New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
ISTALENA LEADS AURORA
BIG Shops Have Pretty Race in
New Rochelle Regatta.
OWNERS DO THE STEERING
Fifty-two Yachts Cleave Waters
of the Sound in a North
west Breeze.

travelling at steamboat speed. with her
lee rail awash and all hands motonless AT
their stations. but reaoy to jump 10 ease
sheets or halyards st a moments notice.
the big sloop yacht 1stalena, with hes
owner, George NJ. Pynchon at the wheel
swept majestically across the finish line
of New Rochelle yesterday. the winner an
her class, by a margin of j minute Is sec
onds from Cornelius vanderbit's Aurora.
which was also steered by her owner.
The race was the spring regatta of the
New Rochelle Yacht Club, and ii was the
first of the season on Long Island Sound.
Fifty-two yachts crossed the starting line.
80 breeze from the northeast that tested
spars rigging and sails TO the utmost, and
kicked up a chop of in the Sound
that gave the crews of the small craft a
good dousing in the windward work
Five of the sloops came TO grief before
or in the course Of the race The New
York Yacht Club So-footer Alerta car
ried away her mast just before the gun
for her class The Howdy broke her rud-
DER, the Cara Mia and Clara were also dis
abled. and the Festina fouled one of the
broys.
The start of the big sloops was one OF
the prettiest seen on the Sound in some
time. a special course was allotted by the
regatta committee-George p. Cranberry,
" S. Katterhorn and w. II. J. Ehler-sta-
toned on board Charles NIGHTS power
yacht Apache IL The committee also sent
them away on special start at LAO to
keep them clear of the smaller craft
With club topsails aloft and every sail
set ng perfectly, they got away inside Of
minute with the Aurora in the lead. The
winsome. Henry F. Lippitt's boat, had the
The Aurora broke out her intermediate jib
topsail as she cleared the line. The Win !
Some set her ballooner. but the Istalena's |
skipper held hers in stop for some time.
Away they went to the eastward, induIg |
ing in luffing matches as they passed Larch- |
mont. Parsonage Point and Scotch Caps. |
il was a reach for them to the first mark 4
the buoy off Woolsey's Reef. Gybng 4
there they reached across the Sound to
Matinicock Point buoy. and from there it |
was close reach to the finish, making a /
course of twenty-one and a quarter miles IL /
81.
Racing in the other classes was equally |
keen, as is shown by the figures. The sloop 1
Windward in the p class. ably sailed by
the Hanan brothers. defeated Mimosa III
by ] minute 81 seconds. and the Sender |
class boat Joyette, sailed by ". W. Swan, !
who with her in the race for the Taft /
Cup at Marblehead. won from the Chinook
by ] minute a seconds.
In the handicap classes IN which seven
teen boats started. there was also some
close work. and great interest was shown !
in the new one-design Larchmont class. |
Spence brothers Lowanna was the winner |
She defeated i. Darr's Triton by IS seconds
over the eleven and one-quarter mile course
Five Of the new one-design class came down
from Stamford and J. S. Jenkins's Fiddler
was the winner.
The summary follows:
SLOOPS-CLASS K-START i:4o-COURSE
2lA MILES.