The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-06
BEAT THEM BOTH
The Vigllant Runs Away
from the Britannia
and satanita.
A LIGHT WIND AND SMOOTH SEA
Emperor William Views the Con-
test From His Steam
Yacht.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.

CowEs, Aug. 6, 1S94-The announcement
that the Satanita, regarded by British
yachtsmen as their representative rough
weather cutter, would take part in the con
test today for a prize of $3.50, subscribed
by the Royal London Yacht Club, intensi
fed interest in the event. The argosy Of
pleasure in the roads, composed of the
finest craft in the world, was larger thar
on Saturday. The shores of the Isle
of Wight, around which the three yachts
sailed, were skirted with throngs of English
folk, and every port of the little island sent
out a small fleet of boats of many kinds,
whose occupants saw the racers pass on the
fifty mile tussel around the island. Obser-
yatlons of the race from the Shore was
sometimes shut off by mist, as the yachts, at
certain places, were far out in the English
Channel.
The day opened propitiously, with a
radiant sky and a good northwest breeze,
just suited for clubtop sails.
There was a tangle of craft at the starting
point off Cowes. Each skipper wanted to
get MS boat in good position to let those
aboard get a good view of the giants as they
bounded to the eastward. :
vIGlLANT LAST OVER THE LINE.
1t was a quick start, and the white Yankee
sloop was not slow in the manoeuvring for
the line. Booms We're gybed to port as the
liustr1ous trio came running for the
line a few seconds before gunfire.
The colossal Britannia was the first
to cross the line, only five seconds after the
gun. TIL Britannia followed and the Vigil
liant was last. The advantage of the leader
was counted in seconds only. Time:-Sata-
nita, 100000; Britannia, i0;00:23; Vigilanr,
10:0O:50.
The Nigilant started galloping through the
. - - %tA Ig,f<a at.- H,t A--i. al IL
yachts wind, setting her sails shiyeling.
While this was going Oh, the Satauita pulled
ahead. She was leading probably by two
minutes when the Vigiiant crawled through
the lee of the Princes cutter and started
to overhaul the Satanitl. The racers
passed Ryde, the headquarters of the
Royal Victoria Yacht Cluh, about six miles
from the start, with the Satauita leading
the Nigi!ant by one minute and forty sec
ouds. The Yankee sloop was fifty seconds
ahead OF tee Britannia. Time: Satanita.
1a:2J:55; N1giiant, lD:3l 30 britannia, 1872
-. 1t was a spinnaker breeze from Ryde TO
BembTidge FclnU rowds on the Ryde pier
watched the yachts through glasses until
they vanished around Nettlesome Point.
Spinnaker poles were lowered to starboard.
and the big side sails were broken out. Run
ming unde her pyramids of duck is one of
the YANKEE yachts best point of sailing. She
picked up / minute and 80 seconds on the
Satanita and lost ) seconds to the Britannia.
At Bembrige the time was taken thus: Sa-
tanita, 1047:20; Nigilant, 10:4i 80; Britain
MIA, 10:46:15.
A CLOSE REACH.
In the run to Ventor with the wind.
which had decreased to a light breeze.
over the starboard quarter, the Bri-
tannia apparently oyerhauied the
VigiIant and the Satinita. il was her
weather, and it was naturally expected that
she would. There was some doubt, how
ever, owing to the great distance of the
yachts from FeDtnor and the ludistinctness
of their private signals, whether Britannia
had really caught up. 1t wds conjectured
later that the Satanita was still in the front.
She led the Vigilant only by seven seconds,
which represented a gain of three seconds
for the sloop since passing Bembridge. The
Britannia was one minute and six seconds
astern of the leader.
it was a close reach, with the wind over
the starboard quarter from Ventnor to st.
GATHERINGS, the southernnost point of the
little island, almost due south of Cowes. A
despatch received at the clubhouse of the
Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes said that
the Vigilant was leading the Britannia by a
length at st. Cathar1neS Point, and that the
Satanita was the same distance astern of
the Britannia. The breeze had shifted to
southwest but was still light. The yachts
We're forced to gybe, and reached for the
Needles, the west point of the island, with
the WIND just aDaft the port healn.
The order in which they were timed at st.
GATHERINGS indicates that a mistake may
nave been made in timing them at Ventnor.
The Britannia may have been second there.
The racers kept close company on the long
stretch up the southern coast of the island.
The Vigilant developed light weather quail
tiles that asUonisbed the British shippers.
She drew ahead gradually, rounding the
Needles, leading by somewhat more than a
minute. The wind fell almost to a calm.
and the yachts drifted into Totland bay,
with only abo-t twelve miles more of the
course before them. From Huret Point 1t
was estimated that the Vigilant was leading
by l minute and IS seconds, and that she
would probably win by a small man Gin.
The time of the finish was; Vigilant, 5
hours, i minutes aid IS seconds; Britannia,
5 hours, Il minutes and Is seconds,
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