The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-10

Cowes, Aug. 9-The yachting enthusi-
asts of Cowes and its nefghborhood
We're astir at an early hour today, and
when they glanced to wfndward and
saw prospects of freshening in the
stiffening westerly breeze which was
then blowing, they went to breakfast
with considerable satisfaction, antici-
pating splendid days racing on this,
the third day of the regatta of the
Royal Yachting squadron.
Interest in the Vigilant increases
rather than diminishes. Her victories
over the slippery cutter Britannia have
caused intense feeling in England, and
great excitement among yachtsmen
here. Consequently, the yachting fleet,
gay with bunting, was crowded with
yachtsmen, yachtswomen and their
guests, all anxious to witness another
struggle between the rivals so power
fully graceful beneath their clouds of
canvass as they swept about skillfully
guided, sometime before the start, test
ing the wind and stretching their sails
in preparation for the race
The Vigilant, Britannia, Satanita,
Meteor, Corair and Namaria were
Ing f1OO for all yachts of not less than
thirty tons belonging to any recognized
yacht club.
The course was what is known as
the Queens course, somewhat less than
fifty miles forty-seven miles estimated),
which varies according to whether the
yachts are ordered to start to the east
ward or to the westward.
Today the committee sent the yachts
away to the westward, only the Vigi-
liant and Britannia starting, the other
yachts having little or no chance of
making even a decent showing with
the two cracks
The Vigilant today, as on Saturday
allowed the Britannia two minutes, four
seconds.
The dashing yankee sloop today was
little too soon, and nearing the line
slightly ahead of time, she had to hold
up for a few seconds.
The Britannia gagged her time more
correctly, and crossed the line just as
the gun was fired, securing the weather
berth, the American yacht following
three seconds later. The Britannia al
the end of the first round had a lead OF
2-minutes 3S-seconds.
| The yachts beat towards the Lepe
buoy very prettily. the quickness of the
cutter in stays helping her, for she out
footed the sloop.
The Britannia was the first to run out
her spinnaker, the Vigilant following
later.
| During the beat Of the two racers tc
| Lepe buoy, the Vigilant ran too near
the shore and touched ground slightly
| in Gumard bay, but she apparently sus-
| tanned no damage worth mentioning.
The Vigilant gained twenty-four sec
onds on her rival in the magnificent
run out to the Warner lightship but
the Britannia then began to widen hel
lead during the best back to Cowes
| leaving the Vigilant a half mile asterr
at the end of the first round. In the
second round the Britannia increased
her lead to 3-minutes, 48-seconds. Or
the way home from the Warner light.
ship, the wind shifted so as to make
I it a close reach. and this enabled the
sloop to pull up on the cutter. Bu
| the Britannia maintained the lead al
though the Vigilant gained on her con
siderably while reaching for Cowes
When nearing the mark boat botF
yachts had to make a short board t.
fetch the finishing line, which the cut
| ter eventually crossed a winner Time
|-Britannia-3 hours, II minutes, So sec
onds. Vigilant-3 hours, 20 minutes,
seconds.
The Britannia won by 2 minutes 1.
seconds, without counting her time al
lowance.
The victory of the Britannia called
forth a tremendous cheer from the
Britishers ashore and afloat TIL
Americans on shore raised a goodly
cheer when the Vigilant crossed tn,
line, defeated but not disgraced
Emperor William followed the race will
interest. The Prince of Wales was OF
the Britannia and the Messrs. GoulC
and Oliver Iselin were on board tn,
Vigilant
1t is admitted by the Vigilant's warm
est admirers that her defeat upon thi
occasion was the worst she sustained
during her brilliant career. This wa
| the sixteenth race in which the riva
American and British yachts hav,
| taken part and the score now stands
eleves to five in favor of the Britannia
| Mr.. Gould's challenge for the Cap
May cup has excited much interest il
| yachting circles. The cup was won b!
the Geneva in 1885. Since then it ha'
passed in succession to the Irex, an(
Wendura while the Breton reef cup
also brought to England by tn
Geneva, remained in the keeping o
the Royal Yacht squadron until chal
lenged for by the Navahoe, which
yacht captured that trophy in rae,
around Cherbourg breakWater and back
120 miles
Mr.. Gould has also declared informal
ly that ne is willing to sail three race
races against the Britannia for $1,000
| If these races are arranged, they vii
be sailed as nearly as possible upon tn
basis of the International yacht race
sailed in the United States.