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a better breeze, and this division was soon leading the 
fleet. Spinnakers again blossomed out to starboard, and 
with ballooners drawing the yachts made an impressive 
picture as they swept down Block Island Sound. 
At 11 o'clock, off the fort that marks the easterly end of 
Fisher's Island, Sybarita had taken command of the fleet, 
while Corona was now in second place, leading all of the 
schooners. Then came Katrina, Emerald, and Yankee, 
which had got past Virginia in under the shore. The big 
auxiliary Resolute came next, followed by Constellation, 
Aspirant, Neola, Irolita, Rainbow, Weetamoe, Altair, 
Chanticleer, Queen Mab, Endymion, and Atlantic. 
At 11:30, off Watch Hill, Corona offshore had picked 
up not a little, and was now making a great race of it 
for first place. Emerald and Katrina came next offshore, 
while inshore Yankee was leading Virginia by a good 
quarter of a mile. 
The wind kept increasing, and Sybarita inshore out of 
the tide, drew rapidly in front, so that she was a good 2 
miles ahead of Yankee, which had moved up into second 
place, when the yachts were timed at Point Judith 
whistling buoy. Instead of gybing at once, as everyone 
supposed she would do, Sybarita held off to the eastward 
for 6 or 7 minutes with headsails aback before she let her 
boom come over and then reached in to the finish without 
the aid of her spinnaker. All of the rest of the fleet 
gybed at the buoy, and carried spinnakers to port to the 
finish. Sybarita was a good 11m. ahead of Yankee at 
the whistling buoy, where the leaders were timed as fol- 
lows: Sybarita, 1:35:15; Yankee, 1:45:15; Corona, 
1:48:10; Virginia, 1:48:25; Rainbow, 1:53:10; and Neola, 
1 As'the wind was blowing strongly from the S.W. now, 
the yachts- made fast time to the finish, where the leaders 
were timed as follows: Sybarita, 2:18:34; Yankee, 
2-29:55; Virginia, 2:31:24; Corona, 2:31:59; Rainbow, 
2-39:46; Emerald, 2:41 :27; Neola, 2:42:59; Weetamoe, 
2-43-52 Then came Constellation, Chanticleer, Atlantic, 
Resolute, Katrina, Queen Mab, Aspirant, Altair, Valmore, 
Endymion, . Irolita, Intrepid, Loyal, Idler, Vergemere, 
Mavis, Phantom, Pellegrina, Spasm, Ishkoodah, and Cym- 
bra. Summary : 
Sloops — Class L. 
Start. Finish. Elapsed. 
c., a<5m 9 15 57 3 56 59 6 41 02 
Tsbkoodah 9 17 00 4 05 10 6 48 10 
rv,E 9 17 00 4 12 33 6 55 33 
USitofn I. 9 16 45 3 41 02 6 24 17 
Pellegrma • 9 16 58 3 41 10 ■■ 6 24 12 
Sloops— Class K. 
Aqnirant 9 16 26 3 00 14 5 43 48 
Altair 9 15 41 3 04 01 5 48 21 
;::::::::::::::: 91621 31507 5 58 46 
Sloops— Class I. . • . 
tvt ,; 9 20 44 2 42 59 5 22 15 
N eola 9 92 00 2 43 52 5 21 52 
SffifiES, ::::::::::::::::::::::::o 22 00 25952 53752 
~ e Sloops-Class H. g ?g ffi j. Qg gg 
^ anl f c ? q 22 00 2 31 24 5 09 24 
.Rainbow ■:::::::::::::::::::::::::::9 22.oo. 2394s .5,4746 
Yawls— Class G. , :', _„ ' ■ 
Sybarita 9 21 53 ^ 2 18 34 4 56 41 
Schooners — Class E. . 
M , vis 9 27 00 3 29 30 6 02 30 
fH '•*-• 9 27 00, 3 22 18 5 55 18 
valmore""::::::::: -92700 30731 54055 , 
Schooners— Class D. 
katrina - -9 26 05 2 57 41 5 31 36 - 
Casique ...WW 9 27 00 3 46 43 6 19 43 
Schooners — Class B. 
Corona 9 30 30 2 31 59 5 01 29 
Fmerald ". -. ... .9 30 12 2 41 27 . 5 11 15 
Chanticleer 9 30 29- 2 48 38 5 18 09 . 
Schoneirs — Class A: 
Constellation ....9 31 03 2 45 45 5 14 42 
Endymion .9 32 00 3 13 40 5 41 40 
Auxiliaries. 
Atlantic 9. 31 17 2 48 45 5 17 28 
" Resolute WWW 9 32 00 2 51 61' 5 19 41 
NOORNA Seawanhaka Cup Defender, 1904. 
Photo by Notman, Montreal. 
Intrepid 9 32 00 3 15 52 5 43 52 
Vergemere 9 32 00 3 26 21 5 54 21 
Idler 9 31 51 3 21 16 5 54 25 
Tuesday, August 16— Newport to Vineyard Haven, 
37 Miles. 
After a lively, if long drawn out, race from Newport, 
J. Rogers Maxwell's 70-footer had the honor of leading 
the New York Y. C. fleet into Vineyard Haven on Tues- 
day. She not only beat all the boats in her class, but de- 
feated Sybarita, boat for boat, by over 2 miles in distance 
and 13m. 20s. in time, but she was over 15m. ahead of 
Virginia, and 20m. in front of. Rainbow, her class com- 
petitor. Weetamoe gave Neola another 20m. licking, and 
the little Aspirant practically finished alone in her class, 
while Spasm beat Phantom by 2m. 25s. on elapsed time. 
Among the schooners, Katrina won easily in her class, 
while Corona led Chanticleer by 8m. and Emerald by 
nearly an hour at the finish. Emerald, however, has pro- 
tested Corona for forcing her about at the starting line, 
so Chanticleer will probobly win the cup. 
In the big class for two-stickers, Constellation beat' En- 
dymion by nearly 2I1. while among the auxiliaries, Reso- 
lute won easily. 
As the wind was S.E. by E., the yachts had practically 
a long and a short leg to Vineyard Sound lightship, and 
then were able to lay their course to within a mile of the 
finish, when they had to beat in against a strong westerly 
tide. As the wind fell flat, all of. the tail-enders had 
great trouble in finishing at all, which accounts for the 
great difference in time between the winners and losers. 
While Virginia was trying to beat into the harbor after 
finishing, she got hung up on a sandbar for a few minutes, 
but was pulled off by the club tug Unique without damage. 
Soon afterwards the schooner Mavis went ashore on the 
middle ground, and again the Unique was called into 
service, only to come to grief herself, as, in getting a 
hawser on the Mavis, the tide carried her on to the shoal, 
too. Then Commodore Benedict went to the rescue with 
his steam yacht Oneida, which was being used by the 
Regatta Committee, and soon pulled both boats to safety. 
The wind was so light from the S. when the harbor 
start was made in Newport at 8 o'clock that the yachts 
were a long time getting out to the starting line off Bren- 
ton's Reef lightship. The course to Vineyard Haven, 37 
miles away, was E.-S.E. to Vineyard Sound lightship, 
17/4 miles, then E. by N. 20 miles to the finish line off 
West Chop light, which marks the entrance to Vineyard 
Haven. 
^ The race committee, who had transferred their flag to 
E. C. Benedict's steam yacht Oneida, sounded the prepara- 
tory signal at 9:45, and the small sloops were sent away 
at 9:55. Aspirant, as usual, led the fleet oer the line lis. 
after the whistle. Then came Spasm, Phantom, and Iro- 
lita, with the last named handicapped 27s. Yankee got 
way the best of the start when the big fellows were sent 
away at 10 o'clock. Then came Weetamoe, Rainbow, 
Sybarita, and Neola, with Queen Mab handicapped us. 
and Virginia im. 19s. The small schooners followed at 
10:05, with Valmore leading, followed by Katrina, while 
Loyal was handicapped 17s. and Mavis 3m. 19s. . 
When the big schooners were started at 10:10, the wind 
was so light that all of them were handicapped. They 
crossed the line and were handicapped as follows: 'Idler, 
8s. ; Corona, 23s. ; Chanticleer, 49s. ; Vergemere, 52s. ; In- 
trepid, 56s. ; Resolute, im. 34s. ; Endymion, 2m. 9s. ; At- 
lantic, 2m. 55s. ; Constellation, 4m. 57s. ; Casique, 8m. 57s. ; 
and Emerald urn. 4s. Corona forced Emerald around on 
the line when the latter was close-hauled on the starboard 
tack, and Emerald flew a protest flag when she finally 
went over the line. All crossed the line close-hauled on 
the starboard tack, and Emerald and Casique had to make 
a short hitch to port before they could get across the line. 
The wind soon hauled more to the E., making it practi- 
cally a long and a short leg to Vineyard Sound lightship. 
Off West Island, at 11 o'clock, Yankee had a good lead 
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The crews of the Seawanhaka boats. Noorna and White Bear and the judges of the match. 
: Photo by Notman, Montreal. 
