The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-08
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Then Capt. Barr and his crew woke up,
took In the spinnaker and jibed the
Columbia smartly, but were slow in
trimming down the balloon sheet. The
Shamrock was then we'll out to wind
ward Of the Columbia. Hogarth set the
spinnaker for five minutes, which gave
her an additional lead Of several lengths.
The Columbia did not set hers until
1:20 o'clock, and took it in a few min
utes later.
The outer mark was now in plain
sight, and both yachts had booms off
to starboard. At 1888 In came the
Shamrock's balloon jib top sail, the
Columbfa's two minutes later, and both
yachts jibed at 1860. The Columbia
had gained so much during the past fif-
teen minutes that 1t was evident there
=, was going to be some close work at the
outer mark. Just as the whistles of
the excursion fleet began their screeches
of welcome to the yachts, Shamrock's
crew trimmed down sheets as the yacht
luffed around the mark. Columbia's
boWsprit was right over her taffrail,
however and as she came up to the wind
capt. Barr shot the Bristol boat in be-
tween Shamrock and the mark, neatly
taking the weather berth. It was
clever bit of maneuvering and imme-
d1ately placed the American boat In the
lead.
AT THE OUTER MARK,
The official time of rounding. the outer
mark was:
Shamrock 1:36:25
Columbia, 1864.
Thus showing that the Shamrock
rounded this mark nine seconds ahead.
that she was two hours and fifteen min
utes and six seconds covering the fifteen
miles, while Columbia took two hours
and fifteen minutes and thirty-two Sec
onds, difference in favor of the Sham
rock of twenty-six seconds on the run
before the wind.
columbia made her first tack to port
Off shore at 1:3S. Hogarth held on fifty
seconds longer, then put Shamrock
ABOUT. Then each tackled four times in
three and a half minutes, Shamrock be-
Ing forced about twice In that time. The
wind was growing lighter all the time,
and the long easterly swell bothered the
ooats decidedly when on the port tack,
making them splash a good DEAL
at 2:15:15 the Columbia split tacks with
the Shamrock, and went off shore breeze
hunting on the port tack. When at
2:8:4o the Shamrock tackled to port and
the Columbia minute later to star
BOARD they were meeting on opposite
tacks. 1t was a question Of by how
nuch the shamrock could cross Column
pla's bow. Columbia, however, tackled
before the other reached her, it being
evident that the Columbia was to lee
ward and Shamrock In the lead. The
W1nd frequently headed off Columbia
about this time. Shamrock tackled when
it did so to her
AT 2:34, when Columbia tackled to port.
she had made twelve tacks from the
outer mark and Shamrock had made one
less. Slowly they made their way to
windward during the next half hour, each
pelng oecalmed at times for several min
utes.
At 2:5l:33, when the Shamrock tackled
to starbOard, it took her fifty-seven Sec
onds to swing around from one tack to
the other.
AT 3:l4 Shamrock set a larger lib top
SAIL They split tacks at 1921. when Co.
lumbia went off shore again looking for
wind
CONTEST WAS CLOSE.
When next they came together it was
4:lO. From positions to the leeward of
the yacht it looked as if the Shamrock
would cross Columbia's bow by quite a
large margin, Columbia being on the
starboard tack, and having the right of
way Instead, the thousands who watch
GU IAS pICdClllllS GdCn OIlor
were astonished to see the Shamrock
forced about by the Columbia, which
yacht, when Shamrock had gone about,
was on the 1atter's weather beam, scarce,
ly a length av ay.
Some idea of the close sailing of these
two yachts on the same tack may be
gathered from the fact that from AS to
4.31, when the race was declared off, the
shadow of the Shamrock's club topsail
remained in almost one spot on the lee
side of Coluribia's main sail.
If today's race had been continued to
the finish, some five miles away, 1t would
be exceedingly hard to predict the win
ner. Throughout the race the handling
of both beats was excellent, but the ball
ance was in favor Of tho Shamrock's
skipper and crew.
In view Of the closeness Of the yachts
when The race was called Off it Is fair
to suppose that If the finish had been
there the Columbia would have crossed
1t ten seconds ahead Of Shamrock. In
that case the summary of the race for
twenty-five miles would have been as
follows:
Start-Columbia, 11:2l O2: Shamrock.
11:21:19
Finish-Columbia. 4:S1:OO: Shamrock.
4:31 TO-
Elapsed time Columbia. 5.O9:5S: Sham
rock, 509:51.
Corrected time Columbia, S,08:0S;
Shamrock. 6:09:4&