New-York tribune., 1900-05-31
YACHTING.
INDIAN HARBoR YACHT CLUB REGATTA
NEW RACEABoUTs GIVE sPINDRrFT HER
WATERLOO.

The first of the long expected contests between
the new raceabouts took place Under the auspices
Of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club yesterday. The
craft which attention chiefly centred the
Snapper. a boat designed and built by Purdon at
his Marbehead yards and sailed TO this city last
week by Captain James Barr. In her preliminary
spins this boat showed the speed OF old whaler's
harpoon but when she got tammed the wind IN
the the other Purdon boat the Colleen lately
brought here by Mr.. Alberger. OF the Indian Har
Dor Yacht Club showed her the way round Mr.
Prizes Spindrtft. a boat which is said never to
have been beaten windward in a good breeze
had her Waterloo yesterday. The Edwina III for
mery the Indianola. owned by j. Nelson Gould
and the Robin Hood owned by George Swetland
we're entered and present, but did not start in the
race which they were to contest together.
The course triangle in which the start
was given close TO the Indian Harbor Yacht Club
house. the first leg being about beam wind
TO a mark eff Little Captain Island, the second
leg being a beat, rather long and short leg, to
the buoy off the westerly reef at Great Captains
Island. and the third leg being run before the
wind to the home mark. This course sailed
twice in a pleasant full sail breeze-a distance of
ten mies-and the work smarter than the
time made tells. the yachts did all their beating
against a strong ebb tide
At the Of the boats seemed have
any preconceived plan for getting away, and all
to the line too soon, which sent them down
TO leeward TO wait Mr. Prize took the Spindrift
across considerably too soon. and had to come
back, and then cross after the gun. The snapper
sailed by Harry Maxwell. made a similar mistake
and the Colleen. sailed by Burton Hart, only saved
her bacon by lu1ng hard up along the inside of
the line. When the latter boat started she Off
from standstil, and, though she crossed first,
her lead of much benefit to her because
the Snapper took her second crossing going hard
and soon caught the Colleen.
The times at the first mark not taken but
as the yachts were met 10 wndward by the com
mittee steamer IL that the Snapper had
SRa
the Colleen making the best weather of
II. But II was q close contest between the two.
and the Alberger boat had a long and slow tusse
sailed, however. TO her limit by Mr.. Hart, and
probably gained something in taking tack less
in weathering Great Captain Island
The times the second mark. the windward
one, Colleen "a 80; Snapper, 242 .3S; Spin
drift 243-29. Here after rounding, the Snapper
was the last or the bunch to set her splnnaker;
but despite this she gained twenty seconds over
the Colleen on the way in, the splnnakers being
all the way The Spindrift here did the best
times were: Colleen, S0465: Snapper S04.4S: Spin
drift, sos ;45. The vessels raced off the beam
reach the first mark Of the second round. Here
the Snapper caught up and when the fleet was
ence between them.
At the windward mark the times were: Colleen.
343 :4 Snapper, S445; Spindrtft 3:45 AS, and from
mere the run in with spinnakers did not much
alter the relative positions Of the boats. Yachts
know that the other raceabouts for
Mr.. De Forest, n. NJ Crane and others have their
work out for them. yesterdays race showing
the superiority Of the boats the Spndrift.
The times at the home mark were as follows:
The Colleen by A seconds and the Snapper
beat Spindrift by : minute Y seconds. The place
Maxwell reported after the that his boat had
accidentally fOuIed the westerly mark. The races
The following table shows the results