New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-23
YACHTS AND YACHTSMEN.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE CRACK BOATS AND
THEIR RECORDS

THE JEssrcA oUTcLAssED-PEcUMAMT IEs OF
| THE YACHTING SEASON - NOTES
| FROM THE CLUBS.
There Is no doubt that II the Jessca should 60 back
10 the other side sic would be winner In nearly every
race In which she entered over here since the pres
nt fleet of 4GoO ers has been built, she STANDS hto
chance She has been outbut and she is outclasseu'
for really she beors In the 40foot class thsps"c
! does I'm that OF the 46foot Yet there was
more perfect yacht built the world than the Jec
She was built by Fife of Farlie to cross the ocean anu
also to this side. Last year she was w"l1er-
full boat although at that time hardly down to her me
This year she IS still wonderful boat but no match
In point OF speed to Her American competitors. ohe
mas been sailed we'll. for Mr. McDonOugh, bTon1er Oh
W. b. McDonoueh, her owner, is true sportsman ana
has seen 10 1t that she was sailed for all sle was
worth" 1t is hoped n yachting circles that fr' NC
Donough viii issue challenge for one OF the ilew 40
footers to sail him a ACROSS the ocean. sucn
race would be indeed test Of the boats In the 4oioo'
| class.
The Mineoa sailed better last week in the races OH
Newport than she ever sailed before. Ihis was ui
doibtedly due to the extra ballast which she hd IN
her. 1t is said that LOO pounds of stone were pun
aboard the Mneoa on the day preceding her hrst race
with the Jessica for the Manhattan Athletic CuOs
golden cup This additional weight certainly impreVeu
her Mr. Belmont has perseyered in his attempts 10
| mako the Mneola speedy and the success winch ho
has obtained is nothing morei than he JUST fe"au'
-
In all probability the crute of the New-York Yacht
Climb next year will be extended around the Cape IL
Is in all human probability also that the meeting pace
will be New-IOndon, and from that rendezvous the
yachts will start 1t has then good many years ho"
since tho fleet OF the NewtYork Yacht Club III us an
nual cruise has gone frtha r the eastward than vine
yard Haven. The shoals that lie between lonely wave
| Doc Ia
menace 10 navigation which some yachtsheh 40 ho'
care to encounter Nevertheless there are yachtSen
who are able navig Dte through the h'ricace' oi
these Shoals and who have boats which can weather
all the storms that blow outside the dreary SauS VI
Monomoy.
II this eastern cruise Of the New York Yacht Club Is
decided upon il is probable that when Vlneyaiu maven
is reached all yachts which do not desire 10 proceeu
further will have eave to withdraw rom the neet ana
the commodore will signal for such yachts as remain 10
nroceed AZ will TO Provincetown Boston. The Easu
ern Yacht Climb would be only TOO ean " heip 'ho
yachts of the New+York Yacht Club TO come aIouiiu
the Cape and in that delightful clubhouse "nlch 'no
Eastern Yacht Club has on the rocks OH DarOeneau'
and in that delightful habor which lies ehcompassed
nv the rocks and shores, yachtsmen ana yachts
World find rew;lrd for all the tolls OF the sea WHICH
brought them ther
1t is asserted on good authority that the recent poor
showing of the Glorana in reaching and running Is due
70 the shortening of her foresai which MAD uled er
a triHe forward. Why this should be so no Que mas
attempted to explain; In fact, 1t seems almost luic
N attempt 10 OK plain anything about the Glorlana
She f. tlbehrOm beginning to end but the
deeds she does will live after her. Mr. Herreshoh mas
so overawed the yachting world that no one preeuhies
to crlticise and NIB dares TO explain
Tho Yachting season so far has been rather remark
able in the number of private matches when nave
,oi,@ n0anE
ing loves his yacht and believes in her. Ana thS
season the love and belief have materiazed frequently
in match races. william Butler Duncan, 1r, the
owner OF the cutter Huron, has been, with true sports
manlike spirit ready at all times to enter his yacht
in any private matc-and many of them no has sleu'
Tho IIuron is not a remarkably fast boat but III the
long run she hal justified the good opinion her owner
holds Of her.
Tho eavonaraais good boat but IL would not be at
all surprising if Bayard Thayer had better one neXt
season. Her construction is poor and while she mas
done good work. she never has equalled In point OF
speed what Mr.. Nhayer desired Of her. The boat when
will satisfy THAI most excellent sailor must needs DO
boat OF the first order and he never will be satisfied
with the sayouara Tho probabilities, therefore, are
that next veari Mr. Thayer will take the with
yacht which Will be in every way worthy OF his most
| excellent reputation as yachtsman.
That ancient and honorable nstltutOn-not so an
Gent but always honorabc-the Eastern facht CInD,
has decided this year to permit newspaper men 10
accompany the fleet its annual cruise Heretofore
| such thing has not been looked upon with favor
The proposition now IS to have newspaper man 20
on the tug which will accompany the feet from Mar
blehead 10 Bar HarbOr. In case any OF the yachts
should be- so unfortunate to get ashore, the tug VIII
be of use in pulling IL off, and in case any OF the
yachts make any remarkable runs the newspaper man
on board thel tug could be OF use in announcing the
fact TO tho public. The first club in Massachusetts
| which gave ANY facilities to newspaper men for re-
porting its rnccs, the Cornthlan OF Marbehead'
and it was only through the efforts Of George Stewart
| that that vas accomplished. Now all Of the Eastern
clubs extend less courtesles to those men
whose business it record the deeds Of their yachts
| and races and cruises.
or all the courses over which yachtraces sailed
there is probably which affords thorough test
| Of yachts that triangular course of the Eastern
| Yacht Club which begins and ends at Halfway
| Rock OF Marbehead In the Newport courses there is
always more less tide Ii is of necessity So for on
the eastward the openings into Duzzard's Bay and
Vineyard Sound; TO the norhward there open free
passages into Narragaueet Bay to the westward there
| are the currents that sweep through the race IN
| Fishers Island Sound, and from the south come the
| currents which are disseminated all that broad
oxpanse of water by the interference of the shores OF
Block Island. On the NewYork courses the tidal in
references are too wdl known 70 need comment. And
many a man familiar with the currents of the Lower
Bay has drfted yacht to victory which he never
| should have won. but the course of Marblehead,
where the waves break and foam the reef OF Nor
mans Woe has none OF the objections which pertain 10
the other courses IL is really the best course In the
| country and If the Eastern Yacht Club
| cnterphsing IL might be made the course over
| which all races oil importance would be sailed In
| America.
As it stands at present there is only nation which
dares challenge q, dares compete for the Americas
Cup But In the little port of Pola, in the Adriatc
Sea- there rs growing up yacht club int which all the
energy Of the 4iustro-Iungary Empire seems to have