The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-16
ROUGH TRIP FOR LITTLE RHODY.
Q. Y. TIIIinghast's sloop Has . Hard Time
Rounding the Cane.

Rounding tho Cape.
G. r. T~iIlInghast's sloOp Little Rhody, whlco
won the Upton cup In the race from Graves
end Bay to MaTblehead two years ago.
r~ecsntly sailed around the cape from Marble
head and had Q particularly hard time.
This boat 10 ~ feet on the water line and she
started from Marblehead' for Bristol. r. J.,
on Wednesday. October 10. on board we're
C.. F. TilllnRhast. John q. Alden Of Boston
and J. W. Olmstead and Raymond Wceden
Of Providence. all amateurs. Mr.. Olmscead
left the boat at Provincetown, but the others
completed tho voyage. The story Of the trip
IL told In the Boston Globe.
The start was made at 10 P. NJ. In q light
breeze. but with the barometer falling.
The wind was variable. and Saturday after
noon the boat was still north Of Nauset,
working down the cape against q head wind
which was rising into a gale. Finally the
weather became so bad that at Q =. NJ. she
was kept OF TO run back for shelter under
the ape. II blew 90 hard that only Q storm
lib could be carried. and under this no wind
ward work could be done. The boat was.
therefore. headed across the bay In q hope
OF making Gloucester. The sea was high and
the weather thick.
About midnight the wind suddenly came
out in q squat from the northwest. giving
the Little lshody a knockdown that brought
all hands on deck. The sudden change OF
wind caused q terrific cross sea. The boat
was now headed back for the cape still under
storm lib only, aud with the sea breaking
over her from all sides at once. The moon
came out, lighting up the tumbllng. gale
whipped water in a scene oil terrible grandeur.
Two vessels passed close, and one. under
a trysail, hailed and asked II help was needed.
Mr.. TinlnGhast replied In the negative. The
second vessel had just lost her mainsah. the
tatters Of which hung to the bolt ropes. As
she passed the Little Rodhy her foresal also
The yacht was able to lay a. course for
Provincetown, which she reached at 3 A. M.
Sunday. on. Race Point the tender was
As the boat could not be worked to wind
ward in the gale. even in the harbor, she was
drag. She finally fetched up In the lee Of a
fishing. sloop. where she rode out the gale
Sunday the life savers from Race Point
they had seen Sdiriftins coward the beach. and
had brought in unframed. The crew. OF n
Rhody on the Cape cheered her when they
saw the yacht in the harbor.
Proyincetown was LETT, Monday morning
at 0. Light wind prevailed all day and 1t was
3P. N. before the Highland was passed, The
wind now picked up. and at dark, on Nauset.
% Snrst th eHe made SeG ons fSSsea and d. another lnsSSre.
by guess, after midnight. Fortunately Pol
lock Rip Lightship was picked up at4A,,M NJ. :,
the sea on the shoals was high and short. In
this kind OF going. with a fair tide. the Little
yard Sound. making eight and a quarter knots
for several hours. Cuttyhunk, NIFTY miles
from the shoals, wns reached at 10 A. NJ, and,
as the gale still held on. a harbor was made
there.
The holding ground was poor. and the
life savers came on with an ,ofer to take the
boat into the salt pond, A she draws hve and
the orer Was deotIiaed. and at 7, II. rearing
ashift Of wind, sail was again made with four
reefs in the mAinSall and n storm I'D
The sea was very heavy, but at 8 =, NJ. the
boat was about four miles southerly from
West Island.
Here she was knocked down by a southeast
squat with rain, and IL was decided to run
into the Seaconnet River for shelter, This
was done under he jib and peak. Of the main
sail. all she would stand. Some bad Lodges TO
the westward of "SeaConnPt were cleared In
the rnsc dsTk nO by sc IfG Yards sSd nj me sI TrSeT was was
put over under Fogland Point. well up the
river. at 3 2. NJ.
Of the pitching of the boat in a heavy. chop.
At 10 p. NJ, the wind came out again northwest.
making the anchorage a lee shore. but the
Little Rhody held on until ~ Wednesday.
when her crew. having had their sleep. got
under way, arriving at Bristol at 3 P VI.
thai Mr fo1 Ai : eaciT whR bo Tsp tSe Li iGfsf Rh fSSfS' il sa aSs
best sea boat he ever saw. She Ia by no means
ideal. however. a. she cannot be laid 10 in q
heavy sea, owing TO her fiat bow, while her I'm
puts a great strain on the hull in q sea. He
SAYS that had il not been for her small cockpit.
with n high sill to the, cabin door 10 keep the
water from below, he believes the boat would
have foundered in the terrific sea Sunday
night, as the cockpit Was fun OF water most Of
the time; All hands had life belts strapped
II was a time OF stress and anxiety in weather
that would have sent a less staDChly built
The Little Rhody was built at Bristol. r. J..
in 1904, from designs by George Owen, She
won the race from New York 10 Marhlehead
that year and has won several other long