The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-04

than the American boat. Captain Barr
was pinching the Reliance into the
wind until her litl\ baby jib topsail
futtered. The race was being fought
out on the same lines as the previous
race. The Reliance sought to make her
gain by outpointing the British boat,
while the latter endeavored to make up
for what she lost in pointing by footing
faster with a rapfuL
At noon the wind had increased to ten
knots and hauled about a point to west
ward, so that both yachts could lay
straight course to the turning mark,
not more than two miles distant. They
were heeling hard and dragging their
lee rails through a lather of froth and
sending it squirting from under their
bows in a fashion that indicated that
they were making at least twelve knots
and that there was little danger that
the race would not be finished within
the time limit. Without making anoth-
err tack, both boats made the turn of
the. first mark as follows Reliance,
1921 80; Shamrock, 12:24:45.
Though the Reliance had a lead or
three minutes and fifteen seconds, she
still lacked six seconds of making up
the time allowance and the difference OF
one minute and twenty-four seconds at
the start. Officially the Shamrock III
was still six seconds ahead of the Slip
perry Yankee craft, but 1t was evident
that the latter had won the race, bar
ring accidents. In a breeze varying
from four to ten knots an hour she had
made good the time allowance in ten
mile thresh to windward, and there was
every reason to believe that in reaching
and running, which are her two strong
est points of sailing, che would quickly
overcome that official six seconds Both
captains broke out balloon jib topsails
When they squared for the second turn.
The wind was SO far aft that they
quickly decided that, instead of being
a broad reach, as intended, the course
to the turn was a run. Spinnaker booms
were guyed out, and the great sails
added to the tall reaches of canvas
Staysails were taken in, and, with spin
maker booms guyed well forward, the
yachts ran away for the turn. Both
were heading off their course a bit in
order to make their spinnakers draw
well, and they ran that way Tor half an
hour, when the Reliance smothered her
spinnaker and began to set her stay
sail. During that time she did not APP
pear to have gained an inch, but imme-
diately on laying her true course she
began to draw away. Ten minutes af-
ter the Reliance the Shamrock III also
took in her spinnaker, set her staysail
and headed for the mark. With the
wind over their quarter, both yachts
made fast time of 1t, but 1t was appar-
ent that the Reliance was gaining.
They made the secs nd turn as follows
Reliance, 1:17:50; Shamrock, 1: 81: As.
The Reliance was leading by three
minutes, fifty-five seconds, having
gained forty seconds in the run across
from the first to the second mark She
had overcome the time allowance, made
good the difference at the start and es-
tablished margin to her credit of thir-
ty-four seconds. With a close reach still
to be made, there was faint hope for
the challenger. The Reliance whirled
about the mark, tbed over, trimmed in
her sheets and romped away on close
reach toward Sandy Hook lightship and
the finish line. She was three quarters
of mile away before the Shamrock III
rounded the mark Both yachts were
heeling about the twelye-knot wind
from south by west and were sailing at
least one mile an hour faster than the
wind was blowing. Their sheets We're
eased Just enough to put them on al