New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-10
VANITIE DISABLED
in RACE With
THE RESOLUTE
On Last Leg, When Heavy
Puff of Wind Causes
Calf to Buckle.
FIRST MISHAP OF
YACHTS IN TRIALS
Opponent Slightly in Lead When
Fourth Meeting on the Sound
Is MARRIED.

In a strong breeze from the north.
west the Cup defence s-oops kesO.gte
and Vanitie met yesterday or the sound
in a race specially arranged Tor them
by the Seawanhaka-COrnt Yacht
Club. Il was their fourth meeting this
season, and il resulted Do another VIC
tory for the Res0luie, althOug1 10 nay
be called a hollow one, for, l1iortu-
nately. the Vanitie was disabled after
sailing about twenty-slN m les oi the
thirty and q hall mile course.
In one Of the heavy puts that had
been striking the yachts more or less
throughout the race her aluminium gaf
buckled up al a point about Gen ieet
out from the jaws, forcing her 20 With
draw from the contest. . was the first
accident since the yachts began the
series Of races, and Il was particularly
u fortunate because she had been max
ing a fairly good showing on I'VE OF he
six legs OF the course.
Barring the accident, the Resoluts
would undoubtedly have won, but pEob.
ably by small margin OF elapsed time.
The Resolute's time for the tairty and
a half miles was hours Z minutes l5'
seconds, which means a speed IN excess
of eleven miles an hour, for She covered
fully thirty-six miles, counting tho
windward work.
There was a lighs breeze from the
westward for an hour before tle tine
set for the start, bat just before the
Preparatory signal IL shifted 20 the
northwest, and came out strong from
that quarter in hard squalls that COW
cred the Sound w.h whi-e,aps and
made the yachts heel until lee rails
were buried at times
Under these conditions the yachts
came for the line of Lloyd's Neck buoy
with sheets trimmed har, for the Grst
leg was TO be windWard work Of four
and three-Quarters miles across the
Sound 70 Greenwich Point buoy
When the starting whistle sounded
from Thomas ". Slocum's steam zach.
Ranger, which he aad placed az the
disposal Of the race committee Captain
Charles Francis Adams brought RE
Resolute for the line on the port tack
at steamboat speed. He sent her across
twenty eight seconds after TIE sigma.
close up 20 the weather end o. the .i1e
All hands were trimming the main
sheet as she shot into the wind a mo-
ment and then KEEP, off full and by
The Nanitle was a. the lee end o. Che
line. Captain Vanderbilt i-fed beg
sharply to cross the Resolute's wake 10
gain a weather position. and she ~;
away twenty-three seconds atter her
rival. The start was timed as follows:
Resolute, l:l0:35; Nanitie, l:i1:oL
Away they went across the Sound,
heading straight fot Stamford -.t-
house. with their bronze bLgcs aaf
out of water, cleaning 10 the sunlight
The Nanitie carried a baby Jlb.olsa'.
The Resolute did not. All hands oE-eet
the sheet tenders lay flat uu.er ,ae
weather rail Of each yacht Both lacked
to starboard at las, and with q couple
Of short bitches they were able 90 .c.ci
the Greenwich mark which was roI.l-
ed like this: ResolIte. l:4J:-o. t4u-
lite, l:50:20, showing that the R-so.Ite
had gained twenty-Seyea seconds on
this leg.
Sheets were then eased 20 starboard
and small reachers set on both yachts
as they began their reach FOR -he next
mark-Long Neck Point buoy With
the wind just abaft the beam. the Van
lite here did her best work OF the day,
for she gained forty seconds on her
rival in this four and taree-Q lar,er
miles reach.
Gybing 70 port at this mark the Res
Oluee ~ -'l7 anu lHe ".t-tN -
2:14:20, they trimmed sheets 20 tho
starboard tack and made fast time on
the leg Of "a miles 20 the home mark.
The Nanitie carried her small 10
topsail nicely, but the Reso.ute's
reacher shook so badly in tie squalls
that they had 20 take 10 in. The Res
olute gained seventeen seconds on this
leg, and the elapsed time for the frs:
round of 1914 miles -Resolute. i:3l:02
and Vanitie 1:34:06 shows that the
Resolute was only four seconds 10 the
lead
The times taken at All the marks
and the elapsed times follow;