New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-11
Details Of the Resolute's
Victory Over the Vanitie
of Sandy Hook
Yesterday.
BY CAPTAIN J. G. SUMMERS.

Conditions were practically perfect for a
test OF yachting qualities of Sandy Hook
yesterday and when the Resolute sailed
away from the Vanitie after the Defiance
had been withdrawn, as previously told.
her followers took heart, and again pre-
dicted that she would be the boat 10 de-
fend the Americas Cup against the fourth
Shamrock.
The victory OF the Resolute, while con-
vincing, did not satisfy the critics that
she was the better boat. as in the races TO
date there has been little to choose. The
Vanitie was not 80 well handled yesterday
and she needs better fitting sails. but she
is a good boat, particularly so In light
airs or heavy weather
For tie first time since the yachts began
to race tho regatta committee Of the New
York Yacht Club announced the time al
lowance yesterday. Figured according to
the rating determined from recent meas
urements taken. the Vanitie allows the
Rssolute 3 minutes Is seconds on
thirty-m course. This subtracted from
the Resolute's elapsed time made her the
careful estimate indicated that the
Vanitie lost nearly IL not quite. two min
utes by being slow in stays in the wind
ward work and because her sails were
not handled quickly enough on the run
home, when she gybed and the spinnaker
was shifted from port to starboard
OF the performance Of the Defiance one
yachtsman said: at is too early to form
an opinion as to her ability, and IT Is
hardly fair to criticise her work to-day.
because she is an untried boat, liable to
have trouble at any time. The Resolute
had many trials and many troubles and
the troubles were rectified.
"You can bet" said another yachts
man after the race, that Nat Herreshoffs
presence on board the Resolute had much
to do with her winning. He was on the
lob from start to finish, and his advice Is
worth many minutes to the good on
boat of his design, and this Is said with
out detracting one jot from the work OF
her helmsman. Charles Francis Adams
"a. than whom there is no better In the
ranks OF Corinthian shippers"
The Resolute, towed by her tender. the
TO show outside the Hook. No sail was
made on her until 10 :15 o'clock, when she
had reached the starting point, off AM
brose Lghtship. While her tender held
/ her head to the wind the crew manned
the throat and peak halyards and set her
mainsail in just two and a half minutes.
Casting off the towline, the jib was run
I'D and she filled away to starboard.
The Vanitie came out next, carrying a
big club topsail over her maiEsail, with
the Defiance a few lengths astern under
mainsal and lib. The men Of the De-
| fiance sent up a club topsail. but those
| in charge decided that she could not carry
it. No other sail was sent up for fifteen
minutes Finally working topsail was
set at 10 :52, eight minutes before the
preparatory signal. The committee had
evidently waited to give Captain Pynchon
a chance to get the Defiance ready.
c. X G. Billingss big steam yacht
Vanadis, the committee boat, had the code
signals "a r p" flying from her spring
stay when the yachts arrived. The flags
signified that the course was south-south-
west, fifteen miles to windward and re-
turn. The tug Julia Moran was sent away
to log the course fifteen minutes before
the preparatory signal. which was set at
IL O'Clock, instead Of at 10 AS, as an
nounced. The course. as logged. placed
the outer, or windward, mark at a point
midway between Long Branch and Asbury
Park and about four miles offshore.
Only a small fleet of steam yachts as
sembled near the starting line. Besides
the Vanadis there were George S. Runk's
Isabella, w. b. Dinsmores Ituna, w. l..
Harkness's Virginia and A. S. Cochran's
Mohican and the auxiliary schooner In
trepid, owned by Lloyd Phoenix. All Of
these accompanied the racing craft over
the course.
The afterguard on board the Resolute
besides her helmsman. Charles Francis
Adams, I'd, were Captain Nat Herreshoff,
Robert w. Emmons, I'd, John Parkinson.
George Nichols and George A. Cormack,
who held the watch.
On board the Vanitie were her own
er. Alex. Smith Cochran; Fred NJ. Hoyt.
Fred Nj. Davies, Captain Bill Dennis, at
the helm, and Captain Harry Half, at
the sheets.
The Defiance had on board Captain
George NJ. Pynchon. as helmsman; f. w.
Clark, of the syndicate, and George owen,
the designer of the yacht.
All eyes were on the Defiance for awhile
when the three yachts began to play for
positions during the fifteen minutes in
terval between the preparatory and the
starting signals The tri-city sloop
seemed tender" from the first. Her
angle of heel was greater than that OF
the Resolute and Vanitie, but she seemed
to travel quite as fast.
At the warning signal-ll:l0 o'clock-ali
three were manpuvring to the westward
of the imaginary line formed by the light
ship and the Vanadis. anchored about 2o
wards to the northeast. Thirty seconds
before the starting signal the Resolute
and the Vanite, with booms to port and
heading to the southwark. approached the
Igbtship. which marked the weather end
of the line.
At the whistle they passed the stern OF
the liehtship. the Resolute leading by
about four lengths. Her baby jib top
sail was broken out just then. Her skip
per. Adams, could have luffed the Reso-
iute and crossed the line In a good wind
ward position, but he ran her parallel
with the line until almost up with the
sta rhoard side OF the vanadis. Then he
trimmed sheets and crossed at ll:l6H,
c,ose hauled on the starboard tack.
captain Dennis preferred to wait, and he
u.,ttia acros9 the limo "a N III az