The sun., 1893-08-10
AT NEW LONDON.
VIEW YoRK ThoH1 CLUB's FLEET HAVE
A GOOD RUN 10 MORRIS COVE
Schooner Constellation sails Proud,y Iuto
the Hnrbor In Advance Of tho E1eet-The
May1ower Made Poor showing In Her
Class - Preparing for the Big Race.

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! Class - Preparing for the Big Race.
New LONDON. Aug. o-Tho Now York Yacht
Clubs magnificent feet OF steam and sailing
craft. headed by Bayard Thayer's flying
| schooner. Constellation. arrived at this port
| this afternoon. after spendid run of thirty
| seven nautical miles from Morris Cove. To-
| night the harbor Is packed full OF yachts. and
| one can almost walk dry shod from the pequot
| House to the Groton shore. The cruise can be
| satd to have practically commenced to- day. as
from now on the runs and races will be In the
open waters OF the Atlantic. Every ono is glad
to bid farewell to the Sound. with It's light airs
and calms. but In epite OF all this the races for
tho Comm odore Cups on Monday will not be
forgotten. and II there is half as good breeze
for the Goelet Cup race all will be satisfied.
Over $50 yachts anchored here tonight,
The cup defender Jubilee. with Gen. Charles
]. Paine. his son John h Paine. George
Richards, DIR. John Bryant, and John $. Fay,
arrived here last night. and will run over to
Newport to- morrow with the fleet, where she
will take part In the Goelet Cup race on
Friday.
Tonight ex-Commodore ElbridGe T. Gerry
entertained Gen. Paine and his guests at dinner
on board the steam yacht Electra. which was so
long tho flagship Of the New York Yacht Club.
The Jubilee has been surrounded by small
boats all day. and the unanimous opinion
seem to be that she Is the homeliest OF the
fleet But the Jubilee Is by no N cans slow. as
her run from Boston to this port in twenty
four hours with four hours calm. shows.
The Vigilants repairs are progressing rap
idly at City Island and every one expects to
sec her at Newport on Friday.
Gov. Russell OF Massachusetts arrived hero
tonight as the guest OF Bayard Thayer Of tho
Constellation. and it Is quite likely that the
Governor will steer the feet schooner in to-
morrows race.
Among the other yachts which have joined
the feet hero are H. y. Walcott's steam yacht
Sherwater. c. ii. ". Fosters new 40-foot fin
keel Carmita, John Jacob Astor's steam yacht
Normahal. ElbridGe T. Gerry's Electra NJ c. d.
Bordens steam yacht Vedette. Amzi Barber's
steam yacht Sapphire f NJ. Fulton. Jr.'s.
steam yacht Spindrift and Eugene H. Bushes
schooner Clochette
On the whole to-day's run was great i'm
provement over Tuesdays race Not only was
there q fairly good breeze all day. but most OF
the way it was q reach. and as the wind
stiffened up toward the end. tho windup was
we'll worth atching.
The Constellation finished at 4:04: :49 nearly
two hours ahead OF the Dauntless the second
boat. The Lasca came in at 4:16:4O. and cap
tured first prize from tho Emerald in the
an hour to spare. Tho Acna did not do very
we'll to-day. us she ran into calm. Tho Ariel
and the DaEmar had a hot race. the former
winning by u couple OF minutes.
The Nearea won easily in the sixty-foot class.
while the Katrina won first prize in the seven
ty-foot sloop class. after a sharp race with
the Huron. Percy Chubb's Queen Nab did
pretty well considering she had no spinnaker.
and had little trouble in defeating the Clara
and Ventura The Wasp. however, did by far
tho best work among the single stckers. and
led them all into tho harbor. defeating the
Mariquita by nearly two hours.
The start, which was q very pretty one.
was off the breakwater at the entrance
to New Haven harbor. A light wind
from the west-southwest had barely force
enough in 1t to I'll the kites which were ap-
parently hung out to dry. Booms were thrown
over to port and spinnaker poles to starboard.
at 0:40 o'clock. and fifteen minutes later the
starting signal for sloops doomed forth.
out her ,spinnaker just before reaching the
starting line and crossed at 9:57:13 She was
HerreshofI 4G-footer moved quite fast without
the aid OF her spinnaker which was ready in
sst9ps r. IT. was Iust her weather. and she soon o
the the Huron at D:5s:si, with Rear Commodore; OF e";
". Butler Duncan; Jr.. at the helm The Huron
line. and made one, OF the best starts Of the
day. Percy Chubh's imported Queen Nab. |
ws SAGa' at 'S' 81 q fsF sH"d
SX the b.a1a zpfnra 7oiootsr a'2a5 GoSTfe %s
lust five seconds hefore the handicap gun
sounded and considering the light air she
tho other sloops were handicapped more or
less. The Ventura. with Col Austen, Of the
ageards across Then ca came me- the s' Fife V cutter ter
Clara. and but few recognized her in her brand
new suit Of white. The Eclipse and RosaIind
nal was sat at 10 o'eleck' and the handicap d
hon ys %nSes " whne, on hf boar nn had WITH te
honor 70 Of being the first boat to cross the line
sooa cSanes to IL" the
types Of American and English yacht design
nG The Ariel: with Designer A. Gary Smith
All of the others were handicapped. The little
Nearea was one of those to lose time allow
Henry a; Hoyey,'s Fortuna. one Of the best Of
ne Boston boats; and the Marguerite. The
Ams hs 0G%as 9dSsr s6s%
MARGUERITE. Atlantic. Coronet. and the Loyal.
was ns.2 only BY tho most careful handling %E that
tre Ae%a and Geysia were Il" about he
,nly ones that did not break out their spinna-
in GreTa IT paas haSon .s
tremendous maintopmast stay sails did nearly
Is much good All the others carried these
'ails in addition to their spinnakers; At IL
o'clock. when the majority o. the fleet were
between Brandford and tho fhimbe Island.
he wind hauled around to the south-south-
vest and freshened considerably.
Spinnakers came In. and with the wind on
heir starboard quarters tho feet made good
ime toward Faulkner Island. which had lust
oeen sighted. 1t was favorable wind for the
chooners. and with their balloon ibis and
naintopmast staysalls fun they quickly hauled
tellation. Ariel. Wasp, Emerald. Huron. and
Fortuna had done we'll and We're little ahead
Of their competitors.
At O'Clock the press yacht Harriet. which
lad been trailing astern OF the racers, com
nenced to walk through the fleet, which were
.pread In n fan Ee shape all over tho Sound: |
The fleet Mt this hour was practically divided |
nto two sections, n Connecticut division led
~ the Lasca. which. by the way also led the
ieet, and a Long Island division. in which tho
Ariel held the premier position.
The Lasca seemed to get more OF the ebb
ide under til. Connecticut shore. and In spite
II the fact that there was n little more wind
outside. the boats on tho north shore moro
han held their own. Tho Wasp. which was
he second boat. was n quarter OF u mile be-
lind tho Lasca AMI we'll to windward. Then
ap,a All m iaaw rl of ha |