New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
Flag Officers Yacht"
Makes Fast Time Over
Course of 81 Miles.
EXCELLENT TEST OF
CUP DEFENCE BOATS
Fleet OF Thirty Takes Part in
Second Squadron Run of the
New York Yacht Club.
BY CAPTAIN JAMES c. SUMMERS.

BY CAPTAIN JAMES {. SUMMERS.
New London. Conn, Aug. When
the cup defence yacht Resolute swept
across the finish line OF Sarahs Ledge
at 2:2l:l4 this afternoon, with her
great msinsail swung broad off to port
and her spinnaker 70 starboard, she COM
pleted one Of the fastest races ever
sailed by a sloop yacht over the 54-mile
course from Smithtown Bay to this
port. She averaged los knots for half
the distance, and SO knots for the
whole course. She defeated the Nanitie
by minutes % seconds. elapsed time,
and by minutes 50 seconds corrected
time. Thirty yachts started in to-day's
race.
1t was a fair wind all the way, from
start TO finish, in this second squadron
run Of the New York Yacht Clubs
cruise. both sloops having been equally
lent test of the yachts respective
merits in a straight run before the
wind, with spinnaker set all the way.
The Resolute proved that in such q
breeze-an average of about ten miles
the flag officers yacht is the faster
of the two
L. $. y. Cups as Prizes.
The special prizes for to-day's race
were the naval alumni association OF
the United States Navy challenge cups
one for schOonerS and one for sloops
The schooner cup was won by Harold
S. Vanderbilt's Nagrant and the one for
sloops by Edmund Randolph's Spartan.
On account Of the late finishes on
Friday night the official summary OF
that days race was not obtained from
+ the committee until this afternoon.
when it was found that the winners OF
/ the navy challenge cups were the
/ schooner Irolita and the sloop Pleione.
T The winners of the prizes IN the regu-
I lar classes follow: Class II, the Res
olute: Sound schoOners. the MORA;
/ 3O-foot class, the Lena; 40-foot sohoon-
ers. the Ahmakols; Class +, the We
mona Class n, the Dorello; 5O-foot
I class, the Pleione.
The order of the finish Of the first
F fourteen ya2ts in to-day's race was as
! follows: The Enchantress, the Nagrant,
/ the Ariel. th9 Spartan, the Princess, the
4 Pleione, the lrolita. the Sea Fox, the
I Radiant. the Savarona, the Alice, the
Dorella, the Venona and the Mllady. 1t
was after shutdown when the last yacht
finished.
An early morning start was the order
before the yachtsmen turned in last
night for a much needed rest, as some
of the yachts did not finish until after
/ 10 o'clock Mainsails were hoisted and
anchors hove short soon after o'clock
4 this morning, and when the prepare
tory signal sounded at "colors" from
f the committee tug Julia g. Moran
anchored off Cranes Neck, all the rae
. ing craft were under way, and the big
sloops, the Resolute and the Vanitie
were maneuvring for position near the
starting line.
The wind was w. n. W. with a
strength OF about eight miles, so with
fair wind and a fair tide the
prospect of fast run to New London
fifty-four miles TO the eastward, was
promising.
With balloon jib-topsails on the
stays ready to break, the Vanitie and
the Resolute approached the line two
minutes before the starting signal at
a quarter past eight o'clock. The bronze
sloop led by a few lengths, and Cap
tain Half had placed her off the port
bow of the Resolute, both having
booms eased we'll off to starboard.
At the whistle the Vanitie's ballooner
was broken out and she swept across
the line first. q minute and 26 seconds
after the signal. The Resolute fol
+ lowed SO seconds later, breaking out
I her ballooner as she crossed. She
was handicapped about 4 seconds. As
] they passed Oldfeld Point, both