Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-09-25
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The Dipcich Of yesterday gave a
brief account Of the Gencsta's rough
experience In the race for the Brenton's-
Reef challenge cup. The New York
Tsmss furnishes the following details
sf he Genesta's stormy sail
Tho fourth race for tho Brenton's-
Reef challenge cup, instead Of starting
ct 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon last.
the appointed time, would not have
been started much before midnight II
shs press steam-yscht Ocean King had
not picked up the Gencsta in the Swash
chsonei and lowed her out TO the Sandy
Hook lightship. The regatta commit
tees boat Luckenbsch had taken the
Dauptless in tow and left the Genesta
10 sail out. but the wind soon
fell so fiat that the cutter, having
TO stem q strong food-tidc, would in
Ill probability not have been able to
get outside Of the Hook. As it was
the start was an hour late, and then the
Wind YES so light that both yachts had
great difficulty to cross the line. The
Genesta, after casting Oft her tow, stood
10 the eastward Of the lightship and had
good deal Of trouble TO get back above
the line. When she first tried to go
about, after the preparatory signal
had been given at 1850, she had
20 little way on that she missed
stays, and it Vas not until about
ten minutes later, when she caught
. light sheet Of air, that she gathered
way enough to 20 about. She finally
succeeded IN getting close up to the
southwark of the Luckenbach. which
was stationed about southeast from the
lightship, and then veered around under
the stern of the tug aud went over the
line ct 5:12.35. The Dauntless, after
drifting for q time helplessly to the wind
ward Of the line, managed to veer
around and point her nose toward it.
She crossed at 5:22.55.
At that time the sun was sinking be-
hind q heavy bank Of cloud. lmme-
diately about the sun the cloud was
eonvoluted, twisted, and suffused with
. dull red, while further TO the south
il was q featurcless mass of dull-blue
black. 1t was, indeed, a stormy sun
set, and it gave every promise that the
signal-service prediction of cyclone
disturbance. extending from the Gulf
up the Atlantic coast, would be speedi-
~ fulfilled. Still, yachtsmen who sail
ocean races are not to be daunted by
weather signs or representations and
even If they were, /, was then too late
to turn back, for their yachts were upon
the open sea and their time had been
officially taken. The wind, such as it
was, was south at the start, but it soon
died out, and then made a feeble at
tempt to start up again from southwest
by south.
The Genesta mean while had run away |
from the Dauntless. which scarcely
moved in the laDguid breeze, and by
o'clock was full two miles ahead.
About this time the bark Conte Artufol,
Of Trieste, which had been tewed to
sea in the morning by the Ocean King,
lay in position to blanket the Dauntless.
The Genesta had passed her to the wind
ward, but it was plainly impossible for
the schooner to do likewise, and the
skipper Of the bark CALAMITY put up his
helm and bore away to the leeward Of
The yacht. II took the old bark ten
minutes to get out of the yachts way.
but she managed it. AT 6:30 the
catching light breeze. be-
gan to overhaul the cutter, and by 7:i5
was in half mile of her. That. how
ever, was nearer than she ever got to
the cutter again. At Q O'Clock light
breeze sprang up from the southeast,
and the Genesta, catching it first, ran
away from the schooner. During the sue
ceeding 20 hours the yachts encountered
a most variable and battling wind. 1t
was generally light and from the south
east, but it repeatedly shifted three or
four points to the eastward, and then
back again, alternately heading the
yachts OF and enabling them to lay
their course. The Ocean King, follow
ing close to the Genesta, left the Daunt-
less hull down before midnight. but at
daylight on Tuesday morning she was
discovered almost abeam Of the cutter
two or three miles in shore.
The Genesta, frequently forced to
beat by the shifting wind, made her
way slowly up the Long Island coast.
At 1920 on Tuesday morning she had
Fire Island Light abeam, but did not
get abreast Of Shinnecock, thirty-fve
miles further eastward, until 1853. 1t
was p. nj. before she reached Mon
tauk Point. From that time out, how
ever, she made better time, and covered
the tbirty-fve miles between Montauk
and Brenton's Reef in triae over four
hours and a hslf. She rounded Bren-
toms Reef lightship at 1850, and
freeing her shosis "a 1t '@east
wind, started on her homcward run |
Ike Q scared duck.
The weather, winch had been cloudy
and threatening all during Tuesday
morning. began to make up for mischief
early in the afternoon. 1t began to
rain shortly after l o'clock, aud by 5
o'clock rain was falling heavily. The
wind freshened steadily also as the az
ternom waned, and by the time the
Genesta rounded Brenton's-Reef light |
ship q strong nortbeaster was blowing.
Al this time, too, Captain Cantain, Of |
the yacht Ocean King, made the I'M
pleasant discovery that the clouds
were scurrying across the sky from
northwest TO southeast, while the wind
on the surface Of the ocean was blowing
from the northeast. This, taken with
the fact that the barometer had been
steadily falling during the afternoon
and evening until it had reached the
alarmingly low figure OF 1925, was
accepted ~ an especially evil omen.
Captain Cantain had all Of his awnings
taken in and everything movable snugly
housed, but tho Englishman held on to
his big spirit topsail and his jib topsail
~ II there was nothing like mischief in
the cir. lie went flying on his way
home, passing Point Judith at
l0:l5 and Block Island at 1855.
At ll:22, about four miles westward
l.