New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-06
A BIG DAY AT LARCHMONT,
ITS EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REGATTA A
BRILLIANT SUCCESS.
AMONG THE WINNING YACHTS WERE THE VlGl-
LIANT THE coIoNIA. THE sAcHEM. THE
sYcE THE NoROTA AND


LIANT THE CoLoNIA. THE sAcHEM. THE
sYcE THE NoRoTA AND
THE ACusHLA.
In its eighteenth annual regatta yesterday inc
Larchmont Yacht Club beat Its own record i's
spring regatta Of June 10 was thought al 'he ''he
to be scarcely open to Improvement. but lot 'he
general average Of enjoyment. Including tha' VI
four hundred women. and for the easier sa''"e u
small craft yesterdays milder breezes were more
acceptable. The winners were as 1olio"s o
vigilant owned by Percy Chubb; the schoonei
Coonia owned by Clarence A. Postiey' inc
schooner Sachem. Vice-Commodore f. l. Aua,'
Atlantic Yacht Club: among the ol-footers 'ne
Syce owned by f. NJ. Hoyt, Stamford Yacht Ciuo'
In the 43-foot class the Norota. d. b. Burhham
In the 36-footers II. w. Hanan's Acushia Inc
Sakana owned by Oliver Adams won haIu
fought race in her yawl class The Vaquero H.
Herman B. Duryea. among the special thirties
with the Hera Ralph n. Ellis. second ana INC
Veda Cornelius Vanderbilt. jr., close third. AS
before Mrs. Vanderbilt sailed on the VEGA WIFI
her husband In the 30-foot class the Ski'h''iaue
took waikover prize The skate. lrVihs ~
In the 20-foot class with the Mo"o' H. w.
Crane. second -,
Among the 25-footers the Houri, admirably sailed
by T. Burton Hart and +. Bovine Jones. TOOK
first. and thus balanced Saturdays result a' '>e"
Rochelle Subject 10 a protest hled' ana ALSO " ie
measurement. the Dorothy. c. F. Larzeere' a' pres
ent stands a winner among the CABIN cats Vi INC
3O-foot class In the cabin cat c.ass OF twenty-five
feet the Ada F. NJ Warner. won. with the Ethei
F. l. Bergen second The Mnnetonka. A b. A"ey
took first prize in the 2Sfoot cat class.
The yachts were started in separate divisions and
crossed the line in the following order. TO one-suh
starts:
Sleeps. Class ui;aO'-vsila"'' n;ao;'' N'vaA''
schooners III a5,-Amora. 1885: 20; cOOna II ;a'; 2'
Emerald. II 1904.
,u. nac,o, cia.. Z, cruising trim I'll i0)-
sachem.
sioops eo-foot class ui:4o)-Eclpse sayorara.
sloops 5I-foot class ul:5o,-syce. Ava. sistae.
sloops 43-foot class III :53)-Norota
sloops. &c class and yawls n2oo)-Supr'se'
Acushia sakara Fideio Jester. Pawnee
special 30 fooers and 3O-foot soops 1s:oo)-Hera.
unsn,s Wawa Vaauero Ill Carolina, veda skimmaug.
sloops 25-foot class u2:lo,-Quan'uck Houri' Va
quero l. Celia Agawam -
Mono and Montauk -
cabin cats 30 foot class u2oO-volsung Dorothy. Kit
Cabin cats, % foo, class u2:25-wnlada. Punch. Col
leen Haretta III. Edwna Ethel, Presto Grace Ada'
Yankee Girl. ~
Cabin cats. 2-foot class uS'oW-io"7' '''"o' ~
thy and Mnnetonka ..
large part OF the interest In yesteroa! reea''a
centred in the contest between the historic 'ieiant
and Nayahoe The international record OF inc Nis''
lant is known to all. and the interest 'ha' was
,oken IN ROYAL Phelps CAROLS big soop. the Nav
aboe uhen she sailed In British waters Is not for-
gotten Mrs Carroll sailed, as usual win her nus
band These two huge sloops were poth III c'u'''"e
trim. with their big racing bocms replaced by snort
affairs which do not stretch the sali-spfeao '"e'
REQUIRE. but their appearance under any rig was
,as, o.con,ab,e and interesting quite apart from
,ho sbowine they made In their present shorn con-
ditions which, In the case OF the |ls'I"'i'' voc
most remarkable. the spectators were deheh'eu ~
see them and the reception the |igiIaht receNeu
when she finished close after the fulIy tuneo-up
racer Colonia sounded extremely like the hnish OF
al
sutana. Marietta, Golden Rod. Pioneer. Narada'
viking Oneonta and dozen others that were
present screamed themselves hoarse. Inc steam,
sirens shrieked. Ex-Commodore Buckneh anu
W. rs Glenn' a Wd0 excewmodore Harry Gg Of
the Larchmont Yacht Club VINO had 1us. "a, az take
out his new purchase the Vencedor the celebrated
craft from the upper lakes in time to join III '"e
After the schooners were sent away dr ys % nn6
later than the big Scoops me cot aWaV right
on gun-ire The Emerald followed at tsie ta as'
and nailed s6ns IL y Say f
one OF last year. The course sailed rs Dy .nI
SeinS about SIX miles TO the eastward the sec
ond leg being six,rnile beat 70 ~lna"a n1artery
three-mile run to the home buoy at LareHmon''
the wind being southwest. ,.s ,u,.o nv ,bs
schooners At the second mark dempsieadl, t ds
big boats rounded "a. follows; me d 10, the Emer,
aid 200: the Amorita, 1850 unoiiicai ,i'ie' as
on the last quarter run OF the nrst rouiu a ry
remarked BY all yachtsmen as an extra
thing that the Vgilant, with only small phedha nd
topsai small mainsai and no balloon sans Eo,o md
ana al one time threatened TO pass the Coiolia,
which was carrying club ma!ntopsai, no. ,d mail ali
topmast staysail and big balloon pn; marx the
hoats we're only thirty-three seconds apart ana yet
when they here gbed and took another quai 'e.Is
CoIonia gained two minutes the um be cnIona'
t tS ,h the xa Hsae' g ha tn the Amora ga
In the contes. Of the new %nL aocond and
sf Ank got h H The other t%o oo ana The
MonaTk dd not cross t %Jte caught the Shark
and when las, rapidly ostrhaula';s n r,t
Skate. Why she did not continue ''S pSe' return
70 OYSTER Bay ar soon race Is finished. , buS
it will be seen that. although the M, Mo' skain She
actually sailed the course nearly tmo ,nnnm,rtes
For the purpose Of the seo G0 an she won
and The new twentes not sailing TOT loc". ~
as much as TO find out and let others kho" "n''e
Among the special thires Mr. Ellis made another
OF excellent starts lie went on n az only o nearer
t tbe eastery marx but the position gave him the
weight Of The wnd s Sy ia DAVIS
Vaouern and the sakana, sailed by Hazen Morse.
beats Of n, the fn na flee fleet o Shls
we're all fooling round the windward end ,r,o,ces
Tho Yachts I'm the smaller classes sailed triaiees
Of smaller dimensions the courses being I~eT! me
two and eleven miles, respectiyey. IN ienst,. Lie
different fleets finished In the following oroer'
skate .......2:2' go Yankee Cir ~ ~ ~
Hum ......2 80 Is Startling ~ ~
Quanner , ~ az !2he 3 20 Is
Boz 22sa. Dorothy ss ss
M'Ipe ........22l:3i vgilant ..........3 - 10
Al Anta 2:2GO6 Emerald , nj
SHARK -, 10 %avahoe ..........3:32t2
non,nk il 81 vaqncro Ill .33.3s
cca ...... 80 surprise .......... "a - 9o
Onaway I Vi 10 -
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