New-York tribune., 1900-08-10

o'clock Lippitt's Quisetta first away. with
Eno's LATINA following, and the Wayward. the
Rusal and Howard Coatess Gevalia. Commo-
dore Ledyards fla gship Corona came next. fol-
lowed by the Constellation. the Hildegarde, the
Katrina the Ingomsr. the Mayfower and the
Indra
The seventies got their gun at 1880 o'clock.
and the two English shippers the Rainbow
and the Mneola carried no spinnakers. as did the
Virginia and the Yankee. The latter boat lost
about five seconds on the limit signal She
came down near the others rapidly and then
stopped gaining. The Virginia bore away fur
ther to I'LL her spinnaker, and passed along to
the westward with spinnaker and balloon jfbs
filed, sailing in canal like streak of wind, in
which she seemed about to pass all the closely
clustered yachts.
When the leaders reached the troubled waters
of the Race Rock the twisting tides and eddies.
which seemed to have general direction,
turned the yachts about to every point OF the
compass. To the southwark and eastward of
the rock the waters were like the Niagara River
above the Falls, and the twisting eddies caught
the deep keels and did what they liked with
them. The crews of many yachts were out on
bowsprits and mainbooms, doing their best to
keep off other helpless vessels, and for a while
it looked as if there was going to be a general
smashup Of some portions of the fleet. The
Hester, the Quissetta the Isolde. the Syce and
three more were all caught in an eddy, that first
took them Sideways eastward, and then began
to move them all stern first back toward the
rock It took long time for the light airs to
move the vessels out from the waters, which
were boiling. kissing and tumbling. with ap-
parent cause for the commotion-
The flagship Corona was the first to get out
of the shuttle, then the Isolde, the Petrol, the
Wayward. the Hildegarde the Uvira, the Con-
stellation the Shark the Rainbow, the Yankee
the Kiowa and the Virginia The Mineola
mained helpless in eddy for long time near
the rock, while the Virginia, which had circled
out round the fleet and furthest from the light
house, had the best of it. She caught a south
erly air ana crept away. with mainb booms to
port while the Mayaower,, which Joined the
many another in the predcament.
In effect 1t was new start for the fleets. with
some vessels held back The Ingomar was pull
ing out southerly with the Virginia. Kiowa and
1ndra at 11:5O and at the time it seemed a good
thing to do to get out off the due course to seek
the better wind outside. Others did not or could
not sail out in this way. and thus the fleets
became divided. The southerly collection went
off slowly in this order: The Virginia, Yankee.
Vinta, Hdegarde, Kiowa. Wayward, Ingomar
and Indra, with some others whose numbers
could not be gathered.
The fleet nearer the Fishers Island shore
moved out in this order: The Astrila. the Uvira-
the Corona, the Syce the Rainbow and the Con-
stellatton, the Sistoe, the Latona, the Sayonara
the Isolde, the Quissetta and many others. But
contrary to expectations, the southerly yachts
were not allowed TO keep in their advantages
Those inshore caught a northerly wind close in
to land, and this breeze did not extend out to
where the southerly fleet was sailing on the
southwesterly wind There was long patch of
calm between the two winds, and In this the
Constellation was found anchored near the AL
shore the Rainbow and the Gevea caught the
land breeze and went off, lying down to their
decks, to the envy of all the others, which
doing nothing in comparison. The Rainbow and
a schooner supposed to be the Mayf1ower, were
three miles ahead the due course for New
port before others near the north coast got the
lift. The Rainbow and the Hester got ii about
l2:4o while yachts to leeward of them got
of IT, and the southerly feet was still dragging
along. with spinnakers set to catch the south
westerly airs out in the Sound.
THE RAINBOW MEETS CALM
The Rainbow held the rortherly wind till
about four miles past Watch Hill. when she
suddenly ran out OF 1t and stood up in a calm.
At 13O o'clock the southerly airs came in to
her. and at 1:44 o'clock she gybed her main
boom TO port, keeping it there till she reached
Point Judith. In the mean time the Mneola
and several others in the land breeze closed
UP two miles on the Rainbow. but still left her
where the wind was and they all pulled in
shoreward TO get into it. AS seen from far
ahead. the horizon was lined with them as they
crossed north of their due course for Point
Judith
For nearly two hours there was nothing to
record. and at 3:34:2O the Rainbow passed the
whistling buoy off Point Judith and turned here
on the course 10 Brenton Reef lightship She
gybed her boom TO starboard and set spinnaker
10 port. Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt was on
deck in sailor hat, tanning herself in the in
tense heat OF course, her Rainbow was bound
to be winner, but the yacht was drifting al
most fast the light airs following putting
her passengers practically into calm. in which
the heat was difficult to bear
The Quisetta passed Point Judith mark at
3:52:15 followed by the Mineoa at $500 and
the Syce at 410. These vessels did not gybe.
but Stacked away and headed outside their
course for the lightship. in the hope of first
catching some airs which could be detected In
the distance, coming in from the southeast. But
IL was too late to catch the Rainbow. which
was sent TO solitary finish lying high on the
new southeast air as her balloon jib would let
her.
Captain Bob" Wringe. of the Mineola, who
was seen after the race. said that in his life
aoFsy q a6
with such peculiar and fiuky winds
The following were the finishes as taken by