Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-03

rye. N. l., June z.-f1eeieO uiuer a stiff northwest breeze until even her bronzed underbody glistened in the late afternoon sun like furnished gold, Alexander S. Coehran's Yanitie flashed across the finish line a. winner over the Resolute by Is minutes, 4S sec | onds in the first race for the Amer | ica's cup defense candidates yachts | on Long Island sound today Although | the official time allowance given the | Resolute by the Vanitie is known only | to the cup committee. it is estimated that the Resolute is in receipt of ap- proximately 1-2 minutes time allow l ance, so that the approximately cor rected time advantage of the winner lover the loser was close to 13 min l utes, 13 seconds
 | Yachting experts are not inclined to concede a repetition of this victory of the Gardner designed sloop over | the Herreshon creation for the 29 mile race over a triangular course was sailed under extremely fiuky weather conditions and the adherents of the 1 flag officers yacht are confident that | tomorrow's race will be another story ! The meeting of the Resolute and Nanitte in the initial contest of the year drew yachtsmen from all parts of the eastern coast and although the third candidate. the Defiance. was un- able to start as originally intended, the duel between the Herreshoff and
 
 | Thousands followed the yachts twice around the triangle in steam yachts, sailing craft, motor boats and excur- sion steamers
 During the early June afternoon the spectators saw two of the three single stickers built for the purpose of de- Tending the America's cup against Sir Thomas Liptons challenger. Shamrock ". tried out under fiuctuating weather conditions. The breeze ran the gamut from puffy little air to a stiff blow that hee,ed the seventy-fiVe Hooters over until their keels-were visible in ] the blue waters of the Sound. And when the fleet of private yachts and
 excursion boats headed away from the finish line it was the consensus of opinion that two worthy defending candidates had demonstrated their prowess with still another yet to show its speed. Consequently the reputed, wizard-hke skill of Designer Nicholson of the Shomrock did not appear as fearsome as heretofore
 The course IS laid out by the New
 York Yacht club regatta committee was triangular one that called for a close fetch, a beat and a broad reach | but the huky weather conditions up- set these calculations to some extent It was half an hour after noon when the preparatory signal was sounded off
 Rye Point and rival slippers began
 to jockey for the start. At the wheel
 of the Resolute was Charles Francis
 Adams II, while aboard were Robert W. Emmons II, the manager of the
 syndicate: George E. Nichols. John
 Parkinson. George A. Cormack. Nat
 Herreshoff and Asa W. Hathaway
 head sailnaker for the Herreshoffs cont,in Al the w',,'s Wheel ef the vanitie stood
 erick w. Hoyt and Frederick M Da-
 vies as his board of strategy With
 six mile wind coming out of the northwest, rippling Sound and a ell rx-s~ } clouds above the two yachts jockey
 ing for the advantage at the start
 formed picture that would have tax
 ed the skill of a master marine artist
 saw little of the beauty of the pie
 ture as they guided their racing craft across the waters waiting for the
 starting signal.
 Captain Adams held a. slight ad- l vantage on the final move and stood across the line at 12:461z while the Vanftfe followed thfrty-four seconds later. Shortly after the cup defend
 CTS could be got away the wind fresh
 ened to a ten mile breeze. Once the
 Gardner sloop got her racing stride there was little change in the relative positions of the two yachts and they hurried down the Sound toward the
 Long Island shore trailed by a convoy
 Of craft, the forerunner of what may ) be expected off Sandy Hook in Sep ? tember when cup challenger and de- 5 fender meet in the blue ribbon derby of the sea
 As they Iuffed around the first mark
 both the Resolute and yanitie stood l out against the green background of Long Island like white and cream , cameos. with the Herreshoff model leading by about a minute and a half , The second leg resolved itself into a
 series of taclxs Nearing the Connectf-
 cut shore the wind died away and as the Resolute turned off the Stamford 3 light she found the wind soft under the shore and lost headway. Coming 1 up the north shore the yachts found
 the wind stronger and both sloops re-
 placed the Jfb topsails with reaching 1ubs Under the new sail the Vani- tie picked up and in a luffings match gained rapidly on the Resolute Ii The Nanitie followed this success
 by breaking out a big balloon lib to
 her sail and with the fleet of yachts and steamers trailing astern drew up 1 on the Resolute until less than 10O yards separated the sloops. As they 2 swung around the red buoy for the
 second round of the course the wind
 was gradually dropping and soon the yachts with sails barely filled were : virtually becalmed
 , In faint breeze the vanitie appear ed to slip through the water like A : mermaid and soon she had passed her
 rival and was showing the way .tc
 Oak Neck. The course was a reach and the l tanitie sailing parallel to the Lona Island shore drew slowly aheadRin the } slight breeze until at the connpletion ? of the firrt leg of the second round
 there was several hundred yards of ] open water between the two single
 stickers. Heading back across the r Sound tho Cochran yach picked up a I freshening west wind and spinnalxer 7 and balloon jib were taken in and jIh 2 topsail set. The Resolute folIowe suit and on close reach for Stamford : light there was no change in the rel a alive positions until the wind became nuky again and finally died away ieav-