The record-union., 1895-09-11

later, both standing off shore on the star
| board tack. The Valkyrie was still ABOUT
quarter of q mile ahead.
! At12:l0 both tackled to port. the wind
! seeming unchanged. and at 1919 another
tack was made. BY this time the VAL
kyrie was not only three-eighths or hal
! q mile ahead of the Defender, but wasalsC
! a quarter Of mile to wind dward.
The wind had now froshened to twelve
! or fourteen miles an hour, and the water
! became much rougher. The Falkyrle
now began to make considera bic disturb
ance, rolling up quite wave under her
| bow, and slowly but surely the crippled
| Defender began to creep up OH her. she
| not only went more smoothly through
The wafer. but she began to outpoint the
| English boat as well. The wind had
hauled little to the westward, and the
mark was easily reached on this long
star rboard tack.
The Nalkyrie rounded at 12:57:43. and
easing of her sheets, started for the sec
ond mark. As soon as she rounded the
mark she hauled down her jIb topSail
and TWO minutes later took in her stay
sail. preparatory to setting her balloon
jib III stops. She broke it, together with
a huge balloon staysail, at l:0z
The Defender rounded the first mark
at l:0l:35, having been beaten just three
minutes aud 81 seconds in the ten miles.
Inns, OF course. Olu not lHCluue INC
difference OF time at the start.
ImIned lately after rounding the De-
fender broke cut a baby jiD topsail and
took in her stavsail. Atter~a few min
utes she, too, set balloon staysaii.
The run to the second mark was a
broad reach, with the wind over the star
board quarter, and sails set to port. The
wind kept on increasing, reaching about
eighteen miles an hour at one time on
mi Iar ND no Il a1 OF q
good pace.
Nobly as the Defender had done on the
first leg, it was nevertheless hopeless
race tor her. Being unable, on account
of the weak ness OF her topmast, 20 set
her jib or balloon-jib, she could not, OF
course, carry anywhere near as much sail
as the Englishman. The little baby jib-
topsail and balloou-staysail offered but a
poor substitute for balloon jib. In spite
of this handicap, however, she held her
own much better than could have been eX-
pected, and actually gained seventeen sec
onds on the ten miles. Much of this gain
was due to the difference in the behavior
of the two boats in the rather stiff sea-
way.
at 1:l8:00 the Valkyrie took in her bal
loon jib-topSail, and at 1:5S:l0 she turned
the second mark, sending up a No. jib-
tOpsail as she did SO. She then hauled in
her sheet and started for home with her
mainsail and club topsail, jib and jib-top-
sail set.
At l:59 the Defender. which had by that
time nearly reached the mark, took in
her baby .jib topsail and gybed. and
| rounded the mark at 2:0l:35. She broke
out No. 2 jip topsail, which in size was
about the same as that of the Nalkyrie.
| Just as the boats rounded the mark,
the breeze took another squirt, and before
it had settled down again it had reached
velocity of twelve or sixteen miles an
| hour. The leg was reach close hauled
with booms to starboard. THIS brought
| the strain of the Defenders sails on her
| port shrouds, which were uniniured, and
for the first time during the race she
! showed to good advantage. She was half
mile behind the Valkyrie when she
rounded the stake boat, and in less than
half an hour she had cut the distance
| down to three-eighths of a mile. She
! was but three minutes and thirty five
| seconds behind at the mark, and during
the last ten minutes she gained one min
ute and seventeen seconds, which, de-
duciing the difference of time at start aud
her allowance. made her a loser by only
| forty-seven seconds. Had the last leg
| been five minutes longer, the Defender
would have won. But the leg was only
ten miles, and the noble boat could not
overcome her great handicap
The Nalkyrie finished at 255:22. The
Defender was 2 minutes and Is seconds
behind at 2:37:40.
The lapsed time was Valkyrie 3:55:09,
Defender 3:56:25. The Valkyrie allows
the Defender 70 lilo seconds, and the VAL
kyrie started l minute and seconds
ahead.
The corrected time was Valkyrie 3:55:G9,
Defender 3:55:56. The Valkyrie won by
a seconds corrected time. The Defender
made most remarkable showing under
the circumstances, and her superiority
was marked on every point OF sailing,
even in her crippled condition. 1t is
greatly to her credit that she was defeated
by such small margin.