New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-23
LIGHT BREEZE FOR YACHTS
Grace Week" of Atlantic Yacht
Club Opens with a Boom.
THIRTEEN CLASSES FILLED
Fifty-two Starters Cross the
Line In Keen Races on
the First Day.

Race week" at the Atlantic Yacht Club
| opened with a boom yesterday. Thirteen
classes filled for the first days race. and
ffty-two yachts crossed. the starting line.
The visiting yachts included twenty-sIx
from Long Island Sound clubs and six
from the Cedarhurst Yacht Club. OF Law
renee. Long Island. "All hands were
royalty entertained at a stag dinner at the
clubhouse inst night. at which nearly three
hundred were present.
While there were close contests In some
OF the classes, the race as n whole may
scarcely be called satisfactory. for the
southeasterly breeze was not Of sufficient
strength 90 enable the yachts, especially
the smaller ones, 20 overcome the food
tide the full strength Of which they had
to buck in their windward work In the
q Class, for instance, +. :. Mobiles Gray
jacket was the leader at the Ambrose
Channel Buoy No. "A at the end OF long
beat from Craven Shoa Buoy. /. g. Stew
art's Princess was second boat and close
to her.
Both tackled to Fetch teh mark. The tide
set them back, but the Princess got a
favoring pun or two, and rounded the buoy
at 3:lj O'Clock. II was thirteen minutes
later before the Cray Jacket was able 10
weather IL. Meanwhile the Soya rounded
It at 3l7 the Suelew at 3:2jI0. the Gray
Jacket at 3:2S:25. the Alice az 3:29.50 the
Spider at 3:3:l5 and the More Jay at 3.3z:i0.
The starts at O'Clock right Of the club
mouse pier made pretty picture. The New
York Yacht Club thirty-footer Nautilus,
having no competitor. sailed a match race
in a mixed class against a. g. HIS Cres-
cent, Of the handicap class. They sailed
over an eleven-mile course, having first a
reach across the main ship channel 10
Craven Shoal buoy then a beat 10 the Am
brose Channel buoy No. II, and a run from
there TO Coney Island Point whore they
trimmed sheets tride for the finish. The
Nautilus won By the small margin OF q
seconds. The Princess, sailing against
seven others, over the same course. de-
feated the soya by minute As seconds. In
the handicap class five started, and the Joy
beat the Peri IL by 10 minutes 80 seconds.
The sloops Of the Glen Cove Jewel
class, the s class and the Manhasset Bay
new class are racing as one class for the
Crescent Athletic Clubs Upton cup. The
Crescent club has offered a cup for the
first, second and third boats, and the name
Of the winner is to be engraved on the
Upton cup.
They sailed a 123-mile course yesterday
and the Wink, owned by d. G. Whitlock.
won from DR.. c. L. Atkinson's Cyric by 9
minutes IS seconds. In the Manhasset Bay.
regular class the Scyla defeated the Ar
dette by Il minutes 45 seconds. Six boats
started in the Star class, and George
Corry's Little Dipper won from the
Twinkle by miputes % seconds. OF the
six Cedarhurst boats that started, J. Law
renee Posey defeated d. II. Cox's Kalo
by minutes 20 seconds. The winners ia
the other classes were the Mouse. the Zi)
and the Adios.
The races will start to-day at p m.
and in the evening there will be a dinner.
followed by music and dancing az the club
house.
The summary follows:
ATLANTIC YACHT CLUB RACE WEEK.
FIRST DAY. AUGUST %. 1911.
sLOOPS-MIXED CLAss-START. 2 p. M
COURSE, II MILE.