The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-10
ON THE DRY DOCK.
The Vigi1ant Failel to
Start in the Race for
Williams Cup.
BRITANNIA GOES III ALONE
The American Yacht Will Not
Be Ready Uutil
Monday.
BRITANNIA GOES IT ALONE
By cablc 10 the United Press.

CowEs, Aug. 10, 1S94-The Prince of
Wales cutter mad no competitor in her sail
around the Isle of Wight. today for the
Meteor Challenge Shield, presented by the
German Emperor The Vigilant's owner,
his adviser. Mr.. Iselin, and his skipper,
Captain Hank Half, after talk yesterday
evening, decided TO put the white sloop in
dry-dock today and find out whether or not
her hull is in the good condition the British
divers said it was after she bumped on the
rocks off Ventnor in last Mondays contest.
Her sluggishness i'll yesterdays race led
Captain Half to suspect that her keel is pro-
badly somewhat more ragged where she
struck, than the divers reported If this is
found to be true, the loss of yesterdays race
by the Yankee yacht will be apparent.
Roughness of the submerged hull OF racer
means several minutes against her in fifty
mile contest.
Mr.. Gould is not inclined to make any
apologies for the Nigilant's defeat Yesterday, q
but Captain Half thinks that the set OF her
maintail, which stretched a good deal after
driving out, contributed to It, Then, the
skipper SAYS. she was forced into shoal
water. where she could not use the full
depth of her centreboard, and thus not keep
her head up, as she could in the open
A BATTLE ON MONDAY
The real test Of the capabilities of the two
yachts will be made ON Monday, when they
will have a tussie outside the Needles, fifteen
miles to windward and back. or the reverse,
for $500 cup to be paid for by the owner of
the defeated yacht Mr.. Gould's de-
cision not to race today or to-
morrow was Influenced largely by
the desire to have the Eigilant in
proper trim for the outside battle. The back
ers of the Vigilant declare that what they
want is stiff steady breeze and any kind Of
a sea- If she is beaten under such weather
conditions they will be willing to admit that
the centreboard is not as good as the keel.
The Britannia had duel over today's
course last year with the Satanita ana
came out winner. The race was started IN
a piping nortnwester and finished in q light
breeze The sea was choppy throughout,
and the Britannia sprung her mast in the
heavy plunging in the home stretch. The
Satanita Rugged the shore and struck Ather-
field ledge several times pretty hard. Strik-
ing in shallow places seems to be a usual
thing in races around the little island.
WILL NOT SAIL TOMORROW.
1t is unlikely that the Vigilant will take
part in the Royal southampton Regatta set
for tomorrow Her next engagement, after
the race on Monday, probably will be the
next day. in the Royal Victoria regatta, at
Ryde. The course IS in the Solent and
Spithead, and has seven turns. Interest in
this, and other regattas of the month, will
depend much on the result of the outside
duel on Monday between the Britannia and
Vigilant
In order to fulfil the conditions of the race
as regards the number of starters, the cutter
Iverna and the yawl Viking, appeared at
the starting line Neither of the smaller
boats had any show against the Britannia.
They Immediately returned to their moor
ings after the starting gun was fired and the
Britannia sailed away alone.