The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-11-03
Aaluaiian C6azrtte.
rrEsnAY. NNvENBER ) Isss
Racing IN a Gale.

The cutler Genesta rounded The brehtoh .
l,,ei Irhtship at q:3s last evening, the 20 o.
sep,emher, and squared away for Sandy hook
IN Inc teeth Of bowling gale. der Jio-'op-
..,i vas blown 10 shreds just before she sol
tam cf the Block Island lights. Part OF II
s.n,.h, ON her bobstay and fu,ieTed there like
,-h;,s wings She passed the Daunlless about
,,r-sn,v miles this side Of the Breaton's Reel
li;rbtsb;p nj ll;22. The gale had subsidized 10
a Iirbt wind before midnight, when 1t began
boN5linr again from the west-norihwest. ne
cr,,.r Ching valianlly to her club iopsail, al
| ,bopsb Il laid her mast down nearly parallel
vii, the water. She struggled bravely with
:, r,,;l ass This morning, when she hauled II
avn The wind was tearing along at the rate
~ sFty miles an hour, hurting clouds OF spray
over The cutter, repeatedly plunged her yell
Low bowsprit deep into the seas. The leverage
Of ler tall topmast proved too much Tor her,
aud il came down at $40. She then went
abou, ON the port tack and ran under the lee
OF the long plank port. The seas outside were
too heavy for her. She luied MP at 5 O'Clock
10 nut a reef in her mainsail. Then she stood
on her course again ten minutes late. Her
leo deck up to her mast looked like . section
Of a cataract There was never moment
thereafter, except when she lufied, that her
lee rails were not buried and her mast was on
an angle Of not less than - :. She put her
nose INTO the WIND at Gle, reefed her sliding
bowsprit, took in her small jb and sci little
storm lib and plunged on her way again like
a wild seahorse, fairly leaping into the air,
showing a quarter OF her keel forward and
half Of her rudder. 1t was little less than a
burricsne that ratified through her rigging
then. ONLY her sailors, her hardy little skip
Id au oil hnr
deck The skipper and the pilot were at the
tiller, and the sailors chung to the weather.
rail. Sir Richard Sutton, Beaver Webb, Will
lam Levipge and J. Frederick Tams had sought
the seelusion Of the cabin, and judging from
the slant Of the deck they were not enjoying
themselves. Everything was battened down
TO prevent the seas from rushing in, but they
did rush 10, as Mr. Tams subsequently, testi-
fed. soaking everything and everybody and
PLAYING havoc with the cushions aud furnit-
ure At times her weather-rail, TO which her
sailors chung desperately, was the only visible
part Of her hull.
At ll:i7. while opposite Fire Island, the
Genesia luled, took in her fcre-staysai and
reeied it, and prepared to take a second reef
in her mainsail Two sailors were in her lee
waist. Just abreast Of her cabin cOmpanionway,
getting ready 10 lend a hand at the reeiing,
wien a tremendous wave dashed over her
we ,ther- bow, knocking both meu 10 the deck
as il IL had been q huge stone wall. One Of
them arose and limped to the compauiuuway
with broken ankle. The other lay over the
lee rail with his feet dangling in the sea. Two
companions dragged him up TO the weather
side before a second wave, which surely would
have swept him away, followed the first. He
was carried below. He recovered conscious
ness shortly afterward, but was unable TO 70
to work again.
Lines were then stretched across the deck
for the safety Of the sailors. After an hour
work the mainsail was SET, and tue cutter
plunged through the waves again. When op-
posite the big hotel at Rockaway she took il
her fore. stsysail, having carried away hel
port spreader in her frequent plunges into the
waves She cased sheets at 4i5 and made
for the Sandy Hook light-ship. Her private
red aud black signal broke from her peak and
went skyward like frightened bird. Tn,
white pennant Of the royal yacht squadron Al
the head Of the topmast was in tatters Sh,
passed the light-ship at j:l0I0. Just IS hour,
minutes and seconds from the time she
actually left it on Monday afternoon, and Il
hours 10 minntes and 10 seconds from ID,
official time Of her start The Dauntless pass
ed the lightship at ll:2O Tonight Chicag.
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