New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-14
YACHTS TN CLOSE RACE.
THE ISTALEN1 SCORES.
The Effort also Wins in Nee York
Club REGATTA on the Sound

The new sloop yacht Istalena. owned by
George NJ. Pynchon. scored yesterday the first
victory in the 57-foot class in the New York
Yacht Clubs regatta for the Spring Cups, in
which she and the two other new Herresnoff
sloops-Cornelius Vanderbt's Aurora and Henry
F. Lppitt's Winsome-met for the first time in
a race.
After a battle royal sailed triangular
course of nineteen and one-half miles on Long
Island Sound, the Istalena, allowing the other
two boats eleven seconds each, defeated the
Aurora by l minute 1G seconds and the Win
some by minute II seconds. The Aurora out
sailed the Winsome by ~ seconds. Having
sailed two previous races the Istalenas canvas
may have been better stretched than that of
her rivals, but there is no denying that she was
well sailed by her owner from start to finish
F. NJ Smiths sloop. the Effort won her fourth
race of the season. She was sailed by Addison
Hanan and she defeated ]. A Blair. jr.s. Nicola
by "A minutes 33 seconds the latter defeating
J. W. Clarks Irolita by minutes % seconds.
OF the seven "thrties' that started. Captain
Adee's Adelaide. sailed by himself, won from
the Alera by 5G seconds. Morton f. Plants
fine schooner Ingomar. with Charles Barr at
the helm, had no competitor, so she sailed over
the course against time.
Fifteen yachts started in a light breeze from
the southwark, with occasional strong pufe.
The first leg of the course a spinnaker run
of three and seVen-eighths miles from the start
off Prospect Point Hampstead Bay. across the
Sound to Parsonage Point buoy, thence reach
Of six and one-eghth miles to Woolseys Reef
buoy off Greenwich Point, and from there
beat to windward of nine and one-quarter miles
to the finish
Breaking out spinnakers to starboard the three
new sloops crossed the starting line at 12:4J
o'clock almost on terms the Winsome at
the east end of the line. the Istalena at the west
end. and the Aurora in the middle and slightly
IN the lead The 1rolta led in her class at the
start at 12:4l:14. with the Effort twenty-three
seconds in her wake and the Irolita twenty-thrce
SECONDS astern of the Effort The seven "thIr-
tles got away in this order The PintaiI the
AueIalde' the Aeria, the Atari. the Phryne tie
Nepsi and the Banzai
owing to the light airs and Gains that nre-
VaiIea FOR the first two hours the real racing
only began when the yachts Iuffed around The
eastern inarK-WOOlSev's Reef-having caught
JUST Defore they reached 1t. a fine and steady
eou'L"esteflN breeze that brought out the wind
ward qualities of the boats. The wind shifted 10
Itle eastward after the large sloops had rounded
parsonage Point, and off Captains Island the
vanderbilt boat the leader in her class
WIN me NlnSOme second and the Istaleua last
. An interesting luffing match followed between
Jhe new sloops Winsome and Aurora each steered
~ Iiel owner. Just before the eastern mark was
reached They luffed so long that both had to gybe
10 reach the mark. The Istalena proftipC nv the
nTSl place. The windwaTd work between these
three and between the Irolita and the Nicola was
pretty The little Gardenia also made !, 6ne
SHOWING IN the beat of nine and half miles.
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