New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-27
FLUKY BREEZE NO
BAR TO RESOLUTE
Outfooted Other Cup Creations
Almost from the Start of
Yesterdays Race.
By CAPTAIN JAMES c. SUMMERS.


When the Resolute, closehauled on
the starbOard tack. swept across the
finish line at 6:O8;13 last evening, her
tall yellow spars and perfect fitting
sails cleaning in the waning sunlight,
she presented a picture that not only
American yachtsmen, but the whole
American nation, which the yacht may
soon be called upon to represent,
might we'll feel proud of.
On the bridge of his steam yacht
Eugenia, crouching low, with his ear
turned towards the committee boat, SO
that he could hear the whistle when
the Resolute crossed the finish line, sat
John b. Herreshoff. the blind brother
of Captain Nat. who designed many
cup defence yachts. The captain, by
his side, told him the interval between
the finish of the Resolute and the
Vanitie, and he smiled as he heard the
news.
1t was the Resolute's tenth pre-
liminary race and the winning of it
made her score eight frsts and two
seconds. In a light varying breeze
from the outh-southeast at the start
to southwest at the middle and the
finish of the race, and in smooth water
the Resolute covered the 3Oh-mlle
course in hours minutes AZ sec
ends, defeating the Vanitie by min
utes 3 seconds actual and by minutes
46 seconds corrected time, and the
Defiance by 10 minutes 10 seconds ae-
tual and minutes 80 seconds cor
rected time.
Five of the "tifties"-also HeTreshot
built yachts-raeed over the same
course, and a remarkable feature, show
ing the speed of these yachts and the
variation in strength of the wind, was
the fact that J. p. Morgan's sloop
Grayling covered the 9l2 miles, from
the start to the Long Neck buoy, IN
IA seconds faster time than the
Resolute and in 10 minutes 80 sec
onds less time than the Defiance.
1t is plain that the Definace only
needs more canvas to make her
faster, fast enough, perhaps, to be a
really formidable rival for the other
two 75-footers. Under her present
shaved-off rig she covered two legs OF
Yesterdays course faster than the
/ Resolute, and there is no doubt in the
minds of some that with a fulbgrown
suit of sails, even though she sacrificed
some time allowance, she could some
times win.
The course selected by the regatta
committee of the club was 1874 miles
sailed twice over. 1t took the yachts
from the start off LlOyd's Neck, Az
miles northwest by north u north, to
the buoy off Greenwich Point; thence
2k miles east a north to the Cows
buoy off Shippan Point, continuing on
east northeast 2s miles to the Long
Neck buoy, thence south southwest q
"a miles to the starting point.
The start was about the tames. that
could be imagined. The wind was so
ght from the southeast that there
was little chance of man9uyring. Cap
tain Half, however, had the Vanitie
within a length or two of the line
when the whistle sounded and he sent
her across with boom to port and
ballooner drawing twenty-seyen seconds
after the signal.
The Resolute and Defiance came
from the south side of the buoy which
marked the east end of the line when
they got the whistle to 90. Captain
Adams luffed the Resolute close around
the buoy, I'm. PCS. after the signal.
The Defiance, close under his lee,
crossed 10 seconds later, both having
ballooners on, but they were not doing
much work. Captain Pynchon kept the
Defiance going TO the westward until
he got his wind clear; then he shaped
his course for the first mark-Green-
witch Point "A miles across the Sound
Skipper Half tried the spinnaker to
starboard on the Vanitie 10 minutes
after the start, as the Resolute was
overhauling her. II would not draw,
however, and down it came three min
utes later.
Twenty minutes after the start the
Vanitie led the Resolute by half q
dozen lengths. Both had luffed to the
eastward until they were mile OIL
more of the course. Finally Half gave
up at I:4S and kept of for the Green
witch buoy. Captain Adams gybed this
Resolute TO starboard, the wind having
eanted TO the southwark a couple OF
points. The Vanitie followed suit a
couple of minutes later, and both ther
headed for the Greenwich Point red
Al 1858 the Resolute gybed to port
followed by the Cochran yacht six
minutes later The Resolute then
went through the Vanitie's lee. Both
gybed to starboard twelve minutes
later and again in FIVE minutes, the
Resolute lufing around the mark al
2:2O:13, the Vanitie at 2:21;S5 and the
Defiance al 2:24;17. The Resolute "a
this point had gained minutes 81 sec,
onds on the Nanitie.
Then followed close reach to the
second mark Long Neck buoy. The
Resolute and the Vanitie made q six,