Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08
ResOlute Beaten by
About 2 Minutes, 40
SeC.--The Cochran
Yacht Speedy
Conditions Make a FaireT Test
Than That Of Tuesday

Rye, N. Y, June THE bronze
yacht Vanitie turned the tables on her
rival, the Resolute, in the fourth Long
Island Sound race sailed Saturday I'M
der the auspices of the LArchmont
Yacht Club over a triangular course,
winning by 5m SIS in elapsed time.
AS the Vanitie gives the Resolute an
estimated allowance over the 29A mile
course, such as was sailed today, of
SIN Us, the margin of the Gardner boat
over the Herreshoff creation was be-
Eeved to have been I'm Jos.
Although sailed in light to moderate
airs, which were somewhat uncertain
at times, the race was a fairer test
| than the contest on Tuesday, which
was regarded as more or less of
fuke and which the Vanitie won by
lem ASS.
! Except for the first two miles. the
| race today was more of a procession
| than when the Resolute led the Vani
| tie on the second race on Wednesday,
which the Bristol boat won by lis.
| Both yachts were slow in starting
and both were handicapped. Fifteen
! minutes after the start on the first leg,
which was a reach, the Vanitie went
! by the Resolute to windward. princi-
paily through the grand work of her
now famous balloon jibtopsail, which
tugged at its sheet like leashed bull
dog.
| 1t was this same sail that dragged
the Cochran yacht to victory on Tues
day.
| The lead of the Vanitie kept con-
stantly increasing until the fourth leg
when the Resolute recovered two min
utes by bringing up new breeze.
ResoIute Picks Up Bit
| 1t was the intention of the commit
| tee to give the yachts two reaches
and beat on the triangular course,
| but before the yachts reached the first
turn the wind hauled completely
around, making the second leg the
windward one, and not much OF a one
at that
After passing the Resolute on the
| first leg the Vanitie luffed around the
! first mark, three minutes and 10 sec
| onds to the good. Sheets were fiat
| tened for the beat, but it proved one
! of long and short boards, with the
| vanitie meeting a freshening breeze
off the Long Island shore. She increas-
ed her lead to six minutes, IA seconds,
at the second mark, but dropped back
! a few seconds on the reach to the
/ third mark.
BY this time the breeze had canted
| around until it blew almost directly
| down the fourth leg, or the first leg
| of the triangular on the second time
around.
| The Vanitie set her ballooner and
slipped along fairly we'll in the faint
air.
| Astern. the Resolute, minutes and
2 seconds behind at the third mark.
was caught by the increasing breeze
and bowled along like a race horse.
Her spinnaker was broken out to
starboard and she gained rapidly on
the slow moving Cochrane yacht.
| 1t was time for action on the Van
lite, so Capt. Dennis brought into use
his favorite move off the wind, by
! lacking to leeward.
! Instead of sailing directly for the mark
he made wide sweep out into the sound
followed by an equally wide one inshore.
He covered more space. but he sailed
faster and managed to reach the buoy
with plenty of margin, although the Res
olute had picked up two minutes in the
six-mile slide down the wind
Vanitie Gains Consistently
The race was now settled, for the Van
| title, scudding across the sound on the
fifth leg, met the freshening breeze which
had blown the Resolute along.
The Cochran yacht again showed that
she is a wonderfully fast boat. for at the
fifth mark she was five minutes IS sec
onds to the good. having gained more
than a minute in the four miles. which
was close to windward and which needed
a short tack to fetch the mark.
On the four and one-haf miles rush
up the sound to the finsh, hard on the
port tack, the vanitie pulled away still
farther on the Resolute and sped across
the finish line consistent winner, amid
the usual chorus of whistles from the
largest fleet of spectator yachts that
have followed the cup boats so far this
season.
On the last leg the breeze was the best
Of the day and the vanitie gained three
quarters OF minute
The yachts will be both overhauieo
during the next three days in preparation
for tta +hree omen sea contests next