The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-29
vALKYRIES TRIAL SPIN.
DUNRArEN's CUTTER IN RACING TRIM
FOR TIE FIRST TINE HERE

There Was So L1t,ie Wind That II Was
Hardly "a Fair Test Of Her Capabilities
Her Salts Seemed 10 Set Well. Yet Some
| Improvement. Can 80 Made-The vigil
liant has been Hauled Out at City Island.
The long.lookedfor trial spin Of the VAL
| kyrle took place yesterday. and. for the first
time since she reached American waters.
| yachtsmen had q chance to gauge the speed
Of Lord Dunravens cutter. and while the
| wind was light and variable. the general con-
| sensus OF opinion seemed to be that the VAL
| kyrie will prove dangerous customer In light
| winds. As far as could be seen she Is not in 1t
with the Vigilant on drifting. and. while this
particular branch Of sailing Is not likely to cut
| much OF figure In an outside race. still 1t
| may prove factor in very light wind.
Apparently no attempt was made to speed
the Valkyrie at any time during the day. but
she got good rap full during some Of the
puffs. and seemed to got great move on her
whenever her helmsman let her have a chance.
which wa not often.
| Judging by the manner in which she was
handled. the principal object OF the trip was to
see how her snils set. with a view to correcting
any possible faults between now aad Thurs
day. the date OF the first cup race. On the
whole. the sails set very well. as beyond
a slight sag in the mainsail at tho Jaws OF tho
| Doom. anu u small WTlnklO Ut inc jaws Oh tn0
Raff. there was little to complain Of in the cut
OF her canvas. which Saimaker Ratsey has
| spent many weary hours in perfect!ng. A lit
| tie clipping here and there and little tighter
lacing at the boom will probably remedy
all OF these defects. and by Oct. B
the Valkyrie's canvas will compare favorably
with that on any Of the American boats. Her
head sails. that is her lib, staysail. and jibtop-
sail. all fit beautifully. while her big club top
sail. or jackyarder as the English say. is q
marvel In its way. 1t seems larger than the
Vigilant's owing to the manner In which 1t Is
cut being rather more square at the head than
those used on American yachts
Lord Dunrayen. accompanied by H. Maitland
Kersey. Designer Watson. Saimsker Ratsey.
Yacht CIuS friends BY arriving at bay Ridge
on the tug Lewis Pulver shortly before 10
Oss Em Ss hS ss Sps
quickly lowered, and the. entire party were
quickly trsnsierrsd p,, to the Englsh cutter
will look out for the valkyres interests while
she Is in American waters we're on deck
Immediately Issued, to weigh anchor while
tug. There was light breeze blowing at the
time from the northwest and the yacht Cap
Atlantc 1 Yacht Club basin set up howl Of dis
out instead Of sailing out under her own can
the v fGy was lowed out into lie steam
Here Capt. Crantleld adjusted her com passes.
while the Pulyer steamed slowly from one
In the mean time hundreds OF spectators
gathered on shore while fully as many more
Gds sea patns
Some, said she had met with an accident,
while others thought that they were debating
with SO many spectators around. However at
11:20 o'clock. when over near Quarantine
headed into what little wind there was. and
score or more OF her tow headed sailors
tEroat and IL peak halyards they sWung down
to her deck again. slowly hosting her big
At ii As o'clock IT was apparently set to the
tow line was cast of and her Iib. which had
SSef heips9 I%sn stro e sSS
sybing her ainsaii from one side to the other
as the wind shifted from time to time:
the respent q al fp sorts 8" q re
big twin screw steamboat. Sandy Hook. gave
three by the ss h r
Kirk. with the Fred Tiedman Assoeia-
tSs Band 01 Syed es ss bagyas w sns
loudly shseIsd t r. Xstysis;; saS5s s
the valkyrie -off. Her main sheet was
her along she made good progress down the
main ship channel with 81, whole fleet OF
Is Inc Gasr ysrH essn
noticed forward. while the water as it passed
under her counter astern seemed as smooth |
as the proverbial mill pond;
When she got down TO the Southwest Spit |
shst pon at "Snf CAPE
finding little wind outside. came about again |
shortly si, after o'clock and stood in toward the
just after the Dunraven cutter had passed |
Ho the on se OF WIND a
around to the west northwest. and for the first |
time during the day the spectators had
The Vakyrie seemed to take kindly to the
tr,esheniRg breeze, and In spite OF numerous
Her Captain evidently thought there was a
rain s9us sHmpg or It Fl stsnd1G in Hon9
10 toDsail. and finally. at O'clock. took in her
She came back through the main ship chan:
to move at fair rate Of s speed under her
cred cred her. her sails Ills She was then towed back to
ord DuaFsy Sx .nS Maitland Kersey and
Capt Graniield expressed themselves as well
there was so little wind that they really could
not say much. Capt Cranfield said the reason
he lowered her cluD toTsall was because ne
thought they were going to get some rain. and
hat he did not care to get his canvas wet be;
fore the race He seemed perfectly satisfied
with the way the Nalkyrie carried her canvas.
and said they would go out for another spin
to day,
The Vigilant. the Americas Cup defender.
was towed down to City Island from New
Rochelle yesterday morning and hauled out
on Hawk mss ways. Her topmast was housed
and she had her new hollow boom and gaf on
Her Tobin bronze bottom IN spite OF nearly
four weeks contact with the water. looked
quite clean.
crew began to wash and scrub her top Sides |
and later in the day they went to work on her
ToGin bronze bottom. Al soon a. her bottom
has been thoroughly cleaned and smoothed
and her top sides enamelled, It Is said she Will
be- put in the water again. This will be on |
Monday or Tuesday. IL is said she will have
one more trial spin before the first sup race
on THURSDAY. but this Is hardly pro9able as
day to DO measured.
Cnpt Hansen said they had not llghtened |