New-York tribune., 1905-06-16
THE ELMINA'S GOOD RACE.
THE YANKEE WINS AGAIN.
Nezo- York Yacht Club Regatta a
Brilliant Success.

Elmina sailed her maiden race yesterday in the
hfty-ninth annual regatta of the New-forK
Yacht Club. She won handsomely from the
hitherto almost unconquered Corona. Arthur t.
Luke's fine yacht, formerly the Cup defender
Colonia by minutes and Al seconds elapsed
and by 2 minutes and % seconds corrected time
J. Rogers Maxwelrs 70-foot sloop the Yankee
won again from W. Ross PrCctor's th- Adineoia,
beating her this time by margin of minutes
and / second. The 35-foot sloop the Mira was
the winner in her class. beating Trenor L. Parks
the Mirnosa III by minutes and % seconds,
and George Don1in1ck's the Joker by 21 minutes
and 13 seconds Of the fourteen new one design
SO-foot boats that started, the Maid OF
Meudon, owned by w. d. Guthrie, won. beating
Newbury D. Lawton's the Banzai by minutes
and 40 seconds The course for all of the
twenty-five yachts that started was triangular
one OF nineteen and quarter miles.
That Long Island Sound is we'll suited for the
racing of yachts of all types was again ilIustra-
ted Yesterday. It the first time that the New
York Yacht Club has sailed its annual regatta
in these waters and. while there was delay
of nearly two hours waiting for breeze, the
one that finally came from the southwark was
we'll worth the wait for 1t sent the yachts over
the course in good time and gave them run.
reach and satisfactory bit of windward work
TO do on the final leg OF the course. The race
may be recorded as success from start TO
finish.
The club members and guests saw the con-
tests from the deck of the iron steamer Cepheus'
chartered for the occasion. and the regatta
comrnittee-Oliver E. Cromwell. H. de B. Par
sons and Ernest e. Lorillard-had for its use
the ocean tug Unique, Captain Richard Wray
On the way up the Sound the spectators wit
messed an exciting between the steam
TaTantula
owned by William K Vanderbilt, jr. and the
latter by Charles r. Flint, but now under char
ter The Tarantua was at least two lengths
ahead when the committees steamer passeo
them.
Ing craft over the course included Commodore
Frederick G. Bourne's Colonia, Morton F.
Plants Venetia, Walter jennings Tuscarora, j.
w. Alker's Florence, j. Rogers Maxweifs Celt'
w Ross Proctor's Mermaid. Frederick CAL
latir's Riviera. the Helvetia II and the Reposo
Glen Cove harbor and the waters Of Hemp
stead Bay were like glass at the scheduled time
for the start. II o'clock. There was not q
breath of air when the yachts gathered at the
starting point, the government buoy off Mott 8
Point. The committee hoisted postponement
/ flag while the yachts drifted and waited for q
| breeze. William G. Brokaw declined to start
| his yawl Sybarita because the Vigilant did not
| show up.
At the starting gun for the schooners. Captain
| Dennis, of the Emna. had figured the distance
SO accurately that his yacht, under spiendld
| headway, with the wind abeam to starooard'
| was crossing the bow of the committee boat.
| with her rival. the Corona. only a couple OF
/ lengths astern. To prevent the latter from OBJ
| tanning the weather berth. Dennis kept the Ell
| nina going parallel to the line, until be could
| just shave the buoy. then, as her bow swung
| across the line, the balloon jib topsan bios
| somed out of it's stops, and with a snap 1t was
sheeted aft as the schooner, with added headway,
crossed the line leading the fleet of twenty-five
yachts The Corona had been outmanoeuvred,
| but she only thirty-three seconds astern-
She crossed the line couple of lengths In the
| Elmina's wake The Katrina followed with
| seconds after COnOra.
! on the next gun, at 1:45 o'clock, the 1O-footers
made spirited start, j. Rogers MaxWel s
| Yankee leading the way by twenty-nine seconds
| in time and by about four lengths in distance.
| Her skipper ran her parallel to the line after
| the signal, to keep the Mineola from gaining
| the weather berth, and succeeded. Now the
| fight was on between the schooners and the big
| sloops. Both the latter had their spinnaker
| booms dropped to starboard but neither set the
sails yet. for there were several luffing matches
| induged in on the three and seven-eighths mile
| run to the first turn at Parsonage Point The
| spfnnakers set five minutes after the start,
| but they were taken in again wnen poth yachts
! uffed so far out Of the course that they had to
| gybe to reach the mark, which was rounded like
! this:
| Yacht. Inns Yacht n IS
G9rGna 21GIna 59 Ss59 YanSee 4lns@re s:i5
The schooners carried spinnakers UP to the
mark, then gybing they set the pace for the rest
on the next leg of the course-six and one-eighth
miles to Greenwich Point buoy 1t was reach
with ba1looners to port and in this work the
sloops soon began to overhaul the schooners.
They luffed around the second mark as follows:
Yacht H.Ms. Yacht HMs
ESnGha Eimna 2S35S anSSls TanEes 2:53 40
Trenor L. Parks the Mimosa III was the
leader in the 33-foot sloop class. She was fol-
lowed by Charles Lane Poors the Mira and the
Joker.
The start of the 30-foot, one design boats
made a pretty picture. On account OF the pre-
mature discharge of the gun about two minutes
before the time the little fleet of fourteen boats
not the line usual but they
squared away at the signal and crossed II IN
this order: The Banzai. the Carleta, the Da-
hinda, the Phryne the Nautilus the Alera, the
Ibis the Nicola, the Adelaide. the Maid of Meu-
don, the Cara Mia. the Linnet. the Atari and the
Mink
There was good long thrash to windward
of nine and a quarter miles from here 10 the
finish, and the work OF the sloops was full OF
interest. The Mfneolas skipper. hoping TO benent
by the first of the flood tide. held the port tack
for a long leg. When the Yankee tackled to
starboard the Mineoa followed suit, but she
was carrying a much larger jib topsail than the
other, which pulled her head off.
Soon after the Yankee tackled to port the
next time she walked through the lee OF the
Mineola This was when about half OF the last
leg had been covered. and from there she
gained slowly but steadily
The schooner Elmira passed the Corona In the
windward walk taking the lead about half an
hour after rounding the Greenwich mark She
gradually widened the gap, crossing the finish
line in the lead.
The summaries follow:
SCHOONER CLAss-srART I:4o-coURsE 1914 MILES.
, Elapsed
Elmins %s b5s~ster, a:ss:ae S4l "a 59
Katrina j. Ford rd.................. 4:44:17 3O2:44
sLooPs-To-FOoT CLAss-sTART 1:45-CoURsE 1914
Ynness Mlneca " r. oss Pfoetor zisas zis 5Sfo
sLooPs-CLAssES NJ AND N--sTART 1:5O-coURsE
1914 MILES.
MINI Mi%o-s g III Hs9s For Park s:ssss ssss i sssis
Joker George F. DomlnielS S:41 :S5 S;ol Ia rs