Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-09-25

time he hs8 been standing out 70 ssa on
the starbosrd tack. At 4:l0 he went
about on the port tack and stood IN
shore. andsAt the Same time housed his
topmast. At $50 the gale had in.
creased so much In strength that he put
. reef in his mainsail. At 6:l9 there
was so much sea running and the
Genesta was plunging so heavily that
Captain Carter partly housed his
bowsprit and set . smaller jib.
At ESQ, about half way between
Montauk Point and Shinnecock, he
went about on the starboard tack
within half q mile Of the breakers and
laid his course along the beach. There
was less chop to the sea in there, but
tremendous rollers went tumbling after
each other toward the shore, where
they broke in great clouds Of spray, so
that the coast seemed TO be cnveloped
in thick fog bank. The little cutter
bobbed up and down on these huge
waves like cork, at times pluuging
hcadforemost until her bowsprit dis
appeared clear up to the catheads, at
times lying over on her port side until
her mainsail Tapped the sea fifteen feet
above the boom, at times shipping sea
that swept her decks from stem to stern,
to the imminent peril Of every man on
deck.
About noon one Of these seas tum-
bled over her weather-bow and swept
two men from their feet in her lee-waist.
One of the men was thrown violently
upon the deck, where he lay stunned,
while the other was swept half over
board and hung across the rails with
his legs dangling in the sea. Fortu-
nately. however, two Of his shipmates
grabbed him in the nick Of time and
dragged him back TO the deck. This
incident occurred off Fire Island. At
1925 q second reef was put in her
mainsail, and at 2:30 the third
and last reef was taken in.
II was an exceedingly difficult
and dangerous job, reefing in that heavy
sea, it being necessary to send two men
along the main sheet out to the end Of
the boom, wh;ch would frequently fly
up into the air with jerk sufficient to
throw them fifty feet away, and at other
times dip alarmingly near to the crests
of the waves. At the same time it was
necessary for a number of men to be
in the lee waist, incurring the peril Of
being swept overheard by the violent
seas that were constantly sweeping her
deck. At this time the wind was blow
ing from forty-fve to sixty miles an
hour.
After the last reef was put in her
the Genesta's staysail, which
had been previously reefed, was taken
n, and then she made much better
weather, as well as better time, and by
las she was off the big hotel at Rock
way. Then she bore broad off and
an down to the Sandy-Hosk lightship,
which was about five miles south
# the course she had laid. She
ufed around the lightship and fin
shed her perilous race at 5;l9.40.
Ter official time was 4S:l9.40, and |
Ter actual time, having been handi- |
apped II minutes IS seconds at the |
tart, was 1907. 05. This is the slowest
ime that has ever been made over the |
curse, the previous records being 80 |
ours, 80 hours, and AZ hours, the |
rst made by the schooner Idler and
he other two by the schooner Rambler. |
he Dauntless was reported off Fire
sland about the time the Genesta was
She was about thirty-three
tiles behind.
She signalled the Ocean King for a
wv just as that vessel, which had
topped a short distance north ofthe light
hip to pick up drifting row-boat, was
bout to run down and offer to tow her
p to Staten Island. The sea was SO
ough that is was very difficult to get a
,y-line aboard the yacht, the danger
the two vessels coming violently to-
ether being very great. After repeated
forts, however, the line was finally
OF aboard, and the yacht was towed |
p TO Tompkinsville. On the way up,
lille trying to get in her jib, man was
truck on the head by block and pain
lilly cut, though net seriously injured.
he man previously stunned was revived
4 the Genesta's cabin. Her list OF casual-
les included one man whose ankle was
roken, the same who was nearly |
'ashed overheard. one man injured in
nrnally, and one man with a broken |
niger. Sir Richard Sutton and his |
uests escaped injury. The Genesta
lso parted the port side stay of her
owsprit and was therefore lucky in
aviDg that stick.
The boat picked up by the Ocean
ling may be claimed by its owner of
he police at Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn.
The sloop-yacht Lagitta went ashore
arly yesterday morning at Far Rock
way and was at first mistaken for the |
ienesta. She was gotten off uninjured !
uring the day.