The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-26
After Resolute Gets Through
Luffing With Vanitic, She
Goes Ahead Promptly.
THEN FINDS GOOD WINDS
They Reach Her First and She
Dras Further Away
Crawling Wins.


hs.ns elected 10 defend the America
cup by defeating the Defiance and the
van.iis yesterday, but although the times
q, the finish indicate an easy victory, tho
Resolutc really had the closest cali she
rds mad IN the last five races. The De.
hance and the Nanitie sailed we'll the
former furnishing big surprise She
made the fastest time on the first leg Of
the course, a broad reach, due largely ia
the Resolutc and Vsnitie lufflns Oft the
course While they were killing each other
tho Defiance was going on about her busi-
ness. ON tho wind the first time the Want
tie did remarkably well. She was well han
died and beat the Resolute 80 seconds
~ miles. Down the wind tho vanItie
was handled poorly and the Resolute
gained . good lead. on the next wind
ward leg the Rcsolute sailed into "A har-
den!ng breeze, which helped her to in
crease her lead. on the last leg, A broad
roach. the Nanitic again showed well and
gained ~ seconds.
It wa a. luky day. and as usual the
Resolute, because she was the leading boat
after the second leg Of the course. caught
al the faIoring puffs. II was a long
tine. though. before she was In IA position
70 get these advantages, and II the De-
nance had been faster down the wind she
would have beaten the Resolute. She is.
however. no match for either the NanItie
or Resolute reaching or running. because
~ her small kites, which set only to the
masthead.
rafting good Northwestern blew from
early morning, and like all northwesters
II blew out about noon and after that
al a,.Ir
seventh annual regatta OF the New York
Yacht Club. and In addition Of the three
cup defenders eighteen other yachts sailed.
The committee made special course
Tor the cup yachts. They were sent first
70 III" buoy of Lloyds Neck then across
the Sound to Great Captains Island. then
back to Lloyd's Neck, then to Great Can
tsins Island again and then home. This
gave them a broad reach on the first
leg. beat across the Sound, run back,
another beat across the Sound and reach
to the finish.
The preparatory gun sounded at noon and
the yachts manuuvred for position. The
Vanitio was going for the limo with splen-
did way on She had broken out her
balloon jib topsail and would have jumped
INTO the lead at once when the big balloon
ripped at the clew and WAS useless.
This mshap was singulariy unfortunate
because Capt. Han had judged the start
so well that the Vanitc would have pulie,
through the lee Of the Resoiutc and having
once taken the lead she might have been
able TO hold II. The big sail was lowered
At once and another sent up, but all this
took minutes The Tesolutc crossed the
line at az ~ :j9, the Nanitie at IL 10 :3s
and the Defiance at ~ :l6:ls.
Having been baked at the start, the
Nanitie started TO luff In an effort TO reach
tho wedtheY quarter Of the Resolute. but
the Resolute huffcd too, and soon these
two yachts wehc half mile high Of their
course and the Defiance was going on about
her business. When well out IN the Sound
The Nanitic broke out her balloon again
and she began to close M on the Resolut-.
soon the Resolute changed her reaching
ID topsail for balloon. The wind got
much lighter as they neared the mark and
IN order 10 fetch the Nanitie and Resolute
both had TO gybe booms to port They
could not catch the Defiance, and that
Yacht turned the mark at :2i:e4. the
Rsso!ute turned at ! :.6 20: and the Nanitie
a, - 81.
Baby jlb topsalls were set for the bea'
across the Sound. The Defiance showed
I'd Surprisingly we'll on this leg She
seemed to point higher than the other two,
hut did not foot so fast. The times at
the mark were. Defiance, 2S :O1 Reso-
lutc. 2;23.:Oc Vauitic. . 80 :o7 On this
icg the Vanitic had gained nifty seconds
IN the Roso'ute, and part OF the time she
had her crew to iceward, while the men
On the Resolute were always at the
weather rail. ..
The Defiance set her spinnaker TO star
board The Resouts and Vanitio gybed
AZ tho mark and Resolute held to the
east The big fleet of steamers was In the
way Of the racers and caused some
trouble The Nanitie set her spinnaker
to port but Resolute sybed back as soon
as she was out of the way OF the fleet
81 sightseers and set her spinnaker to
starboard. The wind near the land was
north northwest, but out in the Sound
Il was from Its original quarter. north
vest The Nanltie ran up TO the Reso-
lite and then gybed. when she gybed
rho was put in "A leeward position and
soon found one of the soft spots and was
let astern. Down the wind she was not
sailed at all well. The Resolute caught
the Defiance at 2:ii o'clock and after
that drew away very fast. The times
At the leeward mark Were: Resolute,
, 20 90; Defiance, 3;2l ;of; Vanitie,
3 % %
When on the wind the Resolute made
tho best of her way across the Sound,
Will. the others held to the westward
first The times at the mark were: Reso-
lutte, l6:l0i Nanitic, 4:@3 :O1; Defiance,
I23 "a.
It was reach TO the finish with booms
10 port The Nanitie sent up No.
iib topsail, hut II broke out before II was
hosted and had 10 be lowered again. For
ten minutes she was without any jib
'onsail hut in spite OF this she outsailed
tho Rcsolute ~ seconds on the leg.
The other yachts sailed shorter
courses In tho schooner class George
S'orrs Miladi defeated Hendon thubb's
Queen Nab, formerly the Nagrant. The
Hope well won the race for the Stamford
schoouers and she also took the Bennett
rup for al schooners,
Thctc were five Of the Atty footers
racing The Grayling, sailed by j. p
Morgan, assisted by his son, j. =. Morgan,
took the lead on the first leg and she
steadily drew away on the second leg.
which was 10 windward. The Samuri
and spartan We're next in the race. Al
Tho finish the cirayling crossed the line
wrongly and each of the other yachts fol-
owed her lead. They were all disquali-
ned
The Alera won the race for the 10
tooters, with the Lena second, and the
Moira won the race for the small schoon-
ers, The summarizes
Cur OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, 33% MILES
Yacht HMS HMs Inns INNS
kesotutS ... ~ - ~ 4 Sc os i36 ~ 43t ~
pAnsnCe. .. ~ 1913 : COOS tt3a so 81 ~
D.. Tho Rosolute heats the Defiance . minutes
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