New-York tribune., 1897-08-06
PRICE THREE CENTS.
THE NAVAHOE THE VICTOR.
SHE BEATS OUT THE vIGILANT IN THE
GOBLET CUP RACES AT NEWPORT.

TORS FOR THB CUPs-YAcHrsMEN AND NEW.
PORT coTTAoERs GREATLY DISAPPOINTED
THE coLoNIA HAS wALKovER-
CRUISE or THE NEw-YoRx
YACHT CLUB TO-DAY.
Newport Aug 3 (spec.aD.-Newport has been
inconsolable to-day. The big sporting contest
for when the local social world turns out in
force is the Goelet Cup regatta. which Is al.
ways sailed on one day OF the cruise Of the New.
York Yacht Club. People who know nothing
OK the world Of sport during all the rest OF the
year go out to see these particular contests
Maidens and mammas on the lookout for the
day. for II Is one on which more than good cups
nave sometimes been landed. Annually at this
time. Newport Is filled with yachtsmen. and Il
Is social loss Of some moment when the anna
teur heroes have done nothing for madens to
grow enthusiastic over
To-day the yachtsmen, most OF them. did
nothing. morning heavy shower and a fresh
breeze blowing about eighteen miles an hour
completely stumped th,m With the exception of
one race between two big boats. and a walk
over taken by another. the big annual struggle
collapsed into a most complete hzze The facts
OF the day were sufficiently full OF silent cri,-
cism Here a fleet of yachts supposed to
be Weatherly, ana an uncounted number Of
yachtsmen, who are supposed to be sailors A
bit Of whole sail breeze and a watering can full
OF rain locked up the whole OF this in harbor.
Out Of nearly two hundred sail now here at
anchor, only about a dozen craft went out TO
see the race Of the big boats 1t was a repe-
tition Of the old, old story: at one moment. SO
many gay mariners basking in the sum- but
turn on a little unpleasant weather, and the
opht hat htt II
than a sxteen-knot breeze cannot be found
with a search warrant.
POINTS THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED
Otherwise. and If so much of the general dis.
appointment can be put aside, there was a good
deal In the racing betw zen the two big cutters
that was worthy OF notice. The contest be.
tween the Navahoc, belonging to Royal Phelps
Carroll, and the Vigilant, owned by Percy
Chubb, will be remembered for a long time:
first, because 1t was sailed in slashlng good
breeze and in some seaway; and secondly be-
cause the big fve-hundred- dollar cup was won
through superior handling and by the boat
which has been generally accounted the slower
OF the two
In the morning leaden clouds filed the sky
and the harbor enveloped in mist The
nor nor'east wind seemed little chilly after
the previous heat. The few boats which got
ready to go out were laid down to their Ice
rails after they left their anchorages. Commo-
dore Morgan signalled at o'clock that the COM
petitors should proceed to Brenton's Reef at
$50 o'clock. 1t a before the wind 10
the starting line, but the fleet carried topsais.
and the wind not very strong. The sailors
were clad in oilskins. and most Of the amateurs
stayed below decks to avoid the rain.
The Colona took the cup given by Captain
Goelet for the contest between schoorers. The
Emerald. the only other entry IN this class failed
to come out, and Commdore Postey. OF the
Larchnont Yacht Club, went over the course in
a lonesome manner, and carried off "A thousand
dollar trophy by simply going the course
TIE weather, though cold northeast driZze at
the start, improved all the afternoon, and the
finish was made in a cracking whoesa breeze
The wind throughout the steady, and
there no complaint of lukes.
AN ADVANTAGE FOR THE vIGILANT.
In manoeuvring for position, the Vigilants
skipper got rather the best Of it, while both
were waiting for the starting gun, which
fred at 12:10 o'clock. Neither Of the boats got
off very smartly. being. apparently, not quite
prer ared The Vigilant rounded up past the
committee boat and crossed the line three-quar-
ters Of minute after gunfre. The Navahoe
was too far to windward at the time. and she
did not cross until two minutes had elapsed af-
ter the signal. She thus minute and
forty seconds behind the former Cup defender
on the start. The committee had previously
signalled that the would be sailed the
Block Island course and. with the wind blow
ing from the north northeast, the first leg Of
the course was run dead before the wind. As
she passed over the line the Vgiant had her
mainsail. topsa and balloon-jib set.
The Navahoe had lowered her spinnaker boom
tn r1 i,cf cfoy al
was fired. and as she crossed the line broke OFT
her spnnaker. The course known No. 4.
which was now being sailed starts at Brentons
Reef and leads to mark east Of Block Island,
thence to stakeboat two miles southwest by
west from West Island, the distance being in
all thirtyeght miles.
The Vigilant. for some unknown reason did
not set her spinnaker Immediately on crossing
the line. and 1t was only after the Navahoe had
began to creep up on her in marked way that
the Vigilant spnnaker boom was lowered out.
Before the sail holsted the Vigilant luffed
out across the Navahoe's bows Then she
broke out the big spread and the race could be
said to have fairly begun. Both boats were
getting away down the wind at a magnificent
pace and, as from the steamers in the
rear, they seemed to leave two long lanes Of
foam behind them which could be traced in the
water for over quarter OF mile.
THE CoLONIA's wALKOvER.
The schooner Colonia was sent off for her walk.
over five minutes after the sngle-stickers, and
she crossed the line at 12:16:j0 She was carry.
ing both gaff topsails and the large jib topsail.
The tug Edward Luckenbach had placed ths
mark with its red flag about six miles north OF
Block Island. Both of the yachts came down
for the buoy with main booms TO port and spin
makers to starboard. All the way the Navahoe
kept reducing the Vigilants lead. and soon they
appeared TO be nearly even. although running
wide apart II discovered that the Block
Island mark had capsized. SO new one was set
a quarter of a mile TO the eastward. This IA
vored the Navahoe. and. taking in her spinnaker.
she gybed round II at :01:09 o'clock.
The Vigilant was considered by some specta-
tors To be slightly ahead as they both approached
the mark but the Navahoe people say that their
hoat WAS not favored at the buoy. but was really