New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-28
YACHTING.
NEw-ROCHELLE REGATTA - STRANGE
CRAFT INTRODUCED TO THE
LOCAL RACING WORLD.

Yesterdays regatta Of the New-Rochelle Yacht
Club was remarkable for the number Of new craft
1t introduced to the local racing world. The
earliest races OF the year generally interesting
In this way, and yesterday the new Oiseau. which
has Just been finished In Eastern yacht yard for
H. n. Maxwell. showed great speed. She was
handled by j. Rogers Maxwell. formerly the skip
per OF the racing schooner Emerald and many other
notable craft He showed that on a small boat his
right hand did not lose Its cunning and that he
could take his sons knockabout to victory as easily
a big schooner.
The Splndrift owned now by $. G. Prize. and
lately purchased in Boston, proved another success
She did not rank very high among Bostons ny fleet
last year, but she is late design, and can appar-
entity defeat the boats OF one year older The Kan
TAXA owned by G. J. Bradish, is also new boat
in these parts and these two made good racing
with the Mongoose I, which was sailed by Hazen
Morse.
In the yaw class the new Possum was not quite
wdeawake enough for the Veery, which won In
this class The Postum has just been finished by
Huntington for w. n. Bavier. Of the New-Ro-
chelle Yacht Club. and she is an abe-looking craft
The Adde, owned by w. l.. Daz is also new.
The Alyce which was defeated by the Oseau, is
also newly launched. having been just built for W.
Hennen, Of the NewYork Athletic Club.
The course for all classes was from the starting
line near the club to the Hen and Chickens,
broad reach in the strong southwesterly wind that
was blowing, and from there to the Execution
spar buoy it was a beat to windward. The third
leg of the course to the home mark Free and 1t
was interesting to see how boats differed on the
various points of sailing. Boats that ate out to
wndward in the beating lost place In the reaching
and running, and then regaIned everything when
close damned up the wind.
This was the case with the Spndrift and Mon
goose. The gun did not go Off at the right time
and Mr.. Prize got off minute late and rounded the
first mark forty seconds behind, but as soon as
they all began the beat the Spindrift got away.
But only to lose the run home. Hazen Morse
here got the lead, but his boat not good
enough to hold IT, and the old saw proved true
again, that the boat which goes to wndward
u.s. in the long run, the winner.
In this class the Kantaka sailed by Frank
Bovine Jones, and was not found to be In the best
trim to meet this company. Moreover, choice OF
a different locality In the beating did not bring the
hoped-for results. and the Kantaka will try again
on other day.
The new cabin cat called the Osage owned by o.
II. CheIlborg. OF the Knlckerbocker Yacht Club,
did not, for some reason finish her race, and the
old Wn-or-Lose scored one more to her credit.
The wind that put two reefs into some OF the
power before the were finished but the racers
had all the breeze necessary to make the best kind
clubhouse, including Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Rough,
re Iohn G. fFagge dr. Ganedy ss
States Navy: Commodore Prime Of the Yonkers
G Of tho
These people and many others attended the cere-
mony OF opening the clubhouse at o'clock, when
the club burgee sent up and saluted by the
guns and colors of the fleet All yachts in the
harbor dressed ship, after which the schooner yacht
Fenea, now owned by f. ]. Bergen, went out
and sailed for Larchmont
The Regatta Committee in charge Of the races
headed by Charles Z. Tower chairman, under
whose practised hand everything passed of har-
moniously. The following table shows the results
YAwI CLAss-STARr 235.
Elapsed Corrected
Sailing Finish time. time.
Yacht. Owner. length. Inns Inns. HM.S.
Very II. ellison. $500 354:2S 1:l9:2S l:19:2S
Postum. W. y. Bayer. 80 II 859:16 1:24:18 1;22Oo
Twilight. f. Lambden. 3O.oS Did not sail course -
Adde w. L. Diaz. 27.40 42400 $4,000 1898
CABIN CATS-CLASS S-START 2:4o.
Win Lose. J. Appeby. 234O 423:3o 1889 -
Usage o. II. Chel.borg $3.50 Did not finish.
TWENTY FTVE-FOOT WATERLINE KNOCKABoUTS-
START PAS.
oiseau II. N Maxwell. $500 <06:2s 1929 -
Alyce, W. Hennen. $500 4:20:50 1850 -