The Portland daily press., 1886-09-20
ANOTHER VICTORY
For the Swift Sailing Boston Sloop
MayfloWer.
Race Which Proved Unsatisfactory
to All the Contestants.
The Wind Dies Out and the Result Is
Drifting Match.

| NEWPORT, Sept. 1S.-The Mayfiower wins
the cup for the first-class sloops and cutters,
| the Stranger wins the cup for seeond-class
sloops and cutters, and the Gitana wins the
cup for schooners.
| The race was utterly inconclusive. There
was a poor wind to begin with, and it pet
cred out towards the middle of the race. 1t
was full of 'fukes,' and it was no test Of
the merits of the boats. On the run out, the
boats which hugged the shore got an advan-
tage at first. but the tide at the Block Island
buoy nentralized the gain in some instances
The calm at this buoy upset the whole race
on the run back; those boats which kept to
the westward got an off-shore wind, while
hours. Consequently they had finish
where thd first boat in the smallest class was
five or six miles ahead of the first big single
sticker. Lieut.. Hem will not probably ex-
ult much over the fact thif race was the Gal
atea's, as he knows that the race was worth
less as test. Probably some interesting
races between the big single stickers will re-
suit from this days sailing.
There was a fresh breeze blowing at the
start and every prospect that it would last
throughout the day.
The first of the slotps to cross was the
Puritan. She had reached up along the line
before the!preparatory signal, and as 1t was
blown the old champion came to the east
ward of the lightship, turned square on her
heel and went along the line to the westward
until almost up the Electra, when she kept
off and jumped across the line, breaking her
balloon topsail as she went BY The Galatea
had stood off to the northward to get her
club-topsail up and came down just behind
fha xxrifb ha do
from the northeast. The two passed over
the line together These two big ones were
over the line the first of the fleet, and the
American was in the lead.
The Mayfower was away. up towards
Brenton's Point, getting her single reef out
and sending up the club topsail. She had
stood up to far and was badly handicapped.
She did not go over the line until next to the
last of the fleet. The Bedouin brought up
the rear. General Paine's yacht, which had
been carrying her bolloon jib for fully five
minutes, went across with rush and began
to pulllup on the fleet.
Theta Puritan, meanwhile, had gone far
ahead in the fresh breeze that blew when
the race began. The wind fell at 1915, and
she had lead of two miles over General
Paine's yact, though the Galatea was hold
ing her own well with her.
BY the time the yachts began to approach
Point Judith, six miles from the start, the
wind had fallen to breath and barely filed
sails were up on all the big sloops, and spin
makers were run up to starboard. The Pur-
itan had left the Galatea some and had not
lost any to the Mayfower. General Paine's
sloop was far in the rear, though no one
could predict what the Mayfower would
when the buoy was turned and the
yachts came to run home The wind kept
hauling more and more, and in order to keep
the course the boats after passing the point
took in their spinnakers and went along
with their head kites only flying. The Pur-
itan was the first to take hers in. The Gala
tea held on to hers for fully five minutes
longer. The Mayfower had been steering
a higher course and held on to her spinnaker
for ten minutes after the Galatea had hers
on deck.
Commodore Forbes sloop never did 80
we'll Even when the wind died away to
barely breath she glided through the
water with speed that was remarkable,
and astonished even those who had seen her
in all her races.
Passing Point Judith the yachts passed
line between Point Judith lighthouse and
the Whistling buoy as follows