New-York tribune., 1897-08-19
SAILED ~ 4 STREihY VIVID.
GAINS A sorALI. AND BREEZES FROM
ALL QUARTERS MARKED THE
AMERICAN YACHT CLUBS

In accordance with what has seemed this summer
he a fixed weather law at this end Of The sound.
the wind for the American Yacht club regatta dd
not appear yesterday until nsary ocock The
Sound was SO calm. 50 totally expressiOnless that
II might have been made OF molten lead. The flag
ship Neaira was used the committee boat. and
Commodore e. A. Gould entertained a party OF
about fifty. With her flags. awnings and the varfe-
gated costumes Of her guests, the Nsara presented
4 gay appearance.
As the first Of the east-north'ast wind came In
the impatient fleets sailed the starting line of
the Scotch Caps and at 1:3o o'clock the prepara-
tory signal was fred. All the starts were Of the
one-gun variety and the boats had all they wanted
In the way Of tide which was running strong Hood.
directly contrary TO the first ,eg OF the course,
east northeast to Parsonage Point The second
eg was south almost four miles - the buoy on
Red Springs Point in Hom9siaad Harbor From
here the yachts sailed norihw"st nearly four mites
TO the Larchmont Yacht club stakeboat. then re-
turning east northeast to the starting point Oh
Milton Point the total distance once round the
triangle being and three quarter miles
At :35 the first division including the forty
three and thrty-six foot sloops. was sent off and
the yachts crossed In this order: The Acushla. IL.
W Hanan; the Surprso j. y. Baird; the Norant
H. Commodore g. q. Tyson; the 'oya, T. j. Grace;
and the Euryba. Charles Pryer. In this group.
the Coya, which usually sails with the Acushla
others
threc-foo section and sailed against the Eurybia-
At least for time she sailed against her. In The
words Of an onlooker. she got beat seventeen
million miles and failed to finish
At lie the Onoway. the Houi, the Keneu ard
the Kit crossed in tho order named and at i5 the
third di'.is.on got away. Smaller boats followed
at $50 About 2:l0 the belated Gosbird crossed into
the race twenty minutes behind her class. on the
beat to Parsonage Point. the catboat Prince.
owned by II. B Clarke. got fu roo close TO the
shore and when last seen was on the rocks
At the first mark the Acushla still leading.
with the Norant second and the Surprise third.
Then the Kit, the Hour the Onoway, the
Keneu and the Euryba. The second leg Of the
course began easy reach. but when the boats
were about half way across the Sound there WAS
wind and rain squa! in which the wind came
from every quarter and some boats got favored by
the ukes and in the obscurity bettered their post
tions while steering entirely by the compass.
rs the rain cleared away il that the
Coya had douscd her topsal while the Euryba
was found without her staysail Around the Red
Springs buoy the leaders turned in tile following
order: The Acushla the big catboat Kit. the
Norant the Surprise. the Keneu. the Houri, the
OnOway, the Euryba. the Presto the COya. the
Harrietta and the u. *. Pidgcon
For the sail nor; ;hwesi TO the iarchmont aarl The
wind became very streaky and uncertain The wind
was southeast by SOUTH wha, there was OF H. and.
while many boats Jagged behind the lucky Acushla
got into favoring streak. when sic held all the
way 10 Larchmont on The way over the iih-top-
sail Of the Coya refused break out from the stops
and the sal. had 10 be lowered and cut loose after
which IL was hosted free The timing OF the yachts
at the I.archmoni buoy could not be obtained owing
10 the Ne;erd beng too far distant
As a whole. the regatta supplied extremely incOn-
elusive tests OF the relative speeds and the Reeatfa
Comnttee stopped the yachts al the end Of the rst
The following summary shows the results: