The Portland daily press., 1895-07-09
HARBOR NEWS.
Early Arrival of the Boston Yacht
Fleet.
A Capsize in the Harbor-other News and

A Capsize in the Harbor-Other News and
| The harbor was cool and breezy place
yesterday afternoon. The wind came
| from the southwest and was strong and
gusty at times. 1t kicked up quite little
ruff1e and the sail boats of all descriptions
were skimming and rushing and roaring
about From three-masted schooner to
row-boat with a sail, all were making
good time before the strong breeze. 1t
was an inspiring spectacle. And when
about the middle of the afternoon the
wide-spreading white wings of yacht after
yacht began to come through the ship
channel, there wasS no more attractive
place, in Portland, to be in than on the
water front. Though not expected till
today or tomor row, it was evident that
these yachts belonged to the South Boston
yacht club feet that left Boston last
Saturday The wind had been very favor
able and they had come down along the
Maine coast with a rush arriving here
much quicker than they expected. A
short time previous to the arrival of the
sailing yachts, Commodore Morrill's S
beautiful steam yacht, the Navarch, en-
tered the harbor and proceeded to
Randall & McAllister's wharf to coal up.
She is similar in size and shape to the
Neckan with the except on of the stern,
which is one of those turtle-shell shaped
sterns, like those of the rapid U. S.
cruisers. The idea is to accelerate speed,
for which this sort of stern is more effec-
tive than it is for beauty
The Navarch is able to steam twenty
knots. She came down from Kittery,
which port the fleet left at 9 a. m. at a
speed of about fifteen knots. The first
sailing yacht to arrive after her was the
beautiful sloop Mabel F. Swift, Capt.
George Bruce. She is of the modern type
and is one of the fastest, if not the fastest
sloop of her size in the country. She al
most kept uI with the Navarch on the
trip down from Kittery. AS she rushed
up the harbor in the very eye of the
wind there were expressions of admira-
tion from all the old salts and young
yachtsmen who saw her. She was built
two years ago by Swift, the great beef
packer of Chicago and named by him for
his daughter She beat everything in
New York harbor and when purchased by
George Bruce and brought to Boston
there was nothing there that could COM
pete with her.
The schooner yachts Falma and Kitty,
Captains E. II. Lansing and George F.
Knight, came in Immediately after the
beautiful sloop, and the contrast between
them was very noticeable. The two
schooner yachts though much larger than
the sloop, are of the old fashioned style,
and their beating up the harbor was
something quite slow in comparison.
The other yachts arrived within a few
minutes of each other in the following Or
der: Schooner Cornilla Rear Commodore
Almon White in command; sloop
Columbia, Captain Albert L. Pope; sloop
Boreas, Captain Williams; catboat
Cusetle, Captain William Taylor and
sloop Violet, Captain Mckee.
Although about thirty eight yachts left
Boston, this is all that reached Portland,
the others having dropped out and re-
turned home Commodore Morrill, was
not on the Navarch, he having been
obliged to return to Boston from Kittery
But he came down late yesterday after
noon by train, accompanied by ex-Com-
modore Fuller.
On the Navarch were Mrs. Morrill,, Miss
Bruce, Mr.. George Morrill, and Fleet
Captain Graham. After coaling, the
Navarch tied up at the yacht clubs float.
In the evening there was an informal re-
ception at the yacht club house.
A small sailboat was capsized in the
harbor between Bug Light and Fort
Gorges about the middle of the after
noon. There were two men in the boat
They managed to climb onto theIupturned
keel and held on till rescued by the tug
G. A. Warren
Captain Howard of the Jeanette, has
entered complaint to the steamboat in
spectors against the pilot of the Eldorado
for alleged violation of rule eight of the
regulations of pilots. He demands an in
vestigation. He claims that he only
avoided a collision on Sunday by giving
way when he had the right of way, the
Eldorado, as he alleges to the inspectors,
having crowded him off his course.
At one o'clock today the often post
poned race between the Gwendolen and
the Premier will occur, The course is
the course for second class yachts