The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-05
BRITANNIA BADLY BEATEN.
The Vigilant Shows Her a Clean Pair
Of Heels Off COWeS.

Record Never Beaten by the Yankee
Graft in Any of Her Raoes-A Stiff
Breeze Blowing, and the Waves
Dotted by White Caps-The Britain
mia Beaten by 6m. 33s. Actual Time
and Am. 2es. Corrected Time.
Cowes, Aug 4.-The Vigilant somewhat
retrieved her reputation to-day in a splen-
did tussle for prize of $500 over the
course of the Royal Yacht squadron. She
beat the Prince Of Wales cutter, the
Britannia, in 4 brisk breeze that held
almost true from start to finish, over a
course of forty-eight nautical miles, a
third of which was in the open water of
the English channel. There was q channel
sea, celebrated for choppiness, supposed
to be resistless to American models, which
did not materially interfere with the tri-
umphant progress of the white New York
sloop. The speed of the racers will best
Illustrate the kind of breeze that drove
them over the course. The Vigilant
never did better in any match race or re-
gatta in which she has taken part. She
covered the course in 4 hours, minutes
and 40 seconds, or at an hourly average
of about 1115 knots. The wind
auctuated between about IA and
IS knots. The Vigilant beat the
Britannia by minutes and 33
| seconds actual time, and 4 minutes
and 20 seconds corrected time,
the yankee yacht allowing the Briton 2
minutes and 4 seconds. Mr.. Gould
was represented on the Britannia by
Commodore Z. D. Morgan of the New
York Yacht Club, and the Prince of
Wales was represented on the Vigilant by
Col. Paget. The impression here is that
| the Vigilant cannot be defeated in such
weather as the yachts had to-day by any
British model
WATCHED BY A BIG CROWD.
A multitude of sight-seers, with a de-
| cided preference for keel yachts gath
cred here in all manner of floating things.
Royalty was well represented. There
was never a more resplendent feet of
| pleasure craft in the Solent and at Spit
head at any previous race in British
| yachting annals.
Her majesty's ship Dreadnaught and
the German naval school ship, the Losch,
| lay off the club house of the Royal Yacht
| squadron.
| The finish and start of the contest were
| visible from several points of land, the
| nearest of which was West Cowes, and
| the villas ana hotels were crowded with
| guests, some of whom had paid fabulous
| prices for rooms.
| The course had four turns in IL and ran
| almost due east and west, each leg being
| about twelve miles in length. The first
| part of the course was TO a markboat off
| Lepe, in the Solent; thence eastward
through Spithead to and around the
| Warner lightship, out in the channel and
al 10 hn 1fo Nfyaf ~ ,
| twice around.
1t was over practically this same course
a year ago to-day that the Satanita beat
Royal Phelps Carroll's centerboarder
Navahoe by minutes and 4 seconds.
The sky was cloudless when the yachts
! sailed out to the starting line. There
was good breeze from the southwest,
that to the weatherwise shippers and
alert pilots seemed to have in it the prom
ise of royal yachting later in the day.
The experts on both yachts evidently ex-
pected fresh wind, as they had only
working topsails set, instead Of the wide
spreading club top-sails so frequently
seen in preceding races.
THE START.
The start was one Of the cleverest ever
seen hereabouts. The yachts came for
the line on the port tack, the Britannia
to windward. The starting gun doomed
DIT ~ OUs anu llNC SCCOiuS ldlGE UOLn DOdJS
crossed the line so evenly that one OBJ
scured the other and at distance they
appeared like single yacht. Ii
was a short beat to the Lepe bouy against
a strong ebb tide with two long legs and
a short. The Britannia seemed to be
leading until the yachts drew near the
Lepe She stood too long on the last leg
and the Vigilant jibed around the mark
flfty-fve seconds ahead of her. Time
Vigilant 1885, 05; Britannia l056:00.
In the run from the Lepe bouy to the
Warner lightship with the wind, which
was freshening a bit, over the starboard
quarter, both yachts set their jib topsails.
Passing the club house on their way TO
the lightship, it was seen that the center
boarder had increased her lead to l
minute and 10 seconds. Time-Vigilant
IL :03l6; Britannia ll:04:26
The Britannia lost few more seconds
on the way out.
At the Warner the Vigilant was 1 min
ute and 10 seconds ahead, having gained
so seconds since she jibed around the
Lepe. The time at the Warner light was
Vigilant, II :4S 20; Brittania, l:5O:O5.
In the twelve-mile stretch back to the
Lepe buoy, close-hauled, the Vigilant
made the hearts of hundreds of Ameri-
cans bound by her performance. The
yachts were indistinct from shore after
rounding the Warner, as a misty rain
0dQ S6J IN.
wHITEoAPs DOT THE WAVES.
The breeze shifted a little TO the south
ward, and glorious white caps, welcome
to the visions of the Americans, began to
tighten the lumpy surface of the Solent
AS the yachts passed the club house the
Vigilant led by minutes and 50 seconds.
She had gained since she rounded the
Warner minute and seconds. The time
at this point was-Vigilant, 1883
Britannia, l2:42:24.
After passing the club house the yachts
made broad reach of il to the Lepe, the
wind having got around further TO the
southward, enabling the yachts to carry
their big iib topsails. The Vigilant ran
hers up in stops and broke IL out some
what before the Britannia set hers. They
jibed around the Lepe mark boat as fol.
lows
Vigilant, l2;49:15; Britannia. 12: 80 :05.
The wind had acquired additional force
and more southerly tendency 1t was a
reach, with iib topsails TO the Warner.
The time Of the yachts, as taken when
they passed the club house on the last
run to the Warner, showed that the
Britannia had picked up one minute
and forty seconds since rounding the
Lepe mark The time at the club house
was-ViRilant :00:30 Britannia :04:40.
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