New-York tribune., 1910-09-01
ZINE BREEZE FOR YACHTS
Din "Race Week" Opens Auspi-
ciousiy with Many Starters.
SPIRITED CONTESTS RULE
-ss Istalena Defeats the Aurora
and the Winsome for
Special Trophy.

SpSCId1 Aiopuy-
-,. Atlantic Yacht Clubs race week
I'D Yesterday with a boom when sixty
= Yachts started in the various classes
An. breeze from the southeast, which
,.x,ed all day. furnished many spirited con-
rs and made conditions ideal for the
soTt
...w.en the big sloops of Class K-George
= Pvnchon's Istalena, sailed by her owner;
~,.oelfus Tanderbilt's Aurora, sailed by
,rrria-n Butler Duncan. Jr.. assisted by
,,sun1-y Thorne. and Henry F. Lippitt's
,.-,so~ne. handled by her owner, with John
-,rs4nv as his assistant Special trophies
offered for the winner of each race in
-. series Of three The Istalena yesterday
s.saa+ed the Aurora by margin of min
~..s seconds and the winsorae by mir
,,.ss = seconds. The course was fifteen
-nss - windward and return from Scot
MI I4ghtship. one OF the Americas Cup
courses
out Of the south-soUtheast a good fresh
,-aaze was blowing when the three big
,aoons. with their sky-reaching club topsails
--osthes,ie5 and their head sails slowed
ere olunCtng through the head seas of
S.,sv Hook. the Winsome toued by her
r.,5e-. the Magnet; the Aurora by the tug
-,slzal'ire and the Istalena BY the c P Ray
and They arrived of the lightship Just
!. few minutes before the signal. Course
~ : E was hoisted on the com
--,--ea boat. -ne steam yacht Inca which
- baeu placed at the disposal Of Theo-
Sc-e Wells. cf the regatta committee, by
ha- au-uer. Edgar 2. Iuckenbach.
oS he Ao-
these three crack sloops have ever made
.---14 g IL one minute before the start
.7g signal al three yachts. on the star
hos,5 tack with sheets fiattened down for
.sa Afteen--liIe thrash 10 windward. headed
- ne eastward with the wind abeara and
ssiI.aE parallel 10 the line in one an
others wake. nor length apart The Is
tslena vas the leader, so that when the
sjgual sounded and au three luffed across
rhe line she was the leeward boat with
re W1nsoue in the middle and the Aurora
y he weather berth All carried baby jfb
1opsalls-
Ten minutes after the start the 1stalena-
having Ter wind clear. had walked through
ire lee Of the other Two. and was point
tug" high as well Twenty-Five minutes
lsts- tt-e Wfnsone split tacks'' with the
Others and made a board Of forty minutes
n toward the Jersey beach. Al u:45
o'clock TIE Aurora followed her in and q
minute after the Aurora went about the
Tsta Iera came ID stays. They were then
sbo--- I've miles TO windward Of the light
sh.c
The Istaiena and the Aurora each held
TIE --shore tack for shout forty minutes,
-ack-1g z little south of Shrewsbury
Rocks The outer mark. the tug DaIzeIline
anchored fifteen miles south southeast from
-Ae ltgh-ship. was then in plain sight, and
th=y We're able 10 fetch il in TWO more
taCks The times taken there were: The
Is-zlena I.Se. the Aurora. 1-33 20; the Win
some, 1870. showing that in this fresh
breeze and in quite a lump OF a sea the
-sJaIena had 0ursaile3 the Aurora minute
q seconds and the Winsome minutes 10
seconds.
Sr1innakers were broken out srnartly 10
port and haIlooners 70 sua-board, and soon
al three were rolling back 70 the northwest
al a reIi-knOI clip and better a I times The
steamship Lampasas. outward bound.
steered Z mile out OF her course 50 as not
= Interfere with the race near the finish.
The plot boats New York and New Jersey
sslured -he winner as she swept across the
finish line al 500 %
Great interest was shown in the after
noon races between the P Class boats from
Boston and those representing this state
The Cara Mia sailed by her owner. Stuy-
vesanr Wainwright made the best time
over the eighteen-rlile course, but she was
protested by H :. Wheelock's An1oret for
not rounding both the Craven Shoai buoys
The Wiudxard was third and the MavouT-
aeer fourth in Sflis class F ;. Noble
Graz Jacket won the leg in Class - and
= the int-rCiub class the Nyssa- owned by
I5er-z 3 FIol1ins. il. won from A John
Eon's TaCa Ysua-
The SanhaSseI Bay Yacht Club was wen
represented bv E a elercks sioop a.sr scytIa,
tne winner with ClaTkson CoEl s AroetIe
second TIE Alrhea was protested by E r
T1~keTrs n for fOuIing the Opal, which he
va sailing The Class NJ sloop Gardenia,
e. --e request Of the committee sailed over
he- course without competitor
On account Of the rough water IN Graves
e-6 Da- last night and 81 The request o. q
ro----frrea from The New York Canoe Club
TIE z-arer carnival and fireworks display
81 -zr- -r,e-ror7e,5 until this evening. when
The u-og-auu1e as announced IN Ihe IT'D
une Yesterday viii be carried out
TIE summaries follow
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