New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
ReSolute Again Victor
in Race with Vanitie

yachts set spinnakers TO port, shaping
their courses so az TO get the full
benefit OF the cbb tide.
At $500 the scnoonerettes MORA and
Alicia and the "thirties' Alera, Lena,
Juanita. Carlita and Banzai got away
IN that order. all setting balloon Jibs
and spinnakcrS The sloopS Dorcllo and
Alice. the Stamford schooners Hope
we'll, Ahmakola and Whileaway and INC
"F" class schooners MilRdi. Nagrant
and Ncnona started on the S:25 signal
but the three lest named yachts start
cd as on Friday. ten minutes ahead oil
their time and so were disqualified IS
TO the regular class prizes. They my
compete. however. for the Alumni Asso-
citation L. S. y. challenge cups.
Start of the Four "Fif,ies.'
Only four of the Cities started ct
$3.50. They were the Carolina me
Plcione. the Spartan and the Samurl.
The Spartan had the weather berth ana
with her ballooner pulling we'll she
passed the Carolina right on the ilne'
The Carolina and the Samuri steertd
to the southwark. the other two Haul
ing more TO the northward. -,
Nine schoonsrs, large and small. with
booms swung broad OIL - starboard
and ballooncrs and spinrakelS SCI,
made the most spirited s.art o. the
morning. lloyd DemaresCs Princess
was the leader, with Harold ;. -ahder.
bilt's Vagrant couple Of lergths OF
her Ice quarter.
Then came Commodore Pratts lsg-
shin Sea Fox. r. l.. LelRnd's Ariel. Will
lam f. Iselin's Enchantress, r. waiter
Clark's Irolita, the SavaronG, the queen
Nab and the Radiant in that order.
The auxiliary schooner lGvader start
ed with the others, bu: did not cross
tho line The first six namcd had a
Inning match Tor ten minutes. Half an
hour after the start the te6t spread
ont. fan shape, across toe sound. ne
yachts. with their white sails cleaning
i'm the strong sunlight, made q remark
ably striking picture.
The Resolu1e and the Vanitie seemed
pretty evenly matched running before
Inc wins, for one hour and a quarter
after the start the Resolu;c %as found
10 be still thi:t--. six seconds astern II
the Vanitie. The crews OF both yachts
were grouped at the taffrail.
The midsouud course watch the two
bio sloops steertd was cast b. nor,h,
with the wind right over their sterns.
The Resolute began slowly but surely
TO draw away from the Vanitie, and
the wind gradually backed to the south
ward until at l. :05, when the Resolute
was forced to gybe to port, 1t was from
the west-southwest. Five minutes later
her spinnaker was set 20 starboard and
at 11:15 Captain Half gybed the Van
itie, setting her spinnaker two minutes
later.
Hug Long Island Shore.
The big schooners Enchantress and
Irolita had gybed an hour earlier, the
smaller schooners following suit. and
all of them keeping the Long Island
shore to hold the food tide as long as
possible. Arthur Curtiss James's aux
iliary bark Aloha, with all her square
sails set, made picturesque ADDITION
to the fleet as she travelled east undcr
both sail and steam.
Other accompanying steam yachts IN
cluGed Vice Commodore George Baker,
jr.s, Viking with the regatta committee
on board. Henry Walters Narada. l.. I.
Benedict's Oneida, which kept close TO
leeward of the Resolute and the Nanitie
all the way; +. G.. Bourne's Alberta ard
A. S. Cochran's Mohican.
When Faulkner's, Island - twenty
seven miles from the start--was abeam
the times taken were: Resolute,
11:41:2S; Vanitie, 11:43:26. This
shows that the Resolute by elapsed
time gained 2 minutes 80 seconds on
the Cochran yacht. From there to the
next mark -Cornfeld Point lightship -
the distance is twelve and a half miles,
and the times taken there show that
the Vanitie had gained on the Resoiite
thirteen seconds.
At Bartlett's Reef lightsh.p, eleven
and half miles farther east, where
they turned to run up to the finish. the
times taken were: Resolute, 2:O5:O2;
Vanitie, 2:06:44. This shows the Van
lite had gained .hree seconds.
The Resolute made the three-mile
run from Bartlett's Reef lightship to
the finish in Is minutes II seconds,
and the Vanitie in Is minutes Is sec
onds, a gain for the Herreshoff boat Of
six seconds.
It was an hour and forty-two minutes
before the first yacht Of the main fleet,
the schooner Enchantress, crossed the
finish line, because, although the boats
had q strong breeze, they had to buck
the food tide for the last twenty miles
of the course. The wind proved fuky
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