The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-09
THE QUEEN OF THE FLEET
THE TIGILANI WINS THE $500
MORGAN SILVER CUP.

Inc COlOnla WINS the nj ,OOU Cup In une
Schooner Class-A Remarkable Run
ftom Vineyard Haven to Bar Harbor-
Emerald Lost to Colonia by Only Twenty
One eSeconds-Navahoe Badly Beaten.
Bar Harbor, Me-, Aug. S.-The double
century yacht race of the New York
Yacht club from Vineyard Haven to
Mount Desert for $1,000 worth of cups
offered by Commodore Morgan was
finished this afternoon off Bakers Is
land light, under the towering noun
tains of the famous Maine resort, with
the sloop Vigilant leading the fleet of
twenty sailboats by many miles, after
seas and following winds. The Vigi-
liant won the cup in the sloop class,
leading the Navahoe at the finish fifty
minutes. The race in the schooner class
was much closer, and the Colonia, al
though finishing ten minutes ahead of
the Emerald, won the $4,000 cup by only
twenty-one seconds.
and was not only extremely gratifying
to its energetic originator, j. Pierpont
Morgan but will go down in history as
one of the greatest of the long-distance
races of American yachting. From the
time the calm spot was left, two hours
after the start, there was not a sem
blance of anything disagreeable in the
entire run. The east wind came in just
in time to blow the fleet clear of the
treacherous Nantucket shoals before
darkness settled down and then, shift
ing to southwark and west, not only
held true and steady throughout the
beautiful night, but kept up all day
Sunday and never wavered until the
last boat had crossed the finish line.
The great yachts of Americas Oldest
club accomplished what has heretofore
never been attempted-sailing all night
without taking in a single stitch of
canvas or shortening a spar. 1t must
be said that such feat was in a great
measure due to the SURPRISING weather
and probably could never be repeated.
The entire 17S miles from Pollock Rip
lightship was sailed without a sheet or
halyard being pulled.
From the start it looked like a fine
race between the Vigilant and the Nav
ahoe, the Colonia and the Emerald and
the Wasp and the Queen Nab. AS 1t
turned out, the Vigilant had a walk
over, but the race between the ether
two pairs was close and exciting
throughout.
After establishing a lead of over a
mile before getting over Nantucket
shoals, the Emerald gradually dropped
back to her rival until shortly before
midnight the two schooners were even
From that time until within forty miles
of the finish it was most exciting until
II o'clock, when the Colona 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
second division of the race.
Twenty-Five boats headed out for the
line for the double century run at nine
O'Clock Saturday morning, while half a
dozen steam yachts were also present
either as spectators or as actual par
ticipants in the run. AT 9:55 the pre-
paratory gun was fired, and five min
utes after the starting gun for the small
boats doomed out With light west
erly wind blowing, but strong tide
holding them back the boats crossed
the line in the following order: Wasp
first at 10:O15o; then came the Nava-
hoe and the Sayonara, but they were
handicapped about a minute The Wig
liant followed next, minute behind
the Navahoe The Iroquois led the
schooners, followed by the Amorita.
Queen Nab, Gevelia, Colonia, Emerald,
Fenella, Marguerite. Sachem Fortuna,
Hildergarde, Montauk, Alert. Gloriana.
Clytie, Viking, Varuna and Crusader.
All the yachts broke out their spin
makers as they crossed the line, and five
minutes after the Navahoe and the Wig
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 they sighted some
miles ahead. Keeping well to the south
the Wasp picked up the new wind first
and by ] o'clock had put three miles
between her and all the rest of the
boats. The Emerald, which had also
edged off to the southwark, jumped off
by the Colonial; the Vigilant picked up
the breeze before the Navahoe, and
soon had a lead of a mile on her rival
The Wasp was the first to pass Cross
Rip lightship, at 2:15, followed fifteen
minutes later by the Emerald, with the
Colonia third and the Vigilant fourth.
The Navahoe was some distance astern
of the Vigilant, while the rest of the
fleet was strung out through the sound,
with the Columbia and Intrepid bring
ing up in the rear.
1t was a close fetch from Cross Rip
the Handkerchief lightship. ten and one
half miles. All the yachts made it on
the starboard tack the Wasp being the
first to reach it at 3:15. On the way
out the Vigilant was again pinched and
the Navahoe picked up a bit, while the
Emerald opened out somewhat on the
Colonia. Between Cross Rip and the
Handkerchief the fleet split up into
two divisions, as was anticipated BY
the time the first division was well up
to Handkerchief, the wind had canted
to the southwest, so that the run UP to
the Shovelful lightship being northeas st
by east distance five miles, was made
with sheets well started.
The Emerald rounded the Handker-
chief at 3:15, the Wasp at 3:17. The CO.
lonia followed at 1926, while the Vigi-
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