The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-09-23
The Puritan Beats the
Genesta
BY OVER SIXTEEN MINUTES.
The English Gutter Fairly Outsailed
by the New England SIOOP.

and fought one round in the marine bat
tie which is to decide the future owner
ship of that precious trophy, the Amer
ica's Cup. In the race of thirty-eight
miles over the inside course of the New
York Yacht Club to-day, in extremely
light weather, the center-board beat the
latter Is minutes and AZ seconds actual
time, or, with the % seconds time al
lowed the cutter by the Puritan, Is min
utes and 10 seconds corrected time. The
course was from an imaginary line be-
tween buoy Is, off Owls Head Staten
Island, and the committee boat, anchored
an eighth of mile to the westward, and
around buoys 10 and 1879 in the lower
bay; thence to and around the Sandy
Hook lightship, and return to the finish
off buoy Is, an eighth of a mile south
of Fort Wadsworth. The wind at the
start was light from south by west, which
made a dead heat to the first mark.
From here to the ightship the wind
freshened and permitted the yachts to
start their sheets. At intervals from the
outer mark back to buoy 5, off Sandy
Hook, the wind was about four points
free. Two tacks were made in the horse
shoe to weather buoy 20, and from here
to the finish the wind was we'll on the
port quarter. An analysis of the race
shows that in the windward work to
buoy 10 the Puritan beat the Genesta 8
minutes and second; from there to the
ightship minute and 10 seconds, and
from the start to the lightship minutes
and 20 seconds. From buoy 5, off the
point of Sandy Hook, to the ightship,
about eight miles, in fresh breeze,
with lee sails to the water, the Puritan
only gained % seconds on the Genesta,
and only IS seconds on the same distance
coming back to buoy 5. In the entire
run from the outer mark to the finish the
Puritan beat the Genesta II minutes and
% seconds.
A GALA DAY.
Long before 10 80 o'clock this morn
ing, the upper bay was dotted with
pleasure craft under way, all heading for
the starting point in the great contest,
which all felt would come off at last.
Pier F, North river, was thronged with
people by o'clock, eager to get on
board the iron steamers Cygnus, Sirius
and Taurus, while at West Twenty-third
street, Pier p, North river, and JEWELS
wharf, Brooklyn, the great three-deck
steamers Grand Republic and Columbia,
with scores of gay flags flying, took on
board hundreds of passengers to see the
race. The decks of the steamers Elegy,
Sylvan Dell, Sylvan Grove, Albertina,
Thomas Morgan, HI. T. Bay, Laura w.
Starin, the old Dominion steamship
Richmond, and many other smaller
boats, were also well filled with specta-
tors. The steamer Taurus was chartered
by the New York Yacht Club for its
guests, the William Fletcher by the
Seawanhaka Yacht Club, the Joseph
Stickney by the Larchmont Yacht
Club, and the Remove by the
Produce Exchange Club. Many
other boats were also paid high
prices to convey the enthusiastic adj
mirers of the yachts over the course. A
very light breeze to the southwark rip
pied the waters of the bay when the
judges boat Luckenbach, having on
board the Regatta Committee, J. F.
Tams and Charles Stebbins, with Rear
Commodore F. G. Lawrence, Daniel APP
pleton, Secretary of the Eastern Yacht
Club, John Harvey, the cutter yacht de-
signer, S. F. Planchett and other promi-
nent yachtsmen, arrived at Tompkins-
vile at 40 a. M, where William Krebs,
representing the New York Yacht Club
on the Genesta, and Louis 2. Bayard,
Seawanhaka Yacht Club, were taken on
board. -
THE RIVAL YACHTS.
Both the Genesta and Puritan had
already tripped their anchors and were
standing out on the starboard tack for
mid-channel Mr.. Forbes and his mus
cular crew, augmented by Mate Rich
man and three sailors from the schooner
yacht Crawling, looked confident and
earnest, while Sir Richard Sutton, Cap
tain Carter and. his white jacketed tars
appeared slightly uneasy when they saw
the light weather. The long blast of a
whistle at 10: % O'Clock on the Judges |
boat, echoing among the heights of
Staten Island, was the preparatory sig |
nal. At that time Jay Gould's steam
yacht ATLANTA, the COrsair, Stranger,
Radna, Viola, Magnolia, Utowana,
Vision, Electra, Wanda and Sentinel,
with all the above-named passenger
boats and about fifty tugs, had gathered
to the north and east of the starting line.
The Genesta and Puritan were lying to,
within 800 yards of the Judges boat.
The tide was running strong flood.
THR START.
When the signal was given, at 10 80
o'clock, both yachts came down for the
inc almost together. The Puritan was
10 windward and crossed at 10 1902
!. M, with the Genesta two seconds
alter. The beam limit was 1882 a. m.