New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-06
SHIPPERS HAVE LIVELY
HALF HOUR IN SQUALL
Trim Sheets in Hurry When
Storm Breaks on New York
Yacht Club Regatta.
THE ACUSHLA WINS AGAIN
Noses Out the Pleione at Finish
Line-The Alera Turns Same
Trick on the Rowdy
in "Thirties.

Out of the northwest yesterday after
noon came big black squall, driving
a forty-mile breeze before K. and well
nigh spoiled the New York Yacht Clue
regatta for the Glen Cove cups.
Striking the fleet Of twenty yachts soon
after the start, il whipped the water at
the west end Of Long Island Sound into
white caps giving the shippers and crews
a lively half hour, while trying 20 nurse
their craft. which were almost on their
beam ends at times, through L without
carrying away some spars The rain that
followed killed the wind so that the feet
became scattered, and il was late before
the last boats finished.
G.. Maurice Heckscher's the Acushla,
and c. c. Rumrills the Pleione, Of the
ffty-foot class. made a close race Of il,
the Acushla winning by forty-seven sec
onds. The Pleione was in the lead hve
minutes before the finish. She was on
the port tack but a few seconds before
the line was reached, the Acushla, on the
starboard tack, having the right of way
forced the other about and won the race
for she was just able to weather the
buoy at the lee end of the line.
Almost a similar finish was that be-
tween the "thirties," the Alera and the
Rowdy. only closer, for the Rowdy won
bv only two seconds After a battle OF
tacks for half an hour the Alera ran
along the finish line too far without
coming about, and so lost her chance OF
winning.
william Butler Duncan sent his little
schooner. the Vandalia, over the hnish
line a winner from the Mora. by one
minute fifty-siX seconds, and George
Scott's schooner, the Miladi, woA easily
in the forty-foot schooner mixed class.
r. 4. Monks the Windward was the only
one OF :he p" class boats to finish
The start was made off Motifs Point IN
light breeze from the southwest the
"dfties" being sent away first at l2lo'
the Pleione crossing the line almost with
the gun. with the Acushla and the Bar
bara Just overlapping her lee quarter
The Ventura the Crawling, the Carolina
and the Spartan crossed well ounched at
the lee end of the line Spinnakers were
set at once, for the first leg of the 1914
mile course was across the Sound 10
PARSONAGE Point buoy. From there they
had a reach to Woolsey's Point buoy
and from there a heat TO the finish.
Three p class sloops and two "thirues
were all sent away on the next gun at
1926. Then came the Sound schooners at
1880, led by the Vandalia These two
stickers had Parsonage Point and Cap
tains Island buoys for their turning
marks.
The sauaH broke just as the Pleione'
the Spartan and the Acushla were APP
preaching the Parsonage mark. Spin
makers were doused in lively order and
sheets trimmed 10 meet the 'nor'wester'
The Spartan and the Pleione doused their
club topsails just before rounding the
mark. The Acushla held on TO hers ana
passed them both in a few minutes. They
and the other "hftes" were travelling
with lee rails under at times. J. P. Nor
gan's Grayling withdrew and went back
TO Glen Cove.
The Sound schooners dropped their fore
; sails until the squar was over The jose
phine. the Joyant and the Windward car
ried their sail all through the squall.
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