The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-25
IT'S TWENTIETH REGATTA.
h Pavonia Yacht Club Spends a Da
Afoat.

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The Pavonia Yacht Club Spends a Day
Afoat.
The sw~ift-runping latter end of the
strong ebb tide, and a brisk breeze from
the north-northwest were the favorable
circumstances attending the start yester-
day morning of the Pavonia Yacht
Clubs twentieth annual regatta. Long
before the steamboat Cygnus, aboard of
which were the officials of the event and
five hundred friends of the club members,
made her appearance off Liberty Island,
the feet of yachts made the cove off the
CommunipaW shore q moving panorama
of sails and spray. 8
T-hree-quarters of an hour before noon
the Cygnus lay to off the stakeboat, from
which the imaginary starting line ex-
tended toward the island, and the huge
steam valve shrieked the signal for the
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later, the Katie, of the East River Yacht
Club, being the first to cross the line. She
was under mainsail, jib, topsail and club
topsail. The Tam O'Shanter followed
her forty seconds later. Then came the
Christine and Alex. Forsythe almost
abreast, and following them were the
Phantom, Avalon and Grower closely
punched. The Minnie K. and Anna Sea-
man next crossed and the Lauretta
brought up the rear just in time to save
her handicap.
Apretty sight greeted the enthusiastic
spectators when the signal for the start
of the smaller craft was given. The
Bessie r. was in the lead with the
Sardine close behind. The Sisters, Annie
j.. Aida, Bulker, So So, J.. 4. Corlett and
Gesine crossed several seconds later. In
quick succession and almost too fast to
permit the correct taking of their numbers
4bx. nx,, Afv,d re fl1 r,a aAn 81 Lanlnl
over before the wind and spread out over
the bay.
The larger craft stood eastward of Lib
erty Island and toward buoy 81 (the
southwest spit, which they turned from
leeward to windward. The sail down was
quickly made, the Katie and Alexander
Forsythe leading the fleet. The steam
boat followed and passed the craft, and
those aboard saw the yachts make the
turn. AS the craft beat up to the buoy
the Katie made a wide turn, thereby let
ting the skipper of the
Forsythe exhibit his splendid
seamanship by cutting in and beating
away up the bay for the return sail of
fifteen miles the Katie gained upon the
Forsythe through her superior sailing
qualities and soon recovered the lead.
The Avalon was the third craft to turn
the buoy.
Inc Wlnu " uUble duu Tie
Katie, getting the best of the breeze,
swept up the Narrows and increased her
lead. She crossed the finish far ahead,
with the Forsythe second. The Avalon
and Christine were the only others of the
big yachts to finish.
In the meantime the smaller yachts
had covered their course of fifteen miles
by sailing to and around Buoy 10, off
| Swinburne Island, thence to, and around
Fort Lafayette, and return to the start.
The Leader had no competitor in her class,
aud consequently was sailed over the
course simply for sport.
The prize winners of the small boats
were:-Class 1, Z. J.. Coriett; class 3, Lone
Star, class 4, Ilene; class 5, Aida; class O.
So So. A summarized detail of the time
follows:--
CLASS c.-sLoors AND CUTTERS, Sc TO 40 FEET