The sun., 1891-06-20
MTNEOLA'S MAST CRACKED.
THAT WAS WHAT WAS THE MATTER IN
THURSDAY'S REGATTA.

THAT WAS WHAT WAS THE MATTER IN
| THURsDAY'S REGATTA.
The rife Rost Uvira and Bursess Ae-footes
| snyonara TO start In To-dsy's Race-The
Mineois will Not be Ready Untii Next
| Week-what Ynchtsnen Have 60 Say.
! Another Hne race of 46-foot yachts 10 prom.
ised to-day. Tho fleet at Bay Ridge was aug
| mented yesterday by the arrival OF r. p.
Sands's 43-foot File boat Uvira and Bayard
Thayer's new Burgess 46.footer Sayonara and
these Will start In the Senwanhaka- -Corlnthian
Yacht Clubs annual regatta against E. ID. Nor
Ran's Glorlana. J. Rogers Maxwsils Nautilus,
and W. OBJ. Macdonough's Jessica.
The USira was built year ago for yachts
man OF Halifax, N. T., and sailed to this conn
try on her own bottom last season. Early this
spring Mr.. Sands bought her 10 race in the 4G-
foot GLASS. md she will start something like q
dark horse. She Is less than 48 feet on the
water line. and will receive time even from tho
Jesslca. which gets IN allowance from tho new
American boats. Tho Jossica was not designed
for American racing, an d in her contests. Will
liam Fife. her designer. is Handicapped somo-
what but II is generally understood that when
he designed the Uvira. young Fife had his eye
on New York ruls and worked a.coydinRlY
The Uvira Is high- sided crnft and DOS
sesses the harmony Of all Fife boats. be-
sides having had a year OF sailing and q finely
setting suit OF sails. Her owner. Mr. Sands. is
great man for sails. 80 he has worked her up
to good racing trim. The UyIra is black, and
as she lay alon eside OF the Nautilus yesterday.
close resemblance between the two was
The sayonara is white aud looks very much
like Tie Mineo!a. August Bemont's burgess
sss 10 ss by CAPT Ma. Ma
stick. but day amateurs have TO- steer. SO
CnIt watson will havo to conflne himself TO
nth The MinSSis: which was disabled "a Sandy
tsn VIII II 1ssay to
sseca cIiaS L hs A1ne noas
happened to the Mineo as cafT, hut tho truth Is
her mast GGracsSd asop. ten feet above he.
last Tuesday the Mtneola's Lowsprit came In
an inch. the I'D giving way.
hs me he
sssS, good racef her oT1sr not sXpec,ne nor 70 6e
The lirst stick was sollI ono and viii be re-
placed py solid one a triie larger than tho
and an order has been sent to Boston for
new ono. The gair which she carried In her
ys KIND cas Win Is I sbe
TSSsD.,; Hasy, Hstr who sailed ,hs III Minso's
f fair chance to show what We could do with the
GlOrtana to windward. As soon as We hauled
l exIected every minute to see It go bv the
SeaE had .sad to slack the
there amy ssn On The @ arR sarrspa
away entirely; and We held on as best We could.
but Yn the Hook l could see that tho mast
and came home.
49,, am not convinced that the GlorIana can
When You consider how little she Gained on on
the iorty-footer Lrs her performance does
@ az Panss nss
6eas That T. the enc that VII press The Go-
also It seemed weak Ihursday. % bend!ns M until until
the mainsail would not do good work. The
the, boat not having move on. She is bound
6s eyes Of those Who ike "s 10 See g dstinetiyei1
New York boat win there Is u discouraglnG gap
nfF VIZ end ssa tie T
had ,a lett VS. al: "Snd and commodore Layton Of the
isii YOU" said commodoro @ H Ia Iawton. % Nat
herres,hT2n is the smartest pan in the busi.
worth knowing. He has always been able 81 to
turn out fas. boats. and his ideas seem TO hit
bs bs was eTey 1 sys
would be- left when she met rough weather.
and Nat Herreshon was merely showing that |
che wouldn't I do not believe he would have
carried bis clubtopsail out to tho liRhlshp II |
he bad been harder pres .cd. I believe the |
Gloria would have trotted oven faster with |
out her clubtopsatl. She was Just giving peo- |
pie q show. and do not believe there Is any |
forty footer that can save her time against the |
Gl"1tans ns, Then The latter is pressed. She is
1t may be said here that Commodore Lawton
was one OF tho first mon to call the turn on the |
Giortana When the news that she as build |
ing was 6rst received he said to q SUN re- |
porter,
is something about those creations which |
como from Bristol that makes them co."
Cart. Crawford, who sailed the Lirs Thurs
day; smiled serenelX; and said,
am Glad that The Sun had It's eye on US, |
and gave us credit for doing good work. We
certainly got the boat going and we thought |
she behaved very we'll considering that she |
had not heen haul oil out to clean, and had |
aboard"
!. Anchored Off the Atlantic club house yester.
lay AFTERNOON, were tho schooners ConstelIa-
ion. Sea Witch. CRUSADER. Estelle. Marguerite
Mohegan. Columbia. !almer. Atalantn Water
Witch. Tidal Waye. TioRa. Elma. and Geyalia
sloops Rover. Kangaroo. Anaconda. Uvira.
Desiree, lleika, Regiua, HlldeRarde. Portia
Aelala, Gloriana. Shamrock Winona. Lirls
Jessica. Tigrees. Chispa, Nantilus Oracle
Mhitby and Mischief; steamers Seneca, Reva,
Avenel. Nenira. Oneida, Golden Fleece Peer
,sess. md Jean. and yawls Montecito aud