New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-23
THE AHMAK0LA
AND The LENA
WIN ON SOUND
"Thirties" Make Pretty
Race for New York
Yacht Club Cups.

sloops started In the sixty-eighth an
nual regatta of the New York Yacht
Club yesterday. and In fairly strong
and steady breeze sailed fast and close
races in all the classes.
The principal prizes Of the day-the
New York Yacht Clug course cups,
offered by James Gordon Bennett in
1871 for yachts enrolled in the club
were won by Howard c. Smiths
schooner Ahmakola and by Ogden W..
Reid's S0-foot sloop Lena, both yachts
being handled in the race by their
owners.
On corrected time the Ahmakola won
! from George w. Scots Miladi by IS
minutes 80 seconds. The Lena's per-
formanee was remarkable. for after
losing a minute at the start she won
! from f. II. Prentice's Silhouette by 2
minutes II seconds and from j. W.
! Alker's Alerion II by minutes 32 Sec
onds.
These three "thirties" outsailed the
fifty" lroquois II on corrected time
over the 1874 mile course, which all
covered as one class of sloops with
1 time allowances. The "ffties" allowed
the "thirties" l hour 2 minutes % Sec
onds each.
In a twelve knot breeze from the
southwark and westward the schooners
were sent away first by the race COM
mittee-H. de B. Parsons and Frederic
o. Spedden-on board the tug Eugene
Moran, which marked the west end Of
the starting line off Prospect Point, in
Hampstead Bay. II. G. Smiths Alma
kola had the western berth, the Miladi
the middle and the Windward the east
ern end. All three set spinnakers soon
after the start.
The start of the "ffties" was a pretty
one. Edmund Fish, at the wheel Of
W. Z. Dodge's Samuri, sent that sloop
| across in the lead under good head
way and with sheets eased broad off to
starboard, for the wind was nearly dead
aft. The Ventura, steered by her
owner, George +. Baker. jr, commodore
of the club; the Spartan, the Barbara,
the Iroquois and the Grayling, the last
named sloOp handled by her owner. j..
J. Morgan, crossed in that order, almost
beam and beam, with scarce a length
between them. The Grayling's boom
was the only one swung to port. Cap
tain Morgan gybed her a minute later,
and all but the Grayling and the
Samuri set spinnakers to port, making
a pretty picture as they sped across
the Sound to the first mark, Parsonage
Point buoy.
On the way across the Samurl
reached through the Cravings lee,
both having lufed far out of their
courses. They finally set spinnakers
and went after the others. The Spar
tan was first around the mark at 12:45
o'clock, with the Barbara, the Ventura,
the Iroquois and the Ahmakola follow
ing in close order. 1t was a broad
reach, with booms TO port, for the next
mark, Woolsey's Reef buoy. In the
windwar dwork from there to the
finish the Iroquois II, steered by her
owner, Ralph n. Ellis, by holding a
mid-Sound course outsailed her class
mates and crossed the finish line the
winner of the class prize by 40 seconds
from the Spartan.
OF the seven "thirties" that started
the Lena's skipper used the best judg-
ment by steering a straight course for
the Parsonage Point mark, while some
of the others went looking for q new
breeze.
George W. SCOTS Mladi won the
class prize for schooners in Glasses ID
and E and the Ahmakola in F.
Inc Lena ndQ nara IuCh NJ IHe stdIC'
She crossed the line a trife in adj
vance of the signal and was recalled.
This makes her subsequent work all
the more creditable, for she not only
regained the time lost something over
a minute-but fairly outsailed the
others in her class, both before the
wind, on the reach and in the winward
work.
Her light sails were smartly han
died and she was carefully steered
from start TO finish, which means a
great deal where the competition is
so keen IN a class. The Lena's record
this season shows that she is in fine
racing form.
The racing yachtsmen were sorry to
see the big sloop Vanitie come home
in tow with her bowsprit gone, The
famous yacht had lost her spar by
running down the 3S-foot yawl Colleen
while on one of her trial spins in the
middle of the Sound, off Greenwich.
The summaries follow:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS y AND E-sTART. 1910
COURSE 1874 NILES.