Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-23
A SUCCESSFUL REGATTA.

A SUCCESSFUL REGATTA.
rho Twelfth Annual of the New Ha-
ven Yacht Club-The~W weather Un-
Propitious but an Ideal Race Run
by Several OF the Boats-The VIM
ners of the Several Prizes.
The twelfth annual regatta OF the New
Haven Yacht club was held yesterday, not
the fact that the weather was
most inauspicious, and in consequence the
regatta was not as interesting or as closely
contested as in former years. A more in
suspicious day for . yacht race could hard
ly be imagined. At tho time when the
judges boat and the steamer Continental
left their respective docks there was faint
breeze blowing from the northeast, COM
bined with dense fog.
At the Yacht club house everything was
in a state of expectation, and although
nineteen yachts had entered for the race,
only eight came up to the line, the others
for one or another reason dropping out OF
the contest. The boats which were unable
to participate in the contest were the Ag-:
mes, Uganda, Idyl May, Ariel, Gypsy,
Commodore, Dare Devil and Poem. The
surprise Of the day was the non-appear-
ance In the race of the cutter Agnes, COM
manded and owned by Frank e. Morgan.
This boat it was expected would make
close race with the Nymph. just before
starting out, however, the Agnes, while
endeavoring to get into line, broke her
steering gear, and in consequence was un-
able to start in the race. The Dare Devil
- k1 49, - hor ooy1foir,
could not get her into commission in sea-
son to take part in the race.
The boats that started and their owners
were as follows: Sloop Nymph, w. A. Har-
ris; cutter Sea Belle, 81. A. Seymour; sloop
lone, Captain Eaton; sloop Vidette, 81. G..
Shepard; sloop Venus, George n. Graves;
and cat boats Castanes, A. Y. Beecher, snd
Gossip, A. Il. Day. -
The course of the race was from Pardee'e
Bar buoy, around the west breakwater to
the mid-channel bouy at the mouth of the
Housatonic river and return.
Ia spite of the threatening weather the
steamer Continental, which had been char
tered by the Yacht club, carried fully 600
spectators over the course. The steamer
left the dock at II o'clock and returned
about 4:30. Among those who were on
board the Continental were: y
Mayor J. B. Sargent, wife and daughter,
Frank W. Guion and family, Miss Roeesler
George White, John J. Lane, Misses Jennie
and Annie Moran, Lille McKenna, Miss
Edith Catlin, Mrs. John G. Coburn, the
Misses Robinson, VIC. Perkins, William
F. Hasselbach, Miss Hattie Cornelius, Miss
Alta Carter, Mrs. Clara North, George R.
Chamberlin and family, James 81. Parish,
Eliphalet Killsm, William Kilisn, Robert
F. Wellman, William T. Smith, F. c.
Cannon, Miss George Hardy, Miss M. B.
Foote, Harry Leigh and family, Stephen
Moore, R. W. Burwell, LIE Grand Cannon
liam Butricks, John G. Tuttie, william B
North, W. 81. Lockwood. Charles R
Waterhouse and family, E. g. Osborn an6
family, E. G. Beecher and William E.
Hum.
Promptly at II O'Clock the judges boat
the tug James 81. Hogan, Captain Edgal
s. Cove commanding, started from tn,
dock alongside of the Continental. Or
the judges boat were the Judges, Jsmel
Gallagher, N. 81. Bacon of New Londo1
and G. n. Peck. The others present were
D. NJ. Goodridge, s. D. Baker, Ls Crane
Cannon, Henry Parmelee, E. F. Peck
Brooklyn. Morgan J. Flaherty and R. o
Turpee.
About the same time the Continents
started on her course to follow the yachts
As soon as the yachts reached the startin!
point the wind, which had previously beel
quite fresh, died out, and for over half a,
Continental and the several yachts amuset
themselves whistling for a breeze. FINAL
their efforts were rewarded and about 1:
O'Clock the wind freshened up from tn
southeast and at 1907 the first gun or pre-
paratory signal was fred, followed at 1911
by the second gun which caused the sew
eral yachts to start off in the race, a dis
lance of ten miles and return. The boat
| crossed the starting line in the following
| order: lone, Nymph, Gossip, Vidette, Cos
tanea, Sea Belle and Venus.
| After the start the Stranger caught tn
breeze and rapidly forged ahead until sh
had left q distance of at least two miles b
tween her and the other yachts, the onl
exceptions being the lone and Venus
which were astern of the Stranger about
/ an hour there was beautiful nip and tue
race between the Stranger and Nympb, til
lone and Venus struggling hard for
place. -
At 1:3O p. M, off Woodmont, the lead
ing yachts were in the following orde,
Stranger, Nymph, Venus, lone. Fror
this point on for about three miles tn
race was unusually close and exciting, th
Stranger and Nymph being neck and nee
and the lone and Venus occupying th
same relative positions. The race at th1
point between the Stranger and Nymp
was particularly close and interesting
first one boat forging ahead and then tn
other, until at 1853 the spinaker of tn
Stranger dropped and she fell rapidly t
the leeward. After a few moments tn
sail was again rugged, but the Nymph ha
too much of q lead and on the down cours
was not again headed.
The turning point, the mid-ohannel buo
off the mouth Of the Housatonio, the yacht
rounded In the following order: Nympt
Stranger. Venus, lone, Vidette, Sea Belle
the time being as follows, respectively
2:19:50, 2:21:25, 2:25:50, 2:2e:15, 2:31 :0s
2:4O:20.
About this time spanking breez
sprung up, and the homeward sail wa
started, the Stranger leading, closely fol
lowed by the Venus and Nymph. The re
turn trip was made without incident o
special moment, the Nymph crossing tn
line first. The starting, finishing, elspse,
and corrected time is as follows:
ELAPSED coE
| NO. YACHTS. START. FINISH. TINE. TIME.