The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-14
YACHTS SPEND TIME
SEARCHING FOR WIND
Race Called OFF When None Of
Three Defenders Finishes
Within Six Hours.
RESOLUTE WELL IN LEAD
Drifting Match Again Indicates
Her Superiority Over
Pair of Rivals.
RESOLUTE WELL IN LEAD

NEWPORT. July 13.--The yachtsmen
here are disguised with the weather con-
dltions. For Ave hours the three cup de-
tenders drifted with the tide to-day. fiirted
with tickle winds and succeeded in COW
ering twenty miles of the thirty mile
course. Then. being unable to complete
the distance within the limit, six hours.
the committee called the race OF and the
yachts were lowed home. What is
wanted is a wind that IL real wind, and
the conditions of weather at present do
not promise anything like wind
There were times to-day when the
yachts had wind enough to send them
over the course within the time limit.
and then the contest was very interesting.
The three yachts sailed at times In close
company and then they would scatter.
each skipper having his own idea about
where the wind would come and later all
would get together again.
Soon after the start the Resolute worked
into the lead, but she lost this in "A very
few minutes to the Defiance. The ma
hogany hulled yacht seemed to have found
conditions 10 suit her and she moved very
fact, and Just when her admirers were be-
ginning to crow the Nanitle caught her
and gained the lead. The Resolute. hav-
ing been beaten when In close company
with the others held well 10 the south.
looking for the wind tn come from the
southwest. AT one time she must have been
at least mile heblnd the Nanitc and then
the wind hauled and gave her the lift she
had been looking for so that she was
able TO catch the other two yachts at
the weather mark. where she led by about
quarter of a mile, Then they began TO
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topsails but the wind headed them, COM
ing from the southwest II was light.
Oily looking patches OF water were seen
everywhere with just few spots where
ripples showed that there was Just "A little
air, and each skipper tried to work from
one Of these spots to another. They tried
to go to windward with reaching jih top
sails carried and later the Resolute aud
Defiance had only n NO jb topsail with
no fore s,aysail under IT, The Resolute
reached the second mark, and again the
Nanitie was about a quarter OF mile
astern and the Defiance about thrce-quar-
ters Of mile 10 leeward and hopelessly
hecalmed. Then the committee signalled
that the race was called off.
As the starting signal sounded at I? 10
o'clock the Vanitie. on the port tack.
hauled her wind and crossed the line at
1856 10. Capt. Han evidently wished to
get into a better wind seen to the south
east quickly as possible. The Resolute
was only two seconds later than the Van
lite and she, also on the port tack, was
about two lengths off the weather quarter
of the Cochran yacht The Defiance. still
further to the windward, crossed the llno
at 9 II 80. The Vanitie carried a smaller
jh topsail than either OF the other yachts.
The Resolute at once began to outfoot
the Vantie. skipper Adams kept her
headsails full and she footed fast and
Al a -
covered by the Resolute the Vanitie took
the starboard tack and the Resoute was
flung around few seconds later. The
Resolute and Nanitic We're then drawing
toward the Defiance. which stlll held tho
port tack and was going well. The Def
anCe could not cross the two, but she
tackled IN such position that she back
winded the Resolute. and that Yacht went
away on the port tack again, heading Ia
the south by west.
Ten minutes after the start the Defiance
took the port tack again. and this time she
crossed the bow of the Nanltie and made
the Nanitie the last yacht In the race. At
that time the Resolute came about In
an attempt to head of thS Defiance, but
she failed The Defiance tackled dead
ahead OF her and gained tho lead. The
! Resolute then went OF the port tack
again and held far to the southwest, while
the Defiance and Nanitie continued the
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! fight
When these two yachts drew toward
each other at IL: "a o'clock the Nanitlo
/ had overcome what she had lost earlier
| in the race and forced the Defiance about
and took tho lead. Then the Nanitic and
Defiance both ON the starboard tack. held
| to the eastward in close company while
| the Resolute held on the port tack to the
southwark, looking for shift In the wind
| The Nantie gradually worked out we'll 70
! windward of the Defiance. and as the
wind steadily hauled more to the south II
enabled these two to sail within two
points of the course.
At one time the Resolute was far asterr
OF he other two yachts, hut at IL :3s sh'
took the starboard tack. and by that tim'
! had found what she had been looking for
a better wind which had hauled TO abou
south by west She began to make NJ
what she had lost earlier in the race, anC
when she tackled to fetch the mark sh
was about quarter of II mile ahead o
the Vanitie, The wind was SO light thei
| that the yachts hardly had steerag
way. They lifted and dropped in tn
swells. and the sails shivered and shook
but they crawled on with apparently moth
| ing to drive them. Tho Resolute turne,
tho mark at ;06 :3s, the Vanitie a
2:l2 40, and the Defiance at 2:l6:5 Tn
Resolute had taken 1 hour 81 minute
! 20 SECONDS 10 sail ten HllIeS to NlHuNHTu
| the Vanitie ! hour 81 minutes 32 second
land the Defiance 2 hours l minute /
seconds. The difference between IN
| yachts was not what the time would in
dictate. The Resoute led by about
quarter of mile, and the space between
the Vantie and the Defiance was a it'll
less than that.
They started OF 90 reach 20 the mex
mark with booms cased to starboard, Tn
Resolute and Eanitie carried balloon jil
topsslil and the Defiance had up reach
ling jb topsail. The wind soon heade,
the yachts so that these light sails wer
changed. Then II died out altogether an,
they drifted with the tide as their skip
pers tried everything to find breeze
Each shifted sails frequently, each gybe,
several times. until finally the wind wha
little there was OF II, came from th
southwest and made II another beat TIT
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