafeys chickens The Oracle and the Mischief
stood toward the Horseshoe aud then got IN the
"dOdrums" and stuck until most of the fleet had
rounded the stake-bOat Tie Crocodile roundct next
after the Fauta, and behind her came the Stella fol
lowed by ROamer Lizzie L.. Atlanta, Daley, Romeyn
Crusader Grayng aud the rest OF the ileet The Wind
iog bank lay piled up along the horizon and Just
before reaching theS0Oaud Lghshp the racers entered
IT, II what old sailOrycasl black f0g" and II was
dense that was imp0aDle 10 see more than nteen
moment before had been cleaning IN the
sunight faded from view a. by
mrgc, and through the impeuetrabie gloom came
tho sound OF fog.hOrns frOm the yachts and tie
dolorOus stearn.whise OF the Luckcnbuch. heavy
rolled up nom the southeast and made the yachts
jump until much OF their heels out OF water
init Now aud then yacht would start ont OF the
oDscurity magniGed TO twice her real size by the
mist and looking like some phantom craft as
she poised for minute the topof awave, and then
plung ed downward and disappeared IN the FOG.
Tue first yachts 10 round the Sandy Hook Llghtshp
were the Atlanta aud the Fanta. Immediately alter
rounding the FHnta set her spnnaker and ran tor the
NarrOws. Then the Mischief, Grayhng, Oracle,
Crusader and Enterprise. The fog thick when
judges boat, which had by ths time started Tor the
Nsrrows. o. tho way home there were squalls
thunder storms, Gains add a dense fog 60 make
things agreeable. The yachts came struggling into
DAY Ridge With wet decks and tired crews Tne At
lGuta the winner In class 4, Tile Mischief n class O.
Fanita in ~, the Crocodile IN class f. tia Lois
wa not known last night as y could not he aseer-
tanned the Daisy had rounded the Scotland Lghtshp.
The time OF tue raeo was a. follows:
CLASS A.