Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-10
THE BIG YACHTS
Keeping in Trim for the Sec
ond Cup Race, Today.
Both the Defender and VaIkytie Given
Short Spins, Monday.
What Valkyrie's Officers Say About Saturday S
Race and Her Prospects.


SAIL and mainsail, making Quarantine
sVatlon IN one tack then short tack
across the Narrows, heading down the
bay Again on the port tack at $50, she
returned through the Narrows, running
free under the same sail
The Defender left her anchorage at g 30
Z. NJ, making a short tack into the chan
mel, then going about toward the Long Is
land shore.
The Defender and Valkyric met on the
Crescent club house. the Defender on the
starbard tack, under jibstaysail, mainsail
and club topsail, the Valkyrie under the
same sails, which Were set on starting
out, and running free
At 2.50 the yachts passed each other off
the grounds of the Crescent Yacht Club
The Defender was on the port tack and the
Valkyrie running Free passed to wind
ward. AS the Defender came up into the
wind, her club topsail was taken down
and there seemed TO be something the
matter with it,
The tug Pluver, which waits on the
Valkyric, met her down the Narrows, and
turning around, followed her up toward
Bay Ridge
At 2.45, the Defender eascd off her
sheet, and swinging her nose around
headed toward Bay Ridge At 3.02, the
Valkyrie ON reaching Bay Ridge, went
about again and stood down toward the
Narrows, close hauled
The Defender made another effort to
get her club topsail up, but considerable
difficulty attended the work The breeze
had fallen off and she gibed, throwing
her boom to starboard
Drawing near to W X Vanderbilt's
steam yacht, the Valiant, which was flying
the owners pennant and after taking Mrs
Iselin aboard, she flew along the Long Is
land shore and returned When the
Naliant's steam launch got alongside the
Defender, Mrs. Isclin got into it and was
taken to the Vanderbilt yacht
Then the Defender, catching a puff
from the south, fairly bounded forward
toward Fort Hamilton with her main
sail, club topsail, forcstaysail and iib
drawing their best. This puff seemed to
have come to stay and was estimated to
be a II mile breeze
The Nalkyrie went about at 326, and
the Defender minute later. The Valky-
RE was half a mile farther down the Mar
rows. They seemed to be pointing about
the same, but the Defender with more
sail was footing faster.
: The Valkyrie still confined herself to
mainsail, forestaysail and iib. Before
getting half way across the Narrows she
went on tho port tack and headed for
Coney Island The Defender stood well
in toward Fort Wadsworth.
The Defender with her main sheet eascd
off, headed up the bay, and passed
Quarantine at ago Z. NJ. The Valkyric
passed in at 4.30 p. NJ. 2
Captains Cranflcld and Sycamore the
British tars who direct the sailing of the
Na!kyrie We're seen aboard the Challenger
by United Press reporter today. They
talked more freely than anyone connected
with the British yacht has done since she
arrived in American waters. What they
say is interesting. as showing that the
EnglishmCn have not yet given up hope,
and as expressing their real opinion of
Saturdays race.
Capt. Cranfield said Il don't think
that one race wins the series by any
means. fully agree with those who think
that Saturdays race was no true test of
the merits of the boats
Capt Sycamore here ohimed in eff
the wind had held steady the result would
have been very different"
Capt Cranfleld-' Yes, if the wind had
not hauled to the south, Valkyrie would
have surely turned the mark first. A race
in such a flukey wind Is no test at all "
When | go down, tomorrow, continued
Capt. Cranfeld, Il hope to see Valkyrie
do very much better and to see races sailed
under more satisfactory conditions than
Safy Inv g.
Nalkyrie has never been tested in a heavy
wind.
'She may prove herself mighty fast
boat in Il blow, and think she will She
really ought to be u good boat in heavy
weather, much better than In light
breeze What we want, though, above
everything, is steady breeze If we have
that l will not be at all worried about the
outcome -
There was no brush between the De-
fender and Valkyrie during their sail
stretching spin, today. The Defender
anchored off Bay Ridge at 5. Mr. Iseln
said that the spin had been satisfactory
They were ready for the second race. The
difficulty with the club topsail was not
matter OF any moment, he said.
When asked about the head sails and
their unseenly shaking, and If they would
be changed he said: well throw them
away, that's all. .
The Valkyrie reached her anchorage
near the. Defender shortly after 5 o'clock !
Mr.. Cranfleld said the Valkyrie was in
trim.
The two yachts will meet, tomorrow, In |
a 30-mile race over triangular course.
Unlike Saturdays contest, which tested |
the qualities of the yachts on two points !
of sailing only, the race, tomorrow, will |
require them to show their ability on al
most every point.
Thu start is to be made from the Sandy |
Hook lightship, unless the committee de-
cides to change to another location, at the
last moment.
The triangular course will be laid so as !
to give the yachts o beat to windward, |
one leg and one turn to be right cut to ,
sea- and the other be off Long Beach, on
the Long Island shore, or of Long Branch. |
The direction of the wind will decide |
which way the yachts will be sent around |
Betting on tomorrow's race was at a low