New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-10-04
SHAMROCK GAINS AT START, LOSES AT FINISH.
LEE RAILS OF BOTH YACHTS AWASH ON THE JOURNEY
HOME-DEFENDER A HUNDRED YARDS AHEAD

a quick turn and took the line 11:0O:13. The
Columbia stood on TO the eastward nearly
minute after the gun, when she went in stays,
broke out her jiDtopsail and then took the line
at 11:01:4l. She crossed the line before the
handicap gun, and both boats were now safely
started their east. half south course The
Columbia carried her boom very fiat, and was
lying down 10 her decks. The Shamrock stood
up stiffer. but going at good pace.
The official time of starting follows:
The Shamrock. 11:o013; the Columbia. II :0l:4i.
In point of distance there fully two hun
dred yards between the boats the Columbia
went away. The Columbia thus had L minute
and 81 seconds to be credited to her in the cal
cUlation at the finish of the race. She also had
IS seconds time allowance. which meant that
the Shamrock had to give her in all minutes
and Il seconds before she could win.
AS the boats ran out to the first mark they
were getting the wind heavier than at the start
and at times both were laid out pretty flat AT
100 the Columbia got ii so hard that she had
to luff out. The harder winds came in streaks,
and they got it alternately The Shamrock
steered the better of the two. and kept her
direct for the first mark When the puffs hit
the Columbia she was making a very weatherly
course as they drove her up in spite of the
wheel At Hip they were not lying the same
course and the Columbia evidently refused to
go in the right direction. Barr here started her
main sheet, and after that she lay her proper
course. Two minutes later the Shamrock got 1t
very hard and she lay further than she
has ever been seen except in the squall of Sep
tember L. The American boat was travelling
in a smother of foam. and at HIS very little
could he seen of the hull of either boat The
white water seemed to cover them all up.
SHAMROCK THE FIRST AT THE MARK
The Shamrock came to the mark at II :51 10
and gybed around slowly. taking south
west. half south, for the second leg The Column
bia came to the mark a minute later. and
made a quick turn taking her after the
Shamrock and carrying the same sail as in the
previous leg.
The official timing of the yachts was: The
Shamrock II: 10; the Columbia, 11;52:22 The
gain of the Columbia on the first leg - sec
onds. This gain seemed be altogether in the
last three miles of the to the first mark.
THE COLUMBIA BEGINS TO GAIN.
As the boats came down past the Lucken-
bach on the second leg they both seemed to
have about as much wind as they could com
fortably travel under. After the boats got we'll
started on their second leg the Columbia was
slowly closing the distance between her and the
challenger. and a few minutes later seen to
be pulling out TO the windward of her. good
deal seemed TO depend on the way each boat
got the wind. this first rush the Columbia
did better than the Upton boat.
The kind of sailing continued until
1892 when there came a marked increase of
wind TO both boats. In the last twenty-five min
utes it could not be seen that there any
change in the relative positions of the boats.
and in this extra puff the Shamrock seemed to
cse slack up her jibtopsail sheet. but they got
the sail down work again and the run
by this increased wind and for the first time
since the turn she slightly widening the gap.
At 12:41 80 O'Clock the Shamrock was ap-
preaching the mark, which had been in sight for
quite while. She then lowered her jibtopsail
to prepare for the windward work of the third
leg They had now been out about an hour
and forty minutes, and were in the last of the
twentieth mile. The wind had gone to
twelve or fourteen knots and in the puffs it
looked like fifteen more. AT 12:43 o'clock the
Columbia took in her jbtopsail, and at 12:4o3O
o'clock the Shamrock passed to the leeward of
the second mark and was close hauled on the
lumbia came into the spot to the leeward
quick turn. going in stays at the mark and
coming out seaward the port tack. AS she
came in stays the Shamrock followed her out in
the same direction
The official time of the turn the second
mark was. Shamrock 12:45:5I; Columbia.
10 :4639. showing the difference between the
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