Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-07
TUNING Up For !.
YACHT RACES
SEVERAL COURSES LAID OFF
AND BOATS WILL RACE
OVER THEM.

OVER THEM.
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DAVE ELIMINATION CONTEST!
Helmsmen Are Masters at thu
Work and Some Very Interest:
ing Sport Expected.
With the passing Of the first few
tuning up tests of the trio of yachts
striving for the honor Of defending
the Americas cup against the Sham
rock w. next September, the skip
pers and crews are preparing for the
all summer series of racers which
will evolve the successful candidate
u De chosen by the cup committee
from the Resolute, Defiance and Van
tiles. During the coming week the
yachts will pass from Long Island
Sound to the ocean course off Sandy
Hood for three tests under sternel
conditions OVer the same course
which VIII be used in the cup races
There will follow a week devoted to
rel.slrs and changes in the yachts
to be succeeded by two weeks more
OF Sound racing. All of these events
OF which there are eleven On the
schedule will be of a preliminary ma
ture In fact they have been arrang'
ed iiaae6.tb get the boats and crews
in condition for the serious
tests off Newport in July and August
when the Americas cup committee
will sit in judgment on the perfor.
mances and select the best boat to
meet the Shamrock Nv.
6 Courses Laid Out.
The starts for all the racing in the
Sound will be off Great Captain Is
land nea the entrance to the harbOr
Of Portchester. Half a dozen courses
OF from 20 to 80 miles each have been
laid out, some Of which will carry
the yachts down the Sound beyond
Stamford, while others will take them
we'll up to Execution Rock and owe
to the hampstead shore. With starts
off Great Captain Island it will be
possible to Law a fifteen mile course
to the windward in case the breeze
is from the prevailing direction. south
west. "
Practiced on 1. 7.
Eleven years ago, the three cup
yachts, Reliance, Constitution and
Columbia we're given numerous trials
races in this part of the Sound, but
the starts were off the Long Island
shore near Matincock Point and II
was found difficult to send the boats
to the windward on the first ep.
By between the mana.
gers and the regatta committee of
the New York Yacht club fifteen
minutes will be allowed between the
warning and, the, starting SIGNALS ,tfor
the fight for position. Two minutes
will be given for the Yachts to start
and in that brief period each boat
will be timed to the second. al she
crosses the line. If she is late. her
time will be taken as starting at the
end of the two minutes. although she
may be three, five or even ten min.
utes behind. The struggle for the
tyest places at the line. the weather
berth If the first leg is to windward,
a sEug place away from the others
with the wind clear if the course is
to leeward, is the supreme test Of the
sailing master and many a race has
been won or lost through success or
failure at the outset.
HeImsmen Are M~asterhands,
The helmsmen of the three Yachts,
George NJ. Pynchon on the Defiance,
Charles +. Adams. End. on the Reso.
lutte and William Dennis on the Van.
tile are master hands at the starting
game and the best yachine snort Of
the year will be in watching the game
played by these cool. celebrating
shippers. 1t is a rare eame-tbis
handling of q big powerful Yacht. es.
pecially in q breeze, while even in
soft weather the very best Judgment
is required. Each as he stands at
the wheel must know lust where his
" boat is, how fast she is going.
where the other yachts are and how
fast they are sailing, He must know
when his own boat has the right Of
way, and when his opponent must
give way and in 2 tight mace MT 10
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