Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-06

her sp,nn4ker boom to port. She was
then about 200 yards northwest Of the
committee boat and heading to the
southeast The Columbia coming from
the southeast had passed the Sandy
Hook lightship, leaving it on her port
| hlnd ut about one minute before the
| signal. When 30 seconds were left capt.
| Barr rolled his wheel over to port
! gybcd the Columbia ANA broke out her
| balloon jhtopsail and headed for the
| line The Shamrocks balloon jibtop-
sail blossomed cut ut the same mo-
mert rs the Cnumbia's she was on
the latter's STANDARD hand and nearly
| a length astern when the starting sig
nal was given lie" spinnakrr was
broken out while she was crossing The
line. The Culumba's men rugged out
her spinnakcr boom while they were
approaching the line. hoisted the sail
and broke il out in just - seconds. Thu
Columbia had the better Of the start
| The official time Of the start was: co
lumbia, 1l.00.53; Shamrock. 1l.01.05.
Those first ~ minutes after the start
We're unNinu> ones for thusa directly in
tercsted in the Shamrock and Column
lila. From The Associated Press tug
located abcam Of the two racers. it was
noted that IN minutes Columbia S
h"wsrrit began To- creep past sham
rocks bow ana in 10 minutes Columbia
was clear ahead Of the Shamrock. Both
took in heir staysails ana jibs 50 as to
give the immense balloon sails plenty
Of draft.
50 light was the wind at this time
that only the balloon sails seemed to be
doing service for either yacht; the
mainshoe;s hung slack in lights be
tween the boats ana tn" booms ana the
great mansails hung llat as boards far
over the starbuard side Of each yacht.
Mile after mile the yachts. slowly
travelled tu the southeast, the Column
ba slowly huj steadily gaining all the
time Al five minutes to II the wind
frcShened a bit. canting at the same
time a couple Of points to the eastward.
capt. Hogarth saw it first and his crew
smartlE took in the spinnaker. Column
/ bias men following suit a little later
and setting their forestaysail at the
same time.
Fearing that the Shamrock would try
to I'M oIr; ana pass him to WindWard.
capt. Barr began 70 lufI The Columbia.
I5nth Kept it VI for fully 10 minutes un-
i'll they Were both heading east. Capt.
Ircarlh l,pt the Shamrock's spin
maker masthyadrd. with 4 couple Of
men holding it Half way down the mast
ready to- DE- shecJed out at a moments
notice until 12.o2. when he let il run
down Finally ut l2.05 The Columbia,
etill being 800 yards ahead, kept broad
off her. course again. the Shamrock inn
mediately following suit. The wind
held in the same quarter until l2.i0. the
Columbia meanwhile gaining on her
rival nj that time the wind backed
around to the northward, the Column
Lila gyhed the Shamrock following two |
minutes later.
AT MS thr Columbia's crew sent her |
spinnakcr out to starboard, ana TWO min |
ut,s later The Shamrncks Was Set tar
away in III, bluc maze tho outer mark |
was sighted at It's.
With the weather prevailing at that
time there vas little chance of finishing
tine race within the prescribed limit Of |
s.. hours. During the next half hour the |
wind aIrnca entirely dro.ped ent. 1t ~
IN spiuu:EuIs came i'll au BOTH yachts |
and they were Gyhrd " atarhoard. II
ITO il,c Columbia s,t ht: SPRINKLER To |
rori. aG.;in ,ukine il in. 3 minutes lat Ri
F.uth gybrl W. par. AZ Z" r:d few MN
utcs later a light breeze came in from
the southWard Sheets were trimmed
dntyn ana huth yachts wcr" soon clos"
hauled on thr starhoard tack. The Sham
rock Nh once set Nor baby jibtopsail. hu'
the Cnlulnbil's was held for some ; min
utes before being set.
The Columbia executed a queer manou
d ..Y. ~.
board tack q little ahead and to wind
ward III tnc Shamrock. Suddenly Wear
ing around to port. she headed back for
Tie Shamrock. 1t looked as il she would I
run down The Irish boat. Then she luttei
back to Her course, ranging up alongs a.
the other thereby losing all her lead. Il /
was supposed that Mr. iseiin wanted to
call the race off but that those on The
Shamrock would not consent ana so ihc |
Columbia kept sailing ANA drifting.
At 80 tile shamrock went about to
port. the Columbia following suit 10 sec
onds later. The Shan k then appeared |
to have a slight adv ,utage. The wind |
was very light ana the Shamrock in this !
smooth water seemed to be doing very /
well, her larger sail plan proving little
too much for the Columbia. When the
latter went about to starboard "a 3 /
o'clock ana the Columbia 3 minutes later !
the latter had increased her windward al /
vantage by Il few lengths. Both again /
went about at 3.12 on the port tack ana |
again To starboard in 10 minutes the wind I
from the southwark having increased Il +
trine The Columbia seemed to be walk
ing out from under the Shamrocks lee /
Their positions at $780, when the Columbia
tackled to pOrt. were as follows. The "a.
lumbia about an eighth Of mile on the
Shamrock's lee bow, both heading about