New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-06
READY FOR THE YACHT RACE
THE pURITAYs HULL BECOMES BLACK.

waterways and her white rail was all that remained
of her once spotless whiteness The object Of pot
leading her far up to decrease her skin drag
not only below the water line, but in those parts
which may be submerged when she heels over in
breeze. She will be put in the water to-day and
towed to Tompkinsvile, where she will be officially
measured. The Genesta was measured yesterday.
| Her sailing length is SO 5-100 feet and her water
line S1.6 feet According to .the .od measure
ment of the Puritan there will be 9-20 feet differ
ence in the sailing length Of the two yachts
and the English cutter will allow the Yankee
sloop 16 1925 seconds 1t is thought that
| the allowance will be little more when
the Puritan has been officially measured for the
race.
The crew of the Puritan in the race will consist
| Of twenty-five picked sailors. Among them will be
the mate of the schooner yacht Grayling and three
men. Therewil be eight amateur yachtsmen on
board in the race also The amateurs will be General
Paine, j. Malcom Forbes DR.. Bryant, George II.
Richardson. j. r. Busk' Edward Burgess
Charles A. Welch and Edward Pad
elford or NJ. Roosevelt Schuyler. One
Of the latter gentlemen Will be on board to repre-
sent the Genesta. OF these amateur yachtsmen,
| General Paine, j. Macom Forbes and Mr. Richard
| son are part owners of the yacht. Mr. Burgess Is
| her designer Mr.. Padeford is we-known yachts
man and clubman who owns the cutter Ileen, and
NJ. Roosevelt Schuyler is an ex-naval officer and
owner of the cutter Yoland. Both Mr.. Padel-
ford aud Mr.. Schuyler are enthusiastic
cutter men. Joe Ellsworth, acknowledge TO be
the best sailing master for yacht IN these waters,
will act as the Puritans pilot William Krebs of
| the NewYork and Seawanhaka yacht clubs, will
represent the Puritan on the Genesta. j. Frederick
| T0ms, chairman of the committee having the inter-
national races in charge. SAID yesterday:
q" If the wind is light and the sea lumpy, l think
the GeDesta stands an excellent chance of winning
IN the first race but am confident that the Puritan
| will take the other two races"
| DIR. Bryant and j. Malcolm Forbes hoped that the
sea would not be as heavy on Monday as on the day
o. the first of the trial races. The Puritan that
day made the best time over the twenty miles TO
windward and return course ever made in these
waters. Among the visitors to the Puritan yester-
day were many yachtsnen from the feet
| Of the Eastern Yacht Club. which remains at
anchor of Bay Ridge.
II is expected that the marine display on Monday
wI'l be the greatest ever seen in this neghborbood.
Hundreds Of steamers and hundreds of yachts Will
, accompany the racers A great many people have
made arran gcments 10 go 10 Sandy Hook, or TO the
high bluffs Of Fort Wadsworth, hoping that from
these points they can with glasses get view
of the race. The race on Monday will
bc over what is known as the "outside course."
IL will be twenty miles to windward aud return,
unless the wind is from the west or nearly so. In
that case, 1t will be n run OF twenty miles TO lee
ward and beat Of twenty miles back. The racing
yachts will be started from the Point of the Hook
# the wind is due east. II It Is from the southeast
or southwest the start will be from the Scotland
Lightship If the wind does not serve in a start
either from the Point of the Hook or from
the Scotland Lghtship some other point
will be selected far enough Oft shore 10
allow OF the course beng laid out The iron
steamboat Taurus with members of the NewYork
Yacht Club ana their friends on board will leave
Pier No. North River at 500 n. M 1t will be a
long run TO the starting point, however, and 1t is
not probable that the will receive the start
ing signal until after 10 O'Clock.
The second days race will be over
the inside course and will be
started Of Owls Head about quarter of a mile
south of Buoy No. IS. The course Will then be
down around Buoy No 10 on the Southwest Spit
leaving that buoy the port hand thence south
OF Buoy No. Sia and north OF Buoys Nos. and o q
on the point OF the Hook, and out and around
the Sandy Hook Lghtship, rounding it from
the northeast and returning over the same
course 10 Buoy No. 10 just outside the
Narrows. Ii the possession OF the cup is not set
tied by the two races there will be n third race
SAILED over a triangular course out on the open
land LightshIp will mark an angle of the triangle
and buoys with red flags the other angles. Each of
the two outside courses will be forty miles long
the inside, or club course. a triile shorter.
The racing committee will be j. Frederick Tams |
Charles II. Stebbins and Jules A. Montant. Bet |
ting is not so much in favor of the Puritan as It
was as Deople are beginning TO realize that the |
race is going TO be a close one. An old yachtsman
In speaking OF the prospects of the race yesterday
said " / believe that the Puritan will win and have
backed my opinion by wager. But these English !
cutters have given us so many surprises that am
not sure. Ii does not seem possible that anything
could go faster than the Puritan. II there is |
yacht that can do it, however. it Is this same |
Genesta."
One of the Genesta's party said: "If you Ameri- |
cans had not built the Puritan and the Priscilla |
what a walk-over we would have had. As IL IS you |
can at least, give us good fight for the cup"
The New York Yacht Club house in MadisOn-ave. |
wac thronged with yachtsmen last night and all
the talk was of the coming race. Cutter men and
sloop men drew y ans. oyerhaned records ana
can ardcntly devoted TO cutters, spoke the feel
ugs Of all other Americar cutter men wnen
he sald "As an American / hope the
Puritan will win, but as yachtsman who wants
the best type TO come out ahead hope and pray
for the Genesta's victory"
Here devotee of the centre-board so0p came up
and said "If the Puritan wins, and she un-
doubtedy will, the result will be change
in the English system OF time allowance. They
have been taxing beam over there moro and more
in their system of time allowances. Now they need
ed length to get speed and either beam or depth
to get stability and sail carrying power. As beam
was heavily taxed, the yachtsinen resorted TO
depth. The result has been that yachts have been
built deeper and narrower every year unth the
thing has been completely overdone."
In some Of the morning papers yesterday there
published what purported TO be the official
measurements of the Genesta They were not cor
rect, however The cutters official measurements
were sent IN to the committee on the races last
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