The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-12
'RESOLUTE is LOST IN
FOG; YANITIE VICTOR
Defiance's Fine Work Surprises
All Hands-Finishes Only
10 Seconds Too Late.
LAST LEG OF TT A GUESS
NavigatOrs Of Two Yachts That
Get Home Calculate Their
Course Exactly.
LAST LEG OF TT A GUESS

lost In the fog. did not finish This nuts
quite feather In the caps Of those on
the Vanitie for skill in navigation Navi-
eating in fog counts for much in yacht
racing The last race for the Americas
cup was sailed under conditions very
similar TO to-day's Then the Reliance,
which was navigatod by W Butler Dun
can. hit the mark exactly. Just as tho
Vanlte did to-day. The Shamrock III.
has not finished yet. neither has the
Resolute.
Three parts OF the race were sailed
In thick fog For n part Of the wind
ward leg the yachts were hidden and Ali
the way home they were screened from
one another by a thick pail OF damn
vapor The Resolute had turned the
outer mark In the lead and the vanitls
was Just able to gybe OF at the mark
twenty-four seconds ahead Of the De-
iiance.
The fog then shut down thicker than
ever and the last seen Of the yachts
showed that they had set spinnakers
and balloon jib topsails and the vanitie
was drawing away from the Defiance
and chasing the Resolute. Their course
was northeast by north. and the nayi-
ga'ors had 10 consider that the tide was
sweeping to the east at the rate Of a
mile and half an hour
Each skipper on the ACCOMMODATING
fleet OF yachts took a departure from the
turning mark and headed for home. nf-
teen miles away. This fleet OF Yachts
divided into two divisions one kceplus
10 the west Of the lane down which the
racers sailed and the other to the east.
Not thing could be seen The steamers
blew their whistles at regular intervals,
and their shippers were able to distln.
guish each vessel by the tone OF its
whistle. The wind fresheued and brought
IN with II more fog so damp that yry-
thing was made wet and uncomfortable
the press tug. John j. Timmins In
charge or Capt Augustus c Keene
steamed along passing first the Defiance
then the Nanltie, and some minutes later
the Resoute. Things seemed uncannv.
Spectres doomed up In the fog and ghosted
away, and the fleet hidden under the nall
OF Vapor kent on scattering as IL went
only The whistles told that there wer.
other vessels on the water. Capt. Keens
naTgated well and after running for a
certain length Of time the tug was stopped
ana all hands searched for the mark ara
listened for tho siren OF the Brcnton
heef light vessel. Then the tug picked
us way slowly again and soon found the
mark just where II was expected to he
The only other vessels there were John
H. Herreshon's Eugenia and n. O. Her
reshoffs Helianthus
"a @ Pm l..
could no heard ana sha m ,,, sulia Moran'
The TImmins soundad a. 80 ui .,r 'ourse'
tract the atteptin,, -, a., ,, "''o''s 10 "t-
some minutes that mo ,,s,,,nra, o,'s , '
fetched the marx Y 80 tf,rn' au1 'a'er
very nervous. He called to his brother to
Keep on the finishing line and TO tho
tugs TO Keep whistling. and then excitedly
shouted: Here comes a yacht now"
A grim phantom of black was annroacb-
Ing from the southwest She was snoth
cred In canvas and was travelling fast
Here comes the Resolut," shoutad
some. and the next instant changed the
cry to NO. it's the Nanite," The Vanitie
IL was
There was no committee boat in sight
Far to the east her whistles could he
heard The Vanite kept on, sailed close
10 the mark. and. leaving II on the star
board hand, crossed the line and wa.
timed from the tug Moran by Capt Blk
and from the Tmmins. In an instant the
men on the Nante realized that the yacht
had won the race che ers rang out, hats
were waved in the air in delight and
then she slipped away into the darkness
ahead.
There was another wait and another
straining OF eyes and in n few Minutes
another phantom was sighted coming out
of the fog She was sailed with n balloon
jib top sail and as she drew near was made
after the Vanite and received an allow
ance of 2 minutes 81 seconds. 80 II was
"a very close thing. She crossed the line
and when the times had been figured ont
q was found that the Vanltie had won tho
race with 10 seconds TO s,,ara
Then the Vanadis drew near and the
times were given 10 the committee A,
that moment a rift in the fog shoved tho
Resolute far 10 the eastward and as sha
was far to leeward OF the MARI ahe
did not attenlpt to finish but reached
on toward the harbor
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