The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-18
FINE BREEZE GOES TO
WASTE OWING TO FOG
Cup Yachts Sail or Tug Out of
Harbor, but Then Mist
Gets Thicker.
NEW SHEET ON RESOLUTE
Hcrreshoff Mainsail Fits Well,
but Is Full at Leach and
Flaps Considerably.
NEW SHEET ON RESOLUTE

NEWPORT. July IA dandy breeze OF
about thirty miles an hour strength went
to waste to-day because as Il came In
from the southwest II banked UP the fog
So thick that one could almost cut IT, Had
1t lifted just little the conditions would
have been ideal for just the test that has
been wished for. The managers OF the
three cup defenders were anxious to race
and tried to get out to the light vessel to
sail over a short course. but were forced
to run back to the harbor.
There was a heavy fog all night and the
wind frcshened toward the morning and
continued to blow fresh all day. only to
go To waste. Newporters declare that
something in the weather machinery has
slipped a cog and that the weather is typl-
cal Of May and early June. Whether II
VIII be righted by to-morrQsv no one will
try to predict. At present II looks AZ If
the fog would last all the summer Com
modore t.. Walter Clark thinks the wind
VIII go westerly to-day. and 10 II does
there should be a good race The conun-
drum here is where does the fog come from
and where does it go? These races are not
postponed AS soon as they are declared
of by the committee they are done with
tomorrow unless the owners of the yachts
arrange a new series
About the time that the yachts should
have left the harbOr for the starting line
there were slight Indications of improve.
ment and the optimists declared there
would be "A race worth waiting for The
three racers kept Juggling ut their anchors
Former Commodore Frederick q. Bourne
entertained c. l.. F.. Robinson. George L.
Rives and Frank IL. Sturges OF the New
port Yacht Racing Association and n. Deb
Parsons. Frederic q. Speddon and G. Sher.
man Hoyt. the New York Yacht Club re.
gatta committee. on board his new zach,
Alberta. About II looked as II IL might
be clear outside and messages from Block
Island and from the life saving station Al
Prices Neck said II was clear in their
localities. The committee sent to each
owner and asked IL he was willing to 20
out and try, and each owner announced
that ho was ready and willing to race
/ About ! o'clock the Alberta got under way
and the yachts soon started after her. The
Defiance took "A tow from the Zpalong
The Resolute and the Nanitle sailed on.
under jib and mainsail Hut they got only
about a quarter Of a mile below Fort
Adams when the fog came In thicker than
ever and realizing that II was useless to
waste any more time the race was declared
OFF
Tho two yachts under canvas did some
! fiue sailing, though. for a few minutes
| While on the wind both the Resolut,
/ and tho Nanitie heeled considerably, 80
| that their rails were well down to the
water. The Resolute had her new Her.
reshof mainsail on, and while IL fittoC
| well II seemed quite full at the leach
and taped considerably. Her alumi
! mum gan, TOO. seemed to buckle some
/ what The Nanitic tried her new wooder
/ gan and II stood tho short test well. or
returning 10 the hdrbor the yacht wac
sailed with the wind Abcam 80 test the
now spar more thoroughly and there was
| no sign of any buckle.
TIL" Resolutc l. having her eighth
mains,il made 10y Ratscy AT city Island
II IL now on the floor being sown and vii
! he ready hy the time of the cruise
! ON the Nanitie II IL said the new tubular
steel boom will not br tried II Is feared
| that the steel boom swinging over tn,
| compass might defect the needle and
make navigating difficult They dom
/ want to do anything that would hurt that
! Yachts iino reputation for navigation
| which she won in the fog last Saturday.