The record-union., 1897-08-09
VIGILANT BEATS
The NAVAHOE.
CoIonia Finishes Slightly Ahead of
the Emerald.
Double Century Race Of the New York
York Yacht Club.
Only Twenty-One Seconds Between
the Two Schooners for Second
Place A Hitherto Unattempted
Feat of Sailing All Night With
out Shortening Sail OF Sending
Down a Spar.

Down a Spar.
BAR HARBOR (Me) Aug. S.-A
double century race of the New York
Yacht Club from Vineyard Haven to
Mount Desert for $1,000 worth of cups
offered by Commodore j. Pierpont Nor
gan, was finished this afternoon off Ba-
ker's Island light, with the sloop
Vigilant leading the fleet of twenty
craft by many miles, after a run mark
ed throughout by smooth seas and
following winds. Vigilant won the cup
in the sloop class, leading Navahoe al
the finish 90 minutes. The race in the
schooner class was much closer and
Colonia, although finishing 10 minutes
ahead of Emerald, won the $1,000 cup
! by only 21 seconds.
| The race was thoroughly satisfactory.
The great yachts of Americas oldest
club accomplished what has hitherto
never been attempted, of sailing all
night without taking in a stitch of can
vas or shortening a spar. It must be
said that such feat was due in a great
measure to the surprising weather The
entire 17S miles from Pollock lightship
f! was sailed without a sheet or halyard
being pulled.
| From the start it looked like a fine
race between Vigilant and Navahoe,
| Colonia and Emerald and Wasp and
/ Queen Nab. AS it turned out, Vigilant
had a walk-over, but the race between
the other two pairs was close and ex-
citing throughout
| After establishing a lead Of over a
mile before getting over Nantucket
shoals, Emerald gradually dropped back
to her rival until shortly before mid
night, when the two schooners were
| even. From that time until with forty
miles of the finish it was most exciting
until II o'clock, when Colonda pulled
out and led to the finish.
From the start the old-timers had
no show with the modern cracks, and
fell astern rapidly, and with the little
sloops made up what was called the
taseeonl - ssion of the race.
Twenty-Five boats headed out for the
line of the double century at 8 o'clock
Saturday morning, while half a dozen
steam yachts were also present, either
as spectators or as actual participants.
At 500 the preparation gun was fired
and five minutes after the starting gun
for the small boats doomed out.
! With light westerly wind blowing,
but a strong tide holding them back,
the boats crossed the line in the follow
ing order:
! Wasp, first at 10:O1:05; then the
| Navahoe and Sayonara, but they were
| Handicapped about a minute. Vigilant
followed next, a minute behind Nava-
| hoe Iroquois led the schooners, fol-
lowed by Amorita, Queen Nab, Gevila,
| Colonia, Emerald, Fennalla, Margue-
rite, Sachem Fortuna, Hildegarde, Mon
! tauk Alert, Gloriana, Cylytie, Viking,
| Varuna and Crusader.
| All the yachts broke out their spin
makers as they crossed the line, and
| five minutes later Navahoe and Vigi-
! liant were hard after it in a luffing
match. Half an hour after the start,
the wind died out completely, and most
| of the boats anchored and waited for
| the east wind, which was sighted some
miles ahead. Keeping we'll to the
| south, the Wasp picked up the new
wind first, and by 1 o'clock had put
three miles between her and the rest OF
the boats.
[ wasp W DIS lllC 1ISl W pass 1IOSS
Rip lightship, followed 16 minutes later
| by Emerald with Colonia third and
! Vigilant fourth. Navahoe was some
distance astern of Vigilant, while the
rest of the fleet was strung out through
the sound, with the Columbia and In
trepid bringing up the rear. 1t was a
| close fetch from Cross Rip to Hand
| kerchief lighthouse, ten and a half
miles. All the yachts made it on the
starboard tack, Wasp being the first to
reach it at 3:15. On the way out Vigi-
liant was again pinched. and Navahoe
picked up bit, while Emerald opened
out somewhat on Colonia. Between
! Cross Rip and the Handkerchief. the
! fleet split up into two divisions as was
anticipated.
| The wind kept hauling to the south
ward, SO that the run to the Shovelful
| lightship was we'll off the wind. The
! boats rounded the Shovelful in the
following order:
Emerald, 3:52; Wasp, 1856; Colonia,
! 4:03:01; Marguerite 4:29; Navahoe,
ABA; Amorita, 4:36; Queen Nab, 4 4:43:
03: Hildegarde, 4:40.
| The short run over to the Pollock
Rip hghtship was made in an increasing
southerly breeze, and with sheets haul
! ed we'll in. The boats rounded Poll
lock Rip lightship in the same order
! Darkness found Emerald still in the
lead Morning, as was expected, saw
the boats somewhat apart, but this was
not so with Emerald and CoIonia. Dur
! ing the night the latter boat had over
hauled her rival. and one hour after
sunrise. the boats were engaged in a
| luffing match. AT this time Vigilant
was about two miles ahead of the
schooner, which in turn led Navahoe
by about a mile and a half Vigilant
gained steadily on the other boats, and
at 3:15 passed Duck Island light, four
miles from the finish.
| Vigilant crossed the line at $3.50: 2S,
making the run from Vineyard Haven
to the point in % hours 81 minutes and
IL seconds. of which time % hours, IA
minutes and 80 seconds We're consumed
in running IT'S miles from Pollock Rip
! lightship. She crossed the finish line
under mainsafl, working topsail. spin
maker and balloon jib topsail Colonia
was the next boat over the line. Nava-
hoe was Ne next. and Emerald fourth.
4 Hildegarde was the fifth boat, and at