The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-30
SEA AND SAIL,
Opening OF the Cruise of the New
York Yacht Club.

oDening of the Cruise of the New
York Yacht Club.
NEW YORK, July 29.-The cruise
Of the New York yacht club, begin
ming at GIencove today, for which
the yachts have been gathering for
several days promises 10 be a most
important and successful affair. The
centres CT interest, of course, will be
the big single stickers, the Defender
and the Nigilaut who viii refght their
lettles Of last week and prepare for
EIeir more desperate duels OF the
Regular trials. 1t is almost GER
tainty TOO, that there viii be some
good racing between the Boston boat,
the jubilee ana Defender and Nigi-
liant.
Some idea of the magnitude Of this
yacht meet may be gained when il is
said that at least $50 yachts viii be in
the fleet before New London is reach
ed and probably 200 of the graceful
white winged flyers will have the
cruising flag before they get to New
port. OF course, the thing that gives
the impetus to yacht racing in this
country is the International element
which enters into it. Interesting as
may be the races for all the cups,
they pare before the struggles which
viii tell which of the rival cham
nions for the honor of being the de-
fender Of the Americas cup is likely
TOY be chosen and everything known to
science will be tried TO bring out the
,Nghest sailing qualities of each of
~se crack yachts. Still the Goelet
Fcdp is far from being the sole fea-
ture of this seasons yachting cruise.
A large number of cups have been
Aoffered and by the time Newport is
reached on Thursday the feet is sure
to be Q largely increased one Orders
will be displayed during the cruise
from the flagship Sylvia. The first
happening OF Importance viii be the
meeting of the captains of the Vari-
Gus yachts. This will be aboard the
flagship. The first race will be Z
contest for the Commodore cup. This
Us a cup for schOoners and cup for
single masted vessels and yawls
Yachts belonging 10 the New York
Yacht club in cruising trim but not
Intending to make the cruise may
enter in this race which viii extend
TO Huntington bay, I. l. and prom
1ses 10 be sharply contested. The
starting signal viii be displayed for
the first days race at O'clock. The
Defender and Vigilant viii be in the
first days races as special class
has been made for the big sloops in
racing trim What might be termed
the regular cruise will begin tomor-
row when the fleet viii start in an east
ward course. The two courses have
been laid out. The smaller boats viii
take the course by Morris Cove
while the vessels of larger sail viii
go to New London If the weather.
be fine the yachts viii try little
speeding TO New London. The fleet
will sail for Newport on Thursday
morning and it is here that The
SQUADRON. which will be under the
Of ex-Corinaodore e. NJ.
Fsffown and Fleet Captain r. r.
Robinson will be the largest. The
races for the Goele,t cup will be sail
ed ON Friday and on Saturday the
feet will go to Martha's VINEYARD.
There are two Goelet cups. One of
them IS a $1,000 cup for schooners:
the other a $500 cup for the single
nasted and yawls.
The signal for the yachts to get IN
der way was fired at 1885 pm. Under
a. cloud of canvas the assembled feet
moved slowly out Of Glen Cove har-
Dor. toward the starting place of the
first days race for the special cup Of
fered by Commodore Brown. Off Mat
inee Rock point, towering high above
the lofty canvas Of the rest
Of the Yachts. moved the great
cllSb topSails of Defender and Vigilant.
Though the rest of the yachts moved
slfGly in the light air which WIS
blowing from the southwest at no