New-York tribune., 1897-06-27
IN A STIFF NOR'WESTER.
sEAwANHAKA CORINTHIANS GREAT
SUCCESS.
THE QUEEN NAB THE CoIONIA. THE SKATE AND
MANY OTHERS FLY TO VICTORY.

THE QUEEN NAB. THE coLONIA. THE SKATE AND
MANY OTHERS FLY TO VICTORY
The yachts got a shake-up yesterday. IL was
blowing out Of the northwest. Not heaVy o'ee~e.
nor half a heavy breeze yet II was gale wlhu
for some Of them. The was short. wa'-s'oe"
and difficult for small boats to master Even .he
largest yachts experienced knockdowns IN "h'ch
they got all they wanted in the way OF water anu
wind.
The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Clup mas
every reason to be pleased with the success OF i's
twenty-seventh annual regatta, which was saiied
yesterday the club courses. near Oyster bay.
There was q large attendance OF racers. ana the
ideal bays and agoons Of the inside waters were
alive with sails prior TO the start. Toward IL cioch
the different fleets went streaming out around the
point to the open waters of the Sound. When all
had gathered there for the start the wind was Mt
ful, and for a few nom ,nts dropped TO a calm. But
before the first gun sounded there arose breeze
that sent the smaller boats to their reefngs.
1t was not until O'Clock that the schoOners were
started Their times were taken as follow: The
Colonia Clarence A. Postiey. l:O3:l5 the Iroquois.
Commodore Henry c. Rouse. l:0 "a; the Amorita.
w. Gould Brokaw, 103:32 The schoCners were also
timed I'm another race for the Rouse prize, there
being two systems OF measurement utilized In this
regatta the suggestion Of Irving Cox as 10 giving
the older boats a better chance with the newer
ones which have circumvented the time measure
THE COURSE FOR SCHOONERS.
The course for schooners and the first seventy
sixty. Afty-one and forty-three foot classes OF
sloops cutters and yawls was the Sound 'r'ans"
lar course from the starting point northwest py
north five miles TO and around mark about one
mile south by west from Greenwich Point, keeping
It on the starboard hand: thence east ohe-ha'i
no. -! five miles to and around mark about one
ana three-q,iarters miles off Long Neck Point Keep
ing It on the starboard hand thence south-souhwest
five miles TO and around the stakebcat, Keeping II
on the starbolrd hand, course TO be sailed over
twice, thirty nautical miles
The course for thiry-six and thirty foot classes OF
sloops. cutters. yawls and catb0ats was the ohpph
triangular cOurse-From the startinS-line due hor'h
five miles 10 and around Cows buoy, keeping II on
the siarboard hand; thence east one-haf south TWO
miles 10 and AROUND a mark about one ana three
quarter miles off Long Neck Point. keeping It on the
starboard hand: thence south southwest five miles
to and around the sakeboat. keeping 1t on the STAR
board hand course 10 be sailed over twice; twenty
four nautical miles.
For twenty -hve-foo, classes once over Sound TIL
angular course For twenty and fifteen foot classes.
once over Shippan triangular course.
The Scoops were off in the following order all
being timed al O5: For the Rouse prize-The queen
Nab n. l.. Francis the Wasp. 1Appitt Brothers:
the Syce. F. NJ Hoyt the Carmlta. w X. Wander
bilt jr: the Uvra clifford " Brokaw: the Norota,
D. b. Burnham the Indoent. Colonel s. Van Rens-
selaer CrUger
Among the sloops OF the thirty-six foot class the
S,irprise James Baird and the Acushla Hanan
Brothers were sent off at 10 Next came the
special thirty footers. which were all timed at
l:lO. These the Hera, Ralph y. Ellis; the
Wa Wa J. A. Stman; the Veda Cornelius Wander
bilt jr. Naquero III. Herman Is. Duryea, ana the
Musme J. NJ McDonough.
Among the twenty-five foot soops the Houri E.
Burton Hart; the Celia w Gould; the Nameless
and Vaquero I were started at l:l5.
The twenty-foot sloops. in which class a chief
part of the interest centred. did not assemble In
great numbers and two OF these withdrew In the
course Of the race Among those which started at
lis were the Arauca. W. Willard Howard; the
Keneu Montgomery Clark: the Shark Commodore
Rouse and Colgate Hoyt, and the Skate. Irving
Cox.
After this the fifteen foot soops, twenty-five foot
cabin cats twenty y-hve foot open cats, and the
mixed yawl class were all sent OF az l:io Among
these were the Paprika Edwin a. Stevens the
Volsung Dosoris II, the Win or Lose the Jester
and the Alice
STIFF WEATHERLY WORK.
In the northwest wind that was blowing all
classes had some stiff weatherly work In the beat
to the first mark. The schooners had not pro-
ceeded more than mile when the Amorita carried
away her martingale. and returned to harbor uh-
der reduced sale Soon afterward, when the boats
Arnold one of the amateur crew OF p. I. Dodge
4O-footer the Gossoon. was hit on the head by the
main boom and Knocked overboard lie Vas re-
cued once, and found to be unn1ured IhIousn, n
out this beat the smaller boats had good zeal OF
trouble "A number of Them having 10 stand 10y
and reef The 20-footer the Aauca, salied
her first appearance She reefed berre the starr,
and thereby lost five or SIX minutes MT Howard
entered this race under considerable disadvantage,
his boat having arrived by train a. o'clock IN
the morning yesterday. Consequently she lacked
some necessary parts OF her rlgging
A great deal Of curiosity was exhibited IN regard
10 the new boat which Is freak of freaks, being
Il feet on the line and "a feet over all When
one looks down at this boat she lies perfectly fiat
in the water and. with her ten feet or beam looks
good deal like a section of Il wharf. she Is OF sucn
extremely light construction that the crew nad 70
nick their way on the beams for fear they would
faI through her decks. and she works in sea
way with little more stiffness than would be shy"h
by a piece OF paper. Her immense overhangs for
uncomfortable for those who work on her Win
leading wind she is certainly fast in calm water
Inn her showing Yesterday hardly justlfes the ex.
pectatio that she will win In a seaway one OF
he crew who sailed on her yesterday says she Is
a cross between an iceboat ana 4 iumpy toDoegal
slide While working across the Sound sh,, seemed
open up all around and It being lmpossniSie, 10
Bay. While she made this trip she was so fuil OF
water that her forward decks were floating up, ana
on landing part of the crew in the yawl OF
sent It's stern through two planks OF the Araucas
THE FIRST MARK TURNED.
The first mark on the north shore was turned as
follows
Colonia :4G:36 Syce ........'. :3o:
Iroo,oIs ...S..l:5l:O :O5 Bedouin .........'2 2'W'fo
Queen Nab. ...s. :35;ts Ivlra ''''''''''' 0i ~
Carmita l:js:+0 Gossoon 40
The Gossoon did not continue the race.