New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-29

,co ev'dcntIv near because In spite OF gA winds,
the sea was smooth. the ice evidently forming a
breakwater" Then they did Us and u. ioiio"eu
by heavy head and winds for two days. III
which they made a8 and ~. afterward running 70
Sandy Hook ZIG and DO miles. before strong east
erly winds and making great going
grow, this II will be seen how small the days
record Ia when the winds not leading ones:
hut taken all in all, fair and foul weather. IL ~
a noble showing for over thirty-one hundred m'ies'
There Is hardly sailing yacht In the country tha'
docs that much In whole season. and few DO
half as much. II takes good many short cruises
along the Sound and back again. and good many
races thrown In 10 make thousand miles Ana
when Vig,ant's two ocean passages and all her
races on the other side considered. the magma
ton is stirred TO attempt TO realize the vast
tracts NJ water which that keel has pierced.
The VIgilant is a boat 10 be proud or She ana the
Havabos were the first American boats 10 seek
Yachting trophies in England after lapse OF many
wears and their presence in the oder country
mt an efYect,a stop the English criticism yearly
growing more frequent that Americans could only
race well in their own waters. and did not o"'io
Yachts strong enough for ocean passage
Lord Dunraven cannot. therefore. hope mat MS
vaIkvr,e III will make her passage In much less
than eighteen days. and then only with some OF
Vigilent's luck There Is record OF br"sh
mercha ntman which made the westward Trip 10
Sandy Hook In eleven days but TINS extraordinary
me-
Ing vessel in the westward passage No yacht
could he expected TO accomplish much. because
she has not the length OF keel. and this case heips
TO show the fallacy of the Idea that yachts are
the fastest OF sailing vessels. To wind"aro J."
fair weather they are. But the records OF '"e
long clipper ships in the China tea trade sno"
speeds in ocean runs which no yacht ever looked at
The tastes, voyage ever made across the A'ia"-
tic by a Yacht was In 1869. when the American
schooner Sappho sailed from Staten Island 10
Queenstown Light in twelve days. nine hours anu
thirty -four minutes. In the mehorapie rd'' w
tween the Henrietta Fleetwing and Nesta' 'he hrs-
named flyer among these crack American schooner
Yachts made the voyage from the Hook to the
Needles thirteen days twenty-one hours s AM
fftynve minutes an average OF nine ana
knots an hour for 3 n miles beh nf TSs state
ment as to the Sappho being the holder OF Inc
record is taken from published nformas10n Sp'
2772 and that to Southampton. 800 miles as gwen
approximately by the HamegTs Am sads To cn
culation as TO whether. on revised measurements
In the last great ocean between two cele-
brated yachts which are stu IN commission, IN, me
crossing from Bay Ridge to Queenstown in four
teen days twenty-three hours and thirty minutes
,aieIv arrived with the vgilant. returned with the
cup challenger Thistle ,now the Meteor; peioms.
saSontccn davs while the other chsllengers. Gen
and Galatea took twsntyIone ana srrn
Nsvahoe crossed in nineteen DAYS ana ,ak or,s
II took twenty-nine days eighteen hours To CONF
and over twcrty-eight TO return on June 10 81
last year the Vigilant arrived at Gourock scothhn'
after quick passage Of fifteen days nine hou n,;
Capt ain I.eander Jcffrics. OF tho celebrated on
schooner yacht Columbia, rushed the sngie-sucker
over in easy weather with dry decks all the way
Hut these pleasant and speedy passages hay" been
on the eastward Journey ard the swift little queen
Nab bought in England by Percy Chubb. had a
different tale 10 tell. She was swept ny many
seas and. as the said. completely submerged
The small amount of storm canvas carried was
not blown. but washed away. ana the men ohly
saved their lives by remaining below under closed
matches She managed 10 make Bcrmuha under
Jury rig and was aftcrward towcd to New fork
The steel Watson cutter Nrcda OF about sixty foo'
water line purchased IN England by Commodore
boswell Of the Royal Canadian Yacht cub. was
given up for lost after being ont six or seven wees
and af'crward. when the insurance WAS being
moved for she crep into the Gulf Of ST Lawrence,
tho most foriorn object that ever arrived rom mo
sea There was not an inch OF paint TO be seen on
her hull II war mass OF rust Her decks ana
spara had been dashed with salt water ana hleachci
by winds I'M nil sign OF OIL varnsh and paint hsd
LEFT them so that IN color they could not be as.
ilngulshcd from irinwooi. More Than once IN"
Yacht was hove IN for over week ~ a s't"i,h
The crew taking refuge below. The Nfrdn ana me
queen NAB only lived through these csprii'n,rs
because they were tforoushhrcd-. ana hs IN"
valkyrie III II OF the same kidney she WI be ,.s
psctcd TO arrive here all right In spite OF the am
culues which often besct the westward passage