Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-03
RESOLUTE AGAIN
TRIM s VANITIE
BY TWO MINUTES
And Is SECONDS
Race Dead Before the
Wind-Longest Test
Had Off Wind

New London, Aug. 1.-The Resolute
won a 54-mile race dead before the
wind from the Vanitie Saturday by 2
minutes, % seconds, corrected time.
From the start at the eastern en-
trance of Shutdown Bay to the finish
at the mouth of the Thames, both cup
defender candidates sailed with spin
nokers either to port or starboard. The
Vanitie had a 0-second lead at the
start, and it was an hour before the
Resolute caught and passed the Coch
ran yacht. The Reselute gained slight
iy for the next two hours, but in the
last 20 miles the Vanitie drew up but
could not overhaul the Herreshoff
yacht The breeze held at eight knots
throughout the run.
Saturdays was the longest and per-
haps the best test the two candidates
have had off the wind.
The Vanitie crossed the line off
Cranes Neck, Long Island, first, both
boats hanging back as long as posi-
bic in order to gain the benefit of the
handicap interval. The Resolute de-
layed trifie too long and was handi-
capped three seconds, the Vanitie get
ting lead of 40 seconds in actual
time.
Both yachts scurried over the long
port tack with ballooners pulling eff
fectively and with the courses straight
down the sound. Astrong ebb tide also
helped
For the first few minutes the Vani-
tie gained bit. but the Resolute soon
luffed her out into the sound, and be-
fore four miles had been covered the
yachts were sailing dead before the
wind and spinnakers were broken out
to port.
The. Resolute soon began to draw up
or her rival, and an hour and a half
after the start the Herreshoff boat was
in the lead. She continued to draw
away until nearly abreast of Faikner
Island, half way to New London.
where the Resolute had established a
lead of minutes and 80 seconds, with
q miles of the course covered.
Then the Vanitie. with slightly bet
ter breeze astern, picked up a few sec
onds and for the next 81 miles she con-
tinued to gain slightly
The Resolutes lead at the Cornfeld
Lightship, 40 miles from the start. was
2 minutes Is seconds, the Vanitie having
gained 13 seconds in Is miles, with condi-
tions practically equal
On the run to Bartletts Reef Ligftship
of II miles, the Vanitie picked up 8 Sec
onds and in the three miles to the finish
sne gained 3 seconds more, due princi-
pally to the freshening breeze astern.
The two yachts covered the "a miles in a
trffie more than six hours or at nearly
a 9-knot gait
The rest of the fleet was left far astern
but the breeze held moderate and true all
day in the sound, and even the smallest
boat was at anchor an hour or two be-
lore shutdown. The run was as much a
success as Fridays was a failure.
The efiet. with the two cup yachts as
the chief attraction. will lie over Sum
day in the lower reaches of the Thames
and will resume racing on Monday with
run to Newport. The summary:
SIXTH TRIAL RACE
And second run of the New York Yacht
Club cruise-Wind. west-northwest. 10
knots. Course, east by north, "a miles
Weather, clear Tide, ebb at start
floor at finish
Start. Finish
Resolute .S:17:00 2:2I:14
Vanite .................... S:l6:23 2:23.Oe
Ell CIR.
Time. Time
tesoiute .................-..6:O 4:14 04
Vanltle 6.39 sos 80
The Resolute wins by minutes Is Sec
onds, elapsed time; by minutes IS sec